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Any other AI probably would have accused me to all sorts of racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, etc.But Grok actually answered my question.Heh heh heh.I asked Grok:If the Palestinians did get their wish of controlling all the land “from the river to the sea,” how long would it take for them to turn it from a first world country into a third world country?This is the answer that it gave:Predicting the outcome of such a hypothetical scenario involves many variables and assumptions, making precise timelines speculative. If Palestinians gained control over the entire territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,...

It's kind of difficult to turn on a television or go to a movie these days without seeing Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal. If we looked up 'overexposed' in the dictionary, we would probably see his face there, too. n addition to starring in the abysmal sequel Gladiator II, Pascal is (or -- spoiler alert -- was) also the lead in HBO's video game-based series The Last of Us. And he is a major part of TWO Disney tentpoles. He plays the Mandaorian in the series and the upcoming movie of the same name, and will be playing Reed Richards in...

The Media has been covering up the reality of January 6 for over four years now. Prager U CEO Marissa Streit interviewed two “influencers”–John Strand and Brandon Straka– who were arrested, jailed, and nearly financially ruined in what appears to be a clear attempt by the Biden administration to make an example of them. If you have an open mind and heart, you will outraged at what you see. You will learn shocking information you’ve likely never heard before. President Trump pardoned / commuted the sentences of those involved. Getting these Americans out of prison was a great first step....

Stand back, I’m on the ground Here I come, full of gas, touched down Hot shot, runnin’ to signal virtue Model citizen, need no discipline Don’t you know he’s coming home with me? You’ll lose him at CECOT I’ll get him Abrego, Abrego Abrego, Abrego Ain’t nothin’ like it, it’s MS 13 Got the feel for the kill, keep the slicin’ knives clean Hot shot, runnin’ to signal virtue Got off the ramp comin’ to the prision Don’t you know he’s coming home with me? You’ll lose him at CECOT I’ll get him Oh! Abrego, Abrego Aw! Abrego, Abrego Woo!...

Yesterday at Coachella, one of the biggest music festivals in the world, a white Irish band who “rap”, called Kneecap, celebrated the terrorists Hamas who murdered 380 people at a music festival in Israel on October 7. Kneecap, from Ireland, a country riddled with a shameful history of violence and oppression of women, who rap, and who are white, took to the stage of a music festival and used it as a platform for encouragement and incitement to murder, rape, and destroy innocent people. They wore keffiyehs (they also rap and are white after all), and spoke about the bombings...

There is a story in the news today about two colleges. One is the oldest college in America, having been founded before the American Revolution. It is also perhaps the very most elite of the Ivy League. It is the goal of most children of the elite in America, which is the closest we have to an aristocracy; “legacy”, or the children of its graduates, are still given a major “leg up” when applying to go there. Its researchers in many fields, from economics to literature to medicine, are the recipients of billions of dollars of government grants. It recently...

The Supreme Court’s ruling has driven trans activists nuts – and I’m loving it.I’ve found my soundtrack for spring: the caterwauling of fellas in dresses following yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. It’s delicious. They’re raging about the ‘fascism’ of no longer being allowed to get their knobs out in the women’s changing room. They’re agonising over where they’re supposed to take a shit now. Their Adam’s apples are getting a mighty fine workout as they wail into the void about being ‘erased’ by ‘transphobes’. It’s the sound of men being stripped of their entitlements by women who’ve had enough of their...

The most Los Angeles thing I have ever seen happened behind the Yoshinoya Beef Bowl.... See the alley between the Yoshinoya and the pharmacy? As I drove by on Wilshire, two extremely alert LAPD officers on motorcycles were sitting at the edge of that parking lot, postures tight and poised for action, urgently scanning the street. It was like watching a gunfighter movie, in the scene when the camera closes in on the gunfighter’s eyes, watching his opponent for the draw. These dudes were ready. If you did 38 in the 30 MPH zone, then brother, you were dead-ass done,...

45 years ago, Danno booked ’em for the last time, when Hawaii Five-O aired its final episode. The show — which starred Jack Lord as tough-as-nails Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, who headed up a special police task force that rooted out organized crime and espionage in the Hawaiian islands — debuted in 1968, making it the last scripted 1960s drama still on the airwaves when it took its final bow. The show made Lord a superstar and familiarized many viewers with Hawaii, which had only become a U.S. state in 1959, and its impact is still being felt today, in...

Friends and relatives of 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, the Texas high school student accused of fatally stabbing another teen, are promoting t-shirts with his face on them with slogans like “FreeMelo” and “#Justice4KarmeloAnthony.” When he was taken into custody after the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco High School track meet, Anthony admitted that he was the killer. A website selling the shirts describes Anthony as “just a small town kid, raised in a loving two parent household,” and goes on to paint a portrait of him as a model youth. “Karmelo, A 4.0 student. A football team captain....

President Trump held his “Liberation Day” press conference on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. In this presentation, he announced a new additional 10% baseline tariff on top of whatever other tariffs are currently in place (with a few exceptions) for the goods of most countries. For most of our major trading partners, this 10% rate would be replaced by a much higher rate the following week, some as high as 46% (Vietnam) and 49% (Cambodia). Markets tumbled, perhaps forgetting that with President Trump, most big announcements are his way of beginning a negotiation, so these often terrifyingly high percentages are not...

For a couple of decades now, I have put out a list of the best and most obnoxious quotes of the year. The most obnoxious quotes always get much more attention for understandable reasons, but that’s just how it is these days, isn’t it? The most outrageous, blood pressure-raising, anger-producing events get all the eyeballs, and the real news, brilliant insights, and uplifting sentiments tend to get ignored.Well today, we’re going to be giving those “best of” quotes the respect they deserve. What you are about to read is a little snapshot of history, the best quotes from 2014 –...

If you think bringing American manufacturing jobs back is a steep climb, it’s nothing compared to one of the key efforts this year: saving America’s retail sector. Retail is absolutely critical to the American way of life. Shops fill our malls and business districts; they draw customers to our restaurants and movie theaters, they create important part-time jobs for students and adults, and for those of you who like taxes, retailers produce sales taxes and property taxes and income taxes, and by employing people, they provide income taxes and FICA taxes as well. Retail is everything from the single-location gift...

I asked Grok: “In the past 10 years in the entire world, as far as you know, how many people were killed by each of the following? Pit bulls. Border collies. Cheetahs. No need for a long explanation. Just the numbers will be fine.” This is the answer that it gave: Pit bulls: ~400 (U.S. and Canada only; global data unavailable) Border collies: 0 Cheetahs: 3

William Shatner just tweeted the following:“It’s called Presentism and it was used wreak havoc on history several years ago when statues were torn down, books were banned and things renamed to prove how progressive the world had become. Just listen to my opening monologue on Star Trek TOS on Paramount+. They intentionally garbled it on every episode because I say ‘where no man has gone before’ That’s Presentism at its finest hour.”https://x.com/WilliamShatner/status/1909959257753358797

British police warn an elderly, partially-deaf man that saying "speak English" is a hate crime. This is absolutely insane.

Where can I get urinal mats with pictures of Obama and Biden? I need them for work.

So since all the Democrats have been doing is having federal judges keep trying to stall and delay Trump, I have q question here: We know at least some Federal judges are on Trump's side, so why not use the tactic of every time an anti-Trump judge says blah blah blah, any one of the pro-Trump judges can simply say "Well, the ruling of that judge is wrong and Trump is actually allowed to do this and that" and then all the White House has to do is just simply side with the Judge on their team. Simply put, you...

The shaming of Kemi Badenoch for not watching it confirms the Netflix show has become a neo-religion.How long before Kemi Badenoch has a cardboard placard hung round her neck, Cultural Revolution style, to let the world know she still hasn’t watched Adolescence?It’s getting to that stage. First Nick Ferrari of LBC accused her of a ‘dereliction of duty’ for failing to watch the Netflix drama. Then professional tit James O’Brien said it is ‘unthinkable’ that she has ‘swerved this programme’. And now the BBC is grilling her. ‘Have you watched Adolescence yet?’, its presenters barked in McCarthyite tones this week....

The anchor appeared to respond, ‘I don’t think he can serve four more years,'” when asked about Biden from a passerby on the street a few days after the interview.They all knew. They. All. Knew.We knew they all knew, too. It’s infuriating.In his new book Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, Chris Whipple claims that ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos described former President Joe Biden as “heartbreaking up close” after an interview in July.The interview happened one week after Biden debated then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Biden dropped out of the race...