BLOVIATING ABOUT THE TEXAS BORDER CRISIS: I believe that this moment will go down in the history books as the beginning of the Texit movement. My sense is that Gov Abbott is doing this to lay the groundwork for pressuring the Texas legislation to put a secession referendum on the ballot. Until then, the best course of action is malicious compliance with court rulings in concert with more and different deterrents to border crossing.
LIKING THE CUT OF THEIR JIB: As a result of this pants-shitting article about a pro property-rights bill in KY, I learned about these fine people who apparently wrote the model legislation upon which the KY bill was based. “We develop and fight for policies at the state level that restore liberty, accountability, and innovation in American governance.” I touched myself just a little when I read that.
TOTALLY NOT AN ORBITING DEATH BEAM: NASA study says clean, space-based solar power beaming is possible. “The idea is to use huge solar arrays parked in space to collect and beam solar [generated electrical] energy down to remote ground stations on Earth via focused microwaves.” An unholy alliance between the tech bros and the greens, and the deep state pops a chub at the possibility of coopting this technology to destroy its enemies. There is a ray of hope, though – the greens are generally hostile towards space technology, and some of them fear microwaves to the point that they employ magic talismans against them. (h/t Neph for making me aware of this Luddite tomfoolery)
SPACE-X SEEKS TO EXPAND TEXAS LAUNCH FACILITY: Seeks to do land swap with adjacent Texas park. Might come in handy if Texas secedes and Musk decides to become part of that.
HOW TARDIGRADES GO INTO SUSPENDED ANIMATION: Link to archive since article is behind a wall.
NASA BANGS KNIFE HANDLE ON LID TO OPEN JAR: Ok, not really, but they finally got the sample container from the asteroid mission open without contaminating the sample.
Love that Tonio’s linx are often space-heavy.
NERD
And I shit bigger’n The Bro 😂
Side glances at Tonio… murmurs.. “one of us! one of us!” under his breath…
There appears to be the correct amount of whitespace in his post. Not sure what you’re talking about.
*squints suspiciously*
I enjoy that too.
From the anti-radiation link: “However, anti-radiation stickers present a unique challenge as they do not necessarily reduce the actual amount of radiation present, making them difficult to test with a standard EMF meter.”
Look you don’t have to test things you sell as part of a scam. You don’t go into the tiger cage with your tiger repelling rock. That’s dangerous!
“My sense is that Gov Abbott is doing this to lay the groundwork for pressuring the Texas legislation to put a secession referendum on the ballot.”
Hope so, but I suspect he’s doing this because if Biden sent border patrol to pull it down then he fully owes the chaos at the border, if he doesn’t pull it down then he looks weak. It’s a classic catch-22.
This does diminish the authority of the courts, but I think they’ve already done that to themselves with their rulings during COVID that ignored 200 years of precedent
A Catch-22 with a simple solution… actually enforce the laws at the border and stop the catch-and-release pseudo-asylum crap.
But then he’ll catch holy hell from the Chamber of Commerce class and the left wing loons.
Plus he’d miss Matlock and this afternoon’s pudding, so that ain’t gonna happen….
Agreed. The two are not directly related, but it is an example of the simpatico that seems to be all around us lately.
*Tightens tinfoil hat
Pffft, Abbott doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Seriously though, he is actually pretty wily…wasn’t he the one who initiated the bussing of migrants to sanctuary cities? He really does have bigger cajones than I first thought.
I heard that is why he has the chair, it’s hard to walk with balls that big.
no. It was DeSantis.
Abbott actually sucked and locked down the economy during covid but he’s recently been pleasing me.
This is way past due, however. He didn’t do anything for years.
Thank you for correcting that. People have been thinking it was Abbott for a while.
Admittedly Florida was not that “significant”. All the millions show up in Texas.
Abbott spent years copying Desantis about 2 months later. Which I guess it not a horrible way to go.
I couldn’t believe he was one of the earliest Trump backers in this primaries, because I swear he celebrates Desantis’ entire collection. haha.
DeSantis > Abbott > RINOs > any D governor
The lame-ass AZ governor could have sent trainloads (hmm, maybe not the best optics). He sent only a few buses. And of course, with Gov. Mediocrity (D-Who Cares) now, we’re just ramping up the payments to the NGOs and whatnot to “care for” the “”victims” of the “humanitarian disaster” at the “border”.
I have a few of those rubber grippy things for opening jars that I could have lent to the NASA guys.
Given NASAs current dependence on SpaceX for ISS access (and I’m pretty sure most launches in general) — that would give Texas one hell of an industry sector to dominate the world with if they went independent, wouldn’t it?
More seriously — if Texas actually went — I think most of the governors currently supporting Texas would try to go with them at this point. So certainly most of the Southeast (West Virginia flips to the Rebs this time, Virginia would likely stay due to DC’s influence), up through the Central Plains to Montana and Idaho.
No way it will be allowed to happen — we’re talking Civil War 2 if it even looks like it is going to kick off.
I don’t think the feds have the balls to go full high intensity warfare on American soil. We’d all be happier as separate nations anyway, leftists included.
Before COVID I would have agreed with you. The last 3 or 4 years have firmly convinced me of just how much they despise everyone who isn’t them.
YOU MUST BE RULED, STOP RESISTING!!
Except there’s only like 30% support for it at most so we are not happier as separate nations apparently. A peaceful divorce if people wanted it would be fine. They currently do not.
That was 30% support, how many years ago? The border disaster has to have moved that number.
The leftists would absolutely not be happier. Their only joy in life is kicking deplorables in the teeth, after all.
Moved it to 32. Less when it’s a reality and not a pipe dream. And l lefties like to eat so they can’t afford to lose the breadbasket.
As an aside, one of the tenets of leftism is organic food. But, the reason we have things like industrial chicken farms and such is the need to feed people who work in the cities. And lefties love a city and the whole ideology falls down with the independence needed for rural life.
What was the support for the Revolutionary war or Civil War pt1?
I remember reading twenty percent somewhere but don’t quote me on that. Maybe that was active participants but most people keep their heads down if they have a choice no matter where things like that are happening.
I keep hearing rumblings about California seceding if Trump gets elected. I suspect the leftists would let them and that would establish a precedent for Texas, Idaho, Appalachia, etc.
It’s roughly the same there.
The funny thing is every state has approximately the same desire to secede, except Texas and California a bit more.
But it’s just not popular anywhere enough yet.
It failed miserably in NH.
Some folks are trying again this legislative term.
Yeah.
I mean I think we’ve probably all noticed that even simple libertarian ideas don’t win elections.
We should realize despite our own echo chamber that succession just ain’t even close to popular anywhere.
You may be able to get Ohio and the Yoopers to separate from Michigan.
“even simple libertarian ideas don’t win elections.”
“I have thought a lot about why those of us who believe in liberty, as a solution, have done so poorly in convincing others of its benefits. If liberty is what we claim it is- the principle that protects all personal, social and economic decisions necessary for maximum prosperity and the best chance for peace- it should be an easy sell. Yet, history has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.”
Ron Paul, Farewell Address to Congress, November 14, 2012.
If CA seceded, the GOP would own DC for the foreseeable future. So a bunch of states would follow.
If TX seceded, same deal in reverse.
I dream of the sovereign nation of Appalachia, encompassing the current WV and any adjacent counties that vote to secede. Much like people in eastern Oregon and Washington want to secede and become part of Greater Idaho. However, secession on a county-by-county basis is much tougher than an entire state seceding.
What I think should happen is that each state should secede.
Then we shall sort of loose association of open trade and movement and a national defense under a common umbrella.
We shall call this place the “States of America That Are United”.
I think it rolls off the tongue.
I’d call them states experiencing unity.
How about “Confederate States of America”? 😃
This time I expect the Brits to aid the Union.
Time to fire your marketing department.
But we even have a flag design and a nice, peppy national anthem! 😞
States of Unity. (per People of Color convention)
States Identifying as Unified?
Yeah. Texas is too hot and sweaty. Appalachia would be better.
You wanna know how to make a tardigrade go into suspended animation?
Show him your boobs.
The greens are an anti-growth cult… they’d never go for anything that might actually work without population culling or austerity for the Unwashed Masses Who Are Not Them ™.
I believe that this moment will go down in the history books as the beginning of the Texit movement.
Beginning? Texit has been around for a while. They’ve been active long before I attended the panel discussion on secession at FreedomFest 2023.
Gets widespread popularity? Finally succeed? Possibly.
You are correct. I’m a bit under the weather today, so my writing is not at its best.
Get well soon!
Point of order- arent we all always under the weather? Or at least part of it?
Won’t ever happen. How short are memories that forget 2020?
Argentina showed that going libertarian is possible, if the existing government screws things up so badly for so long that in desperation people finally try freedom.
Then call me back when Americans are conducting business in freshly minted $1,000 Canadian bills.
Never go full tardigrade!
It is high time that people stand up to this tedious bullshit and proclaim, “I will not be guilt-tripped into acceding to your anti-human nature foolishness.”
unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property
Trespassers and squatters. We have plain English words to cover this.
You know you’re spinning bullshit when you have to rely on a pile of politically motivated euphemisms in a tardigraded attempt at confusing your enemies.
Kinnath is right, and one of my major peevs is the mutation of language to hide, or make more palatable, ideas that lead to loss of personal freedom.
+1 “Affirmative Action”
I’m not a penniless hippie!
Let me stay on theme here
https://www.space.com/nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-mission-ends
The next ones need the ability to land themselves safely without constant communication.
The rovers and choppers are all on autopilot. The long communication delay between Mars and Earth makes realtime remote control impossible. The team at JPL uploads commands, a script as it were, to the robot.
Still, it could be smarter. It did do quite well but more code means more autonomy. I want them smart enough to spray paint penises on the adjacent rocks. Also I want them to relay information in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice.
Good catch. Thanks for that. I knocked off early today, because reasons.
This is just awesome.
FedGov has no idea where much of its budget goes. That’s over 5 years. Not surprising, just sad.
Somewhat sad, mostly enraging.
The sad thing is that those are probably the least damaging grants they give out. The grants they give out at home are often worse.
I like how they feel the need to put scare quotes around the term property owners.
[Insert bogus Chief Seattle quote]
“We’re going to get people killed, that is just the unfortunate fact,” Lyndon Pryor, CEO of the Louisville Urban League, a nonprofit community service organization, told Motherboard. “We have decided that as a society some people are not worthy of human respect and dignity and we are able to treat them in completely inhumane ways.”
Perhaps those people should try behaving in a dignified and respectable manner.
I see you’ve taken public transportation.
I’d think the Louisville Urban League would be pushing on Breonna Taylor’s death still – you know to bring accountability to police instead of hand-waving freakoutery about shit that has not happened.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/investing/tesla-stock-drop-china-sales/index.html
Which was pretty obvious.
But Tesla is now part of the so called magnificent 7 so expect more volatility and not less.
https://www.investopedia.com/magnificent-seven-stocks-8402262
Funds need to own it. The only question is the portfolio weight.
Meh. 95 percent of the country has 7 more years to buy an ev or not be able to drive. Tesla will only go up in value.
Plus self driving is coming. Always the year it’s discussed. So by this year.
I will beleive self driving cars are coming when the make self driving trains.
I mean, the damn things are already on rails, how much easier could it get?
Much if not for the railway union.
I expect that timeline will be pushed back or eliminated as our betters are finally figuring out that EVs aren’t all they are cracked up to be. They are slowly shifting their propaganda to hydrogen.
Still up almost 28% over the past 12 months compared to the S & P at 22%.
Facebook
Apple
Google
Amazon
Tesla
Great group of stocks in the current year, but somehow, calling them “FAGATs” never caught on.
/I’ll show myself out
Today is National Florida Day.
Celebrate with a slice of Key Lime Pie (or if you’re going for authentic Florida Man style, by wrasslin’ a manatee and an alligator back-to-back).
It’s also National Irish Coffee Day.
Must resist making a joke. Must resist…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/asia/japan-moon-sniper-lunar-mission-scn/index.html
Damn. You scooped me twice on my own links column.
Grudging respect. Mild contempt. The expectation of payback. I haven’t given you lads any wedgies or wet willies for awhile, have I RJ?
That’s ok I’ll make you suffer through another learning Japanese through anime soon.
I think I’m learning Japanese,
I think I’m learning Japanese,
I really think so.
I will just leave this here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E
https://youtu.be/hlH9RGLJqxE?si=vFjDvfMt4uNP9wJx
Tonight guy in a BMW also had no idea WTF that lever does.
I skimmed a little bit about the Teasla earnings call, earlier. They adjusted production estimates, and are getting hammered for trying to get out ahead of the falloff in demand.
And missed by 2 cents.
The guidance on growth is what spooked people coupled with Musk volatility.
It’s stupid but the Musk issue should be priced in, but the street hates volatility so it is always punished.
But the inclusion of anti-homeless provisions in a large bill with other sections ostensibly focused on public safety may mean that many in the public do not know what lawmakers will be voting on.
Yes, yes, of course. Glide right past the part where it only affects homeless people who are criminals.
Those goalposts aren’t going to move by themselves.
Because the homeless population isn’t a public safety issue at all.
And, those dastardly conservatives apparently just invented a new legislative trick of slipping unrelated provisions into a bill.
So far, attempts by advocates to change the legislation have not been fruitful, according to Pryor.
That’s democracy in action.
If SpaceX gets ownership of that park, they’ll be able to scorch all the precious endangered turtles and crabs with imp[unity.
Sounds delicious!
“Texas grandfather was wrongly ID’d as Sunglass Hut robber by facial recognition technology and GANG-RAPED after being jailed for crime that took place while he was in California, lawsuit claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13007297/texas-man-sues-sunglass-hut-facial-recognition-wrongly-identified.html
That’s a lot of wrong in one headline.
The article made e sick. Horrible.
I love how they had to tie Trump in to it.
“Vince McMahon at the center of new bombshell sex trafficking accusations – as former WWE staffer he ‘paid to keep quiet’ alleges he ‘DEFECATED on her head during a threesome’ and ‘forcefully used sex toys on her that he had named after his WRESTLERS’
WWE boss Vince McMahon has been accused of sex trafficking in a new lawsuit filed by a former employee, who claims the 78-year-old billionaire defecated on her head during a threesome.
Janel Grant, who previously agreed to a $3 million settlement in exchange for signing a nondisclosure agreement in 2022, has filed a new lawsuit against McMahon, the WWE and a former executive. In that filing, obtained by DailyMail.com, Grant claims McMahon stopped making payments after the initial $1 million installment, and she now seeks to void that agreement.
Furthermore, Grant claims she suffered bruising and bleeding after McMahon forcefully penetrated her with sex toys, which he named after his wrestlers. She also alleges that McMahon and another WWE executive locked her in a room at the WWE’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters in June of 2021 and took turns sexually assaulting during the work day. The married McMahon is additionally accused of trafficking Grant to other men and sharing nude photographs of the plaintiff.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/wwe/article-13007017/Vince-McMahon-WWE-sex-trafficking-lawsuit.html
What’s a little defecation between friends?
She identified as German?
Its just a commercial foe some IBS drug.
Just a fecal transplant.
Wow. I guess I’m just not ready to party with the A-listers.
“This rape dungeon threesome is getting boring. Need to kick it up a gear. Wait, I know.”
sex toys, which he named after his wrestlers
I call this one ‘Andre the Giant’
Watch out for the Sheepherders !
+2 Bushwhackers
“In a live interview with Cooper on CNN in 2019 Carroll said she thought ‘most people see rape as being sexy.’
Cooper was questioning her about the incident and she said: “I was not thrown on the ground and ravished.
“The word rape carries so many sexual connotations… this was not sexual.”
Cooper, appearing taken aback, said: “I think most people think of rape as a violent assault. It is not sexy.”
“I think most people see rape as being sexy,” Carroll responded. ‘Think of the fantasies.’
Cooper then went to a commercial break. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13006091/donald-trump-jean-carroll-court-rape-anderson-cooper.html
WTF??
She’s actually correct. It’s the most common type of sexual fantasy.
And rape is often just an act of violence in reality .
Lifetime built a whole channel around it.
*Marches up to Last American Hero
*Pins medal on chest
*Music swells
/tries to hunt for the scene from Choke
/fails
It’s more of a power thing, the sexual aspect is mostly ancillary.
TOTALLY NOT AN ORBITING DEATH BEAM
Hmmmm… yes, yes…
There is a ray of hope,
whooop, there it is.
It’s gonna be a bright, sunshiny day…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cAWgTPiwM
Looks like AdBlock’s update defeated YouTube’s shenanigans (for now)
Adblock fessed up and said it was a bug on their end.
“TOTALLY NOT AN ORBITING DEATH BEAM:”
The Nick Carter books (a James Bond knock-off) did it in the 80s.
Solar Menace
Scott of Vermont is the only Republican governor not backing Texas.
How did a Republican get elected in VT?
He’s squishy.
I’m assuming he is similar to Chris Christie in shittiness.
He’s a “moderate”. Kinda like Baker (former governor of MA) and Hogan (former governor of MD) both of whom are Republicans.
Just think Romney minus the testosterone.
Whoa.
That’s way better than my description.
Might be wise. I think Texas shall be made an example. Biden has been hating us for years.
NH write-in vote breakdowns released
The New Hampshire secretary of state has released a list of names who received the most write-in votes in Tuesday’s primary election.
On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden was written in on 77,061 ballots, by far the largest tally. He’s the first candidate to win an election through the write-in process since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.
Other top write-ins for Democratic ballots were Nikki Haley at 4,695, Donald Trump at 2,055 and “Ceasefire” at 1,497.
“Ceasefire” was written in through a write-in campaign focused on spreading awareness about the desire for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Other names receiving write-in votes on the Democratic ballot include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (435), Bernie Sanders (123), Chris Christie (42), Ron DeSantis (33) and Vivek Ramaswamy (2).
“Michelle Obama’s penis (138)”
I’m impressed that 2 people knew how to spell Ramaswamy.
Now say it five times fast.
Not a huge fan, but I’d still rather have him appear than Beetlejuice.
You know they are remaking BeetleJiuce? I thought about talking about it tonight.
Could they please do it without the title character? I’d have enjoyed the original much more if they’d left him out.
Amen.
Disclaimer: I MIGHT make an exception if they make it a vehicle for Ryan Reynolds.
No.
https://movieweb.com/beetlejuice-2-michael-keaton-no-burning-desire-reprise-titular-role/
AYFKM?
Hard pass.
Won’t watch, I’m holding out for the Porky’s remake.
That was remade in 2009, as a shit film in order to hang on to the rights. Expect a full remake soon with transmen in rainbow wigs. I donlt think I have ever seen “Porky’s Pimpin’ Pee Wee.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1346302/
Careful what you wish for. With today’s Hollywood they’ll be spying on the women’s locker room and it will be a bunch of chicks with dicks. Unless that’s your thing. I won’t judge.
+1 Beulah Ballbricker
Speaking of remakes, I’ve heard Roadhouse with Jake Gyllenhaal is up next.
No, Just NO.
Here it is.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3359350/
That guy has an uncanny talent for picking vehicles I have zero interest in watching.
I guess Donnie Darko was a fluke.
I have been retreating into old films. I have been unable to find many new ones that interest me, even from the past decade.
It’s really fucking arrogant and stupid for a bunch of white fucks from New Hampshire to think what they desire in Palestine/Israel matters. But these are white progs, so that’s kind of their thing.
Top.
Firsters.
For tonight’s movie, I failed to correct an issue. Linda Lovelace was in Deep Throat, not Behind the Green Door. I never fixed it, so I will commit seppuku later, after I finish this martini. Don’t know how I messed that one up.
Actually, yes, I know how. I have been working too much and a crappy job I need to quit.
Marilyn Chambers was in Green Door
Yes. I know that. Didn’t help when I was quickly writing it up. I failed.
#Neph? Anyone out there? I can fix it in the next hour.
Thank you Neph!
We live in a world where the combo of Rich McCay and Raheem Morris beat out Bill Belichick.
Rich people are not smarter than the rest of us.
+1 for mediocre black guys, though.
Some of them do seem like they managed to fall bass ackwards into money, no doubt.
I view the entire thing as transparent nepotism. McCay is the epitome of the good’ol boy network at work. He’s just buds with the owner while contributing nothing of real value.
Raheem Morris is his mediocre black shield. The guy he hired so he’ll never have to answer questions about why they didn’t pick Belichick because the media would never criticize them for hiring a black guy. Raheem Morris is just happy to be there.
In a season or two, they’ll fire Morris and bring in another mediocre white coach who will also be no threat to McCay.
We may be seeing the end of Belichick’s career here if he’s not hired. Madness to me. If I’m the Bills, that’s the one guy I pull the trigger for. I fire McDermott and bring in BB and call it a day.
I… can’t disagree.
BB might have another SB left in him. McDermott… I dunno.
Every time your bitch burp you smell my balls in the air.
When you fart, the entire world has to smell the residue leftover from the homeless hobo you let rawdog you in the bushes on the side of the freeway.
You still give HJs to truckers behind the Waffle House dumpster like your mom did- just so she could afford the Aldi’s cereal you had as pablum growing up.
$5/load.
You have a sign on the freeway advertising your ass as a rest stop. What do truckers need my mom for?
I just got a text from the Nikki Haley campaign asking me to support her in her fight against Donald Trump.
Text back and ask her what she’s wearing? 😄
Excellent suggestion! I already deleted it though. I am a thoughtless cad the past few weeks.
I love you.
🙂
Speaking of, tonight’s movie is Linda Lovelace for President. The big question is, who would win? Linda or Nikki?