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Then I Guess We Need a White-In Candidate

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A Whiter Shade of Beyond-the-Pale?

Zohran Mamdani Proposes Taxing ‘Whiter Neighborhoods’ in NYC
Newsweek | June 27, 2025

New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has said he wants to “shift the tax burden” to “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if he secures election in November.

A housing policy document on Mamdani’s official website includes a pledge to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”

Newsweek contacted the Mamdani campaign for comment via email on Friday outside of regular office hours. [[[ How convenient. Could have waited until they were open, Newsweek. ]]]

Mamdani’s proposal has already sparked a backlash with one conservative commentator branding him racist …

Make that two.

What About the Exact Opposite?

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Your brain physically changes when you work too much, scientists warn
Fox News | June 16, 2025 | Angelica Stabile

New research has found that being overworked can physically alter the brain.

… there could be potential risks of prolonged or chronic alterations.

This could include neural strain, inflammation or maladaptive reorganization.

They just described a typical moment at IMAO.

Quantum Etc., Etc., Etc. Q-Day!

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Why every VPN should use post-quantum encryption
tomsguide.com | June 18, 2024 | Olivia Powell

And why every bleeding week IMAO gets bleeding hacked. We’re don’t have a post-quantum encryption keeper!

At the moment, a virtual private network (VPN) is a great way to protect your data from hackers. It offers sophisticated encryption that will keep your data hidden from third parties, including cyber criminals, government bodies, and advertisers.

However, not even all the best VPNs offer protection that’s future-proofed. You may not be aware of them yet, but there are already highly sophisticated quantum computers that use quantum physics to render their computations significantly more efficient than those performed by classical computers. Because of their superior processing power, these quantum computers have the ability to break encryption methods used to protect most of the data on the internet, including the algorithms used by a lot of VPNs.

There’s no need to panic just yet, as quantum computers are currently only being used for research purposes, meaning they can only be found in universities, science labs, and supercomputer centers. But once they become more widely available and powerful enough to break encryption, there will be catastrophic consequences for cyber security across the globe. This day is referred to as Q-day and experts predict it’s likely to happen in the next five years.

Wait. So today could be Q-Day? Or is it virtual Q-Day?

“Entanglement” and Q-Tips . . . sounds like we’re reverting to barber-ism.

McFlintlock!

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MRS. MCFLINTLOCK: How long was G.W.B. gonna let that chee-chalker push him around?

JOE BIDEN: That chee-chalker has a sawed-off shotgun. And . . . well, anyway.

DJT {to Mullahs}: Well, that’s not important right now. Important thing is that you don’t draw that hog leg, or this’ll be worse than D.O.G.E. City on Saturday night.

NANCY PELOSI: But MAGA.

NETANYAHU: You get on back on the wagon. I’ll tend to you later. Now for this Iranian wipipo-sniper.

PUTIN: Now, no harm has been done. And young Ben here is one of the nicest boys in the territory. So just put down that shotgun . . .

IRAN: I’ll teach him to fool with my . . .

DJT: Now, we’ll all calm down.

EUROPE: Boss, he’s just a little excited.

DJT: I know, I know. I’m gonna use good judgment. I haven’t lost my temper in 40 years. But pilgrim, you’ve caused a lot of trouble this morning, might’ve got somebody killed, and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won’t. I won’t. The hell I won’t!

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INDIAN: [Unintelligible] Great party, but no whiskey. We go home.

MRS. MCFLINTLOCK: You and your friends.

DJT: Well, we at least saved your hat.

MSM: Where is everybody? Oh, for heaven’s sake.

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WTHeck?

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Sometimes I have to read a headline twice.

This Is the Reason People Keep Putting Jalapeños in Rosé and Sauvignon Blanc
Taste of Home | 5/16/25 | Mandy Naglich

Because the wine has made them drunk and/or blind?

Or because some trend told them to?

“Next, let’s put whipped cream in there.”

“How about Japanese sweet potatoes in your whiskey?”

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Wait: THAT’s the Name of Michelle’s Podcast?

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Michelle Obama on being ‘glad’ she didn’t have a son: ‘He would’ve been a Barack Obama’
The Hill | 6/19/25 | Judy Kurtz

Michelle Obama says she’s “so glad” she never had a son — because he would’ve been a kiddie clone of her husband.

“You should’ve threw a boy in the mix,” radio host Angie Martinez told Obama in an episode of the former first lady’s “IMO” podcast released Wednesday.

You just know she wanted to throw an “A” in there before the “O.”

Way to go, Frnak!

Let’s just hope no one gets the two sites confused.