Good morning one and all to another wonderous day!
Donald Trump “Thrilled” With Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ VP Pick
Under Walz, Minnesota bilked hundreds of millions even after warnings about ‘pervasive’ failures
‘A Hard Sell’: Kamala Harris’s VP Pick May Not Appeal To Middle America The Way She Hoped
Harris VP pick Tim Walz reportedly owns no stocks or real estate
JD Vance Humiliates Kamala in Front of Her Own Plane
Prosecutors say Hunter Biden was compensated by Romanian businessman hoping to influence US policy
CVS cuts outlook, plans $2B cost-cutting effort
Big Lots could potentially close 315 stores
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Donald Trump “Thrilled” With Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ VP Pick”
How dare the orange bad man rejoice the fact the team blue morons committed an auto goal!
Well… DUH! says everyone vaguely paying attention in the last 4 years (or really paying any attention to DC over the years).
Next they’ll discover the rampant insider trading. Gasp! Shock!
Morning, Banjos… if you and Sloopy are competing on disturbing front page images, I think he’s still in the lead — but that pig is… odd….
I think Banjos has a commanding lead. I cracked open the site this morning and my reaction was “WTF, Banjos? Where do you find this stuff?”
“Prosecutors say Hunter Biden was compensated by Romanian businessman hoping to influence US policy”
Has anyone seen Pie lately?
That pig is very disturbing. Nightmare fuel.
“Veteran who served in Tim Walz’s battalion addresses stolen valor accusations: ‘Far darker than people think’”
Yeah, this is par for the course for these team blue asshats. I am waiting for Da Nang Dick to come to Walz’s defense.
Kerry can throw some medals his way.
The election won’t hinge on this issue but it is weird. I’ve been in reserve units getting deployed. The senior enlisted are unbelievably busy with all the details.
Before a deployment there is lots of personnel shuffling – people fail physicals, get transferred in or out depending on needs, etc. But replacing a Sgt. Major at that time was probably a pain (or a relief).
Closing every store where rampant retail shoplifting has taken over leaps to mind. (And then we’ll have “prescription drug deserts only solvable by Government Dispensaries… hope your Social Credit Score is in good standing for your meds, Grandpa!)
Yeah, it is quite telling to me what the problem is when I go into a CVS in the city of Hartford and find everything of value behind locked glass, and I go to the small CVS in the town next door and there is no glass at all.
How much of that glass is there to save product and how much is there by city/state ordinance to save people from themselves? I know when I’ve crossed city borders when the spray paint is locked up. I’m sure in pharmacies there’s tons of misused products that locking them behind glass will keep us safe and the citizens sober.
Local news has already been bringing up perception deserts. Mainly due to Rite Aid and CVS closing locations to cover the losses from the Oxy settlement.
I agree there are areas with a lack of perception, mostly among Team Blue.
Damn it Ted’s, I’m on my phones shitty keyboard. Prescription desert.
I was going to give Ted S some props with a “I See What You Did”, but I didn’t want to flaunt my perception privilege over you.
Pope Jimbo, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
If you get the fun doctors, you can get some prescription desserts.
Obviously, we need to open The Doors of Prescription!
My mom – age 84 – gets hassled for her prescriptions all the time. She has a trazedone rx apparently. She’s 84 for crissakes! Give her pills!!
“Rep. Cori Bush Loses Primary”
Her response to this failure on her part was to screed about and blame the Jews? Moment of honesty..
Beyond blame the Jews. Claims she is no longer has strings attached and has been radicalized.
Wait, her point was that she was not a radical before? Oh, that is priceless.
Sounds to me like her point was that she was somebody’s puppet while in office.
As someone who is part Jewish, I will accept some of the blame.
Happily.
I’ll do the George Kennedy “I’m a Jew too” in accepting that blame.
There’s a good reason why Harris’ primary campaign crashed and burned so fast. Aside from being unlikable, she’s a complete and total fucking moron. I get that the media will cover for her and the Democrat machine is powerful, but that will not change her disastrous decision making. The people worried about her and the polling with D+4-6 samples showing the race even or her slightly ahead need to chill out.
The problem I see with this absolutely accurate assessment Banjos, is that the people that “fortify” elections seem to think they can still commit more criminal and despicable acts to get her over the finish line. And if not, they will just make the country ungovernable. The contempt for the vast majority of the American pubic is highlighted when they say they are doing evil to protect democracy from Hitler and his horde. Note that by democracy they do not mean the will of the people, but the power of the establishment. And a lot of idiots cheer this shit on. A true “Road to hell is paved with” shitshow.
Election fortification (ballot stuffing) only works when elections are close. Votes are not limitless. You need a pool of voters who didn’t vote to steal from. If there is a legitimately high turn out election and the margin in wide enough, it’s not possible to cheat. That is why Republicans need to be focusing all their attention on two things: using the courts to forcefully clean up the voter rolls and a massive get out the vote effort for their low propensity working class voters. Maybe they learned their lesson from 2020, but I am not fully confident.
It’s too late to clean up the voter rolls for this election. The courts are too slow, too many legislatures and governors are either (D) or limp-noodle (R). The voter rolls are probably worse than in 2020 what with all the illegals.
With junk mail voting still so prevalent, I’m not sure there any election that can’t be stolen. And as we learned in 2020, once the results are announced, it’s over. There’s no fixing it later in the courts.
And safeguards like certification mean diddly.
That’s why I’m assuming all her rallies have other attractors (free concerts) so they can show crowds while keeping her firmly in the
kitchenbasement while the Old Obama Hands (up her ass) actually run the campaign, an advantage she lacked the first time around.With the media running full on defense blitz, her kept from yapping and the machine working for her – I think they’re hoping they can drag her over the finish line. And I can’t help but think they’re also figuring “If we’re wrong… well, we didn’t really lose that much… we’ll still get enough turnout to keep our down-ballot candidates unlike the Corpse Who Still Walks and we can try again in ’28!” She’s sacrificial, but they won’t mind if they pull it off anyway.
The key to the basement strategy requires the second idiot in the race to shoot his mouth and foot off repeatedly. Then make all kinds of sound bites and hyperbolic statements about how the OM is B.
Unfortunately the OM is a bag of ego incapable of restraining himself.
^This. Harris can only hide for so long. The debates are going to be brutal for both Harris and Walz. But even though she’s dumb as a box of rocks she will be trained to try to goad him into going off.
+1 “Barrack HUSSEIN Obama”
In a tweet from yesterday. 🙄
At least he has somehow, someway, hired someone to help control those urges to going off. At least, relative to his past. Kinda interested in his strategy here. I guess letting the limelight wash over while the media hangs itself out to dry?
Trump being Trump is baked into the cake at this point.
Not only is Trump qua Trump baked in, they don’t have any new oppo on him. All those guns have fired.
We all know what we are getting with Trump, a grade A asshole who, for whatever reason, presided over a working country. Harris? We only know that she is an idiot.
Also, being an asshole and misogynistic might not be a bad strategy in debates, as world leaders (read Putin) don’t necessarily give a rats patootie about being polite.
Hilarity ensues when she is asked policy questions. She just too stupid to talk about any detailed plan.
That’s another reason she flamed out in 2020 and why they’ll have trouble keeping her within the margin of fraud.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking she’s running anything, anymore than Biden. The fact that her handlers picked this knob instead of pandering to PA means that they believe they’ve got it sewn up, one way or another, and if she takes PA she likely wins.
Election fortification (ballot stuffing) only works when elections are close. Votes are not limitless. You need a pool of voters who didn’t vote to steal from.
I don’t think that’s true. We watched in 2020 in VA as the counters simply subtracted 100,000 votes from Trump and added them to Biden. Watched Trump’s count go down by 100k in real time broadcasted across an entire nation.
That’s a blatant banana-republic fraud. There’s no such thing as margin of fraud when you can simply make up the vote totals at will.
And you expect this to happen with a Republican led state govt?
Whatever the current nomenclature is for Rockefeller Republicans, they hate Trump as much or more as any Democrat. He’s really leaning into the Teddy Roosevelt thing here, what with getting shot and everything. Also, elections boards where the nitty gritty bullshit takes place are mostly municipal or county.
are mostly municipal or county
Yep, and they are not controlled by any monolithic influence, are they?
It’s usually a very small, self-selecting group that’s drawn to those roles, and tends to stay in them for half their lives. It’s sort of like how academia isn’t controlled by any monolithic influence, but the types who are drawn to academia tend to think rather monolithically, so the result is pretty much the same. No sane person who isn’t a party acolyte addicted to head pats from some clown they think is going to change the world wants to show up at 6 AM on their days off all year for the privilege of being the district elections supervisor every 4 years when more than 20% of the eligible voters actually bother coming out.
“And you expect this to happen with a Republican led state govt?”
I’ve watched for years, since the Tea Party days, Repub insiders preferring a Dem over a Tea Partier or a Trumpist. AZ was all Repub, right down to the Maricopa County Recorder running the election, in 2020, and look what happened here. Maricopa County comprehensively failed its audit, and then went right ahead in 2022 and “screwed up” again in ways that oddly handicapped the Trumpist candidates. And since election reform had the stink of Trumpism on it, the AZ GOP did absolutely nothing when they controlled the legislature and the governor.
So, yeah, I absolutely expect GOPe controlled states to, at a minimum, look the other way at shenanigans as long as they hurt the Trumpists.
Chill out is correct but her “empty suit” campaign leaves her as a default Democrat which is still seen more favorably than DJT or any real politician. The less she does or says, the less policy she puts forward and the harder the media gaslights the better for her.
Good morning Banjos! Looks like a scorcher out our way west of you, so out to the shop early for me.
I think it is only supposed to get to 106F today… so not a full on scorcher like the 113 days.
True, last summer was brutal
Yeah, who knew a stolen valor far-left commie wouldn’t go over well even if he looks like everyone’s least favorite football coach.
Not to mention, this little blurb should make him completely toxic. Unfortunately, given that “The First Amendment goes too far… waaaah!” poll showing both sides don’t want freedom (assholes), it probably won’t actually matter. I really want the ’90s back when people still seemed to have some concept of civics and the rot hadn’t (visibly, granted) sunken in yet…
Yep. All he had to do was say he served, was over TIS for retirement eligibility and took it. Like I mentioned before, not many people in that position, except for the rare few, would not take that. However, playing it up is what is getting him.
“Yeah, who knew a stolen valor far-left commie wouldn’t go over well even if he looks like everyone’s least favorite football coach.”
Do they just not understand people at all, or did they do this to rub people’s noses in their marxist filth? I am starting to wonder, and my feel this was the former, is now succumbing to it being more of the later. They WANT to “fortify” an election for the worst of the worst, specifically to show the unwashed deplorable masses that they stand no chance against the machine.
To your last sentence there – it isn’t even the fortification, it is proving that voting is pointless. At the risk of Zwak’s wrath, I’ll quote Warby (who I read even if no one else does). Here he is speaking to Britain (where apparently immigrants can vote? – anyone know English law on that)…
Of course our political class lies about how Congress can’t do anything about this, and the contrast between Trump’s enforcement on the border, and the Biden administration couldn’t be any starker.
I agree. It’s their SOP.
They scratch their heads to come up with the worst, most destructive ideas and make them into planks.
Transing kids, destroy the nuclear family, riot and burn, abolish private property, abandon rule of law, promote crime…etc.
What I got out of the Olympic debacle was “Here is shit in your faces, motherfuckers.”
Alex. Sounds a lot like a boot stamping a human face forever
Same as it ever was
– Theodore Dalrymple
I don’t think he looks like Urban Meyer at all.
he looks like everyone’s least favorite football coach.
Even his football coaching has the stolen valor label attached to it. His wikipedia page before edits:
Factual but not truthful. Sounds like he was the head coach, but he was defensive coordinator.
Banjos with the punk this morning. Good to hear it.
“Big Lots could potentially close 315 stores”
Bidenomics or Kamalanomics? Cause to me they are mostly the same destructive system which prioritizes government power to pick winners & losers over any system that provides great prosperity when people are left alone to do their thing.
Could just be bog standard mismanagement as well.
Speaking of Walz… he’s holding a rifle with his bird dog with him
I’m sorry, but WTAF? I’m just not sure who is the clueless git here – Walz himself, or the guy giving this description.
Embrace the power of both?
Well, he could actually have a rifle, or it could be the guy describing it doesn’t know the difference. So while both is probably true enough, it isn’t quite applicable.
Bird dog? Rifle?
Is he putting the dog down?
It’s gibberish.
His cat finally escaped after several attempts.
Never did show back up. Probably some white supremacist done did it.
Given the psychotic tendencies of his wife, might want to question her.
So how many men turn real stupid because of the women they are with? Cause I see that way too often.
Don’t count out the daughter. She’s no stranger to violence
The photos I’ve seen of him with his dog he is holding a Beretta A400 shotgun.
Was this the picture of him and the bird dog? I never found the original one that people are talking about. I’m not sure that springer in the story’s pic is actually his.
That right there should kill his political career. He actually wore a mask while outdoors hunting because he was scairt of the covid cooties. And the local journalos dutifully made a note of his righteousness in the story.
Yeah, it looks like his dog is named Scout. And that other dog pic is from after he adopted Scout. So what is the deal? Another stolen valor type of deal? Posing with a competent bird dog instead of the rescue dog that belongs to him?
He goes to Rent-a-Bitch?
Re: Links
It is not her plane.
Putz is a real sack of shit faustian socialist.
The Biden’s sold out their country for cash? Knock me down with a feather.
Ever notice that when cartoonishly bad pols lose they are replaced with the same or worse? The voters are the problem. If. you look at their districts you see a lot of poverty and a very transient population.
kulaks are doing what kulaks do.
I’ll give one counter-example to that. When northeast Florida’s Corrine Brown finally got tossed out of office by the voters (just prior to a federal conviction and stint in prison), she was replaced by Al Lawson. Nobody outside of north Florida has ever heard of him, because while he was a reliable Democrat vote on the Hill, he wasn’t the complete clown show that Corrine was.
Unfortunately for Lawson, redistricting eliminated his gerrymandered “designated darkie” district, and he was out on his arse in 2022.
“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, does not own a single stock or mutual fund or any real estate, and neither does his wife”
A financially irresponsible 60 year old is just who should help lead the country.
I bet some hidden entity owns the valuables in their stead. Cause a lot of it comes from the CCP if you look at whom Walz has worked with.
No reason to own assets when you can take from others.
You know you are in bad shape fiscally when Bernie Sanders owns more than you do!
gold bars?
He’s got a military pension, a teaching pension, a pension from being a senator and a governor’s pension. All of those have COLA adjustments and at least one of those pays his healthcare. He’s living the commie dream. He may cry “fixed income” in his old age, but right now it’s 4 checks and counting every month…
Bingo. Probably making 4x the amount of his lifetime average salary.
Something something, own nothing and be happy…
A perfect lefty, then. His every need taken care of by the state.
He retired a NG MSG so he shouldn’t have received a pension until recently (I don’t recall if it is 59 or 60 that it starts). How much would also depend on how many retirement points he earned.
Beer money pension as my old finance NCO called it.
So, what about these rumors that team blue might have to replace Walz? Has that ever been done before? And what would that advertise to the team blue masses?
[Thomas Eagleton has entered the chat]
A tongue bath for Josh Shapiro?
If Walz got dumped, I think Fourscore, Tundra and I would OD from schadenfreude.
Having him be so epically pantsed would be wonderful. Not only would Tim be exposed, but the local media who has been covering for him for 8 years would also be exposed. My guess is that they would turn on him like they did Biden and destroy him.
In reality, though, I don’t think that there is any way that they will replace him. I’m sort of thinking that Walz might not have been her first choice, but the only one who was willing to join her campaign. I think that there were a couple of other govs who turned her down right away. I wonder if Shapiro might not have withdrawn his name too figuring he can run as the top dog in 2028.
Beshear was never really an option, they’d lose a Blue Guv in a sea of Red.
Shapiro was just too much a liability and while no Libberman in terms of his Jewish faith and principles, would eventually crack under the Activist Wing of the Dems and their views on Israel
Kelley could have lost them a seat
Buttigieg probably would have been the better choice but my guess is Woman + Gay? Americans are not ready!
Michelle isn’t going to play second fiddle and probably would be a step down from Queen of the Democrats just to be a mere president.
So that left them with Walz. Cookie cutter lefty politician with the willingness to be whatever they need him to be.
—“I think that there were a couple of other govs who turned her down right away.”—
I agree, but think of what this says about Harris. Not policy or personality, but each of these governors (if they in fact turned her down) turned down a request from the party’s presidential nominee. If Harris wins, they have gained an enemy with the capacity to do them great political harm. They didn’t care. That tells me that there are many Dem politicians who think she can’t win.
PJ, I would add HE to your list. She is a former Minniesodan as well.
I think they’ may just stick with him.
1) Kamala is moving up in the polls and leading.
2) It’s just a vp. No one cares that much.
3) The incompetent Trump campaign is not spending any ad money to spread this info. Only social media people know and that’s not what decides elections.
4) It’s not like Trump is a courageous patriot anyway. If anything he makes fun of the type.
Summary of a comment I made during conversation the other day: “Toxic masculinity built western civilization. It brought us untold prosperity, on a level unimaginable to those that came before, and unfortunately it looks like also after. The toxic masculinity allowed us to defeat the fascists during WWII, and stand firm against the evil of marxism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The creation of wealth, technology, and achievements & accomplishments was something never seen in human history. Toxic femininity – this third wave feminism where they are all super strong, but if you treat them as such and deal with them the same way you would deal with another man, you are picking on women – is dismantling that prosperity, civilization as we know it, and will lead to a new world envisioned by people that want to murder half of humanity, roll back progress to protect Gaia, and all in the name of creating a one world feudalist marxist government that pretends to care about people.”
Just read something about never using a propagandists terms even against them – so speaking to toxic masculinity is letting them set the meaning to their advantage.
I kinda get it, because we usually use it here ironically. And think of the effect of saying instead “oh, you don’t like confidence and competence in leadership – whether male or female”?
I see your point, but I was talking to people that were all about feels and emotions, and could care less about logic & reason. In that case you need a maul to get through.
To JI’s point, there is no “toxic masculinity” there are only toxic people. When someone refers to this word construction, immediately go to Toxic Femininity and correct anyone with the above sentence structure.
In local news:
https://www.news5cleveland.com/weather/weather-news/national-weather-service-confirms-tornado-touched-down-near-valley-view-and-bedford
No damage to the house, but Internet is still down, and power is still spotty, with full restoration not expected until the 14th.
Close call, then?
About two blocks away. Yesterday even cell coverage was spotty I joked when the warning first came in, as the skies looked fine. Within 10 minutes things had changed, and I was in the basement.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
A quick scan of the headlines tells me the mainstream press is working just as hard to tell us Walz was an excellent pick as they are at calling Vance a terrible mistake.
Case in point: MSNBC “Who thought this was a good idea?’: Vance tries to confront Harris at Wisconsin airport”
How dare you try to circumvent our gaslighting! Also, he knew she wouldn’t emerge or be near, it was just a press-bomb if you will. She doesn’t want to step up to all the press waiting? Fine, I will. So ya, it was a good idea you hacks.
“Confront”. Anyone who saw any of the clip knows this just a lie. It was good-humored, a little smack-talk.
And the predictable response just shows the press up as hysterical ninnies.
What really makes the press look like a pack of sissies is that they didn’t even ask Vance any questions!
You’d think that some of the old hard boiled journalos like Menken would have salivated at the chance to start asking Vance all sorts of questions if he voluntarily showed up.
Nope. They just pretty much sat there and said nothing.
Nope. They just pretty much sat there and said nothing.
That was the sub-routine that was uploaded to the press. Set up cameras, microphones, and stand there. The programmer didn’t account for a rouge actor to infiltrate the program.
They are trying to call what he did stalking. Which makes Michael Moore (folk hero(tm)) a stalker.
The enemies of the people didn’t ask questions because they knew they were fucked if they did.
All Vance would need to do is to offer to answer the questions they want to ask Kamala. All he would need to do is to poll the enemies of the people for questions they were hoping to ask Kamala. A softball answer, and he’d laugh in their faces. A hardball question could be career ending.
This particular batch of the enemies of the people well know that their masters consider them easily expendable and replaceable. So they kept their whore mouths shut and hoped that their silence would minimize their embarrassment while avoiding any positive action that could cause them to be thrown away.
What is it Michael Malice says about journalists, or more accurately to journalists?
Something like ‘You have no idea how much normal people hate and despise you’? Something like that.
I like to refer to them as mercenaries, but whatever.
If they weren’t stupid, they’d see how terribly this will backfire. Now that expectations for Vance are so low, it’ll be a big surprise when the smashes Walz in a debate and comes across as the ‘normal’ one.
I wonder if the Harris team knew how thin skinned Walz can be. He’s used to coasting along with no pushback at all here in Minnesoda from the press. The few times there has been any pushback, he’s gotten very prickly.
I’m guessing that he’s gonna have a melt down one of these days. Probably over his National Guard record. I just can’t see him being able to lay off any criticism.
Your holiness, I am gonna admit something here I probably shouldn’t but Walz gives me a serious pedo vibe. Don’t know why, but he smacks of it. Is this something others have brought up in your native state of Minnessoda?
Alex, the only way I think Walz would ever be accused of being a pedo is if they suddenly became a powerful voting bloc.
I don’t think Walz has any belief at all other than climbing the greasy pole and grasping the brass ring for himself. He’ll change positions on anything if it gets him more power.
Alex – got that vibe too. Then they talked up his time as a coach and I realized he reminds me of Dennis Hastert.
Sandusky…
RACISS!
I think Walz is the first governor ever to get protested at Governor’s Fishing Opener. The Governor’s Fishing Opener is sort of a big deal in Minnesoda. The Gov shows up somewhere with a bunch of sycophants and journalos and they fish for walleyes on opening weekend. Gives the yokels a thrill.*
In 2021, Walz was supposed to go to Otter Tail for the Governor’s Opener. Otter Tail is both a county and the county seat just south of where I grew up. They have always been a troublesome lot down there. That year, the locals tried to disinvite Tim and when that failed decided to protest.
It takes a lot to get fishing dragged into politics.
The best part? King Walz bravely ran away early to avoid the optics of being protested at the Fishing Opener.
It’s gotta be unnerving when you’re trying to fish for walleyes, but the locals want your head on a pike.
Oh, I forgot to follow up on the asterisk in my first post.
The year they had it in my hometown, my father got roped into guiding some of the luminaries. He got two journalos in his boat. He said that it got off to a rocky start because they thought he was an Indian (Dad was very dark skinned and if he had shaved his goatee would easily pass on the rez) and weren’t sure if it would be a hate crime to drink in front of him. They finally asked him if he minded if they put Bailey’s in their coffee. Dad told them to go ahead but he’d pass because he liked brandy in his.
After that they had a good time. Dad said that they had some really good hooch that they had bought on the company expense and were pretty free with sharing. They also got him into some of the hospitality suites where he got to drink even better hooch.
The only downside was having to watch the two journalos try to fish. He would just roll his eyes when he’d tell the story. The journalos were thrilled though because they actually caught a couple fish. They said it was the first time that they had done so in all their years “covering” the Governor’s Fishing Opener.
That’s a delicate perch for sure.
I’m not going to let you guys get me down. I’m going to keep my sunny disposition and keep breaming with optimism.
It’s no use. We’ll always find something to carp about.
He was probably worried he’d get his bass kicked.
CBS News with the FACTz
I was trying to explain this law to my wife and her sister. Mrs. Holiness kept saying “I don’t think that is really a law”. Not because she is a fan of Walz, but just because she doesn’t think that there really is a law that crazy. So I sent her this story which is supportive of the law and then had to spend another hour trying to explain to her and her sister what it all meant.
The trans twist to that bill is causing people to gloss over the fact that once again the govt is providing what the parents should be providing. First it was lunches, now it is tampons for “period poverty”. What next? Free lube and kleenex for students who masturbate 24/7 (aka boys)?
The phrase “Not all students who menstruate are female” was especially hard to explain to older Asian gals.
One out of every 10 menstruating youth miss school during their menstruating cycle due to lack of access to menstrual products and resources
The side that understands women knows they’ll be fine if they can just lay down a pad.
It’s really sad that this country has so many tampon deserts.
It’s a lot to absorb.
Are there tampon dispensers next to the squat toilets?
“the advocacy group Alliance for Period Supplies”
OFFS!
They really should have gone with Alliance for Period Emergency Supplies.
That way they could have t-shirts with “APES Demand Tampons!”
Outrage
Before it was removed, comments under Mr Musk’s post compared the UK to a fascist state.
It comes as the UK government is grappling with how to deal with misinformation online in the face of unrest across England and in Northern Ireland.
The government and Ofcom both say social media companies should act over their role in the crisis, and the media regulator will get enhanced powers under the Online Safety Act by 2025 to take firmer action against such posts.
Musk retweets fake story, then takes it down when he finds out it’s fake.
British government combats accusations of fascist tendencies by threatening to shut down unauthorized news sources.
“A huge crowd of anti-racism protesters in Walthamstow last night – far outnumbering the hateful thugs who planned to protest outside an immigration centre”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13721193/Social-media-companies-Ofcom-remove-online-violence-hate-fuel-UK-riots.html
totally not biased
Yeah. The British government is arresting English whites for mean tweets while Muslims roam the streets with clubs unbothered by the police.
“the UK government is grappling with how to deal with misinformation online in the face of unrest across England”
A nice summary of government in 2024. “Normal” people are protesting, and instead of that being a red flag indicating there are issues that need to be addressed, the focus is on censoring the people calling attention to those issues.
In today’s absolute proof that Biden is an unperson, NPR fact-checked him in re: “bloodbath.”
There is no need to protect him anymore.
Speaking of which, are we celebrating this historic event that happened some 18 years ago here?
All of his records, tapes, and CD’s only way less than a ton? I thought he went platinum?
Nation of laws
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s surprise decision to throw out a plea deal with accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his co-defendants has left their case at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in disarray, with the defense, prosecution and judge all uncertain about when and how it would move forward.
A court session on Wednesday was the first since the Pentagon released notice of Austin’s decision late Friday. The plea agreement, which would have spared the defendants the risk of the death penalty, generated strong feelings among both opponents and supporters of the deal, including the families of Sept. 11 victims. It drew intense criticism of the Biden administration from senior Republican lawmakers.
The disruption caused by the unexpected override of the plea deal was just the latest to hit the special U.S. military-run commissions and their more than decadelong effort to bring the men accused of killing nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, to trial.
I have absolutely no idea what the real story is, here. I thought they were already in permanent extralegal imprisonment, but this is just one more example of the Biden regime throwing a big autocratic fuck you to established legal processes.
“A crocodile expert and former BBC zoologist who filmed himself raping and torturing dogs has been jailed for more than 10 years in Australia for what a judge condemned as ‘inconceivable depravity’.
Adam Robert Corden Britton was sentenced in Darwin Supreme Court on Thursday having pleaded guilty to 56 offences related to the torture and sexual exploitation of more than 42 dogs on his rural property.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13722449/adam-britton-raping-torturing-dogs-jailed.html
WTF?
Someone will come along and tell you you shouldn’t judge this guy….
What color goes on The Flag for canine-attracted persons?
Next in the queue to normalize after pedophilia?
canine-attracted persons
Why are you throwing shade at chicks who dig Pie and his buddies?
That guy is supposed to be an expert? On what?
Sounds like a croc of shit to me.
Surprised he didn’t claim the bitch set him up.
Even if he’s acquitted, this scandal will dog him for the rest of his life.
Who among us hasn’t raped 42 dogs?
haha. holy shit.
“Bitch set me up!”
Walter Ruiz, an attorney for 9/11 defendant Mustafa al Hawsawi, said Austin’s order suggested “unlawful interference at the highest levels of government.”
More broadly, Ruiz said, it raised questions “whether we can ethically continue to engage” in the Pentagon-run military commission in the face of an action “that goes right at the heart of the integrity of the system itself.”
Military prosecutors also appeared taken by surprise by Austin’s intervention. Lead prosecutor Clay Trivett raised the prospect of having to freeze other litigation in the case as they try to learn what led to his decision and work through the legal issues it raises.
“We do not have our position fully articulated and coordinated throughout the U.S. government on this,” Trivett told the court. “It shouldn’t be expected only a couple of days after the fact.”
You silly man. The law is what the President and his designated representatives say it is.
This was basically an inevitability when we blurred the distinction between terrorism-related crimes and war time military justice, unfortunately. The whole reason for the plea deals was to get it resolved without anybody noticing that we can’t take these cases to civilian court due to the way evidence was handled and the manner by which they were apprehended. But the 9/11 families weren’t psyched about a no death penalty deal. Which is ironic, since excepting the express lane execution of McVeigh, we actually warehouse most of the terrorist bombers and mass murderers we apprehend until their natural deaths.
“Elizabeth Armstrong, a former director of the museum, also bashed the statue as “a monument to misogyny,” saying it encouraged the practice of “up-skirting” — or taking photos up women’s dresses.
“At a time when sexual violence is on the rise, and women continue to be demonized around the globe, this piece is throwback, a relic of sexist, patriarchal attitudes,” she said in 2021.”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/sexist-marilyn-monroe-statue-in-palm-springs-gets-moved/
CWAC
I am gonna bet if we see a pic of Elizabeth Armstrong, she is fugly as can be.
I’m sure sexual violence is “on the rise” because of PG-13 statues and not because of the influx of millions of unvetted gang members pouring over the border, or prosecutors not going after criminals.
Ya’ll missed that some blue-noses were offended too?
Non-Walz, Minnesoda News. Free association is now dead. Well, I’m guessing that this person wouldn’t have dared sue the local Muslim schools, so they still have free association.
The contract was over, but I guess now you must renew it or be sued for being a bigot.
Unless Ds pack the court, SCOTUS will side with the school like they did in the past.
If you were to show this (very important) thread to the leftists in your life, what would they say? What excuses would they make?
https://x.com/0rf/status/1821277903818256780
I’m thinking of one in particular on my hockey team. I’m guessing he’s typical. He has no problem with anything the Dems to to hold on to power. He once told me he subscribes to Guns & Ammo just so researchers think he’s Republican, and that will somehow skew polls and such. This is the same person who also argued we shouldn’t have voter ID, all ballots should be mail-in, and there should be no deadline to accept ballots even if they are received after election day.
Sounds like he was playing without a helmet.
I’d be curious what justification he would come up with for those people. Especially the part about “true misinformation”. WTF kind of Orwellian doublespeak is that?
Whenever there is a political conversation, he likes to butt in and spout off talking points you’d hear on NPR. I too am curious about what he’d say, but not curious enough to subject myself or innocent bystanders to that conversation.
On election fortification
Remember, the courts just ruled that Arizona cannot require proof of citizenship to register to vote
Also, motor voter laws mean that illegals who are given drivers licenses by law are probably being registered to vote automatically.
Minnesoda just passed “Driver’s Licenses for All” and swears that they won’t auto-register people getting licenses unless they provide a birth certificate or passport when getting their license. Sure. I’m going to be so shocked when it turns out that some “bug” caused them to register everyone.
Of course, you don’t have to provide any proof you are a citizen if you show up at the polling place. Just bring in a utility bill to prove you live at an address in the precinct and “swear and attest” that you are a citizen and you can vote same day. Of course, if you lie, you are in BIG trouble, so don’t worry about it.
A senior defense official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss administration thinking, said news of the plea deal came as a surprise to Austin and other officials, despite the long and publicly reported negotiations that led to it.
Asked whether political pressure and election-year considerations influenced the reversal, the official said, “That had nothing to do with the decision that the secretary made.”
Austin has more important things to worry about.
The defense of Walz is using the label “Swiftboating”.
Scott Adams put me on to the idea that these labels work on normies. Trump does it a lot.
The idea is to encapsulate the issue as what you want it to be. Swiftboating will get the initiated to immediately dismiss the issue without any examination at all.
I recall then swiftboating Trump as well for using bone spurs to avoid service.
But this is way worse because Walz actually pretended to be heroic. That’s the part no one can stomach.
Still this will blow over in a week.
Also, and I can’t stress this enough, I suspect vp is not that big a deal.
I will be interested in next week’s polls though to test this theory.
The attempted assassination of Trump has already disappeared.
The command and control at the top over the entire mass communication infrastructure is amazing.
They all not only cover or censor the same stories, they also use the same word, simultaneously.
“Weird” is the latest example.
Is “weird” working or do they just keep telling us it is working?
Because how could it be working? It’s seems very dumb. q
Edit buttons should be a human right.
I agree that VPs ultimately don’t matter, but seems that is where the political battle is raging at the moment with both Kamala and Trump sorta sitting back.
Which is fine, but now he can’t do much bragging about his national guard time.
If we were still a country where we decided how to vote based on policy positions, it wouldn’t matter at all.
hahaha.
policy positions
you kill me sir
‘Stolen Valor’ is an equally good one.
Symbology
On August 6, VP Kamala Harris posted a video asking Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to join the ticket as her vice presidential nominee. He gleefully accepted from his living room, where he was sitting on a wicker chair wearing a black t-shirt, khakis, bright white sneakers, and a camo hat. He was projecting, wittingly or not, those same everyday-person values the Republican Party has desperately tried to claim. Except he is different. He is a champion for so many issues that the party rails against – LGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, gun reform (though he says he’s a proud gun owner), and more.
Within minutes, social media picked up on the outfit, comparing the hat to the one singer Chappell Roan sells with her merch and calling them both our countries’ Midwest princesses. The campaign quickly launched a version of it on its official merch site, which they say is union-made in the United States—an important note when labor rights and climate change are at the top of the Democratic policy list. The campaign confirmed to Teen Vogue that 3,000 hats were made and sold out in 30 minutes and as of publication, nearly $1 million worth of hats have been purchased. The camo hat now has a meaning beyond what it ever did before.
Did I read that correctly? Tim Walz is a midwest princess?
At least he wasn’t wearing a pussy hat.
It’s hilariously emblematic of the “very online” Millennial takeover of the Democratic party machine that they think “ambiguously gay milquetoast midwest grandpa LARPing in a camo hat” is the way to the heart of those backward, blue collar bumpkins. “Look! He totally looks like the kind of guy your bigoted uncle would go drink Bud Light with on a fishing trip, doesn’t he?” It’s like watching some sadsack white guy try to ingratiate himself to his black friends based on Sanford and Son episodes he watched on TV Land.
ambiguously gay milquetoast midwest grandpa LARPing in a camo hat
I like it, but might have to shorten it to ambiguously gay grandpa LARPing in a camo hat.
The online strategy of the Harris campaign seems to be to create momentum by proclaiming momentum. They are trumpeting each poll, saying that it is over.
They are also trying to demoralize with fake accounts starting conversations.
I saw a flood of posts last night “Trump isn’t trying! He has given up! He isn’t campaigning!” Another big one is “I have not seen any TV ads!! Harris is everywhere. She is winning!”
Again, with the Adams style persuasion.
“Famous for being famous.”
Hah! I remember 1964 where many Goldwater supporters were absolutely devastated by the final result, thinking “how could any patriotic American fail to vote for such a wonderful and inspiring guy?” Right up until election day, many were convinced he’d beat the shyster LBJ.
It weirdly seems to be working but I am hoping the polls start slipping.
Still, the biggest key for her is her opponent is Trump. He is widely hated so people are looking for an optimistic alternative.
Keeping in mind the polling is being conducted largely by the marketing wing of the same party. It’s like the Pepsi Challenge proving the superiority of Pepsi.
They’re in a honeymoon period, and we’ll see how long it lasts. But I still think people’s lived experience (high prices, immigrants in tents taking over cities, crime) will be the deciding factor. It’s why more minorities are moving toward Trump. If the Harris campaign can keep quite, people might continue wishful thinking about their stances on those issues. But once they open their mouths I think those polls go the other way.
The party is over dumping Biden and not having to deal with his literal shit. This also helped to steal the shine off of Trump. I would think only a matter of time when they have to seriously confront that they picked her.
As an aside, hot political opinion:
Not allowing your candidate to speak to the media is actually BRILLIANT. It worked 4 years ago for Biden to defeat Trump too.
It’s a keen awareness that the more politicians run their stupid mouths, the less people want to vote for them. It’s cynical but damn is it smart.
*steal the shine off of Trump surviving a bullet to the head
I agree with the pickle, the basement strategy is smart. Keep the candidate a blank slate, let the MSM handle propaganda, and let voters project their own expectations. Many people voted for Biden because he seemed like a moderate Democrat, and nothing he did countered that.
Clothes horse
Walz channels a similar power. At a Harris rally held just a few days after Walz popularized the now viral “weird” charge against Republicans during a Morning Joe interview last month, the governor showed up in a pair of Carhartt work pants, rugged work shoes and a camouflage cap decorated with the U.S. Special Forces crest (“De Oppresso Liber,” or “To Free the Oppressed”). While touring Dutch Creek Farms in Northfield, Minnesota, with President Joe Biden, he wore a tan canvas, corduroy-collared LL Bean barn coat with blue jeans and a ball cap that read “Minnesota Grown.” At Democratic Party retreats, he sports quarter-neck zip fleeces under what appears to be a buffalo-plaid Filson Mackinaw Cruiser, a classic among Midwestern hunters and outdoorsmen. When the Harris campaign rolled out a video shortly after the VP announcement — showing Harris and Walz engaged in an obviously orchestrated phone call — Harris was shown wearing a navy suit while Walz was dressed in a black t-shirt, tan chinos, camo cap and white sneakers. The choice to put Walz in casual wear, and introduce woodsman camo campaign merch shortly after the announcement, suggests the Harris team is keenly aware of how clothing impacts the governor’s blue-collar brand.
You must vote for him. He’s a man’s man. Only soft and sensitive.
Huh. I didn’t know there was an ANG SOG. TIL.
A Maine brand in Duluth Trading country??? Ignorant reporter, ignorant pol, or both?
And Filson, a Seattle company.
The annoying thing about buying an off the market gun is the lack of holsters and magazines. Oddly enough, Mec-Gar claims to not make magazines for the CZ97 anymore, but supposedly the Tanfoglio clone uses identical magazines which ARE available form Mec-Gar. I wonder why their website would say otherwise. Is it just that they won’t engrave the magazines with “CZ 97,” or is the intercompatibility a myth? I’ll find out soon enough I guess. Fortunately the Tanfo ones are cheap. As far as holsters, if I shoot this in Limited, I can get away with using a (supposedly universal) race holster from Guga Ribas (my favorite Star Wars character!) that I picked up for a song some years back.
The annoying thing about buying a gun for cheap is it makes all the ancillary expenses seem greater. A case of .45 is more expensive than the gun itself, and sending this off to CGW for tuning is just right out.
Are you kidding me? The less I spend on the firearm, the more I can justify the add-ons. An expensive piece shouldn’t need upgrades, it should be good out of the box. That $79 Mosin? Yeah, I can drop another $75 on the gunsmithing to clean up the action, etc etc
I bought a used M9 for $400. I put in $115 from a LTT “trigger job in a bag.” Ta Da! $500 race gun!
I buy a used CZ97 for $400. I send it off to CGW for $500 of work. Why didn’t I just buy a new Canik for that $900?
Because it’s not the same thing, and it’d need $1,100 in gunsmithing.
Actual answer – “because”
More rodeo clown antics
A BBC Olympics commentator was corrected by his co-host live on air this morning after failing to use the preferred pronouns for U.S. shot putter Raven Saunders.
Steve Backley, a former Team GB javelin thrower, repeatedly described Saunders as “her” during coverage of Thursday’s women’s shot put qualifying in the Stade de France, Paris.
Saunders, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Games, identifies as non-binary and uses the they/them pronouns. Backley’s co-host Jazmin Sawyers pointed this out during the output.
Sawyers replied: “Well we can’t see them very well. Raven Saunders actually non-binary and wearing the mask there, we’re quite used to seeing them with interesting atire.”
Saunders, who qualified for the Olympic final, has described the mask as being part of their Incredible Hulk alter-ego after they suffered mental health issues.
What is it? Who gives a shit?
JFC. I gave up my blankie when I was, like, 8.
“identifies as non-binary”
Odd, no one did until ten years ago.
The reply to that shoudl be “I hope she gets the mental health aid she needs then.”
On the control the narrative front….
Harris supposedly raised $200 million in a week or two. Mostly from new and small donors.
There have been several accusations that these donations are fake.
O’Keefe has documented several instances of fraudulent donations listed by Act Blue.
You would think this is a slam dunk.
But…
Crowder documented quite a few Arizona voters who listed nonexistent addresses. At least one was documented to reside elsewhere (permanently).
They would not even take the complaint.
Nothing ever happened, as far as I know.
This is another way of fortifying
The money is not fake, but it’s probably being laundered through thousands of people to get around the donation restrictions. That part is definitely true.
Yet another credible political story only being reported by right wing press.
Yeah, that’s the reporting. O’Keefe tracked down a bunch of donors who supposedly donated dozens of times to the tune of hundreds of thousands. When he asked them, they said they made like 1 donation for $25 or something.
He ran several of these down.
They were extremely easy to spot. Simply loading the donor list into a database and cross matching to a demographics database does the trick. Someone in a low rent apartment donating $40k in 37 installments raises a flag.
Yet somehow our regulators either don’t do this or don’t do anything when they see it.
Just have the FEC send a yearly statement listing all contributions made in your name as a receipt, to start. Wouldn’t be that hard. SSA does it.
I went through my own travails with ActBlue where they had me donating the maximum to a Obama campaign effort attached to Da Nang Dick Blumenthal more than a decade ago. Someone let me know they saw I had made a political donation. Since I had not made any political donations, and had I, it would never be to that scumbag, I checked and found it was true. I went to the authorities and talked to several agencies in Ct that all gave me the runaround. In the end nobody cared about finding out WTF it was, and ActBlue at some point simply removed the entry from their public list. By then I am sure it was too late.
When you see things like that, it really makes everything suspect.
Like, if the officials who enforce election rules are actually there to keep anyone from questioning elections at all… thereby maintaining a facade of integrity and accountability……
“Streamer with Nearly 30 Million Total Followers Melts Down After Getting Harassed by Kamala Harris’ Campaign and Secret Service for Livestream Collaboration: ‘I Don’t Know Anything About Politics… I Don’t Give a F—K’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/streamer-nearly-30-million-total-followers-melts-down/
“Another Popular Streamer Calls Out Kamala Harris: Demands She and Her ‘Secret Service’ Stop Calling Him and His Team for a Livestream Collaboration”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/another-popular-streamer-calls-kamala-harris-demands-she/
LOL
Did you know that if you make 3 positive posts about Harris on social media and have a decent sized network of friends, the Harris campaign will give you a check for $250?
Damn these people are loaded.
And how much were they deliberately tanking Biden before?
That is another story being skipped. How different would the world be if we had a real 4th estate?
Is “weird” working or do they just keep telling us it is working?
Basket of weirdos are DEVASTATED by the revelatory truth.
I miss he days when Presidential elections were just faint background noise.
Another oddity from the press: over the last week there has been a lot of reporting about what the Trump campaign thinks.
They are worried about the JD Vance pick.
They are happy that Shapiro didn’t get picked.
These are reporters for CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC….
Who in the world works for Trump and leaks to MSNBC??
Spies. Secret Spies have infiltrated the Trump campaign to save democracy.
Just like the two unnamed sources talking about a private conversation between Walz and Kamala. Two sources….yeah….
Like, an email from the campaign chair saying “could you say this, attribute to ‘unnamed sources’?”
Yeah. Or Kamala and Walz gave it directly. Except I’m not sure her people would trust her in a controlled non attributable spot like that either. On the other hand, she must be speaking to the press being flown around with her on AF2, right? Otherwise that would be…weird.
I’m sure they have a rule that everything is off the record. And they keep it to social chit chat. She laughs. They pretend it was funny.. have another drink….
On Walz being a “hard sell”….
Having frequented the area over the last 20 years, the left wing democrat who hunts, fishes and owns a garage full of outdoor toys like snowmobile, 4 wheelers, etc. is familiar.
It was jarring at first though. In my youth in the south there were yellow dog democrats who inherited the party. They were usually fairly socially conservative, but democrats anyway. I know a lot of Black dudes in the same boat – fairly far right conservatives, but vote democrat.
But the norther Midwest is different. It must be the Scandinavian cultural heritage. They are much more collectivist and leftist than one would expect. I even see people mad at Republicans for blocking “common sense gun control” on “weapons of war” who own AR-15 rifles. The mind boggles.
But this exists.
I have an in-law who is an old military veteran. Owns land just for hunting on it. Fairly racist in his personal views, at least superficially. Curmudgeonly. Hates Republicans. Hates Trump. Votes democrat. Uses lots of motivated reasoning.
Robert La Follette was from WI. He would have been a D in a different age.
“Fairly racist in his personal views, at least superficially.”
This brought Pater Dean and his cronies to mind. Oh, how they love to say racist things.* And then they turn around and deliver meals in the poor black neighborhood, give scholarships to up and coming Latino kids, will tell you that this or that Latino or black guy is the best employee they ever had, etc.
*Oddly, only amongst themselves. Why, its almost like they’re just trying to top each other.
On Shapiro not getting the nod as Veep, there is noise that he was involved in the cover up of a possible murder.
It was originally ruled a suicide. By getting stabbed like 30 times or something.
In the back of the neck and head… and chest.
There are actually some pretty compelling sources saying that Shapiro is the one who said ‘no’ to Kamala after their meeting on Sunday. He was apparently their first pick.
He is the obvious choice. Delivering Pennsylvania is a huge key.
I dunno about Shapiro turning it down. I think they may just be a cover story to (a) preserve his viability next time and (b) keep their Riot-American supporters somewhat in line.
Because he sure acted like he wanted it. He went way out of his way to try to deJew himself and disavow previous activities and positions.
Learned about it from Nancy Rommelman
https://x.com/NancyRomm/status/1820858886858912177?s=19