An intimate crowd
The Rangers topped the Rays. The Twins beat the Blue Jays (and ended an 18 game playoff losing streak), the Phillies topped the Marlins, and the D-backs beat the Brewers. Let’s see how day 2 of the WC series goes today and who, if anybody, gets eliminated. Meanwhile, across the pond, ManUre continues sucking. Arsenal lose as well. More UCL on tap today. And that’s it for sports.
Pack it up, hag!
I already like the (temporary) new guy. I hope to see more pettiness in the immediate future.
Lots of finger-pointing here. Why doesn’t somebody else propose the spending cuts? You know, it could even be one of the legislators who will vote on the actual bill.
I’m glad he found the speck in their eyes. I wonder when he will take the time to notice that gigantic fucking beam in his. LOL, this is even more absurd than his refugee nonsense commentary from inside his walled palace city-state that does not welcome any refugees.
Welcome back, beautiful!
YES! YES! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a glorious day this is.
Let’s be honest here: Bal’mer should always be on “tactical alert.” The entire place is a war zone and anybody there should leave immediately.
Boo-fucking-hoo. This is less than Laredo gets in a week, dickheads.
Nothing is legal unless you pay tribute. And when that “tribute” is too high, you end up with a bigger black market than the legal market.
Well, they’re certainly cut out for politics. LOL, what a bunch of jackasses.
Are you ready to ROCK?!?! OK, that one doesn’t really rock. But it still kicks ass. This one, on the other hand, fucking ROCKS!!! Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Bitch, you know you weren’t doing shit. That’s why you have staff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht9-x4s-W7M
They should just leave her shit on the Capitol steps for her to collect when she comes back to DC.
/imagines a window being opened and gavels, plaques, and gold bars being thrown out
gold bars being thrown out
California rep, not NJ Senator. I know, it’s easy to get confused these days.
You don’t think she was getting 10%?
Yeah, you always have to kick upstairs in any organized crime enterprise.
Here’s how it works in this racket:
https://x.com/kunickbrian/status/1709382793187225705?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
I read this as “They should have let her shit on the Capitol steps”. California, and all. Looking forward to SF, I am.
Looking forward to SF, I am.
*makes note to not eat lunch until AFTER reading the Wednesday SF post*
I read that as he is going to visit some poop sites in San Fran.
Same same.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-businessman-dumps-human-poop-steps-city-county-building-jon-caldara/
With a sign that says “free”.
Sadly, because I am in California to mourn the loss of and pay tribute to my dear friend Dianne Feinstein, I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time.”
If only you were able to spend more time with DiFi. All of it, as a matter of fact. Starting immediately.
It’s weird that DiFi is “lying in state” for the public to pay their respects.
She looked so awful in her last public appearances that I’d have thought closed casket / cremation would have been the obvious way to go once she kicked it.
Right?
Palpatine didn’t get an open casket. His doppelgänger shouldn’t either.
Are there any pictures of the three or four mourners?
It would have been great to hire a couple of midgets to dress up and sing “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”.
Crowd control needed to hold back the volunteers.
I’m sure there will be more… if lunch is provided!
The Lich Queens will be given their honors.
I signed Ted Kennedy’s card in the state capitol in Boston the day he died with a “get well soon”
*shudder*
I remember when he died. All the outpouring of grief from folks I knew.
Barf.
You should have written “Mary Jo says hi”.
“You probably won’t see her where your going.”
👆👆👆
You don’t see her packing boxes and carrying them to her other office?
It’s a government directed move. She’s probably worried she’ll miss out on collecting some kind of stipend for displacement.
IOW, Going to work is for the little people. I’m above that.
I wouldn’t touch her belongings. The last to do so is doing hard time.
They tend to do that when the price of pork off-cuts drops low enough that the hype sales + lowered costs makes it viable.
“Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them
So why are you complaining?
“Yeah, I’m gonna need you to come in on the weekend and clear your stuff out. That’d be great.”
Where’s my stapler?!?
The stapler is a myth, doesn’t exist. /still talking about a stapler I think
*hides stapler stash*
Staplers are tools of white supremacy.
“It’s not important – it’s vital! GIMME BACK MY STATUS SYMBOL!”
Office Space
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsayg_S4pJg
In total, an operation led by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife found 41,082 cannabis plants and 1,841 pounds of processed cannabis, according to Janice Mackey, a spokesperson for the agency.
The contraband must be burned lest it fall into the wrong hands. I volunteer my services for the good of the citizenry.
Not sure how that’s even an issue for Fish and Wildlife.
“We were looking for poached Delta Smelt.”
Because “fuck you,” that’s why.
But in all seriousness, a bust like this will justify their big budget increase request next fiscal year. So the state police let em have this one since they’re all in it together.
“So you’re acting outside your mandate and expect to be paid more? You are clearly overfunded if you can do things like this.”
/Dreaming.
Next thing will be the post office conducting raids…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-postal-service-uses-spying-programs-similar-to-nsa/
They’ll never do that. They’re doing all their spy shit under the radar. No sense in drawing attention.
Why not Amtrak or the Department of Education?
Because Amtrak is never on time, and the DoE misplaced its report on rectal tracking and identification, so it can’t tell its ass from a hole in the ground.
Someone thought it was the department of “Wild Life”, aka party supplies.
Sort of how they thought “legalize weed” meant “make it illegal unless you pay a lot of taxes”.
Since the federal government is not legalizing weed anytime soon, does that mean California is collecting taxes to allow an illegal business? Would seem a good court case.
I think they actually pay federal taxes. They just check the box on the return for “illegal earnings” or something.
Technically the fedgov has no authority under the constitution to make weed illegal in the first place, but that ship has fucking sailed.
It’s the one thing I give credit to the original prohibitionists for… at least they realized they needed an amendment.
Indeed.
Because there’s probably fed funds available for the program.
Weeds are wildlife.
/derp of nature resources
Wait till our southern friends get a load of winter in their hometown.
They will turn up the heat in the Four Seasons?
Be sure and check out Jay Powell’s Instagram Reels where in 90 seconds or less he will explain how he will destroy your wealth and continue to make you dependent on the government.
The Fed Seeks to Up Its Influencer Status
“Hi, I’m Jay Powell.”
Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and one of the most influential people in the country, launched the central bank’s new Instagram account with a video, known as a reel, announcing its newest social-media outreach.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/federal-reserve-instagram-threads-jerome-powell-72579ed0?st=n5dl54fhqgkz2u6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“I’m hip. I’m with it.”
–
Dr EvilJay Powell“aaaaAAAAAH!”
“Macarena.”
Give the guy a break, he’s not going to pivot so he won’t get his Nobel for debasing the currency any further like Bernanke would have.
At least he can get some Insta likes as a consolation prize.
I’ve had one McRib in my lifetime, back in 1981 when they first came out. Can’t say I was very impressed.
My friend bought one just so we could rinse the sauce off and see what it really looked like. It was an unappetizing gray color, pretty gross.
But even back then I knew a few people who were strangely addicted. They kept getting them, even though they said they didn’t really like them that much. It was kind of weird.
I’m holding out for the Pumpkin Spice McRib
Why do you hate tastebuds?
Well, how about a Pumpkin Spice Malort?
Just say no to that witch’s concoction.
*Hisses
It’s been 40 years. Time to give it a go again.
Because they’re delicious.
I’m with Sloop on this. Basically a pork burger with onions, pickles and “BBQ McNugget” sauce that synergistically forms into something greater than its parts.
“pork”
I have slaughtered a hog or 2 in my day and i don’t recall any cuts that shape. The pork on that sandwich is ground up skin and fat with a bit a bit of belly meat thrown in for texture.
Back in the day, when I tried a few of them, I’m pretty sure every single one had gristle in it. Never again.
mmmm…fat and skin.
It looks unappetizing with the sauce on, too.
When I worked at McDonald’s we tried the plain patty to see what it was. Flavor wise, it’s nearly the same as their sausage patties, just shaped into the strange McRib form.
It is just pork cuts that are surplus from the holiday ham prep, so it’s all down to the seasoning.
Lips and assholes pressed into a rib like shape and smothered in sauce. As long as it tastes good I suppose.
Yup, what’s wrong with using the whole hog?
not a thing. I am a big fan of hog’s head cheese.
The McThing, not so much, but hey, I am not qualified to. tell others what they like.
I was impressed, just not favorably. Not rib (formed ground eyeballs, tits and assholes) slathered with some cheap terrible not-BBQ sauce. Holy shit they are awful. I ate two bites before spitting out the second bite and tossing the ‘sandwich’ in the trash.
I can’t imagine trying it. You are braver than me.
There was a vegetarian version I haven’t seen in over a decade. By Morningstar, I think.
So…the work of Satan. Figures.
CMOT Dibbler built his business on this.
Technically correct is the illegalest type of correct.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swiss-writer-sentenced-60-days-jail-calling-journalist-fat-lesbian
Why do they keep referring to the woman as “them?”
It’s an effort to make “them” as a singular non-gender-specific pronoun a thing.
And it’s working because English do be like that.
It has been used that way off and on since at least the 1500s.
Every so often, people declare it grammatically incorrect, and usage wanes, then waxes again.
It’s acceptable (to me) as a filler until the actual sex is known.
^this
In any other context it makes my brain hurt.
Of course, situations where the sex isn’t known are somewhat rare and almost without exception very temporary.
The English language, so praised here (and I join the chorus) apparently needs a singular term for a person of unknown sex.* I get that “it” has problems serving this role, but I’m not sure what word would serve better.
*Of course, all the gendered languages (like the Romance languages) do fine without such a word.
Unknown mooseknuckle.
Because they’re fat enough to be two people?
Probably because “misgendering” that person is also a crime there. Better safe than sorry.
To objectify them. To objectify individuals in general. This is necessary when your future plans include eugenics and mass murder in general.
Also, Stinky – The US is the only country that has a semblance of freedom of speech, at least on paper.
So big she needed to sets of clothes?
The Swiss have defacto speech laws? Tsk tsk tsk…
The Euros do love them some Fascism.
I hear puns are banned.
Use a pun, go to prison.
One sentence enters, two puns leaves.
or leave.
What’s the problem here, the teachers were about to cut themselves from the budget?
I want the OK House leader to be named Henry and the Senate leader named Liza. And I want them to fix this issue by singing:
“There’s a hole in the budget, dear Liza, dear Liza.
There’s a hole in the budget. dear Liza, a hole.”
Put it on your bucket list, Sloopy.
My brother Larry and my other sister Larry
taxes on motor fuel, tobacco and energy production
Once again, Us smokers are the most oppressed minority in this country.
@Fatty, from dedthred, I wasn’t praising the purity of the English language. Far from it. In fact, I actually made the dark alleys and garmmar joke. I was praising its versatility, boldness, and conqueror-ness. It was the one language an invader with threats of taking over everything couldn’t put down because it’s so utterly versatile and easily manipulated.
Oh, I know. It was actually meant in support of what you were saying. English is a brilliant bastard of a language.
Ah, I misunderstood you then. In my defense, I had just awakened.
I think the US is the only country without an official government ‘Academy’
This makes English very flexible and thus versatile. As we incorporate new words from other languages and cultures it increases English’s utilitarian aspects.
We can express more ideas more precisely in a language that uses ‘phone’ than a language that mandates by law that that item must be referred to as ‘long distance talking machine connected by wires’.
Japan has one that does so for borrowed Chinese characters, but not spoken or vocabulary.
Some estimates suggest that 20% or so of spoken Japanese is borrowed from western languages mostly English.
It helps that England got conquered by so many different tribes over the millennia.
English as a Creole. /Probably someone’s dissertation
I embarrassed myself with bare competency playing https://squaredle.com 10/04:
*36/36 words (+6 bonus words)
📖 In the top 39% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 10
I played https://squaredle.com 10/04:
36/36 words (+7 bonus words)
📖 In the top 27% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 3
Blossom Puzzle, October 4
Letters: E I M T N P R
My score: 381 points
My longest word: 12 letters
🌼 💐 🏵 🌺 🌷 🌸 🌹 💮 🌻 🌼 💐 🏵
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 618
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Not too bad…
I played https://squaredle.com 10/04:
*36/36 words (+9 bonus words)
📖 In the top 12% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 2
Daily Quordle 618
8️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
I played https://squaredle.com 10/04:
36/36 words (+11 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 10
Hm. So, finding bonus words after completing the puzzle doesn’t up your percentage.
Must have either happened on the eastside or been white people in the Baltimore shooting to have made national news.
No one reads the links.
I forgot to put on my Halloween dress. I’ll do that when I get to my office.
Wait… did I fall asleep for a month?
Yes, it’s November.
Damn, I should have said “Yup it’s the December, the Tenth month.”
Oh, there. That’s better. *twirls* *poses* See my new dress?
Ok… now this is starting to sound awfully close to this….
ROFLMAO!!!
I only usually change for Halloween and Christmas.
Halloween costume? Hmmm… I happen to have a black cat handy.
I find black cats challenging to photograph… unless they’re illuminated by Christmas tree lights.
Black cats! We’re on our second one. We got our current black cat in February. Places around here won’t let you adopt black cats around Halloween.
We’re on our second one, too. This one is WAY too attached to me.
We have a roller derby friend who was born on Nov. 1, but celebrates the entire month before by posting a selfie in a different Halloween shirt every day on Facebook. She has such a big collection she has to decide which 31 shirts every year. Best use of Facebook ever.
Sounds chilly.
I usually dress before work, your employer may be more forgiving.
My employer avoids looking in a mirror, so she’s good with it.
So CBSNews seems to be working the some-Democrat-other-than-Biden message.
The evidence of massive corruption is piling up too high for them to sweep it under the rug any longer.
Oh they would sweep it from now until doomsday if they thought Biden weren’t liable to drop dead at any given moment,
They could hide the corruption, but he’s becoming a liability on at least a half dozen other fronts. The border, economy, his mental problems…
I dunno. DC has got an enormous rug.
Edge case. Unforeseeable. Sorry.
San Francisco Woman Pinned by Driverless Cruise Vehicle After Being Struck by Hit-and-Run Driver
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/driverless-cruise-vehicle-pins-san-francisco-woman-causing-serious-injuries-7389c4ac?st=nnoox61zuvyup3x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The DOJ should probably investigate Tesla, just in case they sold some tech to GM for the Cruise.
This is a perfect story for luddites and techies to argue about.
“Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them,” she said.
Actions speak louder than words.
I expect nothing much from McHenry. He’s a close ally of McCarthy.
But there are signs revenue collections are beginning to slow down, and some Republicans are concerned that cutting taxes could put the state on precarious financial footing if that trend continues.
Cut spending. Yes, I know, earlier in the article a state Senator claims the governor hasn’t submitted a budget that actually reduces spending.
Pope Francis made his strongest statements yet about climate change Wednesday, rebuking fossil fuel companies and urging countries to make an immediate transition to renewable energy.
Commie Pope can go fuck himself.
How do we know that getting rid of McCarthy was a win?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/defense-stocks-fall-paralyzed-house-no-speaker-puts-us-ukraine-aid-risk
This is how.
Certainly a good sign, but
I don’t know how the house is gonna stop the funds to Ukraine though. Even if they don’t pass a bill, the white house will discover another “error” in the accounting and come up with another 20 billion in arms from the PDA.
But Team Red are the people who aren’t serious about governing.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4234536-bowman-condemns-use-of-nazi-in-talking-points-put-out-by-his-office/
We need a better class of puppets.
There will never be a better class of people. But we can greatly reduce their power so Congress just sits in a room and plays with crayons instead of disrupting our lives. This is an excellent first step.
Maybe we should have them draw fire alarms with the crayons
There’s been a story going in local news for the past week or so. Long story short, High school football team playing a predominantly Jewish high school football team was using Nazi as a play call on the field. There were complaints, the coach of the team using Nazi apologized, and told the players to stop it during the half. After that, the teacher resigned, and lawsuits started flying.
‘Nazi is by no means an antisemitic slur’: Attorney for former Brooklyn High School football coach argues after controversial play call
It’s the new “n” word.
If you made it to only white republicans could get away with using it, I would be cool with that. It would be a similar power play to the original “N” word.
What a bunch of pussies.
The problem is that checking juvenile shit like this with a beatdown equals arrest and jail time now for teenagers. I got called a kike once in high school. It didn’t happen twice. Fortunately, no teachers were around to see it.
I’m sure I’m not the only one here who got into scrapes. It’s how boys used to enforce boundaries and also ensure things didn’t get out of hand. That safety outlet is gone today.
My first take on it was, along the lines of “high school football players say words they know will get under the skin of their opponents”, along with mild surprise that the coach needed to be told it was happening.
Probably, but that would still have crossed the line for me and others in high school. Looking back, I can’t imagine a fight not having broken out on the field over that. The lawsuits and resignation are a sign of decayed culture and society.
I actually do recall something similar happening over far less. Some words were passed between a white acquaintance of mine and black guy during school. An hour later there were about 40 black guys lined up against about 40 white guys in the gym. I don’t know what had been said, but you backed your group. We ended up separating without fighting, but that threat enforced the boundaries and the original two guys were more careful about their word choices.
Agreed. Learning when to back down and de-escalate is a valuable life lesson that should be learned in grade/high school.
In this case, I would not expect a fight, just based on prior experience with both of the neighborhoods (and general knowledge about the schools) in question.
On of the main reasons that nigger is still used is that it gets right under the skin of black kids. And children know this instinctively. You want to get under a girls skin? Caller a slut. Mexican kid? Wetback. You go after what is the worst perception of them: slave, easy, illegal.
Cunt, Asshole, those don’t really work.
Plus it just means “hot”.
夏い なつい (natsui) blisteringly hot, relentlessly hot, scorching
it mixes the words for summer and hot.
Aaron Rodgers Attack on Travis Kelce Has One Major Problem
Is it awkward because you can’t even get the J&J vaccine anymore?
Sick burn. 🙄
Calling him Mr. Pfizer is an attack? The author needs to give his nuts a tug.
A pretty neat story from my erstwhile hometown: they needed to repaint the city water tower, and found a local eccentric who’s not afraid of heights for the task.
Now the edifice is in the running for tank of the year.
Some folks have surmised that this may become the city’s new symbol, but I don’t know if that theory holds water.
I swear you’re worse than my husband…
I’m feeling some pressure to continue this pun thread.
I expect it will be the usual drip, drip, drip of puns.
It might be some sort of psi-op.
That is cool.
That’s great!
That is actual public art.
We need more in the same spirit (not the atrocious drivel that clutters the public spaces around my office)
I was expecting something hideous, but no. That’s excellent.
He’s not in the top three, so winning tank of the year looks like a pipe dream.
That’s pretty cool. I was expecting a rainbow flag being splooged out of a she-dick. am pleasantly surprised.
Dunedin makes sure the water will flow.
Broken
Matt Gaetz is a product of America’s broken information environment.
Not so long ago, a young Florida congressman with no major legislative achievements to his name would hold little power in Washington. Such a person would certainly not wield enough power to oust the speaker of the House.
But as the media landscape has dramatically shifted, particularly in the right-wing information space, so have the power dynamics in Washington. In our present day, because of a warped media incentivization structure, the Republicans who carry real power and drive the party are the performers who work in conjunction with partisan media, not those who wish to govern.
Gaetz is not an anomaly. He is the direct consequence of this twisted construct.
Muh media stranglehold!
Never change, CNN.
It’s not just CNN
Our reliable RINOs at the WSJ are also unhappy.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kevin-mccarthy-removed-as-speaker-house-motion-to-vacate-eight-republicans-gop-matt-gaetz-5fb0e1c2?st=2o8yft3mvjdol27&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Chaos”.
Oh, heavens to Betsy, call the wahhhmbulance!
Put your trust in the likes of McCarthy and the other bought off corrupt lying countryclub Republican corporate assholes and see where that gets you. Also, where’s the condemnation for the Dems who voted to get rid of him to a man if they’re so butthurt about it? Fuck off CNN.
Yeah, kerp banging that drum that it was due to that all-powerful right wing media that McCarthy was ousted. “He was doing such a great job, and then was unjustly criticized for agreeing too much with all the good things Democrats wanted, and not wanting to do the bad things Republicans wanted!!!!”
Repeatedly breaking the promises he made to secure the Speakership shouldn’t have any real consequences!!
I thought CNN loved “democracy”.
It certainly is telling that the DemOp media is upset that McCarthy is out.
Even though he could still hold the job if about 98% of the Democrats had voted against him, instead of 100%.
The gravity actually rests in the hands of high-profile media personalities — many of whom are not incentivized by unity and compromise, but feed off conflict and division. And these media personalities have birthed and empowered people like Gaetz.
This is, of course, particularly pronounced in the Republican Party, which has become largely controlled by right-wing talkers and outright propagandists who have radicalized much of the GOP base and pulled the party further to the fringe. Their hyperbolic rhetoric seduces audiences with outrageous headlines and fact-free claims that whips up the political base and is later regurgitated by lawmakers hoping to exploit the platforms for their own gain.
The right-wing media machine — comprised of Fox News, talk radio, social media personalities, and a constellation of blusterous websites — have made stars out of attention-hungry politicians. It’s far from just Gaetz, but people such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, and a parade of others — all of whom are willing to peddle dishonest narratives to vast audiences in exchange for seeing their personal profiles rise.
It’s just not fair. Walter Cronkite would be scandalized.
People hearing opposing viewpoints is a threat to democracy.
A. Lincoln would be rescinding his “of the people” speech
The lack of self-awareness is stunning.
They’re perfectly self-aware liars is what it is.
You might be underestimating the power of doubleplusgoodthinkers to sincerely believe whatever narrative they’re told to believe today, and to turn around and believe the opposite when the narrative changes tomorrow.
For examples, the wild swings in the official line about COVID.
The “fringe” of what?
So. Much. Projection.
The (current) Trump judge in NYC.
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1709265070478221369
I marvel at how many judges just don’t give a shit who knows that they’re political hacks.
Why should they give a shit? It’s not like there are any consequences for them.
The way he allowed cameras in the front of the courtroom to get a better shot at Trump, and the way he was mugging for them showed he was a hack.
@RCDean, I enjoyed your article yesterday.
Seconded. I hadn’t thought about it in those terms, but he made a great case.
Thanks.
Naturally, after posting it, I had further thoughts. Mainly, that the engine of decolonization in the last century or so ran mainly on the obvious foreignness of the imperialists/colonists. They were ethnic/religious “others”, and suspicion/resentment of the other is a powerful source of human energy. That’s not really available to anyone wanting to throw off the dominant culture and ruling class in America.
Legal scholar
Earlier Tuesday, Engoron reminded Trump’s attorneys that the trial itself is not the venue to contest things on which the judge has already ruled.
“That’s why we have appeals,” Engoron said.
By all means, a few more years and a few million additional dollars in legal fees are no big deal for you.
The scary part is that about half the population is cheering this banana republic shit. They seem determined to back the normals into a corner and remove all options for peaceful resolution.
Getting a corrupt and biased shit judge to summarily rule in a way that you can confiscate your political rival’s personal property with little recourse on the front end must be pretty sweet (if you’re a psychopathic liar which it seems this judge is; just the kind of POS in a robe you never want to find yourself in front of).
Good morning, Sloop!
Go Twins! I have to admit that I was kinda hoping to see 20 straight. Even bad streaks can be entertaining!
The stunt with Pelosi’s office is pretty good, even for that Kabuki mess.
Are you ready to ROCK?!?! Lol. Nice head fake with the first, but the second definitely does. That record was YUGE my sophomore year in HS. Good memories.
I try to avoid the rage inducing videos where an idiot takes out some innocent person or people. This one is a win.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16z4c0s/person_on_a_motorcycle_pays_the_price_for_running/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Lowside. I can’t figure if he dug the peg or just lost it from loss of traction.
Daily ray of sunshine.
I’ve about had it up to here with the fucking loud-ass for no reason other than to be an asshole motorcycles that pass by all day long.
What’s a few billion dollars more or less?
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he’d approve $9 billion in student loan forgiveness for 125,000 Americans.
The relief is a result of his administration’s fixes to a number of programs, including the income-driven repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
More than $5 billion of the aid will go to 53,000 borrowers who’ve worked in public service for a decade or more; $2.8 billion of the forgiveness is for 51,000 borrowers enrolled in income-driven repayment plans; and another $1.2 billion of the cancellation will go to 22,000 borrowers with disabilities.
I assume “worked in public service” includes the right sort of non profit parasitism.
World-class panderer-in-chief.
Lowside. I can’t figure if he dug the peg or just lost it from loss of traction.
He might have spun up the rear wheel when he figured out that car was going to be right on top of him.
Maybe his first clue about that car would have been the red light he decided didn’t apply to him.
The announcement is likely to help Biden as he runs for reelection, experts say.
“Biden has forgiven more student loan debt than any previous president,” said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. “It distinguishes him from other candidates who are campaigning for the nation’s highest office.”
No shit, Shirley? What’s the point of a life in politics if not to buy votes withe public treasure?
The Dems truly are the party of the downtrodden, the little people.
More AI art from /pol/ “Norman Rockwell paints modern America”
Wild.
fucking brilliant
Excellent
Those are kind of horrifying.
Getting prepped for Joemala.
The body horror on that second one. Yikes!
Biden has also announced a 12-month “on-ramp” to repayment, during which borrowers will be shielded from the worst consequences of missed payments, including falling into a delinquent status.
The timeline is, in part, political, experts say, since the data on borrower hardship won’t be released until after the 2024 presidential election.
No
fucking
way,
dude.
Scary thing is that there is a large demographic of single issue voters that are focused on having me pay for their 4-8 years of stress free partying.
Begging the question?
But the legal question before the Supreme Court on Tuesday rests squarely on the conclusion reached by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in October of last year that the bureau’s funding mechanism was unlawful.
The court concluded that the funding structure, whereby Congress does not directly appropriate funding, runs afoul of the Constitution’s directive requiring it to do so.
That is despite the fact that Congress itself set up the CFPB and approved the current funding structure when it passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010.
If Congress does it, it by definition cannot be un-Constitutional? Run with that.
So when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act…
https://imgur.com/a/j9i07V9
If you are gonna make a pork sandwich, go this route. I made it last saturday and it was way better than a McRib.
Now I’m hungry.
Muh common sense!
Hunter Biden on Tuesday plunged into a burgeoning Second Amendment fight: whether the government can disarm people who use illegal drugs.
Lawyers for the president’s son have repeatedly said they will defend him from three federal gun charges by arguing that the main federal law he’s charged under is unconstitutional in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling — an argument that stands in stark contrast to President Joe Biden’s advocacy for stricter gun laws.
And at Hunter Biden’s arraignment in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday, his legal team formally signaled an intent to mount a constitutional challenge to the charges, which accuse Biden of possessing a gun as a drug user and lying on a federal form when he bought it. Biden pleaded not guilty at the arraignment.
For decades, the federal Gun Control Act has banned drug users from possessing guns. But in 2022, the Supreme Court dramatically expanded Second Amendment rights — and, in some ways, obfuscated them — by ruling that U.S. gun restrictions are valid only if they resemble gun laws that existed in the Founding era. That ruling, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, teed off a host of conflicting lower-court rulings about just how closely today’s gun laws must hew to those from the late 1700s.
Everybody knows those old white slaveholders were crazy.
Wouldn’t be great if Bidenn v The United States ends up being the case that declares all federal gun laws unconstitutional
Hahaha. The ruling didn’t obfuscate anything. He absolutely had the right to own a gun. I hope he gets that stupid law overturned and that question removed from the stupid form you have to fill out every time you buy a gun at the store.
The drug-users prohibition is among the gun restrictions facing new challenges after Bruen, as defendants argue that Founding-era laws only barred people from carrying firearms while intoxicated — not simply because they had become intoxicated in the past.
[insert expostulation of outrage]
“Once inside, medics did everything they could to save Will’s life,” the family’s attorney, Mark Lindquist, said in a news release. “The family has always been grateful to the medics who broke protocol to go in and do their best.”
Good for them.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/seattle-pays-lawsuit-heart-attack-wrong-address/