What is the deal with Rupert Lowe? Makes some big promises here to "restore Britain". Is he the next Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus or another useless moron?
Slightly cracked millionaire right-winger who regards Nigel Farage as dangerously liberal. He does have his fans, but I find it difficult to imagine this going anywhere, even with Musk's millions backing him.
I enjoyed this story in his Wikipedia entry:
"On 8 August [2025], Lowe posted a picture on X (formerly Twitter) of a small boat off the Norfolk coast, stating: "Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW. Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported."[94] Great Yarmouth is some 110 miles (175 km) north of Dover, where migrants in small boats usually land, and the same distance from the coast of the Netherlands. It transpired that the boat was a party of volunteers rowing from Land's End to John O'Groats, to raise money for a motor neuron disease charity."
There's a meme along the lines of "accidentally became important at work and it's ruining my life." That's my situation for about six months now. Last spring I found out I'd soon be transitioning into a role I've wanted for years and years (and been very vocal about.) It's a brand new role; I'm basically creating it. I felt like I'd won the lottery when I got the news. Turns out, doing something brand new that I'm passionate about and want to be great at is much, much more stressful than doing the previous shit that I was bored by and burnt out on. I have been checking my work email from my home computer (something I swore off years ago) and waking up some nights at 2 a.m. with a pounding heart.
I can tell it's going to calm down; I can feel it already easing up a tiny bit. It's just hard and weird right now. I keep thinking, be careful what you wish for.
I hear you. Try not to burn out, it's happened to me when I've put too much of myself into work, and what felt like passion turned into pure stress. I've had actual nightmares about looking at my email inbox.
I am an adult man over 30 with a platonic roommate (because I am single and live in NYC), and my roommate (who is gay like me) will very frequently have guests (hookups) over without telling me. I wouldn’t necessarily mind that he has guests over (as long as they aren’t around all the time), but the issue I have been having is that he never really announces them and it almost feels like he is trying to hide them. I’ve had more than one occasion where I will be in the kitchen or living room and some guy I’ve never met appears. They don’t arrive in the evening during normal times, but frequently seem to show up late at night and disappear before I am awake. On more than one occasion, I have noticed my toiletries have been used by someone else. So basically if he’s trying to hide the fact that someone else was here, he’s failing at it, but also I don’t understand why he’s hiding them? I usually give him a heads up when I have someone over (which sadly for me is not all that often, I should have made a personal lol) but he will only rarely let me know if someone is coming over.
I don’t want to be a prude or demand people sign in, but I also don’t love exiting my bathroom in a towel and seeing some guy standing there waiting to use the bathroom. Cousins, what are your thoughts on this? What are/or would be your roommate guest policies regarding casual hookups/dates staying over?
I wouldn't expect a roommate to announce casual hookups, but as Fran says, "Everything can be negotiated." You can definitely draw the line at using your toiletries.
That said, one should be careful about letting complete strangers into one's home. I had a roommate who brought home two guys he'd met in a bar, and they proceeded to beat him up and rob him. Luckily I was able to escape to my balcony and ask a neighbor to call the police (this was long before cell phones and even before 911 was widely implemented).
Yeah, so far we haven’t been robbed yet, but I have made a point of locking my bedroom door at night since the time one of his conquests opened my bedroom door thinking it was the bathroom.
I don't think it's weird that he doesn't announce his hookups coming over. It's super weird that someone would use toiletries that are not theirs or, at least, which belong to their hookup.
I’ve brought up the toiletry situation to my roommate before but either he forgets to tell the new ones or they don’t listen, so I’ve resorted to trying to stow my things away (though even that doesn’t always address the problem!). I don’t necessarily expect him to announce every hookup but if they are going to then sit around the apartment all day I feel it would be nice to get a heads up, you know?
Have a conversation and clearly set boundaries and expectations. Everything can be negotiated, but without that, people will make assumptions and be displeased.
Yeah, I feel like I don’t want to make it a whole thing necessarily but it’s more him being kinda secretive about it that I find a little weird. Maybe he’s just kind of embarrassed so that’s why he tends to sneak them in and out? But like I don’t think it would be that big of a deal if he didn’t just spring them on me unexpectedly.
I woke up with a bad headache and I really didn’t want to get out of bed and go volunteer at a brunch event for women but I did, mostly because some of the food was prepped by me and my husband and was in our fridge and one of the raffle items for the fundraiser was on my table. I momentarily considered dropping stuff off and begging off due to the killer headache but I didn’t want to leave them shorthanded in the kitchen so I stuck around.
When people started to arrive my friend’s daughter (the long time, dear friend who died of cancer in 2024), arrived for the event and I was so glad I stuck it out for her. I wasn’t sure if she was coming or not so it was a really nice surprise. She connected with some other young women (she’s barely out of college herself), which has been my hope for her for awhile as most of her social connections are non-family aunts and uncles like me (adult friends of her mom who keep in regular contact with her so she doesn’t feel alone in the world).
Also, the egg dish I was assigned to make a triple batch of was not my recipe but it was absolutely delicious, you should make it if you need a brunch casserole. I made it with brioche instead of regular bread and increased the seasoning and mustard a bit:
I was a little dubious (it seems like a lot of potentially wet bread and fewer eggs than I would have guessed) but I think I will be making it again. Probably for Easter and for the couples group my husband and I have help start wherein we meet after Saturday mass 2x a month, eat brunch and pray the rosary together.
Egg bakes are some of my favorite breakfast dishes. My mom makes one with lots of bread that I have always loved. My aunt makes a tater tot one that blows my mind.
I wonder if she'd be interested in the Motherless Daughters weekly support-group Zoom calls with author Hope Edelman. It's really great. All ages, all ages at time of loss, all numbers of years since loss. Weekly on Tuesdays.
I watched Silence of the Lambs recently. Never wanted to before because it sounded gross. What an incredible film! The editing, the acting, the suspense, the dialogue, wow.
Ted Levine should have been nominated for awards. What a multilayered, iconic performance. Truly the kind of villain that stays in your head. I understand gay and trans activists have been outraged by this character over the decades but I don't think that's justified.
Buffalo Bill isn't gay or trans. He's not even a conventional transvestite. He's a psycho heterosexual male who fantasises about being these things to satisfy his own perverted, violent, psychological needs. It is about power and escaping himself. Levine's performance conveys this and there is even dialogue to this effect. He was rejected in the past for a sex change operation.
I think the reason people dislike this film today is because it acknowledges that there are disturbed hetero men out there and the medical community used to have guardrails against giving these men "gender affirming care."
I’m mot reading that, because they deal with this exact issue in the movie, and speaking as an English major, if it’s explicitly in the text you don’t need to make shit up.
It is an awesome movie and I'm so glad I saw it decades before I had to consider the implications for the trans community.
I don't know if he's trans, I'm not an expert, but he does want to be a woman, or some idea of a woman, to the extent of making a skin suit out of women to dress up in. Is he not an insane trans lesbian of some sort? If it were about escape couldn't he just make a space suit and pretend to be an astronaut instead?
He isn't 90s trans, but under modern definitions he would be. "a psycho heterosexual male who fantasises about being these things to satisfy his own perverted, violent, psychological needs. It is about power and escaping himself" summarily describes, give or take a couple of adjectives (like psycho and violent), the bulk of today's MtF demographic, who are mostly heterosexuals with a paraphilia who for various reasons don't want to be themselves and who have latched onto an ideology that affords them power. And for all too many, you don't even have to remove the words psycho and violent either.
Yes, AGP cross dressers being empowered to claim to be literally the same as women is why we can’t have nice things. I mean come on. It’s like a custom made excuse for sex pests to play out their fantasies in public. Are there MTFs who aren’t like that? Yes, but they are vastly outnumbered by the cross dressing AGPs and the sad, confused transtrenders. The ratio is so skewed that it definitely means it becomes the default assumption until someone demonstrates otherwise. Fair? Maybe not. Realistic? Yes.
I don’t like that she is there, unless it’s just because she has eyes on Shumer’s seat. Whitmer did an equally unimpressive job. I know Whitmer has been talked about a fair amount as a potential contender and it’s frustrating that she’d go to an international security conference and not even be able to give a decent answer regarding Ukraine.
Maybe it was a free trip on the taxpayers dime and they were there for vibes.
Hopefully that’s it, because their performances aren’t exactly inspiring confidence.
If someone like Fetterman, but without the stroke baggage, could make it past the primaries I think it would be a Reagan/Mondale level landslide. I think most Dems, most independents and even some Republicans just want to get back to something resembling middle of the road normie.
Unfortunately, I think it might be a pipe dream at this point. What happened in Virginia isn’t giving me much hope. They managed to get control of all of the state government, and mandating DEI in school curriculum, eliminating mandatory minimums for pretty much every crime except murder, and refusing to honor ICE detainers in jails and prisons were literally day one priorities.
Hilary held a “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights” panel at Munich and who was the representative for the US? First transgender representative Sarah McBride.
There is going to be a backlash to Trump come 2028. I just don’t know if it will be sufficient for voters to vote blue no matter who, even if the Who thinks punctuality is white supremacy and can’t define a woman because they aren’t a biologist.
I guess we’ll see. I do think it will be Gavin and not AOC or Kamala, but Gavin has his own baggage in the form of the state of the state of California.
<<<Hilary held a “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights” panel at Munich and who was the representative for the US? First transgender representative Sarah McBride.>>>
Haha. Good lord. If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does. My guess is it will be Rubio (somehow?) v Gavin and Rubio will win.
I do agree if it’s Gavin and Rubio, Rubio wins. But, I feel Rubio would let JD take the nom and JD/Gavin feels like a more even fight to me.
Rubio is a real politician and if there is (like I assume there will be) a decent anti-Trump backlash come election time, it would give Rubio more time to distance himself from Trump if he sits the next one out as the head of the ticket.
Rubio needs to do a Nikki Haley and leave the administration with his dignity intact. Then he doesn't have to carry Trump's baggage but he also doesn't get attacked as a MAGA traitor.
I don't think JD is gonna stand a chance in 4 years. Look at what's happened to this administration's popularity in just one year. It's not like they're gonna turn normal all of a sudden.
People thought the same thing about Trump …now look at where we are , I’m good if she runs for senate loses the primary and is never heard from again again
Your point is taken. However I really doubt she could win. The difference between Trump's weird animal instincts for being a politician and her complete lack of a coherent thought is stark. He's insane but he's got a very specific charisma that can't be denied.
I tend to like his books quite a lot, especially The Benedict Option and Live Not By Lies.
I think the man needs an editor and when I check out his substack posts, I often find them too disjointed and rambling.
His sadness about the break down of his family is palpable and I wonder if that’s not a large part of why he’s living in Europe. It may be easier for him to accept the distant relationships with his kids when there’s a significant physical distance.
I really would have preferred that he stayed a never Trumper. IIRC, he introduced Vance to a Domincan Friar which is what led to Vance’s conversion. Vance was catechized by a Dominican priest.
All packed my overnight flight to Argentina. Spending the week there, staying in Buenos Aires. Any recommendations for things to do from this international barpod crowd?
I’m not for or against, but exercise caution when going on a choripan bike tour. I sampled multiple street sausages and then got on a bus to Cordoba. Rough.
I regret not seeing Iguazú Falls. Obviously a ways away from BA but still.
Anyone else following this investigation into the abduction of Savannah Guthrie's mother? I have been watching Megyn Kelly's coverage. I know some people don't like her, but she has reporting chops and I think she has done a great job informing the public.
It's so awful. I really hope they find the poor woman but it doesn't look good right now. Makes me feel really nervous for the older people I know who live alone.
People online are getting visibly bored and frustrated because they haven't found the answers.
So even though there isn't a shred of evidence the siblings have done anything wrong, the online folks are ascribing blame because traumatised private citizens who have never been in the public eye before seem...*checks notes* uncomfortable living out their trauma in the public eye.
I have generally assumed that the ubiquity of cameras (doorbell, flock, etc) would make this kind of crime in this kind of neighborhood impossible to get away with. Really surprising that it is still unsolved.
I am afraid they aren’t going to solve this thing, and the family never learns what happened to her. I don’t think she’s alive- I think the abductor thought he could get crypto and it would be untraceable. Only now he knows it’s probably not, and there’s no way to get the money.
If this kind of crime becomes a thing, we are all so fucked.
My brother is a lawyer- he could put together a million for our mom. Could she be in danger?? I hate this whole story.
I'm also unfortunately afraid she's not alive, but i don't see how this type of crime would become more common. It seems like the criminal was both dumb and lucky: dumb that he probably accidentally killed the victim, and lucky that the crime scene was in such a remote place with minimal surveillance compared to what's become the norm - absolute saturation of ring cameras and similar. I agree this type of reporting is Megyn and team's strength. I wonder how Savannah feels about it.
"If this kind of crime becomes a thing, we are all so fucked."
This is such a good point. I hate the people shitting on the family online. "I would be out searching myself, I would do more press conferences, I would put together more money for a reward, how did Savannah find time to put on makeup, why aren't they on socials more, blah blah blah"
In reality these people don't know what they would do because it hasn't happened to them. If Savannah announced she would just fork out whatever is necessary to get her mother back then that sends a signal it's open season for scum bag kidnappers. I am sure she realises that, too.
According to Twitter a foreign looksmaxxer described as a "tera-chad" is coming to the US to brutally mog the guy who mogged Clavicular.
I'm not comfortable with the Chad inflation that’s happening. It took computers decades to go from kilobytes to mega to giga to tera and approach petabytes. But Chads are getting there in only a few years.
What is the deal with Rupert Lowe? Makes some big promises here to "restore Britain". Is he the next Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus or another useless moron?
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2022394419685822647
Slightly cracked millionaire right-winger who regards Nigel Farage as dangerously liberal. He does have his fans, but I find it difficult to imagine this going anywhere, even with Musk's millions backing him.
I enjoyed this story in his Wikipedia entry:
"On 8 August [2025], Lowe posted a picture on X (formerly Twitter) of a small boat off the Norfolk coast, stating: "Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW. Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported."[94] Great Yarmouth is some 110 miles (175 km) north of Dover, where migrants in small boats usually land, and the same distance from the coast of the Netherlands. It transpired that the boat was a party of volunteers rowing from Land's End to John O'Groats, to raise money for a motor neuron disease charity."
You should stop what you're doing and watch this elderly Japanese man with his pet tortoise. The tortoise has a cowboy hat.
https://x.com/DAKKADAKKA1/status/2022566986455101803
Good Lord. That is a big tortoise.
Happy Valentines Day https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUvovWHiN24/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
I was impressed he got this one to work: https://www.instagram.com/avmeridor/reel/DQzNpEiiBBq/
I haven't laughed as hard at a movie as I have at "Bottoms" in a long time.
It was SO GOOD!
It's a delightful inversion of a large number of late 70s-00s teen comedies - marvelously entertaining.
Does it bother you when people drag their teeth along their cutlery when they eat?
Any kind of eating sound or other mouth noise drives me nuts.
It's horrible.
Thank you! I feel "seen"
Never noticed it but now that you mention it I probably will and it probably will bother me, THANKS.
It bothers me a lot! Drives me crazy.
Soz :/
There's a meme along the lines of "accidentally became important at work and it's ruining my life." That's my situation for about six months now. Last spring I found out I'd soon be transitioning into a role I've wanted for years and years (and been very vocal about.) It's a brand new role; I'm basically creating it. I felt like I'd won the lottery when I got the news. Turns out, doing something brand new that I'm passionate about and want to be great at is much, much more stressful than doing the previous shit that I was bored by and burnt out on. I have been checking my work email from my home computer (something I swore off years ago) and waking up some nights at 2 a.m. with a pounding heart.
I can tell it's going to calm down; I can feel it already easing up a tiny bit. It's just hard and weird right now. I keep thinking, be careful what you wish for.
I hear you. Try not to burn out, it's happened to me when I've put too much of myself into work, and what felt like passion turned into pure stress. I've had actual nightmares about looking at my email inbox.
I was unaware until tonight that Taylor Tomlinson had come out as bi/started dating women.
Is she funny? I haven't watched any of her stuff.
Yeah , I feel like she brought that up in her last social
I fell asleep an hour and a half ago, woke up, thought it was the morning, and I just MADE MYSLEF BREAKFAST
Breakfast for dinner? Breakfast for midnight snack?
B4D
I am an adult man over 30 with a platonic roommate (because I am single and live in NYC), and my roommate (who is gay like me) will very frequently have guests (hookups) over without telling me. I wouldn’t necessarily mind that he has guests over (as long as they aren’t around all the time), but the issue I have been having is that he never really announces them and it almost feels like he is trying to hide them. I’ve had more than one occasion where I will be in the kitchen or living room and some guy I’ve never met appears. They don’t arrive in the evening during normal times, but frequently seem to show up late at night and disappear before I am awake. On more than one occasion, I have noticed my toiletries have been used by someone else. So basically if he’s trying to hide the fact that someone else was here, he’s failing at it, but also I don’t understand why he’s hiding them? I usually give him a heads up when I have someone over (which sadly for me is not all that often, I should have made a personal lol) but he will only rarely let me know if someone is coming over.
I don’t want to be a prude or demand people sign in, but I also don’t love exiting my bathroom in a towel and seeing some guy standing there waiting to use the bathroom. Cousins, what are your thoughts on this? What are/or would be your roommate guest policies regarding casual hookups/dates staying over?
It's extremely rude. You have a right to know who is in your home. Basic courtesy.
Next time "accidentally" drop that towel and take forever to pick it up.
Well that would probably send a different kind of message than the one I want to send!
It's Valentine's Day! This could be your "meet cute" story.
Hmm, maybe this answers my question, which was going to be: how opposed are you to finding true love in this situation?
🤣 To be honest, his conquests aren't typically my type (he has a very specific type), so I feel like that odds of that are rather low.
I wouldn't expect a roommate to announce casual hookups, but as Fran says, "Everything can be negotiated." You can definitely draw the line at using your toiletries.
That said, one should be careful about letting complete strangers into one's home. I had a roommate who brought home two guys he'd met in a bar, and they proceeded to beat him up and rob him. Luckily I was able to escape to my balcony and ask a neighbor to call the police (this was long before cell phones and even before 911 was widely implemented).
Yeah, so far we haven’t been robbed yet, but I have made a point of locking my bedroom door at night since the time one of his conquests opened my bedroom door thinking it was the bathroom.
I don't think it's weird that he doesn't announce his hookups coming over. It's super weird that someone would use toiletries that are not theirs or, at least, which belong to their hookup.
I’ve brought up the toiletry situation to my roommate before but either he forgets to tell the new ones or they don’t listen, so I’ve resorted to trying to stow my things away (though even that doesn’t always address the problem!). I don’t necessarily expect him to announce every hookup but if they are going to then sit around the apartment all day I feel it would be nice to get a heads up, you know?
He could text you: "somebody's coming over tonight" or even a code word
Have a conversation and clearly set boundaries and expectations. Everything can be negotiated, but without that, people will make assumptions and be displeased.
Yeah, I feel like I don’t want to make it a whole thing necessarily but it’s more him being kinda secretive about it that I find a little weird. Maybe he’s just kind of embarrassed so that’s why he tends to sneak them in and out? But like I don’t think it would be that big of a deal if he didn’t just spring them on me unexpectedly.
I think you should make it a whole thing, meaning, talk about it openly and honestly. You do live together.
This situation will not change if you say nothing. So say something without making it a whole thing.
I woke up with a bad headache and I really didn’t want to get out of bed and go volunteer at a brunch event for women but I did, mostly because some of the food was prepped by me and my husband and was in our fridge and one of the raffle items for the fundraiser was on my table. I momentarily considered dropping stuff off and begging off due to the killer headache but I didn’t want to leave them shorthanded in the kitchen so I stuck around.
When people started to arrive my friend’s daughter (the long time, dear friend who died of cancer in 2024), arrived for the event and I was so glad I stuck it out for her. I wasn’t sure if she was coming or not so it was a really nice surprise. She connected with some other young women (she’s barely out of college herself), which has been my hope for her for awhile as most of her social connections are non-family aunts and uncles like me (adult friends of her mom who keep in regular contact with her so she doesn’t feel alone in the world).
Also, the egg dish I was assigned to make a triple batch of was not my recipe but it was absolutely delicious, you should make it if you need a brunch casserole. I made it with brioche instead of regular bread and increased the seasoning and mustard a bit:
https://blythesblog.com/recipe/tahoe-brunch-casserole/
I was a little dubious (it seems like a lot of potentially wet bread and fewer eggs than I would have guessed) but I think I will be making it again. Probably for Easter and for the couples group my husband and I have help start wherein we meet after Saturday mass 2x a month, eat brunch and pray the rosary together.
Egg bakes are some of my favorite breakfast dishes. My mom makes one with lots of bread that I have always loved. My aunt makes a tater tot one that blows my mind.
Tater tot breakfast casserole sounds amazing! And very Minnesotan.
My aunt is a MN native, but has resided in CA, OH, and then IN for a very long time.
I wonder if she'd be interested in the Motherless Daughters weekly support-group Zoom calls with author Hope Edelman. It's really great. All ages, all ages at time of loss, all numbers of years since loss. Weekly on Tuesdays.
Yes, she might be. If you wouldn’t mind messaging me about the details so I can share them with her, that would be great.
Did your headache get better? I hope so!
Yes, I got a bit of a nap this afternoon and that really helped.
I watched Silence of the Lambs recently. Never wanted to before because it sounded gross. What an incredible film! The editing, the acting, the suspense, the dialogue, wow.
Ted Levine should have been nominated for awards. What a multilayered, iconic performance. Truly the kind of villain that stays in your head. I understand gay and trans activists have been outraged by this character over the decades but I don't think that's justified.
Buffalo Bill isn't gay or trans. He's not even a conventional transvestite. He's a psycho heterosexual male who fantasises about being these things to satisfy his own perverted, violent, psychological needs. It is about power and escaping himself. Levine's performance conveys this and there is even dialogue to this effect. He was rejected in the past for a sex change operation.
I think the reason people dislike this film today is because it acknowledges that there are disturbed hetero men out there and the medical community used to have guardrails against giving these men "gender affirming care."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/silence-of-the-lambs-35-anniversary-interviews-1236504956/
I’m mot reading that, because they deal with this exact issue in the movie, and speaking as an English major, if it’s explicitly in the text you don’t need to make shit up.
10/10 movie, I just watched it two weeks ago
It's just the actor delivering an embarrassing, grovelling apology for a great performance that hurt some insane people's fee-fees.
Ted! Unnecessary! Ugh.
It is an awesome movie and I'm so glad I saw it decades before I had to consider the implications for the trans community.
I don't know if he's trans, I'm not an expert, but he does want to be a woman, or some idea of a woman, to the extent of making a skin suit out of women to dress up in. Is he not an insane trans lesbian of some sort? If it were about escape couldn't he just make a space suit and pretend to be an astronaut instead?
"We all know more, and I’m a lot wiser about transgender issues."
"I didn’t play him as being gay or trans. I think he was just a fucked-up heterosexual man."
No, Ted, you were wiser back then.
I love love love SotL. I think it’s under-appreciated in part bc people class it as “horror” or “thriller.” It’s a fantastic film IMO.
He isn't 90s trans, but under modern definitions he would be. "a psycho heterosexual male who fantasises about being these things to satisfy his own perverted, violent, psychological needs. It is about power and escaping himself" summarily describes, give or take a couple of adjectives (like psycho and violent), the bulk of today's MtF demographic, who are mostly heterosexuals with a paraphilia who for various reasons don't want to be themselves and who have latched onto an ideology that affords them power. And for all too many, you don't even have to remove the words psycho and violent either.
Yes, AGP cross dressers being empowered to claim to be literally the same as women is why we can’t have nice things. I mean come on. It’s like a custom made excuse for sex pests to play out their fantasies in public. Are there MTFs who aren’t like that? Yes, but they are vastly outnumbered by the cross dressing AGPs and the sad, confused transtrenders. The ratio is so skewed that it definitely means it becomes the default assumption until someone demonstrates otherwise. Fair? Maybe not. Realistic? Yes.
If what you're saying is that some disturbed hetero men identify as trans and many of them today are "affirmed" then yes, I agree.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, OUR NEXT PRESIDENT:
https://x.com/thegrayrider/status/2022487576675049930?s=46
It's giving "well, even if I went to CGS, my diploma will still say BU."
Good, let's get this AOC for prez thing out of everyone's system fast. Dems need to step back get out of Amy's way this time. Only half kidding.
All I can think about is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Comparing this to Rubio at Munich and I just have to pray Democrats are smarter than to try this.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/02/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-at-the-munich-security-conference
I don’t like that she is there, unless it’s just because she has eyes on Shumer’s seat. Whitmer did an equally unimpressive job. I know Whitmer has been talked about a fair amount as a potential contender and it’s frustrating that she’d go to an international security conference and not even be able to give a decent answer regarding Ukraine.
Maybe it was a free trip on the taxpayers dime and they were there for vibes.
Hopefully that’s it, because their performances aren’t exactly inspiring confidence.
I imagine we'll have republican presidents till 2036 at least.
If someone like Fetterman, but without the stroke baggage, could make it past the primaries I think it would be a Reagan/Mondale level landslide. I think most Dems, most independents and even some Republicans just want to get back to something resembling middle of the road normie.
Unfortunately, I think it might be a pipe dream at this point. What happened in Virginia isn’t giving me much hope. They managed to get control of all of the state government, and mandating DEI in school curriculum, eliminating mandatory minimums for pretty much every crime except murder, and refusing to honor ICE detainers in jails and prisons were literally day one priorities.
Hilary held a “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights” panel at Munich and who was the representative for the US? First transgender representative Sarah McBride.
There is going to be a backlash to Trump come 2028. I just don’t know if it will be sufficient for voters to vote blue no matter who, even if the Who thinks punctuality is white supremacy and can’t define a woman because they aren’t a biologist.
I guess we’ll see. I do think it will be Gavin and not AOC or Kamala, but Gavin has his own baggage in the form of the state of the state of California.
I don’t know, cousin Greg.
Maybe we just deserve to suffer.
<<<Hilary held a “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights” panel at Munich and who was the representative for the US? First transgender representative Sarah McBride.>>>
Haha. Good lord. If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does. My guess is it will be Rubio (somehow?) v Gavin and Rubio will win.
Not if wears those shoes Trump got for him!
I do agree if it’s Gavin and Rubio, Rubio wins. But, I feel Rubio would let JD take the nom and JD/Gavin feels like a more even fight to me.
Rubio is a real politician and if there is (like I assume there will be) a decent anti-Trump backlash come election time, it would give Rubio more time to distance himself from Trump if he sits the next one out as the head of the ticket.
Rubio needs to do a Nikki Haley and leave the administration with his dignity intact. Then he doesn't have to carry Trump's baggage but he also doesn't get attacked as a MAGA traitor.
I don't think JD is gonna stand a chance in 4 years. Look at what's happened to this administration's popularity in just one year. It's not like they're gonna turn normal all of a sudden.
Also I'm praying it's not Gavin. Christ.
Stop the train please, I need off.
If you don’t stop the train, I’m gonna jump.
It would be really fun to watch her run for president.
I said stop the train Greg AND I MEAN IT.
People thought the same thing about Trump …now look at where we are , I’m good if she runs for senate loses the primary and is never heard from again again
Yes, please follow Bella Abzug’s footsteps right out of politics.
Your point is taken. However I really doubt she could win. The difference between Trump's weird animal instincts for being a politician and her complete lack of a coherent thought is stark. He's insane but he's got a very specific charisma that can't be denied.
She's pretty hot though.
She’s really not. Her deadlift is likely pitiful.
My really lefty friends genuinely think she’s the future
Definitely the future of a completely powerless political movement.
The Atlantic profiles Rod Dreher:
https://archive.ph/UZA7w
https://open.substack.com/pub/roddreher/p/the-atlantic-profiles-your-working
I tend to like his books quite a lot, especially The Benedict Option and Live Not By Lies.
I think the man needs an editor and when I check out his substack posts, I often find them too disjointed and rambling.
His sadness about the break down of his family is palpable and I wonder if that’s not a large part of why he’s living in Europe. It may be easier for him to accept the distant relationships with his kids when there’s a significant physical distance.
I really would have preferred that he stayed a never Trumper. IIRC, he introduced Vance to a Domincan Friar which is what led to Vance’s conversion. Vance was catechized by a Dominican priest.
I'm highly suspicious of Vance's conversion due to his great change in politics.
i do not agree with Dreher on very much. and yet, i can’t really bring myself to hate the guy.
I agree with him on very little, but he is very thought-provoking.
All packed my overnight flight to Argentina. Spending the week there, staying in Buenos Aires. Any recommendations for things to do from this international barpod crowd?
When you leave, be sure not to cry for Argentina.
I’m not for or against, but exercise caution when going on a choripan bike tour. I sampled multiple street sausages and then got on a bus to Cordoba. Rough.
I regret not seeing Iguazú Falls. Obviously a ways away from BA but still.
I’m sure there’s a tour I could take. I booked Monday through Wednesday but left Thursday and Friday (I leave in the evening) open.
I think I have a bike tour or if I don’t I will because I LOVE bike tours!
I'm envious. Enjoy!
Anyone else following this investigation into the abduction of Savannah Guthrie's mother? I have been watching Megyn Kelly's coverage. I know some people don't like her, but she has reporting chops and I think she has done a great job informing the public.
It's so awful. I really hope they find the poor woman but it doesn't look good right now. Makes me feel really nervous for the older people I know who live alone.
I think it was Michael Tracey who speculated that Epstein did it.
Uhm. I don't follow this theory, haha
My stepmother’s mother is keeping a hammer in her bedroom because she says “they’re kidnapping 80 year olds now.”
Oh my gosh that is so sad :(( I'm sorry.
It’s alright, I don’t think she was entirely serious. She lives alone after her husband died though.
I hate the way the sister and BIL have been “named” with no shred of evidence of wrongdoing.
People online are getting visibly bored and frustrated because they haven't found the answers.
So even though there isn't a shred of evidence the siblings have done anything wrong, the online folks are ascribing blame because traumatised private citizens who have never been in the public eye before seem...*checks notes* uncomfortable living out their trauma in the public eye.
I have generally assumed that the ubiquity of cameras (doorbell, flock, etc) would make this kind of crime in this kind of neighborhood impossible to get away with. Really surprising that it is still unsolved.
Same here.
I am obsessed with it!
I am afraid they aren’t going to solve this thing, and the family never learns what happened to her. I don’t think she’s alive- I think the abductor thought he could get crypto and it would be untraceable. Only now he knows it’s probably not, and there’s no way to get the money.
If this kind of crime becomes a thing, we are all so fucked.
My brother is a lawyer- he could put together a million for our mom. Could she be in danger?? I hate this whole story.
I'm also unfortunately afraid she's not alive, but i don't see how this type of crime would become more common. It seems like the criminal was both dumb and lucky: dumb that he probably accidentally killed the victim, and lucky that the crime scene was in such a remote place with minimal surveillance compared to what's become the norm - absolute saturation of ring cameras and similar. I agree this type of reporting is Megyn and team's strength. I wonder how Savannah feels about it.
I think your theory is right btw.
"If this kind of crime becomes a thing, we are all so fucked."
This is such a good point. I hate the people shitting on the family online. "I would be out searching myself, I would do more press conferences, I would put together more money for a reward, how did Savannah find time to put on makeup, why aren't they on socials more, blah blah blah"
In reality these people don't know what they would do because it hasn't happened to them. If Savannah announced she would just fork out whatever is necessary to get her mother back then that sends a signal it's open season for scum bag kidnappers. I am sure she realises that, too.
So horrible. I hope they get answers :(
According to Twitter a foreign looksmaxxer described as a "tera-chad" is coming to the US to brutally mog the guy who mogged Clavicular.
I'm not comfortable with the Chad inflation that’s happening. It took computers decades to go from kilobytes to mega to giga to tera and approach petabytes. But Chads are getting there in only a few years.
Needs some burley 6'8 rugby guy to say 'lads, this is all a bit gay.'
Right before he chugs beer that was poured into a boot through his teammate's arsecrack.
I imagine receiving such a mogging would be like opening the arc of the covenant -- just melt your inferiormaxxed beta-Chad face right the F off.
Instead of Moore’s Law it’s Chad’s Law
The amount of mogging a Chad can do doubles every 18 months
Depends on the amount of tren injected