Check into a hotel in a different city. Wear a wig, wear a mask. Tell the front desk clerk you’re gonna hike the Appalachian trail.
Tell him you might not be back every day. No, housekeeping won’t be necessary. Talk to the hotel bartender. Order the Negroni. He made it wrong. Don’t complain because dwelling on failure leads to more failure. Take a bus into the city.
Wear your mask. Shoot the guy.
Go down an alley. Take off your outer layer of clothes and put them in your backpack (with the gun). Walk five or six blocks with your head down. Walk with a purpose, but not quickly. Cross a couple more alleys until you reach a park. Cut across the park. Hail a cab and leave the borough. Find a dumpster. Go to the dumpster in an alley and drop some of the clothing and a couple parts of the gun.
Know how to disassemble your gun. Beretta 92. Push. Flip. Pull the slide. Dump the slide. Like your last hookup.
Repeat the process until the gun and outer garments are gone. Catch a bus out of town. Take another bus to the town you checked into the hotel. Walk back into the hotel. Talk to the hotel bartender. Order the Scotch. Any will do when its neat. Sleep for a day.
Well, that was different. I take it Winston’s Mom is in mourning for no more Kruggie at the NYT?
Hey, don’t pick on my girl!
Sloopy got arrested for planting a flag in Tosu’s stadium?
tOSU would have had to beat TTUN for that…
Might as well be, he does seem to have been motivated by retarded half-understood buzzwords and empty slogans.
I thought we were almost to the point that
LLMAI was going to replace blockchain as the buzzword that could fix everything. FFS, the blockchain is not designed for quick, real time transactions. It’s designed for lots of tracking and keeping a full record. It would work great for things like real estate titles, but instead people think that blockchain games are the real use case.Stupid is as stupid does…
Charlie Cooke’s take.
Ivy League trust fund Zoomer nepo baby is a self-obsessed, ignorant piece of shit? Now I’ve heard everything.
He knew enough to know that his feelings mattered most.
He is a woke, spoiled rich, brainwashed, lacking in wisdom, honkey kid living in the age of activism. This was a big “Look at me!”. Guess claiming he was trans has gotten old and trite.
Hannah Kobayashi…sad someone can’t just disappear for a bit even after saying that’s what they want to do and then family members not able to accept that and end up taking their own lives.
This notion of constant contact is killing the human race.
Apparently a couple of decades ago the partially created corpse of a baby was found. The story that was presented on the local radio news is the police just now identified the parents but aren’t pressing charges or identifying them or the baby.
How do you partially create a corpse? :-p
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
The big picture: The conservative-majority New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Securities and Exchange Commission did not have the power to approve the rule that required companies to ensure women and minority directors were on their boards or provide an explanation of why this was not the case.
Attention NASDAQ-listed companies: I will identify as female, darkie, or both in exchange for a token seat on the Board. Just in case Blackrock, et al start applying the pressure that the SEC can’t (for now).
Calling all black, Hispanic, trans, lesbians.
I hope the bigger picture is that racist & sexist diversity bullshit has worn out its welcome.
It will continue as long as the grifting is still viable.
But not Irish.
Well, as another retarded named Elizabeth once said, resistance isn’t always rational, so what’s a little wanton violence here or there as long as it puts on the path to understanding.
I have the feeling that if someone were to start going after progressive politicians and pundits, then the violence would need to be condemned, and people would just need to be more understanding of the problems that the kulaks and wreckers have introduced into their glorious system.
Heated rhetoric needs to be toned down, which is why it is perfectly understandable that someone would want to shoot figures like Donald Trump and Brian Thompson, who have senselessly divided us with their hateful words.
You don’t need to guess. what do you think the J6 Reichstag event was all about?
Me, I believe if activist douchebags are going to start killing people for the wrongs of life, then yeah, politicians and government bureaucrats should be the first to be wood chippered.
I asked a progressive friend of mine that if he were to get their glorious government ran Healthcare (I know…we pretty much already there) would they also see it justified to murder a faceless bureaucrat that will surely deny coverage?
“That wouldn’t happen! It would be for everyone!”
“That wouldn’t happen! It would be for everyone!”
Do they actually believe that? Are they blissfully unaware of the UK NHS denials of treatment?
Both of my parents died on Medicaid. My dad was on year 5 of waiting for a cataract surgery approval when he made his exit. I guess that’s not *technically* a denial…
WTF…there are truly devout believers in every ideology.
The VA system of erasing the wait list is also not technically a denial.
“That wouldn’t happen! It would be for everyone!”
And none of us have to pay for it! The rich will pay for it all.
[Yes, they really are that fucking stupid, across the board. Which is what makes their pretense to being smaht so infuriating.]
“Do they actually believe that?”
These idiots believe that the very government that has regulated whatever entity they have a beef into a shitshow suddenly will fix it all if it but where in control of it. I firmly believe these people prefer government healthcare simply because then everyone is suffering, and that to them is better than actually having good care but it being expensive. How else do you explain them telling you Cuba and North Korea have better healthcare systems than we do?
We are being condescended to by our inferiors, Juris.
“Wonton Violence” is going to be the name of my new fusion food truck.
Wonton Violins would be a great classical trio.
Well look at that, the NYT notices. Day late, dollar short?
I don’t trust that they are reporting to be honest and would just think they are prepping the battle space. Similar to the stories about inflation and oh my god! It’s real!
Yeah, that’s why Joe let in millions. Followed by some happy horseshit about him only wanting to help people fleeing oPpReSsIoN.
Yep, NYT – checks out.
I haven’t talked to my friend who works in Border Patrol lately. He’s the only one I trust to tell me what’s really going on.
“Immigration”
So…Ruger made a Glock?
I guess that’s sorta neat. Probably won’t get one.
*shrug*
Under $400 already?
*reconsiders*
Serious meh.
If I wanted an ultra-light striker-fired plastic people popper in a caliber too heavy for its size and weight, I’d either get the OG Classic (a Gen5 Glock 19) or the Modern Undisputed Champ (an H&K P30).
Isn’t the P30 hammer-fired rather than striker?
The correct answer was P99 or PPQ.
RC – Yup! That’s one of the reasons that it’s the champ.
Sean – Every single person I know who competes with a Walther (including a sponsored IPSC World Shoot champ) has had to deal with multiple factory returns to get heir Walther working right. I’d stay away. They’re both German, but in a sort of Opel vs. Porsche sense.
At one of the majors, Walther was passing out glossy physical product catalogs. It was like a flashback to buying cars back in the day.
@ES
I was just being glib. 🙂
I already have a PPQ though. No troubles, but it’s not a high volume shooter for me.
Thinking about a P99 Final Edition for Xmas.
Like the PSA Daggers with maybe a better grip?
If I liked Glocks, I’d be tempted.
Gluger! Rock is already taken.
I have a soft spot for Ruger. When my dad got married, his parents bought him a gun since you were supposed to have one in your house. It was a 6″ barrel Mk I, and it’s the first handgun I shot, and the first brass that burned me. And I have it. It’s a freaking scalpel, even if it requires cleaning every 100 rounds.
Anyone who doesn’t have a soft spot for Ruger MkIs is probably a replicant.
I have a Mk II. I love it. I sent it back to Ruger for a tuneup a couple years ago and they lightened the trigger considerably. I only need to clean it when the feed ramp gets a waxy buildup. Takes about 500 rounds with S&B
In your sneakers, down the street and ask many questions, like children often do…
Disappear Down the Appalachian Trail
Hike the Appalachian Trail, you say? (we needed a music link)
Walk with a purpose?
Walk with a purpose.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk&pp=ygUVd2FsayBsaWtlIGFuIGVneXB0aWFu
Ted S.:
Walk.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ppo11FAvPc
Take a Walk
You never get away with it. Except that one guy who jumped out of the plane long ago.
DB Cooper.
Didn’t his kids just rat him out?
I pity those of you who still wade in the open sewers that are X and Facebook for the multitudinous side by side images of the Trump MOTY cover and Hitler MOTY cover you will be experiencing for the next several months.
I feel like the Hitler and the mirror cover (for “You”) would be a nice counterpoint to that.
“Startling Findings: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Cancer Growth”
I stopped drinking soda about a year and a half ago and within a few months noticed significant changes to my digestive system, and a few other things. My dad had intestinal cancer and drank soda. Not saying that’s what caused it, but after he passed I found some notes about health issues he had that I also have/had. So it’s definitely on my radar now.
Good to hear that fructose is not a problem. I eat a lot of fruit, at least one piece after every meal for dessert.
I was almost ready to start cutting down apple trees.
/Looks fondly at indoor pots of germinating apple seeds
#Washingtonwasright
I’ve been on an apple and orange kick during this time. It’s a good alternative, but I’ll still eat sweets especially this time of year.
I’ve become a label reader in the grocery store. Corn syrup is a big nope for any product.
I’ve seen some labels start using… alternative… terms for corn syrup, usually along the lines of fructose syrup or x sugars.
Corn sperm?
So people can get a 100% subsidy, resell, and pocket the money?
California just can’t piss the money away fast enough, can they?
I have a feeling that those $600 e-bikes will go up in price to just about $2000. Call it a hunch.
Perfect use case for price gouging laws and price controls!
Well, demand will increase.
Demand for used ebikes will instantly reach 0.
Interesting that only favored classes get the rebate and there are all kinds of hurdles to jump through.
I don’t recall EV rebates having that.
EV rebates weren’t 100%.
No but they are way bigger than $2000.
2K? What, does Campagnolo make an eBike now? Or do they come with an REI tent and a Hunter crack pipe?
$2,000 for a bike, let alone one with an engine (even electric) isn’t that much.
My wife’s ebike was $2000. I thought of having my Mom buy it because her county had its own rebate program, but I figured if anyone looked into it they’d wonder why a 90 year old woman was riding a bike.
So the Pentagon wants us all to know that the mysterious drones are not 100%, no way, none whatsoever, foreign in origin.
Next they want us to know they have no idea where they are coming from and don’t know who is doing it.
Fuck they are so bad at this but also the general public is so bad at truly giving a shit.
As long as they stay in NJ I won’t care too much
What if they are setting a trap to shoot down Santa’s sleigh when he is over Jersey?
Much fun was had of the Congressman who was sure there was an Iranian “mothership” nearby.
Yeah, we all know how these wild conspiracy theories turn out….
They have to be the Pentagon’s. No way they would just shrug their shoulders and make no effort in shooting one down.
I’m not so sure, remember the spy balloon story from a couple years back?
That is a good point. But I’ll also point to the early days of testing stealth technology, where people reported UFO’s and the military denied everything.
Russell Brand
@rustyrockets
I was just a vegan living a simple life in Grays, Essex.
Now I’m eating steak at Mar-a-Lago!
https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1866955543652286591
looks somewhat overcooked.
Figures it would be, the only red there would be ketchup.
Yes. No surprise for a recovering vegan. He’ll be OK and order rare in a few years.
No one who orders rare is okay. You need help, and some more cooking time.
*Patrick Mahomes has entered the chat*
They gave him shoe leather and said it was a steak. Yuck.
My invitation to that party must have gotten lost in the mail.
You missed out. It was a great party.
Mel looks great. Dude is doing something right.
A -21 this morning, the turkeys have not shown up for breakfast yet. Usually they are here at break of day.
So I’ll stop complaining about it being 4 here.
Yeah it doesn’t seem near so cold here now.
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
The relationship between lead exposure and crime in the published literature is driven by publication bias.
Correcting for this with any commonly used correction renders the meta-analytic effect of lead on crime precisely 0, down from r = 0.166.
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1867020634988961830
Fantastic. Looks like the fridge has stopped working, the freezer is fine, so I’m hoping it’s just ice build up blocking air flow or the fan. Everything in the freezer is now in a cooler, the perishables are in the cooler, and the cooler is in the garage (I would have put it outside, but the patio door is frozen shut). Here’s hoping I don’t need to deal with trying to get an appliance this time of year.
Sometimes the ice build up compromises the fan wires. Check for that if you can get to it. Resolder wires with nice protective heat shrunk covers.
Looks like it’s just ice build up blocking the vents in the bottom back of the freezer. Here’s hoping that once that’s cleared, the fridge goes back to working, and I can put off getting a replacement (we’ve had it for ~10 years) until next year. That’ll be future Neph’s problem.
I had that happen a few years back. Freaked me out. But 20 minutes with a hair dryer and a hammer and it was fine.
If the refrig is empty turn it on it’s side to check if the cooling fins are free of dust. I had one quit working, replaced it, was going to throw the old one away. I turned it over, saw 30 years’ worth of packed in dust, shop vacced the dirt out, waited a day before plugging it back in. Now have a working refrig in the garage, about 8 years later. Who knew that they got dirty after 25-30 years?
I bought a used refrigerator on my way out of town when I was moving here. I went to clean the coils/fins a while back, as I usually do that every 6 months or so, and they’ve got some particle board cover inset into the bottom of the frame, so you can’t clean the coils without either cutting the board, or possibly dismantling the bottom (I’m not even sure if there’s bolts to remove the cross members holding the board in place). Great design for planned obsolescence, I guess.
Hence “If you can get to it.” Big fridges hate home repairmen. Little bar fridges are easier to work on.
Also Neph, if it plugs with ice quickly again, it probably is a fan that fails to run.
It could also be a seal. I had one with a freezer door that didn’t always close all the way, and the moisture from the outside caused ice buildup pretty quickly.
This is the second time we’ve had a similar problem. First time was due to bouncing power outages that let a small ice dam build up in the ice maker intake, which let water run down the back of the freezer and build up a nice ice layer.
The freezer door seals well, the fridge door is another story (hence looking at a replacement regardless).
The quiet radicalism of Jay Bhattacharya
That just warms my heart.
Indeed, that gives me more faith in the restoration of science from the grips of SCIENCE!! than anything else.
Goodbye to Chris Wray as he flys off into the sunset in his government jet.
Coincidentally, on the same day…
https://x.com/DschlopesIsBack/status/1867016730658189610
Are they really this bad at it, or are they just rubbing our noses in it?
Pretty sure it is a parody link based on their self-reply.
I was just gonna make a joke about Slipknot’s dads…
Wouldn’t shock me at all if true.
I would say “what a fucking surprise” but
1. It isn’t a surprise
2. No level of sarcasm can hide my anger at that dick and his paid cronies.
Legit LOL at that link.
😀
Daily Mail Online
@MailOnline
Revealed: NHS calls for midwives specialising in inbred babies – as Labour refuses to back ban on marrying first cousins
https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1866823881383678144
lol at the community note
Wesley Yang
@wesyang
46 percent of the marriages between British Pakistanis are between cousins
As a result, Pakistanis babies in the UK account for 4 percent of all births and 30 percent of all autosomal recessive disorders
I’m assuming that all the food deliveries to Mario’s brother are being thrown away? I am kind of curious what his fangirlz are sending him.
pussy picks and bathwater
pics damnit
He’s got star power now.
Mushrooms? Turtle soup?
Surely someone is sending him a care package with tanuki pajamas.
We know a guy who can likely tell us…
I wonder if they made sure to keep Luigi out of a cell with a brick ceiling.
He said yesterday the mail is coming in quick and heavy. Food deliveries, the whole 9.
“Let’s-a go!”
“Dump the slide. Like your last hookup.l
Nice.
Re: drug testing moms
This is (one of many reasons) why you should avoid hospital birth if you’re medically able to. Doctors are not infallible and the medical and legal systems do not give a hoot about you.
Don’t be surprised when Democrats get quiet about deporting Hispanics – turns out they aren’t the reliable voting bloc they thought they were.
It’ll be interesting to see if that’s a durable change, or if subsequent data paints a less gloomy picture for team D.
Also interesting is the reaction. That article itself, while hitting the panic button over the ostensible collapse of demographics as destiny, misses the class forest for the racial and ethnic trees. Perhaps the reason Hispanics as a bloc were on team D in the first place was less because of the ethnic pandering, and more because they comprise a large part of the working class that the Democratic party has been systematically shitting all over ever since chocolate Jesus got elected, and they don’t appreciate being told it’s raining while their backs are getting pissed on any more than the paleface blue collar workers do.
I have seen several team blue people express that sentiment just recently JI. They suddenly want no immigration from the southern end of the continent anymore, and now are even talking about deporting these ungrateful illegals that bit the hand that fed them.
Truly despicable people these leftists.
Hey Fourscore, throw another log on the fire – it’s cold outside.
-19 deg F here at work
I’ve got my winter flip flops on today. 51 F.
I’m not going out for a while, got the wood box full yesterday, put the garbage outside the door, will take it out later.
Stay inside, it’ll be warm again in 5-6 months. I should have more baby apple trees come spring, if you need some, Nick.
Yikes.
Our strategic derp reserves remain full to overflowing.
I fail to see a problem. Logistics is a cruel master!
Looks like the pendulum is swinging back….hard. Yes it is a great day for America. I cant wait to see wha the next 4 years looks like.Also, the lunatic cockroaches can crawl back under their rocks.
I am with you Suthen.
Right now I’m optimistic and curious. I know there are lots of skeletons in lots of closets, I just wonder how much of that will see the light of day. I’m assuming it’s much, much worse than we think.
I am wondering how much of the stuff we are gonna find out will get the response Hillary did about her role in the Bengazi debacle..
I dont think I want to spend this time evening the score. I think we should focus on cleaning up the mess. Stop printing money. Lower taxes across the board. Restore the rule of law. Cut the fuck out of the government and get rid of the red tape. Get rid of the trough in DC. Get out of the fake wars and global gamesmanship.
Let’s unleash the potential we have. Shit-can the limited growth nonsense. Cheap resources, freedom to innovate and trade. All of our biggest problems will evaporate in an amazingly short period of time.
That sounds like a MAGA speech.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) condemned the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but also said the killing and “visceral” response to it should serve as a warning about an industry that is failing Americans on Tuesday.
“The visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system,” Warren told The Huffington Post on Tuesday when discussing those who have actually rallied behind Thompson’s suspected killer, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.
Fortunately for you, everybody loves the government and all its good works.
Trump should nominate Liawatha to be the chief of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
It’s like they think people should keep falling for the same ole stupid tactic. They failed to pull this shit off with Kavanaugh, but thought in their desperation, they could do it with Hegseth. And the facts be damned. Never surrender, and never give in to the woke left. If bad orange man has not thought you that most important of lessons yet, you are a moron.
That’s a gun I wouldn’t feel bad about dropping in a dumpster.
West Point public affairs lied to ProPublica, wrongly said Pete Hegseth never even applied to the academy.
Hegseth responded with a copy of his 1999 West Point acceptance letter, killing ProPublica’s story.
Big error from West Point.
And nothing else will happen.
I hope that’s not the case. Hegseth should go in with a vengeance.
Oddly, ProPublica did not pursue the story handed to them on a silver platter – that (someone at) West Point lied to try to sabotage a SecDef’s nomination.
Also, ProPublica did not out the anonymous source who lied to them, even though doing so would be perfectly consistent with journalistic ethics to protect accurate sources, but not ones who lie to you.
Not an anonymous source: “We asked West Pt public affairs, which told us twice on the record that he hadn’t even applied there.”
I’d go with cock-up over conspiracy, though.
Fair enough, but I don’t see a name. Give us the name of the person who provided this information -somebody responded to their inquiry. If they got it from somebody else, that’s another name. There are individuals involved, and definitely an internal paper trail of some kind.
Agreed, if it’s on the record, give us the name of the person. Have them explain how they “got it wrong” twice.
That would mean accountability. FedGov doesn’t do such things.
On the record or not, anonymous or not, if a source lies to a journalist, their name should be public. It’s in the long-term self-interest of the press/journalists, fer cryin’ out loud, to disincentivize lying to them.
“On the record” means the source has already agreed to the use of their name, anyway.
Eh, it is ProPublica, another Dem mouthpiece.
Just for that, I hope Navy kicks their ass(es?) Saturday! [Disclaimer: I always hope that anyway.]
New Jeep Ad
10/10, would watch again.
He seems a little peeved.
That’s pretty funny. Glad I got a Toyota 4Runner with a V6.
Yikes.
In fairness to Jeep, everyone makes throwaway cars now.
I don’t get it.
For those of you who would like Kari Lake out of your state, I have good news. She has been named the new director of Voice of America. She’s been a newscaster, and this keeps here out of congressional races, so I kind of love this. https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1867032795488330079
Next, shut down VoA.
And it’s parent ‘agency’
This revelation about ActBlue allowing democrats to funnel massive amounts of foreign money to their campaign coffers and marxist driven political activism is the tip of the iceberg regarding this company. And I am sure ActBlue chose not to fight this and admit it in the hopes of avoiding a deeper dive into their criminal shit. I have spoken of my own experience with this crooked entity back in the days of Obama.
We are going to find out team blue had a massive and criminal unfair advantage in money since 2006 and that ActBlue was one of the main entities to help them funnel said cash. Someone should loo at how much of that money pledged to Ukraine that didn’t get stolen was funneled back through ActBlue to team blue pols and causes.
“We had record numbers of people donating under the reporting threshold.”
Their headquarters are right down the street (although they’re almost all remote).
I keep hoping I’ll walk by and see it festooned in crime scene tape as feds carry out boxes of evidence.
(I’m not holding my breath).
We’ll see if the feds go after ActBlue. If so, I predict two things:
(1) They find massive, criminal, campaign finance violations. ActBlue seems to have operated on the theory that the Dems would control federal law enforcement forevermore. We’ll find out if they were right.
(2) The DemOp Media will be positively incandescent about “lawfare” and “persecution of political enemies”.
It all coincides nicely with when Democrats got quiet about dark money.
“Startling Findings: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Cancer Growth”
I don’t find this at all startling. I’ve heard many fitness and health podcasts state that sugar feeds cancer. When do imaging for cancer, they inject you with a sugar solution that gets absorbed by the cancer first. Cancer sucks up sugar. I’ve also heard people going keto when they are fighting cancer. And Mrs. TOK has met a cancer survivor who won her fight because as she claims, she cut all sugar out of her diet.
I honestly thought this was common knowledge.
Thought bubble, via Axios’ Emily Peck and Felix Salmon: These diversity rules have been hotly contested and this decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was expected, as it has a reputation for politicized and idiosyncratic jurisprudence.
As opposed to politicized and idiosyncratic regulations.
Bob Hope was primarily known as a comedian.
James Cagney was an actor, known for his “tough guy” roles.
Did you know they were both terrific dancers? I didn’t.
(Cagney’s Wiki page lists him as an actor and dancer. News to me. Guess I’m on the Road to Perdition.)
Yeah you probably didn’t know about Walken being a dancer either.
Taking a semester of judo in college improved my dancing immensely.
Hmm. I wonder if learning to dance would improve my BJJ?
I’m trying to remember who the football player was who took ballet in order to work on his balance…
Ah, yes – Herschel Walker.
Lynn Swann too, apparently.
I think there was a standard set of skills for entertainers back then. Singing, dancing, physical comedy, etc. It’s amazing to watch.
It’s from the tail end of the vaudeville era, AFAIK – you were expected to be able to do all those things.
You didn’t know that Bob Hope was a dancer? He was pretty famous for it, well before he got into comedy.
Must be a School of Dance in DC, the long lasting politicians are pretty good at it
Mercy
President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 offenders and pardon 39 others, in what the White House said early Thursday was the biggest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day.
Explaining what may become a defining act in the dying days of his presidency, Biden said in a statement: “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances.”
Will he send them to Cuba?
Commuting is pretty weak tea, but I guess the main thing is getting them out of prison.
“Deported to Sweden. Claims he’s not from Sweden.”
America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances. Except for those white supremacist mega-MAGA insurrectionists of course.
More questions for Mock-star:
What quality of nudes is Luigi receiving? What fraction of them are being duplicated by staff? Will you send them to Q?
I don’t think even Q wants to see THAT much blue hair.
“I’ll just take these to be, uh, destroyed”
I have a feeling the hottest one will be Taylor Lorenz, and it will go downhill from there. * shudders *
The ratio of hideous monsters to attractive women in those photos is probably 300 to 1.
I think you underestimate the appeal of a bad boy who they feel they can fix.
I predict some surprising quality pics there.
I don’t think he’s the one mock-star is guarding, because I thought he started that gig before Luigi was arrested?
Mock star said yesterday he was alternating two-hour shits on Luigi.
Thanks! I had the idea it was someone else, but I lose time so I thought the timeline wasn’t right.
Wray quits before he’s fired?
I can’t imagine any of them would stick around to be fired.
Fascist rally
President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after vowing an economic boom to a cheering crowd of traders and business leaders.
“We’re with you all the way,” the incoming Republican president said in the NYSE building in lower Manhattan, where he was invited after becoming TIME’s “Person of the Year” for the second time.
Trump was flanked by Vice President-elect JD Vance, incoming first lady Melania Trump, NYSE President Lynn Martin and two of Trump’s children, Ivanka and Tiffany, as the bell chimed.
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At one point, the room broke into a chant of “U-S-A.”
Morning in America?
Which leads inevitably to breakfast in America
THICC Thursday has the perfect escape plan.
https://archive.is/bVoMG
Batter down the gates with their comically oversized asses?
This may be controversial, but Sir Mix-A-Lot and the self esteem movement have given way too many women the idea that their gigantic fat asses are attractive when they’re really just gigantic and fat. De gustibus non est disputandum and all that though. Even I’ve fallen victim to the big booty Latina meme. When in
RomeTexas…9 and 34 would be permitted to eat crackers in bed without complaint.
Agreed. A healthy sized ass and being just plain fat aren’t the same.
“RFK Jr. tells Jim Cramer: Weight-loss drugs shouldn’t replace healthy eating, not against all vaccines”
What a monster.
America needs pharmaceuticals for all of our bad habits! /truly progressive
Hedge fund magnate Scott Bessent, Trump’s pick to replace Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary, told Cramer the next administration will benefit both Wall Street and Main Street.
“I think we’re going to see under President Trump Wall Street can win and Main Street can win, just like we did in Trump 1.0. Everybody can do great,” Bessent said.
The rich might get richer. Nobody wants that.
My uncle, who is ~95 or whatever, died today. I’m in that middle feeling of “Oh, no! Don’t go!” and “Oh, finally! You get to leave this accursed rock!” He was a witness at my wedding (along with my brother). He was like my second dad whenever I was around him, which admittedly wasn’t much. I do remember the shock I felt when I realized my cousin has her issues with her dad just like I have mine. When my aunt (his wife) died, I was 7 months pregnant with XY, so I couldn’t go to the funeral, which I always bitterly regretted because so what if it’s in Utah? It’s just sitting in a car for 18 hours. Anyway, my husband asked me if I was going to go and it was weird that it didn’t even occur to me this time to go. I went to NC for my other aunt’s and uncle’s. Maybe I should go.
Sorry to hear, Mojeaux. 95 is “sad but not tragic” territory, for sure.
I see it as graduating from high school and going off to college.
Sorry to hear about your uncle, Moj.
I look around and see my classmates in nursing homes/care centers. I don’t want to like that, I’d rather go quickly today than spend a year having someone wiping my butt. The ride to the nursing home is a one way ticket.
I have seem family/friends linger, waiting, waiting. Not fun for anyone. I’m watching, waiting, on a really good friend/classmate and another friend’s wife.
There’s a time for planting and a time for harvesting.
Somewhere around 20-25% of my classmates left, AFAIK. Some in nursing homes, others at home waiting.
Clocks ticking…
I wouldn’t want to be in a nursing home, either. The only thing I fear about death is suffering or lingering.
My mom is 81. She can barely walk because she’s in so much pain. She just wants to know why she couldn’t have something that would kill her.
This is why, despite the potential complications of medical suicide in a heavily socialized medical system, leaving aside entirely personal/religious morality, I unwaveringly support the right of patients to obtain life-ending drugs from a physician. In my ideal world, they would simply walk into the pharmacy and pay for them like cough syrup, but until then, letting a physician prescribe mercy to those who want it is worth whatever social repercussions must be dealt with.
I’m torn on physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia.
My mom would never do that. Although [[[we]]] have no particular doctrine on suicide because only God can know the state of their hearts/minds/souls/bodies that would drive them to such, my mom considers it murder (self-murder). That’s not an option. She has a DNR in place and every time she goes to the hospital and they say, “You don’t have a DNR” and I say, “Yes, she does and why don’t you know that?” they give me looks of horror. Then they get really confused when she demands, “Why isn’t that in my chart?!” It’s NEVER in her chart and it makes us mad.
She was in the OR to put a plate on her arm that she broke (she can look at the floor and break a bone), and the surgeon came to see us (me and my 2 aunts who live with her) and discuss her chances of pulling through. I don’t remember what question he asked, but I said, “Look, if she can’t play the piano anymore, just let her go.” He also looked horrified, but my aunts backed me up. I grew up with a lot of old people and I’d been to several funerals in my childhood before I’d been to a wedding. In my family, death is just part of life and not to be feared or dwelt upon.
So anyway. I would not pass judgment or consider it (self) murder, but she does.
However, when does physician-assisted suicide bleed over into murder? I don’t know. I kind of feel like if it’s that urgent, you should do it yourself.
And then there are the people who would like to go but CAN’T physically/mentally do it themselves. I don’t know. I just don’t know.
Condolences. It’s easy to say 95 was a good run when it’s not you, but really, 95 is a pretty good run.
Funerals are for the living, not the dead. Go if you need the catharsis, but not out of obligation.
Condolences. Such is to be human.
Sorry Mojeaux.
I’d say go.
My condolences, Mojeaux.
As with Sean’s thumbs – doubled.
Sorry, Mo.
Focused on the mission
A massive defense policy bill that cleared the House on Wednesday includes a ban on gender-affirming care for children of service members — a provision that sparked opposition from the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee and many others in the party.
The bill passed 281-140. Two hundred Republicans and 81 Democrats voted yes, while 124 Democrats and 16 Republicans voted no.
The sweeping must-pass bill — known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA — authorizes spending for the Defense Department and sets defense policies before they expire at the end of the year. It now heads to the Democratic-controlled Senate and must be signed by President Joe Biden to become law.
The bill was negotiated between senior House and Senate lawmakers. But Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the former Armed Services chairman who is now the panel’s ranking member, said he would oppose passage of the NDAA because it includes the ban on gender-affirming care.
“[B]lanketly denying health care to people who need it — just because of a biased notion against transgender people — is wrong,” Smith said in a statement Tuesday. “The inclusion of this harmful provision puts the lives of children at risk and may force thousands of service members to make the choice of continuing their military service or leaving to ensure their child can get the health care they need.”
What’s the point of having this vast powerful army if children cannot get life saving sex change operations?
I knew a guy who was in the Army; wife and 2 kids on Tricare. His youngest was diagnosed autistic (which, to be fair, so is pretty much everybody, but the kid most certainly had a developmental issue of some kind), and required speech therapy. They initially denied authorization for it, and he had to go out of pocket while dealing the the bureaucracy. But of course, puberty blockers in anticipation of cutting off the kid’s dick is the highest possible medical priority…
The provision in question, which specifically applies to Tricare, the military’s health care program, would prohibit “medical treatment for military dependents under the age of 18 who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria.”
Not even an aspirin?
Manchin and Sinema’s final middle finger as they leave the Senate
Both senators, in their own dramatic way, voted to defeat the nomination of Lauren McFarren for another term on the National Labor Relations Board.
Sinema showed up for her first Senate vote since the Thanksgiving holiday and voted “no” on a procedural vote to kill McFarren’s nomination.
With Manchin absent in the Senate, and the vote tied at 49-49, a potential tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris was possible.
But Manchin raced across town from a previous engagement to deliver the fatal blow, 50-49.
Zoom in: Schumer was under enormous pressure from progressive senators and labor groups to try to grandfather in Democratic control of the NLRB for the first two years of Trump’s presidency.
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In a statement shortly after the vote, Schumer didn’t hide his anger.
“It is deeply disappointing, a direct attack on working people, and incredibly troubling that this highly qualified nominee — with a proven track record of protecting worker rights — did not have the votes,” Schumer said.
Perfidious backstabbery! It’s almost as if those two have no respeck for Democrat-ocracy.
Hey Chuck – now you know what it feels like to be the Republican leader.
Sinema has been a pleasant surprise. I think she was trying to triangulate to get re-elected in a perfectly purple state, but crossed to many Dem red lines and the Party fucked her.
It was a miscalculation. As Senator Giffords (who was an astronaut, you know) has shown, you can be a compleat Dem cipher who votes the Party line and nothing but, and get reelected in AZ.
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Ephemeral notes on Syrian cities🧵
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1866537080257761323
In 1900 BC, China, an adult threw themselves across a child as they were both buried in a mudslide. The settlement of Lajia has since been compared to Pompeii for preserving a snapshot of life and sudden death 🧵
https://x.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1867231061513760891
Wake up call
In the broader business world, leaders might be tempted to simply mourn Thompson’s death, beef up security to protect themselves against similar attacks, and dismiss the widespread backlash as not particularly relevant to their organizations or industries. They may naively presume that memories are short and that people venting today will move on in the weeks to come.
But executives who do so are failing to recognize the gravity of this moment.
Consumer, employee, and community frustration at corporations seems to have escalated to outrage. We have slowly moved from a world of “I don’t trust you” to “I hate you,” and wide swaths of the American public now feel a great antipathy toward capitalism and capitalists.
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In recent years, companies have talked a good game about moving from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism, acknowledging that the long-term health of their businesses and society depending on them doing more than simply delivering returns to investors. But even those that in 2019 publicly committed to the Business Roundtable’s new statement of purpose affirming these corporate social responsibility goals, have, according to more Harvard researchers, fallen short.
Harvard Business Review wants a kinder gentler capitalism. Down with corporate greed. Meritocracy is overrated.
I must confess, I have an incredibly difficult time mustering much sympathy for the scumfuck oligarchs of the business world – graduates of such esteemed institutions as Harvard Business School nearly to a man – who trade primarily in industries captured by the regulatory apparatus, and who loathe with whatever quasi-human passion they might still retain, free markets and those who advocate for them. And calling their little Ivy League social clubs a meritocracy is a comical abuse of language. But you won’t catch me applauding their extrajudicial murder, even if some part of me can’t help but engage in some schadenfreude at their ironic hoisting on their own petard. I wonder how many of them will need to get merc’d before they absorb the lesson: once you have paid him the Danegeld you never get rid of the Dane.
We can’t even have the base level of agreement across society that murder in the street is bad.
We’re fucked. The universities have educated a generation of kids to think it’s acceptable to gun a man down in public. They need razing.
Won’t anyone worry about investors?
I want max returns on my money, what’s the sense of busting one’s butt, saving, investing, for the future if there’s no positive return?
You’re lucky they allow you any money at all. They’d surely deny it if they could.
“Consumer, employee, and community frustration at corporations”
That’s a lot of syllables to say “commies hate capitalism”.
And, of course, a fair amount of non-commie hatred of corporations comes precisely from the move to “stakeholder capitalism” and its embrace of loony leftism.
But corporate leaders cannot shy away from such debates and decisions nor hide them from public view. They must take time to reflect on fundamental questions such as: Why do we exist as a business? Who would care if we were gone? What value do we want to create, how do we want to create it, and for whom? These are not academic questions. Rather, they get to the very core of your purpose, from which you’ll gain insight into how to build and sustain a viable company.
From there, you can ask more specific questions like: What do we see as a fair profit margin? How much money should our C-suite make relative to front-line workers? Which negative externalities aren’t being factored into our P&L and how might we address them? In many cases, you might need to entirely rethink your business model, compensation structure, resource allocation, and compact with shareholders.
If you remain private you can set your priorities and run your business (almost) any goddam way you like. But go ahead, tell your co-owners to go get fucked.
The mental gymnastics these people do is fucking incredible.