Good morning one and all to another wonderful day!
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Department of Government Efficiency
John Ratcliffe Picked for CIA Director
Pete Hegseth Nominated for Defense Secretary
Trump brings deportation chiefs into White House, away from entrenched agencies
Melania Trump Has One Very Good Reason Why She’s Snubbing Jill Biden
Violent Left-Wing Groups Begin Recruiting for Trump’s Inauguration
Jack Smith Spent $50M Trying to Prosecute Trump
Republican Senators Hold Leader Candidate Forum Hours Before Consequential Vote
Trump’s post-election stock boom won’t stop inevitable doom, economist Harry Dent warns
Man found dead in tanning bed at Planet Fitness in Indianapolis 3 days after he walked into the gym
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Did the gym notice because of the smell, and was it of rotting or roasting meat?
Probably noticed that he’d used up all his time and hadn’t paid for more.
It was, after all, a truly jerky thing to do.
It’s sad that we’re raisin our kids that way.
Missing some sun?
A tan that made The Donald jealous?
A woman I know from high school lost a brother because he passed out in a sauna and they left him there overnight. He was literally cooked.
So, a steamed vegetable.
Early links! It’s a pre-Thanksgiving Day miracle!
I agree with Charlie Cooke that Hegseth should be a good choice.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/in-defense-of-pete-hegseth/
The best selling point for me was that he was a Major, meaning he didn’t have to jump through the political purity tests to make General. The current crop of flag officers need to be flushed. Even if they are not the root of all the problems, they contributed majorly.
The SecDef should be a woman or somebody who pretends to be a woman. #HerTurn
I could’ve seen Tulsi as SecDef, but that wouldn’t satisfy the people you are talking about.
Loydina Austin?
Am I the only person who thinks the “recruiting crisis” could be solved by simply shrinking the armed forces to the level required for actual national defense (as opposed to “global power projection”)?
There’s over 190 countries out there that we need to be able to beat up simulteneously without resorting to nukes.
Honestly, that would require concomitant changes to not just force structure but force projection, i.e. we’d have to shut down a lot of overseas facilities. So not as simple as just reducing headcount. I’d also argue that the Goldwater-Nichols impacts need to be re-aligned (getting rid of our military Pro-Consuls – aka Combatant Commands).
True enough, but in the event that recruiting needed to be scaled for a conflict, even a defensive one, you’d like to have the DoD focusing its efforts and messaging on impetuous young men who like the idea of indiscriminately killing bad guys and blowing shit up, as opposed to totally-not-gay men trapped in female bodies whose primary reason for joining up is getting their estradiol prescription covered.
JI.
That’s an interesting concept – but it raises issues that need to be discussed and debated in much more depth.
If we pull out of Korea, we accept that the ROK and presumably Japan and Taiwan will develop nukes. I don’t have an issue with them providing for their self defense, but there are repercussions – and hasty decisions/statements impact more than just the US (and impact the US significantly in secondary/tertiary effects/ripples).
Similarly, we are making developments in unmanned vessels – ships/aircraft/etc that should result in us being able to modify some of our overseas footprints in size/scope/etc while maintaining some capabilities.
The COCOM structure is a function that’s worth discussing – although – it makes sense in principle to maintain focused offices, the possibility of shifting them stateside (with tech comms options, etc) should be an option (4th Fleet/SouthCOM has always been in the US).
This issue arose with the Red Sea Houthi issue the past year – we need to discuss it, but we’re not getting serious alternatives. Constraining international shipping – tragedy of the commons, etc – is a legitimate role for the Navy – whether or not we like it. The decline of US hegemony is a choice, but the likely alternatives are not the sort of thing we have given adequate thought towards philosophically or pragmatically.
LCDR_Fish, if we are going to secure international shipping routes, then we should be compensated by those who profit most from that. That isn’t us, so it shouldn’t be on the back of the American taxpayers. We did this because it was part of the political bargain on our side of the Cold War – that’s over. Now you get to the problem of Service budget equity – no favoritism to one. If the Navy has a true international role, then it should be funded accordingly – and that pisses off the Army, Air Force and now Cyber and Space commands as well.
you’d like to have the DoD focusing its efforts and messaging on impetuous young men who like the idea of indiscriminately killing bad guys and blowing shit up, as opposed to totally-not-gay men trapped in female bodies whose primary reason for joining up is getting their estradiol prescription covered.
I know the other side wants to kill us, but have we tried having a struggle session with them?
The easy answer to that, JI is to increase docking fees and drayage at US ports. Easy, but not necessarily the best solution. Would creating an international (HA!) fund for the defense of shipping lanes work? Would farming out parts of the job to other large navies (who?) work, and so on.
No easy answers, at least not ones that keep shipping rates and rates intact.
increase docking fees and drayage at US ports
I doubt that would be sufficient, and as a tax – you get less of what you tax…
No I’m thinking more like Saudi crude shipments, Chinese manufactures, and to be fair – our own food exports.
I’d be for greatly reducing the number of forward deployed troops, but would keep the Combatant Commands. They specialize in the planning for engagements involving their particular piece of the world.
Their focus should be more toward defense and fomenting diplomatic engagement thru the State Department.
Fuck Madeleine Albright for the concept of “Coercive Diplomacy”, which has little significant difference from international terrorism.
I think you’d still be left with the issue of not getting the people the military really needs.
There is no way that any of Donald’s choices for any position aren’t going to be light years better than Joe’s choices for every position were.
That makes sense to me.
You know, not that he could possibly do any worse than the current situation, but Musk has made a career burning through tens of billions of dollars of VC/OPM. I’m not sure if he’s necessarily a paragon of efficiency. And something tells me there won’t be many cuts recommended to the Falcon 9 procurement…
DoD has already been using a ton of contractors for “fairly routine” office stuff – no govt benefits, etc. If the contracts were constrained and limited, it might work as interim measures for all other departments/agencies while cutting total numbers in the short term – and then letting the contracts lapse – rather than trying to divest too much up front.
Automation is another issue. They’ve got to figure out how to cut down on the paperwork for a lot of stuff – specifically with the DoD, etc. MS probably knows a lot more about that – but with the calculation systems they use – the legacy computer systems are just insane and they need to make a legitimate transition soon – but do it professionally rather than the BS we’ve seen with ACA, FAFSA, etc the past 10 years.
Meant to include VA as well as DOD.
Automated government paperwork is something I have a bit of firsthand experience in.
Problem 1: The Agency does not want to change. They will fight tooth and nail to keep everything exactly as it is while bitching at every computer issue, and the slightest hiccup in the new system will be touted as proof it’s not fit for purpose.
Problem 2: The workflow needs to change. It has agglomerated from decades of cruft into a nightmarish maze of processes that no sane person would implement, yet due to Prolbem 1, a replacement system will always end up yoked to the broken workflow to the point of emanding extensive customization and rewriting of code to accommodate the workflow that no sane person would implement.
Problem 3: Nobody wants to pay for it. Spending money on computers is a waste in the eyes of the agency, especially if that expenditure reduces headcount and thus the prestige and possibly pay of the upper management. So everyone will wave the price tag of the project, which by problems 1 and 2 has dragged on past its planned deadline and ballooned past its original budget as a reason to kill the replacement.
DOGE is fundamentally wrong. We don’t need, and can’t ever have efficient government – it is an oxymoron.
The private sector produces. Government does not produce anything. One cannot efficiently produce nothing. You are correct. It is an oxymoron.
I’ve seen enough end-of-year spending binges to know inefficiency is built into the system.
When you’re not allowed to roll over cash on hand and your annual budget will get cut if you don’t spend every dime, the incentive to not be wasteful goes out the window, so you keep expenditures padded just in case.
– Peter Drucker
I have to confess — my first reaction was that it wasn’t real and they were trolling us with “DOGE” as a meme…. Very Elon, though.
I wish them the best of luck — I expect Congress and the regulators to be screaming, kicking and crying at every step — and given that Congress needs to be on board, my expectations are low.
Yeah, good reminder UCS. University departments buying up stacks of palm pilots and computer books every september.
Reward departments who spend less than their budget and then start rolling over the balance and cutting the total.
Well, I would rather have 100,000 employees producing nothing at great expense than 1,000,000 employees producing nothing at much greater expense.
Well they had to pick something that started with an E, so that’s what he landed on.
My hope (and suspicion, actually) is that it’s “efficiency” applied at macro level as in “stop doing a bunch of stuff you shouldn’t be doing” as opposed to the more micro function of “do what you’re doing more efficiently”. The former is fine. And the latter doesn’t at all seem to fit with the messages they’ve been sending.
RC, that’s not a question of efficiency but of sheer stupidity. That’s my point. And by addressing efficiency, they are already off target.
Well they had to pick something that started with an E
You’re not wrong – cutesy and catchy is what matters to the mental midget excited by this.
Reducing headcount to achieve the same output is very much efficiency. As is eliminating unnecessary outputs.
Elon didn’t go into Twitter to get it to do even more censorship with its current staff, you know. I see no reason to believe that the purpose of this “efficiency” push is to get the agencies to crank out a higher output of regulations and enforcement actions with the same staff.
Many inefficiencies can also be labeled as stupidity, after all.
the same output
And this is why efficiency is off target. As Suthen noted – govt produces NOTHING.
Get some loyal IT folks to lock the useless government workers out of their normal workspace and force them to sit with a desktop informing them of the evil of their department. (The EEOC, for example, is there to implement racist hiring quotas and engender racial division.)
And make them do some sort of click acknowledgement every 10 minutes.
Combine this with a blanket pardon for everyone currently under investigation by the EEOC, and destroy the evidence gathered in the cases since it’s no longer needed.
You’re right, JI. There’s no hope of, or in any event no point to, reducing government headcount or activities.
The President, through his Secretaries, has no authority to affect what administrative agency employees do or what regulations they promulgate.
Not what I said RC, is it? The Constitution is quite clear about where federal spending originates. There’s the fucking problem, because of the spineless weasels we put in Congress, not anything to do with the asshole in the White House (and it is always an asshole, as SF assures with the importance of the Presidential shitter).
You are correct that we cannot have that, due mainly for the reason you mention.
But that is no reason not to constantly work at it. And that tension should be what is driving this, and that with out that tension there will ever be growth as opposed to stasis or, at times, real shrinkage.
I wasn’t talking just about spending (although how the money Congress appropriates gets spent is significantly under the Executive’s control). I was talking about what they do, including nothing at all.
You seem to be getting hung up on the marketing term “efficiency”. I have a suspicion that Trump understands that the marketing wrap doesn’t control the contents of the package.
While I suspect Musk and Vivek would like to see less spent on the agencies, I think they would be happy to settle on less being done by the agencies, even at the same cost. Remember, Musk wrote some big severance checks to reduce the censorship done by Twitter. Which may seem like the opposite of efficiency, unless you regard what the agencies do as a net negative, in which case reducing the downside of their activities for the same cost is a kind of efficiency.
RC, as you know there are laws governing the execution of the funding that Congress appropriates. It is not within the purview of the Executive to tinker greatly with that. Reagan wanted a line item veto of the BUDGET, not even appropriations and he did not get it.
As an example, govt funding of NGOs is not an Executive prerogative even if who actually gets funded is (and as bound by still other law). If we want NGOs to really be non-governmental – then Congress can’t be funding them, even ones we like.
If government has any useful functions–although people seem to disagree on that assumption–those functions can be performed with more or fewer resources, so there is some concept of efficiency involved.
Of course if government has no useful functions, it cannot, by definition. be efficient.
JI, I’m just saying that a bureaucracy has a great many tools at its disposal to delay and, shall we say, tweak directives from on high.
A great many tools. As we saw with the #resistance. Now, the great challenge will be getting the agencies to (not) do things via motivated political appointees. I think there’s scope there on both the rulemaking and the agency activity front.
We can’t have it both ways – the problem is the agencies don’t answer to Congress, and the problem is only Congress can fix the agencies.
“Musk has made a career burning through tens of billions of dollars of VC/OPM”
I don’t count it as “burning through” when the companies where it was spent/actually invested are profitable.
Or put another way – he’s made a career of getting done what he wanted done – and finding the resources to do it.
So in this case, if his objective really is to take an axe to lots of waste and regulation, then cool.
Worth mentioning that Tesla and SpaceX are barely profitable even now, years after consuming all that VC, and mostly due to federal subsidies and government contracting, respectively. Tesla’s first posted annual net profit wasn’t even from selling their federally-subsidized vehicles, it was from carbon credit trading in the retarded states where auto makers have to purchase credits to offset their fleet economy. SpaceX, meanwhile, has only ever turned a profit sporadically on the back of Starlink, which is subsidizing rocket development.
Now, of course, Musk is accountable to his investors, and they forked over their money freely, so it’s not a direct comparison. But VC-backed entrepreneurs are not exactly famous for their nitpicking frugality.
My hope is Elon and Vivek have the ears of legislators and cabinet members to get law and policy changed.
If there is one thing Elon understands it’s how to collect gobs of data- which is what concerns me.
How much of those company’s budgets are tied up in R&D?
Amazon had the same issues, but if you look at how much money they were plowing into R&D, many of their businesses were actually profitable but putting the earnings back into research rather than bottom line profits or dividends.
Most of the inefficiencies are due to policy and the law. Elon et al will not have the power to change much of it. Computers in and of themselves are a tool that can be abused. The NSA for example. Be careful what you wish for.
Good point…that a lot of the computer issues we have are due to congressional statutes for specific purposes/development/etc that they don’t understand. If folks can pinpoint some of those issues for revision/deletion/etc going forward, that would probably help. Especially vice getting more unaccountable bureaucrats the power to do that – post-Chevron, that should be easier.
One area that he can help in, and needs to be radically addressed posthast, is in identifying were the losses occurre and getting that information to the public, via X. And X has shown itself to be massively greater at spreading real (or fake) news to people without gatekeepers when not being held back by gov’t censorship.
This, in turn, can put pressure on elected reps and senators to cut useless shit (dept. of killing beagles, etc.) from gov’t.
Hold on there Cochise. Musk might have some decent instincts after all
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Maybe because Twitter was his own money and not VC money?
It’s his private company and he can set policy and control the board of directors. He won’t have that luxury with the feds but my hope is the mood will be similar to abortion so that more of stupid shit becomes state policy rather than federal policy/law. Let commiefornia tax themselves into third world status if they want.
Fair point, but also, I think Twitter was also a personal vendetta of sorts. Hopefully DOGE will be as well.
I believe Musk has co-investors in Twitter. I’m not sure anybody (but them) knows how much of the $44BB was Musk’s personal money and how much was OPM.
I’m not convinced that Musk buying Twitter was anything more than a charity project. A way to carve out a space for everyone to speak, and not as a means to have Twitter further fill his coffers.
Profitability is needed to survive in the long run, and I’m sure he wants that, but what was absolutely necessary was the small bit of breathing room to speak freely his buying Twitter provided.
What would you say you do here?
https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1856525121931919581
Musk heading DOGE is a bad idea I think. The second he cuts something that regulates one of his businesses, it’ll be the scandal of the century, and your average low-engagement voter will probably see it as such too.
Except it’s not an actual government position.
It’s an outside entity that advises the White House (one that I’m sure will be immediately scrapped after Trump). It’s window dressing as marketing. Musk was going to advise Trump anyways. This is a way to keep the connection real, without introducing the problems of having Musk actually be a government employee.
I momentarily confused John Ratcliffe and John Ratzenberger. I was about to congratulate Trump on his best pick yet.
Same.
At the least we’d finally find out all the conspiracy details if we get him hanging out in a Boston bar.
That would have been terrific.
I’m on https://thecmp.org/ ‘s mailing list since I’ve shot there a couple of times.
You can still buy surplus M1s there and you used to be able to buy surplus, US-made M1911s. But those all sold out. So the federal government has decided to sell Turkish made replicas instead. ‘Cause I guess money is important.
If the point of the US Civilian Marksmanship Program is to have a yeomanry, shouldn’t they be offering M17s?
If I’m going to buy a 1911, there are plenty of US arms makers who can sell me one. I don’t need a Turkish version. I don’t like the Turks, they did the Romans dirty.
The Turkish ones are a third of the price of the US made ones. You can get cheap Filipino ones, and they’re US-adjacent.
On principle I prefer to support onshored industry.
Except cars made in Detroit – fuck the UAW.
At the very least selling the clapped out M9’s being replaced.
Also M16’s (and M14’s) no longer being used.
Because Jill Biden is a total cunt?
According to the article, so was Mike.
*shocked face*
I remember watching Melania and Big Mike meet in 2017 live. The look on Big Mike’s face when Melania gave her a present is great. To find out that she’s still miffed about it. She had to hold it for 14 seconds before Barak takes it and gives it to a flunky. Can you even imagine?
I can excuse the hot-take reaction but yeah, bitching about it to the media? Trash.
Certainly not a record-setting contribution to the Harris campaign, but not exactly chump change either.
The Harris campaign? I thought that was a gift to Trumps team, what with mugshots and railroads being hot this year.
At work for an hour+ and Indy is a fun town. If I tanned, Id go there for fun. Questions were I still Managing Editor of something.
Business first, which The (tanned) Dead have goin for em.
The obvious problem with Hegseth is he has never done the proper time at one or more of Lockheed, Boeing, GD.
Trump was such an ineffectual putz the first time around that I don’t have the highest hopes for anything meaningfully changing, but I still maintain that glimmer that perhaps the entrenched bureaucracy sufficiently bruised his fragile ego that he goes completely scorched earth. The entrenched bureaucracy will return like a fucking hydra 8 seconds after he leaves office anyway, but even just watching them squirm for the next 4 years would be exquisite.
See the Vivek interview I linked. There is a chance that some great things might happen.
How much of Dent’s wealth is laid into his prediction? What does he win if he’s right and lose if he’s wrong?
Good question. He’s been a doomsayer as long as I can remember.
What does Winston’s Mommy have to say about Dent?
$20 is $20, same as downtown.
Morning all. Do we have any idea who might get AG?
As already discussed I would like to see an in-depth RICO investigation into the network of NGO’s. Antifa, BLM, any Soros funded groups and the moles they have planted into govt. positions – particularly the DA’s running cover for the rest of those listed. This shit has to be scrubbed from the face of the earth.
Ken Paxton would literally make heads explode. That said, I’m not sure he’d really be that good a pick.
RICO investigation is an OK start. I’m hoping for a sure-enough Congress-enacted Declaration of War on the NGOs.
Please, no declarations – just cut off the money.
Given the results of various declarations of ‘war on’ in the past seventy years, you’d end up with More and Bigger NGOs with a war on NGOs.
JI has it right. Just do it and let the other side claim that war was declared on them.
I mean the real kind. Like 12/8/41. For facilitating an invasion of the continental United States. For depredations of the rights of Americans. Etc.
No, no, no! You maniacs don’t know what you are talking about. You don’t stop funding of NGO’s. What us enlightened folx in Minnesoda do is subsidize their legal fees so they can lobby the legislature more efficiently!
The only problem I see is that we aren’t giving these noble people more money!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good story but somewhere along the line the cutie had to be fed, probably by hand.
I had an orphaned lamb like that (and a dog that bonded), back when I was about 16. The lamb had to sleep in the barn though.
I think I just got diabetes.
Watch Tucker interview Vivek if you want to hear their strategy for slashing huge chunks of the federal government. Brilliant stuff.
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1854953677401784508
The question isn’t what comes out of DOGE, it is what comes out of Congress.
Cooperation would be helpful but not the only option.
Oh? Are we suggesting that EOs rule all? Or are you going to play the part of Roper here?
Watch
Vivek is wrong about Chevron impact.
Congress can set direction and appropriate (or not) money. The President can control* what reps are written and what the agency employees do (down to and including sitting at home without access to agency computers or facilities, as long as they draw paychecks). So there is quite a bit the President and his political appointees can do. If they have the will to do so.
Congress can pass laws saying “write rules for X”. When those rules are written (including never) and what they say are up to the Executive. Congress can appropriate X dollars for an agency. If those dollars are spent paying salaries to people who have no ability to do anything because they have been given no-work or make-work assignments, well, that’s not up to Congress, either.
*We’ve been complaining for years about how much power Congress has surrendered to the Executive. What’s the Iron Law? Oh yeah:
Me today, you tomorrow.
Actually, they should be given computers at home. They need to log in every 5 minutes to check productivity. And the computer needs to automatically log them out at 4 minute intervals. The point being they cannot just go on vaca while on the gov’t teat, but need to sit there and be “productive.” At least until they quit.
ZWAK, the better part of my last two years of federal contract support were spent at home with a work computer, next to the one I am using now and commenting on here. Don’t you threaten me with a good time!
Oh, I know what you are saying, I just think they need to log in every five minutes with a new, randomly generated number. That way they have to stay home and cannot go wandering around during work hours and get a second job away from home while collecting that G money. Yes, I know they could do WFH BS jobs such as you did, but we cannot account for everything.
Make a bunch of DOT employees play Desert Bus for 8 hours a day.
Seems the losing side sure does fall in for conspiracy theories.
In spite of bathing in anti-Trump hysteria like a Turk in a schvitz, that’s still an alarmingly self-aware take from Rolling Stone.
Lots of suggestions of paper ballots, single day voting, and audit trails. Dems still in power ignore those suggestions.
Is this the Starlink conspiracy theory or a different one?
It’s one of several discussed.
Weird to see Rolling Stone of all the r-tarted leftist press remark on this stuff.
Violent Left-Wing Groups Begin Recruiting for Trump’s Inauguration
I hope they hire this guy to wander around DC during the innauguration
I can’t tell if he is a southpaw and just a big guy with not a lot of skill, or if he just never had to use his right because the punks just kept falling to his leading jabs. In either case, I keep watching and laughing.
Three Proud Boys went to jail for exactly that.
He’s saving the rights for a real threat.
“Violent Left-Wing Groups Begin Recruiting for Trump’s Inauguration”
I don’t think this will go well for them. People are tired of the lefty bullshit. If Trump rounds them up the Dems will cry but that’s it. And it will be yet another reminder of how the Dems are out of touch.
DC courts will probably have judges lecture the jurors about the glories of jury nullification when they give instructions to them in the upcoming Antifa Riot trials. And I bet they all get released from jail with $0 bail pending those trials.
“Dust off your pussy hats, ladies and analogues!”
I thought they were taking them out of service until… oh you said pussy hats!
They are dusty because they are out of service.
I think that now that more people are paying attention, the NGOs aren’t quite as willing and/or able to fund Arson Inc.
Agreed. We know how the game is played, and the “news” no longer controls the narrative like it did.
Good point. Twixxer alone is going to be game-changer.
Bring back water cannons and rubber bullets and beanbag shotgun rounds. With real ammo held in reserve if needed.
There has been the one march, the one screaming at the Lake, and one batch of [idiotic] “Free Gaza/Congo/Haiti/etc” graffiti on a college (Case Western Reserve University). The first two attracted dozens, and there have already been arrests for the graffiti. It did lead to a complaint that entertained me from the (banned from campus) Pro-Hamas organization, “These people were arrested without talking to their lawyers!”
Yes, you can be arrested without talking to a lawyer. You can even be interviewed by the cops without a lawyer. You have to remember it’s always Shut the Fuck Up Fridays and demand your lawyer.
lol True
Did trans help Trump to victory?
If Trump beating Clinton and Harris doesn’t make the Dems change their minds about the unfairness of women competing with men nothing will.
[rimshot]
Most of the analysis I’ve read was that the most effective pro-Trump commercial was the series that went over the Harris positions on trans issues (paying for prisoners to transition, trans athletes on women’s teams, trans women in locker rooms/bathrooms, etc.) and ended with “Harris is for They/Them! Trump is for You!”
I saw a few of those commercials, they were really well done, with interviews with Harris backing up the statements, showing her saying the exact thing they were, and focusing on the swim team trans woman, the government official who was stealing luggage, and other media sensations like that as the images.
For me, the best ad was the one with Harris clips, first talking about the state of the economy now and how bad it is, interspersed with her praising “Bidenomics”.
JI:
I saw that one, and that one was good as well, especially (at least the versions I saw) were nearly all non-white families talking about how bad the economy was. I don’t recall any anti-Trump/pro-Harris ads that even seemed effective. The closest was probably the one linking Trump to “Billionaires” with pictures of him with Musk while Harris was going to stand up for the “Middle Class”/”Working Class”/”Little Guy”. That had the issue that Musk (in general) has a positive image (I think) and at the same time they were running those was when Harris was doing the campaign events with the various celebrities (such as Opera) which kind of undercuts the message.
That one was so patently false I couldn’t believe they had the chutzpah to air it.
ding! ding! ding!
You just can’t get more false and in your face then that!
Huh – a welcome surprise.
Probably because the gals realized how unflattering those Handmaid cosplay dresses were and decided that they didn’t want to protest anymore.
Or they realized that there really isn’t going to be an outright ban on abortion.
Despite the non-stop squawking from the media and other radicals.
Only around 11 per cent of Americans saw abortion as a top priority – slightly higher than climate change.
Lol, the issue that will kill all of us is still under abortion.
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government project.” Ronald Reagan
DOGE for the win!
The Twins stadium tax is set to expire, but they are already squawking about needing to extend it because it is also paying for youth sports and extended library hours.
If we let the tax sunset, kids won’t be able to play or read!!!!
Hope they keep only in the blue 7 county metro area. Maybe a little carve out for certain parts of Maple Grove
Let Antifa burn down the stadium. Problem solved.
Uffda. It wasn’t even the 7 county metro area. It was just Hennepin county. Fuckers. I’m still bitter about that weasel Mike Opat sneaking that turd past the taxpayers.
Let them pay for it with the revenue from electronic pull-tabs.
Amazingly the pull tabs are working super great. I don’t get gambling, so I have no idea why these pull tabs are so popular. I also oppose public funding for stadiums on principle. However, I’m much less outraged by something I can easily avoid as opposed to the sales tax that I can’t realistically avoid.
Here is what is wrong about Vivek’s take on Chevron (in the Tucker interview). It did not assert that all federal regulation is unconstitutional (as he said). What was over-ruled was the presumption that the govt was right about the regulation when the issue was in court – that was Chevron deference.
The SC has not even eliminated administrative law judges (which ARE unconstitutional) though they’ve picked at the edges a little.
Also, I will praise Mitch McConnell for one thing – our current Supreme Court line-up. You would not have that without him.
the govt was right about the
regulationstatute when the issue was in court – that was Chevron deference.Chevron was about statutory language. Auer is about regulatory language.
Thanks for the clarification, but isn’t the issue if the regulation is consistent with statutory language/intent? The Chevron presumption was “if the govt says it is”.
if the regulation is consistent with statutory language/intent? The Chevron presumption was “if the govt says it is”.
Yes, regulation or other agency action.
I just wanted to make clear that Chevron didn’t fix everything. The drafter of the regulation still gets the benefit of the doubt in regards to the regulation itself under Auer. IMO, that’s ass backwards. Ambiguity should be construed against the drafter like it is in contract law.
I think the case eliminating Chevron deference is over-rated. Any judge that wants to go along with the agency interpretation of a statute is still free to do so.
Right, and that is where I think Vivek is misdirected at best and dishonest at worst.
In a longer form interview he had (maybe Tucker?), he explained that he’s relying heavily on SCOTUS giving them the wins they need to accomplish their goals. He presumes that SCOTUS is amenable to a major cleansing of the bureaucratic state.
There are 3 votes yes to that, 3 votes no and 3 maybes.
ALJs need to be renamed back to hearings officials. That they’re some sort of judicial personage is bullshit. When they work for the agency they’re supposedly adjudicating is even more bullshit.
Because your typical Team Blue woman has no other ways in which to social signal…
From feminist pink pussy hats to the red “Make America Great Again” caps that have endured since Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, this country’s divisive political climate has spawned more controversial accessories than “Project Runway.” So when Trump defeated Kamala Harris in last week’s election, some women who voted for Harris were quick to create a new symbol of solidarity: a blue bracelet.
https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/democrats-blue-bracelets-kamala-harris-donald-trump-election-tiktok-803a8111?st=HEZsE9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Blue handcuffs would be more appropriate.
Nice!
A discount airline filing for bankruptcy? Impossible!
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/spirit-airlines-moves-toward-bankruptcy-filing-after-frontier-drops-merger-bid-5d492e80?st=m7vzra&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s the loss of the Haiti route what did it!
They had to give it a shot.
I thought the whole point of Spirit is it would charge less by giving up amenities like “no GSWs.”
I thought the copper jackets are an upcharge.
The government prefers this over letting them merge with Jet Blue.
I’m going to keep my mouth shut during my next training, but holy hell the “science” in it is just godawful.
Interestingly enough, they’ve protected the course materials so I can’t download or copy from them. I could screenshot it to show you what this travesty is but that would be too much work.
snipping tool is your friend
Yeah, but then I’d need to upload it here and post a link to the media library, and that seems excessive for glibly bitching about morons.
If it’s being displayed in a browser, there are other ways too.
I’m a little disappointed in Trump’s picks. I don’t see many potential Hat and Hair characters yet.
I’m just delighted the show will go on for another four years.
You can’t see the DOGE doge chiming in?
“Woof! Disband the FDA!”
“Noooo! They’ll change the Diet Coke formula again if we aren’t watching them and Donald will go off the rails!”
I know this is drugs/ass territory, but I hadn’t realized that the Wisconsin sniper that barely missed Trump, ended up killing the GOP candidate for Senate
I heard he is considering what to do next. Sucks to be him, but there is nothing you can do now. The piss is in the pool, you can’t get it out.
“Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet,” the source added.
So say we all.
I passed my performance evaluation with flying colors.
Darnit.
Maybe I should stop doing work…
“And I think that’s the big risk here, that Trump maybe seems to be a good thing to get the economy going,” he continued, “but if he cuts government spending, I’d say that’s going to start a slowdown that will build on itself.”
That speed wobble will go away if you stand on the gas.
With you.
However, I imagine that drastic (but necessary, so we’re clear) cuts will actually hurt in the short term, and it will be emphatically overemphasized by TMITE as inevitable calamity (especially for women and BIPOC, 🙄).
Part of our problem as a people is our squishyness. We all say we want X, but few are willing to make the sacrifices necessary, even temporary ones, to allow real change to happen.
Think Covid. We could never have taken Sweden’s route, even though it’s proven to be have been a much better alternative than the route we did take. This is the same, even though it’s exactly what we need.
We had another crazy prog encounter yesterday. A woman who used to be on Mrs. TOK’s derby team has been messaging her. Sounds like she is going through a divorce, and perhaps the husband was abusive and doing stalker things. She wants to get stronger and learn some self-defense. Sounds like a good plan.
Then she said she wants to move out of the country because of Trump, and wants to get stronger to smash the patriarchy. Mrs. TOK got uncomfortable and stopped responding. Mrs. TOK tries to stay out of political discussions as much as possible, and for some reason all her lefty friends think that her silence means she agrees with them.
Should we be on the lookout for super-soldier on roller skates hunting us down?
Nothing a handful of pea gravel can’t stop.
Pea gravel, railroad tracks, or a sticky floor would do it.
“She wants to get stronger and learn some self-defense.” I read somewhere that women more women are signing up for self-defense classes because Trump won. The funny thing is, I think most guys who voted for Trump have no problem with women learning self defense. It’s a great idea. Just drop the pretense.
Someone told me recently that learning martial arts will turn a person conservative. There is no DEI or equity, you and you alone have to put in the work, and after that you have less tolerance for people who want something for nothing.
“ wants to get stronger to smash the patriarchy.”
More squats should do it.
How many medals does he have on his chest?
President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military.
The news was met with bewilderment and worry among many in Washington as Trump passed on a number of established national security heavy-hitters and chose an Army National Guard officer well known in conservative circles as a co-host of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
While some Republican lawmakers had a muted response to the announcement, others called his combat experience an asset or said he was “tremendously capable.”
Hegseth’s choice could bring sweeping changes to the military. He has made it clear on his show and in interviews that, like Trump, he is opposed to “woke” programs that promote equity and inclusion. He also has questioned the role of women in combat and advocated pardoning service members charged with war crimes.
How are his guerilla knife fighting skills? He’ll need them to navigate the halls of the Pentagon.
Flame throwers and nerve gas work better at clearing the halls. I doubt they all have the proper protective equipment proficiency after the new DEI standards got rolled out.
I think this is the best way
https://youtu.be/r_vQmbaph6w?si=k3AWPbzDxblKJ1uR
I will bet within 6 months the recruiting problem starts to improve. Just no longer demonizing the “stupid rednecks in flyover country” will go a long way.
If AP is alarmed, then it must be the right choice.
I love how they call him a “Fox News host” and completely ignore everything else he’s done.
He didn’t even have a single star! How can you lead the pentagon if you’re not thoroughly immersed and captured by its political culture?
Since then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened all combat roles to women in 2016, women have successfully passed the military’s grueling tests to become Green Berets and Army Rangers, and the Naval Special Warfare’s test to serve as a combatant-craft crewman — the boat operators who transport Navy SEALs and conduct their own classified missions at sea.
Demi Moore did it.
Don’t believe your lying eyes – it really happened we swear.
I think they meant “ the military’s formerly grueling tests”.
Well the tests are still grueling, but the definition of a “pass” has become much, much more fluid.
I’ve watched some of the new marine fitness tests (while stuck on base). A lot of crawling, dragging team-mates, etc. Makes me sore just watching them (at 43). I was happy with running, situps and pushups. Now I tend towards biking, push ups and plank.
The Army was instituting a more mobility and strength-oriented test as I was retiring, I heard that they scrapped it (or Army-wide institution of it, at any rate, grunts the various other pipe hitters will still have it to some degree or another) in favor of something like the old APFT. Turns out that 2 minutes of push-ups and sit-ups and a 2-mile run is a halfway decent baseline fitness measure and remarkably easy and cheap to implement.
Military officials said the choice came out of the blue. A senior military officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said Hegseth’s selection is raising concerns about whether he has the practical experience to manage a large department with an enormous budget.
He wasn’t om our list. What if he starts asking a bunch of questions?
senior military officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media
This shit needs to end. Either public sourcing or STFU.
A fucking private would get his shit torn up if he left for the bar without authorization.
If they really are a SMO, then their concern suggests to me this is a good pick.
Apparently, the Ratheyon-types are tut-tutting him as well.
#SocialMediaVideoCritique approves.
https://x.com/JustineBateman/status/1856717341951668639
By far the best of these I’ve seen.
That is awesome. From Justine Bateman’s feed too, didn’t know she wasn’t a Hollywood lefty.
““She ain’t going,” a source familiar with Melania’s decision told The Post. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting,” the source said.”
They aren’t even good perverts. The used panties are in the hamper.
Wearing your enemies panties allows you to steal their power!
/Sam Brinton
A new version of capture the flag!
Well, stealing a lectern makes you the Speaker of the House so this would naturally follow.
“psychics familiar with her thinking”
“Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home
A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.
Corey Burke, 33, allegedly struck, stabbed and strangled her father, 67-year-old Timothy Burke, in a fatal attack at her $800,000 Seattle home on November 5.
Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos’ rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.
After emerging from the house with blood ‘dripping’ down her face, she confessed to police that she ‘freaked out,’ claiming there was ‘something important about Election Day.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14073763/corey-burke-jeff-bezos-murders-father-timothy-election-night-meltdown.html
Power lesbian?
18V?
Two-stroke engine.
Squats.
As in “power couple” or “power bottom”?
I mean, I know what a power bottom is…probably not the same thing though.
Yep. Totally normal to use an election as an excuse to brutally murder your father.
Who hasn’t been upset at some point with xer father?
“You brought me into this world, I’ll take you out!”
Muh vendetta!
Special counsel Jack Smith and his team plan to resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a source familiar with the matter said.
Smith’s office has been evaluating the best path for winding down its work on the two outstanding federal criminal cases against Trump, as the Justice Department’s longstanding position is that it cannot charge a sitting president with a crime.
He needs a sword to fall on.
How about a rake to step on instead?
From Slate (no link needed)
Well, the intra-Democratic meltdown over Kamala Harris’ loss was not put to rest by my eloquent piece from last week, it turns out. The meltdown is continuing and will do so until morale improves—which could be as soon as January, when Donald Trump takes office and begins bearing the brunt of everyone in the United States being mad about everything.
As hostile as the discourse is at times, though, its themes can provide some insight into what kinds of candidates might be appealing to Democrats in future election cycles. Especially the 2028 presidential primary, which is the main thing the party should concern itself with for the next four years. (That’s a joke.)
And when you step back to consider all of the varied lessons being drawn, in their totality, a surprising conclusion presents itself. Which is that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the polarizing Squad leftist who is only 35 years old, might already have an opening to be the front-runner for the 2028 nomination .
AOC is the best chance they have to win back young men.
Just because they all want to date her, right?
If AOC wants to win back young men, she needs to air out those puppies.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14077993/sydney-sweeney-nudity-glen-powell-pr-stunt-interview.html
Pretty sure the Dems already have the simp vote locked up.
😂🤣
Greasy Gavin is gonna cut a bitch first.
Emperor Oleaginous the first, thank you!
I doubt it matters much who they run, just so long as they clean out all the zoomer Tik-Tok furry artists who were running the last one…
“Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s tattoos decoded after Donald Trump picked him as new Secretary of Defense”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14077417/Fox-News-host-Pete-Hegseths-tattoos-decoded-Donald-Trump-Secretary-Defense.html
You know some idiot is going to call that cross a swastika.
The DM didn’t mention or decode the Hebrew he’s wearing.
That guy’s going to be very popular with the enlisted guys. Which is great.
Hmmm, Q Fix. Dude has good taste in rifles, not so much in ink.
Great, another mentally ill narcissist. What DoD needs to a return to no visible tatts policy and start kicking out the nutjobs who think inking up their body makes them into tuff guys.
And he can’t ascribe the ink to youthful indiscretion, either. 🤦♂️
/tattoo regret
Although I do think that tattoos are generally tacky and should be socially discouraged, ‘mentally ill narcissist’ is going a bit far.
Ok boomer.
His tats wouldn’t be visible in a dress uniform (or a suit). I’ve seen a lot of sailors with hand tattoos lately. Of course, if they’re deck seamen, the finger/knuckle tattoos and stars are pretty popular a la “master and commander”.
An Army guy with ‘H O L D F A S T’ on his knuckles is still cringe as fuck though.
Shit isn’t going to end until a spade is called a spade.
The tattoo prohibition on anything that can be visible when in a dress uniform was dropped circa 2005 (turns out having bodies to people three plus theaters was more important than if they were inked up) and, at least in the Army didn’t come back.
Before Trump’s re-election last week, Smith and his team had continued moving forward in their election interference case against Trump. After Trump’s victory, however, a federal judge overseeing the case agreed to give the special counsel’s office until Dec. 2 to decide how to proceed.
He should be charged and prosecuted for misuse of government resources.
“A CIA official has been charged with leaking Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack last year.
Asif W. Rahman was indicted last week in Virginia and was arrested on Tuesday in Cambodia, as reported by The New York Times.
He was taken to Guam to face federal charges – two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.
Rahman is accused of leaking documents that included highly classified information and detailed interpretations of satellite imagery that gave insight into a possible Israeli strike in Iran.
The documents reportedly began circulating last month on Telegram.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14077833/CIA-official-charged-leaking-Israel-plans-against-Iran.html
Holiday in Cambodia?
Even 15 years ago…contracting at federal agencies…kinda weirded me out seeing some of the other folks in the agency with clearances. The security clearance paperwork asks if you’ve ever been a member of – or supported a terrorist organization. There are a lot of Muslim Student Associations on college campuses and quite a few of them were funded by CAIR or partnered with other organizations (un-indicted co-conspirator terrorist orgs)….I’d say the same thing now with the CCP Confucius Institutes or other similar programs.
I took my HSK 1 test at the local CI. They need moar honeypots, imo.
Don’t for get to hold your breath until you turn blue
We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X (formerly Twitter). We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.
This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.
Also, throw your oatmeal on the floor and bang your spoon on the high chair.
Hah! Let’s pull the real meaning out of it:
“We are tired of having community notes tear our carefully crafted editorials to shreds. We only want to post where we can remain unchallenged.”
All of this.
It looks like Elon buying Twitter made the cleanup a self-selective process. All the trash is willingly leaving for MASTODON! Let them have their own bubble. It only means they’ll further insulate themselves from the rest of the real world.
Genocide
Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change once he takes office.
During his presidential bid, Trump pledged to impose wide-ranging restrictions and roll back civil rights protections for transgender students. And his administration can swiftly start work on one major change: It can exclude transgender students from Title IX protections, which affect school policies on students’ use of pronouns, bathrooms and locker rooms.
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Opposition to transgender rights was a focal point of Trump’s campaign: Republican ads attacking political opponents over transgender or LGBTQ+ issues have aired over 290,000 times on network TV since March 2023, according to data from the media tracking firm AdImpact.
The messaging may have resonated with many Americans. More than half of voters overall — and the vast majority of Trump supporters — said support for transgender rights in government and society has gone too far, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.
They keep using that term “gender rights”. Forcing others to celebrate and financially sponsor mental illness is not a right, it’s power.
I like how “support for transgender rights has gone too far” is “anti-transgender”. If you don’t submit to every demand . . . .
I’ve been saying people need to be careful about the whole “You are either with us or against us” thing. There are two ways that can go, after all.
Any criticism at all is “anti-X.” Particularly perfectly reasonable criticism.
Trans is a big deal for the left. It’s the one way that wypeepo can be redeemed in their cult. They see the world as very black and white. Everyone is either an oppressor or the oppressed, with everything neatly lined up into those categories.
Bad:
Whites
Men in general, but specifically white men
Good:
Literally everyone else unless you’ve been ideologically captured by “white supremacy”
In the Woke Cult there is no redemption for white people. They’re inherently bad based on immutable characteristics, and they had to find a way for “allies” to be assimilated and differentiated from your normal, bad white people. Rachel Dolezal tried “identifying as black”, which did not work. Apparently we can’t change color. So they tried the next thing on the list, which was “changing” sex, accompanied by horseshit gender theory. That one stuck. It’s also why so many so-called transgender people, particular those who’ve “transitioned” are white (with most coming from middle class or better homes). It’s why young white girls are so susceptible to “transitioning” (and in groups!). They need social approval. They need to be seen as a “good person” on social media, and so seek to transmutate into something more socially acceptable than an evil white person in your circle.
1. There’s no such thing as a transgender teen. There are a very scant few cases of legit intersex, but the rarity is almost incomprehensibly small. If you consider yourself a transgender teen, it’s because you’ve been fed lies for an extended period, you’re a fashion accessory for your crazy ass mother, or you have some serious mental health issues. In any case, they are still the boys and girls they were born as, only damaged by taking hormone blockers or having had your shit removed.
2. All teens will be better off once gender ideology is strangled, burned, then nuked from orbit just to be sure it’s fucking dead.
There’s this lady who is a friend of someone I went to college with who is gnashing her teeth that her son who is queer and trans is now worried for his safety after Trump’s election. I so bad wanted to write that perhaps she should get her son some counseling and perhaps not go forward with mutilating his mind and mind with this nonsense.
Like if you’re an adult and want to transition, go for it but there is a special kind of evil that enables a parent to go along with allowing their child to chemically castrate themselves because they have a mental illness and want to be seen as progressive.
mutilating his mind and mind with this nonsense = Mind and body
“There are a very scant few cases of legit intersex, but the rarity is almost incomprehensibly small.”
It’s around 1 in 5,000.
Parents like that should be jailed.
I’d be jailed for allowing my sons to do much less dangerous things to themselves than irreversibly changing their body chemistry. A woman was recently arrested for her son walking a whole mile home from school, yet those who allow their children to poison themselves and mutilate their bodies for social approval are heralded as heroes.
@CT
Much more prevalent than I thought. But that still means my kid’s school, a small private school of less than 300 HS students with a lofty price tag, could be nearly 20x larger and only have 1 (mathematically speaking). Yet there are no fewer than a dozen students there who
are mentally illclaim to be transgender. These kids are poisoned, and that’s with only 1 year of a DEI-based curriculum (which was quickly dropped once parents discovered what was happening in the throes of COVID and rioting nationwide). Social media did the rest. It’s fucking poison.Like I said the other night, I didn’t really give much thought to the trans issue until they started fucking around with our children, allowing transitioned women to play in biological women sports, and trying to erase women with terms such as birthing person or other bullshit. Live your life but when you are trying to force me and others to ignore biology and common sense, you can go to hell.
The people I object to in the trans movement, mostly are not trans.
Ahh, perfect. Another software fix band aid for defective hardware.
GM to recall more than 461,000 vehicles over transmission issues, NHTSA says
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-recall-more-than-461000-vehicles-over-transmission-issues-nhtsa-says-2024-11-13/
I got 250K miles out of the boring old 5.3 V8 and 4 speed tranny. Of course that was a 2003 Tahoe. After 2007 they went to absolute shit.
Fucking software fixes aren’t.
This doesn’t make sense, the latest year mentioned was 2022MY.
I’m sure everyone will be shocked…
Rabies test results come back for euthanized social media star Peanut the squirrel
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2024/11/rabies-test-results-come-back-for-euthanized-social-media-star-peanut-the-squirrel.html
Although it would appear that the animal is still deceased.
The most interesting thing about that story is that everyone seemed to understand which party was on which side of the killing pet squirrel issue.
Add it to the list. The Dems are now the party of big banks, big pharma, war, censorship, and killing your pets.
What COVID taught me was that most people who believe that they would have stood up against authoritarianism and punched the actual Nazis in their faces or join a resistance movement would have most likely been the assholes who called the Gestapo and told them that they heard someone in the Van Meep’s attic.
The transmission control valve on the impacted vehicles may fail causing the rear wheels to lock up, the NHTSA said, which would increase the risk of a crash.
It never did that in the simulator!
How many people really object to someone, a biological man, parading around in slinky women’s dresses or as Napoleon or even in a Civil War uniform? And if an adult wants to chop off and re-arrange their equipment, then let them. As long as it isn’t on my dime, or they are hitting me, or taking my stuff. And no one- straight, queer, confused, etc. – has any “right” to do so.
This. As an adult, do what you want.
But keep your ridiculously dystopian “ideas” (not to mention stupid and anti-science) about the fluidity of gender in the fucking faculty lounges where this shit belongs. It simply looks to me like a political capturing operation. Fill the kids up with lies against their parents’ will, and tell them how only progressives care about their wellbeing.
It’s fucking evil.
How many people really object to someone, a biological man, parading around in slinky women’s dresses
Plenty. I think you’re immersed in libertine circles too much if you’ve not encountered that.
Most people aren’t gonna raise a stink until their wives or their kids are forced to interact with the person in an intimate setting, or until they’re forced to bend the knee to the tranny movement.
I’m not these people’s parent. I’m not going to try to fix whatever is broken inside of them. However, I am going to treat them the same way I treat any other mentally unstable person. Namely, they will have zero access to my family, and I refuse to participate in a grammatical pissing match with them.
Sure, some folks will object to seeing someone like that walking down the street minding their own business.
If someone wants to be-clown themselves that way, I can tolerate it while still being judgemental. When they start demanding your compliance with their larping, then a line has been crossed.
My daughter will be going to the public school next year and while I haven’t heard anything out of the ordinary, I made it clear to my wife (who is liberal and more sympathetic to the whole trans issue than me) that if I even get a whiff of that shit, I’m pulling her out and sending her to St. Dominic.
I think a lot of people draw the line a little bit earlier. This is where I’ve seen a lot of folks abandon libertarian thinking and go more reactionary.
To paraphrase their concern (a concern that I share, in part), if the liberal order results in us NAPing right into the destruction of culture, family, and virtue, then maybe the liberal order isn’t all that valuable.
The line for many folks seems to be roughly at public accommodation. They seem to be settling on “A dude in a dress can live unmolested somewhere else, but he’s not welcome in my community.”
Trashie:
I think your analysis is right. But can’t this also be said about virtually all forms of social deviance everywhere? Not wanting “weirdos” around is not a trans-specific issue, nor is it specific to “normies.” Even social deviants don’t always want other forms of social deviancy in their circles.
Our idiot IT dept “cloudifyed” (outsourced) our data center across the country and discovered there were latency issues. Duh.
Japan does not like the Couche-Tard!
https://www.wsj.com/business/7-eleven-owner-receives-buyout-proposal-from-executive-affiliated-firm-8a134293?st=eVSLaf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I have a soft spot for 7&I because their atms allowed foreign cards, unlike some others.
Also, conbini in general are better than Canadian (or US) versions.
7/11 in Singapore were awesome even though most of them were tiny.
Deadly
It looks like the next EPA head will likely be Lee Zeldin, a former New York Congressman and failed gubernatorial candidate, and he’s already promising policy moves that would make the air dirtier and increase health and fuel costs for Americans.
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While we don’t know what specific regulations he intends to target, it is likely that there would be sweeping and/or scattershot actions to reduce the progress of the last four years. Regulations implemented by the EPA under President Biden will save Americans $250B/year in health and energy costs and save 200k lives in total.
Rolling back those regulations, as Zeldin has said he wants to do, would cost Americans money in the form of higher health and fuel costs, and would cause more death.
The reason these rollbacks would cause more death and higher costs is because they would increase air pollution, which is a major driver of death and disease and a major drain on economic productivity. The rollbacks would also increase costs because the targeted regulations are focused on efficiency, and reducing efficiency means higher energy costs for the nation in total.
Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey.
“…and he’s already promising policy moves that would make the air dirtier and increase health and fuel costs for Americans. While we don’t know what specific regulations he intends to target, it is likely that there would be sweeping and/or scattershot actions to reduce the progress of the last four years.”
We don’t know if the initiatives that the Biden Administration implemented are working nor do we know what this Zeldin guy will do but we know it will kill us. What a bunch of hacks.
I noticed that too.
Is this what the wailing of women and children looks like?
Based on the election and people’s stated preferences (CC was near the bottom of the priority list), this ineffectual watermelon will be met with “sorrynotsorry.”
Facts assumed without evidence.
Thank you whoever posted the HWFO link yesterday. Scary the reasoning matched my own.
You’re welcome!
An observation I have shared in the past:
The EPA serves the same purpose in the United States that the muttawii do in islamic societies (where they are often known by names like Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice). And, just as the muttaween forced girls trying to escape a burning dorm building back into the flames because they were fleeing in immodest dress, the EPA is full of people who would gladly see you die rather than to allow you to transgress the superstitiously based strictures that they believe protect us from the wrath of their vengeful earth goddess.
Thune is the new Senate Majority Leader because they the stupid backstabbing party.
In 2 years I’ll be voting against both my Republican Senators.
Eh. Rick Scott kinda blows.
I have read that Trump putting Noem in his administration is a lure to get Thune to run for governor, as he has family back home and his wife is tired of DC.
Hopefully that will happen Thuner rather than later.
Nice!
Here’s the thing:
If Trump intends to pass another $8 trillion spending bill and tariffs I hope the Senate doesn’t work with him.
If he intends to really cut the government, it hope it does.
…
He has been a Trump critic in the past. Big deal. so have I. So has JD Vance. so has Marco Rubio.
Let’s see what happens.
All three choices were pretty bad.