Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
House investigating whether foreign money flowing into Democrat coffers
’She Has No ideas’: Trump Calls Out Kamala Harris For ‘Copying’ Key Campaign Promise
Elon Killed Censorship Organization With Lawsuit
Improper Social Security Payments Reach $1.1 Billion, Agency Backlog Hits All-Time High
$1 million starter homes are common in more than 100 towns in America, Zillow data shows
How Many Laws Did You Break Today?
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
So they can fail to do anything about it?
^so much this
Even if proved without a doubt, there’s no way anything comes of it. Well, maybe some Republicans will get arrested.
See also: Hunter Biden laptop
See the Clintons and the Norks? The globalist have been advancing incrementally for a long time.
Are they trying to get the actual details? Because it has been repeatedly proved that massive amounts of foreign money gets “funneled” to democrats, and that has been happening since Bill Clinton got his $2 million donation from the PLA in 1995. Shit, Obama’s people turned off credit card verification when they were collecting “donations”, specifically so they could circumvent the fact so much foreign money (especially from countries that wanted to fuck over the US and Americans). These days it is all funneled through ActBlue, which allows big donors to break down the donations and hide them under people that have no clue they are being used to commit crimes.
“Oops my bad!” and a $10,000 fine.
No house above $1 Million is a “Starter Home”.
An yet, in so many markets – especially in urban areas run by one political party for a long time – there is no alternative, because there simply is never going to be enough supply to meet demand.
Sometimes I pity the intellectual heavyweights who complain about housing costs out of one side of their mouth while loudly supporting every lefty cause that together dramatically increase housing costs out of the other.
I hear you rhywun. I have an in-law (a step in-law to be exact) who is a young art school grad. She’s ecstatic about her student loans being erased, then she gets on Facebook and complains about how expensive it is to eat out.
It is the same thing with helping the black community. You cannot push for actions that take away jobs, such as every “green” initiative or open borders, and not realize that both crush the lower quadrant on the economic scale. But when you point this out, all you get are crickets.
“Top Biden adviser ‘absolutely’ blames Nancy Pelosi for tanking prez’s campaign, says Dem donors ignored will of voters”
So the people that scream about “muh democracy” have again ran a coup? I mean, you can’t make this shit up. If I was writing a book about how stupid and evil the people in charge are, I couldn’t come up with shit like this and make it believable, but that’s our reality.
You don’t do the internal translation of “Our Democracy” to “My Domination” already? I do that and the conversion of “Far-Right” to “Someone I disagree with and wish to smear” already.
“Politico: We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ Then the campaign confirmed it was hacked”
Iranian entities did this to help Putin help Trump!
Fucking retards.
Wait, I thought Trump was helping do…stuff. Or something. I cant keep it straight.
…helping Putin….
I am in a rush and clicked send too soon.
Things are still going great in the UK. No reason for the English to complain or hang their politicians.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13713889/mother-teen-killed-machete-attack-killers-released.html
Aren’t all of you freaking happy some honkeys that owned farms decide to tell the recoat British authorities to F-off more than 250 years ago? Cause I sure as heck am.
Our ruling elite classes are so incompetent that they need to force us back to the old Halcion days of controlling speech to protect their incompetence…
There is going to be a limit to what the British will tolerate.
Hopefully, it will be resolved before the second coming of this guy is required for the people of Britain to be heard.
Disarmed sheeple will be forced to tolerate a lot more than armed people…
Certainly, this is part of the reason that it may take an actual “far right” to reverse things for the English, the powers that be seem unwilling to listen to anything spoken through the paradigm of liberalism.
The point will come when, just like nationalist and right behind it, racist, where “far-right” doesn’t mean anything, and will then become a point of pride.
“Sure, I am a far-right nationalist. Now what?”
Prior to 2020, I might have believed that. Now, I find the notion to be laughable.
The elites in Britain have been diverging from their polity for the last three or four decades, this is not a sustainable situation, even the most subservient people have a point of no return. Every society has had their post-enlightenment revolution, save for the British and the longer this goes on the worse the reaction is going to be.
“’She Has No ideas’: Trump Calls Out Kamala Harris For ‘Copying’ Key Campaign Promise”
Seriously, these people are so inept and stupid they have no original ideas of their own. But the usual propaganda arm of the dnc has spent a couple of weeks now telling us how smart and freaking awesome these idiots are after Pelosi couped Biden.
To be fair, it was I believe a Ron Paul initiative back in 2011 or so.
It was actually a pretty smart move: Just coopt your rival’s policy proposals and pile more vote buying stuff on top of that. All the baristas and waitresses that considered Trump for the tax stuff probably aren’t considering him now.
If it were actually a good idea, I’d be stoked about the Democrats stealing it.
They can steal all the ideas they want.
Don’t worry, they won’t implement a jot of it.
They will implement, but it will be implemented in the style of California.
Question is, will the GOP run adds that show Kamala’s tie breaking vote that increased surveillance and collection on tip workers via the Inflation Reduction Act? And even if they did, we know it won’t move the needle. The Blue Hair Brigade will vote gleefully for the assfucking as long as its a Democrat giving the assfucking.
No.
The GOP is trying to lose.
Re: The “Free Beacon” article. Gorsuch is truly one of the great justices. Hopefully, he’ll be on the bench for a long time. That’s the best reason for a second Trump term, the hopes he’ll appoint another libertarian / constitutionalist justice, instead of coin-flipping, one-issue wonders like Kavanaugh and Barrett.
Yeah, concur that Gorsuch was a grand slam, Tonio. Getting another Gorsuch would be one huge win for the country, which is also precisely why the forces arrayed against freedom so hate the SCOTUS right now, and are working so hard to skinsuit it and wear it to give themselves credibility.
Judicial appointments are a secondary reason for me to support Trump. The fact that he drives members of corrupt institutions insane to the point where they discredit themselves and make the rot and evil more visible.
The fact that they weaponized the DHS et al against Trump and regular conservatives has raised the level of skepticism and awareness of the consequences of things like the Patriot Act.
I don’t expect any policy miracles or any real reversals. The best I can hope for is just a bit more erosion. It took us generations to get here, it is not going to unwind overnight. Trump is maybe just a knocking a couple of bricks off the wall, which is the best I can expect.
True facts, but I don’t know anyone else of Gorsuch’s caliber ready to be called up, let alone on Trump’s list.
‘$1 million starter homes are common in more than 100 towns in America, Zillow data shows’
This is kind of crazy, but they’re also cherry picking to some extent… Some towns are simply not meant for a ‘starter ‘ home.
What? You mean people may have to live in the *gasp* suburbs?
I’d have figured the suburbs were the most expensive, since they’re more desirable than the urban centers.
No, other way around. Which works great for me. I want to be on the edge of country, as far away from a major city as I can get without losing some conveniences.
I’m confused. In the city you have no space, neighbors are too close, and you’ve got busybodies behind every corner. Why would anyone who can escape that not do so?
That’s a Rust Belt thing. I used to believe that too, having grown up there.
It’s different in many other parts of the country.
UCS:
Locally (as I assume it is in most places), the suburbs can range from dirt cheap to much more expensive (compare average house prices between Brooklyn, OH and Bratenahl, OH). The downtown area is among the more expensive areas due to gentrification that’s ongoing. Outside of the pockets of gentrification, it depends on the neighborhood, but most are inexpensive (because you don’t want to live there).
I had left out the crime on my list of reasons to not want an urban life.
I still do better html than Trump or Harris.
HTML is an outsourceable skill.
Brooks does better threading than Trump or Harris.
I did not see any mention of “AI” in there – which is the real “problem”.
Warning us about climate change is also bad for the climate.
Don’t forget that mining for bitcoin is bad for the environment. And people only use it for naughty things, like buying drugs or escaping from kindly government overlords.
“Stop replying all!” …
“Improper Social Security Payments Reach $1.1 Billion, Agency Backlog Hits All-Time High”
And the response to this ineptitude and abuse is that we need more government, more ineptitude and abuse, to solve the problem. Of course, after you take even more money from the productive sector!
The article was paywalled, but if you’re quick you can see the sub-head on the article said just that. They are blaming it on not enough personnel and money.
Who hasn’t been tricked out of a couple million $?
Of course those rubes were dumb enough to tell people that they had been swindled. Another Minneapolis suburb tried to keep the news that they had been scammed out of $1.5M from the public
Once again our noble public servants were tricked by wily scammers using “confusingly similar email addresses and company names”
Why even our vaunted educational system has fallen victim to scammers!
Actually, given how much we overpay our drones in education, not filing a report with NY, might be the financially wise move. Figure at least 20 people would have to be on the committee to file the report. A minimum of 10 meetings, let’s say 5 have catered lunches… Yeah, just be happy you got the money back despite your incompetence and let it go.
That’s why they need more funding for the schools and local government
“Top Biden adviser ‘absolutely’ blames Nancy Pelosi for tanking prez’s campaign”
Doesn’t matter, they’ll like who the media tells them to like. This quick turnaround on Kamala really has been an eye opening lesson in the power of propaganda and groupthink.
Politically a smart move. Remove the room temperature wet rag, swap in a name that people at least recognize, ramp up the Cinderella, pulled up by her own boot straps stories and there ya go. They know they don’t have to run a good candidate, just one they can say is not Donald Trump.
Team blue is mercenary. They are all about power. getting it, keeping it, and most importantly, using it against those they hate.
I really think the last minute coup was planned that way so she could ride a wave of positive vibes to the election, while being exposed as a moron a minimum of times.
Not so much a smart move as the obvious one. Biden couldn’t beat a chimpanzee dressed in a three piece suit and now even the Dems realize it now that they’ve been given permission to do so.
exposed as a moron a minimum of times
Can she really give that hyena smile through a gag?
Are we laying bets on whether she will debate Trump? Or has she already decides?
Decided. Arg. Please magic phone fairy, I need a new phone.
She agreed to the ABC one. That is it. That actually was the smart move the Trump has done in the past several weeks. Ran that presser, laid out the debates he wanted and put it back in her camp.
‘Can she really give that hyena smile through a gag?’
@JI where’s Willie Brown? Maybe he knows.
When I pointed that out to a bunch of team blue lemmings this past weekend, all I got was hatred. Some cat lady told me she hoped I would die, slowly and painfully, for being so evil. Man, did they give me even more hate for also pointing out that it was obvious democrats wanted it to be as easy as possible to cheat in elections too. Notice they had no arguments that stuck. When they gave me the “rules disenfranchise black voters” and I accused them of being racist fucks for acting as if black people in today’s world where you can’t be part of modern society couldn’t do basic things like get an ID or work a computer, they just started screaming at me. Well the ones that didn’t walk away. It was glorious.
I accused them of being racist fucks for acting as if black people in today’s world where you can’t be part of modern society couldn’t do basic things like get an ID
That explains why so few black folx showed up at Kamala’s pep rallies
I’ve seen some in the pictures – but they have sixteen fingers and three eyes.
I’m beginning to think the rally pictures have AI-generated crowds.
@Pope That’s totes dif!
This is such low hanging fruit. Where is the press? This is such an obvious question to ask.
The time to switch from ‘Biden is perfectly capable and anyone saying otherwise is a right wing terrorist’ to ‘u go gurl!’ was about 2 weeks?
Most amazing is the lack of a need to admit any fault, or even disavow the Trump shooter. Just terrifying.
At the same time they were still claiming that Biden was sharp as a tack, they were also saying “whaddya gonna do? Replace him with Kamala? Get real, she’s more unpopular than him!”
…and great music, Banjos, though I remember Bobby Freeman on the Dick Clark Show. Back when Black Lives really mattered.
Shows I will not be attending:
https://feverup.com/m/181346
What, you weren’t playing the ice monster?
I don’t own a fursuit. You’re thinking of Evil Sheldon.
a) I can see how this could be executed in profoundly sultry, and possibly funny, otherwise enjoyable ways. I’m lookin’ for hotness at this Cantina. b) I highly doubt this will be at least one, or hopefully both of those. Could be surprised. Often am/ have been. c) If I’m having sexy time, it’s either in my own place in Fantasy Land, or with someone equally interested in Sexy Time. Much touching+. –> d, How/ Why in the shit are people into sharing this with strangers at a show? Like, can I just jack off in the theater and NOT ruin my career? Can I get assistance? Uh, WTF is the etiquette here?
Here’s a thought about d): Ancient Rome didn’t get into their sexual ways overnight. Neither did any society. Star Wars burlesque seems a good moment of the pleasures of over-abundance. People in my generation, specifically in my demographic, going back a couple, have never known hardship. Hate to sound the the Old Man yelling at clouds, but the artistic/sexual/popularity realm always gets pushed further into the edges to discover what is ‘edgy’ or ‘witty’ or ‘sexy’ etc etc. Have to One Up everyone. And now it’s happening in interesting ways w grooming. Uh. Interesting. That’s polite.
All’s good and well with the show, but hey. I gotta know about my etiquette. I don’t like the idea of paying to sit passively to watch a sex show for two hours. Uh. Something’s gotta give and open up, either my wallet or fly. How much “proper” enjoyment is really “proper?” BYOTissues? Help me out.
There’s a couple of burlesque troops going around with that theme, I’ve seen them (or a similar one) scheduled at the Beachland on a regular basis. Later this week, they’ve got the 12th Annual International Ohio Burlesque Festival.
I prefer my lewdness honest. Strip joints Motley Crue/Rob Zombie hedonism, pretending they are refined entertainment and calling it burlesque is the height of pretentiousness.
That whole “will of the voters” thing is fuzzy for me. Even among Dems, Biden was polling as “too old”. They flat out lied about Biden’s mental state, and rigged several states so he was the only one on the ballot. There were even places where “non of the above” did well in a primary. So the primary didn’t even reflect the will of the voters.
The entire system is designed to keep the will of the voters as far away from actual policy as possible.
The difference now is that they don’t just lie about it, they gaslight and tell you the opposite is true, and if you disagree you’re the liar.
^^^^THIS^^^^
You don’t get to make a choice, you get to choose the lesser of two evils that the people that really run things approved of….
Will of the voters is kind of like Will O’ the Wisp. And illusion meant to mislead people to their doom.
It happened again. I give up this morning.
*Throws tiny old phone in trash
I object to anthropomorphizing abstract collective entities.
There are a whole lot of Dems who don’t think that they should have any say in this. That the Party should pick, and they should support.
Far change from just 20 years ago.
“…the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”
Huxley
It would seem politically correct films don’t pay like they used to.
Disney Unveils Billions of Dollars in Theme-Park Expansions
https://www.wsj.com/business/disney-d23-expo-theme-parks-b63751fe?st=jxzvsdywgha5t8s&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The theme parks have long been the company’s cash cows.
‘The two projects, D’Amaro said, “represent the biggest expansion in the park’s entire history.”
All the lefties here in Florida have assured me that Disney is leaving the state and Desantis miles the Golden hen. Weird.
‘Killed the Golden hen…’
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks!
We lost one of our two cats (both from the same litter) about a year ago and it still makes me sad. It’s a bit odd as we’ve lost others, but for some reason this particular one really impacted me.
Awe. Our surprise visit from our youngest son led to a great reunion with our youngest cat.
So sweet I got the ‘beetus.
Look at the first chart in the article.
Inflation Hurts Most for the Things We Can’t Skimp On
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/inflation-costs-housing-utilities-purchases-8b6f18d8?st=x164zmqilgl8d2f&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was annoyed the other day when canned mushrooms I used to buy for $0.89 a few years ago were $1.49. Sure, I can shell out the higher price, but they’re still 60% more expensive than not all that long ago.
Greedflation bro!
(Yes, I am aware that canned mushrooms are not that great and better options are available, but those are less shelf stable)
I’m told inflation is coming down so no worries.
So, what is actually bad about deflation?
Stop printing money and the value of the dollar should creep up as the economy grows organically.
Inflation isn’t coming down, costs are rising to meet it!
(am I doing this right?)
Actually, inflation is a good thing!
‘what is actually bad about deflation?’
Past borrowing becomes really costly to repay.
In order to twist the citizens by the balls govt absolutely must have complete control of currency. Thus the whiskey rebellion.
I never quite understood that or the zeal to enforce prohibition until I found out that home distilled whiskey was being used as currency among the populace.
I usually get blank looks when I say “The vast majority of everything you buy is the cost of the energy it took to produce it and bring it to you. When Trump got the wells pumping gasoline went to record lows, everything else was following. When Biden killed all of Trump’s energy policies he was making sure that. you cant afford to eat.”
They just go back to crying about not being able to afford living and railing about OMB. Idiots.
Your first sentence is incredibly true, and not a difficult concept to understand. I’m continually amazed by how many people (even smart ones) that have never really considered this point. I’ve thought about why and the best I can come up with is that it is not really mentioned by anyone. When do you hear it put that succinctly?
Do you really expect people that think electricity comes from the wall plug to know about actual energy? Shya….
Talk to rail cultists. “Nationalize railroads so passenger rail can be prioritized.”
Hell no. Trains are better for cargo than passengers.
Transparency Tim?
Sure. King Walz deletes his texts/emails and tells the press to get bent when they file data requests. What I don’t get is why a journalo doesn’t FOIA the other big shots in the DFL for their texts from that period and when they find some from King Walz that he didn’t turn over, they can clearly show that he isn’t abiding by state data practices.
Political Word of 2024: Misspoke.
That’s been a political synonym for “lied” for decades.
I know its been around, just seeing heavy usage ever since Walz was brought on board.
Soon we’ll find out that Walz also has a stutter.
“Sure. King Walz deletes his texts/emails and tells the press to get bent when they file data requests. What I don’t get is why a journalo doesn’t FOIA the other big shots in the DFL for their texts from that period and when they find some from King Walz that he didn’t turn over, they can clearly show that he isn’t abiding by state data practices.”
Because they are all in on the fix?
There is no journalos journalizing anymore. There is a cabal that gets their marching order from on top and stick to it. I can think of so many criminal enterprises from the left that could have made massive journalizing careers leaving Watergate looking as meh, and not a single of these people jumped at that. Instead they spent years lying about Trump being a Russian stooge and criminal when it was blatantly obvious that was bullshit.
… And fuck all else happened.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the texts are there and just being withheld because they are politically damaging.
Oh, you get it all right.
So, backroom secret deals. Why, I’ll be….
There is a record. The cell provider has it. Since the govt has been treating the providers as quasi govt entities when it is to their advantage serve the damned providers with FOIA requests or subpoenas.
G’morning Banjos. G’morning all.
“Peak Guardian” — I had to see that to believe it. As I have noted before there is no peak. There is a steep slope and then a plateau that disappears on the horizon.
Their series on ‘Taking care of yourself will make you right wing nazi because you will start believing you are in control of your own life’ theme is pretty hard to beat. Never mind that the whole idea of right wing or being in control of you own life has nothing to do with nazi. That whole bit makes no sense whatsoever.
One of the great talents of the left is in defining terms and getting new Orwellian language into popular usage (hi there people of color who have had gender affirming care!). Of course it helps when almost all of academia and the legacy media is in your corner helping to push your terms. An early success (at least one that predates me) is getting the term “fascism” to be a synonym of “right wing”. To turn the biggest group of villains in the past 100 years that had a collectivist ideology into “right wing” has really paid some serious dividends for them.
Dingdong copying Trump ‘no taxes on tips’.
Just pulling this out of my ass – some scheme to destroy tipping, maybe forcing ‘living wage’ bullshit on wait staff so customers stop tipping. Restaurants more or less disappear. Wait staff that voted for Dingdong now unemployed and complaining about corporate greed.
Wheeee!
You’re overthinking it, Suthen.
She/the Dems aren’t going to do a damn thing about not taxing tips. Hell, they just passed a law doing the opposite. They’re just lying for the campaign.
They will never do anything that reduces the amount of taxes collected.
Couldn’t they eliminate it today with the IRS? Or ask Congress to pass a bill Biden would sign?
And neither will Trump.
They will never do anything that reduces the amount of taxes collected.
King Walz pushed for a $.20 gas tax increase every year he was gov even though we had record surpluses. He and the DFL even managed to spend an entire $17B surplus and raise taxes at the same time. Yeah, there is no chance that they are going to lower taxes (or spending).
Think how many kids won’t get a crappy job* at a restaurant and start learning how to work. They are supposed to somehow spring into the work force ready and with all the skills necessary to earn $20/hour. There are going to be a lot of kids who are confused and frustrated because they no longer have a pathway into the job market.
*I’m not denigrating those jobs when I call them crappy. All entry level jobs are crappy. Comes with the territory, but you learn how to keep a job and what is expected from you. Also, I bet a lot of us have some pretty good memories of the hijinks we got up to in those first jobs. You could do that because they weren’t going to be your career job and you had some leeway.
Kids need to unionize and go on strike, refuse to work unless they get benefits and a lot more money. Greedy business owners always want to stick to the kids/old people/minorities and pass the increased profits onto themselves. Government needs to take over small businesses.
I’ve said it before, but back when I was putting sensors in all sorts of fast food restaurants and linking them to the internet, a raise in the minimum wage was good for me.
When you’d try to sell all the efficiency gains to some guy who owned a couple McD’s, he’d just tell you that the way he solved problems was to just hire a few more kids. Eventually they’d get all the work done no matter how much they fucked around.
As minimum wages kept going up, those guys would eventually come back to ask us more about what we could do. Kids got more expensive than Big Brother monitoring (and robots now).
I wish Pie was around….
I wonder what the average Romanian thinks of communism these days. I think he has said before but I forget.
I remember reading a few years ago that the idea of brining back communism was being talked about in Slovakia by the yutes.
A shame that wisdom is not genetic. Every generation here we go again with the same stupidity.
Is Pie old enough to remember the communist years? Standing around in a blood line all day just hoping to get a half pint of O positive.
I think Gen X is the last generation that generally values free speech. We lived through people calling Dungeons and Dragons satanic, and attempts to censor music. The younger generations now support fighting “disinformation”.
When your priority is to protect your feelings, free speech is a serious problem. We, the parents, have created snowflakes, and are now surprised these snowflakes fight anything that hurts their feelings.
It is easily the biggest shift I’m aware of in my lifetime.
The US was so married to free speech that everyone agreed that the KKK had a right to march down Peachtree street in Atlanta
Now, even speaking the truth isn’t enough
/flips off Tipper Gore
We even got some fun songs making fun of the PMRC too.
I was hurt far more by people calling D&D a nerd game than I was by them claiming it was satanic.
+1 PMRC
When it was Bush v. Gore, I really could not stand Dubya, but that dislike was eclipsed for the fuckstain that I clearly remembered from his grilling of musicians who made wrongthinkful music. The media, most helpfully, mostly kept that chapter of his career hidden, and this was before the era of just bringing up the videos of it on the internet machine he invented.
Back before Dee Snider turned in his testicles.
My favorite anti PRMC song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRGladYsWS0
So… after some international court for sports said that USA gymnastics coaches filed their protest of the difficulty score for Jordan Chiles bronze winning floor routine 64 seconds after the score was posted, rendering the appeal invalid by 4 seconds, team USA has appealed that decision.
They have gotten their hands on video evidence that they in fact appealed before the deadline. Twice.
It remains to be seen if anyone is going to care.
Backing in to a 4 second deadline shows that you were pretty desperate to give the medal to the not-American.
Although…. not sure why neither side saw for to post their evidence
Why do we even keep doing any of this olympic’s shit? I mean we don’t take the UN serious, because it is a den of inequity and where all evil goes to roost – like fleas from 1000 camels in your private parts – do we? Oh shit, wait… never mind. We are fucking morons. That’s why.
The Olympics is surely going to die soon enough.
They get free labor from some of the planet’s greatest athletes. It generates billions.
Most of the expenses are passed off to local governments.
At some point the Athletes are going to demand a share of the revenue, and then that’s it.
https://x.com/BrandonArbeloa/status/1822737544049541330?s=19
I honestly don’t see the point of appealing any “judged” score.
I think all told this time around I watched maybe 30 minutes or so – at the bar waiting for my takeout, if Mrs. Dean had it on for background noise, that kind of thing. I do wonder what the ratings will be.
Joe going out with a bang?
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area, the Defense Department said Sunday.
The moves come as the U.S. and other allies push for Israel and Hamas to achieve a cease-fire agreement that could help calm soaring tensions in the region following the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut.
Officials have been on the lookout for retaliatory strikes by both Iran and Hezbollah for the killings, and the U.S. has been beefing up its presence in the region.
What the fuck is that submarine supposed to do?
Scare them ragheads because it can pop off 154 tomahawk precision strike cruise missiles? Of course, they would never fire at targets that kill evil people, oh noes. They will shot at empty buildings that then get replaced with the very money these idiots keep giving to terrorist entities. And at over $3.4 million a pop, US tax payers are getting reamed by these idiots and their idiotic policies.
OK, I’ll admit that I would love to see a video of one of those Somali or Yemeni pirate skiffs getting hit by a torpedo.
But they didn’t sail to lake Superior? I thought that’s where all the somalis rip the US off from.
A $4.5 million dollar Mk 48 which has enough explosives to sink a 10k tons ship?
Damn, that is a waste…
Lean you some geography! Lake Superior is way far away from Little Mogadishu. The nave would have to get their sub to Lake Bde Maka Ska (lake formally known as Calhoun) if they wanted to fight our local Somalis.
I didn’t know ska clubs had bidets.
Not Adahn:
We’re very cultured punks.
If Iran doesn’t hurry up and retaliate, Israel may have to poke them again to get this war started.
Sometimes they send subs along with a carrier group for extra defense.
This hits close to home for my. My son in law’s carrier is scheduled to be deployed early next year, but I keep expecting them to shuffle things around and send them out earlier.
“What the fuck is that submarine supposed to do.”
I imagine that question is on more than a few other minds.
Obama ‘Snake in the Grass’ style rooting for Hamas by the Biden team has a lot of people very nervous.
Apparently Iranian hegemony in the ME is key to the left’s designs on that region. What the end game is is anyone’s guess.
End game? We have a dementia patient in charge and idiot Trotskyites running the State Department. There is no end-game strategy for us. Just shooting off a bunch of really expensive weapons for the benefit of the arms industry is the only goal we have.
Israel clearly recognized that we’re fading and wants our help in a big war right now – because we won’t be projecting power much longer. Everyone else knows it too – that’s why Israel keeps up the provocations while Iran holds off on responses.
Drake, I’m curious about how Israel is provoking Iran, when Iran is sponsoring (via proxies) multiple attacks on Israel that have killed over a thousand Israelis within the past year. To me, it looks like Iran is the aggressor.
They blew up a guest for Iran’s Presidential inauguration – who also happened to be the chief negotiator for a cease-fire and/or hostage exchange. I think we’d be real pissed if Venezuela decided to assassinate a guest at our Presidential inauguration in DC on the day of the ceremony.
I’m fine with Israel and Iran duking it out. We don’t need to be in it.
This is rather interesting.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13734935/RBCs-ex-CFO-sues-bank-36million-wrongful-dismissal-public-humiliation-fired-affair-colleague-denies-having.html
The bank better have some solid proof. My expectation is they thought they did and that she would go away quietly. That was my first expectation, but they are claiming they were simply friends. Discovery should be interesting, but I have no idea how that works up north.
“They blew up a guest for Iran’s Presidential inauguration – who also happened to be the chief negotiator for a cease-fire and/or hostage exchange.”
One of the main people responsible for the massacre of over a thousand Israelis. A legitimate target, IMO. And if Iran is the aggressor, I see no particular reason to hold off because he is in Iran, for any reason.
The game will change, regardless, when Iran tests their first nuke. Whether it becomes an uneasy MAD truce, or a nuclear exchange, who knows? But opposing nuclear powers generally treat each other differently. The “traditional” solution – fighting their war through proxies – isn’t available in the Mideast because Israel has no proxies, so Iran can only attack Israel itself, whether directly or through proxies.
Wow who knew RBC had that kind of capability! 😉
If the Mullahs get the bomb, they Will use it. They are the kind of fanatic who won’t settle for deterrance.
“Viral image of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a woman in a blonde wig for Halloween from his Yale Law School days surfaces online”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13735265/viral-image-jd-vance-dressed-woman-surfaces.html
OK?
We shrug. Its red-meat for Team Blue.
And?
It’s holloween, people dress up as all sorts of shit.
Are they mad that he is more passable than Admiral weirdo or that bald nuclear suitcase thief?
Even with the beard
Well Your Holiness, Vance is weird. A freak even.
Halloween
Dress as something you’re not for shits and giggles.
OMG
I remind you that these are the same group of moronic people that made the case Halloween was evil because it favored rich kids, and banned it in schools…
Except don’t dress as a sheik, or put on a sombrero, or anything that could be considered “appropriating”. Now I guess that includes “appropriating” gender. The left has taken the place of the moralizing so-cons that were predominate in the 80’s and early 90’s.
What? I can’t dress up as Yasuke?
Drag culture is not a costume!
Yeah, my culture is not a costume!
This could be awesome if it takes the same arc as the entire blackface narrative. Think of all the guys who have dressed up as women for Halloween or some other skit show. Their asses would be clenching in fear thinking that their careers and lives are now over because someone will dredge up pictures of them wearing a wig and dress. The same way all those people who wore blackface felt.
Their only way out would be to “come clean” and admit that they really are trans and that Halloween costume was a cry for help. Then they’d be obligated to cross dress for a time.
The number of ‘trans’ people for whom it’s nothing more than a fetish object, is a subject of some commentary in the community…
They caught him wearing trans face.
‘in drag’
Okay.
Who cares?
I dont get the drag and blackface thing. It’s not funny at all to me.
Arent we already in the AI, cheap fake age where you cant believe anything you see? Not only that it is just the kind of thing projecting leftists would cook up. They think it would have his supporters aghast and turning away. Uh…no. I think more and more..so far…that he was a good pick. This, even if it is real, makes no difference.
Race to the bottom
“As president, she would work with Congress to craft a proposal that comes with an income limit and with strict requirements to prevent hedge fund managers and lawyers from structuring their compensation in ways to try to take advantage of the policy,” the official, who isn’t authorized by the campaign to speak publicly, said. “Vice President Harris would push for the proposal alongside an increase in the minimum wage.”
Regardless of its origin and ownership, the no tax on tips idea is gaining bipartisan political steam. On Capitol Hill, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced the No Tax on Tips Act in July with the support of Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, from Nevada, and the powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226. A companion bill — introduced by Florida Rep. Bryon Donalds — is also making its way through the House.
But to senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Steve Rosenthal, this idea is a “bad” one.
“We’re in a campaign season — silly season,” Rosenthal, who has years of experience designing tax rules for Congress, quipped. “A race to the bottom would be a better way to describe tax policy here.”
For Rosenthal, the idea fails on three counts: equity, efficiency and revenue.
We could always try a flat tax.
I vote 0% It’ll be exceedingly easy to enforce.
Jesus. A maximum income? Sky high taxes?
All of this shit has been tried before. Masks for cooties works better. This isn’t about money. at all. It is about power.
Hey Steve, remember when Obumbles said explicitly on video addressing a crowd ” This isn’t about revenue, it is about fairness.”?
Remember that?
Not frisbee golf
https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/world-news/israeli-ultimate-frisbee-team-banned-from-international-competition-after-antisemitic-graffiti-appears-near-playing-field/
I’m confused. Why ba the Israeli team? Or is the accusation that they put up the graffiti?
I know my default position is “False Flag” but I want more information without visiting the other site.
Heckler’s veto.
That is an amazing story.
I’m glad none of us were the coaches. I’m not sure what I would do, being responsible for other people’s kids.
But if we were all adults, I would show up for my game and make them bring the riot squad to get us to leave.
Ultimate frisbee is more like rugby than Disc golf
Shall we make the slowest entry possible onto the highway and immediately head for the left lane? Sure. What could go wrong?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1eq0cu7/oc_manassas_va_hit_and_run_546_pm/
This is precisely how normal drivers behave in Boca Raton
That’s Manassas.
I hear traffic is a battle there.
I hear traffic is a battle there.
All those crazy Honda drivers zooming around?
I tell ya, it is a Civic War!
Maybe they can come to an Accord.
It’s worse the second time around.
That hit was like a bull running into a stone wall.
Now see, I was expecting a Kamala ad.
Wait, after watching it again the analogy and euphemisms are too good. It’s a Trump ad.
A national ban on taxing tips would disproportionately benefit, for example, a South Carolina server who earns a reduced minimum wage and makes a large portion of their income through tips. While a server in California, where tips make up a smaller portion of their income, would benefit less.
“Why treat employees, who perform similar kinds of services, much different from a tax standpoint just because the first earn tips and the second don’t?” the tax lawyer said.
Rosenthal went on to say that a no tax on tips law would be extremely difficult to efficiently administer, regulate and oversee.
Ban cash.
The whole point of the tax code is to treat groups differently in politically advantageous ways.
Or, you know, having the same Federal income tax for someone earning $50k in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and someone earning $50k in Manhattan.
Yes, yes, yes. Please let me watch when you tell the CA waitress that since she wouldn’t benefit as much as a waitress in SC from tax free tipping, that it is just wrong and everyone should pay taxes on tips.
Bullshit, how hard is it to not tax something?
Scott Adams is pretty pissed today. He’s not happy about the Tulsi Gabbard thing, and after Biden came out this weekend repeating the “Trump supports the KKK” thing, he called Biden a “worthless, lying piece of shit human being.” Good times.
He isn’t wrong. Biden has always been a repugnant liar.
why is he surprised that even after these lies are debunked the left keeps repeating them? Who is going to call them out on the lying? The media? Don’t make me laugh.
The media? Of course not. Last week, the AP put out another lie, claiming Trump called “the anti-Semitic marchers in Charlottesville, ‘very fine people.'” Complaining to the newspaper that carries AP b.s. does no good.
In a long list of things that astonish me: the fact that nobody has even noticed that the government has a former US congresswoman and current officer in the National Guard under super double-plus surveillance whenever she travels.
Well, her name is pretty common, so I’m sure it was an honest mistake.
Hold on their Cochise. Just because she was a Congresswoman doesn’t mean she couldn’t be a terrorist.
I’d rest a bit easier if I knew Ilhan Omar was being spied on.
Pope Jimbo is right. We have a president that is literally Hitler, and his followers are Nazi domestic terrorists, so why can’t a congress critter that has betrayed the power centers not be one, huh????
“The revenue on this proposal to exempt tips from taxation is something like a couple hundred billion over a 10-year period,” he said. “That’s a big number for Congress to swallow.”
Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, largely agreed with Rosenthal.
“The underlying policy basis, I think, is weak at best,” Watson said.
He also pointed to a recent study from The Budget Lab at Yale University, which found that only 2.5% of workers would benefit from a no tax on tips policy.
Cost per vote doesn’t pencil out?
I know this is preaching to the choir, but Watson and Rosenthal sure do talk like that money belongs to the govt don’t they?
Think they’ve ever spent 10 seconds considering the notion that those tips were earned by the worker and belong to the worker? I wonder how they’d feel about a policy that offset those lost tip revenue by bumping the tax rate on senior policy analysts up to 100%?
2.5%? If the Trump/Harris bipartisan plan passes, there will a whole passel of wage-paid and commission workers who will maneuver into a “tipping” job. Realtor – my commission is only 2% but I accept tips from my broker of another 2%. Those electronic payment pads, with “suggested” tip amounts, will become ubiquitous. “My employer ‘tips’ me over and above my wages, when I return to work after lunch and stay until 5pm.” Let’s all get on the tipping bandwagon and starve the feds!
Crazy talk I know but what is we shit-can the income tax altogether? Better yet, the summation of all taxes and required by law expenditures of any given person constitutionally limited to 15%?
I must be on drugs.
Stop talking dirty like this to me Suthenboy! I am all excited now and need a room to go do my business…
I mention the 15% limit because if the fed income tax is eliminated the states are gonna jump on that money like a duck on a June bug and the end result will be the status quo for individuals. When I say total 15% on individuals mandated expenditures that means the sum total of all individuals. The fucking thieves can figure out how to divide that up amongst themselves.
How many “National Security” claims will his team have to go through to get these fuckers to come clean during discovery?…
Odd that he chose this one over the 2016 frame job.
Crazy that our country saw the CIA try to bring down a president and didn’t even blink.
Hey, at least the CIA waited for a while before they brainwashed someone into taking a shot at him….
Well…who do you think the perpetrators are?
A second thought…
After the Biden administration set the precedent of paying off people who committed crimes for political purposes in the form of lawsuit settlements, should Trump win, this is the prefect vehicle.
When Milton Berle or some rodeo clown put on a dress and a wig, it was just flamboyant silliness. Now it’s life or death, like storming the beaches of Normandy.
Slow your roll, Brooksie. I think you are letting your inner shitlord cloud your judgement. Calling out Milton Berle and rodeo clowns sure seems sexist. If we are going to start condemning Trans Face (like that term TOK) then we have to condemn hateful movies like this too.
Men who menstruate shouldn’t have to watch their lived experiences mocked and made fun of.
an earlier Twelfth Night
UNC women’s soccer coach Anson Dorance retired.
His career record was 22-6
In national championship games.
“hateful movies” like Mrs Doubtfire, or Some Like It Hot?
*clicks link*
Hah! One I don’t know about.
How about Victor/Victoria? Jim Garner is always good in anything.
Chatley’s Aunt.
Er, Charley’s, of course.
Just bring on the meteor already.
No words.
It was an amazing series of interviews.
“We wouldn’t be safe to dress like this if Trump is elected”
Even though they were safe to dress like that for four years.
I mean, if Trump is really going to do what they think he’s going to do, his intelligence is so far above average that he can’t be defeated.
That is, run as an outsider and defeat the most qualified candidate ever. Govern fairly incompetently for four years (with some important exceptions). Then run for re-election. Once re-elected, THEN enact the most hate-filled, anti-democratic program ever. I mean, it’s brilliant. Most wanne-be dictators take absolute power pretty quickly. Trump decided to get his second term, then pass an Enabling Act.
“Govern fairly incompetently for four years (with some important exceptions).”
Making him the best president in my lifetime. That is how low the bar is.
“The Cardinals unveiled a bizarre new culinary concoction to be offered at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for the 2024 season: a cotton candy burrito.
Cardinals senior vice president for media relations Mark Dalton shared a photo and video of the latest stadium food offering on X, formerly Twitter, showing a sign for the burrito that describes it as “ice cream and candy wrapped in cotton candy.”
According to Arizona Sports, it’s filled with Fruity Pebbles, Fruit Loops, marshmallows, Skittles, Mini M&M’s, gummy bears and sprinkles, all wrapped in a cotton candy shell.”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/12/lifestyle/cotton-candy-burritos-are-americas-latest-deliciously-horrifying-stadium-food/
No.
That’s gotta be fake.
🤮
There is such a thing as too much sugar.
The push to save Democrat-ocracy is on
With a solidified presidential ticket stumping across the country and a massive amount of money to spend, the Democratic Party is targeting seven critical battleground states with paid advertising for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
The Democratic National Committee announced the Harris-Walz advertising push on Monday, which includes more than 70 billboards across the key battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It’s the ticket’s first paid advertising blitz since Walz joined the campaign — and the first of many to come in areas that are poised to determine the outcome of the presidential election in November.
The billboards will be in several key urban areas across the battleground states, such as Atlanta, Detroit, Charlotte and Philadelphia, according to the DNC. Many are set up along major interstates and highways, including Interstate 95 and Interstate 10.
There is also an advertisement — both in English and Spanish — in the Las Vegas strip, according to the DNC.
“The DNC is blanketing the battlegrounds with a clear message: Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz are fighting for working people, and Donald Trump and JD Vance are only out for themselves,” DNC spokesperson Abhi Rahman said in a statement.
They’re saving America from whiteness.
Steam gamers,
I received a gift certificate for Steam. Any ideas of something worth buying? I have 3(?) DLCs for Skyrim already (Hearthfire, Dawnguard, Dragonborn). Maybe I should pick up some of the Fallouts (I stopped playing after 2).
Any particular genre? Since there’s a lot of everything available on Steam there are many options.
I like scifi sims (Wing Commander, X-Wing, Mechwarrior), MMOs (WoW, LOTO, Star Trek Online), CRPG (Baldur’s Gate, Torment), 4x games, exploration games. I’m more partial to turn-based rather than real-time combat, though I did very much enjoy the remake of System Shock. Of the non-MMO games I probably sunk most time into Skyrim. I guess I like persistent worlds?
I’m going to wager you already have the turn based BattleTech game from HBS. (I’ve sunk a few hundred hours into it, so I endorse it)
🤔
Not Adahn:
Seems to be right in line with my tastes. I would highly recommend Prey which is on sale right now for $6.
Tactical Breach Wizards.
Download the demo if you want to see if it’s your kind of game. If you like turn-based tactical combat games, this one is good, and the dialogue is hilarious and witty. It’s as if Noel Coward was running a Shadowrun campaign for the Algonquin Round Table…
I will check it out. I did notice they’ve got a bundle of ALL the Fallout games for $54.
Can’t go wrong with Fallout, as long as you stay away from the recent stuff. I’m weird though, I actually enjoyed FO3 more than New Vegas or FO4…
I’m playing FONV now for second time (although the first time was, what, over 8 years ago?). It’s fun. I do like the Bethesda model of RPG character building/lots of stuff/(semi) real time combat.
Why does my wife treat me like a deviant, when all I’m trying to do is save her life?
Maybe she thinks the cure is worse than the disease?
I’m a sex object to her! I ask for sex and she objects.
Because you are a deviant?
I think that is a bit rash. All I said was that getting our average up to once a week might be a pain in the ass…
If sex is a rash for you, you’re doing it wrong.
There for a while, it looked like my spouse would live forever!
Killing word
Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran apologized Sunday night after he uttered a homophobic slur at a heckler while at-bat against the Houston Astros at Fenway Park.
The slur was not said loudly, but it was loud enough to be picked up by the NESN live telecast of the matchup, which Boston lost 10-2.
According to video taken from the telecast, the fan yelled at Duran — the outfielder swung and missed a pitch in the bottom of the sixth inning — saying repeatedly that he’d need a tennis racket to connect with the baseball.
Duran turned in the direction of the fan and uttered the slur before taking a hitting stance for the next pitch, the video shows.
In a statement, the 2024 All-Star characterized the slur as a “truly horrific word,” saying he felt bad about the incident and that he’ll use it as an occasion to learn.
No word on when the fan will be released from the hospital.
FAG!
“Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, oversees a school system that is failing its students….
Davis Gates sat down with WVON to push for the $50 billion the union is asking for, which includes a 9% wage hike, fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities, and a myriad of LGBT-related requirements….
Davis Gates responded, “The way in which, you know, we think about learning and think about achievement is really and truly based on testing, which at best is junk science rooted in White supremacy.”
“Now, if you have another hour, I can get into why standardized tests are born out of the eugenics movement. And the eugenics movement is always thought to see Black people as inferior to those that are non-Black.”
“You can’t test black children with an instrument that was born to prove their inferiority. Some of this is about, releasing our people from a standard that is created for the failure.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/chicago-teachers-union-head-says-standardized-tests-are/
CWAC
fully paid abortions for its members
Gee, that seems like an odd request from people who assure me that they love children so much that they think teaching is a calling not a job.
Is there a medical term for a procedure to remove one’s head from his ass? Just asking…
A Rectal Craniectomy?
It wasn’t clear if Duran would face Major League Baseball discipline. Similar incidents in the past have been met by league-required sensitivity and diversity education, as well as game suspensions.
They should make him wear a dress for the rest of the season.