Emily Wilson completely changed the meaning of a key word in the Odyssey to make it seem like Helen of Troy didn't blame herself for starting the Trojan War, when in fact the text makes it clear that she did. In 4.145-146, Helen calls herself κυνώπιδος (dog-faced). This is an insult meaning "shameless." It is commonly used to refer to unfaithful lovers. For example, it is used elsewhere in the Odyssey (8.319) to refer to Aphrodite after she cheats on Hephaestus with Ares. Fagles translates 4.145-146 to: "all you Achaeans fought at Troy, launching your headlong battles just for my sake, shameless whore that I was.” Lattimore translates 4.145-146 to: "for the sake of shameless me, the Achaians went beneath Troy, their hearts intent upon reckless warfare." Wilson completely changes the meaning of κυνώπιδος to "hounded" (she is trying to be cute by translating 'dog-faced' to a word that still relates to dogs, even though its actual meaning is completely unrelated). She then applies this word to the Achaeans, saying that they were hounded, not Helen. Her translation is in the image below. This is obviously an ideological change that she made because she personally believes Helen shouldn't be blamed for the Trojan War. She deliberated distorted the meaning of one of the foundational texts of Western literature to conform with her modern beliefs.

I’m tired of the Senate’s evergreen excuse for inaction: “We don’t have 60 votes.” There are ways around the 60-vote cloture standard. It’s time to start using them. And stop disingenuously characterizing any refusal to do so as virtuous or conservative. Share if you agree.

The fact that Jimmy Kimmel is not profitable in a business hyper focused on profitability proves he is employed to push propaganda. Jimmy Kimmel is a propagandist and not a comedian. Simple.

I don't mean any disrespect to real artists, and I am not profiting from it... but has anyone else tried plugging a bunch of their old junior high and high school art into @Grok and telling it to make everything photo-realistic? It's a real rabbit hole.

That was a stressful and exciting few minutes... hoping nothing but the absolute best for @NASAArtemis II and everyone supporting it.

Air superiority means the enemy can still try. Air supremacy is when B-52s are just flying around doing yard work.

Why are scientists so obsessed with resurrecting mammoths instead of stegodons? You can't keep a mammoth as a pet. Sure a stegodon would be bigger than a great dane, but can you imagine taking one for a walk? It would be awesome.

We have to take all the F-14s into custody so we can breed them in captivity. When their numbers are higher, we can release them back into the wild.

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I have become ungovernable.

If Star Wars had the MSM like the United States does....

Stephen Miller rocks He’s one of the best staffers in White House history Repost if you agree that @StephenM deserves admiration and respect

(I posted this yesterday on FB, but some dumbass was just crying about how we need to go shoot feds on behalf of commies, so here's my opinion on this nonsense) I've got to address some dumb gun misconceptions about the latest Minnesota shooting that I'm seeing all over the internet. Despite Noem/Patel's spin, having a pistol like that wasn't particularly weird, and half the people who voted for Trump carry everywhere. "Combat" is a marketing term. There's nothing particularly special about a 9mm with 18-21 capacity. There is nothing special at all about a threaded barrel. That's just for attaching a suppressor or a comp, and the guy had neither as far as I know. Red dot sights are completely normal now. Nothing unique there. I'm seeing that he was carrying in a Small of the Back Holster (SoB) which my regulars know makes me laugh, because I Told You So. 📷 (they are the dumbest way to carry) Having two extra mags? Meh. Not really indicative of anything by itself. Is that excessive? Maybe. But a lot of people carry daily with extra mags. If I was going to blunder around the lawless commie shithole that is modern day Minneapolis I'd probably carry some spare mags too (though I wouldn't pick pointless stupid fights with feds, but I'll get to that!) and I'm also not going back there because fuck that city, I'm still annoyed those assholes burned down my favorite bookstore during their last big democrat temper tantrum. My wild ass guess? With absolutely zero evidence? I've got an AXG Legion myself. I believe it came with 3 mags. Him using a Sig with a Sig optic, I wouldn't be surprised if he just took everything that came in the box with him and that's all the mags he owns. No way of knowing, but fairly standard non-gun nut behavior. (and if he was using a SoB as reported indicative of somebody who didn't know what the fuck he was doing but had enough money to buy a recognizable brand name) So the whole narrative about carrying a pistol to protest being an indicator that the guy was a terrorist is bunk. Now, I'm not saying its not indicative of him being a complete dumb ass playing with fire who wound up as a useful idiot sacrifice for a bunch of slimy commies, because that's how it's looking. That whole Noem/Patel narrative is bunk. Lots of Americans exercise their 2nd Amendment rights in public, even when there's some dumb ass "protest" going on. What law abiding gun carriers DON'T DO however is fuck around with cops while armed, and if they do willfully fuck around with cops, getting arrested or shot shouldn't come as a huge surprise to anyone. A big part of every CCW class is about what to do when dealing with law enforcement, and none of that involves following them around, tailing their cars, honking horns in their ears, throwing shit, breaking shit, meddling in their arrests, "directing traffic", obstructing traffic, biting people's fingers off, or just being general fucking weirdo nuisance temper tantrum throwers to provide cover for illegal alien rapists as a diversion because your democrat governor just got caught giving billions of tax dollars to imaginary Somali children and the democrats really want to win the midterms so they can get back to destroying America forever. That was a run on sentence, but these people are really fucking stupid. And it appears that they've had a Signal chat for MN government officials to coordinate this fuckery with the useful idiots too. Did this particular dude do all that? No. Did he do some of that? Yes. So again, getting shot is a bummer, but not at all shocking. If you want to see who is honest and who is a lying partisan hack dipshit in situations like this, watch for the people who ignore all the context, history, and events which set the stage for a particular incident, who then focus instead on minutia and playing back video frame by frame in ultra slow mo. Like I said yesterday, just off math and basic probability, if you provoke chaotic encounters against the same bunch of feds, day in and day out, over and over, hoping for a violent altercation, eventually you're going to get a violent altercation. Duh. It's got fuck all to do with "well trained". If the goal is to provoke a violent altercation and you're starting shit with fallible human beings required to make fast decisions under stress, eventually you're gonna get your wish. Crying about it afterwards is just embarrassing. This is why all CCW classes have a portion about avoiding those kinds of situations with cops while we're armed. We're also supposed to obey all the ancillary laws, like having our permit on us while we're armed in states where that is required. "So what you're saying is that PAPERS PLEASE/COMPLY OR ELSE?!? BOOOTLICKER!" No, stupid, that is clearly not what I'm saying. The 2nd Amendment is a right which we need to exercise responsibly because the irresponsible exercise of it endangers others. If you do dumb shit while armed, people are gonna react to your dumb shit first and immediately, which may include you getting shot if the situation is dumb enough. If you make the situation dumber, that's on your dumb ass. And it doesn't matter if a bunch of lolberts (and libs who hated the 2nd Amendment until they got their new NPC download yesterday) argue the philosophical ramifications on the internet after, you're still fucking dead. So not having your ID shouldn't be a death sentence, but combined with the other dumbassery and being a willing contestant in the Useful Idiot Olympics, doesn't exactly aid your case. Next, it was a Sig 320 variant, and I'm seeing non-gun people who didn't know what that gun is until this week going on and on about how that's a pistol that goes off by itself all the time. Without going too far into the weeds, that's one of the most common pistols in the world with millions in circulation for a decade. Has there been reports (and video!) of some of them allegedly going off by themselves in holsters? Yes. However, to the best of my knowledge there's like maybe two dozen(?) reports like that. So could this guy's 320 have gone off all by itself? Eh... Maybe? But the odds of that would be like winning the shitty version of Powerball. If that pistol went off the far more likely odds are it is because the fed grabbed the trigger while snatching it away (but on that note, the 320 has got a light, short trigger, so it is not forgiving of sloppy handling). Which is again, another reason every CCW class yells at us not to wrestle with cops. Accidents happen. Accidents in dumb ass situations spiral out of control real fast, so people who aren't useful idiots try to avoid dumb ass situations. And I'm sorry, useful idiots, but harassing feds for your inalienable right to leave all the illegal alien serial rapists in your neighborhood is fucking dumb. You rolling the dice until you finally get shot is profoundly fucking stupid. But Tim Walz, the DNC, and a whole bunch of Somalis thank you for your sacrifice.

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

“Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make” —Lord Farquaad

Preventable tragedies: • Renee Good • Alex Pretti Preventable tragedies: • Brianna Kelson • Karen Diamond • Billy McKellar • Zabar McKellar • Krishaun McKellar • Kason McKellar • Nicole Gregory • Larisha Sharell Thompson • Jimmy Friesenhahn • Ava Moore • Jorge Gonzalez • Aleksandre Modebadze • Jim McCammon • Camillia Williams • Lesbia Mileth Ramirez-Guerra • Ilias “Louie” Mavros • Adan Lopez Lorenzo • Matias Roblero Emanuel • Debrina Kawam • Grayson Christopher Davis • Angel Samaniego • Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno • Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno • Fraime Ubaldo • Marangely Moreno-Santiago • Tiger Gutierrez • Rylan Oncale • Taliyah Crochet • Melody Waldecker • Kaitlyn Weaver • Jocelyn Nungaray • Scott Miller • Matthew Carney • Anilson Mauricio Perez Gomez • Kristie Thibodeaux • Lauryn Ni’Kole Leonard • Laken Riley • Shannon Patricia Jungwirth • Mario Alberto Trejo Estrada • Jorge Alexander Reyes-Jungwirth • Riordan Powell • Melissa Powell • Travis Wolfe • Catalina Valdez Andrade • Merced Andrade Bailon • Ruperto Mondragon Salgado • Jario Hernandez-Sanchez • Carmen Unilda Navas Zuniga • Michael Kunovich • Diana Velazquez Alvarado • Julisa Molina Rivera • Jose Jonathan Casarez • Sonia Argentina Guzman • Daniel Enrique Laso • David Breaux • Karim Abou Najm • Matteo Garcia • Erpharo Gilbert • Limber Lopez Funez • Diane Hill Luckett • Maria Rios • Maris Mareen DiGiovanni • Brent Allan Hallett • Martin Iran Carreon Adame • Ned Byrd • Kayla Marie Hamilton • Sandra Vazquez Ceja • Victor Huerta • Terry Aultman • Brenda Aultman • Erin Simanskis • Rachel Morin • Ruby Garcia • George Levin • Lizbeth Medina • Maria Gonzalez • Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz • Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez • Hallie Helgeson • Brady Heiling • Ivory Smith • Alex “AJ” Wise Jr. • Mustaffa Muhammad • Nicacio Hernandez Gonzalez • Jon Douglas Ratcliffe • Jacques Price • Amalia Coc Choc de Pec • Estrella Anastasia Pec Coc • Maricela Simon Franco • Christopher Gadd • Jeremy Poou-Caceras • Santiago Jacobo • Ni’Kole Leonard • Anjelica Guadelupe • Amaya Briceño • Aiden Clark • Kimberlee Guillory • Gloria Stephanie Palomec • Paul Osokin • Anya Varfolomeev • Jennifer Ann Morton • Dania Cruz-Mejia • Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno • Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno • Christopher Gadd • Dennis Buan • David Hang • Colby Brice Compton • Gretchen Gross • Crecensio Rosas De La Rosa • Corbin Wagner • Francisco Javier Cuellar • Douglas R. Cline • Isidro Cortes • Karina Torres • Moussa Fofana • Andi Lynn Blair • Cheston Edwards • Cindy Goulding • Evelyn Falcon • Miguel Ruiz • Francisco Zamora • Victoria Eileen Harwell One group deliberately put themselves in danger by threatening police officers. The other includes SOME of the actual victims—people who were harmed by illegal immigrants who aren’t supposed to be in our country at all. Yet the left directs its outrage selectively, and the hypocrisy is both exhausting and morally bankrupt.

The Bill Europe Never Paid America owes Europe an apology. We interfered with the natural order of things. That continent knew more war than any other place in human history. Civilization hardened there through fire. Borders mattered because they had to. Weakness was punished because it always is. Pretty normal stuff. Then we arrived. And we erased thousands of years of defensive instinct in a single century. But America owes an apology to itself as well. Because we sold the world a lie. The United States lost hundreds of thousands in the World Wars just to stop Europe from destroying itself. Then we paid to rebuild it. Since 1949, the U.S. has spent trillions of dollars underwriting Europe’s defense through NATO. For decades, the U.S. has carried 60–70% of total NATO military spending, while European nations invested the peace dividend elsewhere. Free healthcare. Guaranteed pensions. Expansive welfare states. All subsidized by American power. Then American elites pointed across the Atlantic and said, Look. It works. Ivy League campuses praised European socialism as moral progress. "We can make it work here too!" They never mentioned the footnote. It only worked because America paid for the guns. Now a country on Europe’s eastern front with a GDP smaller than Italy’s can outproduce the munitions of an entire continent. The EU’s combined GDP is roughly $17 trillion. Russia’s is ~$2 trillion. And yet Europe cannot sustain a major conventional war without American stockpiles, American logistics, and American industry. We lied to them. And we lied to ourselves. We exported a fantasy of governance made possible only by American blood and American treasure. Then acted shocked when that fantasy crossed the ocean and began hollowing out our own institutions. A blueprint that promised comfort without strength. It has only served to weaken nations, hollow sovereignty, and anesthetize survival instincts. Empires rarely fall to invasion. They fall when they forget why they were strong. And Europe is not the only one who forgot. Security must be paid for every generation. Skip a payment, and history forecloses. We screwed up. Let's hope we can actually change course and do something about it. Europe must stand on its own. It is the only way. Allowing them to rise is merciful. Subsidizing them (and us) to death, is unimaginable cruelty.

This is day 14 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE Act.