81 Replies to “May 31, 2025: Reader Tips”

      1. Maybe I’m in a depressed state or something, but I desperately needed a laugh so I played all the vids in this thread… but alas… didn’t laugh once. Not even a snicker or even a grin.
        I think this country’s politics are getting the better of me.
        [sigh]

  1. There’s some weird thing where AI does babies, but pretty funny

    \https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHq5o_wiet0

    1. Sadly roaddog look at who runs the state and they keep voting them in much like eastern canada.You get what you vote for

    1. Here’s Arnaud Bertrand’s reaction to Hegseth’s bloodthirsty speech:

      “This was easily one of the most unhinged and fear-mongering speeches by a Pentagon chief in Asia ever, with relents of the worst times of the Cold War.

      Funnily enough, Hegseth started his speech by saying that “for a generation, the United States ignored this region” because they were “distracted by open-ended wars, regime change, and nation building” elsewhere.

      Good start to the speech And, interesting coincidence, that very generation during which the US “ignored” Asia corresponds to the region’s most peaceful and prosperous period in centuries. And to catastrophic wars and entire nations destroyed where the US chose to focus their efforts instead. Strange, isn’t it?

      But fear not, Hegseth says, the US are doing their utmost to “shift our focus to this region” in order to answer “the threat China poses”, which “could be imminent”. I’m sure the audience was very reassured

      How does Hegseth define this “China threat” he’s so worried about? As an “alteration of the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific”, the US being “pushed out of this critical region” and China “conquering Taiwan by force.”

      In short the “China threat” is… China daring to become more powerful than the US in its own neighborhood.

      And of course, as everyone with half a brain knows, what makes war over Taiwan more likely: is it Hegseth’s ironically named “peace through strength” approach where he says the threat of war is “imminent”, “insists” that everyone ramps up military spending and says the US is preparing “to fight and win, decisively”? Or maybe, just maybe, is it to keep the same “One China” approach that’s worked at preserving the peace for decades?

      You could make the comparison with Cuba: what if China were to suddenly go to the Western hemisphere and start saying the US threat is “imminent,” demanding Mexico and Canada ramp up their military spending to 5% of GDP while lecturing them about “altering the balance of power in the Americas” and announcing China is “preparing to fight and win, decisively” against the US? Would that make war more or less likely?

      Another veiled threat Hegseth made is to “beware” of “the idea of seeking both economic cooperation with China and defense cooperation with the United States,” because of “the leverage that the CCP seeks with that entanglement.”

      The lack of self-awareness is hilarious: the guy is literally threatening and “insisting” everyone in the region ramp up military spending to 5% of GDP to align with US defense priorities at their expense, while in the same breath warning them about Chinese economic leverage. Peak American exceptionalism…

      Anyhow, all this would be funny if it wasn’t so fundamentally disgusting: at heart this is the US determined to prevent China, the only great power to ever reach this status peacefully, from continuing to modernize and develop itself – because in their zero-sum view of the world the very idea that 1.4 billion people might achieve prosperity without American dominance is apparently intolerable.”

      https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1928694074984513887

        1. How many wars do you brainless neocons want to start anyway? The US just started — and lost — a war with the Houthis. After a relentless 60 day bombing campaign to get the Houthis to stop attacking Israel, the US Navy slunk away in defeat and the Houthis are still attacking Israel.

          Now the US, along with Germany, France and the UK, are threatening to dramatically escalate the war with Russia. Do you think Russia will just roll over and take it when the Taurus missiles start hitting Moscow? I wouldn’t bet on it. Better start digging bunkers in Berlin.

          The US are also making demands on Iran that they know the Iranians will never accept, thereby leaving the US “no choice” but to launch a full-scale war against Iran. If they can’t even defeat the Houthis, what are the odds that the US can destroy Iran’s nuclear program, or overthrow their regime? No chance at all.

          And now Hegseth traipses over to Singapore to make bloodcurdling threats that the US is preparing for an “imminent” war against China. Twenty years ago the US might have defeated China in a war over Taiwan; today they have no chance and they know it. How many Carrier Groups do they want to see at the bottom of the Ocean anyway? How does any of this impotent warmongering advance the interests of the American people exactly?

          Trump was elected in large part because he promised to keep the peace. NO MORE WARS, period. He needs to get rid of all these despicable neocons in his orbit, Kellogg, Graham, Hegseth, all of them, or his presidency will end in disaster.

          1. “How many wars do you brainless neocons want to start anyway? The US just started — and lost — a war with the Houthis.”

            LOL. Sure they did.

            “Twenty years ago the US might have defeated China in a war over Taiwan; today they have no chance and they know it.”

            In your dreams.

          2. “How many wars do you brainless neocons want to start anyway? ”

            As many as necessary for turd worlders to learn their place.

            “Do you think Russia will just roll over and take it when the Taurus missiles start hitting Moscow?”

            Yes, they will roll over like bitches. No, Tuarus will not be hitting targets inside Moscow. Taurus will not be used for anything other than high value military targets, there will be very few of them anyway and it is another overhyped weapon. But yes, orcs will roll over like they have done so many times before. HIMARS, F-16, Storm Shadow, ATACMS, etc etc first they bitch and protest, then they threaten, then they take it up the a$$ and claim that nothing happened.

            Re Iran, US has plenty enough firepower to knock Iran back to stone age (also known in Iran as yesterday).

            As for war with chicoms, those who depend on imported food deliveries via sea lines for their survival should be very careful about a war with a navy that can sever those supply routes without breaking a sweat.

            Anyway you India and Pakis should be each other’s throats sooner than later, hopefully this time it will get nuclear.

            The biggest problem for US are all the pinko fifth collumn crying about “world policeman”. Savages like you ought to know their place (under a boot, skull just about ready to crack, tongue eagerly licking the heel).

            FOAD chicom.

          3. A lot of paid CCP propagandists on here posting today.

            Dude you sound like some looser grad student without a clue about much of anything outside of your university bubble.

      1. ” … the only great power to ever reach this status peacefully …”

        Seriously???? Millions upon millions of Chinese ghosts would disagree.

        Mao alone offed somewhere between 40 and 70 million of his own people.

      2. China is another shithole that should have been nuked decades ago. Instead naïve westerners are getting f#$% now.

      3. The rhetoric is aimed at China. It sounds high handed and even slightly unhinged to our ears, but to the Chinese government it will strike a different tone, unafraid and resolute.

    2. The CCP hasn’t given them permission yet.

      Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of China.

  2. Mass immigration to Europe is a ‘consciously controlled ethnic and cultural transformation,’ says Austria’s FPÖ leader Kickl at CPAC Hungary
    https://rmx.news/article/mass-immigration-to-europe-is-a-consciously-controlled-ethnic-and-cultural-transformation-says-austrias-fpo-leader-kickl-at-cpac-hungary/


    ‘Ominous winds are blowing in the West’ – Incredible data shows massive demographic transformation in Austria
    https://rmx.news/article/ominous-winds-are-blowing-in-the-west-incredible-data-shows-massive-demographic-transformation-in-austria/

  3. The socialists/communists never seem to talk about how the communist students helped the Ayatollah to overthrow the Shah’s Iranian government in 1979. Then the Ayatollah thanked the students by proceeding to arrest, jail and execute those communists who helped him.

    Similarly, when the communist students in Egypt helped overthrow Mubarek, one of the first things Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government did was to imprison the students.

    Pepperidge farm remembers!

    Leftist-Islamist Alliance Forming a ‘Laboratory of Antisemitism’ with ‘Civil Religion’ of ‘Palestinism’, Study Finds
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/30/leftist-islamist-alliance-form-a-laboratory-of-antisemitism-in-belgium-study-finds/

  4. It has been claimed that the three most reliable indicators of civil unrest are: substantial increases in the cost of food, increases in the cost of fuel and disproportionately more single men than women. (I don’t know why the “experts” don’t say this also applies to the unaffordability of housing.)

    China Warns Its Lonely Men Against ‘Buying a Foreign Wife’
    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/05/28/china-warns-its-lonely-men-against-buying-a-foreign-wife/

  5. United States Secures the Extraditions of Individuals Accused of Violent and Other Serious Crimes from Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Guatemala, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Kosovo, Malaysia, Mauritius,
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-secures-extraditions-individuals-accused-violent-and-other-serious-crimes

    … The fugitives extradited by the United States include:
    Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, a Canadian citizen, native of Pakistan, and convicted terrorist, was extradited to India to stand trial on 10 criminal charges stemming from his alleged role in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 160 people, including six Americans, and wounded hundreds more.

    1. L- Sam Cooper says he’s been informed, that Iran’s gov’t. Involvement in organized crime in Canada (and presumably other nations) is to raise money to fund terrorist groups e.i. …
      They play in the major leagues, so to speak.

  6. Two Charged in $227M Medicare Fraud Scheme
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-charged-227-million-medicare-fraud-scheme

    … An Illinois man and a foreign national were arrested yesterday on criminal charges related to their alleged submission of more than $227 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.

    According to court documents, Syed Murtuza Kablazada, 34, of Arlington Heights, and Syed Mehdi Hussain, 32, of Carol Stream, owned and operated purported medical laboratories that submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare for the reimbursement of over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits allegedly provided to Medicare beneficiaries. The defendants allegedly installed foreign nationals to act as nominee owners at the laboratories to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare for the provision of over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits, with the understanding the nominee owners would flee the United States when they learned that their laboratory was under investigation…

    1. Would be nice if Germany stopped deporting its turd world problems to other countries that never wanted them in the first place.

    1. If there ever was someone who needed public gutting and being fed to pigs while still alive…

  7. Vox Day on Hegseth’s speech:

    “Hegseth is sufficiently educated in military affairs to know better than to spout nonsense like this. The US not only will not win a war with China in the Indo-Pacific, it cannot even put up a serious military challenge to China.

    The entire world has been watching as Russia, with only limited assistance from Belarus, Iran, and North Korea, has almost singlehandedly defeated the entire might of the USA and its NATO allies. The result would not be any different even if the USA had attempted to utilize its own forces directly; the Kiev regime has already lost twice as many men as exist in the US armed forces without ever even forcing the Russians to utilize most of its frontline troops, its best hardware, or the greater part of its missile stocks.

    The Russians, knowing the possibility of direct NATO intervention, have been keeping very powerful reserves in order to utilize them if necessary. This is why most of the Russian casualties have been from the provincial militaries and the mercenary companies. The Russian air force has lost all of 6 aircraft in 2025; the US Navy lost half that many from a single carrier in a single deployment in the Red Sea.

    So I very much doubt that the Chinese are very impressed by the performance of the US military or are afraid to risk a confrontation with it over Taiwan. I also doubt there will be an actual invasion as such; it is far more likely that reunification will be quietly negotiated behind the scenes, then announced one day along with a series of arrests of pro-independence advocates.

    It’s a shame that the foreign rulers of the USA have inverted the historical American philosophy coined by Teddy Roosevelt, and instead elect for speaking loudly while carrying a small and fragile stick.”

    https://voxday.net/2025/05/31/a-chilling-warning/

    1. “series of arrests of pro-independence advocates”
      And then run them over with tanks.

      1. Thomas Keith on Hegseth’s speech:

        “Logged Hegseth’s full Shangri-La address. Cross-referenced against throughput metrics, alliance posture, and trade flow. Result: the map doesn’t match the monologue.

        Hegseth marched into Shangri‑La reciting empire’s last rites, swearing that the Pacific still orbits Washington. The claim that the United States is an “Indo‑Pacific nation” collapses under basic arithmetic: China moves more containers through Ningbo in a month than every U.S. West‑Coast port combined. Maritime gravity has shifted; Beijing writes the tide tables with shipyard output and port automation, not applause lines.

        He flaunted a trillion‑dollar procurement binge, Golden Dome shields, F‑47 phantoms, hypersonic fleets, yet every platform he praised depends on rare‑earth magnets refined in Jiangxi and Sichuan. Supply chains rule deterrence. Beijing owns the choke points from mine to wafer; Washington rents them on 90‑day payment terms. A military that outsources its periodic table can only project debt.

        His “warrior ethos” sermon ignored the attrition eroding U.S. readiness: recruiting shortfalls, carrier decks cannibalized for parts, a personnel system paced by litigation. Across the Pacific, PLA drill cycles close on time; warship keels slide down rails with clockwork regularity; satellite constellations grow in silent orbital rings. Discipline beats slogans.

        He boasted of border deployments and canal seizures, clinging to Panama nostalgia. While he fantasizes about century‑old ditches, China financed new locks, wired them with BeiDou guidance, and tied toll schedules to digital‑yuan clearing. Infrastructure outlives rifles. Concrete, fiber, and code decide sovereignty; Beijing pours all three at industrial cadence.

        Every accusation of “gray‑zone coercion” was projection. American littoral regiments dig missile pits in Philippine villages; China extends customs fast lanes and industrial parks. One side rehearses beach insertions, the other side delivers payroll jobs and broadband. Regional capitals count container cranes, not missile tubes, when they plan next quarter’s growth.

        India merited a special slot in his script, presented as partner, treated as water boy. Washington assigns Delhi depot duty: bolt U.S. drones, service American hulls, provide airstrips and telemetry pipes on demand. In return it offers flattery, end‑of‑life platforms to assemble, and a front‑row seat in someone else’s confrontation. Delhi, high on crescendos about “great power,” accepts its chores because post‑COVID capital flight, semiconductor scarcity, and an exposed payments system leave no alternative patron willing to underwrite its ambitions. Having burned the bridge to RCEP and stalled on corridor diplomacy, it now polishes another empire’s kit in the hope of borrowed prestige. The region sees the trade: sovereignty exchanged for a cameo in Washington’s pageant.

        Hegseth pressed allies to match a mythical five‑percent GDP defense spend. Asia remembers American mentorship in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, trillions burned, states shattered, reconstruction contracts unpaid. Chinese capital built express­ways from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, data centers in Jakarta, solar valleys in Lahore. Concrete dividends outrank pledges.

        His closing pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor graves tried to sanctify American arms with memory. Asia honors sacrifice but counts results: eight hundred million lifted from poverty, a self‑financed moon program, the fastest high‑speed rail grid on earth. Nations staring down debt ceilings and demographic cliffs prefer a partner that builds hospitals faster than Washington schedules hearings.

        Hegseth promised peace through strength while scripting beachhead exercises and missile deployments. Beijing offers strength through interdependence: trans‑Eurasian freight, currency‑swap liquidity, public goods from vaccines to disaster drones. Countries choosing railheads over runway craters are not succumbing to coercion; they are selecting reliability.

        In this century’s ledger, Washington posts deficits and speeches; Beijing posts cranes and deliveries. The hall heard the contrast: thunderous vows versus silent throughput. The Pacific’s future will be wired by the hand that finishes projects, settles accounts, and shows up without an invoice for garrison costs. On every metric that matters, manufacturing scale, trade integration, standards issuance, China already writes the operating code. American declarations scroll across the splash screen; the system boots into Beijing’s runtime.”

        https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1928854869223358874

  8. Here’s one from an honest woman.

    I was at the dentist the other day having and extraction and the start of an implant. It’s a front tooth so they give me this temporary tooth to pop in place when I’m going out. I told them I have no intention of wearing it and that the gals I go out with won’t care if I look like a pirate.

    I’m walking up to the front to pay and his assistant a very comely gal stops me and says, ” I’ve got news for you trapper the gals don’t care what you look like, they care about what’s in your wallet.”

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