<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[BlameCast: TonSil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Expanded comments from TonSil's posts on Not The Bee]]></description><link>https://www.blamecast.com/s/tonsil</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jCrS!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F245c874a-7b13-47be-a782-7d57987173ce_372x372.png</url><title>BlameCast: TonSil</title><link>https://www.blamecast.com/s/tonsil</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:15:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.blamecast.com/feed" rel="self" 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Silva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:30:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!61i5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92e3f0a0-348a-4bc8-a63f-7a3586fe78b0_1024x608.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!61i5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92e3f0a0-348a-4bc8-a63f-7a3586fe78b0_1024x608.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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for reading BlameCast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Yes, you read that right: &#8220;SeX is in the air.&#8221; &#8212; or at least &#8220;ON the air&#8221;.</p><p>The obscure, Alviso-based Musk venture &#8220;Sensory X&#8221;&#8212;affectionately (and somewhat questionably) branded as &#8220;SeX&#8221;&#8212;has launched a release candidate of its satellite-delivered scent-broadcasting technology. The beta offering currently features just three fragrances, but each one packs more punch than a congressional ethics hearing.</p><p> "Gwen" is a scent inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s Goop empire, this fragrance reportedly blends notes of jasmine, moonlight, and whatever a $75 candle smells like after being lit in a meditation yurt.</p><p>Another fragrance, "Jerry" is based, and we quote, on the "actual aroma of Congressman Jerry Nadler (D&#8211;New York)," this one is said to carry undertones of musty subway upholstery, political gridlock, and brisket. Lots of brisket.</p><p>Finally, users can get a taste  "Gwen &amp; Jerry&#8221;&#8211; For the adventurous olfactory thrill-seeker, this mashup combines the earthy sensuality of Gwen with the raw legislative funk of Jerry, all wrapped up in a vaguely ice-cream-themed top note. It's Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s meets&#8230; well, train wreck.</p><p>Though still in beta, these scents are already accessible to anyone with a Starlink subscription or the new &#8220;Starlink for Phone&#8221; service, a move that raised eyebrows&#8212;and nostrils. Eligible customers should receive a text opening the test on Tuesday, April 1st.</p><p>Former Congressman and full-time fabulist George Santos chimed in, saying, &#8220;I can&#8217;t speak to Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s scent, but Musk really nailed Nadler.&#8221; Santos, of course, once famously declared Nadler the "smelliest person in Congress," a claim that finally appears to have a delivery mechanism.</p><p>According to a product manager at Sensory X (who asked to remain anonymous but smelled faintly of both cedar and embarrassment), SeX will roll out fully within the next year as an opt-in feature for Starlink subscribers. A surcharge will apply, because if you&#8217;re smelling Congress, you should definitely be paying for it.</p><p>But the nose knows no bounds: while the current release candidate is only available through the Starlink satellite system, engineers are reportedly developing a Sensory X add-on for Musk&#8217;s social platform X, which could enable users to &#8220;sniff the vibe&#8221; of tweets in real time.</p><p>Imagine scrolling your timeline and catching a whiff of desperation, Axe body spray, or day-old avocado toast&#8212;now made possible by the same guy who brought you flamethrowers, space internet, and lawsuits.</p><p>So whether you're a scent connoisseur, a tech enthusiast, or just someone with more curiosity than common sense, one thing is clear: &#8220;Elon Musk is determined to make your digital life smell just as weird as your real one.&#8221;</p><h5>Drop a comment below:</h5><p>Which SeX scent are &#8220;you&#8221; brave enough to try first&#8212;Gwen, Jerry, or the forbidden cocktail of Gwen &amp; Jerry? Or should Elon stop sniffing around and go back to rockets?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.blamecast.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading BlameCast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moloch Has Not Endorsed Harris]]></title><description><![CDATA[DNC may tip his hand]]></description><link>https://www.blamecast.com/p/moloch-has-not-endorsed-harris</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.blamecast.com/p/moloch-has-not-endorsed-harris</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Silva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:10:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cE2K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F121d759d-29b4-404e-9de1-4dd227b79081_1152x640.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cE2K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F121d759d-29b4-404e-9de1-4dd227b79081_1152x640.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cE2K!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F121d759d-29b4-404e-9de1-4dd227b79081_1152x640.jpeg 424w, 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Pro-life activists are expressing growing dismay at Donald Trump&#8217;s recent pro-abortion stance after he posted a commitment to the pro-choice community that he will be a great president for women&#8217;s &#8220;reproductive rights.&#8221;  Moloch has been mulling an unprecedented endorsement of a GOP candidate. &#8220;We came close to an endorsement of Republican Mitt Romney in hopes of driving the GOP further toward the Ritual but our temporal agency, Planned Parenthood was prospering under his Democrat opponent,&#8221; a Moloch spokesdemon explained.</p><p>The spokesdemon said the recently concluded Democratic National Convention may have tipped Moloch&#8217;s hand in favor of Kamala Harris thanks to the party&#8217;s active displays in favor of child sacrifice &#8212; including parades of Democratic delegates dressed as abortion pills and a mobile child extermination clinic. More than that, Harris&#8217; refusal to support any limitation to abortion and her party&#8217;s commitment to certain perinatal abortions outweigh the Republicans&#8217; abandoning pro-life language in their platform and having the most pro-abortion presidential candidate since Romney.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.blamecast.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading BlameCast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Chat GPT weighed in with a possible reason for Moloch to hold off on a presidential endorsement: &#8220;You could imagine Moloch's endorsement being used metaphorically to highlight the intense, sometimes ruthless nature of political ambition and the sacrifices made in the pursuit of power,&#8221; the AI chatbot explained. &#8220;It would certainly stir a lot of conversation and likely be interpreted as a commentary on the high cost of political leadership rather than a literal endorsement.&#8221; Ultimately, the purpose of an endorsement would not be to support the candidate herself, but to potentially extend the increase in child sacrifices for up to sixteen years. &#8220;The best we could hope for under Trump is four years,&#8221; the spokesdemon said, &#8220;J.D. Vance is not likely to carry that particular torch for us.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><p></p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Portions of this satirical article and the accompanying graphic were generated by AI</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking a Whiz in the Jury Pool]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Fani Willis got away with jury tampering]]></description><link>https://www.blamecast.com/p/taking-a-whiz-in-the-jury-pool</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.blamecast.com/p/taking-a-whiz-in-the-jury-pool</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Silva]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:49:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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Can we be honest here? The judge has just aided the prosecution in the most egregious jury tampering exercise since the Jim Crow days. Ironic, isn&#8217;t it.</p><p>The question I would ask is &#8220;how would accusing all of the defendants &#8212; and their attorneys &#8212; of racism where a jury pool that will be nearly 100% black and 100% Democrat <em>not</em> prevent empaneling a fair and impartial jury?&#8221; Many commentators, including myself have tried to unravel McAfee&#8217;s motive for his ruling. Some have speculated that his upcoming election is at stake now that the Democrats have fielded an opponent. Job security. That is not likely his motive. A Republican appointed to fill a vacancy, McAfee must now &#8220;earn&#8221; his bench. However, by mustering the courage to get to a just and obvious ruling, he would find himself in good standing to get an appointment to a circuit court or some other high profile position in the next Republican administration. Not to mention book deals, movie rights, etc. Instead, he seemed to wee in the jury pool, both by justifying Willis and Wade&#8217;s behavior, perjury and in the case of Willis herself, jury tampering.</p><p>The judge could not be ignorant of the racial dynamic in Fulton County. In a case where finding a jury that does not already hate the primary defendant in what will be an ugly election season is all but impossible, tossing out charges of racism is Ms. Willis&#8217; insurance policy. One can guarantee that Trump will be convicted, even if the outcome is reversed on appeal. If I were Trump&#8217;s campaign advisor, I&#8217;d suggest he work with the same conservative black leaders he spoke with a few weeks ago to craft a policy agenda for our decaying cities, including Atlanta. He could then take his case to these communities in hopes of influencing opinion for the election, and potentially manage to get at least one objective juror.</p><h3>How Ms. Willis Saved Her Fanny</h3><p>If a race hustler can toss out the race card and make the accusation stick, they can get their way in virtually any contest or dispute. But racial politics dirties up more than just the target (Trump and his codefendants&#8230; and their legal teams). Virtually any white person connected with the case can be collateral damage. In the case of the judge, his reputation and future opportunities would evaporate if he made a ruling favorable to the defendants. The damage would be multiplied if his ruling resulted in the case being dismissed or transferred to another county where a fair trial would at least be possible.</p><p>Ms. Willis, while lacking judgement and temperament to do a credible job as DA is not as dumb as her appearance in the hearings or her &#8220;church speech&#8221; made her look. The reality is she knew exactly who the target was &#8212; or at least who the people in the church and in the community at large would assume it was &#8212; Judge McAfee himself. If the defendants and their lawyers are presumed to be racist because they&#8217;re white and disagree with Willis&#8217; ethics (or lack of ethics), it&#8217;s only reasonable that the white judge who rules favorably on their motions to disqualify the District Attorney and dismiss the case is an even bigger racist.</p><h3>The Race Card Should be Burned</h3><p>This case is yet more anecdotal evidence that unfounded charges of racism are just as damaging to our justice system as the Jim Crow era &#8220;justice&#8221; system that made a fair trial nearly impossible for black defendants; it is a card that should be pulled from the deck and burned. But how can that be accomplished in the charged and divided climate in which we find ourselves? Perhaps laws that required the immediate dismissal of all charges when a prosecutor accuses the defendant of being a racist would be a start. Unless the charge specifically relates to a bias crime, race should never be discussed in the courtroom. Likewise, any prosecutor who makes such charges outside the courtroom should be immediately removed from active service and face a bar review.</p><p>What about defendants who make such claims? If the claim is made in a proper motion and it is based on the actions of a prosecutor or the court, he would be fine.  Otherwise, there should be a similar sanction for the defendant, so long as his constitutional rights are not violated.</p><p>In all cases where a person publicly charges another individual is a racist, it should be grounds for a special category of compensable slander or defamation. The person should be given 30 days to provide documentary evidence of the charge or face judgment and assignment of damages. My sense of outrage cries out that calling someone a racist without evidence should be considered a punishable hate crime. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t even believe in hate crimes, so such a demand would be self defeating. But at least I wouldn&#8217;t be relieving myself in someone else&#8217;s jury pool.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>