Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
IRS Whistleblower’s Lawyers Meet with Congressional Investigators on Hunter Biden Tax Probe
Biden’s Border Chief Says He Can’t Explain Border Rush
Red Flag Law Applications Up Over 1,000%, Even As Judges Rule Unconstitutional
Airlines May Soon Be On The Hook For Delayed And Canceled Flights, Transportation Dept Says
GA gov. signs bill to create commission to investigate, potentially remove district attorneys
DeSantis signs bill to ban Chinese citizens from buying land in Sunshine State
Oklahoma revokes funding for PBS over LGBTQ content for kids
Small Businesses Getting Crushed Under Inflation, Labor Market
Americans Suffering Sharply Higher Levels of Financial Anxiety
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning Banjos.
“IRS Whistleblower’s Lawyers Meet with Congressional Investigators on Hunter Biden Tax Probe”
They are going to say there is some investigation going on and put a gag order on everyone involved to give the media cover for ignoring this shitshow.
Eh, there are factions in conflict on this one, I would bet. It’s entirely possible the “Biden will drag us down” faction is strong enough to leverage him out of office. Maybe that will mean he resigns or doesn’t run and everybody walks, or maybe if the “We love Weekend at Biden’s” faction digs in, they will actually let this run in order to leverage him out.
Factions or not, these people are all about controlling perception so they can make it looks like what they are doing isn’t evil incarnate.
I just want to see the tard fight over this one. May both sides get exposed and look stupid in public. I am getting my popcorn ready.
Then they will “fortify” the 2024 election and give us President Fetterman and VP Feinstein.
Kamala screams (and cackles) in anguish.
Dr. Jill ain’t done yet!
I’m flummoxed on this one. It’s hard to believe anything you see, so I just find the right wing conspiracy theory and that’s usually the truth. While the DNC sees Biden as a liability, the deep state’s got to love this president. He’s not all there, and his staff is either incompetent or tied up trying to cover for his mental failings. That leaves the deep state apparatchiks finally free to do all the things they’ve wished for behind the scenes, while Biden takes the flack if any of it leaks out.
I would say we are right in the middle of that fight, and it is pretty clear that they are evenly matched. We are seeing the results of it right now, in that poll getting published, Hunters shenanigans, and so on. The main thing keeping him in place is Kamalama-ding-dong. She is so bad at this, they cannot even wallpaper over it.
If there were any real journalists among the large media outlets, they’d be constantly knocking on doors, making phone calls, pounding the pavement trying to find out what all this is about.
How does that help promote whatever narrative team blue has told them to promote?
No one leaves their laptop.
There is a huge opportunity to do actual journalism that matters right now. Too bad there are few interested in doing that, and the ones who do are labeled “white supremacists” or whatever.
“Biden’s Border Chief Says He Can’t Explain Border Rush”
When you are so inept and/or evil that your defense is pleading ignorance and stupidity and thinking you win the argument.
Does the Border Chief outrank the Border Czar? Why isn’t there a quote from her Blasianness?
Borderline Crazy outranks both of them.
“Airlines May Soon Be On The Hook For Delayed And Canceled Flights, Transportation Dept Says”
Step 1: airline stocks drop precipitously on fears of this event.
Step 2: congress critters gobble up stock at bargain basement prices.
Step 3: they decide to drop the plan.
Step 4: The stocks now grossly undervalued soar.
Step 5: congress critters make bank selling stock.
Step 6: angry congress critter sicks FBI & DOJ on anyone pointing out they are a crime syndicate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ce-zC_n8E
“GA gov. signs bill to create commission to investigate, potentially remove district attorneys”
I am pretty sure my employment contract says that if I am performing poorly or just ignoring my job, my employer can terminate my ass with prejudice. Why is this not the case for government jobs? Is it because everyone would be fired?
It was an overcorrection to the previous spoils system where every position, including those that are just normal jobs, were cleaned out each change of executive.
It’s resulted in the opposite problem.
Yep, you don’t want a system filled to the brim with political cronies either but they’ve gone too far with protections. As for DAs specifically, they desperately need further accountability than the almost none they have now.
We effectively have a system filled with political cronies now. But they are unfirable, so you don’t even get the silver lining of cleaning out the current set of scoundrels periodically. Given a choice, I think the spoils system delivers less bad results.
DA is an elected position, so the people are getting what they voted for. On the other hand, giant chunks of government are devoted to the idea that people are stupid and must be protected from their own bad decisions.
Perhaps this commission can force an emergency election and let the people decide in the moment if they want to keep the DA?
Like ventilate you? That seems kinda harsh. I wouldn’t have signed that contract.
He just clicked “I Agree”, shoulda read it.
CentIPad
No, they basically tell me fuck off and no severance beaotch.
Speaking of needing to fire some people, with extreme prejudice.
Lab leak “theory”
Evolution is a theory as well. So is the Big Bang and General Relativity.
Never admit the truth. Always double down.
Are DAs elected in Georgia?
“Small Businesses Getting Crushed Under Inflation, Labor Market”
Everyone not part of the cabal is getting crushed. But that is by design. You can’t get a CBDC to control what people have and can spend, and more importantly when and on what, without first implementing total chaos and annihilation of regular people’s financial worth. The plan is to destroy what exists so everyone is in such pain that a new oligarchical hereditary class can offer them serfhood and it will seem like a great idea to the rubes.
“Americans Suffering Sharply Higher Levels of Financial Anxiety”
I make decent money and usually have a good amount of disposable income. But I have seen my retirement investments crash by 30-35% this year (making my plans to retire anytime soon wishful thinking), my monthly expenses go up and up every fucking time, and my wealth’s buying potential or financial options become serious liabilities. I wonder how people making less money or living on fixed income are not right now dead meat.
I have no idea how a young family with kids get by these days. And the price of new cars makes my eyes water. How the hell are people paying those prices?
7 and 8 year loans
That’s nuts.
Yep, just bought a car and not only was the default on the website set for 7 years at one bank and 8 at another, but the presumption when I called the bank was 6-8 rather than the 4-5 that it used to be. They will loan you for whatever term you want, but it tells you where the typical customer that walks through the door is.
It used to be, for decades, that 3 year car loans were the standard. I don’t even think you could get a longer term car loan. The 4-5 year loan thing came along sometime in, I dunno, the last 10 years or so?
Last car loan we did was 3 years – the lender was kinda flabbergasted.
Our last loan was 5 years at 3 1/2 percent just as inflation was starting to kick into high gear. It’s foolish to pay it off faster.
I suspect the typical customer starts with “what monthly payment can I afford?” and doesn’t think about the term.
Since the listen to the radio all night, I hear advertisements from car dealers using just that language-
“tell us what your monthly payment needs to be, and we’ll get you in a car! And 200% trade-in over KBB for your current car!”
They dont tell the suckers that the trade-in is added to the principal of the loan.
Does anyone think the cost of food, housing, or anything else will go down when 700,000 illegals cross the border this week? That’s the population of Denver.
Then they say we’ll be at a sustained rate of 4 million per year. We just have to build two cities the size of Houston each year to house them.
Well, it’s not like there is this huge homeless problem.
Won’t we need to build more Home Depots too?
One of the few retail outlets I know of that could literally self-replicate.
“Right, Corporate wants a new Home Depot near us. You two! Go to aisle 24, grab all the concrete and structural lumber and start pouring the new footings at the empty lot next door.”
Why can’t they immigrate to China, where there’s whole cities full of empty apartment blocks for them already?
The Chinese and racist and stuff and might expect them to assimilate and add value to their economy.
whaddup doh’
whats goody
Over and under that the people that have been stonewalling the release of the trans lunatic that killed kids at a school she once attended, apparently cause her parents wouldn’t indulge her mental disorder, and now are “helping” put out clearly bogus shit on the TX mall shooter, a clearly brown man that they want us to believe is a white supremacist Nazi, are running a psyop?
It’s all lies, all the time.
I’d say it’s a near certainty.
the undocumented immigrants just want to work. how can you be so cruel?
Easy.
^
*polishes monocle*
With the greatest of ease?
“with aplomb”
/Fonzi
Work, like “work camp?”
I am wondering about how they keep the induction to just one part of the car, and also that whole EMF thingy. But IANAEE.
https://www.electrive.com/2023/05/02/inductive-charging-highway-section-to-be-built-in-florida/
The things they say,
They’re unbelievable.
Oh, bra-VO.
The EV electric chair boogaloo will happen. Piss off the bosses, and they will just fry your ass in your EV and have it drive you to the soilent green factory.
Pre-cooked
I am wondering how much electricity that will need to constantly draw.
To supply the juice for this they’re gonna need a shitload o’
dimeswindmills.I’m sure that 60 seconds of charging will make a huge difference. 🙄
What’s really going to happen is you’re going to get people with near dead batteries trying to charge in lanes traffic at slow/stopped speeds in active traffic.
I am an EE and I’ll translate it.
It’s bullshit.
In order to get the required physical alignment of the resonant structures, you’d have to put the vehicle on rails. In which case, you might as well actually build some rails and transfer the electricity through them. Oh wait…
Are we gonna get exploding cell phones?
Semi serious question.
Nah. Any wireless charging structure has a transistor that controls the charging rate or shuts it off if necessary.
I was wondering about that, as well as laptops and a sudden acceleration at right angles to the field.
If the internet is translating correctly, 200kW is 268hp. Which is more than the s2000 engine put out. Surely that’s gotta go somewhere.
Into your pacemaker.
Electricity ain’t free. How are they going to charge the EV owner for the juice they take on?
GPS trackers telling them how long you’re on the roads.
Just raise the gas tax.
I read this but I am starting to believe that the people accusing everyone that believes in some kind of meritocratic system, or more importantly that are not avidly anti-meritocratic systems, of being honkey supremacists, hate a functional system. They want to destroy all working systems so they can reduce us to serfs and the oligarchical hereditary class. And the shady thing is that most of the people supporting these evil fucks don’t realize they are the proverbial useful idiots that will be part of wave two and three when the new masters start lining their enemies up against the wall for the executions.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Mornin’, old fart!
It’s been a hectic week, I’m running out of gas. I need to eat more beans.
Ambulance chasers get a new working demographic?
Today in actors are genius
“‘My children are all queer,’ reveals actress Marcia Gay Harden as she raises money to fight against anti-LGBTQ legislation
She appeared on the Drag Isn’t Dangerous: A Digital Fundraiser, which raised money to fight anti-LGBTQ legislation such as the anti-drag law that passed in Tennessee and is expected to take effect in July.
She added, ‘My eldest child is non-binary. My son is gay. My youngest is fluid. And you know, they are my kids and they teach me every day.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12062411/My-children-queer-reveals-Marcia-Gay-Harden-raising-money-anti-LGBTQ-laws.htm
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘A gay guy should play a gay guy’: Heartland star Aidan Moreno believes it’s no longer ‘authentic’ for a straight actor to take on an LGBTQ+ character”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12059749/Heartland-actor-Aidan-Moreno-believes-gay-guy-play-gay-characters.html
“Heartland star Aidan Moreno believes it’s no longer ‘authentic’ for a straight actor to take on an LGBTQ+ character”
Next up: cancel the romcoms of yesteryear featuring leading men of the gay persuasion. I’m gonna miss Rock Hudson.
But a black woman playing Anne Boleyn? Totally cool. Because reasons.
And you know, they are my kids and they teach me every day.
If your kids teach you every day and not the other way around, you just might be a dope.
^^^THIS^^^
I can just imagine the social media posts:
“TIL the stove is hot, and shouldn’t be touched!”
“TIL that bathing suit areas are ok to be touched if you trust the person touching you!”
The whole phrasing is the tell –
You can certainly learn things from raising children – e.g., poop and chocolate resemble each other. But that doesn’t mean your children are teaching you anything.
Everything I needed to know in life I learned from Caddyshack?
I was thinking of this which struck me as one of the more realistic parenting moments on film.
Oddly, in my head it was Leslie Mann in Knocked Up but apparently not.
Any chocolate/poop thing to me goes right to the IT Crowd.
I had to come up with better lies than that if I was hoping to manipulate my parents.
She added, ‘My eldest child is non-binary. My son is gay. My youngest is fluid. And you know, [I’m just thrilled by the attention that gets me]
FIFH
Like a vegetarian cat, we know who’s making the decisions.
Well she’s not Marcia Straight Harden is she?
lol
…but it’s stunning and brave for a black chick to play Richard III. 🙄 https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/adjoa-andoh-reimagines-richard-iiis-otherness-new-version-play-2023-04-26/
The chances of all 3 of your children being sexually divergent is exceedingly low. Anything above “0” is a rounding error. Anything below a “1” for your chances of being a narcissistic pig who uses her children to gain social recognition amongst the wine mom crowd is also a rounding error.
In short, this is a crazy bitch who has fucked her children so she can say how accepting she is. She should be jailed.
“The treasurer for Kanye West’s ill-fated 2020 presidential bid has resigned – claiming in a leaked letter the rapper’s new advisor may have broken federal campaign law after his hiring last week.
Patrick Krason made the claims in two letters of resignation – one filed to the Federal Election Commission Monday and the other sent to his old boss.
Both leaked, the letters come a week after West made it clear that his Oval Office hopes were alive by bringing on the famously mercurial Milo Yiannopoulos as a strategist.
Almost instantly, YE2024’s new director of political operations instituted a swath of sweeping personnel changes – which included the immediate axing of the rapper’s racist right-hand man, Nick Fuentes, as well as political advisor Ali Alexander.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12061957/Treasurer-Kanye-West-2020-presidential-campaign-Patrick-Krason-resigns.html
Is Kanye just bored or something?
The dude has had his cheese slide off his cracker watching his ex bang some of the scummiest people you could imagine out there while denying him full access to his kids. I can see something like that would have a detrimental effect on people that are already suffering from some mental disorder or another to be attracted to the entertainment industry.
I ain’t saying he’s a gold digger.
Manic-depressive
Manic depression is a frustrating mess.
Yes, it is. But Kanye seems to exhibit some of the signs.
I need a little inspiration
Upcoming airline fiasco:
What percentage of flights are delayed or cancelled?
Compare that to how much ticket prices for successful flights will rise to cover these new costs, making air travel even more expensive for most.
It’s all part of the plan to end upward mobility.
“TIL that bathing suit areas are ok to be touched if you trust the person touching you!”
Or if the person pays you.
I trust this person will pay me…
Alwaysget the money in advance.
– First rule of
AcquisitionHoin’It’s all part of the plan to end
upwardmobility.I’m pretty sure that’s where we are.
Nothing non-binary about these tits!
https://archive.is/wWrHl
NSFW.
Well, they do seem to come in pairs.
They aren’t in pairs?
Daily Quordle 470
3️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
That could have gone better.
Blossom Puzzle, May 9
Letters: I O R S T U V
My score: 284 points
My longest word: 9 letters
💮 🌺 🌷 💐 🏵 🌸 🌼 🌹 🌻
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 470
3️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
Daily Quordle 470
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boring
Daily Quordle 470
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6️⃣5️⃣
Better.
Careening toward the Abyss
President Joe Biden will meet with congressional leaders Tuesday as Washington scrambles to lift the debt ceiling with less than a month before the federal government is set to run out of money.
Biden last met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — the California Republican whose support he will need to hike the borrowing limit in the House — in February. The stakes now are far higher than they were during their last huddle. This time, the other three top congressional leaders will attend: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
Lifting the debt ceiling is necessary for the government to cover spending commitments already approved by Congress and the president and prevent default. Doing so does not authorize new spending. But House Republicans have said they will not lift the limit if Biden and lawmakers do not agree to future spending cuts.
The White House has stressed that while it is open to discuss spending cuts, it will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling. The Biden administration has said the GOP has a constitutional responsibility to raise the borrowing limit.
I think we all know how this ends.
A what now?
A constitutional duty to blindly obey the orders of the executive.
Look, if we cut a single dollar, it won’t do anything. If cutting one dollar won’t do anything, why would you think cutting more than one dollar would do something? Therefore, we need to increase spending even more!
/remembers dumb column I read complaining about increasing interest rates to fight inflation
It’s right there in the Constitution.
It’s right under the FYTW clause. It’s written in milk, so you have to heat the constitution to read it.
Sadly yes. Game of chicken ends with Biden winning. I would rather default and implode.
It’s all kabuki theater. The debt limit will be raised. Spending will be promised to cut, but never will.
Maybe we can just break his legs.
“We would rather default than cut spending.”
If you have already spent $30T more than you have, then haven’t you already “run out of money”?
The White House has stressed that while it is open to discuss spending cuts, it will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling.
The debt limit is the negotiating factor.
the GOP has a constitutional responsibility to raise the borrowing limit.
Huh?
That’s why I’m ignoring this – they are all lying.
They are saying that the 14th Amendment’s reference to the “validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned” means that the Constitutional requirement for a debt limit is a dead letter.
Of course, to the extent it means anything in the current context, it means the feds have to pay the debt first, not last, and cut spending as necessary to ensure that happens. If it overrides anything, it overrides the budget and Congressional appropriations.
I was trying to explain this to the twits over at TOS yesterday. I don’t think they got it.
To be fair, our top officials don’t seem to get it either.
The Stupid and Evil party is back at it like it’s 2003 again.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/08/house-republicans-demand-europe-falls-in-line-on-taiwan/
Meanwhile, the Evil and Stupid Party is floundering in the ME
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/jake-sullivan-reviewed-significant-progress-toward-yemen-peace-in-meeting-with-mbs/
The Euros used to have backbones. Now they do whatever Uncle Sam tells them, regardless of how stupid or self-destructive. The rest of the world tells us to pound sand – like everyone now in the Middle East.
RE: Taiwan.
Compared to Ukraine, I at least understand the strategic value of wanting to defend Taiwan. However, our warmonger class has blown such an enormous load over Ukraine, for reasons that make little-to-no sense, that I can understand why allies might be a bit more reticent about Taiwan. Especially considering that China is a much stronger opponent than Russia.
Was a Chinese invasion really in the plans before we started goading them into it?
The Russians weren’t planning to invade the Ukraine in 2013.
China’s CCP’s policy was to take Taiwan in the late 2030s early 2040s, through force if they had not coerced the move otherwise, and that was part of their national war plans since Xi took court in the early 2000s. Xi has recently moved that timetable up when the whole drastic demographic decline & aging coupled with being unable to hide that their economic growth claims were all bullshit started looking like China was going to have massive and likely insurmountable problems before 2030.
“Those two are totally unrelated. Whether you pay the debt or not, doesn’t have a damn thing to do with what your budget is,” Biden said Friday. “They’re two separate issues — two. Let’s get it straight.”
And your spending doesn’t have a damn thing to do with how much money you have.
Let me explain that to my creditors.
They just need to increase your credit line. Duh.
I voted on it and decided that they should loan me more money.
It was my constitutional responsibility to do so.
Just tell your bank manager that you still have checks left in the checkbook.
I don’t think he’s wrong for the federal budget. The whole thing is pure fiction. It doesn’t matter what they do or have any connection with reality.
I gave up giving even the smallest shit a couple years ago about government blowout spending or trying to pay down the debt. The GOP are just as prolific spenders as the Dems and any fiscal responsibility speech is just controlled opposition to soothe taxpayers from getting too uppity. The house of cards will collapse at some point.
They all spend money, just on different things. Usually they all get what they want, which screws the rest of us.
Don’t dump him because he’s a sleazeball, dump him because he spent that much money and never even had sex.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22262386/husband-spent-savings-cam-girl-claims-didnt-cheat/
What an idiot.
I honestly don;t get these people. why the everloving fuck would you do that? how fucking stupid do you have to be to believe you have a relationship with a cam girl whose job is literally scamming money outta suckers
It’s probably the male version of the female belief that they can domesticate that bad boy who makes their no-no bits all tingly: “I just know I can change him”.
“Eventually she’ll see that I’m the one.“!
Prosecutors: Former Bills punter Matt Araiza wasn’t present during alleged gang rape
Took a long time to conclude he wasn’t even there?
Based on that article I do not see much against the guy
also in England a punter can be a slang word for someone visiting a prostitute. Or for someone engage in gambling. And a few other things.
Because fuck “innocent until proven guilty”. And fuck actual evidence and the truth.
It’s no replacement for what he could make in the NFL, but he absolutely needs to sue her and garnish her wages for the rest of her life.
She’s 17, or was 17. Provides a twist to the entire accusation.
unless hes essential it is easier for the team to cover their ass.
No one goes to bat for a punter.
IRS Whistleblower’s Lawyers Meet with Congressional Investigators on Hunter Biden Tax Probe
And nothing else will happen.
“Listen fat, you’ll put that case in the back of the file if you know what’s good for ya.”
-Joe Biden to the IRS head honcho (probably)
President Joe Biden’s border chief says he can’t explain why hundreds of thousands of migrants are rushing over the border he is tasked to guard.
You invited them.
It’s my party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjdH_NmmO0I
I have never watched the NHL draft lottery, but I tuned in last night. They stretched two minutes of content into thirty minutes of fluff. But the Blackhawks got the number one pick for only the second time in their history. They may not start winning any time soon, but at least it will be fun to go to games again.
So they’re copying the NFL?
Saw that. The speculation is that they’ll go after the Bedard kid.
But as the Wild are learning with Kaprizov, better have some studs surrounding him!
Bedard is most likely the #1pick. He looks pretty great. But the GM’s comments last night indicate he knows one player is important, but not everything. He mentioned sticking to their long term plan. They have a ton of picks this year and they did last year too, so all those picks need to develop too. I’m expecting it to be like Kane and Toews, or like McDavid, where it takes 4-5 years after that #1 pick for the team to make a run.
I’m predicting they bring back Kane next season. He’s an UFA and might give a home town discount so he can retire in Chicago. He’d be great to help Bedard develop. And right now they shed so much salary they’re dealing with the cap floor.
Rigged.
People are saying that, but unless we have an official ball inspector check out the lottery person’s balls we won’t know for sure.
two court rulings found the extreme risk protection orders to be unconstitutional.
How quaint.
And the cops continue to ignore the rulings.
If the U.S. were to default, gross domestic product would drop 4% and 6 million workers would lose their jobs, Moody’s projected. Even a brief default would lead to the loss of 2 million jobs, according to the data.
In that scenario, U.S. bond ratings would be classified as “restricted default,” according to Fitch Ratings, and Treasurys would have a D rating until the U.S. could once again borrow. The Brookings Institution noted a default could lead to $750 billion in higher federal borrowing costs over the next decade — a twist given that Republican concerns about spending and debt have helped to fuel the borrowing-limit stalemate.
Nice bit of rhetorical jiu jitsu there. It is the fault of people who want to stop limitless borrowing and spending when that unrestrained borrowing and spending causes the house of cards to collapse.
Don’t kid yourself, Fitch. We could still borrow. People still loan money to Argentina, just not at zero interest.
“gross domestic product would drop 4% and 6 million workers would lose their jobs”
That’s it? Sounds like a garden variety recession.
The reality is there is enough revenue to cover the interest on the debt. Defaulting would be an executive decision to prioritize new spending over paying interest on the debt.
People will die.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced on Monday that the agency introduced rules requiring airlines to reimburse customers who incur expenses due to certain delayed and canceled flights, a move which comes as the industry faces elevated demand and a constrained labor force.
Under what authority? ///Rhetorical
What if my delay is the fault of the FAA?
Suck it up, peasant.
To TPTB, I submitted a short story last night.
Also TPTB, I just dropped another piece into the hopper.
It is a chilly and wet morning.
Drought and desertification have been delayed.
OHPOLLY SUMMER VACATION TRY ON HAUL |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpB6BQrVzYY
thicc?
Thiccc with three Cs.
There is indeed quite a bit of junk in that trunk.
She carries it well.
Lots of real nice jiggle.
Would.
“Hi – New Yorker here. I’ve safely ridden the subway for 23 years and my child has never been menaced by a half naked lunatic, but these imaginary monsters in your head are addressable with therapy.”
https://twitter.com/espiers/status/1655548648875237376
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1655577077846777858
CWAC
Those responses – wow. Jump straight from wanting a safe society to guns=mass murder.
There’s a literally a video of him pushing a young woman towards the subway tracks for basically no reason.
Video evidence is a tool of white supremacy.
“Well, I’ve never been murdered, so I don’t get why people are all worked up about it.”
Even if this person had been accosted by the homeless on a daily basis for the last two decades, they’d never admit it.
“If”?
I wonder how many actual denizens NYC who use the subway regularly haven’t at least been in a subway car with a lunatic accosting people, even if by the luck of the draw they haven’t been personally accosted.
Considering I’ve been accosted by homeless in CLE, I find it hard to believe someone could live in NYC and not be accosted at some point in their life.
I’ve safely ridden the subway for 23 years and my child has never been menaced by a half naked lunatic
Very specific. Only fully clothed lunatics in her experience.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4xoEpYOp0
She’s lying. If you work in ANY city you will inevitably see many examples of crazy people doing crazy things.
DeSantis signs bill to ban Chinese citizens from buying land in Sunshine State
does this pass constitutional mustard?
It’s dumb but it should.
Couldn’t say whether it’s constitutional, but it’s stupid if for no other reason than any competent lawyer can come up with a workaround. And I say that without needing to read the new law.
dijon or english?
Grey Poupon
so Dijon
Yellow or Chinese, naturally.
No idea the answer to your question.
But I think DeSantis ought to get the legislature to send him a bill banning Chinese citizens from buying land in California.
Just to screw with Newsome. Gavin likes to mess around in FL, right??
I don’t know, but I don’t like it. They have similar laws in other countries, and they always have a negative effect. And I doubt it will work anyway, they will figure out ways around it if they really want to. All it does is make it more difficult for legitimate investors, which Florida has a lot of because of all the vacation properties.
New Zealand banned Chinese nationals from buying real estate. Surprise: no effect on housing prices.
Plus, you know, hard to not see a racial component to this (if not DeSantis, then the people pushing it). If you’re going to ban Chinese, why not Russians? Not to mention those bastards from Australia.
Or the Saudis growing alfalfa in the AZ desert.
yes it’s a truly terrible idea.
ISTR that foreign nationals can’t buy property in Mexico? Perhaps I’m mis-remembering.
Probably. These laws are very common. And always dumb.
Foreigners can’t buy any land in Mexico that is 50 kilometers from the coast.
They changed the rule in Mexico. You can buy property now. Well, technically you form a corporation there with yourself as beneficiary and you get a renewable 100 year lease on the land if it’s within the coastal zone. If outside the zone you get fee simple ownership. The area we go to every year has a lot of American and Canadian second home and retiree owners.
Glad to hear they changed it.
They didn’t ban Chinese people from buying land in FL. Your average Chinaman can’t afford to buy anything over $1k because under that system of government only the powerful CCP party members own anything/everything of real value and hold practically all of the money.
“I don’t like that Lydia Tár acts like a man. Gay women are usually anxious about being seen as predatory. Even actual lesbian abusers usually have a sense of needing to hide in the shadows. Lydia feels like a straight man to me, not a gay woman. Impossible to relate to.”
https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1655415778252816384
Um, you literally were a straight man.
I have no clue who any of those people are, but it led me to this tweet:
It’s obvious. Libsoftiktok is a white supremacist who needs to be banned.
It’s well known that Hitler hated drag queen story hour.
Night of the long something-or-others.
I can’t unravel the social maneuvering knots these people tie themselves into. It all seems just like an incredible waste of time and effort for nothing.
Be afraid, Florida man
Roads in Florida could soon include phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — under a bill lawmakers have sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Conservation groups are urging DeSantis to veto the bill, saying phosphogypsum would hurt water quality and put road construction crews at a higher risk of cancer.
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“Phosphogypsum contains appreciable quantities of uranium and its decay products, such as radium-226,” according to the EPA. And because the fertilizer production process concentrates waste material, “phosphogypsum is more radioactive than the original phosphate rock,” the agency notes.
“The radium is of particular concern because it decays to form radon, a cancer-causing, radioactive gas,” the EPA adds.
Another imaginary environmental disaster.
Despite this, the tailings are simply piled into open-air mountains and left there.
If there were a real danger from radioactivity, it seems that someone would have required them to at least be buried a long time ago.
“appreciable”
SCIENCE!
Small Businesses Getting Crushed Under Inflation, Labor Market
But the small businesses entrepreneurs that are entrepreneurial are entrepreneurial businesses that are small. ///Kamala
The Biden twitter account is touting his support for small businesses this week. I finally muted it.
Man the warriors stink. Lakers gonna probably do it in 5.
I am annoyed at the nuggets should have won yesterday. They might have blown it.
New York is probably out.
Philly celtics… tough one but might go to 7.
After the way the Celtics gave away Game 4 (tie game in regulation and we get the last shot? Last second THREEEEE!!! Down by 1 in OT and we get the last shot? Last second THREEEE!!!!) I hope they lose the next two and get to spend a year thinking about exactly how and why they lost. Get Belicheck to teach these idiots about situational basketball.
The Warriors can beat any team out there. They can also lose to any team out there. It’s been a weird season for them.
It all depends on whether or not they come out and play.
Gotta watch out for those Mexican white-supremes.
Bellingcat reporter @arictoler found an Odnoklassniki profile named “PsycoVision 5” that matches the Texas shooter’s description.
The contents include journal pages, Nazi symbology, guns, discussion of suicide, and the overall profile of a psychopath.
I don’t think that is the same guy.
It isn’t, the Bellingcat “reporter” is either blind, stupid, or a liar.
(It’s the latter)
I suspect it’s the latter two.
It’s good enough for Ben Collins, so it has to be true.
Facts based journalism is a tool of white supremacy. The only important thing is that the Allen shooter being a Nazi feels right.
YOU CANNOT WITHSTAND THE POWER OF THE NARRATIVE!!!
But it matches his description. That’s close enough.
Critics of the new legislation are urging DeSantis to use his veto power.
“Using radioactive phosphogypsum in roads is not a solution to the fertilizer industry’s toxic waste problem,” the Center for Biological Diversity and more than 30 other groups said in a letter to the governor. “Florida should not be a test subject in the industry’s reckless experiment.”
The groups say the fertilizer industry has already shown it can’t adequately manage more than 1 billion tons of waste currently stored in Florida.
The obvious solution is to ban agriculture.
Haha – radon gas huh, like what comes out of the earth naturally and is only a problem if it collects inside your weather-tight and super-insulated house.
Good morning, Banjos!
Americans Suffering Sharply Higher Levels of Financial Anxiety
I think they could remove the word financial. Sweet Jesus, I haven’t seen people wound this tight since the dark days of covid.
Thank God we don’t have a border crisis, though.
Go fuck yourself and die in a ditch, you dishonest cunte.
Raskin:.. are we going to become a country where the foot soldiers and the lower down ringleaders go to jail, but the masterminds and the real ringleaders at the top skate away free or go golfing in Scotland or Ireland? That is the big question.
My memory may not be perfect, but this was during a debate after Trump specifically said he had nothing to do with the Proud Boys and where Biden was demanding that he tell them not get violent. So he said sure why the fuck not and Proud Boys, if you’re listening yada yada.
This is really the angle they’ve been going for all along and, if they get a DC jury, he’ll be convicted. It sucks, it’s horseshit, it’s tenuous and unprecedented, but there you go.
I’m still trying to figure out how “stand back and stand by” is an order to invade the Capitol and take over the government.
Trump really meant the opposite, and the MSM has cracked his secret code.
According to people familiar with his thinking.
A new study confirms an old idea in psychology: that it’s possible to implant false memories in people’s minds. The finding highlights concerns about eyewitness testimony and whether police and lawyers can inadvertently implant false memories in witnesses
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1655734916498489344
Tooky Amirault waves “hi”
My first thought.
Well, amongst a handful of similar cases.
Since when has it been inadvertent?
^
| This, right here
This has been known for a long time: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/557424726
Elizabeth Loftus was one of the few psychologists to speak out during the whole repressed memories of abuse scam in the 1980s.
Inception is real.
There have been a few other studies about this. Our memories are not static like a photo, they can change and we regularly incorporate other information, but even so we are 100% of our memories.
The case appeared to quietly stall until an IRS whistleblower alleged the improper politicization of a tax probe into the president’s son.
Is there proper politicization?
New York has conducted a major expansion in the filing of red flag law orders at a time when two state Supreme Court justices have ruled them unconstitutional.
You know the NY Supreme Court is a trial court? The highest court in NY is the Court of Appeals. Actually, I think the writer might actually know that as later the writer talks about the rulings being appealed.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced on Monday that the agency introduced rules requiring airlines to reimburse customers who incur expenses due to certain delayed and canceled flights, a move which comes as the industry faces elevated demand and a constrained labor force.
What could possibly go wrong?
Is there proper politicization?
Of course there is, and you know what it is (and who it impacts).
MSM is going all in on this retardation.
A social media page appearing to belong to a gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area outlet mall had shared extremist beliefs with rants against Jews, women and racial minorities posted since September, as well as posts about struggling with mental health.
Mauricio Garcia, 33, maintained a profile on the Russian social networking platform OK.ru, including posts referring to extremist online forums, such as 4chan, and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes, an antisemitic white nationalist provocateur.
Sure, the Mexican white-supreme Russian asset…
Why the fuck would he be posting on Russian social media?
He works for Biden?
Because it’s easier for disinformation operatives to create a fake account there without having its digital breadcrumbs show its an op?
Oh, were you referring to the shooter, or the Bellingcat guy who “discovered” the account?
Doing the jobs that white Americans won’t!
4chan an extremist online forum? Balderdash and poppycock: sure they’re present but they don’t define it just like all social media sites.
Mauricio Garcia and Nick Fuentes sure sound like supremely white names, don’t they?
It’s almost like they’re gaslighting us or something.
Baby raper
TEXAS REP. BRYAN Slaton — a Republican known for introducing far-right legislation, including an anti-“grooming” bill to ban children from attending drag shows — resigned on Monday after a panel found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 19-year-old intern.
A nineteen year old woman is a helpless child, incapable of making decisions and cannot be permitted to act (for better or worse) on her own in initiative.
At this point, I couldn’t give a fuck less about the backstory. Our American Taliban are in charge.
I’ll reserve judgement until I see pictures of the 19 year old intern.
It’s not a good look, but I’m going to guess that the gotcha’s the other side could throw at the left here are far worse because it’s like actual no-shit pedophilia.
We got married and started a family at 19. Young and stupid? Yes. Incompetent to make decisions? No.
Monica Lewinsky to the courtesy phone….
Happy Anniversary to the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, formally confirming an already strong relationship, with the Treaty of Windsor #OTD in 1386.
The oldest continuous alliance in human history. Long may it continue!
https://twitter.com/jhallwood/status/1655880444376764419
Let that be a warning to you Spain…don’t get too uppity.
A campaign worker for One PA, a progressive political group backing Philadelphia mayoral candidate Helen Gym (D), shot & killed a fellow campaign worker while canvassing on behalf of Gym. Gym is running for Mayor on a progressive soft on crime platform.
https://twitter.com/RRHElections/status/1655789700232216576
should an unfortunate incident like this be used as a political point or is it in poor taste?
There’s no such thing as poor taste in politics. Heck politics never rises to the level of ‘in poor taste.’
Lefties with guns – that’s a twist on get out the vote operations.
If you’re canvassing neighborhoods for votes in Philly you’re stupid if you don’t have one.
Apparently the shooter was the one with a legit carry, and he was defending himself.
Wow. So what if some poor rando shut the door on the (now deceased) lady? Would she have shot through the door at them in anger?
If you’re in Philly, you’re stupid if you don’t have one?
ISTR that foreign nationals can’t buy property in Mexico? Perhaps I’m mis-remembering.
I had some friends who had a vacation house (shack) in some Mexican beach town. I think they said they could own the building, but the land could only leased; from the government, or maybe a private citizen I cannot recall.
I think you can get a really long lease for the land. 100 years?
I’d still consider it.
Yup, it’s a 100 years’ lease on the coast, supposedly renewable. Property taxes are also very low in Mexico so I’d say that’s just as good as “owning” most land in the US.
Slaton was accused last month of having “sexual relations” with a young intern he invited to his apartment in Austin, with The Texas Tribune reporting that he drank alcohol with the underage subordinate. The bipartisan House committee determined this was, in fact, the case, writing that the lawmaker “engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a subordinate.”
The horror.
The HORROR.
See? I never banged any of my female employees until after they’d left the company. Duh.
Ted S. on May 9, 2023 at 7:42 am
The things they say,
They’re unbelievable
WRT to the EMF induction charging comment…..cant someone give Teds’s an award ?
I think you can get a really long lease for the land. 100 years?
Yeah, I think they said 99.
Lack of evidence is all the evidence I need.
This is what makes me hesitate about participating in any political shit. The only way I could get a jury of my peers is if they plucked it from Glibs.
I used to get annoyed with people who claimed everything is a psy-op. I’m beginning to think I was just naive.
Id be there on your side.
He’s so good
This is just a reminder that our spooks claim to employ tens of thousands of online trolls to engage in “informational” warfare.
What level of juror malfeasance constitutes grounds for a reversal on appeal?
LOL! I slay me…
radon gas huh, like what comes out of the earth naturally and is only a problem if it collects inside your weather-tight and super-insulated house.
That’s the stuff. And the remediation process consists of venting it to the outer atmosphere. But don’t drive over that “radioactive” pavement, or you’ll die a horrible death.
Well, they know their audience is scientifically illiterate and easily frightened by RADIOACTIVE!
Do you want giant ants? Radioactivity is how you get giant ants!
I wonder at times how many people pick up their science knowledge from 50’s monster movies, comics, and the like.
Well, they killed irradiation of for sterilization purposes on just those grounds. How many food poisoning cases, to say nothing of deaths, would have been prevented?
‘…of *food* for…’
One of my favorite scenes from 28 Days Later is when they’re looting the grocery store, and see the irradiated fruit sitting there pristine and unspoiled next to the rotted fruit (yes, I know that wouldn’t be accurate, but I can still like it).
Psychopathic men are better able to mimic prosocial personality traits in order to appear appealing to women
https://www.psypost.org/2023/05/psychopathic-men-are-better-able-to-mimic-prosocial-personality-traits-in-order-to-appear-appealing-to-women-81494
I think the problem is that a lot of women, like a lot of people, are just stupid.
But the state can leak as it pleases.
The New York state judge presiding over the criminal hush money case against Donald Trump issued an order Monday restricting the former president from posting about some evidence in the case on social media.
Judge Juan Merchan largely sided with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg by limiting what Trump can publicly disclose about new evidence from the prosecution before the case goes to trial.
The order says that “any materials and information provided by the People to the Defense in accordance with their discovery obligations … shall be used solely for the purposes of preparing a defense in this matter.”
If I were Trump, I’d say and do whatever the hell I wanted and dare the judge to act. Especially as campaigning ramps up.
My argument would be that any leaks of information make it fair game, as the order cannot be read to apply to information in the public realm, but only to information provided to the defense as part of the discovery process. So, when the prosecution leaks, the order no longer applies to the topic of the leak.
Pick a fight on this one, Donald. A gag order on a Presidential candidate is federal, and will go up the chain quickly.
“Matt Walsh: “You can never be fully manly on ice skates””
https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1655645464543256597
He should just bulk up and go to the bear bar.
And all of the hockey players and fans really piled on him for this take.
All of the media matter hockey fans.
“One of the suspects in the murder of Chicago police officer Aréanah Preston over the weekend was arrested three times on gun charges in the span of a year (as well as another for pushing his mother down the stairs)
Two were dropped and one of them resulted in probation and community service.
Now a woman is dead.
Before we talk about taking guns from law abiding Americans, maybe left-wing politicians should start enforcing the ones on the books.”
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1655691411348439044
anarcho-tyranny
It’s enough to make a sane man wonder if the point isn’t to disarm the law abiding and keep the criminals armed.
You’ll do as you’re told, won’t you – you wouldn’t want any unfortunate encounters would you?
How is it any different than what the Bolsheviks did? Free the thugs and drop the hammer on normies.
That’s basically what anarcho-tyranny is.
The left has gone all in on point of purchase laws for firearms while simultaneously pushing for more leniency on gun crimes. If you took their position and applied it to vehicles, we would be making it very hard to purchase a car, but easing penalties for reckless driving offenses and expecting auto deaths to decrease.
They – the smart progs – are not expecting ‘firearm deaths’ to go down.
They don’t want a solution. They want to ban guns.
D O A
“Gov. Polis will continue his fight to better protect the property rights of homeowners and make Colorado more affordable to purchase or rent homes because changing the status quo isn’t easy,” Conor Cahill, a spokesman for Polis, said in a written statement Monday night. “He is deeply disappointed that politics and special interests continue to delay delivering real results for aging Colorado seniors who want to downsize, young families who want to live close to their work and the communities where they grew up, and businesses struggling with workplace shortages because of artificially high housing costs.”
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The governor promised to address the state’s lack of affordable housing during his State of the State address in January kicking off the 2023 legislative session, hinting at a policy that would usurp local governments’ ability to stop multifamily housing.
“This is far beyond just a local problem,” he said in the speech. “We have to break down government barriers, expand private property rights and reduce regulations to actually construct more housing to provide housing options at a lower cost so that all Coloradans can thrive.”
In March, that policy was introduced.
The 105-page bill proposed what would essentially be an end to single-family zoning in much of the state, forcing cities and town to let duplexes, triplexes and other multifamily housing with up to six units on residentially zoned land. It also would have barred prohibitions on accessory-dwelling units, also known as ADUs or “granny flats.”
I am all in favor of abolishing single use zoning, but this seems like a ham fisted knockoff of a bad California plan.
The problem is that it’s a short step from:
let duplexes, triplexes and other multifamily housing with up to six units on residentially zoned land
to
require duplexes, triplexes and other multifamily housing with up to six units on residentially zoned land
Decent thread here:
“Transheuser-Busch is still scrambling over the Mulvaney beer can as sales continue to tank. But it’s caught between a rock of customers and a hard place called “GARM,” a WEF-backed operation which was subpoenaed Friday by @Jim_Jordan
and the House Judiciary. Here’s why:🧵”
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1655660155134943250
Last day of vacation, but deadline isn’t until 2pm on Friday.
Haven’t done anything for it but get ideas. Spent yesterday with youngest nephew at the zoo w my parents. He’s oddly the one of three that strongly see myself in. He’s got all my little quirks and I’m sure I’m projecting. Love does that.
I’ll try to be good today. I doubt I will be. Quite torn about new profession. All the help in the world. Writing is certainly my selling point. The total lack of a schedule is maddening.
The House sent Senate Bill 213 back to the Senate on Friday. The chamber had the option to vote on adopting the House amendments, adhering to its version of the bill or asking for a conference committee.
Instead, the Senate let the bill languish and eventually die on the calendar.
“I’m incredibly disappointed,” Jodeh said in an interview Monday. “I think we had an amazing path to pass a bill that addressed our housing shortage, affordable housing, transportation, sustainable growth — addressed our climate issues. And, unfortunately, the House and the Senate didn’t see that path forward as the same path. And here we are.”
Jodeh said “the Senate fell short.”
Bummer.
Wouldn’t Polis, who I’m told is a raging libertarian, just have vetoed it anyway?