@JDFilkins

Woke? Nope, Awake. Generalized bomb thrower. Lover of weird humor, and the generally socially unacceptable. No DMs please.

Joined September 2009
The future is here. It will sneek in quietly, with hardly a notice. Then, one day, someone will casually ask: "You still drive manually? Huh..." and you will know.
Replying to @battleangelviv
I was using FSD leaving San Francisco when the power outage froze the Waymos my family was with me telling me the navigation was wrong and made no sense, turns out it was avoiding all the blocked intersections
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You’re angry about gas prices that will eventually come down. I’m mad that Taco Bell taco prices will NEVER be 59 cents again. We are not the same.
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Every time it's tried...
Argentina’s monthly inflation went from 25.5% in Milei’s first month to 1.7% in August 2026. As expected when government stops printing pesos to cover the deficit. Fiscal surplus first, then prices stop sprinting. The “experts” who called this “austerity theater” now have 33 months of INDEC data to explain away.
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That the retiring weasely RINO thinks it's a bad idea is no surprise at all.
Mike DeWine says that Vivek's idea of temporarily suspending OH's tax on gas is a bad idea. Says the state needs the money to maintain, construct roads, bridges and fix potholes. At $8M a day, I don't see the improvements that much money should have provided. Give it back to OH consumers and stimulate the economy.
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Well we’ve just learned that women are so emotional and hormonal that they can’t even be blamed for mass murdering their children so with that in mind I think I’ll pass on putting more women in leadership positions, thanks anyway
Obama: "If you put women in charge of every government for two years... I have a strong belief that things would be better. I'm confident about that."
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"I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the democratic party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit." Hamas Piker just flat out admits he wants to imprison and kill democrats in a literal communist revolution. These are animals.
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Dozens of moving trucks are surrounding City Hall right now with a pretty simple message: "It's Moving Day. Vote Out Kathy Hochul." Since Hochul took office in 2021, nearly a million people have left New York. NYC alone lost another 114,000 residents in 2025, with Gen Z leaving faster than anyone. The trucks are also covered with Bruce Blakeman's name, Hochul's opponent for governor this November. At some point, people stop complaining and just leave. New Yorkers need to wake up and vote for someone who actually cares about this state, because the people who are supposed to be fighting for it clearly aren't.
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I keep hearing people complain that gasoline is over $4.00 a gallon. And yes, I'd love to see it at $2.00 again. But before we declare gasoline the most outrageously expensive liquid on Earth, let's put things in perspective. For $4.00, I get a GALLON of gasoline. I pour it into a 4,000-pound machine, turn a key, and that gallon will haul me, my wife, the groceries, the golf clubs and half the junk in my trunk almost 30 miles down the highway. That's actually a pretty impressive day's work for $4.00. Now let's compare. A restaurant sells me a 5-ounce glass of wine for $9. That's about $230 a gallon. And how far does it transport me? Usually from the dinner table to the men's room. A fancy coffee shop can charge $6 for a 16-ounce latte. That's $48 a gallon. It doesn't transport me 30 miles. It transports me from "Leave me alone" to "Okay, now you may speak." Bottled water at a convenience store might be $2.50 for 20 ounces. That's $16 a gallon, for something that occasionally falls out of the sky FOR FREE. A 12-ounce energy drink at $3.50 works out to more than $37 a gallon. Apparently caffeine becomes a precious mineral once you put lightning bolts on the can. Buy one of those little 2-ounce bottles of "energy shot" for $3. That's $192 a gallon. At that price, it shouldn't give me energy. It should mow my lawn. Maple syrup at $8 for a 12-ounce bottle? About $85 a gallon. And its principal technological achievement is making pancakes sticky. Vanilla extract at $6 for two ounces? That's $384 a gallon. For $384, I expect the vanilla bean to come to my house and bake the cookies. Printer ink can cost thousands of dollars per gallon. And unlike gasoline, it sometimes refuses to come out because the printer has decided cyan is low. Even that $9 glass of wine deserves another look. At roughly $230 a gallon, filling a typical 15-gallon gas tank with restaurant wine would cost about $3,450. Of course, after drinking 15 gallons of wine, transportation would no longer be your biggest concern. So yes, $4.00 gasoline is expensive. But it's also a remarkable bargain when you think about what you're buying. You're purchasing enough concentrated energy to push several thousand pounds of steel, glass, groceries and humanity nearly 30 miles. Meanwhile, we'll cheerfully pay $6 for coffee, $9 for wine and $3 for water, then stand at the gas pump staring at the numbers like we're watching the national debt clock. Maybe gasoline doesn't need better pricing. Maybe it just needs a fancier name. "Handcrafted Premium Petroleum, locally pumped, small-batch refined, with subtle notes of octane and dinosaur." Put it in a 12-ounce artisan bottle and charge $14. We'll line up around the block.
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WATCH: @JensenHuang: AI doomers should be held accountable for their doomsday claims. “It’s made up… It’s irresponsible.” “We ought to just keep track of all that” — and remind people when their claims don’t come true.
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"Make things better for women..." is equivalent to "Allow women to get away with murder." Children today, anyone tomorrow. The slope is ALWAYS slippery.
During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.” “We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women…”
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The idea that the juror “lied to get on the jury” is total nonsense. None of the alleged dirt these vultures have dug up would keep him off of a jury. Besides, people don’t lie to get ON juries you idiots. They lie to get off of them. Massachusetts pays like a 50 dollar stipend for jury duty. Nobody’s lying and giving up weeks of their life for that. This guy simply accepted the civic duty he was forcibly conscripted into. Now you rodents are trying to destroy his life for it. Scumbags.
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Imagine having the freedom to buy your own heath insurance with the choices of full coverage (Expensive, but convenient) or catastrophic (Cheep, BUT for major issues). Then shopping doctors who run specials, sales, and undercut other doctors for more business. Awesome in MHO.
"We will pass the Great Healthcare plan to stop all government payments to big insurance companies, and give the money directly to the people, for you to buy your own healthcare and have money left over..." - President Donald J. Trump
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How will we fix the property tax crisis? What’s the plan to prosecute Medicaid fraud? What are we going to do about data centers? Sanctuary cities? Photo ID to vote? Voters deserve a debate. Acton needs to stop hiding & show up.
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Leftists finding out the lone holdout juror that they’ve been trashing all week in the Lindsay Clancy case is a black man
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Replying to @nypost
Will the funeral be in pink?
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Oh, the irony!
Not only have the other jurors spent a week publicly insulting the lone black man, but remember that they also tried to have him physically removed from the jury. AND the defense attorney filed a legal motion accusing him of bigotry. This is precisely the kind of scenario that the Left has fantasized about for years. Now it finally happens but they accidentally sided with the white people. Phenomenal.
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The other jurors have spent all week calling the lone male holdout an arrogant, uncooperative dummy who didn’t understand the law or follow the rules. Now we come to find out that they were talking about the only black guy in the room this whole time. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better.
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Babylon Bee gets it.
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The Dude just put to words exactly what I've been thinking, but I'm to slow to voice them.
Dude here. This is what I imagine the interview of the lone hero on that jury said to those harpy bitches: “You know what I keep hearing? That she was overwhelmed. Overwhelmed. Three children are dead, and somehow that word is supposed to make the room softer. She was overwhelmed. She was depressed. She was exhausted. Her hormones were wrong. Motherhood was difficult. Her drugs were wrong. Nobody understood what she was going through. Fine. Then stop telling me she was my equal. No—don't look away now. That's the bargain you've been demanding from us for fifty years. Women can do anything men can do. Women can command armies. Women can run corporations. Women can govern nations. Women can control nuclear arsenals. Women belong everywhere decisions are made because sex has nothing whatsoever to do with judgment, temperament, resilience, or responsibility. Remember? You don't get to abandon that argument the instant responsibility becomes unpleasant. This woman didn't forget her children in a hot car. She didn't make one catastrophic mistake in ten seconds of panic. She created time. She got her husband out of the way. She killed one child and still had time in which the universe could have screamed at her to stop. Then another. Then another. And afterward we're supposed to look at the bodies and discover that adulthood has a fucking asterisk next to it. Because she was overwhelmed. Do you understand what you're saying? If a woman can be entrusted with a nation when she's thriving but cannot be held responsible for her actions when she's collapsing, then you haven't described equality. You've described privilege. Authority without equivalent accountability. Power without equivalent consequences. Adulthood with an escape hatch. And America built an entire culture around that escape hatch. For decades we were told that holding women to different standards was sexism. Then whenever a woman failed spectacularly, suddenly treating her differently became compassion. Her emotions mattered. Her hormones mattered. Her childhood mattered. Her relationships mattered. The pressure mattered. The expectations mattered. Every conceivable circumstance marched into the courtroom ahead of responsibility and begged us to understand. But understanding isn't acquittal. Explanation isn't innocence. And compassion isn't the abolition of consequence. If a man deliberately sent his wife away, murdered their three children one by one, and afterward told us fatherhood had simply become too overwhelming, would eleven people in this room be searching for a vocabulary sophisticated enough to make him the fourth victim? Of course not. We'd call him a monster. Maybe that's exactly what equality looks like. Maybe equality means a woman gets to be a monster, too. And that's the thing this country became terrified to say. We spent half a century insisting women were strong while constructing an entire moral architecture around their fragility. We called them independent and rushed forward to explain their failures. We called them powerful and treated consequences as cruelty. We handed them authority while increasingly regarding judgment itself as some barbaric relic invented by men. Then we congratulated ourselves for achieving equality. Bullshit. Equality isn't believing women can succeed. Any coward can applaud success. Equality is believing women can fail. Equality is believing women can be selfish, calculating, cruel, incompetent, corrupt, cowardly and evil—and that when they are, they don't become helpless children merely because acknowledging what they did makes us uncomfortable. And before somebody gives me the inevitable speech: no, this woman does not prove that every woman is unstable. One murderous father wouldn't prove every man is unstable either. That's not my argument. My argument is that your defense of her proves something about you. Because you've spent decades telling me sex is irrelevant to whether somebody can shoulder the greatest responsibilities imaginable. President. General. Judge. Surgeon. Commander. Fine. Then sex is irrelevant here, too. You cannot tell me a woman is psychologically robust enough to have her finger on a nuclear arsenal on Monday and tell me on Tuesday that murdering her own children must be excused because the pressures of ordinary life shattered her. Pick one. If women are adults, treat them like adults. If women possess the resilience necessary to wield power, then demand the resilience necessary to bear responsibility. And if your answer is that we cannot demand that—if somewhere underneath all the slogans you really believe women are uniquely vulnerable to emotion, hormones, stress, motherhood, relationships, or whatever explanation we're using this week—then have the courage to follow your own argument to its conclusion. Because you don't get both. You don't get equality when power is being distributed and fragility when consequences arrive. That's not liberation. That's aristocracy. And maybe that was America's great mistake. Not giving women equality. Equality would have been easy. Equality has rules. We gave certain people something much more poisonous: the expectation that somebody else would always be responsible for what happened to them—and eventually, even for what they did to somebody else. Three innocent, loving children had to die before anybody in this room was forced to confront where that road ends. Eleven of you looked at those bodies and still found reasons she shouldn't pay for them. So call me cruel. Call me backward. Call me a misogynist. Christ, you've been waiting all afternoon to use the word. But I'm voting guilty. Because those children don't get another trial. They don't get a newspaper profile explaining their trauma. They don't get professors discussing the social forces acting upon them. They don't get another morning. She made sure of that. And if equality means anything at all, it has to mean that the person who took those mornings away from them doesn't escape responsibility because she's a woman. Otherwise stop calling women equal. Call them what you've actually made them: untouchable.”
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NEW MEDIA HOAX JUST DROPPED “Armed man lunged at Amy Acton!” Reality: Prosecutor says video shows he never went near her, didn’t lunge or charge at her, and never brandished a weapon. Amy Acton Smollet. Every. Single. Time.
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