Good morning one and all to another wonderous day!
U.S. borrowing tops $1.9 trillion so far this year
Biden-Harris Official Admits They Blocked Potential Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal
Judge Tosses Two Counts Against Trump In Fani Willis’ Indictment
Election Officials Warn Problems With U.S. Mail Could Cause 2024 Voting Disruptions
Trump pledges to eliminate taxes on overtime
Congress: FBI Slow Rolling Information About Would-Be Trump Assassin
Trump–Harris Debate Attracts More Than 67 Million TV Viewers, Most Watched Debate in 16 Years
NYC council passes slavery reparations legislation to ‘yield material solutions’ from US history
Moment freight train smashes into stranded 18-wheeler carrying howitzer
That’s all I for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Seeing rumblings about an ABC whistleblower regarding debate. Supposedly a signed affidavit will be released today (or this weekend*) alleging things like questions were dished to the Harris campaign, promises of fact-checking, etc. I won’t hold my breath that it is true nor will it even matter. Though given how independents have broken towards Trump post debate, just might solidify talking points on just how fake her campaign really is.
*kinda why I think it’s just smoke with no fire…you got the goods, give it up. Of course, setting up legal protection could be why its taking a weekend to produce the allegations.
I saw at least one headline that one of the moderators was a member of the same sorority as Harris!
Come on people… that was all information that could have been researched (or honestly… guessed at) before the debate.
Were they at the same school at the same time? If not, being a member of the same sorority is pretty meaningless.
R C Dean:
Exactly. To me that reads like they went to the same tailor, frequented the same bar, or were both were in a scouting organization. There’s plenty of real things to complain about, going after the superficial and petty things just looks dumb.
The head of ABC news is a very good friend of Kamala. There are pictures of them together. It would be shocking if she didn’t at least provide a list of topics they would cover.
The sorority thing is a canard, but Donna Brazille, who fed HRC questions in 2016, works for ABC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Kappa_Alpha
Obnoxious on my campus, back in t’olden days. Many license-plate frames.
Skull and Bones, RC. SKULL. And. BONES.
The part that makes me question it is the second part of the claim that they would only fact check Trump. That feels too on the nose. There’s no need to promise that when they would have done it regardless.
I can see the Harris campaign demanding this explicitly: “Either you agree to do this, or she’s out.”
*If it’s true* Having been notified that they would not fact check her freed her up to lie without having to think twice about it. It also set her up for her statement very early on when she “warned” us that we would hear a lot of lies from Trump. She knew Miur would go out of his way to call out Trump, and just let her spew the Good People on Both Sides lie and so many others.
Too on the nose, but then the “very fine people” hoax came up and went through with no check. I don’t know how much more on the nose you can get.
Look, these people are desperate and evil. I do not need any definitive proof after watching the 3 on 1 rigged shitshow they called a debate to know they rigged it. I do not know if people caught on, but Trump was brutally attacked in questions while Harris got real softballs she then answered with what seems clearly prepared word salads, only to then stumble on the follow ups. That shows me she had the questions & answers, so she prepped for those. We saw her do her usual stupid when it was not prepped.
And do not forget that ABC is a Disney owned entity. Assume any and all evil from them for that reason.
The good thing is that independents saw through the shit show and realized while the cabal of crooks says Harris won, that she didn’t tell them anything to assure them she had any plans to change the disaster going on for the last 4 years.
Everything on TV has a significant amount of dishonesty about it.
I was think just this last night; the reason she was so smug was that she knew the whole shebang (heh) was BS, and that she wasn’t going to get hit with any left handed punches.
The grimaces made her look weak in my opinion.
Then it was up to Trump to throw the “left handed punches” and he largely failed to do so until his summation (what have you done about this for 3 1/2 years?)
U.S. borrowing tops $1.9 trillion so far this year
The usual question applies.
Can we top $2T by then end of the month?
It’s like you don’t even know me
Yes Pie. You can have your $1,000,000,000.
What is the email of the relevant government department where I should send my account number?
real_nigerian_prince@aol.com
MONEY GROWS ON TREES!
Or maybe, just maybe, the fucking crooked marxists unelected and unaccountable cabal and their political cronies intend to loot the sinking America they have created for us for all it is worth before they let it go down with the rest of us on it.
Yes. They are parasites feeding on the carcass.
Biden-Harris Official Admits They Blocked Potential Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal
Peace, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, uhh
Peace, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y’all
Peace, huh (good God)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me, oh
It doesn’t matter how many thousands must die to keep the grift going.
And they’re being insanely reckless about they possibility of billions dying.
It seems one of the two relevant Rules of Acquisition is being ignored.
At this point they feel their reset is DOA and that the whole thing is going to unwind. In the process they will lose control of things. So maybe nuclear war seems like an equal risk to what thy have made inevitable already?
I don’t know what’s inevitable, but a good guide is the exact opposite of whatever Peter Zeihan says is inevitable.
Depopulation is another goal of a lot of the globalist grifters, so it’s a win/win.
What’s much better for the Ukraine is a million casualties and half their territory lost. Thanks Vicki.
The bad news: You lost a lot of territory.
The good news: Since you also lost a lot of people there’s no overcrowding in what is left.
And now whoever is pretending to be the president has approved more long distance strikes into Russia. Which require satellite targeting. Ukraine doesn’t have the capability, so NATO will have to do it.
Should we have a pool for which NATO targets get hit first?
WWIII is gonna be lit
They are not studying this just for kicks, it seems….
I expected that to be a bit more dramatic.
*shrug*
I think it was the nuclear energy episode of Bullshit, but they showed the train collision tests for the nuclear waste storage canisters. No where near the level of excitement you would expect.
I the last part of his career, my father designed nuclear waste containment vessels for rail transport. He would take scale models to Los Alamos and shoot them on rocket sleds at concrete walls, to see how they deformed and if they leaked. He brought home a couple samples, basically slightly rumpled lead cylinders cased in steel.
Judge Tosses Two Counts Against Trump In Fani Willis’ Indictment
fanny means different things in English and American. But that is, off course, besides the point;
Death by a thousand cuts…
Travesty of justice this whole lawfare shit. Especially since team red refuses to accept the only way this stops is if they return the favor on steroids.
Problem with that is that Team Red refuses to do the basic leg work; vote in every single election for the team member. Far too many conservatives are too busy saying that it just doesn’t matter, or being offended by the mere presence of the particular person. The want to wear purity rings more than move the overton window.
The best time to start a counter march through the institutions was 40 years ago. The second best time is now.
“The best time to start a counter march through the institutions was 40 years ago. The second best time is now.”
Damn straight zwaky.
Election Officials Warn Problems With U.S. Mail Could Cause 2024 Voting Disruptions
Isn’t it just easier to count the votes people should send not the ones they actually send? Saves time and paper.
I feel like there is an easy solution to this problem. It’s on the tip of my tongue….
SAY IT! SAY IT!!!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090685/mediaviewer/rm1624506880
“We’re working on that!”
-Dominion
There was a stupid short story by Asimov where the super AI they had would ask questions of one voter and from that deduce what all the people wanted and chose a candidate. Asimov had some decent stuff but lots of stupid.
—“the super AI they had would ask questions of one voter and from that deduce what all the people wanted and chose a candidate”—
Didn’t Klaus Schwab say not too long ago that in his world, AI would analyze the data and decide who should lead, so there would be no need for elections?
“But since the next step could be to go into prescriptive mode, which means you do not even have to have elections anymore because you can already predict what, predict, and afterwards you can say, ‘Why do we need the elections?’ Because we know what the result will be. Can you imagine such a world?”
Quote from Schwab at WEF. AP fact checked is as “shows Schwab discussing a hypothetical future scenario, not endorsing it”. What would be the point (from the WEF point of view) of discussing a hypothetical scenario other that floating a balloon and see the reaction.
His name is Dr. Klaus Von Evil. Yeah, the ‘chip in everyone’s head to monitor their thoughts’, ‘you will own nothing and be happy’ guy.
https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2012107/634.bondvillian.ls.11712.jpg
Congress: FBI Slow Rolling Information About Would-Be Trump Assassin
In poker slow rolling is seen as rather poor taste. I assume in days of yore, when men were tough, one could get shot for that sort of thing. These days you just get a lot of side eye. The point remains, though.
They are using incompetence to hide criminality. It’s worked for these people for at least a decade.
Coming clean would destroy so many of the shibboleths the marxist left has foisted on us in the name of social justice, so no way we get any accountability or information without forcing it through pain.
Ugh… of course it is Nuland. 100 years from now, I expect books will be written about her usurping US foreign policy and fucking us all right up the ass — shades of fucking von Holstein. Both think they are the Expert and they should set the policy.
Morning, Banjos — I know your animation clips on the main page are meant to be cheery… but today’s just screamed “ONE OF US! ONE OF US!!!!” to me for some reason. Creepy.
One of us!
Except the guy in front. He goes against the crowd.
Nuland is the fact of evil. With her in the Biden admin, it’s not at all surprising that they are now embracing Cheney.
If only we had experience with a system where mail in ballots were only for a good absentee reason, most people went to well monitored polling places, their eligibility was validated and their ballot on a paper record which could be audited.
If only….
Translation – stand-by for some vote rigging.
This is called “priming” they warn you about it ahead of time so you’re not surprised or upset when it happens. There will be irregularities, ballots will come in late, we won’t have a final count for days, Republicans will be spreading disinformation about cheating, etc.
*Pay no attention to that tractor trailer full of pre-printed ballots that shows up a day after the election*
It will hinge on the postmarks which are controlled by USPS employees whose union just endorsed Harris.
Really leaning into that ’90s Democrat vibe and pandering like hell there, OMB…. Tips (being gifts and rather fuzzy when it comes to being “regular income”) are one thing — this is clearly just a subset of wages. And encouraging more people to work overtime? (And can’t help but wonder if this applies to public sector employees who game overtime to yoink up their salaries massively shortly before retirement so their pensions are astronomical… we’re going to not tax them either?)
In general…. I’d rather see nailing down the existing cuts, fostering business — and fuck you, cut spending dammit. See the ludicrous borrowing figure as we’re probably at least 200 feet off of the cliff already.
I would say it’s a blatant grab to try to shore up the blue collar voters. Most white collar voters that I know are salaried and overtime exempt.
In civilized Europe we don’t have overtime. Also 40 days of holiday and free everything. HA
Gee… that would only be like the 4000th FedGov agency that flipped the finger to Congress since “the hard drives were wiped” days and whatnot, right?
Massie at least gets it. Find your balls, Congress — use the only power you have because they sure as shit don’t respect your strongly worded letters.
Of course — that assumes they actually give a shit instead of dancing their little sidewalk monkey dance to the IC’s hurdy gurdy so they can keep fundraising and their cocktail parties while the real work of the country gets done in the bowels of the Executive Branch somewhere.
Now I’m just in a damned mood, apparently…
Translation: “I am a racist grifter.”
Where do I subscribe to your news letter?
“material solutions to address these foundational cracks”
There it is. The adoption of the word salad as a rhetorical template has begun. Cackling sure to follow.
$1.9 Trillion so far this year. Probably a $3 Trillion annual deficit if Congress could be bothered to do a budget. Mike Johnson won’t even do a CR past 6 months because it would trigger the dreaded 1% spending cut.
How much are we spending on immigration? Something above $3,000 a month each for illegal. I’d do the math but I just ate breakfast.
Your stupid Oregon rye whisky sucks. goddamn Americans cheating us Europeans of our not so hard worked money.
We’re not sending you our best.
point is fuck james oliver
PieInTheSky:
I’ll leave that for one of the SMITHs.
Why would you think Oregon is a good place for whisky?
That’s on you.
Well Portland, I understand, has the best food in America so I would think they have good whisky as well.
You understand wrong.
Never been to Portland, OR and I’ve never heard that.
Oregon, Washington, and California have good wine and okay hipster beer.
*record scratch*
Portland has the best food in America? Sounds like Russian disinformation to me…
I have eaten in over forty states of the union by now. Oregon did not stand out either good or bad.
Tennessee or Kentucky. I’m not saying other places can’t do it well, but these places consistently do it well.
I thought MGP is where its at which is in Indiana
If you are drinking Whiskey from anywhere other than Kentucky or Ireland, you are doing it wrong.
Well, unless you like the rancid gasoline that they call (spits) Scotch?
The proggie froggies want the USA to die
Yup.
Chinese Mountain Cat with two kittens
Sanjiangyuan region
https://x.com/VagrantTravels/status/1834437213192683723
Watch out for Haitian migrants.
No love for Chinese restaurants either, right?
Once on a hockey trip we ate at a Chinese restaurant that was next door to a dog groomer. People kept walking up the parking lot with their dogs, and we heard barking through the wall. It was funny as hell.
Goddamn… I saw that pic of Vicky, and all I could think of was this clip.
This is what she always makes me think of….
“Dem Sen. Blumenthal says Americans will be ‘shocked’ and ‘appalled’ by Trump assassination attempt report”
No. 3 will shock me, huh?
#7 will make your jaw drop!
#9 solves ED
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
I was today years old when I found out during a castle tour that the boiling oil castle defense is a complete myth, because oil was too expensive. What they used was BOILING CAULDRONS OF DIARRHEA.
Wtf, if they told me that in history class maybe I would’ve paid more attention
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/1834338023364067559
They didn’t catapult corpses over the walls just for kicks either…
“And kids — that’s why our history classes are now flaming shit shows!”
In the desert they used cauldrons of sand heated up to red hot. Cheap and effective.
OT. Was there a note a while back about a decision to strip/block this site from search engines/crawlers/etc? Just wondering, because I’m having issues trying to find some of my articles via google or DDG searches for obvious key words (including the site address). Just to check for future reference. Thanks.
I thought it was now open to crawlers.
I did not sleep well, almost vomitted in the middle of the night, but today I get out of this godforsaken stench-filled pit in the sky.
If Purgatory is Salt Lake, Hell is Yellowstone..
So you are in high spirits today
Have a national park try to kill you through oxygen deprivation, see how cheerful you are.
ucs is the Cheetos bandit.
Come on. Yellowstone lake is only around 7700 feet. That Park is not high altitude.
The new lad was watching over my shoulder, now he’s run away to join the Kitteh Defense Force.
More people tune into the debate between tits and ass than all presidential debates combined!
https://archive.is/f82bC
Friday Funbags.
NB: I hope to see MS using #1 in the Martes Enlaces soon.
Seconded
‘We thus have 50 millennia during which two Neanderthal populations, living about ten days’ walk from each other, coexisted while completely ignoring each other.’
https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1833927859615760858
Imma call bullshit on that.
I call bullshit! I watched “Clan of the Cave Bear” & “caveman”, and there was a lot of ZAK-ZAK!
“the United States blocked the deal, claiming it was unfair to Ukraine[…]This was later confirmed by Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this year”
Hold on a minute, I was told by our ever-trustworthy corporate media that that interview was 100% Russian propaganda doled out to the hordes or Trumptard useful idiots for the sake of destroying Our Democracy™!
Well, well, well….
Stone Age Herbalist
@Paracelsus1092
Nietzsche was once put on an all-meat diet for his health, and he continued experimenting with food to find what gave him the greatest feeling of energy and health. One such diet was meat, egg yolks, rice, rhubarb, tea, cognac and grog.
The Chinese thought that banning rhubarb exports to the UK during the First Opium War would bring them to their knees from constipation: https://
https://x.com/Iamj4ke/status/1834366650377814482
Food weirdness is nothing new. We have always longed for the magic elixir.
so you are saying you hate steak eggs and rice? I did not expect that of you.
1.9 T? 19T? 190T? What difference does it make?
War with Russia has been the desire of the Dems since Obama. Remember Hillary stroking her war boner in the 2016 campaign?
How much money have they laundered through that war so far? Of course they are going to squash any peace deal.
If Trump ends up elected these banana republic monkeys are fucked. What does that mean if their cheating and sock puppet candidate fails?
Election issues? Ya’ dont say.
Taxes on overtime and tips…a political move but a decent start.
When Laura came through here the winds turned our bayou over. Tens and tens of thousands of fish died. After about 3 days the expansive rafts of dead fish began to smell a bit. Ok, more than a bit. It was near unbearable if the smell wafted in your direction. That stunk almost as bad as the Trump assassination attempt investigation…no the whole thing from start to finish reeks like hell.
Me? Appalled but not shocked.
Most watched but least significant debate in 16 years.
Reparations? *facepalm*
In the end the only people who will get paid will be the activists agitating for it and the pols who vote for it. It is just another scam to steal taxpayer money.
That’s not a Howitzer.
Looks like a Paladin SP howitzer, not an M1.
It is a Paladin.
I think the DOJ has to institute even more draconian measures and threats against anyone that would dare point out the election system is designed to allow cheating to solve ,a href=”https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/cnn-poll-confidence-election-process-trump/index.html” target=”_new”>this dilemma the left dislikes…
link fail.
CNN has an orgasm.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/trump-no-debate-rematch-analysis
We’ve found Trump’s Achilles Heel! He’s on the ropes! He’s a coward!
If he was in serious trouble, he’d have no choice but to do another debate. Kommie-la’s instant desire for another debate coupled with Trump’s apparent refusal tells me that both campaigns’ internal polls show Trump with a solid lead.
Related:
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/trumps-surprising-secret-weapon-sympathy
ABC’s over-the-top bias, along with Kommie-la’s absurd facial expressions and endless personal attacks, actually backfired. This act might’ve worked in 2016 or 2020, but after four years of lawfare and an assassination attempt, I think there’s a fair number of normies who (rightly) view Trump as a put-upon underdog. And there’s nothing America loves more than an underdog.
My suspicion is that Trump has been wisely told to avoid another rigged debate that this time would give Harris a chance to make up for her word salad mistakes that carried no substance or policy in this last debate that the leftosphere claimed won her the debate but that massively turned off independents looking for actual policy solutions.
I’m surprised and mildly happy about the independent’s collective response to the debate and the fact that they seem to have actually picked up on what happened there, from the vacuousness of her answers to the unfairness of the moderators. I guess I underestimated the capacity of the American public to sniff out bullshit this time. Anyway, good on them.
And / or if the Dems start taunting and challenging him on it, he’ll agree to a debate on Fox moderated by some of the non-Trump haters there.
Trump actually went up in polls of independents, handing of the economy, and a few other things. I think there are two reasons.
a) People were looking for concrete policies from Kamala, and she didn’t deliver.
b) Trump appeared angry and agitated, but he was angry and agitated about things we are all upset about: the economy, crime, immigration. Harris laughing about people eating cats, and the moderators lying about the increase in crime, said loud and clear they don’t care about issues people think are important.
moderators lying about the increase in crime – what do you believe statistics or you lying eyes? statistics are always true, especially if they are used to fact check/.
You’re right Pie, in other news the price increases you see at the store aren’t real, they’re Russian disinformation.
Happy long weekend from the top of Tremper Mountain.
Let’s hope my phone posts this properly this time. 🙂
Goddam it, why isn’t my phone posting links properly?
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/1834578736257143143
Looks like a nice hike, Ted’S. Well done!
Ooo, Teds got stunna shades!
Temper mountain?
Just in time for some stoicism to help you get back down.
Needs better shot placement…
And the assault victim gets charged.
🙄
Fuck Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is really a People’s Republic and full of Massholes.
This is totally normal behavior.
That stupid uncontrolled charge must be an Arab thing. Years ago one of the guys I knew from my martial arts class got into an argument with an Arab guy at a gas station. The Arab guy just suddenly charged wildly like in the video leaving himself wide open so my buddy just stood his ground and nailed him with a straight right. The Arab guy went down and and stayed down.
Daily dose of prurient interests.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-bonk-girlfriend-few-times-33590991
PS: why bother hiding your face?
Is it wrong to wish that people who sign off on appearing in articles like that one will be laid low in the near term by SuperAIDS? It’s not the sex that gets me, it’s the narcissism.
Dates of when islands around the world were first colonized.
Hunters-gathers (blue) first inhabited many large Islands. In the Mediterranean farmers (white) started spreading to islands c. 7000 BC. In the third millennium BC, many of the remote and small islands across the Mediterranean were colonized, possibly due to the invention of sailing, somewhat before this time we first see depictions of sails in Egypt.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1834308270242361738
Idiots in cars Bucharest edition
https://www.reddit.com/r/bucuresti/comments/1feb6o5/accident_cu_trei_ma%C5%9Fini_%C3%AEn_pasajul_unirii_din/
YEEEHAAA!
Looks like he was running from the cops.
The very laws meant to protect ethnic minorities are being weaponised against us.
https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1834490883858722859
Let’s give the state lots of power to do stuff we like. There’s no way it would ever use those powers to do stuff we don’t like.
This is mean to be used only against bad people not Good people!
Welcome to the party lady but the only people that didn’t see it coming have double digit IQs.
When Kamala Harris said her economic plan was endorsed by Goldman Sachs… that was a big fat lie.
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1834368567145300045
Eh, I mean Goldman does prefer her over Trump.
But they aren’t going near her plan of taxes on unrealized capital gains.
Freudian slips happen!!
I am not sure it he said prostitutor could have been prosecutor but it is hard to hear clearly
It was in English, not Vampyre. You know nothing Pie Sky.
That peace deal sucks. We’d rather see you dead.
Consciences were shocked
Democrats hammered Trump on Thursday for inviting Loomer to join him at the 9/11 memorial service.
“It was shocking and irresponsible and offensive to the thousands of people who lost their lives on Sept. 11, including hundreds of brave first responders, members of the NYPD, FDNY and others who raced toward the danger in order to help people escape the danger and lost their lives as a result of it,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told reporters.
“Donald Trump is a conspiracy theory-peddling racial arsonist and pathological liar,” he added. “And the fact that on Sept. 11, this sacred day, he would bring a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to participate in events during this solemn commemoration should shock the conscience of all decent Americans, and I believe that it does just that.”
He should be shot on sight.
“conspiracy theorist”
Now ask Jeffries about his views on the CIA bringing crack into the inner cities in the ‘80s.
OUTRAGE!!
Snopes: No Evidence Haitian Immigrants Are Eating Ducks, Geese or Pets in Springfield, Ohio
Decent fact check I guess, but Ohio is still not doing well.
I thought you people hateda Canada gooses what if Haitians ate those?
I live in an area that has too many Canadian Geese and a sizeable Haitian population (not Ohio). Everyone should be doing their part and eating more of these asshole geese.
There would be much rejoicing, although they would then be violating federal laws (IIRC). I also would not be adverse to allowing any Haitians up in the Cleveland area go to down on our deer population.
Just for those not familiar with Ohio geography, Springfield is closer to Dayton, while Canton is next to Akron.
The story isn’t really the pet eating, it’s the tens of thousands of Haitians being bussed into small cities out of the blue and all of this just means more and more people are going to look the story up and realize that’s happening.
The real story should be, why are we allowing anybody at all from Haiti into the US?
The more the merrier, RCD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYYoiRBH3PM
Don’t be silly, RC, the Haitians will undoubtedly prove to be a joyful and vibrant contributions to the cities. Just like the Somalis in Minneapolis!
The Haitians will have food trucks! Were you can eat your own cat!
It is so exciting.
The dogs and cats are a distraction. Dumping 20,000 migrants into a town twice that size is a big deal.
Bingo. Taking in a 1/3 of your population, with probably NGO monies backing it, will displace many a resident.
This was one or two expanding manufacturers looking for cheap, compliant labor, and grifter NGO’s all too happy to supply it.
Or… talking about dogs and cats finally got people to talk about the issue. Statistics, and even stories about women being raped and murdered, weren’t even enough.
The unbelievable amounts of welfare we are paying is unreported.
Any manufacturer that can use uneducated Hattians won’t be around long. Tim Cook talks about why Apple manufactures in China – because they have enough people with the right vocational education, not because they have cheap idiots to hire.
This is what Germany found out when they were bringing in “migrants” from north Africa. They didn’t have the long term skill training that the Turks, who had been trained in Germanies school system had. And Germany needed highly trained workers. The whole thing fell apart.
“There is no evidence, outside of second- and third-hand social media gossip, to support the notion that Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio, are eating people’s pet cats or their parks’ waterfowl.”
Well, there’s also recorded calls to the police, and statements by citizens at city council meetings. Saying there is no evidence outside of social media gossip is just wrong. Snopes here is doing the thing where you debunk one piece of evidence, and then declare the matter closed.
They’re not so much wrong as they’re lying by omission. I’d imagine they’re well aware of the evidence you mention.
Party of free trade
The Biden administration announced new steps on Friday to curtail what it calls the “overuse and abuse” of a longstanding trade law that permits low-value shipments to enter the United States without paying import duties and processing fees.
The steps include a new rule proposal, which would bar overseas shipments of products that are subject to U.S.-China tariffs from being eligible for the special customs exemption.
Known as the de minimis loophole, the trade provision allows packages with a value of less than $800 to enter the United States with relatively little scrutiny. Over the past decade, the number of de minimis shipments has exploded, from roughly 140 million to more than a billion, according to a White House estimate.
“The drastic increase in de minimis shipments has made it increasingly difficult to target and block illegal or unsafe shipments coming into the U.S.,” Daleep Singh, deputy national security advisor for international economics, told reporters on a Thursday call to preview the actions.
Sounds like something Trump would do.
They should be happy. Think of all the postal jobs they keep employed with those packages.
In 1977 Sargeant Silvio Holenbach died after jumping into an enclosure of giant otters in the Brasília zoo to save a 13 yo kid who had fallen into it. He was bitten over 100 times.
https://x.com/CitizenNill/status/1834125610119029118
Traditional retailers typically import containers of merchandise and send them to U.S.-based warehouses for distribution. But Shein and Temu usually ship their products directly to American consumers through their networks of Chinese suppliers.
By utilizing the de minimis loophole to avoid tariffs, Chinese retail giants have likely skirted tens of millions of dollars in import duties.
They’re robbing us blind!
The long shipping time for Temu actually works for them (at least, in my case). You know you bought a ton of fun, cheap shit, but it takes so long to get to you, you forgot what it was, and it’s like fucking Christmas morning! I love Temu.
We need a Mo Temu article.
The IRS should audit the buyers of all that cheap Chinesium crap and bill them for the unpaid tariffs.
I feel there should be a debate on Fox News to see how the moderators there do.
Or a debate where 3 left outlest each name a mod and 3 right outlets each name a mod.
Or they should debate on the theo von podcast.
Sure – but there are plenty of Trump-haters at Fox like Brett Bier who Trump doesn’t want.
Good no bias find a pro trump and anti trump mod
I can moderate for the modest sum of one million dollars.
“…carrying a military howitzer…”
Does the Daily Mail think that civilian self-propelled artillery is a common enough thing in the US that they need to specify?
I wish, we only get pack howitzers.
CONGRESS SHALL PASS NO LAW
In local news, the Romanian press translated the howitzer in the headline as “assault tank” . Strangely in the body of the story obuzier is used which means howitzer .
Lawmakers contend that by avoiding the hefty import duties the United States imposes on most Chinese textiles, apparel and footwear, Shein and Temu are able to offer extremely low prices, and outcompete their import-paying competitors.
No shit, Shirley?
In local news, in order to get into the visa waiver Romania needs to get the rejection rate for US visas under 3%. Now it is a little over 3% and the government is paying the visa tax for government employees to get the visa because they are rarely rejected and such can pad the numbers a little.
More stories about plummeting black college enrollment. Obviously because the Supreme Court banned affirmative action.
I wonder if anybody has cross checked this story with the news about some sort of vast financial aid snafu.
“Naw, we don’t count the votes, we do a 1 % sample and then weigh them. Saves a lot of time”
Big Nanny is watching you
Officials have said they believe Halstenberg intentionally set a fire in the area of Baseline Road and Alpin Street in the city of Highland last week, which then erupted into the Line Fire. An automatic license plate reader flagged Halstenberg’s vehicle near the area where the fire started.
Take that, liberty fetishists.
Tools down
Workers in the Seattle area and in Oregon voted 94.6% against a tentative agreement that Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers unveiled Sunday. The workers voted 96% in favor of a strike, far more than the two-thirds vote required for a work stoppage.
“We strike at midnight,” said IAM District 751 President Jon Holden at a news conference where he announced the vote’s results. He characterized it as an “unfair labor practice strike,” alleging that factory workers had experienced “discriminatory conduct, coercive questioning, unlawful surveillance and we had unlawful promise of benefits.”
Heroically saving lives by not building airplanes.
“Chat Control”, the EU law proposal that could ban encrypted messenger services in the EU will return again this month.
The bill is aimed at searching all private messages and chats for suspicious content (so-called chat control or child sexual abuse regulation).
According to the latest proposal providers would be free whether or not to use ‘artificial intelligence’ to classify unknown images and text chats as ‘suspicious’.
However they would be obliged to search all chats for known illegal content and report them, even at the cost of breaking secure end-to-end messenger encryption.
EU governments are to position themselves on the proposal by 23 September. Currently, only Poland and Germany have indicated that they will vote against it.
Estonia, Czechia, Austria, Slovenia and the Netherlands have doubts.
EU interior ministers are to endorse it on 10 October.
Messenger providers Signal and Threema have already announced that they will never agree to incorporate such surveillance routines into their apps and would rather shut down operations in the EU.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1834401718458593447
Imagine hating children so much that you refuse to let the government read all your communications. I mean, I can’t even with this.
Not the government just some LLM programed by the government and it is unpossible for that to be abused.
It’s for the children, the last refuge of the lying authoritarian sack of shit scoundrel.
In spite of our near complete disappearance of privacy child sex gangs still operate in England in near day light while child sex trafficking in the US is at all time highs – and not just by a little bit.
When you hear ‘for the children’ you can be 100% sure that it has nothing to do with children.
He said Boeing needs to bargain in good faith. Boeing didn’t comment on his claims.
In other words, complete submission to our demands. We only want what’s fair.
Jeep wants to turn a corner
Such actions can eat into profits, but the brand’s average transaction prices have skyrocketed from less than $40,000 in 2020 to north of $50,000 this year, according to Cox Automotive. Jeep’s average transaction price has been above the industry average since 2021, Cox reports.
It’s worth clicking the link just for the chart of transaction price increases. A huge jump since 2019. It must have been Trump’s fault.
If you have any doubt still that the Un is an evil criminal enterprise…
However, building problem-free vehicles is easier said than done in the automotive industry. Jeep on Monday confirmed it is cooperating with U.S. auto safety regulators on an investigation into more than 781,000 newer Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator SUVs after reports of underhood fires.
They should offer an on board fire suppression subscription.
Shift
“Today we are making a major shift — moving the Montana Senate race from Toss Up to Lean Republican,” the Cook Political Report’s Jessica Taylor wrote. “This means that Republicans are now an even heavier favorite to win back control of the Senate, regardless of the result at the top of the ticket.”
Maybe people are sick and fucking tired of all those ‘rich out of state carpetbagger Tim Sheehy” ads.
Stupid Party has six weeks left to fuck it up. And even a one or two seat edge in Senate isn’t safe with Collins and Murkowski voting with Dems on substantial legislation.
It’s for the children, the last refuge of the lying authoritarian sack of shit scoundrel.
“Do it for the entrenched political elite” doesn’t seem to poll as well, for some unknown reason.