Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another stupendous day of the links!
Trump-backed candidates win in several state primaries, but key Arizona contests still undecided
Another Republican impeachment voter loses their seat
Kansas rejects amendment removing right to abortion from state constitution
Biden Is Pushing For EV Charging Stations — But States Say His Plan Makes Absolutely No Sense
I guess all those NPCs on Twatter will now take the Ukrainian flag off their profile until they’re told what the new current thing is to replace is with
White House admits Inflation Reduction Act will barely have an impact
US Job Openings Plunge to Nine-Month Low as Labor Demand Eases
US Home Prices Cooled at a Record Pace in June
Inside Liz Cheney’s Coordinated Effort To Prevent Troop Deployment Before Jan. 6
Elderly Liquor Store Owner Stops Robbery
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Paul Pelosi allegedly slurred speech, had drug in system and handed over police privilege card during DUI bust”
“Wanna see a picture of muh wife’s tits?”
“GAH! Sir… you must be wasted if you think we do… hands behind your back, please…”
Dude….
Was the picture taken in the 1960s? Then yes.
Paul Pelosi allegedly slurred speech, had drug in system and handed over police privilege card during DUI bust
What is the point of making money on the stock market if you are not gonna have a bit of fun
Bom dia,
Biden Is Pushing For EV Charging Stations — But States Say His Plan Makes Absolutely No Sense
Uh…nothing he says makes any sense.Asufutimaehaehfutbw
One does have to wonder just how far the Fed would have to go in their pseudo-mandatory “guidance” to ever get states to decide the FedGov money isn’t worth it for the strings attached. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt we’ll ever see the day. Too bad there’s no part of the Federal government to explicitly represent you state governments anymore, isn’t there? Suckers.
Stupid 17th
Honestly i think if I could make 1 change to the constitution, it would be repealing the 17th. A close runner up would be making the 2nd clearer, because apparently shall not be infringed was too ambiguous.
“The op-ed was allegedly organized by Cheney, whose father was secretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush before serving as President George W. Bush’s vice president. Eric Edelman, a national security adviser to Dick Cheney, told the New Yorker the Wyoming lawmaker “was the one who generated” the piece for the Post.”
So who knows?
“When Trump sent reinforcements to secure federal buildings under attack in Portland, Pelosi condemned the extra law enforcement as “stormtroopers.” After days of sustained riots wreaked havoc across Washington D.C., Pelosi called the sight of uniformed troops protecting the Lincoln Memorial “stunning” and “scary.””
Then after 1/6 they brought in a massive number of troops and put up a huge fence.
And attacked Trump for not securing the place beforehand. Almost seems planned.
You know who else exploited a “crisis” that almost seemed planned?
DC Comics, several times?
A few of my exes.
*mic drop*
That other kraut – Bismarck?
My sister-in-law?
Certainly nothing like warning him about an investigation and then leaking that he was reported to be under investigation?
He offered the extra security and it was declined. ///Fedsurrection
Narrative above all other things.
Morning, Banjos.
I’ve been getting a dangerous amount of work done today. I’ll have to slack off more later.
Tell that to the grifters for whom this shitpile was obviously written.
barely have an impact – this is good because of it had an impact, that would probably be to make inflation worse.
It still will.
Barely an impact on inflation. On sneaking the tax increases they wanted in and increasing the IRS dramatically to audit the hell out of their political opponents like in the Good Ole Days of the Obama administration? Yeah…there’s the intended impact.
From a different article: “The Act would very slightly increase inflation until 2024 and decrease inflation thereafter,” it stated. The model projected that under the Inflation Reduction Act, inflation would rise by as much as 0.05 percentage points by 2024 before decreasing by 0.25 percentage points near the end of the 2020s. These point estimates “are not statistically different than zero,” the report said, reinforcing the conclusion that the legislation is unlikely to have any impact on inflation.
Now that’s some good legislation.
Not good legislation, just a really bad model.
Probably based on dice and a shaker… and Nancy’s tarot cards.
There is a NYT headline on google nooz bleating about ultra-MAGA candidates and Trump’s grip on the Republican base.
They still have it bass backwards. trump is not the cause, he’s the symptom. People look around them at the stupid crazy bullshit being said and done by the Democrats and their newsroom steno pool and say “enough is enough”.
In the words of Michael Malice, Trump isn’t the river, he’s the dam.
The Democrats are funding many of these ultra-MAGA candidates .
Trying to find someone more extreme than their own candidates.
US Home Prices Cooled at a Record Pace in June – still has a long way to go, and this goes for most countries not the US
Elderly Liquor Store Owner Stops Robbery – ban Liquor
Democrats have a counter offer – ban owners
well Liquor Stores in Sweden are government owned and everything is better in Sweden
Virginia has state owned stores with a monopoly on distilled spirits. Attempts to privatize have been rejected because the stores are profitable.
how is the selection?
Broader than the businesses that are restricted in what they can sell. At least I can pick up beer and wine at grocery stores unlike when I lived in Maryland.
Nothing like travelling greater distances so you can deal with a civil servant while purchasing your alcohol.
The good news is that it makes you want to drink more.
I’d consider it only if it gets us moonshine runners in the dead of night with no lights off on winding Appalachian roads again. NASCAR seriously needs new blood.
I still want to see a Bootlegger 500 race, where the winner is judged by the amount of moonshine delivered in gallons/minute travel time. There will, of course, be intercepters to play the part of revenuers to try to catch the contestants. Vehicle design and composition – anything between X and Y tons. No other design rules. In fact, the tonnages are the race categories, so you have one for semis hauling giant tanks of shine and another for fast little runners with a few hundred gallons.
That would rock. Should make the first one Atlanta -> Texarkana -> Back to Atlanta in tribute, of course.
Demands a re-watch.
Curs is not moonshine.
This may be the best idea I’ve ever heard.
That sounds awesome. Would watch.
TAKE MY MONEY!!!1
Aw, hell yeah. They have an open road race in far West Texas that I would love to go to (assuming they still do it). The locals were telling me that one year a guy comes tearing up to the finish line with a buzzard stuck to his grill. When he stopped, it fell off. He didn’t even slow down when he hit it. It sounds crazy fun.
This would be awesome.
If you ban liquor, only criminals will make liquor.
The checks for “the Big Guy” started bouncing?
That’s probably closer to the truth than anything the MSM will report.
Maybe more like Zelensky started skimming more for himself, and the 10% was a little short?
This is the White House admitting defeat in Ukraine and setting Zelensky up as the fall guy.
It’s not like DC hasn’t supported purges and coups in Ukraine prior to this moment.
If they didn’t support a coup in 2014, there wouldn’t be a war now.
Mosaddegh and Diem have a seat saved for President T-shirt.
Last night some pundits seemed giddy that Peter Meijer would win reelection. Huh, that flipped since I went to bed. Neat.
“I guess all those NPCs on Twatter will now take the Ukrainian flag off their profile until they’re told what the new current thing is to replace is with”
I read that article. It seems mostly questions and speculation.
Although, I did have a shower thought. Pelosi going to Taiwan was theater. OK, fine she wanted to tour the NVIDIA factory where she bought stock. Regardless, “defying” China works to dispel the notion that the U.S. elites aren’t in cahoots with the CCP.
Maybe this move accelerates China’s timetable for invasion, in which case it was in their benefit all along.
Pelosi going to Taiwan was theater. OK, fine she wanted to tour the NVIDIA factory where she bought stock. Regardless, “defying” China works to dispel the notion that the U.S. elites aren’t in cahoots with the CCP.
My wife asked me last night why Pelosi was really there, and that was my answer almost verbatim.
Frankly, it looks like Arizona is going to be a bit of a poo storm.
Same shit here in blood-red York county – ballot snafus. Why should elections officials be held accountable, no one else is?
RNC Blasts Arizona County for Running Out of Ballots
They had to divert too many to the Robson chick that was running a distant second in polling.
“There are several witnesses who say they met with President Trump on January 4th,” said Bret Baier, “and he offered some 20,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol building on January 6th but the offer was rejected. Is that true?”
“His own acting secretary of defense says that’s not true,” Cheney said, highlighting committee testimony from former Acting Secretary Christopher Miller who told the panel Trump made no order to deploy the National Guard. “So the notion that somehow he issued an order is not consistent with the facts.”
Nice quibble, hon.
He “offered”, not “ordered”. Cheney is obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but that doesn’t mean we’re all as dull as she is.
Trump never ordered any subordinate – that was part of the problem with his administration. Write it down and put a date for completion – then it’s up to the subordinate to perform or resign.
He is – by law – not allowed to order guardsmen to the capital. Only the Speaker of The House or the mayor of DC can order that – and only if the POTUS offers them. Which Trump did.
The TDS crowd is trying to deflect all criticism away from their own fuck ups. And they are hoping 1) the public is incapable of making the legal distinction, and 2) there are enough judges with TDS that they will legislate from the bench in their favor.
Never have understood the whole politician/CEO thing of “don’t answer the question asked, answer the question you wanted asked” thing. It is obvious when they do it, if their audience can’t follow up they just tune out because they know they’ll never get a straight answer / useful information out of you (see: Most company meetings I’ve ever had to sit through) – and if the audience can follow up, they should with “Just answer the question I asked and stop changing the subject already”.
This would require journalists, not sycophantic toadies groveling for the merest spittle from their masters’ table, of course.
Ah yes, the same DOD Secretary that is now publicly stating he intentionally didn’t give honest and faithful service to his purported boss because if he left, Trump might appoint someone who would. Totally trustworthy coming from him.
Trump made no order to deploy the National Guard.
As I understand it has to be requested by the mayor.
highlighting committee testimony from former Acting Secretary Christopher Miller who told the panel
And the track record for the panel testimony is spotless…
The mayor or Speaker of the House – both Democrats – didn’t want to look like mad dictators by siccing guardsmen on the protesters, so instead they want to make it look like Trump was incompetent and diabolical for not breaking the law.
I guess all those NPCs on Twatter will now take the Ukrainian flag off their profile
The ones who are paid CIA or military trolls will. But some are just stupid people and can continue for years without learning new information. There are plenty of Russiagaters still out in the world.
I’m still waiting for Tom Arnold to release the piss tapes (if you recall, that was a claim the true believers were taking seriously several years ago).
People should be forced to wear their stupid political slogans on their sleeves like required flair for at least 10 years after they have become irrelevant, debunked, offensive, or otherwise unfashionable.
Facial tattoos.
I’m very sympathetic to those who don’t want to fight to defend Taiwan. I’m against the forever wars and generally am skeptical about the use of our military.
But defending Taiwan makes sense *for Americans’ concrete economic interests, freedoms, and sovereignty*.
Why? 👇 1/
https://twitter.com/ElbridgeColby/status/1554626099891429377
Even if I accepted that what amounts to World War 3 was somehow in our economic interest, does the US have the capability to wage war in Taiwan? Aren’t our troops mostly transgenders and pregnant women now? And wouldn’t the troop/weapons ships mostly be sunk on the way to Taiwan?
I would gladly throw away the woke elements in a futile overseas venture if it included everyone who signed off on those same.
Just so long as we can sign a peace treaty thanking the opponant du jour for the institutional cleaning.
The Chinese don’t possess the capability to successfully invade Taiwan currently. They might lose if it was just them and Taiwan, if Japan and/or other SE Asian nations that have a traditional beef with China got involved it’d be a straight up debacle.
Japan sure as hell must be nuking up at this point…
I think they nuked up a long time ago.
I would expect them to have a lot of un-manned systems since they are the leading edge of demographic decline.
My guess is they have everything they need designed and built, but just haven’t bolted it together yet so they can say they don’t have any nukes.
https://youtu.be/BbKryITEYfM
It seems to me places like China and Russia aint dong so hot army wise even without the transgender brigade (which could always be battalion one operation human shield )
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I skimmed through this one, but the future sled hockey player with the walker caught my eye. Thanks for posting these! I like this new tradition.
Thanks, the clip that made me happiest was at 4:56.
Ran into this today – good for some random sunshine hits:
https://twitter.com/WholesomeMeme
Alexandria unveils security enhancements at public schools
At some point the district should just admit failure of its mission to educate children. Retool and rebrand as a day care, meal delivery and social welfare site.
That sounds horrible.
It’s money wasting pussy ass bullshit.
And keep in mind that this is Alexandria, the most affluent locality in America.
Alexandria is a shit town in Romania (population 45000) who’s main economic activity used to be internet credit card scams.
There are shedloads of Alexandrias.
Alexander loved to name towns after himself, and then people kept naming other towns for those towns, or for someone named Alex
Still a more honest profession than most who live in Alexandria, Virginia.
I thought that was Aspen?
OK, most affluent working community. Aspen is a resort town.
All students in middle and high schools will be required to carry student IDs
The push for domestic passports is proceeding nicely.
That’s not unusual. My kids are required to have their student ID on a lanyard. For one thing, it helps with security, so you can spot right away someone who doesn’t belong in the school.
*maintains eye contact with Kevin, rips piece of foil*
Wouldn’t the rifle with the thing that goes up be a dead giveaway?
Read this this morning — and had to keep thinking through most of it… “Boy this woman would have had to either seriously shape up, starve to death — or be a bon bon eating cow henpecking some poor idiot in past generations”. I mean “email tires me too much to work”? Get over yourself, you insufferable excuse for an “adult”.
I don’t want to — but at the trajectory we’re going we may get to see when our civilization stops being so affluent and with spare resources that we can keep lumps like this alive despite their best efforts.
is a self-described “white, fat, disabled queer.”
The part of me that hasn’t changed since middle school automatically plays a Nelson Muntz laugh upon reading this phrase.
Well honey, that’s still no excuse for being stupid.
In a January 2021 Medium post, titled “I Sh*t My Pants at Work,” Bean dedicated an entire—and rather candid—article to chronicling her detailed tale of workplace incontinence and “survival” all while “dealing with Long Covid under capitalism.” The diary-like entry narrates how Bean became “disabled by the productivity demands of this capitalistic hellscape world.” She’s no stranger to ailments, though. “I have known the ways of chronic illness and been disabled-adjacent for big parts of my life,” Bean typed on Medium, listing afflictions that have plagued her, including Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Epstein-Barr, malaria, tuberculosis, depression, and chronic fatigue. Bean disclosed that she then filed a short-term disability claim to take some time off of work.
The Spartans who left malformed babies out on a rock to die are starting to seem far less barbaric.
/wanders off for caffeine
It’s very easy to write that in your journal.
Yeah, it grinds my gears that I am forced to help support these worthless leaches.
malaria?
In the literal sense: “bad air”.
So she wouldn’t have been incontinent if she had Long Covid under socialism?
If everyone had accepted glorious socialism, there would have been no Covid, comrade!
*Xi nods*
I am surprised Mighty Zardoz hasn’t put in an appearance this morning, because this calls for a cleansing.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONE. ZARDOZ OBSERVES THAT YOU SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD TARGETING EYE. PLEASE CONSIDER FILING AN APPLICATION TO JOIN THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS! 401K MATCH, DENTAL PLAN, AND CLEANSING BRUTALS…WHAT IS NOT TO LIKE? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Can I get a signing bonus for bringing my own guns? Leaves extra gifts of the gun for other new Exterminators, after all.
ZARDOZ WILL HAVE TO CONSULT H.R., BUT LIKES THE CUT OF YOUR JIB, CHOSEN ONE.
She’s disabled, but she can show up to protest a comedian.
Letting her starve wouldn’t bother me in the least.
You know, I was just amused by her insanity and morbid obesity, but calling other people “overfed” after being an obvious ice cream addict is where I draw the line.
I like how she simultaneously is arguing against “fatphobia” and, also, “I’m too fat to work”.
“Other people eat too much” is nice, too.
I’d admire the chutzpah if I thought she was straight-up grifting vs. just being lazy and mindlessly repeating slogans she’s read elsewhere.
Grab that coffee
Ok.
wave to that co-worker
Nah.
and enjoy another stupendous day
Meh.
No shade on our good Pope, but my daily ray of Chumptown Darkness. Really crappy day, added to by thinking “Ah, I’ll muck around the Duotrigordle” (which I do sometimes but don’t report results) to make myself feel better because usually I do okay on that [by my standards]… and proceeded to miss several guesses in a row there too.
Just not a good day for me and word puzzles apparently. Thank goodness that isn’t my day job.
Daily Quordle 191
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That was annoying, I hate it shen 1 letter ruins a guess
Daily Quordle 191
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Wiffed on all the options. Took 3 tries for 3 options on upper right. Got lower right on 2nd of 3 tries or would have failed.
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
I’ve been on a sub-Tundra-line slump for a while now. Not sure what the issue is.
Daily Quordle 191
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Best day in a while.
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BTW, I was playing some practice Quordles (to test which of my two favorite seed word pairs works best in actual use) and one of the words was NOT on the Wordle list that I have — kaput. Either my list is somehow corrupted or they went off-script.
Daily Quordle 191
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Tundra line. I’ll take it:
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In Arizona, the GOP gubernatorial race between Trump-backed Kari Lake, a former TV news journalist, and Karrin Taylor Robson was at midnight still too close to call.
FNC didn’t call it for Robson with 1% reporting?
“So, on the whole,” Muresianu said, “we should expect the bill to have a negligible impact on inflation. The Federal Reserve’s choices will play a much bigger role in whether or not inflation subsides than whether or not this bill passes.”
It doesn’t matter what the Federal Reserve does if the federal government continues to print money like there’s no tomorrow.
Fuck you, cut spending.
Muresianu seems like a suspiciously Romanian sounding name to me
Chef Gordon Ramsay is facing backlash on TikTok after posting a video in which he appeared to select a lamb to slaughter for a meal, rubbing his hands together while repeatedly saying “yummy.”
https://twitter.com/kaw1_/status/1554364863111221248
Mmmmm, lamb curry.
Thanks for reminding me to pick up onions today.
Lamb vindaloo, with some naan. Maybe I need Indian food for lunch or dinner today.
Nein on the naan for me.
That is a tough one to resist while trying to cut carbs!
We do a lot of butter chicken with cauliflower rice. Not quite the same, but good enough.
I’ve found some low carb naan recipes, but who has the time to deal eith all the niche ingredients and techniques? I’d rather do without than play mad scientist for something that still doesnt quite fill the delicious gluten filled hole in my indian dish
Poor onions. What did they ever to do you?
Because people on TikTok think meat comes from the grocery store.
This.
For the truly well off, food comes from a waiter or personal chef.
“I think I’ll call him ‘Lunch!'”
Heh.
My BiL kept turkeys in his younger days — he had four of ’em one year that were named Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Spare.
We are way too far removed from reality.
When I was young my parents bought a pig from a farmer. We visited him a few times until he was ready for slaughter.
Much later my niece brought home a box with a couple chickens. They were unaware they were for dinner.
I was happily removed from reality in both cases.
Your nieces were for dinner?
cannibalism is best when it is kept in the family
Ted, the niece was singular, the chickens plural, so “they” refers to the chickens. Unless you were being clever and assuming the niece’s pronoun was “they” — in which case, bravo!
I look at it as a cavity in reality, in the sense of fluid cavitation. The tiniest little bubble of vapor can form, inside of which is a near vacuum, and then collapse nearly instantaneously. The effects of that collapse, tiny as the bubble is, are devastating to its surroundings. Extreme energies can be released that cause catastrophic damage, if enough bubbles form and collapse, or if the bubble becomes large enough before collapsing.
“Hi! I’m Mel, for Mel’s Char Palace! Where you find your own cow! You cut your own steaks! You select your cow from over 200 head! You stun it! You cut it! You charbroil it! You.. cut.. your own steaks! We give you the saw! You cut your own sirloins, tips, blades, and roasts! You find it! You stun it! You cut it! As big and as thick as you want it! Only at Mel’s Char Palace! Our saws are light! Here’s Mrs. Mel!
[ Mrs. Mel walks up gripping a chainsaw ]
Show ’em how to work the saw!
[ Mrs. Mel lets the chainsaw rip ]
Yeah, she does it, you can, too, at Mel’s Char Palace, 217 Paramus!”
I love that skit!
Also, I was thinking of the “Restaurant at the End of the Universe” cow…
The world has spoken. 🙄
“Repent Harlequin!” said the TikTok ‘man’.
Was the backlash from Montanans who were revolted by his pedophilia? Did they shout “Groomer” at him?
I used to teach an art class for kids. Once a girl, about 7 or 8, showed me a picture of the lamb she was raising. I asked if it was a boy or a girl. She laughed. “They’re all girls!” “What do you do with the boys?” “YOU EAT THEM!”
That’s when I knew there was hope for our country.
“How do you incentivize a private-sector partner to co-invest in an interstate rest area when there is zero opportunity for them to monetize or get a return on their investment?” Lyle McMillan, director of strategic investments at the Utah Department of Transportation (DOT), told E&E News.
There is no use for market incentive, comrade.
Hmm let me see, no return on investment, so it isn’t really a co-invest opportunity, is it?
until they’re told what the new current thing is to replace is with
The Taiwan thing is brewing.
But will the Hive Mind take their side or China’s?
We need a Qing restoration.
Not for all the Narrowed Gazes in Switzerland
Economic experts and Biden Administration officials have come to a census regarding the Inflation Reduction Act, agreeing that the $739 billion democratic spending plan will do next to nothing to combat inflated prices over the next decade.
It’s almost like you cannot fight inflation with inflation.
“President Joe Biden on Wednesday will sign an executive order aimed in part at making it easier for women seeking abortions to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure.
More specifically, one of the directives Biden will issue will allow states that have not outlawed abortion to apply for specific Medicaid waivers that would, in effect, help them treat women who have traveled from out of state.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11076439/Biden-sign-executive-order-protect-travel-abortion.html
Isn’t that in violation of the Hyde amendment?
“I don’t care. I’m going to use tax dollars how I like to.”
Just curious; does Medicaid cover out-of-state medical care during childbirth and for newborns? For instance, I live very close to the Ohio border, and in some circumstances might need to go for treatment across the line. Are poor Pennsylvanians who are closer to a hospital in OH stuck with a longer trip to a possibly lower-quality hospital in PA?
When there is a Dem in the Whitehouse, executive orders supersede legislation.
“Surprise: The case of the missing Jan. 6 text messages now extends to the Pentagon
I can just about believe that three separate agencies of the federal government would be so incompetent that they’d absentmindedly wipe the phones of major officials despite federal records laws to the contrary, but the more examples of this there are, the more deliberate it appears…
There’s no evidence in any of these cases that Trump or any other high official gave formal orders to start destroying evidence. Assuming that it was done deliberately and not as a matter of egregious negligence, it was most likely a case of each agency fearing legal exposure in the aftermath of January 6 for what top personnel there might have done or not done to facilitate a coup attempt. Deleting electronic communications and then pleading “oopsie, innocent mistake” afterward might have been the easiest play.”
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/08/02/surprise-the-case-of-the-missing-jan-6-text-messages-now-extends-to-the-pentagon-n487040
There was a coup attempt but not the public one by the crowd of US citizens entering their own Capitol.
It wasn’t an attempt. They succeeded. For two years they will run unchecked and wreck people’s lives.
Deep staters destroying evidence? Inconceivable!
What happened to our faithful public servants?
Cincinnatus died thousands of years ago.
Given the pentagon was actively putting roadblocks up against Trump, I’m assuming the text messages are not what the committee is trying to portray them as?
“Raunchy advert sparks fury for ‘sexually objectifying’ garlic in South Korea”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11075657/S-Korean-garlic-video-ad-roasted-purported-obscenity.html
Seems pretty tame to me.
You’d think we’d be able to run a scantron election.
People at Red Mountain Community College complaining about the felt tip pens. Say they are coming apart & leaving felt & then when the ballot is run through the machine, it smears. One guy said he had to vote 3 times before the machine would accept his ballot.
Our scam machines let us use ball point pens.
Maryland had odd “connect the arrow” ballots. They provided felt pens.
Google’s censorship now extends to their survey platform.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/google-does-not-want-anyone-to-find
If you say the word “vaccination” on YouTube the video will automatically be flagged.
today in twerking videos
https://twitter.com/perassveronica1
“disabled by the productivity demands of this capitalistic hellscape world.”
Just sit on a street corner with your mouth open like a baby bird. Maybe somebody will drop a worm in on the way by.
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That’s one of the main problems with corporate journalism.
CHLOÉ ROSE Swimwear Highlights Spring 2020 Miami – Swimwear & Underwear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjcJkA30MVA
The perpetual bane of system email accounts is that you can put as many DO NOT REPLY TO THIS ADDRESS notices on them as you want, but people still reply to them and expect a response.
Maybe, just maybe, that says more about system email accounts.
The accounting platform has to send invoices and statements through something.
US Mail?
Okay, kidding, how about, I don’t know, a customer service account that can handle replies?
I have massive problems with email. It needs to be scrapped and started over with public/private key encryption. There was a thin sliver of time in the 90s when not many people were using email AND there was a movement to sign all emails, that the modern world could have been prevented. But people were lazy.
Yes, the modern world would have been prevented. The average user can’t understand email as it stands, trying to incorporate PKI into the system even at that early stage would have shunted into a niche technology, and another insecute platform would have moved in, touting its convenience over those paranoid whackos.
It needed to be built into the clients, to handle it for them.
I think it is becoming more and more pointless every year. Fewer people seem to actually use email at work from what I can tell, it is all Slack / Teams / Whatnot direct messaging. Which, needless to say, annoys the crap out of me because people expect instant replies (even more than some idiots did with email) regardless of time zone, whether I have anything to do with the question, etc. Annoying as hell.
Don’t know about your workplace, but here, it’s still almost entirely email and phone calls.
Good luck with that. I can’t even get people to pay attention to ALL CAPS messages in the subject line.
Why are you screaming at me?
I think it says more about the users not reading that there won’t be a reply.
Just set their mailbox to /dev/null and don’t fret over the people who can’t be bothered to pay attention.
Years ago I worked on the system that Mobil Oil used to invoice for tanker loads of product (crude or refined). We did an update and had to send out test invoices, and they were vividly labeled as TEST – DO NOT PAY.
Several of those invoiced called into Mobil’s settlement office asking how they were supposed to remit.
I was somewhat regretful that I hadn’t set up a Cayman Island bank account and collect a few million easy dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlene_Corley
Yeah, the settlement of oil tanker trades is amazingly slow (or at least it was at that time), and the smaller invoices often got wrapped up months later. The trick is always to be not too greedy if you’re going to defraud, and to get out quick because you will eventually be caught.
Not that I know this from personal experience.
It’s the after the fact audits that get many.
I had a new customer that double paid their first invoice. Naturally, I called them and said we would send the check back or give them future credit. The buyer admitted it was a test to see how honest their new supplier was! Did lots of business with them over the next decade.
That’s what the Reply-To header is for. If you send an email,
I should be able to respond by email. The senders failure
to provide an address for a reply is the sender’s fault, not
the recipients.
Give that address an auto-reply telling the people they’re a moron for replying to an address when they were specifically told not to.
Gun violence is solved.
As tackling gun violence remains a top priority in Richmond, Mayor Levar Stoney announced the city will launch a gun buyback program in an effort to reduce the availability of firearms.
“We have too many guns in the hands of too many people who should not possess those guns,” Mayor Stoney said during a press conference Tuesday.
The program will allow people to trade in their guns for gift cards to stores including Walmart and Kroger, places the Mayor’s Office noted do not sell guns.
I will happily sell to the government any firearms I purchased from the government.
$250 for an assault weapon
$200 for a handgun
$150 for a rifle
$25 for an inoperable gun
That is insulting.
Let the 3D printers rip!
$25 for an inoperable gun
For what definition of gun?
$200 for a handgun
Fire up your 3D printers.
*begins making cardboard inoperable guns
Stoney is a worthless POS. The mayor of Detroit in Robocop was more honest.
I guess they are going to learn the lesson Houston did:
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/ogg-turner-houston-gun-buyback/285-408fe3a1-07ed-4d9a-a385-f63107971bc5
3d printer go brrrrrrr
Do I need to bring ammo and prove it is operable to get full price?
Does a homemade muzzle loading rifle qualify?
The Abe zip gun was operable.
Tonio, let me know if you want to borrow a 3D printer. filament’s on you, though…
This is a brilliant piece.
There was a good piece several years ago discussing the military brownnosing phenomenon. Written by a lieutenant colonel of course.
Do you have a link? That may be the one I reference below.
I’ll see if I can find it.
Sounds like something Ralph Peters or Hackworth would have written.
Hackworth really explains how it got started, but even he didn’t see it come to this degree of dysfunction.
I’m going to read that when I get a few minutes. I read a similar article maybe 10 years, maybe more, ago, perhaps linked by one of the regulars at TOS, in which this thesis was stated and backed up with real experience within the officer corps. The moral cowardice of our military leadership seems to be nothing new, but headed toward its ultimate result, which is military powerlessness for the US.
I’m re-reading Dreadnought for fun and can’t help but be reminded of the Mediterranean Fleet in the 1870s-1890s. The Pax Brittanica gave them no one to actually fight… so the focus became all about “how pretty can you keep your ship” not “can you actually fight it”. And of course, the officers who went along were the ones that got the promotions, and they were the ones judging the next step, etc. I’m sure Swiss, Ozy etc. have real perspectives beyond my behind-the-armchair-much-less-rear-echelon view, but it looks to me that we’ve not taking a war seriously since Desert Storm at the latest (and probably ‘Nam, really.. Desert Storm was almost too easy and I think that gave us the wrong lessons), allowing the mindset of “We can do whatever and we’ll win anyway” to creep in. And then you get “make the organization look good since it won’t affect the fight” as the next natural thought, and we’re off to the races.
You could almost view “Make the military loyal to the regime and politically correctly full of trans-genders for diversity goals” as the extreme asymptote of this, except I suspect the first part is more political corruption and lack of ethics in the government as a whole than really a military thing. (Ok, that all the brass didn’t mass resign than follow such crap orders is part of it, but only a part.. that we’ve reached a point where the establishment power/media thinks they can get away with it is the real rot.)
The RN actually made losing a ship in combat a court martial offense, which is why they didn’t force the Dardenelles in WWI.
Our General Officer corps is being reduced to the level of the British of the WWI era.
Yep. When I read about that in The Great Game, I was a little surprised at how incompetent the British action in that area was, and how a short, competent, and effective campaign could have changed the course of the war very early on, and changed the literal course of the history of the 20th Century. What a fuck-up.
Wait, it wasn’t The Great Game, it was A Peace to End All Peace.
https://youtu.be/rblfKREj50o
and probably ‘Nam, really
Probably Korea to where there was actual retrograde movement, large numbers of POWs, and possible corps level surrender/destruction.
Even in the 80’s it was common knowledge that Colonels didn’t make it to General without being politically connected. Now I suspect that requirement is much lower into the officer ranks and probably is a requirement for senior NCOs as well. The vax requirement and tolerating all the woke bullshit training means that every new member of the military has effectively signed on to the woke mission. That’s why recruiting from the rural South and Midwest – the traditional sources of combat arms recruits – has cratered.
It would take a concerted effort for a generation or a very bad battlefield loss to turn it around. We’re probably headed for the latter.
I think bad battlefield loss is an understatement, we’re going to end up in a Cannae moment.
They really seem to want a war with China AND Russia. And there will be no clear objectives other than rectifying hurt feelings and making them woke.
If he resigned his commission, why is he still using his rank?
I would assume in this case for credibility of his argument – that he was an insider.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/perkasie-skydiver-attempts-101-jumps-in-one-day-for-new-record/article_bedb2a10-131a-11ed-bc7d-43277d80f866.html
Neat.
“You know, these parachutes have a 1% failure rate…”
You do carry a reserve.
“And if that reserve should fail me too…” 🎶
747 rolling down the strip
MI soldier on a TDY trip
He counted loud, he counted long, he waited for the shock,
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt that awful drop.
The silk from his reserves spilled out, and wrapped around his legs.
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
The risers wrapped around his neck, connectors cracked his dome.
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones.
His canopy became a shroud as he hurtled to the ground.
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, gory what a helluva way to die, die.
Gory, gory what a helluva way to die.
Gory, gory what a helluva way to die, and he ain’t gonna jump no more.
A soldier from the LRSD company in my battalion died on a jump when I was at Fort Rich. Fortunately I didn’t see it. I did see a few cargo drop failures. A palette of MREs has a decent spread pattern.
Switzy will be along to police that.
I once rode Knott’s parachute drop multiple times in one day.
These euphemisms!
Michael Yon – Germany Powering Down
I like his analogy about Germany choosing Ragnarök instead of any of the logical options.
Must be someone who has never experienced a real winter because German winters are not all that cold at all.
The average January low in Berlin is 27.0. The average January high in Minneapolis is 23.6.
Sounds uncomfortable without heat.
Winter in Heidelberg was actually pretty mild.
Yon grew up on Florida so his idea of “very cold” is suspect.
I find him a bit tiresome to read (and I’ve paid for one of his books) – he seems so very impressed by his own writing.
I have an idea for a board game called Ragnarok.
The first half of the game is a very technical, Euro style game, with tile placement and resource managment, and building up a population.
The a player plays the Gjallarhor card, starting Ragnarok. At that point it is a dice-fest fight to get your people to Yggdrasil.
Some cunte said the same thing about AIDS.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the global monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. As of July 28, monkeypox has been detected in at least 78 countries, and reported cases are currently on the rise in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Multiple people on social media (here, here, and here) claim monkeypox can potentially spread by touching clothing, bedding and towels that have previously come in contact with a person who has the virus.
“Think twice before trying clothes on in a store, and maybe bring your own linens/towels for any hotel or Airbnb stay,” one post said.
“Make sure to bring your own towels to the Air B&B, but go to all the gay orgies you want” is apparently the message.
So many things in the links today that nobody could have possibly seen coming. Except a lot of people, including 100% of us here.
Pete Buttigieg
@PeteButtigieg
Our intelligence community is the best.
https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1554432233372614657
At what? Spying on our own citizens and blackmailing pols?
At fucking the rest of us up the ass. And he would know.
The sycophantic replies make me want to blow my fucking lunch.
It’s Wednesday, SF will take care of that shortly.
I often wonder if he even knows what his job is.
As a former McKinseyite, obviously he is the smartest guy in the administration.
Sure, to take paternity leave.
I don’t think he actually does anything, at least not anything useful.
You should see the weekly messages I get from him
OFFS. What a tool.
Is that tweet his equivalent of Mr. Pelosi’s 11-99 card? What crime has ButtChug committed that the NSA got its hands on?
Publicly, the guy appears to be completely un-blackmailable.
The best people to blackmail are the ones with spotless reputations.
Err, so I’ve heard.
Is that why people keep trying to fabricate dirt on me?
He’s faking the gay thing.
“Batgirl,” the feature film adaptation of the DC Comics character, has been killed at Warner Bros.
This is almost unheard of: a major studio is scrapping a film that has not only cost $90 million dollars but has *finished principal photography.*
https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/1554579238765748225
Except, now they don’t have to shell out the additional cash for post production and marketing.
I mean if you watch the film and it is so made of failure that another $ spent is another $ lost, don’t sink more money into it.
If that picture is of the actress supposedly playing batgirl, they’ve miscast the lead.
Looks like they cast a female as Batgirl. So hateful. It should have been a dude identifying as chick identifying as a bat.
Maybe she identified as a non binary cat penguin hybrid during casting
Batman is already a furry. Why make it worse?
Jeez people how did you miss that this is all the fault of the Warner bros?
What about the Warner sister?
You leave Dot out of this. She’s cuuuuuute!
She’s busy with her new fall line (and dancing because of it…).
Julie?
I was referring to Dot.
We don’t speak about her.
One of the best cartoon that made fun of Hollywood and pop cultire that as a kid I didn’t get.
This is disappointing because I was looking forward to a Brendan Frasier supervillain, and the possibility that it would rekindle his career.
NPR explains
Tucked inside the sprawling Senate compromise bill for climate change and health care is an effort, years in the making, to close what Democrats say is a loophole that benefits a handful of the richest Americans: the carried interest tax.
The legislative compromise, reached last week by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, could represent the single largest federal clean energy investment in U.S. history.
About $14 billion meant to fund those efforts would come, Democrats say, from a change to the way the U.S. taxes what is called “carried interest,” a major way that many fund managers and private equity investors earn their compensation.
But it has long been controversial because this kind of income is currently taxed at a much lower rate than the salary most Americans earn from ordinary jobs.
——-
“There’s a lot of money at stake. Some of the richest Americans have made their fortunes by earning carried interest, especially through private equity funds,” said Steve Rosenthal, a fellow at the Urban Institute’s Tax Policy Center, in an interview with NPR.
Those people must be punished.
Maybe we could lower the rate for those working ordinary jobs? Just a thought…
Very funny – those tax brackets aren’t even indexed for inflation.
clean energy – clean like money is clean after being laundered I assume
How about removing the loophole that allows members of congress to trade stocks in industries that they are regulating? Or maybe the revolving door loophole that allows people to seamlessly move from government positions, to lobbying, to jobs at big corporations and big media? Maybe we should close those loopholes? Preferably tightening those loopholes around someone’s neck.
I remember running as an LP candidate once and stating I would put my finances in a blind trust, run by an independent CPA firm, and also have all campaign contributions run through them so I wouldn’t know who was funding my campaign. I was told it was illegal for a candidate to not know who was supporting him or where his wealth was being invested.
I often wonder if he even knows what his job is.
Mayor Petey has pompoms and he’s not afraid to use them.
here’s a timeline cleanser I’ve been meaning to share with you: two minutes of kitten Thunderdome!
https://twitter.com/ClayPuppington/status/1554580202688286720
Replace the batteries in your smoke detector.
In a Sunday interview on Fox News, Manchin disputed the characterization that the proposal, including its carried interest provision, would raise taxes.
“We did not raise taxes. We’ve closed loopholes. That’s all we did. I made sure there were no tax increases in this whatsoever,” Manchin said.
You’ve been duped, bub.
Don’t let him off the hook so easy, he’s the duper not the dupee. He’s just playing his role.
So closing those loopholes reduced what people were paying?
The loopholes that allow people to keep any of their earnings or possessions.
Not The Bee.
LOL
“You know she’s never going to sleep with you, right?”
There is no denying that AOC would boost GOP turnout as a result of coverage on right wing networks built to scare elderly white voters. But she would electrify the party’s base, turn out the youth at record levels and bring the party together by acknowledging the threat posed by electing Trump Republicans.
Who gets the Latinx vote?
All seven of them?
Because only scared old whiteys are opposed to communism.
She does have charisma, I’ll give her that. Damn shame about her tenuous grasp on reality and sanity though.
What “fresh air?” Obama ducked just about every controversial issue, voted “present” when it was convenient, and was a good little obedient senator. There’s probably already a phone book sized file of outrageous quotes from AOC that can be used against her should she ever run outside her safe district.
She can be the next empty (pant)suit who is “articulate” and “diverse”.
IOW, a shoo-in for Team Left.
Is she even old enough?
She would be 28 days eligible when voting occurs.
So rehab or zombie outbreak?
That is not a serious person.
This is not a serious country.
Why so serious?
“Barack Obama came out of nowhere to win his Senate seat in 2004”
The local press in Chicago and other parts of Illinois were fellating Obama since 1998.
+1 sealed divorce court file
The Senate could take up the bill as early as this week. If it passes, the changes to the carried interest provision, along with the establishment of a corporate minimum tax rate of 15%, would help fund the development of renewable energy projects, encourage Americans to buy electric vehicles and support communities affected by climate change.
And they all lived happily ever after.
They’re hell-bent on stupiding us into poverty.
Nothing knocks the edge off price inflation like increasing the cost basis of everything sold with a corporate tax hike.
“Cynics may smile at this latest demonstration of corporate philistinism and heartlessness with regard to the work of directors, writers, actors, cinematographers and other artists. But hasn’t Hollywood always been an unsentimental business? Do you think Harry Cohn or Jack Warner or Sam Goldwyn would have fainted with shock at the news of what Zaslav is doing? Or would they just shrug and say, OK, yes, it had to be done …?
Maybe. But treating movies as individual artworks isn’t simply a cinephile mannerism or quixotic romance. If you fail to keep the faith with the idea of films as artworks, that will hurt your bottom line. The public will sense the cynicism and the emptiness and they will turn away from these films: there will be a colossal crisis, a kind of colony collapse disorder in the cinema.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/03/tax-concerns-axed-batgirl-but-studios-will-suffer-if-they-become-too-cynical
Can’t talk, journalisming!
When the appointed artists produce shite that the public doesn’t want to pay for, it is time to clean house. Doesn’t matter what your purity of vision is, the bottom line still needs to be covered.
And yes, I’m pretty sure the people who moved out west to avoid paying license fees to patent holders on the tech they pirated for their industry would have understood realignment to restore profitability.
Paging Critical Drinker.
Speaking of films. The 15:17 to Paris came up in my feed. Why not. It was something to casually watch while I did some paperwork. I didn’t pay much attention in the first few minutes. When it got to the point where the main characters are grown I thought the quality of acting dropped off. I didn’t realize until later many parts were played by the actual people involved.
“Gamblers and other types of investor…”
Says a lot about what a Guardian writer thinks about investing.
The besbest Batgirl is the Mexican Batgirl.t Batgirl is the Mexican Batwoman who spent over half of the movie fighting crime in a bikini.
Jesus! What happened to my post! This is madness!
Madness? This is Monocle!
*kicks RJ into small puddle*
Sorry, we didn’t have any bottomless wells available.
Thankfully it is only on the Ubuntu machine. My phone is sans monocle. I will continue to play with monocle only on the Pi/Ubuntu system.
You can get Monocle working on IOS w/ Safari; I should submit an update to that page…
Awesome.
Although Leslie Grace is Dominican, and looks good in a bikini.
‘Another Republican impeachment voter loses their seat’
Racist Republicans strike again.
‘Paul Pelosi allegedly slurred speech, had drug in system and handed over police privilege card during DUI bust’
He’s always had a stutter. /Den op media
The cop privilege card seems to have worked. I think they let him detox for something like 4 hours before taking a BAC.
And he still failed. He must have been hammered flat.
Uh Oh.
Your Rolex Suddenly Might Be Worth Less Than You Think
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rolex-watch-secondary-market-prices-crypto-crash-11659495619?st=uefl9qwe7k02as7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Resale prices of pre-owned collectible watches are declining, dealers say, even as the primary market remains hot
Wait? I own a Rolex? Who has it?
Did you look in your sock drawer? Or the drawer for wine drinking gloves, as it is never used?
Related watch news,
https://soranews24.com/2022/08/01/line-of-japanese-smelling-watches-sold-through-japan-post-office/
Why would I want a watch that smells Japanese?
I was wondering if they had a cheap Chinese movement. Seiko makes it. So it may not be as cheap as it looks.
Why didn’t anyone tell me?!
First thing I thought when I saw the WSJ article today.
twit thread on old newspaper articles
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1554741718712459265
Including
Late-stage capitalism 1979, An early Bernie Bro.1987, early Angela Merkel and Putin,
The first one is an op-ed by Leonard Pitts, who was and still is perpetually wrong on just about everything.
this one is fun
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1554424520458620929
How to Stop Inflation
https://twitter.com/FriedrichHayek/status/1554556417473818624
The only man who truly made baseball entertaining.
An old white man who probably wasn’t even woke. Yet baseball is poorer with his passing, and that of other great announcers like By Saam and Whitey Ashburn.
Cynics may smile at this latest demonstration of corporate philistinism and heartlessness with regard to the work of directors, writers, actors, cinematographers and other artists.
What’s the saying? “You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh”?
Conde Nast gets it wrong.
After every time I’ve traveled internationally, I’m glad I live in the USA. Those might be nice places to visit, but to live there full-time? No thanks.
City folks are always saying cities are better because they offer all kinds of activities that aren’t at the top of my list. I notice that every weekend in summer city folk flee town.
+1 Nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Also, natives often don’t visit the museums, theaters, etc. that are supposed to make cities worth the trouble.
But, to each his/her/xer/its own.
Vienna is nice if you can afford it.
From what I have seen, many major cities would be nice places to live if you are (quite) wealthy.
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women
There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry
There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows
There’s a tree where the doves go to die
There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
What do you call a pretty woman in Vienna?
A tourist.
“If money were no issue” changes many calculations.
I absolutely loved visiting Vienna. But I’m sure living there would have many challenges that tourists don’t have to worry or care about.
My wife was able to live there on a waitress salary, but she had a pretty crappy apartment. But it wasn’t like living in the slums. Once you learn your way around you can find cheap places. When I went there I’d eat a the Naschmarkt rather than going to a restaurant, for example
They also have a pretty generous safety net so you can do ok if you don’t make much money. Our son was born there and we didn’t have to pay anything additional. All his checkups for the first year were “free” (paid for with my wife’s taxes). And we got a monthly stipend for about 18 months. That said, the quality of the doctors in the hospital was not very good.
“Humphrey Goldenbollocks” was clearly at the very top of his banter game.
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1554738407133351937
This just came on
Paradise
lostwrecked.See All You Can Do On San Andres Island, Colombia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_D-OdS-UiM
Colombia seems dangerous to me for some reason.
It’s the hippos. Definately the hippos.
does the cocaine play any part? or just the hippo-ness
Round 6 is still on-going, but US has taken over sole 2nd place in the Chess Olympiad, after defeating Iran today.
Armenia is last perfect team at 6-0.
US is second, at 5-0-1.
Everyone else has either a loss or a second tie.
Round 7 will be US v Armenia, if I understand my narrowed gaze pairings properly.
On the women’s side, US destroyed Venezuela to get to 4-2. The US women won all 4 matches. India’s women are 6-0, Romania looks like they will be joining them as the only other team at 6-0.
And apparently Romania didn’t convert and so is 5-0-1.
when is the Chess Boxing Olympiad ?
Wait until they add the third and fourth dimensions in the lightning round.
I saw a joke the other day about how a knight moves in 5D chess.
It only took 6+ years and I’m sure countless palms being greased but, modular small scale fission reactors have been approved for use.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2022/22-029.pdf
https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/smr/nuscale.html
Neat. Looks like a design that might help in the whole “build standardized, faster and cheaper” drive they keep trying to do. And maybe if Germany goes dark and cold enough to drive the point of needing solid base load home, we won’t allow perpetual lawfare to stall building some. (I’m sure the West Coast won’t allow it.. but I have faith in the rest of the country…).
This dangerously ignorant and historically illiterate cunte can fuck all the way off.
As an alternative to regulatory gun control measures, I’m proposing a gun buyback program in which the purchase price is tied to each weapon’s market value and the likelihood of its being used in criminal activity. To finance the program, Congress should increase excise taxes on firearms, ammunition, and selected tactical gear such as body armor. The federal government already levies about a 10 percent tax on firearms and ammunition. Under my proposal, these taxes would be increased significantly, though not so high as to be prohibitive and trigger court challenges. To go further, Congress could potentially apply a progressive tax based on how dangerous a weapon is, like placing a higher tax on an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle than a historic flintlock rifle. …
Additionally, increased taxes on firearms, ammunition, and gear could help reduce purchases of new guns. A 2002 study by Douglas C. Bice and David D. Hemley found that consumer demand in the handgun market is highly elastic: As prices increased by 1 percent, demand decreased by 2 to 3 percent. Congress can choose a tax rate that balances the need for revenue against discouraging private weapon sales. …
Ideally, Republicans would embrace this proposal as a measure to increase public safety without infringing on the Second Amendment. But given Republican opposition to tax hikes in general, let alone on guns, a Democratic-votes-only maneuver through the budget reconciliation process would be necessary. An excise tax on weaponry and a firearm buyback program are budgetary measures that fall well within the confines of reconciliation and thus can be enacted by a simple majority of the Senate.
Buybacks offer three defenses against court challenges, given that the Supreme Court has embraced the notion, however misguided, that nothing can impede an individual right to own and use firearms. First, it is an exercise of core congressional powers: taxing and spending. Second, Congress has a long history of excise taxes, dating back to 1791. There has been a federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition for more than a century; the Court cannot accuse Congress of trying something completely new. Third, as long as the tax rates are not prohibitive, neither the excise tax nor the gun buyback program constitutes an “infringement”: citizens can still buy guns so long as they pay the tax, and gun owners are not forced to participate in the buyback program.
Does this article even mention the NFA, which is entirely a tax-based registration scheme?
the likelihood of its being used in criminal activity
Ah so fractions of a percent of fair market value.
a gun buyback program
I will gladly sell back to any government all the guns I acquired from that government.
the purchase price is tied to each weapon’s market value and the likelihood of its being used in criminal activity
So my $2,000+ fitted-out Tavor, which has, generously, a one in a million likelihood of being used in criminal activity, will get me $0.01? Pass.
What do you suppose I’d get for a 1940 Winchester M12 Black Diamond trap gun? Next to nothing, I’d guess.
Cue excise taxes on media companies and social media.
Fox News will be an extra $150/mo on your cable bill. (MSNBC and CNN will be $0 because their market share of viewers is so small). Truth social media $10000000000/day. Facebook free (for now).
“Look we aren’t censoring any speech. You are free to say anything you want. It isn’t our fault no one is rich enough to listen to your ideas”
“I had to hear this so now you do, too.”
https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1554222939670827008
OFFS!!!
That gets a WTF from me.
“Shaun King spent $40k of donated money on a guard dog to protect him from cops, white supremacists, and presumably from donors who realised they’ve been giving money to a guy who spends $40k of their donations on a dog
Shaun King couldn’t acquire a gun and had to return his $40,000 aggressive dog because it was too aggressive, so now he’s sending his followers after his enemies instead”
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1554651576194969600
$40K on a guard dog is the whitest thing I ever heard.
Talcum X is an ex-con?
He was turned down for being too black, too strong.
Could be other things. Weed, habitual drunk, adjudicated mentally incompetent, can’t fill out the 4473 with his actual race? I’d believe almost anything.
“Some ableist words you should probably cut out of your vocabulary…bc they’re ableist:
– Idiot/idiotic
– Crazy
– Differently abled
– Dumb
– Insane
– Lame
– Moron
– Psycho
– Specially abled
– Stupid”
https://twitter.com/BeccaBeckery/status/1554095688438382594
That’s retarded.
How about “nitwit?” “Imbecile?” “Cretin?” “Nincompoop?”
What a maroon! What an imbessile!
“You farging icehole!”
Can’t I just hold up a series of white placards with a screw and baseball, a pot with a large crack in it, a dunce cap, etc.
Bugs bunny you will be cancelled soon, if it hasn’t already happened.
Functionally decerebrate?
Cognitively challenged?
Dullard?
Simpleton?
Yes.
Can we consider her 3rd generation?
Twit?
I cheerfully accept the title of ‘ableist’. In fact, I think it’s a compliment.
How much I value you as a person, is directly proportional to what you can do and how good you are at it.
So you want to make yourself feel big by crippling my vocabulary? What a pinhead.
Pretext to invasion?
China’s military announced that it will conduct a series of live-fire drills surrounding Taiwan from Thursday to Sunday.
The island’s defence ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that the military exercises “intended to threaten our major ports and metropolitan areas.”
Naw, just sabre-rattling.
This is what I think. US government is completely in the pocket of the Chinese government. This includes Pelosi. The significant sabre rattling going on by China is part of an act to make the US government look at least slightly better in the eyes of the public, meaning to give the Democrats some kind of lift before November by showing they aren’t completely useless hose bags.
I may be proven wrong if China actually makes an aggressive move on Taiwan. It could be that Pelosi and Biden are absolute morons who staggered into live fire with China while drunk on wokeness.
“Sabre Ratting”
Jinx!
Possibly. Everyone thought Russia was saber-rattling prior to the invasion of Ukraine.
I watched an interesting video several months ago that predicted China’s invasion, if it occurred, would begin as live fire drills and fly-bys that suddenly stopped being drills and switched to hitting strategic targets.
Pretend cowboys for pretend Republicans
Rep. Liz Cheney is putting some major Hollywood muscle behind her reelection bid, touting the endorsement of actor Kevin Costner.
The Wyoming Republican tweeted a photo on Monday of the “Yellowstone” star sporting a pro-Cheney shirt.
ITK confirmed that Costner is the smiling figure featured in Cheney’s tweet, which included a message: “Real men put country over party.” Cheney’s office didn’t respond to questions from ITK about details of Costner’s backing.
That settles it.
That settles it.
You were on the fence, but now you’re voting against her?
He’s just a guy that found a bag of mail.
Well, I’m sure the everyday Wyomingites will realize how wrong they were about her now that the Hollywood Elite are endorsing Cheney.
You know what she needs to really win over the rustics? Endorsements from DeBlasio, Cuomo or Hochul. Then she could run as a uniter! East and West coast elites agree she is totes awesome!
It certainly settles that I don’t need to watch any more Yellowstone. It was already on hold due to every single character being despicable in one way or another.
Cue that kid from The Simpsons “Haha!”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-01/germany-heading-to-gas-emergency-with-russia-keeping-nord-stream-flows-reduced
I’m seeing a lot of speculation about whether Sinema will vote against the downsized Build Back Bolshevik bill, now that Manchin has been bought off.
I’m thinking, she will because she’s up for re-election this year, but it won’t matter because Romney, Murkowski, and/or Snow (or some other reliable uniparty hack) will vote for it, so it won’t matter.
+1 bipartisan spending bill
My pet snail lost his shell.
He looks sluggish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg
Is that a sexual euphemism?