233 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    Tim Walz caught fudging record again

    It really does seem like they wanted to have a mirror of the 2020 ticket… pull in an older white guy, a supposed “moderate” — who is a pathological liar especially about his personal history.

    I’m waiting to find out Walz attended black churches and synagogues at the same time growing up, drove a truck, took fire flying into Sarajevo and beat his straight razors against the curb after leaving them to get rusty in the rain barrels.

    Morning, Banjos! Morning, all!

    • Nephilium

      I wonder when we’ll find out that Walz was the drunk driver who killed Joe’s son, Hunter?

      • SDF-7

        I would expect finding out that he was the NCO for Beau’s special forces team before Beau tragically got killed taking down Francisco Franco in Baghdad in 1922 first.

      • AlexinCT

        You guys are joking about this scumbag, but I can’t shake the Sandusky vibes I get from the asshole.

      • Suthenboy

        Alex: Ditto. My first impression of him was, and still is, if he weren’t governor he would be running a ‘youth camp’ with the cops giving him the side-eye. Then I found out he takes youths on field trips to China. Least surprising thing I have learned about him so far.
        Ten bucks says one day in the not-so-distant future ‘things’ will start to come out about him but will be quickly and unconvincingly squashed.

    • Rat on a train

      For years, Walz claimed that he had worked in China during 1989-1990 through a Harvard pilot program taking groups of American educators to teach in Chinese high schools.
      Why even boast of this?

      • Sean

        Gotta flash your Commie cred to the other Commies.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      I forgot about PPP’s Jets v. Sharks stories. Oddly, I am going to miss his obvious bullshit stories. The new chick’s stories are way less charming.

      • R C Dean

        “Fweedom!”

      • Suthenboy

        Her actual stories are not just less entertaining but very much not-family friendly.

      • hayeksplosives

        Kwansaa!

    • rhywun

      I really don’t want to know anything about his leg hairs.

      • hayeksplosives

        He’s smooth as a seal down there, as he has bragged.

      • rhywun

        🙉

  2. SDF-7

    Hunter Biden had a long history of connecting with State Department officials about Burisma work

    It is nice to get these updates from the “No shit” department for stuff everyone knew back when OMB wanted Ukraine to actually look into some of this and all….

    But honestly, I think the more interesting question is — “Is this at all atypical for DC?” Because I strongly suspect the answer is “No” and the only difference is they thought PPP was done after the Obama administration ended (who would vote for the guy outside of the pandemic machine and “no matter who” crowd?), so they didn’t think they needed to be subtle anymore.

    Politically connected family grifter version of the old gold watch on retirement… only this time they got called back in and had to look like they followed the rules.

    The more subtle ones are selling out their country for I assume lots more money than Dark Cracky’s Apprentice… funny, used to be a word for such activities….

  3. SDF-7

    5 Secret Service Officials Involved in Trump’s Butler Rally Placed on Administrative Duty

    More time for breast feeding and training in holstering your gun.

    • Tonio

      It is noteworthy that they didn’t name which agents were fired in-place rassigned to desk duty, but I’m sure they’ll claim employee privacy, or somesuch.

      Not only do we need immunity reform, we need way more government openness including about the duties, pay, and status of individual employees.

      • SDF-7

        Easier if we apply the Millei Method to the payrolls of government — but no other quibbles from me on that.

  4. SDF-7

    Telegram Says Founder ‘Has Nothing to Hide’ From French Police

    …. so please stop les searches anal?

    Again, if I were Elon I’d definitely double down on getting OMB in (because the Harris admin would happily hand him over if not lock him up for disinfo and nationalize X anyway) and have an exit plan to a non-extradition nation at this point. Only prudent. Can’t think of anyone else who has to, because they’ve all let the three letter agencies and 5 Is crowd romp at will anyway.

    • Drake

      Between France, the UK, and the EU In general, we have some allies who really hate free speech. That should trigger a serious reassessment of our defense commitments to these tyrannies.

      • R.J.

        No shit. Our tax dollars are keeping these tinpot dictators safe. Fuck ‘em.

      • The Other Kevin

        Technically any of us could get arrested if we travel to those countries right now, couldn’t we? I’m sure they could dig up some “hate speech” that we said in the past, that violate their shitty laws.

      • AlexinCT

        When they get to decide what “hate speech” is, expect them to always be able to find it if they want to fuck you over.

      • Suthenboy

        As far as I am aware we are the only country in history that has enshrined freedom of expression in law, to what extent we have. It has always been under fierce attack here.

      • Suthenboy

        The globalists really, really hate freedom of expression.
        Remember Klaus von Evil?
        “We will have chips in everyone’s heads to monitor their thoughts”
        “The greatest threat to world order is ordinary people having their own thoughts”

        They literally. have the mentality of comic book super-villains. It is hard to believe they are real people.

      • AlexinCT

        They literally. have the mentality of comic book super-villains. It is hard to believe they are real people.

        Why do you REFUSE to understand that they have to do this evil fucking shit to protect you from yourself, huh? They are doing it because only THEY know what is best for you, you dumb ass!

        /that was sarcasm, btw

    • hayeksplosives

      Elon’s Trump (snort) card is that he’s the only way we’re getting back our astronauts from ISS without begging Russia.

    • The Last American Hero

      You think he doesn’t already have a base on Mars?

  5. SDF-7

    Are We Headed For Another Great Depression?

    If we don’t reverse their point (3) (energy production is down and costs are skyrocketing), a depression would be the least of our concerns.

    But yeah — it wouldn’t surprise me all that much at this point. Before 2020 I would have thought we were headed for serious political unrest due to populism fighting back against an increasingly arrogant elite… but I way overestimated what people will put up with, it seems.

    • Sean

      J6 took care of that.

      • Suthenboy

        Dont be so sure. What will they do if they lose this election?

      • The Last American Hero

        Grumble about it on X, Twitter, the Reason comment section, and Glibertarians.com.

        Some people will even fly a flag upside down. Upside down!

        Let that sink in.

  6. SDF-7

    Democrats Push Cheap Housing for Illegal Migrants

    I remain in favor of cheap transportation for Illegal Migrants. And then cutting off the border.

    And the Gen Z proto-AWFLs whine about rent and housing prices and still are all for the government taking all the housing supply. Square that circle.

    • rhywun

      One wonders what the Dems would be doing any differently if they indeed pursued the “replacement” conspiracy theories that those crazy Republicans keep going on about.

  7. SDF-7

    Why would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks remains an infuriating enigma weeks after shooting

    As someone else who keeps to themselves and expects his neighbors to barely know him, I can’t say I care for the tone of the article, dangnabbit. Introverts Unite — but not if we have to actually meet people or anything!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not having an extensive internet history filled with narcissistic shit is cause for suspicion. You should be at least sent to a camp until they can get you figured out.

      • SDF-7

        Well, I’m sure Comcast will hand over the IP logs leading them to this place. Then they’ll be able to send me to the Special Camps.

    • Fourscore

      I totally understand. It’s the same here. I don’t even know my nearest neighbors by sight, name or reputation. I suspect it’s the same with them, the johnnies-come-lately.

      A group of people I knew had a daily coffee meet up. One newcomer, after several months, asked why he never had a chance to talk. Another newcomer said “I’ve been here 4 years and still can’t say anything, now wait your turn”

      Small towns, rural America are much like big cities in that respect.

    • Homple

      It’s a good bet that the authorities know everything about the late Mr. Crooks, but what they know embarrasses or incriminate somebody important. Expect very little information, all of it suspect.

      • SDF-7

        Sort of like if someone carried 70 odd rifles up an elevator in a Vegas hotel or something. Nothing will ever be known….

      • Ownbestenemy

        SDF there was no such incident.

      • Rat on a train

        It could hurt the narrative. They also have to worry about punching down. See Audrey Hale.

    • SDF-7

      “He just names all his dogs Scout — he likes the name!”

      or

      “Scout identified as Black in the first picture!”

      Take your pic. I’d be more upset — but a dishonest politician…. completely unprecedented…..

      • Fourscore

        Tim left Nebraska for a reason. Probably it was too “hot”.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Maybe in that first pic, Scout had just gotten back from a hunting trip with Trudeau and Walz?

      • The Other Kevin

        Like George Forman, who named all his kid George. Or on that Newhart show… “I’m Larry, this is my dog Scout, and this is my other dog Scout.”

      • Suthenboy

        “Tim left Nebraska for a reason.”

        No shit.

    • AlexinCT

      You know those people who lie about the most insignificant facts, and lie even when they don’t “have to”?

      So, democrats?

      • Drake

        Hillary and Biden immediately come to mind. I think they never want to get into the bad habit of telling the truth.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Here is Walz posing with a different dog in the 2021 pheasant hunt.

      The birds didn’t cooperate, though: neither Walz, Benson, nor Frentz bagged a bird. But, they did enjoy working with their trusty dogs and enjoying the beautiful weather and the camaraderie of the hunt, the release stated. Walz was pictured with English springer spaniel Freja.
       
      Walz, Benson and Frentz all wore masks when not hunting, and maintained a 6-foot distance from each other during the hunt in keeping with the Department of Natural Resources and Minnesota Department of Health outdoor recreation guidelines.

      Looks like a typical Walz press release. they did enjoy working with their trusty dogs. Makes you think Walz and Scout were out in the field, but if you asked for more details, I’m sure he’d say “no, no, no. I never said Scout. That was talking about Benson and Frentz’s dogs”.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I don’t want to sign up for an X account to dig into that to see how real that is. Any of you X-rated degenerates willing to enact some labor for me?

      Sadly, him lying about his dog would be something that would actually make a proggie aunt of mine actually turn on Walz. She’s avoided admitting that he’s a world class embellisher (at best) so far. But she loves dogs and anyone who would pose with two dogs while pretending that they are the same would incur her wrath.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The screenshots are real. It appears he has a few more pictures referring to the black lab as Scout, but the tan Scout photo also exists.

      • Pope Jimbo

        So it looks like the tweets are genuine. I saw a few comments in regards to the ginger dog at the dog park along the lines of “He didn’t say that dog was Scout. He just said that Scout liked the dog park”

        So for some reason it looks like he took a pic with some other dog and then – in Walz-like fashion – gave it an ambiguous description that makes you think one thing, but technically could be a different thing.

        I don’t know why he would brag on that ginger dog though.

      • Suthenboy

        There is too much getting lost in the weeds here.

        Walz is a liar. He probably doesnt have a dog at all. Everything we see and hear about him is a fabrication, same with Harris. In fact I would say 99% of what we hear about politics is a show put on to keep us from finding out just how bad it is. They are after all, a cadre of sociopaths at best.

    • SDF-7

      “Scout did a summer internship for the Make A Wish foundation!”

      Less snarky… that’s a good dog. And I dare think not an atypical dog…. dogs are great.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        Tim Walz’s dog is the Zelig of canines!

    • hayeksplosives

      It’s dusty in here.

      Glad they walked out together. Was fearing the worst.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Stupid ninjas cutting onions are about.

  8. Pope Jimbo

    This isn’t good news.

    MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Some neighbors told authorities they were trying to clear a homeless encampment themselves after Minneapolis police responded to two incidents at the camp.
     
    Police say some people in the neighborhood stated “they were trying to clear a camp” and there was an injured woman. But again, police say they did not find the injured woman.
     
    Officers did arrest a man from the encampment who was reportedly threatening others with a bow and arrow, law enforcement said.

    Cops might not be the best people in the world, but Minneapolis is really going to suck if the residents decide that the cops aren’t going to do anything and start burning these tent cities to the ground.

    • Ownbestenemy

      How long until the homeless unhoused open air living crowd take a few notes from the Middle East and declare they want a two-state solution?

      • SDF-7

        I don’t think they do — they want the existing state to serve them… and since the flunkies and hangers on of said state seem ample opportunity for graft (untraceable graft apparently if you’re in California), they’re happy enough to oblige.

      • Fourscore

        Mpls needs more zoning laws. That’ll stop ’em.

        Who didn’t camp out in the back yard in the summer? Make an unauthorized snow fort in the winter?

      • Suthenboy

        didn’t they do that already? They had several but the only one I remember was SPAZ or whatever out in…was it Berkley?

      • The Last American Hero

        Well, nobody over the age of 40 made a snow fort because global warming destroyed all the snow according to Al Gore.

    • SDF-7

      See above comment about people putting up with more than I ever thought.

      Governments (at just about all levels) have broken the social contract in that they’re refusing to provide services and protection to those they are constituted to serve in favor of outsiders (and themselves, of course). That this hasn’t resulted in the forming of new organizations to keep the peace and enforce the majority will (which is of course going to be a problem in itself) would shock many past generations of humanity, I expect.

      TL;DR — Minneapolis isn’t the only place, but agreed.

      Of course — isn’t it getting to be Walz Fire Season in those parts?

    • AlexinCT

      but Minneapolis is really going to suck if the residents decide that the cops aren’t going to do anything and start burning these tent cities to the ground.

      As if it was impossible to draw the conclusion that when the cops are not responding or doing anything to stop negative things, people will sooner than later decide they will have to do so themselves. Unintended consequences, I guess….

    • R C Dean

      “start burning these tent cities to the ground.”

      Urban renewal.

      • Not Adahn

        Molotovs are fiery but mostly peaceful, right?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sadly, I think that the local proggies would cream their pants if that happened. The opportunity to lecture start a conversation about how Trump has caused so much hate in America that we are burning down the last refuge for these simple people who had nothing and were just trying to live their lives with some dignity would get them harder than a tankership full of viagra could.

        Especially since a lot of our homeless camps are dominated by Indians (which is why the guy threatening people with a bow and arrow is priceless).

        There would be so many articles written about how Minnesoda’s deep down white racist roots caused all this. Minnesoda Nice has always been just a cover (like a klan hood) for our evil ways.

      • AlexinCT

        The opportunity to lecture start a conversation about how Trump has caused so much hate in America that we are burning down the last refuge for these simple people who had nothing and were just trying to live their lives with some dignity would get them harder than a tankership full of viagra could.

        Proggies: That bad orange man MADE me beat your ass to a pulp woman!

        /reminiscent of that scene in the Forrest Gump movie where they are in D.C. during the Vietnam protests and the guy gets mad and hits Jenny

    • Suthenboy

      Cops are irrelevant. They dont make policy or law. City hall is responsible for that cluster.

  9. Q Continuum

    Tit Patrol, Tit Patrol, whenever you’re in trouble!
    Tit Patrol, Tit Patrol, be there on the double!

    https://archive.is/VoTiM

    Mammary Monday.

  10. Common Tater

    “Wild footage shows a California man accused of decapitating his parents and their dog being shot multiple times by cops — and then belting out Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It” as he lay bleeding on the ground.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/08/25/us-news/man-accused-of-decapitating-parents-sings-tina-turner-after-being-shot-video/

    He faces two counts of homicide over the deaths of his parents, and being a white guy who can’t sing.

  11. Pope Jimbo

    Some of that hard hitting journalism that we’ve come to expect from the Minneapolis Strib. The “Rubes in the Mist” columnist they have on staff to write about the jackpine savages who live outside the metro area takes the rubes to task for not falling in love with the new state flag.

    It’s fair to say that the old state flag reflected the reality of the 1800s. As logging and railroad barons plundered the state, and European settlers moved in, the state’s Indigenous people did lose power. They lost ancestral lands that they depended on for their livelihoods. After the U.S.-Dakota war of 1862, many Dakota people were driven from the state. Indigenous children were forced into boarding schools. Today, more than a quarter of Native Americans in Minnesota live in poverty.
     
    Arguably now, more than at any time in our state’s history, Minnesotans see that and understand the massive loss and trauma endured by Indigenous people. Simply changing a flag doesn’t fix that, but those who felt their oppression reflected in the flag no longer chafe under that demeaning symbol.
     
    It’s easy to dismiss people in greater Minnesota who continue to hang onto the old flag as stubborn conservatives who would reject any proposal that came out of the Twin Cities. Some of that is true, and that inclination has been exploited by political leaders who would rather divide our state than graciously accept defeat.
     
    It’s also easy to see the frantic rally around the old flag as the fearful acts of a majority group that is losing power as demographics shift locally and nationally.

    It is so nice of the metro dominated newspaper to provide insights like this.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I think one of the reasons there is so much friction about this flag thing is how abruptly it came about. No one was talking about this at all.

      The DFL surprised everyone by winning both houses of the state legislature in 2022 and with Walz as gov, there was nothing the GOP could do to stop them from passing all sorts of dumb stuff. The state flag was one of those ideas that popped up and was instantly jammed through.

      The progressives swore it wasn’t because there was an Indian on the flag and it was wokism trying to get a new flag. They never were able to articulate any other reason why we needed to change the flag and why it had to be done so fast.

      Maybe if they had done the normal political thing and had some committee meetings and taken some time to do this, there wouldn’t be so much pushback. Here’s a crazy idea, why not choose a new flag first and then people could decide if they liked it better? Crazy, right?

      Instead we passed a law and said we would change it and then started the process of choosing a new one.

      • AlexinCT

        When you can’t fix real problems because you are too dumb and too inept, you invent bullshit first world problems to distract from the fact you are dumb and inept. This shit is precisely that,

      • Sensei

        And in the day of TikTok attention spans it works very well with the masses.

      • AlexinCT

        Stupid is as stupid does, maam…

      • Q Continuum

        Humans are so fucking stupid.

      • creech

        There will be committees a plenty when Harris/Walz administration comes in. One hopes the Senate will be GOP and stop the real b.s. But then they are the Stupid Party, right? Look for one of the first committees be a national effort to Study Reparations.

      • The Last American Hero

        You want flaggy mcflag face?

        Because that’s what community input will give you.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Lasty:

        I’d be OK with that as long as you took out the “L”s from it. So it would be easier for Mrs. Holiness to pronounce.

  12. SDF-7

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  13. Not Adahn

    Newsish:

    Chick dig bad boys. So when you have female prison guards, some of them will be banging the inmates:

    https://lawandcrime.com/crime/4-security-guards-accused-in-cellphone-and-chicken-pot-pie-sex-scandal-at-beleaguered-fulton-county-jail/

    I have been referring to some modern denominations as “Good People’s Clubs.” The CoE agrees that “church” really isn’t a good name for what they are anymore:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/16/church-england-dropping-word-church-more-modern/

    • Sensei

      In an article on UnHerd, Dr Fraser said that it was as if, “the Church has given up on church. Not since Prince became Squiggle has there been such a daft revision.”

    • Q Continuum

      Minor change: Instead of “Good People’s Clubs” I think it’s more “Better Person Than You Clubs”.

    • Tundra

      Archive link

      At St Barnabas in Ealing a “Shh free” mass is on offer to welcome families with young children, while the “silent disco worship” at All Hallows Bow in east London – a new congregation founded within an existing church – attracts young adults.

      Sure. That ought to do it.

      • The Last American Hero

        My church and many that I’ve been to have never had people shushing. We do have a cry room for when they kids go into total overdrive and are inconsolable, but it has a glass window and speakers, so you are still able to participate.

        Maybe that’s a protestant thing.

  14. Sean

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    • Sean

      Shoulda refreshed…

      • SDF-7

        You were too busy burying me under bonus words…. damn, dude. Well done.

      • Sean

        😛

    • SDF-7

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  15. SDF-7

    Tom Cotton with several lines that should be in campaign ads….

    • AlexinCT

      I have to admit people I used to see just roll over and play dead are finally pushing back when the propagandists spew bullshit. The way to fix the media problem isn’t to be nice to them: it is to call them out, every time you can, in real time, when the usual bunch of retards that watch them and end up programmed, are unable to miss the call out. Do it nasty, and over the top too. That shit can then not be ignored.

      When the media gets to cutting off people saying things they want their usual audience of dunces not to hear – like they do the orange guy they hate – all the time, even the dumbest fucks will have to start wondering WTF is going on.

    • The Other Kevin

      That was sickening. He might as well have been talking to Strawberry or Blackberry.

    • The Last American Hero

      Not the biggest Cotton fan, but I give him credit for pushing back and refusing to play by their rules.

  16. Suthenboy

    “…has nothing to hide from the French Police”

    What has that got to do with anything?

    • AlexinCT

      ^^^^THIS^^^^

      They are inventing the crimes against their targets. You don’t have to break any laws for them to accuse you of having done it… Chilling.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not inventing, reviving the old laws

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Poor guy doesn’t realize he either has to cooperate and sell his users down the river or he’s going to the French equivalent of federal pound me in the ass prison.

      • Not Adahn

        If La Femme Nikita was telling the truth, French prisons kinda suck.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Papillon knows.

  17. Suthenboy

    Are we headed for a depression? Who the fuck knows? Everything out of the govt’s mouth about…well, everything, is a lie.
    The numbers are all fantasy.

    • AlexinCT

      Well, they have been printing and funneling an extra $2 trillion every year to prop the economy up, so when that money train ends, the inevitable correction should happen.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      At least the job market looks good. What? They revised the numbers down so far that the supposedly good job market is actually dismal? Well I’ll be dipped!

      But yeah, they lie about everything from the big to the small and everything in between.

  18. rhywun

    🤘great music pick🤘

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      This is Stinky Wizzleteats bringing you the soothing sounds of the ‘70s. We’ll have something off The Best of Bread right after this word from our sponsors.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You don’t like “Black guy listens to Rush for the first time” videos? Have you no soul?

      • Not Adahn

        “Black Guy Watches Blazing Saddles for the First Time” is better.

        Or “Millennial sees Who’s on First for first time.”

      • Suthenboy

        Yeah…Liz’s obvious cameltoe is a bit of a giveaway.

    • CatchTheCarp

      Great song by one of the finest female vocalists of all time. With that said all I need is the Carpenter’s greatest hits compilation.

      • Banjos

        She is by far and away my favorite singer. I could listen to her sing Dubuque Iowa’s phonebook and be completely mesmerized.

      • rhywun

        It is an amazing compilation.

    • Suthenboy

      There is a lot of obvious schtick on the yewtoobs. That dude and the public piano player, all of which is scripted and rehearsed.
      another notch down are the people who are so in love with the sound of their own voice that they spend 15 minutes flapping their gums before telling you something that should have taken 5 seconds.
      Also there is so much ‘shocked’, ‘amazed’, ‘you wont believe this’, ‘terrified’, ‘stunned’ blah blah over the top click bait I am surprised anyone who has ever watched you tube is still alive.
      I also love the ever present sexual situation tittilation thumbnails about industrial processes etc.
      Oh, and dont forget the sexy lady lives alone, camps out alone, naked gardener lady etc etc all tease content. There is a shit ton of that of late.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Suthen! Next you will be coming up with crazy shit like “strippers don’t really fall in love with guys who come to watch them dance”.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Paul requested that TSA speedily turn over unredacted copies of all current guidelines, criteria, standard operating procedures, and related documents governing the selection of individuals for TSA-managed lists and programs, including the Quiet Skies program.”

      In which they replied “go pound sand” and that children, is how Washington works.

      • SDF-7

        Which is why Congress needs to start defunding these assholes when they pull contempt-of-Congress shit. But they gave over their balls decades ago and that won’t happen. (Or they had that special “intelligence briefing” as soon as they got to DC and know to play along….)

    • Tundra

      And nothing else will happen.

      Or is Fauci in jail and I missed it?

      • Drake

        Maybe Trump wins and makes Paul Director of Homeland Security?

    • The Other Kevin

      They’re going to say they can’t disclose all these secret things they do because that would endanger national security. Which is super convenient for them.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Bingo!

  19. Common Tater

    “For their part, Foo Fighters told The Independent “Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it.” The band went on to say that “appropriate actions are being taken” against the campaign and that Foo Fighters will donate royalties made from the campaign’s use of the song to Trump’s opponent Kamala Harris.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-foo-fighters-falsely-claimed-trump-used-their-my-hero-song-to-introduce-rfk-jr-without-permission

    CWABOA

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They paid for the rights with whatever conglomerate owns them. This is nothing but a publicity ploy and nothing more (and Grohl’s a terminally whiny bitch).

      • Certified Public Asshat

        How have they gotten away with producing the same bland music for the last twenty years? Nickelback was rightfully called out, but the Foo gets a pass?

      • Urthona

        Yes this keeps happening and it always the same story.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *cough* thirty years

      • Pope Jimbo

        :CPA

        I look forward to some average band to decide to tour just doing covers of the Foo Fighters in small honkytonks and road houses.

        They would be the Foo Bar Fighters.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Their first two albums were good but they haven’t had a good one since Pat Smear left.

      • ron73440

        How have they gotten away with producing the same bland music for the last twenty years? Nickelback was rightfully called out, but the Foo gets a pass?

        I never got into either of those bands.

        Your question reminded me of Angus Young’s reply to some music journalist that asked him what his response was to critics that say you have 13 albums that all sound the same?

        Angus: “I’d say we have 14 albums that all sound the same.”

        AC/DC got away with it because they were good at it.

        I wouldn’t say the same for the Foo Fighters.

    • SDF-7

      “Keep calm — this is Normal!”

    • Tundra

      That’s one way to solve the market saturation dilemma. Should be a fun one to fight

    • Fourscore

      Sometimes you just get lucky

  20. AlexinCT

    I call bullshit. I am pretty sure that these employees are not “humiliated” at all, as the headline claims, because if they were, they would be working to disband and end the DEI curse infecting their company responsible for these massive failures.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    I have a debate question.

    “Vice President Harris- explain for us, in twenty five word or less, the meaning of the phrase, ‘consent of the governed’.”

  22. hayeksplosives

    I am tired of firing guys at work but I gotta do it again.

    Scenario: Friday morning Slack channel at work. Guy says we should use fork electrical terminals instead of ring. Three other engineers, including the Chief Technology Executive, say No, we need rings. My employee continues to push for forks.

    Someone texts me to alert me it’s going on. I intervene with a simple “No forks. We require rings. End of discussion.”

    • hayeksplosives

      Asshole then private messages me “ I don’t know who in the past accepted getting treatment like that, but I’ll tell you directly now: I’m here to support your ambitions, not the other way around. Don’t treat me like that again.”

      I think that’s grounds for dismissal. But HR wants to Taaalk about it.

      What do you think?

      • Sean

        Guy is a thin skinned idjit.

        Fireable? Eh…without seeing the whole original discussion, I lean towards “teachable moment”.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If you really want to cause problems, flip flop that shit on HR. Tell them that you feel like they don’t trust your decision because you are a woman. “If I was a man, you would have listened to me and fired him”.

        Definitely not a good career move because HR would eventually get even, but it would be amusing to watch them scramble. They have to take any nonsense that comes out of your mouth seriously because that is what HR does.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s definitely insubordination. Termination-worthy? Dunno about that. You might not have needed to write “end of discussion” but he’s definitely escalating the situation. He’s definitely on the “not eligible for promotion” list.

      • Sensei

        Yeah, without seeing the whole thing in context I’d agree with Sean. It was a PM and not public.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Maybe he had a bad day. Mentally file it away, see how it goes, and bust it out again if it turns out that’s his typical behavior.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m here to support your ambitions, not the other way around.

        Did he mean the opposite of this?

        Not grounds for dismissal. But time to start your file and begin documenting for a PIP if it doesn’t improve.

      • EvilSheldon

        When you can him, be sure to tell him, “If you’re trying to find out how far you can push me, this right here is how far.”

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I’m with Sean, not terminate worthy.

      • Suthenboy

        Which part is the ‘treat me like that’?
        I am not seeing it.

        You: “No forks. We require rings. End of discussion.”

        Me: “Yes Ma’am.”

        See how easy that is.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I love bosses who are willing to make a decision and end stupid discussions like this. You’re a superstar HE!

      Too many supervisors now will want to have a big meeting to discuss the issue. Then you will have to put together a power point deck on why rings are better than forks.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Actually, have him do the Power Point.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Perhaps you should tell him, “Let me walk you through our nut spacing and crack system rim-riding rip configuration. Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps, and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin-flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist.”

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I’m here to support your ambitions, not the other way around.

    Whatever that means. If the guy’s too lazy to remove a screw fully to make a secure connection, he’s not likely to be a big loss to the team.

    You can do it right, or you can do it elsewhere.

    • hayeksplosives

      This guy is trouble.

      My bestie wanted to intervene on my behalf on Friday when it went down. Aussie vs Long Island punk.

      I chose simply not to go in to the office because I needed to cool down.

    • AlexinCT

      Da Fuq??

      • R.J.

        Yes, I have friends over there. That is real. Supposedly good. I would imagine you would have to eat it with your eyes closed so your brain doesn’t think “pizza taste” when you bit into it.

    • PieInTheSky

      one bite everyone knows the rules

    • EvilSheldon

      That doesn’t sound bad. I’d try it.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Headline: “Vindman says Musk should be nervous”

    Somebody should drop a piano on that guy. And I don’r mean Elon.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      The Chicken Shit Officer In Charge of the Office of Chicken Shit (CSOICOCS) in history is saying things again?

  25. AlexinCT

    Dan Bongino shared this fact more than 3 weeks ago already…. I guess the usual suspects decided they couldn’t hide it anymore, so they finally admitted it, hoping it is too late to register as a clear sign that even if you have a hard time looking at the fact this seems to all have been by design 9they wanted Trump killed and made it easier), this doesn’t help you dismiss the obvious now.

    • Suthenboy

      I think I may have mentioned something to that effect.
      They did it, either actively or passively. Who you ask? I dunno exactly. Maybe we could ask Merrick Garland to see if he has any ideas.

  26. Sensei

    Sigh…

    A Court-Ordered Therapy That Separates Kids From a Parent They Love Stirs a Backlash

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/reunification-therapy-custody-family-court-5b4e9279?st=2j8wp5kbdkowfyg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    PHOENIX—Tori Nielsen was 16 when she and her 12-year-old brother were whisked away from their mother at the Maricopa County courthouse by four strangers in a white minivan on the morning of May 27, 2021.

    The strangers wouldn’t tell Tori and her brother where they were going, she recalled, as the siblings held hands and cried in the back seat. After hours on the interstate, they arrived at a hotel somewhere by the ocean. The strangers, three men and one woman, barricaded the door to their room with furniture so they couldn’t leave, Tori said.

    The next morning, she remembered one of them saying: “You’re going to have a meeting with your father now.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Remember when we used to forcibly remove Indian kids from their parents and send them to boarding schools so they’d get the “correct” education?

    • Tundra

      The treatment the Nielsens underwent is part of an industry of intensive “reunification therapy” that has sprung up during the past decade and is ordered by family courts to settle custody fights. Services like Building Family Bridges, where the Nielsens were forced to go, use videos and exercises to try to break a child’s pattern of rejecting a parent. The child is then ordered to live with that parent for an extended period and barred from having contact with the other parent. A battle has erupted over the approach in courtrooms and statehouses across the country.

      Force, force and more force. For the children!

      This is pure evil.

      • Fourscore

        Thankfully I was in/out before that stuff started. It would not have played well at my house.

      • R C Dean

        “The child is then ordered to live with that parent for an extended period and barred from having contact with the other parent”

        That seems like a really weird way to reunify families.

    • R.J.

      Horrible. I don’t know if I can take the insane news this morning, I am going to drop off until tomorrow. I have a few crappy Bigfoot movies to watch anyway. “Bigfoot vs. Megalodon” and “Bigfoot vs. Megalodon 2.”

      • PieInTheSky

        I’m rooting for the fish

      • STEVE SMITH

        STEVE SMITH READY FOR CLOSE UP, MR. DEMILLE!

    • tarran

      Having been in a brutal drawn out custody battle, I have very strong opinions about this. Not only did I watch my kids get hurt by it, I saw some pretty awful stuff every time I was sitting in a courtroom waiting for my case to be called.

      What’s being described is evil… full stop.

      One of the things that really, really bugged me throughout the whole thing was that the courts treat children like chattel. So the child becomes like a cow passed back and forth from field to field.

      When guardians are in conflict to the point where outsiders have to intervene, the children are being seriously psychologically harmed by the conflict. Sometimes, it’s better for the better parent to step aside and allow the worse parent to raise the child fully rather than to subject the child to the trauma of being a toy that is fought over. Moreover, when parents are fighting over a child, disciplining the child becomes very difficult; there is a high likelihood of the other parent undermining the disciplining parent in order to curry favor with the child.

      Consequently children growing up in this sort of conflict experience a very chaotic and unreliable home situation. This leads to anxiety. They also develop trust issues. My kids became reticent about disclosing things they were struggling with not only to us parents but to their therapists. This warps their maturation. More dangerously, of the very few tools they have available to them to assert control over their lives, the most powerful by far is manipulation. A false report to one parent about the other parent’s cruelty or neglect will immediately garner a useful action. Kids who do it over and over again can become very, very adept at manipulating people who care about them/

      A high conflict custody battle will only happen when one or both parents have trouble accepting not getting things their way. A significant portion of those people are people who really don’t care about the desires or needs of the people around them. So they have a very diminished ability to accept situations where the people they want to have a particular relationship with don’t want to reciprocate.

      If the court has ordered X parenting time arrangement, and, as the child gets older, the child is rejecting it, the wiser course of action is to rearrange the parenting time to what the child will accept, and for the parent ‘losing out’ to maintain open lines of communication while not insisting on interactions. Almost inevitably as the child gets older and develops agency, the child will seek out the other parent and establish a new relationship on his or her terms.

      In my opinion, forcible reunification is much more likely to blight a parent-child relationship than to establish it.

      • Sensei

        Sometimes, it’s better for the better parent to step aside and allow the worse parent to raise the child fully rather than to subject the child to the trauma of being a toy that is fought over.

        Exactly. Still tragic and incredibly sad.

      • rhywun

        I was watching a sitcom (!) the other day with some kid being passed back and forth between his divorced parents as if this was normal and wondering how is that “good”.

        My parents divorced when I was 3 and I never saw my father again. From what I understand that the best arrangement. I am glad I wasn’t shuffled around like that, at least.

    • PieInTheSky

      just scary looking knives I hope.

    • PieInTheSky

      No weapons zones have been introduced in certain German cities, and while there is little evidence that they actually led to a reduction in violent crime, according to Baier, they do appear to make people feel safer. – in the end that is what counts.

      • Drake

        Really? In the U.S., gun-free zones are where you are most likely to be a victim of a mass shooter.

      • PieInTheSky

        well yes but it feels safer.

    • SDF-7

      The prison system has shown that it is entirely possible to prevent people from making makeshift weapons after all.

  27. R.J.

    Harris/Walz crap is getting shoved in my eBay feed. They can screw off. Shoppers like me do not like their merchandise.

    • Pope Jimbo

      What if that merch was being worn by a fashion model?

      Seriously, if Invanka Trump looked like that and touted herself as a fashion model, there would be 10million articles about how this proves white supremacy. If she wasn’t the daughter of a powerful white guy, no way would this plain jane have any chance of being a model.

      • R.J.

        There is actual spittle on her mouth when she is smiling in the first picture. That kid has gone to great lengths to make herself unattractive.

      • Fourscore

        As one of my friends said, “She ugly”

      • Pope Jimbo

        Fourscore:

        I agree. If she had married some NoDak farmer in the late 1800’s, my guess is that they’d be the only farm around with no kids. Even 7 months being locked in a sod hut with her and nothing else to do wouldn’t be enough to get her in the family way.

      • creech

        Would Walz date her if she wasn’t his daughter? Biden would gladly sniff her hair and take showers with her, however.

      • Common Tater

        The hat is stupid. Well, they made money selling it, but I doubt it can gain votes. Lesbians are already the most Democrat demographic.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    He should have called it Wounded Ego

    On his working relationship with Trump, McMaster writes in an excerpt from his book: “I was the principal voice telling him that Putin was using him and other politicians in both parties in an effort to shake Americans’ confidence in our democratic principles, institutions and processes. Putin was not and would never be Trump’s friend. I felt it was my duty to point this out.”

    But Trump made his own judgment calls, often taking a contrarian viewpoint.

    McMaster could have steered the ship of state to safe harbor, if only Trump had relinquished the wheel.

    • Pope Jimbo

      McMaster and Vindman need to get into the Octagon and decide who is the One True Never Trumper.

      • Not Adahn

        Adam Kinzinger and Liz Chaney can be in the other bracket.

      • Pope Jimbo

        NA:

        I’d bet cash money that of those four, Liz Cheney is the only one who wears underwear that has a dick hole in it.

    • Brochettaward

      Putin is not reflexively anti-American the way these people, the neo-cons, are reflexively anti-Russian.

  29. Mojeaux

    Taking XY to take his driver’s test today. Now, I think he can actually pass the test, but that is not the end of the driving lessons. His $800 car is still in the shop.

    • PieInTheSky

      public transport is better for the environment. Cars under 10000$ should all be scrapped to discourage usage.

      • creech

        But first time car buyers among the poors need to be given $25,000 to buy a new one.

      • Pope Jimbo

        When Cash 4 Clunkers came out, our neighbors decided to see both their old cars – which were serviceable – and buy two brand new cars.

        They were already teetering financially when they did that. A lot of tut-tutting in the neighborhood.

        They managed to stay afloat by refinancing and using all their home equity. You’ll be surprised to know that they were part of the 2008 meltdown. Luckily for them they qualified for a bunch of govt forgiveness programs and they managed to keep their house and come out the other end OK. (I think their parents also gave them some money too).

        Nice family, but they were horrible with money.

  30. PieInTheSky

    I was wondering how many pints of lager you could buy with median incomes since the 1970s. A typical male UK full time employee earned 243 pints per week in 1975; this has now fallen by around a third, to 159 pints per week.

    https://x.com/peterdonaghy/status/1827778611094458413

    how many hipster craft beers can the median glibertarian income buy?

    • SDF-7

      I was going to snark — but I probably could work out a spreadsheet if I really cared about the relative purchase power I have had over the years measured in 2 liter Dr. Pepper bottles…. Certainly one of the post-pandemic pain points.

    • Nephilium

      /looks at brewing equipment

      Pints? I can measure it in gallons (especially if I’m doing session beers, my mild costs $15 in supplies)

  31. SDF-7

    To be fair, I doubt Biden knows what day it is…

    in fairness, it’s easier for him to be there since he isn’t responsible for their deaths.
    — lisamarie (success best revenge) (@Lisa_from_SoCal) August 26, 2024

    — is particularly apt.

    • Sensei

      And call center staff.

  32. Brochettaward

    First two The Bro is coming for you
    First Four better lock the door

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Serious journalism from a respected source

    As I also wrote last year, none of this is to say that we haven’t seen some sharp coverage of Kennedy’s candidacy, grounded in solid reasoning; there was back then, and there has been since. As a candidate for president, it’s appropriate that reporters would interrogate Kennedy’s views and character, and many did. (The same Vanity Fair article that pictured Kennedy and the dog/goat included an allegation that he sexually assaulted a nanny. Kennedy trashed the story but reportedly apologized to the woman; when asked whether more such stories might come out, he replied, “We’ll see what happens.”) Even sharp coverage of Kennedy, though, has made me feel uncomfortable: if paying attention to presidential candidates is often democratically desirable, otherwise irrelevant rich people know that they can win attention by running for president. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Kennedy effectively hijacked the public discourse via his campaign, buttressed by his name and the fact he is a compelling character—which may, ultimately, have juiced his coverage most of all.

    Coverage of Kennedy’s environmentalism—he has long championed various such causes, while presenting himself as something of an outdoorsman—might be a case in point. Some of it has interrogated his positions in this area, or even used it as a gateway to talk about climate change as a campaign story (during a cycle in which it has often been underplayed); after Kennedy suspended his campaign, a couple of stories in major outlets centered the apparent absurdity of a self-professed environmentalist endorsing a candidate who has embraced fossil fuels and called climate change a hoax. But other stories—of the worm, dog, or bear variety—have gotten more attention, precisely because of their absurdity.

    He claimed to be a Presidential candidate just to circumvent the Ministry of Truth and spew his crackpot theories to a wider audience. That’s an egregious abuse of the system. Our gatekeepers are falling down on the job.

    • WTF

      …none of this is to say that we haven’t seen some sharp coverage of Kennedy’s candidacy, grounded in solid reasoning; there was back then, and there has been since.

      Still waiting for the sharp coverage of Kamala’s candidacy, grounded in solid reasoning.

    • Not Adahn

      I am wondering what the base photograph was for that shoop.

    • PieInTheSky

      I will only take the vax if injected straight into my balls. And then a nurse needs to try and suck out the poison.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Mrs. Holiness and I were attacked out of the blue by a Japanese cold. I was a bit under the weather, but not too bad. It has really thrown Mrs. Holiness for a loop. She appears to be getting better, but I have to admit watching her cough up so much phlem has really ruined Hawk-tuah girl for me.

      • Sensei

        If she wants to be truly Japanese like she has to apologize for catching the cold and inconveniencing everyone.

        Your Japanese trivia is one “pulls” a cold as opposed to the English “catch” a cold.

      • Suthenboy

        Masks don’t work. They make no difference whatsoever. We just found that out over 100 years ago so maybe they just aren’t up on the latest info.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Not her fault

    Former President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 service members.

    Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is expected to visit Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to the service members killed in the bombing outside the Kabul airport. Trump will then go to Michigan to address the National Guard Association of the United States conference.

    Monday marks three years since the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 13 American service members and more than 100 Afghans. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

    More cheap sensationalism and fingerpointing.

    Vice President Harris can’t even find Afghanistan on a globe.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Since President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Trump has been zeroing in on Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, and her roles in foreign policy decisions. He has specifically highlighted the vice president’s statements that she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision on Afghanistan.

    “She bragged that she would be the last person in the room, and she was. She was the last person in the room with Biden when the two of them decided to pull the troops out of Afghanistan,” he said last week in a North Carolina rally. “She had the final vote. She had the final say, and she was all for it.”

    In a statement marking the anniversary of the Kabul airport attack, Harris said she mourns the 13 U.S. service members who were killed. “My prayers are with their families and loved ones. My heart breaks for their pain and their loss,” she said.

    “I have a heart,” she claimed, without evidence.

    • Not Adahn

      Are you familiar with the “Who’s on first” sketch?

    • rhywun

      Good grief. Even mediocre episodes have better bits than that.

    • Common Tater

      “But the tables quickly turned against Rivera after it was learned that he was preparing Japanese food as a Puerto Rican man at his Japanese-inspired bar.

      Sharing screenshots of Rivera’s comments, Anna Slatz, co-founder of independent news outlet Reduxx, said: “This guy launched an all-out hate campaign against a woman for opening an ‘Australian sushi counter’ to the point that she had to delete all of her TikTok videos and got review bombed on Google for being a ‘colonizer.’ Meanwhile he’s opening a ‘Puerto Rican izakaya.’””

  36. The Late P Brooks

    A legacy headed for the trash heap of history

    President Joe Biden executed one of the most sweeping progressive agendas on labor, climate change and “corporate greed” in recent decades — only to see the Supreme Court lay it so bare that a Kamala Harris victory may not protect large chunks of it.

    A suite of Supreme Court rulings this summer freed up federal judges to freeze many regulations the president once campaigned on or enacted to get around a deeply divided Congress. In Texas, a federal judge blocked Biden’s ban on noncompete agreements for workers, and a judge in Mississippi stopped his discrimination protections in health care for transgender people. And an Ohio-based appeals court temporarily halted a policy preventing internet companies from throttling service.

    Biden appointees have spent years writing rules to crack down on credit card late fees, require airlines to fork over cash refunds and make millions more people eligible for overtime pay while reining in polluting industries. But the future of those policies, along with the president’s unfinished business on student debt relief and artificial intelligence, are far less secure than they were just two months ago.

    Oh, no. The greatest President in history will be robbed of his rightful place in the pantheon of heroes because of a bunch of nitpicky judges worried about some stupid “Constitution”.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    The high court’s decision to end Chevron, a 40-year legal precedent that limited how judges intervened in complex agency policymaking, was one of three recent rulings set to stymie Washington’s regulatory machinery. The conservative majority also virtually eliminated the statute of limitations for challenging federal regulations and dramatically shrunk the power of the internal judges some agencies use to enforce their rules.

    Lower courts have already cited the trio of cases in dozens of decisions, according to the progressive legal group Democracy Forward. That combination means that even if Trump doesn’t win the presidency and the power to undo Biden’s work from the inside, trade groups and corporations now have a greater chance of knocking rules down from the outside.

    They yanked the rug right out from under the Administrative State.

    It’s anarchy, I tells ya.