Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
Revealed: Biden FBI Authorized Use of Deadly Force in Mar-a-Lago Raid
Judge to Hear Motions to Dismiss in Trump Documents Case
Trump Tops Biden Fundraising For First Time
Biden’s Latest Inflation Narrative: ‘Corporate Price Gouging’
‘Indefensible’: Courts finally scrutinize COVID vaccine mandates as religious infringement
Klaus Schwab Resigns as World Economic Forum Chairman
Lawyer representing man killed by ATF says raid might have occurred to support new Biden regulation
Media spreads false claim that Tucker Carlson launched a show on Russian TV
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
There can be only one
…Highlander movie.
There was a TV show. But absolutely no other movies.
“Revealed: Biden FBI Authorized Use of Deadly Force in Mar-a-Lago Raid”
I’m sure they’ll how behind the idea that procedures were followed.
So at what point do you think they’ll wind up and set some nut loose on Trump to try to assassinate him?
I think they were trying that while Trump was President. Look up the car that nearly hit the Presidential limo.
If other banana republics are any indication, they will try it when the lawfare fails.
The use of deadly force is reasonable as Trump is a threat to Democracy.
I have no doubt they’ll resort to murder if necessary to maintain their grip on power.
Pertinent — I can believe that this is just boilerplate over-reach by the increasingly militarized SWAT-happy police forces instead of a “Let’s hope he is there so we can just shoot him and claim he needed to STOP RESISTING!”
Yeah its very likely all boilerplate. The raid and the judge who signed off on it is and should always be the WTF? Not the specifics that are probably part of every FBI SWAT warrant.
This is what I get for taking care of a work e-mail before replying. Let that be a lesson to me.
Glib harder, work less.
An FBI vs. Secret Service shootout would be exciting. Of course it would all be Trump’s fault.
Meh. This I can see as part of a blanket statement for any raids and the like.
Not saying that should be the default, just that at this time, it likely is.
Just like when they went to retrieve the docs from Joe’s ‘vette.
How can this possibly be news? There were fully kitted-out agents with rifles and body armor there. You don’t send them unless you are fully prepared to kill people.
Cause the “right” is just as stupid as the “left” when it comes to how they push out news/propaganda on their cycles to gin up rage?
Lawyer representing man killed by ATF says raid might have occurred to support new Biden regulation
Eggs, omelets, etc.
Ah, the sequel to Waco finally came out.
I wish there was a serious lawsuit to dismantle ATF since it doesn’t comport with any historical tradition of gun regulation per Bruen. Notwithstanding that the constitution provides the fedgov no police authority in the first place.
the constitution – lol that old thing
A fedgov within constitutional constraints? That’s just crazy talk.
Ol’ Klaus saw that world leaders were being taken out, and decided to hide behind his wife and children.
“Step up to the podium, Dear. It’s perfectly safe!”
It’s good news.As far as despots go, the children are never as competent as the parent.
Except I’m hearing the Soros Jr is worse than Dad.
Alexander, Augustus – there’s a few exceptions out there. None come to mind in the modern era, though.
I read earlier this morning that the FBI building in D.C. seems to have been all but abandoned.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Reaction 1: “Oh… is there another Khaki Brigade ‘march’ to try to frame the conservatives again? Check U-Haul registrations….”
Reaction 2: Maybe they’re all busy planning the move to their new Larger-Than-The-Pentagon site.
They’re just gonna work from home until the new $4.5 billion headquarters is ready in 10 years (I.e, $10 billion in 18 years)
That’s a drop in the bucket by latest gov’t squandering standards. They should start renegotiating now.
Pitt the Younger?
Pitt the toddler? Pitt the embryo? Pitt the glint in the milkman’s eye?
Trump Tops Biden Fundraising For First Time
MONEY IN POLITICS!!!! CORRUPTION!!!!
Bad money endangering OUR DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!111!!
‘Indefensible’: Courts finally scrutinize COVID vaccine mandates as religious infringement
I don’t like the religious part. Rights infringement period.
Yeah — that crossed my mind more than once back when we were collaborating on forms (thanks again to the Glibs who worked to coordinate such things on the Forums and whatnot). The First to me is recognizing Freedom of Thought / Conscience… the right of each person to think what they want even if it goes against the herd. As such — you shouldn’t be required to get a signoff from a larger organization (church) to “prove” you have a legitimate objection. That you feel strongly enough to have said objection, raise it and document why you feel that way should suffice.
I may be misremembering — but I believe that my company’s HR FAQ on the stupid mandate even had some quote from some bishop stating that “No, it isn’t reasonable to object because of fetal cell use in the production” or some bullshit. I don’t need a bishop’s permission to have a moral concern, asswipes.
“I’m sorry, but that Heretical ‘Bishop’ doesn’t speak for me. So his backwards misinterpretations don’t apply.”
Unfortunately the right to not be a medical test subject is nowhere to be found in the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
This is true, everyone ignores the 9th Amendment.
Jacobson v. Massachusetts
Thank you Great “Dissenter”
You may not like religion, but it’s been a strong motivator and a core belief of people for a very long time.
New Libertarian Man is as unrealistic as the New Soviet, New Enlightenment and all the other that failed to be created on schedule.
I have nothing against religion, I just don’t want distinct rights based on it from the state.
I don’t think he said he doesn’t like religion – though being a vampire and all that might be true. One can be a believer or recognize its importance in human development and civilization (be hard not to recognize that) without thinking there should be a religious test to ‘access’ your rights. My ability to object to a vaccine mandate or passport or whatever shouldn’t rest on whether I believe in a particular metaphysics; that seems to me to be Pie’s only point.
Now this feels obligatory for vampiric Pie reactions…
Le sigh. If your model is that rights come from the state, then you’re already screwed since that reduces to “rights are whatever current guy in charge says they are.”
Recognizing religious rights is acknowledging that there is authority other than/beyond/greater than the state. This also avoids the idea of rights coming from the individual since that reduces to “I do waht I wanna and screw you” which ain’t no government gonna tolerate.
One shouldn’t have to pretend to be religious to get the same exemptions from a mandate as those who are legitimately religious. Same wrt conscription
As an atheist I was forced to get the jab (or lose my employment) while people with religious objections were exempt. Just because I reject the the idea of a god, I lost the say-so in what goes into my body.
Technically, that doesn’t agree with Supreme Court precedent (where deeply held personal beliefs can be seen as a substitution for religious beliefs), but my company tried pulling the same shit on me. I kept pushing back, and didn’t get the COVID vaccine, and they dropped it once the court cases started putting holds on it.
I still left the company as soon as I could after that though.
Unfortunately, I was in no position to risk unemployment at that time. One of my direct reports did go the “this is unconstitutional” route and was ready be fired, cleaned out his office and everything. He is a Christian, but did not even try the religious exemption.
Turned out they were bluffing, which pisses me off even more.
I crafted my exemption (based on trash’s template – thanks!) to explicitly exclude a specific religious base (without getting into the more nebulous question of what constitutes a religion) or belief in god(s). That’s to the letter of the exemption and SC precedent – there is no organized religious belief system required – but as you found, that ain’t necessarily true in practice. I was in the ‘fortunate’ position of my employer being between the rock of a federal mandate (to keep the filthy federal lucre flowing – they weren’t giving that up!) and the hard place of state level prohibitions against requiring the vaccine, leaving them exposed legally at the state level if they fired people to keep their snout in the federal trough. So they were rubber stamping any and all exemption requests to avoid the conflict. I got approval within 1 hour of submitting – ain’t no way they read 100+ pages in an hour!
Klaus Schwab Resigns as World Economic Forum Chairman
He was not quite evil enough. He was semi evil. Quasi evil.
More of an Austin Powers villain than a Bond one.
Dr. Evil held the world ransom for a laughably tiny amount. $100B.
Schwab insisted on wearing his evil school uniform in public.
They figured having someone that spoke and dressed like a Bond villian was a bit on the nose for the new season.
Also pertinent — I’m not sure at this point they’d bother doing their “leak a fake story to the press to justify our warrant to do what we want” since the FISA judges seem split between Judge Rubber and Judge Stamp, but I don’t think he’s nuts to think it.
I would hope a lot of folks on X (as I saw in a Twitchy article reporting yesterday) crowing about how they just knew he was a Putin lapdog all along and whatnot take a step back and wait for a story to mature before opening their yaps… (he says knowing full well he mouths off with almost no information…)
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Bonus Ray of Sunshine
Double Bonus Ray of Sunshine
Thanks, Jimbo, if only people were like that.
Latest? Isn’t this like the 4th or 5th try at this (“shrinkflation” / “gouging” / “greedy corporations not paying their fair share”… they keep trotting out this class warfare bullshit to cover up their own mismanagement for the last 3 years now…)
The vote buying won’t stop until we bleed the country dry.
We’re going to spend our way out of inflation! Then we’re going to drink for sobriety! After that, we’ll take care of the virginity problem…
Will we run out of paper by printing dollars or by printing ballots?
Will we run out of paper by printing dollars or by printing ballots?
This is why we should have internet voting and digital dollars! /probably most of our government.
Don’t forget greedflation.
OMG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5vrqCHMCho
Andrew Heaton in Econ Prof drag.
His videos do more for the libertarian movement than the rest of that magazine put together.
“Corporate Price Gouging”
I worked for a smaller company whose advertising pitch was lower prices. The company grew and grew, by keeping the prices lower than the competition , even as inflation raised everyone’s price.
Price gouging is a joke and political fodder than doesn’t work anymore, unless it’s the result of politically caused shortages.
Biden touts releasing a million barrels of gas, daily US consumption is about 8.5 million barrels. Makes for good politics but hardly a dent on supply.
Seems like a dumb idea to do that now, we have a long way to go before election day.
Yes, but memorial day roadtrip weekend is coming up, and the switch to summer blends is coming soon.
If they can get a few articles over Memorial Day weekend ran about the glorious drop in prices, they must have calculated it to be politically beneficial. Nothing like draining that emergency supply for no reason.
Low information voters would like a word…
Odd news twicefold: Cutely, my drivers license expired on April 28, but says it’s valid on the BMV. I had to get my Passport for the phone-folk to Verify Myself. The passport is expiring in a couple years and FUCK. I’m damn glad I don’t look like I did in ’16. Damn I was fat. It was a month after my return from my two-years in Singapore. I remember getting up to 160, honestly mostly steroids cuz the weather fucked my skin up somethin’ hard. Booze is WAY too expensive in SG to fuck about w. Normally I sit around 135-140, right about where I powerlifted in high school.
My phone stopped charging a while back. Damn port. But it wasn’t my fault and Google replaced the bitch. Told ’em over the weekend and it was delivered to a T-Mobile right away. Just had to exchange my old one. I bitch about the CONSTANT inter-connectedness of our Skynet, Meta’d and Googled world, but fuck it is convenient. (I am at least aware that THAT is how they getcha.)
Work again went shockingly well. I’m not yet used to this. I hope it lasts. (You shoulda done that in Gene Wilder’s voice. I did.) No idea about ‘next’ contract. Puttin’ in offered OT to show my value. I’m good at it. We have as many stats on ourselves/group as a broadsheet of baseball box scores. It’s pleasing to wait for the latest to come out. <– Today's Test Evaluations begin in 2 min. Such odd realities!
up to 160
I don’t think 160 was ‘up’ for me since high school. Early high school at that.
(I’m short-ish but come from a long line of fireplugs).
High school, I was around 120 and (by the end of it) 5′ 10″. I was a twig. I am no longer a twig, 160 was the lightest I’ve gotten down to in modern memory, currently around 205 and looking to stabilize around 180.
Shit, I think 160 on my frame would look emaciated. (I may be fat but I’m also big-boned)
I was 6’5″ and weighed 165 when the Army came calling. My first DL (at 15) was 5’10”, 135.
180-200 in high school and I was a reasonable offensive back in football.
I am 6 foot 7 inches (two different measurements)
I am 6 foot 7 inches (two different measurements)
Human form and bat form?
Yeah, sitting at 5’7″ and have dropped to 190. Graduated HS at 130-135#. Having a curvy wife who loves to cook will pack the pounds on right quick.
I think we established the Glibs follow a bi-modal distribution – quite tall or quite short. Few of us are average height, IIRC.
Does anyone remember a Rush Limbaugh episode from the 1990’s where people were calling in and telling their stories about being laid off, but then starting their own businesses and doing better than ever?
I was listening to the Critical Drinker talk about one of his favorite movies, Falling Down, and his perspective that “the system” is cheating everyone, and that the American Dream was, and is, a lie.
It’s certainly harder today than it was, even in the 90’s, due to increased government interventions, but I think it’s still possible to do well, if one finds the right niche.
In any case, what I was thinking while listening to the Drinker is that, Falling Down came out in 1993, and so was probably filmed in 1992, and this was on the cusp of the Internet revolution, when many, many people became millionaires, and I also remembered the Limbaugh episode where caller after caller were talking about, after the initial shock and disappointment over losing their jobs, they bucked up, started their own firms, and were doing better than ever.
I don’t think the Drinker is right about Falling Down being an accurate representation of how America works, and wonder if it is because his home country of Scotland is being run by communists, now.
I think “The Barking Years” is more correct when he describes Falling Down as propaganda:
https://youtu.be/Ji94tMVjNm8?si=dg0LPVrKHM9H18yE
It is still possible to do well, but ideally people who do productive work should do well even without finding a niche, or at leas not be hamstrung by the system. In Romania the system sucks, but it is possible to do well despite it. A good system is one that does not hold you back needlessly. The best people do well even if held back. The average, depending on some luck, not always.
A million ain’t what it used to be. With real estate assets inflating it doesn’t take long to become a paper millionaire.
But I think the American Dream is not a “lie”. I know too many people who have made something great from nothing for it to be considered a lie.
You may be onto something with the Scottish connection. They’re not exactly known as a hotbed of innovation creation.
Oh come on — who else would have brought us haggis and bagpipes? 😉
Ahem!
Well, not lately.
Yep. Mrs OBE could have created a dog grooming empire if she had wanted to. It required about 15K for us to start up the trailer and honestly, she made that money from working in the garage. The dream is still out there. Getting further out of reach, but its there.
Yeah, Scotland used to punch well above its weight in a lot of fields.
At least they still have whiskey
Whisky
Here’s where I miss Ken Shultz (sp?).
I mean, there’s literally never been a better time to be alive than right now. Things may (or may not) be degenerating in a non-recoverable way but for now at least, things are pretty great.
Doesn’t mean it’s perfect and there are an awful lot of things to be concerned/dissatisfied with, but it shouldn’t overshadow all the awesome stuff.
Heh, I caught that bit last night too.
I watched the Drinker video on Falling Down. He is mostly right, but somewhat wrong.
The American Dream that anyone can make it by hard work is mostly true, but not always true. Occasionally, macro economics forces wipe out any effort made by individuals.
In my few years on this planet, I’ve seen the meat packing industry and steel industries get wiped out leaving many, many people without good options going forward.
Capitalism comes with creative destruction. Every now and then the world catches on fire and everything burns to the ground. The leaves everyone to go out an pick through the ashes and start over.
But there is a difference between being 25 (and having lost a little) and being 55 (and having lost of lifetime of work) when the world burns around you.
For the protagonist in Falling Down, the American Dream turned out to be a lie. And for a lot of real life people in the 80s and early 90s, it was. But that doesn’t make it a lie for everyone.
The Drinker was a bit too negative in his review. But I’ll write that off to be a drunken Scot.
Michael Douglas’s character in Falling Down is the bad guy because he worked for the military industrial complex.
Back in the nineties, my brother was working as an arch for a small firm, and doing all right. But around 2000-002 or so, he got caned for moonlighting, and was forced to start his own, one man firm. Now he makes bank, is looking to retire at 55, living off of properties he owns.
Mostly, you just need to find a niche, my brothers was taking all the tiny little jobs no other firm would take; garage conversions, additions in shitty parts of town, and so on, and take everything that came his way.
It think you are right about the American Dream still being a thing. We are trying that ourselves with the gym business. It is already a tough niche, but it’s been even harder with the one-two punch of high inflation and high interest rates. As a result our personal finances are a wreck, and the business is struggling. I read recently that 18% of people with credit cards are maxed out on their cards. So while it’s still possible to make your own fortune, even in tough times, our government does have a lot to do with making things easier or harder.
I know you’re not in this bucket but I wonder how many of those 18% got there by spending money on food vs vacations and giant TVs?
The world is not filled with Bogleheads, sadly.
That’s a good question. I have seen stories of people using credit to buy groceries, but with lower interest rates people have been encouraged to overspend on luxuries. Either way, that’s a lot of people who will either file bankruptcy, or have to drastically cut spending. That’s going to be a big hit to the economy. Things are going to get worse.
The girlfriend’s salon has run into the issue with her trying to find employees. The last one that interviewed was trying to work two different salon jobs (with the other salon down the street). When the girlfriend found out about that, she walked through what the other salon was likely going to do (fire the employee if they did it), which is what happened.
She’s had people interview, take the job, and then no call/no show for several days, then come back and ask when they’re going to work next.
I hear similar stories. Some Zers don’t seem to comprende that having a job means you show up on the regular.
This is what “biohacking” means btw. It’s not taking l-theanine with your coffee
https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ/status/1792874427794801082
First look at Dwayne Johnson in his A24 film ‘THE SMASHING MACHINE’.
Directed by Benny Safdie.
https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1792903599674020175
from the comments “It’s weird how all-natural Dwayne Johnson is able to act as prolific steroid abuser Mark Kerr.”
I would encourage everyone to check out the actual 2002 documentary (also titled The Smashing Machine) and not whatever self-indulgent wankery this is. It’s quite a rough viewing, but absolutely fascinating.
Pie needs to step up his NBA fandom!
If you come Pie, you can stay in my basement. I’ve got a storage room we could turn into your coffin room. No sunlight at all in there. Of course, Mrs. Holiness cooks with lots of garlic, so be warned.
I am not prone to insane level of fandom about anything let alone sports.
Romania is only 5,200 miles from Minnesoda. That Japanese dude is doing 6K. Are you going to let him show you up?
Speaking of the NBA, this would have been a better state flag than the nonsense the gubt came up with.
BTW, The NY Post is the only one who seems to have gotten the story about bringyaass.com being redirected to the Minnesoda State tourism site.
All the other stories imply that it was the Minnesoda bureaucrats who did that. It wasn’t. It was just a fan who did it.
Ass Wednesday rides again!
https://archive.is/kYsPr
“BREAKING NEWSRNC headquarters in DC on lockdown: Hazmat on scene at Republican headquarters”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13447363/RNC-headquarters-DC-lockdown-Hazmat.html
So that’s where all the FBIs are.
Planting “evidence” as fast as they can?
Someone burned some popcorn in the microwave again?
Microwaved fish. Republicans really are the worst.
Now we know why Pie was so active this morning.
“Florida high school bosses are CLEARED after letting transgender girl play on an all girls’ volleyball team – despite breaking state law”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13447045/Florida-high-school-transgender-girl-volleyball-team-cleared.html
The blurring of the faces thing is getting stupid.
But they were reassigned. REASSIGNED, I tell you.
Too much pronoun play in that article to make sense of it.
Heh. I played volleyball during my high school years (not for the school, there was no boys team). From my understanding of the relevant law (title 9 I think?), I technically could have joined the girls volleyball team because there was no boys team. Same reasoning why a girl could join the wrestling team.
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2024/05/20/keystone-elementary-bristol-township-kindergarten-attack-special-needs-bucks-county-iu-croydon-pa/73767857007/
If I was a parent, I’d be outraged. Are we going to see anyone punished for this? LOL, I know…I know…
I am already fairly pissed off that the state steals my money to fund these shit holes.
Totally off topic but in the article
Maybe cut those out so you can buy kids their classroom supplies or you know…keep track of special needs kids that might not always act in what we consider a normal fashion like pummeling a 5 year old.
I wanted to be outraged, but the face tattoos of the dad made me start rooting for the special needs bruiser.
“The child was then taken to the hospital where he was treated for a gash on his head that required staples to close, missing teeth and other facial injuries, Callahan said in the video.”
On a 5 year old.
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“A Montana couple who lost custody of their 14-year-old after refusing to let them transition genders claims the teen was taken by the state without a warrant.
Todd and Krista Kolstads filed state and federal lawsuits claiming their child, born Jennifer but currently identifying as Leo, was taken from them because they opposed their gender transition due to their religious beliefs.
In one of the suits, they claim the state’s Child Protective Services lied to a court judge in order to take the 14-year-old child without a warrant, as reported by the Daily Montanan.
The teen was removed from their dad and stepmom’s home last summer after their school called claiming they had tried to kill themselvesf with toilet bowl cleaner and painkillers….
The state said they were trying to find a psychiatric placement for the child, and sent her to a Wyoming facility and a Billings group home. The child is now under the custody of their biological mother in Canada. Before the child was taken by the state, the teen reportedly had obtained gender transitioning hormones through Amazon so the parents wouldn’t find out.
‘One of her friends was ordering her hormones off of Amazon and having them sent to her house, not ours and then giving those to our daughter, Jennifer. You don’t have to prove that you’re 18 or anything,’ Krista Kolstad told the Post-Millennial….
Statements from the teen and their sister’s counselor showed them describing their biological mother as uncaring, abusive and ‘crazy.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13447119/Montana-couple-lost-custody-transgender-daughter.html
Hardly the worst part of this story, but testosterone is a controlled substance, so no idea how you can just buy it off Amazon.
Good to see them respecting her err his err their pronouns. Stop coddling mental illness you cocksuckers.
The teen was removed from her home after the school said she had tried to kill herself, and is now in the custody of her biological mother, etc.
Yep, took me an extra read to figure out they were referring to the daughter and not her parents.
She actually wasn’t buying testosterone, she was just buying DVDs of Rocky, Blood Sport, 300, etc.
Sounds like Leo was doing a bunch of lion to everyone.
That’s the mane part of the story
*narrows gaze*
The only “scandal” about the authorization for use of deadly force is that it was approved because it’s pretty much standard. For the majority of these kinds of raids, this one included, a raid is completely unnecessary.
“UPenn student Eliana Atienza, left ‘homeless’ after she was suspended over anti-Israel camp, comes from wealthy family who boasts about lavish lifestyle”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/21/us-news/anti-israel-upenn-student-left-homeless-after-encampment-comes-from-wealthy-family/
From the river to see you next Tuesday.
Wasn’t Omar’s spawn also claiming to be starving on the streets after being suspended?
Yes, or some similar bullshit. Like taking over a building with indoor plumbing and demanding water.
“Eww, Tap water? You expect us to drink that?”
Why yes she did. Isra Hirsi a true victim.
Antarctic for me, but not for thee.
I wonder. Whose Secret Service detail holds their man in higher personal regard, Trump’s or Biden’s?
Why wouldn’t Trump’s detail like him more? He was known to take over driving duties and let them rest.
Which one has a dog that regularly mauls them?
Real question: who is more likely to spring for a round of hookers?
Real question: who is more likely to spring for a round of hookers?
Just as important are what kinds of hookers would be brought in. Piss or Sniff hookers?
Sniff hookers are gals who just let you sniff their hair and listen sympathetically as you pour your heart out about your history growing up in the black, jewish, puerto rican communities.
The maniac Klaus is gone and is replaced by the insane Blair.
It’s like Arkham choosing between Joker, Riddler, Penguin and Scarecrow. No shortage of patients at the asylum.
But I read the power vacuum left may be a blessing since Klaus didn’t really groom a successor. Blair’s power will inevitably be challenged by sociopaths and psychopaths who want that power. It could lead to a crisis where the WEF’s influence wanes.
Blair came out with the job? Damn shame, I was hoping for Tootie or at least Joe.
C’mon! I can’t believe you didn’t even put Geri on your list
I hope they engage in a war of assassination against each other and end up wiping themselves out.
How to not argue a case:
American Airlines: The 9-year-old should have known there was a pervert filming her
If there was ever a case you settle, fire the offender and move on, its this.
Looks like a Little St. James School of Law graduate was handed the case. The argument is stupid on its face and is compounded by the fact that the kid was 9. Are they really aware of stuff like that?
Bet the lawyer would have blamed the 9-year-old if she was raped in the bathroom cause she was wearing a skirt too. What a idiotic argument to even try to defend.
I’m telling you, Frontier and Spirit are not that bad.
I watched The Whole Nine Yards (again) last night. What an excellent movie.
CNN explains
Also unsealed Tuesday was a law enforcement document outlining how the FBI was authorized to search Mar-a-Lago.
The document, called a law enforcement operations order, explains what agents were permitted to bring with them when they searched Trump’s estate and how they were allowed to operate as part of the search. It also includes boilerplate language from the Justice Department manual about use of force, including the limited circumstances in which agents are authorized to use deadly force.
Though the language is standard and directly from the department’s manual, Trump quickly took to social media Tuesday to decry the 2022 document as having “authorized” deadly force.
Stop whining, MAGA-tards. That’s just standard officer safety protocol.
Oh, pish. The FBI can use force against anyone, anywhere, anytime they want, for any reason. And rewrite witness statements afterwards as needed to “justify” it.
Lunch wants to be free
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs.
The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellation on Wednesday, saying it will erase $7.7 billion in federal student loans. With the latest action, the administration said it has canceled $167 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million Americans through several programs.
“From day one of my administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “I will never stop working to cancel student debt — no matter how many times Republican-elected officials try to stop us.”
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest President of all?
“I will never stop working to cancel student debt — no matter how many times
Republican-elected officialsthe Constitution and courts try to stop us.”But when it comes to closing the border, there’s nothing he can do, his hands are tied, he’s helpless.
The commercials aimed at working Americans write themselves.
Has this been noted yet?
Foreign Purchase of U.S. Ammo Maker Sparks National-Security Battle
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/foreign-purchase-of-u-s-ammo-maker-sparks-national-security-battle-db31490d?st=av2vzlz0f3cuyus&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Vista. Fuck.
Need to go buy more ammo post haste.
Pretty sure that Moms Who Don’t Get Laid Enough is still trying to sue Vista out of existence.
Seems like that’d be in the best of interest of gun banners. It would let them ban the sale foreign owned ammunition.
Unaccustomed as I am to switching cell phones, I think I’m ready for a new one. I’ve had some LG model with a stylus, and while I don’t use the stylus often, it’s handy doing some things for which my club thumbs are too fat. I don’t want an iPhone or Google, open to Samsung, but I’m a cheapskate. Anyone have recent experience with a moto?
My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy A21, I picked it specifically because of the long battery life.
I also do very little on my phone, so the recharge at most once a week feature is lovely.
If it’s not an iPhone, it’s running Google spyware, you know, regardless of the maker.
Looks down at de-Googled phone, wonders how Google got their spyware onto it….
Android?
Not everyone want’s to build from AOSP and sideload.
It doesn’t meet the parent usability threshold.
Android
Unlock boot loader, wipe device, sideload custom rom. I don’t think it’s terribly challenging to do and if one doesn’t want to try it, you can get de-Googled phones directly. Of course there’s some limitation on models depending on the OS and if you really want Google ‘services’ your going to sideload spyware anyway – but if the convenience is worth your privacy/data/tracking, there’s not much to be done there.
There may well be clean versions of Android that you can load yourself. I really couldn’t say.
Google delenda est.
Moto is very hit or miss.
Echoing RC Dean – they all run Android. Folks have been really happy with the new Pixel 8a.
my club thumbs are too fat
Maybe you just need a dialing wand?
Whoops!
Call it the $78 million typo.
A $444 Billion ‘Fat Finger’ Trade Crashed Stocks. Now Citigroup Is Paying the Price.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/citigroup-global-markets-fined-by-u-k-watchdog-over-1-4-billion-trading-error-3a9df297?st=iba32rm9cqjj8tk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
VSTO bin berry berry good to me. I just wish they paid a dividend in .45acp.
There is a bright side to having a son in law in the Navy. He’s working on the Nimitz, so I watched this tour and I had questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkuLSG47Gv4
I talked to him last night and found out the following.
1. People who do different jobs on the ship wear different colored shirts. He wears blue coveralls for now, and after training it will be red coveralls.
2. In the video they show some machine shops. That’s where he works. All the machines are circa 1975 because they are big and were built into the ship.
3. The ship is in dock right now and is having work done. There are no planes on it, but when it goes out they will stop in San Diego to pick up planes.
4. The big purple pipe in the video has fuel in it.
5. He’s stationed to a few parts of the ship, so there are parts he won’t have to go to unless there’s a fire.
6. Mostly now he’s fixing toilets and pipes.
7. He hasn’t been on the flight deck yet because it’s being worked on. But he did get to see the commander’s quarters because his toilet was clogged.
So the commander ignored the sign about not flushing his tampons?
Will they really pick up planes? Or maybe just plane parts?
When I was in, it was pretty common for the pilots to get an extra day of shore leave and fly out to the carrier the next day. They’d say it was for training purposes (finding the carrier and landing), but it was really to have one more night on shore.
Same with coming into port. They will take off early and fly to a Naval Air Station as soon as they get in range. In that case, I’m sure a few get stuck on ship because they need somebody to fly patrols. But the O-club is always hopping when a carrier is coming into port.
Once upon a time, I forget which decade, I’d heard that it was procedure for a carrier in dock to not have its air wing on board and to pick them up underway. The reasoning was alternatively said to be so that work could be done on the ship without having to work around the aircraft, or that the combined two were not a single temping target for attack.
I believe the former more than the latter.
They probably have some aircraft aboard, but a quick search shows the jets are based in California and are deployed on the Nimitz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-94
I’m sure it’s easier to do maintenance on the ship and the aircraft if they’re not on board. And I’m sure it’s easier to train pilots from a land air base.
Cool!
1975 was also probably the last time anyone in the ‘States build good machine tools…
“Dear Editor,
I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole.”
https://x.com/phil_lol_ogist/status/1792902747638862303
Pretty sure that Moms Who Don’t Get Laid Enough is still trying to sue Vista out of existence.
A few years ago REI and some other lefty outdoor lifestyle stores dropped a bunch of Vista brands over their evul people killing subsidiaries.
That was when I dropped the REI membership that I’d had since I was four months old. I’m still pretty salty about that…
Sierra Trading (sierra.com) has good stuff at lower prices – and apparently aren’t woke.
Reassessment
The backlash against criminal justice reform is real, and Joe Biden needs to take note.
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Should Vasquez prevail, it would represent more than the rejection of a progressive prosecutor. It would be the culmination of simmering local frustration with crime, homelessness and drug abuse and a resounding correction to the shift left on criminal justice that took place here and in so many cities in 2020.
It should also get the attention of Democratic lawmakers everywhere. They’ve mostly found success by elevating abortion and MAGA, the party’s best one-two since Dobbs, but their vulnerabilities on quality-of-life issues remain and could prove particularly acute with the broader presidential electorate this fall.
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“All of my lefty neighbors who want to do right thing are like, fuck it, this is not working,” Dwight Holton, a Democrat and former U.S. attorney here, told me.
Jeff Mapes, who has covered Oregon politics since the 1980s, said: “I’ve never seen anything like it, the extent of how upset people are.”
Rampant lawlessness, despair and chaos not same as criminal justice reform.
Go ahead, Democrats, keep pushing for the full Calcutta experience in your cities.
“All of my lefty neighbors who want to do right thing are like, fuck it, this is not working,”
Wow. How to start unpacking that one….
It still amazes me that Dems keep pushing policies that voters clearly don’t want. They hate the country.
The country just needs to be educated so that they can be better
citizenssubjects.The Democrats found success before maga and abortion. And the tired of drug fueled crime and lawlessness doesn’t result in a self reassessment and voting for conservatives. They still knee jerkily reject any R at the ballot, despite the usual “I would vote for a Republican if they were
saneextreme leftists like my preferred politicians” protestations.Links real quick:
The banana republic monkeys have been dying to kill Trump since he came onto the political stage.
They would gun him down in the street in the blink of an eye if they thought they could get away with it.
No charges will be dismissed. They need a conviction so that they can have a pretense for a coup after he is in office.
Not sure what to make of the fundraising bit. Trump has huge popular support but so does Biden from the WEF crowd and their ilk. In the end vote counts more than funding.
Corporate Price Gouging. Corporate greed. No one is buying that shit. He is saying this while openly, brazenly waging war on our culture. Prosperity gives people options, thus prosperity must be destroyed.
“We will grind the bourgeoisie between the twin stones of inflation and taxation.” – Vladimir Lenin.
He forgot govt. regulation.
In my perfect world everyone who mandated and enforced covid mandates would spend the same amount of hard time breaking rocks in ‘pound me in the ass’ prison as the mandates were in effect.
Dr. Evil is retiring? Dammit. C’mon, the guy is a living comic book villain. How will we replace him?
We have a lot of gun people around here. Does anyone know if this ‘gun show loophole’ actually exists?
I have never seen a non-licensed seller at a gun show nor have I seen a gun sold at a gun show without a background check. I have seen individuals sell or give single guns to other individuals, usually family or friends, but I have the impression that like everything else gun grabbers say the gun show loophole is total horseshit.
Media. We should just start calling them what they are – propagandists, i.e. liars.
They lie like I breath. Why anyone pays attention to them is a mystery to me.
“We dont listen to Pravda to find out what it true, we listen to find out what isn’t true.” – Old Soviet Joke.
Wasn’t the ‘loophole’ always a private transfer?
Do gun shows allow private sales?
Yes and yes.
If they were a dealer, they would be required to obtain a FFL. Unlicensed dealer is merely a private party selling and buying here and there at most.
In theory an illegal gun dealer operating without an FFL could illegally sell guns at a gun show without being able to perform a background check. I have no idea how much responsibility there is for a gun show organizer to vet his vendors.
“In the end vote counts more than funding.”
Ballots. Ballots count more than funding.
A Republican hasn’t been elected Oregon governor since 1982, the GOP’s second-longest losing streak in the country after next-door Washington, in no small part because of the Democratic vote trove Multnomah County reliably delivers. In 2022, when Kotek won by less than four points statewide, she took 73 percent of the county’s votes. According to Kerry Tymchuk, who runs the Oregon Historical Society, no Republican has carried Multnomah since former Senator Bob Packwood’s 1986 reelection.
But those are just statistics. It’s hard to overstate Portland’s capacity for tolerance. It has long been a refuge for those from other parts of the country and the world seeking a fresh start and non-judgmental community. That includes the governor and her wife.
This tradition has also meant a stream of homeless people.
Live and let live only works when it goes both ways. When “tolerance” requires the acceptance of active destruction the situation changes.
“Crooked Fani Willis won the Fulton County, Georgia DA primary election Tuesday evening.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/just-crooked-fani-willis-wins-georgia-da-primary/
Voters are stupid.
Fulton County?
Was there another leaky pipe? I hear their plumbing is awful.
“Rick Becker, a plastic surgeon who ran as an independent for U.S. Senate in 2022 after losing his bid for the Republican nomination at the state GOP’s convention, paid transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney $350 to film a campaign ad attacking his conservative opponent, Julie Fedorchak.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/north-dakota-rino-teams-up-trans-activist-dylan/
The aliens need to turn the world off and turn it back on again.
Today, in manufactured controversies
Jim Demers, a longtime New Hampshire Democratic strategist who is backing Biden and was at his event in New Hampshire on Tuesday, said it’s “important” for the president to draw contrast with Trump’s “scary” rhetoric on democracy.
“Donald Trump has talked about Hitler all too often and Donald Trump has talked about being a dictator, and so that is an important contrast to what Joe Biden believes as a protector of our democracy,” Demers said. “Donald Trump is giving us plenty of warning about how he would govern as president, and it is frightening.”
Talking points were issued.
That whole “consolidated reich” thing has to have been scripted from beginning to end. Credit where it’s due, I suppose; there is a long and entertaining history of dirty tricks in American politics.
If any Glibs are looking for a house in Memphis
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/11418046/elvis-graceland-home-for-auction-lisa-marie-presley/
Needs some redecorating.
I think either Paul Simon or Dolly Parton should buy it – Dolly because she refused to give up the publishing rights to “I Will Always Love You” when Elvis wanted to cover it. Later, when Whitney Houston covered it (without Dolly having to give up the song rights) Dolly “made enough money to buy Graceland.”