Burger King: Home of the…

… Glocker!

Haley’s comet comes around again.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who clashed with Ramaswamy during the 2024 presidential campaign, reacted in an X post in which she wrote: “Just seeing what we tried to tell everyone back then. He’s a bad guy. It’s a shame he continues to get away with it.”

“Bad men gain power when we don’t fight back. Vivek Ramaswamy represents everything that is wrong with our politics today: arrogance, cruelty, dishonesty, and the belief that it’s acceptable to say and do anything for power. I refuse to sit quietly while men like Vivek Ramaswamy exploit a highly qualified woman’s pain for political gain.”

This statement from MK Pritzker came with a $500,000 donation to Amy Acton attached.

Ramaswamy’s latest ad, released just minutes ago…

… shows Amy Acton being publicly executed.

MAGAworld is orgasming.

Limerick.

I’m grateful to V. Ramaswamy:

He tells me which Dem is a Commie

But the real why-oh-why-oh

He’s great for Ohio

Is his airing of Amy’s sweet mommy

‘The integralists’ weakness is that they “have no domestic constituencies.”’

Wonder why.

The leaders of the integralist thought group in the United States are Professors Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame and Adrian Vermeule of Harvard Law School. Their modus operandi is to assemble a small cadre of postliberalists, educated by them, unleash them into the government and schools, and then eventually control the United States government so that it can be governed by their version of Catholic natural law. I admit that this sounds outlandish and foolish, but they have been hard at work, and they have achieved extraordinary momentum by putting Vice President JD Vance in office…

[S]ince the rest of America [is] messed … up, they need to take over. It’s for the people’s own good, whether they agree or not. They have seen no need for a constitutional convention or popular consent, because they have abandoned representative democracy itself…  [T]hey have turned on liberal—aka republican (representative)—democracy, and seek authoritarian rule to bring the people to their own faith, voluntarily or not… [Their] … goal is to re-create a long-ago past by placing Catholic theology at the top of the governing system to coerce citizens into “moral” behavior. They seek to re-integrate Catholic supremacy, as it was before the modern, sovereign state developed.

Yeah, they’ve got Vance, who shows his Catholic compassion all the time, but while UD thinks it’s only responsible to keep you up to date on America’s Christian Crusade, she’s not – er – actively worried.

Why should UD’s high school be any different?

Cuz it’s in super-affluent Bethesda? That doesn’t keep its vicinity from being all shot up. The four people involved will turn out to be (I predict) Walter Johnson students representing warring gangs, or hey maybe a few guys had a bit of an argument over lunch and they took it and their guns (you don’t think WJ students carry weapons?) outside, where they had at it.

If I’m right, it’s so disgusting that WJ administrators, who will turn out to know about some of these shits, allowed them to continue to attend the school.

Limerick.

A former professor at Penn

Thought, “Robots are evil!” So then

She planted her ass

So the bots could not pass

And now she is off to the pen.

The Tennessee Titans…

… bring out the big guns!

‘No society, no matter how equal or enlightened, can satisfy nihilists.’

Nihilists are funny until they start chewing the scenery.

‘[O]ld patterns of sexual predation are being enabled and facilitated in terrifying ways by modern technology. Groups of men can now form and coordinate with far greater ease than they could in any previous era. They can invite one another to commit rape from behind the anonymizing shield of their screens. Online, the misogyny and rape culture that can foment within all-male spaces operates on a grand scale, at the speed of light.’

Yuck.

Kate Manne, a ban-the-frats person who teaches at Cornell.

‘[T]his was not the work of egalitarian insurgents or working-class warriors, but nihilist, anarchist “black bloc” gangs, with opportunist looters and rioters along for the ride.’

The stunningly ugly events in France, says a writer for the left wing Guardian, clear the way for Marine Le Pen’s victory in the next presidential elections.

Indeed, all of the polls show her with a commanding lead.

Some progressives here express incredulity that Le Pen might, this time, go all the way; but anyone paying attention to Le Pen’s steely rise, her decades of focused and masterful politicking, isn’t surprised. Even without nation-destroying riots cheered on by her left wing rival Mélenchon – riots which, the Guardian columnist notes, benefit only Le Pen – the National Rally represents the most popular party in the country.

She ain’t got my endorsement; but having watched her for years, I’d say she’s the consummate politician, steadfastly building credibility while Paris nihilistically burns.

Gifting a Gun to your Troubled 16-year-old Son.

How clever.

Oral Stage, United States

Adorable.

PUB-EX USA, a new group that has emerged from the recent public execution controversy in the US…

… advocates for the public execution of all death penalty prisoners. Its president, pastor Doug Wilson – already famous for demanding that women be stripped of the vote – explains that  “executions in the Scriptures were public.”

Revealed truth leads Christians in all things, including this one, writes Wilson, and the idea of carrying out beheadings (Romans 13:4) “in the recesses of a prison somewhere in the middle of the night” is morally repugnant, as well as heretical.

PUB-EX’s most prominent member, Pete Hegseth, has, with Wilson, launched an all-state tour to introduce the organization to the American public. Event organizers plan to distribute swag bags which will include candy-rich severed heads.

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