¡martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Aug 6, 2024 | Daily Links | 222 comments

My daughter started high school yesterday. If you excuse me, I will now live in fear for the foreseeable future.

Fucking groomers. Groomers—EVERYWHERE

!Enlaces!

I thought they killed Poochie, turns out they just sent him to Mexico.

If you’re on Telegram, there are channels showing videos from the Ukraine war where its the final footage of a drone chasing Russian soldiers to an open area and then crashing into them. Anyways, that’s now available in Mexico.

Mexico wants us to send migrants back to their country of origin, instead of just back to Mexico….you could just not let them into Mexico in the first place?

Leaders of multiple countries are coalescing to put an end to the Venezuelan “election” “crisis”. I don’t understand the issue here. The US backed a candidate that didn’t have much of a chance of beating a dictator, because dictators don’t just step down over the result of an election. Besides, its not like Maduro lost, so there’s no crisis here. This is obvious because the opposition candidates potentially broke the law in opposing said dictator. This is democracy in action.

Here’s a tune. Enjoy your Tuesday.

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222 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    Mexico wants us to send migrants back to their country of origin, instead of just back to Mexico….you could just not let them into Mexico in the first place?

    But then the cartels wouldn’t collect their paychecks, so the people stopping them from crossing mexico and paying the cartels would die.

  2. kinnath

    Thanks for the gif. That warmed my heart today.

    • The Other Kevin

      Seconded. That got me warm in certain areas today as well.

    • bacon-magic

      For sure.

    • Tundra

      Sí. Increíble!

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Beach volleyball is on

    • Grumbletarian

      The gif that keeps on giving.

    • Suthenboy

      My favorite gif…well there is the other one, blondie in a ring with a big #1 being slapped on her ass. I haven’t seen that one in a while.

      • DEG

        I found the video that ass-slap gif comes from.

        I remember posting a link here in the comments section.

        It was a while ago, so the link and the comment are probably lost.

        From memory: It was a Dutch contest for “best ass”.

      • Gdragon

        I still have that #1 ass slap saved.

  3. Shpip

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his country is seeking an agreement for the US to deport asylum-seekers and migrants to their countries of origin instead of Mexico.

    Have you seen the price of avgas recently?

  4. The Other Kevin

    I get the feeling that in November, we’re going to look back on that Venezuelan election as “the good old days”.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Back when the world made sense

  5. Tundra

    My daughter started high school yesterday. If you excuse me, I will now live in fear for the foreseeable future.

    Thoughts and prayers, dude.

    • The Other Kevin

      Amen to that.

    • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

      Having just a son, all I can say is: Target Acquired!

      • Tundra

        I prayed that my daughter would be one of those ugly ducking situations. No dice.

      • Mojeaux the Lazy Yenta

        My dad made me into that ugly duckling with bad haircuts and shoveling food in my mouth. He did me no favors. You cannot know how unbelievably bitter and hate-filled I am about that.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        When you have a son you only have to worry about one penis. When you have a daughter you have to worry about all of them.

      • Fourscore

        I did the best I could. At a certain age my responsibility ended, I thought. I was apparently wrong…

      • SDF-7

        One hopes it is actually O(N-1) or you have serious issues to deal with.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Thanks

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      When I was in high school I would go to my friends’ houses to play Bridge. My parents were, like ” stay out as late as you want, nerd!”

      • Tundra

        Haha! Love that!

    • The Last American Hero

      Heh. Wait until the gentleman callers show up in about two weeks.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    While some critics argue Biden’s sweeping migration measure doesn’t go far enough in responding to the large numbers of people showing up at the US southern border, others warn that closing the border to asylum seekers will endanger vulnerable people.

    ——-

    “It implies a kind of virtual wall because people are going to be in a scenario where they are going to be rejected. On the other hand, if this measure is implemented, it leaves thousands of people without the possibility of shelter,” Guillen said.

    We just need to do something about the people who encourage the “migrants” to show up at our border under false pretenses.

    • Tundra

      We’re so fond of bombing things, how about the fucking NGOs?

      • Drake

        This. Do like the Russians and put bounties on them.

      • Suthenboy

        Given what they are doing it would not be hard to argue that they are aiding and abetting enemies of the country, or some such.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “others warn that closing the border to asylum seekers will endanger vulnerable people”

      People will die!

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        My daughter with an expensive liberal arts degree won’t get a job!”

      • SDF-7

        She can always target ZWAK’s son….

      • Suthenboy

        Here we go with the ‘but look at the doe-eyed innocent children!’ bit. Fuck the doe-eyed children.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I would argue that asylum seekers are more in danger if they get into this white supremacist hellscape that has racist neo-nazi’s and lynching gangs hiding behind every blade of grass. Yep, they’ll just have to stay put where they are….for their own safety.

    • rhywun

      Rejection sucks and stuff.

  7. The Late P Brooks
  8. Raven Nation

    TPTB: I hit Review on an article a few days back. It’s showing up as Pending in my list. Let me know if I need to do something else to move it along.

    • Tonio

      It is “in the queue” as we say. Thanks for writing for us.

      • Raven Nation

        Sweet – thanks for the opportunity.

    • Swiss Servator

      I’ll get it set – it will be September. We are a bit jammed up right now.

      • Raven Nation

        Sounds good. Might be a little dated but I think it will still work.

    • kinnath

      Ok lawyers, how does a boycott become illegal?

      Voting with your feet and taking your money with you it totally legitimate.

      Is the basis of this lawsuit that certain entities threatened other entities to produce and sustain the boycott?

      • Sensei

        They are a defacto advertiser white list.

        The question is how it is determined and communicated.

        In libertopia it’s fine, but i can certainly see it breaking some laws. RICO comes to mind.

      • trshmnstr

        Ok lawyers, how does a boycott become illegal?

        Antitrust when it’s being coordinated from the top by an industry group that exceeds it’s bounds and starts colluding with its members.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        On the one hand Google sucks, on the other hand taking the high road while they fuck you over again and again won’t even get you a nice cell in thoughtcrimes jail. Not the most libertarian thing but I can live with it.

    • tarran

      My understanding is that the defendants committed fraud – i.e they lied to advertisers about where their ads were showing up – in an attempt to interfere with X’s trade.

      If I put up cheap-fake videos I’d manufactured that purported to show employees of a rival restaurant peeing in the mashed potatoes, when in fact I’d actually hired the actors and directed them to pee in the pot of mashed potatoes and they never worked in my rival’s kitchen all to scare customers away from my rivals, it would be pretty much the same thing that X is alleging.

  9. Tundra

    VW doubles down on diesel with new Touareg in Korea

    “The auto industry is going through a period of transition to electric vehicles, but looking at our large fan base closely, demand for diesel cars is still high,” said Till Scheer, the managing director of Volkswagen Group Korea, during a media event Tuesday morning in central Seoul.

    Translation: We need to build stuff that people will actually purchase. And I definitely would.

    • Fourscore

      Didn’t VW have a diesel 30-40 years ago? What happened?

      • Tundra

        Dieselgate.

        VW/Audi got caught fucking with the programming of their diesels to game the silly government emissions testing. Which every manufacturer does, of course. They went after VW hard and actually sent people to prison.

        Never mind that the diesels were still marvels.

      • Sensei

        Meanwhile as I point out every time this discussed Takata fucking knowingly killed people.

        No jail time.

      • rhywun

        They went after VW hard

        My town spent its share of the VW loot on five electric buses that had to be pulled out of service because they are defective and the company that made them went bankrupt. Similar happened in Austin, Philly, Colorado Springs, Asheville, and others.

    • Suthenboy

      Touareg? Isn’t that the nomadic North African tribe that has been making a living catching people for the slave market since the beginning of time?
      Seems that name would be ‘problematic’ as they say.

      • Tundra

        Funny you ask

        Ron Sowell, a salesman at Martens Volvo and Volkswagen in Washington, DC, hadn’t heard the news in Mali either, and doesn’t think it will affect the car’s sales to its target audience, which he describes as “people pretty well educated, degrees, making more than $100,000”. He added, “I just think that an automobile and what a tribe does elsewhere doesn’t have anything to do with the car they’re driving.”

        What about VW customers a bit closer to the action? A salesman for Volkswagen based in Accra, Ghana said that “now everyone is hearing about the Touareg, but it hasn’t affected the popularity of the car.” People in Ghana “aren’t concerned with what is happening in other countries,” said the salesman, who wished to remain anonymous.

        Buhlmann added that he could only comment on “what kind of engines we have in the car and where the name came from.” He said the name comes from VW’s view that people living in the desert are “peaceful,” and that “our vehicle would be a very good desert vehicle.”

        Whoopsie.

    • Tundra

      No. He’s not. He’s a demon.

      • The Other Kevin

        I trust my fellow Glibs to know the truth about that guy. I have seen a few complaints…

      • Fourscore

        I’d rather not have him on my side in a street fight.

        “Walz?, Walz?, Anyone seen Tim Walz? WTF, he went to McDonald’s? Again?”

    • Ted S.

      Tim Walz is weird.

    • SDF-7

      As elaborated here, I think Vance wins the “Have a beer with” / “Repair a fence with” / “Sane normal guy” contest compared with “Chop off the kids’ genitals! Take them from the house if the parents don’t want it! Burn down the cities!” commie-grandpa.

      • Drake

        Hell – okay to kill your kid right up to birth if he or she inconveniences you in any way.

      • Tonio

        I want to see David Hogg do an oil change. Srsly. Camera crew at his front door, “Sixty Minutes” style.

        “Mr. Hogg, we have a Ford Fiesta, its Owner’s Manual, the Chilton Guide, an oil pan, a filter, oil, and all the tools you need. And coveralls, in both pink pinstripe and blue pinstripe. Have at it.”

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “I want to see David Hogg do an oil change.” That could be an entertaining show. Kind of like that show Paris Hilton did many years ago. No, not that one.

        Make Hogg do a bunch of manual jobs and watch him flounder. Rico Soave might guest star every now and then. Needs a clever name. Hogg Tied, or Hogg in Slop.

      • trshmnstr

        its Owner’s Manual, the Chilton Guide,

        Somebody is in a merciful mood.

    • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

      Good. We set up BS rules, and were shocked, SHOCKED, when companies learned the rule book.

      I loathed that decision.

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        Tim Walz is cringe.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        But is he brat? Apparently that’s important.

    • bacon-magic

      Tampon Tim.

    • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      “America’s Dad”

      What utter horseshite!

      I’m a grown-ass man. I don’t need a “Dad”, much less that shit stain.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda. I can’t believe he slimed his way in. The good thing about this is that he won’t be our gov anymore. And I’m 99% sure that Trump will win.

      My buddy who ran against him for gov in Minnesoda said that they got oppo research that said Walz was fired from a teaching job early in his career, but all the records were sealed. Buddy said there wasn’t any non-slimy way to bring it up in his race so he passed on it. Be interesting to see if that pops up in a national race.

      Normally, I’d say that VP picks don’t mean much, but in this case it will help Harris because she is such an empty suit. They can hide her in the basement and let King Walz run around spouting folksy shit.

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        I don’t know if they can do that basement thing this go ’round. In 2020, they had fear of Covid, and that played to both their base and to the people they wanted to bring into the fold. Now? They got nothing like that, and if they want to bring outsiders in, so to speak, she needs to get out there and go up against big, bad Donnie two scoops.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    EPA to the rescue

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an emergency order Tuesday to remove from the market a pesticide linked to fetal damage, its first such action in nearly four decades.

    In a statement, the EPA said exposure to the pesticide, dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known DCPA or dacthal, can affect fetal thyroid hormone levels. These changes are in turn associated with lower birth weights and impairments to brain development and motor skills.

    ——-

    DCPA is primarily used for weed control for crops, including cabbage, onions and broccoli. The EPA made the decision at a time when DCPA is up for its registration review, a process all pesticides must undergo every 15 years under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.

    Michal Freedhoff, assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, called the compound “so dangerous that it needs to be removed from the market immediately” in a statement.

    Is it a pesticide or an herbicide? That’s as far as I got.

    • SDF-7

      “That’s some quality reporting there, Lou!”

      • Suthenboy

        My advice: “It is poison. Dont eat it.”

    • LCDR_Fish

      Technically it can be both right…all in the name.

    • Sensei

      Floor wax and dessert topping!

    • Fourscore

      I’ll check my inventory and use it all up, if I have any. Sure don’t want to catch any diseases…

  11. LCDR_Fish

    Some good context on yesterday I was unaware of (based on twitter general freakouts).

    https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/what-happened-yesterday-in-the-stock-market/

    Dominic Pino is very solidly pro-market, low/min-regulation, etc.

    What Happened

    The July U.S. jobs report was not great. Job gains were only 114,000 for the month, less than expected, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent, up from 4.1 percent in June.

    But you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who seriously believes that 4.3 percent unemployment is cause for recession fears. For decades, an unemployment rate around 4 percent was considered full employment. The U.S. has had an unusually low unemployment rate for the past two years.

    The uptick in the unemployment rate does not undo other economic indicators. Just before the jobs report, on July 25, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its real-GDP estimates, which said annualized growth had increased from 1.4 percent in the first quarter to 2.8 percent in the second quarter. If you’d told someone last year, let alone last decade, that a 4.3 percent unemployment rate and rising estimates of GDP growth would have some people worrying about a recession, he would’ve looked at you like you were crazy.

    The idea that the global stock market looked at July’s jobs report and decided to massively sell off stocks based on that alone simply does not make sense. Looking closer, we can see the real factors that caused the decline.

    Many major investors, especially in hedge funds, were overleveraged due to a tactic called “carry trading.” The basic principle of investing is buy low and sell high. That’s easy enough to understand with one currency, but it can become more complicated in the real world, where there are many currencies.

    It can sometimes help to increase the gap between low and high, and therefore an investor’s return, by borrowing in a different currency from the one the asset that you’re buying is sold in. If the interest rate in one country is much lower than the interest rate in the country you’re trying to buy in, borrowing in the first country can lead to a higher return in the second country, even after paying back interest for the loan. Executing that strategy is called making a “carry trade.”

    Japan has had extraordinarily low interest rates for a long time. The Bank of Japan’s policy rate was recently still below zero (yes, the interest rate was negative) while the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate rose to over 5 percent. This gap provided investors with opportunities to make carry trades by borrowing in yen and then buying high-growth U.S. stocks in dollars.

    And investors took advantage of those opportunities, to the tune of $4 trillion worldwide.

    That works until it doesn’t. And it recently stopped looking like such a great idea, because the Bank of Japan started to raise interest rates. In March, it raised its policy rate for the first time in 17 years. Then, on July 31, when markets were expecting Japanese interest rates to stay the same, Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda announced another rate increase along with a reduction in the bank’s balance sheet, and hinted at the possibility of more rate hikes in the future.

    All of a sudden, the gap between the dollar and the yen that carry traders had been exploiting began to vanish. The yen rose against the dollar in the foreign-exchange markets. Even though the dollar was still worth much more than the yen, the gap was no longer large enough for the carry trades to pay off, and the Bank of Japan’s speculation on further rate hikes signaled that the gap would become even smaller in the future. So investors began to sell in large quantities.

    “The rise of Japan interest rates is changing the game rules,” the head of research at one brokerage told Bloomberg. “In essence it’s the end of a free resource.”

    As the carry trades began to unwind, the hedge funds that made them in large quantities had to also sell other assets to satisfy their risk models, the Wall Street Journal reported. That’s one way the sell-off spread to other areas of the market. The decline in the valuation of the largest technology stocks also led non-carry traders to sell for other reasons, such as perceived over-optimism in artificial intelligence and a simple increase in overall risk and volatility. Investors flocked to safe, lower-return assets such as government bonds instead.

    What Happens Next

    You’ll notice that none of this has anything to do with the presidential election, or American politics at all. That’s a very good thing. You don’t want to live in a country where stock-market performance is determined by politics.

    Some of the best evidence that we still live in a free-market economy is that Big Tech, hated by Trump, performed very well during his presidency, and Big Oil, hated by Biden, has been performing very well during his. If you can make a bunch of money investing in companies that the president hates, that’s a pretty good sign you live in a free country.

    Expect some politician or regulator somewhere to call for banning or restricting carry trades, a thing that he or she had probably never heard of before yesterday. Carry trades aren’t some newfangled idea. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco was writing about them in 2006, and they have been popular with some investors since at least the 1990s.

    Also expect people to demean carry trades as some sort of highly theoretical maneuver that doesn’t work in the real world, when the exact opposite is true. According to economic theory, carry trades should not ever make money, because exchange rates between countries should adjust automatically to reflect the difference in interest rates. It’s the gap between theory and the real world that investors exploit with carry trades.

    Despite the large number of points the markets lost, the actual percentage decline wasn’t that large because it came after years of rallying. As NR’s editorial today points out, the 3 percent decline in the S&P 500 yesterday was the largest single-day drop since . . . 2022. Remember the massive depression of 2022? Yeah, that didn’t happen.

    Asian markets this morning have recovered a big chunk of the ground lost yesterday, with the Nikkei up 10 percent today after losing 12 percent yesterday. U.S. stock futures were also up significantly overnight.

    It’s still possible that a recession is coming soon, and one is guaranteed to come eventually. But when it does come, it won’t be because of what happened yesterday in the stock market.

    Don’t look at your retirement account. Looking won’t help, and it might encourage you to make poor snap decisions. As one analyst noted for Bloomberg, stocks have risen in 33 of the past 40 years, with an average return of 13 percent. With higher returns comes higher risk, and days like yesterday are part of investing in the stock market.

    • LCDR_Fish

      There were line breaks in my quoted piece…this is irritating.

      • SDF-7

        Don’t worry, we believe you. End of quote. Repeat the line.

      • Tonio

        I blame WordPress.

  12. Shpip

    Thirty years ago today, The Bosslady (against her better judgement) said “I do” in front of God and everybody.

    Just my unlikely good fortune that she’s stuck with me this whole time. I give credit to my superbly crafted puns.

    • Tundra

      Congrats, brother!

    • SDF-7

      Congrats to you and She Who Must Be Obeyed, Shpip! Always nice when we find ones who will put up with us, I know…

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Congratulations

    • The Other Kevin

      Congrats!

    • Tonio

      Congrats.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Woo! Congrats

    • Fourscore

      Good deal, Shpip! You’re half way there!

      Good to hear some good news or great news, really. You da man and she’s the lady

    • Sean

      Congrats!

    • trshmnstr

      Congratulations!

    • DEG

      Congratulations!

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Congrats!!

    • mindyourbusiness

      Good on you both. The next thirty will be even more fun.

    • slumbrew

      Congrats!

    • Beau Knott

      Congratulations to you both!

  13. The Late P Brooks


    Is the basis of this lawsuit that certain entities threatened other entities to produce and sustain the boycott?

    There was a story about “media cwatchdog groups” using some technique to artificially link ads onto “unclean” X accounts and then using captured images to incite the mob and pressure the advertisers to leave the platform. I have no idea how true or prevalent that stuff may have been.

  14. ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

    I believe that 30 years is the Iron Shackle anniversary. So, well played.

    Well. Played.

  15. Tonio

    JHTFC, Romex is like a buck a foot in anything less than 100′. And Homo Depot has a LUWU policy — locked up, walked up. So not only did I have to have a store guy unlock a cage and pull out the Romex, but he had to walk me up to the effing self-check and scan my Romex under the baleful gaze of the self-check walla.

    • Sensei

      Try buying 6/3 Romex!

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        If you need wire that heavy, you should do individual strands in steel conduit.

      • Sensei

        Separate is rated to carry higher current too.

        For me I was going about three feet from a subpanel to a 50A outlet for my Tesla welder.

        Because a welder doesn’t need a gfci, but an EV outlet does. Pay no mind that the charge cord has a built in gfci. Or that running two gfci in parallel causes nuisance tripping.

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        Yes, you made the right choices, grasshopper.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      You can typically get a specific length at ACE.

    • Name's BEAM. *James* BEAM.

      Huh.

      14/2 is $194.00 CDN for 150m (492 feet, approx.) at Homedepot.ca, or around $0.40/ft. Otherwise it’s a buck a foot (albeit Canbuck) as well.

      For that difference, I’d buy the 150m spool, use what I need and then advertise shorter lengths near my cost on FB Marketplace.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Romeo brand is under $100 for 14/2 for 250ft, 12/2 for $100 at the local bigbox. HD is crazy expensive for wire right now. Even the supply houses are cheaper.

  16. Suthenboy

    Wait…poochie is not living on the farm with grandpa? *wipes tear*

    I have noticed a lot of ‘Ukrainian kills Russians’ videos but no ‘Russian kills Ukrainian’ videos. Yeah, yewtewb, I get it – the Ukrainians are totally spanking the Ruskies.

    Is it rude to respond to links when you are late and the conversation has turned to other things in the same way turning the conversation too soon after the links are posted? Time limit on that? I was cutting grass so I am late, shoot me.

    • The Other Kevin

      We’re not your supervisor. Go for it! I actually like your takes on the links.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Plenty of Russians killing Ukes on Telegram, some of the worst soul-sucking videos you’d ever care to see.

      • Suthenboy

        I dont watch combat footage at all….for reasons.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I’m not your dad.

    • The Other Kevin

      eBay? He needs that for his shamanic rituals.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good for him, he was on some libertarian podcast a coupla years ago and he seems to be a decent enough albeit eccentric guy.

      • R.J.

        That describes this whole group.

    • Pope Jimbo

      You know that Hilary will be the top bidder. She will wear them to the vote counting of the Electoral College next January to assume full control of the country.

  17. DEG

    you could just not let them into Mexico in the first place?

    Crazy talk.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’s shrill ain’t she? Like Hillary Clinton crossed with Fran Dresher.

    • Tundra

      *shoots self*

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I’m sure he usually sits around the house in a camo hat. A real man of the people.

      • Grumbletarian

        Gotta hint at those military credentials. He was a Command Sergeant Major Hero dontchaknow.

      • Fourscore

        I couldn’t see the CSGM insignia. The cap is just part of his combat gear when he chases the wily wascal wabbit. Just practicing wearing it, to get used to it.

        He’s pathetic, I have to feel sorry for him, having been a Social Studies teacher and all.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You know he’s a real workingman by how white and clean his tennis shoes were.

    • The Gunslinger

      It looks like it causes her physical pain to force her face into something like a smile

    • Suthenboy

      Totally not a staged production. It is cringy watching compulsive liars and sociopaths try to come off as actual humans. See: Elizabeth Warren ‘getting a beer’.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yeah, it’s as “real” as a Pornhub video. He’s just sitting there being filmed.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Does that make Kamala his step daughter or his stepmother? Talk about weird.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m so glad that Bob Newhart isn’t alive to watch all these “authentic” videos of Kamala phoning people.

      It would have made him so frustrated to see a hack totally screw up a phone bit as bad as she does.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    I went to engineering school with a guy who didn’t know how to change his own brake pads. He got hired by Ferrari Racing.

    There were some guys I knew in IndyCar I wouldn’t trust to change the blade on a lawn mower.

    • Tundra

      In what roles?

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        Driver.

      • trshmnstr

        Driver.

        [insert clip of Danica saying she’s not a car girl, and she’s pretty sure her cars have cylinders in them]

      • Sensei

        +1 Cruise in Days of Thunder. I forget the character’s name.

      • Tundra

        I forget the character’s name.

        Cole Trickle

        I remember because of Dick Trickle (RIP)

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, they’re racing cars, not lawn mowers.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Pure cringe

    No kidding. What idiot thought America wanted to see that?

    “I know. Let’s have a painfully awkward staged “spontaneous” “live action” performance of Tim Walz getting down on his knees and kissing Kamala’s ass. That way we completely strip him of any shred of dignity or self-respect.”

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It’s like the “call” she did with Obama or the “call” she did with Joe. This might be her whole campaign, a series of staged, scripted phone calls.

      • Tundra

        They gotta be throwing this one. No way this can go three more months.

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        “Hello fellow Girlfriend…”

    • Beau Knott

      Like he had measurable amounts of either of those.

    • Suthenboy

      You are implying he had dignity and self-respect. Silly Brooks.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    In what roles?

    “Mechanics”

    Nobody expects engineers to know how to do anything.

    • Tundra

      Ka-boom?

      • Sensei

        Nagasaki gets the short end of things.

        It also because of its history has the largest Christian population in Japan.

        It gets quite tiring to read about while Japan plays dumb on Nanking and 731 among many crimes. At least the “comfort” women could be argued had some choice. As much choice as you can have during an occupation.

      • UnCivilServant

        In one of my years at college, the school decided to give the students spiral bound organizers for time management… [rant redacted]

        The calendar had brief blurbs about stuff that happened on particular dates. I ended up with a double-take when I saw “Fat Man Destroys Nagasaki” as I did not immediately make the connection.

      • Sensei

        It was a new Kauju!

  21. Tundra

    Here we go:

    Woman Says Pro-Trans Medical Bias Led To Her Double Mastectomy

    Soren Aldaco, a 22-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin, is suing an extensive list of medical providers who allegedly enabled her transgender hormone usage and performed a double mastectomy she now regrets.

    A Tarrant County judge issued an order in mid-July to reinstate Aldaco’s claims against a DFW area medical group and worker in the lawsuit, as first reported by The Dallas Express.

    The judge’s order ensured that Del Scott Perry, a nurse practitioner, and his employer, Texas Health Physicians Group, would face legal action. Aldaco alleged that Perry initiated the process of putting her on transgender hormones when she was 17 years old.

    “[Perry] definitely had an agenda,” Aldaco recently told DX in an exclusive interview. “His child is transgender. I don’t think anyone is evil, but I do think he was mindless in his prescription of these drugs because of that familial connection that gave him blinders to the vulnerabilities of other children.”

    Woodchipper.

    • Suthenboy

      Civil suit doesnt cut it with me. I will second on the woodchipper.

    • rhywun

      I don’t think anyone is evil

      Think again.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Those RZRs are a blast. Spendy little fuckers, though.

    I think I’d rather have a Meyers Manx. Slower and probably less than half the suspension travel, but still…

      • Sensei

        There are lots of knockoffs of all kind of quality.

        That one appears genuine, but I had no idea they had a series that late.

      • Tundra

        Looks well documented.

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        I’d roll that.

        Literally.

    • Tundra

      Well that’s bullshit. A smart person sees that and scampers.

    • R.J.

      The job isn’t done until the ammunition is engraved too.

    • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

      Ishapoor mans Holland and Holland.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Monty is getting a posthumous case of Forest Whitaker eye from that.

    • Suthenboy

      Someone should go to jail for that.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Ooh, a tube frame manx. Me likee.

    • Tundra

      And the motor is gorgeous.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m most convinced it went down as such –

      There was one shooter aiming at Trump.
      The Security detail was actively facilitating an attempt.
      The Security Detail had probably been leaving gaping holes in previous perimeters but no prior would-be assassin acted, so it has not yet come to light.

      • Suthenboy

        You give them too much credit.
        How many times has the FBI gone out and recruited some half-wit into a hair brained terrorism plot, supplied them with ‘co-conspirators’, ‘bombs’ etc then busted them and claimed they foiled an attack?
        This bullshit shooting has their MO all over it and the shooter is conveniently dead.

    • Suthenboy

      No shit? Why, I’ll be damned.

    • slumbrew

      Er, no. I do not.

    • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

      Do we remember the sheer job-fucking, career-destroying, law-bending sheer denial and persecution of anyone who challenged the election results in 2020?

      Pepperidge Farms does.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Nor I, but here’s what Politifact has to say about it (for what it’s worth):

      “On Dec. 4 (2020), Harrison Deal, a campaign staffer for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., was killed in a crash in Pooler, Ga., according to police and news reports.

      Deal, 20, was also a former intern for Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., and a close friend of Gov. Brian Kemp’s family. One of Kemp’s daughters has called Deal her best friend.”

  24. Evan from Evansville

    I went to my interview, and I have the phlebotomist gig at a donor center in Indy. 4-days/week, 10-hour shifts. A weekend off every 2 weeks. $19/hour, benefits and I don’t pay for housing. This is flushflushflushflush saving time.

    I will start Aug. 19, the first few days being (paid!) training and other admin shit. This is another dive in. I feel shockingly good about this. That is a bit unusual, but this seems like a hilariously good fit for me. I don’t know how, but I snake into odd seams in society. I haven’t fully processed it yet, honestly. The schedule does change and it will be hectic at times. (Hence: Work.) First *scheduled* full-time gig in America since… yep. It’s my first one. Ha! And even here the schedule isn’t absolute; it’s scheduled two weeks in advance, at least they say… (Shit happens. See: Work.)

    • Tundra

      Well done. Congratulations, Evan!

      • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

        Winner, Winner, Blood Draw Dinner!

      • R.J.

        Fantastic. I apologize for failing to review your resume timely. I will still do it, I will explain the happenings of the month to you in an email this weekend.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Dude, no worries. Maybe check it out and give what I sent you a professional A-F rating, -/+s likely, just to see if it’s lookin’ ’bout right.

        No need to explain yourself or rush or anything. We all have busy lives and I totally understand. Sincere, honest *fist-bump*

    • slumbrew

      Congrats, dude.

      I’d wager the slightly odd schedule will be to your liking, vs a normal 9-5; if nothing else, you’ll meet a lot of nurses.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Hellyeah. Everything is coming up Milhouse!

      • Sean

        Lulz

      • Evan from Evansville

        ev strongly approves of this. Bro and I use this all the time since it aired.

        It really is. I am almost astounded, but it’s (at least) the third time I’ve done this. I’ve gotta stick the landing, but I am quietly confident. It’ll be a nerve-wracking first few weeks. As is everything. *shrug* Life finds a way.

    • rhywun

      I don’t pay for housing

      😲

      • Evan from Evansville

        This (non) orphan lives with his parents and the pup. Unlike hopeful-Minnesota Lady’s, mine don’t make me pay any rent. I do buy my own type of food for me/all, but I can eat whatever I want. I pay for my car and the insurance, my (remarkably cheap) health insurance, phone, some subscrips and little stuff, but yeah.

        And they’re lovely. I’m not religious, but I’m blessed. Extraordinarily lucky, whatever.

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Tongue bath by local media is dialed up to 11.
     

    With little time and a deep bench to choose from, several things led Vice President Kamala Harris to settle on dark horse candidate Tim Walz as a running mate.
     
    One factor was that he appeals to the more liberal Democrats in Congress, including progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., as well as to Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a former conservative Democrat who left the party to become an independent.
     
    Another factor is Walz’s resume. A former teacher from a small town in the heartland who was elected to Congress from a GOP-leaning district, bearing military credentials as a former non-commissioned officer in the Army National Guard, and success as Minnesota’s governor, Walz had strong credentials — and was able to attract a groundswell of support.
     
    The professor also said Walz “speaks to these Midwestern values” that Harris hopes will shore up a “Blue Wall” of Midwestern states — especially swing states Wisconsin and Minnesota — that would help Democrats win the White House.
     
    Enthusiasm for Minnesota’s “everyman” governor fueled Walz mania on social media.
     
    “He looks like the guy you asked for help at the hardware store, he helps you and then you find out he didn’t even work there,” was a typical post on X.

    I’m thinking that she fucked up. Shapiro would have sewn up Pennsylvania. Now she will probably lose it. She was going to win Minnesoda (Trump would have come closer than most, but he was going to lose).

    Also, I like that none of these reporters have noticed that Walz got stomped in the last election in every rural precinct. He won all the big cities and that was it. Without St. Paul and Minneapolis going 85%+ for Walz he would have lost.

      • rhywun

        I’m hearing Shapiro didn’t want it. That guy seems a bit too ambitious from what I’ve seen.

      • Tundra

        Why the fuck would he want to be around for the next four years? It’s gonna be a shit show. In 2027 he can start talking about building back better or something.

      • rhywun

        Exactly – he’s saving himself for ’28.

    • rhywun

      a deep bench to choose from

      Oh lord… soldiers on….

      • Pope Jimbo

        That was one of the lines that made me laugh too.

        Don’t you remember the 2020 primaries where the luminaries of that deep bench duked it out? How the country was sad it could only choose one of them?

    • Sean

      I’m pleased. Weaker choice, imo.

      Shapiro or Kelly would have been stronger picks.

    • ZWAK angry at the world, and the world doesn’t care.

      Shapiro was out of the running almost immediately.

      The anti-Semite brigades were pitching a fit as soon as his name was thrown in the ring.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    I wonder if the 19 year-old cooks in the Illinois National Guard will bother showing up to the DNC convention to quell the riots?

    On Monday, Governor Walz commented on Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s claims of hesitation to send in the National Guard to Minneapolis on May 27 with this statement, “I don’t think the Mayor knew what he was asking for…I think the Mayor said, ‘I request the National Guard, whew, this is great. We’re going to have massively trained troops.’ No. You’re going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks.”

    Can you blame the first sergeant for not wanting to deploy to Iraq with such a bunch of rabble?

    • R C Dean

      Way to piss on the National Guard. That would make yet another in a long line of great Trump ads.