242 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    Donald Trump Set to Deal Nikki Haley Campaign Knockout Blow as Super Tuesday Kicks Off

    I bet 50 bucks on Nikki!

    • SDF-7

      …. to do what, exactly?

      Stay in the race regardless hoping to either keep the grift money coming from the Never Trumpers or that the endless lawfare will somehow take out Trump and she’ll be the only one with delegates at the convention? Yeah — I think your money is safe with those.

      Anything else and I’m rather wondering just what you’re betting on.

      • AlexinCT

        She said she would fight for every inch the other day…

        I am trying to think what the name of this movie should be as Nikki forces her self down on every inch of it…

      • SDF-7

        Oh great — tomorrow we’re going to have Nikki, Hillary and Jean-Pierre… and the Angry Inch or some such now.

      • Shpip

        STEVE SMITH force every inch into Nikki Sikhs… and by force every inch mean…

      • Suthenboy

        That is not even a euphemism

      • STEVE SMITH

        STEVE SMITH WORK WITH WHAT STEVE SMITH GET.

      • Strange Brew

        I’ve got a lucky seven for her if she’s interested.

      • Rat on a train

        Nikki does DC?

      • AlexinCT

        More like Nikki does the entire DNC…

      • PieInTheSky

        to do what, exactly? – this is the exact sort of thing that, in the zeitgeist of the 2020s, should lead to an onlyfans

      • Sean

        I don’t. She’s a fucking loser.

      • Tonio

        Expect her to pick up a lot of delegates in Virginia since we’re an open primary state. I’m sure lots of Dems will show up to vote for her, particularly since Biden has no serious competition.

      • R.J.

        I was about to ask if there is a list of all the open primary states. Kind of pointless, since today is the day. I will be able to tell which states have open primaries based on the voting patterns.

      • R.J.

        Tinfoil hat moment: Ronna McDaniel stayed on through today to ensure votes went they way the swamp wanted them to go.

      • juris imprudent

        from the Never Trumpers or that the endless

        Embrace the power of and.

      • UnCivilServant

        I find it fascinating that the vernacular or is not a logical OR, but a logical XOR, while a vernacular and is a logical AND.

      • Rat on a train

        We have the awkward “and/or” for logical OR.

      • Not Adahn

        Maybe ’cause logicians wanted to demonstrate their smarterthinkfullness over normal people?

  2. SDF-7

    Morning, Banjos — I didn’t realize y’all drove by Animal when he was coming back from CPAC… (or was that Tonio? 😉 )

    • AlexinCT

      BURN?

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

        If it was Swiss, it would be Bern!

  3. PieInTheSky

    Congress debates spending bill with 605 pages of earmarks before Friday shutdown deadline

    those are rookie numbers.

    • AlexinCT

      Omnibus spending. It is how we steal real money from the tax payers!

      • UnCivilServant

        I still say any and all bills should be required to be read aloud in their entirety including any elements of existing law being modified before a vote can be held.

        Any change in the text of the bill triggers an new read from the start.

      • AlexinCT

        How the fuck will they then hide their pork and steal as much as possible from the tax fleeced masses they love to rip off, huh?

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, that reminds me – Any legislator who isn’t there for the entire read doesn’t get to vote, and if the number drops below a quorum, they have to start to read over or just ditch the bill.

      • Ownbestenemy

        While sitting on the wooden horse torture device? Need to encourage brevity

      • UnCivilServant

        Leave your fetishes out of this.

      • AlexinCT

        Don’t kink shame, brah…

      • Not Adahn

        YKINMKBYKIOK

      • The Other Kevin

        Elon Musk is planning on using his AI to analyze those spending bills. That should be fun.

      • R.J.

        I can’t wait. Should be fabulous.

      • Suthenboy

        I hadn’t thought of that. Talk about sinking their party boat…

  4. Rat on a train

    Biden to Launch Joint FTC-DOJ Task Force to Crack Down on “Unfair and Illegal Pricing”
    SCOTUS hasn’t blocked all lawfare.

    • Nephilium

      So… they’re going to go after the stores in the inner cities that have to charge more to cover additional loss, security, and the like? Or is this just a more basic grift to get forced settlements contributions to “unaffiliated” NGO’s to fix the problem?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Shakedown akin to Tiffany Mayor Henyard…play ball or watch the full brunt of the leviathan crush you.

      • R.J.

        Basic attempt to shift blame, for voters who aren’t smart enough to figure out the truth. “Businesses Bad!” is a great scapegoat.

    • Ownbestenemy

      President Biden is fed up with corporate practices that unfairly raise costs for consumers and he’s taking action.

      Now do government practices and taxes, fees, regulatory fees, licensing…Okay back to the real world.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Those costs are representative of the will of the people and are for the people and as such are a good thing.

  5. Shpip

    The congresswoman, who has been called antisemitic for her comments on the crisis in the Middle East demonizing the Jewish state, told the protesters “I need you to understand that this is not okay.”

    It’s not my ox that’s supposed to get gored!

    • Nephilium

      Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.

      • Sean

        Agreed.

      • juris imprudent

        It is okay you stupid little bitch. Enjoy being on the receiving end of leftie stupidity for a change.

      • R.J.

        Buying a protest sign at Target: $10
        Dry cleaning for white pants stained with fake blood: $15
        Realizing the friends you protested with are morons: Priceless.

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

        Assumes thinking.

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

        While she is an ass like an ox, she doesn’t have an ass like an ox.

    • Not Adahn

      Wait, why is she giving money and support to the Alamo Drafthouse? Doesn’t she know that Texas is a racist anti-LGBTIQQ2S+ hellscape where asylum seekers are murdered on sawblade buoys?

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

        Progfail.

  6. AlexinCT

    Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Be Removed From Colorado Ballot

    And the Empire immediately struck back saying the SCOTUS should be ignored or banned. of all things to save democracy. Because nothing says democracy than the corruptocracy making sure that you can only pick approved candidates.

      • Ownbestenemy

        As mentioned in the dedthread..it won’t go anywhere. Johnson could whip up votes to ensure its demise, but it won’t see the floor for a vote. It is the very definition of a bill of attainder.

      • AlexinCT

        Oh, I know this is just a stunt, but it is also a spoiled child in a store letting you know they have just begun to act up, and there is a lot more to come, so it is inevitable that you will eventually cave and buy them that candy they want.

      • R C Dean

        Aside from the parliamentary tools the House majority can use to keep it from coming to a vote, who is willing to bet that the Dems couldn’t get a majority to vote for it? Every Dem would, and there wouldn’t be any aisle-crossers from the Repub side?

        Now, you probably couldn’t get it past cloture in the Senate, but that, too, is a parliamentary tool that the Senate majority can work around, if they want to bad enough. As they have done in the past.

        Now, Ol’ Joe is so unpopular that I doubt they’ll try that hard to save his wrinkly ass. But the Dems are also, of course, working to replace him. Would they try hard enough for whoever they come up with as the new nominee? I’m not willing to rule it out.

      • Cunctator

        —“Raskin suggested the bill would be paired with a resolution declaring Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and that those involved “engaged in insurrection.”—

        I don’t think it works that way. Or, does Raskin think that the Legislative Branch can just declare certain people are criminals with no right to a trial? Nevermind, I know the answer.

      • UnCivilServant

        Isn’t there a catchy name for declaring someone guilty? Bill of… Bill of Attainder?

      • WTF

        Like the constitution means anything at this point.

      • juris imprudent

        About as meaningful as democracy.

      • Not Adahn

        Democracy has a very set definition — rule by Democrats. It’s in the name!

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

        The tête-à-tête resulting from that would be epic. Every Republican would be out for blood at that point, as it would be a blatant disregarding of SCOTUS and about as anti-democracy as it would get. Mostly it is just D’s venting right now, trying not to drown in their own tears.

    • juris imprudent

      Keith Olbermann is the mouthpiece of the Empire?

      • AlexinCT

        Willing or unwilling, he is one of the many voices of the cabal that believes they need to take, expand, and keep power because it is the one means to whatever end goal they have…

        You continue to act as if this is coordinated and thus a conspiracy when we point out that there is no need to have some cabal of order givers because the machine has conditioned all the morons to lemming their way off the cliff without the need for that. As with all things marxist, the useful idiots start by uniting to fighting the opposition regardless of divergent goals, then after they defeat their opposition turn on each other.

        Here is a great read about the people trapped in that mindset

        This author at least took the red pill and then realized she was the bad guy.

      • SDF-7

        According to him, he must be the urethra.

      • AlexinCT

        More like the sphincter…

      • bacon-magic

        When Swissy gets here urine trouble.

      • juris imprudent

        Swiss seems to be going with the flow more of the time.

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

        He just wants to get a piss of the action, get back in the game.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        Wrong orifice, but yes he is channeling their thoughts

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

        “Keith Olbermann is the mouthpiece of the Empire?”

        Darth Vapors.

  7. SDF-7

    Sen. John Thune Announces Retirement, Ending Speculation He Was Vying to Replace McConnell as Minority Leader

    Did they edit that article on you, Banjos? Because it says the complete opposite — that he’s formally announced he’s going to be taking the shot for the leadership after the Turtle retreats into his shell for the last time and is thrown across the Potomac into the sunset.

    Given my reaction is “Who?”… more power to him, I guess. The odds that Rand would get it are too small to even consider, much as I’d like him to hold some real power to get things done.
    Stuck in a state where lying weasel Schiff is a strong possibility (and which answers the question… who would be worse than a post-stroke DiFi), nothing I think really matters when it comes to the Senate anyway.

    • dbleagle

      We the sufferers of Hirono can only wish we had a moral and mental giant like Schiff as our Senator.

  8. Shpip

    Even under the revised version of Pennsylvania’s rule, an attorney could violate it by offering evidence on behalf of a client that “the LGBT lifestyle is unhealthy and/or immoral” or “the transgender lifestyle may be harmful to children,” according to the foundation.

    If you can’t muzzle the proles due to that pesky First Amendment, you can at least muzzle their professional advocates so that said proles have no recourse in a court of law.

    • SDF-7

      True diversity is forcing adherence to groupthink, comrades!

  9. SDF-7

    How the Government Used “Track F” to Fund Censorship Tools

    All together now… “…. and nothing else happened.”

    The lack of accountability for things that would have had prior generations warming the tar for the feathers, fetching the ropes — or at the damned least actually prosecuting these assholes is one of the most depressing aspects of modern society.

  10. AlexinCT

    Russia Hoax Lawyer Marc Elias Accidentally Admits Trump Can’t Get An Impartial Jury In D.C. Trial

    But was it accidental? A slip of the tongue? A Freudian slip? Because Elias sure as fuck sounded like he was very smugly making sure the watchers of that shitshow knew that the D.C. court system was a DNC bitch and would do his will.

    That trope that villains spend all that time telling you their evil plans and thus let the hero find time to escape and foil it is not just some plot device. evil seems to be obsessed with making sure people know how powerful/invested and thus smarter than everyone else, it is when it is doing it’s evil.

    • WTF

      In a reasonable society that would be grounds for a change of venue.

      • juris imprudent

        We ceased being a reasonable society quite some time ago.

  11. SDF-7

    Biden to Launch Joint FTC-DOJ Task Force to Crack Down on “Unfair and Illegal Pricing” Biden to continue to flail around looking relevant when it comes to economic conditions his stupid policies caused…

    • AlexinCT

      The marxist idiot’s second favorite go-to (the first is the gulags and firing squads): Price controls…

      Have we not seen how this fucking works every time it was done? And by works I mean it results in scarcity and eventually deprivation.

      • Suthenboy

        “…an attorney could violate it by offering evidence…”
        For people that claim to hate Nazis they sure behave like Nazis. One would almost think they are lying and projecting.

      • AlexinCT

        If you told them they behaved like Nazis they would immediately retort that they are no Nazis (no true Scotsman), because when Nazis do what they are doing it is evil, but they are marxists, and thus what they are doing is noble….

    • SDF-7

      Well, that attempt to combine em and del tags obviously didn’t work… hopefully y’all get the idea.

  12. cavalier973

    In issuing the original stay, Ezra argued that the law would permit the Lone Star State to “permanently supersede federal directives,” amounting to “nullification of federal law and authority — a notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War.”

    Texas is trying to enforce Federal Law, while the FedGov is trying to ignore it.

    • juris imprudent

      You may never contradict federal authority when Team Blue is in charge. Federalism only kicks in when Team Red is at the helm.

  13. AlexinCT

    Lawyer speech codes enforce ‘rigid ideological orthodoxy,’ chill ‘unpopular views,’ SCOTUS told

    Why would popular or bland & boring speech need to have protection quantified? I mean the only reason you would say something is protected is cause there will be a lot of people that will not like something that is said that need to be reminded their ire shouldn’t be acted out on.

  14. Fatty Bolger

    President Joe Biden will launch a new strike force jointly led by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, to tackle “unfair and illegal” corporate pricing, which he blames for consumers’ continued high costs of living.

    The FTC and DOJ have been among the central enforcers of Biden’s regulatory agenda over the past three years.

    I’m sure that will work out just as well as it has for every socialist country that has tried it.

    • juris imprudent

      Or Nixon’s own wage and price controls.

    • Suthenboy

      Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.

      *Remembers Chavez warehousing vast stores of food to let it rot while Venezuelans suffered near famine levels of food shortages*

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

      This Time It Will Work! We Care A Lot!

  15. Ownbestenemy

    The most American political story ever.

      • Unreconstructed

        As if it wasn’t obvious that the No Labels crew is hardcore establishment uniparty sorts, I saw a TV ad from them last night asking people to call the Speaker of the House to get bills supporting Israel and Ukraine on the House floor for a vote. I then had to explain to my girlfriend what I meant when I called them “uniparty statist fucks”.

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

        One of the things I have always rolled my eyes at, and probably shouldn’t have, is the “Republicans moved so far right” followed by “both parties are moving to the extreme” bs, No, you idiots, the voters (which isn’t everyone, but just the people who bother to show up) have pretty serious disagreements, and are voting their conscience, If you don’t like that, stop pushing shit that violates people morals, and if you don’t want “extremes” get more people to vote From Both Sides!

    • AlexinCT

      Very stalkerish…

    • SDF-7

      BOOOOOO! 😉

    • Suthenboy

      Yeeeeah….A lot of Low-T going on there.
      That is worse than being genuinely Rick-rolled.

  16. Stinky Wizzleteats

    -Marc Elias Admits Trump Can’t Get An Impartial Jury In D.C.
    He’s not accidentally admitting anything, he’s gloating over a known fact and is taking the good old what the fuck are you gonna do about it tack.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s apparent that these shitheads have the kind of reckless hubris that’s built on a foundation of getting away with similar nonsense for years. As for their stupidity and they are stupid, that’s a blessing.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So this satisfies the judge’s question that if Bradley was lying on the stand, how does he know that he wasn’t lying in the text messages to Merchant. He perjured himself for people he initially dished all the dirt on only to be openly threatened in court with a sexual harassment claim and then did a 180 and lost his memory.

      Many commentors that aren’t partisan hacks see this as much more than Trump.

      • AlexinCT

        You mean shit like this?

        I mean, in keeping with their SOP of always accusing their enemy of doing what they are doing, do people now understand why these fucks keep telling us Trump will be a totalitarian/authoritarian/Nazi?

  17. PieInTheSky

    Australonuphis, commonly called Australian beach worms, can grow more than two meters in length. They are blind but have a very good sense of smell, and eat decaying meat, fish and seaweeds that have washed to shore

    https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1764923804067971395

    Nature’s pasta.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I wonder if anyone’s ever passed out after too many Fosters and woken up with those things gnawing on him. Yuck.

      • AlexinCT

        Says they like rotting fish…..

      • PieInTheSky

        gnawing on her?

  18. SDF-7

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  19. PieInTheSky

    Norway is a shining example of how an economy can thrive with a comparatively large percentage of state-owned enterprises so long as it bats 1.000 on every other institutional arrangement and has over a trillion dollars in oil money

    https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1764785482716647724

    they could thrive a lot more though…

    • AlexinCT

      Look, we are not failing badly!

      YET???

    • Urthona

      The entire country of Norway is also less than half of the population of the metro area of the city in Texas I currently live in.

      I imagine tiny high trust countries have much better governments.

      • PieInTheSky

        I think without the oil their government would not look as good. Outside the oil fish and shipping can the country do anything at a high level?

      • Urthona

        no doubt this too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Homogeneous society overall doesn’t hurt either.

      • PieInTheSky

        doesn’t hurt but does not guarantee success either.

      • PieInTheSky

        Albania is homogeneous.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah, estimates have put Norway at 75% culturally homogeneous. That inertia is pretty hard to beat and probably why the EU loves dumping its migrants in the North and why they are trying to reverse course.

      • PieInTheSky

        in what way is culturally homogeneous measured and why is Norway more than Albania?

      • PieInTheSky

        I would say most small European and Asian countries Romania included are fairly culturally homogeneous.

      • UnCivilServant

        Albania is 59% muslim, and 41% not.

        That’s a big cultural divide, and close enough to guarantee violence.

      • PieInTheSky

        I doubt the violence in albania is religious. And the economy has little to do with the religion. There are quite other cultural aspects involved. Corruption crime etc, which are fairly endemic in other countries like say Bulgaria which is mostly christian or not religious. Or say Moldova or Romania ot Armenia. Homogenous does not always mean succesful.

      • UnCivilServant

        Those Southeast European countries appear to have a common other ailment of having been on the wrong side of the Iron curtain.

        Communism takes a while to recover from.

        I’m not arguing that homogeneity == propserity, but it does help.

      • PieInTheSky

        Well that is what i said

      • Seguin

        As is Lesotho (99.7% Basotho). And Glasgow (88.4% white). And probably large swathes of West Virginia.

      • Seguin

        I think it’s neutral. The most successful and free countries in the world in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were trade entrepots which were markedly less homogenous than the areas around them.

      • rhywun

        Imagine the left not deliberately turning the U.S. into a low-trust society. The people who spend their careers telling the rest of the world how shitty is here would have take back some words.

    • juris imprudent

      It is like the conditions of the American Revolution – it seems to be something that is basically a fluke and cannot be recreated.

    • PieInTheSky

      how are the weegie americans doing socio-economically?

    • AlexinCT

      There is nothing the marxists hate more than those that will not bend the knee…

    • UnCivilServant

      It doesn’t look like the elephant’s weight is solidly on the table.

    • PieInTheSky

      you could consider loosing some weight.

      • Sean

        Bazinga

      • Not Adahn

        I’m working on it. I motivate myself by having a nice dinner every time I lose 10#.

      • PieInTheSky

        DO you want to buy a good weight loss program? 30 pounds in a month guaranteed. Just 3999.99$

    • R.J.

      Chris Christie is looking better than last time I saw him.

  20. PieInTheSky

    Police have failed to solve a single burglary in nearly half of all neighbourhoods in England and Wales in the past three years despite pledging to attend the scene of every domestic break-in to boost detection rates.

    A Telegraph analysis of police data shows that no burglaries were solved in 48 per cent of neighbourhoods – areas covering between 1,000 and 3,000 people – in the past three years.

    In October 2022, all 43 police chiefs in England and Wales made the landmark promise to attend every break-in.

    Home Office figures show that the proportion of burglaries resulting in a charge fell in the following year to 3.9 per cent (fewer than one in 25 reported burglaries) from 4.6 per cent in 2022.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/03/police-fail-to-solve-single-burglary-in-half-of-country/

    I feel this article is misguided. Cops are not superhuman. They have limited time and resources and they need to prioritize those to hailing people who put mean stickers on the street (even if the stickers break no law, but then it helps if the judge thinks you are a meanie) or make transphobic tweets.

    • UnCivilServant

      Their intersectionality scores are through the roof!

    • AlexinCT

      Why would the anyone bother to try to solve any crimes that aren’t then going to result in prosecution and real punishment for the crooks? I wouldn’t bother.

    • Urthona

      Also people aren’t allowed to have guns or defend their property.

      Burglaries are relatively low here because it’s a high risk low reward crime.

      • AlexinCT

        Wait a fucking second here…

        You saying if your ass might end up shot you might not do bad shit?

  21. Sensei

    The commission also recommends new tax deductions for coaching out-of-pocket expenses and course-enrollment fees, including for parent volunteers. Another brainstorm: “A national scholarship program offering grants or low-interest loans to help students pursuing coaching careers.”

    Congress should also let parents deduct youth sports “program fees, the cost of necessary equipment, and funds spent on travel for competition,” the report says, adding that parents should also be allowed to use pre-tax funds in health-savings accounts to pay for “recreational-league signup fees or a dependent child’s sports equipment.”

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tax-deduction-for-little-league-youth-sports-f650c7a7?st=wj7d0jl5dkn0k7i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Ownbestenemy

      Average cost is probably around $250 for equipment and league fees for little league baseball. If something like this actually goes into play expect that to ballon to $1000 with cheery people telling you “It’s okay! You can deduct it!”

      • R C Dean

        The only people that would make any difference for taking the standard deduction, so it won’t make any difference.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve heard too many people use the “tax deductible” as if it means the item is free.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Out job here is done /politicians

      • UnCivilServant

        At best if it even gets factored in, I’d get 30% of that back since it merely counts as a reduction of taxible income.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Parents have already ruined youth sports, the government will finish it off.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The Federal Government*

    • Urthona

      It has. Could affect quite a few sentences.

      • AlexinCT

        What will the recourse be to get compensation from those that abused said sentencing power? And what will be done to make sure this shit doesn’t happen again?

      • Urthona

        Despite actually not having a gun at home (in suburban Texas) everyone in my extended family has always left their doors unlocked and even their keys in their cars for convenience. Without anything ever happening.

        Everyone knows here in Texas this kind of a crime is just not a great idea.

      • Urthona

        whoops. totally wrong thread.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Tis good news.

      The imprisoned rioters who had their sentences enhanced may push for new, lighter sentences if the appeals court ruling stands

      Should all be instantly vaporized..the sentences, not the people.

      • R C Dean

        By the process runs it course in several years, most of them will have served their entire sentence anyway.

      • UnCivilServant

        Clearly, the proper penalty for oversentencing is for the judge and prosecution to be required to serve the excesses consecutively.

      • R C Dean

        Yet another example of why our legal system is broken. The appellate court could have ordered the sentences reduced and anyone who has served the reduced sentence freed.

        But it didn’t. Instead, everybody who the court says should be out, is still in jail, and will stay there while the “process” is slow walked through years of appeals, and then an extended period back at the trial court for resentencing. I would guess two years of appeals, possibly more, and if the decision stands, who knows how long before the resentencing hearing is held, and again how long until the judge re-sentences them.

        Our courts have forgotten that justice delayed is justice denied.

      • UnCivilServant

        There need to be more penalties for the judges and prosecutors.

      • Nephilium

        There’s only one box left at that point.

      • Ownbestenemy

        If Biden were smart, or his team didn’t just have a rabid hatred for half the country, it would be the perfect ‘olive branch’ during the SOTU and announce he has commuted those sentences.

      • juris imprudent

        His own party would lynch him in the capitol.

  22. PieInTheSky

    #OTD in 363 Emperor Julian launches an attack on the Persians. His subsequent death would end the hopes of Roman conservatives fighting the onslaught of Christianisation

    https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1764919293718794497

    • AlexinCT

      In the People’s Republic of CT, they had a bunch of these e-busses a while back. all of them are laid up in the garage needing expensive maintenance and no driver wants to drive them cause they fail constantly.

    • SDF-7

      Even once they get all the parts — I’m sure it is going to take a good bit of work to get the batteries functioning properly again and taking a charge.

      Just a re-volting amount of work, you know.

    • Gender Traitor

      Thanks for helping us keep up on current events.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Ohm, man. These puns are terrible.

  23. Common Tater

    “Republican Jim Jordan adds Eventbrite and GoFundMe to list of financial institutions being investigated for searching ‘MAGA’ and ‘Trump’ in customers’ transactions to look for ‘extremists’ at the urging of the Biden administration after January 6

    Two major crowdfunding sites are being investigated by Republicans as they expand the scope of their probe into how the Biden administration worked with financial institutions to surveil Americans they considered to be ‘extremists.’

    In the aftermath of January 6, Biden administration Treasury Department officials suggested that banks review transactions at sporting and recreational supplies stores like Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops in order to detect customers who might be ‘extremists.’

    In addition, officials also warned banks of ‘extremism’ indicators like the purchase of a religious text, like a Bible, or searches including the terms ‘MAGA’ and ‘TRUMP.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13156761/Eventbrite-GoFundMe-list-financial-MAGA-customers-transactions-extremists.html

    Oh no, not a Bible!

    • whiz

      Dick’s Sporting Goods? No self-respecting extremist shops there any more.

      • rhywun

        Yeah the one we had was replaced soon after I moved here a few months ago and everyone says “they dumbed it down”.

    • Brochettaward

      It’s all of the above: ineffectual, creepy, and authoritarian. Modern progressivism in a nutshell.

    • SDF-7

      Gah! Put some damned pants on there, ladies!

      • AlexinCT

        That’s a lot of ass right there… Do they make pants for that?

      • Not Adahn

        That is some utterly terrible basketball.

    • Gender Traitor

      Is this how the WNBA is trying to increase attendance and viewership?

    • Fourscore

      Does not look like food deserts have hit urban US areas yet. Japanese are homogeneous for the most part, therefore not racist.

    • Seguin

      Someone call Tres, I think we found a franchise he can cheer for.

  24. PieInTheSky

    BBC Newsnight
    @BBCNewsnight
    ·
    Oct 13, 2016
    Three Syrian refugees have been found not guilty of sexual assault by a court in Newcastle. TONIGHT we tell the story of Omar and his family

    Does this story need a sequel

    https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1764994014896406569

    Damn.

    • Brochettaward

      They should ship them back to Syria.

  25. cyto

    On 60 minutes going after SpaceX…. the whole segment is linked in the replies. It is worth a watch. They demonstrate profound ignorance of the subject, portraying the cost of SLS as being because of SpaceX blowing up developmental starship. They proudly proclaim that NASA owned craft are more reliable and cost effective – after bemoaning the $4.5 billion cost of an “Artemis mission” (this was the cost of just SLS/Orion) and completely not understanding that spaceX has a 2.5 billion dollar fixed cost contract to deliver astronauts to the moon.

    So, they got everything wrong. They even claimed RUD was a “spaceX term”.

    I say all of this as a segue…..

    • PieInTheSky

      Journalist are smart and professional peoples

      • cyto

        Meghan Kelly covered this segment and was upset with Moms for Liberty for sending people who are not good at hostile media into this ambush.

        Apparently he asked the same questions over and over again, out of context, waiting for them to try to stay on topic or skip parts of the answer they have already covered. Then he puts that question and answer on and says they avoided his questions.

    • cyto

      To talk about 60 minutes hit piece on Mom’s For Liberty.

      It was a hack job, to be sure. But the internet exists, and they are fighting back with full transcripts. Apparently they were smart enough to record the interview themselves.

      But my real observation is that it is working.

      The wife listens to NBC. They have had then on, and they repeat the talking points in trashing them.

      “This never happens”

      “They are anti-gay”

      “They want to ban books”

      They have created the impression among people who are not familiar with the issues that these are crazy right wing nutcases who make stuff up to demonize gay and trans people. And they are evil MAGA Trump supporters who want to destroy democracy.

      The constant gaslighting works. People who have been primed are resistant to even looking at the books in question. 60 minutes didn’t put any of the examples on air… they just dismissed it as “books written for older teens”.

      So when you tell one of their audience about it, they know that you are wrong before you even speak.

      This is how we get bizarre school boars meetings with pastors reading from books in the elementary or middle school library and getting escorted out for being obscene… and the people in charge can’t see the juxtaposition.

      • Urthona

        And yet the majority of Americans side with the “Moms For Liberty” cause in polls.

      • Brochettaward

        It isn’t that they don’t see the contradiction. It’s that the thrill of exercising power in a contradicting way. It’s the equivalent of taking the normie rubes faces and rubbing it in their own feces.

      • juris imprudent

        “We may not have all the power we want, but that doesn’t mean we can’t abuse what we have!”

      • Common Tater

        ” 60 minutes didn’t put any of the examples on air”

        They can’t. Same reason they can’t be posted on Facebook or IG. Because they don’t allow porn on broadcast TV.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Joe Biden will go down in history as one of America’s great economic minds.

    • Fourscore

      Tom Sowell and Walter Williams weep.

    • The Other Kevin

      She’ll end up in some “think tank” that coincidentally also employs several former heads of the CIA.

      • Drake

        Maybe. That’s her husband’s gig. Robert Kagan – granddaddy of the neo-con cult.

    • AlexinCT

      She get tired of living the lies?

      • SDF-7

        Nikki needs a Veep candidate.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Don’t worry about that wonderful lady, she’ll do just fine.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    To talk about 60 minutes hit piece on Mom’s For Liberty.

    I can’t help thinking 60 Minutes is preaching to an extremely small choir, at this point. The people who watched that probably already hate everything they are supposed to hate, and revere everything they are supposed to revere.

    • Urthona

      Yes. I think at this point they are just digging the hole deeper.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    After her crushing defeat of Donald Trump in the District of Columbia, Nikki Haley hits Super Tuesday with the momentum of a runaway freight train.

    • Fourscore

      Stand up material. You can quit your day job, Brooks.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Dizzying

    “The ideas targeted in Florida’s Individual Freedom Act are embraced in some communities, and despised in others,” the ruling said. “By limiting its restrictions to a list of ideas designated as offensive, the Act targets speech based on its content. And by barring only speech that endorses any of those ideas, it penalizes certain viewpoints – the greatest First Amendment sin.”

    CNN has reached out to DeSantis’ office for comment.

    “Speech codes have no place in American society, and elected officials have no business censoring the speech of business owners simply because they don’t agree with what’s being expressed,” said Shalini Goel Agarwal, counsel for Protect Democracy, which represents businesses who filed a lawsuit challenging the law.

    The challenge was brought by two Florida-based employers who wanted to require diversity and inclusion training for staff and a consultant.

    Speech codes and enforced belief are bad. You must allow these plaintiffs to impose a speech code and tell their employees what to believe.

    And what about employees who tell the DEI indoctrinators to get fucked? Are they protected by the First Amendment, or are they out on their ear?

    • R C Dean

      Oh, so now corporations have free speech rights again? I swear I was told they don’t, and then they do, and then they don’t, and now I guess they do again?

      Now do mandatory labeling and mandatory disclosures. And don’t forget the goodthink prohibitions on signs like “No Irish Need Apply”.

      • Nephilium

        While delaying an Ohio law putting regulations in place on social media (minors under 16 would not be able to open an account with their parent’s approval), there was this ruling. The part that really stands out to me is this section:

        NetChoice also argues that the Act merits strict scrutiny because it infringes on minors’ rights to both access and produce First Amendment protected speech. Generally, First Amendment protections “are no less applicable when government seeks to control the flow of information to minors.” Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville, 422 U.S. 205, 214 (1975). In other words, the State does not possess “a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed.” Brown, 564 U.S. at 794.

        (emphasis mine)

        There’s a right to access First Amendment protected speech? I’m pretty sure RIAA, MPAA, and the software companies have some thoughts on that.

    • Fatty Bolger

      That part of the law was on very shaky ground, and I have no problem with it being struck down.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I agree.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    The appeals court agreed, saying, “Even if we presumed that the Act served the interest of combating discrimination in some way, its breadth and scope would doom it. Banning speech on a wide variety of political topics is bad; banning speech on a wide variety of political viewpoints is worse.”

    So I can require my employees to assemble in the common room every morning to learn and celebrate the principles of National Socialism?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Off the rails

    A California man was arrested and charged for allegedly smuggling greenhouse gases into the United States from Mexico and selling them for profit, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

    Michael Hart, of San Diego, is accused of purchasing refrigerants in Mexico and bringing them into the U.S. in his vehicle, where they were hidden under a tarp and tools, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday. He allegedly posted the fluids for sale on OfferUp, Facebook Marketplace and other websites, Justice Department (DOJ) prosecutors added.

    Hart’s indictment marks the first prosecution in the U.S. that includes charges related to the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act of 2020, which prohibits the importation of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) without permission from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

    HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases that drive climate change and are typically used in refrigeration, insulation, air-conditioners, aerosols, and fire extinguishing systems, per prosecutors, citing the EPA. They are used to replace ozone-depleting substances, the production and importation of which the U.S. is trying to phase out.

    More lethal than Zyklon B.

    I will leave the Taco Bell jokes to the audience.

    • WTF

      HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases that drive climate change

      Well there’s an assertion without evidence.
      And I guess the ‘logic’ is that if they are used in some country other than the US it somehow won’t cause ‘climate change’?

      • Nephilium

        High fructose corn syrup is really powerful if it can do that!

    • Fatty Bolger

      FCs are powerful greenhouse gases that drive climate change

      No, they’re powerful rent seeking devices that drive profits at certain companies who have paid a lot of money for protection from competition.

    • The Other Kevin

      “They are used to replace ozone-depleting substances, the production and importation of which the U.S. is trying to phase out.”
      So the government bans something, then the replacement turns out to be worse so they phase that out. Did I get that right?

      • Nephilium

        “Shut up,” they explained.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Right after the patent expires.

      • Tres Cool

        In the mid 1990s, when we’d test for aldehydes we used DNPH (dinitrophenylhydrazine) as a collection media. It was placed in impingers the sample gas bubbled through.
        Nasty stuff, specially since it was in a solution of HCl. Someone realized that the potential adverse health effects of handling the sample medium were higher than the pollutant itself.
        Now we just collect formaldehyde in…..water.

        Except in California. CARB still insists on using that archaic method.

        https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/classic/testmeth/vol3/m_430.pdf

      • Ownbestenemy

        All based on one of the first green lies…the ozone layer.

    • Sean

      The same state that allows free shoplifting up to $1k?

      • cavalier973

        “Shoplifting reduces profits, so it helps the environment.”

        ~proggy froggy

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, so now corporations have free speech rights again?

    That depends entirely on what they say.

    • AlexinCT

      Isn’t this a slap against diversity? I mean this shit is cultural to some,,,,,

      Heh.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Subscriptions were (probably not) cancelled


    The New York Times is facing a sustained wave of backlash.

    The Gray Lady has for several weeks been in the crosshairs of a vocal set of critics and readers who believe that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to American democracy and that the influential news organization isn’t adequately conveying those stakes to the public.

    Criticism of The Times is nothing new, but as it appears with each passing day that Trump has a real shot of recapturing the White House, the expressions of disapproval have become particularly pronounced.

    In the view of its critics, The Times has been far too distracted as of late by worries over President Joe Biden’s age, allowing it to steal attention away from the larger and far more serious danger posed by a second Trump administration. Critics have also argued that The Times covers Biden and Trump with disproportionate standards, placing false equivalence on issues surrounding the current president to those of the former president, who is facing 91 criminal counts and fantasized about being a dictator on “day one.”

    The latest salvo in the now weeks-long stream of criticism against The Times burst into view over the weekend when the newspaper published a poll it conducted with Siena College that found a majority of Biden voters believe he is too old to be an effective president. That poll touched off a torrent of angry commentary directed at the outlet, with some readers even declaring on social media that they had decided to cancel their subscriptions.

    Insufficiently hysterical about the Orange Menace, and insufficiently strident in their defense of Biden. What is the world coming to?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Some of the complaints against The Times and other news organizations are certainly valid. It is apparent that the U.S. media is still struggling immensely over how to cover Trump and the ongoing threats to American democracy. Years after Trump ascended to political power and started drowning the political discourse in dangerous lies and conspiracy theories, news executives remain confounded on the most effective approach to combat the deceit. CNN and MSNBC can’t even seem to arrive at a firm policy over how to cover Trump’s live remarks (at times, both networks have boasted about how they don’t air his lie-filled speeches live, and at other times, such as on Monday, they both did just that).

    Get your Two Minutes’ Hate on, dammit! What’s the point of a bully pulpit if you don’t bully the plebs into believing as they ought?

  35. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    LOL all Zuckerberg properties are down

  36. juris imprudent

    Blimey blighty, rambunctious Aussie chick “threatens or harrasses” British cops.

    “I understand that the defence is that she didn’t intend to cause alarm, harassment or distress to the officer, [her behaviour] did not amount to it and it was not racially aggravated,” Judge Judith Elaine Coello was reported to have said to Kerr’s barrister, Grace Forbes, in court.

    Obviously English cops are the world’s biggest pussies.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    “Our commitment to readers is to report on the world as it is, without fear or favor,” the spokesperson said. “Anything less, or advocacy in favor of one candidate, would run directly against the practice of independent journalism.”

    -NYT spokesperson

    How frightfully droll.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Except when we endorse candidates…that doesn’t run directly against the practice of independent journalism.

    • Common Tater

      “non-binary transgender”

      Pick one.