386 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    I fucked up my shoulder too.

    • Chafed

      Thursday night should I press play for you?

      • Count Potato

        Thanks, I think I can manage. The worst part it’s making my neck and jaw hurt.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

  2. Count Potato

    They should ban TiKTok.

    • UnCivilServant

      Any company with affiliations to the CCP should be banned.

      • AlexinCT

        They are likely going after these companies so they can pick up the way they work. After all, the crooks running our country keep telling us how envious they are of how the CCP can crack the whip. Especially against their political enemies. I am not going to be surprised to find out a large number of these statists when they saw Hu being dragged out of the CCP jerkfest on video while Xi ignored his old mentor, protector, and boss, in order to crown himself, started playing with themselves and had orgasms of pleasure.

      • Lackadaisical

        *Velcro sound*

      • Count Potato

        That’s almost everything sold here.

      • Count Potato

        That would destroy the economy.

      • UnCivilServant

        Economy’s already destroyed, perfect time to detatch the paracite and move for manufacturing independence.

      • Count Potato

        Nonsense.

    • WTF

      Everyone knows that TikTok is CCP spyware. So if you use it anyway you’re an idiot.

      • Count Potato

        Biden let it into the White House.

      • WTF

        Point made.

      • AlexinCT

        You mean, this Biden?

    • waffles

      I’ve heard TikTok in China is very pro-achievement and ultra-nationalistic. I never thought I’d say this but I miss the unabashed American jingoism of 20 years ago. Would be great if we could use it for good instead of evil.

      • rhywun

        Everything in China is ultra-nationalistic. It ramped up after Tiananmen Square.

      • Lackadaisical

        Same, well, more like of 30 years ago, before it got crazy. There are old movies from other countries that actually paint us in a relatively good light. Can’t really imagine that now, since we’re always so negative about ourselves.

      • UnCivilServant

        I find that hard to believe.

        We were always raging assholes.

      • Lackadaisical

        But with better PR.

  3. UnCivilServant

    Biden’s DOJ reveals investigations into CCP-backed telecom companies in the US

    Lemme guess, they didn’t pay their 10%?

  4. Count Potato

    Can flying monkeys stuff ballots?

    • AlexinCT

      Are they the ones Pelosi uses to do her dirty job? Or are they the ones Kamala uses?

  5. AlexinCT

    U.S. liberal Democrats urge Biden to seek negotiated Ukraine settlement

    Why the sudden change of mind here? What’s the end game? Cause these crooks were all for the war up until this…

    • The Other Kevin

      That was my question. They’re bucking the party leadership, but why for this issue? They’ve been lockstep for everything else. Maybe their cut of the defense industry loot isn’t as much as they’d hoped.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Are a lot of them in tight races this year? Maybe being the War Party isn’t going to help them hold onto their phony baloney jobs?

    • The Last American Hero

      Have you seen the aoc video? Her own uberlib district is like wtf on Ukraine.

  6. AlexinCT

    Liz Cheney’s Plan To Divide The Republican Party Has Failed

    Yes, team blue has gone commie and hates the new populist movement, but the old time team red country club cadre hates them just as much if not more, for taking over the lucrative racket they ran pretending to be an opposition party to team blue.

  7. waffles

    U.S. liberal Democrats urge Biden to seek negotiated Ukraine settlement

    Russian assets, all of them. Who knew the congressional democrats were all Putin’s sleeper agents?

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, they were obviously not working for the betterment of the United States or the wellbeing of their constituencies, so they had to be working for someone.

      • AlexinCT

        Their sudden 180 sure implies something is rotten in Denmark…

      • R C Dean

        Or, the CCP is not liking the way the war is going for their new besties in Russia, so they’ve sent word to their buttboys in DC . . . .

      • waffles

        Oh, that makes a lot of sense. It’s weird how it doesn’t seem strange at all.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Asked for comment, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said: “Right now, we have heard from Ukrainian partners, repeatedly, that this war will only end through diplomacy and dialogue. We have not heard any reciprocal statement or refrain from Moscow that they are ready in good faith to engage in that diplomacy and dialogue.”

      Bald-faced lie

      • Swiss Servator

        Note the weasel out bit…”ready in good faith”

      • Plinker762

        They just want a little peace piece.

      • R C Dean

        At this point, Russia has taken the no-negotiation position that they are going to keep nearly everything they have conquered (that’s what “annexation” means). I’m not sure what the negotiation would be, other than Ukraine agreeing to that, and likely giving up something else. There is just no way Russia can agree to cede what is now Russian territory to a foreign country.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup, the annexation is a big deal in terms of limiting the scope of negotiations.

      • The Last American Hero

        And if the Russians believed that we could moderate in good faith then maybe they could change how much they consider annexed. But when we put the 101st Airborne a stones throw from the fighting it undermines any idea that we will negotiate.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        “this is a decision that President Zelensky is going to have to make when it comes to any type of conversation with Russia, any type of negotiation.”

        That they can say this with a straight face after they torpedoed Ukraine/Russia negotiations in April through their intermediary muppet, Boris, is rather astounding.

  8. AlexinCT

    Biden again brings up debunked South Africa story

    Things like this is why the corruptocracy that took over the country after fortifying the last election so desperately wants a “disinformation ministry”. That way, when they try to revise history to their convenience, they won’t be challenged like they are now when they can’t control the information.

    They own the idiots that willingly live in the misinformation bubble that passes for the mainstream legacy media, but they are pissed too many people are checking out, and more importantly, call that bubble out for being a lie machine to cover the criminality of team blue and their weaponized bureaucratic machine Obama’s “Fundamentally change America” plan created for Hillary to carry us over the line into a dystopian autocratic mandarinate.

  9. AlexinCT

    America’s housing prices are facing a stunning downfall

    So how soon will be looking at too many people underwater on their mortgage that decide to check out and leave the bank holding the deed? Cause we have no historical precedent – like say late 2007, early 2008 – where government malfeasance over decades led to such an event. All they did after that last crisis of their creation is rig the rules in a way that the repeat took less than half the time it took for the previous crooked agenda to turn into an economic debacle where the tax payers were forced to keep entities the government coerced to go along with the idiocy afloat.

    • waffles

      We did all the wrong things back then. This isn’t new, it isn’t even part two. It’s the same damn thing.

      • waffles

        Weird that I use “we” there. I did nothing. I am just flotsam and jetsam to these self-interested parties fucking us up and down and left and right.

      • R.J.

        This is a great line. We are flotsam and jetsam.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Its always been that way RJ, not even pawns, just detritous

      • Lackadaisical

        I dunno, I’ve heard ARMs are much less common, so unless people’s incomes take a hit we shouldn’t see a massive default.

      • Nephilium

        /looks at the economic news with all of the companies doing layoffs.

        I think quite a few people are going to see their income take a hit.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m open to being proven wrong, but I don’t think we’ll see another 2008. There’s sure to be some price reduction and some who stretched too far to get their dream house (or shack), but I don’t think it will be systemic.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Good luck if you have an ARM on an AirBNB.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Great. Google nooz has a “new look”.

    Spoiler alert: it’s not an improvement.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m going to assume the goal is to make you click on ads to get them more money.

    • Rat on a train

      Still has the “Narrative Check” section.

  11. rhywun

    The average rent in New York City is a staggering $6,351

    Show your work. I’ve seen numbers thrown around topping off at around $4K but I don’t know what kind of manipulations they’re making to arrive at that ridiculous figure.

    • AlexinCT

      Your apartment is more than a single room cage?

      • rhywun

        Considerably more.

    • Sensei

      I’m assuming high end skews this and median would be a better measure.

    • Grosspatzer

      $6,351? Upper East Side or Greenwich Village, maybe. The outer boroughs are not like Manhattan. Hell, even most of Manhattan is not like that; my goddaughter has a very nice two bedroom in Washington Heights and is not paying anywhere near that. Figures lie, liars figure.

      • rhywun

        Right, they could be synecdoching Manhattan for “New York” or mislabeling median as average like Sensei suggested or just looking 2+ bedrooms or something. All kinds of ways to arrive at the figure you want.

      • rhywun

        Base. Even I would avoid Washington Heights – yikes.

      • Grosspatzer

        Near Columbia Presbyterian, actually not too bad a nabe. The Heights has some good areas and some sketchy ones.

      • UnCivilServant

        If it’s in New York State and south of the Tappen Zee, it’s a sketchy neighborhood.

      • l0b0t

        You can get a nice 2 bedroom within a block of the beach for under $2000 in The Rockaways.

  12. AlexinCT

    Earn Less Than $100,000 per Year? You Could Be Priced Out of Rentals in America’s Top 15 Cities

    I see the problem….

    You are dumb enough – or screwed enough – to want to be in a city…

    • rhywun

      🙄

    • Swiss Servator

      Believe it or not, some people like being in a city. You may not, but calling anyone who does “stupid” is a bit much.

      • AlexinCT

        Some people also like putting nails through their scrotum….

      • Swiss Servator

        Fine. Next time you need a good hospital, good luck finding it in a soybean field.

        Oddly enough, manufacturing often requires some people to be near factories.

        Young people just out on their own for the first time often desire to be near lots of other young people…not dependent on Farmers Only.

        Etc, etc.

      • AlexinCT

        I get that Swiss, but if you CHOOSE to do the city living, you choose all the pros & cons that come with that choice.

      • Swiss Servator

        “You are dumb enough – or screwed enough – to want to be in a city…”

        “Some people also like putting nails through their scrotum….”

        That does not seem to acknowledge any utility or “pros” of a city.

      • AlexinCT

        I hear people constantly complaining about their lives in the city. and I get it. That’s why I am not there. I can’t recall the last time I heard people complain about the cons of not living in a city (other than city voters screwing them over). If there are pros, but you have so much to complain about, then I think you are not doing a good job weighing the pros vs. the cons.

        I, personally, see no pros for being in a city. Yes, that’s about me. But you are not gonna get sympathy from me if you choose to do city living then have so much to complain about.

      • The Last American Hero

        The people mass exodus from small towns over the last hundred years says a thing or two about small town life. Laurel MS was a dump before Harv bought it and renovated every house and the downtown.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    The housing market is about to collapse? Is that why I’m seeing ads about “Experts say now is the time to take advantage of he equity in your home!”?

    • waffles

      It’s always a good time to get more debt!

  14. AlexinCT

    Most Business Economists Say US Already in Recession or May Be Soon

    Here is my prediction: The moment team red comes out of the coming election as the big winner, the stewards in media will suddenly agree with the people that believe we are in a recession, but then they will not blame it on team blue policies, but on team red winning and taking power from team blue.

    • Rat on a train

      Biden has already warned he will punish voters if they elect a Republican Congress.

      • Fourscore

        Aren’t all the people, voters/non-voters being punished enough now?

    • Lackadaisical

      Yup, they can pivot back to their ‘not enough power’ and ‘obstructionist Republicans’ stories.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of google nooz- they have linked to some Bulwark stories recently.

    I didn’t know that agglomeration of Trump-obsessed shit flinging howler monkeys was still in business.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    I’m going to assume the goal is to make you click on ads to get them more money.

    They definitely want me to sign in so they can “enhance” my experience by tracking and recording my every move. So they can, based on my observed behavior, serve me up ads for Democratic political candidates and ladies’ frilly undergarments.

  17. Grumbletarian

    OT: I think I mentioned how Biden’s export rule has suddenly lost my company tens of millions in upcoming revenue, and how I feared it might alter the budget I would have for end of year raises and bonuses. Well I have seen the preliminary numbers now, and they are not good. Unless the annual multiplier that comes out later is really good, I expect a surge of people leaving for greener pastures come January.

    FJB

    • Nephilium

      Ouch. Sorry to hear that man. I know the company I support has announced some major cutbacks after missing earnings expectations, and having revenue come in much lower then predicted over the past couple of quarters.

  18. Count Potato

    “Snoop Dogg’s professional ‘joint roller’ has revealed the flamboyant American rapper smokes up to 150 marijuana blunts a day.

    The Gin and Juice star, 51, lives in California where recreational marijuana use is legal, and has employed a full-time joint roller since 2016.

    The employee, known as Renegade, revealed on Kyle and Jackie O on Tuesday she had rolled more than 450,000 joints for Snoop during that time.

    ‘I calculate it at over 450,000. I do about half a pound a day, which is 75 to 150 joints,’ she told radio hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson.

    Kyle said he once spent time in California with Snoop, who told him he’d learned how to roll joints from late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11351015/Snoop-Doggs-professional-joint-roller-reveals-smokes-150-blunts-day.html

    Doubt.

    • WTF

      So, he’s smoking almost 10 an hour, one every 6 minutes? For the entire day?
      Sure, sounds legit.

      • AlexinCT

        He would be mummified by now with those numbers…

      • slumbrew

        If there’s a whole entourage involved, perhaps.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Bull. Shit.

    • Grosspatzer

      “The employee, known as Renegade, revealed on Kyle and Jackie O on Tuesday she had rolled more than 450,000 joints for Snoop during that time.”

      *cues Arte Johnson voice*

      Verrry Interesting. I seem to recall a certain poster on TOS with the handle of (((Renegade))).

    • robodruid

      better dead than red?

    • Drake

      Putin’s nuclear threats… citations needed.

  19. Drake

    The Romanian Defense Minister suggested a negotiated settlement to end the war in the Ukraine… And now he’s out.

  20. Rat on a train

    The 14th Amendment doesn’t actually mean equal treatment

    The Court’s right flank — now in the majority — has long argued that US laws cannot draw distinctions on the basis of race. As Chief Justice John Roberts argued in Parents Involved v. Seattle School District (2007), a case about whether public school districts may take voluntary steps to racially integrate its schools, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

    But, as Jackson pointed out earlier this month during oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, an important case about racial gerrymandering, Roberts’s colorblind narrative is at odds with the Constitution’s history.

    And Jackson brought receipts. Among other things, she cited the Civil Rights Act of 1866, a law enacted by the very same Congress that wrote the 14th Amendment, which provides that all Americans shall have the same contracting and property rights as “white citizens,” and that any non-white person convicted of a crime shall be punished the same way as “white persons.”

    Originalists are so pwned.

    • WTF

      …she cited the Civil Rights Act of 1866, a law enacted by the very same Congress that wrote the 14th Amendment, which provides that all Americans shall have the same contracting and property rights as “white citizens,” and that any non-white person convicted of a crime shall be punished the same way as “white persons.”

      Yes, and this requires racial discrimination how, exactly?

      • Lackadaisical

        It requires equal treatment, so clearly that means we can consider race to treat people differently. Also, the sight of hand involved in putting an act of Congress on the same footing as an amendment to the constitution… Maximum disingenuity.

    • Grumbletarian

      I want to be clear that the full story of how the generation that framed the 14th Amendment understood racial equality is far more nuanced than “they thought affirmative action was fine.” Many of their views on questions of race — and especially on public school segregation — are so wildly out of step with modern values that no justice embraces those views. And some prominent conservative originalists have poked holes in some of the originalist evidence supporting affirmative action.

      But these same conservatives have barely even attempted to show that the Constitution, as originally understood, forbids affirmative action. In a world where Supreme Court justices decide cases based on their previously stated views about how the Constitution must be interpreted, the lawsuits challenging affirmative action should be doomed.

      So the Congress that wrote the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 didn’t think “affirmative action was fine”, but they totally thought affirmative action was legal.

      /Derp

      • Rat on a train

        I would wonder what proof is required for “equal != inequal” but these are the same people who think “right of the people = right of the government”.

    • PieInTheSky

      do these people want to go back to the days of 1866?

  21. AlexinCT

    Majority of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, struggling with inflation

    I am not living paycheck to paycheck, but I can definitely see how brutal this inflation is on anyone without disposable income to take up the rapid rise in costs. And my 401K is getting hammered so bad, I am now looking at working for more than another decade (instead of a few years) before I can reach the level I need to kick in my retirement plans, unless things change drastically. I can’t imagine how people that really need to work for a living are making it through this catastrophic times.

    • WTF

      Yeah, the biggest problem for me is my IRAs and 401k getting hammered, pushing back my retirement considerably. We also have enough disposable income to not really feel the inflation, but the losses on the retirement accounts suck.

      • AlexinCT

        I track my monthly spending for at least 2 years (I keep receipts and compare), and tend to have the same services and buy the same products on schedule. It is thus for me easy to see not just prices going up, but packaging shrink in products. The clearest determinants however are my gas, heating oil, electric, and services bills, which in the last 2 years have gone up a total of at least 25% on average (electricity and gas are up by more than 50%) over the last 2 years. So far my disposable income has allowed me to pick it up. Doesn’t stop me from complaining, since I am saving less because of it, but I am not hurt. If my income was not what it was and I still had to keep these responsibilities, I would be screwed so bad.

      • robodruid

        Cost of animal feed up at least 25%.
        I am about to stop my 401 contributions.

        At this point, i don’t see myself retiring.
        (at least until mortgage is paid off)

      • Nephilium

        Yeah. My quarterly updates on my brokerage accounts have been pretty damned bleak this year. As I’m only in my mid-40’s, I can at least keep hoping I’m buying the dip. I still don’t grasp why precious metals and other traditional inflation hedges are not climbing during this.

      • AlexinCT

        Because this collapse seems to be by design, and not a single one of the hedges you could take in a recessionary economy seems to hold true. Everything is crashing. Either we are doomed and it is all unraveling, or the people in charge are hard at work destroying the US middle class, which happens to be the biggest hurdle to their globalist agenda.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, there is something weird about this. Part of it is the strength of the dollar relative to other currencies.

    • LJW

      The younger generations are definitely feeling it, but I don’t think they get it. They’ll still vote for the same crap.

      • Lackadaisical

        Very young people have wages way higher than normal, this is probably part of the problem of inflation… All the funny money and lockdowns are a bigger issue, but I don’t think that can be ignored either.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        How many of them have the critical thinking skills to put 2+2 together and get 4?

        So many of the younger generation have been indoctrinated into the religion of DEI that they think it is worth it to make a lot of these changes for the greater good, while not quite able to make the jump in how it affects “marginal communities” even harder.

      • robc

        I think it was posted here the other day, but Gen X is by far the GOP votingest generation right now.

        I think it is being old enough to remember the Carter years and then the Reagan years.

      • robc

        But also not being old enough to remember the Nixon years.

        And also being able to directly compare Obama/Biden to Clinton and how much the Ds have changed.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Points for honesty

    A New York advertising executive who was excused from the potential jury pool in the criminal tax-fraud trial of Donald Trump’s real-estate and golf-resort empire on Monday said that “there is no chance in hell” she could be impartial about anything to do with the former Republican president.

    “He’s guilty in my mind whatever the case is — anything he does, anything his corporation does,” the 34-year-old Manhattan woman who would only identify herself as Adrienne told reporters in reference to Trump as she was on her way out of New York Supreme Court in lower Manhattan.

    The woman, who lives in the Midtown East neighborhood, made the remarks as jury selection was underway in the tax evasion trial of Trump’s business, the Trump Organization.

    Even though Trump himself is not on trial in the high-profile case, Adrienne said there was “no way” she could be impartial.

    Which leads me to an interesting question: could a trial involving a notorious defendant be anonymized, somehow?

    • rhywun

      That jury pool is going to be just as biased as the DC pool trying all those “insurrectionists”.

      • WTF

        Along with a biased judge refusing to allow a change in venue.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s our problem today. Our legal system has been corrupted, by design, to protect team blue’s criminality and abuses, in key spots where they know that capability will allow them to engage in the criminality with little chance for people to find redress.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘At publishing time, Mulvaney had told reporters he was happy to interview the President but was extremely disappointed Biden never leaned in to sniff his little girl hair.’

      I really appreciate them being consistent and insistent on this point. He’s a dude.

    • PieInTheSky

      You are telling me there isn’t enough whisky in the USA for this?

      • Nephilium

        Not since the tariff issues, but we have plenty of whiskey.

    • Fourscore

      I don’t think she has to worry and no need for her to be in the abortion demo squad . She is totally safe, except for a lot of space for mosquito bites and her inability to scratch them.

    • Tres Cool

      Oh hells no. I mean, the size works for me, but I already have the “I know you’ll open your mouth and Ill hate you” vibe.

    • Rebel Scum

      There is nothing tiny about that url.

    • rhywun

      I got the sense they were aiming for a MAGAs in the Mist hit-piece but you’d think the chyron would be more indicative of that.

    • AlexinCT

      When I was called this past weekend by Quinnipiac for their poll, the young lady asked me twice, why I was more concerned with inflation and other economic problems over the J6 nonsense. I told here that unlike most other people concerned with the J6 circus I care about real things that matter. She didn’t like that answer, I suspect they are getting this a lot from people and it is pissing them off. After putting all that work into turning J6 into such a show, they hate that it is bombing completely.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I don’t know if this has been shared around here yet, but this absolutely nails the current public attitude towards J6.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjqR_rcucRE

    • Tres Cool

      So much for 1st impressions and my own pre-judging, but the soy-boy looking dude was the most outspoken.

      Just shows you cant judge a book by it’s cover. Well, except for JAWS.

    • The Other Kevin

      Kudos to those people for articulating their points so well.

      • AlexinCT

        This is something I see constantly, and why, I suspect, the left has started resorting to cancel tactics and avoiding any and all discussions. Team red people tend to be able to articulately defend their arguments, using logic, facts, and reason, despite the MSMs effort to pollute the narrative, while team blue people tend to believe whatever crap they are spoon fed, looking like idiots as they waffle and keep saying things everyone else already knows are incorrect.

        The left is completely driven by emotional bullshit. From that vantage point, you are never going to be able to look smart and informed without some entity enforcing “disinformation canceling”. Unless you can control what people hear & see, it is impossible to keep them all misinformed.

    • Lackadaisical

      Someone actually said ‘fiery but mostly peaceful’ re: Jan 6th. Based

      • AlexinCT

        You see the reporter’s reaction to that?

    • DEG

      I like this video.

      However…. it’s not going to influence anyone that gets news from MSNBC. The narrative is never wrong, so therefore the panel is spreading lies.

  23. Drake

    Gonzalo Lira believes that there really was a plan for a dirty-bomb false-flag. Sounds nuts until I remember the Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin, Colin Powell telling us about chemical weapons, that badly staged “chemical attack” in Syria, etc.

    Also seems nuts that people would believe that largest nuclear power in the world would use a dirty bomb in their own backyard, but the media would shout down any voices of reason.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Might I remind you that the reason all those examples you listed worked is because people don’t think when shocking things like that happen. They see an explosion and let their bloodlust go into overdrive without asking any questions. The people in charge know this. By the time the truth about it would be revealed in twenty years, all the same normies will do the same “well that was then, they wouldn’t do that NOW” excuses for the next war our oligarchs are pushing at that time…..if this isn’t the hornet’s nest love session that finally kills us.

    • AlexinCT

      Are those trannies?

      • PieInTheSky

        at this point, what difference does it make

      • AlexinCT

        I am allergic to dick.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Political analysis

    At stake in this year’s key Senate races is not just the balance of power between the parties, but within them. For the left-flank of the Democratic Party, that means proving it can win when it matters most.

    The liberal and moderate wings of the party have been engaged in a yearslong debate over whether candidates should embrace progressive policies and postures to fire up the base, or tack to the middle to appeal to swing voters. The moderates have long held the upper hand and seen their theory of politics adopted more often than not.

    With progressive candidates Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin and John Fetterman in Pennsylvania carrying the Democratic Party’s banner, liberals are excited about the possibility of proving the doubters in their own party wrong — and already dreading about what they might say if their candidates lose.

    “Progressives do need to demonstrate that we can win [battleground] statewide elections and that our candidates can represent the party effectively,” said Max Berger, a progressive strategist and former aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign. “Until we’ve shown that we can do it, there will always be the question.”

    What do the people want?

    Who gives a shit?

    • rhywun

      We can turn every state into New York and California if only we had the will to dream.

    • R.J.

      Step 1. Disaster occurs
      2. Call for weapons ban
      3. Discover perp had extensive record, law enforcement did nothing to intervene or keep in jail.
      4. Weapons ban mysteriously fades to fog because otherwise the investigation would throw shade on law enforcement and politicians.

    • Rebel Scum

      That event was thwarted by – wait for it – good guys with guns.

  25. PieInTheSky

    China’s wealthy activate escape plans as Xi Jinping extends rule
    Rich citizens fearing high taxes and personal safety move capital out of country and arrange residences overseas

    https://archive.ph/bdJej

    • PieInTheSky

      Financial Times which is basically a tabloid but still

    • R C Dean

      “He added that Hong Kong, long a favoured destination for Chinese wealth and elite families, had become less attractive as Beijing increased control over the territory.”

      No shit.

      • rhywun

        lolsnort

        Nice detective work, there.

    • rhywun

      They’ve been snapping up all the new luxury housing in NYC (i.e., all the new housing in NYC) for a couple decades now.

      • Nephilium

        Here in Cleveland, it’s the low income housing areas that are getting bought up by “foreign investors”. Local news is of course upset about this.

    • AlexinCT

      That some people can say this shit, and do so seriously, makes me wonder how fucking evil or stupid they have to be.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    “Anytime a progressive loses it’s always used a sledgehammer against all of us,” said Randy Bryce, a Wisconsin union organizer and former congressional candidate.

    Some progressive House candidates recently lost high-profile races — a sign, according to moderates, that they can’t win swing districts. And Republicans successfully used “defund the police,” a position adopted by only a handful of candidates on the left, to drag down Democrats’ entire congressional slate in 2020.

    Now this year’s Senate races represent one of the toughest electoral challenges yet for the modern progressive movement.

    Stupid voters. They don’t even know what’s good for them.

    • Grumbletarian

      +1 “VoTiNg AgAiNsT tHeIr OwN iNtErEsTs!”

    • PieInTheSky

      Stupid voters. They don’t even know what’s good for them. – this, but unironically

  27. PieInTheSky

    HALLOWEEN COSTUME TRY-ON HAUL | FLATTERING & SEXYYY COSTUMES | so much inspo for halloween 2022!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7xwaCcZTXM

    1. There seems to be little difference between a halloween costume and a bikini try on on youtube

    2. I am unsure these are flattering for all body types. But then again all body types are equal

    • AlexinCT

      I don’t want to kink shame, but if you are into having sex with women that make the experience feel like you are on a waterbed when you are not, then that’s on you, brah.

  28. Grumbletarian

    Daily Quordle 274
    3️⃣6️⃣
    7️⃣4️⃣

    Lower left was a literal guess out of nowhere.

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 274
      5️⃣9️⃣
      8️⃣6️⃣

      That was fucked. Yeah, I don’t even know wtf LL means. Only thing that fit.

      • Grosspatzer

        Daily Quordle 274
        5️⃣7️⃣
        9️⃣6️⃣
        quordle.com

        Yikes.

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 274
      7️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

    • robc

      Chessle 255 (Expert) 5/6

      ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
      🟩🟨🟩🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛
      🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      https://jackli.gg/chessle

      I misclicked on move 4, as should be obvious from my move 3, so I count this as done in 4.

      I recently started playing this defense as black sometimes.

      • robc

        Daily Quordle 274
        3️⃣5️⃣
        7️⃣4️⃣

    • robc

      My seed words worked today, gave me a key letter on upper right that made there only one real guess. So that gave me two tries to find LL and still get it in 7.

    • kinnath

      Daily Quordle 274
      4️⃣6️⃣
      7️⃣5️⃣

  29. PieInTheSky

    this is also a point

  30. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Russell Brand had an interesting video on the other night. Released a report developed by the RAND corporation for the Pentagon in 2019. The whole video is worth watching, but could also jump to 8 minutes in.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3cOOW_Av8

    The 2019 Pentagon report recommended encouraging Ukraine to antagonize Russia through “providing military equipment and advice” to the point that Russia invades. Then that invasion by Russia could be used as the casus belli to destroy Nordstream. Preventing the Nordstream from being completed and then destroying it if completed has been one of the central pieces of the US Grand Strategy for Europe. You can see the increasingly stepped up language and actions against the pipeline starting from the Obama presidency.

    It’s seeming like a real possibility that the current Ukraine-Russia conflict was orchestrated by the US to destroy the pipeline with the end goal of keeping Europe dependent on us for energy. And that’s going from the directly quoted statements of our own US leaders over the past decade. Not Russian propaganda or any kind of spin. The RAND report may be nothing, but it sure sounds in retrospect like a step by step playbook for what’s been happening.

    Swiss, I’ll preemptively say that Putin is bad. So no worries that I’m rooting for Russia. And Zelensky is bad. So I’m not rooting for Ukraine either. There can be multiple bad parties. I’m most concerned about the American government’s involvement, which may eclipse the evil done by both Putin and Zelensky by several magnitudes. This is starting to feel more like a dog fight where Putin and Zelensky are dog handlers, but the US is the one running the fighting pit.

    • R C Dean

      What I try to do is avoid basing my view of the war on the personalities of the two country’s leaders. This isn’t Zelensky v Putin in some kind of Thunderdome.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Agreed. This conflict has very little to do with Zelensky or Putin as individuals. There seem to be some sensitivities around not giving a Putin Bad Man disclaimer though.

      • PieInTheSky

        Zelensky is just a puppet. Putin is and always has been an evil fuck… The conflict is complicated.

      • Swiss Servator

        WHO RUN UKRAINE TOWN?

    • PieInTheSky

      It’s seeming like a real possibility that the current Ukraine-Russia conflict was orchestrated by the US to destroy the pipeline with the end goal of keeping Europe dependent on us for energy. – europe should have gone nuclear and not be dependent on anybody

      • PieInTheSky

        I cannot read the actual report as it is 50 fucking dollars

    • Swiss Servator

      Yeah, as I have repeatedly said, I don’t need my paycheck being tapped to send stuff to other countries militaries. Or have my alleged elected officials (or the bureaucracy) making a mess in other countries.

    • B.P.

      “…with the end goal of keeping Europe dependent on us for energy.”

      The architects of this plan seem to have missed a key element, in that the U.S. energy sector would need to be allowed to function for the plan to work.

      • R C Dean

        Oopsie.

        *goes back to scamming green energy programs*

  31. LJW

    Bankrupt solar company leaves customers with useless systems

    These solar panel companies have been popping up like mattress stores. I’m guessing they’ll be disappearing soon en masse. We talked with our builder about solar out of curiosity. He said the panels for our house would probably cost between 30k-40k. Our power company doesn’t do a buy back so there would be another 15k for a battery bank. If lucky the panels last 20 years then you have to spend to replace and dispose of the old panels and batteries. It’s not an financially sound investment.

    • AlexinCT

      Solindra! Paging Solindra…

      Why did anyone think doing the same stupid shit would this time produce a different result, huh?

      • LJW

        I wonder how many of these solar panel companies are just laundering fronts for the Mafia.

      • AlexinCT

        The entire green energy movement is a front for money laundering run by a political crime syndicate. That money lines the pocket of some top men connected to the green movement effort. And a large chunk of it makes it back into campaign coffers of the people that lard out the cash.

    • R C Dean

      It only makes any sense as a hedge against (much) higher electricity rates.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        👆👆👆

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Depends where you live. The $30k system will be about $20k with federal rebates. That starts making financial sense in places with $.60-80/kWh prices. And the payback is much sooner if your utility buys back the power.

      But not for me paying $.12kWh.

    • Gustave Lytton

      And the guy in the story spent 82k+. Simple non-NPV calc would require at least $4k savings in electricity per year. Don’t see how that would be.

      • AlexinCT

        People are great at deluding themselves about this tech and the supposed savings. It’s bull. The replacement and cleanup costs alone make this shit untenable. Let alone the fact you will never generate enough power to make some kind of savings in that bad investment. Nobody will admit they were had after the fact, either. In fact, they will go around trying hard to convince others to get bent too, all so they have plenty of company in their misery.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        He bought the battery. Unless you’re going off-grid, the battery is a waste of money and probably accounted for $425k of that bill

    • PieInTheSky

      what they are selling in Romania is not batteries but becoming a “prosumer ” when panels make more energy than you use you put the extra in the electric grid and when there is no sun you take out. This is rather stupid because the grid is not built to handle this, and if many people do this, there there will be excess of energy when everyone “gives” and not enough when everyone takes, especially on cold winters cause the plan is to replace the nat gas heating with electric.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Net metering is common around here too, but apparently some places don’t allow/do it.

    • PutridMeat

      My reason for putting in solar and a battery system (when I get around to building, honest, I will someday…) is to not be dependent on the someone providing the electricity, whether it be a company acting as a subsidiary of the state or the state itself. I don’t want to have to worry about my power getting cut off if I have too many people over for Thanksgiving or if I’ve used too much power in the past month and have offended Gaia, or I didn’t kiss some politicians ass roundly enough; there are few enough Gabbards or… tries to think of other attractive female politicians, fails… around to make that a viable option.

      • AlexinCT

        I have a generator and an underground tank for it. Was cheaper and I think more reliable, and it has been a good thing whenever I have lost power. CT doesn’t allow you to do storage if you have solar. You have to dump excess to the grid. That means that when you lose power you still are hosed at night.

      • PutridMeat

        CT doesn’t allow you to do storage if you have solar

        How is that even legal/constitutional/moral/justifiable (insert obligatory FYTW clause boilerplate)? Does CT claim ownership of photons from the sun? Can I be taxed if I tan too deeply?

      • AlexinCT

        It has nothing to do with the solar appropriation, and everything to do with making sure you can’t go off the grid. Storage would allow people to go off grid. They do not want that.

  32. Rebel Scum

    Thirty liberal U.S. congressional Democrats urged President Joe Biden on Monday to shift his strategy for the Russia-Ukraine war by pursuing a negotiated settlement along with his current provision of military and economic support to Kyiv.

    Thirty Dems are apparently not in on the grift.

    • Swiss Servator

      Wrong committee assignments!

  33. Lackadaisical

    ‘America’s housing prices are facing a stunning downfall’

    I’m sure there is no effect from tech people generally leaving some of those states and planned cutting off jobs it hitting by silicon valley.

    Prices just have to fall another 30% there to begin to make sense.

    • PieInTheSky

      eh make it 50 rounder number

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m just curious how universal the change in prices will be. I expect a 10% drop country wide during the coming problems, but who knows. And I’m less sure about my local area, prices are way up here, but it isn’t clear if we have the same structural issues as San Fran, etc.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Are we talking 30% from the high point or what? At its peak, our house was up 100% of what we bought…so I can be okay with a 30% drop…

      • Lackadaisical

        From the highs. There is no way things go less than that without am honest to goodness implosion of the economy on par with the depression.

      • UnCivilServant

        So it’s going to go even lower, got it.

      • Lackadaisical

        Always a possibility, but then I feel like finding my next meal and fighting off the roving bands of cannibals will be a bigger concern then my mortgage payments.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, the beauty of that situation is if you defeat the cannibals, you’ve got your next meal, and a few after that.

      • The Last American Hero

        I’m already down 20% from the high.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    The 2019 Pentagon report recommended encouraging Ukraine to antagonize Russia through “providing military equipment and advice” to the point that Russia invades. Then that invasion by Russia could be used as the casus belli to destroy Nordstream. Preventing the Nordstream from being completed and then destroying it if completed has been one of the central pieces of the US Grand Strategy for Europe. You can see the increasingly stepped up language and actions against the pipeline starting from the Obama presidency.

    “Global Thermonuclear War; that looks fun.”

  35. Rebel Scum

    Biden’s DOJ reveals investigations into CCP-backed telecom companies in the US

    *yawn*

  36. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    “America’s housing prices are facing a stunning downfall”

    Ugh. Not here.

    Nice to see some Dems pull their heads out of their asses and push for a war settlement. Won’t matter, of course, but still.

    • Swiss Servator

      They will still vote to send $$$$, when Nancy demands it.

      • Tundra

        Yup. Just like the Repubs who are reeeeing about the Justice Dept will somehow manage to increase its power. Useless.

  37. Fourscore

    Why not just go to the corner Fan Store? Or Sports Card store? Or call the local Smoke Detector franchisee?

    • Lackadaisical

      Not sure what this is in reference to, but there is a small chain of fan stores in my neighborhood. Crazy high prices… Not sure how they stay open.

      • Fourscore

        30-40 years ago Fan Stores were like 7-11s, seemingly everywhere, every small town and mall had a sports card store. Beanie babies were considered investments.

        I bought my fans at a big box store, in fact, I had a NIB fan given to me and installed it in my garage, because I could.

  38. Rebel Scum

    Georgia Blows Past New Records on Voter Turnout

    But muh voter-suppression!

    • R C Dean

      Gotta run those numbers of mail in ballots up to hide the fortification in the counting rooms.

      /tin foil OFF

  39. Lackadaisical

    https://learn.modernstoicism.com/p/stoicweek2022

    For fans of Ron’s stoicism posts and anyone else interested:

    Stoic Week
    “Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.”
    EPICTETUS

    Stoic Week is an annual event that invites you to ‘live like a Stoic for a week’.

    • Fourscore

      I got an mail last night from my daughter, she announced that she is getting a divorce.

      Thanks to Ron’s posts I went Ho Hum, nothing I can do about it. I kind of liked this husband too.

      • Lackadaisical

        Hm.

        From my end, my cousin died, my mother’s cousin died and my grandmother has pneumonia, this all happened in the last month. My sister wants us to meet her newest beau, which is usually a bad sign. So, yeah, stoicism is helpful. It is what it is.

  40. Rebel Scum

    President Biden again claimed over the weekend that he was detained by South African authorities while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s — despite admitting just last month that his telling of the story was false.

    In the 90s his presidential campaign was thwarted by lies. In 2020 his lies got him the presidency in the most legit election evar. . .

      • Gustave Lytton

        Imagine another president having ran 32 years earlier. It would be like Reagan trying to take down Dewey in 1948.

      • Rebel Scum

        typo…

  41. Rebel Scum

    Most Business Economists Say US Already in Recession or May Be Soon

    I just want to know who is going to pay my mortgage when the market crashes.

    • Sean

      Time to setup that Onlyfans…

  42. Tundra

    Mikka estimated that when driving 50 mph, the gas generator gave him 225 watts per mile and 24 miles per gallon. Yet when driving 80 mph, he guessed he got 389 watts per mile and 14 miles per gallon.

    The whole article was stunning in its retardation, but my truck gets 20mpg at 80. And no need to carry an auxiliary gas tank.

    • UnCivilServant

      You know, I saw this scenario popping up as parody. The rerun is less funny.

    • Plinker762

      Multiple energy conversion result in decreased efficiency, who would have thought?

      • Lackadaisical

        Add on a conversion from the electric to hydrogen and you’ll really have something.

  43. Rebel Scum

    Newly released economic survey data shows two out of three Americans are living paycheck to paycheck as they deal with rising costs.

    The research and data group PYMNTS surveyed nearly 3,500 U.S. consumers for the report, which found that two out of three Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

    On top of that, 60% of those surveyed say they have cut spending to deal with inflation.

    C’mon, man. The economy is great. Best recovery ever. Even Cornpop says so.

  44. Rebel Scum

    America’s housing prices are facing a stunning downfall – with the West Coast facing the fastest drops of up to 10% in cities like San Jose and San Francisco: Experts say the trend will soon spread to the Northeast

    Mine doubled in the past few years. So this makes sense.

  45. Drake

    I see the close races in Michigan and New York and all I can think of is the rigged Governor election last year in New Jersey. Ciattarelli won Bergen County with 100% of the votes counted, then all of a sudden at 2 am, he didn’t win. Called our real estate agent the next day to list the house and get out.

      • whiz

        I don’t know how they do it in NJ, but locally, a 100% of the votes being in means precincts reporting, and does NOT include absentee ballots. I guess they do that since absentee ballots aren’t separated by precinct and they don’t really pay attention to which ones come from which precinct. If they do that elsewhere, that could account for what looks like a flip, but isn’t really. I remember when my wife was running in 2016 that there was some confusion about that, and some anxious moments until it was explained.

        Now if you want to question what’s going on with the absentee ballots themselves, fine, but the “flip” is likely nefarious an and of itself, just bad terminology in claiming 100%.

    • The Last American Hero

      Whitmer will win in a convincing margin. Polls are shit and people are sheep.

    • Tundra

      Lol.

      I’m still trying to figure out what the hell she was doing. Feet on the seat of a rower is new to me.

      • PieInTheSky

        there is a guy at my gym that does split squats with his legs on various shoulder machines i suppose the height is adjustable unlike benches

      • Fourscore

        She was going to do elevated pushups but I think the dog was trained for that. Hell, I could have done that, would take a lot of training, IYKWIM.

        Thanks, Jimbo.

    • PieInTheSky

      What US policy should be is different. But I can tell you when Romanian joined NATO there was a massive feeling of joy/relief in the country. I assume some Ukrainians felt the same. Few things were seen as better than getting out of Russian influence by Eastern countries.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup, seems like an unalloyed good for eastern Europe.

      • Homple

        Then the eastern Europeans alloyed the good by tying themselves to the EU, that is to say, German money and Brussels technocrats.

    • Drake

      Thirty-one years ago the Russians came to their senses and got rid of communism. There’s an alternative universe out there where we didn’t go insane shortly thereafter. We were friends briefly and could have stayed that way.

      Now they look at our culture with disgust and don’t trust a word our diplomats say – rightly so on both counts.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Not a referendum?

    President Biden on Monday shared what he dubbed his “closing argument” for Democrats ahead of the midterms, contrasting Democratic and Republican policies to frame next month’s election as a stark choice that would shape the country’s future for decades.

    “I’m here to deliver what I believe is a closing argument about what we need to do in the next 15 days to make a victory assured and make it clear that this election is … not a referendum, it’s a choice,” Biden said in remarks to a group of Democratic National Committee (DNC) volunteers, staffers and donors. “Everybody wants to make it a referendum, but it’s a choice between two vastly different visions for America.”

    ——-

    And while Biden acknowledged inflation and rising costs are a problem for many Americans, he noted the U.S. has a lower inflation rate than most other countries.

    “What are they running on?” Biden asked of Republicans. “If they win, what do they say they’ll do? Well I have to hand it to them, they’re saying it out loud. They’re so confident they’re going to win they’re saying it without an ounce of shame.”

    Biden noted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and others have said they will push to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill passed in August that lowered prescription drug prices and included billions in funding for programs to combat climate change.

    They’ll put you back in chains!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Oh, the Dems want it to be a referendum for sure. But just on Trump, not Biden.

      I forgot who said it yesterday, but I too am scared of what October surprise these yahoos have cooked up. They are not going to go quietly into the dying of the light.

      • R.J.

        Indeed. It could be a horrible lie. But timed correctly it can cause major flux in the election.

    • rhywun

      lowered prescription drug prices

      Doubt it.

      included billions in funding for programs to combat climate change

      Fuck you, cut spending.

  47. PieInTheSky

    Cunk On Earth – S01E01 – In The Beginnings (HD)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVCDB1wCg9k

    for those that like comedic mokumentaries, I remember finding Cunk on Britain entertaining a few years ago

  48. Rebel Scum

    But enough about leftists.

    Johnson added, “We have to stop pretending that we’re talking about friends and neighbors. You’re talking about people who want to basically imprison women in their bodies and make them completely subjected to men. You’re talking about people who don’t think black people should have a right to do anything but play sports. You’re talking about a group of people who on a regular basis attack everybody of a different religion.”

    • The Other Kevin

      I live in a pretty red state, and many of my family and friends are Republicans. I have never in my life heard a Republican say they want these things.

      • UnCivilServant

        I am in favor of limiting astral projection.

    • R.J.

      So when does the Republican party sue people like this for obvious, malicious slander?

      • Rebel Scum

        When any of them grow a pair?

    • Lackadaisical

      “You’re talking about a group of people who on a regular basis attack everybody of a different religion.”

      The progjection is strong in this one.

    • rhywun

      And there are people who don’t believe that the mainstream left is completely and utterly unhinged.

  49. Rebel Scum

    By “interesting” you mean “bullshit”.

    “It’s not a federal offense, but there actually is an interesting legal theory here for manslaughter, which Federal law defines as a death that occurs on federal property when a person acts with a recklessness mindset or even gross negligence. And so Donald Trump, unlike most ordinary citizens, has not only a duty not to do something bad, but an affirmative duty to take action to protect people. I think you could possibly put together a theory based on the facts that Liz Cheney just described to make Donald Trump responsible for the deaths that occurred that day.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Everyone who’s held a large event in hot weather or cold weather or rainy weather or damn near any kind of weather has a sad. Shoulda seen that heat stroke coming…

    • Pope Jimbo

      The “reasonable” prosecutors better be sure they get the trial in a DC court and not in PA. Those weirdos are untrainable!

    • Drake

      So any time a President does something that results in deaths…

      • Lackadaisical

        😂

    • R C Dean

      The sad thing is, a DC jury would convict Trump for Ashli Babbit’s murder.

    • R C Dean

      a theory based on the facts that Liz Cheney just described

      *snicker*

    • EvilSheldon

      The ability to admit when I’ve been wrong.

    • Lackadaisical

      Reason and logic are tools. Trusting and esteeming those tools are values.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    From Rebel Scum’s link:

    You have one side, which is the majority of the American people who just want to go to work, eat dinner, stay safe, pay less in gas prices and know that they have their same medical rights that they woke up with earlier this year. And then you have another group of people who are essentially fascists and they want an authoritarian government.

    But which is who?

    • R C Dean

      go to work, eat dinner, stay safe, pay less in gas prices and know that they have their same medical rights that they woke up with earlier this year

      One of these things is not like the others . . . .

  51. Sensei

    Good news. We’ve finally found robocalls that that the state wants to stop.

    2 conservatives accused in hoax robocall scheme plead guilty

    The calls warned people that information included in their mailed ballots could be used by law enforcement agencies to enforce arrest warrants, to collect outstanding debts, and lead to tracking by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for mandatory vaccines.

    Wohl and Burkman have a history of staging hoaxes and spreading false smears against Democrats and public officials.

  52. Pope Jimbo

    World’s Youngest Democrat?

    SUMMERFIELD, Fla. (AP) — A 14-year-old girl caused a stir at a north Florida middle school this week when she handed out more than $10,000 that officials say she stole from her grandmother’s safe.

    Marion County deputies responded to Lake Weir Middle School in Summerfield on Thursday after reports that a student was giving classmates hundreds of dollars each, according to an arrest report. Summerfield is about 60 miles northwest of Orlando.

    School officials searched the girl’s backpack and found about $2,500, deputies said. The teen said an unknown former student had given her the money and wanted it disseminated. Investigators said they later determined that the girl had broken into her grandmother’s home safe and stolen about $13,500 of the woman’s life savings.

    I’m surprised the teachers didn’t “confiscate” it first.

    • The Other Kevin

      Biden gave big pharma more than they hoped for in their wildest dreams. Record profits, immunity from lawsuits, patents, and now US kids are required to use their product every year from now until forever. Maybe in his mind throwing huge sacks of money at their heads counts as a “beating”.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

        And they did this and then shamelessly claimed they stood up to big pharma…

  53. The Late P Brooks

    White knight

    California gubernatorial candidates Gavin Newsom and Brian Dahle squared off in their one-and-only debate of the election cycle Sunday, and for the most part, there was nothing unexpected.

    Dahle made several jokes about Newsom’s presidential aspirations, Newsom put Dahle on blast for his opposition to expanding abortion rights via Proposition 1, and Dahle railed against the state’s gas tax.

    One out-of-the-ordinary moment came when Dahle was asked whether Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 presidential election.

    “He did win the election, but the big question is does he know that. That’s what I wonder sometimes,” Dahle said.

    It was very clearly a “Joe Biden is senile” quip, and moderator Scott Shafer of KQED pressed Dahle to say as much directly. After Dahle said, “I wonder sometimes if he actually realizes that he’s president of the United States,” Newsom jumped in to defend Biden’s honor.

    “Of course he recognizes it,” Newsom said. “You’re insulting the president of the United States. Of course he understands he’s president of the United States.”

    Dahle should have asked Newsom if he thinks it should be illegal to insult the President of the United States.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Yes, especially when that greaseball is president.

    • AlexinCT

      They don’t need to google that: their leadership knows how to fail miserably already.

    • The Other Kevin

      They’ve gone from $6 to $5! HUGE SAVINGS!

    • Tres Cool

      Im a bit more cynical. I see using the reserve as a deliberate attempt to wreck the economy and to a lesser extent weaken our military. Just in case, ya know….China or Russia decide to force our hand defending ourselves. I may be wrong, but I thought an important part of that reserve was to fuel our military equipment when needed.

      • Nephilium

        That’s why we need our military equipment to be all electric! Then you don’t need a supply line, just a really long extension cord!

      • Tres Cool

        Solar, duh
        Sourced from China, of course.

    • Lackadaisical

      I thought our inflation was middle of the pack?

    • Gustave Lytton

      That will never fly. There’s only one person in it, not the whole family.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Dude it is a Japanese human washing machine, not a Mexican washing machine.

      • AlexinCT

        Since you go in one-by-one, I guess it pays to be first?

  54. Pope Jimbo

    ISP’s are totes racist!!!

    The Markup gathered and analyzed more than 800,000 internet service offers from AT&T, Verizon, Earthlink, and CenturyLink in 38 cities across America and found that all four routinely offered fast base speeds at or above 200 Mbps in some neighborhoods for the same price as connections below 25 Mbps in others.

    The neighborhoods offered the worst deals had lower median incomes in nine out of 10 cities in the analysis. In two-thirds of the cities where The Markup had enough data to compare, the providers gave the worst offers to the least-White neighborhoods.

    These providers also disproportionately gave the worst offers to formerly redlined areas in every one of the 22 cities examined where digitized historical maps were available. These are areas a since-disbanded agency created by the federal government in the 1930s had deemed “hazardous” for financial institutions to invest in, often because the residents were Black or poor. Redlining was outlawed in 1968.

    I’m sure these intrepid journalos understand the ins/outs of delivering internet connections and made sure to take that into account when they produced these metrics. No way they’d ignore the fact that rich neighborhoods probably pay even more for even faster access. I doubt many buy the basic tier.

    • R.J.

      If it is an economically hazardous area for investment, you’d lose your shirt offering your best deal there.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Are you trying to suggest the authors did not take into account the number of delinquent internet payments? That there may some reason other than racism for this?

        RACIST!

      • Nephilium

        Next you’ll say that stringing copper up in areas that are rife with crime may be a losing business idea.

    • R C Dean

      I’m guessing it has to do with the installed infrastructure. Which one would expect to be better in areas with more money. Since infrastructure costs money, and all.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I would bet that nearly all of those neighborhoods are different than they were 90 years ago.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘These are areas a since-disbanded agency created by the federal government in the 1930s had deemed “hazardous” for financial institutions to invest in, often because the residents were Black or poor. ‘

      Massive credit for putting redlining into the proper context of government action.

  55. Sensei

    Japan steps up push to get public buy-in to digital IDs

    The program is actually called My Number in the usual Japanese pronounced katakanago. It took me a minute to understand what the heck my friend was talking about when we discussed this. She and another remain quite skeptical seeing the debacle in other countries.

    Something drastic may have to happen for people to accept such changes, just as it took a devastating defeat in World War II for Japan to transform itself into an economic powerhouse, said Hidenori Watanave, a professor at the University of Tokyo…

    “There are too many people worried their jobs are going to disappear. These people see digitization as a negation of their past work,” said Watanave, who spells his last name with a “v” instead of the usual “b.”

    ******* confirmed. Both “b” and “v” uses the same sound in Japanese. So this only applies to when he is quoted in non-Japanese press. I’m guessing either to make him stand out or readily searchable. Watanabe is a very common last name.

    • AlexinCT

      Where the pilots Ho Lee Fuk and Sum Ting Wong?

  56. Tundra

    Is Monocle being weird for anyone else? Sometimes on, sometimes off?

    • Sean

      Usually first thing in the morning (when it happens). I have to refresh my browser a couple times.

      • PutridMeat

        Euphemism?

      • Lackadaisical

        It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it.

  57. B.P.

    There’s a new Hitler in town…

    https://news.yahoo.com/is-arizonas-kari-lake-the-most-dangerous-politician-in-america-090045758.html

    “The danger, according to democracy advocates, isn’t so much that Lake might beat Hobbs and implement the policies we expect from Republican governors. Rather, they worry that, given the chance, she will try to steal the 2024 presidential election for the GOP nominee.”

    ………………………………………

    ““Since 2000, people have questioned the legitimacy of our elections,” Lake said. “And all we are asking is, in the future, we don’t have to have that happen anymore.”

    Never mind that Lake’s argument here — that her denialism, and by extension Trump’s, is just politics as usual, and nothing to worry about — bears little resemblance to reality. Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, and the embrace of his conspiracy theories by Republicans nationwide, is without parallel in American history.”

    Pointing out that the other party has also refused to accept the results of elections bears little resemblance to reality. Also, I gather from the story that it’s okay to comment on a female candidate’s looks again.

    • R C Dean

      It would be hard to come up with a more intentional misreading of her coment.

    • Rebel Scum

      If by “dangerous”, you mean “hawt”.

    • Grumbletarian

      Clearly she means that Republicans will win every election going forward with 110% of the vote, and anyone questioning those unimpeachable results will be shot!

  58. The Late P Brooks

    The neighborhoods offered the worst deals had lower median incomes in nine out of 10 cities in the analysis. In two-thirds of the cities where The Markup had enough data to compare, the providers gave the worst offers to the least-White neighborhoods.

    These rates wouldn’t by any chance be structured to take some sort of government subsidy into account, would they?

  59. The Late P Brooks

    “The danger, according to democracy advocates, isn’t so much that Lake might beat Hobbs and implement the policies we expect from Republican governors. Rather, they worry that, given the chance, she will try to steal the 2024 presidential election for the GOP nominee.”

    That bitch. People will vote for her.

    • UnCivilServant

      Get more people to vote for them and hope it overcomes the margin of fraud?

    • PieInTheSky

      How many plans does her side have?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      They’re going to call in a professional.

    • Rebel Scum

      Says someone associated with people that plotted to steal an election in 2016 and stole an election in 2020.

      Projection. It’s what’s for dinner.

  60. Certified Public Asshat

    Home prices are NOT going to go down. pic.twitter.com/RyMBR0Yktf— Dave Ramsey (@DaveRamsey) June 14, 2022

    Sometimes he gives absolutely terrible advice.

    • R C Dean

      *scans real estate listings showing price history*

      They already are in Tucson.

      • Lackadaisical

        Hasn’t had a noticeable affect here yet.

      • R C Dean

        I think a lot of the runup in our prices earlier this year was private equity buying residences for Air BnB or rental. That seems to have dried up, probably because those firms were using floating rate debt to finance it all (which means they will likely be getting STEVE SMITHed before long).

      • The Last American Hero

        And by Steve Smithed, you mean get a taxpayer bailout.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The inflationary price point will out pace the real estate value drop…boom, not going down

    • Tres Cool

      “…told jurors that they should prepare to hear a “firehose of false and unprovable allegations”…”

      We’re not doing phrasing around here any more ?

  61. Sensei

    Original Bayonetta Actress Releases New Statement to ‘Defend Myself and My Reputation’

    Voice acting isn’t exactly the most lucrative position. There has been some interesting uproars in the VAs who dub Japanese anime as their egos inflated and they were replaced. Funny thing is that there lots of talented VAs and it’s actually not that difficult to duplicate the original voice people are used to hearing and people get used to it rather quickly.

    It’s not like replacing an actor or actress that you actually see.

    • UnCivilServant

      Sometimes they get it wrong and every time you hear the ‘wrong’ voice, it irks.

    • R.J.

      They only offered her $4,000? I’d negotiate higher too.

      • Sensei

        $4k per 5 hour session with an expectation of 20 hours.

      • UnCivilServant

        How do they get the voice work done in such short time?

        Or is it I’ve been dealing with ameteurs for audiobooks?

      • Sensei

        I honestly have no idea exactly how many hours of dialogue are on a typical AAA title.

      • UnCivilServant

        Now that you mention it… Bayonetta wasn’t exactly that dialogue heavy.

  62. Rat on a train

    Why Hyundai, Kia owners should be especially concerned about car thieves

    As the weather gets colder, you may be tempted to leave your car running in the driveway or outside a convenience store when you go indoors.
    But Maryland State Police say … it’s illegal in the state.
    Leaving a car running and unattended can land you a $70 fine and one point on your license in Maryland.

    WTF Maryland.

    Of the more than 10,600 cars stolen in the state in 2020, the Maryland Vehicle Theft Prevention Council said 60% were left unlocked, and 50% had the keys inside.

    Again, WTF Maryland.

    • The Hyperbole

      Ain’t just Maryland, over 30 States have anti-idling laws, In Oh you are not even allowed to leave your keys in the ignition.

      • Rat on a train

        It looks like in Virginia idling restrictions only apply to commercial vehicles.

      • The Hyperbole

        Just found out that the Ohio law doesn’t apply if the car is locked, so that’s good I never take the key out of the ignition but I always lock the car.

      • Tres Cool

        Now Ill just break your window that you left un-secured. Just like the signs at the fuel pump “must not be left un-attended”, that’s where they’re going with the law.
        Contrarywise, if you leave the bar and realize you maybe shouldnt be driving and pull over to sleep it off, as long as the keys are in the ignition you can get a DUI even if the vehicle isnt in motion or you’re operating it. Keys in the ignition signal “intent”.

  63. Certified Public Asshat

    Katie Hobbs won't say if she supports forcing Arizona kids to be vaccinated for Covid in order to attend school.Her response was "uhhh…" pic.twitter.com/D5w4rSuu1Y— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 25, 2022

    Her full response was she actually hasn’t contemplated it, in a valley girl voice.

    • R C Dean

      Between being genuinely mediocre and having the affect of a stereotypical Karen, I’m thinking they will need a record ballot harvest in Maricopa County to drag her over the line.

    • slumbrew

      Do gun stores not accept cash?

      • UnCivilServant

        Withdrawing more than $600 will also flag you for visits.

      • EvilSheldon

        Buy gold with your credit card. Sell gold for cash. Walk over to the gun store and buy guns for cash. You can skip a step if the gun store accepts gold…

      • slumbrew

        Looks like at one place in NH that sells guns & ammo accepts goldbacks.

    • Rat on a train

      Gun stores need to add some sporting goods to their inventory so they can categorize differently.

  64. The Late P Brooks

    Tragic

    The vast majority of plastic that people put into recycling bins is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S.

    The report cites separate data published this May which revealed that the amount of plastic actually turned into new things has fallen to new lows of around 5%. That number is expected to drop further as more plastic is produced.

    Greenpeace found that no plastic — not even soda bottles, one of the most prolific items thrown into recycling bins — meets the threshold to be called “recyclable” according to standards set by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastic Economy Initiative. Plastic must have a recycling rate of 30% to reach that standard; no plastic has ever been recycled and reused close to that rate.

    “More plastic is being produced, and an even smaller percentage of it is being recycled,” says Lisa Ramsden, senior plastic campaigner for Greenpeace USA. “The crisis just gets worse and worse, and without drastic change will continue to worsen as the industry plans to triple plastic production by 2050.”

    Oddly enough, there is another, different study out there about (if I read the article correctly) energy extraction from plastic which is highly efficient and could provide a new source of reliable energy.

    • R C Dean

      Tucson quit taking plastic in its recycling program a few years ago. I wasn’t surprised.

      I particularly like the fact that the overlap between people who drink a lot of water out of plastic bottles, and people who are fully on board the green train, is pretty substantial.

      • robc

        If people want to recycle, they should switch to the heavier glass bottles. Like back in the 70s, when you paid a deposit on coke bottles, and took them back to be washed and refilled.

        IIRC, Germany and other places in Europe still do this with beer bottles. The swing-tops being a good example. You don’t do that for single use.

        The US switched to plastic and cheap glass bottles.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        That’s a better idea than the weird Canadian milk bags.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Because it needs to be said, not a euphemism.

      • Tres Cool

        See also, Volvo 240 Wagon loaded with hippies and the back postered over with “Coexist” type stickers, belching oil smoke, and taking said hippies to a “No Oil” protest.

        Years ago, we had a local grassroots group protesting a local cement company burning “hazardous”* waste in their Portland Cement kiln. Fresh out of the military and unemployed at the time, Id hit up Tres Sr**. for a free lunch. He worked for our local Ohio EPA office. I remember one day when they were protesting in front of his building as we were walking out. Tres Sr. lit a cigarette and said “stupid fuckin’ hippies- dont they know they took a bigger risk on their lives driving over here on the interstates and roads then they do dying from living next to the cement plant for 40 years?”

        *hazardous by this definition generally includes industrial waste which is mainly solvents, which is ideal fodder for a 3,000º F kiln with a residence time 3-4 seconds
        **Tres Sr. is, embarrassingly, on-board with most green policies, to include the use of electric instead of petroleum. But even he understands risk assessment.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Oddly enough, there is another, different study out there about (if I read the article correctly) energy extraction from plastic which is highly efficient and could provide a new source of reliable energy.

      https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/scientists-improve-process-turning-hard-recycle-plastic-waste-fuel/

      But also Penn State: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11351011/Shocking-moment-Penn-State-student-SPITS-Alex-Stein-protest-campus-comedy-event.html

      In the shocking video, Stein can be heard telling the protester: ‘You’re my favorite’ repeatedly. The protester tells him: ‘You are the reason that I feel unsafe in this town! You are the f***ing reason that we’re all here today! You are the reason people feel unsafe in this country. I f***ing hate you!’

      Stein responds with: ‘I love you. I think you’re a nice woman.’ That prompts the student to spit on Stein.

      And now she is a meme

      • slumbrew

        Mohawk.

        Grooming standards for officers are non-existent now.

      • EvilSheldon

        Both. It was a choice between a natural widow’s peak, the Mohican, or just say ‘Fuck it!’ and Bic the whole thing…

      • slumbrew

        She seems nice.

    • Homple

      It’s difficult to recover energy from plastic. If you try burning it to extract its calorific value, the chlorine compounds released in combustion eat up furnace walls.

  65. The Late P Brooks

    Waste management experts say the problem with plastic is that it is expensive to collect and sort. There are now thousands of different types of plastic, and none of them can be melted down together. Plastic also degrades after one or two uses. Greenpeace found the more plastic is reused the more toxic it becomes.

    New plastic, on the other hand, is cheap and easy to produce. The result is that plastic trash has few markets — a reality the public has not wanted to hear.

    ,/em>

    A nonstop barrage of lies will do that.

  66. DEG

    “Given the destruction created by this war for Ukraine and the world, as well as the risk of catastrophic escalation, we also believe it is in the interests of Ukraine, the United States, and the world to avoid a prolonged conflict,” the 30 Democratic members of the House of Representatives said in a letter to Biden.

    I saw some news that they’re already walking it back.

    Lake’s answer was noteworthy. “I think Mitch McConnell needs to wake up and realize that the Republican Party is about we, the people. It’s not about political elites like Mitch in D.C. He’s got to start representing the people. And we’re going to actually strengthen this party, Maria,” she said.

    Good answer from Lake.

    We’ll see how the election shakes out.

    Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, once considered a possible running mate for Joe Biden, is on the cusp of losing her job to Republican challenger Tudor Dixon.

    I’d like to see Whitmer lose, but we’ll see soon enough what happens.

    • R C Dean

      *Ballot printer go brrrrr*

  67. Mojeaux

    French toast or poached eggs on toast? What to do, what to do.

    • Rat on a train

      eggs on french toast?

    • R C Dean

      Cut a yolk sized hole out of the middle out of the bread. Put bread in buttered frying pan, drop egg into yolk sized hole. Etc.

    • Sean

      Bacon.

      • Tundra

        And eggs. Need that biotin.

      • Mojeaux

        Alas, I have none.

      • Sean

        😱

      • Mojeaux

        Right?! It’s an outrage!

        I’m making lasagne today.

  68. The Late P Brooks

    The low reprocessing rates are at odds with plans from the oil and gas industry. Industry lobbyists say they plan to recycle every piece of plastic they make into something new by 2040. In interviews with NPR, industry officials were unable to explain how they planned to reach a 100 percent recycling rate.

    An NPR investigative report found in 2020 that industry officials misled the public about the recyclability of plastic even though their own reports showed they knew as early as the 1970s and 1980s that plastic could not be economically recycled.

    Seriously? Who was ever gullible enough to think plastic could or would be recycled on a grand scale?

    • Rat on a train

      None of the municipal recycling programs knew how much of what they collected was actually being recycled?

    • rhywun

      Industry lobbyists full of shit? Get out.

  69. The Late P Brooks

    Thanks for enacting my labor, CPA!