As a connoisseur of racism, I have found no greater joy than discovering other language realms on X where they are truly light years ahead. Behold the great meme war between the Turks 🇹🇷 and Chinese 🇨🇳 which has been brewing now for 3 days! It began with a small Turkish account posting a meme of a cat wearing a straw hat + slitty eyes + wispy moustache. A Chinese user then replied with a meme of Patrick Star from SpongeBob parachuting next to the Turkish flag, with a caption along the lines of “I heard the Turkish flag was designed like this, is that true? Both were from small anonymous accounts but now has been viewed by several millions. Turks took it as mockery of a national symbol and all hell breaks lose. The broader historical and cultural pile-on on both sides were equally impressive in its deep knowledge of Ottoman / Chinese history, along with very creative vulgarity. I read one Chinese tweet calling Turkey the fleshlight of the entire world. Both sides insulted each other as “might as well be Indians.” Then it got super testy when it ventured into Turkestan/Xinjiang/Uyghur territory, and soon out came digs about the Turkish lira, China virus and other general nationalist trash talk. The next stage was the free speech Olympics. Turks started posting images of Xi Jinping and daring Chinese users to criticize him to prove that China is “free.” Chinese replies often flipped it to “you criticize Xi but none of you dare criticize Muhammad.” When no Chinese account could criticize Xi, the Turks concluded they were all bots. The latest stage has been the international expansion. Japan + Taiwan + Azerbaijan + Spain lined up with Turks against China. Japanese accounts were the most visible contingent. Taiwan joined the Turkish side for obvious reasons. Azerbaijan was in Turkic solidarity mode. South Korea and Spain too for reasons which are not clear to me. Iran + Greece + India + Egypt joined up with the Chinese against Turkey. I saw an Iranian account openly telling the Chinese to keep going and “discipline the Turks” because the Ottoman/Persian rivalry runs deep still. Greece obviously went against the Turks and as for India, who knows. Could’ve gone either way but they chose the Chinese. The whole thing, while viscous and passionate at times, has strangely left me with the warm fuzzies. Imagine how much more boring life would’ve been without @X’s auto-translate feature

This is proof nobody with real money is solving real problems:

NIHGate: Why are we funding an NIH asst director who trolls vax injured? How a photo with Russell Brand exposed an NIH Assistant Director who targets MAGA, people reporting vaccine injuries, and public health skeptics @rustyrockets brokentruth.tv/p/nihgate-why…

HOLY SH*T @City_of_Ottumwa in Iowa opened up their most recent city council meeting with a prayer to SATAN. "Let us pray. Dear dark father... HAIL SATAN" WTF is wrong with these people???

Social media can change the world and put an independent in office. Great Q&A at RCOBA in Volusia county Saturday. Vote Russo | Rodriguez for Florida Gov on Nov 3.

Even cat food in America is poison New Lab Test Investigation into cat food sold in America tested 62 brands, covering 100 products and found: - 99% contained lead - 94% contained arsenic - 96% contained cadmium - Dry food had about 3c the lead of wet or air-dried food - Fish and seafood formulas had about 18x the mercury of other dry foods - Fish and seafood formulas had about 28x among wet foods only - Nearly half of fish products ranked in the high-mercury group. No poultry product did - Fish formulas also had about 2.5x the cadmium - Glyphosate (weed killer) was detected in 37% of products - The plasticizer DEHP was found in 48 of 100 products, canned and pouched products had about 5x as much as bagged products List of brands that were tested: • Purina (Cat Chow, Friskies, One, Pro Plan, Fancy Feast) • Acana • American Journey • Applaws • BIXBI (Liberty and Rawbble) • Blue Buffalo (Tastefuls and Wilderness) • Boss Cat • Carna4 • Chicken Soup for the Soul • Diamond Naturals • Dr. Marty’s (Nature’s Feast) • Fancy Feast (Purina) • Fresh is Best • Freshpet • Friskies (Purina) • Fromm • Fussie Cat • Go! Solutions • Grandma Lucy’s • Green Juju • Hill’s Science Diet • The Honest Kitchen • I and Love and You • Iams • Instinct • Kirkland Signature • McLovin’s • Merrick • Meow Mix • Natural & Delicious (N&D) • Natural Pet Food Group • Nature’s Advantage • Nulo • Nutrish • Open Farm • Optimal • Orijen • PawTree • Primal • Purpose • Quest (Go Raw) • Redbarn • Reveal • Royal Canin • Sheba • Smallbatch • Smalls • The Simple Food Project • Solid Gold • Special Kitty (Walmart) • Stella & Chewy’s • Tiki Cat • Vital Essentials • Wellness • Weruva • Whole Hearted • Whole Life • Ziwi Peak Lab testing was done by The Clean Label Project, a Colorado nonprofit that tests consumer products and sells a purity certification

Florida families deserve to know where their insurance dollars are going. Insurers reported $432M in losses while paying $1.3 BILLION to affiliates. It’s time to open the books, follow the money and elect an Insurance Commissioner who answers to Floridians - not the industry.