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  1. SDF-7

    Morning, Banjos — thanks for the linking! Morning all!

    Speaker Johnson Faces Ouster Vote This Week

    I doubt he’s worried — the Uniparty majority pretty clearly is cool with him sitting there. He might even pass Biden’s confiscatory budget with his strong “Screw the American taxpayer!” consensus.

    • AlexinCT

      I despise Johnson. But I despise Speaker Hakim Jeffries even more. And if the republicans are dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot at this time, we will get that. Kick him out once we have prevented the deep state from fortifying the election and have not successfully assassinated Trump yet.

      • R.J.

        Therein lies the rub. Johnson will actively fight against any agenda supporting freedom. He will continue to be a traitor to our constitution as those who came before him. Cast him out and lose all hope to finally make progress. Hakim is odious, and he will damage freedom greatly. It must happen for more people to wake up.

    • rhywun

      Mornin’.

    • R C Dean

      Johnson is the very model of a modern major uniparty politician. The Dems may very well keep him as the Speaker. Which will make him, of course, the de facto Dem Speaker.

      And Nothing Else Will Happen.

  2. UnCivilServant

    TikTok’s Parent Company Reportedly Would Rather Shut Down Platform Than Sell to a U.S. Company

    That alone tells you that it’s a weapon rather than a product.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Just do what the US government says and everything will be fine.

      • AlexinCT

        While I would prefer nobody using social media as a weapon, I would be far less willing to tolerate any foreign entity or entities with evil intents less than our own evil entities with evil intents. Just because we can’t ban Facecunte and Google’s evil shit, doesn’t mean we need to stop this Chicomm PsyOps weapon that seems to work real well for the CCP.

    • Vida Hobo

      So much this. The 170 million Americans using the Tockity Tik are the product. So much for 1984 and being hesitant to be seen by it. We’re doing duck lipped selfies with our asses poked out in lulu lemon pants. Part of me would love to see the ‘average American’ they can derive from our constant wave of look at me.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        All of that existed prior to Tik Tok.

      • Vida Hobo

        Agreed that it existed before, this just appears to be more distilled. I guess that could be my cynicism and age showing though. Seems worse.

  3. Fourscore

    I’ve watched Jared Bernstein on TV for several years, he didn’t make sense 10 years ago, I couldn’t understand how he managed to tie his own shoes.

    • EvilSheldon

      Since I don’t watch or read the news, I fully expected Jared Bernstein to be one of these gormless twenty-something dweebs who’ve had their brains’ sucked out by the Yale Public Policy masters program. Seeing him as a reasonably professional-looking fifty-year-old was jarring.

    • The Last American Hero

      Ayn Rand predicted this in Atlas Shrugged.

  4. juris imprudent

    I checked in with a friend in Houston who’s house was devastated by Hurricane Harvey, they’re doing ok. Assume the sloopy/banjos household is likewise fine?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The sun is shining, the birds are chirping

      Presumably.

  5. SDF-7

    White House Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein Struggles With Basic Question on Monetary Policy

    One almost has to wonder if this Greatest Collection of Public Fuckup Incompetency (this guy, KJP, BootieGig, the 5 stars with their brains removed and heads firmly up their asses at the Pentagon, Garland, Mayorkas… the hits keep coming) is the counter-fuck you to the one the voters sent the Imperial District and its ilk. “You think the Elites were lording it over you and didn’t merit it before? Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Hold my chardonnay, Lovey!”

    • juris imprudent

      I’ll remind you that Trump kept that crackpot Navarro around his entire administration. WHEA is more like a court jester position – fart for the laughs.

      • Fourscore

        …and his buddy Wilbur Ross.

      • Fourscore

        …and Lighthizer

    • AlexinCT

      As with all marxist systems, the loyalty to the cause and the leadership guarantees the experts will always be mediocre at best, and horrible practically all the other times, destroying the top downed planned economy requirements as well.

    • R C Dean

      No, this really is the best they can do. Given the system/incentives in place, of course.

  6. SDF-7

    Biden’s “Blue Wall” Is Crumbling Under Weight of Trump’s Comeback

    I would’ve written that as “… Under Weight of His Screwing His Voters With The Economy And Fostering An Invasion” — but that’s my own biases seeping through….

    • The Gunslinger

      Also, Trump ain’t winning Michigan while Big Gretch is in control.

      • The Last American Hero

        No Republican is, especially since the so-called party in that state is convinced that punching yourself in the dick repeatedly is the best way to win a state wide election.

        But if Biden has to spend time and resources shoring up areas that should be gimmes, then perhaps it opens up a gap somewhere else….

        Oh, who am I kidding. Biden beats the Orange man by even bigger margins in 2024, post fortification.

  7. Evan from Evansville

    Kids to cogs:
    21st century, white-collar factory work is predictably interesting. Grading state edu tests remotely, this project is out of Missouri. Serendipitously, I make almost the same as when I worked in Korea, making 2.3 million won/month. (Roughly $2k/mo with apartment, taxes, healthcare included.) My office in my Harry Potter life is the closet in the bedroom. Chill and entertaining.

    I wish everyone cheer and goodwill in all errands and exploits.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Glad you’re getting a glimpse into the lives of us average folk.

      • Evan from Evansville

        *Smirk descends* I’m quite average. *Kicks pebble*

        Wait. Well I like to think I am. It’s truth/reality that I’m not in many ways. (Lucky, cursed, traveled, half-empty.) I don’t even think about half-full/empty. Meaningless ‘indicator.’ There is *a* glass and it has x amount of liquid in it. That’s it. The % isn’t the end-all-be-all. The type of fluid is FAR more important than the amount.

  8. Drake

    Speaker Johnson Faces Ouster Vote This Week

    Somebody somewhere said Johnson looks like a lesbian. I can’t unsee it now and that picture is the worst yet.

    • juris imprudent

      He’s a majority Republican, only unpopular with non-Republicans and Republican backbench bitches. What does anyone really expect?

      • AlexinCT

        The people in power showed him whaht would happen to his loved ones if he didn’t play ball..

      • juris imprudent

        Why do you expect Republicans to act like something they aren’t?

      • Drake

        He really looks like a woman dressed as a man.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nope, he was just lying about his intent the whole time, then cemented his position, then stabbed his constituents in the back.

      • juris imprudent

        So you are saying his constituents are going to turn him out in Nov.? How much money you willing to put up on that?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’m not saying that at all. It’s incredible what loser conservatives are willing to put up with because of the lesser of two evils mentality.

      • juris imprudent

        Then he didn’t actually stab his constituents at all. It’s just the fury of people who have no stake in the party. Sometimes we behave a little too much like progressives.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If he misrepresented himself to get votes, which it appears to me he did, he stabbed them in the back. Just because they’ll probably vote for him again doesn’t mean that’s not the case.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, so people don’t mind being stabbed in the back and continue to support someone who does that to them? What should we call those people?

      • juris imprudent

        The good, common folk of the land? You know, GOP voters.

        Or, perhaps those voters are getting what THEY voted for, and not what WE want. Is that concept really so difficult?

  9. SDF-7

    Colleges kowtow to protesters but are met with blowback from donors

    And understandably so — Free Speech / protest is one thing — but making it so the university can’t function is another. Suspend, Expel and/or Trespass the toddlers (oh… and fire if they’re faculty/staff) so those who actually want to attend classes can do so. I believe Florida, Texas and Georgia were in the news last week doing such things, in fact.

    • Drake

      How are they still happening? All of the college students I know had finals last week and are on their way home. The university near us (Furman) had their graduation on Saturday.

      • AlexinCT

        How are they still happening?

        Because the college administrations and the propagandists masquerading as liberal arts teachers want it…..

        This is what they have been programming their lemmings to do: destroy western culture and especially the US.

      • R.J.

        Also because the remainders are paid to provoke. They are not students. Arrest them and hold without bail.

      • AlexinCT

        Have you not seen that the Soros DAs are already just letting those Antifa scum not at the schools but there to create chaos, walk?

        The fight now is between those that want to destroy anything and everything on the left, and those that use them for political gain.

      • rhywun

        Big College classes are still going here. Commencement is around Memorial Day.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        UCLA’s finals aren’t for another month.

    • Nephilium

      I’d also add trespassing charges for those who aren’t students/staff at the colleges who are protesting/camping.

      • rhywun

        That seems off to me. Since when are college campuses restricted to students or staff?

        Either the camping is an offense by itself or not – punish them for that.

      • Not Adahn

        I honestly don’t know how “officially private, but in practice open to the public” property works legally-wise. Probably the word “curtilage” is involved.

      • AlexinCT

        I have never been on a campus where the university/college doesn’t tell non students they reserve the rights to kick said non-students off their property at will and for no particular reason…

      • Not Adahn

        I went to the local “Big State School,” and never quite did figure out if there was some sort of deal in place between campus PD and the town PD.

      • rhywun

        Perhaps they do but it’s not like there is a sign on the border stating so. And I don’t look it up before I travel through.

      • Nephilium

        I think I’ve seen such signs by fences and gates, but there’s also a vast difference between walking across a campus, and actively blocking people from getting through and bringing camping equipment.

      • kinnath

        There is a difference between public property and public right of way.

      • R C Dean

        I suspect the university grants a license, revocable at will, to the public to come on its property.

        Really, its no different than any place of business. No signage or forms needed.

      • Fourscore

        “All Visitors Report to the Security Desk for Passes”

    • SDF-7

      Sigh… That was meant as a reply to

      TikTok’s Parent Company Reportedly Would Rather Shut Down Platform Than Sell to a U.S. Company

      Some day I’ll check what I put in before hitting Post. Dummy.

    • Not Adahn

      Also, if your husband gets deported and you decide to stay in the country, what does that say about the relevance of your marriage?

    • rhywun

      “4-Minute Listen”

      Pass.

      Half the people they arrested are not students or staff – are they claiming that is false?

      Is NPR lying to us???

      • Not Adahn

        NPR and AP talked to (certain selected) students! The (certain selected) students say they are totally in charge!

        And when Adams says “outside agitators,” he MUST be talking about whatser-IslamicBrotherhoodFace, and SHE was only there a day so obviously that must mean he’s lying!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        No more transcripts?

      • The Last American Hero

        Somebody should tell NPR they are discriminating against the audio-impaired.

  10. Rufus the Monocled

    Attaboy Jared.

    Stupid people. Everywhere.

    • AlexinCT

      MUPPET!

    • Not Adahn

      Don’t you work?

    • Rufus the Monocled

      I work alright.

  11. Certified Public Asshat

    A lot of times, at least to my ear with MMT, the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing but there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to um, uh … I guess I’m just, I can’t really, I don’t get it, I don’t know what they’re talking about. . . . It’s like, the government clearly prints money, it does it all the time, and it clearly borrows, otherwise you wouldn’t be having this debt and deficit conversation. So I don’t think there’s anything confusing there.

    Oh so that’s a real quote.

    • SDF-7

      TL;DR — “The government not only still has checks… they print the checkbook!”

    • DrOtto

      This is why inflation is a mystery to these idiots. Let me guess, this guy studied under Krugnuts?

    • ZWAK will kindle all of the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

      I don’t subscribe anymore, but Criterion had a few Japanese films from the silent era.

      Pretty fun stuff.

    • juris imprudent

      I will enjoy watching them being eaten by their own creation. Unfortunately that will just mean more Republicans elected – and nothing else happening.

      • AlexinCT

        We need a nuclear was to clean things up…

        At this point the US government is nothing more than a crime syndicate or conglomeration of crime syndicates. We are just as bad as the rest of the world.

      • juris imprudent

        Fucking humans I tell ya!

        I mean, you want the same thing as the WEF – massive depopulation, so you can enjoy what you want to enjoy.

      • AlexinCT

        I thought after I paid my dues, if I just stayed out of it, they would leave me alone. They are basically making it obvious I will be rewarded with hell on earth for that stupid assumption. At this point it feels like my choices is backing razed earth results or joining the cult, and that last one ain’t happening.

      • juris imprudent

        The conflict of visions is an ongoing battle.

  12. rhywun

    More trouble for Biden.

    This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which only has itself to blame.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      My ex’s frat. Good for them.

      • Not Adahn

        “Boy Pi Phis.” But good for them.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Yeah, I teased him about that. Good secret-keeper though (in the benign sense).

      • Pope Jimbo

        That is/was my frat! Of course the last letter they sent me, they asked that I not publicly associate with them.

        I was a pretty bad brother. I didn’t pay my dues very often, I never did any of the goofy philanthropy stuff. I just liked the guys in that frat and liked drinking beer with them. I was good at that.

    • AlexinCT

      Why do you think they are so desperate to buy support from liberal art women bamboozled to pay a fortune to be given no real employment skills but to be turned into marxist agitators with college loan forgiveness (notice they NEVER say we should scrap that failing system and replace it with something that prevents these kids from being screwed)? They are losing young men in particular, and that bodes real bad for people that want to make the country a one party state.

      • SDF-7

        I’m not saying I want it to happen — but when your policies consistently piss off the large part (not a majority, but a large part) of the population that is armed AND young men, especially those used to working on infrastructure / getting things done… it really, really doesn’t bode well for you when and if you hit a tipping point.

        The armory and the potential infantry together right there — adding in all the folks who actually keep the power, water and sewage working… yeah, that’s a great plan there.

      • AlexinCT

        Marxist derivatives, and most of the collectivist spinoffs, always fail because they depend on centralized, top down, planning by people that can’t plan their way out of a paper bag because the criteria used to put them there guarantees these people didn’t earn that job through any sort of merit (unless being evil is a form of merit).

      • Pine_Tree

        Well that’s why they’ve been balls-to-the-wall importing a whole new army for themselves in the last few years.

    • R C Dean

      There is no more destructive force in the world than a critical mass of alienated, angry young men.

      • The Other Kevin

        I listen to Scott Adams a few times a week. He called this months ago. Young men (especially white ones) are being told over and over they are the cause of all the problems in the world. Eventually they were going to get sick of it.

  13. AlexinCT

    This shit, is why these scumbags keep claiming crime is down when everyone else has a different experience. If you don’t prosecute crime, and even more importantly, if you don’t report it accurately or at all, you can tell that lie and fool a lot of idiots.

    • rhywun

      FBI stats don’t include NYC or LA either, IIRC. Something about changed methodology and a lot of cities never caught up.

      The whole spiel about lower crime seems to be a ruse. One might wonder if it’s on purpose.

      • AlexinCT

        it’s simple: if you can’t find government stats on shit, the government can claim whatever the fuck it wants. And fake stats, like they do for monthly economic stuff, comes back to bite you…

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep. Just another case of “Who you gonna believe, our bullshit statistics or your lyin’ eyes?”

    • AlexinCT

      Is it OK to call people like this moron the black sheep of the family still? Or is that raciss?

      • R.J.

        It’s white sheep. White is bad now. Gotta keep up.

  14. Pope Jimbo

    Not a great time to be a Minneapolis resident.

    Minneapolis is staring down a money hole, and residents will likely be asked to pay for it through their property taxes next year.

    Downtown real estate is tanking, pandemic funds have dried up and unionized workers are demanding raises to keep up with inflation, creating the kind of fiscal challenge the city hasn’t faced in at least a decade.

    Frey now sees it as almost impossible to stick with his planned property tax levy increase of 6.1% or less. If the city can’t rein in spending, that increase — the total amount of money raised through property taxes — could bust double digits.

    The fundamental problem is how the city will raise enough money to meet the rising cost of its roughly 4,200 full-time employee positions — the largest spending component of the city’s $1.8 billion budget.

    • AlexinCT

      We mismanaged, but you will pay for it…

      Muh Democracy!

      • Pope Jimbo

        To be fair, they are doing better than the school district.

        Maybe you shouldn’t give raises to workers who have seen their customer base shrink by at least 15% if you want to keep control of your budget? Especially when you were already staring at a $110M deficit.

        There is a lot of amusing double-talk about how when they said the union contracts wouldn’t increase the deficit (before getting called out for the lie) they didn’t really mean the union contracts wouldn’t increase the deficit.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Something in that article keeps barfing up Internal Server Error when I try to quote them.

        In a nutshell, after the school district caved to the union and gave the teachers 5% raises, the administration claimed that the contracts would not add to the deficit.

        They were recently called out and asked to show their work. Now they are backpedaling and admitting that teacher pay raises will obviously add to the deficit, but when they gave their previous answer, the numbers weren’t solid so it wasn’t a lie.

      • Fourscore

        Raise prices on the light rail. Why do I have to help the city people figure stuff out?

      • Ted S.

        Electronic pull-tabs.

        Paid for the football stadium, after all.

    • SDF-7

      Two reactions:

      “Gosh… who could have possibly seen this coming…..”

      and

      “Fuck you. Cut spending.”

      Sorry you can’t leech money from the commuting suburbs for your art museum and discussion salons of how terrible the rest of the country anymore there, urban dwellers. And that you’re finding the bill too high to just pay it yourself. Time to cut the fluff and concentrate on only the core services. Given downtown Minneapolis, I’d concentrate on policing to get a stable environment people might actually want to put businesses in and come shop to restart some tax base… but we know damned well that’s not going to happen.

      • rhywun

        Meh, cities stuck with tons of non-taxable property and services that are used by the entire region is a real problem.

        User fees should take care of it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Here we created The Metropolitan Council. Members are appointed and they have the ability to levy taxes for the seven counties in the metro area.

        This has led them to be the Bad Cop who takes on the Big Projects (light rail) that squanders billions of dollars. Local pols can claim that they didn’t want those taxes but what can you do?

      • AlexinCT

        Just like the US congress has done with the various unelected and unaccountable government bureaucracies and 3 letter agencies……

        Anyone still oblivious to the pattern is the problem.

        Nuke it all from orbit!

    • juris imprudent

      If the city can’t rein in spending

      Oh, so they do understand that is an option. As opposed to increased spending being an immutable property.

    • Rat on a train

      State and federal bailouts are needed along with regional tax authority. It’s time suburbs paid their fair share for all that cities have to offer their residents.

  15. Drake

    Time for another Color Revolution in Georgia (the country)? Maybe a new war with Russia?

    These people are being paid to protest a foreign agent bill that would force NGO’s and politicians to reveal foreign money sources. Seems like a crazy thing to protest, unless the protestors were paid by NGOs. The U.S. and most other countries have similar laws.

    • SDF-7

      Hey if Fulton keeps being so obviously corrupt, the state might have some words for the Atlanta area too… 😉

    • juris imprudent

      Just because we have a law to stop others doing it to us does not mean it is okay for other countries to have the same law that would prevent our entirely benevolent intervention in their internal politics.

    • Rat on a train

      Is there a floor for reporting like the US has for individual contributions? I hear you can change the results of an election with just $100k.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Every damn one of those orgs is a CIA carveout aimed at destabilizing small nations from what I’ve seen.

  16. Not Adahn

    Do we have any Glibs left in Pittsburgh? I’ll be there in early June. Possibly with the gf.

    • EvilSheldon

      Area 8 or Western PA Sectional?

      • Not Adahn

        A8.

      • Not Adahn

        Tom Castro’s on his own super squad. No idea if that was at his request or the other competitors’.

      • Not Adahn

        The real super squad also has a couple of drama llamas in addition to the shooters. I wonder how that is going to run.

  17. AlexinCT
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  19. Pope Jimbo

    Instead of making fun of a clueless young lady who scraped the shit out of her car at the bank, local urban progressive calls for more bollards at bus shelters to protect the saintly mass transit riders from the evil SUV drivers.

    The bollard, of course, was just doing its job, which was to protect the bank’s ATM machine from being crushed by a careless driver. Yet @Nat.Vacca is 100% correct that a 3 or 4 foot tall bollard (the same height as, say, a child) is quite invisible from the cockpit of a modern American land yacht.

    It’s really not her fault that automakers have been turning out increasingly larger and heavier vehicles for several decades, enabled by federal policies that encourage bloat. We have collectively chosen to fill our streets with monster trucks whose drivers can’t see normal street features like pedestrians, cyclists, smaller cars or lowly bollards.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      One of the possible policy solutions is to outlaw lady drivers.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The Tik Tok video I’d love to see is the one where her boyfriend/husband/father sees what she has done to that SUV. The rage must be off the charts.

        “When it first started scraping, why did you keep going forward?”

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Well, at least she is kinda cute (with tick-tock filters, at least).

      • R C Dean

        Pretty eyes.

        “Look what the bank did . . . ?” *facepalm*

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I was going to leave a message defending bollards…

      About Dan Marshall
      Pronouns: he/him

      But I don’t think I will now.

      • R.J.

        The other day, my wife had some girlie mag quiz and asked me “If you were single, what would make you instantly reject any computer date?”
        “Pronouns in the bio.”

      • Ted S.

        Being paired with Werner Brandes.

      • Not Adahn

        My voice is my passport. Verify me.

      • slumbrew

        *Setec Astronomy

    • R.J.

      It’s only invisible if you don’t pay attention to the camera in your fairly new SUV.
      The commies are right, we should go back to 30 foot long station wagons with heavy chrome bumpers and no cameras. That way the young lady would never know if she hit anything and we would be spared these videos.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’d bet that north of 80% of people with she/her listed as their pronouns have dicks.

      • AlexinCT

        Not to mention they are either cuntes or dicks as well…

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Eh, go on Linkedin. All the corporate womenz are doing it.

  20. Not Adahn

    Bill working its way through the CA leg.

    https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/news/2024-04-23/portantino-handgun-registration-bill-passes-senate-public-safety-committee

    Must register each gun you own, and pay an annual fee. I think this needs to be expanded to other rights. Want to run a media business in CA? Register and pay a fee for each journalist you employ, each printing press, each camera, etc. Want to open a church? Yup. Register/conform/pay. Politician? Annual fee FOR LIFE, subject to summary execution if you fall behind on payments. Maybe implant a bomb in their cranium or something to make the process more automated and efficient.

    • Drake

      Voting isn’t a Constitutional right, but obviously we need pre-registration testing and a poll tax.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Due to an unfortunate bug and an outage in our licensing server, all PolitiWatch brand explosive implants mistakenly registered as in arrears this morning. Please verify any malfunctioning implants which did not properly trigger, these will need to be replaced.”

      • Not Adahn

        ^this guy gets it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      1. Pass on-its-face unconstitutional bill which carries the force of law until it’s overturned.
      2. Go through the legal process and appeals process and the appeals to the appeals process that takes fucking forever.
      3. Whoops we lost but no meaningful consequences for drafting and passing a blatantly bogus law.
      4. Rinse and repeat with a new unconstitutional law.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Don’t forget that before the law is ruled unconstitutional, you will have collected a lot of gun registration data.

        You can bet that that data will not be destroyed even after the law is struck down.

      • Ownbestenemy

        3.a – Don’t destroy all the registrations that you received

      • Ownbestenemy

        Missed it by THAT much.

      • Gustave Lytton

        2A use unlimited taxpayer dollars to defend blatantly unconstitutional law

    • AlexinCT

      They need the list of gun owners and fire arms…

      How else will their confiscation phase have reliable margins of error?

  21. Sensei

    You’ve never been out of college: you don’t know what it’s like out there. I’ve worked in the private sector… they expect results.

    But at least SpaceX was in its natural environment. Boeing’s space division had never won a large fixed-price contract. Its leaders were used to operating in a cost-plus environment, in which Boeing could bill the government for all of its expenses and earn a fee. Cost overruns and delays were not the company’s problem—they were NASA’s. Now Boeing had to deliver a flyable spacecraft for a firm, fixed price.

    Boeing struggled to adjust to this environment. When it came to complicated space projects, Boeing was used to spending other people’s money. Now, every penny spent on Starliner meant one less penny in profit (or, ultimately, greater losses). This meant that Boeing allocated fewer resources to Starliner than it needed to thrive.

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/the-surprise-is-not-that-boeing-lost-commercial-crew-but-that-it-finished-at-all/

    But for the Top Men at Ars government command and control is the usual go to solution.

    • juris imprudent

      these princely figures in the human spaceflight community

      Yes, they actually even see it, but refuse to consider what it means.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Plenty of time to back out-I’ll be pleasantly surprised if he actually shows.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I’m more libertarian than Joe Biden is a low bar to clear.

      • juris imprudent

        And I’m not sure he can even clear it.

      • Not Adahn

        Eh Bidens went red/black. Surely Trump is more likely to wear gold instead of red.

      • creech

        I doubt he will show. Some portion of the LP audience will boo the crap out of him, and that’s what the media will cover, not the two or three issues on which he agrees with libertarians. So, do Trump’s advisors see the booing, etc. as favorable or unfavorable to Trump’s campaign? Whose votes will be changed by Trump spending a couple hours at an LP event instead of, say, laying a wreath at Arlington or savaging illegal immigrant policy before a crowd of his most rabid supporters?

    • slumbrew

      That link does not contain the words “Go for Papa Palpatine”, therefore, not the best.

      • SDF-7

        What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?!?

      • slumbrew

        *sotto voce* Oh, oh he’s crying

    • R.J.

      I saved that full episode video for later use. Technically it isn’t late because today is Revenge of the Sixth, according to Amazon. We celebrate the Dark Side.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So those cringy politicians pandering should have done their posts today?

  22. Mojeaux

    @Alex, you asked the other day about my issue, which is my ulcers are coming back. My new second job is compounding sucralfate tablets into a suspension 4 times a day.

    • Common Tater

      Sorry 🙁

      • Mojeaux

        Thanks. it’s just one of those things you learn to live with. Maybe if I do my sucralfate well, I’ll be able to eat red meat again.

      • AlexinCT

        Ugh…

    • AlexinCT

      Damn Mojeaux.

      Hope that you can get this under control without too much hassle. This does not sound easy to solve or deal with at all.

      Stay strong.

  23. UnCivilServant

    Here’s a question

    If all bans were rescinded, which AC coolant would be king in terms of efficacy, efficiency, ease of manufacture (both the coolant and the hardware) and total cost of ownership for the unit?

    • AlexinCT

      Liberal tears?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’d think they’d be a bit corrosive, or at least cause unnecessary buildup inside the mechanism.

    • Sensei

      I’d bet R12.

      I believe ammonia is more efficient, but I don’t really want that leaking in my car or house.

      • Common Tater

        Ammonia isn’t banned. It’s used in large commercial freezers.

    • slumbrew

      Knowing nothing, I’ll guess “freon”, since it was banned.

      • UnCivilServant

        ‘Freon’ is the brand name for the refrigerants R-12, R-13B1, R-22, R-410A, R-502, and R-503 manufactured by The Chemours Company

        I guess my follow up would have to be “which Freon?”

      • slumbrew

        May need to wait for Yusef to make an appearance.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    This is outstanding

    Driving 4 Answers Tesla/EV “review” with additional random commentary. Extremely entertaining and educational.

    WATCH IT.

    • Sensei

      As petrol head that owns and a enjoys an electric car…

    • kinnath

      I am loving this critique of the UI

  25. Sensei

    “Cyber truck makes an appearance on Main Street, immediately parks on crosswalk,” the paper wrote on X.

    Hours after, the large vehicle, the first of its kind to make an appearance in the town of about 14,000, got stuck in the sand at Eel Point, a beach full of dunes on the west end of the island.

    True to form of your typical current owner. Also true to Tesla form. They released the thing with half baked software so it has open differentials and no lockers. It may have been fixed in the past month or so via OTA software updates.

    https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/nantucket-newspaper-trolls-tesla-cybertruck-as-it-wreaks-havoc-on-tony-island/

    • Drake

      That has to be the ugliest mass produced vehicle in a very long time. Like somebody took a Pontiac Aztek and purposely made it uglier.

      • juris imprudent

        Old design engineers from Kenosha?

      • Nephilium

        In the line for Free Comic Book Day Saturday, there was one parked in view of the line. A small child in front of us didn’t believe it was a real car, and thought someone was playing a prank on her.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sorry, the simulation’s rendering engine bugged out on the LoD model load for that type of vehicle.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Looks like a bad piece of origami.

    • Sensei

      But not really.

    • rhywun

      “identifies as Palestinian-American”

      I keep seeing that unusual verbiage.

      Is he or isn’t he?

      • EvilSheldon

        Well, if you’re gonna be technical about it…

      • Common Tater

        I’m going to identify as Jeff Bezos.

    • Gustave Lytton

      tanked shares by 10%

      Company was decimated.

      • UnCivilServant

        So nine of every ten dollars of market cap beat up the other?

    • juris imprudent

      Hell, didn’t half of Hollywood promise to leave the country the first time around? No such luck.

      • The Other Kevin

        They’ve been doing that since GWB, and like that “libertarian moment” we keep hearing about, we are always disappointed.

      • Rat on a train

        I want binding contracts or shut up.

    • UnCivilServant

      Sounds like an intimidation tactic.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m assuming he suggested raw.

        But if it were so that it could be brought back to camp and cooked, that’s different.

      • R.J.

        Raw wild animal is a bad idea. I imagine it was cooked.

    • Pine_Tree

      Also – completely normal.

      The story is written to breathlessly imply that he meant “raw”. Ol’ Vlad may have even joked with him about it. Which is also totally normal. But I’m like 99% sure he meant to trim it and grill it, not make Bambi sashimi.

      • Not Adahn

        There’s no Russian tradition of taking a bite out of the heart of your prey?

      • Pine_Tree

        Maybe there is – dunno. But one thing can tell you is that if one tries this with a fresh, warm deer heart, it doesn’t work as easily as one imagines, and you just get messy and look silly. So I bet it’s never really caught on.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I thought that was a sort of rite of passage for hunters. Not my thing but doing it or suggesting it doesn’t make you a bloodthirsty maniac. God, the British are such pussies.

    • B.P.

      I guess that dog-killing governor was stealing too much limelight.

      • Not Adahn

        Kristi Noem is the Michael Vick of Sarah Palins.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The D4A thing is worth watching, for the part where he is “refueling”.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    They released the thing with half baked software so it has open differentials and no lockers.

    For some reason I assumed they have motors at all four corners. The ultimate in traction control.

    • Sensei

      I think it is three motor in top trim. Two in the back.

      But the traction control is software is only on road half baked at best.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    I actually managed to take advantage of a weather window and did some mowing Saturday. Unfortunately, I forgot about my mowing-the-lawn gloves, and the handlebar vibrated a big patch of skin off the palm of my left hand.

    • UnCivilServant

      And people laugh at me for being prepared.

      Hope the hand heals well.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I’m laughing at both of you.

      • Mojeaux

        Gloves give extra hand strength because I’m not worried about splinters and blisters.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Are you worried about that when driving or mowing?

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Security blanket concerns

    Columbia will replace its universitywide commencement ceremony on May 15 with “smaller-scale, school-based celebrations,” university officials announced Monday, after weeks of pro-Palestinian and counterprotests on campus.

    The Ivy League school said the decision was made after discussions with student leaders. Security concerns were a main reason behind the decision, a university official told NBC News.

    And the fleas seize control of the circus.

    • Rat on a train

      They need to go to remote ceremonies. Thousands of people on a web call.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Could everyone please mute their microphone? Thank you!”

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      If Columbia had an engineering school they’d be heaving a sigh of relief.

  30. The Other Kevin

    I got a link to this in an email today, and I wonder what the rest of you think. Summary:

    “The theory was that American producers, after a bitter price war from 2014-2016, got tired of competing on price with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or the OPEC oil cartel, and at some point from 2017-2021, decided to join the cartel and cut supply to the market. This action had the affect of raising oil prices, costing oil consumers something on the order of $200 billion a year.”
    https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused

    I never heard of this person so I don’t know about their credibility. On one hand, it’s not surprising that any big entity (corporations, government, NGO’s, cartels) is corrupt. But it does run some cover for Biden, because it’s blaming this for 27% of inflation, which is a bit too convenient.

    Maybe we should add another Iron Law, something about “When in doubt assume everyone involved is an asshole.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s completely possible that that the executives of several different US companies decided to join a clearly illegal price fixing scheme with OPEC and their totally reliable/discreet/non-CIA controlled or openly hostile to US members.

      • R.J.

        What else is there for them to do? Yes, OPEC is a cartel with price fixing. Absolutely. You have that on one side, and on the other side, a hostile American president (starting with Obama, really) and congress who wants your company to die. The only way forward to survive is join the cartel and at least make some profit and expand your market. I like how it says “at some point decided to join the cartel.” Can the author not pin it down? Or would doing so clearly indicate when the decision was made (during the Biden years).

      • juris imprudent

        Sort of a reverse angle on the plot at the heart of Three Days of the Condor?

    • Ted S.

      Cutting off fracking and drilling in Alaska had nothing to do with it….

      I think it was just after Election Day 2020 that I paid $2.10/gallon. When I was out and about on Friday, everything was in the $3.65 range.

      • The Last American Hero

        $5 at my house.

    • Fourscore

      Great Iron Law, a truism.

      I don’t think it was a conspiracy though. Just Trump’s trade representatives and economic advisors stupidity

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Pro-Palestinian protests sprouted on campus April 17 when students pitched about 50 tents while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza and insisting the university divest from companies that they say could be profiting from the war.

    Why don’t those students “divest” from Columbia and drop out or transfer in protest?

    Oh, wait, that would require agency on their part, instead of merely demanding that the universe conform to their idiosyncratic delusions.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Quandary

    Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that likely violates the Voting Rights Act.

    In response to the judge’s ruling, the state’s Republican legislature had created a second majority-African American district in the state’s six district congressional plan. But now, a different federal court has said that adding the second majority-Black district is unconstitutional.

    The new ruling, issued Tuesday by two judges appointed by former President Donald Trump, leaves the state without a congressional map six months before the election and has fueled complaints of political gamesmanship from critics on the left who fret that the clash could provide another opening for opponents of the nation’s premier civil rights law to attack one of its remaining pillars.

    Why is a voting district explicitly created to lock in a black representative any less racist or contrary to the letter and spirit of the law than one designed to lock in a white representative?

    • Ted S.

      The first judge ruling the original map illegal wasn’t gamesmanship at all, nosirree. Only when Republican judges do it….

    • juris imprudent

      The real issue is that the new districts don’t change the number of Democrat wins.

      In the current phase of the dispute, a three-judge trial judge panel sided with a group of 12 self-described “non-African American” voters who alleged that their “personal dignity” had been injured because the new map with two Black-majority districts “racially stigmatizes,” “racially stereotypes” and “racially maligns” them.

      MUH BUTT HURTZ!!!

      Now, that said, the district boundaries are a joke – but this is what the law demands!

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Although Black residents make up roughly a third of Louisiana’s population, the state has just one Black lawmaker – who is also the lone Democrat – in its six-member US House delegation.

    Muh plantation!

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      Off by 1. Only racism can explain.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    MUH BUTT HURTZ!!!

    Somebody finally grew enough of a backbone to turn the grievance-mongers’ tactics around and use that rhetoric against them.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      Apparently the only way to fight racial discrimination by the government.

    • Not Adahn

      Whas she born a chick? Something about her looks… transformed.

      • Common Tater

        I’m not seeing anything to suggest she is trans.

      • juris imprudent

        A silicone sister with the manager mister?

      • slumbrew

        I think the lmakeup choices, and maybe some photo filters, push her towards the uncanny valley.

        She looks better in the pic near the bottom.

      • R.J.

        Agreed. Some questionable eyebrow work was done too.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Meaningless localized weather anomaly

    A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.

    The wet weather system had mostly moved out of the state by Sunday morning, but officials warned that roads would remain slick after around two feet (60 centimeters) of snow fell in some areas of the Sierra.

    “Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?” the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab asked on the social platform X.

    ——-

    Treacherous driving conditions on Saturday forced the closure of several highways near Lake Tahoe, including Interstate 80 over the Donner Summit.

    Flood advisories were issued for parts of the Bay Area, where up to an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain fell while temperatures dipped into the low 40s (around 5 degrees Celsius), the National Weather Service said. Wind gusts reaching 40 mph (64 kph) were reported Saturday near San Francisco.

    It was rain/snow mix here yesterday. It’s about 38 degrees right now. But don’t worry, the earth will be burnt to a cinder before you can say, “Subsidy”.

    • pan fried wylie

      …asked on the social platform X.

      Wha?

  36. Common Tater

    “The anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall were urged by a radical activist group to rekindle the bloody Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020, a new report says.

    Furiously pumping the bellows is New York City nonprofit The People’s Forum (TPF), an anti-Israel organization with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party and backed by American businessman Neville Roy Singham, a self-described socialist known for financially supporting left-wing causes through Goldman Sachs’ charity arm.

    At a Monday night meeting in Manhattan hosted by TPF — hours before the infamous building takeover — around 100 mask-wearing activists were worked into a lather by the organization’s executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, who called for a “final blow to destroy Israel” in a viral video earlier this year.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/radical-anti-israel-nonprofit-urged-rampaging-columbia-occupiers-to-recreate-blm-summer-of-2020-riots/

    Aren’t there anti-KKK laws against masked protestors?

    • juris imprudent

      Manolo De Los Santos – he’s a black hispanic, so he’s okay.

    • Ted S.

      Any organization calling itself “The People’s [fill in the blank]” has nothing to do with the people.