Good morning one and all to another wonderous day!
Jill Biden vows not to give up on Joe after disastrous debate as she appears on cover of Vogue
State laws, potential legal battles add to Dems’ problem if they axe Joe Biden
Supreme Court to release crucial Trump immunity decision
Legal Expert: Supreme Court Jan. 6 Ruling Downgraded ‘Insurrection’ to Mere Trespassing
New evidence shows Hunter Biden leveraged father’s policy position for business with wealthy Greeks
Thomas Massie announces the death of his wife
Three out of four EV charging developers say they can’t get enough electricity for their stations
Federal Government to Pause Student Loan Payments, Interest for 3 Million Borrowers
Democrats’ Advantage on Abortion Issue Declines “to Statistical Insignificance”
IRS says Illinois loses $10 billion in income as more people are moving out of state than moving in
That’s all I have for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
IRS says Illinois loses $10 billion in income as more people are moving out of state than moving in
See also: California and New York.
Almost like the rich have the most mobility to get away from your attempt to tax farm them. Whodathunkit?
Expect exit taxes to increase.
These states don’t care. They expect at some point to get a federal bailout. The feds will steal the money from the people that want to avoid being fleeced by a criminal political enterprise by the team blue crime syndicates running states, now that they can’t. Cause that’s social justice, baby!
Aren’t some states, California comes to mind, already trying to tax people who dont live or work in the state?
“You once lived here or set foot here or had a driver’s license here so you have to pay income taxes here for life!”
or something to that effect.
I think CA will tax income made while in the state, even if you are employed elsewhere such as outside consultants flying in and working a job (see also professional athletes). Also, had a customer who’s in-laws passed while living in CA and they were getting hit with taxes on the car they inherited as long as the car was titled in CA regardless of where it was operated. Since the estate took a number of years to settle (also due to CA taxation fuckery) that was one expensive “free” Kia.
I think CA will tax income made while in the state, even if you are employed elsewhere such as outside consultants flying in and working a job (see also professional athletes).
Every state with an income tax will do that. Though many of them have a floor that you have to meet (i.e. amount of money made in the state, amount of time worked in the state, some combination of the two) before you owe.
Tax Collector: “It’s my money and I want it now”!
The local rag actually had an article that asked why so many people were leaving New York.
The cosest they came to the answer was when they gave a fig leaf to the official republican line of high taxes.
Never once did they even glimpse the “This state is an authoritarian shithole run by fraudsters who hate Americans in General and New Yorkers in particular.”
Meanwhile, the population of Ohio is basically steady, but we’re being told we’re a hellhole.
Ohio’s too flat to be a hole.
It’s damnation without relief.
I thought it was round on both ends and high in the middle.
It is a hellhole as is my state and dont let anyone think differently.
Suthenboy:
Even the news gets into it. There was an article on Thursday about how Ohio (specifically the north east region) was in a drought condition (actually, unseasonably dry) blaming climate change. The next day, the storms started blowing in, and we had flood warnings in some areas. Not to mention the GIANT LAKE TO THE NORTH!
You’re not allowed you use that water! The Enviornmental Impact Survey deemed it too damaging to the algoplankton.
Post reality civilization.
In the before times we were told on countless occasions that the Laffer curve is bullshit.
And the people “moving in” are illegal immigrants.
I damned well expect memes of her husband on Vague immediately.
Morning, Banjos. Morning, all.
She will be damned that she has to be in a room with Big Mike and be reminded they lasted only one term…
I will be writing in Thomas Massie’s name on my ballot for president.
I’ll probably write in Tim Sandefur — not that he’d ever want the job (better suited for SCOTUS really).
He’s on my short list, along with Rand Paul, Spike Cohen, Javier Milei and Justin Amash.
Very sad news about Massie’s wife. My wife and I watched his whole interview with Tucker on a road trip a couple weeks ago. Fascinating guy who did marry his high school sweetheart – both of whom were near geniuses who went to MIT. He and Tucker talk politics for a while, then onto more important stuff like building a house off the grid from scratch.
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-thomas-massie
Maybe. I found this take compelling. With Jackson concurring, something was odd — and appearing to side with liberty while really leaving the DOJ a clear roadmap for another run… well, that just seems par for the course for the Roberts Court.
How many people have you interacted with that are stuck in cognitive dissonance, and resolved the fact the court told them J6 was not an insurrection as they have been pretending, by basically concluding that the problem is that the SCOTUS is in on the insurrection? It is unbelievably hard to admit you were played for the fool by your own people, and much easier to blame others for you being a total idiots. And I ran into so much of that this weekend. Between the people that now act as if people like me that have been telling them since 2021 that Biden was a few beer cans short of a six pack and they considered to be lying liars, now looking prophetic, and their entire world view falling apart, and that J6 unraveling phenom, this weekend was beautiful despite the thunderstorms and bad weather.
You should have seen the looks I got from the “Black Jesus was the best president evah!” crowd when I pointed out to them that Obama’s people have been running the country for the last 4 years, actually going 100% at what they wanted but could not do back in the previous incarnation of his administrations, because they now had cover from the dotard. Especially when I pointed out switching out the dotard will not change course. The wrecking is intentional.
“stuck in cognitive dissonance”, “worldview falling apart” etc.
Remember the woman explaining why child mutilators will never change their position?
The leftists will never change their position.
“Once a person has been demoralized you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them forever.” – Yuri Bezmenov
Wait… you mean a crackhead sex addict with no experience in the energy industry might not have merited all those board positions? Gasp! Sob! My worldview is shattered!
The knifes are coming out from the Obama & Clinton factions of the dnc crime syndicate for the Bidens. It is going to get fugly. The Bidens will not just go (it is suicide for them because they see the risk). A lot of people will suddenly go back to remember Biden was one of the democrats most lampooned and attacked by the lame stream media back before they made him the democracy’s (notice, not republic’s) savior. Did I say it will be fugly?
What people need to do is push hard that just changing the face of the beast in charge of team blue’s evil shit wont change the destructive policies they push.
I think the Obamas are going to keep backing Biden. Where else can they find such a compliant dunce that they can manipulate for their “fourth term”?
I’m going to suggest to my boss that I shouldn’t be required to do anything substantive outside of those hours. If it’s good enough for the Ostensible Leader of the Fictitiously Free World, it’s good enough for me!
I’m not going to try that – my workday ends at 3!
You owe me a new monitor and keyboard man.. And probably new lungs too… But thanks for the laugh.
I left off the fact that it starts earlier than 10. But it’s funnier this way,
So your not a fed, UCS? I was always amazed how they were able to squeeze 8 hours of work into 4 hours.
I work for the state of New York.
My workday starts at 7am.
I’d say you work banker’s hours, but those are fighting words to those who work for a credit union. :-p
So, Hunter’s job was greecing palms to get his dad’s policies through,
It’s a mastika to think otherwise.
Hunter would say that’s a Mytilene possibility.
Oh no, say it ain’t ouzo!
He was going to accept the money, Athens it was up to his dad to change the policy.
Thoo kidding me kinda trap?
We better be careful…Swiss’ll narrow his gaze about this pun peilion.
And Swiss is indeed the alpha and omega of the pun-ishment process.
These puns are Sparta some evil plan to make Swiss nuts.
I won’t believe it without conCrete evidence.
*narrows gaze*
Lesbos not go there.
Which one of you Glibronis got that clip on the front page of Mondays at my office?
If work was like that I might come out of retirement.
“Three out of four EV charging developers say they can’t get enough electricity for their stations”
Biggest reason not to own an EV: not enough power generation – let alone infrastructure – to come close to make it a viable form of transportation.
It was never more than a novelty, a toy for a few people. Trying to use it to replace the IC engine is nothing more than a war on prosperity and on freedom of movement.
I get a lot of angry looks when I point out that the people that have pushed for the EV shit and have actively worked to codify this stupidity tend to be the ones that will drop thousands of dollars on a new iPhone (or similar new widget) just so they can have the newest cool toy. Even when they find out the thing has serious bugs and and/or no new features, and when they have a perfectly working one they already own.
and when they have a perfectly working one they already own
It’s getting harder and harder to find one that won’t fall apart after 3 or 4 years. Even before the screen broke on my last one (unlucky drop), the Bluetooth and wifi were having intermittent problems.
Suthern,
It’s not that the EV is a novelty, it’s that it was forced upon the consumer (by the US and World Govs) while it was still a niche product. This there are tradeoffs that one will have to accept.
An EV is a great second car if you have a home charger and commute 1-2 hours a day (mostly in traffic). It’s an expensive product vs the alternatives without the subsidies. The lack of a wide infrastructure around charging is something that would change on it’s own with time organically if allowed.
Even the modified limited hangout of “10 am to 4 pm president” is a lie. How many times does his schedule end well before 4:00?
Don’t fall for this crap. This guy isn’t doing any work ANY time of day. Obama’s people are calling all the shots and they have meetings with this guy to give em ice cream and plot while he is busy napping.
You signed all the documents today! Good boy. Here’s some ice cream.
I’m doing a rewatch of MASH and watching Radar have Col Blake sign blank paperwork so he doesn’t have to sign it later is less funny than it used to be.
biden working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOWYGrtY9c
(On his best days.)
/puts a lid on it at 1045
Property insurance in Florida is out of control. So much expensive construction in a place with aggressive weather is obviously going to be a risk and involve huge sums. and contrary to the gaslighting, has nothing to do with climate change. But, now, do California. The problem there is without any doubt government.
I think all of coastal Florida is owned by the mafia now, isn’t it? Build a cardboard hotel, insure the fuck out of it and pray for a hurricane?
“State laws, potential legal battles add to Dems’ problem if they axe Joe Biden”
So I have read a lot and seen a lot of role playing about how this could be done, and I am frankly at the point that unless they have some event that allows them to “fortify” elections like they did in 2020, this will not just be a loss of the POTUS job but also in the house & senate. The legal shenanigans to basically install a new candidate that was not the one they had their voter base elect, just so they can have a lower margin of cheating needed to fortify the 2024 election, are catastrophic. Even if they can pull it off, it will have disastrous long term consequences for team blue about access to power. Of rouse, the people that have been running all the criminal shit for the last 8 years don’t want this, because odds are they will have to face justice for their crimes.
I have even seen a lot of the lemmings point out that it might be better for team blue to just take the loss this time (focusing on house & senate wins) and let the massive distortion an destruction of the last 4 years across the board, play out under Trump (hoping nothing he does can improve things at all) so it hurts team red (team red will do that to themselves IMO).
This is a disaster for these crooks. There is no scenario that ends without disaster for them. All their choices are between real bad and disastrous. But they will go for it because power. And that it causes damage to the country and the American people will just be a bonus for these evil fucks.
I suspect we are seeing the death of the D party. Dead donkey.
The question then will be prison, exile or just crawl under a rock? I think all three we needed to deal with the national socialists.
I thought you gave up drinking so early in the morning.
Said about the other party after Watergate too. As long as there are taxpayers to loot and voters to reward the kleptocracy (i.e. both parties) will survive.
Oh team blue will survive fine, but unlike team red, which likes to be in perpetual second place because that is less work, team blue wants to be on top. When they are not, they really, really go bonkers. And with all the criminality and the fact the orange man is not really team red, this is scary for them (and should be for us too).
From my read of Twitter, the left’s base has never been more batshit insane. They are now convinced SCOTUS is compromised and taking bribes or some retarded shit. I think it may go beyond rioting if orange man wins. We may be looking at terrorists attacks and/or blue state secession.
The legal deadlines will be disregarded. And arguably should be. The real deadline is when they start printing the junk mail ballots, which won’t be until after the Dem convention. The Dems will either replace him at the convention, or he’s the candidate.
This is all a non-issue, a distraction.
Republican party is only being held together by Trump from the outside voters but the insiders at GOP can’t stand him. It’s not like it’s any better on their side.
Banjos, that’s interesting. I’ve always thought that it would be the red states trying to free themselves from the clutches of the blues. I think you may be onto something, since they (the blues) have the coasts pretty well sown up.
I never thought ‘d ever see the times we’re discussing/having right now. It’s great !
“Blue state succession.”
Be still my beating heart!
There is always going to be a party of Progressivism, just like there is always going to be a party of Reactionaries. The names of the two parties don’t make a lick of difference, but as long as there are people there is going to be a need to both move society along, and when it moves too fast, to react against that.
The D’s aren’t going to die, just like the R’s didn’t die. They are both elements of humanity, and thus both are needed to oppose each other.
I suspect we are seeing the death of the D party. Dead donkey.
I’ve heard that before. I own a copy.
Ah, Bill Bradford. RIP.
Joe is going to get the Ginsburg treatment if he loses.
Action figure dolls and a fawning biopic?
Or will he get the Scalia treatment beforehand?
A weird overblown state funeral?
The fawning biopic is a given. I wonder who will play Jolting Joe from Scranton, though?
The action figure is already a thing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/125905701016
Here’s a thought:
What about a movie that takes all of Biden’s made-up stories about his life as if they were true? Corn Pop, the kids stroking his blonde leg hair, the 18 different ethnic neighborhoods he grew up in, the half dozen churches he attended, etc. etc.
Biden Munchausen?
Biden Munchausen?
More like Evil Biden Gump. Same mental handicap, but with a mean streak.
If they get Joe to step down voluntarily, no problemo.
There is a way to replace him without issue.
Frau DOKTOR Biden, she wolf of the DNC, will not allow Joe to step down. The experiments must continue!
I honestly thought that Jill Biden link was from the Babylon Bee.
Joe Biden is the best most effective President since FDR.
“Ordinary democrat voters themselves are now dropping all pretense of caring about the candidate and admitting they’re voting for the machine.”
team Blue: So?
“Yellow dog Democrat”, “Blue no matter who!”, it’s not new.
Can “Better dead than Red” be far behind?
The greens appreciates the recycling.
Viewed in another lens, this is called principles over principals. I’m not gonna fault them for voting for a steamed turnip over a guy who doesn’t espouse their principles. I will fault them for having horrible principles, though.
Ditto here. The article made sense, ignore biden and espouse the issues. Trump being Trump will ignore any advisor who tells him this.
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Dr. Jill says they will “fight”. Isn’t that insurrectionist language???
It’s only insurrectionist when the people resisting are the ones that like/love the country. When they do it, they are fighting the [fill in the leftard trope of the day here]!
Anonymous backstabbers
Members of Joe Biden’s family privately trashed his top campaign advisers at Camp David this weekend, blaming them for the president’s flop in Thursday’s debate and urging Biden to fire or demote people in his political high command.
There is no immediate expectation that Biden will follow through on that advice, according to three people briefed on the family conversations but not directly involved. The three people were granted anonymity to discuss the matter.
Among the family’s complaints about the debate practice: that Biden was not prepared to pivot more to go on the attack; that he was bogged down too much on defending his record rather than outlining a vision for a second term; and that he was over-worked and not well-rested.
The blame was cast widely on staffers, including: Anita Dunn, the senior adviser who frequently has the president’s ear; her husband, Bob Bauer, the president’s attorney who played Trump in rehearsals at Camp David; and Ron Klain, the former chief of staff who ran point on the debate prep and previous cycles’ sessions.
He’s a kindly but frail old man. They worked him into the ground while leaving him totally unprepared.
The gaslighting to pretend Joe Biden was running anything is galling to me. Obama and his people have been running the country since they managed to fortify the 2020 election and the weaponized unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic cabal no longer had to just play goal keeper against the evil orange man and the American people that elected him in 2016.
I can imagine Bauer playing Trump like an SNL sketch. What little cognition Biden had could process the difference.
He overprepared into being unprepared.
That’s a bold argument Cotton, let’s see how it plays out.
It’s the Kelly Bundy syndrome.
Was the KEL-LEEH, but spelled Kelly?
For a party that adheres to an ideology appealing to the worst parts of human nature it is no surprise they would put the blame on someone else. Least surprising news of the day.
The focus on the staff, however, also allowed the family to overlook Biden’s own failings in Atlanta, one of the people familiar noted.
These people said the Biden family wanted the president to continue in the campaign rather than end his career with a calamitous debate performance against Trump, whom they all loathe. First lady Jill Biden and his son Hunter Biden were the loudest voices urging the president to stay in the 2024 contest.
There won’t be any more phony baloney consulting jobs when Joe rids off into the sunset.
Maybe Hunter can go work for the Clinton Global Initiative …
Nah, Biden is in the Obama Group, not the Clinton Clutch.
No love lost between the two.
Serious question, since I don’t keep close track of these details: Why isn’t Hunter in jail right now?
Friends in high places.
Sentencing is set for, I believe early this month. It’s not unusual to have a delay between verdict and sentencing.
I’m pretty sure this will be managed so he doesn’t actually have to report to prison until Joe is either booted from the ballot or the election, so Joe can pardon him without electoral repercussions.
…and Joe can renege on his promise not to pardon Hunter. At this point….does it make
Wut?
Interesting article on how the pressure was applied to Tractor Supply.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/how-tractor-supply-decided-to-end-dei-and-fast-16b45803?st=farmhswxsm8szgg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He correctly notes that this is only going to work on certain companies.
You’d (I would, anyway) think Clan Biden would have a little something socked away for retirement, but they act like they are scrounging along from paycheck to paycheck. Too many people on the gravy train, I guess.
They’ll get by (barely) if Joe can forgive mortgages on his way out the door.
WSJ thinks I’m a robot. Fuck ’em.
I don’t get why Tractor Supply felt the need to say anything beyond, “We’re focusing our resources on serving our customers’ (all of them, no matter race, creed or sexual proclivities) needs as well as we can, while returning a profit to our shareholders.”
Because, just like most other large companies, it has become a flavored version of the same generic shareholder-held business structure. There is a comms team and a marketing team and a corporate affairs team all needing to prove the value of their existence through this “crisis”
Oops, wrong brackets. It was supposed to say “[insert segment here] flavored”
Yep. Having worked for a couple of those blobs, you are right on the money on how it all turns on branding, with the same jackasses moving from company to company, spinning up the marketing machine while not believing a word of it. The simply strive for market position, all the while having the same machinery behind the scenes as every other business.
I had no idea Tractor Supply was pandering to the left, such that a back track was necessary. We go into the local TSC to get pet food fairly regularly and I never saw anything even vaguely “pride-ish”.
Because they kept it quiet and inline to things done by other publicly traded retailers. This wasn’t a Bud Light ad campaign.
As a result they likely thought they were following typical practices of other retailers. You have C-Suite that because of their own biases didn’t consider its core customers. I find that amazing, but unsurprising.
They’ll get by (barely) if Joe can forgive mortgages on his way out the door.
They’ll leave the White House like their recent Democrat predecessors; in rags, with barely two nickels to rub together.
So what key(s) will be stolen from the computer keyboards? When horny Bill Clinton left and that asshat W. came in, they removed the “W”s from the computer keyboards…
What will it be to show the orange man who is boss?
“So what key(s) will be stolen from the computer keyboards?”
“F”, “J”, and “B”.
Joe doesn’t have the income potential that Obama did. He already wrote a book, he’s not going on any speaking tours, and Netflix isn’t going to pay him for TV shows. It really might be the end of the road for the Bidens.
Once Joe is gone the Bidens don’t have an influence-peddling machine anymore like the Clintons. They are going to be dumped; maybe get a fruit basket every December.
“Megan Rapinoe’s stunned response after being confronted over her controversial opinion on trans athletes competing against women”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13586351/Megan-Rapinoe-Sue-Bird-trans-Seattle-Pride.html
CWAC
She already got hers, and this is a great way to make sure she can say nobody beat her records when some dude wearing a dress crushes it.
“Zach Bryan brings the ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl onstage in Nashville to help sing his song ‘Revival'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13585243/zach-bryan-hawk-tuah-hailey-welch-nashville-concert.html
Was the country always this stupid?
According to that prescient documentary – Ideocracy – this is a progression.
You will know we are there scro, when “Fudd Ruckers” is renamed “Butt Fuckers” and Starbucks offers a latte with a handjob. Oh yeah, and as soon as the streaming services give us the “Bating” channel.
The IRS does screw America, but H&R Block doesn’t yet offer a gentleman’s rebate.
Yes
Yes, and worse. It hasn’t been very long since illiteracy was common. The trouble now is that the morons get put in the spotlight.
*Illiteracy seems to be making a comeback thanks to public education being co-opted by leftists*
“GOP stunned as aspiring lawmaker refuses to deny she’s an ESCORT… here’s how a tarantula outed her as a sex worker”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13587841/gop-lawmaker-marissa-simonetti-tarantula-arrest-escort.html
A series of eight-legged charades?
They don’t want her because she actually did the job they do in the open?
I cant really disagree with her response.
“Ok. So, what are your policy prescriptions?”
“It was 9th and Hennepin, and all the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes.”
Now that it’s July, anyone notice there was way less rainbow shit this year? Was it because of Gaza?
Substantially less. At my own employer, I have those kinds of emails auto-filtered, but some used to get through anyway. This year, I think there was a comment or two from an executive, but that was it.
I also noticed much less rainbowry in logos on LinkedIn this year. It used to be 80% or more. This year it was maybe 15%
At my agency they created a whole special email address for ‘inclusion’.
Made it really easy to filter the crap out.
I wonder what shit the left is going to pull this Summer? Every four years it was BLM, but that seems burned out.
I am expecting Summer of Love Pt. II this summer. Esp. if the Supes rule in any way vaguely supportive of Donald today.
It seemed to me the local news stations in Philly went ape-shit covering every pride event in June. It was a steady diet of daily shootings, Juneteenth, and Pride marches. And local merchants, banks, grocery stores running ads about how they “support LBGQT+ initiatives.”
So it depended on how much power that mafia had in the area?
It was always more a fashion statement than anything else.
And fashions change.
Here’s one for you:
Bitcoin Mt. Gox creditors will soon benefit from $9 billion payback — their BTC is over 10,000% more valuable than when it went missing
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-mt-gox-creditors-will-soon-benefit-from-dollar9-billion-payback-their-btc-is-over-10000-more-valuable-than-when-it-went-missing
Measured in government currency, everybody will get paid back, with interest, after Mt. Gox recovered 15% of the stolen BitCoin.
I had no idea Tractor Supply was pandering to the left, such that a back track was necessary. We go into the local TSC to get pet food fairly regularly and I never saw anything even vaguely “pride-ish”.
Same here, but they had apparently gone all in on the pledge of fealty to the current thing at the corporate level.
As I said before, they should try improving their hardware department. That would be a better way to get me in there more often than issuing press releases.
Good morning! Mostly a good news day, except maybe the part about the person who has the nuclear codes being unable to function for 18 hours a day.
Do you think they gave him the nuclear codes?
For decades the nuclear code was 00000000. (I am not kidding).
Why does everyone act like the president can just push a button, punch in a code, and nukes fly?
There are more humans in that process that can go, “This is insane,” and interrupt it.
There are more humans in that process that can go, “This is insane,” and interrupt it.
Those people.
*sigh*
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/457547400/photo/us-military-gender.jpg?s=2048×2048&w=gi&k=20&c=Tulx4VazBihr_cWGOetHXVAQ8z4lESdDyaSAAPphz6M=
Alexa, launch the nukes.
Good thing JOSHUA didn’t start at 0 when he was playing a game.
Because they haven’t seen the first five minutes of WarGames?
The cleaning lady can handle it as well as Ol’ Joe. I trust her more.
The real question is if Joe can’t function, will they go to Kamala or make their own decision and tell Joe he made it?
Koh-Moh-Loh is not an option. That came from the Obamas & Clintons. Obama knows she is a retard, but more importantly, that she will buck his rule. Hillary will not let that lady that climbed the public sector ladder by being on her knees sucking off dudes, outshine her. But the political implications of skipping the DEI Vp is a nightmare for the party tat is all about DEI/CRT.
But the political implications of skipping the DEI Vp is a nightmare for the party tat is all about DEI/CRT
Not in a year when the opponent is Bad Orange Man. Nobody on the left is staying at home because they went with Newsom over Kamala.
Kamala is the whole reason they are in this mess: she stinks on ice, as the saying goes. Zero political acumen, while thinking she is a top dog. Basically, she fucked her way into politics, failed up due to her race and gender, and in that process has learned nothing about how to glad hand people and all the other political skills. Joe allowed everyone to do their own thing, because the only thing he brought to the table was name recognition.
But, Kamala thinks she should be president, as she is in the cat-bird seat, waiting for Joe to tap out because she was promised that. But, unlike joe, she represents a faction, which means all the other factions will be piss out of luck if she gets in.
Joe picked her for DEI cred, plus she wouldn’t be a challenge to his power. If he has picked someone even remotely qualified we wouldn’t have an issue right now.
Yup. DEI was always a luxury belief.
Biden pushes ~3M student loan borrowers into a payment pause- borrowers w/o need for payments, no interest to accrue.
*I was r̵e̵s̵p̵o̵n̵s̵i̵b̵l̵e̵ foolish enough to save, to pay my $20k by ’15. Punish prudence? History rhymes, don’t it? (Won’t end well.)
Another last 4-months effort to buy votes with “Free” Money! It’s really a great way to fuck responsible folk, breeding more of the opposite. It infuriates me beyond belief. It wasn’t even hard for me to pay off, granted I have no kids (for a reason). Around 2016 I was at my fiscal high mark, with zero debt and around $20k in the bank. Many things have happened since, w The Incident in 2019 putting me in a coma and out of action for ~1.5 years being the biggest. Despite that, numerous contracts, careers, and legit positive developments. New career training in phlebotomy starts next week!
Just checked, I have less than $1k to my name today. Life consistently improves, but DC/ The World give me/us the sandpaper treatment.
I was about to ask why you had posted this on wednesday’s links page.
I asked myself that as soon as I saw I had the wrong tab open…
(I’m now curious why you ALSO had Wednesday’s links open… *squint intensifies*)
For users of “Contributer” status and above, there is a page on the dashboard where you can see all comments. I generally watch activity there so I don’t have to sift through all the threads for one or two new remarks.
Because he’s been in a coma since last Wednesday?
/ducking
I resemble that comment. *squint intensifies*
(No sarc, no offense is ever taken.) I legit love it. I’d love to know how many folk would be as well as me after The Incident and all the other shit I’ve had. Two hip replacements before I was 30- “Idiopathic” docs said; Shingles sucked; I’ve had bouts of GOUT 3 times; ~35-40 broken bones; I NOW have epilepsy and who-knows how many seizures. I’m legit PROUD I’ve re-learned to walk thrice, relearn who my family was and how to eat/talk by myself.
I’m still damn fit, 135 lb, sharp and I look, sound A-OK. (I recuse myself when I see something sliding awry.) Serious: I should be a Musk test subject. I have a Wolverine-ish healing ability that should be studied. I’m cute, intelligent, and hella single. Problem is I was away from the US for ~13 years. I don’t quite understand this place yet, but as always, my tentacles have a way about them. I need to be less passive, more offensive on the female front. (Having any friends at all in the US would be a massive improvement.)
Iron Rule for Ev: Never underestimate the power of being underestimated.
I’m still damn fit, 135 lb
😳😳
I’d feel pretty dang fit at 235. I can’t imagine 135. I think I was in 5th grade last time I was 135.
I was r̵e̵s̵p̵o̵n̵s̵i̵b̵l̵e̵ foolish enough to save, to pay my $20k by ’15. Punish prudence?
Yup. Politicians get nothing from rewarding people who pay their debts and are generally frugal and responsible.
This stuff pisses me off to no end. There’s a whole series of articles on here about how my wife and I clawed out from under a stupid big pile of student debt. Now our taxes pay for and our currency is debased for other people to skate without having to pay theirs back.
I knew that being responsible was going to bite us, but the alternative was too risky. I’ve made changes in our long term plans to account for this BS now that it is happening. It won’t be long until retirement is restructured.
I feel your pain. “Retirement” is a long ways from me, however. I feel it on the opposite end, as someone trying to put their life back together since I was 32. I’ve got a pretty legit disability claim goin’ on. All that fucking DC money would be LOVELY to have in my fuckin’ wallet. Gimmegimmegimme! (Mostly sarc. It would be quite helpful to me, though.)
(To be fair, I get a $385 gov’t credit on my healthcare. My quite-inclusive plan costs ME $17/month. My bro was jealous, though he also has a wife and three young kids.)
All that fucking DC money would be LOVELY to have in my fuckin’ wallet. Gimmegimmegimme! (Mostly sarc. It would be quite helpful to me, though.)
Take every penny you can get. Better used by you than by some scammer.
This country is in love with rewarding negative behavior.
Comment *Take every penny you can get. That’s the plan. It’s all going to be wasted anyway. And my generation (I’m 37 now) is going to feel it HARD. Current inflation will feel pleasant, comparatively. I feel adrift in my time, especially as my family (not Dad) religiously runs True Blue. I *may* tell ’em I’m voting for Trump for the first time this Nov. It’s my Fuck You vote to The Machine. They won’t like. Mom may get, but Bro and SiL are fucking religious ’bout Blue.
*I* might as well be the one wasting the money, closest to where I can see/feel it. Hopefully on something solid that will last, but life is short. I’ll certainly add some fun along the way.
My friend, Shayan, invited me to his 40th bday party. We worked together in Korea and he now floats around South and Central America. He’s having it in Columbia. I visited him there c. 2015 and am eager to continue my exploits around the world. Sans kids, other Life Experiences are my alleys to explore and enjoy. I do formally learn for/in my travels, but there’s always room for fun. Humans be human.
Favorite/boldest life story? I did solo-buy coke on the streets in Medellin last time I was there, after watching Shy do it once. My tentacles squeeze into interesting nooks. It’s a fun route of existence. I tend to go where folk won’t.
Fully Semiautomatic Flintlock Rifle
Needs more central planning
Cruz is among those who don’t want to vote for either Morales or Arce. While Bolivians have few other options, Chávez said discontent opened a “small window” for an outsider to gain traction, just as it has with a number of Latin American outsiders in recent years.
Most recently, self-described “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei has taken the helm of neighboring Argentina with promises to lift the country out of its economic spiral, which shares a number of similarities with Bolivia’s.
Meanwhile, Vargas doesn’t know what he’ll do with his family’s shoe store. Once a point of pride, the shop has turned into a financial drain. He would pass it down to one of his four children, but all of them want to leave Bolivia. One of his children has already migrated to China.
“They don’t want to live here anymore,” Vargas said in his empty store. “Here in Bolivia, there’s no future.”
NPR: Bolivia is a shithole. No one knows why.
Actually they do, but that doesn’t matter because they care very little about anything other than the agenda.
Another decision from the SC:
“Layman’s Explanation:The Supreme Court decided that Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions he took as President if those actions were part of his official duties. However, he can be prosecuted for things he did that were not part of his job as President. The lower courts need to look closely at each action to see if it was official or not.”
https://x.com/simonateba/status/1807783710957125737
I have to say that’s more or less the split baby decision I expected.
I’m not a fan of any form of immunity, but I’m also not on the court.
So, now we get to hear all of the idiots argue about what exactly constitutes an action?
*official action*
“That depends on the definition of ‘IS'”
Ultra right wing terror threat?
Several U.S. military bases across Europe are now operating under a heightened state of alert, ABC News has confirmed.
The alert level of Force Protection Condition (FPCON) “Charlie” was put in place over the weekend, according to two U.S. officials.
According to the U.S. Army, Charlie is the second highest state of alert that “applies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received indicating some form of terrorist action or targeting against personnel or facilities is likely.”
In a statement provided to reporters, U.S. European Command said it’s “constantly assessing a variety of factors” on security and safety.
The Big Bad Wolf is out there.
Grannies protesting abortions and parents ticked at schools that they are screwing up their kids?
“…like the need to distract the world from Biden’s incompetence…but not with anything on U.S. soil because…well…you know…he’s incompetent…”
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Match made in heaven. They need each other.
Thanks, Jimbo
Tucker Carlson on Biden
From an unusually good source: Obama’s tweet supporting Joe Biden was disingenuous. In private, Obama is telling people Biden can’t win, and he is therefore in favor of an open convention. Obama will not say whom he supports, nor as of yesterday afternoon had he met personally with Biden to deliver the message. Relations between the Obamas and the Bidens have never been warm. At times they’ve been hostile. But recently they’ve deteriorated further, mostly due to Jill Biden. In the hours and days after the debate, she kept her husband cloistered away from anyone who might convince him to drop out. Jill Biden is the driving force behind her husband’s reelection campaign, just as she was in 2020, when other members of the family (including Biden’s sister Val) considered him too impaired to run. The next generation of potential Democratic candidates understands all this as an opportunity and they’re circling, particularly Gretchen Whitmer, who is promoting herself aggressively.
“Gretchen Whitmer”
So the only person more grating than Hillary?
Quick, stock up on garden seeds!
Also, when everyone is barking at you about a convicted felon being on the ballot this summer/fall, be sure to point out to them that a woman teaching English courses at a community college in Northern Virginia has been running the country for the last four years. On a side note, you’d think this person would teach her husband how to speak English.
Chicago in August is gonna be lit. Perhaps quite literally.
Those deck chairs look much better arranged this way, don’t they?
Boeing said Monday that it will buy back its struggling fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems
in an all-stock deal that the plane maker has said will improve safety and quality control.
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Boeing in March disclosed it was in talks to acquire the Wichita, Kansas-based company, weeks after a fuselage panel blew out midair from a nearly new Boeing 737 Max 9 on an Alaska Airlines
flight, sparking a fresh crisis for Boeing. Spirit makes the fuselages for the 737 and other parts, including sections of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners.
In 2005, Boeing spun off operations in Kansas and Oklahoma that became the present-day Spirit AeroSystems. Boeing accounted for about 70% of Spirit’s revenue last year, while roughly a quarter came from making parts for Boeing’s main rival, Airbus, according to a securities filing.
That should fix everything.
Is Spirit Aerosystems any better than Spirit Airlines?
The next generation of potential Democratic candidates understands all this as an opportunity and they’re circling, particularly Gretchen Whitmer, who is promoting herself aggressively.
Saints preserve us.
She knew how to ru(i)n Michigan, then/and those meddling kids caught up to her.
At least she’s not the wife of the first black president.
The Supreme Court’s reign of terror
The Supreme Court on Monday revived a lawsuit by a North Dakota truck stop that is challenging the fees banks can charge for debit-card transactions in a ruling that could have deeper implications for other government regulations.
The decision was the latest from the Supreme Court this term that would make it easier for industries to challenge what conservative critics describe as the “administrative state.”
“Today’s ruling is especially significant in light of Friday’s decision overruling Chevron, because it means that even old agency rules can be challenged anew so long as they produce any contemporary harm,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
“In other words, even understandings of agency authority that are a half-century old can now be challenged on the ground that some recent agency action, however minor, has injured a plaintiff, ” Vladeck added. “Given how much Friday’s ruling in Loper Bright destabilizes administrative law, today’s ruling applies that destabilization retroactively.”
The Regulatory State lies in ruins. The rabble run roughshod over their masters.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the opinion for a 6-3 majority, with the liberal justices in dissent. She rejected the Justice Department’s argument that the statute of limitations runs from when a regulation is finalized.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision in her dissent.
“The flawed reasoning and far-reaching results of the Court’s ruling in this case are staggering,” Jackson wrote.
“The majority refuses to accept the straightforward, commonsense, and singularly plausible reading of the limitations statute that Congress wrote. In doing so, the Court wreaks havoc on Government agencies, businesses, and society at large,” she added. “At the end of a momentous Term, this much is clear: The tsunami of lawsuits against agencies that the Court’s holdings in this case and Loper Bright have authorized has the potential to devastate the functioning of the Federal Government.”
It’s the end of civilization as we know it.
*fans self*
May I assume that the businesses that the court is supposedly wreaking havoc on are the ones that have succeeded through regulatory capture?
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision in her dissent.
President Jungle Fever strikes again.
The only problem is that President Puddinbritches will garble the order, and the military will blow up the moon.
https://x.com/BowTiedRanger/status/1807795304625795190