That’s right, THE Ohio State University beat Notre Dame in the National Championship Game. And all shall now bow in respect. They did what they could to make it interesting, but there was never a doubt after that second drive. Elsewhere, the Bears hired a new coach Coco went out because she couldn’t hit the ball straight, and I am doing the links too early to know who is making it to there men’s semifinals in Melbourne. Moving on…
A new day is dawning. And the reeeeeeing has already begun.
But the deep state is still around. Fuck.
Well, not all of them. Adios, fuckos.
Oh, well. Maybe they can apply for asylum in the country they’ve been sitting in for months.
Little Marco has a job. Hope he stays hydrated.
Sacre bleu! Maybe this will keep the frogs from turning gay.
Money talks, but bullshit walks. Well, so long as money can make bail.
Good! I love bipartisanship.
Enjoy the heat, shithead. You know, because evil goes to hell and shit.
This ain’t the music today. But I’m still posting it because it makes me happy. “How firm thy friendship.”
This is the music. And y’all know I’m happy if I’m playing it. Especially this one. So freaking good. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday with your new national champions, dear friends.
Ahh the AP article is comedy gold!
Trump’s inauguration realized a political comeback without precedent in American history. Four years ago, he was voted out of the White House during an economic collapse caused by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Trump denied his defeat and tried to cling to power. He directed his supporters to march on the Capitol while lawmakers were certifying the election results, sparking a riot that interrupted the country’s tradition of the peaceful transfer of power.
I like the first line:
I strongly suspect just about everyone who voted for him (and possibly even some that didn’t) are thinking “Man… I sure hope so!”
As mentioned yesterday, the Biden “legacy” of political persecution of your opponents, abuse of power and then pardoning everyone on the way out the door to try to be untouchable needs to be solidly erased from our national practices.
As one who didn’t vote for him, I am extremely pleased with his start. Now to see if Congress can actually do anything.
I remember that Joe’s EO’s that he signed on his first day were better received.
For example, he canceled the XL Pipeline and the MSM swooned.
Here’s hoping. And here’s hoping he (and his advisers) realize they really need to get Congress on board and get stuff formally through (like withdrawing from Paris, the WHO, the energy/drilling stuff, etc.) before the House is focused on the midterms. Because otherwise, you just risk another flip-flop when the next Biden makes it in — plus you reduce the “Hawaii judge” effect if it is all EOs.
(I’d also add “Plus, that’s how the system is supposed to work and all” — but that’s just mean looking for my belt onion again, I know…)
We were never “in” Paris. The Senate never ratified anything to do with it.
I don’t doubt there are other fantasies Joe got us into that were just in head, too.
I’m trying to find anything in that that’s true.
At least they called it a riot and not an insurrection. Baby steps you know?
I think we can grant “he directed his supporters to march on the Capitol”, can’t we? He did say to the rally something like “Go there and make your voices heard” or somesuch — not inciting the riot, just a protest outside.
And Grover Cleveland has a sad at the “without precedent”….
There’s a nuance between “march to” and “march on”. An army, for example, marches on someplace it intends to conquer. I think Trump meant more “march to” than “march on”.
Trying to castigate someone for off the cuff speech is akin to grammar Nazi’s going after a comment section online.
I wonder if it’s even worth proving the truth anymore. Donald could present stone-cold evidence of Joe’s minions with their hands in the cookie jar and the left will never accept it.
Even if you could convince, it was for a good cause.
It’s a cult. An evil one that thinks that the end justify the means, because they are the arbiters of good. No act, no matter how evil, despicable, low, or horrific, that gives them advantage will be avoided. Or even cause doubt in them about what they are doing.
There is no greater definition of evil.
You’re saying that to this crowd of anti-authoritarians? Nice troll there, Sloopy…
You have to counter troll – “Ohio State is a DEI program with a football team… https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/ohio-state-university-spends-13-million-on-dei-employees-open-the-books-rachel-obrien-taxpayer-tuition-diversity-equity-inclusion“
Sacre bleu! Maybe this will keep the frogs from turning gay.
If the migrants get hold of that honey, no goat will be safe.
Roger that!
Are you Randy?
It is a “wink-wink, nudge-nudge” to a blind bat!
Is your goat a goer?
If Pepe LePew gets ahold of it, no pussy will be safe.
I still don’t get why anyone was expected to think it was a big deal. In fact, now I’m looking at people who can talk forever without needing a drink as freaks.
It wasn’t a big deal. It was just funny.
Did Trump revoke Blinken’s security clearance too?
He was the fucker who organized the letter from those security experts. John Kerry is another one who should lose his clearance.
And if Kerry or anyone else tries to go around the admin extra-legally for any environmental conference/treaty BS (like Carter post-presidency) – hang em out to dry.
Carter nothing — didn’t that horse faced weasel try doing exactly that in OMBv1.0? Or am I misremembering?
Oh yeah — I’m not.
That’s why I specified Kerry – but Carter did it during multiple presidencies too.
SDF:
Yup, that is why I added Lurch to my list above. His meddling needs to be punished.
“Did Trump revoke Blinken’s security clearance too?”
Why would he need to? Biden doesn’t even fucking know what is going on day to day, let alone anything related to national security. The only risk is that he tells the people wiping his ass something they shouldn’t know…
Reread the comment.
And all shall now bow in respect.
Everyone north of Toledo just laughs. And you should be damn thankful for the playoff expansion, otherwise ya’ll would’ve been playing Alabama in a means-nothing-bowl.
It’s a sportsball game.
By definition it means nothing, like any other game.
Also, being a willing participant in the destruction of the Amateur sports (college level) is a matter of shame.
Right up there with eating Texas BBQ.
Any BBQ made from a snoutless animal isn’t BBQ…still pretty tasty though.
BBQ chicken can be quite good — though I admit it is more about the sauce than how the bird is cooked.
I’ve mentioned before the Harold Lloyd movie The Freshman, in which one of the scene-setting cards describes it thus – a college attached to a large football stadium. That line is almost 100 years old now.
::sigh::
Now I know you’re just trolling me.
I refer to UO (the Schmucks) as a football team with a degree mill attached.
The One True OSU (Go Beavs) still has a real school attached. And is a member of a real football conference, the PAC2.
Texas BBQ
Zwak, having identified a sore spot, picks at it with relentless glee.
One True OSU
I don’t know Grummun, ZWAK seems a little delusional.
Seems? Seems?
I honestly have no idea how Bill Miller’s stays in business.
Then again, apparently there are some Rudy’s that don’t offer green chile stew, so I am not the guy to ask about product decisions.
There is a place on Manor Rd in east Austin that had a side of the menu dedicated to “food we put in the smoker to cook.”
Smoked burgers are amazeballs.
https://www.hooverscooking.com/
And yet, they only made my 3rd favorite burger.
Zwak is not delusional.
-Beaver Believer who grew up with 29 years of losing seasons
There are probably some people up in Geneva and Ashtabula that are happy tOSU won.
EOs are all well and good but I hope they follow through with legislation. These things that pretty much amount to executive proclamations are just too easy to undo.
Wait? We live Chevron ruling now right guys? /The Left
*like
Watching that typo process after I hit the submit button is painful
Yeah — that wasn’t at all staged and an attempt to pull on emotions for the news media or anything. Not like the election was 2 months ago and the incoming folks weren’t very very clear on what was going to happen and when and she would have had plenty of warning…. oh no… it was just “I went to the app today and suddenly I’m locked out of your country! Oh woe is me and my little bambinos!” (I didn’t look — but I’m sure there were doe eyed kids in the picture too.
After 4 years of effectively open borders (unless you’re trying to follow the law — then screw off, plebian!), I dare say the mood of a good chunk of the country is “Too bad” and yeah… “Stay in Mexico then for asylum if your home country is so bad”. Followed by “Get the damned gangs out first” — which I assume is going to be priority one over the next few weeks once they have the incoming rate locked down.
The woman sobbed silently and slumped to her knees, while others stared despondent with tears rolling down their cheeks.
All done for the cameras. Totally phony.
…no appointments on a Federal Holiday. That made me really roll my eyes.
For some reason, that made me expect this — which was a pretty class act and well handled. (And a metaphor for Government Work [no offense KK])
Yes. She’s a real professional. Meanwhile Biden is losing his shit because that hair has to smell SO GOOD.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
With no disrespect to Not Adahn‘s regular feature…
Maybe it should be a reference to Cabala, since that is numbers based as well.
That’s right up there with “Why are so many scientists researching what the government is pumping grant money into?” The world wonders….
How did economists find themselves recommending and perpetuating a practice so friendly to the interests of centralizing governments? This too is a fascinating story.
Economic theory suggests that economists should be given prestigious career opportunities and power. This is a surprising turn of events! Next you’ll be saying that Lawyers draft laws that create profitable lawsuits.
Some economists worked it out – public choice theory!
It is the same set of theories that dictate that college professors get unlimited looks at co-eds.
And no sanctions for tapping students, even if the student is taking classes from the professor.
#WayTooLocalNews
I was literally standing outside where that fire started just a few hours before it broke out. If you watch this video, at the end there is a row of red toy vending machines. My niece and I were playing with those today.
So you’re confessing to planting the timed device that started the fire?
Arrest that man!
The in-laws have been teasing me about how long it will take for the cops to show up on my doorstep for further questioning.
Thank doG that I don’t have the big homeless beard anymore. For sure I would be in the clink by now.
Why couldn’t the fire have hit the Nakatomi Tower instead?
Because this fire is in Osaka. You’re thinking of the LA fires.
Allow me to introduce you to the world of Japanese homonyms. Since the language has only around 300 sounds compared to English’s 20k or so.
These are all “kaji” – the way fire is pronounced. These are only the most common. Many jokes abound because it’s also the word for “housework”.
火事: かじ
(P, n) fire, conflagration
舵, 梶, 楫, 檝: かじ
(P, n) rudder, helm
家事: かじ
(P, n) housework, domestic chores, family affairs, household matters
梶, 構, 楮: かじ, カジ
(n, uk) paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
鍛冶, 鍛治: かじ, たんや, かぬち
(n) smithing, blacksmith
加持: かじ
(n, vi, vs) prayer (to get rid of misfortune, disease, etc.), incantation, faith healing, adhisthana (blessing of a buddha or bodhisattva)
夏時: かじ, なつどき
(adv, n) summertime
To be fair, a lot of premodern housework revolved around tending the hearth fire or its ashes.
They need to clear the brush and ground litter out. I read that that was a problem in CA as well.
That looks like a live action scroller. Way to live up to stereotypes.
Whoa, I know where that is. We’ve stayed at the Marriott on the other side Tennoji Park several times.
As someone who is completely ignorant of Presidential Pardons, especially those preceding conviction of a crime, there has to be some mechanism to hold these assholes accountable, right?!? If not criminally accountable at least subjecting them to testify under oath and spend years being subpoenaed for various hearings? Or are they just going to be untouchable?
Putting them in front of committees and prosecuting for perjury and whatnot takes political will and the Reps in congress are notoriously spineless so I doubt this’ll happen beyond empty threats. As the acceptance of a pardon implies wrongdoing maybe civil suits could partially address the accountability aspect I’d hope but sovreign immunity likely stands in the way of that. We’ll see…
“Despite Biden Pardon, Fauci Still Faces Legal Perils. Here They Are…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/despite-biden-pardon-fauci-still-faces-legal-perils-here-they-are
At least it looks like taxpayers aren’t being forced to pay for Fauci’s security detail anymore.
Anyone want to explain how a govt worker is worth $11M?
@Pope
Speaking fees used as seed money for investments using insider information. Plus the 1/2 mil salary didn’t help.
Why would such a beloved public servant need a security detail?
When you’re pulling in $480K a year for who knows how long, $11MM is doable without shady side deals.
Although that little scumsack had shady side deals with Pharma, too.
Zwak, it was probably to prevent him from getting crushed by the mobs of autograph seekers and groupies wherever he goes.
I have known some star-fuckers in my life, but I don’t think even they would stupe so low.
I would say almost all his expenses were charged to you, the taxpayers that whole time. Plus insider trading, but mostly those royalty payments from pharma companies that he refuses to talk about.
I once again bring to you a great Rotten Tomatoes critic/audience disparity…
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fauci
Since they can no longer be prosecuted, make them testify in investigations into all their corruption. Any failure to cooperate results in new obstruction charges and loss of pension.
Also – Federal pardons don’t apply to state laws.
A pardon applies to a crime, and from what I can tell Fauci’s only real crime is lying to Congress. The rest is simply imperial arrogance wrapped up in bureaucratic immunity.
He’s an insufferable human who’s ethics are extremely questionable – which argues that he never hold a position of public trust, but that’s a pretty dead point now.
He probably broke laws by funding gain-of-function research after Congress banned it. But no big deal, what’s the worst that could happen?
As I recall Congress didn’t ban it, but Obama froze funding. So he violated a policy decision. I think the really more damning point is that this funded a Chinese lab – again, still not technically illegal.
Just batshit insanely dangerous and evil.
It would probably take a Constitutional amendment, but I think any pre-emptive pardon should extend only to the crimes confessed to by the recipient as part of the pardon itself. Similar to the way immunity is given in exchange for testimony – the recipient would “proffer” a confession, and if the President thought “yeah, I can pardon that”, then the pardon gets issued for what’s confessed to. And nothing else.
It is not clear that pre-emptive pardons – before someone is charged – are legitimate. Yes, it happened previously with Nixon, but that was never challenged legally. Everyone in the Swamp was just happy that Nixon stepped down (and didn’t pardon himself or others).
While the pardon power is typically called “absolute”, nothing in the law is “absolute.” The Flynn district court opinion has a short and pretty good review of some of the historic cases involving the President’s pardon power.
(“This power of the President is not subject to legislative control. Congress can neither limit the effect of his pardon, nor exclude from its exercise any class of offenders.”). The “executive can reprieve or pardon all offenses after their commission, either before trial, during trial or after trial, by individuals, or by classes, conditionally or absolutely, and this without modification or regulation by Congress.” Ex parte Grossman, 267 U.S. 87, 120, 45 S.Ct. 332, 69 L.Ed. 527 (1925) (emphasis added).
The pardon power, however, is not without limitations. For example, a presidential pardon generally must be accepted to be effective. See Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79, 94, 35 S.Ct. 267, 59 L.Ed. 476 (1915); but see Biddle v. Perovich, 274 U.S. 480, 486-87, 47 S.Ct. 664, 71 L.Ed. 1161 (1927) (finding, where defendant sought his release upon the grounds that he had not accepted the commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment, that “the public welfare, not his consent, determines what shall be done”). “Once accepted, a full and absolute pardon ‘releases the wrongdoer from punishment and restores the offender’s civil rights without qualification.’ ” United States v. Arpaio, No. 16-cr-1012, 2017 WL 4839072, at *1 (D. Ariz. Oct. 19, 2017) (quoting Absolute Pardon, Black’s Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014)).
On the other hand, a pardon does not necessarily render “innocent” a defendant of any alleged violation of the law. Indeed, the Supreme Court has recognized that the acceptance of a pardon implies a “confession” of guilt. See Burdick, 236 U.S. at 94, 35 S.Ct. 267 (“[A pardon] carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it.”); see also United States v. Schaffer, 240 F.3d 35, 38 (D.C. Cir. 2001) (“[A]cceptance of a pardon may imply a confession of guilt.”) (citing In re North, 62 F.3d 1434, 1437 (D.C. Cir. 1994)). As Chief Justice Marshall wrote, “[a] pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.” United States v. Wilson, 32 U.S. 150, 150, 7 Pet. 150, 8 L.Ed. 640 (1833) (emphasis added). In other words, “a pardon does not blot out guilt or expunge a judgment of conviction.” In re North, 62 F.3d at 1437. Furthermore, a pardon cannot “erase a judgment of conviction, or its underlying legal and factual findings.” Arpaio, 2017 WL 4839072, at *1 (citing United States v. Crowell, 374 F.3d 790, 794 (9th Cir. 2004)); but see Schaffer, 240 F.3d at 38 (vacating “all opinions, judgments, and verdicts of this court and the District Court” where “[f]inality was never reached on the legal question of [the defendant’s] guilt” (emphasis added)).
United States v. Flynn, 507 F. Supp. 3d 116, 135–36 (D.D.C. 2020).
This certainly suggests that there must at least be a charge pending against someone for them to accept a pardon.
NOTE: The issue of this “all crimes he may have committed” language was before the Court in Flynn because all President’s now use it, but the Court didn’t need to decide it because Flynn had an actual plea of guilty to lying to the FBI.
(Here, the scope of the pardon is extraordinarily broad – it applies not only to the false statements offense to which Mr. Flynn twice pled guilty in this case, but also purports to apply to “any and all possible offenses” that he might be charged with in the future in relation to this case and Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. However, the Court need only consider the pardon insofar as it applies to the offense to which Mr. Flynn twice pled guilty in this case. Mr. Flynn has accepted President Trump’s “full and unconditional pardon.”)
I think the courts have been very careful not to rule of whether pardons can or do apply to offenses not charged. Even the Flynn court sidestepped that “all other crimes” language. So they basically have a field that is free of binding precedent, and even obiter dicta, to consider the question. The closest is the language on pardoning offenses after their commission but before trial, which I think opens the door to pre-emptive pardons, but leaves some wiggle room to say that “any and all” unspecified offenses aren’t covered as an offense can only be pardoned if it is known at the time, or somesuch.
They have said Congress can’t limit it, but that doesn’t tie the courts’ hands. I hope they find their way to ruling blanket preemptive pardons are invalid.
Ozy! Was thinking of you when Trump announced reinstatement with back pay during the inaugural.
If I were Trump I would force investigations even if they can not be convicted of anything, ruin the Biden name. The preemptive pardons tell everyone (who doesn’t suck on Biden’s C&Bs) that their family has been doing illegal shit for years.
It appears you all are single handedly supporting “Big Alcohol”.
“A fifth of adults account for an estimated 90% of alcohol sales volumes in the U.S., according to an analysis published in 2023 by equity research firm Bernstein. ”
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/alcohol-industry-sales-heavy-drinkers-ba82727f?st=f6g33r&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
You said “a fifth”, heh, heh.
Too bad they didn’t break out Wisconsin by itself.
Wisconsin isn’t even top three per capita.
Ratsy:
Wisconsin has 12 of the top 20 drunkest cities in the US
Good beer, good cheese, and good sausages lead to a happy albeit short and fat life. With their weather that need an insulating layer anyway.
Outside those cities must be dry to bring them down on the state per capita list.
I love how a small, Oregon college town (that I happen to own a house in) makes that list. Not NYC, LA, SF, DC, nope. Corvallis.
Rat: The numbers I could find suggest out-of-state purchasers are pushing up a couple of places like NH.
and all the other states with higher per capita than Wisconsin?
I see a lot of college towns in the top 20. Understandable
Somebody hasn’t heard of the Pareto principle.
“alcoholics exist, more at 11!”
While pardoning all the J6 political prisoners, Trump rightly pointed out that they can never get fair trials since the J6 Committee destroyed evidence relevant to their cases.
Discovery used to be important and people should be in jail for denying them their rights.
The highest crime of the last 16 years is the amount of cases where these crooks in government destroyed evidence then claimed it happened through incompetence, and got away with it. Incompetence needs to become a reason to remove assholes from positions of authority.
They don’t even have to destroy evidence – just classify it!
Like wiping a server with a cloth?
I didn’t think the Weimar metaphor could be overworked to this extent.
Do you know who else took advantage of Weimarian fragility?
Did you naht zee it coming?
Did he destroy these institutions or merely point out that these particular emperors had no clothes?
Stop, I can only get so hard.
I am convinced that the pens used to sign EOs and other bills are Skilcraft. It is the only explanation on why they need so many.
At one point he was signing EO’s at a rally and throwing the pens into the crowd.
Much of what it can sell, Peebles said, will likely be at fire-sale prices. That could drag down the worth of other D.C. office buildings, which have already plunged in value in recent years.
“Buildings will sell for 30 cents on the dollar,” Peebles said. “It’s a paradigm shift. There will be a dramatic reset on property values.”
Won’t somebody think of the DC landlords?
The U.S. Government Has a Landlord, and Trump Isn’t a Fan
The Trump administration is considering selling two-thirds of the federal government’s office stock
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/the-u-s-government-has-a-landlord-and-trump-isnt-a-fan-872c469e?st=y3sUWJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Rolling Stone: Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk’s Straight-Arm Salute
The projection is strong here.
What else can you expect from people who worship power.
Another totally made up hate crime, because they have no real ones, so they can keep the idiotic narrative that they are the better people because marxists like them are seeing and fighting fascism everywhere, that will go down in flames.
The cultists, steeped deep in the stupid, will just drink their kool-aid, but more and more people are just tuning these idiots out.
Excited autistic guy makes awkward gesture may be the stupidest story the left has ever latched onto.
That really is saying a lot.
I am confused. Why are socialists upset about someone giving a socialist salute?
Cause they are marxist, and marxist hate fascists for saying marxism doesn’t work and coming up with a different horrible socialist system?
Why are socialists upset about someone giving a socialist salute?
Nationalist is all wrong, the Internationale is alright.
This is a hell of a tennis match.
Nole! Nole! Nole!
The King just moved into the semis.
Gauff lost, too. 🙂
RACIST
Meh, I was happy to see Tommy Paul lose too.
I like Paul but he is good at snatching defeat etc. etc.
Djoker is the Tom Brady of tennis now. Seen it a million times before, yawn.
I thought you Americans worked hard in the morning not spend it watching tennis.
You thought wrong today.
Was busy & also not interested in this match.
The next one tonight looks good, another American up-and-comer.
Who won on Dancing with the
StarsEnemies?Tall Marine was probably the luckiest and the only people that looked comfortable in that whole situation were JDs wife and the seaman.
Space Force insignia is lame.
Will Usha bring her dress to the same cleaner as Monica did? Those guys know how to get seamen off of a dress.
* The tall dude was an Army puke. The Marine was the SSgt dancing with JD (hoorah Teufelhunds!).
Meh. Army, Marines…whatever. Still the luckiest one out there, though Usha is not one to shy eyes from either.
JD’s style could use a little more action. Lacks imagination and creativity
I notice he lead Melania away from the group. I don’t blame him, getting some alone time with her is a worthwhile goal.
Elsewhere in the world – the Brits just committed themselves to another Crimean War.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-starmer-putin-uk-britain-nato-c030b163628583a322f39729160646cc
Crimeny!
Perfect, 100 years ago, Ukraine was nothing but a province inside the USSR.
100 years ago, Ukraine was nothing but a province inside the USSR – why is that relevant?
History matters? If you’re going to project 100 years into the future, it might make sense to reflect on 100 years past?
So 100 years ago, we had 0 Ukraines. Today, we have 1 Ukraines. That’s an infinity% increase. In 100 years, we’ll have infinite Ukraines?
In the past there were various empires that conquered various bits, Those bits are now independent countries. I still do not see what this reflection achieves at this point.
Well, a hundred years ago, Germany and France were not far from their third war over who got Alsace and Lorraine. And, of course, India, for one, was an imperial possession of England.
The point is, our world is always in flux, and Ukraine has no existence that hasn’t been granted by the surrounding political powers. It isn’t some inviolate set of national boundaries, not back then, and not now. Hell a fair chunk of the current Ukraine was for a much longer time part of Poland.
“Ours is not to reason why…
But to do, and to die.”
Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The British have had a crazy hatred of Russia for almost 2 centuries.
They committed to patrolling the Sea of Azov – look at a map.
This is obviously their strategy to get Trump to commit to the war instead of negotiating or just walking away.
That’s funny, Drake — because it made my first thought “That’s an excellent reason to cite for leaving NATO. You can’t commit the rest of the alliance to your arbitrary crap like this.”
Europe and the Brits want to defend them? Great — go for it. Just leave us out of it.
Indeed, that is the BS that got WWI rolling.
We leave, NATO collapses. I’m fine with that. It is a useless bureaucracy devoted only to its own existence.
I looked at some stats at the footballs and noticed some dude had 3 touchdown. This being a championship game, I assume that is a story the fella will tell all his life, Al Bundy style.
I wonder if the Ohio QB will be known in history as a mainly Ohio State player or not, because I understand he transferred, was not there for all his college career.
I do not watch footballs except very rare highlights, but I have to say it it somehow impressive on the long passes because the QB needs to throw to where the running player will be after X seconds, not to where he is at throw time.
College athletics in the US are not amateur sports. They are minor league professional sports with teams that happen to belong to Universities for odd historic reasons.
In local news, Moldova (the region of Romania not the country ) set a new regional record for blood alcohol content when a fella clocked in at 965 mg/dl
I wanna see a video of this dude just trying to function
Are blood alcohol feeders a subset of vampires in that area?
Welp, off to the dentist. About 1/2 mile walk in six
feet of snowdegrees. No snow thank goodness.Shorter than my walk from Penn to the office. You may be colder than here, but I bet we have more homeless!
Teeth chattering part of the treatment?
After last week, I don’t have any left to chatter.
I bet you do too. We have a designated site for “campers” out behind the Lowes where the strip plazas are.
Poor Ross Ulbricht did not get a pardon.
Yet?
Hopefully yet, his prime urgency was sure to be given to his unambiguous supporters and he still has the pardon pen.
I would never accuse you of being a pedant, but does day 1 mean end of day on January 20th or 24 hours from being sworn in?
With Musk’s tech influence the counting begins with zero.
It is rumored that would happen last night, so maybe today.
I had heard sometime this morning. So, 1.25 hours left Trump
Good! I love bipartisanship.
Good? well there are other opinions
The Laken Riley Act Reminds Us: If a Law Is Named After Someone, It’s Probably Bad
Riley’s murder was an atrocity. But the law bearing her name is a grab bag of authoritarian policies that have little to do with her death.
https://reason.com/2025/01/18/the-laken-riley-act-reminds-us-if-a-law-is-named-after-someone-its-probably-bad/
Given that they start off with “Finding out someone is an illegal alien and holding them for ICE even if the theft charges were dropped is BAD, m’kay?“, I can’t say I’m really all that interested in TOS’s Open Borders screed on the subject.
And I don’t see anything skimming the rest of it that doesn’t fit that bucket in my mind…
Remi needs to rework Monty Python’s Every Sperm is Sacred for Reason as Every Immigrant is Precious.
Prior to murdering Riley, Ibarra had been arrested for shoplifting. So the thrust of the bill begins there: It requires any undocumented immigrant to be held in federal detention without bail—they would not be granted a hearing by default—and be subject to deportation if they are arrested for a theft-related crime.
Lol, you weren’t kidding.
They are not immigrants.
Every illegal should be subject to deportation.
Yeah, this is one of their biggest hobby horses and it runs in direct contrast to reality. In an imaginary world where every nation plays fair, sure – move around all you want.
That world does not exist and almost certainly never will.
Listen. Illegal immigrants can’t be expected to refrain from stealing stuff. That’s inhumane or something.
They were just trying to feed their children with those cases of laundry detergent.
To show up and be cumudgeonly before I gotta work: The “Gulf of America” thing is stoopid. Hopefully it’s just something he threw out to deliberately have a position to back away from one Mexico does something he wants. The renaming/erasure thing is evil-evil-evil in myriad ways, so backing up all that shit that the proggies did is awesome, but this is dumb.
The news would rather talk about those stupid renaming EOs than anything else it appears. Mission accomplished?
Also too, this gives Mexico cover to rename the Gulf of California.
And we cannot allow that!
We can if we give California to them…
Heh… now I’m expecting Gulf of La Raza….
What Gulf of California, it is the Sea of Cortez.
People are often stupid. At least this particular stupidity doesn’t break anything important.
Think of the stimulus for all the printed map makers.
I’m sure that multiple government and military organizations would be updating maps!
He’s growing our brand! It what you do. 😉
The renaming EO would be stupid even if not issued on the first day.
The timing of the initial dispersal of hominins into Eurasia is unclear. Current evidence indicates hominins were present at Dmanisi, Georgia by 1.8 million years ago (Ma), but other ephemeral traces of hominins across Eurasia predate Dmanisi. However, no hominin remains have been definitively described from Europe until ~1.4 Ma. Here we present evidence of hominin activity at the site of Grăunceanu, Romania in the form of multiple cut-marked bones. Biostratigraphic and high-resolution U-Pb age estimates suggest Grăunceanu is > 1.95 Ma, making this site one of the best-dated early hominin localities in Europe. Environmental reconstructions based on isotopic analyzes of horse dentition suggest Grăunceanu would have been relatively temperate and seasonal, demonstrating a wide habitat tolerance in even the earliest hominins in Eurasia. Our results, presented along with multiple other lines of evidence, point to a widespread, though perhaps intermittent, presence of hominins across Eurasia by at least 2.0 Ma.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56154-9
• The Agricultural Marketing Service, using the power vested in it by the Watermelon Research and Promotion Act of 1985, approved a request “to increase the assessment rate from six cents per hundredweight to nine cents.” This extra cash will be deployed by the National Watermelon Promotion Board to “strengthen the position of watermelons in the marketplace,” so watch your back, Big Cantaloupe. Separately, the feds are holding a referendum of natural grass sod producers to see if they favor a similar setup.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/doges-challenge-is-gargantuan-bureaucrats-list-watermelons-whales-wampum-9b849754?st=wJrHnu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Watermelons are second best melon after Q-link melons. It is known. In Romania it is called red melon to differentiate it from all other melons which are yellow melons. I do not like yellow melons.
“Watermelons are second best melon after Q-link melons. It is known.”
Facts in evidence, your honor!!
Oh God, please no more watermelons. I am so tired of listening to explanations of why the world will end unless we give upoil.
Watermelons come in yellow too. I like ’em though the flavor is very similar to the reds and orange colored I can’t tell the color in a taste test with my eyes closed.
Mr. Score knows his melons.
Yep, those varieties are the bomb.
I will not rant, at this time, about how good Florida citrus is.
Do they serve fried chicken at the Watermelon Research and Promotion conferences?
‘Cause that would be awesome.
-1 Fuzzy Zoeller
Shorter than my walk from Penn to the office. You may be colder than here, but I bet we have more homeless!
One of the things I remember about Manhattan in winter is no matter what direction you are walking, the wind is always in your face.
The coldest part is the the Battery – the southern most part. The wind comes off either the Hudson or East Rivers.
It’s similar to Chicago, but with warmer temperatures so it’s not that crazy cold, but it’s still awful.
Tall buildings help to funnel wind. Making the turn north downtown on foot after the lake has frozen generally includes tipping your head down to avoid the brunt of the wind.
Are Space Force enlisted people Spacemen? Spaceman First Class?
Are they referred to, like Devil Dogs or Squids, as Spiffs?
Only if they’re Calvinists, Zwak.
guardians
Rat on a train:
Excuse me… it’s Indians.
…but not of the Galaxy.
Space Force Indians does sound better.
At least they didn’t go with Redshirts.
“America’s newest military service is also the Nation’s smallest – about 4,200 enlisted and 4,300 officer Guardians”
Each officer has his/her own handler/valet/groomsperson. I’m guessing promotions come fast and from quota allocations from the other services.
One of the Navy guys I was working with at Dahlgren got a lateral transfer to Space Force – he may have transferred by now.
If it’s like the Air Force…they’re probably leaning towards officers for moving satellites (like drones) over enlisted folks. Only a few bases so far – so LNOs (liasons between services in a lot of facilities) will also be officers. Will probably expand at the ground level in time…not sure they even have a Basic training system in place yet or if they’ve been piggybacking off the AF.
Laughs imagining Cyber Force basic training.
CYBERCOM is a global combatant command (like STRATCOM, TRANSCOM and SOFCOM) – not a military service. But yeah…space guardians…
Repeal of Goldwater-Nichols should be a Republican priority. Then again, I’d like to see the National Security Act of ’47 overhauled.
Yesterday was a good day (despite the Indiana team losing). My favorite part was at about 8pm, Trump was in the Oval Office signing EO’s and doing a press conference. A guy was just handing him folders.
“What’s this one?”
“This pardons the January 6 prisoners sir.”
“Oh those people were treated badly.”
“What’s this one?”
“This opens up drilling in Alaska.”
Meanwhile, the press is throwing questions at him and he’s just casually answering them. He knew what he was talking about. It was such a shocking change from Biden. No teleprompter, no notecards, no staff calling a lid, no gatekeepers.
I am excited for 2025.
I am too. I expect to see energy prices come down, which will make other prices come down, and the economy start to improve. That and a few other things will hopefully be good for my business.
I’m a cynic — I expect prices to be an inflationary ratchet (i.e. they won’t go back down). I expect them to stop rising so much… well, I do expect gas to go down for most of the country. Gavin will surely Trump-proof the pump and match any reductions with “carbon emissions” taxes or something.
The tariffs if broadly executed will be inflationary.
This is a losing battle, but I think it is important so I will keep fighting it. What is ‘inflating’ in the concept of inflation is the amount of money in existence, price increases are a symptom of inflation, but can have other causes, for example tariffs or other taxes. Prices increasing is not the most important or evil result of inflation. The automatic and hidden transfer of wealth from every person owning wealth to those creating the new money that occurs when the money supply is increased is far worse.
@Jarflax, you’re right, the amount of money in the systems isn’t going to decrease, so that’s a one-way ratchet. But I do think energy prices affect the price of everything else, and I expect at least some decrease in prices due to that. And “at least some” would still make a big difference.
The overspending will continue, the growth in dollars will continue, scarcity will continue, inflation will continue.
Will the circle be unbroken?
I was replying to Sensei specifically, and was being somewhat pedantic about price increases from other causes not being inflation. Only somewhat because again, prices going up is only a symptom of inflation. I understand that price increases are what create the obvious pain short term, but the wealth transfer over the long term hurts people more, and is the cause for the often lamented increase in income/wealth inequality and reduces economic mobility. The reality is that prices as % of total wealth required to buy something don’t increase from inflation, instead your individual share of that overall wealth decreases if your share was mostly held in money, or in agreements to exchange your labor for money. The working people, especially young people starting out, have few hard assets. They trade their work for money and live on that money, ideally saving some and converting those savings into assets. If prices rise due to non-inflation causes like tariffs, those people are harmed, but can to some extent mitigate the harm by avoiding the items whose prices rise, because their wealth is not stolen from them, it’s just that somethings are more expensive. Inflation decreases their wealth directly by making the money they receive for their work less valuable across the board, with that decrease in value directly transferred to those who issued the new money. In this country the Federal Reserve Banks.
The tariffs if broadly executed
Should be outside the scope of national security and thus not a presidential perogative.
Well, dang. Jarflax beat me to my ackchually.
The Dems do have the audacity to at some point start up the 25th Amendment talk.
They should also go for impeachment. Third time’s the charm.
J6 prisoners in other prisons have already been released. The DC jail is stonewalling.
https://x.com/FreeStateWill/status/1881709780844290273
A couple dozen Marshalls or a battalion of Marines might help them prioritize their release.
The last 4 years has made it certainly look (if not in actuality) like the DC courts, jails, etc. are all about the Power of the FedGov, screw the laws and screw the rest of the country. Which is why the immediate lawsuit(s?) filed against OMBv2.0 the second he was sworn in were, of course, filed there — and why I expect them to get all the careful consideration of the Hawaii judge.
Both Exxon Mobil and Chevron said last month that they are talking to potential data-center customers on deals to supply natural-gas-fired power paired with carbon-capture technology.
Of course they are. AI + Green = $$$
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-majors-flirt-with-electricity-0d1df707?st=LUk3Tw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Murderous traitors, one and all
President Donald Trump has pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including people convicted of assaulting police officers, using his clemency powers on his first day back in office to undo the massive prosecution of the unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.
Trump’s action, just hours after his return to the White House on Monday, paves the way for the release from prison of people found guilty of violent attacks on police, as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep the Republican in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Joe should have had them all shot.
Last night the people on NBC looked very concerned about this.
“Trump’s action, just hours after his return to the White House on Monday, paves the way for the release from prison of people found guilty of violent attacks on police”
Totally different than Biden releasing Peltier, who killed two FBI agents.
If they didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who lost consciousness and suffered a heart attack after a rioter shocked him with a stun gun, appeared taken aback to learn from an Associated Press reporter that those who assaulted police officers are among the pardon recipients.
“This is what the American people voted for,” he said. “How do you react to something like that?”
Fanone said he has spent the past four years worried about his safety and the well-being of his family. Pardoning his assailants only compounds his fears, he said.
“I think they’re cowards,” he said. “Their strength was in their numbers and the mob mentality. And as individuals, they are who they are.”
Quite a speech from a guy who thought he was invincible as long as he could hide behind a badge.
Is that the psycho that went to hide in the mountains? The one with the long, questionable record?
Ah yes. It was.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-dc-officer-fanone-hunkers-down-blue-ridge-mountains-fully-expects-shootout-trump
Nadia Whittome MP
@NadiaWhittomeMP
Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️🌈
As Donald Trump is inaugurated today, we should remember what his presidency was like last time: a disaster for women, people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community and the planet.
Solidarity with all those who will be fighting for justice and equality under his second term.\
https://x.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/1881368723497623841
Trump lost the support of Nottingham Labor… whatever will he do
IDIOTS OF THE WORLD – UNITE!!! We have only our brains to lose!
Appoint a new sheriff!
Four years ago, I was trying to figure out how much food I could grow on a one-acre lot and how long I had to become self-sufficient.
Biden was promising to stack the Supreme Court and create a socialist country wrapped in paper mache.
This is the first time in four years that I haven’t been terrified of the future.
We’ll have to wait and see what 2028 has to bring.
It’s only a temporary reprieve.
This is too good not to share. From part of Biden’s economic team.
Bidenomics Delivered on Its Promises
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/bidenomics-delivered-on-its-promises-we-are-handing-trump-a-strong-economy-988f89e6?st=hadYNy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ah, the ass covering, right on schedule. Whenever I read these, I ask, “A strong economy for who?” Not for most of us outside of DC and Silicon Valley.
“All my friends made bank! Who said the economy sucks?”
You were too stupid to get in on the grift?
🙄
The Communists
@CPGBML
Joti Brar and Alexander McKay present a new party pamphlet about Trotskyism.
https://x.com/CPGBML/status/1873323201171710136
Today’s Trotskyites claim to be the ‘true inheritors’ of VI Lenin, faithful upholders of revolutionary Leninist ideology and of the Bolshevik organising tradition which brought us the world’s first socialist state in 1917. But in reality their organisations and leaders play the role of agent provocateur in the working-class movement, just as Trotsky did throughout his lifetime.
By consistently denigrating and opposing the forces that actually fight imperialism, whether at home or abroad, Trotskyism works to mislead potential revolutionaries and prevent them from making any meaningful contribution to the struggle for socialism. Despite their constant calls for strikes and uprisings ‘now’, no Trotskyist group has ever led a successful movement against capitalism in over a century of revolutionary posturing.
Communism would totally work if it weren’t for those damn Trotskyism
In fairness, the neo-conservative movement was started by ex-Trotskyites. You can’t blame Stalinists for that!
Sure you can. Had Stalin not driven them out, they wouldn’t have founded it!
I’ve read where the greater part of the Bolsheviks were terrified of the Napoleonic figure and when they looked at Trotsky that is what they saw – a man who could emerge amidst the Jacobins and destroy them.
Can you or can’t you pick ’em?
That is ice cold Sensei.
I thought I would go check on CNN and see how they are handling it. Not bad. Could be worse.
I found this though:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/politics/video/jackson-reffitt-father-january-6-rioter-trump-pardon-ebof-digvid
Remember this kid? What a piece of work.
Literally the definition of a traitor.
“Daddy’s home!”
That will be awkward.
If ever a time to have all his shit on the front yard and locks changed, now is the time. You made your bed kid. I know you think you were doing something that you thought was right, but consequences have actions…
but consequences have actions…
Arrrrgh you reversed entropy! Put it back, put it back!
He didnt think he was doing right. He was signaling that he is a right thinker and would get accolades and pussy.
I hope he ends up living under a bridge.
Set up for this little morality play: plague kills majority of humans. Daughter is immune to the plague. Doc thinks he can use her to give everyone a cure but it will mean she dies. Her dad faces the question: save daughters life or save all of humanity.
What would you do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEs9QAgYkkc
I am with dad on this one. Where is that shitweasle kid?
Stasi approved.
Von der Leyen on Trump: EU will be ‘pragmatic’ but protect its interests
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/21/von-der-leyen-on-trump-eu-will-be-pragmatic-but-protect-its-interests
The European Union will have a “pragmatic” attitude towards the new administration of Donald Trump but “always” stand ready to defend its strategic interests against any unjustified measure, Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday in a speech that set the tone for how Brussels intends to engage with Washington in the next four years.
During his campaign, Trump threatened to impose across-the-board tariffs on foreign goods and heavily revise aid for Ukraine, setting alarm bells ringing across the bloc. The Republican president has however tamped down both threats since coming into office.
“A lot is at stake for both sides,” the president of the European Commission said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“Our first priority will be to engage early, discuss common interests, and be ready to negotiate. We will be pragmatic, but we will always stand by our principles. To protect our interests and uphold our values – that is the European way,” she added, referring to the trade tools the Commission has at its disposal to counteract tariffs and quotas.
Von der Leyen, who advocates strong transatlantic ties, described the US as of one the EU’s “closest partners” with deeply interlinked economic ties, from investment and employment to chemical production and digital services, something that, in her view, should help foster cooperation rather than confrontation.
“No other economies in the world are as integrated as we are,” she said.
Asked by the host if the EU could afford to support Ukraine in case of an American withdrawal, von der Leyen said the bloc would continue doing so “without any question”.
“No other economies in the world are as integrated as we are,” she said.
BY INTEGRATED MEAN…
Centrally controlled.
I’d be very surprised if the US/Canada integration wasn’t stronger, frankly. Or is she just writing them off as the 51st state?
And y’all know my opinion on European ties and what they can go do with themselves (especially when they attempt to threaten US citizens and companies for free speech in this country, re-do elections until they get people they want, etc.) Sorry not sorry, Pie…. the EU can and should stand on its own in my opinion. The Fulda Gap isn’t a thing anymore.
Someone here or somewhere posted a chart showing the EU’s growth has been flat over the last 25 years; their economy was about equal to the US and now it is barely over half.
TL;DR you don’t have any money left to launder through Ukraine, ma’am.
Don’t piss off the puppetmaster
Musk, the tech tycoon and Donald Trump confidant, made it known that he wanted Ramaswamy out of DOGE in recent days, according to three people familiar with Musk’s preferences who, like others for this article, were granted anonymity to discuss them. An ill-received holiday rant on X by Ramaswamy about H-1B visas apparently hastened his demise.
Just 69 days after Trump announced the team, Ramaswamy is now leaving DOGE and planning to announce a run for Ohio governor next week. Musk’s ability to ice out Ramaswamy, who for a variety of reasons had irked some Republicans in Trump’s circle, is the latest sign of his influence in the incoming administration. And it presages an encore of all of the infighting that marked Trump’s first term.
Ramaswamy “just burned through the bridges and he finally burned Elon,” said a Republican strategist close to Trump advisers. “Everyone wants him out of Mar-a-Lago, out of D.C.”
Palace intrigue is Washington’s favorite sport.
Vivek has announced he’s running for governor of Ohio (on the Republican ticket), while Amy Acton has announced she’s running for governor on the Democrat ticket. So you’ll have MAGA adjacent against lockdown queen.
I’m so sorry.
Are there any good choices running against them?
Palace intrigue is Washington’s favorite sport.
From a website named Politico – should we drink?
DC isn’t Hollywood for ugly people — it is Junior High Class President elections in perpetuity. Including the promising of free pizza in the lunch room if you vote for me.
Didn’t Musk defend Vivek after the infamous 12/26 tweet?
I think so. And I also saw all the high-profile X accounts say that this is why we have free speech, and it’s healthy to have disagreements.
I mean long popcorn futures?
LOL try to contain yourselves.
Meanwhile, your side does not tolerate any dissent from The One Truth. How has that worked out for you lately?
As Donald Trump is inaugurated today, we should remember what his presidency was like last time: a disaster for women, people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community and the planet.
The mythologizing of Trump by the left is staggering. He has attained godlike stature in their minds.
This reminds me of AOC dying twice on Jan. 6.
They were only little deaths, TOK.
Ah, La petite mort
His ability to mold the masses is everything their power-mad little minds could hope for.
Back to the camps for those people.
A disaster. I remember that. I tried to go to the store several times between 2020 and 2024 but the roads were impassable with all the dead bodies and what not. Plus the planet was so hot we all had to hide underground. That double helped because the bloodthirsty hordes of rape cannibal MAGAs were roaming the country.
It was bad.
As a non-woman person of not-color, I do recall being a kind of King for four years before Biden knocked me down 😟
Notably, between 1400-1700 at least 20% of all scientists came from the Clergy; since post-Protestant Reformation clergymen consisted of somewhat less than 1% of the population, they were over 20 times overrepresented as scientists compared to the average men.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1881463258424709566
Between 1400 and 1700, to be a scientist you needed independant funds and free time. Most people couldn’t aford to devote time to such pursuits.
Literacy might have something to do with that.
He was on their radar!
On Monday the government announced a public inquiry after it emerged that the perpetrator had been referred three times to a counterterrorism program called Prevent, when he was 13 and 14, because of his interest in extreme violence. Because he was deemed not to be motivated by a terrorist ideology, he was not considered suitable for intervention.
Paywall:
Southport Killings Are a New Kind of Terrorism, U.K. Prime Minister Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/world/europe/uk-terrorism-law-southport-attack-starmer.html
I keep hearing the deportation debate about who, how etc. mostly centering on ‘criminals’.
This bit of intellectual dishonesty is ignoring the fact that by being here at all they are all criminals.
Stop arguing with the left on their terms. Just stop it.
Gulf of America – I dont care. Trump made one very important point. After all of the blahblahblah he tossed in “…and it is dangerous as hell.”
He is right. Parts of the gulf, the Caribbean, and the southern west coast waters are swarming with pirates and smugglers. That shit needs to come to an end, the name of the places are irrelevant. If renaming the gulf as Gulf of America will rally people to the cause, fine. Name it Nutsack of Florida, I dont care.
Nutsack of Florida
Key West says “excuuuuuuse me”!
Now I can get my ackchually in!
Technically, I believe merely crossing the border illegally is a civil offense.
I, too, am concerned that the rhetoric now focuses on deporting criminals, rather than everybody who is here either (outright) illegally or under the expanded/automatic “refugee” program that was the technicality used to open the border. If you don’t have a currently valid residency visa, you need to get gone.
Oh nice!… Here’s hoping he can start pointing out several dead wood flag rank officers. I expect he knows several at this point, especially anyone not held accountable for Afghanistan.
I’m impressed somebody remembered.
Every officer that upheld the bullshit narrative in Afghanistan should be sacked.
I thought that guy was booted at 17 years service. That was one of big complaints, at 18 he’d have been locked in?
18 is technically “sanctuary” now – 18 yrs active duty. As a reservist – unless you’re absolutely critical or it’s wartime, you’re unlikely to get to 18 years active duty – ie. automatic retirement payout starting on retirement vice waiting till 60.
Don’t see anything in that article about him being out before 20 though.
Yep. 17 years, so not retired
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/12/24/outspoken-officer-who-publicly-demanded-accountability-discharged-from-the-marine-corps/
Not posted yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVSUuJHxbuY
nice
Well done.
I LOL’d at the Maddow line
In reality, she’s probably flicking her bean over this – she can go back to her faux outrage porn and get her ratings out of the gutter.
Germany’s left-wing Scholz says to Elon Musk that Germany’s and Europe’s “freedom of speech” is not for “extreme right positions.”
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1881695982129394006
Interesting for a continent with Stalinists Maoists and Pol Pot fans out in the open
Shorter Scholz – “We do not have free speech”
This. The talking out of both sides of their mouths is not fooling anyone.
These people make me tired, that’s for certain
Stiell said that there is “crisis fatigue” in the world now. “The poly crisis environment that we’ve been in for the last few years, climate has been pushed down the crisis priority list,” he said. However, he said that regardless of political changes, “the science behind climate hasn’t changed. The impacts actually have changed in that they’re simply getting worse and worse.”
In a session at Davos that looked at Europe’s transition to clean energy, Alexander De Croo, Belgium’s prime minister responded to Trump’s decision saying, “I mean, the world is full of uncertainty after yesterday even more, and maybe tomorrow there might be even more uncertainty. Let’s please, as Europeans within the European Union, not add to the uncertainty by creating ambiguity on our goals.”
The wolf is coming, honest. Give me more money.
I think your goals are becoming clearer by the day to your unfortunate victims.
Keep stamping that boot harder and see what happens.
“… “the science behind climate hasn’t changed.”
At least that part is true.
“I’m the morning I’ll be sober, but the Fuckeyes will still just be a college team in OH.”
-Winston Churchill, probably
Danny Polishchuk
@Dannyjokes
I made a chart
https://x.com/Dannyjokes/status/1881460532261319137
heh
The downward spike on the right needs to be vertical.
Also it needs to be a peak. It never flatlined at a plateau.
Oh boy… They have no ability to clear roads and the vast majority of the residents will have no clue how to drive in these conditions. I predict fun times for all!
Historic snow amounts could fall on Florida, Louisiana and Texas as a once-in-a-generation storm hits
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/weather/winter-storm-south-tuesday-hnk/index.html
Yeah, it’s amazing. It went under Dallas-Fort Worth and hit North Houston, lower Louisiana, etc… there is no understanding of snow or ice there. Looks like it’s just a day or two, then it all melts so that is good.
It’ll basically all be melted by Friday.
Outrage Brigade, fire at will
Europe’s left-wingers on Tuesday raced to condemn Elon Musk after the world’s richest man performed a stiff-armed salute at an event to celebrate new United States President Donald Trump.
“My heart goes out to you,” Musk said on stage at Washington’s Capital One Arena, as he thanked Trump’s supporters. He then put his hand to his chest and extended a rigid right arm with his palm down, resembling the salute made infamous by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Europe’s fascists in the first half of the 20th century.
Musk then repeated the gesture a second time facing the crowd on the opposite side.
The salute immediately generated a viral and divided response, with online critics attacking Musk for the gesture and supporters minimizing its significance.
Occupy
MarsPoland!I wanna go wash the road salt off my suv, but I’m nervous it will turn into an ice cube.
>.>
I wouldn’t have pegged you for a Nissan owner.
I wouldn’t peg Sean, either.
Nice piece by Rand Paul on Biden blocking the US Steel sale. Sure hope Trump lets it go through (and steps on the longshoremen unions).
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/01/bidens-parting-protectionist-folly/
Good point. I would expand that list to include everyone celebrating this. Biden sure doesn’t give a shit whether domestic steel disappears. All of the left would probably be happy to see the rest of those jobs go to China, too.
I am more baffled by Trump’s opposition – ignorant sop to union hacks?
Baptists and bootleggers.
Trump doesn’t recognize a failing business when he sees one. Or he just assumes more stupid money will come in after the bankruptcy.
The aging hippies can finally take those “Free Peltier” bumper stickers off.
You would figure the weather had already done most of the work.
No pardon for Ross so far. I guess a Snowden pardon is a bridge way too far.
Stop, stop!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/hiring-freeze/
This one was legislated. I hope he is successful in blocking it.
The revised clean vehicle tax credit, which provides up to $7,500 in credit toward the purchase of a new EV, or up to $4,000 for the purchase of a used EV, also looks to be in trouble.
California’s air pollution waiver and the EV mandate are banned by Trump
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/01/fuel-efficiency-evs-and-charger-funding-all-cut-by-trumps-orders/
I haven’t checked the comments, but I bet they are a hoot!
If by hoot you mean economically illiterate and retarded, then yes.
Oh, tell me more, Oracle of Soy.
“Nobody is buying EVs! They’re stacking up on dealer lots, and even those we sell are a loss per unit”
“Mandate them!”
*Mandate blocked*
“Oh noes, the car industry is going to die!”
Holy sheet. I missed this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Kitagawa_sexual_abuse_scandal
I will be surprised if similar allegations don’t come out after Yasushi Akimoto’s death.
More from the land of rising scandals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Nakai#Legal_issues
Uh Wiki? The word you’re looking for is rape.
I’m surprised you missed it when it broke!
Damn. I haven’t seen a offer this good in a bit.
Wells Fargo wants to give me a credit card at 0% for 21 months.
How many other accounts will be opened in your name without your knowledge or permission to meet KPIs and performance incentive goals?
They’ve held my mortgage for 13 years with no foul play thus far. That’s how they have my email information.
If by hoot you mean economically illiterate and retarded, then yes.
Oh, tell me more, Oracle of Soy.
You can say that again.
I just may. I’m kind of feeling squirrely today.