Bye Cindy

So my favourite story from the midterms has officially panned out:

Democrat Scott Colom defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since Reconstruction, in a stunning upset after more than a week of vote counting in one of the country’s most reliably red states. […]
Colom opened up a narrow lead over Hyde-Smith late on election night. His lead widened as election officials counted absentee and provisional ballots. The Associated Press called the contest on Wednesday, after it was clear Hyde-Smith was not able to close the gap.
In a two-minute concession video shared on social media, Hyde-Smith said: “While this is not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters.” She offered her congratulations to Colom and said she wished him well “as he takes on the tremendous responsibility of representing our great state”.
Mississippi has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982. It’s been much longer – not since 1875 – that the state sent a Black senator to Washington. Colom is also the first Black man popularly elected to the Senate in the state’s history – during Reconstruction, senators were chosen by state lawmakers.

What makes this sweeter is that Joe Biden nominated Colom to be a judge in Mississippi, for which he actually had bipartisan support. Hyde-Smith, however, refused to submit her “blue slip”, which is some Senate tradition that allows the state’s senators to block or approve the putative new judge; apparently by not submitting her slip she basically blocked him from even being nominated. I imagine she has regrets tonight. I was hoping Colom would pull it off, not just for the “first black Senator since 1875” thing but also for the “fuck you Cindy” thing, and he did! I’m quite satisfied with this one…

The master race at work

Neo-Nazi Leader Accidentally Livestreams Masturbation Session

AS AMERICANS SETTLED IN to watch the midterm results last Tuesday, neo-Nazi internet personality Christopher Pohlhaus had different plans: World of Warcraft. And perhaps something a little bit more erotic after that.
Pohlhaus, a tatted-up white supremacist influencer who goes by the name “Hammer” online, streamed the fantasy game to his fans for hours. But eventually, Pohlhaus wanted to talk to a lady outside of the fantasy land of Azeroth. And this conversation was not meant for his fans to see.
Before video-chatting with the woman, Pohlhaus turned off the recording on his streaming software. Crucially, however, Pohlhaus did not also end his broadcast on the streaming site Kick, which meant his romantic talk with a neo-Nazi hanger-on known by the screen name “Iron Maiden 14” was still broadcast online to the roughly fifteen viewers who had originally been watching the World of Warcraft stream.
As Pohlhaus dirty-talked and eventually began to masturbate with the woman, his commenters desperately tried to warn him they could see everything.
“DOES HE KNOW HE’S STILL LIVE?” asked one horrified commenter.

He finally realised a couple of hours later, whereupon the stream abruptly ended. Pohlhaus is a nasty piece of shit who deserves to be humiliated just for using the screen name “Hammer”, of course, cos what a fucking trite and unimaginative name for a neo-Nazi, but this really is even better. Masturbation may not send you blind, but it certainly can be distracting…

However, I think this might be headline of the year:

Trump-pardoned activist crashes cat owners’ convention in mistaken hunt for furries

Pardoned January 6 Capitol rioter Jake Lang found himself humiliated in the second stunt of the weekend, when he crashed a convention in Seattle he thought was a gathering of “furries” — but was actually just a gathering of cat owners.
The viral video, posted to Facebook and X, showed Lang accosting confused staff and attendees at the Sea-Meow Convention, accusing them of trying to abuse children.
“You guys are indoctrinating the youth with homosexual and transsexual ideas. This furry stuff is not for children,” said Lang, gesturing at attendees and a pair of greeters who happened to be wearing full-body cat costumes. “These people are sexualizing children! They’re inviting children in. Look at this. This is sexualization of children … what are you guys doing here? These people here, they dress up in these outfits, and they have sex with each other in these orgies every single weekend. Now they’re inviting the children to come to their furry convention!”
“This is a convention for cats,” said one of the staff.
“They’re mislabeling it as, ‘Yeah, exactly, then why do you have furries here?'” shouted Lang, pointing at one of the greeters in a cat suit. “These are sexualized images that are meant to groom children. Look at this, they’re grooming children! They’re grooming children here in the State of Washington, in the City of Seattle. They’re grooming children, trying to sexualize young children into this fetish!”

At which point the attendees started laughing at him and staff threw him out. Oy. Forgetting to turn off livestreaming before having a wank is one thing, but this is a particularly special sort of stupid, one that I suspect was fuelled by drugs and/or actual mental illness. Lang’s another nasty piece of shit, he may or may not be an actual neo-Nazi like Pohlhaus but he is as much of a hateful clown, and clearly as much of a great thinker…

(S)hot stuff!

So there’s a Charlie Kirk hot sauce BECAUSE OF FUCKING COURSE THERE IS, there’s still money to be squeezed out of that bloody corpse:

Now it appears this stuff has been around for a while, cos someone on the Reddit thread I nicked that from observed that the website for said product was launched in 2021, and I also found an Instagram for it where the earliest photo is dated 2022. This sudden interest in it, though, comes from Charlie’s professional widow Erika Kirk after she did an appearance on Fox and casually dropped in a plug for it as you can see above…

And, as you can also see, there’s an unfortunate… ambiguity in the website URL too. Parenthetically, that Reddit thread also included the text of the “about us” page of the site, which, well, referred to Charlie Kirk in present tense like so:

Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk is President of Kirk’s Hot Sauce, as well as Founder and President of Turning Point USA – the largest conservative youth organization in the country.
Charlie reaches hundreds of millions each month through his daily podcast & radio show The Charlie Kirk Show, multiple bestselling books, social media accounts, and media appearances.
A Chicago native and a life-long sports fan, Charlie loves a good hot sauce. After perfecting his family’s hot sauce recipe it quickly became a favorite among his friends, family, colleagues – pretty much everyone who tried it – and Kirk’s Hot Sauce was born.

I went to the website to see this for myself, and, well…

I mean, I suppose this could be perfectly routine maintenance, but coming just a couple of days after someone on Reddit noted that they’d evidently forgotten to update the website to note the president of the company’s untimely and violent death, the timing is still curious. Where do you suppose Charlie’s still enjoying a good hot sauce?

Oh.

Israel’s president picks Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot to form government

Well, wasn’t I wrong, Isaac Herzog wound up choosing the other guy. The one who got even fewer seats than Netanyahu (48 to 53). That’s… interesting. Apparently the onus is now on Eisenkot to pull together the remaining seats to get the majority, and he’s only got four weeks to do so, and I gather the Arab parties are interested in joining him but he may be a lot less interested…  and if he can’t do it within four weeks, Herzog may or may not grant him another two weeks, at the end of which there have to be new elections, and this whole tedious process goes round again, maybe to the point where Bibi wins again and all the bullshit just continues. Sigh. Maybe I’m wrong, but it feels like Herzog’s done this cos he expects Eisenkot to fail.

And neither has Jeff Bezos, apparently

Yeah, cos Melania the film was such a box office hit earlier this year that a follow-up series was clearly still merited… this feels like as much an act of aggression and punishment as Stephen Miller’s promotion does. This is clearly what America gets after turning on her husband… I must say, though, if we do get “unprecedented insight” into Slovenia’s finest (?) export, it’ll be an improvement on the original film which offered us no insight at all. I don’t know if I’ll even hate-watch it like I did the film, though.

Krasnov’s learned nothing, I see

Yeah… obvious response to being thumped in the midterms over the extremism of his regime, promote one of the worst extremists to one of the highest positions in government.

I don’t actually know anything about Susie Wiles, other than someone in the Puzzle in a Thunderstorm group called her “competent and evil”, and some further commentary I’ve read on Bluesky pretty much agrees with that; apparently an awful person, but one of the smarter people in the Reich. However, it appears Trump’s been cooling on her for a while, and from what I can gather she did herself no favours by doing a Vanity Fair interview in which she was a bit… honest about some of her co-workers. So did she jump or get pushed? I don’t know. Apparently she was only staying in the job until early next year anyway, and she was treated for breast cancer a few months ago too, so maybe she decided to just take retirement (and put some distance between her and Trump) a bit earlier than planned. Or Trump gave her no option, which I think is more likely.

To be honest, I also wonder how much replacing her with American Goebbels is really his idea too, given that Katie Miller has apparently been pushing for her husband to get this promotion for quite some time; and, as soon as I saw the headlines about it, I did kind of immediately think this was Stevo exploiting the confusion of the moment (not to mention the confusion of Krasnov) to impose himself and Trump’s just going along with it. Either way, this feels like a terrible idea, though I don’t know if this will be worse for the Republicans (cos people who don’t know about him are going to find out) or the rest of the world… we still have potentially two years of Mushroom Cock left, and this vampire cunt doesn’t have anyone to hold him back. Maybe this is what’ll remind people the fight is nowhere near over despite Tuesday…

Some miscellaneous stuff

Just gathering a bunch of midterms-related stuff in one place…

Maybe God was Muslim all along? Laura Loomer‘s taken the midterms collapse worse than most, and this is actually a minor point in an amazing broader outburst:

THAT monstrosity was posted on Bluesky by The Serfs; that’s what an online mental breakdown evidently looks like. I had to post this at full size, cos shrinking it at all would’ve rendered it unreadable, and you will need to click to enlarge just to stand a chance of reading it; but, though it would’ve been easier to just cut and paste all that seething into a Word document or something for readability’s sake, the sheer wall of text looks more impressive. Fucking wild. Per Mediaite:

MAGA loyalist Laura Loomer announced Thursday she is taking a break from her political podcast just days after launching into a furious social media tirade over Republicans’ crushing defeat in the midterm elections.
Loomer, one of the president’s most outspoken supporters, revealed in a post to X that she would suspend her twice-weekly livestream, Loomer Unleashed, saying that she was “running on empty” and needed “a healthy work life balance” […]
During the barrage, she declared that the result was the “death of America as we know it” while predicting widespread political violence and terrorism following the Democratic victories.
Despite stepping back from broadcasting, Loomer insisted she would remain politically active and continue backing the president.
“I’ll still be paying attention, fully supporting President Trump, breaking news, commenting on news, doing research and I’ll be around. I will be present (I always am). But, I won’t be doing my show for a while,” Loomer said.
“I’ll be back when the time is right,” she added.

I have my doubts. Meanwhile, noted dog lover Kristi Noem actually said this:

…which struck me as so stupid I initially thought it had to be fake, but… no, she actually also posted this on FB, which I saw with my own two eyes. What does “too successful” even mean? How can you be “too successful”? No. People turn on failures, not successes, you moron…

This, on the other hand, is just unbelievable. Maybe Trump has actually said this to someone, but I don’t believe for a minute that he would actually resign. He may be the lamest of lame ducks right now, but I think he’s just too stupid to accept that and too venal to willingly give up the presidency, even if there’s not as much actual power or money still in it for him. And I feel the Democrats may be too cowardly to impeach him while he’s still president.

I will confess to wishing Charlie Kirk was still alive to see all this. Meanwhile this was the White House’s evidently official response to the debacle:

…but my online friend Matthew had a better response to that:

And I think I might leave this post at that and give Matt the final word. I’ve no doubt there will be more to say here about the fallout from this election, but I think I’ve already covered most of the things that needed covering. Hopefully back to normal (?) broadcasting soon…

RIP CybertrucKKK?

Elon Musk appears to signal the end of the road for Cybertruck

Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck vehicles at its Texas factory next year, Elon Musk says.
He did not spell out whether it plans to stop making them entirely or shift production elsewhere, but did say the decision was to “make room” for building more of its self-driving Cybercab cars.
But the project’s lead engineer, Wes Morrill, appeared to suggest the vehicle was being discontinued, writing on X: “Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab.”
With its distinctive angular looks, the Cybertruck attracted diehard fans, but was beset by delays before being launched in 2023 and has had disappointing sales numbers since.
Tesla fans have been mourning the news online, with one person calling it “the best vehicle Tesla has ever made” as he lamented it being “discontinued next year”.
Musk responded to the user with the word “true”, adding: “But the Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time.”

Does that mean the fucking things are non-biodegradable or they’re just going to occupy a vast parking lot somewhere that no one ever visits and no one ever buys one? I will at least give Cybercab points for being significantly less boxy and hideous than its predecessor, but given Tesla’s history with their self-driving cars, that’s not enough to convince me it’ll necessarily be any better…