RIP Ronin, Our Herorat

APOPO/HeroRats is a cool organization, which I recommend to you.

The hero rat we helped to sponsor for the last couple of years was Ronin, a mine-detecting rat in Cambodia, who, sadly, has passed away.

Ronin held the Guiness Book of World Records record for most mines and UXO detected by a rat.

Poor little guy.

Trump Called Police about Epstein in 2006

Pretty well-known already--but, of course, the progressive-left/MSM complex of crazy will try to deny it.

Political correctness means never having to admit that you have or had false beliefs...

   Reddit, for example--which is now full-blown crazy leftist--is absolutely out of its mind over the Trump is a ped0 lunacy. It's sobering to see the power of groupthink over otherwise at-least-seemingly-reasonably-intelligent people.

Jeffrey Blehar: I Don't Care about Bad Bunny and Neither Do You; VA Redistricting Not a Done Deal

Agreed on both counts.

I don't even generally watch the Superbowl.

I was probably watching the replay of the Carolina-d00k game, actually...

Trump Refuses to Apologize for Obama Gorilla Video

I find this thing increasingly tedious...which I wouldn't have thought possible... How could it possibly get more so?

Gotta say, part of me is with Trump on this one.

   The media and the left (but I repeat myself) aren't interested in actual remorse or honest admission of error--not that Donald I Don't Make Mistakes* Trump would ever admit error. They're out to destroy him no matter what, and they want an apology because they think it will give them an additional weapon to fight that fight.

   Now, in a civilized group operating under civilized rules, an admission of error should count, to at least some extent, in someone's favor. That's not the way it works in politics as bloodsport. Or, rather: politics as civil war...

Trump is making a tactical decision--he calculates that refusing to apologize is more likely to be a winning move (relatively speaking, given the fix he's put himself in) compared to apologizing. And he may well be right. There's a good chance it would drive the left/media Reavers to even more rabid heights of rabid, rabid rabidity. Refusing to apologize will do so, too...but, in a way, he's using the left's own tactics against it: by just refusing to acknowledge plain facts, he's hoping to partially reduce them to sputtering bafflement. Maybe it's kinda his version of I don't know what a woman is... Sure, it's obvious the he and they are lying...but admitting that will focus the energies of their enemies. Instead, it's probably better to drive them to tear their own hair out in frustration.

   At this point, I hate both sides so much that I'd kind of like to see them personally destroy each other while the country slips out the back way.

   That's not an attempt to both-sides Trump out of this one--though odds are he was just inattentive and didn't even watch the video to the end. Dude is not a racist--or no more of one than any ordinary person. Though, when he's mad at someone (and he kinda hates Obama...largely though not entirely because of the Correspondent's Dinner fiasco), he'll say virtually anything about them...so...

   Trump is personally very bad for the country. He not only isn't an exemplar (as I think the President should be), he's almost a paradigm of how not to be. Not in his personal life and personal interactions with ordinary people, apparently--but that doesn't matter. Publicly, he's an example of how not to be. 

   I say that despite thinking that, policy-wise, he's taken huge strides toward saving Western Civilization...with the usual caveat that what is wrought by Executive Orders can be undone by them...and the worthless, good-for-nothing Republican legislature basically won't do its damn job. So Trump is likely just giving us a four-year respite. Look at what the Democrats are doing to Virginia--that may basically be the fate of the nation in e.g. Gavin Newsome's America, post 2028...

   But anyway: I say: thank God for Trump...but also: to hell with Trump.

   It's just important that the Dems go to hell too...

   The image that comes to mind is, nerdily/goofily: if Saruman instead of Gandalf had been at the Bridge of Kazad-Dum...and he and the Balrog had fallen into the darkness, hands locked around each others' throats... 

   Stopping the Dems so long as they are in the thrall of the insane, woketarian left is still the most important thing, I think...but we're suffering from more than mere Trump fatigue...he, too, is doing real harm to the country.

    How did everything get so goddamned stupid, anyway?

Sexbots are the Great Filter

That is all.

Carolina Fan Throws Water Bottle at Duke Players/Coaches

I don't have the video, but I saw it last night while I was watching highlights. Scheyer says one of the staff was punched in the face. (These could have been the same incident, misunderstood by the guy on the receiving end).

   This is obviously way beyond the pale. People on IC saw it too, and say: ban the student from the Dean Dome for life.  

   I agree. 

   It's also battery. So turn him over to the cops.

   What an embarrassment after a great win.

Carolina 71 - Duke 68

The Heels did not take the lead ever in the game until Seth Trimble's 3 with 0.4 seconds left in the game.

Final VCDL Analysis of Pending VA Firearms Bills

The proposals mostly range from bad to very bad.

VA House of Delegates Dems Pass Anti-2nd-Amendment "Assault Weapons" Bill

Assholes.

It'll probably pass the Senate, too. And Spamburgler will probably sign it.

Better go buy what you need before July.

Trump's Not Exactly Obama Gorilla Tweet

Yeah, the stuff I saw made it seem as if the clip of the Obamas was the whole thing, instead of one scene among many in a minute-long video of prominent political figures (mostly Dems) shown as African animals. Why do I keep falling for this stuff? You basically know every single time that it's a lie or distortion..

   I don't know whether DCS is right about the last scene being accidentally captured from another video or not. But even if not, it's a lot less bad than it was being represented as being.

   Don't get me wrong...I don't want a President that spends his time retweeting stupid videos of any kind. Pretty much especially of this kind. But what happened (in either case) isn't what we were being told happened.

 

Trump's Obama Gorilla Tweet

JESUS ****ING CHRIST WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT GUY???????

He's doing a great job in a lot of ways...but he might be losing his mind.

SAVE Act "Violates the 19th Amendment"

LOLOLOLOLOL

50% of Immigrants, 60% of Illegals on Welfare?

Breitbart reporting, so I'd check it. Allegedly based on gov't numbers.

If true, of course, it's nuts.

Britain Plans to Make the Countryside "Less White" Because Muslims Find Pubs "Unwelcoming;" Also: Fewer Dogs

The mother country has gone insane.

Not mentioned in this story: dogs also bad.

**** the VA Dems: Redistricting Edition

I really don't like these guys.

The "Disability" "Accommodations" Scam

This is the kind of transparent, politically correct scam that could only survive at universities.

No...wait...that's what we thought about "diversity"/DEI a decade or so ago...

But progressive-left madness has broken academic containment...

The 2020 Election...Still Not Exactly Over...

Since DOGE revealed the massive network of NGOs basically laundering Democrat money...and since revelations of massive fraud in MN...I've actually come to think that it's more likely that the Dems are committing electoral fraud, too. I certainly don't think that the probability that the 2020 election was stolen is anywhere near 0... But also nowhere near 1. I guess I'd guess something like .2 if I had to guess.

   If it were to be proven tomorrow that the Dems stole the election in GA, I would be somewhat surprised...but not a lot surprised.

   One thing that's very clear: Dem claims that 2020 was "the most secure election of all time" (or whatever talking point it was that they were all repeating for awhile) were always laughable.

   Story summary at Ace's digs.

AJW: Dems Backstab VA Voters

VA Dems suck alright...but are VA Dem voters really having buyer's remorse...or are they even surprised?

   Dems like to tell themselves that Trump voters have buyer's remorse...but I don't know a single Trump voter who has said he would change his vote if we had a do-over election today. I mean...Trump's driving me nuts...but the alternative is too horrifically stupid and crazy to contemplate.

   I wish Dem voters had just had some sense slapped into them...but I don't believe they have...which, of course, is worse...much, much worse...

Maher: Where Does QAnon Go for Its Apology?

Yeah, I've said similar things myself. As much as I love conspiracy theories, I'm kinda surprised how little I know about QAnon...but...yeah...they were kinda right.

And, I mean...doesn't Hollywood kinda seem like a big ol' sex-trafficking/ped0 operation?

Bill Maher couldn’t believe he was actually saying it — but he asked the question anyway:

“Where does QAnon go for the apology?”

When Stephen A. Smith asked his thoughts on the Clintons appearing in the Epstein files, Maher noticed one group had been way ahead of the curve on… pic.twitter.com/QH0CpBYBz0

— Overton (@overton_news) February 5, 2026

AJW: The Left Wanted the MN Chaos

Peggy Sastre: The Unwelcome Truth About Rape

It's mainly about sex, not domination or violence.

I actually fell for more of this sort of feminist bullshit than you might think when I was in HS and college and had kind of nutty feminist gfs.

I had a pretty good bullshit detector already, but I didn't realize how often feminists just plain make shit up because they like the sound of it or it accords with their worldview...

Anyway, we've known this for a long time now. One piece of evidence is that age and attractiveness are factors in being targeted by rapists.

Did the WH use AI to Edit Photo of MN Church Rioter Arrest?

She sucks and deserves to be in jail...but this is just goddamned crazy.

Liberty Doll: 7 Shitty Gun Bills Advance in VA

If the Democrats' abject freakout of the last 10+ years has made anything clear, it's: do not give up your guns.

VA Dems' "Affordability" Agenda

Seriously if you voted for these criminals you're retarded.

IT'S MA'AM

🚨 LMAO! Some tr*nny started berating a black ICE agent, and the agent looked him right in the eyes and said “Are you a man?!”

That absolutely SET OFF the man dressed up as a woman, who then called the agent a “n*gger”

Leftists prove ONCE AGAIN they’re the *real* racists

h/t… pic.twitter.com/pm439dDWLN

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 3, 2026

READ THIS JAMES LINDSAY POST ON CHICOM "TIFA" PROPAGANDA

Absolutely 100% read this:

(Another example of such solecistic/nonsensical solganeering is "hate speech is not free speech." It makes so little goddamned sense that most people are confused into silence when they hear it.

   My nomination for the most astonishingly evil and destructive bit of leftist propaganda from the last decade or so, however, is the insidious "diversity is our strength." Now, that doesn't exactly weaponize incoherence in the way that, e.g., "no one is illegal on stolen land" does...but it does say--appallingly--that so-called "diversity" is our only strength... Absolutely loony.

   But anyway: read the whole Lindsay thing. You won't be sorry you did:

Let's talk about the opening part of this statement: "nobody is illegal on stolen land." We can break it down, but we should also know what it is. What we are looking at is Chinese-style political sloganeering called "tifa" (提法).

Communist communications ever since Mao took… https://t.co/OPEfOnL9FI

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) February 2, 2026

The Anarcho-Commies Set Up DIY Anti-ICE Roadblocks in Minneapolis

Sorry...I meant: anarcho-retards.

At Insty's.

LOL @ Billie Eilish & co.

facepalm
What a bunch of retards

Billie Eilish at the Grammys: "Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter...f*ck ICE."

pic.twitter.com/90FQcO0Un2

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 2, 2026