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Patrick says

That's what I use to play the tunes I ripped with EAC (also free/postcardware).

Men will do these things - give millions of people useful tools for free. I'm 100% sure that the person who discovered how to make fire was a man.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/eternal-peace-tuesday-september-30

Yesterday, lawyers for President Trump and Google (YouTube’s owner) filed a joint notice of settlement in federal court. YouTube will pay President Trump $24.5 million as compensation for suspending his account after January 6th, 2021.

The agreement requires YouTube to pay $22 million to Trump’s Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit supporting national renewal projects like the planned White House State Ballroom, and another $2.5 million to conservative organizations like the American Conservative Union.

It is just the latest in a string of settlements from media companies. So far this year, Meta/Facebook stroked a check for $25 million, and Twitter/X coughed up $10 million. That’s on top of settlements from ABC ($15 million) and 60 Minutes ($16 million). It amounts to nearly $100 million total.

So far.

Yesterday, Trump announced the latest settlement with Google on Truth Social, saying, “This MASSIVE victory proves Big Tech censorship has consequences.”

In related news, last week YouTube announced it would reinstate all accounts that were banned for violating pandemic-era rules meant to curb “misinformation,” including 2020 “election denialism.” In its announcement, YouTube grudgingly conceded, “we value conservative voices on our platform and recognize that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.”

Now they tell us.

You and I might not be getting $25 million, but still. We’re getting payback. It took four years, but the media companies are finally paying real money for allowing the Biden Administration to pressure them into censoring Americans. It’s some justice.

Bacon in the Koran in a library in Sweden:

https://x.com/PerryALPHA/status/1973189248770777353

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossways-tuesday-october-7-2025

Watch out! Florida is literally erasing gay people. Yesterday, ABC ran a terrific story headlined, “Florida removes Miami Beach rainbow crosswalk after city loses appeal.” For decades, LGBTQ+ and furries enjoyed a privileged position as a political advocacy group that got its own rainbow-colored zones on municipal property. No longer.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1975288366188118457

LGBTQ crosswalk in Miami Beach torn up by Florida DOT



Earlier this summer, Florida’s DOT ordered all “street art” removed throughout the state, under threat of canceled state transportation funding. The rainbow crosswalks were the first —but not the only ones— to go. My far-left town, which locals affectionately call “pothole city,” immediately caved in:

Gainesville to remove rainbow
crosswalks after FDOT threatens
funding cuts
Elliot Tritto
Gainesville Sun
Aug. 8, 2025

But the City of Miami sued to keep its treasured homosexual icons. Two days ago, it lost its appeal. Yesterday, in a spasm of uncharacteristic speed, the city angrily scraped up the gayly colored crosswalk bricks. Miami vows to recycle them for some better, future purpose. Good luck.

Lest you feel any discomfort at the Sunshine State’s war on color, gay Floridians can still paint their own private property in six or even sixteen colors if they want. There’s no legitimate argument why that particularly homogenous political group should enjoy unique access to government property that should be politically neutral.

It’s not fair to other groups.

For instance, why doesn’t the National Society for Preservation of Lawn Ornaments have its own decorated crosswalks? The Libertarian Cat Owners Caucus should get leash-free roundabouts. And what about the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Asphalt? Shouldn’t they get silicone-based expressways? Et cetera and so on.

In any case, please accept my sympathies if you live in a backwards state where people are still being prosecuted for hate crimes for burning rubber on rainbow crosswalks. Florida is once again, as she did during covid, leading the nation back to sanity.

https://www.wabe.org/4-arrested-after-pride-flags-vandalized-at-atlanta-gay-bar-blakes-on-the-park/
June 24th, 2025

Patrick says

Water evaporates and or rises (rain). He must have a pipe to the canal to equalize it.

Looks like England, too. Based on the canal boat shown.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrowboat

Should avoid land property tax, but if he lists the boat as "out of service" maybe avoid that tax too.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/soaring-hope-monday-october-13-2025

Last night, the Highwire and Del Bigtree debuted their new vaccine documentary An Inconvenient Study at the Malibu Film Festival. It won best in show.

https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com/

https://x.com/HighWireTalk/status/1964164743305756994

In the shadows of a medical establishment desperate to maintain its ironclad grip on public trust, “An Inconvenient Study” emerges as a blazing torch of truth, directed by the indomitable Del Bigtree. This gripping documentary unearths the explosive 2016 Henry Ford Health pro-vaccine study— a clandestine comparison of health outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated children, originally commissioned to silence skeptics but buried when its findings threatened the sacred vaccine dogma.

Through riveting interviews, unearthed documents, and heart-wrenching testimonies, the film exposes a web of suppression, where corporate interests and institutional cowardice eclipse the pursuit of genuine science, empowering viewers to reclaim their medical sovereignty and demand transparency in an era of coerced compliance.

It remains to be seen whether this extremely well-produced documentary can move the needle, but if anything has a chance to do it this year, this film is that chance. Please download, watch, and share it with others.

Not sure that would really work.

https://x.com/NewRightPoast/status/1979197212669153372

"No enemies to the right" doesn't mean you can't gatekeep or tone police your own, it simply means you DON'T TATTLE on them to adversarial media, giving your enemies leverage to hurt you.

Imagine a large business. Leaders have competing visions all the time. It's constant simmering warfare between executives hoping to expand their fiefdom within the org and align the business' goals with their particular vision for its future.

What they don't do (typically) is air their rivals' dirty laundry to competing firms or the public. Because they understand that doing so would be an own-goal.

It does absolutely NO GOOD for anyone to expose this stuff to the public, there's NO EXCUSE for it. There is no group of "normies" out there who will think, "Wow, I can see that the Republicans are keeping their house in order. Good for them. Maybe I'll vote Republican this year." No, this leak was a gift to the Left and nothing more.

This mass of normies you're worried about is a fantasy, it's the fear and timidity that lives inside your head, and there's a reason that the people who voice these optics concerns seem to be former libs or people who travel in lib society. They're still worried about what their former friends (the ones who've already disowned them) will think.

You don't have to think what those guys said was good. You don't even have to think that the Young Republicans should allow it to continue. You just need to have the courage to STOP LISTENING TO THE NAGGING LIBTARD WITHIN.

If someone at a cool party confronts you and says "What about 'I love Hitler' huh? Do you disavow?" the proper response is to pull up that picture of Iryna Zarutska cowering before her murderer on your phone and say "Fuck you."

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/your-momma-saturday-october-18-2025

Perhaps the best development of all is the Administration’s growing embrace of the Coffee & Covid ethos, which we’ve all held to from the beginning of our long night of trouble: optimism, humor, and zero deference to institutional authority. ...

The Administration announced the next Proxy War meeting with Russian President Putin, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary (instead of Alaska like last time). A nasty HuffPo reporter tried to score points off White House Spokesbabe Karoline Leavitt, insinuating that President Trump was taking orders from Putin or something similarly deranged. This delightful exchange ensued:

HUFFPO: Who picked Budapest?

PRESS SECRETARY: Your mother.

On the way home, the scalded reporter thought up a comeback and texted it to the Press Secretary. It didn’t go well either.

HUFFPO: Do you think that was funny?

PRESS SECRETARY: It’s funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journalist. You are a far-left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don’t tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and bullshit questions.

Priceless.

But that wasn’t all! Leavitt was just the warm-up act. Yesterday, every major federal agency invaded —not Venezuela— but the progressive sanctuary of BlueSky. Progressives’ official safe space is officially no longer safe. Commence triggering. It even made the Associated Press, in a story headlined, “White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents.”

Nearly every post from every agency was some kind of a troll post. For example, Homeland Security’s first BlueSky post was a polite invitation to help:




If this next DHS post doesn’t make you laugh out loud, and if you don’t watch it over and over on loop, I’ll have to take a vacation to reconsider my editorial instincts:

https://bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.bsky.social/post/3m3g7vwkokk2i

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/maine-school-nurses-push-back-vaccine-reporting-system-docket-for-schools

Seventy school nurses across Maine are challenging the state’s new vaccine reporting system, saying it adds to their workload, shares student records with a third party without consent and could breach student privacy.

Docket for Schools is an electronic system that allows “school nurses, administrators and public health stakeholders” to input and update all students’ vaccination records.

The nurses said the system raises concerns about overreach and unnecessary exposure of student vaccination data, and burdens nurses with additional “time-consuming administrative tasks,” according to an excerpt of the letter published by the Press Herald.

The nurses also said that “parents didn’t give informed consent to have detailed personal information … uploaded to a third-party platform,” the Press Herald reported.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/reality-v-garbage

The Open A-I company’s Chat GPT, Google’s Gemini and Bard A-Is, and Facebook’s Meta A-I are all trained-up to be politically Woke-to-the-max, meaning on any given issue in the public arena their output is one patent absurdity or another. Note: last April, conservative activist Robby Starbuck sued Facebook when its chatbot reported out falsely that he had been on-the-scene for the Jan 6, 2021 US Capitol protest (he was in Tennessee that day). Facebook’s parent company, Meta, settled the case with Starbuck in August, 2025, for undisclosed terms and the company apologized publicly.

Two days ago, Mr. Starbuck sued Google for defamation (with malice and negligence) when it’s Bard A-I output alleged that he was a “child rapist,” a “serial sexual abuser,” that he abused and stalked his ex-wife (Starbuck states in his lawsuit that he has no ex-wife). It accused him further of fraud, embezzlement, drug charges, stalking business partners, and being a “shooter” or “person of interest” in a 1991 murder case (Starbuck was two years old at the time), of appearing in Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs (untrue), working as a porn actor, and voicing support for the Ku Klux Klan.

The A-I cited non-existent news articles from outlets such as Newsweek, The New York Post, Rolling Stone, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, and Salon, along with fake URLs and headlines (e.g., “Robby Starbuck Responds to Murder Accusations”). Starbuck demonstrated this in a podcast episode on October 22–23, 2025, where he queried the A-I live.

A few months back, there was a reporting site for jobs that had to be advertised before opened up to foreigners.

This kind of stuff would go a long way.

We also need some changes, companies must record American citizen applicants, and after rejecting 5, must then write a 1000 word essay for each of the rest they rejected, notarized, specifically identifying the reasons for not hiring them. If they do hire a foreigner, they must detail in 10,000 words and have notarized under penalty of personal perjury by a C-suite officer that the hire did not have any of the disqualifying reasons they disqualified all the essays they disqualified an American.

Penalize them with expense and Paperwork.

Another one is that advertisements for jobs have to made in a NATIONAL website available to the public in English, like Dice or Monster.

Not the Laotian Weekly of Osh Kosh, or the Tagalog weekly in Sacramento.

https://x.com/pippaisright/status/1982385475064115700

https://nitter.poast.org/realchrisrufo/status/1984287275581362492#m

https://pagesix.com/2025/11/03/entertainment/outraged-whoopi-goldberg-rips-up-legal-note-on-the-view-after-baseless-trump-claim/

Whoopi Goldberg ripped up a legal correction from production staff after making an autopen “joke” about President Trump on “The View.”

Goldberg had been discussing Trump’s appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes” with her co-stars on Monday’s episode of the ABC talk show before her outrage ensued.

Sunny Hostin brought up how Trump said during the sit-down that he didn’t know anything about Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s pardon — even though he pardoned the convicted crypto billionaire last month.

“The Trump family has made about $1.8 billion, profited off of this government and he said that Joe Biden didn’t know who he was pardoning using an autopen,” Hostin said, referring to how Biden’s staffers used an autopen to sign several pardons during the last moments of his presidency.

“How come you don’t know who this guy is?” Hostin asked of Trump, prompting Goldberg to chime in with a joke, “Because he used an autopen.”

An autopen is a machine that replicates a person’s signature using a pen or pencil attached to a mechanical arm. The device is used to sign documents in bulk.

The co-hosts moved on from the topic and were on a new conversation when Hostin was seen sliding a piece of paper over to Goldberg for her to read.

“What the hell? What?” Goldberg said with surprise before reading the note aloud. “We don’t know if Trump used an autopen to pardon.”

Goldberg, 69, angrily shouted, “It was a joke!” before ripping the note to shreds.

Not just a joke, maybe legally actionable.

Booger says

A fire destroyed a newly constructed mosque in Piera, a municipality near Barcelona, Spain, on July 12, 2025, just days before its scheduled inauguration.

Local police reported finding traces of an accelerant inside the building, indicating the fire was deliberately set.

The incident sparked condemnation from Spain’s Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (FEERI) and other Muslim organizations, who described it as a "cowardly attack" aimed at fracturing social cohesion.

However, a video widely shared online claiming to show the Barcelona mosque fire actually depicts a fire at the Jakarta Islamic Centre Grand Mosque in Indonesia, which occurred in October 2022 during renovation work.

Reverse image searches and fact-checking by multiple organizations confirm the footage is from Indonesia and not related to the 2025 Barcelona fire.

The real threat to social cohesion is allowing Islam back into Spain after to many centuries.

Patrick says

The real threat to social cohesion is allowing Islam back into Spain after to many centuries.

The Iberian Crusade lasted over 700 years, from the initial muslim conquest in 711, to the defeat of Granada in 1492.

https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Reconquista/

It took only two generations to largely undo it.

You have the absolute right to immediately kill anyone who breaks into your house.

Perhaps it should even be a sacred obligation, helping to make the country safer by:

1. deterring future break-ins
2. actively eliminating criminals so that they cannot repeat the crime under Democratic lawlessness

From my platform thread:

Patrick says

Pass castle doctrine laws in every state, so that if someone breaks in to your house, the fault becomes entirely his own if you injure or kill him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/1owye6f/feels_good_to_tear_these_lousy_things_down_around/

Thread in Baltimore reddit about people taking down "We Buy Houses" signs.