Tuesday Morning Links

by | Jul 5, 2022 | Daily Links | 389 comments

Starting now!

Wimbledon quarterfinals start here at about the same time you’ll be reading this. The Astros and Yankees are making a joke out of their respective divisions. Joey Chestnut showed his athleticism. And that’s it for sports during these dog days of summer.

I’m surprised it’s lasted this long. Wrought iron exposed like that isn’t gonna last forever.  I just hope when they do get around to an actual restoration, they don’t hire the same crews that did the Notre Dame.

Good! All they did is fill orders for the stuff. They didn’t place the orders or ingest the items. Nice try, ambulance-chasers.

What?

This is the best evidence of dementia I’ve seen yet. Because if this dumb bastard actually believes what he’s saying, his mind is a pile of mush.

Go Easy, man. They truly were the Greatest Generation…even though they spawned the Boomers.

So edgy.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Or alternate headline: PAY ATTENTION TO ME! Take your pick.

They need to get their shit together. Or just go out of business. Yeah, that’s it. They need to go out of “business”.

“Sure, we failed. But we need to continue with our failures so we can succeed.” Uh, hey dumbass, your stupidity helped turn your city into a shithole. Maybe sit this one out.

What a crazy-ass story this is. Plastic surgery, yoga, sex…and murder!

I remember when these guys were really good. Seems like it was four decades ago. Oh yeah, because it was. Anyway, enjoy the, at their best. Or hate on them. They deserve both.

Now get out there and have a great day, dear friends!

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389 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “And that’s it for sports during these dog days of summer.”

    We all saw that.

  2. AlexinCT

    They need to get their shit together. Or just go out of business. Yeah, that’s it. They need to go out of “business”.

    This sort of shit is what the people that wanted government healthcare should be reminded about…

    • Tonio

      UnIvErSaL hEaLtHcArE iS a HuMaN rIgHt!!1!

      • Count Potato

        Tonio, who do I write about an account issue?

      • Tonio

        WebDom (at) thisherewebsite (dot) com

        I’ll make sure she knows to BOTL for your message.

      • Tonio

        Also, what type of problems?

      • AlexinCT

        Has the potato fallen and he can’t get it up?

      • db

        Dry mouth, excessive twitching, swollen joints, agitated follicles, and static cling?

      • Grummun

        Do not take Glibertarians if you are allergic to Glibertarians. Possible side effects include attending Zoom calls in a drunken, semi-nude state, inflamed titty status, chronic narrowing of the eyes and gratuitous culinary argumentativeness. In rare cases, cryptid anal penetration cannot be ruled out.

      • juris imprudent

        Speaking of, CombatWolfFurry made a single appearance – I guess our immune system rejected another?

      • AlexinCT

        Had a few discussions with these types where I pointed out to the people saying healthcare is a human right, that through history we have had systems where people made other people work without pay or for drastically below market value wages, sometimes even considering them to be property, like the people that demand healthcare be a right they have, so they can avoid the fact it is expensive to pay people that have to be both smart and spend a shitton of time studying to be qualified and the required tech to make it all work, want to do….

    • straffinrun

      “ Americans should get used to “uncomfortable” postage rate increases in coming years as the U.S. Postal Service seeks to become self-sufficient, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in May.”

      Can’t compete unless you charge more? Isn’t that what Biden told gas stations not to do?

      • Tonio

        “seeks to become self-sufficient”

        LOL. Yeah, right. They’ve had years to do that and only survive because of their monopoly on first class letter mail, and subsidized bulk mail.

      • AlexinCT

        I remember reading a book or paper(s) a long time ago that made quite cogent claims that without competition, no existing system will ever feel compelled to innovate and/or improve, leaving them stagnated and inefficient/ineffective. Nature is brutal precisely because without the pressure of constant competition – the real life & death kind – life would quickly stagnate leaving the only option for change a giant space rock slamming into the surface of the planet to do a reset. This applies to all systems. The moment you become all Kumbaya, you are doomed to extinction.

      • pistoffnick

        -1 Spooner Mail Service

  3. AlexinCT

    “Sure, we failed. But we need to continue with our failures so we can succeed.” Uh, hey dumbass, your stupidity helped turn your city into a shithole. Maybe sit this one out.

    It is not an accident that every time one of the dumb marxist driven ideas the left is replete with goes wrong that their answer never is “We need to rethink this”, but that the failure came cause they didn’t prog-marxist hard enough. Throwing away $6 trillion caused massive inflation? Lets throw away $12 trillion cause that will fix it!

    • Rat on a train

      Throwing away $6 trillion caused massive inflation? Lets throw away $12 trillion cause that will fix it!
      Come on man. Inflation is increasing costs for people so giving them more money will help them fight inflation. Don’t forget to also raise the minimum wage.

  4. AlexinCT

    I remember when these guys were really good.

    I remember that a lot of people thought they were good….

    And I member when some TeeVee show called Bono out as a number two….

  5. straffinrun

    What exactly is a “reproductive right”?

    • UnCivilServant

      A euphemism for contraceptive murder.

    • AlexinCT

      Made up shit to hide the facts that something gruesome is being done?…

    • Tonio

      Abortion, primarily. But also lots of free stuff for non-aborting birthing persons.

      • straffinrun

        That should be called the “right not to reproduce”.

      • AlexinCT

        The right to fuck without those pesky consequences…

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

      • UnCivilServant

        To be fair, semantically, if you have a right to do something, it includes the right to not do that thing.

        That said, the most reliable way to nor reproduce is to not engage in sex.

      • straffinrun

        To be fair anally, that also works.

      • Tonio

        What you did there…

    • Rat on a train

      A “women’s health” issue?

      • Not Adahn

        “Person of pregnancy,” bigot!

      • Rat on a train

        person with a clump-of-cells

  6. AlexinCT

    What a crazy-ass story this is. Plastic surgery, yoga, sex…and murder!

    Bitch needed killing for fucking with her man!

  7. Count Potato

    “even though they spawned the Boomers”

    OK, maybe politically they suck balls, but were they that bad? Weren’t they the people that brought us computers, 70’s music, and played real football?

  8. Count Potato

    “They need to go out of “business”.”

    Isn’t the Post Office in the Constitution?

    • UnCivilServant

      One of the very few functions of government listed there.

    • sloopyinca

      Yes. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be put out of business through the amendment process.

      • UnCivilServant

        Good luck. I don’t think any amendments are passing anytime soon.

      • Count Potato

        Mail-in voting to eliminate the Post Office?

      • juris imprudent

        *ceremonially narrows gaze*

      • Rat on a train

        or a living constitution

  9. Brochettaward

    I always found the notion of a right to privacy to justify abortion rather comical. The same people who act as if that is sacrosanct with regards to abortions don’t bat an eye when the government bans some other medical procedure or when the FDA prevents new forms of treatment for a disease. One might also ask how banning a medical procedure is in itself any violation of any individual’s right to privacy from the government, particularly if no women are actually being punished for receiving the procedure.

    • AlexinCT

      The whole thing has never been logical or based on any serious logic or reasoning. It is some of the most insane bullshit cobbled together to lend something quite horrible a veneer of legitimacy. It’s only purpose was to give people that make poor decisions another out from having to face real life consequences of being idiots.

      • Rat on a train

        When the ends justify the means bullshit is an acceptable means. More’s devil and the law warning isn’t persuasive to such people.

    • Rat on a train

      Anything you do in private is constitutionally protected. Abortion, protected. Meth lab, protected. Rape dungeon, protected. Planning an insurrection, protected. It’s a basic constitutional principle.

      • straffinrun

        Anything to avoid calling it a clump of cells or a human. SCOTUS had no interest in actually adjudicating that.

      • Tonio

        Yeah, they also punted on pornography — they couldn’t define it, but they know it when they see it.

        But, in their defense, it’s a hell of a thing to define.

      • UnCivilServant

        I would go with “It was not explicitly excluded from freedom or speech and the press, and thus, even obscene speech is protected.”

        When in doubt, err in favor of the citizen’s freedom.

      • juris imprudent

        So, San Francisco as the model for the whole country. No infringing on the right to shit on the sidewalk or wave your dick at children.

      • straffinrun

        That downright perverted. What kind of creep shits on the sidewalk?

      • UnCivilServant

        Excreting on the sidewalk is easily an enforcable offense, especially since the shitters never clean up after themselves.

        The debate over public nudity is something to be argued, but is it really speech?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The debate over public nudity is something to be argued, but is it really speech?

        Public Nudity:Softcore Porn::Live Political Rally:State of the Union Address
        or ::Live Theater:Movie Theater

        It doesn’t strike me as changing in character just because it’s recorded on some medium rather than observed directly.

      • juris imprudent

        When in doubt, err in favor of the citizen’s freedom.

        Maximum individual freedom.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fuck that noise. You’ve convinced me.

        Totalitarian Theocracy is the way to go.

        I claim the title of God-Emperor.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ok Leto…

      • Pine_Tree

        There have always been other ways stuff like that might be disincentivized…

        To put it in a fairly benign/euphemistic way: The property owners and merchants in some areas might decide they’re OK with that. But would it fly in “the whole country”? Nah.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Fuck that noise. You’ve convinced me.

        Totalitarian Theocracy is the way to go.

        *strongly rolls eyes*

        Note that I didn’t even make an argument for or against labeling it as speech. I merely connected two concepts, one which you questioned whether it should be treated as speech with one that you clearly think should be treated as speech. Where you take it from there is up to you.

      • UnCivilServant

        Where I took it was “I want to be the one making the rules.” Because I can’t trust most people to get it right.

      • juris imprudent

        Totalitarian Theocracy is the way to go.

        Love the binary thinking.

      • UnCivilServant

        While I will be gratuitously corrupt, I will protect your freedoms better than the current institutions.

      • Not Adahn

        Bah. I would only abuse my absolute power for entertainment purposes!

    • Count Potato

      Judges are people too. That Roe claimed she was raped probably made a difference.

  10. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  11. Brochettaward

    “Sure, we failed. But we need to continue with our failures so we can succeed.” Uh, hey dumbass, your stupidity helped turn your city into a shithole. Maybe sit this one out.

    The voters just spoke on what they think of those reforms, and you have this arrogant cunt calling for their continuation regardless.

    • Brochettaward

      Publicly and proudly. Like, the first step the new DA should take is firing their ass.

      • AlexinCT

        With these people the problem is never the dumb shit they believe or do/want to do, but the wreckers & kulaks that ruin their ability to get nice things to happen regardless of the stupid shit they are doing/want to do…

      • juris imprudent

        Fire? public employees? in California? That’s just crazy talk.

    • Rat on a train

      The voters need to learn their place. It isn’t to determine policy. It is to provide a veneer of popular sovereignty.

  12. Not Adahn

    Someone showed me a very prettified version of the new gun bans. I haven’t been able to find it. I have found a better-formatted version of the 42-page run-on sentence here Which has such notable clarity as:

    37 (b) All licensees shall be recertified to the division of state police
    38 every five years thereafter, except as otherwise provided in paragraph
    39 (d) of this subdivision.

    Oh, I guess I was wrong about licenses needing to be renewed every three years. I must have misread things. Let’s just check that paragraph (d) to be sure:

    .

    9 (d) Licenses issued under paragraph (f) of subdivision two of this
    10 section shall be recertified or renewed in the same form and manner as
    11 otherwise required by this subdivision, provided however, that such
    12 licenses shall be recertified or renewed every three years following the
    13 issuance of such license. For licenses issued prior to the effective
    14 date of this paragraph that were issued more than three years prior to
    15 such date, or will expire in less than one year from such date shall be
    16 recertified or renewed within one year of such date.

    Seriously, fuck these guys. I wonder if I can still renew under the current rules prior to 9/1 to reset the clock on needing to take all the recertifications.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m actually of a mind that the absurd overreach is going to lead to the court going “You clearly passed this whole package with direct animus towards the constitutional rights of the citizens, We’re throwing them all out.”

      • Sean

        🤞🤞

      • AlexinCT

        It will take a decade for this shit to make it to SCOTUS to be smacked down, and then the criminals running things will just do another runaround to buy themselves another decade to get more idiots convinced they should give up their rights for false promises of security. There is an end game with these people. And they will not stop until they get where they want to be. There is also no compromising.

      • juris imprudent

        And because SCOTUS can’t impose penalties on those who did, they all just turn around and do it again. Nah-nah-na-nah-nah.

      • Lackadaisical

        Can’t or won’t?

      • juris imprudent

        How many divisions does the Chief Justice command?

      • Swiss Servator

        “Costs and attorneys fees are awarded”

      • juris imprudent

        It isn’t like that is truly punitive.

      • R C Dean

        I wonder – could the Court declare elected officials who violate its rulings as being in contempt of court?

      • R.J.

        Sure. But that will take years.

      • Not Adahn

        IANAL, but it looks like my initial reading that you’d need a handgun license to by ammo was excessively optimistic.

        34 2. There shall be a statewide license and record database specific for
        35 ammunition sales
        which shall be created and maintained by the division
        36 of state police the cost of which shall not be borne by any municipality

      • UnCivilServant

        Is that a license to sell or a license to buy?

      • Not Adahn

        Even better, assuming that you’d now need THREE licenses (handgun, rifle, ammo)

        All records containing granted license applications from all
        43 licensing authorities shall be monthly checked
        by the division of crimi-
        44 nal justice services in conjunction with the division of state police
        45 against criminal conviction, criminal indictments, mental health,
        46 extreme risk protection orders, orders of protection, and all other
        47 records as are necessary to determine their continued accuracy as well
        48 as whether an individual is no longer a valid license holder.

        Three checks a month! What could possibly go wrong! False positives will never happen and most assuredly won’t be part of a “seize first justify later” policy!

      • Count Potato

        That’s some jobs program.

    • Not Adahn

      If I had fuck you money and an arsenal stored out of state, this looks like it could be a source of entertaining lawsuits:

      14 i. any person, firm or corporation that sells, delivers or otherwise
      15 transfers firearms shall obtain a completed ATF 4473 form from the
      16 potential buyer or transferee including name, date of birth, gender,
      17 race,
      social security number, or other identification numbers of such
      18 potential buyer or transferee and shall have inspected proper identifi-
      19 cation including anidentification containing a photograph of the poten-
      20 tial buyer or transferee.

      • Sean

        The poor Amish folks…

    • Not Adahn

      30 8. Any potential buyer or transferee shall have thirty days to appeal
      31 the denial of a background check, using a form established by the super-
      32 intendent.

      For efficiency’s sake, the appeals form will be in Ithkuil.

  13. cavalier973

    The best U2 song is “Bad”

  14. trshmnstr the terrible

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      My seed words did their job, but my brain let me down.

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  15. straffinrun

    I’m pretty sure I don’t wanna be the hot dog eating king.

    • AlexinCT

      I prefer hotdog eating ladies…

      • straffinrun

        Joesy Chest Nut.

      • AlexinCT

        Is she part of Q’s land of the blessed?

      • AlexinCT

        God damn… That woman has her own gravity well effect dilating time..

      • Tonio

        Paging Tres Cool…

      • AlexinCT

        Dang Tonio, now we are gonna need a crowbar again to get him off her..

      • Tres Cool

        Actually Im into “larger ladies” with small t0ts. They all seem to come from the factory with DD-cups as OEM.
        But still would.

        Whomever managed to pull me out of her would be the next king of England.

      • R C Dean

        Whomever managed to pull me out of her would be the next king of England.

        Excellent. I have that line filed away for deployment.

  16. Sean

    The best part of Joey Chestnut’s win: this take down.

    • AlexinCT

      If I had to put my gastric system through that sort of hell to bag a trophy, I too would want to beat the shit out of any moron that then tried to rain on my parade…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LOL. Now I like Joey even more.

  17. waffles

    The Eiffel Tower is worth keeping, monuments matter. I’m tired of everything slowly turning to rust and ruin.

  18. Count Potato

    “How shooter climbed ladder to stage rooftop massacre and then disappeared for more than EIGHT hours before cops finally arrested him in dramatic traffic stop”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10982393/How-horrific-Highland-Park-July-4-massacre-unfolded.html

    “REVEALED: Highland Park massacre shooter Robert Crimo, 22, is rapper called ‘Awake’ with 16,000 listeners on Spotify and $100,000 net worth, attended Trump rally dressed as ‘Where’s Waldo’ and dad ran for mayor while mom is Mormon domestic abuse suspect

    Crimo was ‘known to law enforcement’ but it is not yet known if this was due to the disturbing content he shared online, or if he committed other crimes.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10982041/Highland-Park-massacre-suspect-Robert-Crimo-22-rapper-Awake-16-000-listeners-Spotify.html

    Of course, he was.

    • Not Adahn

      SPOTIFY FUNDS DOMESTIC TERRORISTS!

      • waffles

        Well this is obviously true.

      • Rat on a train

        Crosby, Stills and Nash?

    • AlexinCT

      I bet that 48 hrs from now we will find out these “facts about the perp” are all wrong and/or the media told a story that is the opposite of the truth…

      • waffles

        I have no reason to believe ideology motivates these atrocities. Unless you consider nihilistic edgelordism an ideology.

      • invisible finger

        We get all sorts of minutiae about these suspects, but never their prescription drug history. I suspect SSRI’s and the vax.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s HIPAA protected information.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Unless you consider nihilistic edgelordism an ideology.

        Maybe not an ideology in and of itself, but it seems to be the consequence of the results of certain (nihilistic, revolutionary) ideologies that have been ascendant for the past century.

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        Methodists?

    • invisible finger

      What the hell is a “Mormon domestic abuse suspect?”

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        One of several wives?

      • Mustang

        An attempt to paint him as a right wing religious extremist but they couldn’t find any real connections.

    • Lackadaisical

      +1 Dawn of the possum

      • Plisade

        🙂

    • Rebel Scum

      Crimo was ‘known to law enforcement’

      Of course.

    • Tundra

      Nice story.

      I appreciate these, Holiness!

    • The Other Kevin

      Yes, keep these coming!

  19. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Marshals say one of the primary ways they tracked Armstrong was by searching for local yoga studios and seeing if Armstrong signed up for courses. “Once she got to Costa Rica, she didn’t really move around a lot,” Filla said. “We knew she was going to be associated with some type of yoga studio. When foreign officials arrived at that yoga studio, they did find a handwritten login that was the same alias that she was going by when she traveled to Costa Rica.

    Admittedly, tracking someone based on their yoga habits is a bit of a stretch, but it looks like karma caught up to her.

    • Not Adahn

      *applause*

    • Lackadaisical

      Om my God, here come the puns.

      • juris imprudent

        It isn’t like he was going to beattle it to death.

      • Animal

        And I say, it’s alright.

    • Sean

      LE really went to the mats on this one.

  20. Q Continuum

    “From Miranda rights to the environment, to the separation of church and state, to guns – so many guns – people are reeling. The U.S. Supreme Court has run a chain saw through what two generations of Americans had known to be the legal baselines of their lives.”

    Cry more bitch.

    • straffinrun

      Dredd Scott was simply taking into account the slave owners that had gotten used to that way of life.

    • Rat on a train

      Damn conservatives resisting change.

    • EvilSheldon

      Separation of church and state? I must have missed that one.

      • Lackadaisical

        Public employees praying during their personal time at government sponsored events. (That coach praying after football games)

      • EvilSheldon

        Oh yeah, that one. Progs are really crying about that decision? I knew that progressivism breeds a gaggle of hysterical weaklings, but that’s quite a lot even for them…

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        I think the only thing that Progs hate more than guns is religion.

        And hoo boy do they hate it.

      • juris imprudent

        Minor correction: Progs hate other religions.

  21. The Late P Brooks


    2022 ELECTION
    With pressures mounting, Biden thinks GOP will make his midterm case for him
    Despite high gas prices and low approval ratings, Biden is betting Republican overreach will boost his party’s chances in November.
    President Joe Biden speaks during a media conference at the end of a NATO summit in Madrid on June 30, 2022.
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    July 5, 2022, 2:38 AM MDT
    By Peter Nicholas
    Little is going President Joe Biden’s way as the summer lull sets in before the crush of midterm elections.

    Gas prices are up; his approval rating is down. A conservative Supreme Court majority is hacking away at his agenda by abolishing federal abortion rights and undermining environmental protections meant to curb climate change. His own party is losing patience, fearing that any chance of consequential change while Democrats control Congress is vanishing.

    “There needs to be urgency and action,” said Rebecca Kirszner Katz, who was an aide to the late Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. “Folks have been saying since the day Joe Biden was elected that we need to move fast. There are a lot of things we need to get done for the American people.”

    Biden looks to midterm elections for win on abortion rights
    JULY 2, 202201:50
    Biden has been rolling out plans to cope with the mounting crises. He has a three-part plan to reduce inflation. Another plan to suspend the gas tax in hopes of bringing prices down. Then there’s his long-shot plan to enshrine abortion rights into law by suspending the Senate filibuster rule requiring 60-vote supermajorities.

    Inside the White House, though, advisers grasp that what’s required aren’t just plans, but votes. The 50-50 split in the Senate between the parties has proved an insurmountable obstacle for Biden’s grandest ambitions — to expand the social safety net in ways that insulate the most vulnerable Americans from economic shocks.

    “He has to change course,” said a Democratic congressman, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of upsetting the White House. “His numbers are in the toilet. Whatever he’s doing is not working.”

    A perennial complaint from Biden’s Democratic critics is that he hasn’t capitalized on the platform he commands as president.

    “There’s a benefit to having the president out there every day using his executive power to show the country you’re fighting for them,” the Democratic lawmaker said. “And it’s almost like he’s hiding. He has the bully pulpit, and he’s either hiding behind it or under it. I don’t know where he is.”

    Allies say that Biden, along with others in the administration, will take better advantage of their megaphone in the run-up to the midterms, portraying Republicans as out of touch. Biden, they said, is energized by the Roe v. Wade decision, which may be a prelude to future Supreme Court rulings rolling back rights to same-sex marriage and contraception.

    Unpopular presidents tend to fare poorly in midterm elections. But Biden-world sees an opening to defy the historical trends, springing from some of the same setbacks that have so angered the Democratic base.

    Republicans are overreaching in ways that will alienate voters, White House allies contend.

    “I can tell you that on the street, what you hear is a bubbling, seething cauldron of anger at the Republican Party for putting in these antediluvian judges who think they can take us back to the 18th century,” said Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state. “My spidey sense and the polling indicate it’s going to help people decide not to vote for the red team.”

    Jay Inslee is out there talking to the man on the street. Good one.

    • Brochettaward

      “There’s a benefit to having the president out there every day using his executive power to show the country you’re fighting for them,” the Democratic lawmaker said. “And it’s almost like he’s hiding. He has the bully pulpit, and he’s either hiding behind it or under it. I don’t know where he is.”

      You know where he is and why. Stop lying. This is the same guy who didn’t even actively campaign for himself and who went month upon month without answering a single unscripted question from the media last year.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There’s a benefit to having the president out there every day using his executive power to show the country you’re fighting for them

        Unless he’s fighting the administrative agencies, I’ll pass.

    • Q Continuum

      “antediluvian judges who think they can take us back to the 18th century”

      They gon’ put you back in CHAINS!

    • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

      Inslee has the exact same problem that Cunte Clown has down here in Oregon. Outside the one major city, Seattle of Portland, they are hated, and generally don’t leave those area’s. The “man” on the street in either of those two cities is going to agree with them, but you go to Medford, Aberdeen, Yakima, Ontario, any of the outlying areas and the response is quite different.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, what the fuck.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Pretty succinct summary of the world.

  23. juris imprudent

    That Peter Nicholas/NBC bit was some impressive cock-sucking, but I don’t think it will have much effect on Joe, or the mid-terms.

  24. R.J.

    I think the avatars are working again. Praise be to the webmasters!

  25. R.J.

    Reminder: There will be a Texas meetup in July! See the Forum for details.

    • Tonio

      Thanks for putting that together.

      • R.J.

        I only wish I had done so earlier.

    • cavalier973

      Where is this Forum?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    And yet in polls pitting generic Democrats against Republicans in congressional races, Democrats perform better than expected given the president’s low standing.

    Would you rather have cake, or herpes?

    People want cake.

    • R.J.

      There is definitely trouble afoot with some of the lower level Republicans running for Senate, etc… I believe the Democrats are going to focus on that to try to keep or grow the Senate and House. Do not underestimate them.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, I don’t have a great feeling. Too many predictions of success for my liking without specific support for the trend besides historically this it that happened.

      • Brawndo

        Jimmy Dore talked about the Democrats funding “extremist” (ie Trump supporters) Republicans so that they would beat out moderate Rs in the primaries, and the Dem candidate would have an easier win by appealing to the middle.

  27. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: Trumpsurrection!

    Why the MSM will never report that the mass shooter is a MAGAt Donnie Dipshit lover

    It would require them to acknowledge that they were culpable in helping a terrorist organization come to power in America.

    • Sean

      TRUMP
      TRUMP
      TRUMP
      TRUMP

      lulz.

      Nice link, bro.

    • AlexinCT

      I always seem to have the same problem with the ladies…

    • Lackadaisical

      Had she watched porn before deciding to make a career of it? As usual just salacious headlines to promote the career of some harlot.

      Thicc?

    • Sean

      Epitome of soy boy beta cuck.

      Most certainly not a firster.

      • Brochettaward

        You’re damn right he’s no Firster.

    • EvilSheldon

      Attacking an Independence Day parade makes me think political attack, as opposed to ‘new-high-score-in-the-shitbag-olympics’ motivation.

      • WTF

        Given the multiple “fuck July 4th” posts from Democrats, I seriously doubt this kid is a right-winger. Are we allowed to talk about how the left’s hostile proclamations against July 4th could have motivated this idiot?

    • Tundra

      Geez, they are really bad at that. I almost feel sorry for them.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It really is a spectacular display of shitty cartooning.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The gulf between college educated opinion and the meaning of the Constitution is probably too wide to cross anymore.

        As illustrated by that cartoon, they just don’t get it.

      • Not Adahn

        NPR had a scold on to inform us that “abortionist” is a slur and Alito’s use of it was a coded dog whistle of bigotry.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I guess, if abortionist is so offensive, I can move to a more neutral phrase: baby butcher.

      • Lackadaisical

        Derp. Weird how reality keeps on ‘offending’ the left.

        Maybe if they weren’t totalitarian utopians they could handle reality a little better.

      • juris imprudent

        Margaret Sanger hit hardest.

      • Lackadaisical

        I almost posted that too… Just clearly staying actual facts. Weird.

    • Lackadaisical

      My favorite is the one illustrating how 6 is indeed a larger number of justices than 3.

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        The one with the handmaid, they don’t realize that having her directed by a STATE labeled arm kinda makes their whole point stupid, no?

    • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

      They are sad because they all play on leftist shibboleths. If you don’t already agree with them and share the opinions then they don’t make sense. Or, even worse, they have to write a whole set of paragraphs to explain it. If you have to explain a joke, then you failed at the joke.

  28. Rebel Scum

    I just hope when they do get around to an actual restoration, they don’t hire the same crews that did the Notre Dame.

    That aesthetic disaster is quite an Eiffel.

    • rhywun

      I like how “it’s all rusted out” but “everyone please keep visiting!”

      I’m not getting on that thing.

  29. Rebel Scum

    With pressures mounting, Biden thinks GOP will make his midterm case for him
    Despite high gas prices and low approval ratings, Biden is betting Republican overreach will boost his party’s chances in November.

    It’s opposite day?

    • juris imprudent

      Republican over-reach is believing they will win every House seat and all Senate races this cycle. So win they don’t win ALL of those, well the Democrats clearly are supported by most of America!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hiding in his basement won him the Presidency, why wouldn’t it also work for the mid terms?

      • AlexinCT

        You are wrong your holiness. Fortification and oodles of illegality and money won him the 2022 election….

        I am going to bet team blue has plans to do a repeat, which is why they are not concerned about how ugly of a caricature their shenanigans have become.

      • R.J.

        This is correct. Also to my point above, they can lose the presidency and claim senate/ house. This is well within possibility.

  30. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    The site gobbled up my first comment, but we’ll try again. I’m pretty sure it was pithy and thought-provoking, but I’m running on fumes so I can’t recall!

    I hope everyone had a fun weekend. We had some close friends in town so it was fun to show off our new home. A little hiking, touristy things, beer and lots of laughs. Good stuff.

    That crazy yoga killer story reads like GlibFic. I liked this:

    According to investigators from the Marshals Service and Homeland Security, they recently discovered Armstrong then allegedly used someone else’s passport to board United Airlines Flight 1222 from Newark on May 18. At a press conference, Deputy Marshal Brandon Filla said Armstrong “resembled” the person in the passport, but did not explain how she came to be in possession of it.

    Nice work, TSA. The name wasn’t McLovin by any chance, was it?

    I remember when these guys were really good.

    I do too. Their first few albums were terrific, particularly Boy and October. Then they caught whatever got Sting and spent the next 30 years sniffing their own farts. Sad.

    My old dog is having surgery today. Minor, in theory, but at almost 15 there really isn’t such a thing. Any spare positivity would be groovy.

    I hope y’all have a great day!

    • Tonio

      Hoping for a good outcome.

    • AlexinCT

      Nice work, TSA. The name wasn’t McLovin by any chance, was it?

      HEY!

      That’s my name in my passport Tundra, why you outing me?

  31. Rebel Scum

    As millions of Americans celebrated the nation’s 246th birthday Monday, major media outlets and prominent liberals used the holiday to denigrate the US.

    *points outside the country*

    There’s the door.

    Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) claimed on Twitter that this Fourth of July is “overshadowed by the dark reality of the Supreme Court’s decision that makes half of America less equal.”

    I’m sure you can explain how.

    “It is Independence Day in America with independence under current and relentless assault,” Bryant wrote. “From Miranda rights to the environment, to the separation of church and state, to guns – so many guns – people are reeling. The U.S. Supreme Court has run a chain saw through what two generations of Americans had known to be the legal baselines of their lives.”

    The fuck are you bloviating about?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The U.S. Supreme Court has run a chain saw through what two generations of Americans had known to be the legal baselines of their lives

      GOOD! Hopefully they feed the rest of the “legal baselines” of the modern liberal order through the woodchipper.

  32. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Just because: Ow my balls!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m really striking out today on the links.

      Ow my balls!

    • Tundra

      Ow, my link!

  33. Old Man With Candy

    I am damaged from the party last night.

    • Fourscore

      Is it possible you can put the blame on some one else? Spud, maybe?

      Abortions are cleansing, I’ve heard, so there is that possibility.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Go for it.

    Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) acknowledged the possibility of a presidential run in 2024 in an interview with ABC News on Sunday, but said she hasn’t “made a decision about that yet.”

    Why it matters: If she chooses to run, Cheney would join a 2024 Republican field rapidly shaping up, dominated by former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence.

    • Tundra

      Lol. Pence, huh?

      I hope she does. Watching her get rag-dolled by Two-Scoops and DeSantis will be almost as much fun as watching Tulisi destroy Harris.

      • WTF

        She didn’t say she’d run as a Republican, did she?

      • Tundra

        Cool. Tulsi can take another scalp.

    • juris imprudent

      She can run as a Lincoln-esque figure, voted out of Congress, etc. All she needs is the beard.

      • Surly Knott

        Oh, I’m sure she can find an intel to show up with her.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Yes, getting primaried in your home district is always the best way to start a national campaign.

      Kamala vs Cheney 2024! Can you imagine a more entertaining race.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        *sits in horrified silence that this could actually be possible*

      • juris imprudent

        *contemplates expatriation to previously undesirable countries*

      • R C Dean

        My reaction exactly.

  35. trshmnstr the terrible

    Today’s the last day to get your advice into the “recession is coming!” article that I’m putting together for this Friday.

    • AlexinCT

      Buy low, sell high…

      You never go broke making a prfit!

      • Rat on a train

        buy low, sell high
        Can you clarify? Are you saying become a dealer or sell while high?

    • Rat on a train

      recession is coming
      They should be announcing soon that we have been in a recession for the last 6 months.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *nods*

        My shorthand was a bit inaccurate. It’s a “2 weeks until the recession is official” article. The expectation being that the announcement will cause psychological changes that impact the economy as a whole.

      • Sean

        Are you saying I shouldn’t place that order for $1k of ammo?

      • waffles

        I finally bit the bullet and resupplied myself. It would be fitting for prices to come down now.

      • Sean

        At some point, we should hang out. Maybe a range trip.

      • waffles

        absolutely

      • EvilSheldon

        Why so little?

      • Sean

        🙂

        I’m trying to throttle back my spending a bit, and I did pick up two guns last month. Plus, vacation is coming up fast.

      • Rat on a train

        Demands for more government spending?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Those inflation relief gift cards aren’t going to distribute themselves!

    • whiz

      One if by land, two if by sea?

    • Timeloose

      Buy a lockable gas cap for your car if possible. I remember the 70’s.
      Open a good Pawn Shop.
      Start drinking Schlitz and Genesee. Make Genny Cream Ale Great again!!

  36. The Late P Brooks

    I have seen three different cats in my new back yard. Maybe they will condescend to be friends with me.

  37. Sean

    Ugh. Birthday pricing at Midway Usa brings blazer aluminum 9mm down to $300 taxed/shipped per case. Must resist…

    Ugh…cart is up just over $1k now…

  38. The Late P Brooks

    And Republicans in some cases are putting forward candidates whom mainstream voters may find unpalatable. A video circulating on Twitter shows a recent debate among congressional Republican candidates in Wyoming, where some of Rep. Liz Cheney’s challengers struggle to form a coherent sentence.

    “People are going to be stunned when they see some of the nominees they [Republicans] put out there,” said Joe Trippi, a longtime Democratic strategist.

    Meanwhile, at the White House….

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      said Joe Trippi, a longtime Democratic strategist.

      Yeah, he’s the first guy I’d go to for a sober analysis of the GOP.

      • juris imprudent

        Well, you can hardly expect a journalist to talk to some stranger, least of all an actual member of the GOP!

  39. Brawndo

    I heard a lot of “I can’t really celebrate the fourth of July when my rights are being taken away.”

    Welcome to the club. You can hate your government and love your country at the same time. I’ve been doing it for years.

    • Pine_Tree

      And, “…my rights are being taken away” is a mix of bullshit and delusion.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sorry, my first thought was of the bullshit my state is pulling. Then again, I had to problem celebrating independence day.

      • Pine_Tree

        Granted, I was shorthanding for the 3 recent USSC things.

  40. Rebel Scum

    Feel free to leave. I hear Liberia is nice.

    EXCLUSIVE: Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor and Democrat Senate candidate Mandela Barnes (@TheOtherMandela) on America: “Things were bad. Things were terrible. The founding of this nation? Awful!”

    • juris imprudent

      Marcus Garvey had the answer for him.

    • The Other Kevin

      Do people in other countries hate their own countries? This seems like a uniquely stupid American thing.

      • Lackadaisical

        Seems like it, I wish they’d all leave. Was at a party last night and a guy wouldn’t shut up about how bad the country is. I think he is an immigrant, or his parents were anyway… Fuck off back to India then asshole. I had to excuse myself from the conversation before things escalated.

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        It depends. In Europe, there are people who love their country, and people who prefer the EU. Hence Brexit, and that shit storm.

      • UnCivilServant

        I can’t imagine willfully choosing a Totalitarian Bureaucracy for government.

  41. Pope Jimbo

    When Progs cry

    Biking hipsters are agitating for a new bike lane through very liberal, very rich neighborhood in St. Paul. Things are not going well.

    Members of the St. Paul Bicycle Coalition are rallying for a new bike trail along historic Summit Avenue and accusing opponents of spreading misinformation in a ploy to preserve parking. A growing number of Summit Avenue homeowners have planted “S.O.S.” lawn signs asking the city to “Save Our Street,” a nod to fears that new connections to regional bike trails will uproot majestic trees from their street.

    p.s. The story has quotes from multiple “Landscape architects” on the govt payroll. WTF? I wouldn’t have thought the city needed even 1, much less several.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The fight will be fun because the bikers will have to fight it out with other liberals who know the lingo:

      Summit Hill resident Marilyn Bach said she worries decisions have been made over the heads of residents already “heartbroken from the tragic loss of ash trees” along Cleveland Avenue and Edgcumbe Road. To avoid future conflicts, she’s calling for the city to craft a tree preservation ordinance and ditch the Summit Avenue bike corridor. Members of S.O.S., or Save Our Street, are contracting an arborist to help them evaluate impacts.

      “This plan will decimate this historic streetscape and much-needed urban canopy and green space,” said Bach, in a recent letter to the editor of the Pioneer Press. “Trails such as this belong in areas not interrupted by hundreds of driveways and numerous walkways.”

      “urban canopy”.

      • Tundra

        Pop some popcorn for this one! A blue-on-blue woke slap fight.

      • Pine_Tree

        “Save our Streets” is toast if they’re hiring an arborist. Arborists hate trees – they treat them like garden plants. Every single recommendation is one version or another of “kill this old tree because it’s in decline and one day it’ll drop a limb on your new deck”. They’re central planners of the worst kind.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well it is counterbalanced by the bikers having this guy:

        Dan Casebeer, owner of the longstanding Grand Performance bike shop on Grand Avenue, said he’s dead set against any plan that would install a two-way bike path east of Lexington Parkway.

        “The two-way trail is another disaster waiting to happen,” said Casebeer in an interview, noting intersections will get hairy. “It does the same thing as having riders going against traffic. Summit is one of the most idyllic bike rides in the city, and I ride it almost daily. Just fix the road and the bike lanes we already have.”

        Fixing existing stuff doesn’t pay the grift dude.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Reap what you sow.

    After politicians’ decision to close dozens of farms and cattle ranches to reduce nitrogen to comply with absurd EU regulations on nitrogen pollution, the angry Dutch farmers have issued an ultimatum threatening to block the country’s airports, ports and distribution centers.

    • db

      I’m wondering about what kind of society allows *politicians* the ability to close farms and ranches. Are these state-owned in the Netherlands?

      • WTF

        Should have clicked your link first – you beat me to it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And he went on to head the War Food Administration to cajole farmers and everyone to grow more food. Government breaking legs and handing out crutches indeed.

      • WTF

        Maybe they have their own version of the commerce clause. Just let the EPA pass new rule for Gaia!

      • db

        Holland v Filburn

      • AlexinCT

        This is about government taking over land now used by farmers to build more mass housing. The Netherlands is running out of real-estate, and the agenda is to use global warming to justify taking away farms from people that have owned that land forever by making their business unable to operate at any sort of profit. Government is setting ridiculous requirements they hope will kill all the mom & pop farms.

      • Fourscore

        Will that not reduce the quantity of available food, thus raising the price for everyone?
        What do I know?

  43. Brawndo

    I wonder if Ted kacyznski has ever seen Fight Club. Much of the premise of that movie seems related to his manifesto

  44. Rebel Scum

    Inciting violence is ok when the left does it.

    Samantha Bee on the Roe repeal: “We have to raise hell in our cities, in Washington, in every restaurant Justice Alito eats at for the rest of his life. Because if Republicans have made our lives hell, it’s time to return the favor.”

    • Certified Public Asshat

      in every restaurant Justice Alito eats at for the rest of his life.

      I’m easily persuaded by screaming at people when trying to have a quiet dinner.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    How do we reach these kids?

    A debate is raging inside the Democratic Party about whether it’s giving its base — especially those under 30, the generation that most strongly supports abortion rights — enough motivation to keep voting for the party, as federal Democrats struggle to meaningfully push back against the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

    The fear is that an already deflated Democratic base won’t show up in November, particularly the youngest voters, who smashed participation records in the last two elections and backed President Joe Biden by a 25-point margin in 2020. Some Democrats stress that the Biden administration and Congress need to do more to show their rage — and willingness to take significant action — to mirror the passion seen among young people, three-quarters of whom support abortion being generally legal.

    “There’s a fine line between the recent events pushing someone to never vote again or pushing someone to vote with that righteous anger and bring friends with them,” said Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old Democrat who is running for a Florida congressional seat. “It’s up to our leaders to decide which direction that’s going to go in. When they show they’re in the fight, using all the resources to fight for the most vulnerable in our community … but we need more right now.”

    That sentiment was echoed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who tweeted that Democrats “cannot make promises, hector people to vote, and then refuse to use our full power,” ticking through a list of potential actions the party could take, including moving to expand the Supreme Court, opening abortion clinics on federal lands and repealing the Hyde Amendment.

    What do you mean, there are other voters, with other priorities? Fuck them. This is America.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I think the message from SCOTUS was “Feel free to fight it at the state level. Leave the federal government out of it.”

    • The Other Kevin

      Just what we need right now, more rage. More division.

  46. Pope Jimbo

    Hell NO!

    The Fourth of July weekend saw hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans hitting the roads while dodging construction cones at more than 200 highway work zones across the state.

    If some get their way, Minnesota will install speed cameras in work zones as soon as 2024. House lawmakers and traffic safety advocates say the technology is required after a year in which more people died in speed-related crashes than in any year since 2003, according to Minnesota State Patrol data.

    State law already bans red light cameras. I have no idea what their plan for getting around that will be.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      a year in which more people died in speed-related crashes than in any year since 2003

      Non-sequitur. Unless these deaths happened in work zones, the cameras will accomplish nothing to change this metric.

      Want to be effective in reducing speed related deaths? Prosecute reckless driving to the fullest extent of the law. It’s not the guy doing 5 or even 10 over in the fast lane who is the hazard to life and limb. It’s the asshole doing 20 over and swerving across all the lanes who gets people killed.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The proposal, initially sponsored by state Rep. Connie Bernardy, DFL-New Brighton, would have freed up $2.5 million for a pilot program in 2024 and 2025 to install speed cameras in state highway work zones.

        How much digging would it take to find a link between Ms. Bernardy and some camera salesman?

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Last night, I started watching Hell on Wheels, from the beginning. I had watched a few episodes here and there but never got into it.

    So far, so good. It beats scrolling through movies I don’ want to watch for twenty minutes.

    • Ozymandias

      FWIW, Brooksy, I liked it a lot.
      It isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty good. Wife and I really enjoyed Cullen Bohannon and the Swede.
      The guy who plays the Swede does a fantastic job, IMO.

  48. Brawndo

    I remember a lot of the anti gun states would play these games by passing onerous gun restrictions, wait to get sued for obvious violations of civil liberties, then repeal the law and claim the case is moot since the law is no longer violating anyone’s rights.

    To me, that seems like not prosecuting a murder because a conviction won’t unkill the victim.

  49. Rebel Scum

    Definitely an Antifa-tard…

    Moment cops arrested Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo, 22, in his Honda seven miles away from where he shot dead six: Weird YouTube clips and drawings reveal his gun obsession

    …Though I have been hearing from people that he is supposedly a right-wing Trumpite.

    *adjust tricorne tinfoil hat*

    Seems a bit too convenient.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      There are photos of him doing the Boogaloo Boi thing (see my Trumpsurrection post above) and with MAGA clothing. I don’t have reason to doubt it.

      They finally got their exception which proves the rule.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He’s a mixed up nutjob.

      • juris imprudent

        Based on the mugshot I can believe he is an incel.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Based on the face tatts, I’d go with volcel.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dude, he’s emblematic of half the country. Don’t you get that?

      • rhywun

        *snort*

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m willing to bet he was on anti-depressants.

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

      • Rebel Scum

        But anything about him that is conceivably “right-wing” will be amplified to support the narrative while anything that is inconvenient will be covered up.

      • Lackadaisical

        All my prejudices are justified.

    • The Other Kevin

      “The gunman used an automatic rifle he abandoned before going on the run”

      Highly unlikely.

    • juris imprudent

      The Buffalo shooter was alleged to be right-wing too, despite his manifesto. The Narrative Must Prevail!

  50. Pope Jimbo

    This might be an ass/drugs type of story, but it is interesting that Ilhan Omar got booed loudly at a concert for some Somali rapper.

    I’ve said it here before that Omar has much greater support among the liberal whites in Minneapolis than she does in the Somali community.

    • Gustave Lytton

      So she’s going to be in office for life?

    • The Other Kevin

      “Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said the US should be more like Canada’

      More white, and half French speaking?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think he means they should be seizing dissidents’ bank accounts.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    A big step in defusing the disagreement came when Biden confirmed last week that he would support a carveout to the Senate filibuster rules in order to codify in federal law the same access to abortion that was previously protected by Roe v. Wade. That move was a “step in the right direction,” said Carmel Pryor, senior communications director of the Alliance for Youth Action.

    The President has the power to modify Senate procedure? I had no idea.

  52. Rebel Scum

    Whoops.

    Dr. Scott A. Ziegler, Superintendent of Loudoun Public Schools brags about “robust indoctrination plan”.

    • Sensei

      I had no idea it was high cut. Also. I love the tan lines on her ass. LOL.

    • Lackadaisical

      Sad. Like many bad ideas, it started with the French.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There is no originality anymore. Everything is just a remake now.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    Want to be effective in reducing speed related deaths? Prosecute reckless driving to the fullest extent of the law. It’s not the guy doing 5 or even 10 over in the fast lane who is the hazard to life and limb. It’s the asshole doing 20 over and swerving across all the lanes who gets people killed.

    Just as long as you also go after anybody dawdling along the left hand lane.

    Speed doesn’t kill. Speed differentials kill.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      That is fine by me. Same spread. 5 to 10 under is given a ticket. 20 under is treated as reckless driving, especially when in the fast lane. If you can’t make highway speeds, use the side streets.

      I’m also okay with life without parole for people who try to cross 5 lanes because they realized that they were supposed to turn right, but they’re in the left turn lane.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Add roadside executions for semi drivers that clog the left lane for 5 miles passing at 1MPH over another semi while both are speeding and I’m in. Painful roadside executions for doing so uphill when signed trucks right lanes only.

        Professional drivers, my ass.

    • Pope Jimbo

      At this point what differential does it make?

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s not the speed. It’s the sudden stop.

    • KSuellington

      Absolutely, some of the most dangerous things I’ve seen on a highway are caused by numbnuts hanging in the fast lane doing at or below speed limit and the associated reactions to this by people weaving in and out of other lanes to get around them. In city driving I’d say the non use of turn signals is one of the biggest causes of accidents (with of course going too fast and not paying attention taking the top spots).

  54. The Late P Brooks

    I’m wondering about what kind of society allows *politicians* the ability to close farms and ranches. Are these state-owned in the Netherlands?

    Silly rabbit. Those are nonessential farms.

  55. The Other Kevin

    Hope everyone had a great weekend. We had a wedding, a family party with the in-laws, and we hosted a party. Lots of sun and too much unhealthy food. It was fun, but I’m ready to get back to a routine.

    • WTF

      If we’ve learned anything over the past 2 years, it’s that governments can simply close down any business they desire by executive fiat if they claim it’s due to an “emergency”.

      • WTF

        This was supposed to be a reply to Brooks.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I liked the comment as a reply to TOK’s readiness to get back to a routine.

  56. Brochettaward

    First? You’re god damn right I will.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Add roadside executions for semi drivers that clog the left lane for 5 miles passing at 1MPH over another semi while both are speeding and I’m in. Painful roadside executions for doing so uphill when signed trucks right lanes only.

    Professional drivers, my ass.

    *subscribes to newsletter*

  58. The Late P Brooks

    We just need more central planning

    The Biden administration may trim mortgage costs for new and low-income homebuyers in a move to make homebuying more accessible, The Wall Street Journal reports.

    Industry officials are asking the Federal Housing Administration to cut premiums it charges for loans they insure by $50 to $70 a month per buyer, though some analysts say the federal agency is unlikely to make such deep cuts, the newspaper reports.

    Biden’s moves to make homebuying more affordable have so far centered on easing constraints on home supplies, which can drive up costs. The U.S. is about 2 million houses short, Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae, told Bloomberg.

    The Ministry of Plenty will have us all living under bridges and eating rats, when they’re done.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The local rag is blaming increasing interest rates for pricing homebuyers out of the market. Not the actual cost of the houses.

    • Rat on a train

      Industry officials are asking the Federal Housing Administration to cut premiums it charges for loans they insure
      Why not. It’s not like they are on the hook for covering losses. Eliminate premiums and return to NINJA loans to further the prime goal of equity.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nothing works quite so well like subsidizing buyers to drive down prices.

      • Lackadaisical

        Once we start spending all this money, inflation will finally go down.

  59. Not Adahn

    Lily napped enough over the long weekend that I got to watch some TV.

    Shadow and Bone is a fairly generic but inoffensive fantasy series with a Napoleonic/18th C. vibe. Standard Netflix casting. Excellent production values. Vastly better than Wheel of Time.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Vastly better than Wheel of Time.

      WHAT? That is it! No fork root tea for you.

    • Lackadaisical

      I liked it, except the casting where there was clearly meant to be racism against other people from different places, yet an isolated, racist society is somehow a big melting pot also. Okay? Weird.

    • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

      Anything is better than the Wheel of Time.

  60. KSuellington

    In sporting news that was an absolutely great British Grand Prix. The Alfa crash at the first turn was a serious testament to how far those cars have come with safety. The driver will be back racing this coming weekend after a wreck that looked like it should have been death or serious injury. Silverstone remains one of the best tracks on the GP calendar.

    I’m still laughing at those celebrities and other assorted leftists who are aghast at the abortion decision and babbling about “bodily autonomy”. Ha! They aborted that argument just over two years ago and no matter what they say it ain’t coming back. If the government can force you to cover your face to go about daily life and require a experimental drug to go to work or school then they sure as hell can have a say in whether and how you can get an abortion.

    • R C Dean

      The Alfa crash at the first turn was a serious testament to how far those cars have come with safety.

      Yeah, that changed my mind on the halos they mandated a few years ago.

  61. Rebel Scum

    Inspiring.

    President Joe Biden celebrated Independence Day on Monday, but expressed disappointment about ongoing gun violence and the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

    “Liberty is under assault, both here and abroad,” he said, alluding to the Supreme Court. “In recent days, there’s been reason to think this country is moving backward, that freedom is being reduced, that rights we assumed were protected are no longer.” …

    “I know it can be exhausting and unsettling, but tonight, I want you to know we’re going to get through all of this,” he said, referring to the political divisions in the country. …

    “You all heard what happened today. Each day we’re reminded there’s nothing guaranteed about our democracy, nothing guaranteed about our way of life. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it by voting,” he said. …

    “For America is always becoming, always on the move, always a work in progress,” Biden said. “That’s a key word, a key idea, a key note in the life of our nation. Progress. Forward motion.”

  62. Sensei

    Or as some have said here. Gay folk have hand enough of woke crap and and crime.

    L.G.B.T.Q. couples, particularly younger ones, are starting families and considering more traditional features — public schools, parks and larger homes — in deciding where they want to live. The draw of “gayborhoods” as a refuge for past generations looking to escape discrimination and harassment is less of an imperative today, reflecting the rising acceptance of gay and lesbian people. And dating apps have, for many, replaced the gay bar as a place that leads to a relationship or a sexual encounter.

    Once a Crucial Refuge, ‘Gayborhoods’ Lose L.G.B.T.Q. Residents in Major Cities

    • Not Adahn

      But.. mah ranbow crosswalks!

  63. The Late P Brooks

    Inflation hedge?

    In China’s depressed real-estate market, desperate developers are accepting wheat and garlic as down payments for rural properties to boost sales.

    The alternative payment method comes as analysts expect property sales in China to have dropped by 25% from January to June amid China’s zero-Covid strategy, according to Reuters.

    China’s citizens are also shying away from real-estate investments, preferring to hoard cash in China’s uncertain economic climate, Bloomberg reported in May.

    To boost sales, property developer Central China Real Estate is offering a “swap wheat for house” promotion for homes in Minquan County, Henan Province, CNN reported, referring to a now-removed ad on the company’s official WeChat account. Priced at 2 Chinese yuan ($0.30) for every catty (21 ounces), buyers can pay up to 160,000 yuan ($23,900) of their
    down payment
    with wheat. Prices of houses in the development range from 600,000 yuan ($89,550) to 900,000 yuan ($134,300.)

    Cash is trash?

      • Animal

        Houses seem cheap, if you have the bread.

    • Lackadaisical

      Didn’t realize Zardoz was doing real estate on the side.

      • Sean

        Gotta diversify!

      • Lackadaisical

        That was one of the unsolicited life advice from someone I spoke with yesterday. I’m sure being a carpenter is great, but I think I’ll keep my engineering career going, thanks… *Eye roll*

    • juris imprudent

      Sellers prefer something with real value?

  64. Sensei

    Ladies and gentlemen, please get your checkbook out and give generously.

    “This is Russia’s attack on everything that is of value to you and me. Therefore, the reconstruction of Ukraine is not a local project—not a project of one nation—but a joint task of the entire democratic world,” Mr. Zelensky said.

    Ukraine’s Allies Talk of Rebuilding as Russia Consolidates Gains in Donbas

    • juris imprudent

      And you can rest assured that only 10% will make it through to the people that really need it!

      • rhywun

        Hey, as long as the Big Guy gets his 10% cut.

      • Lackadaisical

        The big guy really needs it, so I guess that counts.

    • Sean

      *points to avatar*

    • Sensei

      Ray-Bans and khakis?

      • Tres Cool

        Hey! I just got a cop-style haircut, and I went out wearing RayBans, a golf shirt and khakis.
        Am I in danger?

      • EvilSheldon

        It fucking pisses me off. All I ever wear are Ray-Bans, polo shirts, and khakis. These fucking glowies think they can bite my style?

      • Lackadaisical

        Guess we found the Fed.

    • Tundra

      Excellent. I didn’t think the Dutch were that badass.

      • AlexinCT

        They are learning about the obvious way the feds do shit here in the US to create scenarios where they can then turn around and blame political enemies of the globalist movement…

    • PieInTheSky

      I noticed some around with pritest slogans on tractors

      • PieInTheSky

        Protest

  65. R C Dean

    Many thanks for the comments on last night’s post. I don’t disagree that all human institutions fail, eventually. The post was really more of a break-up letter from me – I think the Constitution is a very good blueprint, and I have clung to it, bitterly even, in spite of the fact that its best-by date has clearly expired. Looking backwards is no way to go forward.

    Which isn’t to deny that I will support continued use of the Constitution for tactical purposes – protecting rights (where possible), slowing the centralization of power, etc. But engaging on process and norms and the like is a fool’s errand, the last desperate defense of the doomed. Much as it will pain this fine group of spectrum-representative folks, to make up ground supporters of freedom will need to broaden their toolkit from analysis of facts to emotional and moral appeals. I can’t quite sign up for the full personhood begins at conception position of the pro-lifers, but there is a lesson to be learned from their victory last month.

    So, more to come.

    • Lackadaisical

      It was a good article, I agree with you, just leaving the Constitution and trying to get people to adhere to it is not enough. Sounds like your next article will be thicc.

    • PieInTheSky

      all human institutions fail – except real glibertarianism should it be ever tried

      • AlexinCT

        Define : “glibertarianism”…

        here ya go

  66. Fatty Bolger

    Thank god we finally cracked down on unsafe opioids like prescription oxycodone, so addicts could move to safer alternatives like fentanyl.

    Of course, many people with chronic pain must suffer, but it’s all for the greater good.

    • Lackadaisical

      Those are rookie numbers, we gotta pump those numbers up. /FDA &CDC reviewing overdose death statistics

  67. PieInTheSky

    Visiting dutchland once more i wonder why sour beers exist and why i decided to try o e

    • Lackadaisical

      Just to bedevil you.

    • R C Dean

      I had an excellent sour this weekend. Very nice balance of sour and malt, with some hops just peeking through. Knocked back three pints around dinnertime last night, which was our traditional brats, potato chips, and beans – very Wisconsin.

      Like most things, they can be done well, or they can be done in a cartoonishly exaggerated way.

  68. Rebel Scum

    Oh…

    “We will never be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.”

    Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says Canadians need to be “up-to-date” on their vaccines, which he describes as getting the Covid vaccine every nine months.

    • PieInTheSky

      “We will never be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.” i consider myself quite fully vaccinated. Never gona need another one

  69. PieInTheSky

    Good weather in utrecht this week dont know why my buddy complains of the weathrr. Dry sunny 22 degrees slight breeze

    • EvilSheldon

      About Styx being a bunch of creepy weirdos? I completely agree.

    • Lackadaisical

      How do they explain away every other country which industrialized without the need for collectivization?

      Nevermind, it’s retardation town.

    • rhywun

      rEaCtIoNaRiEs

      Always love that old chestnut

  70. Lackadaisical

    I was trying to find some rap lyrics earlier and stumbled upon some from Kanye, regarding being made a cuck.

    rap has really changed

    • Tundra

      Xenoestrogens and soy.

      • Lackadaisical

        They turned the fish gay?