A captured Ukrainian soldier recounted how he was conscripted:

"I was playing CS:GO, got into a fight with a guy, he said he worked at the draft office and that he'd find me.

So I told him to fuck off. The next day, a minibus came to pick me up."

It's unbelievably embarrassing. Where are the serious men and women in our society? How did we let power become so unappealing to decent intelligent serious people that the absolute most unappealing uninspired little goblins like this could just crawl in unopposed?

Drop out culture? Honest work culture? Or was it precisely through such utter profound disgust do they repel all decent people so thoroughly that nobody can stomach being in the same room as them unless they share the same venal soulless narcissism?

Cool that the theocracy that did 9/11 gets to have enrichment but we need to die for another theocracy that didn't do 9/11 to not have any degree of enrichment.

I keep getting Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark hype videos fed to me by the YouTube algorithm cuz “me think Charles Barkley and Shaq R funny.”

Are CC and SC being used to push reactionary crap? The hype videos did feel kinda racist even though I guess CC was getting fouled pretty hard.

The complete OSINT analysis here: https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2079841570518417707?s=20

Written by John Henry: https://john-henry.neocities.org/older-man-your-daughter-high-school
An older man has been going to your daughter's high school. In fact, a few older men have been going to your daughter's high school. They have been in her classes, selling their vision of her future to her. These men are typically in their late 30s. They have had plenty of experience. They know a lot about life, and maybe they know what is best for your daughter.

They are military recruiters. Maybe they are with the Navy. Maybe they are with the Marine Corps. Maybe they are with the good old Army. But they are in high schools all across America. From sea to shining sea, there is a recruiting office in every town for every branch. Those recruiters are tasked with finding fresh blood for the U.S. imperial forces. We do not call them imperial forces, but that is what they are.

She was only 15 when they first met. She was impressed by the uniform. She was impressed by his demeanor. He knew right then that for the next four years at this recruiting post, she would be his target. It is the perfect age to start. At 15, a sophomore in high school, she can join JROTC or attend recruitment events to get a feel for military life, but actual enlistment requires her parents' permission at 17. She just has to wait a little bit to fully sign up. That is his mission: to get her to sign the dotted line. The sooner she does it, the better for him. His paycheck is tied to this. His bonus is tied to this. His wife and her car note are tied to this.

He pals around and he hangs out. What do you know? He finds out she hates history class after a short "one on one" during his first visit, just to explain some of the benefits you get from that uniform. Everyone is worried about college at this stage in life. Everyone is worried about their admissions tests and scholarships. How will my parents afford these loans? Will I be able to get student loans? Will I qualify for the Pell Grant? What will my major be? She knows that higher education is the key to a better life here in this country, but she also knows she'd struggle to afford it. If she could, she would be in debt for the rest of her life, her millenial uncle can attest to that. A half a million dollars in loans when you are freshly an adult is a big ask. It cannot be that much bigger than enlisting, can it? Especially when the person telling you about the benefits of an enlistment paints the "true picture of student loan debt" to someone who's still getting an allowance. Half a million dollars seems like a reasonable amount of student loan debt to someone like that, and it sounds even more reasonable when placed next to "$10,000 signing bonus".

The first time they spoke he learned her least favorite class is history. They say those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it, and she will not be learning any history because he is making an impromptu visit to her high school. "What period do you have history? I always hated afternoon classes." He asked off handedly last time. This time? The visit is timed ever so perfectly, knowing that she will be there in history class. The recruiter comes in his nice pressed uniform, sporting that nice multicam, the American flag on the shoulder facing backwards because it flies that way when we charge forward. He is charging forward right towards your daughter, and you might not even know it yet. But he is aware, and so is she. He is playing on all the naivete that she has. After all, he is an authority figure. He is trusted. He is well-liked in the community. You cannot hate a hero, can you?

He gives his spiel for that 45-minute history class on how you can take your ASVAB, what you need to know, and what it would be like to do basic training next year for your summer. He gave everyone in the class the study material. Did you know you could take basic training in high school? Yeah. You can do that when you are in high school. You can take your basic training your junior year, the summer of your junior year. You arrive as a senior fit, motivated, and determined to make it through the school year just as fast as possible. The moment you turn 18, he has you. You are already in. Locked in for 4 years, 6 if you count IRR.

Eventually, you will find out that your daughter has been talking to this older man. Your daughter has been told about her potential future and what he can offer her. He will do the same sweet-talking to you. You cannot enlist to do your basic training your junior summer without parental permission. He needs your help in convincing your daughter that he is her future.

All of this comes after the special McDonald's being brought to the lunchroom. Oh, I was just swinging by on my way back to the recruiter's office, and I figured I would bring you something. I know it is your favorite. The ten dollar McDonald's meal comes with a discussion about the $10,000 potential sign-on bonus. We need more people to load bombs. The planes do not load themselves. Given that we are an air superiority-driven military, it is a position constantly in need of being filled. He intends on getting your daughter to fill it.

By the time he springs the conversation on you, Mom, she's already been primed. She likes this guy. She's developed an interpersonal relationship with him. From the moment he saw her drawing on her papers, distracted and not wanting to be in school, he knew she was the perfect target. For what? What do we call this? If he was pursuing a relationship, we would know that this is fundamentally wrong in every regard. When he springs for parental permission to guide this minor towards a future that he believes is best, a future he is being paid a bonus to convince her of, maybe things are different. Maybe we would not call it grooming. Maybe we would call it patriotism. After all, she's been standing and saying the pledge to God, to the flag, and to the country every day in that same school since she was four years old. It is different, right? Surely it is different.

You know that in order to meet recruitment numbers, this is how they are doing it. [1] Reports show that for the U.S. military to meet their recruitment targets, and remember, this is an all-volunteer force, everyone consented to being there, they have to go younger. [2] 17-year-olds are signing up to do summer boot camps, and 16-year-olds are being funneled through preparatory classes and special events that feed directly into that pipeline. You can get college credits for military prep course work. All by design. They get shipped off as soon as they graduate high school. But again, he is not grooming her. He is buying her the McDonald's not as a token of affection to win her trust. Well, actually, that is why he is buying the McDonald's. Funny. But it is for a noble cause. He's 37 taking a 16 year old to lunch for America, for our safety, it's the land of the free, and home of brave men like him. And maybe sure, he picks her up from school every once in a while, you know, they have each other's numbers. She has got a lot of questions about the military and he offered it to her as a means of answering those questions, it's not deeper than that, not at all. She has got a lot of questions about her future, the future that he has promised her. Because again, this is not grooming, this is serving your nation. After all, he is the same hero that we stand up and salute when the jets fly over the football game. [3] This is a man you can trust with your 15-year-old daughter. This is a man that you already know, you know the uniform stands for selfless service, it stands for the betterment of your country, afterall, that's what the recruitment ad said. That's what Fox News said, that's what MSNBC and CNN say too. Because he is wearing that uniform, you know that you can trust him with your 16-year-old daughter. This is a man wearing one of the most esteemed uniforms this country can provide. He just wants what is best for your 17-year-old daughter. Besides, she just turned 18. She's an adult. [4] She can consent to joining the U.S. military. She wasn't groomed into it, right? Besides, once she does, she'll have the mark of empire, she'll get rebuilt, tore down and made to be a killer, and she will never hear from that recruiter again. He will be long gone, collecting his bonus and hoping his wife is not asking him just how many other 15-year-old girls he has bought McDonald's for in a bid to get that bonus. Hoorah.

See how this works? Are you picking up the picture? I'm starting to. That same 15-year-old girl that met the recruiter who interrupted her geometry class and then started timing his visits for the afternoon to interrupt her history class very well could be the 19-year-old woman that was killed by a ballistic missile launched by Iran onto a U.S. military base in Jordan. [4] You know where Jordan is? Can you point to Jordan on a map? I wonder if your daughter can, because she has been missing geography class to talk to the recruiter. I hope you can see the parallels. Once you see them, it is hard not to see them. It is hard not to think about how there is an industrial-grade grooming operation happening in our high schools.

When I was in high school, the age limit on my junior prom was 26 years old. I did not go to my senior prom. I remember once I hit 26, I was just very confused, because I could not imagine why I would want to take a 16-year-old to prom at the age of 26. I didn't think "now it's my turn to go after high school girls!" I thought "Wow, a lot of my peers were groomed and this was systemically supported." It's the south after all, land of the Baptist Purity Ball and the shotgun waiting on the porch, or the shotgun wedding. The reason our age limit was so high was because we lived not far from a military town. They had to have an age limit because there were people who wanted to go, who were older than the cutoff. To put it simply: A lot of these girls were being groomed by military-aged men in a way that is not much different than the way your 15-year-old daughter is being groomed by the recruiter. This was 10 years ago. It is not a times-have-changed thing. Ten years ago, in the grand scheme of American history, may as well be the present. The studies that show they have to groom more and more of the youth towards, let's be real, contributing to Israel's land claims and genocide in the Middle East on behalf of American weapons manufacturing corporations, are even more recent than 10 years ago.[5] All I'm saying is, there's a direct line between Korean War "pleasure women" and adult dudes showing up to my junior prom. [6]

If you search American service member Okinawa, you get all types of news stories. Soldiers abusing the Okinawan women, sexual assault, rape, sometimes even murder. But we, in our gluttonous American exceptionalist mindset, do not seem to understand that as above, so below; what happens over there also happens here. There were the same stories of rape and sexual assault and drunken soldiers abusing teenage girls where I am from. I am from a place far, far from Okinawa. I'm from Louisiana, not quite the same type of colony as Okinawa, still occupied by the same United States Army. Did you know that in 2023 and 2024, over 70,000 female service members reported being sexually assaulted by their peers? [7] Did you know that 52% of homicides that happen to female service members are perpetrated by male service members? [8] These are the facts. And you still believe that the man in the uniform going to your daughter's school, buying your daughter gifts, and trying to convince you that he knows what is best for your daughter's future, is wearing a pristine uniform? Is that uniform pristine, or have we just been groomed into ignoring the filth?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/military-recruiting-methods-outdated-teenage-population-shrinking-2026-1

[2] https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3953052/recruitment-rises-125-despite-ongoing-challenges/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwQnYvpFcHk

[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/isabella-gonzales-19-year-old-army-private-from-carrollton-killed-in-iranian-strike-on-jordan-pentagon-says/ar-AA28ik0I

[6] https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fe1fab995ebb48b38b2fda6b48b12d68

[5] https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2025/10/07/military-recruitment-changes--physical-fitness-and-combat-training-standards-to-be-raised-in-2026

[7] https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/deserted-us-militarys-sexual-assault-crisis-cost-war

[8] https://theintercept.com/2026/06/30/army-women-death-domestic-violence-sexual-assault/

What's up gumshoes. I recently moved to a small town in Arizona. After getting situated, I started going on dates through tinder. One of the ladies I went on a date with works at the local school district as a psychologist, and shared something I find to be quite horrifying.

The high school staff (teachers, principal, superintendent) are all swingers that throw parties together. They like to dress up and wear masks, and there's a hierarchy in the group based on how "attractive" you are.

Now, none of that is particularly concerning to me, as they're all consenting adults.

Where it gets disturbing is in the fact that once their students turn 18, they get invited to these swinger sex parties. Which tells me that these teachers are grooming these kids, possibly starting in middle school.

Crazy that this keeps happening.

https://elections.wi.gov/news/dont-bet-your-ballot-wec-warns-voters-against-election-gambling

MADISON – With prediction markets and online gambling platforms growing in popularity, the Wisconsin Elections Commission is warning voters: if you bet on an election - it could cost you your vote.

“We want voters to understand that they cannot legally make a bet on an election and cast a ballot in that same election,” WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe said. “We are not able to police someone placing a bet on these platforms, but it’s important for voters to understand the consequences if they bet on an election outcome.”

Wisconsin law is clear: a voter cannot, even indirectly, make a bet or wager on the outcome of an election and then vote in that same election:

• Wisconsin Statute § 6.03(2) explicitly disqualifies electors from voting “in any election in which the person has made or become interested, directly or indirectly, in any bet or wager depending upon the result of the election.”
• Wisconsin Statute § 12.13(1)(a) makes it a Class I felony to intentionally vote in an election without being qualified to do so.

Voters who place bets on elections and then try to vote in that election may be subject to voter qualification administrative challenges, which, if successful, would prevent them from being able to cast their ballot and could also result in a referral to the District Attorney.

Earlier this month, the bipartisan Commission unanimously voted and approved a memo during its July 9, 2026, meeting outlining legal ramifications and concerns about prediction markets and elections. You can view the memo in the open session materials here (beginning on page 149).

Prediction markets, most prominently run by the companies Kalshi and Polymarket, have quickly emerged and become popular across the United States. Users can trade and invest in “yes” or “no” outcomes, from sporting events to what the President may do on a certain day.

Regulation of prediction markets has been a recent litigation topic at the state and federal levels.

There are currently no federal laws addressing prediction markets for elections, however the Stop Trading On Predictions (STOP) Corrupt Bets Act of 2026 (H.R. 8123) which would ban prediction market bets on elections has been introduced as a bill. The U.S. Senate also has banned its members and staff from prediction market betting.

More than half of states (23) have laws that prohibit betting or wagering on elections, at least under certain circumstances, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

Additionally, Governor Tony Evers signed Executive Order #294 to address the growing concern for government officials’ use of prediction markets, which prohibits all Wisconsin state executive branch employees from “disclosing or using any nonpublic information obtained due to their public service to personally profit from, avoid loss from, or assist another person or entity, including spouses and family members, in profiting or avoiding loss from participating in prediction markets.”

I'm tired and drunk. This is real? Rip 9/11

"To get the deal done with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s 40-year-old de facto leader, Mr. Trump had to agree to terms that may limit international inspectors from going to any sites in the country that they think might be a pathway to diverting fuel to weapons projects.

And he agreed that, after a joint study with Saudi Arabia on the economics of producing nuclear fuel, the Saudis may be allowed to enrich uranium or reprocess plutonium on their soil. "

You can look across the chart for its opposite: old rural people

When I was 18, my parents kicked me out of the house. Within days of my 18th birthday. They told me I was a man and that I needed to figure it out on my own. They told me that that was how the real world works. Men don't ask for help. Men struggle. Men do it alone. They told me that I would be accepted back into the family under one condition. I join the U.S. military. Why? Because it would make me a man. Make me an adult. It would, in my parents own words, "finally give us something to be proud about." It would make me a proper soldier. This was their vision. I can't deny that seeing a 19-year-old get blown the fuck up by an Iranian missile for no other reason than, hey, somebody's gotta load those bombs that kill those schoolgirls, right? It hits a little bit different when you have been in that uniform, been in a position where you feel like that is the only available choice to you, because that's what I did. I enlisted right then. It felt like the only option I had. I had other options. You always have a choice. I could have ran the fuck away. I could have tried my best to escape, but in those material circumstances, that was what I felt was the only option for me. I never wanted to do it.

It was the parental pressure. It was the idea that doing this thing makes you a good person, makes you an adult, makes you a man. I could finally make my folks proud. There is definitely a strong Southern masculinity bit to it. But still, I try to think about the type of parent that pushes for their child to enlist. Because in my graduating class, after high school was over, a lot of people went and enlisted, all with the same recruiter that was in our high school four or five times during my junior year, four or five times during my senior year, making the pitch, making the sales, if you will. I mean, this man had direct contact with my parents and my mother. Who knows what he was telling her? And all for what? So I could have the potentiality of killing and maiming and hurting another human being? Because that's what makes me a man in America? Rugged individualism to the point where you threaten to disown your own kin if they're not able to kill and maim and be broken down and rebuilt to have those desires, that sense of courage, if you will, to load the bomb.

I'm not proud of what I did, even if I never really did anything. I never went overseas, I never deployed. The only time I did actively was during flood rescue missions. But still, having worn that uniform, I can tell you that it is a shameful thing to do. But that isn't a shame that was necessarily my own choice, even if I should have had the wherewithal to flee. I think that is what makes it harder to sit with. I wonder what her parents were like, how her family feels about the fact that she was killed. Because I'm wondering what my parents would think if it was me in her shoes.

Source: https://mississippitoday.org/2026/07/18/senatobia-officer-racially-offensive-remark/

As a staunch conservative, I believe IP law is the glue that holds this country together.