Due to massive quantities of alcohol consumption last night, we appear to have lost the person who said they would do the links. To prevent this from happening in the future, we’ve ordered them a case of Dark Brandon’s Secret Sauce, so they can be as coherent and sharp as Biden was last night.
Apologies, and refunds will be issues in the order in which requests and payments (in that order) are received.
You have to be drunk to watch a modern political debate.
I forgot to ask for a refund. I will accept store credit.
There is a $50 nonrefundable processing fee for all refund requests.
Put it on my tab.
Rat on a train:
Ah, regret to inform, sir, credit limit was reached and breached quite some time ago. That will be a $75 surcharge.
Deficits don’t mean anything
“Deficits don’t mean anything”
The Keynesians will rue the day when that claim no longer hold sway.
I get that people that are into government have kept the idiotic and horribly mutated preachings of Keynes long past it’s sell date, because it allows them to grow government for social justice (marxism), but what can’t continue indefinitely, won’t.
Savor the irony of Keynes’ own words on that point.
Cool – let me start them off with suggesting nothing is happening until after the convention.
This lets them backroom the nominee.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-privately-discuss-replacing-biden-on-presidential-ticket-73622773?st=hammkauvv2lt4jq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
But what name appears on the ballots if they change after the deadline for getting on the ballots?
What happens to votes cast for those?
No problem, the Dems will just do something not allowed by law and some court will rubber stamp it.
How do they convince Doktor Jill to allow Joe to withdraw?
More mortgages?
Nice! Although they would have to be really YUUUGE! to get her to give up being First Lady.
Grant her the title Frau Doctor First Lady (for Life) Jill Biden?
The “Stormy Daniels” experience with the new president?
That does run into the issue that the DNC already did a shadow convention and named Biden the nominee to comply with Ohio (and a couple other states) laws about ballot access. But I’m sure a friendly federal judge in Hawaii can overturn that for them.
But does the virtual convention they had already because of Ohio count? Because that was supposed to be the actual vote anyway (again, to satisfy Ohio)… so the in-person one was already just window dressing.
And I have to say — the campaign website attempt to lean into the “Darth Brandon” meme is so beyond pathetic it isn’t even funny. They should prominently sell packs of (paper, of course!) straws so their remaining hangers on can grasp at them.
Where the did the WSJ find this squish? A nominally Republican in NV who is a “a health and safety manager for an exploration drilling company” and thinks she still may have to vote for Biden.
Eklund—a Republican who has supported Democrats in the past and is undecided about how she will vote in November—said that if Biden were her father, “I would probably ask him not to proceed. His overall appearance has substantially changed. He stuttered before in the past, but not like he did this time.”
But Eklund, a health and safety manager for an exploration drilling company, said she wasn’t happy with Trump’s performance either. “I felt they both acted like children, unfortunately,” she said.
McMuffin’s last supporter?
In other words, not really a Republican.
Votes for Democrats, is “on the fence” – yeah, not a Republican really. Parrots the “stutter” narrative – smells like Democrat operative.
She’s right that it was liking watching two five year olds, though.
RC – that was my first thought. It’s perfect.
So, a Democrat
Nothing would demoralize the Democratic base more than a non-democratic primary resulting in a nomination. Even the party hardcores won’t be happy, and the factions would break into open warfare.
In other words, from your lips to God’s ear.
Is it morning?
It’s mourning for some.
It’s Mourning In Amerika!
You saw this idiocy referenced recently too? (Can’t find how I stumbled across it — but some other moron woman was touting it… maybe someone linked it yesterday….)
My biggest takeaway from last night’s freak show: Biden handed Trump two wonderful gifts, which were ignored and wasted.
“How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties for molesting a woman in public? For doing a whole range of things? Of having sex with a porn star on the night – while your wife was pregnant? You have the morals of an alley cat.”
Correct answer was: “Say, Joe, I bet you could recommend a great babysitter for my kids.”
“Convicted felon.”
Correct answer was: “Found competent to stand trial.”
Nice!
What was Trump’s reply?
Something something BORDERS something. Something something we’re a laughingstock something.
He really didn’t have much else to say.
I would have accepted “Even an alley cat doesn’t take bribes from foreign governments and shower with his daughter.”
Trump wasn’t particularly sharp. Just looked smart because he was standing next to an invalid.
“Debate:” Folk calling each other “whiner” and “loser.” It’s a fuckin’ (bad) High School Prez ‘election.’ Plenty of “fortification” will be involved.
Not talked ’bout? Actual policies! Note: The Prez doesn’t have Constitutional authority to have much outside war.
Watched w True Blue bro, SiL and Mom: “Why do we have to vote for a decaying corpse to keep Trump out of office?” was one good one. I’m thrilled people MAY (read: “Are not” see(ing) how fucked up the whole system has become. If THIS is what jolts ppl into realizing Shit is Up (They Won’t.) it MAY be worth it. Optimists unite…behind a pebble I kick.
“Cadaverous” was a good one Mom used. They’re so despondent that BIDEN is the “best” Team Blue can do. I find it highly amusing in my own way. NO ONE in my family recognized/saw/gets my point that all SocSec $ from my generation+ is aaaaall gone, wasted, spent. My “Wanna boost the econ? How about STOP taking 12.4% of every goddamn paycheck away from folk for that fucking bankrupt “security.” Silence. True Blue, I am surrounded by. 🙂
It fits — DC has been Junior High Mean Girls, The Sequel for quite a while now. Might as well devolve into Student Council President election debates… “I’ll get the Principal to outlaw homework and give us free snacks!” sounds awfully close to the JackAss platform after all.
The next debate should be that gibbering slam poetry crap they do in high school now.
For the EV haters:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/sport/randall-cobb-nfl-house-fire-spt-intl/index.html
“The Tesla charger caught on fire in the garage late last night and quickly spread”
Better still it was the charger and not the car. There are more than few “professional” electricians that half ass the install of chargers.
That’s why it’s taking so long for the Biden admin to install those chargers. You can’t be too careful.
Sigh. Many people are ‘wary’ of Ev and my ability to consistently do odd things. Maybe one ex, but I can’t think of anyone else who actively “hates” me.
I find the flood of “ev haters” frightful, inopportune. *kicks pebble further*
I’d put up with you for $7,500 in tax credits.
Just in time for the election.
COVID-19 is on the rebound in Florida as new variants spread across the country.
Federal health authorities have scaled back what data is available to track the virus, with no more total case counts and as hospitals are no longer are required to report COVID-19 admissions.
But Florida has seen a surge in virus levels in sewage since early May, according to data from WastewaterSCAN, a project from Emory and Stanford universities that analyzes samples from 13 sites in the state, including three St. Petersburg locations.
Maybe we can scare the rubes into letting us do fraud-by-mail again. It’s worth a shot.
I’ve seen a couple of articles spinning that Biden had a cold (BUT NOT COVID! HE TESTED NEGATIVE), which is why he was so out of sorts during the debate.
Strangest cold symptoms I’ve ever seen in my life. Perfectly mimicked dementia.
So then I’m sure he’ll do much better in September.
The problem with that is that no one mentioned the cold before the debate, in fact they spun him as vigorous and ready to go.
Or maybe Dems just like spreading contagious diseases (remember when Hillary supposedly had pneumonia, but still hugged a young girl)?
Jimbo…that won’t matter. If they want that to be the narrative, they will wash away all that.
Florida won’t do it, but don’t most states have fraud by mail still on the books from 2020?
^^
“surge”… “uptick”… no numbers, percentages or ratios needed, I see… so it could be 0.0005% to 0.0008% for all we know.
And I fully expect it to start ticking up as we approach Fall. Like every other flu-like virus in human history after all.
I thought they were gearing up for Scary Bird Flu this time around though.
I think I have shared this story, but I like to hear myself talk so I’ll tell it again.
I once did a project to add the ability to directly send flu testing results from the machine that did the testing via the internet. It was a pretty simple project, it was just adding a cellular module and tapping into a serial port on the machine.
The old method was: 1) Machine tests all day. 2) Some flunky would hit a print button and all the results would be printed on a roll of paper like a receipt. 3) Flunky would put results into a spreadsheet and email to state health dept. 4) State flunky would put results by hand into their database. 5) Another flunky would run report and email results to CDC. 6) CDC would import into their database.
Go figure, this took some time. The lag was 6-8 weeks from test to CDC. When we were talking to the various people about the current process, they would admit that the data was only good for looking at historical trends because by the time the CDC (or even state) got the results there was no chance to react to any wave of flu.
Our project actually failed because the State Health Dept that we were trying to do a pilot with was too inept to set up an api we could send the results to. And there was consternation about what would happen to the three people who entered all that data previously. So the manufacturer liked the work, but couldn’t sell it.
I doubt much has changed since then (mid ’00s). I bet it still takes a long time for results to get from the field to the CDC. And I bet there are still a lot of manual pieces to the process.
And nobody makes a typo during any of those steps.
I like to hear myself talk
Are you one of those guys that talks out loud while they type?
No, but my lips do move.
“Maybe we can scare the rubes into letting us do fraud-by-mail again.”
No need. Junk mail voting is the baseline nearly everywhere now. I think it was rolled back just a little in only a couple of states.
What a pile of shit.
Love how they don’t use hospitalizations or deaths, it’s the amount of virus in the sewer. If lots of people were getting seriously ill you’d hear about it.
Fraud by mail is the way voting is now done in most of the blue and swing states. No coof needed.
In a red county in CO and most people here vote by mail. We just had primary Congressional votes. As an Independent I got a Repub and a Dem ballot mailed to me. I picked one, put it in the envelope they provided, signed the envelope and wrote my email address on it, and put the envelope in a designated box in town. Supposedly I will get an email confirming my ballot was counted.
HI adopted “voting fraud by mail” slightly before Da Vid caused the large adoption of it. I have lived in my house for 12+ years and the last election I received ballots for myself and three others I have never met. The ballots didn’t arrive on the same day as well. The only saving grace is fraudsters have to have their ballots arrive at the various tallying sites by 8pm on the so-called “election day.”
In person voting, after showing ID, with a paper ballot, on the designated day should be the standard. My call is that biden is selected again, two weeks after “election day” after an Atlantic Wall’s worth of fortification.
Whoever called it a bum fight last night was spot on. I watched as much as I could bear.
Some Joe statements that need follow ups:
– “Fentanyl machines”? what?
– “Most women are raped by their in-laws” speaking from experience?
“We beat Medicare” is pretty good.
That was David Burge, “Iowahawk”, on X.
“…in-laws and sisters” is what he said.
He’s all in on trans inclusion is my most generous take on that.
Most women in the Biden family are raped by their in laws is what he meant I think.
We finally beat Medicare!!!
with a stick?
Into swords, which we gave to Ukraine. And Israel. And Hamas.
That’s real?!
I’m sorely tempted to order some, but I don’t want the mailings that will come along with ordering it.
It’s so pathetic I thought it had to be fake.
Trump supporters need to start selling “Your Fired!!” hot sauce, charcoal, and butane lighters.
Please. Here at Glibs we only serve the finest and most truthful snark and commentary. Just look at our Wednesday midday posts.
Neph, we’re just lucky that Seth Dillon hasn’t stolen SF out from under us.
I’m spending all my money on the good stuff my local liquor store is selling!
Any company that leans that hard into politics has completely lost any ability to sell to me. I don’t care which side you are on.
“DARK BRANDON’S SECRET SAUCE”
What’s the secret ingredient in that sauce? Ewww…
If the can is to be believed, it is only water. So you’re paying for an aluminum can of water. Really environmental there, libs. At least Billy Beer was only “mostly water”.
I worked on my truck last night instead of watching the old white and crusty turd sandwich debate the giant douche from the TV show about branding.
Sounds like I made the right choice. When with the second coming of Bobby K make his case.
Depends on how cruel your sense of humor is or isn’t whether that was a solid move or not.
Get ready for it to be socially acceptable to say that there is a *slight* possibility that Biden *might* be suffering from just a *smidge* of mental decline, despite that being far-right extremist transphobic QAnon conspiracy theory lies right up until 5 minutes ago.
See also: the border/inflation/lab leaks/et.al.
This is being spun like it just happened, like he caught a case of dementia last week. No concerns that he might have been a clueless figurehead for the last 4 years.
Remember how they went after the prosecutor who revealed they weren’t going after him because he seemed like a confused old man? This has been going on for quite a while.
If the Brandon isn’t fit to run for re-election how da hell is he fit to sit in the Big Chair now?
Putin/Xi/Un et al are looking (leering) and wondering if this a new chess game and they didn’t get copy of the rules.
After last night’s display confirmed for the world just how bad Brandon is, the world became a much more dangerous place.
They sure are.
I put something like that on Twitter this morning. These people all knew what he was like and covered for him for four years, and they’re willing to break every law to get him re-elected. There should be no doubt about little they respect this country and its citizens, or even the rest of the world. What they’ve done is finally out in the open.
This came up over in my substack feed.
He’d seen things you people wouldn’t believe
A civil servant robot working for a council in South Korea was found unresponsive after apparently throwing itself down a flight of stairs, with locals now mourning the country’s first robot suicide.
Gumi City Council announced that the robot is now defunct after it fell down a two-metre staircase around 4pm last Thursday.
It had ‘Net access, found out about that “human cell-based skin” story from yesterday and…. just couldn’t face it?
I bet we find out the robot was made to engage in non consensual sex acts…
Civil Service… robot?
Does Not Compute.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man…
Steve AustinCivil Servant Park-bot will be that man. We can make him better than he was before Better…Stronger…FasterThe 6 million won robot?
Six million won is about… $4,356
Yeah, we could probably swing that. Cheaper than a replacement.
The Six Million Peso Man
That’s the reason some people have surgery in Mexico.
“I made her, I can do anything I want to her.”
https://youtu.be/29MPk85tMhc?t=155
https://youtu.be/29MPk85tMhc?t=172
Ha! Knew it.
“That guy definitely fucks that robot, right?”
And the city of Gumi beared it soul in morning.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Awww. Sweet boy.
Thanks, Holiness!
They are going to swap Biden out for someone else, and that will not be Koh-Moh-Loh. And in order to avoid having to assassinate Trump, they are going to have a massive effort that will require a reason to do to “fortify” the election again. If their plans still far short, like they did in 2016, you can bet your ass They are also putting “legislation” in place to prevent Trump from any attempt at dismantling the deep state, while I bet they will rile their militant marxist base to go out and riot.
These are evil people that will not accept others telling them they are credentialed morons and their time is up. It’s gonna get spicey.
It’d have to be a black woman then. Will Michelle do it?
Sigh. If Michelle ran, I think she would walk away with it.
Doesn’t matter that she had a no-show job on that board that was simply payola.
Especially when she finally comes out and reveals that she really is trans and is still packing junk.
Big Mike has made it very clear she doesn’t want the job.
And the democrats, for all their DEI shit, will replace the crypt keeper with a white dude or Hillary, because they already had enough fail with the dementia addled liar over the last 4 years.
Nah, the base will turn out due to sheer TDS, even when it is Newsom.
Back in the Obumbles time what we were seeing was every bit as nuts as what we are seeing now but I think most people couldn’t really believe or appreciate it. There was a ‘Nooooo, that cant be true’ mentality.
“The secret to a good debate performance? Staying hydrated. Get yourself the same performance enhancers Joe Biden took before going on stage. 100% water, 0% malarkey.”
What you use to pop the handfulls of malarkey needed to keep you from wandering out of the White house with your robe and slippers on?
I’ve been watching the betting odds pretty closely, and Biden dropped from ~33% to ~19% overnight.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
I may have to go put my money down, because Brandon wins narrowly on election night and handily post fortification/recounts.
Hey, buy a lottery ticket too!
Friday Funbags gives the debate two nipples up!
https://archive.is/0rGTI
Still less of a disaster than the debate?
“a manure truck rolled over, collided with a car and spilled its odoriferous cargo.”
Back to the future I, or II, or III?
IV, but reused in VII
Back to the Future: Shit Happens..
Why couldn’t it have been my garden instead of the thing in Atlanta last night.
It was spread pretty deep on both side of the stage
Interesting. I guess it got too liberal even for Buffett.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/warren-buffett-gives-us-a-preview-of-his-will-419ad46d?st=grlxqbjpryskhrb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
More Bond-villain evil than liberal.
There are too many people in the world Also, here, take these shots, they’re good for you, really.
Good morning!
I didn’t watch last night, but subjected myself to a few clips this morning. Like many others have commented, it looks to me like this was a setup to justify removing FJB once and for all.
But fuck all that.
How about a bonus Pope Jimbo’s Daily Ray of Sunshine?
Happy Friday!
Here is some sunshine for you, Tundra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBa_UVG136A
Oh my. What a great find!
I have that record somewhere. I know everyone slobbers over Sub Pop, but Matador in the 90s had some amazing bands.
Like my boys.
There was just a shit ton of good music back then. I missed a lot of it, being too wrapped up in one branch, but as I get older I get to start taking deep dives into bands I liked, but never got really into.
Would have been better if he’d played One in a Million.
Sorry Zwak. Benny Bannassi and Public Enemy were in the side bar and I sort of greyed out there for a while instead of watching your video.
So, I clicked on your link, Pope, and…
What were you saying?
I loved how much fun the band was having with the kid.
Thanks Tundra! That was awesome.
Interesting…
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/former-uvalde-school-police-chief-is-arrested-for-mass-shooting-response-33587762?st=t1s8gpj3ugo0chx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Good. Hang his body outside the city gates as a warning to others.
I said it back then, if it had been me that did that I would’ve sucked a gun barrel. How can a man live with that?
Watch the video of Tonio’s last link yesterday. Same thing.
One more comment about the debates: Trump did best when he spoke the least. He often ruined advantages that were handed to him when he decided to start… well… being Trump. He needs to be a better student of Napoleon; “N’interrompez jamais un ennemi qui est en train de faire une erreur.”
“Never interrupt an enemy when he’s running a train on a fairy?”
My high school French is a bit rusty…
No, no, faire une erreur is French transliteration of foreigner.
A gay error?
I can accept that.
What does it say when I can read that after two years of HS French, but putting the same thing in Japanese will take me to a dictionary to look up a some characters.
It says that the Japanese writing system is too convoluted.
Hence the invention of Hangul for Korean.
It may be one of the few diktats of Top Men that was truly beneficial.
HANGUL IS THE MOST SCIENTIFIC WRITING SYSTEM EVER!!!!! AND WE INVENTED THE PRINTING PRESS!!!!!
– Every Korean I have ever met who learned I can’t read Hangul.
Hangul is well designed for the Korean language.
I don’t speak Korean. I can’t read Hangul.
You didn’t capitalize on your version of the printing press, so Gutenberg’s improved version gets the credit.
Well Jimbo, given your family situation I do find it a bit funny you never took the plunge.
From what I’ve read just simply reading it takes only 40 to 80 hours of study. Doesn’t mean you will have any idea what you are saying, however. After that you are on to Japanese levels of grammar complexity and learning words with no western roots.
I can curse in Korean (learned from ROK Marines).
The problem I have with Korean is that there are certain phonemes that I can’t hear the difference between.
Daughter (딸) vs Moon(달)
My wife is fluent in Japanese too. Got her college degree in Japanese. I met her at a dorm mixer and talked her into meeting me for coffee to practice for my Japanese class. She was so fresh off the boat she thought I was actual husband material and made a grave error 30+ years ago.
Got her college degree in Japanese.
Sorry. She got her degree at a Japanese college. Her degree is in sociology. She came to the US to get a post-grad degree in social work. (never got it, having taken on the greater challenge of rehabilitating me).
I initially had the same trouble hearing distinctions in elongated and shortened vowel sounds in Japanese.
Context and endless listening repetition worked.
For example:
病院 びょういん – byouin – hospital
美容院 びよういん biyouin – beauty parlor
This.
Trump gave a very middling debate performance. The republicans would’ve been in panic mode last night if the democrats hadn’t gone all weekend at Bernie’s with their candidate.
You can tell that Trump’s coaches are feeding him a bunch of stylistic prep, and it’s combining with his natural personality into some weirdness. Way too repetitive. Way too many attempts to attack Biden without first setting up the punchline. Way too many missed opportunities that he wouldve nailed out of the park 8 or even 4 years ago.
It’s a clown show, and Trump’s only saving grace was that the other clown was more of an embarrassment than he was.
The reason alums in my X feed all said the new Trump was much better. Much more on-message.
They also all thought CNN dod a great job
Much more on-message.
Diff’rent strokes, I guess. Yelling “immigration” as the response to every question felt like a miss to me. He had the lid off that particular salt shaker and dumped it on every course of the meal.
I think CNN returned to an early 2000s style of debate moderation that was much needed, but the questions were still quite leading. I’d give them a 6/10.
Trump didn’t need to hit any home runs, when Biden couldn’t even find the plate.
Yep. If Biden’s on the mound, go up to bat with the mindset to watch 4 pitches.
In light of how things are going with your politicking I reiterate my offer to be emperor of America and fix things. I will give up absolute power in 10 yerars willingly after I fix things. All I require as payment is one billion dollars and while in office a harem of 12 hot American women between the ages of 20 and 30
I’m afraid your idea of how things should be does not correspond to how things should be.
how would you know how things should be? You don’t even have a proper map.
We need an emperor who sounds like Dracula. You have my vote.
So, Oleaginous is out, and Coagulase is in?
Look, the last guy we had in that slot didn’t do so hot. We’re not really looking to go back to it anytime soon.
Do not talk badly about the Protector of Mexico!
*Calls Dylan Mulvaney
Hey star,
Call up 11 of your home-gurls, we got a new leader wanting some American babes.
Wise ass.
I’ll save it for next time Frankie Graham come around.
I will admit when I’m wrong. And damn, was I wrong about the debate. I thought everything would be tightly controlled, even to the point of pre-recorded Biden answers. Sure, they cut off Trump at a few key times, and I think they gave Biden extra rebuttals, but other that that, it was the real Joe. This was nothing like I thought.
I was also wrong about Trump doing this debate. I thought it would be a bad idea. This was a massive win for him.
While Trump remained calm and had some good answers, all that has already been forgotten because the big story is how Biden appeared to be little more than a corpse and made Trump look young and vibrant. Sounds like the Dems are desperately trying to replace Biden at this point, but it might be too late.
If only they had not rigged their primary…
Habit at this point. And an open primary would have given RFK Jr. too much attention.
This was just a setup to replace Joe. They got what they wanted.
The infighting on the left has already begun.
“Axelrod: Biden Is The Nominee Of The Democratic Party, “This Isn’t The 60s” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/27/axelrod_biden_is_the_nominee_of_the_democratic_party_this_isnt_the_60s.html
“Time to Go, Joe” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/time-to-go-joe/ar-BB1p2tRn?cvid=fc6fecde3e424682f4cb1368e62d491a&ei=9
Anderson Cooper to VP Harris: Can You Honestly Say You Are Not Concerned After Watching Biden’s Debate Performance?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/27/anderson_cooper_to_vp_harris_can_you_honestly_say_you_are_not_concerned_after_watching_bidens_debate_performance.html
“Biden Post-Debate Comments: “These Guys Are Nothing But Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldiers,” “It’s Hard To Debate A Liar”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/27/biden_post-debate_comments_these_guys_are_nothing_but_lying_dog-faced_pony_soldiers_theyre_gonna_be_fact-checking_all_the_things_he_said.html
I was with you TOK. I figured that no matter what happened Trump would be declared the loser and the MSM would tout Biden’s chops.
I figured Trump agreed to all those rules because it removed the pressure from him. When the MSM called it for Biden, he’d have several real talking points to explain his loss away (CNN, biased moderators, no drug tests, etc.).
Didn’t watch even a minute of the debate. Looked a few clips this morning and am stunned how bad Joe looked.
The first time Joe opened his mouth it was over. His voice was all but gone from the start.
The thing that makes it even worse is that Biden spent the past week studying and prepping for the debate… Trump was campaigning and did little to no prep.
That was prepared and ready Biden. Imagine surprised and woken up in the middle of the night Biden.
Neph – Right, just consider that Biden’s performance was the result of 7 days of preparation.
So, last night I was texting with my peeps about the debate coverage. There were meltdowns all over the place. MSNBC was particularly despondent, as they vacillated from their pre-written talking points to despair over their candidate’s performance. Within an hour the consensus on all the main news shows we were watching was that Biden needs to step aside and be replaced.
My oh my, what difference a few hours makes.
This morning google curated a “news for you” section on youtube with stories about the debate. The headlines are oddly neutral given what we normally see.
ABC
Biden and Trump clash in rematch for the White House
WSJ
Watch Biden, Trump spar in first 2024 debate
Politico
Highlights from the first presidential debate
(Forbes Breaking News huge banner over Biden speaking after debate)
“We’re Gonna Beat This Guy”
KGUN9
How Dems, Republicans react to Historic Debate
Bizarre… they all went totally neutral.
Nothing in YouTube suggestions showed any of the panic from last night.
It is as if they regained their composure and went out to ensure that the 90% of the country that didn’t watch the debate doesn’t think there is anything worth seeing
Ok…. I watched this one
https://youtu.be/-cF5OmpzTmQ?si=0bvSf28S89DIchfP
Politico.
How hard did they have to work to pull out this to shape it to look like Biden was on equal footing?
Looks like the decision is to go into full gaslighting mode, because they realize they are probably stuck with Biden at this point.
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give generously glibbies
Looks like Stonehenge was the last straw. The ancient Celtic gods are fed up.
The “let’s all stand here and watch as protesters vandalize museums” and “let’s have the police protect a dozen protesters as they block the main highway into a major city” strategy has been a stunning development to me.
I mean, I knew that there were some governments who were complicit – like Charlottesville… but this is global and much more out in the open.
It has been a removal of the mask that has revealed how controlled we all are. It feels very Soviet Union… and it is across the west.
People are willing to put up with a lot now, thirty years ago these people would have been beaten at the least by a mob.
I approve of the Blues Brothers approach to blocked roads…………I hate Illinois Nazis!!
People are willing to put up with a lot now, thirty years ago these people would have been beaten at the least by a mob.
I was in my thirties thirty years ago, and when I see people just standing around watching these idiots vandalize, I am truly baffled why nobody is licking the shit out of them.
“kicking” KICKING goddammit!
*points*
“Ha Ha!”
Which department is this? We could give the officers a few dozen MRAPs
The enlightened west has slipped into madness. Was it inevitable?
These guys could not have been more wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw
“We can hear you coming. No, your not gonna win this time.” <—- Better take another look boys.
“The enlightened west has slipped into madness. Was it inevitable?”
I am pretty sure this will not be popular, but the fact is success created by hard men and societal changes because of the luxury that created, has become our downfall. The massive success has allowed people more focused on emotion and the luxury beliefs those that are driven by emotions and their hormones hold, to undermine the required pillars that kept the modernity and creation of more luxury.
Property rights seems to be heading towards extinction. The concept that a welfare state can’t survive with an open border seems to be the nail in the coffin. Economic policy of the elite is to make sure government has the absolute power to pick winners & losers, because life is not fair. Defense has been taken over by people that want to use it as a way to indoctrinate people not infected by stupid into being stupid, while its real purpose – to break shit and exterminate enemies, or at least to make others wishing to d you harm fear that prospect – is dead.
When culture and academia were allowed to be taken over by marxists, we doomed ourselves to extinction. Things will have to get real bad – bad enough that those primarily responsible for the luxury beliefs have suffered massively – before this ship will be allowed to correct. And it will take hard men to do it.
So, inevitable. I think you are right.
Until I got a really good look at demoralized people I didn’t realize just how malleable the human mind is.
Alex – It’s the endless cycle: hard men>good times; good times> soft men; soft men>hard times; hard times>hard men.
We are still in the soft men stage.
“We are still in the soft men stage.”
Yes, but the fall this time will have the largest body count in human history (passing the close to 170 million murdered by marxism), and the destruction of prosperity will be epic. I am worried it will be a civilizational collapse followed by a long dark age…
ok
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-naked-front-husbands-friends-33069709
Threesome within a year.
Open marriage within two.
Divorce within five.
Assuming (wrongly) that’s real, absolutely.
Does the Daily Star ever have any stories without an appeal to prurient interests?
CNN post game analysis
“He knows every one of these questions is coming”
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1806526926002999692?s=19
Eh, I know the right is running wild with this but was there any question that was not just a generic debate question or completely expected (hey, you’re fucking old, how do you respond?).
If you don’t think they – the deep state, the media, and the dnc crime syndicate – did everything they could to help Biden come out ahead in that freakshow, you are missing out on the definition of “fortification” team blue works from.
I still stand by the fact this was the plan all along. The people that have really been running the country needed an excuse to tell the voters electing a democrat will be more of the same economic and global devastation as they sell out the American people to the globalist agenda, for the next 4 years. Replacing Biden with some other tool will allow them to pretend things can change for the better (it won’t: it can only get worse for people that do actual work with these people in charge), which is a must have to fight Trump’s appeal to the blue collar worker classes that have suffered the most from Obamanomics 3.0 masquerading as Bidenomics.
Team red is a country club full of assholes, but team blue is a brutal and hardcore crime syndicate that cares only about having and getting more power and using it to let everyone know they have it.
Tractor Supply Retreats From DEI Amid Conservative Backlash
https://www.wsj.com/business/tractor-supply-to-cut-carbon-emission-goals-dei-roles-to-meet-customer-values-70213375?st=fsxcl6cvyg4x38t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Big win for sanity. I hope people throw them some business.
Meh, my local farm stores are better and they don’t have corporate bean counters cramming this crap down their throats. I won’t avoid TSC anymore, but I’m not gonna go out of my way to give them business
When I see things like this announcement, my first question is are they just renaming the evil shit something else so they can go back under cover to keep doing the same evil shit. I guess I have more certainty that in the private sector the odds are better “Didn’t Earn It” is being done away with because it has costs associated with it, but when it comes to academia, public education, or government, I bet they are just using slight of hand to distract the people that understand the damage this shit is doing.
I saw the statement, but I’m waiting for them to follow through on it.
Now if they’d do something about the cheap Chinese knockoff crap they sell…
I caught part of an old horror movie last night which was apparently about putting a human brain into a gorilla. The DNC should see if they can scrounge up a monkey brain to swap into Joe’s head.
Do you want Planet of the Apes?
Cause that is how you get Planet of the Apes!
Was it like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOBl9W7_AbI
Dolores: What are those assholes doing on the porch? –
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Those aren’t assholes. It’s pronounced “azaleas”
Sad heads-up since a lot of us are fans: Rep. Massie’s posting that his wife passed away yesterday.
Dang. He has been on a whirlwind media tour of late, so hopefully he got to spend some time with her before she died.
R.I.P.
That’s horrible.
Was she sick or did it come out of nowhere?
I’m going to assume she was sick (and I assume cancer) but they kept it quiet.
That sucks.
I await some shitty, soulless takes from the left about her death.
Lol Berlin
https://x.com/nick_kapur/status/1805876279297950173
The people of the DDR won that fight…
I think we need to thank RJ for giving us that Cheerleaders movie. Now we have something to watch in a loop to take our mind off the shit show that is our country.
My wild conspiracy theory is that they didn’t give Joe the good drugs on purpose so he would do badly, and held it in June so that they would have time to run a replacement.
I’d be less apt to believe it if people weren’t predicting this exact situation 2 months ago.
It was known that they had to jettison gropey joe and cackles, the question was when and how.
My wild conspiracy theory – it is not that wiled I saw it a bun ch of times on the X
I thought about that too and no one could question it, “Why was he even on drugs?”
Theatrical modesty
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a potential future presidential candidate who was Biden’s most prominent surrogate in the Atlanta spin room, urged Democrats not to panic.
“I think it’s unhelpful. And I think it’s unnecessary. We’ve got to go in, we’ve got to keep our heads high,” Newsom said in an interview on MSNBC. “We’ve got to have the back of this president. You don’t turn back because of one performance. What kind of party does that?”
Go on, Gavin, save the party. Dive onto the grenade.
Here’s a thought:
If Hillary had managed to not lose to Trump, she’d be finishing up her second term now.
And the inverse: if the D’s hadn’t gone full Stalinist, Trump would be finishing up, and as per usual the pres. would switch parties.
Still, signs of anxiety were apparent as Democrats began to openly encourage the party to find an alternative to Biden. Some party officials pointed to a social media post from former Obama campaign aide Ravi Gupta.
“Every Democrat I know is texting that this is bad,” Gupta wrote on X. “Just say it publicly and begin the hard work of creating space in the convention for a selection process. I’ll vote for a corpse over Trump, but this is a suicide mission.”
Nobody saw it coming. We’re all flabbergasted.
So I guess we’re going to pretend that their Zoom convention nomination of Biden never happened?
I’ve heard it did, but I haven’t really seen any confirmation, so maybe it didn’t.
This debate was such an unforced error on Trump’s part. Why not just say “Nah, we’ll do a debate or two in the normal course, after the conventions.” I see no downside to that, but this gives the Dems the opportunity to swap out Joe for a better candidate. Sure, it’ll piss of some of the Dem faithful to have a back room deal nominee, but does anybody think they won’t fall in line and vote for whoever?
Forget the debates – this election will be settled on the golf course.
Bryson DeChambeau offers to host golf match between Donald Trump and Joe Biden after Presidential debate descended into bizarre handicap row
I have said this before but Bryson DeChambeau is a stupid name.
I assumed he was French until I saw an interview. Just a regular dude originally from California who moved to Texas.
Chevron OVERRULED!
🎆🎆🎇🎇🧨🎇🎆🎆🎇🎆🎆
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf
I did not expect it to be that unambiguous
Yes, that’s some firm language. Tumescent, even.
I want to frame and display this decision
https://x.com/FlyingFastNLow/status/1806701023420940766
Got a link?
^
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I loaded the page before your link had shown up.
I get it, just funning
Just saw that, it’s YUUUGE!
Now do Wickard
So the US will be destroyed by pollution before I get the chance to visit 🙁
Yeah, your Eurotrash presence will hardly be noticed
KIDDING!
Only the big blue urban areas…
Everywhere else the only pollution we have is the stupidity noise from these urban areas.
Especially on top of Ohio vs. EPA being decided in favor of the great state of Ohio.
Which one was that?
If nothing else, this is a reason to favor Trump as president.
Hmm… Roberts apparently left himself weasel words:
Congress delegating authority to an agency being constitutional or not is part of the issue as I understood things.
But hopefully this helps a bit. Now do Wickard guys.
Thomas’s was better.
Why am I not surprised who dissented?
Wow. Wowie wow wow wow.
After the whole golf discussion the Zoom crowd determined that Joe Biden is Judge Smails and Trump is Rodney Dangerfield
No, Biden is that super old dude, the one wearing plus fours who makes six feet on a drive.
“good show…”
“Mr. Havercamp, your ball is over here, sir.”
Oh excellent. Newsom waiting in the wings to take on the Judge Smails role?
https://x.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/1806338536062238977?s=19
The first clip of Tucker Carleson that has come across my feed in months.
Kinda worth it.
Earlier in his remarks, he spent a bit of time talking through the difference between true journalism as factual inquiry versus journalism as an exercise in virtue signalling. Clearly that girl was watching TikTok videos during that part of the speech.
That was great.
He ended her.
They obviously had the debate in June so they’d have an excuse to dump Biden.
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/the-democrats-are-a-cheap-fake
The real question is how and with whom do they replace him? That’s why I think the real loser of the debate is Trump. Given the general intelligence level of the average voter, Biden in his current state is the only person Trump could beat IMO. I actually think Trump would struggle to beat Kamala as lousy of a candidate as she is simply because she could cobble back together enough of their intersectional identity coalition (which is currently crumbling) to drag it over the finish line. There is no way in hell they’ll let Newsom be the guy; you can’t possibly let a straight White guy leapfrog box-checking Kamala without a 5 alarm lefty meltdown. I expect Joe will drop out in August for Kamala with Vladimir Ilych Newsom as the Veep. If Joe doesn’t drop out, it’s a telegraph that they no longer care about being subtle in the election fraud, it’ll be loud, proud and massive in scale. Like I’ve said before, “they” will never, ever let Trump be president again and they’ll do anything to keep him out.
Last night we saw clear as day that Biden is not in charge. Which means the last 4 years is all due to Democrat policies. That’s going to be really hard for them to shake. The new candidate would have to run on a platform of reversing everything Biden did. Will their commie base tolerate that?
I actually think it doesn’t matter; as Dean said, the AWFLs will be single-issue on abortion and most of the rest will vote on personality. You’re 100% right about him not being in charge, but that goes for any future Dem president as well. The “staff” are the ones actually calling the shots, the Chief Executive is a figurehead.
Why do you think the people who vote based on intersectional identity stuff won’t vote for Biden, but would for Kamala?
In any event, I think that issue is not really much of a needle-mover regardless of the nominee. Most of those people are AWFLs, and they will vote based on abortion anyway. Could Kamala retrieve some of the minority vote that is leaking away? Maybe a few blacks, but I don’t see her getting any Latinos back on the reservation.
You give them too much credit. Why bother with all of the intrigue and bullshit when Trump could just be the victim of a lone gunman.
Sure, and I absolutely believe they could and would do that if necessary. However, they can do that anytime and I think they’d rather not do it unless it’s a last resort. They’ll try whatever bullshit leading up to the election and if it looks still like it’s a lock for Trump, he can be dealt with on November 1.
on a grassy knoll
you can’t possibly let a straight White guy leapfrog box-checking Kamala without a 5 alarm lefty meltdown
What are they going to do? Vote for Trump?
FreedomToons on the debate:
https://youtu.be/HJuDd-fdEew?si=_l6I6pjho5kqGgHm
“of course not, that’s when all his votes come in”
🤣🤣
At least NPR is willing to put their armor on and white-knight like there’s no tomorrow
The moderation, or lack thereof, also allowed Trump to spread falsehoods and hyperbole without being interrupted or corrected. CNN indicated before the debate that the moderators were not going to play a strong role in fact checking the candidates, and they lived up to that.
They left it to the candidates, essentially, and with Biden unable to deliver in real time and the moderators declining to, the audience was left with a salad bowl full of rotten eggs and moldy lettuce that passed for facts.
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Despite Biden’s struggles, which will understandably get the headlines, Trump had some difficult moments, too, especially in the second half of the debate.
In addition to spreading myriad falsehoods, he did little to credibly defend his conduct on and before the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol; he used the kind of hyperbolic and vituperative language that has long turned off swing voters; and showed why many are concerned about some of his positions on the issues, especially on abortion and how the U.S. should be represented on the world stage.
So despite Biden’s shortcomings, millions will still likely vote for Biden, anyway, because he’s not Trump.
It’s your duty as Americans to vote for President Not-Trump.
bad kitty with some debate thoughts
The White House and the MSM have been pushing for weeks that all those Biden videos are “cheap fakes”. Half the country knew this was bullshit, but now the other half knows they’ve been lied to this whole time. It’s also clear to the whole country that Biden is not running things.
Did the people claiming that Biden’s in control really believe that? That’s also hard to believe.
Has KJP showed her perpetually bewildered face yet today?
Has KJP showed her perpetually bewildered face yet today?
If she does I hope Doocy askes her if last night was a deepfake or cheapfake.
I don’t think they can replace Biden, mostly because he is the one person who lets all of the different factions in the D party get away with what they want. To replace him, all the stakeholders of the party would have to come together and agree on who would step in. Do you think Kamalamadingdong will let Newsome step in? That Frau DOKTOR Biden will leave gracefully? And so on. Biden being a vegetable allowed all of them space, and as long as the media covered for it, they thought they could keep going, playing musical chairs so to speak.
This opened a lot of eyes, and and now they see just how they look naked.
Well, that would suggest that bad kitty’s second scenario is most likely. Cede the next four years, keep the band together and fuck with Trump using all the available deep state resources
Further: Technically, Biden is the titular head of the D party. Which in practical terms means that it doesn’t have a leader, hence no one can make decisions on that end of things, such as placing someone to take the reins.
It has to be a slap fight at that point.
Cede the next four years, keep the band together and fuck with Trump
Given where the economy and wars are, why not let the Other Side take over and own the blame?
Come back in 4 years and say “We told you Trump would fuck it all up!”
“Cede the next four years, keep the band together and fuck with Trump using all the available deep state resources”
That was exactly the plan four years ago, before the plague opened the door for them to actually win. Too late to replace Biden, who was nominated as a Bob Dole style sacrificial candidate.
“The long shadow of Freud still hangs over psychology and psychiatry. With the help of behavioral genetics and other sophisticated methods of ascertaining causality, we may finally walk out from it.”
https://x.com/NoahCarl90/status/1806594459099971751
right from one bullshit to the next
Get back to me when more than ten percent of psychological studies using a given approach are reproducible and we’ll talk.
Get back to me when we clamber out from under the shadow of Descartes’ mind/body dualism.
A small win, for now, for those of us that hate the kakistocracy. Unfortunately, I suspect the way this plays out is that the deep state will just ignore the ruling with help from the executive and legislative branches.
Hopefully they target Auer deference next. Agencies shouldnt get to write ambiguous regulations and have the courts defer to the Agency’s interpretation.
From your mouth to the SCOTUS’ ears…
https://x.com/FlyingFastNLow/status/1806702406001905995
What happened to all those 55 gallon drums we used for prog tears in 2016? I’m gonna need them for all the lawyers I know.
I am gonna tell you that I suspect the kakistocracy will just ignore the ruling or pretend they are complying with it. No freaking way will they give up this illegitimate power. And all 3 branches of government will support this rebellion because it benefits them. Congress gets to blame the bureaucracy today, without that, they are in trouble, so no way they want that. Same for the executive. And the legislative branch loves the power it gives them working to help the corruptocracy’s unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy.
https://tenor.com/bDWSh.gif
the kakistocracy will just ignore the ruling or pretend they are complying with it.
Yup. Who becomes the judge hearing the case? Either it’s a lawyer who has been trying the cases for a long time or it’s the bureaucrat who was making the policies in the first place.
The ladder from big law to big business to fedgov agencies to federal court is well trod.
pretend they are complying with it.
I guarantee there will be an email in my inbox by this evening that says something to the effect of “How to navigate agency enforced statutes to overcome post-Chevron uncertainty”. The rulings the corporate leviathan hates are “navigated” and “overcome”. That’s almost the exact language I received in my inbox after the affirmative action case.
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“A Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome survived until at least the age of six, according to a new study whose findings hint at compassionate caregiving among the extinct, archaic human species.”
https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1806459708016103890
whose findings hint at compassionate caregiving among the extinct, archaic human species
Wow, that’s a lot of bullshit crammed into one sentence
Generally speaking, hominid parents are going to be caring for their offspring in those early years, chromosomal abnormality or not.
There are exceptions (EU, Sparta, Canada, California) where they’d murder the child instead.
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman
I’m in Warsaw talking about the future of the European economy, so I’m late to this party. But I’ll have a blog post up soon very reluctantly making the case for Biden — the best president of my adult life — to step aside in favor of Harris.
https://x.com/paulkrugman/status/1806664149453226081
tweet of the day?
Anyone that takes Krugman seriously is a greater moron than that idiot is.
Without question.
Like a modern day Nostradamus he is.
He’s right on that one minus the best president of my adult life horseshit. A hobo kidnapped off the street would stand a better chance than Biden as long as the election is actually on the up and up.
Better than Obama?
(Not that I think Obama was better, but I thought Team Blue loved Obama.)
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/27/lochels-bakery-hatboro-presidential-debate-cookie-poll-biden-trump-election-2024/74230126007/
Look to the cookie to see how things are going.
Hatboro sits in a “purple” district. Maybe only MAGA fatties patronize bakeries?
Another win from the SC. It ruled that federal obstruction charges only apply narrowly. Great news for the people in jail for J6.
“…A major loss for the Biden Administration. The Court rules that the “novel interpretation would criminalize a broad swath of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists alike to decades in prison.””
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1806703955881197799
…This is a big win for Trump as well. It knocks out a substantial part of the case of Jack Smith against the former president. It also knocks out hundreds of convictions…
…Obviously, there were other charges like trespass that will not be impacted. However, this hits hundreds of cases. Those cases must now be reviewed on just on the underlying convictions but sentencing in many cases. It will not impact those cases which only went forward on trespass which are also numbers in the hundreds…
What about Bannon? Does this have any bearing on his bullshit charges?
The Supreme Court’s reign of terror
On Thursday, the Court handed down a 6-3 decision, on a party-line vote, that could render a simply astonishing array of federal laws unenforceable. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in dissent, “the constitutionality of hundreds of statutes may now be in peril, and dozens of agencies could be stripped of their power to enforce laws enacted by Congress.”
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But, as Sotomayor warns, many federal agencies — including the “Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and many others” — may only seek civil penalties in administrative proceedings. That means that a wide array of laws guaranteeing workplace safety and advancing other important federal goals could cease to function after Jarkesy.
The Jarkesy case, in other words, is an example of the Roberts Court at its most arrogant. Were the Court tasked with resolving the dispute on a blank slate, then there are entirely plausible arguments that Mr. Jarkesy should be entitled to a jury trial. But that ship sailed many years ago, and the federal government has operated for an exceedingly long time on the assumption that many disputes can be adjudicated by ALJs.
By upending this longstanding assumption, the Court may have just thrown huge swaths of the federal government — particularly enforcement by those agencies Sotomayor listed — into chaos.
Soon there will be noting left of the government.
The horror.
The HORROR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusZXECS0mM&ab_channel=Soma
I was gonna go with https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=48H34ukFe8g
“the constitutionality of hundreds of statutes may now be in peril, and dozens of agencies could be stripped of their power to enforce laws enacted by Congress.”
Those statutes and powers were always unconstitutional, the court just finally set things somewhat more right. Her “wise Latina” argument seems to be that unconstitutional laws and powers should be allowed to remain in violation of the constitution because restoring constitutional compliance would be too disruptive to the deep state.
That is exactly her position. She has already denounced the standard of applying constitutionality to laws and government actions. It would be a ‘novel approach’, according to her.
Oh no! Congress might have to do its job! Just like post-Roe.
Biden — the best president of my adult life
*guffaws, slaps knee*
“The California legislature erupted in chaos before it passed a ban on parental notification for gender change requests from TK-12 students. If signed by the governor, the bill would render moot the parental notification policies that have been adopted by many California school districts.
After the California Department of Education issued guidance that schools should not disclose students’ gender-related record change requests to parents, some California school districts adopted rules requiring parents to be notified if their children request to officially change their pronouns, go by a different name, or use facilities or school programs for children of the opposite gender. California Attorney General Rob Bonta responded by supporting lawsuits against these school districts, and the current bill in question, AB 1955.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/california-legislature-bans-schools-notifying-parents-gender-change
WTF??
parents should mind their own business.
Short thread on life of the Tasmanian Aborigines prior to European arrival – the most isolated & primitive human society that has ever existed.
Excerpts from Edgerton’s “Sick Societies”.
Tasmanians lived in foraging bands of 40-50 people.
Diet was adequate except for the winters, in which they were often brought to brink of starvation.
Dangerous tasks fell overwhelmingly on the women, such as climbing 30-metre trees or diving treacherous waters for food
Hunting kangaroos however was reserved solely for men – apparently because it was enjoyable, especially compared to the dangerous or tedious tasks of diving, beach-combing or foraging.
Author claims women took a higher burden of risk than any other primitive culture.
Despite eating seals, crustaceans, & various molluscs, Tasmanians categorically refused fish – despite spending a quarter of the year starving.
The fossie record indicates fish was once a major nutrition source for the Tasmanians, but this completely ceased around 2000 BC.
Despite day temperatures of 5-10 degrees during midwinter, Tasmanians never invented clothing.
They merely threw kangaroo skins over their shoulders, or smeared themselves with animal fat.
They even lost the ability to make fire, shared only by the Sirionó & Yaqui Amerindians.
European exploration introduced the Tasmanians to one of the earliest human technological breakthroughs after toolmaking: the domestic dog.
Tasmanians instantly fell in love with them, eagerly trading to 🇬🇧sealers their most prized possessions for these dogs -young women.
This despite the fact that the main cause of death was violent feuds over women
https://x.com/haravayin_hogh/status/1802650863502303631
colonial propaganda? grain of truth?
If your society has lost the ability to make fire – it deserves to be swept away and replaced.
Before the runaway PC bullshit this was in agreement with all of the accounts of the Australian Aborigines. It would seem they were barely more sophisticated than troops of monkeys.
It looks like the Fisher case also went bad for the corruptocracy:
“In the case of a former Pennsylvania police officer who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Fischer v. United States, the court holds that to prove a violation of the law, the government must show that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or other things used in an official proceeding, or attempted to do so. The case is returned to the lower court to determine whether the indictment can still stand in light of this new and narrower interpretation.”
Shorter version: J6 shit is going to be dead meat.
What? Courts can’t just assert guilt?
Funnies thing I have seen in a while:
“My husband called a priest last year and found out the exorcism would cost around £500. I’m not saying Neil’s tight, but he chose to buy a bottle of holy water and do it himself, which is why I’m still possessed of a demon that refuses to believe women have dicks.” — J.K. Rowling, in response to someone on X asking her if she’s been radicalized past the point of salvation.
If she had THAT plot twist in here Potter series, I would have actually read it or watched the movie to see that happen.
Man, she’s just great.
I really need to pick up her detective novels.
Very much enjoyed the tv series version!
Loper and Jarkesy in one week!
SCOTUS also sided with sanity on the Oregon “camping” (homeless) case. 6-3, no points for guessing the 3.
Not a Biologist, Wide Latina and… forgot the nickname for the other gal.
Big fan of this lady that just posts videos of herself getting into arguments with her Little Owl in a mix of German and unintelligible hooting
https://x.com/SavosAndSavos/status/1806282784421343372
That owl is gonna ravish her corpse someday for that abuse…
I’m not sure owls are into zoonecrophilia.
I managed to listen to the debate as I walked the dog. Biden had a bunch of facts/figures downloaded, but they kept coming out garbled. It reminded me of my father after a stroke: Somewhat cogent thoughts are in the brain, but he just can’t deliver them out of his mouth. Trump is unable utter a single sentence that isn’t in the superlative. Best economy in the history of the world, Kim Jong Il-level bragging about his golf game, etc. I listened to the CBS recap, where the spin was that sure Biden is off, but Trump is a serial liar. Well, Biden did his fair share of lying; he actually did the Charlottesville thing again, at length. Also, John Dickerson is an unbelievable hack. I did appreciate that both candidates just completely ignored Jake Tapper’s questions. The Dems must be in complete despair, because a friends’ group text chat that is 24-7 obsessed with erasing Trump has been dead silent.
Remember, kids, every single person who worked closely with @JoeBiden
for the last few years knew he was like this.
Every. Single. One.
They all knew he was not fit to be President.
And they covered for him — the guy with the nuclear launch codes.
Let that sink in.
https://x.com/primalpoly/status/1806537948730437677
meh he had nothing to do with nuclear codes. It was clear he was just a puppet.
https://www.thefp.com/p/bari-weiss-president-biden-debate-june-27
Oh, this is just fucking rich from the comments on that (which is a good read, granted — but this got me going):
Yeah — after 8 years of being vilified, called extremists, knuckle draggers, conspiracy theories, fascists, etc…. conservatives — y’all should take the high road and not “lash out” at liberals who lied to your face for 4+ years.
Or in other words: “Please go back to being the nice Romney GOPe squishes now and forgive and forget.”
Maybe think before you change all the rules and use the DOJ as the Gestapo next time and the other political side might be a bit more forgiving, jerk.
Everyone paying even a little bit of attention at least suspected. Unless your only news comes from MSNBC, this should not be a surprise.
“Open borders” has come to mean unlimited, unchecked immigration, even if that’s not what some libertarians mean by it.
Thinking about calling myself a supporter of “market borders”, where immigration isn’t centrally-planned, but priced via insurance and sponsorship markets.
https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/1806324488839004671
we need a glib post on market borders.
Nah. Maybe I’m not a libertarian anymore, but the idea of just uncapping the well and letting in whatever happens to be meandering by seems to be a recipe for cultural and social suicide.
Immigration should be restricted to a level where it is not a primary driver of the population trend of the country, IMO. I used to be in favor of letting people in on visas liberally and denying them a path to citizenship, but I’m over that. Any long term visit program will be massively abused.
Closed. Enforced by lethal force. Citizenship requires a minimum of one citizen parent at the time of birth rebuttable by DNA testing. No work permits, legal residency is strictly controlled.
Oh, and no welfare for any non-citizen. No asylum. Applications for citizenship require cultural assimilation and proof that you will not end up on the dole.
How about no wellfare at all?
I’m trying to be realistic.
Yes, I’d take a chainsaw to the welfare state.
NPR is sticking with Trump calling the dead in Normandy “losers and suckers” citing numerous witnesses to the claim. The only thing making that even half way believable is that Trump did disparage McCain for being taken POW. What’s the story on this???
People who were actually with Trump when he supposedly made the remarks say it never happened.
This is the same NPR that has insisted for months that Biden was sharp as a tack. It makes no sense to afford these assholes even the tiniest bit of credibility.
NPR claims there were four witnesses to the statement. Trump claimed 19 witnesses said it never happened. I’ll bet there were at least four witnesses to the Lincoln assassination who claimed they saw someone other than Booth do the deed.
Not a Trump fan and God knows Barrett and Kavanaugh have been disappointing, but I don’t remember getting this many good rulings.
If Hilary had won, all of these would have went the other way.
If they hadn’t completely whiffed on allowing the FedGov to gut the 1st Amendment by proxy I’d be happier with them. I’m not forgetting that one even with today’s rulings that are more as I wish.
The thing about lefties and the court is i always see them talk about why they think a ruling is bad for their agenda but never if it is actually constitutional
Squabbling carrion eaters
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday blocked Sandy Hook victims’ families who are trying, without delay, to collect assets from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company as it is poised to be sold off.
In doing so, Judge Christopher Lopez of the Southern District of Texas sided with court-appointed trustee Christopher Murray, who is overseeing the liquidation of Jones’ estate. Murray had accused certain families in an “emergency” filing Sunday of attempting a “value-destructive money grab” while he has yet to conclude “an orderly wind-down” and sale of the company, Free Speech Systems.
Lopez agreed that Murray must continue his work assessing and liquidating Jones’ assets and told him, “You will not turn over a bank account.”
It’s all about justice for the precious babies.
Heidi Klum on Hot Ones? Even I’ll be in my bunk…
https://youtu.be/meLldeCa2mU?si=tKZupGJgxoI5qx2l
(P.S. this woman is my age…holy fuck)
Women peak at 21 😛
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
I can see why the Mossad felt the need to deactivate Biden’s brainchip last night, but they didn’t need to be so obvious about it
https://x.com/michaelmalice/status/1806712683187638467