Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
Federal ‘censorship nerve center’ likely to shutter, but State would ‘realign’ staff for same work
New York AG Letitia James says she won’t drop civil fraud case against Trump
Ron DeSantis Invites Daniel Penny to Florida to ‘Get His Life Back’ After Acquittal
Mitch McConnell, 82, on the mend after cutting his face, spraining wrist in fall on Capitol Hill
Congress expands ActBlue probe, requests documents and communications from platform’s fraud service
Insurance Stocks Have Fallen Since UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing
Small Business Optimism Soars to Three-Year-High Following Trump Victory
Judge Rejects the Onion’s Purchase of Alex Jones’s Infowars in Bankruptcy Sale
Capitol Police arrest suspect after allegedly assaulting Rep Nancy Mace
Alleged Shooter’s Alleged Manifesto
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Yeah, just like they stopped bulk data collection after the Snowden leaks. And I’m a Chinese jet pilot.
Morning, Banjos… Morning, Ho Li Fuk… I mean, Pat.
But yeah — this is most certainly one of those things where they should be “If we catch you doing it, your entire department gets defunded and you personally go to jail..” (Yes, JI that requires Congress — permit me a momentary dream that a majority, albeit slim might be able to pass through a law stating “That 1st Amendment? We’re holding you to it, FedGov assholes.”, okay?)
[smiles benignly]
I thought his name was Sum Ting Wong…
LMAO, now that is trolling!
Is “substantially likely” the same as “practically almost”?
The government is also not watching your bank interactions.
Thanks for that reminder of our perpetual nutpunch. So infuriating.
Is the government willing to subject itself to this kind of scrutiny?
How else are they going to have leverage to ask banks to deplatform people?..
What is that, like his 12th fucking fall over the last few years? How much graft do you still need to collect at 82 you evil old sack of shit?
Yeah — that love of wielding power must be so much more intoxicating that I can imagine for those types. Enjoy your sunset years and your family before you die in the Senate and stink up the place more, Turtle.
He was beat up by his CCP handlers again…
He sees Satan beckoning to him every time he looks straight ahead. He continues to work out of the sheer terror that if he retires and dies, his true fate begins.
This. It’s same for all of them. Look at Biden, Ginsberg, Feinstein…the lot of them. They would have their corpses propped at at their office desks if they could.
TERM LIMITS
I guess he didn’t think Rep. Grace would fight back?
It’s kind of comforting that after being a terrible person his entire life he has to end it all in embarrassing fashion.
Maybe McConnell and Harry Reid could be the undercard for the Tyson/Paul rematch?
It would be amusing to see McConnell and Reid falling to the mat repeatedly just trying to shuffle out to the center of the ring.
Especially since Reid is already dead.
WTF:
That barely moves the odds for the fight.
Hmm, it’s Wednesday isn’t it. In that case, McConnell and Pelosi – naked jello wrestling, and you’ll be made to watch a la Clockwork Orange.
* INVOLUNTARILY WIDENS GAZE*
Worked for Zimmerman 🙄️
The telegram guy?
I thought he opened a Philly deli and gave you your choice of bread.
He’s hoping for better luck in 2028, having seen a Penny and picked him up.
(-.-)
Expedite the appeals process then. I think the NY higher courts have shown some aspects of sanity over the trial judge at least. Honestly, OMB has a serious case for wrongful prosecution against more than a few people in a more sane world. Since that would practically have to include the New York legislature and their targeted law changes to make some of these possible, not holding my breath.
Why would she do anything to aid the person she vowed to destroy?
That’s the crazy part us those words more or less have left her lips and the courts still pressed on.
Ownbestenemy:
We’ve sailed well past respect for rule of law. What harm could that possibly cause?
“And when the Devil turns on you Roper, where will you seek shelter?”
A JI for all seasons.
A state AG has full immunity for official acts as I recall.
That speedruns the first three boxes.
But she doesn’t have immunity for Federal violations of civil rights.
Ah yes ZWAK, the law that gave birth to qualified immunity.
Everyone is accountable in some way or other. The fact that she is allowed to press on is a reflection on the person who is supposed to put a check on this shit. Voters? Governor? Bar association?
Which fraud is that? Does it even matter? She was elected specifically to destroy Donald Trump and goddamn it that is what she is going to do if it takes until the end of time.
That one was the fraud where he fully repaid the loans and the banks wanted to keep doing business with him afterwards, and no one was actually defrauded out of anything because the stated valuation is never taken at face value with such loans anyway.
The poor bankers got swindled by never fact checking Trump’s loan application against the municipal taxing authority’s tax appraisal.
But she had a professor who did a scientific study that proved OMB was a fraudster!
Look, the state needs to protect banks. Everyone knows how naive the poor bankers are. It is almost cliche how people can give them any crazy valuation of their assets when asking for a loan and them blindly accepting it without doing any checking on their own.
What do you think caused that whole subprime loan debacle a few years ago? A bad mix of gullible bankers and failures of the Free Market. That is why it is so important for the govt to step in and help. Part of that help is going after bad actors like Trump who take out loans and then pay them back with the agreed upon interest.
Taking down evil orange man was soooo important to them, that they were willing to completely wreck their real estate market and the legal shit around it. And then they had to send out the woman playing their governor to tell all others in the market that now that NY has weaponized the law, it will not do the same shit to them, because.
Get out of NY.
Everyone knows that assessed value is the same as appraised value.
How many people sell their houses for a different number than the tax bill? Only Trump.
This won’t stop until Democrats start getting charged for the same shit.
As I said last night, the Mangione “manifesto” gets released forthwith, but not that of the trans [sic] Nashville shooter.
The what now? Next you’ll be talking some crazy theories that there was a shooting at a country music festival in Vegas or that someone shot at a Congressional softball game or that there was an assassination attempt against Trump
Have his socials been scrubbed from the internet yet? Seems like a lot of people are reporting about them.
He said on his Twitter from like c. 2010 that His little fishy got sucked into the filter
Hurt people hurt people lol
It is damn strange that he still had the manifesto, the murder weapon, and such on his person.
I know I rejected the conspiracy theories last night but jeez… WTF? What did they say, he might as well have had “arrest me” stamped on his forehead?
I rather imagine he was instructed to draw down on the police when they came to arrest him and somehow he got cold feet.
He doesn’t even look much like the guy in the photos.
EH, it seems perfectly reasonable for someone who wants to be a spectacular martyr.
I’ll expect you all to accept me “I told you so”s if he chooses to represent himself at trial.
I rather imagine he was instructed to draw down on the police when they came to arrest him and somehow he got cold feet.
Luigi Mangione didn’t kill himself.
Bet it didn’t feel so good then.
There it is.
I haven’t read the manifesto, but I heard that he like thanked the police in it. Who tf thanks the police in their manifesto
That’s gonna confuse his admirers.
I’m not saying it’s fishy, but it’s fishy, how do we know more about this dude in <10 days than we do about almost every other shooting or assassination attempt this year. Ones like your example of that tranny shooter.
That and why would he just be found with everything in a McDonald’s. All just seems “too” perfect I guess
Hell, I’m half surprised he wasn’t caught at the McDonald’s Trump “worked” at.
Heh, Neph.
Roseanne, evidently with McDo experience, said he did a good job.
This must be one of those law of merited impossibility things, as I’ve been assured that trans folx just want to use the bathroom that aligns with their true gender identity, and there is no chance that anyone would ever use that as a pretext to assaulting women.
Hate has no place in the People’s House man… so he was just trying to force her out! Tolerance and Love!
ThE pArAdOx Of ToLeRaNcE!!!
But she is a Nazi and deserves violence. Or something.
But yeah, this shit is inevitable. The left has been stirring up hatred on multiple fronts for years and this kind of thing is the result.
Used to be violence in the halls of congress was congresscritters beating each other with canes.
Punching a Nazi is always correct.
They should start issuing canes at the door of the chamber.
This is the kind of non-seriousness that will likely permeate DOGE.
And there are other barriers DOGE will face.
I’m not sure DOGE will actually be a government advisory committee, seeing as I don’t know what the definition is of that.
If it can skate by it will be because there was no federal funding, maybe?
They have already pledged to put everything online for the rest of us to see, so the reporting part is moot.
Brought to you by the same geniuses who dwindled naval shipyards down to just Hampton Roads for the supercarriers — ensuring that when and if we do get in a peer level war, that’s going to be one of the first targets and we’ll lose all refit capability. Plus Newport News can similarly shaft us… win/win!
Funny how all the concern about market consolidation never applies when there’s lots and lots of graft sloshing around in the trough for the regulators and congress critters, isn’t it?
If the FTC applied the same scrutiny to defense business mergers…
Let’s say there were 5 refit yards, or even 10. Wouldn’t they all be first targets anyway? Maybe the only deterrent in a nuclear war is going to be 10 or 15 U.S. missile submarines on patrol station 24/7?
TBF, We only refuel carriers once during their approx 50 year lifecycle – and it takes about 5 years. We can do routine/extensive drydocking repairs in Bremerton, San Diego and less extensive maintenance in Japan, Hawaii, Guam, Florida, etc. There are facilities out there – but depending on the nature of the work….
Due to the Jones Act, etc the US Navy is nearly the only customer for the remaining large shipyards in the country (which is a big cause of the degraded capabilities) – and we’re aiming to farm out some of that work to Japan/South Korea due to their skills/speed for the baseline hull work, etc – while the final electronics fitting would be handled domestically.
Yeah — it wouldn’t matter in a full exchange scenario, sure. I was thinking more “China invades Taiwan and starts it off by lobbing cruise missiles from one attack sub off of Virginia”. Hit Pearl and Newport News and you’re limiting what the US can send over to the theater where you dominate the air space.
It would be wonderful if someone like Massie said something like “My Democrat colleagues suggested we cut umpteen billion dollars of wasteful defense spending. I totally agree with them. In the spirit of bipartisanship, I hope they will agree that we can cut another umpteen billion dollars from HHS, Dept of Education, and the EPA. Git ‘er done!”
I’m drunk. I need to hit the rack and sleep this off.
The problem is even the Democrat perspective given above is just wrong about what the real problem is; so the obvious “solution” will be to double-down on stupid!
So, tell us, JI, what is the real problem?
It isn’t the perennial fraud, waste and abuse, it is that Congress funds too much stupid shit (and it doesn’t matter if it is knowingly or not, they are RESPONSIBLE). In the case of DoD, our presence around the world; I’ll even agree to an extent with the acquisition system being broken, not because of evil corporations, but because of stupid bureaucracy.
So, we shouldn’t make any attempt at cutting back? We shouldn’t make any changes? Congressmen react within the same Overton window as the rest of us, so blaming the actor in an economic system seems faulty to me. You might as well fault mice for going after cheese; it is their biology to feed themselves. The answer is to change the system so those actors aren’t rewarded for this.
Again, right now the voters are looking for serious cuts, why not take advantage of that, and not piss and moan about something that isn’t changeable at this juncture?
Did I say we should make no attempt? Since it doesn’t seem to be clear enough – ignore the fluff and get to the substance. Otherwise, the pigeons will strut about the chessboard bragging about what they “cut”.
OFFS!!
The Dems sure are going to protect their fiefdoms.
DOGE – bad; not an agency, not even proposed to be funded by Congress, advisory only.
CFPB – good; not an agency, funded by Congress, has imposed regulations.
Sure.
OBE:
CFBP is NOT funded by Congress. Therein lies the problem.
It’s going to be fun when the Dems complain that cutting a $300k a year job that nobody shows up to is a Threat to Our Democracy.
How much does the VP get paid?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Bonus holiday Daily Ray:
https://x.com/DamnThatsInter/status/1866414787300831662
Damn… very nice. And very nice of him to share it with the town.
Damn, that’s great – a ton of work. Good dad.
Only about 2 grand worth of plywood too!
They really are hilarious little psychopaths.
Combining Christmas and Cats
Back when we had cats, we’d usually get a 10-12 foot live tree which they found irresistible. At our old house we put a hook in the ceiling and attached the tree to it with a wire, and at our current house we’d tie it with rope to the stairs.
Obligatory for His Holiness.
My what lovely people… (speaking of Tolerance and Love and all…)
This is why, along with the release of the ‘manifesto’ and news personalities and politicians and the like cheering him will continue.
Drum up a new resistance group akin to Occupy Wall Street but with maybe some teeth.
Yeah — the rhetoric is spinning more towards “storming of the Bastille” territory, honestly. And they think they can safely ride that tiger.
Time to fire up the wood chippers and 🚁 .
Aren’t these the same people saying Trump is going to institute death squads?
Not if we beat him to it!
How about brute squads?
The left is so stupid they think anyone looks at Yelp anymore?!
Especially for a McDonalds?
People will pay for Yelp but bitch and moan about paying for X.
Fantastic world we live in
New York Attorney General Letitia James said she will not drop the civil fraud case against President-elect Donald Trump as she waits for the appeal court decision, arguing presidents are not immune from civil litigation.
There’s absolutely no downside for James to keep the
charadesuit going.If the appeals court upholds the verdict, even if they drastically reduce the awarded sums, she gets to go on TV and crow about how she brought justice to the little guy and stuck it to Orange Man Bad.
If the appeals court tosses the whole verdict, she gets to go on TV and rail against the racist court system that’s in cahoots with Orange Man Bad.
Either way, she gets re-elected (and a little more clout within the DNC), which is all she cares about.
Her actions disqualify her for office and the practice of law.
She’ll probably be rewarded.
I hate New York.
It ain’t just NY, it is any True Blue area.
Isn’t her whole shtick that got her elected was that she was gonna be tough on Trump?
Nancy Mace assault- did he hit her with his purse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3qk4ohwFA
It is tough to be second fiddle to the crazies in Minneapolis, but the St. Paul city govt is trying to do their best to show people they are just as nuts. The mayor is warning of doom and big police budget cuts if he doesn’t get his increased tax levy.
I wish some enterprising journalo would look into the $175K for new library materials. Why? Because one of Mayor Carter’s first acts as mayor was to eliminate all late fees for libraries. I’d like to know how much of that $175K is to replace DVD’s and CD’s that were checked out and never returned.
I also want to understand the $250K for Free Family Pool Time.
To me, that means you simply don’t collect entrance fees for families to use a pool? You already built the pools, you were going to staff them anyhow. That $250K seems to be money you just didn’t collect. It isn’t like you need to write a check to anyone.
Of course, I’m a rube. That $250K is probably a check you have to write to print out flyers advertising the new policy, and probably need to pay an ad agency to design the flyers. Probably a few other things too.
I guess I withdraw my objections. To that $250K. Seems to be light if anything.
* I will say that a measly $250 for a reparations committee just seems bush league. A slap in the face of all the descendants of the many slaves that built Minnesoda.
lol Racist pandering is a priority but not cops. Well, ACAB is all the rage so sure why not.
Utopia incoming!
Ah yes. Nothing reduces inflation more than sending people government checks.
Ms. Hochul teased the plan on Monday in a press release. “My agenda for the coming year will be laser-focused on putting money back in your pockets, and that starts with proposing Inflation Refund checks of up to $500 to help millions of hard-working New Yorkers,” she said.
Congestion-Tax Kathy Wants Your Vote
After raising taxes, she now wants to send checks to voters.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kathy-hochul-congestion-tax-checks-voters-new-york-8df1e265?st=6chvb6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My response was “Fuck you, cut spending (and taxes)”.
Of course, if Kathy listened to me, things wouldn’t be such a mess here.
Easiest example of vote buying I can showcase…
This criminal shit about buying votes should result in time behind bars. It is far worse to me than all the special interest money.
“For $19 (in savings), we can have less policing, reduce our streetlighting and invest less in our downtown,” said the mayor, expressing more than a hint of exasperation with the idea. “What 911 calls in your ward do you want the police department to not respond to? What crimes do you want the police to not investigate?”
That’s just the price of a Big Mac.
“invest”
Thank you Sally Struthers.
The Washington Monument ploy. The reason it gets trotted is that people fall for it. Give me a day with their budget and I’ll find enough cuts that don’t affect essential services that they’ll be running a surplus, if they don’t cut taxes.
What crimes do you want the police to not investigate?
Assassination of public officials.
All governments arm themselves against their enemies and take actions against those enemies. The enemy is almost always the same – the people they govern.
The ‘Global engagement center’ is intended to spy on and censor wrongthink by the American people. If they were really concerned about foreign enemies we would not have spy balloons and Chinese drones buzzing about with the fedgov turning a blind eye.
Daniel Penny: The left wants to victimize you. It is why they are destroying our culture. It is why they want us disarmed…they dont want you to be able to defend yourself. They dont want anyone else stepping up to defend you either. It is why they destroy any institution that builds character, why they want to take our guns and why they prosecuted Daniel Penny.
There is your morning black pills. You are welcome.
There is your morning Black pills.
FIFY
* Would also have accepted POC pills.
Just POCs is sufficient. Pills of Color.
ATM machine.
The people only become the enemy of the government when the government sees the people it is supposed to be serving as standing in the way of what the government wants. In short, when government is put in charge of everything – and especially fixing life’s ideologically driven wrongs – it will no longer feel any obligation to serve the people. Eventually that government feels it needs to replace the people with one that is more compliant. Occasionally, like happened in the last election, the people overcome the crooks and tell them to fuck off without the need to resort to violence.
POC pills
Is that sort of like an ATM machine?
Rule 35? You will always fuck up some aspect of your comment when trying to make fun of someone. Pope Karma.
Pope Karma?
When I was first starting out all I wanted to be was a simple Gregorian monk. When I applied to a monastery, I lied about my abilities. Karma being a bitch, my lies were soon discovered and I never got a chants.
I never got a chants
Now I don’t feel so bad for making fun of you. You’ve earned it.
Asynchronous transfer mode?
Get out of my head’s.
Now that’s how you design a protocol, people.
Fun story – my roommate back in the day had started at some VC finance place and was talking about how he was involved in this projects around ATM networks and had just written a big briefing for the higher ups.
Him: “yeah, ATM networks are gonna be huge. I admit I never really thought cash machines would be a big investment.”
Me: “oh, god – please tell me you never mentioned ‘cash machines’ in your briefing!”
(Fortunately, he had not. Running on pure numbers, had no idea what the actual product was.)
Dammit.
Why the online left is simping for Luigi Mangione
I’m surprised the people who spent 8 years openly wishing for Trump to get assassinated and then celebrated when he finally got shot would be so crass.
To me it’s similar to the left’s take on taxes. They don’t care how much they personally suffer, so long as the “rich” suffer and can’t get a second yacht. Meanwhile the rest of us don’t care how many yachts the rich have, so long as our own taxes are low enough for us to support our families.
I bet you that if I point out that since the problem is always government we should start killing of these socialists running government, these people will all suddenly lose their fucking minds..
More money is always the answer
After DHS was created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Secret Service was moved there from the Treasury Department.
The task force suggested reevaluating that move. During the time Secret Service has been in the Homeland Security Department, “USSS has not benefited from stable leadership,” the lawmakers said.
They said the structure “potentially weakens USSS, a small but critically important agency, in advocating for its budget and other priorities inside a much larger entity.”
“A fresh look at whether USSS might benefit from the status of an independent agency, with more freedom to make budget requests and advocate for itself, would be a healthy discussion for former USSS leaders to have with Congress,” the task force said.
More money, more people, more paperwork.
“Ron DeSantis Invites Daniel Penny to Florida to ‘Get His Life Back’ After Acquittal”
If there’s any real justice in the world, that guy will be up to his eyebrows in pussy and never have to pay for a drink again.
The fact that someone dug up and encouraged the asshat that abandoned his son (the son being the asshole with a multipage rap sheet that was threatening people on the subway till he had to be restrained) now has an army of ambulance chasers ready to use the civil system to rob Penny of a future and money tells, me otherwise.
I have zero confidence in our legal system anymore. When a politically/ideologically motivated fucking DA can ruin your live by accusing you of a crime where there is non (or worse, for self defense), and they can then financially ruin you if you manage to avoid that railroading, the system needs to be burned down.
The WSJ prints 3D prints and dart gun and explains how scary ghost guns are.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ghost-gun-uhc-ceo-shooting-efb9819c?st=GMMA3e&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Meanwhile anyone with actual knowledge of both firearms and 3D printing simply groans.
There is ZERO chance in hell I would trust my hands to a 3D Printed gun.
I do not trust it to be structurally sound enough for that kind of job.
There are lots of printed parts floating around Saraspa as you would expect in a cosmetic-features-ban state. I imagine it would take zero time at all for a journalismist to go from that to “3D printed gun.”
That reminds me, I was debating looking for a good-looking wooden stock for my 10/22 to replace the plastic one it came with.
I haven’t done any serious searching yet. What’s a good place to go for that kind of thing?
woox makes nice looking walnut furniture for ARs, IDK if they do 10/22s.
Apparently they do:
https://wooxstore.com/collections/ruger-10-22-stock
Thanks. I’ll look when I get home (I expect work proxy will block a firearms parts provider)
It would be a LOT cheaper to just buy a new 10/22 with a wood stock.
Says the guy who has a permit and can buy one.
I thought the semi-auto permit was completely automatic?
UCS, shop here for a great selection:
https://www.boydsgunstocks.com/
It’s only semi-automatic. It’s right there in the name, after all.
More here:
https://www.gunpartscorp.com/gun-manufacturer/ruger/rifles-ruger/10-22/stocks-rug-1022
That link has options cheaper than a new rifle.
Thank you people.
I just checked and my local PD has finally updated their site to reflect more recent legislation regarding 2nd amendment permission slips. The longarm permit requires the same paperwork as the pistol, so I might as well just apply for the whole hog. They still insist on four Local character references. I’m going to go with “Saratoga is local enough” but that still leaves me two people short. I’m going to put out feelers to find some.
It is early in the morning here, first thing that rolled off my head.
I might have a spare 10/22 stock lying around if you are really interested.
Assuming Not Adahn is still willing to be a reference, I’ve gotten up to three of the four required locals. I might finally get the paperwork out the door.
I am.
I had to restrain myself to not try and explain yes, 3D printed supressors are a thing, no Luigi most likely did not print one himself.
I worry ( slash probably know) after this whole ceo shooting with a ghost gun that gov and the left are gonna do whatever they can to put ghost guns in the grave. Coincidence it was a ghost gun, the thing they’ve been trying to kill for years now?
Just a thought
Don’t ever let them see the video of the guy forging a gun from a shovel in a home made or we will need permits to shop at Home Depot or Harbor Freight.
Laughs in Tormach
Letitia James: Exhibit A, maybe B, as to why absolute immunity for prosecutors and attorneys general must go. They feel, correctly, that they have cart blanche to do all kinds of crazy/unethical/borderline illegal/flat-out illegal shit and now that shame is dead they’re doing so.
Step 1:
Ohio Ballot Board approves signature gathering for proposed amendment to end qualified immunity
You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Immunity makes them above the law so they feel free to engage in whatever ‘crusade’ their little black heart desires. Remove immunity and the equally evil trial lawyers loot the public treasury. It’s almost as if a Republic requires virtuous citizens to survive.
It’s almost as if a Republic requires virtuous citizens to survive.
Letitia James was elected to the office. Is there anything more damning to be said?
^^^THIS^^^
Don’t hold breath waiting for “Law and Order” to tackle this issue.
As far as the society she was elected to, she is virtuous.
Trying to govern by one persons moral parameters is a fools game.
Eliminate it, break some eggs to make a delicious omelette, then add back a dramatically scaled back version of qualified immunity so that a cop is allowed to tackle a fleeing suspect or swing back at a guy who swung at him.
Swing back at? Cop will just mag dump into anyone stupid enough to swing on him.
Bad kitty on cognitive framing:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/penn-and-telling-on-themselves
I think it’s as simple as they assume that others are motivated by the same things that they are and if they’re petty power hungry liars they’ll assume everyone else is even if they’re acting in good faith. Also, this is politics and truly good faith is rare.
The mental models most people build for other people assumes that the other people have the same motivations and desires, usually assigning them some outsized flaws that the model builder doesn’t want to admit they have.
Shit, their biggest problem is that they WANT you to know how much smarter than you they are. That’s why the Times published that article about how they “fortified” the election in 2020 at the same time as the government was cracking down on and canceling anyone that dared question the obviously impossible and anomalous results of the election. These people are idiots, but they want you to know they are smarter than you.
Time magazine. I wish I had saved that issue.
The only way to win is not to play. 100% ignore the liars and simply go by what you know is right. The only way they remain relevant is with eyes and ears on them so you must deprive them of that.
Excellent version of an excellent song. Long ago I sang in our church choir. It was really fun and there’s nothing quite like sitting in the middle of a choir and singing in four parts.
So very much this! 🎼🎵🎶❤️
Has a single South Korean president ever avoided prison at some point?
“At 11:52 p.m. Tuesday, Kim Yong-hyun, the country’s recently resigned defense minister, attempted to hang himself at the detention facility where he is being held on insurrection and other charges tied to the martial-law order, according to South Korea’s justice ministry. Seoul’s military has said Kim proposed to Yoon the idea of instituting emergency powers, which sought to curtail political activity, the media and health services.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/south-koreas-martial-law-chaos-deepens-with-a-suicide-attempt-and-raids-bdc2efe7?st=6HqKgf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He couldn’t manage to pull off a coup OR hang himself in prison? Probably good that he’s not in a position to general anymore then.
Like Epstein, Kim Yong-Hyun didn’t kill himself.
Back to the days of impenetrable smog and flammable bodies of water
The specifics of Trump’s proposal are unclear. Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond when CNBC asked for detail and clarity on what sort of rules or regulations would be diminished in order to provide “fully expedited” approvals or permits.
It was unclear why Trump decided to post the message on Tuesday specifically. But earlier the same day, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a dispute over a federal environmental review of a proposed oil railway in Utah.
The post served as the latest sign of Trump’s intention to deregulate federal agencies and attract more foreign investment during his second term in office.
By singling out environmental approvals, Trump’s post also puts a spotlight on his plans to roll back a slew of Biden-era policies, including electric vehicle tax credits and stricter fuel standards, aimed at addressing climate change.
Back to the days of robber barons using America as a toxic waste dump.
Breaking norms of press releases will doom us all
I hope he rolls back farther than just Biden’s destructive policies. A lot farther.
The Cuyahoga itself actually didn’t burn, it was just the oily skim on top. Still a pretty impressive fire, the likes of which you normally only see in wartime. They’ve done a good job cleaning it up.
Ass Wednesday provides callipygian curves and delicious derrieres.
https://archive.is/dkpoi
Meanwhile, in Argentina:
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1866665425234166089
I hear there are bodies of dead Argentinian babies strewn upon the streets from Cordoba to Buenos Aires.
He’s dreamy, no homo. Eh…maybe a little.
You better believe the globalists hate this guy. I am surprised they have not color revolutioned or assassinated his ass yet, considering how what he has done has exposed the failures of socialism, and especially this brand of globalist marxist based socialism in particular, so blatantly…
And yet Argentina was a basket-case before the first globalist took a breath.
Who was the first globalist? Christopher Columbus? Marco Polo? Some Viking?
Marxists were there before the globalists..
Communism has been around forever. The ‘globalists’ are just the latest push to upscale the system of communal tribal economies. It doesnt work. It never has, does not now and never will.
I am surprised they have not color revolutioned or assassinated his ass yet
He was supposed to be at the last FreedomFest, but canceled due to unrest in Argentina that he thought required his presence in Argentina. I don’t remember enough about what was going on to say if it was a Color Revolution or not.
There have been assassination attempts. I have a vague memory of more attempts than the one I linked, but I can’t find what I’m thinking of in quick Google searches.
It doesnt work. It never has, does not now and never will.
Eh, you’re saying there was no economy of any kind before capitalism?
The truly most stupid part of Marx is believing you can have capitalist prosperity converted into communism. And yes, they really do believe that there would be no loss of prosperity, just an “improved” distribution of it.
As for being immiserated and poor, a la feudalism (which was around for longer than we’ve had capitalism), you might almost call that the normal condition of mankind.
Who was the first globalist?
They seem to have come into existence post WWII, although I suppose an argument could be made for WWI.
To whom did he give his bride’s dowry? (Apologies, honest Q, too busy to search.)
JI: No, that is not what I am saying at all. Simply that communism is almost a necessity on a small scale. Almost.
On a large scale it doesnt work. As for other economic models that work there are a lot of factors involved. I dont know if feudal systems are better or worse given the wildly different levels of technology both free market and feudal systems have been used in. We would need more controlled environment to see. (My money is on free markets).
Below that: “MILEI: ARGENTINA WILL BECOME AN AI AND NUCLEAR POWERHOUSE”
“AI’s energy demands will drive a global resurgence in nuclear energy, and Argentina won’t be left behind.
We’ll launch a nuclear plan focused on new reactors and research into modular technologies, maintaining top safety and efficiency standards.”
I think a country’s leaders should think strategically like a big game of Civilization. This guy gets it.
The other guys dont get it because their motives and goals are different.
Yes, the ever trustworthy government has new food guidelines.
“The scientific committee is recommending that Americans eat less red and processed meats and consume more beans, peas and lentils. ”
Cool. Now they can go back to subsidizing corn and corn syrup production.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/american-dietary-guidelines-report-a5553e3c?st=WfAFWp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Fuck off globalist douchebags.
This marxist shit has to be made fun of.
The same mainstream doctors who have precisely zero nutrition training in med school? Those docs?
Fuck me is that an infuriating article. Big Food funds studies that show Big Food products are the best. Surprise.
Also, I’ve been following this guy for awhile:
https://staycuriousmetabolism.substack.com/p/seed-oils-sinister-or-overhyped
Excellent stuff on metabolism and food.
The FDA has watched as our country has become obese, diabetic, and sick with chronic diseases. But we should keep listening to them.
For me, the first step is to just eat mostly whole foods. The American diet has too much processed shit and chemicals.
Uh huh….
Tell me you’re a Millennial or younger without telling me.
Yep, that is exactly the right first step. Cutting out sugar and minimizing processed carbs will do amazing things for most people.
The challenge is that the proper approach is truly an N=1 proposition. Something like 93% of Americans are metabolically fucked up, so even those of us that think we are “healthy” can benefit from stepping it up.
Truth. Since I started planning my meals and doing most of my cooking myself again, my energy levels have been on a steady climb. It’s nice, especially in the gym, rolling with 20-year-old ex-high school wrestlers on T.
If I could just cut down on the ice cream, I’d be in really good shape. Fucking Bruster’s, opening a stand right down the street…
Pulses? I thought we were trying to reduce methane…
Re cutting carbs, observing another’s success at it can be helpful. Without that it’s just an abstraction.
Fuck off. I will decide what I eat.
Of course, but the government dietary guidelines have a pretty huge effect. Schools, the military, prisons – any place that gets federal money has to abide by these fucked up guidelines.
This is a huge deal and the food and drug lobbyists make the MIC guys look like pikers.
See Woods interview with Nina Teicholz (who also has a substack): https://tomwoods.com/ep-2569-ignore-the-new-dietary-guidelines-of-course/
Ghost guns are increasingly available because of technological advancements—including the prevalence of 3-D printers, as well as online blueprints, instructional videos and discussion boards about how to make such firearms. These weapons lack serial numbers, buyers aren’t required to have background checks, and sellers aren’t required to keep records of their sales, making the guns largely untraceable.
Don’t let the facts get in in the way of a scary campfire tale, WSJ.
The story seems to always be that people that think guns are icky side with government entities that want to disarm the people they fear will take up arms against them for being criminal, to disarm law abiding citizens..
And yet they still managed to catch this guy. Funny that…
It would have been better if he was stabbed with a knife rather than shot with a gun.
Or hit in the head with a hammer. Or run over by a car. Or doused in gasoline and set on fire.
We better start banning all those things!
They have already started on cars and gasoline, and England is showing them the way with knives.
Apparently what we want is traceability for its own sake. Not just with guns, either.
General Motors Scraps Cruise Robotaxi Program
Carmaker cites competition, time and costs needed to scale the business
WSJ notes $10bn, I’m betting it was far more.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/general-motors-scraps-cruise-robotaxi-program-ea3298a8?st=M1t7nB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
*sigh – facepalm.*
Who could have seen this coming?
So, did this slut decide to falsely cry rape because she didn’t get her way, or because she wanted money? I mean those texts!
She pegs the hot/crazy matrix, and probably pegs a few other things.
*looks at her*
*looks at his wife*
*sees his wife is an NPR producer*
Eh, I’m not saying I approve, but I understand.
What’s the Chris Rock line about not chasing after it but don’t ask me to run away from it?
He was part of Fox and FRIENDS, right?
Post #MeToo I have little sympathy for any idiot that falls into this trap.
Props to the Mail, normally I click on ‘something kinky’ and get a whole article of boring-flavored vanilla.
“You NEED my 26 year old pussy.”
For all her faults I kind of like her.
You wouldn’t say the same about Lily Philips (and her 100 men in one day).
Gotta draw the line somewhere.
Crazy? Its “written” all over her face.
Responding to an X post from Ryan James Girdusky, DeSantis welcomed Daniel Penny to Florida.
“Now where does Daniel Penny go to get his life back?” asked Girdusky.
“Florida,” responded DeSantis.
🙂
I looked up that quote the other day: much more recent than I had thought.
https://blog.jconnelly.com/where-do-you-go-to-get-your-reputation-back
That may be the more recent quote but the concept has been around for a long time.
Iago: “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed”
Before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFySAh0g-MI
After:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-work-same-industry-lilly-34293262
A woman who works in the same industry as Lily Phillips has admitted why she’s not surprised the controversial model is on the ‘brink of tears’ – and explains where she went ‘wrong’.
Nova Jewels, 28, from Scotland, is not afraid to put her opinions across when it comes to being part of the sex working industry. The fiery professional pleasurer strictly works on a digital basis meaning she’s never met any of the men who pay for her web cam and subscription services.
That’s not the same industry.
I wonder how the Nazi-puncher’s pre-trial detention is going to compare to a J6er.
Justice
A Federal Judge and a King County Judge in Washington state have blocked the $25 billion merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons. The decision is a victory for consumers, grocery workers, smaller scale suppliers and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC successfully argued that the merger would raise prices by eliminating competition and weaken union bargaining power.
Kroger and Albertsons countered that they needed to merge to compete with Walmart, Costco and Amazon, and that selling off 579 stores would preserve competition after the merger. The resulting grocery behemoth would have over 5,000 stores. The two companies spent close to $1 billion to push the merger through, money that maybe could have instead gone towards lowering grocery prices.
The Institute for Local Self Reliance, which opposed the merger, stated, “This historic ruling marks the first time that the government has blocked a supermarket merger in decades. It shows that the administration’s push to reinvigorate our antitrust laws is succeeding, including, crucially, in the courts.”
A group of UFCW local unions (UFCW 7, 324, 400, 770, 1564 and 3000) leading the Stop the Merger coalition, also put out a statement, “The well-reasoned decisions today by both Courts make plain what union grocery workers have known all along – this mega-merger would be bad for workers who deserve a workplace where they can be paid well for their labor, be safe and be respected. It would be disastrous for shoppers who deserve competition that leads to better choices and lower prices. The merger would be detrimental to our communities, would harm farmers and suppliers who deserve a healthy balance to negotiate fair prices for their hard work.”
It’s nice of Forbes to reprint union press releases.
Perfect. I understand this because it’s the business I’m involved in. Do you think everyday people understand this and how they would like to pay for healthcare services?
But instead we have the system we have and I find myself in the middle of my own experiment. The other motorist was at fault. Her insurer offered promptly to settle. I notified my insurer (Aetna) and my healthcare provider (Danbury Hospital) in writing that I would be assuming my insurer’s share of my medical costs.
In writing, Aetna advised me to make “sufficient allowance in any settlement you receive to satisfy the health plan’s claim.” I did. After letting the bills accumulate, I spoke to my so-called Aetna One Advocate who assured me that, once booked, the charges don’t change. I provided Aetna the requested paperwork to make sure I would be billed at the negotiated insurance company rate. The hospital responded in writing and said it would send a bill but “we need to allow more time for the claim to finalize.”
You can guess what happened next. Six months later, I still haven’t received a bill but, in just the past few weeks, the charges posted to Aetna miraculously doubled to $81,840.22 from $36,667.11.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/insurance-ceos-arent-the-problem-162a1bbc?st=HVDa5d&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I don’t know how people not in the industry could possibly understand the process. How do you even begin to unwind the mess?
Blocking such an enormous merger is a brief victory for antitrust and labor advocates. It is a small step considering the challenges for the grocery industry beyond market concentration and higher prices, such as bird flu, climate change, the huge cost externalities from unhealthy food, as well as poverty wages and retail food deserts.
WTF?
Challenges for whom?
Never mind, they’re on a roll with throwing spaghetti at the wall.
It’s a tell that they are planning to extort money from the grocery industry (read: you) for bird flu, climate change, the huge cost externalities from unhealthy food, as well as poverty wages and retail food deserts.
This is insanity.
https://x.com/willchamberlain/status/1866857430765744368
Bend the knee, Caitlin.
She is probably worried she will get prison shanked by one of them bull lesbians…
No, she’s the tenth highest paid female athlete in the world. And her salary is peanuts. She’s doing this to keep the endorsement money flowing.
Not good, why be obsequious? Just don’t say anything.
The pizza guy in the cafeteria unveiled “the Palpatine Pie”
Chorizo, jalapenos and pineapple.
Is the output what makes it Dark Side Sith Lord shit?
Cheap knock off of the ZWAK (anchovies, jalapenos, pineapple).
In other words, raise wages
UFCW Locals’ Stop the Merger Coalition quickly praised the decision and urged company executives to abandon the merger and drop the litigation still pending.
“They should redirect the billions of dollars that had been earmarked to pay off Albertsons’ shareholders to instead re-invest in our stores,” the locals, representing more than 100,000 Albertsons and Kroger workers, wrote in a statement.
“Re-invest in the stores.” That will assuredly bring prices down.
Of course, “reinvesting in stores” doesn’t include paying higher wages, which are an expense, not an investment.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-congressman-warns-iranian-mothership-behind-nj-drone-scare-urges-military-action
Okay…but what does DARPA have to say about this.