Jesus-Saved Drunkard Womanizer Def Secy Hegseth: Inept, Blithering Incompetence

Trump often complains that "smart people don't like me", which is an admission of his own mediocrity and which explains why he surrounds himself with morons whose Moron IQ is always below his: Talk show hosts, real estate crooks as foreign envoys, nepo appointments, former crooked business partners, etc. 

For example, Mossad Boulos, Trump's daughter's Tiffany's father-in-law is a typical suspiciously corrupt Lebanese businessman who used to run a trucking company in Nigeria: Trump appointed him, in an electioneering bread crumb thrown to Lebanese and Arab-American voters, as his Senior Advisor on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs. Yet Boulos is like a ghost adviser, nowhere to be seen dealing with Iran and the raging wars in the Middle East. Why is that? Because he is comfortably incompetent for Trump on foreign policy.

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Why Trump’s Hegseth Problem Exposes His Fatal Flaw: Author
Erkki Forster
Fri, September 4, 2026

Pete Hegseth's Pentagon train wreck exposes one of Donald Trump's most self-destructive impulses, the president's biographer says.

Hegseth, the 46-year-old Fox News host-turned-defense secretary, has transformed the Pentagon into a pressure cooker of leak crackdowns and culture war crusades while steering the nation deeper into Trump's quagmire war with Iran.

After Hegseth, who wants everyone to call him "Secretary of War," forced out Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in his latest ego-driven overhaul of top Pentagon leadership last week, even a Republican senator called on Trump to fire him.

“Pete Hegseth is in this job because Donald Trump is intimidated by competence,” Michael Wolff says. / Evelyn Hockstein / REUTERS 

"I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country," North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis fumed on X. "He is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense and the health and well-being of our fighting force."

Speaking on the Inside Trump's Head podcast, Trump biographer Michael Wolff said, "This is not a secret."

"Pete Hegseth is a... blithering incompetent... yes-man, a suck-up, a man who... knows nothing, and no logic would say he would know enough to run the military-industrial complex," the author told co-host Joanna Coles.

Hegseth was threatened by Driscoll’s presence in the Pentagon and paranoid about his own status within the administration, according to a report. / Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS

"His primary qualification is that he was... a weekend television co-host," he continued. "So what in the name of God would he know about running... the United States military... at a moment... in which we are in the middle of a, basically, a revolution in terms of munitions, logistics, and supply."

Wolff, who has written four best-selling tell-alls on Trump, noted that Tillis' characterization of Hegseth as being "intimidated by competence" ought to be "extended" to the 80-year-old president himself.

"Pete Hegseth is in this job because Donald Trump is intimidated by competence," he said.

"It's not just that he doesn't want to be bossed around by people; it's that he can't deal with people who know things because—for the obvious reason—because he doesn't know things."

Wolff pointed to Trump's notoriously high turnover during his first term, when the president repeatedly butted heads with his own officials, including James Mattis, who resigned in 2019 after frequently clashing with Trump and amid public attacks from the president.

"Trump came to loathe him... because Mattis... had a high degree of expertise and the willingness to correct Donald Trump. No, that's wrong, he would say," Wolff recounted.

He argued that the insecurity that drives Trump to bristle at expertise has found a mirror in Hegseth, who was reportedly threatened by Driscoll's presence in the Pentagon and paranoid about his own status within the administration.

The Army secretary's departure comes soon after The Washington Post reported that several top generals have expressed concerns about continuing military action in Iran and issued "non-concurs" to Hegseth's orders.

"This is a problem in almost any... executive capacity unless you have a temperament in which you can listen to advice, in which you appreciate advice, in which you get along with people who report to you, which neither of these guys do," Wolff said of the commander-in-chief and his defense secretary.

When reached for comment, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told the Daily Beast, "After Joe Biden's Pentagon prioritized DEI and woke ideology, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth quickly reversed course and restored a Department of War that is focused on readiness, lethality, and supporting our warfighters. The President has complete trust in Secretary Hegseth, who is doing an incredible job leading the Pentagon. The results of Operations Midnight Hammer, Absolute Resolve, Southern Spear, and Epic Fury speak for themselves."

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Want Proof of American Religious Dumbness? Listen to JD Vance

JD Vance has changed his religion several times, including going through an "atheist" phase. This fact alone reveals the absolute mediocrity of America's intellectual landscape. Religion for Americans is more of a compulsory weekend hobby that changes with the seasons but is always there. Americans change their religions like they change their underwear. I've met many such illuminated individuals who could not conceive of their existence if it lacked membership in a cult. So, many spend their lives jumping from one cult to another, idiotically hoping that the next cult and its leader or hero will somehow bring them the happiness they seek. 

The dunce JD Vance is the prototypical American in this endless and futile search for someone or something to help them find solace from the knowledge of our mortality and the purposelessness of our existence. The real world in America, along with its multitudes of so-called "faiths" and cultures, all intertwined and converging on the sordid concept of money as the foundation of happiness, is not sufficient to inculcate in these ignorant peasant-stock immigrants the fact that one carries one's happiness inside oneself, regardless of wealth and regardless of which swindler prophet is promising them happiness. 

Thus, once in a very frequent while, some religious or political imbecile, usually from the primitive southern states, decides to gain some fame and perhaps some money by declaring that God spoke to him and told him that the end of the world is near. 

The fact is that the "world" will never end. The world exits, has always existed, and will always exist. What I think will happen instead is that we, the human species, will cease to exist at some point. Over the course of several billions of years, life on earth has gone through many extinctions, and 99% of all species that have ever existed have vanished, and that is what will continue to occur. 

One day in the very distant future, whatever living organisms will be dominating earth will never know that there were humans before, just as dinosaurs who dominated earth long ago could not know that humans will replace them dozens of billion years later. Maybe our successors will find our fossilized remains and wonder. But our existence as a human species is nothing but a split-second in the history of life. We are not made, either as individuals or as a species, to last forever. 

Therefore, idiotic preachers who proclaim the end of the world will only fool those among us who are already fools, tricked by religious garbage from the Stone Age into believing religious magic. Religions have done nothing to change our human condition: We simply mask our innate nature under so-called "culture" and traditions, which include religions, because our cerebral cortex forces us to reject our mortality by inventing "solutions" to it: fame, dreams of being great, immortality, the afterlife, the transmutation of our souls into other forms of life... all of it is pure unadulterated bullshit that sedates us into imagining our non-existent immortality.

We are just like the Egyptian pharaohs who embarked on their journey to the afterlife with material objects. Now, we still embark on that same journey with promises of hovering like albatrosses somewhere above the clouds in a mythical place called heaven, or else be dispatched deep beneath the earth's crust to burn forever - a sort of eternal inexhaustible fuel that would make Donald Dumb more billions if he sends his 82nd airborne division to seize it. 

If the moron and Yale-DEI-admitted JD Vance is "speculating" that the Anti-Christ is walking among us, he should not be shocked. He is the Vice-President of the Anti-Christ himself. I think Vance would be more palatable if he had remained an atheist. His constant religious metamorphoses do cast serious doubt on his smarts and his sincerity.

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Recent remarks by US Vice-President JD Vance about the Antichrist and "the end times" are a "very, very common belief", one of his friends says.

Vance recently mused on his religious views while responding to a question on a Christian podcast. He said he would "not [be] shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us" and speculated on whether the end of the world was nigh.

His friend Rod Dreher, a conservative writer, rejected any suggestion that the comments would harm the vice-president. He told the BBC's Today programme: "Most Americans who are inclined to vote Republican already believe this stuff."

In his podcast comments, Vance also clarified that such thoughts did not preoccupy him.

In Christianity, the "end times" phrase refers to theories about what will happen at the end of the world. Many churches believe God has a divine plan for the end of everything.

Meanwhile, the Antichrist is seen as the enemy of God who appears during the final phase of the world's existence and takes it over.

Vance, who became a Catholic as an adult, reflected on these topics during a recent podcast discussion with Bryce Crawford, a US Christian podcaster.

"Do I think that we're in the end times? I don't know," he said in response to a Crawford question on the subject. "And I think that it's probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it, because there are, like, things you gotta do.

"I gotta be good to my wife. I gotta be good to my kids. I have to be as good of a leader as I can for the United States of America."

The vice-president continued by saying: "I think that there are, like, things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us."

But Vance reiterated that he was preoccupied with being vice-president, explaining: "What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now."

Reacting to Vance's comments about the Antichrist, Dreher said: "This might sound bonkers to someone who is outside the Christian religion, but it is a very, very common belief within Christianity."

He said his friend was simply reflecting that the world appeared to be going "crazy" through the rapid development of AI and ongoing conflicts.

Dreher, who was present when Vance was received into the Catholic Church, said Ronald Reagan had made similar comments when he was the US president, and that this was seen as "perfectly normal" by his voters.

Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019, then in his mid-30s, and has described how the Church resonated with his family and social values and his conservative politics.

Since becoming vice-president, he has occasionally tangled with Pope Leo and his papal predecessor Francis, on issues including the Trump administration's immigration policy.

Vance is due to appear behind the lectern on Thursday afternoon to deliver the first White House press briefing since the departure of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Another of Trump's Dark Corruption Secrets to Be Uncovered Soon

Sen. Maggie Hassan demands Capital One Trump AML documents
Cris Tolomia
Updated Thu, September 3, 2026

Senator Maggie Hassan has requested documents from Capital One related to the bank's anti-money laundering review of accounts connected to President Donald Trump and his businesses, citing concerns about potentially illegal financial activities.

Senator Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat and ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, sent a letter to Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank on Tuesday requesting documents related to the bank's internal anti-money laundering review of accounts connected to President Donald Trump and his businesses.

Hassan's letter requested that Capital One hand over records covering what set off the AML review, how the bank's internal policies governed its conduct during that review, what conclusions prompted it to shut the accounts, and — where legally permissible — any contact or referrals involving federal or state law enforcement or regulators. The deadline for compliance is September 23, 2026.

"The American people deserve to know the extent of President Trump's 'suspicious' — and potentially illegal — financial activities, and Congress needs additional information to conduct thorough oversight of his actions," Hassan wrote in the letter.

The request stems from a July 31, 2026, court filing in which Capital One said it closed accounts held by the Trump Revocable Trust, Eric Trump, and affiliated companies for anti-money laundering reasons, following months of analysis by its AML team. The filing stated that transaction patterns identified during the review were among the types of activity flagged by federal banking guidance on identifying "Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 'Red Flags.'" Capital One did not detail the specific transactions or disclose whether it reported its findings to law enforcement.

Capital One declined to comment, according to Reuters. A Trump Organization spokesperson called the AML review baseless, saying Capital One "manufactured a post hoc rationale by selectively resurrecting a handful of isolated transactions that had occurred years earlier," according to Reuters. The spokesperson characterized the account closures as a politically motivated decision.

The Trump Organization and Eric Trump filed suit against Capital One in March 2025, claiming that the bank shuttered hundreds of their affiliated accounts in 2021 for political rather than legitimate banking reasons. Capital One maintains that its decisions were not politically driven and has stopped short of alleging that the Trump Organization engaged in money laundering.

In her letter, Hassan cited a pattern of money laundering concerns tied to Trump-connected entities. She pointed to a $10 million fine that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network imposed against the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in March 2015 for what it called significant and long-standing violations of anti-money laundering laws. Hassan also raised concerns about Trump's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, and its ties to Binance, whose founder Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in 2023 to Bank Secrecy Act violations before receiving a presidential pardon from Trump.

US-Born White American Woman from the South is a Domestic Terrorist Planning Attacks

Does the US Constitution's Second Amendment guaranteeing the right of Americans to kill other Americans at will include explosives along with machine guns, mortars, cannons and other fine products of American Violence Manufaturing?

Just wondering. Maybe this numskull southern imbecile was exercising her God-mandated sacred Second Amendment right! 

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Woman Arrested In Oklahoma With ‘Live’ Explosive Wanted In Florida For Manufacturing Explosives
Carrie Collins
Updated Thu, September 3, 2026


Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office - Madeline Haner

A woman arrested in Oklahoma for possessing a live homemade explosive device is wanted in Florida on similar charges.

Authorities say a woman recently arrested in Oklahoma for allegedly possessing a live homemade explosive device is wanted in Florida on similar charges.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office in Florida said deputies executed a search warrant on Aug. 8 at a residence at 607 Alabama Street in Crestview and found multiple "live home-made explosive devices," according to WEAR ABC 3 News.

On Aug. 25, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol conducted a traffic stop on Madeline Haner, whose address is 607 Alabama Street in Crestview, Fla. During a search of her vehicle, troopers allegedly found a live homemade explosive device and multiple firearms.

Haner was arrested by Oklahoma Highway Patrol on charges of unlawful possession of an explosive and use of a firearm while committing a felony. She was being held in Oklahoma on no bond.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said it also has an active warrant for Haner on a felony charge of manufacturing an explosive device with intent to cause harm or death, and has placed a hold on her.

Who Really Controls Traffic Through the Strait of America (formerly Hormuz)?

Is it the Shiite Muslim  fundamentalist terror regime in Tehran?

Or

The Evangelical Christian  fundamentalist terror regime in Washington DC?

The Zionist Jewish fundamentalist regime in Tel Aviv has a remote-controlled role over Hormuz, by pulling or loosening their leash on the neck of their imbecile Donald Dumb hound.

Since we hear completely opposite statements on who controls Hormuz by both sides, and since I don't have, nor do I invent "anonymous sources" to pretend knowing, I asked AI the question:

Who really controls traffic through the Strait of Hormuz? and the response was (in italics below):

Neither the United States nor Iran fully controls the Strait of Hormuz. While President Donald Trump and the White House claim the U.S. Navy has "total control" and has cleared the strait of mines, maritime experts and traffic data indicate that Iran retains significant leverage and the ability to disrupt commerce.

Key factors defining the current control status:

Divided Operational Control: The strait is effectively split, with the U.S. Navy overseeing the southern route through Omani waters and Iran controlling the northern route along its own coast. Both nations use military and political tools to constrain traffic.

Traffic Reality: Shipping volumes remain far below pre-war levels, with only a handful of ships transiting daily compared to hundreds before the conflict. This suggests that while the U.S. may have a military presence, it has not restored normal, unfettered commercial navigation.

Iran’s Continued Influence: Despite U.S. claims, Iran continues to threaten and attack vessels it deems unauthorized, maintaining a "psychological and political upper hand." Experts note that Iran is not losing control in the current status quo and can still deter shipping through mines and small boat harassment.

Negotiated Status: Iran and Oman have been negotiating a joint protocol to manage traffic, which would formalize Iranian authority over inbound shipments. The U.S. disputes this, insisting the strait is an international waterway with no tolls or permissions required, but these talks highlight the lack of unilateral U.S. control.

Ultimately, control is contested and divided, with the U.S. projecting military power and Iran exerting geographic and disruptive influence, resulting in a stalemate rather than clear dominance by either side.

Therefore, both terrorist regimes are lying when they claim victory. So, to try to settle the stalemate, I went to objective fact-based sources to look at data, not propaganda, not lies, not hallucinations...

According to: https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/

-150 ships are waiting to try and go through
- Six ships have transited through over past 24 hours, which is 10% of the normal daily of 68 ships
- Right now, there are three ships moving through the Strait
- Tanker spot rate: 450 world scale points, which is 800% more than pre-crisis (Tanker spot rates represent the price quoted for transporting cargo on a single voyage or short-term basis, determined by current market supply and demand rather than long-term contracts).
- Daily throughput tonnage in DTW (Deadweight tonnage): 1 million, which is 10% of the normal average of 10.3 million.

Therefore, both sides, including the senile demented moron in the White House, are lying. And since he initiated the war (he was duped by his Zionist handlers to go to war), Donald Dumb is, at this time, losing the war because he is not achieving any of the objectives he claimed. AT THIS TIME, Iran has not abandoned its nuclear program. No one knows how much ballistic missile capability the Iranian regime retains. Its regional proxies (Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hashed Shaabi in Iraq) are still operating. And the regime in Tehran has not collapsed, despite the assassination of its leadership by the US and Israel.

Perhaps Donald Dumb is counting on the factor of time, although his freedom to operate militarily may become limited should he lose Congress in the upcoming midterm elections in two months. But I think he wants the war to continue through the elections, calculating that the American people's fatigue and frustrations with his chaotic regressive governance and his inflationary policies and consequences on affordability, grocery and gasoline prices etc. could be overcome by stirring patriotic sentiment, which is very predictable with the dumb American electorate that has historically supported a president at war, even if he is losing the war. Foreign wars have almost always been initiated by sleazy republican presidents because wars (and the patriotic bullshit they manage to stir up in dumb people) save them from bearing the consequences of their disastrous domestic policies. Look it up, please: Republican presidents always ADD to the national debt (Trump added $4 trillion SO FAR to the debt which is now over $40 trillion) (or see:  https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/03/trump-is-proud-to-have-doubled-national.html

However, unlike all previous wars, the American people were not consulted by Trump on whether waging this war was really necessary. In contrast, he seemed to have favored Zionist Israeli public opinion over the American one.  A majority of Americans didn't, and still don't, believe that Iran, which remains very far from achieving a nuclear bomb, posed an imminent nuclear threat to the US. Which explains why that same majority of Americans appear to be bucking the trend of supporting a president at war. 

Deported Illegal Right-Wing Racist Yiannopoulos, Once pro-ICE, is Now Anti-ICE Brutality

The cruelty and hatred of pro-Trump assholes against immigrants suddenly switches to humane compassionate empathy ONLY when they become themselves the targets of such cruelty and hate and feel the same pain as millions of beaten, starved, shackled and deported immigrants.

Racist and xenophobic idiots must literally stand in the shoes of the immigrant victims of ICE-GESTAPO before they change their tune. In the case of this English-Greek Orthodox pro-Putin racist mongrel whose parents illegally immigrated to the UK, he was deported back to England NOT because he did overstay his visa (which he did), but only because fellow racist and heavily botoxed imbecile Laura Loomer did not like the fact that Yiannopoulos was stealing the spotlight away from her. He was deported because Laura Loomer ratted on him to ICE-GESTAPO.

Sometimes, it takes this sort of infighting within a cult like MAGA for the truth to emerge. ICE-GESTAPO brutality is now a fact because its supporters, not its critics, say it is. Notable metamorphosed and insincere repentant MAGA morons like Yiannopoulos include F(t)ucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene who are now both vocal critics of Donald Dumb.

Like Loomer, Yiannopoulos "rearranged" his looks. He went from Mediterranean-almost Mideastern southern European physiognomy (generally suspicious in the US) to a northern blond Aryan look to make himself more acceptable to his white supremacist American Nazi friends. 

Yiannopoulos was also openly gay for years, which did not sit well with the virile macho anti-gay MAGA hoodlums. So in 2021 he said that he had become straight - maybe saved by Jesus or Trump, like Hegseth. To back up his straight conversion, he claimed he was married to an American woman and had held a green card that was canceled without notice. His green card was canceled in all likelihood because he paid the woman to marry him and give him the green card, and having discovered what an asshole he was, the woman then denounced him to immigration. 

I advise US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to open up the immigration files of all US citizens who obtained their green cards and citizenships by paying unscrupulous US citizens to marry them (against a payment of several thousand dollars), give them their green cards, then divorce them two years later: USCIS will find a huge trove of such paid criminal marriages worthy of ICE raids and summary denaturalizations and deportations.

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Deported right-wing pundit says ICE has 'institutionalized' brutality
Michael Loria, USA TODAY
Updated Wed, September 2, 2026

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right provocateur who praised U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement before recently being detained by the agency, said in an interview Sept. 1 that his time in custody left him "weeping like an old woman."

Yiannopoulos, a native of the United Kingdom, became a prominent political commentator in the lead up to President Donald Trump's first term in office. Known as a whisperer of the alt-right, including neo-Nazis, Yiannopoulos delivered controversial speeches at university campuses where he railed against everything, from Islam to trans people.

The Briton was arrested Aug. 27 by federal agents in Louisiana after overstaying a visa. He had previously been issued a final order of removal after failing to show up for an immigration hearing in July. After being detained, Yiannopoulos was deported to the U.K. on Aug. 28.

"I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America," Yiannopoulos said in an interview with fellow British commentator Piers Morgan on "Piers Morgan Uncensored".

"It was physically degrading. It was frightening," he told Morgan. "I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before."

Yiannopoulos described immigration authorities putting him "in manacles," said they treated detainees like "MS-13 gang members" and said they kept moving him constantly in order to "keep ahead" of his lawyers.

"It hurts a lot more than it looks on television," Yiannopolous said.

USA TODAY has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security regarding Yiannopolous' claims regarding his treatment in ICE custody.

The right-wing commentator's deportation comes after he championed immigration enforcement efforts as recently as June 2025.

He called for ICE to set up checkpoints at everyday American gathering places where "anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally" would be subject to an "on the spot deportation."

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Here's another report on Yiannopoulos:

Deported Trump Lover Cornered on Thirst for ICE Round Ups
Erkki Forster
Wed, September 2, 2026


Piers Morgan Uncensored

Ex-MAGA devotee Milo Yiannopoulos was forced to answer for his past embrace of President Donald Trump's migrant crackdown after he found himself caught in ICE's deportation machine.

Yiannopoulos, 41, was detained by ICE agents at the New Orleans airport on Friday and deported to the United Kingdom the following day in a striking turn of events for the far-right provocateur, who had called on ICE last year to deport "millions and millions of people."

Piers Morgan cornered Yiannopoulos over his past support of Trump's deportation campaign during his show Tuesday, after Yiannopoulos complained about his ordeal at the hands of ICE and claimed he had legal status in the U.S.

Yiannopoulos detailed the physical and emotional toll of his ordeal at the hands of ICE agents on Tuesday, before Morgan reminded him that he had previously cheered on ICE during Trump’s brutal second-term migrant crackdown. / Milo Yiannopoulos/X

Morgan rattled off several examples of Yiannopoulos cheering on the migrant crackdown.

"Punishing Somalis indiscriminately, as a group, and deporting them all, is the only way this administration will persuade the voters it is serious and up to the job," the English-born commentator wrote on X in December of last year.

"We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters," he declared in June of last year.

Yiannopoulos told Morgan his deportation left him emotionally wrecked. / Milo Yiannopoulos/X

Last September he posted, "Total legal immunity for ICE agents when they're on duty," and, "Justice system should be just ICE."

Morgan, 61, drove home the irony: "So there you are, aggressively promoting ICE being very aggressive and demanding that millions of people be deported. People say, Milo, you've been hoisted by your own petard."

Yiannopoulos threw his hands in the air and said, "I don't have a word to say. You got me," before erupting in awkward laughter.

"I mean they're doing what you told them to do. Deport millions of people," Morgan said.

The DHS posted a photo of Yiannopoulos on X, claiming he “legally entered the country” in May 2019 but overstayed his visa. / Department of Homeland Security/X

Yiannopoulos countered, "They're not doing it lawfully," to which Morgan reminded him that he had called for Somalis to be deported "indiscriminately."

"I'm obviously exaggerating there," the former Breitbart News editor claimed, adding, "ICE is supposed to deport criminals."

But Morgan pressed on, noting, "The problem you have, I think, in these tweets and public statements is that you weren't singling out Somali criminals, for example."

"So the argument against you goes, 'Well, Milo, you know, you didn't care about Somalis being legally or illegally there. You wanted them all thrown out."

Yiannopoulos, who has drawn criticism for his alleged ties to white nationalists, responded by baselessly claiming that the majority of Somalis in Minnesota are connected to "fraud."

Before Morgan confronted him over his hypocrisy, Yiannopoulos had spoken about how "frightened" he was during his deportation.

"I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, your hands, your feet, chained together," he said, gesturing toward his wrists as if shackled. "It hurts a lot more than it looks like on television."

“It was humiliating and disorientating and the rest of it. It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don’t think I’ve ever been frightened like that before,” Yiannopoulos said of his detention and deportation by ICE. / Phillip Faraone / Getty Images

Yiannopoulos also said he is "very ashamed" of his past support of Trump, calling him an "ugly, warmongering—taken as a whole—mentally ill heap of crazy."

The Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos had "legally entered the country" in May 2019 but overstayed his visa and failed to appear for a July immigration hearing.

Yiannopoulos told Morgan that he was unaware of the hearing because officials sent notices to an outdated Florida address. The provocateur, who was openly gay for years before declaring in 2021 that he was straight, claimed that he was married to an American woman and had held a green card that was canceled without notice.

It's Fahrenheit 451 at US Public Libraries

Trump's Dystopian America is upon us. He's not the first heir to a genetic pool of ignorant morons; he's our modern day version of a long line of primitive ultra-religious barbarians who came to occupy this land. He has opened the sewer traps for his Radical Right Fascist cockroaches who claim to be defending freedom of speech by banning books and publications, persecuting the free press, attacking universities and wherever a blaze of light emerges from the darkness in which they want us to live.

The ultra-religious Taliban Puritans of Massachusetts banned Thomas Morton's New English Canaan in 1637 for its criticism of Puritan intolerance and its defense of Indigenous culture.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was banned in 1851 by the southern slavery states.

James Joyce's Ulysses was banned in the 1920s.

Ernest Hemingway remains one of the most banned American authors. His works continued to be banned on and off from the 1920s and through our time. Fascist Italy and the US banned his Farewell to Arms in 1929. The Nazis burned his books in 1933.

Clay Risen's Red Scare was banned in the 1950s. We are living today an equally fake Trump-induced Red Communist hunt today. McCarthyism is encoded in the inbred non-immigrant American DNA stock.

J.D. Salinger’s 1951 The Catcher in the Rye has always been banned, it seems. It was the most censored book in American high schools and libraries between the 1960s and the 1980s.

Arthur Miller's The Crucible was banned throughout the 1980s in the U.S. for its perceived anti-Christian and anti-American tenor, including its suggestion that McCarthyism descends from the Salem witch trials in the late 1600s. Miller's books were also banned in the Soviet Union (beginning in the 1960s), which goes to show that the right-wing conservative extremist movement in the US promotes totalitarianism just as much as its theoretical enemy of left-wing extremist Communists.

Nowadays, the American conservative Neanderthals - variously known as MAGA, GOP, Evangelical morons, etc. - have been impulsed by Trump to attack libraries, science and knowledge. Who but a conservative American could coin a phrase such as "Ignorance is Bliss"? The American Library Association is currently reporting an onslaught of attempts to censor materials dealing with racism, homophobia, sexism, etc.

Remember that all conservative movements considered knowledge their worst enemy. The Catholic Church forbade the translation of the garbage bible from Latin into the vulgate languages (which would later become the modern European languages) because it feared that if people understood the bullshit the church was feeding them, they would rebel against it. And that is exactly what happened and led eventually to separating church and state, although conservative American morons who hate the Church for that same reason are today following in its footsteps: The more ignorant the herd, the more control they can have over it. 

It took four centuries (from Martin Luther's rebellion in 1517 to Vatican II in 1962-1965) for the Church to finally just begin to liberalize itself, but never enough it seems. 

Just like the Church, Islam also forbids praying in any other language than Classical (not natively spoken) Arabic. Native so-called "Arabic speakers" in the Arab world don't understand Classical Arabic and Muslims around the world pray in a language they don't understand. How is Islam going to evolve into the modern world?

Even leftwingers, once safely installed in their own cocoons, become conservative when a new wave of change appears. I was once attending a lecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the subject of genetic research at the peak of the Human Genome Project around the year 2000. A venerable old professor by the name of Ruth Hubbard intervened demanding that DNA research be categorically banned. She later wrote about it in the Boston press. The following is my reply to her at the lecture and in a letter to the editor:

If you've never read Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 or watched the movie, do so because this is the America that Trump's ICE-GESTAPO will grow to become if allowed to continue. (451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which book paper spontaneously ignites).

Related article in: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/09/01/political-attacks-are-pushing-public-libraries-to-breaking-point-new-report-shows/

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US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds
Richard Luscombe
Tue, September 1, 2026 


A library in Long Beach, California. Photograph: Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Public libraries in the US are "at breaking point" because of an onslaught of political interference, harassment and ideological censorship, a new report published on Tuesday said.

Book bans, cancelled story hours, attacks on librarians, funding cuts and the undoing of libraries' independent governance are examined by the free expression advocacy group PEN America in its study called Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public Libraries.

"Public libraries can be a foundational democratic institution only if they can speak to everyone and only if librarians' curation decisions can occur free from partisan pressure or restriction," the report, compiled by PEN America's Freedom to Read Project, said.

"However, ongoing political and public pressures are challenging these very principles. Public libraries nationwide are reaching a breaking point."

The 16-page document relates countless episodes and incidents across the US to support its assertion. They include verbal and physical attacks on librarians, disproportionate targeting of literature featuring LGBTQ+ people, a proliferation of bans on books dealing with gender identity and sexuality, and instances of politically appointed officials installed to override the policies of democratically elected library boards.

In one prominent example, the conservative activist and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines was last year appointed to a library board in Sumter county, Tennessee, which repeatedly voted down a proposal by its chair to remove material she deemed "inappropriate or sexually-explicit, including anything with transgender themes".

Gaines, an anti-transgender voice who has taken rightwing positions on other issues, including supporting Donald Trump's often violent immigration crackdown, immediately used social media to brand such books "filth", and to denounce her new colleagues for "ignoring" Tennessee's ban on state funding for "woke gender ideology".

The report points to an Idaho law passed in March that allows city councils to hire and fire library directors, discretion previously granted to appointed library boards; and efforts in Alabama that would have allowed local governments to remove library board members at will, and without cause.

Another trend highlighted by the PEN America report is attacks on drag shows at, or promoted by public libraries. It chronicles bomb threats, protests and a physical assault on a librarian that caused the cancellation of events or story times at libraries in New York, Massachusetts and Nevada.

The group said it had also tracked almost 23,000 book bans in school libraries since 2021, and an expansion to the point where 51% of all book bans attempted nationwide, documented by the American Library Association, came in public libraries.

Among the materials banned, in a ruling later overturned by a Texas appeals court, were so-called "butt and fart" books objected to by some parents for their depictions of the human body and, in one case, a description of puberty.

Despite the court's ruling that public schools and libraries could not ban books just because they disagreed with their content, a branch head librarian in Llano county, Suzette Baker, was fired for insubordination when she refused to remove books on a list handed to her by her boss.

Kasey Meehan, PEN America's Freedom to Read director, said such "censorship" efforts reflected a growing, politically driven trend to control what is available to readers, and the ideas that are allowed to be represented.

"Local libraries nationwide have long been safe havens for the freedom to read and finding joy and comfort in books," she said.

"Increasingly, they are censorship battlegrounds. When libraries become targets, communities suffer. The consequences extend to authors whose books are taken off shelves and readers who are denied access to stories and information."

PEN America said it had followed "how a movement to censor wide-ranging literature in public schools, especially stories with LGBTQ+ characters and characters of color, has evolved over the past five years, snowballing from coordinated attacks led by groups like Moms for Liberty to state and federal legislation that curtails the right to read".

Philomena Polefrone, senior manager of the Freedom to Read project, said: "The same arguments that have inflamed censorship in schools are also eroding public libraries. These attacks rob library users of vital public services, access to books, and an affirmation that they have a place in their community.

"But wherever we see efforts to destabilize these vital public institutions, we also see communities organizing to protect their right to read, standing alongside their public librarians, and resisting funding threats from politically motivated decision-makers."

Evidence of a backlash came in Florida's primary elections this month, when numerous Moms for Liberty candidates lost seats or failed to win their races, and the conservative group lost its majority on the Sarasota school board.

Foreign Zionist Terrorists Don't Want the Press Telling on Their Palestine Ethnic Cleansing

Like their breastfeeding mother, the geriatric moron Donald Trump, the foreign Zionist settlers of Palestine hate the press because it exposes their crimes. Since they long lost their monopoly over the narrative over their Rape of Palestine, Zionists are desperate to silence the press (still denied coverage over the Gaza genocide) because they can no longer lie to the world about what they did, and are doing, in Palestine.

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NBC News’ Matt Bradley Recounts West Bank Attack on His Crew
"They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car," the international correspondent recalls of masked Israeli settlers
A.J. Katz
Mon, August 31, 2026


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NBC News international correspondent Matt Bradley detailed the attack on him and his crew in a report for the network, describing how masked Israeli settlers beat members of the team with sticks and rocks while they were reporting in the occupied West Bank.

Bradley and his team had been interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah, a 51-year-old Palestinian woman who said Israeli settlers had driven her family from their home in Jalud, near Nablus, when a gray car with Israeli license plates approached the group.

At least four masked men identified as Israeli settlers emerged from the vehicle and attacked Abdullah and members of the NBC News team. "They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car," Bradley said.

The assault was captured by the NBC News crew's camera, which showed one of the masked men swinging a stick at the camera operator before the camera fell to the ground.

Bradley said the attackers also damaged the crew's vehicle and knocked Abdullah unconscious.

"They smashed our car windshield, hit our crew with clubs and beat Aida unconscious," he noted. "We were able to get her to an ambulance, and our team was treated for minor injuries."

NBC producer Lawahez Jabari, who was also part of the crew, said she saw one of the attackers carrying a firearm. "Suddenly a car came to us. The settlers had sticks," she recalled. "I saw a gun, but they didn't use the gun."

Camera operator Khaldoon Eid, who lives in the West Bank, stated the crew had not expected to come under attack while reporting from the Palestinian village. "We didn't expect that — that they would come to attack," Eid said. "We were in the middle of a Palestinian area next to Palestinian houses.

Bradley said he was struck twice in the arm and was treated at a nearby clinic. Jabari, Eid and another member of the crew were also injured and received treatment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the violence in Jalud and nearby Qusra, blaming a "handful of rioters." "I strongly condemn the criminal acts of violence committed in the villages of Qusra and Jalud," he said.

NBC News referred TheWrap to its digital report and declined to provide additional comment.

To Know What Trump REALLY thinks of African-Americans, Listen to Botoxed Loomer

Radical Right-wing moron Laura Loomer before and after BOTOX (left, looks nice and natural; right, looks disgustingly artificial like a puffed up fish).

Obviously, this 30% Jewish-30% Catholic-30% Evangelical moron-10% reptile doesn't agree with how God created her. She resorted to cosmetic surgery science to correct God's perfect and intelligent design. Ask AI this question: Is loomer laura Christian or Jewish? You may ask that same question about the other MAGA religious chameleon J D Dunce.

I strongly encourage ICE-GESTAPO to arrest and deport Laura Loomer to Uganda, where she'll find many ultra-religious soul sisters like her who would be more than happy to treat her to the same rituals one hears about in prison. As an example, the racist white supremacist anti-African pro-Apartheid Nazi South Afrikaner Eugène Terre'Blanche (whom the Zio-Nazis of Palestine are cloning before their own apartheid system collapses) was sent to jail, alone in a cell with some 60 Africans he used to persecute. Imagine the welcome they gave him.  

In fact, ICE-GESTAPO just deported Radical Right-wing conservative terrorist Milo Yiannopoulos, on whom Loomer ratted. She must have become jealous of his success as a right-wing imbecile, stealing the asshole spotlight from her. Please deport her for being so ugly that she brings shame on the God-fearing White MAGA herd of morons, and he, for being a Greek pro-Putin Orthodox radical bum and terrorist. 

I asked AI "What do idiots who overbotox themselves look like?". Here is the answer, which very aptly describes the looks of Fascist neo-Nazi extremist Laura Loomer - Look at the picture of the "alien" Loomer as you read this:

People with excessive Botox often appear to have a frozen, expressionless face where natural movements are absent, creating an unnatural or "robotic" look. Specific distortions include a "Spock brow" (overarched eyebrows with tails pulled high), a perpetually surprised or angry expression, and droopy eyelids that make the face look tired or heavy.

"Alienized" features such as large, flat lips with crisp borders, sharp "Maleficent cheeks," and a chiseled jawline.

"Pillow face" characterized by puffy cheeks that make the eyes and jawline appear disproportionately small.

Shiny or waxy skin texture due to excessive smoothing of the forehead and other areas.

Asymmetry, such as a lopsided smile or uneven brows, which can create a quizzical or confused appearance.

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Laura Loomer went on a racist tirade against Black Democrats so vile it set off Marjorie Taylor Greene
Christopher Wiggins
Mon, August 31, 2026 

Right-wing personality Laura Loomer spent the weekend testing whether any racist invective was too crude for Donald Trump's political orbit. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, decided there was.

In a video posted to X Friday, Loomer named Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Loomer wrote that the five Black women were "all ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black BITCHES who are completely unfit for the power they hold."

Nixon responded by recalling a bizarre 2024 promotional video in which Loomer ate a "human-grade" bison organ dog food topper on camera.

"Girl. You ate dog food on camera," Nixon wrote. "In the words of @IAMQUEENLATIFAH, 'Who you calling a bitch?'"

Loomer escalated, invoking "Ebonics" and writing that she might need to "bark" at Nixon and "tug" her leash to make the Black lawmaker understand. When Nixon told Loomer to call her "Representative" — or, after November, "Senator" — Loomer replied, "Ok Shaniqua."

That set off [reconverted MAGA but still dumb] Marjorie Taylor-GREENE Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman who resigned in January after breaking with Trump.

Greene described Loomer's rhetoric as hateful, racist and demeaning. She accused Trump and the Republican Party of keeping Loomer in their "inner circle" and said the attacks were damaging Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, who faces Nixon in November.

"I 1000% denounce Laura Loomer and her nasty, hateful, racists comments," Greene wrote. "This is Trump's new MAGA and Republican Party and I want nothing to do with it."

Loomer responded by proving Greene's point. Across at least five additional posts Sunday, she repeatedly deployed variations of the same slur, branded Greene "Marjorie Traitor Greene" and declared, "I am free to say whatever I want."

In one post, Loomer used the slur five times and said "ghetto" Black women in Congress had "gotten away with way too much." In another, she attacked Nixon's bookstore for distributing emergency contraception and sexually shamed its patrons.

"I meant every word I said about Angie," Loomer wrote.

Nixon, a Jacksonville state representative, defeated retired Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman recently in a stunning Democratic primary upset. If elected, she would become Florida's first Black U.S. senator.

The Advocate recently reported that Loomer demanded the identification of an unnamed transgender "Biden holdover" in the White House intelligence directorate. Veteran CIA officer Julia Curlee was removed soon afterward. Curlee does not know whether Trump ordered her removal but believes an administration insider fed Loomer information and used her as a conduit.

The Advocate also reported days ago that Loomer took credit for alerting immigration authorities to British far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who was detained after overstaying his visa on Friday. Yiannopoulos, who was deported to the U.K. Saturday, previously interned for Greene — a connection Loomer revived while attacking her Sunday.

Wimpy MAGA Candidate for Michigan's Governor Seat Walks a Tightrope of Lies and Sleaze

Apples don't fall too far from their tree. So, all MAGA candidates for this November's midterms are in such a tizzy at having to defend the moron who endorsed them while not alienating their own MAGA voters.

MAGA congressman John James - what a vapid name; Yeah, my name is Peter Bob - is running for the governor's office of the state of Michigan which borders on, and has critical economic ties with, its Canadian neighbor. Because the dumb uncivilized bully running the Outhouse is constantly nagging and picking fights with the civilized Canadians, those ass-kissing MAGA loser candidates like John James, who has been endorsed by the demented old geezer, are having a hard time walking the tightrope of making rational arguments to defend their craziness to their voters. 

A Trump endorsement has in fact become the kiss of death. Most Trump-endorsed MAGA candidates have lost their republican primaries to equally moronic GOP candidates who were not endorsed by Trump. Evidently, the criminal waterbrain felon Trump could not endorse all of these imbecile assholes. How can two Trump sycophants, one endorsed and the other not endorsed, keep a straight face before their voters? They can't, and this is why they are performing a burlesque mental acrobatics show during their campaigns. Though endorsed by the Great Moron, James John has actually dared to call Trump "childish" for his self-instigated feud with Canada. Now that might cost him the endorsement AND less votes from the MAGA herd of morons.

Incidentally, Donald Dumb learned the nag trade from his Nagging Wall custodian friends, his Zionist handlers. The more you nag, the more you convince idiots that you are a victim of one thing or another. In Palestine, for example, the Zionist rapists of Palestine continuously claim to be the victims of their own Palestinian victims!! And the dumb Americans largely believe them.

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MAGA Candidate Blasts Trump’s ‘Childish’ Global Feud
Erkki Forster
Mon, August 31, 2026




MAGA congressman John James has pleaded for an end to Donald Trump's bonkers—and escalating—feud with Canada as the president's latest crusade becomes another headache for Republicans on the ballot.

James, a MAGA warrior who Trump, 80, has endorsed for governor in Michigan, likened Trump's trade war to a childish squabble while taking care not to directly knock the president during his appearance Sunday on CBS News' Face the Nation.

Trump, 80, dragged the U.S. into a spiraling trade war with the country's second-largest trading partner after negotiations collapsed earlier this month. He signed an executive order last week renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America in an attempt to land a petty dig."

Asked about the trade war by Margaret Brennan, James stressed the "crucial" partnership between the U.S. and Canada and urged both sides to stop trading shots.

"We need the negotiators to go back to the table, stop acting like children, and negotiate a fair, mutually beneficial, reciprocal deal that will benefit the United States of America and the state of Michigan," the 45-year-old Michigan congressman said, before making his pitch: "As a governor, I will be able to work with the president, be able to work with the prime minister to make sure that we can do this."

James continued walking a fine line between criticizing the tariff tit-for-tat and staying on Trump's good side, claiming that "the status quo isn't working" and at one point taking a swipe at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

[Obviously annoyed by the dumb asshole sitting next to him, or sniffing foul odors coming from the dumb asshole's diapers] Carney has declared that Canada will start hitting back with “dollar for dollar” counter-tariffs next month. / Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

"He should not be bullying Michigan because the negotiators can't come to a deal. We need to stop the bickering—" he said, before Brennan noted that Trump had initiated the tariff fight.

After a brief pause, James replied: "Well... well, you know what? I have kids, and I recognize that when you have people who are fighting, you just want people to fix it. And these are adults. The negotiators need to get back in the room and negotiate, and not leave until they have a deal."

Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on approximately $20 billion in Canadian goods after negotiations collapsed, prompting Canada to respond with tariffs on more than 700 American products.

Canada's counter-tariffs appear to target products made in hotly contested Republican-held congressional districts that will help determine which party controls Congress after November's midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reported.

James, who is [thankfully] trailing his Democratic opponent Jocelyn Benson in polls, came under fire in April after he was caught lounging in Turks and Caicos as Washington remained locked in the partial government shutdown.

James' attempt to contain the fallout from the vacation backfired when a photo he posted to prove he had returned to Michigan turned out to be old. [James learned to lie from his veteran liar boss Trump]

Israeli Zionist Palantir is Big Brother Watching You Right Here in America

America Watch out. Your Zionist prison in America is growing with Zionist-Israeli-tied company, Palantir, turning its hundreds of thousands of Flock cameras on every aspect of your lives and your moves - streets, parks, playgrounds, highways, pools, etc.

Like all Zionist-led entities in the US, Palantir blends well into the American fabric such that its insidious foreign identity goes unknown to most Americans. While Palantir is on the surface an "American" technology firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado, its Board of Directors consist of Zionist individuals who have publicly affirmed they are operating on behalf of Israel.

Karp, Thiel, Schiff, Cohen, Friedman, Woersching... are the last names of the members of Board of Directors of the company. They are all Zionists, and they have placed their Flock cameras on every nook and cranny of your daily lives. Look at the map below: Palantir's cameras are literally everywhere collecting personal data on average Americans and, given the company's Zionist ideology and subservience to Israel, sharing these data with Netanyahu's barbaric regime in the Zionist colony in Palestine. And there are still people who reject the notion that Zionists steer US policy in favor of Israel.

The company has not shied away from publicly revealing its deep operational and ideological ties to Israel. In January 2024, Palantir entered into a strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to provide Artificial Intelligence platforms for war-related missions, including the genocide and ethnic cleansing war on Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank.

Palantir's leadership, CEO Alex Karp and co-founder Peter Thiel, has publicly expressed its strong support for Israel, with Karp stating the company is "proud" to support Israel "in every way we can." And this is evidenced in the company's provision of advanced analytical and AI tools to Israeli military and intelligence agencies. The relationship of Palantir with the Zionist regime is so incestuous that the company often holds its board meetings in Tel Aviv. 

Not only are Americans incensed at having this Zionist organization monitoring and spying their everyday lives, they are also demanding that investors divest their interests in Palantir because it is an accomplice to, and is enabling, war crimes and genocide in Palestine.

Americans made a huge fuss about Tik Tok's allegiance to the Chinese Communist regime, with Trump threatening to ban it in the US if the company does not sell its US subsidiary to an American entity. The threat consisted in the fact that Tik Tok could share the data it collects on Americans with the Chinese government.

Shouldn't both the US government and people reject Palantir because of its servitude to the barbarian Zionist regime in Palestine? 

For more on Palantir's threat to American liberties, see:

https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out
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40,000 Flock cameras tied to Palantir went up in the US in 3 months, some near playgrounds and pools
Vivian Tran
Sun, August 30, 2026


Photo Credit: Reddit

The spread of street-side surveillance technology is striking a nerve across the U.S., especially when cameras show up near places where families expect to feel safe and relaxed, such as playgrounds and public pools, [and especially when the company making those cameras is a right-wing Zionist surveillance company disguised as an American company]. 

A Reddit discussion brought that frustration into focus, centered on claims that tens of thousands of Flock cameras were added over a three-month period and tied to Palantir data centers.

Here's what to know

In a widely shared Reddit thread, the original poster wrote, "40k/131k new Flock cameras in 3 months, they connect to Palantir data centers some are pointed at playgrounds or public pools they advise police on how to react to flagged incidents & log every person ever recorded into a facial recognition database with files of who was ever detected anytime."


Photo Credit: Reddit



Photo Credit: Reddit

One commenter wrote, "It's actually impressive, in a disgusting sort of way, that Flock et al managed to get so many government contracts for surveillance cameras with so few actual votes."

A recurring theme in the responses was not just the hardware itself, but the way surveillance systems can slip into ordinary surroundings with little notice.

When devices are placed near parks, pools, and neighborhood streets, the feeling of being watched can follow people through even the most ordinary routines.

More background

Flock Safety is best known for automated license plate reader cameras used by law enforcement and local governments.

In the thread, much of the unease centered on plate-reader technology being installed in shared community areas without residents feeling meaningfully consulted.

Another major worry involved what happens once information is collected. Because the original post alleged links to Palantir data centers and broader tracking systems, commenters feared that routine movements — a trip to the store, a stop near a school, or a visit to a public gathering place — could become part of a lasting record.

Some commenters pointed to the possible real-world consequences of mistakes.

To show how errors can play out in real life, one commenter cited a MotorBiscuit report about an innocent family being held at gunpoint after a Flock camera allegedly misread a plate, while another said the alert concerned a stolen motorcycle rather than the family's vehicle.

What can be done?

Local oversight may be the most realistic first step.

Surveillance programs are often approved by city councils, police budgets, neighborhood partnerships, or pilot programs, which can be easy to miss unless people are actively tracking them.

Public records requests and attending city meetings can help turn vague unease into concrete accountability.

One commenter offered a blunt version of that advice: "I didn't vote to have these creep cams all over my city. And they didn't give us the option because that sh** wouldn't pass. I urge you all to go to city meeting and ask your reps if they took money and signed NDA's with Flock and data centers."

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Iceland Out of EU Could Mean a Trump Seizure: The Moron Can't Tell Iceland from Greenland

Watch the people of Iceland come back begging the Europeans to take them into the EU once Donald Dumb, encouraged by this vote, makes a move to turn the island into an American Empire territory. Even the mighty UK and its crooked English are regretting their Brexit. 

Icelanders came rushing to the EU for help during the 2009 financial crisis. They are likely to do it again when Donald Dumb threatens them. Iceland is in the NATO alliance, but so is Greenland and this did not deter Donald Dumb from seeking to annex it. Why would Iceland be any different?

Trump already did it with Venezuela and Hormuz, and continues to threaten Greenland and Canada.

Inbred as they have been for centuries, Icelanders do not seem to understand the stakes.

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Icelanders vote 'No' to restarting EU accession talks
DPA
Sun, August 30, 2026


FILE PHOTO - Kristrún Frostadóttir, prime minister of Iceland, speaks to the press ahead of the NATO Summit and the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Ankara. (is associated with: «Icelanders vote 'No' to restarting EU accession talks») Michael Kappeler/dpa

Iceland has narrowly rejected restarting talks on joining the European Union in a referendum, with 52.8% voting against and 47.2% in favour, according to official results on Sunday.

Despite the small margin - about 118,000 people voted against, and about 105,000 in favour of restarting EU talks - the result marks a blow for the pro-EU, Social Democrat-led government.

The government had pledged to hold a referendum on reopening accession talks after coming to power in the 2024 election, and the vote was announced in March.

Social Democratic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir had said that the government would abide by the decision.

Frostadóttir had campaigned for a "Yes" vote. Even as the counting of votes was still under way she expressed hope that the referendum would not divide the country.

"I know that emotions have been running high among some people but I have now spent time with a large group of people from all over the country and people are quite open to different outcomes," she said on Icelandic television.

The country of around 400,000 inhabitants submitted an application for EU membership during the 2009 financial crisis. However, the subsequent Eurosceptic government put accession plans on ice after the 2013 parliamentary election.

Pros and cons

Saturday's referendum was held after geopolitical tensions thrust the question of EU membership back to the top of the agenda.

A Nordic nation of just under 400,000 people and a NATO member, Iceland has been facing growing pressure to strengthen ties with the European mainland.

Doubts over the US commitment to European and Icelandic security, rising geopolitical rivalry in the Arctic and Washington's threats to take control of Greenland, an Arctic island west of Iceland, have contributed to the shift.

However, the security argument apparently failed to sway enough voters.

Opponents of EU membership have argued that joining the bloc would undermine Iceland's sovereignty, with fishing rights a particular concern. The fishing industry is a cornerstone of the Icelandic economy, and many opponents feared having to cede control over the country's waters.

Those opposed to reopening EU talks also said that NATO membership and a bilateral defence agreement concluded with the US in 1951 would suffice to keep the country safe. Mistrust of US President Donald Trump did not appear to prove a decisive factor.

Reykjavík already works closely with Brussels in the European Economic Area (EEA) and participation in the Schengen visa-free travel area.

Brussels initially made no comment on the referendum result. At a time when eurosceptical [sic] forces are gaining ground in several EU member states, a positive signal from Reykjavík would have been welcome for EU leaders.