Good morning one and all to another exhilarating day!
Secret Service Director Resigns After Congressional Grilling
Trump files FEC complaint over Biden transferring campaign war chest to Kamala Harris
Rep. Andy Ogles Introduces Articles Of Impeachment Against Kamala Harris
Elon calling out the sudden, overnight manufactured enthusiasm for Kamala
Turns Out The Feds Do Have Transcripts Of Biden’s Talks With Biographer From Classified Docs Probe
FBI suffers a new black eye, accusing the wrong agent of leaking
Secret Service Advises Trump Campaign to Stop Holding Rallies Outdoors
Netanyahu to Address Congress Amid Ongoing War, US Election Shakeup
Bob Menendez to resign from Senate amid Democratic pressure after guilty verdict
Home prices smashed another record in June as sales slump
Explosion Rocks Yellowstone Basin, Blows Up Boardwalk As Tourists Panic On Video
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with your day.
Nice… even if it doesn’t go anywhere (which it likely won’t… they’ll allow the laws to be bent or broken on behalf of the favored Uniparty), it will keep attention on it and undercut the whole “prosecutor vs. felon” narrative more. (Not that people buy that, and not that she should really want to bring up her prosecutorial record…)
Morning, Banjos! Morning, all ya happy reprobates!
And the articles of impeachment, over something that is real and on peoples minds, is a nice touch.
Keep the D’s on the defense. Lawfare? No, just making sure that things are as up-and-up as possible.
Meh… this is pretty weak sauce. Yes, the 25th should have been invoked — but when that decision is made shouldn’t be “high crimes and misdemeanors”…. this really just drives home (as if we needed it) that impeachment is a purely political process and continues to cheapen it in the eyes of the public. I’d rather we get back to a clear standard, evidence, etc.
Then again, this posturing won’t go anywhere either.
Yes, impeachment is a political process, but that is by design. And, as is obvious by Bidens condition, the 25th should be invoked as he cannot remain president, and she knows this. The point is to put as much pressure on her and the Dems, politically, as was put on Nixon, who resigned over something much less drastic.
Everyday we play Wheres Waldo with Biden is one more day that the people in this country get to see the coup that the D’s are in hte middle of. Keep the people focused on this, not from a sense that you want to kick and old man when he is down*, but from the sense that this is bad shit for the country.
*yes, a lot of people do want to this, but that is a line you don’t want to cross.
I am not in the camp that Kamala ascending to the presidency through Biden stepping down/dying is good for her campaign. It will complete the appearance it was all a plan to anoint her all along. So they put themselves in a bind here.
Reports are that the heads of the DNP were threatening to 25th Biden if he didn’t step down from the reelection. If that is the case, I can very much agree the articles of impeachment are warranted. No way in hell if that did go down that way, that Kamala was left in the dark given the immediate party switch she enjoyed.
Impeachment shouldn’t be a political process even though it is conducted by a political branch. It is even worse when it is nakedly political, which at least the Nixon and Clinton impeachments had a bigger legal figleaf.
I agree Juris, it shouldn’t be. It is though and always will be going forward. The process has been weaponized unfortunately and the side that refuses to play that game is at a serious disadvantage. The genie’s out of the bottle on that one.
No, the impeachment process has to be political</em, as it needs to be removed from the legal/judicial branch. This is why Trump (and by extension all presidents) enjoy immunity, as recently put in writing by the SCOTUS. This is inherently a political action, just one that transcends parties. It shows what the people will and will not accept as legitimate actions, not legal actions.
And yes, what Pelosi tried, and failed, to do was within the realm of the impeachment. And showed that what she wanted was not acceptable to the American people. Nixon resigned over it due to the people turning against him politically. Clinton survived as the people did not turn against him. It cannot be a legal witch hunt, as we see the disgust of the people in the Bragg case, and others as led by the D's in the legal realm.
Presidents should be impeachable for things as various as having a budget for the first lady, sending arms to Israel, talking to former heads of state, or anything else the public doesn’t want a president to do. It doesn’t matter what it is, it is simply the will of the people. That is why it is by it’s vary nature political.
Agreed. Waste of time and honestly makes the dude look stupid.
How quaint. Too bad the Dems don’t give a shit about any of that.
As if the Repubs really do?
To a certain extent, playing the “high road” is part of how the Left achieved the domination it has.
They don’t do much anyway, may as well spend time impeaching one another.
HOT!
Dammit Sean …lol
Except having a President that cannot fulfill his duties is, to borrow a phrase from Kamala, an existential threat to our democracy. Who exactly is in charge of the Executive if not Joe? Are we just a rogue nation with it’s departments acting unilaterally for their own best interests or a rogue nation run by unnamed, unelected people or a rogue nation whose elected officials have taken over the Executive?
It’d be my luck that I get out there just in time for the eruption
For sufficient values of eruption it won’t matter if you get out there or not, UCS.
I left off the second part of my thought which was – And I’d still somehow survive to start the postapocalypse in the worst possible location.
Yes. Yellowstone will come to you.
There’s a hilariously bad 1970s movie called Damnation Alley where the survivors of a nuclear attack are trying to get to Albany because they have good reason to believe they picked up a radio signal from there.
Albany, Oregon?
That truck, tho 🔥🔥🔥
Not like he has a business reason to draw attention to the lying scum infesting the Mainstream Media in favor of his alternative communication platform… but the man is not wrong. And I’d like to think they over played their hand by being so obvious about it (I know on the YouTube app on my AppleTV the last two days of “recommended” news articles / videos just Rah Rah! ing Herself 2.0 has made me want to barf… I have to think it makes it obvious even to the Gen Z kids trying to watch Fortnite playthroughs…)
The articles coming out Sunday were doom and gloom. Then sometime, around Monday afternoon, the articles started being glowing towards Harris. To the point that I’ve seen articles saying that having Harris run is a home run move by the DNC. She gets to run on the wonderful Biden record, without needing to shoulder the burden of his old outdated ways.
Pardon me while I guffaw… other than Krugabee and those who directly get their graft from the government (journalists, academia, Green Energy
scamscompanies) I don’t think anyone is terribly impressed with the Biden-Harris “record”.And yeah — pretty obviously the
software patchnew talking points were issued to JournaList 2.0 or whatever we’re on.Not even ‘wonderful’. The whole machine is talking as if the past 3 years have been the golden era of America and that Biden reached the pinnacle of presidencies. Hell, even mockingly I cannot paint the picture in such a glowing manner in which articles, Kamala, et al are doing right now.
the wonderful Biden record
Wait, wut?
“Unburdened by what has been”
Yeah RJ – that actually makes more sense in THIS context.
The left and media’s narrative is something on the lines of “Biden was winning until the debate and then suddenly Biden’s age became a factor”. When the reality is that Trump has been beating the hell out of Biden for two year now. And age and character had no basis in it at all. When polled, it was overwhelming that people were upset by Biden’s policies and how everything he touched turned to shit. Between immigration, foreign policy, the economy. When polled, that’s what people bring up as their issues. And they were quite upset by the lawfare. The public does not like banana republic shit. The media is very stupidly going to try to link Kamala to Biden’s record. “She’s just like Biden but young (she’s 60) and energetic!” When its the fucking policies that killed Biden not that he’s a corpse. They are delusional in their insistence that everyone loves their policies. If Trump has any sense (and from what I’m seeing, he sees it to) he’ll link Kamala to Biden’s shit policies and record.
Hell, even mockingly I cannot paint the picture in such a glowing manner in which articles, Kamala, et al are doing right now.
Just wait another 45 minutes and SugarFree will do it for you.
Sorry, but when I see anything about Harris, at random moments the phrase “her hyena smile” drifts across my mind. It’s actually kind of distracting.
Now I feel like I need to watch The Lion King again.
Now I’m imagining PPP at the bottom of that hill near the end…
EdKamala?Hakuna Kamala?
More like Hwak Tuah Kamala, amirite!
I’ll see myself out.
Hmm GT and OBJ with excellent nicknames. Well done Glibs, well done.
Next thing you know, they’ll actually follow financial trails for the Biden Crime Family Money Laundry. Now that he’s no longer useful and FRAU DOKTOR just annoys the crap out them I expect.
Shed a tear for Dark Cracky as his Empire crumbles around him…
And the last trace of him was loaded and lit, then only vapor leaving Hunter’s lungs wafting into the abyss.
Given we’re way past the Sal terram stage for me… I can’t get too worked up about a minor embarrassment, sorry. Just shut them down with the rest of the IC. (And break up “Five I’s”, of course…)
I hope the Hamas wing of the Jackasses shows up in force given Speaker Johnson has promised to lock them up if they try to disrupt it. Like Stonehenge, long past time for some consequences to be administered.
Second thought is, of course, that Kamala is snubbing an ally (as is the Senate President-Pro-Tempore Jackass). Telegraphing foreign policy if they manage to win — I expect an informal alliance with Iran in 2025 if so. Dearborn will be pleased.
Nuke Dearborn.
As a message to Canukistan.
An ally?
I dislike for the same reasons I dislike Zelensky and illegal immigrants collecting welfare. He’s here to collect my tax dollars for his military adventures.
Unlike Ukraine, don’t we have actual treaties with Israel? Hence, an ally.
Personally, I’m fine with that meaning “We’ll let you buy arms and work with you on the F-35” or whatnot, not “We’ll give you money and arms”, yes… but I don’t run the country obviously.
I believe we just have bilateral defense agreements and no ratified treaties with Israel in terms of defense.
I’d say that surprises me — but treaties mean the Senate has to do its job — and that sort of thing has been gauche for nigh unto 50 years now, so I shouldn’t be surprised….
Israel bears some of the blame too. Gaza is basically an open-air prison and Israel moves the walls in occasionally with settlements. Of course that will cause prison riots. Stop it.
Going to have establish a real border everyone agrees on and stick to it. The rest will be kind of like what Ukraine was about to do with the Minsk agreements such as neutrality and security guarantees.
If the Palestinians break it at that point, it’s an act of war between nations, not this police action crap.
No, the settlemets are all in the West Bank, the Isralis have actually moved away from Gaza.
Yeah, sucks that Gaza is surrounded by Israel. Oh wait…
“Gaza is basically an open-air prison”
While too many Palis are hostis generi humanis, I don’t know that there’s a better option.
“Going to have establish a real border everyone agrees on”
I agree. But the Palis are opposed in principle to any border with Israel, so where do you go from there? I also don’t think you can equate the Palis’ border violations with the Israelis. One is trespassing, the other is mass murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping.
Drake:
Haven’t the Palestinians rejected the offer of their own state several times? And didn’t they break the most recent cease fire?
The U.S. and Israel are the only countries in the UN that won’t recognize Palestine.
The devil is in the details like that neutrality requirement. Diplomacy seems like a lost art, but short of complete genocide it’s the only real choice.
All of the cease fire plans have had two completely non-negotiable requirements:
1. HAMAS must remain in power.
2. HAMAS must get lots of money and help rebuilding everyhting Israel destroyed.
Everything else, like freeing the hostages and/or not killing Jews can be discussed after those two points are accepted.
The U.S. and Israel are the only countries in the UN that won’t
recognize Palestinebe happy if Israel was wiped off the map entirely.The U.S. and Israel are the only countries in the UN that won’t recognize Palestine.
Wrong.
Ally or not, if you want to be president, you need to deal with the heads of other countries, and she just showed one more reason she is unfit to lead.
This needs to be hammered on.
Yep and allows to paint a picture from Team Trump that doesn’t matter if Biden or Harris, they just ignore heads of state all the same.
Oh and the news isn’t portraying it as a snub.
The past 3 years will be washed over with rainbows and lollipops on Biden’s and Kamala’s glorious leadership.
How many American hostages is Hamas holding again, Kamala?
To avoid massive bloodshed on both sides, they’ll all need a bit of stoicism to put aside the last 80 years and negotiate.
But that’s unlikely. Bummer, but at least keep my money and military.
Israel has been trying to set aside the last 80 years, Palestine keeps bringing it back up.
This only ends in bloodshed. And they have been putting it off for far too long, just making it worse.
Zwak, the part of the last 80 years that needs setting aside is Israel itself.
Then the whole region will enjoy the peace and prosperity of, say, Lebanon.
You mean, like, push it from the river to the sea? That kind of setting it aside?
The reality is, like a couple that has issues, she doesn’t want to bring up her cheating, and he wont let go of it. Sooner or later, it is gonna break down. Best to have that fight up front, and be done with it.
The simple fact is that a war doesn’t end until one side has had its will to fight completely destroyed. Not very pleasant, but that’s the reality and ultimately the only solution.
How to maintain Democratic unity – avoid anyone supporting Israel!
Do it!
I will Mr Creosote on popcorn if that happens.
OMG taps out from laughter.
Jesus… that’s just the tail of the first paragraph…. Is that cloaca strawberry flavored, NewRepublic? Barf….
Ha. From an author who writes mostly about movies and books nonetheless.
Well, at least that clears up why everyone is associating Harris with coconuts. Wait… are they saying she’s an islander on the outside, but white on the inside? She tastes terrible and leaves an unappealing mouthfeel in everything she touches? If you drill into her eyes, you can make curry with the sweet milk?
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris won’t be there. Despite having become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, she decided that an earlier commitment to the Zeta Phi Beta sorority’s convention in Indianapolis mattered more than a speech by the leader of one of America’s closest allies at a time of conflict and crisis in a region involving vital U.S. interests.
My favorite Top Man at the WSJ – Walter Russell Mead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tensions-between-bibi-netanyahu-and-kamala-harris-1f49017e?st=affnjdrtj4g6mtx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
After her support for the anti-cop rioters in 2020, they’re really planning to lean into the “Kamala the steely-eyed prosecutor” thing?
RC, they are going to completely rewrite her backstory. This is what Hollywood has been prepping the public for. Retcon Kamala Harris into modern day audiences sensibilities.
The base of the Party is anti-cop so why not?
Anti local cop. To be replaced with huge militarized federal police agencies.
What the hell is “coconut pilled”?
Brown on the outside, white in the center? RACIST!!!!!!!!
https://www.today.com/popculture/news/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme-rcna163005
Sorry OT: Going to my Medical Practical Exam in 15min. Instructors say “there’s no chance of anyone not passing” based on her collective notes. One arm dfaw and another one, a butterfly needle prick through hand veins. Our veins are a bit worn from two weeks of constant prickin’, so we’re collectively gonna be a hard bunch. “Even if [we] don’t draw blood,” she still has enough info from our collective course.
*crosses fingers* Tomorrow is the Medical Written Exam, the NHCO ‘national’ exam. (Certification is shockingly lightly regulated on the Fed/nat’l level.) “Kill Reality and Do BIG THINGS!” <– Old inner joke in my circle at IU. Still fits. I rather enjoy this new career curveball. The stress of 'getting in' is, as always, the trickiest part. Not entirely sure how to branch out and get more opportunities through them, but I have a few idea in store for today/tomorrow, the last days of scheduled courses. I can ALSO, for free (after paying) come back and do needle-work in the meantime between gigs to stay sharp(er).
Wish me luck, and all the best to y'all. Anyone w med knowledge: What's your opinion on intern/externships, along with other avenues to get my toe in the door. I have plenty of other skills for my ideal entry of clerical; admit; and phlebotomy Utility Man roles at clinics; hospitals; outpatient; ya name it. Need to get a Shadow-like program to get observation as I take my first few patients.
Best to all and I hope to kick ass w y'all tonight?! Y'all zooming today, or is that more for Thurs? Thurs likely works better, as tonight SHOULD be much study time. PEACE!
I have never understood the concept of an internship. They never seemed to involve any training in skills that ordinary starter jobs don’t already cover long before you reach the ‘intern’ stage.
My impression of them was always that they were a networking opportunity for the intern and effectively a trial job / “see if they fit in” on the company side for someone who isn’t immediately hireable for the company (due to being still in school/training). Yes, if the person is hireable an actual starter job fits just as well.
Good luck, Evan.
I despise networking. Why should extroverts gain an unfair advantage over normal people?
UnCivilServant:
The extroverts are the normal people. They don’t have an unfair advantage, people just chose to handicap themselves.
Because extroverts gravitate towards sales for obvious reasons, and networking to some extent is selling yourself.
It isn’t always a matter of extrovert/introvert (though you have to at least try to be sociable) — just knowing the org structure of a company / who’s working on what can help with backdoor connections. That’s the sort of thing an internship can help with (“Oh, you’re working on the same thing as Joe Bob… you should drop him your resume when you graduate, we’ll keep you in mind!” kind of stuff).
The same reason people who are tall or good looking or smart have an advantage?
Well at least I’m tall, I suppose… (not super tall, but I think I’m above average at 6’3″… Pie, I don’t care what that is in non-moon-landing units…)
@Mr Ilium, you’re wrong on both counts.
@SDF/NA – I did apply for that Assistant Handicapper General opening, thanks for asking
At 6′ 3″ I’m short to average.
Average male height in the US is supposedly around 5’9″, so you’re a little off there UCS.
It was a clumsy callback to an old comment from years ago where I declared I was Only 6′ 3″.
But Intellect and Heiget get you nothing if you’re a potato-faced introvert.
And I still haven’t learned to type.
Average male height in the US is 5’9″, you maniacs.
You’re both unambiguously “tall”.
I should probably refresh before replying.
What spoor of madness is this?
Who else are you going to know who’s dick to suck?
/Future President Harris
Good luck sir. Pass your test and make some money with your new skills.
Welcome to your new career, EV.
Hmmm… seems like mass deportations might drive the demand for housing down a mite… Just thinking out loud there…
Biden signed an Executive Order repealing the law of supply and demand. So no.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., will resign from the Senate after significant pressure from Democrats to do so following a guilty verdict in his federal corruption case.
When you’re too corrupt for even the Democrats, your goose is well and truly cooked.
You can be corrupt and a crook — but a certain level of competence to keep it from being blaringly obvious is still expected for polite company, after all.
You can’t cross Obama while being a corrupt crook. The Feds looking the other way has a price.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appointed Secret Service Deputy Director Ronald Rowe to serve as acting director for the agency until a permanent director is selected by
President Joe Biden.Frau Doktor Jill and her canasta buddies.Can’t make it up…who is Rowe and what were his duties as Deputy Director?
So probably the guy that should also be grilled and fired because both those roles were failed.
Fail up!
Probably the guy who just told Trump not to do outdoor rallies or else they’ll fuck up the security again and let him get assassinated.
Learned yesterday that the Secret Service didn’t bother to attend the inter-agency meeting with the state and local cops on the day Trump was shot.
“Candidate Trump — for your protection, we’re going to limit your rallies to make sure they’re smaller than the Vice President’s, mmm-kay?”
That is the technocracy in action. Heads can be changed, but the body is inviolable.
I think Dr. Jill’s days of picking political appointees have come to an abrupt and screeching end.
No Netflix contract for you. Please show this Frau Doktor of the Educations to the door.
Tell us how you *really* feel…
Like the majority of American voters, I am a “double hater”, and it’s telling about this election that the tag months ago became a set expression. As I’ve been engaged for over a year in an exhausting internal battle over which presumptive major-party presidential candidate I revile the more, maybe you’d expect that the withdrawal of at least one of these bêtes noirs would make me happy. It doesn’t.
If Kamala Harris takes Biden’s place at the top of the ticket, I’m still a double hater, and I’m still agonised over which presidential candidate I revile the more. She’s an intellectual lightweight — and I’m being polite. She cannot think on her feet. I’ve never heard her say anything original or observant; at her best, she simply recites the party line. At her worst, she’s too lazy to memorise the party line, for she has a history of not bothering to do her homework before official appearances. Much like Jill Biden, she often resorts to the persona of a kindergarten teacher. She comes across as a fake, and most voters — most people, even children — are keenly attuned to artifice. (Trump is an asshole, but at least he’s genuinely an asshole.) She has a reputation as personally unpleasant, helping to explain why she’s run through staff like disposable cutlery.
Excellent rant.
This is one good thing about living in California — with an entirely clear conscience, I could just write in Tim Sandefur again because it would mean just as much in that state. I probably won’t because I do agree with a good chunk of his policies (and maybe if enough folks do even in the Blue states and he wins we won’t be subjected to ‘Popular Vote!’ BS) even if I dislike his personality and know he may fail to do what he needs to… but I certainly could.
I would ask the writer, do you have any issues that you care about or are you just focused on which one is the bigger asshole?
Because there are some clear differences.
More shit happening in Canuckistan:
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/it-makes-no-sense-toronto-residents-asked-to-stop-throwing-feces-on-workers
I’m a little suspicious when they don’t try to identify this “small group of residents” engaging in barbaric behavior…. sign of the times, I suppose.
If any notable number of them were born in Canada, I’d be surprised.
The Times?
It is a notoriously slummy public housing project if that helps.
On a related note — I thought this was interesting.
1) She very much does reflect the California style of governance (Sit down, shut up and take it you non-elites!)… I think that only works in California because it has devolved into a one party state, though. But the ditching of the working class is implicitly complete as the column states.
2) The more I read stuff like this and am reminded of her 2020 agenda when she ran before dropping out — I have to wonder how much input she had into things (instead of Obama / his flunkies really running the show). Because a lot of the crap they’ve done (and trying to pull in the Labor Sec from CA, etc.) is very much in line with her positions and Californicating the country, which would fit. Doesn’t hugely matter (in that I think they should be able to argue she’s got to own that record either way), but it does make one wonder…
If I was in the Trump campaign, I’d be hammering “Border Czar” – her face (with a crown) superimposed on the crowds at the border.
Oh, but didn’t you know? She never was the Border Czar! Comrade Napoleon has said so!
Trump is calling her “Lying Kamala”. I think he should go with “Open Borders Kamala”. Really drive that home.
I’d settle for Commie Kamala.
Well the cackle-heads on the View want all the ladies to know she is moderate, not left wing whatsoever! Who you gonna believe?
the working class are icky and cringe
True, but elites + layabouts still gets them half the electorate, somehow.
Alot of people are speculating that Kamala is the Clintons’ candidate. I’m not sure I buy it. I can’t see Herself being ok with this dumb broad being the first female president.
Or anyone, really.
If it unseats any of Obamas power/hold on the Dems, she’s on board. This is all her and Pelosi me thinks.
I believe she is not in the Obama camp. Dunno what Clinton thinks of her.
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This love fest for Kamala is sickening. Gonna be a long 3 or 4 months.
It’s not sustainable. They’re going to overplay their hand and turn people off.
Just like the CDC in 2020
Only a handful of presidents have had a keen interest in cooking. But no candidate this close to the White House has the kitchen skills of Vice President Kamala Harris.
https://x.com/nytimes/status/1815894680887763105
As TOK said just above…this is going to be a long 4 months.
Not a relevant skill for a chief executive.
Fire whoever wrote the story and their editor for approving it.
I mean if we consider cooking as in cooking the books and books as in voter registration, it is relevant
“I thought you said I’d be CHEF Executive!” 👩🏽🍳
Oh barf… “She’s relatable, just like you! She might even know what a garbage disposal is!”
Puff pieces galore.
Real test is the grill, lets see that! At least someone in her campaign was smart enough to keep her in the kitchen.
Where they belong, amirite?
She can’t compete with the grill master Schumer.
“I’m gonna get me a beer.”
As I said before, why the fuck would I take cooking advise from someone who has likely had a private chef for the past 3 decades.
It’s the Dem version of “who would you rather have a beer with.”
So she can make us all a sandwich.
“Heart-stopping moment newborn baby boy with umbilical cord still attached is found in dumpster outside Texas taco shop
EMS are seen wrapping the baby in a blanket”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13667469/moment-newborn-baby-pulled-dumpster-Texas.html
Was it a hard or soft blanket?
Life imitates It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I wonder if Dee and Mac will manage to get it a Gerber contract this time.
*Golf clap
Trump and DeChambeau golf was…really good. First time Trump wasn’t total BS. He can actually golf. Worth a watch.
You’re not going to trick me into watch golf. 😉
Heh. He doesn’t come across as a dickbag. Pulled balls from the cup. This video would have tanked Biden if he hadn’t already quit.
MrBeast’s trans co-host Ava Kris Tyson quits YouTube channel after apologizing ‘to those who feel betrayed’ after accusations she sent inappropriate texts to a minor
The trans community has a grooming problem? *puts finger to ear*
a few bad apples. It’s the right wing pouncing on this that’s the real problem
also watching some lotus eaters podcast makes me always think of the word nonce in such cases …
Nonce sounds so much better than the crass kidfucker Americanism.
“she sent etc.”
Nope, it’s “he.”
you are trying to minimize women sex offenders
I think transitioning when he had a wife and kid is worse than texting some teenager.
A non-apology apology. “I’m sorry you feel betrayed”.
Also deploying the mental health shield.
I dunno about any of that but I just cannot stand the other guy’s pedo-smile.
Kevin Piette, paraplegic since an accident, made history today by carrying the Olympic flame with his exoskeleton!
https://x.com/Brink_Thinker/status/1815881655506096607
That’s cool. I would want machine guns and a rocket launcher on mine.
He’s no TechnoViking, but that is pretty cool.
Why does young Kamala Harris look like she’s about to drop the hottest album of 1982?
https://x.com/twlldun/status/1815670441698042320
kami is bae
Is she Salt or Peppa?
I would think she’d be Currie.
“Due to a bug in the Content Validator, one of the two Template Instances passed validation despite containing problematic content data,”
I think Content Validator has potential as a good band name.
CrowdStrike says bug in quality control process led to botched update
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-says-bug-in-quality-control-process-led-to-botched-update.html
“In other words, our testing is shit and doesn’t catch obvious problems.
But trust us with your corporate security!”
Naples has a new metro – ANM Linea 6.
Of course, it’s Italian, so it’s stunning & bonkers!
• Stations are beautiful vivid artworks
• Trains stop 1530, for now
• Old 2 car trains, for now
https://x.com/Ogilvie_CJ/status/1815750479432855616
no
How fast will that be covered with graffiti?
Great news, there is no crime in NY!
“New York Attorney General Letitia James said her “singular focus” is helping Vice President Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump in the election — just months after she successfully prosecuted the former president with a controversial $454 million civil fraud judgment.
James, who has long denied having a personal vendetta against Trump, slammed the Republican presidential candidate as an “existential threat” as she offered up a glowing endorsement for Harris during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” late Tuesday.
“I’m focused at this point in time on securing the nomination for Vice President Harris, and then ultimately getting her elected,” the AG told host Joy Reid after President Biden dropped his 2024 re-election campaign.”
https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/ny-ag-letitia-james-says-her-singular-focus-is-to-help-kamala-harris-beat-donald-trump/
She might be the most disgusting person in politics right now and that is saying something.
So, a prosecutor says she is focused on making sure one candidate wins an election.
That’s not disturbing at all.
I liked PolitiFact’s take on ‘context’ as if it didn’t show that she did have a personal vendetta against him. Couple that with this and well gee, still looks like she is willing to use the power of the State to make it happen.
Dangerously close to a Bill of Attainder.
OMG I had no idea they felt compelled to remake this. Other reviews were also not kind.
‘Time Bandits’ Review: Ragtag Robbers Return
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/time-bandits-review-ragtag-robbers-return-817922a7?st=9csp5c8y3zvcif6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I heard about the remake, I wasn’t aware that it was being done as a series instead of a movie. I’ve seen some positive reviews for it, but from the sources that usually skew heavily towards proggy (they said good things about the Acolyte and X-Men ’97 as well).
I assumed it would be wretched trash. It shows every indication of being so. Maybe I made an ass of U and me by assuming? I will read that later.
Nope. I got curious. If that is the best review it gets, that show is in trouble. It might be considered a coffin nail as Apple TV is about to slash budgets by a significant amount.
“The left-wing Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization on Tuesday evening lashed out at the Democratic Party, claiming they were a party of “hypocrites” for “installing” Vice President Kamala Harris as the president’s successor in the party without a vote…
“We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs. Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown vice president without any public voting process would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites,” the group said in a statement, according to Fox News. “Black Lives Matter demands that the [DNC] immediately host an informal, virtual snap primary across the country prior to the DNC convention in August.”
The group called the move to anoint Harris as Biden’s successor a “blatant disregard for democratic principles” and claimed Biden’s move to withdraw from the race warranted “decisive action” to protect democracy and “the voice of Black voters.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/black-lives-matter-lashes-out-democrats-installing-harris-presumptive
Well, they aren’t completely wrong. The delegates bound by Biden can vote for who they want once released, unless they have orders to vote a specific way from another group. Does BLM have delegates they can command?
I admit I can’t figure out their angle here.
Surely they must have a favorite in mind and if that favorite isn’t the sort-of black Marxist, who is it?!
My toss of the chicken bones to divine what they are doing: Soften their image because they know what they say here isn’t going to fall onto anybody’s ears. So when they fully embrace her, they will say they tried and would have liked it to go down another way, but this is our future blah blah blah.
That’s certainly unexpected if true.
It’s a power play. They are looking to get consessions from the D’s, like being the directors of ATF, HUD, and so on.
But, it hurts the Dem’s with various groups in the meantime, so, Rock On!
It robs BLM of the opportunity to extract maximum graft from whichever candidate wants their endorsement.
Part of Biden’s message tonight released…
https://x.com/MidnightMitch/status/1815915238941942271
Heh. On the real of what will most likely be said tonight will be nothing short of his tongue so far up her ass. It will be his mea cupla, the grand gesture and I suspect some “its time for a black woman to rise!” statement in some sort of fashion.
I hope he has a brain fart and says exactly what he really means.
R.J.:
I hope Biden was a big Blazing Saddles fan”
“Nobody move or the nigger gets it!”
I’m hoping for the pro wrestling angle where he jumps back into the race.
Double bonus points if he calls out the coup and puts on a Maga hat.
What will it be, America?
Ms Harris laid out a number of liberal priorities in her speech, on gun control and abortion access, as well as child poverty, union rights and affordable healthcare.
“Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law, or a country of chaos, fear and hate?” she said.
The suspense is killing me.
She is focus testing crowds to determine if she gets the Jew as a VP or the Gun-grabber as a VP.
Why not Roy Cooper or Phil Murphy?
They both have experience rigging elections.
Pretty sure the Jew is a gun-grabber.
Fair enough…given the protests happening right now in DC, Kelley’s chances are looking better than ever. Along with her call for banning ‘assault’ rifles.
Most assuredly.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/pennsylvania-lawmakers-defund-3-anti-gun-efforts/
Wow she actually used the word “chaos” LOL
So… did she spell out which party stood for which?
And now a word from the Bureau of Made-Up Statistics
The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said Wednesday that the global average surface temperature climbed to 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.87 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday — eclipsing the previous record of 17.09 degrees Celsius, which had been set Sunday.
C3S, which has been tracking the daily global mean temperature since 1940, said Sunday’s record had already shown “we are now in truly uncharted territory.”
The EU’s climate monitor has warned that new temperature records are inevitable as the planet keeps warming.
Scientists have repeatedly called for urgent and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to stop global average temperatures rising.
Since 1940! We’re all gonna die!
Hey I heard it hasn’t been this hot since the days Jesus
drove aroundwalked the earthNever mind that the 20s or 30s were hotter than today.
John Mayall passed away.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/john-mayall-godfather-of-british-blues-rip/
Well that’s too bad..RIP. Hard to believe Clapton’s one of the very few of those guys left.
Hopefully he’ll have Room to Move in the afterlife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0OKDZoFUPQ
R.I.P
Legit LOL
North Korean trash balloon lands on South Korea’s presidential compound
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-trash-balloon-lands-south-korea-president-compound-rcna163380
I watched Duck Soup last night.
“If you can’t send help, send two more women.”
I love the perpetual wardrobe changes in that scene.
“Sunday’s reign as the hottest day ever recorded on planet earth lasted until…Monday,” Bill McKibben, an environmental activist, said via social media.
Extreme heat is made much more likely by the climate crisis, the chief driver of which is the burning of fossil fuels.
Amen, Spiritu Sanctu, et c.
Extreme heat is made much more likely by the climate crisis, the chief driver of which is the burning of fossil fuels.
They said without evidence.
Have you considered getting a climate-aware therapist?
https://www.climatepsychology.us/climate-therapists
🙄
Gotta applaud them for that grift though..
Oh man the Kamala hagiography by the elite media has just begun and it is already nauseating. I think they are gonna stick with the “tough prosecutor” role for her. That turns off the hard lefties a bit, but what are they gonna do, stay home and let Trumpenfuhrer win? There are way more normies and edge independents out there that can be persuaded through 3 plus months of propaganda that she is the Tough Woman we need right now. They can’t quite run a Biden Basement campaign like last time, but it will be a variation on that, where she is out and about, but always in tightly controlled situations, all interviews will be completely staged with pre vetted questions, etc. She has gotten her polling bounce already, but I think that will settle back down in a couple weeks.
If her word salad past flubs are truly indicative of her abilities they’re screwed, if not they’ll have a chance to win (legitimately). We’ll see I reckon.
I think the opportunities for those word salads to come out will be severely curtailed. She already has a dozen people managing every utterance out of her mouth and a highly compliant media that desperately wants her to win and already is well aware of her severe shortcomings.
Only problem with that is it will be easily seen as more the same. Biden was highly curtailed, dozens of staffers blocking press from access, etc. They will have to do it differently to shake the optics.
Plus they have to humanize her. She’s not Good Old Joe who’s been a known commodity for half a century.
They are gonna have to do a debate, and that is where she will fall on her ass. It is the same trap Biden fell into. They can see it a mile away, but so can the R’s.
zwak – might be the same trap they pulled on Biden too; though now they would be in ‘its over’ territory if that is the case. Trump would just need to bring up how he absolutely loves Venn diagrams or that Ukraine is a country.
If the Trump campaign has any sense, they’ll be counterprogramming the tough prosecutor line with her BLM/ACAB/Antifa support.
This is BLMs play above to distance themselves from her me thinks.
Anybody link Animals latest?
Nice. I originally thought it was legit to pass the money over, since they were running as a team. Apparently that can’t be done cleanly unless they are already the candidates. They are just the presumptive candidates. So there are rules to her getting the money Biden raised (because it was raised for him, not her.) and becoming the presidential candidate.
Yeah, my understanding of the process isn’t all that clear.
That being said, I want the entire DNC convention/nomination process to descend into a chaotic scrum of howler monkeys throwing feces everywhere. I look forward to the Democrats I know explaining to me how I’m not seeing what I’m seeing.
God yes. Me too. Thankfully it is not on a Thursday night again. We should all Zoom and laugh.
I done been telling you, the line that Harris is the only one who can get that money is BS. I didn’t realize she actually can’t (well, shouldn’t) get any of it.
It doesn’t matter, though – even if the law is followed and it goes to DNC, they’re spending it on her campaign anyway.
It doesn’t matter because the dnc controls the agencies that could do anything.
Hit, like with his purse?
ransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hit back at Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), tapped earlier this month to be former President Trump’s running mate, for remarks he made in the past about “childless” figures within the Democratic Party.
Petey white knights. I doubt it’s going to get him that coveted first First Ladyboy slot.
Supervolcano / Trump ’24!
We did not deserve The Second Coming of Washington.
Man, all this yellow rain that smells like coffee is really wonderful!
I swear historians want to make themselves less relevant to the general public with every passing day.
-America’s second Cincinnatus
America’s second Baltimorus more like it. If it wasn’t for his lust for power and the mendaciousness of those around them they wouldn’t have been put in this position.
Holy crap.
For people who know who Cincinnatus was it’s patent horseshit, for those who don’t know who he was it’s who’s Cincinnatus? Good luck convincing anyone with that ludicrous comparison.
Imagine Joe (who never had a real job in his life) going back to work his farm when the crisis was over.
Look Fat, he pulled himself up out of Scranton by his own bootstraps. Just cut it out with the damn malarkey.
Poor LBJ…
Congratulations on being the first person ever to say that!
I am sure Ladybird said it once or twice.
I think they are gonna stick with the “tough prosecutor” role for her. That turns off the hard lefties a bit, but what are they gonna do, stay home and let Trumpenfuhrer win?
She’s a trust buster. Her lodgepole is festooned with the scalps of corporate criminals and robber barons, not hard working purse snatchers or rapists.
Don’t forget the dope smokers.
In the older clip, which recently resurfaced, Vance pointed to prominent figures in the Democratic Party — including Buttigieg, Vice President Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — saying that “the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
“And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?” Vance said in the clip.
Harris has two stepchildren, Cole and Ella Emhoff, by way of her husband, first gentleman Doug Emhoff.
“And it’s not about his kids, or my kids, or the vice president’s family,” Buttigieg said Tuesday. “It’s about your family, people’s families whose well-being will depend on whether we go into a future led by somebody like Kamala Harris who is focused on expanding the prosperity, the freedom, the well-being of our families.”
He added, “Or, do you want your children to grow up in a country defined by a return to the chaos and recrimination and cruelty that was the hallmark of the Trump era?”
Yeah, life was nothing but death and destruction, back in the Dark Age of 2018. It’s a wonder anyone survived to nurture those few flickering embers of civilization which prevailed. Would you like another pillow for your fainting couch, Ma’am?
the chaos and recrimination and cruelty that was the hallmark of the Trump era
What alternate universe did they live in?
The one where the Deep State and the Media spread lies to undermine Trump’s presidency and impeached him over bullshit OMB stuff, then they unleashed the WuFlu and shut down the entire country until election day.
That sort of chaos.
Those were peaceful TLAH, PEACEFUL!
Neither Buttglug nor Kamala have children. They have props.
If I were a Republican strategist, I would be throwing that “chaos fear and hate” nonsense right back in their faces nonstop.
Absolutely. Call them the unDemocratic party. And the Party of Chaos.
With video of today’s Capitol protests…I mean…it was handed to the Repubs, will they take it?
While running the anti-Israel protests and the Trump assassination attempt, and Dem’s inflammatory statements, etc., over and over.
Not to mention Antifa, Chaz/Chop, riots all over the country, the 2017 election riots, etc.
The spectacle of team “get money out of politics” getting hogtied by campaign finance red tape will be wondrous to behold.
CNN in the lobby has Jim Jordan asking Christopher Wray about the FBI’s pretend investigation. I’m sure we’ll learn nothing.
Has anything come out of Congressional hearings besides grandstanding clips?
An understanding that the agencies are out of control. They can thumb their noses at Senators and Reps without consequences.
Which pretend investigation?
Seems they exist only to provide political cover to the Democrats anymore.
“A Fox Business guest shocked the network’s audience when he referred to vice-president Kamala Harris as the ‘original Hawk Tuah’ girl.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13667817/kamala-harris-Fox-guest-sex-slur-live.html
LOL
That’s too low for the network with a constant stream of young bleach blondes with low cut blouses and tight dresses.
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Yes, let us bring down the rhetoric. Also, Trump is worse than Hitler.
“BREAKING NEWS FBI director reveals Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks flew drone 200 yards from rally stage two hours before and reveals how many bombs were found in his car”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13668215/fbi-director-reveals-drone-bombs-trump-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks.html
Saving the planet, one boondoggle at a time
After Hurricane Ida struck in 2022, the city of New Orleans went dark. The electric grid failed, spurring calls for more energy independence through measures like rooftop solar.
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency awarded the city nearly $50 million to help pay for installing solar on low to middle income homes as part of a program to cut the country’s climate pollution. The project gives the city a way to adapt as a changing climate yields stronger hurricanes while also emitting fewer emissions that cause the planet to warm. The city also plans to green up underserved areas with trees and build out its lackluster bike lane system to provide an alternative to cars.
New Orleans’ Deputy Chief Resilience Officer Greg Nichols called the federal funding “historic.”
“[This,] the City’s largest ever investment in climate action, is a testament to our collaborative efforts and unwavering dedication to addressing climate change,” he said.
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“What this proves is what the president has been very clear about, which is, in the United States, when we come together, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish,” said White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi. “There are no tons [of greenhouse gas emissions] too tough to abate. No pollution we have to settle for.”
According to the EPA, the projects will reduce the country’s planet-warming emissions by almost 1 billion metric tons by 2050 — the equivalent of removing the average yearly energy use needed for 5 million homes over 25 years.
The important thing to remember is “Vote for
JoeKamala.”I’m sure rooftop solar will come through a hurricane just fine.
And I’m just certain that “free” solar panels and copper wiring will survive just fine in low income neighborhoods.
Wienermobile Crashes on Freeway in Suburban Chicago
TW Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/wienermobile-crashes-on-freeway-in-suburban-chicago-2000478204
Not a Gizmodo fan, but I agree wholeheartedly with this:
The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, arguably the most important American icon ever conceived,…
You could have linked to Animal’s Article on the crash https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/07/23/wurst-case-scenario-the-oscar-mayer-wienermobile-crashes-in-chicago-n2177275
Heh. It was the smaller Wienermobile. Insert joke here.
Asian driver?
I’ll see myself out.
Interesting if true. It certainly plays to my biases.
Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes
But the left side spoke operates the adaptive cruise control system, and mistakenly brushing against the “resume” button could re-engage cruise control to whatever speed it was last set, causing the car to accelerate when the driver didn’t actually want that to happen. And that’s exactly what a number of owners—one of whom reached out to us—suspect is to blame for a spate of crashes affecting the VW ID.4.
Many of the incidents occurred when drivers were parking, so most of the crashes happened at relatively low speeds, but three of the 13 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash reports that Ars reviewed involved injuries to the occupant(s).
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/07/vw-id-4-owners-report-unintended-acceleration-blame-steering-wheel-design/
What was wrong with mechanical switches?
It’s always regulatory and/or beancounters. They never consult actual drivers.
Nontactile controls in a car are stupid no matter what the reason.
::Evil Grin::
So what if we regulate awat capacitive controls in favor of tactile controls ‘for safety’
I was looking at the INEOS Grenadier and it has a glorious sea of physical switches:
https://www.automotiveinteriorsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AIW-Web-July-8-INEOS_Grenadier_interior_12-copy.jpg
Yes. Very aircraft.
I’d be worried about warranty however. One of my YouTube auto channels had an independent BMW shop servicing the AC of a brand new car. The reason it wasn’t working was because they never filled it with refrigerant.
That’s some quality control!
TW Gizmodo
That’s by far the best Gizmodo article I have ever read.
*I have seen the Wienermobile in the wild several times, always on its wheels.
I’ve ridden in the Wienermobile! And with the original Little Oscar too.
Remember…she has the greatest foreign policy mind of all American thinkers put together you racist assholes!
Don’t let Kamala near the Weinermobile.
She’ll ‘spit on that thang’.