Sloopy and Banjos asked for the morning off. Don’t fucking ask me what they’re doing, they’re into deisel generators and Crocs. Its some sort of social signal even I am unfamiliar with.
He’s already in Mexico, unless he’s a fucking retard. Let’s be real hes probably a fucking retard
The Indian guy was always a real cock tease, but that’s why people love him.
Its hair splitting bullshit like this that makes people hate libertarians. Hey dumbass, the political class in every communist country gets rich. They’re perfectly fine with the Kommie Kumala.
They promised someone bigger than Hulk Hogan. Unless they meant Big Mike, and were speaking literally…by the by, Kumala definitely showed her Indian side, IYKWIMAITYD.
I want the homosexual econ man to live in the present day. Itmwould really help us all out.
He discovered a glitch in the matrix. Nobody can community note you and call you a fucking liar if you manually turn off replies.
Hey girlfriend, want to go out again?
Hey limp dick. You last check didn’t clear.
Next time I will pay with a credit card?
You know I I don’t do WEF approved payments.
Alex Springer?
I am NOT Winston’s dad!
AlexinCT:
In case you were unaware.
I was aware of the reference, I just wanted to make sure everyone knew I was not Winston’s dad.
Next time I will pay with a credit card?
: Alex
That costs extra (NSFW)
Dare I say the statement answers itself?
Morning, Winston’s Mom… thanks for enacting your labor.
Stop flirting with my girl!
As I tell my wife — being polite isn’t flirting.
Well, crap.
Dude… if you’re disappointed that I’m married, I’m sure Tonio could work with you for someone a thousand times better than me.
I have no interest in you.
I’m just disappointed that none of those waitresses were flirting with me.
A great way to get them to start flirting is to ask them what they are wearing on their feet in a husky voice…
I’m just disappointed that none of those waitresses were flirting with me.
No they were. They want a better tip.
Yup. Flirting waitresses = buskers.
I was hoping that would open up interesting dialogue, but then I started to get called racist.
They don’t want a dialogue. They want submission. Have you not learned that by now?
The left can’t win arguments with facts and logic, because they have neither on their side and have lost even the basics of doing that, so they revert to the tactic they hid behind now for more than 5 decades. Unfortunately said tactic no longer works with most people that have realized it is a grift.
wolf!
“They don’t want a dialogue. They want submission. ”
That sums it up nicely. This is why every veteran that has engaged with them will tell you there is only one way to deal with them.
That’s how you know they weren’t true communists… maaaaan!
Under socialism the ruling class is the only one that lives large & in charge – i.e. they have all the wealth that is left – while the people get ground into more and more misery. In the name of social justice.
The dnc has been a parade of woke rich assholes talking about the injustices of America. Think about that. Big Mike and Oprah still act as if they are living in the hood because of the man. And Barack, Bill, Hillary, and Nancy want you to believe this dumb drunk hag the Bidens straddled the criminal gangs with, after these assholes torpedoed Biden’s campaign because to them winning at any cost is more important than that democracy they keep talking about, won’t be a continuation of the Obama legacy of wrecking America as the real objective of the fundamental change they promised.
I’m not sure Biden was axed because he’s a loser, either the fraud machine would be less believable or opportunists saw an opening to get rid of him and his faction.
The more I think about it, the worse it gets. The last president was lied to and ignored by the people supposedly reporting to and accountable to him. The current president was sidelined and put out to pasture with no protest. If drunk cat lady wins, it will be a completely empty figurehead next.
I don’t see any problem with Literally Hitler calling her a communist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me neither. Close enough for government work.
And Mom is right – the kind of autistic “well, ackchually”ing that some libertarians are prone to doesn’t win friends and influence enemies. Being the biggest pedant in the room isn’t really something to strive for.
But it’s all I’ve got.
😥
And Mom is right – the kind of autistic “well, ackchually”ing that some libertarians are prone to doesn’t win friends and influence enemies. Being the biggest pedant in the room isn’t really something to strive for.
I attended a panel discussion at Liberty Forum which included Travis Corcoran.
He said on talking to voters, “You have to talk about things normies care about in terms they care about. Jobs, money in their pocket, and education. It’s not the libertarian debating society, and if you treat it like it is, you’ll lose every time.”
“He’s already in Mexico, unless he’s a fucking retard. Let’s be real hes probably a fucking retard”
Team blue is already back calling Trump an existential threat to avoid saying that their policy will be doubling down on the stupid and evil of the last 4 years with more gusto while wrecking life for anyone not in government. Trump’s assassination attempt was memory holed by them in less than a month.
I am still sticking to them sabotaging his plane or ground vehicle in a way that they claim it was an accident.
I believe his plane is a Boeing…. they’ve already laid the groundwork.
Good job, you just got another whistleblower offed.
Has Elon made Twitter’s bug reporting system public? If not — he should… though he’d have to hire a team just to separate the wheat from the trolling chaff I expect. But that sort of feedback and general responsiveness to such a customer focused business (because like any social media, if the next Hot New Thing comes along or you piss off users enough, they’ll leave and your momentum dries up immediately) seems pretty vital.
And being able to block something as recently popular as Community Notes with their high profile reading and response by Musk seems like a bug they’d want to fix.
And of course — Krugman is a moron. But you knew that.
Nobody has laws against prize gauging. They have laws directed at limiting prices during a serious emergency/catastrophe. Those laws have limits in duration AND scope. I personally do not like them, because they discourage individuals from rendering help and getting paid.
Also, Krugman thinks people are dumb enough to think that because some states allowed such laws, idiots can be convinced that means you should let government do price controls at their whim to hide the fact it is the government’s money printing and spending itself that is responsible for the economic calamity.
BTW for those of you with language degrees and sticks up your asses, my use of “gauging” is an ironic call back to the inept fucks in government using it first.
Nobody around these parts would ever be pedantic and nitpicky about grammar.
Never happens.
Is the stick being used to gauge someone’s anal diameter?
Diameter
http://www.nixsun.com/photo2/photo2/20161104/20161104191539536.jpg
You didn’t mean shooting things with a 12 gauge?
(My link is perfectly SFW)
because some states allowed such laws
Well, yes. States have jurisdiction in some areas the federal government doesn’t.
The voices in your head are also morons.
Actually they hope voters are dumb enough to not see through the mountain of lies and bullshit.
We didn’t get a music liink — so, obligatory.
No Beyonce from you either?
AIEEEE!
Goods and services just spring from the earth, fully formed.
Slavery and telling the entire economy what to do and how to do it is just the things we do together!
Socialism is an economic system where private property has been abolished as it relates to the production of goods and services – so the USSR was real socialism
The party of batshit crazy cat ladies and girly men!
Is there some chemical in your water out there in Minessoda that makes so many of you all squishes like Tampon Tim?
The Twin City metro area is a whole different level of incontinence. The rest of the state is guns and ICEs
That is my impression. So, it’s just the city water.
*We have a few of them around here too…Baton Rouge is rotten with them. New Orleans? I keep praying for another Katrina…
Still, Louisiana is a solid Trump state. Remember when we had a horrible flood in Lafayette? Trump showed up down there passing out blankets, water and toys for children. Hillary went to SF to a gold plated fun raiser with the billionaires.
Testosterone levels and sperm counts have been declining for years, so it’s not a bad strategy.
Pretty much what is going on….
I thought I heard last night that they caught the guy?
Racist = not a pinko. The divisions sewn among the populace aren’t about any of the professed reasons. It is about ideology and money.
“Kamala is not a radical communist…”
Yes she is. You can shut up now.
And the big surprise was….? Ah….so just like everything else about them.
Someone posted the other day an interview with some govt. bigwig in the financial sector trying to explain inflation and he was completely clueless about fundamentals of economics. I dont remember who because it was no surprise and I just shook my head in resignation.
She has called not only for price controls but nationalization of major industries. She was quite emphatic about it. Yes, she is a fucking radical communist.
Take them at their word…..
He’s clean and articulate so there’s that.
I wrote my comment below before I saw this. Well, there ya’ go.
“We will keep sacrificing until all of us are dead”
Your terms are acceptable.
Hey dumbass, the political class in every
communistcountry gets rich.“If you’re gonna play the game, boy, You gotta learn to play it right”
Kenny
It’s the Law, after all.
Regarding discussions of the nature of marxism keep in mind that the perfect embodiment of pure marxism in the world today is Hamas. They are hardcore marxists. The result is the leadership living like kings while the people sweat and bleed in the dirt. All hope in the populace has been crushed. They celebrate and engage in death, depravity and destruction. Their culture is the embodiment of evil.
This is why every country in the region that has taken them in has expelled them. None of them want to have anything to do with them.
I don’t think Hamas needs to be compared to Karl Johnny come lately Marx. Islam created places like that from the word Mo.
If you realize that marxism was just another feudal system, codified by a bunch of life losers that envied others more successful than them and hated society for not noticing these life losers “brilliance”, promising equality and delivering the easiest for of equality – misery – you would never think it was anything good. Our education system however was taken over by these marxists, that then went to groom 2 generations of life losers that ended up taking over government, the fake news system, and the legal system, allowing them to basically program everyone to be idiots. It’s truly the devil’s work and a cult of evil.
leaders are working hard for the people they deserve some luxury
To the leaders according to their needs, from their subjects according to their abilities.
SarumanTheGreat:
Welcome to the site. Hope you’re finding the comments appropriately terrifying/entertaining.
Team blue voters?
Yes…clapping seals.
Thank you. Certainly entertaining and informative (why I joined after lurking for months). And no, not at all terrifying. I guess that comes from hanging around Uruks too much.
What Is Really Going on at Federal Agencies?”
Elon is just josning for Trump to set him loose on the federal bureaucracies. It would be glorious .
The twitter treatment wound not be so bad for some bureaucracies
Today I learned a new word
straphanger: a standing passenger in a bus or train.
I don’t think you need a special word for that
The connotation is lower-middle/working class urbanite.
I think of that as a very New York City word – I don’t hear it much outside of that context.
well I did not know that heard it and googled the meaning
I learned that when I was a kid, 70-80 years ago. Riding a crowded streetcar, my mother holding on to the strap hanging from the roof, me holding onto my mother. As the street car went towards the edges of Mpls the crowd thinned and we got to sit down. We were straphangers before straphanging was cool.
I’m sorry to say, Straphanging was never cool.
I thought that was primarily a NYC term (maybe all large urban areas). I know it’s not commonly used locally.
It is mainly NYC because no other American city has very many people standing.
straphanger: a standing passenger in a bus or train.
That is not what that means, dear.
You wrecking David Carradine?
—“straphanger”—
Something something Winston’s Mom something something straphanger.
Ron Bennington used the term all the time.
See also: bridge & tunnel
An additional use for this term in the U.S. Army is to describe an individual who is not scheduled to participate in a training parachute jump but is trying to do so on a space-available basis. This is done by individuals trying to qualify for various schools (e.g. jumpmaster) and the like. The term is also extended to mean trying to catch a military aircraft generally on an ad hoc basis.
What is a woman? Australian court rules in landmark case
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07ev1v7r4po
A transgender woman from Australia has won a discrimination case against a women-only social media app, after she was denied access on the basis of being male.
The Federal Court found that although Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against, she was a victim of indirect discrimination – which refers to when a decision disadvantages a person with a particular attribute – and ordered the app to pay her A$10,000 ($6,700; £5,100) plus costs.
It’s a landmark ruling when it comes to gender identity, and at the very heart of the case was the ever more contentious question: what is a woman?
In 2021, Tickle downloaded “Giggle for Girls”, an app marketed as an online refuge where women could share their experiences in a safe space, and where men were not allowed.
In order to gain access, she had to upload a selfie to prove she was a woman, which was assessed by gender recognition software designed to screen out men.
However, seven months later – after successfully joining the platform – her membership was revoked.
As someone who identifies as a woman, Tickle claimed she was legally entitled to use services meant for women, and that she was discriminated against based on her gender identity.
She sued the social media platform, as well as its CEO Sall Grover, and sought damages amounting to A$200,000, claiming that “persistent misgendering” by Grover had prompted “constant anxiety and occasional suicidal thoughts”.
Stop calling him ‘she’.
Mentally ill nut job allowed to harass women.
Well, it takes a man to show women how to women right, according to all this stuff going on..
Somehow I doubt that BBC comes to the obvious conclusion that the word is now meaningless.
In local news, the US government approved the sale of 180 million dollars worth of AIM-120 AMRAAM misles to Romania.
$180 million? So… two?
well based on wiki they are a mill a pop so 180? 150?
Maybe you qualified for a bulk discount and got an even two hundred?
How about a dozen 12 packs. You buy them by the gross!
Romania is a metric country, they’d want them by the Groß
I was curious and wondered where it came from. Google says old French.
One. You didn’t account for all the graft and kick-backs.
SLD: State-funded media delenda est;
https://nypost.com/2024/08/21/media/pbs-judy-woodruff-apologizes-for-falsely-reporting-trump-tried-to-talk-israel-out-of-cease-fire-deal/
I see the real issue is they are underfunded and need a few more billion
German blackbirds imitate the sound of electric scooters
In the northern German city of Kiel, blackbirds have been observed imitating the alarm sound of electric scooters. A researcher says that this unusual side-effect of electric micromobility is also likely to spread to other cities as the sound seems to be advantageous for blackbirds finding mates.
https://www.electrive.com/2024/06/24/german-blackbirds-imitate-the-sound-of-electric-scooters/
Big tits always on topic for Winston’s Mom.
https://archive.is/r2kbw
Friday Funbags.
Adjacent headlines:
🤔
Irish Patriots seems to be dealing with the elite plans to replace them much better than the UK or U.S.
They just burn down every hotel and immigrant center that gets started. No protests, no mean tweets, no arrests.
*takes notes*
The Irish do have a lot more practice than most at objecting to being colonized.
Yes.
https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/are-the-democrats-a-communist-party
Next question?
meh I doubt they are all communists there is probably spectrum there.
Thery have all types: Trotskyites, Leninists, Stalinists and Hoxhaists!
wait what kind of Trotskyites? do they believe the Soviet Union under Stalin was state capitalist or denatured socialist?
Whatever flavor of Total State authoritarianism you want, they got.
Yeah, one of the bad things about Burning Man is JI isn’t here to tell us which of those are real Marxists.
Listening to the Dearborn/Hamas wing of the party they have a few socialists of the national variety as well.
wait what kind of Trotskyites?
Probably not the kind that could be “Firefly”-era Christina Hendricks’ body double.
In fairness to King Walz, he’s not the worst pol in the state
Why is that dude called Amy?
Tim Walz and his wife claim that their son has a non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD and an anxiety disorder.
“Non-verbal learning disorder” seems to be a medical term they now give to children who aren’t good at school.
These people go along with every trend, including the over medicalization of children. No one can have a kid who is not very bright or can’t sit still, they have a “non-verbal learning disorder” or ADHD. And of course he has anxiety, his parents told him he had two other disorders!
Good insight into how leftists today end up with so many forms of mental illness.
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1826473050117996851
this sort of reminded me of the old George Carlin bit about no one is stupid anymore everyone has a learning disability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EXlSTVyJ4o
1:25 minute mark ish
TIL: Cows love donuts.
https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1826648315435647337
if you should not feed ducks bread, you should not feed cows donuts
I’m not really worried about a cow’s long-term health, nor degrading their ability to survive in the wild.
You jelly?
Naw, he always has that Glazed look.
That’s really sugar coating it
Holy Moly! Swiss is gonna get you guys.
Feeding cows stale bread is fairly common.
Is that what that dude that go gored in Thailand was doing?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I will admit when I’m wrong, and I have had to do that more than a few times lately. I thought for sure Taylor Swift would appear at the DNC, but those of you who said she’s a smart business woman and she knows better, well, you were right. Last night’s hours of “special guest” hype that turned out to be nothing was interesting.
Eh, Don Lemon was reporting that it was going to be GWB.
I did not see any news from the DNC yesterday. Was there any special guest that showed up?
You’re using “special” in its euphemism sense, right?
Nope. A lil ploy to get the non-politicos to tune in apparently.
I think Gwar would have been more likely than GWB.
We were talking about this a week or two ago, regarding TS appearing at campaign events. It could still be that she makes an appearance at a rally, but after last night it looks like that won’t happen.
You’ve got a wife. You’re used to admitting you’re wrong.
Especially when you are not…
This guy gets it. After 25 years of training, it was not at all difficult to type that admission.
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
And a not insignificant number of business owners both private and public are cheering this on. Because FedGov won’t be coming for them, just the other guy.
Price-Gouging Crusade Electrifies Democratic Rank and File
Democratic convention delegates are unified in blaming corporate greed for high prices
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/price-gouging-crusade-electrifies-democratic-rank-and-file-01255bfd?st=g82dov83g9do98x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Stuff nobody who has ever worked in the private sector would believe.
Nope. There are a lot of people stuck in dead-end jobs who just know all the bosses they’ve ever had were out to oppress them.
And they’d brag about the malingering ways they got back at the boss at boss by stealing the company’s time.
Said people also never wanted to admit it was their own fuck-ups that led to them being in a dead-end job.
What?
Because FedGov won’t be coming for them, just the other
guyteam.That makes perfect sense. It’s not that the political class have spent so much that we’re adding $1 trillion to the debt every 100 day, no sir, it’s those greedy corporations ruining everything. Meanwhile, the staff is in the back room writing the next omnibus bill.
Odd how the corporations didn’t get so greedy until after Biden was in office.
I mused about this the other day. Harris has been very careful to not really talk about climate change and seems others are noticing as well.
I don’t think that means she or her handlers/advisors/puppet masters/whatevers aren’t salivating at the opportunity to push the agenda even more. My guess, since she is a focus group candidate, its something she wants to stay far away from…for now.
Pushing that agenda when gas prices are still quite high would be a bit silly.
Did the conventioneers give a shout out to their comrades to the north and wish them joy in shutting down the railroads? You’d think this might be a BFD what withe people pretending to care about supply chains and all.
I’d like to make this kind of cash for less than two years of work:
Spanos came to Delta in 2023 with no aviation experience. When hired, Bastian said that Spanos would align Delta’s operations, customer experience and technology teams to “deliver an unsurpassed product and service” for customers and employees.
A Marine veteran, Spanos had been CEO of amusement-park chain Six Flags for two years until his departure in 2021 and had held leadership roles at PepsiCo. Spanos made $8.6 million in total compensation in 2023, Delta said in a securities filing
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/delta-operations-chief-to-depart-for-new-job-8840ff53?st=akrsxo0q3gc63xl&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
For OMWC.
https://www.psypost.org/democrats-rarely-have-republicans-as-romantic-partners-and-vice-versa-study-finds/
if i was a man u would have to waterboard this information out of me
https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1826746486606168558
Commercial Ray of Sunshine
Wonderful. What a wholesome commercial.
We just ordered some of that for our pup. Any of y’all feed it to your doggie?
I wouldn’t subject a dog to my care.
Ours is on Wellness and is doing fine, but I’d consider one of those fresh ones if she ever starts having issues
The tag line is perfect. The amount of money I’d pay now for a few more years with my old mutt is high indeed.
Allergy Warning:
The first Altar Boy had just begun hunting and my mutt was past his prime. Still death on wheels, but his stamina was nowhere what it was.
My dad, myself and the Altar Boy decided to walk one more tree row before calling it a trip in western NoDak and heading home. Not even a whiff of a bird and we were all trudging back to the car. The Altar Boy saw a cattail swamp a 150 yards away or so and decided he and the mutt would check it out. Dad and I looked at each other and said “sure” but we had no real expectation that anything would happen.
Watching my mutt trot over there with my kid was bittersweet. His hips were hurting bad and I knew this was the last trip he’d probably take. The dog got a whiff of something and dove into the slough. The kid followed behind him and after about 10 minutes of them thrashing around a big cock pheasant busted out and my kid nailed him with one shot. The mutt trotted over and picked him up and returned him to the kid and they came back totally puffed up.*
One of the best times in my life. What a way for a dog to go out.
*Giving the pheasant up to the kid was important because usually my mutt would dodge other hunting partners to bring the bird back to me. Wanted to get full credit I guess. Sometimes he would bring it back to my dad too. But bringing it to the kid was the cherry on top.
Nice story!
Wow, what a perfect story.
And yes, I would pay a lot for more time.
Great story Jimbo…almost Where the Red Fern Grows perfect.
Stupid allergies.
*changes sign on wall back to 0 days since last allergy attack*
To all: I’m sorry my mood and tone have been rather, uh, depressive and nonsensical. I fear it spurred many “oh, this fuck!” emotional responses to my off-puttingbself. Correctly so, I gather.
Certainly a funsy article should be written by this one. I can’t think of many travel ones that I haven’t done / wouldn’t be depressing (Cambodia comes to mind). I’m also concerned about the pics and internal memories I have. Hrm.
Thinking my character will bring ’em together: I put my phlebotomical medical dive in the same upper strata of ‘Korea,’ the Peru Tribune, and ‘recovery from The Incident’– times I just bounded out and started something new. I’m an odd one. I’m thinking a pretty tell-tale version of how I ‘decided’ to go medical. A write-up of folk-sellin’ plasma is a feel-good story just by itself. I can’t believe I fucking ‘lucked’ into something that morally suits me to perfection. (Internal Narrator of Sense: It wasn’t luck.) <– I find it hard to believe I have a deep understanding of 'sense' inside me. "I just dooo things…"
I would be curious, and onward, upward! A curious flight, this one. I rather enjoy how I "tend" to not-often-strolled 'lil alleys.
When my wife asks me why I need thermal goggles I send her this:
https://x.com/GigaBasedDad/status/1826695716237869486
“The cat loaves are almost done!”
Apropos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkuw7vdi-VA
Few people are aware that there are two viable hypotheses for the origins of the AIDS pandemic in humans.
The bushmeat hypothesis. In the early 20th century, a person in central Africa caught the virus from a chimpanzee bite, or from chimpanzee meat consumption. The virus spread in humans unnoticed for some decades, and eventually gave rise to the AIDS pandemic. This is the mainstream, accepted hypothesis.
The oral polio vaccine (opv) hypothesis. In 1957-1960 there was a trial of an experimental polio vaccine in Belgian Congo, administered to nearly a million people. This vaccine used kidney cells from chimpanzees, some of which were infected with a virus closely related to HIV. As a result, the virus crossed over to humans through the vaccine, kicking off the AIDS pandemic.
https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1826621529771135211
My conspiracy buddy was talking about the 2nd one yesterday.
“My conspiracy buddy”
Is that like a Canadian girlfriend?
More akin to a drug buddy, I suspect.
I prefer the old one where people fucked monkeys or vice versa.
Then that guy had sex with some Canada Air flight attendant who banged a bunch of guys in every city?
Party time!
A joyous message of fear and division
— Kamala Harris summoned Americans on Thursday to reject political division and instead chart what she called a “new way forward,” as she accepted her party’s nomination while blending biography with warnings about electing Donald Trump again to the White House.
Taking the stage to a thunderous standing ovation as she closed out the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the vice president argued that her personal story and background as a prosecutor made her uniquely qualified to protect Americans’ interests against a former president she cast as only having his own interests in mind.
“Our nation with this election has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past,” Harris said. “A chance to chart a new way forward. Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans.”
Not Democrats. Not Republicans. Americans. Americans, who fear and despise Donald Trump and all those who do not fear and despise him. Americans who patriotically want to stamp out dissent and doubt. Americans who want “opportunity” to mean government control.
unserious people making for serious times
are we living through late stage rule by rube?
I believe so, Bad Kitty. I believe so.
I never saw that clip…my God…
Also the ABC clip with Secretary Raimondo…I cannot believe (well I can) that they chyron they displayed for her was that she was just a former governor and not the sitting Secretary of Commerce. It was a purposeful lie and Raimondo thought she was going to just bash Trump until her programming didn’t allow for a thrown exception.
Only thing I can think of is all the actors under Biden are looking to play dump and going to basically say “Oops, we didn’t know”.
Holy moly – so incompetent that dumb mainstream reporters are calling them out. The Secretary of Commerce is unfamiliar with Department of Labor data.
How far in the future was Idiocracy? Mike Judge was optimistic.
Be careful, I say. We live in an age where so much criminal and evil shit done by these people is overlooked or waved off, as soon as they claim the root cause is/was incompetence. DEI is being pushed because DEI basically makes it impossible for anyone to ever be held accountable (unless they are a white, straight, guy). One of the most damaging modern corporate practices that I have seen is this “no blame” shit everybody adopted in the last decade.
The Secretary of Commerce is unfamiliar with Department of Labor data.
If our enemies were smarter, I’d think it was an elaborate scheme to play gotcha. The Bureau of Labor that released the jobs numbers is under the Department of Labor. Julie Su is the Acting Secretary of Labor. Labor and Commerce are different Cabinet departments. So not Raimondo’s bailiwick.
On other hand, I guess she has important girlboss stuff to do so can’t be bothered to learn about stuff in adjacent but separate Cabinet departments.
on the other hand, the people chosen to run such things are getting ever more stupid, incompetent, and uncomprehending. – but more evil and power hungry so it works out
Kamala Harris wants you to know she has spent her entire working life using the power of the state against those she disapproves of. Won’t you help her to continue her noble crusade?
I tell everyone of these tools, that the only way I would be for rules on misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech, is if I, and only I, get to define what is what. Same when it comes to government confiscation of wealth for whatever reason. I get to pick who gets robbed, and then i get to pick who gets whatever I don’t keep for myself.
They hate it when you put this shit in that perspective.
“Under capitalism the masses do not really participate in governing the country… even in the most democratic regime, the governments are not set up by the people but by the Rothschilds and Stinneses, the Rockefellers and the Morgans.”
— Stalin (1924)
https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1826720545523831294
I mean not 100% wrong
Under socialism the masses participate only in staged parades and other mandatory state defined functions, or else.
Which cuisine do Europeans think is the WORST?
French people say… 🇬🇧: 25%
Swedes say… 🇬🇧: 24%
Germans say… 🇬🇧: 19%
Spaniards say… 🇬🇧: 19%
Italians say… 🇺🇸: 20%
Britons say… 🇺🇸: 17%
Danes say… 🇺🇸: 15%
https://x.com/YouGov/status/1826547834474095005
How cute.
How many have actually visited these other places and had the cuisine?
Right? I’ve been lucky to travel a lot and I’ve had terrific meals everywhere.
Even in Scotland.
everyone know American food is bad we don;t even need to try it. Also most people had McDonald’s at least once.
McDonalds sucks, but McDonalds in Europe sucks even worse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/McDonaldsEmployees/comments/137gool/in_romania_they_just_added_2_new_burgers_to_the/
Huh.
Cascaval pane was one of my favourite things to ear when i was 10
Eat stupid phone
Meh, each have their highlights and lowlights.
You know… considering what Europeans think American food is. I can believe it.
Of course, considering half of European cuisine is based on foods from the Americas…
I was thinking that. What are they considering American food? We have at minimum, 50 different cuisine from each state, then additional regional cuisines, cuisines within those regional cuisines. So what are they really thinking…my guess “Fast Food”
Where would Southern Europe be without the tomato? Where would Northern Europe be without the potato?
I’m wondering what these people ate in the middle ages.
Each other?
Turnip, Wheat, Barley, Carrot, Onion, Cabbage, etc
Political cartoons are extremely hard to do well and most are terrible. Matt is the exception
https://x.com/edwest/status/1826587571885125735
Surprising news
Meanwhile, there are still potential hurdles for the Kennedy and Trump campaigns as they weigh a potential deal. One source close to Kennedy, who has been briefed on the deliberations, said the third-party candidate’s stipulations could pose a problem for Trump’s team.
“Bobby wants to bring people with him onto the Trump campaign, and this might be a deal-breaker,” the source said.
Kennedy, 70, is also getting considerable pushback from the closest and most important member of his inner circle — his wife, actor Cheryl Hines — who “really does not want him” to back Trump, the source said.
Her friends will never speak to her again. She’ll be a pariah among the Right People.
Shanahan was on with Adam Corolla last night, and she kind of walked back the deal thing. However, she basically came out and admitted she now sees the democrat party as a cabal of evil power hungry criminals hell bent on keeping the failing systems they have created to loot the American people, and believes they need to be wrecked.
That was a good interview. She’s got a pretty good head on her shoulders. From what I saw, skipped around a bit, she didn’t so much walk back the deal talk as say it was RFK’s decision and the announcement such as it is will be done by him.
So what struck me was that she now realized the democrats are a crime syndicate, that the media is in the bag for democrats, that the current marxist plans from the dnc are going to destroy our society, and that team blue has lost its mind and is all about feels and not about systems that work. In general she realized our government is now evil, but she simply couldn’t take the next step and shake off her belief that government should help people fix problems instead of staying out of their way.
So many people have been brainwashed to believe that government bureaucracies by nature will solve problems, when it is the very problems that keep them employed, and in fact will seek to find, and when they don’t find, will make them up, more of those. Instead of wanting small, limited, and monitored government, they want to abdicate personal responsibility to an uncaring machine. And these people think they are better because they care than those that say “That is not government’s job”.
If one of the angles of attack is that Biden-Harris weaponized FedGov, then this would be another good pickup, along with Tulsi. Independents that are following Kennedy might be on the fence with that notion but highlighting that Trump and anyone in his orbit, Tulsi being hounded by TSA/DHS/USMS and then Kennedy which saw a complete lock out of Democracy(tm) by his own party…
Could be a good thing to just overlook the demands if they are just minor details.
That train has sailed.
“Terrifying ‘sloth fever’ is detected in US vacation hotspot for first time as experts warn: ‘We should all be worried'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13772961/sloth-fever-Florida-Cuba-South-America-Brazil-mosquito.html
No.
No reason to fret, it spreads slowly.
I hear one of the symptoms is randomly shouting “Hey you guys”
Depends on whether it’s the two-toed or three-toed variety. If the former, veeerrrrryyy slowly.
The only fever I’m worried about is Pac Man Fever, it’s driving me crazy.
I’ve Got A Fever And The Only Prescription Is More Cowbell
Fever
fever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBANWpzsHts
Also fever…to go with kinnath
This is scarier.
Props for combining awful clickbait titles.
16 Movies That Destroyed Actors’ Careers: No One Can Argue With No. 12
5 ways to avoid click bait . . . you won’t believe #3.
The “you won’t believe” is widely used, I don’t recall reading the “no one can argue” bit.
I find it amazing that cliched clickbait constructions are still worth it.
“you won’t believe”
“will change your life”
“no one can argue”
“can’t unsee it”
I may have seen a few more phrases too
“Dance Moms fans outraged by ‘disturbing’ JonBenet Ramsey-inspired routine after victim was sensationalized by gruesome murder”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13771007/dance-moms-outrage-murder-JonBenet-Ramsey-inspired-routine.html
How about not sexualizing little girls in the first place?
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Romanian farmers worried for soil as drought devastates land
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/08/19/romanian-farmers-worried-for-soil-as-drought-devastates-land
Been the worst summer in memory for me. Took a car trip to the seaside and the corn and sunflower crops were burned to a crisp by heat and drought
We got all your rain this year…
So were all the vampires.
Aren’t the wealthiest counties in the US around DC? It’s a little rich (pun intended) for the Dems to go around bashing the wealthy when they are the party of DC.
The party of the people is run by rich people that exploit the masses.
The party of women’s rights is run by serial sex abusers.
and so on . . . .
Hypocrisy is the whole point. How hypocritical they can be and get away with it is their mark of social status.. Think of AOC’s gala dress.
Panem…
The top two are, and there are more DC area counties on the list, but there are counties far outside of DC that make the list.
Most of the counties on that list (maybe all) outside of DC also skew heavily Dem.
At one point this week they literally had Bernie bashing billionaires, and the next speaker was Pritzker who bragged about being a billionaire.
That allowed them to give the warm fuzzies to the envy and jealousy loser crowd which always gets an orgasm when they hear others being fleeced, followed by giving the insanely rich they claim they want to target a wink and nod that they will only do that to their political enemies.
Back to work
The Canadian government stepped in to end a shutdown of the nation’s two major freight railroads less than 17 hours after it started, ordering binding arbitration to end the labor dispute that threatened severe disruptions in both the US and Canadian economies.
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The move is a victory for CN and CPKC, which had been seeking government intervention. They said they had been forced to shut down their networks, despite the disruption it would cause, because there was no way to reach a deal with the Teamsters union.
But the government’s intervention is a setback for the union, which had argued the best and fairest way to settle the labor dispute was to have the two sides reach an agreement at the bargaining table. They blamed greed by railroads negotiators and management demands that the union argues would hurt rail safety and the quality of life of its employees, a charge the railroads deny.
Robber barons 1, noble workers 0
Up the bosses, yay! Can’t have them goddamn greedy workers cut into their dividends!
Its some sort of social signal even I am unfamiliar with.
That’s an impressive level of debauchery.
One can’t help but think this is what happens when party insiders install someone who got zero votes as their presidential candidate–voters would have helped sort out these serious and debilitating political weaknesses on display from Harris tonight.
He almost finds a nut here.
The average voter is what matters, and the average voter won’t see or know these things, and most importantly won’t care.
Final note: this column is dedicated to Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpentheBooks, who has died at the age of 55.
Oh no. That’s sad. I read his substack occasionally. None of it was surprising but I liked seeing someone do that work.
“Supreme Court allows Arizona to require proof of citizenship when voters register with state forms, but not if they register using federal forms”
https://thepostmillennial.com/supreme-court-allows-arizona-to-require-proof-of-citizenship-when-voters-register-with-state-forms-but-not-if-they-register-using-federal-forms
WTF?
That’s a quality board of directors. There is no way a CEO should be able to wire the amounts mentioned here unchecked.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/ex-bank-ceo-gets-24-years-after-falling-for-crypto-scam-causing-bank-collapse/
Doing doughnuts in the battleship
“We’re quite convinced that the highest adoption rates for electric vehicles will be in the affordable segment on the lower size-end of the range,” he told CNBC on Thursday. “We have to play there in order to compete with the entrants that are coming.”
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And the midsize pickup is scheduled to be the first vehicle from a specialized “skunkworks” team in California, The company had tasked the team two years ago with developing a new small EV platform.
“We believe smaller, more affordable vehicles are the way to go for EV in volume. Why? Because the math is completely different than [internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles],” Farley told investors last month. “In ICE, a business we’ve been in for 120 years, the bigger the vehicle, the higher the margin. But it’s exactly the opposite for EVs.”
Farley has said the weight and cost of battery packs needed for large vehicles such as a three-row SUV, which many families buy for road trips, towing and hauling, are a limitation for EVs due to current ranges and charging networks.
No kidding. There are still three billion lines of code.
I just ditched the loaner EV. Hello Tiguan.
My short experience with one has not changed my mind. Nope. Never. Couldn’t give me one for free.
I like the Tiggy. Nice little car.
Congrats!
I just ditched the loaner EV.
Good.
My short experience with one has not changed my mind. Nope. Never. Couldn’t give me one for free.
But what about all that torque? That quieter-than-a-Rolls-Royce ride?
Power was OK, but range anxiety (and reality) kept me from romping on it. *shrug*