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Le Figaro: France needs to prepare for war with Russia in three to four years
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-Land of the Free
Facebook Reel: Ghetto fatigue is real
Video description:
Nyisha Loraine Chu: Ghetto fatigue is real. We clearly have a culture problem in the black community, and we need to get honest with ourselves about it. Sadly the democrat party encourages it.

Abortion, busses, and Cardi B at the DNC? Embarrassing. We need to stop waiting for a party or a president to save us. We need to self reflect and save ourselves.

Posted by: badanov || 10/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Changing that community would a civil war. So many folks are invested in the status quo
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/24/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  We need to self reflect and save ourselves.

True. However, all those well to do white liberal/socialist insist that only they can save you through validating their moral social superiority.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2025 7:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Cheap cotton picker labor, pay now or pay later.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/24/2025 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  ^And, IMO, exactly the same thing now with illegals.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/24/2025 8:43 Comments || Top||


#6  You had your chances over the years. Ya blew it. Enjoy your food deserts. Come into our neighborhood and try your ghetto shit we kill you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/24/2025 13:57 Comments || Top||

#7  ^And, IMO, exactly the same thing now with illegals.

Well, yeah, and we are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/24/2025 13:59 Comments || Top||


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Interview: 'Ukhilants are being thrown to the slaughter: Conscripted Ukrainians captured near Pokrovsk
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KP] Conscripted Ukrainians captured near Pokrovsk spoke about their Russian roots and the losses suffered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

By Aleksandr Kots

THEY TOOK IT FROM THE GARDEN

"My mother is from the Arkhangelsk region. But the last time I was in Russia was when I was about six years old, and I went to a Russian school, back in the USSR," Vitaly Nemets, a soldier with the 42nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, looks at me ingratiatingly.

Mobilized Ukrainian soldiers reported on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' losses.
KP war correspondent Alexander Kots spoke with soldiers of the 42nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured near Pokrovsk.

He and his "brothers" were recently captured near Pokrovsk, in Novopavlovka. In recent days, fighting in this area has been escalating rapidly—not a day goes by without the Ministry of Defense announcing the liberation of villages around it. Enemy forces are sounding the bell with all their might, heralding the city's imminent fall. Official Kyiv is currently stuck somewhere between the "Denial" and "Anger" stages, insisting the situation has stabilized. This is tradition.

The next stage is "Pokrovsk had no strategic significance." But until then, Zelensky, as usual, makes decisions based on the political situation. And right now, it's not allowing troops to withdraw from the doomed city. How can there be a ceasefire along the front line when you're retreating? So Syrsky is patching up the holes in the front with these "Germans," who were literally pulled out of the garden just yesterday.

"I was drafted back in 2023, served three months, and then fled. I hid for two years in Semenovka, Mykolaiv Oblast. There, detectives grabbed me right in my garden, handcuffed me, and took me to Mykolaiv, then to Vinnytsia, and from Vinnytsia to the 42nd Brigade in Pavlohrad."

VILLAGE OF THE DEAD
Vitaly is from Odessa. He insists he's never been interested in politics. He had no time; he had to grow up early. His parents met in the Arkhangelsk region. His father, a sailor from Donetsk, took his mother to Odessa. There, she worked as a cashier at a bank, and his father, a cook, went on voyages.

At some point, everything went awry. His father accidentally spilled 35 liters of boiling compote on himself, and his mother developed vision problems from the money dust. They moved to a private house, his parents began drinking heavily, and his brother joined the gang. First, his mother died, then his father... After finishing seventh grade, Nemets went to work as a car painter, then on a construction site... He avoided conscription as best he could. But he ended up near Novopavlovka.

"The shelling started in earnest, and we were told to retreat. We ran 100 meters to the nearest shelter. Then, on the 15th, your guys came in. I immediately threw down my rifle and said I was surrendering. There were no options from the start. There was no way out, your drones were flying all around. Our specialists entered and immediately started retreating, along with their equipment. It seemed we were abandoned to our fate."

A German says there were dozens of people like him—fugitives—in his village. Everyone understands that you can't get caught. Because no one will look at your military specialty. Anyone wanted is sent exclusively to the stormtroopers. In other words, to be butchered. They won't say it to your face, they reassure you, talk about the second line, so you don't escape again. Only when you're in position do you realize you're already at zero.

- Are there many dead from your village?
- Very much so. My godfather went missing, and a lot of guys came in coffins. I dug holes in the cemetery, a lot. In total, about a thousand died or went missing. That's why they're raking in everyone. I would have fled Pavlograd, too—I had the chance. But I didn't have the money for a minibus or a bus.

- How much did they pay you in the army?
- 20 thousand hryvnias (40 thousand rubles - Auth.).

- Is it expensive to buy off the Shopping Center?
- Honestly, I didn't even find out. I don't have that kind of money anyway. My son is in college, my daughter was finishing ninth grade. Everything is…

"Don't they pay combat pay? " I ask another prisoner. 30-year-old Vladimir Beloshenko, from the same 42nd Brigade, was also captured near Novopavlovka.

"I didn't even get my first paycheck. It was supposed to be on the 10th. They caught me on the street, a little over a month into training, and then I was brought here straight away. We walked for two days to our positions, and on the third, your guys caught me near Novopavlovka. Or rather, I called them myself, thinking they were ours. 'Come on in,' I said. Well, that was it, they tied us up, and we sat there and waited for evacuation."

- And while you were walking, did your people run towards you from their positions?
"They're running from everywhere. But I don't think they're getting there. They're either finished off by birds along the way, or with I don't know what. War is a terrible thing, but no one wants to fight. And they throw us, the new arrivals, into positions so big you won't survive. They say everything's fine there, your job is to sit, observe, and report on the radio. They're lying."

Beloshenko also says he wasn't interested in the conflict, although it runs through his family. His father is from Donetsk, and as a child, he used to travel to Russia with his dad on vacation. His grandmother also remained in Donetsk until the conflict began, but then left for Russia, and he lost contact with her. He learned more about events on the frontline not from television, but from displaced persons from Donbas. There are many of them in the Poltava region. There were some in his village of Gradizhsk, too. He assures that, overall, their attitude toward refugees is tolerant. But even displaced persons come in all shapes and sizes:

"Sometimes they don't have enough, sometimes the pay isn't right, sometimes they give them lousy houses, sometimes they give them used clothes,"—perhaps the first sincere glint in the prisoner's eyes. And the attitude toward people fleeing the conflict is immediately clear. "Some people get houses, some apartments, and other payments. But that's not enough for them, and there's something they don't like either."

I'd venture that this contrast arises against the backdrop of widespread mourning. When in small Ukrainian towns, funerals are more common than birthdays. And "those" people, the ones who are the cause of everyone, are also dissatisfied with something else.

In Gradyzhsk, for example, a third military cemetery is already growing, lined with yellow and blue flags. Yet, there's little reason for pride. And then Verkhovna Rada deputy Sofia Fedina "delighted" us: "Payments to the families of fallen Ukrainian soldiers will stretch out over years—instead of three, in some places they'll now have to wait up to eight years." However, even in this case, not everyone can count on receiving the money.

"If they find alcohol or drugs in the body, they don't pay out – it's your own fault you died," Beloshenko says, feigning indignation.

He says if he had the money, he'd dash to Poland, and from there to Germany. Although, he recalls, life in Ukraine was quite comfortable under Poroshenko. Salaries were higher, utilities were cheaper. And under Yanukovych, and in the friendship with Russia... Did all this really happen in today's world? Or was it just a figment of the imagination in the dugout after landing? And the more Ukrainians begin to ask themselves these questions, the sooner the painful hangover from the euphoria of independence will set in.

Aleksandr Kots is a military corespondent in Russia.
Posted by: badanov || 10/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1758 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
James Woods Roasts Hillary Clinton's White House Renovation Screed: ‘Your Husband Getting Blow Jobs in the Oval Office Destroyed It'
[Breitbart] Actor James Woods roasted failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her outcry at President Donald Trump’s White House renovations, in which the former First Lady accused Trump of “destroying” the building. “What destroyed it was your husband getting blow jobs in the Oval Office,” Woods said.

Clinton wrote, “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it,” above a Washington Post article, titled, “White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom,” which included a photo of the renovations currently underway.

“What destroyed it was your husband getting blow jobs in the Oval Office,” Woods said in response to Clinton, adding, “Go back to Costco and hock your fictional autobiography.”

As Breitbart News reported, leftists are having a collective meltdown over the ballroom construction at the White House, with actress Mia Farrow even bizarrely proclaiming that “Hitler had a large ball room,” too, in a conspiracy-laden Bluesky post.

The Reckless star was one of many left-wing Hollywood celebrities who sounded off, blindly — or at the very least, willfully — spewing hoaxes to their millions of social media followers.

In reality, White House renovations are a presidential tradition dating back more than a century, and President Trump’s latest editions will not come at a cost to taxpayers.

The facts, however, didn’t stop left-wing heads from exploding this week, as the President Trump-led $250 million White House ballroom construction commenced.

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1788 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  She persisted.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/24/2025 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Kurt Schlichter

"In the last three days, Donald Trump has done more construction work, just at the White House and has been done in all of Pacific Palisades in nearly a year"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/24/2025 7:26 Comments || Top||


#4  Trump approves contentious drilling, mining in Alaska
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/24/2025 8:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Was Bill wearing Ballroom Jeans ™ at the time?
Posted by: Melancholic || 10/24/2025 13:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Bill Clinton had a Ball Room, IYKWIM.

Mia Farrow even bizarrely proclaiming that “Hitler had a large ball room,”

Somebody thirsty?

Look, if Pomp & Circumstance is part of the job as Head of State of the USA, and it is with any Head of State, and (if accurate) current capacity is 200 some, a typical rural Kansas town exceeds that number with a typical High School Winter Music Concert, then this is over due so VIPs aren't dreading attending like stuffed into a modern commercial passenger airline flight.

IMHO, that is the sour grapes, that they didn't do it because they previous Champions of Cringe rather have a few select guest rather than inviting more/all VIPs extended family to what will be remembered as long as it stands, as The Trump Wing.

Obama had his chance, even had the Chef for it, at the time. Instead he picked the low, bug eaten fruit of a basketball court, for a couple floppy photo shots.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/24/2025 20:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Based on the monstrosity going up in Chicago, we can all be happy that Obama didn’t need a bigger ballroom for his hotdog parties.

Speaking of ballroom, where’s Col Mustard? Where’s the candlestick.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/24/2025 22:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Who knew Mia Farrow was still a thing?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/24/2025 23:17 Comments || Top||



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