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  1. AlexinCT

    Kamala Harris To Roll Out First Major Economic Policy,/em>”

    YAY! Moar marxism!

    You can’t fucking make this level of evil/stupid up…

    • SDF-7

      She’s just continuing Bidenomics’s fine pattern of driving inflation. Who could possibly know injecting subsidy money into a supply constrained market would increase prices, after all?

      • AlexinCT

        At this point you have to be a dunce to think the inflation is not by design. These economic illiterate douchebags – assholes that have never had a real life job outside academia or government – have spent an extra $2 trillion, that means over and above what they have collected from taxes going on 4 years now. And they have done that spending to mask the fact their anti-energy and “government has to pick winners and losers” economic policies have guaranteed a recession and likely a depression event. So, after changing how you checked for a recession to hide the fact we were there coupled with massive lies about the actual economic stats, they have avoided people the country seeing the economy was in the shitter. But individuals just don’t have the ability to make up money like the government does, and they are taking it in the ass.

        And for those that have a hard time understanding why the government would do this: the globalist cabal knows they can’t force humanity to accept their rest plans as long as the US has a middle class. To kill off half (or more) of mankind, and then force the rest back into a feudal system where our technocratic imbecile elite class creates a hereditary aristocracy for themselves, can’t happen as long as the US has a viable blue collar middle class.

      • Pope Jimbo

        :Alex

        Would you be surprised if her “economic plan” was to promise to give everyone a $1T coin?

        Double Down: Would you be surprised to learn how many people would vote for her because they’d be a “trillionaire”? Polling reveals that #1 use of their $1T coin would be to buy Twitter to save Democracy!

      • AlexinCT

        It just saddens me how economically illiterate, nay how lacking in the most basics of economics, so many people are. And then we get the cabal of evil fucking people that tell us these same people that lack basics, should have equity guarantee them the same outcome as those of us that are not morons.

      • Nephilium

        Pope Jimbo:

        You’ll need to update this song a bit for the modern era.

      • Suthenboy

        Are we going to have to suffer through a soviet-like economic collapse before this shit stops? I fear so.

        My trillion dollar coin? Invest every penny in index funds and let the people who know how to make money make money for me. Ok, and real estate. I dont need a shiny new sparkly thing, hookers and blow, etc.
        The flaw in my plan of course is that govt no longer defends property rights but rather spends its time and energy figuring out how to violate them (theft).

      • EvilSheldon

        Yes, we are. Things aren’t going to get better until people’s kids start missing meals.

      • Urthona

        It’ll be interesting to see if her idiotic plans drive her polls down or if she just maintains her big lead because no one really give a shit.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Harris will announce the plan during a Friday speech detailing her economic agenda in North Carolina, where she will blame corporate consolidation and greed for the increased prices Americans are paying for their food and groceries,

      It is a complete mystery why all those small businesses closed.

      Maybe if we pass more regulations on businesses we can bring back small mom-n-pop stuff.

      • SDF-7

        Don’t forget continuing to drive up the cost of energy to funnel money to their cronies and all. It isn’t like cheap energy is the foundation of modern economies or anything — or that energy costs multiply since they’re required for production, transport, refrigeration/storage, facilities, etc…. Oh no… it is all corporate greed — not the policy 180 firmly persuading an entire industrial sector that the government hates them and wants them dead…..

      • AlexinCT

        Maybe if we pass more regulations on businesses we can bring back small mom-n-pop stuff.

        The answer for big government marxist will NEVER be to roll back their destructive and evil regulations. The goal is always more power for government to wield against the serf class.

      • AlexinCT

        It isn’t like cheap energy is the foundation of modern economies or anything

        Deny people private property rights, free speech, opportunity to grow wealth, and cheap energy, and you basically get the perfect scenario to return said society to medieval feudal times. And the first 3 do not help if you lack free energy.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The vice president will say during her Friday speech that the cost of meat is particularly responsible for the overall increases in food prices, according to The Hill. The Consumer Price Index for “food at home” — which includes many items commonly purchased at grocery stores — is up by about 21% since 2021,

      Look folx, if there is one thing I’m an expert on it is meat. I’ve been concentrating on meat since I started my professional career decades ago. I don’t think anyone has been as fixated on the ins and outs of meat as I have (Winston’s mom excepted)

      — Kamala

      * Why do I think that her solution will be to ban meat? Not only does it get rid of a vexatious indicator of how shitty the economy is, but it also will save us from Climate Change!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Notice she has stayed far away from Climate Change talking points. She is going all in on handouts for everyone except those who produce.

      • SDF-7

        I don’t think they’d be so impolitic as to actually ban it. Just make it uneconomical to produce through ever more ludicrous regulations and production costs (the California way!) so that only they and their cronies can afford it and the rest can eat ze bugs.

      • AlexinCT

        She is going all in on handouts for everyone except those who produce.

        They believe they can get within the margin of fortification by bamboozling the usual idiot crowd that gets a boner from being promised free shit, which they then never deliver on.

      • Suthenboy

        “…up 21%…” <— my ass it is. It doesnt help much that the people reporting on the economy are incapable of telling the truth.

      • Pope Jimbo

        BTW, I spent some time today in a Japanese supermarket and the meat section was … underwhelming.

        Yes, I am in Kobe, home of Kobe beef (and my sister-in-law is an insanely good cook and last year BBQ-ed some of that Kobe beef in an awesome dinner). Yet, everyday meat is piss poor. My SIL – the awesome cook – has made delicious meals for me that were only marred by the fact that the meat was sub-D grade. Bones and gristle that would make me change supermarkets back in the USA.

      • juris imprudent

        I like how this connects, so smoothly, with the preceding Biden message about how great the economy is doing! Just like no taxes on tips, after casting the deciding Senate vote to amp up enforcement against the little people.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        To them expensive meat is a feature, not a bug (no pun intended). They just want to be able to blame meat producers for the high cost and reduced consumption.

    • Drake

      Literally campaigning on price controls. Wow.

      • AlexinCT

        Lets see if any of your usual leftard propaganda shitholes pretending to be legacy media will bring on some economist to tell us price controls are a good thing or not…

      • Ownbestenemy

        WaPo actually ran an Op-Ed tying it to communism. At least there is that.

      • Suthenboy

        “WaPo actually ran an Op-Ed tying it to communism. At least there is that.”

        WaPo? did they paint that as good or bad? I would think that lot would be cheering it on. No, I am not going to read it. I dont consort with hookers with open sores on their faces and I dont read WaPo.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Stop being a kulak and/or a wrecker and get with the program. You want to be on the right side of history, right?

    • juris imprudent

      Marxism? Isn’t it more like warmed over Nixonism?

  2. AlexinCT

    Harris Campaign Agrees to 2 Debates After Trump Proposes 3

    I predict they will back out of both of these as well. The dumb cunte will end up wrecked.

    • Ownbestenemy

      News already spun that JD Vance did an about face while accepting the debate with Walz. Its propaganda on levels that are way beyond anything I have seen in the United States since I could reason.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s obvious propaganda though. Even those who don’t pay attention can see it .

      • Ownbestenemy

        Can they? I think you put too much stock into the common American. I have a niece who truly believes people roam around looking to attack [insert group here] in any state that ins’t New York’s or California’s politics.

      • juris imprudent

        Just like the Birchers who saw commies everywhere they looked.

        If it is what you want to see, you’ll see it (even if no one else does).

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      I dunno, I definitely see her doing the ‘poor pitiful picked on petunia” (whilst claiming to be stronk empowered whamen) routine. That does seem to win points with the Dems core constituency, AWFLs, and their beta orbiters.

  3. AlexinCT

    Biden’s Medical Emergency in Vegas CONFIRMED Following Release of Police Call Logs

    The real question we should be asking is if Obama’s people induced this as part of their effort to get Bidenout. After this event, their threats of 25thing him actually had teeth.

    Remember, team blue is not just a cabal of horribly mercenary crime syndicates, but downright evil and ruthless bunch of crooks.

  4. Sean

    Secret Service Agent Abandoned Post Guarding Trump To Breastfeed

    Da fuq?

    • SDF-7

      I’m just glad it was a baby and not Hunter or something. Who knows with the Swamp crowd these days….

    • Ownbestenemy

      Unannounced, unapproved mind you. Not that a mother needs approval to feed their child, but why was she on detail and why was her kid there? What’s next, middle of a firefight your squad mate disappears while breastfeeding their child they took into battle?

      • SDF-7

        I’m all for “Get whoever can do the job” and all — but if you need to be available to breastfeed an infant and would require said infant to be nearby, I’m going to say you’re ineligible for security details, combat or other hazardous / high availability roles. Maternal leave or temporary manning of a desk or something. Just the way it needs to be.

      • Not Adahn

        I read that she had the rest of her family (unauthorized) with her too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The media or some inspiring journalist if they still exist would note that “Gee, when we put the spotlight on a Federal Agency, they sure do seem like they are incompetent, we should look at ALL of them” Oh the world that I live in in my head.

      • WTF

        This is what you get with DEI hires.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “Her” kid? Why are you assuming gender in the new Secret Service. Men can chest feed too you know.

    • Tonio

      When I read the lede my first thought was a male agent who walked away to be fed. I don’t know whether that says more about me, or the sad state of our society.

      • AlexinCT

        If it helps, I was surprised that was not the story myself…

      • Pope Jimbo

        Agent Motorboat just can’t get out of his own way!

      • db

        Now that…that’s beautiful.

  5. SDF-7

    I thought about commenting on Banjos’s links image today — but all of my comments seemed too General.

    So I’ll just remain civil –“Morning, Banjos!”.

    • AlexinCT

      Train afficonado?

  6. SDF-7

    Voter Registration Data: GOP Picks Up Hundreds of Thousands of Voters While Democrats Hemorrhage Millions

    “… it is he who counts the votes.” I still don’t see that any attempt at fixing the fortification prone processes has happened… and 2022 still nags at me that people (BOTS likely) will ignore past clear indicators like the economy, etc… so I’ll believe any GOP gains when I see them at this point.

    And then if they happen prepare to be disappointed by the squishy squishy nature of the Stupid Party oddly after their first “intelligence” briefings…..

    • Grumbletarian

      I see this article as just indicating the number of Democrats who registered Republican in order to try to prevent Trump from winning the nomination.

      • Grumbletarian

        Well, plus states cleaning up registration rolls.

    • Suthenboy

      Joe Biden from basement in 2019 – I am not worried we have the largest voter fraud scheme in history

      Media 2024 – That never happened

  7. Ownbestenemy

    So thinking of it…it is nearly confirmed that Shapiro wasn’t picked because they needed someone the media could focus on other than Harris. Walz was a strategic choice to lay bare his skeletons to a willing media while ignoring Harris’ long established record and positions.

    • WTF

      Also Shapiro is Jewish, so she couldn’t alienate the Hamas wing of the party, especially in Michigan.

      • Not Adahn

        Supporting Israel is racist!

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        He does know that Ethiopian Jews exist and are probably the oldest population outside of Israel, right?

      • AlexinCT

        He does know that Ethiopian Jews exist and are probably the oldest population outside of Israel, right?

        If he does, he doesn’t care much, because his target audience is definitely a bunch of idiots that don’t know this or ignore it anyway if they do.

        Being a woke anti-colonialist requires a lot of stupid.

      • Suthenboy

        Carville: that guy is still around? Fuck, would he go away already? Dude, go play golf. Take your great grandchildren fishing…do something but quit talking.

      • The Last American Hero

        The only reason anybody knows his name is because Ross Perot bankrolled his own presidential run in 1992 which split the Republican ticket and allowed Bill Clinton into office.

  8. cavalier973

    The puppeteers that control Harris are deliberately trying to create a food shortage.

    • AlexinCT

      One of the most viable control mechanisms is food shortages. Starving people are much more willing to turn up their cheeks for the STEVE SMITH treatment than otherwise.

      • SDF-7

        It seems risky to me. The old saying that modern societies are 3 days of hunger away from revolution leaps to mind.

        I would think it is more likely that (like other policies) the revolution is what they want… they think they can destroy Western Civilization and wipe the slate clean that way (and still end up not in the ditch afterwards). I think given who has the food and the guns it wouldn’t end well for the urban enclaves… but what do I know.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I had a Chinese prof who was a semi-bigwig in the Chinese Democrocy Protests of ’88 tell me that all it takes to keep power in China was a bowl of rice every day.

        If people could survive, they weren’t going to risk their lives protesting.

        * Fun Fact: He moved to Memphis to avoid the media. He was tired of trying to explain to the white eyes what was going on in China so he moved to a place he thought no one else had ever heard of. (He was perplexed to learn about Elvis)

        ** Fun Fact #2: I sat in on a couple of his guest lectures in more liberal classes and was amused by the reactions from the neo-Marxists when he laid out the history of cannibalism during the Great Leap Forward.

      • AlexinCT

        was amused by the reactions from the neo-Marxists when he laid out the history of cannibalism during the Great Leap Forward.,/em>”

        My experience is that marxist come in 4 flavor:

        The first, and largest population are the idiots that never read any of the material, but were brainwashed by evil fucks to think marxism was the only fair form of government that will deliver their fantasy of heaven on earth. These were the idiots that had no clue about the historic horrors, the deaths, and the misery.

        The second, and also the second largest group, were those that read the marxist tripe, but just didn’t understand the evil shit it was peddling. Instead they deluded themselves into believing that this horribly evil ideocracy can be made to work. And the failures only happened because “the right people – a.k.a. Angels from heaven” have not been in charge of the murderous evil

        The third group are the fuckers that read this evil shit, understood it, but simply see it as a means to get power, by manipulating the gullible with promises of heaven on earth, to overthrow the current centers of power.

        The fourth and final group, are the ones that understand marxism is a religious movement based on the deadly sins. It uses greed & envy to appeal to those that suffer from envy and jealousy of others. It socializes sloth, gluttony, and the prostitution lust) of the masses. And it allows the powerful to use their wrath on their serfs. It’s the answer to all things evil.

      • ron73440

        ** Fun Fact #2: I sat in on a couple of his guest lectures in more liberal classes and was amused by the reactions from the neo-Marxists when he laid out the history of cannibalism during the Great Leap Forward.

        Have you read Hungry Ghosts?

        It goes through the famine in horrifying detail.

    • Suthenboy

      “…deliberately trying to create a food shortage…”
      Why yes, yes they are.

  9. Not Adahn

    Why delay the sentencing? Him getting jail time would be the biggest boost to his campaign he could get. Maybe his lawyers should work on having him serve his time in a Birmingham Jail.

    • The Wrath of ZWAAAAAAKKKK!!!

      Truly our first Black president.

      • juris imprudent

        Orange isn’t the new black anymore.

      • Swiss Servator

        Don’t you think that I didn’t see that, JI…

        *narrows gaze*

  10. SDF-7

    ‘Steepest, most inverted dive coaster in the world’ coming to Six Flags park next year

    It will be called “The Stock Exchange”…..

  11. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    Inflation isn’t real, but if it was, it has nothing to do with government and it’s all the private sector fault.

    • AlexinCT

      Theory of marxist economics 101…

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t recall Marx having anything to say about inflation. It just wasn’t material to his class analysis.

      • AlexinCT

        Marx had nothing to say about economics that wasn’t stupid.

  12. cavalier973

    My wife astonished me by suggesting we take her parents to Branson, again (which, for my family, means “Silver Dollar City”).

    She loathes Branson, and has said before that she has never had a good experience there.

    But, she mentioned that the day we spent at the SDC park two years ago was a really nice one. The rest of the trip was miserable for her.

    In any case, SDC has some nice roller coasters, probably not as good as the one about to open at Six Flags, but fun.

    Outlaw Run is my favorite, followed by Powder Keg and Wildfire.

    The oldest roller coaster, Fire in the Hole, was closed, redesigned, and reopened. It’s a “dark ride”, where you ride past scenes of a town on fire. It culminates on a railroad bridge, with a train approaching (at least, that’s how the original ride ended).

    • cavalier973

      Elvis Presley’s favorite roller coaster, the Zippin Pippin, has been recreated somewhere in the far north.

      My dad took my brother and I (ages 6 and 4) on the Zippin Pippin. It was the first time I had ridden a roller coaster. It was terrifying and awesome.

      • cavalier973

        That was back in the late 1970’s. The other roller coaster at Libertyland was The Revolution, which did a loop to loop followed by a couple of corkscrews.

      • Timeloose

        I really like amusement parks. I haven’t gone to one this year and that needs to be corrected. I might need to take a day off next week. Here is my go to. One of the best parks in the country. They have multiple wooden roller coasters, including a toboggan ride they designed to replicate the ones you used to see in the 1920’s.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoebels_Amusement_Resort

        They buy old rides and coasters and rebuild them on site. They have 3 world class wooden coasters, the best bumper cars in the world (all old steel ones)

      • CPRM

        The Zippin Pippin is at Bay Beach in Green Bay.

    • SDF-7

      The only thing I know about Branson is they must have some concert halls given this band seems to be based there. I’ve considered going for that reason and no other — if it is a theme park town, that bumps it down the mental list a few notches… who needs that tourist crowd headache.

      • trshmnstr

        if it is a theme park town

        If you’ve ever been to Pigeon Forge, Branson is basically the same.

      • Pope Jimbo

        We stopped there for one night as we drove cross country.

        We battled our way through a blizzard in MN and Iowa. We showed up around 8pm in Branson and the hotel front desk was beside themselves apologizing for how short-handed they were. They said they had 1/2″ of snow that morning and it had caused widespread chaos.

        There was absolutely no snow on any road at the time. I’d bet you that we had more snow on our car than the entire metro area of Branson.

        Fucking Southeners (except Suthen of course)

      • trshmnstr

        They said they had 1/2″ of snow that morning and it had caused widespread chaos.

        I was surprised how quickly the world shuts down around here when the flurries start. Almost as bad as Texas.

      • UnCivilServant

        Is the unplowed snow on the road above the undercarriage? Is there widespread black ice? No? It’s nothing to shut down about.

        /Upstate New York.

      • Suthenboy

        Your Holiness: People here lose their minds when it snows. They act like they have never seen it before and. have no idea how to deal with it when in fact we do occasionally get snow.
        Last snow I drove 27 miles to get wife to work. We counted 19 wrecks on the way. Mostly cars slid off the road, a couple of them upside down in ditches and yards…a couple of head ons…it was ridiculous. I drove 20mph tops there and back in our jeep and had no problems. When there is ice and snow you cant pretend it isn’t there and drive like normal. I dont know what to say about it. They are idiots.

      • Not Adahn

        Is that referencing metal pigeons, or Rock Doves with false documentation?

      • Pope Jimbo

        : Suthen

        I remember laughing and laughing when I lived in Memphis and there was a bit of snow. I was working at a video rental store that shared a parking lot with a Krogers.

        People would pile in and rent 50 movies. The bed’s of their trucks would be piled up with a month’s worth of food.

        The ground hadn’t even really frozen yet, so any snow was going to last about 12 hours at best.

        On the other hand in ’93 there was an ice storm that was unlike anything I have ever seen. The weather was perfect so that after a night of sleet everything was covered with glare ice. It was worse than a skating rink. In addition to that, the weight of all that ice had broken off trees and tree branches everywhere which snapped powerlines all over town.

        My daughter was less than a year old at the time and we moved from one friend’s apartment to another friend’s apartment trying to keep somewhere with electricity and heat.

        The only good part of that week was watching all the Memphis Hill Wlliams decide that they’d show their wives why they were paying that note on their Dodge Ram pickup truck once and for all. They’d get in their 4×4 and drive straight into the ditch because they didn’t realize that when none of your tires can get any traction on ice, 4-wheel drive does absolutely no good.

    • Raven Nation

      Obligatory quote: “my dad says Branson is what Vegas would be like if it were run by Ned Flanders.”

      • cavalier973

        It’s funny, because it’s true

    • trshmnstr

      She loathes Branson, and has said before that she has never had a good experience there.

      You really have to know where the good stuff is, or be willing to set your standards really low. There’s a lot of areas of “must’ve been nice 40 years ago” going on in Branson.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Branson is the Redneck knock off of Wisconsin Dells. Change my mind.

      Wait. Change that. When I was in Branson, there was no where I could catch sturgeon. (Highly recommend this guy if you are ever in the area).

    • Nephilium

      I’m sure within a couple of years Cedar Point will build a new coaster that tops that one. I’ve been spoiled to have grown up close enough that it’s the standard amusement park destination around here (and season tickets are surprisingly reasonable).

  13. Pope Jimbo

    My milkshake brings all the snipers to the yard
    And they’re like, my sight line is better than yours
    Damn right, it’s better than yours
    I can ignore you, but I have to pretend that I wasn’t a DEI hire

    • AlexinCT

      This should have been your daily ray of sunshine…

    • Tundra

      Adorable.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Not all cat ladies have dicks.

      • Tundra

        Yeah, that chick is pretty cool.

      • The Wrath of ZWAAAAAAKKKK!!!

        Now, THAT’S a t-shirt!

    • AlexinCT

      The problem for those of us not as dumb as the target audience of this blatantly idiotic and disastrous economic agenda, is that so many people have been indoctrinated to believe government overreach fixes instead of causes all our problems…

      • juris imprudent

        I’m guessing Harris voters weren’t even born when Nixon was in office.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Regarding prices before/after hurricanes. I remember the one picture of WalMart selling a 48-pack of water for something like $80 and people lost their minds because they couldn’t do simple math and claimed it was ‘gouging’ I am guessing her team is riding that wave…people are fucking stupid.

      • Drake

        It is an admission that Bidenomics is the equivalent of an economic natural disaster.

      • Ted S.

        The correct thing to do would have been to auction off the generators.

      • The Last American Hero

        Do half of Pennsylvanians (real and imagined) hate it? Because those 2 groups will decide on the presidency.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      To be fair, fiscal irresponsibility is one of the most bi-partisan issues in history. Biden is just the latest in a long line of thieves and spendthrifts.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        *Waves at CAREs act*

  14. cavalier973

    The most depressing thing about the Harris price controls story is the supposed right wingers who are saying that price controls are necessary during emergency situations.

    There was a story someone told me when I lived in Florida: there had a been hurricane, so a guy in Georgia loaded up a trailer with power generators ($500 each at the time), drove them down to Florida, threw open the back of a trailer, and said, “$1,000 each”. He was arrested and charged with price gouging.

    So, basically, the state of Florida would rather people not have generators than that they pay “too much” for them.

    • AlexinCT

      All price controls do is make the price controlled entity harder to get and allows crooked politicians to rob the productive even more.

      You wouldn’t have to pay higher prices for scarce resources if those resources were not scarce, should be something people get hammered into their thick skulls.

      • Not Adahn

        In a bit of synchronicity, Max Miller had a bit on how price controls need to be implemented alongside rationing in order to keep goods available.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z7J6eI2ItI

      • The Wrath of ZWAAAAAAKKKK!!!

        Yep, people cannot wrap their heads around scarcity, and how price controls add to it. Those “gougers” do everyone a favor by utilizing the profit margin to make it worthwhile to move goods to a location. I know everyone here knows this, but I see this everywhere – shooting forums, construction forums, etc. They just refuse to see past their own wants “I paid 50 cents for XXX yesterday, why is it $2 now?”

        And no one knows how a black market starts…

      • AlexinCT

        The ideocracy of marxism is primarily based on the fact so many people are envious of success by others. It’s not coincidental that so many of those amongst us that accept higher taxes do so because they believe it hurts their neighbor more than it does them…

      • Fourscore

        Wait until Biden/Harris get done with drug manufacturers. Making expensive medications cheap will soon make them unavailable.

    • Nephilium

      There were several stories in local news about terrible price gouging going on due to the tornadoes… right next to the stories about the businesses that were providing free water and bagged ice to those without power.

    • Suthenboy

      “…price controls are necessary during emergency situations…”

      Worst possible solution at the worst possible time. Brilliant!

  15. AlexinCT

    We have all seen and discussed the insane and idiotic price control Harris agenda, but did you guys also see her effort to recreate the 2008 housing market collapse?

    I remind people here that the collapse happened because insane government demands the basics of economics & human nature be ignored while lending money eventually resulted in an inevitable system collapse. But the real gain the very people that caused the crash got was them then DEMANDING to regulate us to death to prevent it from happening again, while pissing away trillions of tax payer dollars.

    They are looking for a repeat…

    • The Wrath of ZWAAAAAAKKKK!!!

      Basically, it will be Nixon/Carter redux.

      The left loves them some price controls, and have been salivating for this over this since Regan. And, now they think they can do it again.

      • AlexinCT

        The reason they love price controls isn’t that they believe it helps the buyer as much as it punishes those evil profit making business owners.

  16. SDF-7

    I’m only surprised it turns out it wasn’t us (supposedly… though we knew about the plans, unsurprisingly).

    Dare I dream this at least scuttles taking them into NATO? (I’d rather NATO be disbanded… but start somewhere…)

    • UnCivilServant

      At the very least, cut off the supplies. Maybe give western Ukraine back to Poland.

    • AlexinCT

      If you believe any of this shit…

      Everyone gets that the Ukraine war is lost and this shit is all jockeying for position during the negotiations that are to follow.

  17. Pope Jimbo

    I knew those 16 year-old chiquita’s were nothing but trouble. They set me up!

    At least the MSM hasn’t figured out what exactly was meant by “aliens” yet.

    • AlexinCT

      Might explain why them priests diddle kids… They get their desire to probe shit from their knowledge of aliens…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hey hey, a Brit newspaper that’s even trashier than the Daily Mail…not as much T&A in the sidebar though.

    • SDF-7

      That’s just bananas.

      • Pope Jimbo

        But they were so appeeling

  18. Pope Jimbo

    Double-K scoffs at Six Flags. When she wants a thrill ride she flies Alaska Air (although they have become rather sissified)

    An Alaska Airlines flight being operated by Skywest was forced to divert from its intended destination of Jackson Hole Airport (JAC) last week after the pilot admitted he was not certified to land the plane in Jackson, according to reports.
     
    Alaska Airlines/SkyWest flight 3491 was approaching JAC in Wyoming on Thursday when the pilot reported from the cockpit that he was unable to land, the Cowboy State Daily reports, citing a Reddit user who claimed to be on the flight.
     
    “We then landed in Salt Lake City, they again apologized and gave us no other info, waited on the tarmac for about 1.5 hours, and then the pilot got off the plane (in a walk of shame since his bag was in the overhead in the back of the plane lol) and then a new pilot from Salt Lake City got on the plane and we flew into Jackson,” the user continued.
     
    The Reddit user said that the landing at Jackson Hole was perhaps “the bumpiest landing in the descent I’ve ever experienced,” which led some users who say they are pilots to speculate that bad landing conditions may have been behind the reason for the initial diversion.
     
    Jackson Hole Airport is at an elevation of nearly 6,500 feet, and the airport has a Special PIC (pilot in command) qualification as well as a SAAT level 4 rating, requiring a more experienced line check airman sitting copilot, according to the Cowboy State Daily, which reports that experienced say the approach as “tricky” because of frequent downdrafts and windshears combined with a short runway.

    • trshmnstr

      Something tells me there’s more to the story than some pilot forgetting that they weren’t qualified to run the route.

    • Grummun

      The wife read this story to me a couple nights ago. Lots of room in the available details to fill up with speculation.

      My take is, bottom line, the airline screwed up when they scheduled that pilot for that flight. It’s possible (?) the pilot’s qualifications were adequate to land at Jackson Hole ::in clear weather::, but still seems like a mistake on the airline’s part. In any case, I don’t how any shame should attach to the pilot.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah reading into that, pilot made the right choice and should have no shame. Better to be late than dead.

  19. AlexinCT

    Layoffs announced at multiple companies this summer

    I know for a fact that a lot of maneuvering has happened to push out these job loss events past the election cycle, but things have gotten so bad that many big companies simply can’t afford it anymore. The last 4 years have been disastrous for the private sector, with most jobs being part time ones, and most of the growth otherwise coming from government expansions, but this strategy was not sustainable. I bet the timing of this fail sure pisses off the people hoping to fortify the coming election.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Look at what Elon did at X.

      Didn’t he lay off like 80% of the workers and no one noticed any differences in performance and reliability*?

      My stints in Big Corporate made me aware of the insane amounts of money that are sloshing around out there. Not surprising that lean economic times have caused Big Business to rethink things.

      I remember the moment that the company I was working for – who had just told me that I was way overpaid already – put me on the project planning committee for our yearly trek to ComDex. I got to learn that we were going to spend around $750K for the 5 days there.

      And when asked how many sales last year led to, the Marketing/Sales team looked at me like I still had sugar beet leaves in my hair. They assured me that it was lots, but they’d never ever tracked that metric.

      *They probably kept up their uptime metrics by deep sixing their censorship filtering.

  20. Suthenboy

    Kamalamadingdong – “If elected I will free us from toilet paper!”

    Trump/Harris debate? That will be better than the Trump/Biden debate.

    I wonder how many Dems suddenly realize their candidate is an old style soviet communist and are scratching their heads trying to figure out how they got here.

    Hush money case….has anyone explained yet what the crime was and what law was broken? The fed courts have made a joke of themselves.

    I dont even know what to say about Walz. Worst pol in America? That is a pretty low bar…he had to have a pick and a shovel to get under it.

    I will be surprised if Mr. ‘Sharp as a tack’ lives past the election. If he kicks off it should highlight how badly the D’s have lied to their voters. I know, they dont give a fuck about their voters.

    “…abandoned post to breastfeed…”
    *Sigh* It is almost like there are inherent factors about women that are incompatible with a job like that.
    Funhouse mirror world: We had to compromise the mission to make special accommodations for an individual
    Real world: We send the people who dont need special accommodations into the hornet’s nest so that people who need special accommodations can have them, i.e. men put themselves at risk to protect women and children.
    That’s just me, the raging misogynist.

    As far as I can tell the reliability of photos/videos as reliable evidence of truth is a thing of the past.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’ve been seeing a lot of speculation on Brandon not making it. The problem is there is a lot of video out there about what Dem Rosy would do on Day 1

      I don’t know if she’d be actually dumb enough to follow through on her promises, but if she did she’d lose the election.

      • Drake

        She’s an actor (and not a very good at it). If Biden croaked and she became President, the same people making decisions now would be making them for her. Nothing would change other than her address.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If Biden croaked before the election (or stepped down in some more boring timeline), I’m assuming Harris would install King Walz as VP.

      In my world that would be great because when they lose – and I still think they will – Walz can come back to Minnesoda and run for gov in 2026 as “retired Vice President of the United States”.

      Sure it won’t be technically a lie and the MSM will still cover 100% for him, but it would make me giggle.

      • AlexinCT

        The only reason I suspect the speculation that Biden will abdicate before the 2024 election so Harris could become number 47, ruining Trumps 47 merch, won’t happen is that the left would take it in the ass – so hard – if the first female POTUS, installed and not elected, ended up losing because the margin of fortification remained too high. That risk would cripple the party of batshit crazy women.

      • Grummun

        Replacement vice president must be confirmed by the Senate *and* the House, simple majority. But Walz waltzing (snicker) into the VP slot in a pre-election Kamala administration is not a lock.

  21. Stinky Wizzleteats

    The two presidential debates: My money’s on there won’t be any because they’re going to try to send him to Ryker’s until this pesky election season blows by at least. Even if it doesn’t pan out the Dems can use it as a pretext to cancel them based on the “I don’t debate people who ought to be in prison” cop out.

    • Ownbestenemy

      All while saying Trump will not show…wait…do they know something we don’t know!?

  22. AlexinCT

    Let me share the fact that the CCP’s Chinese economy makes ours look rosy, before I also point out this should scare people to death. It’s now just a matter of time before the CCP picks up the US model of endless wars to keep their failed economic policies going, and the odds this puts us in conflict with them are higher than ever, even with them practically owning our investment and political classes.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Won’t happen because the Chinese aren’t that stupid and they don’t really have a martial tradition. They’re also easily blockadable and could be brought to their knees economically fairly quickly if they stirred up too much trouble.

      • AlexinCT

        Won’t happen because the Chinese aren’t that stupid

        Historical events, from the Argentinian junta in 1982 to Saddam Hussein’s foray into Kuwait, say otherwise.

        Old authoritarian men, surrounded by yes-men, will always see military adventurism as a way to unite their people and “fix” things they broke.

    • juris imprudent

      Where on earth do you think the Chinese would fight a war, aside from Taiwan – which they aren’t well equipped for. The last time they attempted something the Vietnamese kicked their asses back across the border.

      • AlexinCT

        You think that the Argentinians didn’t know that could happen to them too when they invaded the Falklands? Or that Saddam felt nobody would give a fuck if he annexed Kuwait? It’s as if you think humans are logical all the time or something…

      • Drake

        This – they are a land power and not particularly militaristic. They’re pals with the Russians now. The Indians are in BRICS too and their relations are improving.

      • Drake

        A big war in the Middle East might end up with Chinese troops in Iran to protect their interests. That’s all I can think of.

      • AlexinCT

        Again, Argentina’s military was crap when they chose to invade the Falklands. Saddam, being a Soviet client counted on numbers to make his crappy military win. China has stolen IP from the west for decades, and especially IP with military applications, and also follows the old Soviet adage that quantity is a quality value of its own. The Chines put between 25-40 ships out a year to our 8-10. Even if these hips are crappy, the US contingent in the Pacific is already looking at massive losses if there should be a conflict, with a win not being guaranteed.

        BTW, ask any of China’s neighbors why they are massively ramping up their military if Chine’s military isn’t a problem.

      • juris imprudent

        Saddam was an American client – our proxy against Iran. You’ve forgotten that?

  23. DrOtto

    Whip Inflation Now!

  24. db

    Harris Campaign Agrees to 2 Debates After Trump Proposes 3

    Trump should counter with “Four, no fewer.”

    • rhywun

      “I see… four… debates!”

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Help is on the way

    Vice President Kamala Harris is expected on Friday to unveil her plan to help make homes more affordable. Although analysts cheered some of her plans to assist buyers, some feared that parts of Harris’ plan may exacerbate the problems in the market.

    The plan, which builds on proposals that President Joe Biden has already announced, promises:

    Up to $25,000 in down-payment support for first-time homebuyers.
    To provide a $10,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers.
    Tax incentives for builders that build starter homes sold to first-time buyers.
    An expansion of a tax incentive for building affordable rental housing.
    A new $40 billion innovation fund to spur innovative housing construction.
    To repurpose some federal land for affordable housing.
    A ban on algorithm-driven price-setting tools for landlords to set rents.
    To remove tax benefits for investors who buy large numbers of single-family rental homes.

    Common sense landlord control.

    • db

      Exactly which “analysts” cheered her plan?

      • db

        To repurpose some federal land for affordable housing.

        Internment camps!

      • Ted S.

        All of them, joyously.

      • db

        Long live Kam Jong-Un !

    • ron73440

      That 2008 crash?

      Gotta pump those numbers up, those were rookie numbers!

    • db

      A new $40 billion innovation fund to spur innovative housing construction.

      Fifteen-minute cities!

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m sure they will build as efficiently as LA did at $600K/apartment.

    • db

      A ban on algorithm-driven price-setting tools for landlords to set rents.

      What? You can’t use a spreadsheet to adjust your business model now?

      • Ownbestenemy

        You can but it must not have any automation or calculations in place. Better yet, time to break out the ol accountants ledger books and just manually do it by hand while paying for a newly minted government approved auditor to review your practices.

      • Nephilium

        Are you licensed, trained, and properly approved to use that spreadsheet prole?

      • juris imprudent

        Profit/loss statements are the wrong kind of algorithm.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’ll repost the link about St. Paul’s mayor (who has always been a 100% commie) changing up his rent control plans after Reality kicked him in the nads.

      St. Paul has issued permits for only 150 housing units in the first two quarters of 2024, according to data from the city’s Department of Planning and Economic Development — far below the pace needed to match last year’s 1,133.

      As Abraham Lincoln said:

      And these landlords that you spit on
      As they try to change make a profit
      Are immune to your regulations
      They’re quite aware of what they’re going through
       
      Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

    • EvilSheldon

      This proposal reads like a collection of retarded talking points from TwiX and Reddit, which makes me think that it was probably written by a bunch of retards from TwiX and Reddit.

      • db

        It was written by an AI trained on watching leftist protest marches with signs and chants

    • Ownbestenemy

      Also hearing rumblings of a wipeout of medical debt ala student loan debt. It is absolutely insane and the people will love it.

      • Nephilium

        So it’ll get bogged down in the courts who will eventually shrug and say “It’s illegal and wrong, but already done. Don’t do it again!”?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    But the “substance” of Harris’ plan is the far more critical proposal to add 3 million housing units, Brusuelas said. Long before the pandemic and the supply chain issues and rise in remote work rocketed the nation’s real estate industry, chronically low inventory served as a bottleneck and helped fuel higher prices and worsen affordability.

    The proposal released Thursday from the Harris campaign “is the only proposal that I’ve seen that directly addresses the concerns around the supply of housing,” Brusuelas said. “There’s going to need to be a concerted effort on the part of the federal, state and local governments to increase supply, because we’re about 3 million homes short.”

    Chen agreed that adding supply was the best part of Harris’ plan.

    The Army Corps of Engineers and the Seabees are going to start building houses? They can start by building barracks for the bums and junkies.

    Also- the federal government should take over the mortgage loan market. Look how well it worked for higher education.

    • AlexinCT

      Also- the federal government should take over the mortgage loan market. Look how well it worked for higher education.

      That “look how well government regulating higher ed loans worked for us all” should be used every time some retard says government should fix anything.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Maybe you could deport 3 million illegals? That would free up some housing.

      * I am not going to make some racist comment where deporting 3M Mexicans would free up like six houses because I take the High Road.

      • UnCivilServant

        How about deport 11 million illegals, and put out an open bounty on those left?

    • db

      Maybe if all the kids that still live at home would go out and get a job in construction instead of mooching off the parents and working at fast food jobs, they could be the ones building the homes that they could afford to live in.

    • EvilSheldon

      From working with NCG 2 down at Little Creek, I got the impression that as long as the Seabees have D6 Cats and a steady supply of beer and high explosives, they’d build anything someone told them to…

    • Ownbestenemy

      Didn’t creech yesterday point out that the market is already adding more than that in terms of new home builds and that her plan is LESS than that amount?

    • The Other Kevin

      Magically there will appear enough union labor to build all those houses, and as the demand for building materials goes up, the price will go down because of price controls. We can’t lose!

  27. AlexinCT

    As I read this, I became more convinced that my belief that all the tongue bathing coverage and the fake polls about Harris being ahead – suddenly- from the usual controlled & captured entities in legacy media doing propaganda for the most evil cabal foisted on America, was more to demoralize highly excited and motivated Trump voters, while at the same time, pump up demoralized and broken team blue voters, was accurate.

    It’s all gaslighting, as it has been for close to a decade or so, now. Obama destroyed what little existed of real news by basically prosecuting any media that was negative to his administration’s agenda of hiding the level of criminality going on under their reign of terror, while at the same time cowing the rest of them into submission with the threat of removal of access. If you know the players, it is easy to see there is no news: just bullshit targeted at unsuspecting morons.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sure, the polling right now is mostly nonsense aimed at driving public sentiment rather than measuring it but Harris definitely has more support and enthusiasm behind her than an obviously demented Biden did, her support just doesn’t rise to the level they’re pretending it does. Creating an air of inevitability is important because it sways many for no other reason than people like to support a winner.

      • AlexinCT

        but Harris definitely has more support and enthusiasm behind her than an obviously demented Biden did

        You may be right, but I have seen no proof of that at all. In fact, I have seen a lot of the opposite. The few Biden signs I remember seeing in people’s yards are gone, and it is rare to see a Harris one at all, and while I know it is anecdotal, I think it is not something to ignore.

      • db

        I’d imagine that most people who would spend on Biden-Harris yard signs are not going to spend on Harris-Walz signs because they already donated to the cause, in their minds.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m seeing tons of people on Facebook openly promoting Trump, with no pushback. I’m seeing nobody promote Kamala. It might be that my friends list has changed over the years, but I’m sure I still have a lot of lefties in the group. I think that’s something.

  28. Not Adahn

    Officials said she will propose a new $40 billion innovation fund — doubling that of the $20 billion Biden-Harris proposed innovation fund — that will be used for local governments to fund local solutions to build housing

    As long as it’s titled the Cabrini Greens for Everyone Act, I’m ok with it.

    • AlexinCT

      That’s a lot of extra money for democrat campaign coffers…

    • Nephilium

      Candyman…

  29. The Other Kevin

    That ride looks pretty great, I’m going to have to go next year.

    • Pope Jimbo

      TOK, you know I love you, but I gotta ask.

      Do you have to get in one of the cars like everyone else? Or do you have special rims for you ride and they just put you on the tracks and you go solo?

      • The Other Kevin

        There is a guy named Aaron Wheelz that does giant jumps in his wheelchair. I can’t even get down a curb without falling out of my chair (this is a big source of humor for my teammates). I have a friend that wants to take me to the local skate park to see what we can do.

    • ron73440

      I used to love roller coasters, but the last time I went to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, I started getting vertigo after 3 rides.

      I was trying to power through it, but my wife looked at me and said,”You look gray”.

      I answered that I felt gray and I haven’t been on one since.

      • The Other Kevin

        The same thing happened to me about 20 years ago with spinning rides. All of a sudden I got so sick on those. Fortunately I’m still ok on roller coasters. I like inversions and I especially like launch coasters. They have a launch coaster at Great America that has the same forces as a jet launching off a carrier. The ride is only 15 seconds long but damn is it fun.

  30. ron73440

    I feel bad for my wife, she is driving to the Japanese Embassy in DC today to get her passport renewed.

    Normally, I would take the day off and drive her up, but I blew through a lot of PTO with my sprained ankle.

    On a Friday, traffic shouldn’t be as bad, I hope.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’ve heard stories about that traffic. May God have mercy on her soul.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    WaPo headline-

    Trump’s Comfort Food Campaign

    As if Harris isn’t out there slinging pablum and treacle.

  32. Common Tater

    “CNN Admits Tim Walz Campaign Lied About His Drunk Driving Arrest Numerous Times”

    It’s news when the news reports news.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Leave Vance to keep at Walz/Harris record and Trump on policy. Too bad Trump just cannot stay on message.

      • The Other Kevin

        He did a press conference yesterday at a golf course, and it was right on target. Kamala won’t say what she’ll do, so he did it for her.

    • The Other Kevin

      I don’t join very often, but I’m up for that. Maybe Elon will drop in.

    • Not Adahn

      I don’t join because:

      1. I spend my off-work time doing non-computer stuff.
      2. I have crappy impulse control and would likely do something to get banned from Glibs
      3. Based on my IRL interactions with (some, by no means all!) Glibs I get the definite impression I wouldn’t be welcome on zoom. See #2 above.

      • Nephilium

        In regards to 2, I have never banned anyone from the Zooms (I have muted and bounced people at times, but that was rare). I’m also unaware of any Zoom antics getting anyone in trouble in regards to the website.

      • The Other Kevin

        I only join occasionally, when Mrs. TOK is busy, because those are the times when the two of us are having date nights and such. It is fun. Some of us stay on for hours, some just drop in to say hi for a bit.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Stick to #1, #2-3 ya..doesn’t happen.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        LOL. Bless your heart for thinking you’d even be in the running for Most Controversial Glibzoomer.

      • slumbrew

        It’s like you never even saw Tonio’s cold-open.

        *stares off into distance*

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ya has he shown up in his leathers recently?

    • UnCivilServant

      You schedule these things for times when I am least available.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        There’s literally no schedule

      • UnCivilServant

        Evenings, Eastern Time.

  33. juris imprudent

    Wife and I went out for a horseback ride this morning – our anniversa-ride. 26 years and going strong. Tomorrow we roll out for Black Rock and That Thing In The Desert (aka Burning Man). Be mostly incommunicado until we pop up at Honey Harvest.

    • Nephilium

      Drive safe, and I wish you and the wife a fantastic time.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Did she ride behind you and constantly ask you why you were staring at her?

      Congrats whippersnapper! Mrs. Holliness and I have 6 more years of “bliss” under our belt (that is why I look so pudgy in all those pics)

    • Tundra

      Happy anniversary and safe travels!

    • The Other Kevin

      Happy Anniversary and safe travels! We’ll keep Alex busy for you.

      • AlexinCT

        HEY!

    • db

      Can she go into how the Eugenics movement was core to Progressivism?

    • db

      And I’m pretty sure that the push for public education and eugenics were linked

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t leave out public health (and sterilization of the weak).

    • rhywun

      Who doesn’t have another hour to listen to her spout delusional racist gibberish?!

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Did you hear what Sally said about Billy in the girls’ room?!

    Senior editors at the Washington Post are reviewing a prominent tech columnist’s private story on social media, which appears to label President Biden a “war criminal” in a photo.

    The Post’s Taylor Lorenz attended a White House event for digital influencers on Wednesday. In the photo she shared with a circle of friends on Instagram, Biden appears over her shoulder; the damning caption rests just below him, accompanied by a text frowny face.

    After the New York Post’s Jon Levine — a frequent critic of hers — revealed the Instagram photo caption yesterday in a tweet, Lorenz wrote back at him: “You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.”

    A fact-check appended to Levine’s tweet cited her apparent denial. (The contextual note to the tweet says, “Taylor Lorenz says this is a digital manipulation which has added a false caption.”) Lorenz told her editors that someone else had added the caption to the photo.

    NPR has obtained a screengrab of Lorenz’s actual post, which contained that caption. It was not shared with her wider Instagram audience of 143,000 followers.

    More high school lunchroom gossipy status-jostling. When will they all just disappear up their own assholes?

    • Pope Jimbo

      sigh.

      Of course they didn’t include any of the pics in question. Too bad Biden didn’t blurt out some racist comment so that all the breathless stories could allude to the comment but not actually quote it. Because it was so horrific and damaging that it must not be repeated unless you want Voldemort to win.

      When will they all just disappear up their own assholes?

      What? You expect them to do the hard work and become experts in some area of public policy? It is far easier for them to simply sit back and make mean remarks about each other.

  35. Common Tater

    “A Russian tourist who allegedly tried to rape a cow was gored by the animal and had to be rescued by Thai police.

    Evgenii Kuvshinov, 26, is said to have stripped off and sidled over to a male bull before turning his attention to a female tied to a wooden fence in a field in Surat Thani, southern Thailand, yesterday afternoon.

    The holidaymaker allegedly tried to mount the cow only for her to react violently – pinning him to the ground and goring him.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13749603/Russian-tourist-tried-rape-cow-gored-animal.html

    Drugs may have been involved.

    • AlexinCT

      Was this the guy from the story I heard about when I was much younger?

      Story goes that this really capable guy survives a shipwreck in the Pacific. He manages to bring on land all sorts of tools, supplies, and even a few farm animals. Over time he builds himself some serious luxury sheltering and such, and he has no problem with food because between the eggs from the chickens, the occasional goat he eats, and the cows that give em milk, he even starts gaining back weight. A year or so later he is sitting so pretty that he becomes bored and gets horny. Decides he is gonna plow one of them cows.

      Dude spends weeks coming up with ways to immobilize the cow to finally do his business, but fails every time. He is sitting on the beach, frustrated, trying to come up with how to get him some sweet cow when he sees an airplane make a water landing right close to his beach. The he sees someone trashing in the water drowning, and quickly swims out to save em. When he gets to shore he discovers she is one heck of a looker, and she, in thrall of him for saving his life, offers him anything – and she stresses ANYTHING – he wants as a reward.

      The guy promptly asks her to hold the cow for her…

      Guess this dude forgot t bring the cow holder?

      • AlexinCT

        The guy promptly asks her to hold the cow for her him….

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I was thinking more of the time when Troy Aikman was out horseback riding with some of his teammates. They came across a group of cows and one after another they all take turns, except for Aikman who stayed on his horse. “Troy, get down here and try this. It’s great. Best sex ever.” “Nah, I’m good.” Finally though, Troy relented, so he climbed down off his horse, dropped his pants, and bent over.

    • Tundra

      Pretty nice views.

      • UnCivilServant

        It also stands out like a sore thumb amongst the neighbors.

        The lack of interior walls and the whole “Lean-to” exterior makes me go “cheap, cheap, cheap”

    • AlexinCT

      The guy promptly asks her to hold the cow for her him….

    • Drake

      What is an acre worth in Melrose, NY?

      • UnCivilServant

        🤷‍♂️ It’s not a town I’d heard of before. It’s between the Hudson and Vermont.

      • Not Adahn

        That is a perfect house for a gentrifying East Austin neighborhood.

      • UnCivilServant

        It looks like it would fall over in a stiff breeze.

    • Sean

      luxury home

      Uh. No.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Your bizarro alt-history for today

    Yet who could have imagined the economy the Trump administration created? I was hired in December 2016 just on the prospect of the improved economy Trump was likely to build. Not only did his election get me hired back in my industry, but his presidency was so beneficial, I got many other Black friends from college hired on in Oil and Gas, and I saw our lives take off for the better.

    I went from being homeless to making $80,000 a year. Suddenly I had a two-bedroom apartment, life insurance, and savings. I was able to go vacation with my then-fiancé several times a year.

    Black men do not have to admire Trump’s character to acknowledge his policies worked best for our interests. Many of us had great jobs. We were making money.

    Then came President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and like Obama, they prioritized climate change, globalization, expansion of the welfare state, and the advancement of social ideologies over protecting American jobs and families. Their policies had a massively detrimental impact on the economy and the future prospects of the Everyday Man.

    The majority of Black men in America are not professional athletes or celebrities—but we’re also not poor or homeless or on welfare; we are everyday, hardworking men seeking to move ahead in life. And the Left seems to make that much harder—by hobbling the economy on the one hand, then pushing music and culture that tells men we’re nothing if we aren’t rich. It’s a one-two punch for the three strikes Black man.

    At the end of the day, all Americans want the same things: life, liberty, safety and security. For me and many of my Black male friends, reelecting President Trump gives us the best opportunity to become providers for our families and to get dignity from good paying jobs. That’s why he’s earned my vote.

    Everybody knows Trump hates black people and wrecked the economy.

    • AlexinCT

      If they say it enough, lots of idiots will believe it. Even when it clashes with their own memories of reality. That’s called being a progressive.

    • The Other Kevin

      I think this might be a thing. If any of you follow Hotep Jesus on Twitter, he’s saying the same thing. He doesn’t like Trump personally, but he’s supporting him for strictly financial reasons.

      • AlexinCT

        Yup.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s an argument I can buy, except for the fact that the president doesn’t really control the economy. Hell, he doesn’t even control his own branch of the govt.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    The lack of interior walls and the whole “Lean-to” exterior makes me go “cheap, cheap, cheap”

    I like it. You’re buying the land, not just the house. It’s on an acre, so there’s room for a 3500 sq ft shop out back.

  38. Sensei

    There are only 13 people in the world who have driven faster than 400 mph in a piston-powered car. George Poteet did it more times than the other 12 combined.

    Poteet, a Memphis, Tenn.-area businessman who died July 16 at age 76, was a dominant force in amateur landspeed racing—a sport and subculture largely centered on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where, for roughly a century, racers and car builders have careened across the desert in every conceivable kind of tricked-out automobile.

    https://www.wsj.com/sports/george-poteet-dead-150b8d7b?st=zhtpbsety1dq01d&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, there is a practical limit to where one can drive 400 mph with any type of engine.

    • R.J.

      *Salutes

      A very cool dude. I think there’s a documentary or two out there. I will post if I can find them.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    He doesn’t like Trump personally, but he’s supporting him for strictly financial reasons.

    Rational self interest is white supremacy.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    At 481 mph, a car is traveling one mile every 7½ seconds; you could drive the entire width of Manhattan in about as much time as it takes most people to sing the alphabet.

    Weeping Jesus on a merry go round.

    • The Other Kevin

      Yes but how many times can it wrap around the equator, and how many stacked up to reach the moon?

      • Suthenboy

        Who cares? How many bananas is that…that’s what I need to know.

  41. Tundra

    The Global Attack on Small Business

    There is every reason to think that the “great reset,” however, is not long for this world. The seeds of failure are becoming more evident, as indebted governments deal with raging inflation, growing bankruptcy, fiscal limitations, and heightened voter discontent. Europe has already slid into recession and the United States is headed toward admitting that we never really recovered from lockdowns. Most tellingly, China itself—the world center of great-reset economic strategy—has bumped up against the limits and is facing waves of bankruptcy, inflation, and debt.

    The big picture is that the hubris of mankind has once again got the best of him, but the experiment has produced tremendous pain along the way. Finding our way out will be just as painful. Meanwhile, there is every reason to weep for the small businesses, for it is they who have paid the highest price along the way. Their stories will never be fully told, for there are too many, and telling them is too painful. But let’s not forget them.

    The various proposals extant to stop taxing tips are welcome but tiny compared with what we really need. The deregulation, budget cuts, and end to the litigation thicket need to be dramatic and far-reaching in order to save small enterprises. Whether it is Bologna or your hometown, it is the small merchants who have built the best of the modern world. They deserved far better.

    Amen.

    • The Other Kevin

      Small businesses are the ones that create the most innovation. But big businesses are easier to control.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Bad Tax Preparation software?

    • db

      Hmmm, does it count as a deductible expense for “tax preparation” if you fly to your accountant?

    • Drake

      Sorry…

  42. creech

    Well, the bad news this morning, courtesy of my GOP connected friend, is that Trump is finished in Pennsylvania. The GOP’s internal polling shows he is behind where he was in 2020 when he lost PA. Dumping Biden has brought lots of voters back to the Dem column. That’s probably so in the other swing states too. Barring a disastrous debate performance by Harris, expect her to be our next president. Get ready for more income redistribution from those who have and earn to those who have-not and don’t earn. Cradle to grave “free” stuff, watch for “reparations” to get new life, more open borders, taxes on your 401k and IRA withdrawals. Friend’s one silver lining that he sees: Toxic Trump will be removed from GOP leadership, paving way for those more articulate and less volatile to espouse Trump’s policies without generating the TDS and hatred from the media (yeah, sure, that will happen-ed.) Pray for your kids and grandkids.

    • R.J.

      Just blows my mind.
      Kamala will have exactly the same regime as Biden. If you hated Biden enough to not vote for him, why turn out for the same turd in a pant suit?

    • Sensei

      I’m not at all surprised.

      This is Harris’s race to lose.

    • The Other Kevin

      TDS will never go away. They were calling Mitt Romney “Hitler”, and that’s the base line now. Even with Trump gone, any future GOP candidate will be called a “Trump acolyte” until forever.

      • AlexinCT

        When your policies are such shit and evil that people would recoil from you in anger when they hear them, your only tactic is to scare people into voting for you…

    • Common Tater

      “Trump is finished in Pennsylvania.”

      It’s only August.

      • Sean

        It’s only August.

        And economic pain is still building.

      • The Other Kevin

        I don’t think anyone can predict anything these days. A month ago Biden was firmly in the race and would never drop out. If Trump had paused to scratch his nose instead of turning to look at a chart, he’d be dead. The election can, and will, turn on a dime.

      • kinnath

        Businesses are closing. Consumer prices are up way beyond the official inflation rate. Harris offering prices controls is an acknowledgement that prices are hurting the voting public that the dems depend on.

        The dems cannot win this election without fraud.

        Fraud is baked into the system, and the media is providing cover.

        Labor day weekend is when the election campaign starts in earnest.

        The only question is whether or not Harris is so bad that fraud can’t cover the loss.

    • Raven Nation

      Assuming this is true, it tends to underline just how horrible a candidate Hillary Clinton was.

      Also, Trump was the shiny new thing and that shininess has worn off.

    • Sean

      when he lost PA

      When the fucking election was stolen.

      Fuck the PA GOP. They threw the election in 2022 and now they’re already admitting defeat in 2024?

      • juris imprudent

        They looked at the CA GOP and said “hold my Yuengling”.

      • creech

        As I recall, their internal polling was that Trump would narrowly win PA in 2020. And he did, until the mail in ballots were counted and were 3 to 1 Biden which was out of proportion to most other states where no “fortification” was necessary.

      • creech

        In 2022, the Trump candidate, Dr. Oz, was the primary choice by less than 1000 votes. The “establishment ” candidate, David McCormick , would have beat Fetterman. So I’d say it was the Trump GOP that threw the 2022 election.

    • juris imprudent

      more articulate and less volatile

      Oh, the good old establishment GOP types, right?

  43. Suthenboy

    CC and UFO’s.
    Ever notice how the clear evidence for Nessie, Steve Smith, UFO’s etc is always guaranteed to be in a place where no one can look?

    • The Other Kevin

      Everyone has a high-res camera on them at all times yet we still don’t have high quality photos or video.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think about that and recall the time I spotted a Blue Heron in the Hudson. I was out for a walk specifically with a camera to take pictures of wildlife and I still failed to get a shot of the bird before it flew off and I lost it.

      • AlexinCT

        Everyone has a high-res camera on them at all times yet we still don’t have high quality photos or video.

        Don’t you know that one of the many stealth implementations the aliens have is one that wrecks any attempt at taking a digital image? Your brain can fill in the blanks and correct for the distortion, but cameras can’t………

      • R.J.

        I’ll let you in on a secret. Alien UFOs are naturally blurry when you look at them. It’s all in the paintjob.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well she has demonstrated she knows how to throw a spitball.

    • Tundra

      Lol. She’s a cutie.

      Lighten up, Puritans. Your stupid game is dying,

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Friend’s one silver lining that he sees: Toxic Trump will be removed from GOP leadership, paving way for those more articulate and less volatile to espouse Trump’s policies without generating the TDS and hatred from the media (yeah, sure, that will happen-ed.)

    Sure. Bill Clinton resurrected. The press will brand him a Nazi and genocidal misogynist who wants rich people to eat babies for Christmas dinner.

    ps- polls this far out are meaningless.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    This is Harris’s race to lose.

    After all, she is the best smartest most qualified candidate ever hatched.

    • Sean

      I might lower myself to watch her “debate” Donald.

      • R.J.

        Oh, c’mon. We’ll have a party like last time. It will be fun!

      • The Other Kevin

        I will admit I’m one of the ones who polluted RJ’s movie post that night. And I have no regrets.

  46. Tundra

    Banned Again

    The fact that the White House retained and retained these documents for months after receiving a FOIA request from “the Paper of Record”, and then released them this week, shows me that the Biden family is no longer in power, and that there will be more and more damning documents released, and more and more distancing of others at high levels away from the Biden family, as the campaign gears up. It is also my bet that the Harris/Walz ticket won’t be the final Democratic ticket. The people who managed to take Biden out of the running, are entirely able to take the catastrophically unlikeable Harris out of the running.

    Spicy!

    • Ownbestenemy

      The ONLY way I see that happen is if they get her to sit down for a straight interview; aint gonna happen. They are riding a high-enough wave that they think will carry them through November.