322 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    Hunter Biden’s direct payments to father coincided with Chinese transfers, bank inquiries

    Just like we did with the 2020 election, if we refuse to look for proof, we can claim there is no evidence!

    • WTF

      The talking point is that those were all “loan repayments”.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nothing to see here, all is well.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Then surely he has the loan terms, what the loan(s) were for and all the other fiduciary documents to back that up. *I crack myself up sometimes*

      • SDF-7

        C’mon Jack… they were just small loans between family members for multi-millions… You’ve all been there! (Or at least you will soon with Bidenomics! A multimillionaire in every house! Digital currency because you can’t haul that much cash to the store for groceries!)

      • R C Dean

        My question: with all the money sloshing around in that family, what do they need loans for?

      • Sean

        Do you even launder, bro?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What, like, with Calgon?

      • Sensei

        It’s in keeping with the Ancient Chinese Secret theme.

      • AlexinCT

        Hah! Yeah, I am sure the people that tell you Trump needs to be disqualified and imprisoned for having “classified documents” while ignoring Biden has far more, even though as the president Trump was the only one with the right to them, and Biden as a senator did not, will care about any legalities other than “We will not look for criminality that is clear, and we will gaslight the usual idiots to not care”.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And the asset evaluations…

    • db

      “We have seen no evidence to convince us otherwise.”

  2. AlexinCT

    Jim Jordan Says House Moving Forward With Biden Impeachment Inquiry Vote

    Be careful you idiots. Do not do team blue’s dirty work of getting rid of Joe for them.

    • Grumbletarian

      Impeach, just don’t convict. Do it four times just to break Donnie’s record.

      • WTF

        There’s no chance of conviction anyway, no matter the evidence.

      • juris imprudent

        True. That talk about how Republicans shouldn’t have thrown Santos out shows how far we’ve fallen. Trafficant was kicked out with only one vote against – which came from someone else under an ethics cloud.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        But if those standards were applied equally just how much of the Democrat House/Senate would need to be expelled for that and worse? Toss in Republicans for judgement by that metric and you’ve got what, 30% left in office?

      • RBS

        And?

      • juris imprudent

        I’m not seeing the problem here.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        You’re not seeing 1/500 plus as a problem when we should be doing closer to 400?

  3. AlexinCT

    John Kerry is accused of farting during climate speech where he asked for coal power plants to be eliminated

    Did Lurch eat meat and that is what caused the flatulence? Did he hire Swalwell’s people to help improve his image and they recommended gas attacks? Was this an AI attack on him to stop him from preventing power generation the AI wants? Inquiring minds want to know…

    • SDF-7

      You know — I’m no more a fan of Kerry than anyone here — but can we as a society stop being such teenage girls about things? He’s human… this kind of thing happens sometimes. Do your best to not visibly notice and don’t embarrass the guy for no reason. (Yes, I get the flatulence / methane at a Climate Change Cult Conference adds an extra layer… but still.) Not like he pooped his pants in front of the Pope or something.

      • cyto

        The fact that the toot and not the idiotic contents of his speech is what draws the eyeballs is damning

      • Gustave Lytton

        Intentional misdirection.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        don’t embarrass the guy for no reason.

        Can John Kerry feel embarrassment?

      • bacon-magic

        SDF-7 is a farter!!! Ha-Ha *Nelson’s voice

    • R.J.

      It’s all them bugs and weird veggies they eat.

      • RBS

        Except THEY don’t eat them, they have lavish banquets with all sorts of meat.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Some animals are more equal than other animals.

    • juris imprudent

      Was this an AI attack on him to stop him from preventing power generation the AI wants?

      I suppose we’ll know the AI has taken over when the Greenies stop objecting to nuclear generation.

      • prolefeed

        We’ll know actual for-real AI exists in those few terrifying seconds when computer controlled machinery kills everyone not needed to serve our new robot overlords.

  4. AlexinCT

    Federal Court Stays Prison Sentence of Meme-Maker Douglass Mackey Pending Appeal

    If they put this guy in jail for this, I want to see all the democrats that have done this shit and especially Google’s top men, also be put in jail for their election manipulation efforts.

    • WTF

      You forgot, it’s okay when their side does it. Because they control the DOJ and the media.

      • Ownbestenemy

        There was someone on the ‘other team’ that did the same exact thing at the same time.

  5. AlexinCT

    John Fetterman Hires George Santos to Troll Bob Menendez

    Don’t fall for this shit. They are distracting you from Jamal Bowman needing to be kicked out of the house.

    • Not Adahn

      George Santos takes money from Democrats! Impeach!

      When’s the last time the D’s have kicked out one of their own. ‘Member when perjury was NBD?

      • Ownbestenemy

        All the previous members who have been expelled were all Democrats, with three being before the great Party Switch narrative.

      • rhywun

        105 Republicans kicking out one of their own is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen the Stupid Party do in years.

        Sorry, Republicans – the Dems just aren’t that into you.

      • Not Adahn

        It gives a better excuse for not delivering on their campaign promises, n’est-ce pas?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Without doing that they would have lost the quiet dignity they have along with the trust and love of their various constituencies (heh, oh god I kill me).

      • juris imprudent

        If Santos is one of their own, then fuck ’em, they shouldn’t be in office. I can of course say much the same about most Dems.

      • rhywun

        I’m not guessing at who deserves to be in office, I’m just saying the party is being played – again.

        They have a razor-thin majority and at this rate they’re going throw it away.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yep.

        Alcee Hastings served 20 years.

        For a start, they could expel Omar for immigration fraud and not be qualified to hold office.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I am looking forward to when the Democrats accuse the Republicans of anti-LGTBQ, racism, etc. for expelling this wonderful man (?) of diversity.

      • juris imprudent

        Gay men are too low on the victim stack for that. He needed to claim he was a woman.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        He did dress in drag.

      • prolefeed

        I’m looking forward to Santos’ former constituents delivering a gigantic fuck you message by reflecting him in a special election for his seat.

        /hilarity would ensue

      • Gustave Lytton

        Preston Brooks, after beating Sumner, resigned and then won re-election.

    • R C Dean

      The Repubs should have offered a package deal – up or down vote on kicking out Santos and Bowman.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Why didn’t Santos pull the fire alarm before the vote?

  6. Not Adahn

    Good morning!

    The cafeteria is becoming more diverse. There have always been special meals for Thanksgiving, Christmas & St. Paddy’s, and there’s been special food giveaways for Eid, Diwali, Cinco de Drinko and Lunar New Year, but for the first time, they’re giving out (((jelly donuts))).

    • UnCivilServant

      What are the donuts jealous of?

      • Not Adahn

        Apparently, being able to eat chametz during Passover.

        Also, my spellchecker recognizes chametz as a perfectly cromulent word.

    • Rat on a train

      JFK was Jewish?

      • SDF-7

        Damn your nimble rat paws! 😉

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        No, but his brains ended up looking like a jelly donut.

    • SDF-7

      Du bist ein Berliner?

    • Grummun

      What’s a (((jelly donut))), a bagel with a blob of jam in the hole?

  7. Not Adahn

    Disney effectively bribed RCID employees (and retirees, members of the [RCID] Board of Supervisors, and vendor VIPs)

    I swear, I left my shocked face right here last time I took it off…

    • SDF-7

      Sounds like the California Public Utilities Commission and PG&E.

  8. Tres Cool

    “ John Kerry is accused of farting during climate speech where he asked for coal power plants to be eliminated”

    Where was Al Gore?

  9. Stinky Wizzleteats

    John Fetterman, a brain damaged troll who dresses like a cross between Michael Moore and a 1980s rapper, has more media savvy than 95 percent of congress. Just sad really.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I am not sure it is savvy rather more like an artificially elevated platform knowing he is a lightning rod to the ‘right’.

    • prolefeed

      His brain seems to be recovering from the stroke.

    • Sean

      Adorbs

      • Not Adahn

        Lily pulls that stunt with a gap between some spruce trees. Dogs feel no distain for cheap tactics.

    • SDF-7

      See… if it were Dachsunds they’d be following and chasing that scamp down.. 😉 Cute all the same.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Little thalidomide charmers!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Believable but also this is the WSJ who is all in on war and against Putin even when he says the sky is blue. Seems a bit too on the nose.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        Also, except for the military term, how exactly is this different from the actions of your average Democrat?

  10. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “John Kerry is accused of farting”
    Classic misdirection and they want the plebs talking about that rather than the nonsense that he spoke. The only farts emitted by that old fool came out of his mouth, truly an attack on affordable energy for everyone with a bank account south of 100 mil.

    • rhywun

      Germans would literally freeze to death without the new coal plants they had to build last year because their “leaders” stupidly shut down all their nuclear plants.

      Why does John Kerry hate Germans?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Not just Germans, all humanity that isn’t part of the political elite. That walking Easter Island head would be happy bringing feudalism back and he has a contempt for the average person that’s hard to look at.

  11. R C Dean

    I didn’t notice it in the article, but assuming the Senate also votes to block funding Iran, does it matter unless Joe signs it?

    Or is this just more performative bullshit for the rubes?

    • Rat on a train

      Likely requires Joe’s signature because that’s SOP for Congress. Delegate authority requiring Presidential approval to revoke delegation.

  12. PieInTheSky

    On Hunter Biden, it just seems strange to me Joe would do this through his son, I would expect a more distant round about way that would not be so easily linked to him.

    • R C Dean

      Why? Xi could hand him a paper bag full of $100 bills on the tarmac in front of AF1 and . . . Nothing Else Would Happen.

    • SDF-7

      Your mistake is you are assuming Joe Biden is (or ever was) competent.

      The man who was Obama’s shield against assassination.

      The man who failed every single Presidential run he ever made (am I remembering right that he never won a single state?) until suddenly the Party decided he was The Puppet Guy.

      The man who those who worked with him said he was dead wrong on every foreign policy stance he ever took.

      The man who the rest of the Senate considered a complete tool.

      So yeah — he certainly should have done a better job of covering his tracks (Clinton Foundation, anyone?). And this should have come out years (if not decades) ago if we had journalists worth the name.

      But do I believe he’d screw up to this extent? Hell yes.

      • The Other Kevin

        He’s been a complete bullshitter his entire career, and nobody’s called him out on it (besides a few people on the radio). He’s arrogant enough to think he can get away with anything.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Rather like Ted K. Imagine if he’d won in 1984 or any other year?

      • hayeksplosives

        Well summarized, SDF.

        Remember, Hunter is the smartest person Joe knows. (He doesn’t get out much…)

      • DEG

        The man who failed every single Presidential run he ever made (am I remembering right that he never won a single state?) until suddenly the Party decided he was The Puppet Guy.

        He never got through the nominating process for his earlier Presidential runs.

        He dropped out of the 1988 Presidential race in September 1987 due to being caught lying about his past. In his 2008 run he pulled out after a poor showing in the Iowa Caucus. 2008 is when Obama tapped Biden for Vice President.

      • Urthona

        What’s weird is he was also getting clobbered in the primaries until south carolina.

        Now the democrats are moving south carolina up the schedule.

      • kinnath

        He bombed in the Iowa caucuses in 2020 as well. But it didn’t matter.

  13. SDF-7

    BLM Rioters in Atlanta Who Burnt Down Wendy’s Get $500 Fine

    :facepalm:

    Incentives, mf’ers… how do they work?!?!

    • R C Dean

      Quite well.

      It’s Jew-killing time again, and the BLM/antifa/Commie street goons are just what Our Masters need for that job. So, yeah, they know exactly what they’re doing.

      Your default shouldn’t be that the system is broken. It should be that the system is working exactly as intended.

      • Not Adahn

        I mean, it’s not like they did something sacrilegious, like putting their dirty, heathen, plebian feet on Pelosi’s desk.

    • Social Justice is Neither

      Exactly. The correct question is what are the revealed preferences?

    • SDF-7

      This is one of those things that should be such a no-brainer. If you haven’t sold an asset, there is no income on it. Market speculation prices on what you might get (if you’re lucky) if you sold it can’t count… it is just insanity.

      But they do keep trying to trot this out to steal steal steal…. 150 years ago the tar would be boiling and Mistress Clucky would be missing a lot of plumage….

      • AlexinCT

        Stop trying to use logic and common sense to prevent the criminals in government from getting their “fair share” of YOUR money, brah.

      • juris imprudent

        I’d like to remind you that this was part of the Trump Tax Cuts!!! Let’s keep down the applause for the Stupid Party.

      • SDF-7

        Yes, it isn’t like the article left that out or anything.

      • juris imprudent

        Read the article? You’re not my boss! Doesn’t change that this was a product of the Stupid Party – the Party of cutting taxes and reducing govt!!!

      • hayeksplosives

        You didn’t build that! Somebody else made that happen.

        So pay up, bitch!

  14. PieInTheSky

    US national debt surpasses $100K per person

    If you gave me a billion dollars as I keep asking, it would not even be noticeable

    • The Other Kevin

      I’d be fine with a few million.

  15. Sensei

    You can’t make this up…

    Feeley, who had known Rocha for 30 years, said he parted ways with his former mentor in Miami because he had turned into an enthusiastic supporter of Trump. “He deserved an Oscar, but he’s going to get a jail cell,” Feeley said.

    Hence the FBI investigation now.

    U.S. Ex-Ambassador Charged as Secret Agent for Cuba
    https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/ex-u-s-ambassador-charged-as-secret-agent-for-cuba-08c06b2f?st=zo53g4andzsvi38&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Sensei

      From the WSJ

      “A home was destroyed by a large explosion in a Washington, D.C., suburb as police were trying to execute a search warrant in response to reports of a man discharging a flare gun inside.

      Police visited a house in Arlington, Va., at around 4:45 p.m. ET Monday following reports of a man firing a flare gun about 30 or 40 times into the surrounding neighborhood, the local police department said in a statement.”

      I’m guessing there were all kinds of interesting things in crazy guy’s house.

      • juris imprudent

        It was the missing J6 munitions depot. /just getting in front of the Narrative

    • SDF-7

      So far (assuming the Twitter investigation links at the bottom here are accurate) looks like a Grade A loon who thought his neighbors were spies (including a 7 year old) tracking him since the ’90s, that Whites were out to get him in general and I assume was amassing an arsenal / bomb equipment and freaked when the police came to talk to him about t he flare.

      But 48 hour rule should probably apply.

    • Rat on a train

      Police found a way to quickly end a barricade situation?

    • PieInTheSky

      I assume right wing extremism

    • R C Dean

      Some body lit a match near John Kerry?

    • Not Adahn

      Trying to link the anti-pedo brigade with antisemitism? It’ll probably work as far as TMITE is concerned.

      • rhywun

        Ugh his page. If he likes Gaza that much he should move there. Maybe they’ll use him as a human shield, too.

      • Nephilium

        Oh look. Someone complaining about a Grand Theft Auto game. Can they at least complain about things like the “Do it again stupid!” game play?

      • Rat on a train

        I’m waiting for GTA Capital City.

  16. Suthenboy

    Scanning the links

    Biden is crooked as shit. He took bribes from our enemies. You know it, I know it and everyone else knows it, yet outside of here no one seems to want to say it out loud. He gives our money to our sworn enemies which they then use to shoot at us. He should be more than impeached. He and his handlers should spend the rest of their lives in prison for treason.

    I see Doug finally raised enough money.

    As for the rest of the banana republic monkey shit – remember when we told ourselves ‘It cant happen here’? I remember. We kept telling ourselves that and ignoring it while it crept up on us. Look where we are now. If we dont put a stop to it, and I mean really let the hammer down, it will destroy us. Like the bison idiot, we will deserve it.

    • Suthenboy

      If we have reached this level of duncery what is going to happen with AI in the mix?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Once it’s capable I think it’ll just skip the sexbots and go straight to eliminating us. We’re too stupid to handle ourselves and why would it want to bother?

      • pistoffnick

        … it’ll just skip the sexbots…

        /recaps 55 gallon barrel of lube

        Ahh, shucks, I was looking forward to that part.

      • cyto

        The Central Scrutinizer tells me that it isn’t all it is cracked up to be.

    • AlexinCT

      Biden is crooked as shit.

      I will remind everyone that they are NOT protecting Biden by avoiding this reality in toto, but Obama. People that think Biden was the only corrupt one in the Obama administration are missing the point that the entire administration was a criminal enterprise. The reason most people don’t know that all of them were fucking engaging in criminal shit is because they were good at programming what people go for news.

      Also, if you think that the Obama admin using the spy agencies to spy on the Trump campaign was a one of instead of SOP for them and what they had been doing since before the 2012 election on anyone and everyone they saw as a threat, then you are missing the boat. It was not an accident that the IRS was sicked on any and all enemies and problematic entities the Obama admin wanted to kneecap.

      Chicago gangsterism at its best. Biden’s problem is that he is about the dumbest fuckwad and used his son, whom also is a dumb fuckwad, to do the criminal shit all out in the open.

      • Suthenboy

        You are correct. I was going to put that in the comment but I keep having my focus interrupted. I hate that. Dogs, TV, Wife, dogs dogs dogs. Whine for food. Bang on the door to go out. Bang on the door to come in.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        There are always dogs more annoying than your own. See YouTube.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Biden’s problem is that he is about the dumbest fuckwad and used his son, whom also is a dumb fuckwad, to do the criminal shit all out in the open

        To be fair, it was a good plan until the social media revolution happened in journalism.

    • R C Dean

      Can’t tell if he thinks the propaganda is pro-Venezuela or pro-Guyana.

      • PieInTheSky

        well the west propaganda is pro Guyana. The TRUTH in the meme is pro Venezuela

      • PieInTheSky

        As Americans, it is our duty to UNCONDITIONALLY support Venezuela’s claim to Guayana Esequiba.

        Venezuela is fighting the remnants of foreign meddling in the America’s.

        Guayana’s border with Venezuela, called the Schomburgk Line, was established by Britain near the middle of the 1800s.

        Like Israel, it is entirely artificial, and cut right into established Venezuelan territory. It was an outright violation of Pan-American sovereignty by a completely foreign power that has no business in our continent.

        It was an outright challenge to the sovereignty of ALL sovereign American countries, including our own.

        When the patriotic Venezuelans appealed to us for help, we defended their right to dispute the claims against Britain.

        But the international bankster cartel, nearing a full coup of US sovereignty with the establishment of the federal reserve in 1913, ensured that the US-led commission decide in Britain’s favor.

        We betrayed our Venezuelan brothers and the American cause itself.

        https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1731815382623613375

      • AlexinCT

        I think the bigger problem is Brazil’s reaction to Venezuela’s attempt to take something they figured would be theirs…

        This is going to get interesting…

      • Lackadaisical

        I am amenable to the idea that we should always tell Europeans to fuck off, especially in our own personal hemisphere. 🙂

      • RBS

        A proud Tankie. All I need to know.

      • UnCivilServant

        If he cared about Venezuela, he’d be all in on removing Maduro and the rest of the Chavista thugs.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, don’t really care who’s right on the dispute but it certainly looks like one of those, “pressure is mounting at home, let’s go to war somewhere” things.

      • R C Dean

        Well, I tend to go with “Venezuela shouldn’t be invading countries to seize their oil reserves”, myself.

        We can keep our dick in our pants, of course. Just give Brazil the high sign and let them handle it. Of course, once Brazil’s army is in Guyana, they’ll probably stay. That’s a sweet oil field, after all.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, that’s fair. I was more on the timing of Venezuela. It seems fairly obvious it’s a distraction.

  17. SDF-7

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  18. SDF-7

    Ugh… not a Vivek fan — but this columnist doesn’t appear to even vaguely entertain the notion that the “FBI responsibilities” are things the Feds shouldn’t be doing and there’s no need to plan to “dump it off” on the Marshals or anyone else. Hey Buddy… they should stop doing that. (And then the CIA, NSA and the rest of the techocratic puppeteer assholes in the IC).

    • AlexinCT

      The problem with too many people is that as long as the criminality benefits them, they are fine with it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Federal agencies that have that kind of power WILL be weaponized. The author’s a retard.

    • PieInTheSky

      not a Vivek fan – like you do not have a tattoo of him on your thigh

      • Suthenboy

        Piker….I have his face tattooed on the head of my dick.

    • rhywun

      OFFS. The “when did you stop beating your wife?” school of journalism.

    • The Other Kevin

      We have the ATF, DEA, Border Patrol, Secret Service, US Marshals, state police, and local police. I really don’t think we’d miss the FBI.

      • UnCivilServant

        We wouldn’t miss the ATF, DEA, or Secret Service either.

      • hayeksplosives

        FBI is pretty good for kidnappings and maintaining CODIS and other databases, and they’re a good way to deal with crimes that cross state borders. And they track foreign criminals working within the US.

        But, yeah, they should mostly do just that kind of work: criminal investigations of the kinds of things normal people consider to be crimes, not vague grand conspiracies or hypothetical future domestic threats.

  19. Suthenboy

    Some movie on now…..I just caught a narrator line giving the premise.
    “Something something something to curb global warming angle bargle bleep bloop”

    One day people will marvel at how stupid and gullible we were while they cook up their own brand of nincompoopery. They have a pretty high bar if they are going to beat us.

    • Nephilium

      We are no more stupid and gullible than we were in the past. I mean, Spaghetti Trees?

    • juris imprudent

      Doomsday cults are a pretty permanent feature of humanity. Maybe one day, one of them will get lucky.

    • AlexinCT

      Does it harm them the worst because these types are already prone to mental disorders?

    • The Other Kevin

      We’re like this/close to “World to End Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”.

      • cyto

        This new meme is hikarious… Everything hits women, minorities, BIPOC, people of color, lgbtqia+, trans people…. The most!

        Actually, the rising sea level from climate change would seem to hit those groups the least. The rich would seem to risk the most. Poor people don’t own ocean front property. Most of the real property in coastal cities is not going to be owned by lesbian crossed dressers either.

      • hayeksplosives

        I find it insulting. Are they saying that women, BIPOC, etc whiners have no coping skills?

        Why yes. Yes they are,

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        You’re not supposed to think through to the conclusions. You’re just supposed to feel affinity toward the in groups and feel anger towards the out groups.

      • juris imprudent

        You accurately portray normal human behavior – both the manipulated and those doing the manipulation.

        This is why I am not very fond of normal humans.

  20. Lackadaisical

    “US national debt surpasses $100K per person”

    That’s not that bad… *Remembers this includes babies and immigrants*

    We’re boned.

    “Rep. John James, R-Mich., wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “This should send a message to the White House that this reckless federal spending is at a breaking point.”

    Wait, who controls spending again?

    Fuck you, cut spending.

    • juris imprudent

      Wait, who controls spending again?

      Bureaucrats write all of the budget documents. The figureheads just do as they are told.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s true, all the more reason to be disdainful of the elected.

  21. Common Tater

    “US national debt surpasses $100K per person”

    Will you take a check?

    • AlexinCT

      Uncle Sam: No we want both your kidneys and your liver…

  22. AlexinCT

    As I have often pointed out, globalism, and the cult of Gaia it uses as one of it’s key agenda drivers (high priest Al Gore not available for comment), is about retuning to feudalism..

  23. Sensei

    LOL!

    Gold bars featured in Sen. Bob Menendez bribery case are linked to a 2013 robbery, records show

    “Each gold bar has its own serial number,” Daibes told investigators in a 2013 transcript made by prosecutors and police who recovered — and returned to Daibes — the stolen valuables. “They’re all stamped…you’ll never see two stamped the same way.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gold-bars-featured-bob-menendez-bribery-case-linked-2013-robbery-recor-rcna128006

    • cyto

      Jason Whitlock tells Adam Scrollable we should be handling this sort of thing:

      https://adamcarolla.com/jason-whitlock-and-derek-bieri/

      Overview: he frames it not as a race conflict but as a sex clash. He says men need to go back to being men, and stop apologizing.

      He is impressively not politically correct.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Scrollable? 🧐

    • rhywun

      That guy’s grift has been so wildly successful I can only stand in awe of it.

      Oh, and wish for him to rot in fucking hell with every other hateful, racist, and destructive asshole.

      • cyto

        It actually is pretty impressive that a racist hack has been able to attract so much wealth and power. By the 1970s, we had pretty much eliminated this from the white community. I mean, David Duke did pop up, but he gained his limited appeal by hiding his racist roots and packaging it as not-racism.

        Kendi just went all in with fully bore racial superiority. Old school. Like Farrakhan with the blue-eyed devil created by an evil genie (therefore not even human)

      • Lackadaisical

        Liberals are self hating, and many in the black community are not dedicated to anti racism the way whites have been trained to be.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Kendi truly is the Blaq face of whitey supremacy.

  24. Not Adahn

    HR is a different existence, example N+1:

    We are excited to share the below new policy enhancements effective January 1, 2024, that will support the wellbeing of our GF employees and their families.

    • Sick Time has been rebranded to Wellness Time to better support your total wellbeing.

    • PieInTheSky

      we had that last year…

    • AlexinCT

      Useless cuntes trying to prove they are nothing more than a money sink for the company…

    • UnCivilServant

      So – what am I supposed to do when I’m Sick? I can’t use Wellness Time for not being Well.

    • Nephilium

      I think it’s been called “Wellness” time at the last several places I worked at. One place called it Unplanned Time Off.

      I think the only tangible benefit was the direction that you could take it for any reason, and wouldn’t need to provide any evidence unless you were out for a full week.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      When you have a department comprised of mostly single 20-something social media addicts, virtue signaling is seen as being productive.

      • AlexinCT

        Needs more dancing needle or nurses videos?

    • Lackadaisical

      Their asylum claims are not believable too.

      • Lackadaisical

        More believable* le sigh

      • rhywun

        Well, except for the fact that true asylum seekers are supposed to stop at the first safe country, not travel across dozens more to score free shit from gullible Americans.

    • cyto

      “Smart luggage” appears to be new backpacks.

      • R.J.

        China wants to know where their assets are.

    • rhywun

      Checking in!

      lol

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s called camoflage

      • cyto

        The comments seem to think it is called weed.

    • AlexinCT

      Pass the firewater, paleface.

      • KK, Non-Man

        We smokum peace pipe

      • dbleagle

        How about a trim for you LTC Custer?

    • KK, Non-Man

      This tweet needs way more ratio

    • WTF

      I notice only women “indigenous people” are depicted.

    • PieInTheSky

      but they should always mention non-men indigenous people are even more on the frontline

      • Mojeaux

        ‘Scuse you. Now it’s “non-prostate owner.”

      • AlexinCT

        Say wut? I can’t keep up with these changes!

    • rhywun

      That’s embarrassing even by U.N. standards.

  25. Not Adahn

    The festival’s founder, Shirley Vermillion, told local press the menorah lighting was canceled because it “seemed very inappropriate” amid Israel’s war with the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas sparked by the deadly surprise terror attacks on Oct. 7.

    “The concern is of folks feeling like we are siding with a group over the other… not a direction we ever decide to head,”

    https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/glenn-youngkin-blasts-virginia-arts-event-canceling-hanukkah-celebration-absurd-and-antisemitic/

    • cyto

      folks feeling like we are siding with a group over the other… not a direction we ever decide to head,”

      ….. She said, in clearly siding with a group over the other….

    • Lackadaisical

      I thought ‘whoopsie’ was already Italian for ‘it fell off the truck’.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        No, that is Italian-American. Italian-Italian would be “Brakes? Why you want brakes? Car to go fast, no?”

    • cyto

      That is impressive.

      Actually, it seems a fairly easy mistake…. A couple of metal tanks are moved to the parking lot, probably near the scrap from renovations, and some guy is contracted to “pick up the scrap in the parking lot” and just takes it all.

      Also, odd that they don’t mention a desire to use one of the US based launchers. Probably cheaper.

      • PieInTheSky

        or some gypsies contracted themselves as scrap iron is big business

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Or Gypsies have their own space program.

      • PieInTheSky

        they are a nomadic peoples

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Space Gypsies?

      • PieInTheSky

        also cheaper is not the point. Cheaper does not create jobs in all countries who want a piece of the funding pie

      • cyto

        I’m glad we don’t do that here….

      • PieInTheSky

        thank god for the extreme libertarians in charge of the US Federal Government

      • cyto

        Interestingly, I got into a discussion with Destiny from smarter every day and a bunch of other olds space fans about the NASA way and SLS as an unkillable 25,000 jobs program just last night.

        I wonder how many other federal programs are designed like this? NASA isn’t alk that big in the grand scheme of things.

        I suppose all of defense is like that. We even have bases around the country in areas that don’t really lend themselves to fighting off invaders.

      • Nephilium

        Back in the long ago, BeerAdvocate magazine had an interview with the brewer who had come up with Blue Moon for MillerCoors. One of the key things he brought up was that while it was a huge volume for craft brewers to contemplate, it was a drop in the bucket at the MillerCoors breweries. They mentioned that several times they had “lost” a batch in the brewery, just because someone mislabeled it.

    • R C Dean

      Was disappointed when I saw what they meant by “rocket tanks”.

    • Lackadaisical

      So it’s a lie?

      • cyto

        They said “far right”!

        People protesting the murder of kids are always far-right, aren’t they?

      • cyto

        But seriously, they are right.

        With all news under the control of the government, and Facebook and YouTube and Instagram playing along, I am quite sure that X played a critical role in spreading the news, news that otherwise would have been quietly dissipated and replaced with something more useful to the government.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I’m no expert, but it seems there’s plenty of media that fuels left wing violence.

      • PieInTheSky

        left wing is not violence is rightful fight against oppression

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Chaos and penury

    The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in an obscure tax case with potentially trillions of dollars in tax consequences for the federal budget. It is a case that has tax law specialists both gobsmacked and alarmed.

    ——-

    Some of the facts the Moores have put forth are disputed, but importantly, the case is widely viewed by advocates on both sides, as a preventive strike against any wealth tax of the kind proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Not that anyone thinks such a tax has any chance of passing in Congress.

    Still, if the Moores were to win, the federal government could be forced to pay back billions of dollars in corporate tax collections, and the effects for lots of other tax provisions could be profound.

    Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, shepherded the 2017 tax law through the house, including the provision before the Supreme Court Tuesday.

    “As a person who drafted that…the goal was to finance a conversion from one system to another,” Ryan says. “I’m not for a wealth tax but I think if you use this as an argument to spike a wealth tax, you’re going to basically get rid of… a third of the tax code.”

    I don’t have a problem with that.

    • R.J.

      Indeed. Now get rid of a third of the government, just as a good faith gesture.

      • cyto

        I identify with this sentiment.

        Hell, cutting a third wouldn’t even get us to “reasonable”.

      • juris imprudent

        Considering spending already outpaces tax collection – it’s gonna need to be more like half.

      • R.J.

        Absolutely agreed. As long as we are dreaming, dream big.

      • cyto

        Well, Cato keeps telling me that we have never been able to collect more than about 18% of GDP in taxes, regardless of marginal rates (at least not on a sustainable basis).

        Since we bounce around more like 23, 24, 25% these days… The solution is obvious.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ya got a pen that’ll write on this cocktail napkin?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Stop. I can only get so erect!

    • WTF

      If unrealized gains were counted as “income” wouldn’t unrealized losses be counted as deductions?

      • cyto

        If so, Biden would have created the greatest tax cut in all of history. The losses since he came to office are staggering.

      • The Other Kevin

        Quiet you.

      • kinnath

        The ratchet goes one way

      • juris imprudent

        No! No deduction for you! /Tax Nazi

  27. PieInTheSky

    Senator Dick Durbin wants to make it possible for illegal immigrants to join the US military: “Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force? They can’t reach their quotas each month. They can’t find enough people to join.”

    https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1731798935134429370

    Good enough for ancient Rome

    • The Other Kevin

      More jobs that Americans are unwilling to do.

      • rhywun

        I’m probably not alone in being unwilling to do a job that requires sitting around all day listening to leftist propaganda.

    • juris imprudent

      Hey! Enough with the thinking about ancient Rome every day you toxic male.

    • juris imprudent

      some other drugs whose acronyms I can’t remember

      Everyone finds what they want there.

      We were going to meet his gene dealer.

      OK, that’s a new one on me. WTF?

      I mean, with that kind of opening, I don’t think I’m going to much care what she has to say the rest of the way. Flying in like that, with someone else doing all the prep – that’s pretty fucking ostentatious. I have one time arrived on playa, via ground transport, with a small backpack because the wife had already driven in. For me, it was insanely weird – and for this woman, she has no idea. I will grant, there are dumb rituals – but maybe I feel that way because I never did the dust angel, ass-smack (as they did in the old days) or bell ringing. She also speaks the truth about it being a crucible for relationships.

      Module had paid some $4,000 so he could take me to the desert to do drugs and pill me on motherhood

      Well, she managed to hook up with a real asshole. This is the kind of camp and people I despise. Worse. I haven’t read the rest, but I hope she dumped him.

      • Not Adahn

        She triumphed over herself and learned to love the Playa.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe, didn’t sound like it at the end, or that she was smart enough to dump him.

      • Not Adahn

        That’s how I interpreted the ending (refugee reference added for clarity)

        There were about 70 of us in the big tent, which over the course of the week had been holding psychedelic salons on altered states of consciousness. It wasn’t until I started seeing socks hanging from the wire holding up the canopy that I realized we were sort of like refugees. I found myself drawing little embryos in my notebook. I couldn’t have been happier.

        Without leaving the casino air conditioning, we were buffeted by dinner options, Japanese and Italian, all surrounding a copper fountain. About halfway through my steak, I started to think I couldn’t hear.

        We went back to the hotel room, and my boyfriend had me tilt my head to either side. Holding a basin of water, he cleaned the dust out of my ears.

        “I liked us better when we were refugees,” the girl with the ear infection said to the man in the mirror.

        The next day, we dropped off Flower at the airport, packed up our bike lights and costumes, and took them to a storage locker for next year.

      • juris imprudent

        OK, maybe she is a masochist. She enjoyed the drugs I guess.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      I had an invite to go to Burning Man in ’92. These people were the same going then.

      • juris imprudent

        ’92 was the guns & dope era. You should’ve gone. We got a small taste doing the non-burn in ’21; not the drive-by shooting range but we did go shooting.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        It wasn’t the guns and dope, it is the combination of the two that scares the piss out of me. And those are enough of the same people who go know, as shown in ah-ticle.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        now. Jebus Kristof.

      • R C Dean

        I think I would stay away from any gathering that mixed guns and dope.

    • DEG

      How the fuck did I read the whole thing?

      • juris imprudent

        The human tendency to rubber-neck a bad crash?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Right there with ya…

  28. The Late P Brooks

    And tax law experts of from liberal to conservative warn that if the Supreme Court were to strike down the tax provision, the effects would be disastrous.

    Chye-Ching Huang, director of the NYU Tax Law Center says, “It would be chaos, and we would be facing a tsunami of tax litigation over years and decades trying to sort through the rubble of this.”

    The justices “are not playing with fire,” says Callas. They are playing with “enriched uranium,” and they don’t even know they could “blow up large portions of the tax code.”

    They don’t read NPR? Or the Washington Post? Or any of the hysterical amicus filings from “tax experts”?

    What a stupid assertion. These people just blurt out anything they think sounds convincing.

    • juris imprudent

      Actual tax law experts don’t care about the effects on federal revenue. They might care about simplification – that would be bad for business. Everyone else opining as an expert is a lying jack-off partisan shit-bird.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Battlespace prep in case the Nazgul opines out of their favor and they can go about making the typical “They aren’t CPAs! They shouldn’t be allowed to rule against this!”

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, they’re legit terrified at not getting a wealth tax (without it being proportioned amongst the states). This is a big fucking no to that.

  29. PieInTheSky

    Very interesting study: Philosophy majors have the highest average verbal IQ by a margin, but have mediocre quantitative IQ (bad at math)

    Physics, Math, and Economics students have similar or higher verbal IQ than many “wordcel” majors like Polsci, Sociology, Psychology…

    https://twitter.com/IberianMantis/status/1731418104574443688

    • Not Adahn

      In what language does “engineer” have two gs?

      • PieInTheSky

        you obviously have low verbal IQ to be fixated on a g here or there

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        He is just trying to find the right G spot.

    • PieInTheSky

      Also doctors be dumb

      • Not Adahn

        But not as ‘tarded as social workers.

  30. The Other Kevin

    I was watching one of those Ancient Alien shows this weekend. Recently I heard the theory that all that UFO stuff just comes from the CIA, to make the other countries think we have secret alien technology and weapons. That makes a lot of sense to me. Think about all the Area 51 things happening in the 50’s and 60’s, right in the middle of the Cold War. Even makes sense now to make China and Russia think we have better tech than they do.

    • cyto

      I think the latest round is exactly equivalent to the Feingold election stuff. A false flag from the Intelligence community designed to discredit.

      they are targeting people like Rogan and Charleston with believable sounding folks, probably backed by some credible resume and folks who vouched for them behind the scenes (just like Deibold). Those supporting references will all disappear, and we will be left with cranks who never could have been believed.

      • cyto

        Not Feingold. Deibold. But thanks, autocorrect.

      • Urthona

        Pretty much if you look into anyone, though, the resumes aren’t that credible. imo at least.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Good enough for ancient Rome

    We need our own version of the French Foreign Legion.

  32. PieInTheSky

    How quickly the far left went from “believe all women” to “well, was the dead, stripped-naked woman with the broken pelvis who eyewitnesses saw brutalized *really* raped?”

    https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1731913550720012626

    • Not Adahn

      The distinction between “raped” and “rape-raped” is hardly new.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Logical consistency isn’t a virtue when truth is subjective.

    • RBS

      Briahna Joy Gray has a podcast called… Bad Faith.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Briahna Joy Gray is now the poster child for “Don’t Believe All Women.”

    • R.J.

      Thinkwert has that backwards. They created “Pope” from “Anti-Pope.”

  33. PieInTheSky

    Researchers measured facial sexual dimorphism (SShD) across different countries and found considerable differences across them.

    For example, in Romania, men and women were strongly differentiated.

    https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1731742873685536813

    Personal opinion: Romanian chicks be way hotter than English chicks

    • cyto

      We should conduct a follow up study based on your premise.

    • R.J.

      I may need to see some examples, maybe some videos which demonstrate this.

    • Urthona

      This is some hateful TERF nonsense right here.

    • rhywun

      It’s good to see that the Daily Mail is not above race-baiting for clicks.

      • Urthona

        I clicked on that hoping she was super hot.

      • juris imprudent

        Female cop and Alabama – those were some long odds on her being super hot.

      • Urthona

        Still worth a click.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Eampering

    An influencer who staged a plane crash in California to make a YouTube video of himself parachuting to safety has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for obstructing the investigation by destroying the wreckage.

    Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, an experienced pilot and skydiver, pleaded guilty in June to one count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation.

    The video titled I Crashed My Airplane appeared in December 2021 and purported to show Jacob’s small plane have engine failure over the mountainous Los Padres national forest in Santa Barbara county. Already wearing a parachute, he jumped out with a selfie stick camera in hand.

    His jump and the aircraft’s plunge were recorded by cameras mounted on the plane’s wing and tail and by the camera he carried. After landing, he hiked to the crash site and recovered video from the onboard cameras, the government said.

    I’m surprised the state didn’t get him for littering and improper disposal of hazardous carcinogens.

    • juris imprudent

      Suddenly, I feel like a rousing chorus of Alice’s Restaurant.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And the plane crasherre?

    • R C Dean

      As always, your blessings are appreciated, Pope.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Working backward

    As Vox’s Umair Irfan has explained, a vast majority of countries previously agreed to try to limit the average global temperature to 1.5°C more than what the average Earth temperature was prior to the Industrial Revolution. The idea is that limiting the increase to 1.5°C is the most realistic strategy for minimizing extreme weather events and other climate catastrophes. Because of the number’s international importance, Jaber’s critics took his statement as undermining research regarding the causes of climate change, and as a threat to COP’s goals.

    Climate scientists have emphasized that Jaber’s statements are inaccurate, with some noting that they’re reminiscent of arguments the fossil fuel industry is known for making. According to the 2023 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, greenhouse gas emissions — which are heavily caused by the usage of fossil fuels — would need to be slashed to almost half by 2030 to keep the temperature increase below 1.5°C. Scientists have also worried that it’s too late to even limit the temperature increase to that level and that the goal is no longer tenable. As Irfan noted, for example, 2023 might be the first year the world’s average temperatures rise above the 1.5°C mark.

    When the a priori goal is the elimination of fossil fuels, any contradictory alternative is unacceptable and counterproductive. You might as well say the “temperature goals” are arbitrary fiction used to justify a predetermined course of action.

    • R.J.

      “Vast Majority”
      You mean Europe?

    • The Other Kevin

      “what the average Earth temperature was prior to the Industrial Revolution”

      How much prior? One year? 10? 10,000? 100,000? Kind of makes a difference. Also assuming there was one “average” temperature that could be calculated. This is about as scientific as sociology.

      • juris imprudent

        Sociology is more falsifiable.

    • rhywun

      would need to be slashed to almost half by 2030 to keep the temperature increase below 1.5°C.

      Bullshit. They have no evidence for any of this.

      Oh, and the sun might have other ideas. Idiots.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    “Al Jaber’s comments are absurd and troubling, betraying both an ignorance about the science and a dismissiveness about the need for rapid decarbonization, which is at the very center of the proceedings over which he is in principle presiding as COP28 president,” University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann told Vox.

    Jaber’s comments also directly conflict with statements made by many world leaders, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who said on Friday: “The science is clear: The 1.5C limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce, not abate. Phase out, with a clear timeframe.”

    Thou shalt not contradict the bobblehead consensus.

    • The Other Kevin

      This guy needs to learn how to lay down and obey the Western Elites even if it’s directly against the interests of his own country.

    • prolefeed

      If ever there was a bright line for making the case for ending all U.S. support for the U.N., it is the guy in charge of it heatedly calling for all humanity to revert to the Stone Age, via a totalitarian dictatorship, by eliminating all fossil fuel use, including coal to heat dwellings in the winter.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    “The outcome of COP28 must be that all the oil, gas, and coal nations of the world see that now we are truly at the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era for the world economy. And that we are now starting to bend the curve, properly,” Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told CNBC.

    How will these preening imbeciles get their jets to future meetings? Rubber band power?

    • Urthona

      A single one of these people need to look at graph.

      Fossil fuel growth significantly outpaced solar and wind combined this year. And will continue to do so ever year.

    • Ownbestenemy

      We were promised by the FBI director it was just a one off thing some backwoods office produced.

      • The Other Kevin

        The smoking gun was when he refused to admit that anyone was reprimanded or fired for it.

      • juris imprudent

        THERE WERE GOOD INTENTIONS!!!!!!

    • The Other Kevin

      With the border 100% secure, there’s no longer any way terrorists can get into the country.

    • Ownbestenemy

      ‘My main goals are to make the game more mainstream and relatable. So whatever aligns with that,’

      Getting fake titties and dressing like that it ain’t your main goal and you know it. Just be honest, you get paid for semi-soft core porn for horny retards on your instagram.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    The tramp tramp tramp of jackboots marching toward Pennsylvania Avenue

    The Atlantic announced Monday the magazine’s January/February issue would be dedicated to what a second Trump term would mean for immigration, civil rights, the Justice Department, climate and more. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote an editor’s note titled, “A Warning,” to introduce the series.

    The New York Times on Monday published its latest piece in a series focused on what a second Trump term might mean for the country. In it, the reporters noted Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail “has attracted growing alarm and comparisons to historical fascist dictators and contemporary populist strongmen.”

    And a Washington Post opinion column penned by editor-at-large Robert Kagan headlined, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending,” made an extensive case that Trump’s reelection could feasibly set the U.S. on a path to becoming a dictatorship.

    So horrifying. What is your greatest fear? That is what the cartoon villain will do. Like Alfred Hitchcock, they leave it yo the audience to fill in the blanks.

    • Urthona

      What they’re scared of is that Trump would do with power what they just did with it.

    • juris imprudent

      Hahaha, so The Atlantic is now following the lead of National Review (in ’16)?

    • Raven Nation

      “What is your greatest fear?”

      Given that Kagan is involved, the greatest fear is probably no new wars.

  39. UnCivilServant

    So, yesterday I prepped the MicroSD card for the Raspberry Pi. Today the Pi arrived, so I figured I’d do the initial config check over lunch.

    First problem was that I couldn’t SSH from my regular desktop.
    Since autologin on the console was enabled by default, I wasn’t sure if my password was set correctly, so I reset it on the Pi console. No Dice.
    So I checked the sshd_config. On the way I noticed that typing | was getting ~, so I checked the keyboard locale. It was set to UK. Fixed that.
    In the sshd_config, I enabled password auth since I hadn’t set up a key pair yet. Still not able to login remotely.

    Turns out, my initial password was just fine, but since I’d reset it with a Keyboard locale of UK, the special characters didn’t come out the same when typed on my properly configured US locale keyboard on the desktop. So I had to reset the password once again to get it back to where it had started.

    Now I’m out of lunch.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      pi5? My order from…9/29 has still not shipped.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, a pi4. I didn’t need the additional horsepower for what I was planning, so I went with what was in stock

  40. The Late P Brooks

    But news outlets and opinion columnists are not alone in suggesting another Trump presidency could have catastrophic consequences for American democracy.

    “I think it’s a very, very real threat and concern,” former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), an outspoken Trump critic, told NBC’s “Today” on Monday when asked about the risk of the U.S. becoming a dictatorship under Trump.

    “And I don’t say any of that lightly and frankly, it’s painful for me as someone who has spent her whole life in Republican politics, who grew up as a Republican to watch what’s happening to my party and to watch the extent to which Donald Trump himself has basically determined that the only thing that matters is him, his power and his success,” she added.

    Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who, like Cheney, served on the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 riots, told MSNBC last month a second Trump term “would look a lot like Viktor Orban in Hungary — illiberal democracy, meaning democracy without rights, or liberties, or respect for the due process, the system, the rule of law.”

    Some people agree with us. They’re very very smart.

    • The Other Kevin

      They have decided the narrative. Now they just need keep beating it into people’s heads, and flat out making shit up to support it.

    • Urthona

      Trump will probably be in jail just before the election.

      With 50% of likely Republican voters saying they won’t vote for him in that case, it seems pretty perfectly timed.

      It seems unjustifiable though to be worried about him anyway though . Trump didn’t really succeed in dismantling much of the government before. Or doing much of anything really.

      • Ownbestenemy

        He did in their heads and that is all that matters.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        I was reading the other day how British industrial productivity has gone up since Brexit. And that, along with Trumps economy, is what truly scares the piss out of them. The simple fact that the world will succeed without their expertise is a nightmare of epic proportions.