Cruising
Not a lot going on in sports, but the Aussie Quarterfinals are happening at least. And the Angels owner has pulled the team off the market. Aside from that, you gotta wait until the weekend. Now moving on.
Im shocked, shocked to find that corruption is going on here. Now where are my winnings?
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This is interesting. Just so we’re all on the same page: Turkey is balking at the Northern European expansion of a military alliance that was designed to be a bulwark against another military alliance that dissolved 32 years ago. Makes a lot of fucking sense.
The investigation into Trump’s collusion with Russia bears some fruit. Only…it was the investigator who was in bed with Russian oligarchs.
It’s like covid all over again. Except, you know, for real this time.
Shitbag
Yeah, you can go fuck yourselves. I’m not the least bit surprised these scumbags are gonna try this.
And here’s an another one who can go fuck himself. Has it ever dawned on these people that they’re the bad guys?
And yet another shooting in California. Are they gonna blame Indiana too, or is that reserved for Chicago politicians?
This sounds retarded. And also unconstitutional. Are they seeking to ban US citizens from buying land or just foreign nationals with ties to specific governments? Or is it banning legal foreign nationals from specific countries? Like I said: retarded.
Here you go. What a unique voice. And some more of it. They’re really underrated. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this rainy Tuesday, dear friends.
” Except, you know, for real this time.”
It also has a real obvious solution.
Didn’t you know Fentanyl is contagious?!
pUbLiC HeAlTh!11!
this is such a disaster. somehow we figured out how to have the worst drug policy by some demented hybrid of prohibition and tolerance.
And yet no talk of refrigerated trucks.
Gas is too damned high!
Im shocked, shocked to find that corruption is going on here. Now where are my winnings? – I mean corruption is literally everywhere
Not in my kitchen.
Euphemism?
Did you check your drawers?
I took a class in college called “A History of Organized Crime in America”. The biggest takeaway for me was, “where there’s money there’s crime.” This came up when discussing Las Vegas. But it applies universally.
I took the idea of Las Vegas’s “Mormon Mafia” and transplanted it into my Prohibition book.
Can retards still buy land though?
Only if there’s cake.
This PROVES the FBI was covering up Drumpff’s collusion with Putin!
You jest, but have some Tard Tuesday.
More tardation
Not wrong – Obama’s FBI was thoroughly compromised!!!!!
Uh, wait, that can’t be right. /DUh
Posting DU this early in the week? You bastard!
I’m feeling kind of nihilistic this morning.
Vee wont ze fuckin money, Lebowski!
Nice marmot!
You’re hedging
“Go on.”
-CNN
Turkey is balking at the Northern European expansion of a military alliance that was designed to be a bulwark against another military alliance that dissolved 32 years ago. – lol no Turkey don’t give a shit about that
As long as they keep making cheap quality firearms, I don’t care.
As leverage, they do.
as leverage, obviously
NATO is this era’s Treaty of Vienna.
Vienna!?!?!
/Turks triggered
Mmmmm… yummy croissants.
#notketo
Let the carnage begin.
Sure, because a state can tax somebody who no longer lives or works there.
Yeah, that piece puzzles me.
What is the public reason they use to justify this? (I know the real reason is FYTW).
For work, it’s the bullshit convenience of the employer idiocy.
Says the infantile tyrant-wannabe.
I think you mean the DNC’s infantile tyrant gonna-be.
The rumor is that he’s being considered to replace Kamala.
I wonder how they plan to get Kamala out the door.
And they may just find in 2 years time that Newsom isn’t all that popular even in California. Of course that wasn’t an obstacle that Kamala couldn’t climb over, on her knees most likely.
Classified documents?
Nope, I’m speaking to the 27yo Democratic Socialist who is in the state Assembly that is writing the legislation. I’d like to teach him that politics are built upon violence – I’m sure it’s a lesson he doesn’t understand.
I’m willing to bet that about 99% of your average billionaire’s assets aren’t “hoardable”. They’re most likely productive assets that aren’t easily liquidated. But what do I know, I’m just a retarded welder.
Every leftwinger I know thinks that the published amount of a billionaire’s net worth is literally sitting in a checking account.
Headline is a bit click-baity:
The plan is still awful, but California seems to understand they can’t tax you after you have left the state.
That’s not how I read it.
What I think they’re saying is that if your assets are tied up and can’t readily be liquidated to pay the tax bill, you will be required to continue filing returns with the FTB until they’ve discovered that you liquidated enough assets to pay what you owe from when you were a CA resident and they’ll go after you to collect it at that point regardless where you live.
Right, but they are still collecting on taxes you didn’t pay when you were a California resident. There are no new taxes after you have left.
It would depend on a few factors. Are they only able to tax someone’s assets that are inside the borders if CA? What if you’ve got property in CA and TX but reside in CA? Can they impose a tax on assets held outside their state? How does it work for securities that are incorporated in DE?
They’re still taxing you for what you own outside their state.
When we left CA, they tried to fax me on the money I earned in both VA and TX that year because I earned some income in CA (less than three months) that tax year. They continually sent me demand letters saying I owed the FTB for all income that year regardless where I earned it. They did that for several years up to and including threatening to have my professional licenses revoked and my drivers license suspended.
I ignored all of them and never sent a dime, and eventually the letters stopped. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they started up again for no reason whatsoever. And I would t be shocked if that’s a normal way of doing things in that state. I’m sure they find a bit insignificant number of people dumb enough to just send them a check.
If you faxed them cash, you’d still have it.
Now I’m wondering if fax machines have built in anti-counterfeiting software.
Not tax advice, but they are correct if you were a CA resident that year. All worldwide income earned/received while a CA resident is taxable. If you are saying all of your Virginia and Texas sourced income was earned after you left, then no they can fuck off.
*Not tax advice*
Yeah, they wanted to tax my income earned in other states after moving.
They tried to pull that with me too. I also told them – quite directly – to fuck right off.
I can see being required to provide a payment plan but I wouldn’t trust them with continuous filings. How long before they start claiming subsequent gains are “tied” to those Ca assets and you owe taxes on that too, even if the gains are years after you moved out of state
It’s like covid all over again. Except, you know, for real this time. – this is what libertarians want / standard conservative opinion
Tard Tuesday: You know that thing we don’t have enough of right now? Yeah, we’re going to stop making it.
We are saving people’s souls not their bodies.
Tritium is another thing we’re gonna need to start making way more of.
After spending a week with the fusion guys up in Washington, we’re gonna need a lot of lithium and a lot of tritium to make this work on a national or global scale.
Night sights for everyone?
We’re going to need them during the nuclear winter.
I’ll wear a face mask for that.
According to the manual that came with my CZ, the treatment or inhaling tritium is to drink large amounts of low-alcohol beer.
Not kidding.
Tall cans!
Mich Ultra will be king of the wastelands.
Czech yourself before you wreck yourself.
He-3 is abundant on the moon.
*waggles eyebrows*
/Elon Musk
They are worried about earthquakes in the Netherlands? Seriously?
They are worried about earthquakes caused by gas extraction. They are also worried about subsidence which is an issue when much of your country is below sea level.
Is there any reason to think that is a risk? Or is this just more green bullshit.
I have not read about subsidence due to gas extraction. It is clearly a problem when pumping ground water.
But, if I had to guess, it’s like deflating a balloon. I expect there would be consequences.
I don’t think it works like that. The gas permeates other geologic formations, and I would expect they are pretty deep. It’s not like there is some flexible formation full of just gas that will contract (meaningfully) if the gas escapes.
As far as I know. Which isn’t far.
Saudi Arabia would be an awfully big sinkhole.
And here’s an another one who can go fuck himself. Has it ever dawned on these people that they’re the bad guys?
It probably has dawned. But I am sure that every penny of that projected revenue will be raised and spent wisely.
Nope, it never dawns on them. Most humans don’t want to doubt themselves, and so they make up elaborate fantasies about their goodness.
Kinda surprised that the rumors of Bezos buying the Washington Warpigs aren’t in the links.
That’d be a cooler name.
Tard Tuesday: The GOP Needs To Prove It’s Just As Irresponsible and Stupid as the DNC
I actually agreed with Pelosi on that one. Despite the possibility of “poking the bear” the CCP has no goddamn right to tell the US or its elected officials when or where they may travel outside their borders or control, regardless if they consider Taiwan part of their nation. Fuck ’em.
Yeah! Keep poking another nuclear armed peer competitor in their sensitive spot until they react! Fuck ’em!
The whole “let nuclear powers say and do whatever they want including invading other nations because nuclear power” schtick around here is wearing thin. You honestly think a visit by a US house member will be a deciding f actor to invade Taiwan? Bullshit.
It’s totally a schtick on my part, you got me there.
Why must America be the world’s policeman? Fuck Taiwan. Fuck Ukraine. Add Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, South Korea and everywhere else American men were sent to die on foreign soil while the politicians of both countries looted the American citizens.
The point isn’t that a US house member visiting Taiwan would be a deciding factor in China invading. The point is that US house members shouldn’t be visiting Taiwan for any reason. We shouldn’t even have any military in that part of the world.
“I went to Kuwait and all I got was this lousy VFW membership.”
Seriously though, VFW bars can be great. Super cheap, even mostly free, beer. I always look for the local one when I travel.
Anywhere else the CCP can veto US travelers? All of the areas bordering China’s maritime claims? The Eastern Hemisphere? Earth?
There is a distinction between US travelers and politicians at the highest levels of government which are itching to send billions of dollars of weapons to create an Afghanistan for our adversary. As far as I know, travelers are still welcome.
Frankly if Russia had objected to Lindsay Graham and John McCain traveling to Ukraine and agitating the Azov into attacks the world would be a better place right now.
Possibly but these are very different scenarios. We aren’t agitating the Taiwanese to do anything but protect their own borders and keep sending us semi conductors. As far as I’m aware the CCP at no point set up a puppet government to use for money laundering before we decided to upset that apple cart with our own operation. We aren’t actively engaging in overthrowing the government and setting up a puppet as we most likely did in Ukraine. We aren’t even stopping China from slowly building up artificial islands/naval bases to prepare for its inevitable land invasion. Much like Isreal, we effectively created that nation and as much as my libertarian impulse tells me we should ignore all entanglements they’re already there and we have, at least for the present time, an obligation to keep those nations intact and nominally independent. When or how to disengage from them in the future in such a way that satisfies everyone involved? No freaking clue. If that takes my libertarian bonafides down a notch and makes me seem slightly neo-conish, so be it.
‘obligation to keep those nations intact and nominally independent. ‘
You lost me there. Unless there’s some treaty I’m not aware of. (Israel and Taiwan?)
We’re also a nuclear power, we don’t have to kowtow either.
“Keep poking […] in their sensitive spot until they react! Fuck ’em!”
Heh. /Juvenile
“A thousand years of pain!”
“Yeah! Keep poking another nuclear armed peer competitor in their sensitive spot until they react! Fuck ’em!”
Is that directed at the US or China?
Our sensitive spot appears to be the entire globe.
There is no place too insignificant that we won’t stick our dick in it!
I largely agree, but I think she only went there so she could figure out how much money to put into chip stocks.
Oh. I’m not debating the purity of her reasons for being there at all. Just saying at no point has China with its current form of government under the CCP ever controlled Taiwan and has no legitimate claim to the island. Either way, I don’t want US diplomatic visits and relations dictated by another nation, regardless how nefarious or not our reasons for them.
According to Douglas Macgregor in a recent interview (and I’m too lazy to corroborate), the Taiwanese political party that wants to reunite with China has been getting a very close second in recent races. It’s not exactly the case of a scrappy underdog longing for freedom that US warmongers would have you believe.
NO! They are OUR CLIENT STATE and they are going to stay that! It’s freedom dammit.
That’s all beside the point.
Unification in Taiwan doesn’t mean surrender to CCP and accept Beijing control of the island. It includes both the KMT and lesser parties who still see it as the Republic of China and not a separate “Republic of Taiwan”.
^this
People are deliberately misrepresenting the two sides there.
I wouldn’t discount her corruption, but Pelosi has been a longtime opponent of the CCP. She and two other Congressmen went to Tiananmen Square not long after the massacre to commemorate the students.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if her private visit was orchestrated within the US government as exactly that.
“Four men are arrested over rape of LSU sorority student, 19, who was then dumped and hit and killed by ride-share car at 3AM: College president brands attackers ‘evil’ and says ‘amazing’ victim had ‘limitless potential’
Arrest documents also indicate that Brooks had a blood alcohol level of .319% at the time of her death- meaning she was highly intoxicated at nearly four times the legal limit…
The men claim Brooks then asked to be taken home but say she gave them a number of different addresses before she got out of the car…
Under Louisiana law’s third-degree rape charge generally involves a victim who is ‘incapable of resisting or of understanding the nature of the act by reason of a stupor or abnormal condition of mind produced by an intoxicating agent or any cause and the offender knew or should have known of the victim’s incapacity.””
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11669299/Four-men-arrested-LSU-sorority-student-Madison-Brooks-struck-killed-car-gang-rape.html
Well that’s horrible.
I have a question about those consent laws: if a person is too drunk to consent and someone who is equally drunk has sex with them, how does the law declare one of them mentally capable of having sex but the other party not mentally capable of the same act?
I’m not speaking of this case, but more generally. Drunken hookups where two people who have consumed a comparable amount of alcohol are now considered rape by many states, depending on how one party feels the next day. I don’t see how they can have two standards, almost exclusively based on the sex of the participant, and that square with the principle of equal protection.
I think there was a university who expelled two students for mutually unconsensual sex
The man is at fault. Always. That is the first principle.
According to my military sexual assault training; “yes that does make you a rapist, you rapist.”
Literally told that if a woman has a sip of alcohol she cannot consent (no matter what she says or does) and the amount of alcohol a man has had it irrelevant.
Your tax dollars at work.
Your mistake is thinking there is supposed to be equal protection. The crime of rape isn’t really ever all that equal, men perpetrate it on women and other men. The rarity of a woman raping a man makes that kind of case notable. And consider the opprobrium on anyone suggesting in the average rape that the woman was asking for it, versus the view on how the guy got lucky some woman jumped his bones.
Not sure how the law can really be equal there.
The equal protection part comes in because if they are both drunk, and if you are drunk you can’t give consent, then the man is no more capable of giving consent than the woman is, so in a drunken hookup she raped him just as much as he raped her if they are both drunk. It’s make no sense that in such a situation a man has agency and responsibility but a woman does not.
Ah, but it’s already been established that being drunk is no excuse for a crime. MADD rejoices!
I get that, but go back to where the premise starts before we add that on.
Now run the scenario of unable to consent to the crime to drunk driving – oh I was too drunk to know I shouldn’t be behind the wheel? What if the man is drunk, she isn’t and he rapes her – does he now get a pass?
“What if the man is drunk, she isn’t and he rapes her – does he now get a pass?”
That was the Amherst case. Sober girl performs oral sex on nearly passed out drunk best friend’s boyfriend. Sober girl texts about it. Best friend finds out and gets mad. Sober girl cries rape. Male student gets expelled because he was too drunk to know if she was consenting.
About what I would expect from Amherst.
I’ve wondered the same.
Plenty of drunken hookups are regretted by one or both parties later. Doesn’t mean it was rape if both parties were sloshed.
To be honest, I think the man gets blamed due to traditional views that the man is “in charge” and also due to the anatomical fact that he has the organ that does the penetration. Graphic, yes. But I think at least subconsciously that is why he gets the blame.
Another question: if the two parties are both drunk, she doesn’t claim rape but does want child support for the kid they made on accident, why should he pay?
This is my thought as well. It’s based on traditional sexual roles and the fact that the man (or transwoman) has the sexual organ that is being put into the woman (or transman).
Wait a minute…if a pre-op transman with a vagoo has drunken sex with a pre-op transwoman with a dong and they both regret it, who gets charged with the rape?
The closest cis white male.
Neither. But there may be a civil suit if there are deep pockets involved.
Wait, I know – Trump!
Pretty simple.
If one party has a penis, it’s rape.
If one party has buyers remorse and that party has a vagina, it’s rape, and a cell phone full of texts that proves otherwise is irrelevant.
If one party wants attention and says there were raped in a frat house after being thrown through a glass table, the other party is a rapist -even if they aren’t a real person and just a figment of the first party’s imagination.
If one party was never there and the incident never happened, but that party is an icky Republican nominated for the Supreme Court, it’s rape.
Well, there’s drunk and stupid, and there’s drunk and incapacitated. If stupid drunk dude (0.10 BAC) fucks passed out woman (0.32 BAC), I’m perfectly comfortable calling that rape.
I am too, obviously. But that’s a clear cut case of rape absent the amount of alcohol involved. We’re talking about the cases where the amount of alcohol is used as the determining factor of whether consent is possible or not. And it seems to me that that standard is generally only applied to the woman, and that it supersedes any other evidence leading up to or in the aftermath of the sex.
” If stupid drunk dude (0.10 BAC) fucks passed out woman (0.32 BAC), I’m perfectly comfortable calling that rape.”
But if stupid drunk woman (0.10 BAC) fucks passed out man (0.32 BAC), then it’s his fault.
.319% does not strike me as highly intoxicated. .4 is the limit in Romania when driving can become a criminal offense.
It’s kind of hard to drive when you’re in a coma.
.4 must be metric, because .319 is really shitfaced. Like you can’t even walk shitfaced.
Yeah, I remember it used to be 0.1 and they dropped it to 0.08.
I’m pretty sure at 0.4, most people are dead.
I think you are missing a zero on that – typically in the US drunk is .08 or over (I believe that is the felony line in Romania). .319 is dangerously drunk, .4 would be stomach pumping time.
yeah my bad it is .4 per thousand not percent
So, having read the article, definitely a horrible story. But not sure why DM needed to specify she was killed by a “ride-share” vehicle. Not relevant at all.
Women of the world — never drink this much. It never ends well.
No shit – talk about a talk you should have with a daughter.
I hate being online this early. But some schmuck called a meeting at the earliest possible time.
whaddayamean early it is half past scotch o clock
Midnight?
7:30 CST
Ah. I was online at my usual 6:30 CST. I remember the happy days of starting at 7:30…
What an amazing coincidence. Not only was a person there ready to film, a second person was also there ready to film the filmer.
https://twitter.com/pacifikate/status/1617687885796487168?s=46&t=7EJHrDPjc2rDaOdSK9xn4A
This all seems legit.
Actually what’s interesting is all the media replies asking for permission to use the video. You wonder why they all say the same shit?
I’m sure they all use a similar template when making these requests for legal reasons.
summary please.
I ain’t logging into twitter to see the video
They caught the shooter in the parking lot of the local cops right after the shooting. And someone was already there with a camera set up perfectly to catch it. And someone else was there to record the recording of the takedown.
The awareness of the local reporters is uncanny.
There is a large cadre of ‘citizen’ reporters that drive around all night like Nightcrawler, listening to scanners and such. It is actually amazing to watch some of the feeds as they tend to find the scene before the cops.
Keffals is about to debate Bad Empanada on Marxist Leninism…like really…what’s the point of this…?
https://twitter.com/ItsLulu_7/status/1617702793296613376
I have no idea what that means but assume commie on commie fight
I think that means both of them will be prohibited from buying land in Texas.
Lesbian commies battling it out to show who has the most fishy thing going on?
Menopause laws rejected by government as they could ‘discriminate against men’
Campaigners have called for menopause to be made a protected characteristic like race or religion
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/24/menopause-laws-rejected-government-could-discriminate-against/
paywall but I thing the title says it all. except the ever popular question what do you mean by men.
They’re going to revive the Leviticus laws. Only this time, when any woman in the tribe is menstruating, all the men must isolate themselves before performing a ritual cleansing.
I have been assured that men can have periods too.
and colons, semicolons, commas, apostrophes, and even more exotic punctuation as well.
!!!
Nah, men have colons.
a military alliance that was designed to be a bulwark against another military alliance that dissolved 32 years ago
I’ll give you “advertised as a bulwark”, but I think it was designed to cement US influence over western Europe.
Lord Ismay: keep the Soviets out, the Americans in and the Germans down.
Who knew carp herpes was a thing?
Well, they are invasive….
Nothing could go wrong with that decision.
Well it isn’t like Australia’s other attempts to control invasive species ever had any problems.
I’m sure this will work out exactly like they want with no unexpected ecological disasters. Like importing the cane toad.
I did, because it became a problem in the ornamental koi farming business.
I am deeply disappointed in the unoriginality of today’s scholars. Ralph Elison already proved white paint = racist all the way back in 1952.
https://www.tio2project.com/norwhite
OMFG
Turns out that sunscreen is racist too.
Just wait until they see some pictures of Greece.
Everybody knows that Greek sculptures were painted vibrant colors until they were scrubbed by racist proto-American colonizers.
“Turns out that sunscreen is racist too.”
Just one more tool of white supremacy, letting whites into non-white spaces.
Thanks, sloop – that Second song has been running through my head all week, for some reason.
Good work whoever did this.
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https://twitter.com/NickdMiller/status/1617283137318580224
Seems accurate.
I wonder if Lithuania should have been “sad & wet”. A native told me their word for their country means something like RainyLand.
Holy shit, they found Atlantis?
I assume that is Iceland done like AK and HI are on US maps?
Or, yeah, Atlantis.
An island that sunk beneath the waves should indeed be sad and wet.
When did Iceland move to the Bay of Biscay?
Plate tectonics are real.
1987
“It includes a 3.5% city income tax on Chicagoans and suburbanites earning more than $100,000 a year; a financial transaction tax; a 66% increase in the city’s hotel tax, which is already the highest in the country; a revived employee head tax; and raising the real estate transfer tax on high-end home sales.”
Detroit 2.0 here we come.
I had hoped Chicago would eventually decline to be a very large Cleveland, but Detroit is looking more possible every year.
“It includes a 3.5% city income tax on Chicagoans and suburbanites earning more than $100,000 a year; MOVES OUT OF IL
a financial transaction tax; MARKETS LEAVE FOR TX or FL
a 66% increase in the city’s hotel tax, which is already the highest in the country; NOBODY VISITS
a revived employee head tax; WFH, BITCHEZ.
and raising the real estate transfer tax on high-end home sales. NO HOMES WILL BE ABLE TO SELL AT ‘HIGH END’ ”
I remember when I used to stay in downtown Chicago for business all the time. The hotel taxes were insane. Raising them by 66%? Sure.
Did they forget about rental car taxes? That is another good way to soak the rubes who are visiting. Those dummies can’t vote your ass out either.
I work at a convention center that is slightly smaller than the massive Chicago venue. Quite often a show that used to be in Chicago comes to our building, and the exhibitors are stunned that our workers aren’t greedy union goons who insist on the right to plug in laptop chargers for exorbitant prices. Also we have vastly better weather. This will just drive more shows away.
I already know a lot of people here in Indiana who no longer go to Chicago due to the crime. This isn’t going to help.
I haven’t been there for three years. I used to go regularly.
Fuck Chicago. Like a lot of my favorite cities, the idiots ruined it.
We used to go every month or so, and the same for my siblings. Now they refuse to even drive through the city.
We did go out to eat and to Water Tower this last weekend for my kid’s birthday. The upper three floors of Water Tower there is about 50% vacancy. I’ve never seen it like that.
Definitely the left wing of the Democratic Party that wants to dump Joe. Safe to say they don’t want Kamala, so the next Democratic primary should be an epic shit-show.
Over and under of them finding secret documents about Willy’s willie at Kah-moh-lah’s house and she also has to go?
I was expecting the usual attaching the tow strap to the plastic bumper.
When idiot tries to help
This was a new twist.
Makes one question springing into action to help others.
True, you could see the tension.
I recoiled in horror
I could barely suspend my disbelief.
I recoiled at the unexpectedness of it.
DOH! Missed your comment.
I’m shocked.
I love all the redditors in the comments saying to use the screw in hooks.
🤦♂️
Those are not for recovery.
This could be a turning point. If Rufo can work from the inside to expose the hollowness of the DEI and the inherent cowardice of the mob behind it, he could do an invaluable service to the country.
Yup, Reich is a reliable indicator of the Idiot Caucus.
Bah, Gilmore’d that one.
I’d amend that to the Establishment Caucus.
The colleges will need to establish guidelines for expulsion that include attempts to silence open debate. The rabble rousers will have to be removed and their facilitators in the administration fired, which may be the more difficult proposition.
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Good grief, now he is comparing himself to Project Veritas.
I can’t even understand what is being expressed. The whole kerfuffle is stupid.
Don’t they have anything worthwhile to add?
He’s going independent and marketing himself as the lone conservative fighting big tech…while still using all of the big tech options available to market himself.
I want to show how rotten social media is by being the biggest beacon in all of social media?
He actually has some points and the contract was apparently large but garbage. Clandestine recording of business negotiations is a no go for me though and I wouldn’t talk on the phone to him about anything more important than the weather.
Public Asshat started off talking about the money which really wasn’t all that much money so now he had to switch to the phone call as his source of outrage at Crowder calling out the Daily Wire for being scumbags with their contracts (my favorite moment – Candace Owens saying she recognizes aspects of the terms sheet from her own contract so immediately knew who he was talking about, but don’t you DARE suggest she’s controlled in anyway).
The Daily Wire – it’s just business!
The Daily Wire – how could you leak our bullshit contract terms and record our phone call, we’re FRIENDS!!!11!!!1!1!1!
Crowder is right on every aspect of those terms sucking. I could go on all day about how moronic the people defending TDW are, but it’s been done. Repeatedly. By just about every independent content creator who has commented on the subject.
Lol, fuck off. Enjoy your mug club subscription.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“YOU KIDS GET OFF MY….
Oh yeah, you’re supposed to be here.”
Welp, that’s adorable.
Thanks, Pope-a!
(Ay! Imma da Pope-a!)
Great stuff.
Unfortunately, because I have also been made a bit crazy by the ‘Vid, this crossed my mind: Oh, so now isolating old people is bad for their health? When did this breakthrough in gerontology happen?
Once you’re old, what else is good in the world but it’s renewal?
Thanks for sharing.
That’s really cool. We baby sit my four year old nephew during the week. Every day he says something completely out of the blue that is hilarious. He’s so much fun to be around. I can see how that would work.
Wonderful.
I’m getting in line.
When I visit friends in the nursing home it often depressing. OTOH, it may be depressing for them when I show up.
Thanks Jimbo
The one article I wish to be stupid about is the discussion over banning foreign purchases of land.
Yes, you should be able to sell to whomever you wish. But when Soros and company are buying up huge swathes of land it is a point of concern. What would be a good suggestion for limiting such an otherwise malevolent practice? Technically even Bill Gates does it. He has no limits on property purchases.
Meanwhile in MikeS.’ neck of the woods:
https://www.valleynewslive.com/2022/07/20/chinese-land-deal-grand-forks-draws-national-attention-concern/
I don’t know what could legally be done to prevent that. From a purely libertarian perspective, I’d say nothing.
The rub is that there really is a move by bad actors to acquire land to the point it disrupts multiple marketplaces. And that brings principles into conflict. When one free market can be manipulated by a few malevolent actors to the point that it has downstream effects that manipulate other markets, can or should something be done to prohibit the action? I really don’t know, but it’s worth debating from a philosophical standpoint as well as a practical one.
Japan did this in the 80’s and got bent over good and hard. There was talk at one point that they lost WWII but would buy California 50 years later. Cost them a pretty penny and they never owned California.
Too bad, they might have stamped out some of the crazy.
Thank you. This seems to be an American crazy about furriners buyin’ all ‘rr land that cycles up from time to time.
If they are really going to build death ray towers on that land, or plague spreading machines…. you can take the land, send them a check and that is that….land cannot be put on a train and rolled over to a port where it sails back to China.
We do tend to be a bit isolationist in that way.
Bill Gates has proven himself to be quite the malevolent actor, so I don’t see how any good comes of his land purchases. I wonder what percentage of farmland he has, presumably a pretty low amount.
It’s pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. Turns out we have lots of land.
That’s what I figured. A lot of land that was previously farmland now lies fallow and is used for hunting leases, especially in the northeast.
Someone like Gates would probably use his land to grow crops like corn and soy and poison the food supply with HFCS and estrogenic plant proteins for profit. A terrifying prospect if it weren’t already the status quo.
That’s funny.
Luckily (?) a lot of that soy gets sent abroad.
Not just American. Canada (well BC) has it too. I’d bet pretty much every desirable, and even some non desirable, place has it but it doesn’t make it to American media stories.
https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-bans-foreigners-from-purchasing-most-real-estate-/6906123.html
Not just the US: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-15/new-zealand-bans-foreigners-from-buying-property/10124290
My understanding is there are a lot of countries with restrictions on foreigners owning real estate. And other assets as well. It’s not just a ‘Murican thing.
30 year old argument of mine, proving that there is no trade imbalance.
We imported goods from Japan and exported skyscrapers and Hawaiian golf courses.
Those “exports” didnt get counted as exports for some reason.
And, of course, in later years we bought them back from the Japanese for pennies on the dollar.
I’m sure they held on to some dollars too, but yeah, you can only ever have balanced trade in some sense, once you account for investment and debt.
Yeah, there can be some small time lags due to holding of dollars, but trade is always balanced otherwise.
Dollars are an export as well.
Yep, so nevermind, balance is achieved!
Turkey and NATO: They just haven’t sweetened the pot sufficiently yet, the Turks know they have NATO over a barrel and they’re just taking advantage.
“the Turks know they have NATO over a barrel and they’re just taking advantage.”
Hey, easy there, pal!
/Midnight Express
Hell of a good movie plus it included the misunderstood genius Randy Quaid, the inarguably superior Quaid brother.
Cousin Eddie from those vacation movies is the character that convinced me we would win the Cold War against the Ruskies.
Oh, Swissy!
::presses bare breast against computer monitor::
Turkey was once a useful chess piece with respect to the Soviet Union.
They are skillfully taking advantage of their position re: the Bosporus and Uke grain shipments, and being next door to Syria, Iran, etc.
But someday they won’t be so geographically important, and will find themselves alone, quite quickly.
aktchually Türkiye now that i think about it
*applause*
/US DoS
That’s hot to be one of the dumbest trends in recent years, purposefully making things difficult to understand and pronounce.
You misspelled “Occupied Byzantium”.
Make Istanbul Constantinople again.
Give the land back to the Hittites.
Fuck them.
/Rameses Won Kadesh!
Why not?
https://englishbreakfastsociety.com/history-of-bacon.html
proper bacon not the streaky stuff I assume
What bizarre bastardization of pork do you call bacon?
who said anything about me? We are talking english breakfast here
https://englishbreakfastsociety.com/back-bacon.html
There’s a place here that makes jowl and shoulder bacon, they’re both good.
jowl – like guanciale?
Titty Tuesday both is and is not.
https://archive.is/EeQWn
Schrodinger’s tits?
Edwin wasn’t that overweight.
Hate crimes against the AAPI community spiked in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. At the time, former President Donald Trump is on the record for referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus.”
Phew. I was afraid they were going to forget to mention that.
Surprised they didn’t throw in “and COVID-19 was completely natural, not man-made at all”.
if you remove the fake ones how many are left?
How many weren’t fake? A fair number. Some Asians got to play the knock-out game in big cities.
Of course, the attacks by black people don’t count, because blacks can’t be racist, so they can’t commit hate crimes.
Nobody tell the author about the “Spanish Flu”!
Or the Hong Kong Flu.
Or West Nile Virus.
Or MERS.
I think I got this form an escort in Madrid
So Trump doing that causing Asians (not from China) to attack other Asians (not from China)?
Wow. He’s like omnipotent.
I live in a purple area of a very blue state and I hear a lot of Democrats complaining about the proposed gas stove ban, especially recently when people have lost power during storms but were able to still cook. I’ve been having a lot of fun pointing out that maybe now they know how gun owners feel. Perhaps the solution is to add gas stoves to the 2nd amendment to make it harder to repeal.
That one seems so bizarre. Outside of a few fringe people this was never popular. Yet once one says it, the trained parrots repeat it down to the word.
Squawk! Gas stoves bad! Squawk! Kids getting asthma! Squawk! Gas stoves dangerous!
“What did you think was going to happen when you voted for the party of Net Zero?”
Sorry I missed last night’s article. One of my (too) many hobbies is wine making, usually with fruits. I’d be willing to try onion wine.
At least wine doesn’t suffer from neglect. I have 5 gallons of peach wine that’s been aging a year, but my FIL just got a table top still and we’re going to make peach brandy.
Breaking Bad but electrical engineering
https://twitter.com/DanielBogdanoff/status/1617452935721684992
Not a lot going on in sports
What about Monte Carlo?
Horses on Campaign in Medieval Times | Logistics & Transport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJzYK-F40u4
Breaking Bad but electrical engineering
I was hoping that involved pulse rifles in the 40 watt range.
and then theres this
https://twitter.com/dyingscribe/status/1617747405927223299
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339541044_Mental_illness_and_the_left
That’s funny. The replies range from “Because I’m 11” through “I’d kill myself with it” to “I’m a felon”.
Ladies and gentlemen, the vanguard of the revolution.
Speaking of land…
Is Bill Gates part of this idiocy?
I don’t have to touch someone’s car to point out that something’s not right. Here’s a full-on Dodge Dickmobile with an illegal cover on the back plate. This muscle car guy has lots of parking tickets (those are written by humans), but no speed-cam tickets. Curious, ain’t it?
https://twitter.com/GershKuntzman/status/1616893244272517127
the comments seem against the original poster
That guy is a snoopy fuck. Also calling somebody’s car a dickmobile? Prejudice much?
What an asshole.
Probably why he hates dicks so much…
I don’t know that I could vote to convict the guy who broke his legs.
Damn snitch should get his teeth pushed down his throat.
That’s the pussy who got PTSD shooting an AR-15.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/reporter-who-got-ptsd-from-firing-a-rifle-responds-to-critics
Last name Kuntz Man. I rest my case.
“I don’t have to touch someone’s car”
And then he proceeds to touch the car with a screwdriver. And then other cars, and finishes with vandalizing some plates (which I have the feeling is probably against the law).
What a cunte.
Gersh Cunte-sman is the asshole who wrote a long screed about firing an AR-15 and how horrible it was. If you read the article, it’s very plain that he’s never even touched an AR-15. I deconstructed his piece of assholery a few years back.
Good morning, Sloop!
CA Asians are cranky I guess. Pretty good body count, but still rookie numbers.
Do you remember when Seattle was a beautiful, fun city?
I do. Motherfuckers.
I love the SP. Rick Beato interviewed Billy recently – it was quite good. He’s an interesting dude who wrote some amazing songs.
‘CA Asians are cranky I guess. Pretty good body count, but still rookie numbers.’
Careful, if you grade them poorly now they might just try really hard next time.
Am I the only one who wonders if there’s a connection to the Vietnam War in the first incident?
Biden state secrets scandal, and now WaPo and NYT are reporting on corruption in Ukraine.
What gives?
China is about to invade Taiwan ?
I think their military is about to collapse, and we need a scapegoat. It can’t be that there was a problem with US/NATO strategy or weapons shipments, just that those dirty Slavs didn’t use the largess properly.
I don’t thing anyone would say there was a problem with US strategy… I mean it is impressive Ukraine lasted as long as it did.
Right?
I remember when the Russians were going to be in Kiev in a week and to lvov the week after. Not sure what will precipitate the sudden loss now though? Doesn’t a stalemate seem more likely at this point?
The Ukrainian army has been attrited badly and over the past month their supply lines have been badly damaged, According to MacGregor, the Ukes are still fighting mainly militias and Wagner mercenaries while over a half million Russian regulars are waiting on the border for whatever comes next.
, the Ukes are still fighting mainly militias and Wagner mercenaries while over a half million Russian regulars are waiting on the border for whatever comes next. – been hearing this for half a year… I doubt it given the amount of fighting
Yeah, the big scary Russian Army is always just over the horizon. As much as they’ve gotten their asses kicked, they sure are hesitant to get serious about what they are doing.
It’s nonsense.
The Wagner mercenaries are supposed to be some of the better trained and equipped troops. Well, maybe not counting the ones they just sprung from prison, but is that the kind of thing you do if you have half a million troops ready to roll?
Plenty of regular Russian Army units have been in country. Those half a million Russian regulars are (a) mostly not supposed to leave Russia and (b) largely recent draftees without training or equipment. If Putin has the knockout blow I’ve been hearing about for nearly a year, why is he dragging this out?
Drag it out so we (NATO) continues to deplete resources in the not proxy war?
An economy the size of Spain is going to deplete less than the combined EU and US?
Said that dumbly – can support the depletion better than.
Mans downloaded all child porn in existence 😭
https://twitter.com/BurgSkeletal/status/1617658660959948803
We had some discussion about Scott Adams’ “come to Jesus” moment on vaccines recently. I still think he’s a big fan of persuasion and “hypnotism”, so it looks to me like he’s trolling. Some of his recent tweets:
“I have a lot of respect for the people who were smart enough to avoid a hastily prepared “vaccination” in favor of the relative safety of an engineered bioweapon that escaped from a lab.”
“I would like to publicly apologize for continuously ignoring the “accurate data” on Covid that people sent me for three years.
But just so I don’t make that mistake again, is there a separate list of the strangers I should trust to know which data is the good stuff?”
My understanding is he thinks he made the best decision based on information at the time and that these people got lucky this time.
So, Sam Harris jr?
Cool.
Well they certainly swamped us with data that the unvaccinated were dying in droves compared to the vaccinated early on.
I wonder if there’s been any harder looks back at that now.
He likes to equivocate and approach the truth while hedging and using tricky language in order to make claims later that he did or did not say or predict something. He occasionally makes good points but he’s ultimately a bit of a sleazebag and a liar who’s so far up his own ass it isn’t even funny.
This week I’m getting tired of his whole thing. To put it succinctly, he seems to be using reverse psychology here and he likes to just see what would happen if he says one thing or another.
“I have a lot of respect for the people who were smart enough to avoid a hastily prepared “vaccination” in favor of the relative safety of an engineered bioweapon that escaped from a lab.”
And I have a lot of scorn for the people who chose to pay a hostile actor to maybe kill them, and browbeat others to do the same, instead of not doing so.
Of course, by the time the vax came out, we already knew that the disease wasn’t that bad. Even though it came from a Chinese bio weapons lab. And, yes, Wuhan was a bio weapons lab – gain of function research is dual purpose, and the PLA was up to their eyeballs in Wuhan.
I just heard the “REEEEEEEEEE”ing of a million NPCs.
😂
On point, sir.
Today was a public holiday and as I had o work I did some house cleaning and now I am slightly sad at the thought it is going to get dirty all over again
The 8-year-old asked me to turn this up in the car the other day. Much pride, many pleased.
turn that down. that isnt music.
I liked it. I’ve visited Skye. Would have been better with a rental car. Kinda spread out.
*incoherent Romanian screeching*
Reading is precious. But the cult of book ownership can be smug and middle-class | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1617582460249817091
“I have started giving away my books – sometimes even putting them in with the recycling. Why keep a novel that could delight someone else?”
Don’t pull your arm out of joint patting yourself on the back lady.
So I can read it again later?
And randomly throwing them to be pulped, or giving them to libraries so they can be thrown to be pulped really is the opposite of appreciating the content.
I can understand both perspectives. I have a handful of books I own that I’ve read multiple times. And I have several I’d happily give away because I know I won’t read them again.
I really don’t give a shit what she does with her books. That’s her business. But I won’t read her self-righteous drivel either.
Explain how putting them in recycling allows the book to “delight someone else” please.
She thinks bums who rifle through her trash will come across one and become the next big story.
She could schlep them down to the library if she really cared but, nope, too much work.
I gave a vast number of books to the library a few years back. I’m probably due for another cull, and I barely get any physical books anymore.
/watches number of books that I’ve enjoyed going out of print.
Nope. I’ll hold on to them.
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16498695/spains-king-juan-carlos-injected-female-hormones-sex-drive/
They had to keep down little Juan?
flaming pizza he latest thing
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1617709042797023233
this one’s for Sean
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1617606881819897859
Nope.
It’s just an electric broiler with a somewhat enhanced risk of combustion.
It gets a really good char on the meat.
The kitchen fire?
Potayto -potato
He stayed calm. I give him that. The fire went out without collateral damage. Kudos on a clear head.
Knocked the fire right out.
But the cult of book ownership can be smug and middle-class
Whycome you act so white?
Rats fleeing a sinking ship?
New law says they can’t leave the country (with their suitcases full of American taxpayer supplied cash).
Less money for them, more money for him. The Ukraine is an ubercorrupt shithole and Zelensky is the king of the taxpayer funded robber barons.
Don’t you mean Zelenskyyyy?
It’s Zelenskyyyyyyyy now.
He can afford to buy some extra vowels.
INSURGENCIES, MERCENARIES, & DESTABILIZATION
https://twitter.com/0xAlaric/status/1617623235222437891
Interesting thread.
Ummm… I know getting dick pics is gross and tasteless but “sexually assaulted”?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/emily-atack-feels-like-sexually-29037361
Gimme a break.
Who?
Don’t care, not clicking.
That was the right choice, I foolishly clicked not realizing it was just an ad for someone I’ve never heard of and isn’t even that good looking.
Well, when words are violence after all…a dick pic is rammin at your back door.
Rushing to judgement
And I firmly believe that mass shooters prove nothing, no matter who the shooter or his victims were or what the shooter’s manifesto may or may not say. It’s natural that these tragedies spark debate, but they should not define the borders of our public discourse.
If the shooter were a scholar of race volunteering for Black Lives Matter and his victims were entirely powerful white men, we would still have a racism problem in this country, and it would still largely be run by powerful white men.
If the investigation finds that the shooter was sober and never diagnosed with a mental illness, our emergency and public health infrastructure will still force thousands of severely mentally ill people to battle illnesses alone, without insurance coverage.
And our permissive, profit-centric gun culture will make it far too easy for guns to fall into the hands of the next mass shooter. Whoever he is.
We already know who’s guilty, no matter hat the facts might be.
The boogie man will always be there. I don’t care how many times you open the closet door and show me he’s not there (at this moment).
Just a bunch of gobbledygook.
Fuck racists and fuck yahoo for publishing one.
If the shooter were a scholar of race volunteering for Black Lives Matter and his victims were entirely powerful white men, we would still have a racism problem in this country, and it would still largely be run by powerful white men.
“…a good start!”
Are you sure it’s not Zelenskieieio?
Don’t care, not clicking.
My default setting.
This is clearly a fake image. I’m testing my audience: what’s the giveaway in this image?
Never change, Vice.
But then would the vice audience figure it out?
I actually doubt it’s fake. Somebody stuck an AK bullet through a bullet hole.
That looks like a straight walled cartridge…
The great European house cat migration
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/cat-migration-europe/
These Neolithic house cats were similar in size to the European wildcat. Zooarchaeological evidence, from Poland and elsewhere in Europe, indicates these cats decreased in size to the Medieval period.
Not surprising that the Neolithic farmers brought cats with them, but I didn’t know they were originally larger.
https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1617635130033713154
That’s too stupid to be real.
Better watch out for the next great Mexican pitcher in the MLB, his arm is deadly.
Hahaha, that’s awesomely stupid.
I think it’s real. Maybe staged by the photographer, maybe not. I can easily imagine some soldado, or even a cop, doing that.
A tiny penis eraser would have been funnier.
Some people just aren’t smart enough to comprehend its beauty
Despite sharing in the frustration about Democrats’ IRS funding, some Republican strategists are worried that the Fair Tax proposal is sending a message that runs counter to traditional conservative stances on taxation.
Specifically, they’re worried that the change resembles a European-style value-added tax and that the bill’s prebate cash transfer program could lay the groundwork for a universal basic income.
“This creates a universal basic income, and luckily the left has not figured this out yet,” low-tax advocate Grover Norquist said in an interview. “Everybody gets a check, and so you’ve got the basis for the modern definition of European socialism, which is that everybody gets a basic income and work is an option.”
They also worry that the sticker shock of a 30 percent sales tax encountered by voters on a daily basis will overshadow the discussion of canceling an annually levied income tax.
“The ads you can run are that so-and-so wants to add a 30 percent sales tax on top of [prices], which will be devastating to middle-income people. That’s a pretty rough ad,” Norquist said.
Maybe a few carve-outs will help.
“Everybody gets a check”
Not possible. TANSTAAFL.
I mean it would be so much better than what we have now… who gives a shit?
Within months inflation would make it less valuable than monopoly money, but hey! That’s pretty much the case already.
They also worry that the sticker shock of a 30 percent sales tax encountered by voters on a daily basis will overshadow the discussion of canceling an annually levied income tax.
Hiding taxes works better.
We should have a one-month all tax free moment so people can really see how much the government takes.
OK, this is pretty cool. Guy infiltrates ransomware gang.
Will have to read that later – fascinating, I bet.
Thank you. I will read that.
Tinfoil hat time.
Lady feeding her chickens chicken feed. No eggs for weeks. Switched to goat feed. Ta da!
https://twitter.com/ladydemosthenes/status/1617925198833135619
Eh, the chickens suddenly felt like the GOAT?
Sure.
The point is that whoever’s making the chicken feed might be using something that ceases egg production.
She wants to confirm that, she should switch back and see what happens.
Around 100 Houstonians and elected officials held a rally in front of City Hall on Monday to express their opposition to Texas’ Senate Bill 147—a measure that, if passed, would ban citizens and foreign entities from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia from buying land in the state.
That prohibition smacks of bullshit.
It is allowed in Canada. PEI used to, and I think still does, restrict foreign ownership of property in the province.
Shit like that is usually a waste of time.
Let China pay us for our shitty land. The suckers.
Much like the Japanese scare of the 80’s – what are they going to do, take it back home?
I absolutely understand the sentiment. But this would take all of 10 minutes to get around. And I don’t think it would really stop any malicious actors from purchasing up farmland office, space, etc. I really don’t know what a solution is. I don’t think it would be this ban though.
I thought there was already Supreme Court precedent for states not being allowed to levy taxes that would interfere with their ability to enter or leave a state. Is that not true?
Record food production for the world again:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/24/record-agricultural-yields-should-allay-climate-fear/
..
When will climate change actually hurt us in some measurable way?
Any minute now right?
Warm weather, increased rain and fertilizer (CO2) all hurt plant growth, it is known
Doesn’t Mexico prohibit foreign ownership of land. I used to know some people with places down (Baja California, I think) there. They said you could lease, but not own.
That rings a bell.
A national sales tax would absolutely require (and guarantee) federal monitoring of every transaction in the economy.
What a fabulous idea.
The states should fund the federal government directly and the federal taxation scheme ended everywhere except at the borders.
If the states decide to cut funding, then the feds can suck it.
An economy the size of Spain is going to deplete less than the combined EU and US?
There are factors other than the size of the economy, such as size of existing supply, given that not all components can be manufactured on demand. Russia has evidently been stockpiling artillery rounds for years and can (again according to Macgregor – I just listened to a 90 minute interview with him) apparently sustain 60,000 rounds fired per day. I’m not sure about artillery, but I’ve seen several articles about how US Javelin supply is down by 30%, and other materiel (can’t remember specifics) is dangerously low as well.
(“Dangerously” was how the articles characterized it. Personally I am not losing sleep for fear of tanks rolling across the US border any time soon.)