348 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Bidens Made Millions Exchanging Political Favors For Foreign Money, Then Tried To Cover It Up”

    No way!

    • WTF

      It doesn’t seem to occur to people that the Bidens are wealthy, yet they don’t actually have a business that produces anything.
      Instead let’s focus on Santos being a lying politician.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This is straight from Hunter Biden’s wikipedia page:

        After graduating from law school in 1996, Biden accepted a consultant position at the bank holding company MBNA, whose employees donated more than $200,000 into Joe Biden’s senate campaigns. MBNA’s hiring of Biden was controversial because his father had pushed for credit card legislation which was beneficial to the credit card industry and was supported by MBNA during Biden’s time at the bank. The legislation made it more difficult to get bankruptcy protection. This led to Byron York of National Review referring to Joe Biden, years later, as “the senator from MBNA” referencing the close relationship between the two. By 1998, Hunter Biden had risen to the rank of executive vice president at MBNA.

        He was a VP two years out of law school.

      • juris imprudent

        Banks are notorious for giving people titles (and typically in lieu of higher salary).

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yes, but EVP is still pretty high up. There’s typically AVP, VP, SVP, and then EVP. EVP is similar to VP in a regular company. There’s no way he’d be qualified for a real EVP position after just two years, it had to be a fake do-nothing position,

      • juris imprudent

        Govt relations no doubt.

      • Bobarian LMD

        One might be led to wonder how much he ever showed up to work?

      • Sensei

        Even funnier is that at that time MBNA as in Biden’s backyard in northern DE just south of Wilmington.

      • Drake

        Joe has never had a real job or even a fake book like the Obamas, yet got fabulously wealthy somehow.

      • AlexinCT

        The evidence that the Bidens, like the Clintons and Obamas were all crime families, and that a large part of their fortunes was selling the US out to China, has been out there forever. John Solomon, Mollie Hemmingway, Dan Bongino, and numerous others wrote books and articles breaking down all this shit, and especially the Biden family’s criminality vis a vis Trump, more than 7 years ago. Tony Babulinski went on Carlson’s show right after the laptop story broke to confirm all these facts about the Biden’s being crooks. The leads of all US intelligence and legal apparatuses knew this going into 2020 and worked to hide it from the public.

        We are a banana republic, people.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s good to be part of the Inner Party. Which isn’t limited to a D behind your name.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah — funny how this was bloody obvious to anyone slightly paying attention back with Burisma and ole Joe on video bragging about getting the prosecutor fired and all.

      “Welcome to the party, pal!” indeed… of course, the MSM is doing their best to pretend the party doesn’t exist (“We’re the popular girl! No one’s going to the Debate geeks party!”), so we’ll see if anything will ever come of it. But it certainly does seem to be the most obvious corruption and treason since Aaron Burr and the Spanish Empire and all. (That we know about, anyway… LBJ probably could beat it given how much of a scumbag he was).

    • waffles

      you’d think I’d hear about this. wouldn’t the depart of justice do something?

      • WTF

        Only if there was an “R” after his name.

    • Drake

      It’s the most obvious corruption scheme in history. Biden famously bragged about using the threat of losing foreign aid to get a pesky Ukrainian prosecutor fired for poking around his kickbacks.

      • Brochettaward

        That’s the thing about modern Democratic corruption. Starting with the Clintons and their foundation, they don’t even hide it anymore. They do this shit right out in the open now and dare people to challenge them. It’s an emperor has no clothes moment and the court jesters at CNN and the NYT’s no their role.

  2. Count Potato

    “CNN faced calls for a boycott, as evidenced by the spread of the #BoycottCNN on Twitter, over its decision to host Trump for a town hall. A number of people have criticized CNN, including one of its own analysts, former D.C. Metro Police officer Michael Fanone, who wrote an op-ed for Rolling Stone condemning the network for hosting the “guy who tried to get me killed” — a reference to the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.”

    CWAA

    • slumbrew

      That fuggin’ guy…

    • WTF

      Trump running again is almost worth it for the depraved leftist insanity it produces.

      • Brochettaward

        The tears of election night 2016 will be nothing compared to those of a victory a second time.

        But we aren’t going to get that.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Nah.

        I mean, the tears would be glorious, but rather than the left going over the cliff, it would be the left pushing everyone else off.

  3. Count Potato

    “Study of Popular Drinks Found 95 Percent Contained Plasticizers”

    Well, bacardi and grapefruit isn’t popular. So there.

    • Sean

      Please tell me scotch didn’t make the list.

      • Count Potato

        Get ready to be happy

        “Published in Environment International, the researchers analyzed water, cola, juices, wine, and hot drink samples and found that regardless of the packaging, added sugar was found to make the most significance…

        The lowest levels of contamination were found in bottled water (2.7 ng/L) and coffee (24 ng/L), followed by wine, sugar-free soft drinks, tea, and juices without added sugars.”

      • Ted S.

        That’s parts per trillion.

      • Necron 99

        Nice of them to throw this line in at the end of scare piece…

        “Estimated dietary exposure for Australian consumers was below internationally recognised Health-Based Guidance Values, and no appreciable health risks have been identified for the Australian population,” FSANZ said.

      • DrOtto

        Maybe the same people that test Australian gold for purity, test their food?

      • Swiss Servator

        Dr. Otto brings the BOOM!

      • Necron 99

        Assay what you did there.

  4. Shpip

    Trump made familiar assertions about protecting the Second Amendment, energy policy, and keeping the southern border secure.

    Well, he was one for three on those issues while he was President, so maybe he’ll get around to beefing up the Second Amendment and sealing the border if we give him four more years. Probably not, though.

    • WTF

      Although the border was in far better shape under Trump than it is now.

      • SDF-7

        Yeah — given the obvious “floodgates are open” once PPP came in and reversed everything OMB did as fast as possible — I’d give him decent marks on the border and on energy policy.

        Bad marks on 2nd Amendment issues (letting idiots below him run the show), COVID (same), 2020 election (I agree it was suspicious, but what he should have been doing the past 2-3 years is working hard to get laws / courts / whatnot shored up to clean it up, not just being butthurt and whining…), January 6 (no real support for the political prisoners until just now when it might hurt him in the primary), etc. Plus I don’t think he’s learned jack about getting the right people in place.

        All the negatives plus that if he’s the candidate Biden can die and Team Blue will still come out en masse to support him make it not worth it to me. Much rather he shut up already. Never get what I want in politics of course… so obviously it won’t happen.

      • WTF

        I basically agree with everything you said.

      • waffles

        I agree with everything you said. however all sides have had almost 2.5 year to come up with something, anything better than biden v trump and we’ve got nothing. this is it, our political mainstage is guaranteed to be as dumb and fake as possible. at least trump is entertaining.

      • juris imprudent

        at least trump is entertaining

        So there is one half of the formula. Ya got yer circus.

    • Brochettaward

      This is just moronic. Trump supported a bump stock ban, so he completely whiffed on the second amendment while giving you the Supreme Court that delivered the greatest second amendment victory since the progressive era?

      His border policy was a failure? Compared to what?

      • WTF

        SCOTUS was Trump’s greatest accomplishment for sure.

      • waffles

        I didn’t appreciate this until bruen. and we’re really not even half way done with important decisions.

      • Brochettaward

        I’d like to see what any RINO alternative to Trump would have done after the Vegas shooting. I have a small hunch that it would have made any “betrayal” by Trump seem like nothing.

        People are getting greedy on the second and take for granted that conservative courts are going to hand them big victories. You aren’t getting those rulings with more John Roberts on the courts.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Any of the Mitt Romney types would have enacted gun control that would have made the assault weapons ban look like child’s play and the Reps in congress would have caved because Rep president would give cover. It would have been a disaster.

      • juris imprudent

        Kavanaugh may yet be all that Roberts is.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “I still like government!”

      • The Other Kevin

        Last night he kept arguing with the moderator over how many miles of wall he built. But that’s not the important part. The fact is, in general he was hostile to illegal immigration, and that’s what kept people away. Just by his talk, and his policy to separate families. The first thing Biden did was say loud and clear, “Come on in! We love you! You’re welcome here!”

  5. Sensei

    Opened my work mail this AM and got an email from a coworker that I had a 4pm meeting yesterday in a tiny conference room. Tested positive for the Commie Cough.

    Yeah me! Best part is this coworker religiously wears a mask at work. My anecdotal experience is the maskers are stricken with ‘Vid at higher rates than the “fuck it” (日本語でしょうがない) people.

    I’ve got my son’s college graduation this weekend so here’s hoping I’m not sick while traveling, because we all know that sucks.

    • Sean

      Who the fuck is still testing?

      • Sensei

        People who wear masks.

        That said, if I felt crappy I’d test. My company had a testing requirement and I’ve probably got at least a dozen boxes (of two each) in the closet. No particular reason other than curiosity.

      • WTF

        At my company there’s not any testing, just a policy of “if you’re sick, work from home, don’t come to the office until you’re better”, whether it’s cold flu, whatever.

      • Sensei

        That’s our current policy as well.

        Since I have the tests and the test exists – if I did test positive I wouldn’t return to the office until I had a clear test.

      • rhywun

        Same. But I haven’t been in the office in two years so there’s that.

      • Nephilium

        My last time in an office was a brief stop in for some DR testing back in 2021 for a half day. Prior to that it was in March of 2020. At the new job in the training classes I got asked if I was going to stop into an office. Several of the newer people in the training were surprised that the closest office to me is over two hours away.

      • The Last American Hero

        My kids school requests that you do if they are out sick for any reason, and to stay away for 5 days if they throw a positive.

    • Fourscore

      Congrats to your son! Another milestone

      • Sensei

        Thanks!

    • SDF-7

      What… like maybe they’re weakening their immune systems by trying to self-isolate / cut down on environmental interactions (and of course more likely to boost with the mRNA crap and what not)?

      Who could have seen that coming?

      • Sensei

        Precisely!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      …did you respond to the email?

      • Sensei

        Sure. I said, “Feel better!”

        Same as if a coworker had a cold.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Incredible restraint on your part.

    • Ted S.

      Maskers test themselves at far higher rates than “fuck it” people.

    • tarran

      Masks aren’t filters that trap stuff in a black hole.

      Rather, masks form a reservoir that collects stuff and emits it later. The rate at which if collects stuff is proportional to how empty the reservoir is. The rate at which it emits stuff is proportional to how full the reservoir is.

      After a few hours, all the air the masker is inhaling is passing through a germy rag, and with each breath the probability of that virus it snagged early in the morning making it into his or her lungs is increased. Moreover, instead of a virus that was exhaled being exhausted out into the environment never to return, the mask helpfully retains it for a greater than 50% chance that the wearer can reinhale it later.

      That’s why chronic masking makes respiratory illnesses worse and more lingering for the wearer.

  6. rhywun

    Nice tunage.

  7. Fourscore

    “150,000 Illegal Aliens Massed at the Border”

    Now add on the budget problems, Ukraine, fentanyl, Hunter, failing schools, crime, etc. Pretty soon it becomes serious.

    • WTF

      I see you are happy to talk about Biden’s accomplishments…

    • DrOtto

      At least we have the economy!

  8. Rebel Scum

    Bidens Made Millions Exchanging Political Favors For Foreign Money, Then Tried To Cover It Up

    Sounds like some far right conspiracy theory. Every one knows Scranton Joe is every man’s every man.

    • WTF

      I’m sure they earned all of their $Millions running a legitimate business that nobody seems to know what they actually do.

      • SDF-7

        Just sheer luck how profitable “public service” is these days, isn’t it?

  9. Rebel Scum

    Combative Trump Spars With CNN Anchor Over Election Claims, Documents In Town Hall

    She has a severe case of resting bitch-face, but I’m into it. And Trump did Trump things. So that was fun.

    Relevant: The face you make when your entire career lasted 30 minutes.

  10. Count Potato

    “Plasticizers are polymer materials added to plastics for desired flexibility and durability, with bisphenol A, also known as BPA, and phthalates being the most commonly used.”

    How the fuck do you pronounce that? Do you just spray saliva?

  11. Penguin

    I wonder if Comer’s actually going to go through with pushing for the Biden crime family prosecutions. I doubt it, for obvious reasons, but it sounds like he’s still ramping up rather than wrapping up with the investigation.

    Then again, there may be a reason why the D establishment might want to wave goodbye to Joe et al. Having said that, I know it’s not possible to be cynical about politics.

    With that last comment in mind, I’ll still link to the Lotus Eaters on RFK, Jr.

    • Urthona

      NYT headline today something like: “House finds no evidence of corruption.”

    • R C Dean

      The Repubs are doing a piss poor job of pushing this story. A memo and a press conference? Easily ignored/discounted. This is 2023 – release the effing bank records and other primary source material. The memo should be a gloss on the actual bank records, not the sole, easily dismissed, basis for the story.

    • DrOtto

      See also – No reasonable prosecutor

  12. Rebel Scum

    Brian Tyler Cohen
    @briantylercohen

    Within minutes, Trump spews election denialism. Kaitlan Collins offers pushback. Trump completely ignores her and barrels right back into election denialism. Congrats to CNN on giving this guy a platform to promote his lies on national TV.

    Name one Democrat in the federal congress (or anywhere) that accepted the result of the 2016 presidential election.

    • Grumbletarian

      That’s different.

    • Brochettaward

      Name anyone at CNN who accepted the results of the 2016 election.

    • Sean

      Wait, I thought all those people moved to Canada…

    • Not Adahn

      Or 2000. Or 2004.

  13. Rebel Scum

    150,000 Illegal Aliens Massed at the Border, Ready to Cross at Midnight When Title 42 Ends

    If only there was some way to dissuade them.

    • UnCivilServant

      Typically an invading force of 150k was met with force instead of welfare benefits.

    • R C Dean

      My favorite part is the Arizona governor touting that AZ National Guard is being deployed.

      Of course, their role is to help fill out the paperwork. They aren’t being sent to stop anyone from crossing the border, they are being sent to get them into the system so they can be sent to their new homes in the US.

      • Brochettaward

        I know a lifelong Dem who tried to claim Biden is trying to control the border and used the sending of troops as proof. It was sadly a genuine belief.

    • The Last American Hero

      Ship 1/3 to DC, 1/3 to Scranton, and 1/3 to NYC.

      • Sean

        1/3 to Scranton

        NO.

        I hear Chicago is nice this time of year.

      • Nephilium

        Didn’t the deep one ask for more immigrants too?

  14. Count Potato

    “Biden says power plants have to reduce pollution by 90% or shut down: EPA announces strict guidelines for green agenda that has already sparked backlash from Republicans and Democrat Joe Manchin

    The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change.

    A rule to be unveiled Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S.

    If finalized, the proposed regulation would mark the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, which generate about 25% of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution, second only to the transportation sector.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12072495/Biden-says-power-plants-reduce-pollution-90-shut-down.html

    Does Congress actually do anything?

    • SDF-7

      “Insider trading isn’t nothing, maaaaan!”

      • rhywun

        Neither is hating us and wanting us dead.

    • Urthona

      Hasn’t the EPA making rules based on carbon output already been declared illegal by he supreme court? I feel like we already had this court case.

      • Ownbestenemy

        To paraphrase “Let them enforce it…” Who is going to stop them if something was declared illegal or unconstitutional?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Sure, they delegate away their power, complain about it, and then collect bribes on the down low.

      Meanwhile, the Biden administration is on a full court press to annihilate the American economy.

      • SDF-7

        That CCP investment needs its ROI, after all.

    • Rebel Scum

      Biden says power plants have to reduce pollution by 90% or shut down

      So they are going to be shut down. They emit CO2 and water vapor ffs.

      • Urthona

        I don’t know. They keep trying different versions of this and keep losing when it gets to the supreme court.

    • Homple

      Shut down all the plants and do it suddenly. It’s the only way the imbecile American public will learn.

      • Grumbletarian

        It would only take a week or so. Have them all shut down and say “We’re shutting down because the Biden admin made us.”

    • Not Adahn

      If you’re going to TASTE something, don’t put it in a Bolognese sauce.

  15. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    whats goody

  16. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    Seems Taiwan isn’t completely on board with being yet another pawn for DC to use and abuse at its whim.

    https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/10/taiwan-says-its-military-wont-let-the-us-blow-up-semiconductor-factories/

    Taiwan’s defense minister on Monday pushed back against the idea of the US bombing the island’s semiconductor factories in the event of a Chinese invasion.

    Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) recently said the US should “make it very clear to the Chinese that if you invade Taiwan, we’re going to blow up TSMC,” referring to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which produces the majority of the world’s advanced semiconductors.

    When asked about Moutlon’s comments, Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said the military wouldn’t let that happen. “It is the military’s obligation to defend Taiwan and we will not tolerate any others blowing up our facilities,” he said, according to The South China Morning Post.

    • Raven Nation

      WTF: what would possess someone to say something that inflammatory?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        This is your brain on neoconservatism.

      • Nephilium

        Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA)

        Neo-Con Dems?

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe we should call them boomerangs? The neo-cons were ‘neo’ because they had been left/Dem before their road to Damascus moment.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        It’s the Joe Leiberman way.

      • tarran

        Kennedy Democrat would be my guess. They still exist out here.

    • Sensei

      And Trump is the is the “loose cannon”. I’m glad the “adults” are back.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Moulton is a dumbass. Infrastructure is a cherry, but that wouldn’t ultimately stop PRC from invading ROC if they decided on that route.

    • Count Potato

      “Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) recently said the US should “make it very clear to the Chinese that if you invade Taiwan, we’re going to blow up TSMC,” referring to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which produces the majority of the world’s advanced semiconductors.”

      WTF??

      • Drake

        What if Mexico invades the United States?

      • Gustave Lytton

        The sound of one hand clapping?

      • WTF

        There’s been an ongoing invasion from Mexico for years now.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s a proxy invasion.

      • WTF

        So, if China attacks Taiwan, we will bomb Taiwan?
        Ummmmmm……

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        “We have to nuke the island in order to save it.” has become official American foreign policy.

      • AlexinCT

        All we need to do is destroy the chip manufacturing facilities. That’s what the CCP is after in Taiwan.

    • Rebel Scum

      So you are saying that the surprise twist is the US invading Taiwan.

    • Sensei

      After graduating from Harvard University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics, Moulton joined the United States Marine Corps. He served four tours in Iraq and then earned his master’s degrees in business and public policy in a dual program at Harvard. He entered politics in 2014, when he was elected to represent Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district.

      Semper Fi!

      • EvilSheldon

        There’s literally nothing that the Ivys can’t corrupt.

    • WTF

      Did she explain why she wants children to be exposed to drag queens shaking their assess in children’s faces?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Because guns are bad.

      • Rebel Scum

        Something all these cuntes need to answer…why must the children be involved in this hyper-sexualized minstrel activity?

    • PieInTheSky

      She was complaining a while ago she cant find dudes to fuck, now she fucks up people?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Apparently she is hanging with the wrong crowd if she is looking for love.

  17. Rebel Scum

    This is fine.

    Heavy gunfire erupts at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge on the U.S.-Mexico border

    📌#Pharr | #Texas

    Currently the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge, a key border crossing linking Texas and Mexico, is experiencing a substantial outburst of gunfire, leading to individuals seeking shelter. As Several people have been reportedly been shot with unconfirmed reports suggest at least 3 people have been killed

    Mexican media reports a shooting has occurred between ‘elements of the army and armed civilians so far reports are saying 3 people have died

    • Sensei

      Domestic issue within Mexico.

      Nothing to discuss.

      • juris imprudent

        Well, if it was Tuesday…

      • AlexinCT

        You would ask me for a Hamburger you would pay me for later Wimpie?

      • juris imprudent

        Enlaces Mexicanos!

      • Ted S.

        It must be Belgium?

  18. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — almost chumped DuoTri… not bad (but not fantastic) for the Main Event. Sounds typical, doesn’t it?

    Daily Duotrigordle #435
    Guesses: 37/37
    Time: 04:33.69
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 472
    3️⃣5️⃣
    8️⃣6️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 472
      3️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣7️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle

      Blossom Puzzle, May 11
      Letters: A D G R N O S
      My score: 199 points
      My longest word: 8 letters
      🏵 💮 🌼 🌺 💐 🌸 🌷 🌹

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 472
      3️⃣5️⃣
      8️⃣7️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle

      Blossom Puzzle, May 11
      Letters: A D G R N O S
      My score: 305 points
      My longest word: 9 letters
      🏵 💮 🌼 🌷 🌹 🌺 🌻 🌸 💐

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

      • Sean

        Nice score on Blossom.

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 472
      5️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣7️⃣

      *yawn*

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 472
      4️⃣6️⃣
      7️⃣5️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle

    • kinnath

      Daily Quordle 472
      5️⃣3️⃣
      7️⃣6️⃣

      • kinnath

        #waffle475 5/5

        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
        🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
        🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩
        🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

        🔥 streak: 131

  19. The Late P Brooks

    The Biden family business:

    Instead of “I, Pencil” you have , “I, Politician”.

  20. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    Uh, yeah about that glorious counteroffensive victory, um… it’s going to be so successful that we’re going to do it multiple times.

    Ukraine’s foreign minister said the upcoming counteroffensive against Russian forces would not be the last. The diplomat urged NATO members to transfer more advanced weapons to Kiev for the coming operations, including F-16 fighter jets.

    In an interview with Germany’s Bild newspaper published on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said “Do not consider this counteroffensive as the last one, because we do not know what will come of it,” adding that should it fail, “It means we have to prepare for the next counteroffensive.”

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/ukraine-seeking-advanced-weapons-for-next-counteroffensive/

    • Gustave Lytton

      “We need everyone on board for the Big Push. And if that doesn’t work, we’ll do Big Push II. And III.”

    • Sensei

      I won’t fault them for that. Business 101 is to underpromise and overdeliver.

    • Drake

      The push for F-16’s always make me wonder who running that particular grift. A few outdated fighters with inexperienced pilots and no AWACS support would quickly be shot down without making any difference to the overall war.

      So an attempt to pull NATO in deeper – maybe by putting NATO pilots in the cockpits and getting them killed or captured?

      Or maybe General Dynamics has some better lobbyists. I notice they are asking specifically for F-16’s. Not F-15s or 18s and not Euro-fighters. The Swedes laughed a them when Zelensky asked for free Saab Gripens.

      • Homple

        Probably the US defense department wants to see how the S-400 air defense system works.

      • Drake

        The Ukraine and Turkey already have them – although probably not the latest versions.

    • Rebel Scum

      including F-16 fighter jets

      You don’t know how to use them.

      • AlexinCT

        That was an F/A-18.

      • Drake

        Whatever – it’s like getting in a different rental car. You just adjust the seat and mirrors and you’re good to go.

      • AlexinCT

        Wish it was that easy, or your sarcasm game is much higher than mine…

      • Sensei

        Seemed clear to me. Normally I’d think east coast style, but that should include you too.

        Although my grandfather delivered old and surplus aircraft to the USSR during WW2 and told me the pilots asked about 5 question including stall and landing speeds and took off.

        He was surprised to say the least.

    • Ownbestenemy

      When you are out there promoting you are going to do a counter-offensive…uh…they are just grifting. You don’t announce to the enemy you are gearing up to go on the offensive.

  21. Brochettaward

    I’d also just like to once again compare and contrast the level of proof needed to impugn Biden, or before him Hillary when it comes to foreign money, and the ease with which the NYT’s and the left level accusations against Jared Kushner for getting a deal with the Saudis after leaving office.

    When it’s their own side, the left becomes blind, deaf, and dumb. When it’s a R, especially one of the Trumps, they have no problem connecting dots without smoking gun evidence.

    • Urthona

      Yea. we just had a week of pretending Clarence Thomas was corrupt when thought there was no conflict of interest in taking a vacation with a rich friend.

      The Biden family received millions from foreign entities deliberately hidden via a web of about 20 shell companies. No one with an iq above 65 could think this was done for non-corrupt reasons.

      • Urthona

        @even though

      • Gustave Lytton

        Please. Abe Fortas Jr is a fucking idiot that should have known better, but he’s got his blinders on and the culture of public service is “fuck you, I deserve this”.

      • R C Dean

        Then let’s have a single standard for all. At this point, Sotomayor should be first in line for removal, given that she took millions from a publisher who had, I believe, more than one case appealed to the Court. If we apply the “not a single nickel, in cash or in kind, from anybody, for any reason” standard, then we’ll need a whole new Court.

      • juris imprudent

        Never was the intent and never will be. Now stop resisting!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Thomas knows, or should have known, he’s had a target on his back since he was nominated. Yet he goes and does this juvenile dipshit stuff.

        And probably do need an entirely new court and public servants generally. There a widespread entitlement mentality that if it’s not specifically and technically prohibited, it’s all ok. No even a pretense of Caesar’s wife.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I do like how Thomas was portrayed for years as ordinary guy who liked to vacation in an RV around the country. Never a hint that he was bumming vacations off a friend.

      • The Other Kevin

        For the life of me, I can’t imagine any legitimate reason to have 20 shell companies, and to have those companies pay out to 9 or more family members. If you have a consulting business, you have one company, maybe one for each country you deal with. And you don’t pay out from your businesses to family, YOU get paid and then you’re free to distribute that to your family. This is straight up money laundering.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The Dems are smart enough to run their graft through a series of cutouts and shell companies. For example, the Russia dossier on Trump was through Hilarry’s lawyer to a opposition research company to a British spy to Russian sources. Too complicated for the media to follow, or easy for them to wave away if they want to protect her. Same with Biden’s shell companies.

      • Ownbestenemy

        News (Politico) is already working to tie the committee’s work on the shell companies as ‘Russian disinformation’…so really you don’t even need these elaborate schemes when you have the propaganda on your side

  22. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates!

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Poor feckless little lamb

    So CNN, with this ridiculous town hall format and an audience seemingly recruited “from the Mar-a-Lago parking lot,” put its own anchor in a position to fail. The only way Collins really could have even semi-succeeded would have been if she had ignored the audience and the format entirely and instead tried to pin Trump down on each and every one of his false and offensive statements.

    Of course, the CNN anchor didn’t — couldn’t! — do that. But format aside, she didn’t do herself any favors, either.

    They sent that cute defenseless little girl out there hoping Trump would tear her clothes off and rape her right there on the stage, on live teevee.

    • Rebel Scum

      false and offensive statements

      Such as?

      • AlexinCT

        Telling them they were lying about the election being legit.

    • AlexinCT

      They thought they would get their “Gotcha moment” and real cool dnc campaign sound bites from him, cause they all see him as a dumb ass idiot, and instead he walked away with a KO and left all the losers with their pussies grabbed.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She is kinda cute. They better have the good sense to keep President Hair Huffer away from her.

  24. PieInTheSky

    Bidens Made Millions Exchanging Political Favors For Foreign Money, Then Tried To Cover It Up

    I do not think upstanding people like the Bidens would deal with the likes of Popoviciu in Romania.

    • AlexinCT

      Does he have CCP money? Cause if not, then PSHAW!

    • robc

      We were blaming you for the Romanian money in the afternoon links yesterday.

    • Nephilium

      There was a recent local case about something similar here. Couple has a wood fired pizza oven in the backyard. Their neighbors complain, call the cops, the fire department, and eventually file a lawsuit.

      Six years later, it’s all over except eating the pizza.

      • UnCivilServant

        Good to hear.

        Did the vexatious litigants get saddled with the bill for the defendants?

      • Nephilium

        I don’t believe so, and the litigants did make noises about appealing the decision, but I haven’t seen any new stories about it.

      • juris imprudent

        That is the problem with our legal system – we don’t have loser pays.

      • whiz

        I’ve been delivering wood for 28 years

        Are we still talking pizza ovens?

    • UnCivilServant

      “Look, if you want to move down the food chain, that’s your perogative. I’m not going to give up what my ancestors fought for.”

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      LOL. I’m reminded of the PETA employee who lived upstairs from my sister. She would get drunk and repetitively yell “MEAT IS MURDER” out the window at the people who were frequenting the steakhouse across the street.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Maybe she was just a belligerent Morrisey fan.

    • PieInTheSky

      are you also 6’5″ and eat large steaks with a huge knife?

    • Gustave Lytton

      People live too fucking close together.

      • PieInTheSky

        we need more high density walkable 15 minute cities./

    • EvilSheldon

      Keep your windows closed, but grill out on the patio.

      Happy to help.

    • R C Dean

      “We eat only plant=based foods”

      Hey, me too! My steak comes from cows that are 100% plant-based.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Proper solution


      Bobby Shell⚡✞
      @iBobbyShell
      ¡
      18h
      This is when you buy a smoker

  25. PieInTheSky

    150,000 Illegal Aliens Massed at the Border, Ready to Cross at Midnight When Title 42 Ends

    seems a little far fetched to me… Also no human is illegal. But I do hope they have a good number of non binary genderfluid genderqueer people for diversity’s sake

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      A kid who knew they’d perform well?

    • whiz

      A kid who crammed the night before and was afraid he’d forget it all?

    • R C Dean

      If an 11 year old wrote that, he could probably test out of high school and maybe college.

  26. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Friendly tip for InBev: if your main product is swill that most of your customers drink because that’s what they used to guzzle in their late teens and there are plenty of equivalent swills on the market don’t attack your consumers. It’s nice to see some nonleftists actually managing to stick to it and inflict some financial pain for being disrespected.

    • Nephilium

      If you haven’t been paying attention, AB-InBev has also managed to piss off the left with the ad campaign too. Several gay bars stopped selling AB-InBev products because the brewery was “too weak in their defense of LGBTQ+ rights”.

      • Sensei

        As I said to a coworker, “sometimes you just want to drink a beer and not make a political statement”.

      • robc

        Not doing anything from the start would have been the smart business move.

      • Nephilium

        Yep. I think the real straw came when the marketing exec who did the promotion said she wanted to get rid of the “fratty” branding that was tied to Bud Light.

        /starts wondering if the goal was to boost the sales of Bud Light branded hard seltzers

      • robc

        I thought Bud Light was too expensive for frats.

        What happened to Natty Light or Busch Light or, ugh, Beast (Milwaukee’s Best) Light.

      • Tres Cool

        YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!

      • Sensei

        Yes. That came out in trade rags a week or so before Mulvaney.

        That probably would have gone unnoticed, but it was the perfect catalyst for the shit storm.

  27. PieInTheSky

    Anglo-American young people are the only generation in decades that is become more “liberal” with age rather than more conservative.

    https://twitter.com/Valen10Francois/status/1656363672019562508

    Interestingly in France we get very very different trends, look at the runoff between Le Pen (dark blue) and Macron.

    Yes Macron wins with the 18-24 but not with a crushing majority, and he gets overtaken in the 25-34 age group

    Data from Italy is also nowhere close to overwhelming domination of the left on young people.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      You’re supposed to rename it AFTER you capture it.

    • PieInTheSky

      Kaliningrad is a colonialist name.

      • Penguin

        Kalinin was a Soviet scumbag murderer. Good for Poland.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The Poles are only being belligerent fools because they think we have their back. Compared to the foolishness they’ve been engaging in this is pretty tame. Maybe the Russians can give it back to Prussia so Poland can get invaded again.

      • AlexinCT

        I don’t know about that. The Poles have a top notch military (their readiness and doctrine are the best in Europe and considering where the US military is today they might even be better than ours) and decent equipment (most of it from us). Yeah, Russia has nukes, but going into Poland will require the use of those nukes to avoid a complete and total loss.

      • The Last American Hero

        The problem Poland has and has always had is that defending Poland is like defending Missouri.

      • UnCivilServant

        So they needed to control from the Urals to the Bay of Biscay?

      • juris imprudent

        Perhaps why the definition of the borders of Poland has been so historically flexible.

      • robc

        A solid river defense on one side?

      • Bobarian LMD

        You guys know that pollock jokes are a thing for a reason?

        *Attacks invading tanks with horse cavalry*

    • Rat on a train

      At least they aren’t calling the Russians dumb like both do for Germans.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    A voice in the wilderness

    Chris Christie, once an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, slammed him for being “Putin’s puppet” after Trump dodged a question on whether he wants Ukraine or Russia to win the war.

    “Donald Trump refused to say tonight that he wanted Ukraine to win the war with Russia,” he wrote in a tweet that has been viewed over 367,000 times as of press time. “More proof that he continues to be Putin’s puppet.”

    Chris Christie, man of principle.

    • WTF

      So now he’s going with bullshit Democrat talking points?
      What an asshole.

      • AlexinCT

        Deep staters will deep state..

      • juris imprudent

        You can take the asshole out of NJ, but you aren’t taking the NJ out of that asshole.

    • Rebel Scum

      whether he wants Ukraine or Russia to win the war

      Framing of the question is dishonest when I presume he just wants peace in a conflict that didn’t have to happen. But NATO/US is assho preferred to antagonize Russia.

      • R C Dean

        Much depends, as well, on the undefined term “win”.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The only thing he believes in is cleaning his plate.

    • Grosspatzer

      Chris Christie, a modern day William Howard Taft. New Jersey’s least bad governor in the last 50 years, what’s not to like?

      • Sensei

        +1 Christine Todd Whitman.

      • Grosspatzer

        Things were so much better when the aristocracy was on charge.

      • Drake

        Her State Supreme Court selections destroyed the state (Abbott decision). She picked them because they were pro-abortion despite the State Constitution being salient on the topic, so they had to be activists.

      • Grosspatzer

        “Her State Supreme Court selections destroyed the state (Abbott decision).”

        *checks property tax bill *

        Can confirm.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I see a lot of cold food that can’t be eaten easily. Potato salad and fried wedges?

    • EvilSheldon

      Presentation looks great, but something about the prime rib makes me think that it’ll be on the tough side.

  29. Rebel Scum

    Her words of wisdom and inspiration will be profound.

    The White House announced today that Vice President of the United States of America Kamala Harris will serve as commencement speaker at the USMA’s Class of 2023 graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 27.

    • AlexinCT

      Oh great.. Will she be telling them about how much she loves yellow school busses and Venn diagrams?

    • The Last American Hero

      War…is violent. It is a violent thing where people do violent things to each other. You will be leading violent people, and making sure they do lots of violence to other people who want to do violence.

      • Nephilium

        War… war never changes.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      When you are in a battle, your in a moment of time. A moment where you are in battle, not with time, but with a foe, a foe who is also in this moment of time. Think about that. I think about it every moment, like this moment of time. And the time to battle is this moment in time.

  30. Rebel Scum

    Cry about it.

    Trump calls Collns a “nasty person” on stage.

    The crowd, made up of GOP voters in New Hampshire, cheers.

  31. The Other Kevin

    I listened to about 10 minutes of the Trump thing last night. While I liked what he had to say about Ukraine, I had to turn it off. He was just rambling all over the place, changing the subject, and the interviewer was super hostile. I don’t think I could stand another four years of that.

    • AlexinCT

      Unless the democrats win the WH again or you get a wet noodle that will just roll over for them (and even then), you will get more years of that. If you are not one of them they will accuse you of being Hitler and come after you with all guns blazing.

      • juris imprudent

        Sadly, there is a large part of America onboard with that.

      • AlexinCT

        I think jerry Springer set a good standard for government I would love to have.

        In Ideocracy the judge goes off on poor Not Sure and tells him that since he, the judge, is also a wrestler he will kick Not Sure’s ass for acting smart in court with him.

        That sort of crazy shit would seem more legit to me than the veneer of legitimacy they hope to convince us they have when we know they are down right dirty and corrupt.

    • Rebel Scum

      Seemed to me he would answer a question then tie in whatever other message he wanted to get across. I find it all entertaining, myself.

    • Banjos

      Don’t worry. The coming economic collapse will probably lead to the breakup of the country anyway.

      • Drake

        So there is hope?

        One guy is never going to fix the problems we’re having. It would take a small army of dedicated like-minded people in the legislature and the institutions. Which is why lawfare is being waged against that potential army.

      • Banjos

        The best strategy is to move to a red part in a red state and make sure that the right people are in control of the school boards, election boards, the local government (especially the Sherriff’s office) so when unconstitutional edicts start to come down, you know that who is in power locally will fight them. Then after that work on your state government. Give up on the swamp. Retreat, regroup, and fortify.

      • Drake

        Work-in-progress + a victory garden.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m very fortunate to be in that position. Indiana is pretty red except for a few counties. We live in what Mrs. TOK calls the “guns and Bible belt”. We still have a prayer before some school functions.

  32. Rebel Scum

    Speaking of disinformation…

    There were not fine people on both sides of Charlottesville.

    The January 6th rioters were not good people.

    End of story.

    You are still lying about both events and Trump’s comments on them.

    • Brochettaward

      How many of the Jan 6th “rioters” (a more honest description than anything else I’ve seen come from his White House or DOJ) had felony rap sheets a mile long? How many pedophiles? Wife beaters etc.? Rittenhouse was 3/3 on scumbags he shot.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, that’s a fun line – Rittenhouse killed more people than Jan 6th!

      • robc

        Don’t forget the Wisconsin capital insurrection.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Disinformation experism

    An expert who once oversaw a Department of Homeland Security disinformation board filed a defamation suit Wednesday against Fox News, her lawyer said.

    Nina Jankowicz said in the suit, filed in Delaware state court, that she was subjected to violent threats because of Fox News’ portrayal of her and her role, which included insults made on the network.

    “Fox’s coverage of Jankowicz was neither news nor political commentary; it was cheap, easy entertainment untethered from the facts, designed to make consumers believe that Jankowicz could and would suppress their speech,” her attorneys wrote in the suit. “Fox chose to lie about Jankowicz deliberately.”

    ——-

    She said at the time that the board’s purpose was to ensure that DHS followed best practices in combatting disinformation while protecting Americans’ freedom of speech, privacy and civil liberties.

    Comments on Fox News portrayed her as censoring Americans’ speech, the suit argues. She was called “unhinged” and a “Minister of Truth” in an apparent reference to George Orwell’s dystopian world in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the suit says.

    The lawsuit included screenshots of comments on Gab and another website, Patriots.win, in which people reacted to Fox broadcasts with comments like “time to kill them all.” Tweets said she should be executed.

    The peasants are revolting.

    • juris imprudent

      First, the truth is an absolute defense; second, she is a public figure. Her lawyers should be publically horsewhipped and disbarred.

    • Brochettaward

      1. She is fucking unhinged. No Fox News commentary needed to come to that. Just watch her sing about stopping the spread of bad think.
      2. Fox News set a horrible precedent by settling with Dominion.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Anytime you insult people nowadays just throw in an in my opinion or it appears to be, otherwise you’re open to lawfare.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just ignore the idiotic videos she made where she sings like a deranged Broadway starlet about censoring people. Wouldn’t she be considered a public figure? If so this suit has no legs.

    • WTF

      Emboldened by Fox rolling over on the Dominion lawsuit which they could have easily won.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, one of the versions I’ve heard is that discovery in the Dominion case would have pulled a bunch of e-mails (on various subjects) into the public view and that a lot of those e-mails made people at the top of the company look very bad. So, the settlement was more to prevent discovery (although CATO is absolutely convinced it was a righteous bust).

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Hell, one of the Dominion VPs was out there boasting he would personally make sure Trump didn’t win. That one has been completely memory-holed.

        I can only imagine what their internal comms look like.

      • Raven Nation

        Oops, I didn’t phrase that well. It was the internal Fox communications that led to the settlement.

    • R C Dean

      Gosh, Fox, you roll over in one lawsuit and pay out 9 figures, and you start catching more lawsuits? Who could have seen that coming?

      • juris imprudent

        something ferrous something?

    • Rebel Scum

      to make consumers believe that Jankowicz could and would suppress their speech

      That was literally the job description. And she is doing it now with this lawsuit.

      combatting disinformation while protecting Americans’ freedom of speech

      Pick one. You cannot have both, especially considering “disinformation” is just information that the regime doesn’t like.

    • The Other Kevin

      Just another example of “Reporting exactly what I said is defamation” that we’ve seen from the left.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    The lawsuit alleges defamation and seeks compensatory damages, as well as punitive damages; the amounts are not spelled out.

    The coverage created a “completely false reputation concerning government censorship,” the suit alleges.

    Another case of “I’m not sorry I did it. I’m just sorry you found out what I was doing.”

  35. Pine_Tree

    “150,000 Illegal Aliens Massed at the Border, Ready to Cross at Midnight When Title 42 Ends”

    The usual suspects have, for years, put a ton of effort into pretending that there’s not been an active invasion going on. The “continual trickle” thing has helped them keep up the pretense. They’re getting wise to the fact that this “surge” will make it even harder to ignore and pretend.

    This is an invasion. And. Everybody. Knows. It. This is why the US Army exists.

    • juris imprudent

      So apparently the Biden admin is rushing in a stopgap on asylum seeking. The left is whining predictably.

    • Drake

      Nice of our government to help them. Treason?

    • juris imprudent

      Low-immigration, Pro-immigrant

      That’s right up there with Jankowicz’s lawyers saying “combatting disinformation and protecting free speech”.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Group therapy, that’s what it is

    “It doesn’t matter what the argument was about, it was not the place to have it,” she said. “What they don’t realize is that the rest of the community was still watching and a number of people have been dissuaded from the toxic nature. They’re like, ‘I can’t be a part of that. I get enough of that in my daily life.’ And I’ve watched that side of it with great sadness.”

    Ultimately, Grills said the public hearings have been an invaluable asset for the task force and Black Californians.

    “America has essentially tried to dismiss or erase the truth about who we are and what was done to us, and so when you feel a glimmer of hope when you’re able to publicly tell your story,” she said. “Reparations mean at least there’s an attempt to get the wrongs righted, to get people to see you, to hear you — and to get some of that by speaking at the hearings can offer some personal reflection that always needed to be released. And that’s a good thing.”

    And will this retaliatory scab-picking have any positive result?

    I doubt it.

    • Rebel Scum

      at least there’s an attempt to get the wrongs righted

      You were not wronged. Go away now.

  37. Tundra

    GAH!

    Uh, Tres?

    • Grosspatzer

      Note to anyone thinking of clicking on that link: I have enactedyour labor and strongly advise you reconsider.

    • juris imprudent

      Looks like it was deleted. However I assume this might be relevant.

    • The Gunslinger

      Sorry, that tweet has been deleted.

  38. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Yikes, looks like the Brits are sending some kind of stealth cruise middle with a 500km range to the Ukes:
    https://youtu.be/MF9J7DI9RKs

    It’s like they want the nukes to fly.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The longer the range, the bigger the buffer zone Russia is going to want.

      I believe those are air fired missiles.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        And everyone in the comments over there is clapping like a trained seal. I guess they don’t understand unintended consequences.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        We’ve largely forgotten what total war actually means. The average American has no comprehension of the death and destruction it will visit upon them personally. In their minds, it’s always someone else who has to die for “freedom.”

      • Sensei

        OT

        https://youtu.be/B-4cUGSsGPQ

        All discrete. Love the plug in modules for different frequencies. The Apollo ground station has a bazillion. Makes you realize what a huge slug of cash FedGov threw at NASA.

      • juris imprudent

        They believe it is our job to punish the bad man.

    • Rebel Scum

      UK describes as a proportional response

      To what? Russia is not attacking you.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well it seems all of the West has decided that Ukraine was to be their money laundering base of operations…so in a way, Russia is attacking them

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Could be, could be…I wonder if all the crazed support is really that simple.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ah, so the government is going to get their cut first. That is low.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        They always do.

        The IRS filed the claims under “administrative priority,” enabling its claims to supersede that of unsecured creditors during bankruptcy proceedings.

        I’ve lost a few collections efforts because the debtor had been skimming payroll taxes. Once the IRS is in there, there’s usually not much left over for us peons. And they will claw it back from you if they think they can justify you shouldn’t have gotten that money before they did.

  39. Ownbestenemy

    I mentioned this yesterday. Quite the masterclass in focusing the media where you want them to focus.

    • Gender Traitor

      Possibly dumb question: Why would a politician overstate his income and assets? 😕

  40. The Late P Brooks

    A minor setback

    A federal appeals court overturned all fraud convictions Wednesday of two parents who were found guilty of paying bribes to get their kids into elite universities as part of a sprawling college admissions scandal.

    The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed all convictions against Gamal Abdelaziz and all but one conviction of another parent, John Wilson. The Boston-based appeals court upheld Wilson’s conviction on a charge of filing a false tax return.

    ——-

    The government was allowed to introduce a “significant amount of powerful evidence related to other parents’ wrongdoing in which these defendants played no part, creating an unacceptable risk that the jury convicted Abdelaziz and Wilson based on others’ conduct rather than their own,” the judges wrote.

    The ruling is a blow for prosecutors, who netted more than 50 convictions in the scandal that ensnared prominent businesspeople, celebrities and other wealthy parents across the country. Coaches from schools including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of California, Los Angeles, admitted to accepting bribes.

    A spokesperson for Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said her office is reviewing the opinion and assessing its next steps.

    Those poor prosecutors.

    • B.P.

      The best thing to come out of that whole scandal was a revealed email wherein some woman complained along the lines of, “We spent [can’t remember how many hundreds of thousands of dollars] and my kid only got into Arizona State!”

  41. Rebel Scum

    Sweet, salty tears.

    WATCH: Jake Tapper holds back tears as he complains about Donald Trump destroying CNN on Live TV

    The irony being that it is actually Tapper that is lying.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Tapper is a piece of shit bar none. He sold out completely two decades ago and has been full steam ahead on regime propaganda since then.

  42. Penguin

    Is it just me, or does Nina Jancowicz look like Dylan Mulvaney?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Careful, you might get added as an unnamed co-conspirator

    • The Other Kevin

      They are both experts at misleading people.

  43. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    I thought the DNC would kick Joe to the curb for “health reasons”. Never thought they would nail him on his shady finances.

    Y’all ready for President Newsom?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nah, media is burying it. Not talking about it. FedGov made sure to capture the news cycle with the Santos arrest.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        The corruption stories have been around for years. In the last week or so, attention on it has ramped up considerably. Even in the MSM.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The best thing that could happen would be for some acceptable (I like Kennedy but he’s largely a protest candidate) challenger to get too big for his britches, jump in, and they go all scorched earth on each other.

    • rhywun

      Y’all ready for President Newsom?

      *shudder*

      • R C Dean

        I think that’s the way to bet at this (early) point.

      • rhywun

        Make America California Again!

        The Dems have lost their fucking minds if that oily used-car salesman is a serious contender for them.

      • R C Dean

        From what I can tell, and I mostly ignore the palace intrigue, there’s only three Dems really in the running at this point – Biden, who I think is unlikely to actually run. Harris, whose ability to attract voters may actually be negative.

        And Newsom. I don’t take the chatter about Hillary and Michelle seriously, although we aren’t a serious country, so maybe I should. At this point, I think Newsom is the most likely candidate. And the Dem wins in 2024, no matter who the Repubs run or what the economy looks like or what wars we are fighting. The fortification of 2020 was cemented in 2022 – the Repub has no path to electoral college victory. Bank on it.

      • Raven Nation

        “I think Newsom is the most likely candidate”

        I assume that’s the main reason he vetoed the reparations bill.

    • R C Dean

      I don’t think anyone is very serious.

      It’s stupidly easy to prove Hunter had no-show jobs, leaving the obvious explanation as the only possible explanation – these jobs were to launder influence payments. How many Burisma board meetings did he attend? Were the board materials even translated into English. A real EVP leaves a paper trail a mile wide – what did Hunter actually do for MBNA? Yet not even the Repubs supposedly pursuing this ever quite manage to ask the obvious questions.

  44. Rebel Scum

    Epstein didn’t photoshop himself.

    Dear left …

    If you’re going to photoshop a picture … try to give Epstein a pair of legs and don’t have a girl with a 30 foot arm

    • rhywun

      LOL

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ah, much more entertaining than their music. Well done.

    • B.P.

      Manchester? Brawl? Moving in on the Gallagher brothers’ territory.

      That was one weak-ass punch.

    • Not Adahn

      No noise complaints! Brilliant!

    • AlexinCT

      Pandemic 2.0. This time they will succeed at the reset!

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Never thought they would nail him on his shady finances.

    Nothingburger. Innuendo and insinuation. If there was any truth to those allegations, Merrick Garland would be leading the investigation.

    • Sean

      “Can you believe these Nazi’s are picking on good ole Joe?”

  46. Tundra

    Don’t worry, plebes.

    This is only to protect yer jerbs!

    And DeSantis is all over it, naturally. Massie is getting hammered by the usual suspects on the right, who have apparently forgotten how EVERY government solution ends up weaponized agains us.

    /black pilled morning

    • Tundra

      I mean, the fucking thing hasn’t even been passed and there are already carve-outs for protected industries. Think your will be?

      • rhywun

        I’m not an illegal alien, so probably not.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yep, mission creep on this one is pretty much a logical conclusion. One day we will get reports that political affiliation has been added to the e-Verify system database along with a social media credit score.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Vax status.

    • rhywun

      I thought there was already some sort of eVerify in place? Or am I misremembering.

    • Sean

      So what happens next time there’s a pandemic and the federal government mandates a vaccine to work? You don’t think that wouldn’t be implemented by E-Verify? The FBI and DHS has used the Patriot Act to spy on and arrest Americans even though it was promised to us they would never do that. This is a huge mistake.

      This is correct.

      • Tundra

        Yep. They are teeing up the next culling based on what they learned over the last 3 years.

  47. Mojeaux

    @Ted’S, yes the Witch Mountain movies are on Disney+.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Unexpectedly

    According to the world’s most famous investor, the “incredible period” for the U.S. economy has been coming to an end in recent months. And even his own company, Berkshire Hathaway, isn’t immune.

    “The majority of our businesses will report lower earnings this year than last year,” Buffett cautioned at Berkshire’s annual meeting on Saturday.

    That’s a somewhat surprising statement from a man who has famously been ultra-bullish on the U.S. economy.

    But persistently high inflation, higher interest rates and the ongoing banking crisis have all made Buffett much more concerned about investment gains in the year ahead. His partner, Charlie Munger, echoed this sentiment. “Get used to making less,” he said.

    The duo’s pessimism about the economy was also reflected in the company’s investment portfolio.

    Who would have guessed your pet retard in the White House would actually follow through on those campaign promises? Who thought he would really tank the economy just to prove his righteous devotion to progressive orthodoxy? Who knew your folksy social signalling (and that of the rest of the “financial elite”) would be taken seriously?

    • AlexinCT

      They mean it when they tell you they want to fuck everyone over. They really mean it when they tell you they want to save Gaia (which means they want to cull humanity).

  49. Rebel Scum

    Florida Man wipes the floor with CNN panel.

    I strongly encourage everyone to watch this masterclass of Congressman Byron Donalds taking on an entire CNN panel of fake news hacks.

    Byron Donalds would make a great Presidential candidate one day.

    • AlexinCT

      CNN was just desperate to get a sound byte, any sound bite, they could use to do more propaganda for the dnc on. They crashed & burned with Trump then with Byron too.

      What a bunch of idiots.

    • rhywun

      Wow, they really want his opinion on 2020. And he’s not falling for it.

      I think the GOP has got the message to shut up about 2020.

  50. Count Potato

    “Leading trans doctor insists non-verbal, autistic minors can consent to sex change, can ‘draw their feelings’

    …..

    But Ehrensaft is perhaps most famous for a 2016 talk in which she explains that pre-verbal children are capable of sending “gender messages” to signal their transgender identities. The examples she gives are of an infant boy pulling at the snaps of his onesie in order to “make a dress,” and a toddler girl pulling barrettes out of her hair as a way to demonstrate that she is a boy.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/leading-trans-doctor-insists-non-verbal-autistic-minors-can-consent-to-sex-change-can-draw-their-feelings

    https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1656484086213664770

    • R C Dean

      I’m trying not to reach the conclusion that the only solution to many of our current problems requires mass graves.

      • AlexinCT

        The left wants to reduce human population in the west, because they are convinced the way to a more just society is to go back to an agrarian and primitive one for everyone else but them.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The best interest of these kids always seems to line up with this particular doctor’s financial interests. Funny that.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    With Berkshire boasting a cash hoard of $130 billion at the end of Q1, it seems that Buffett’s favorite asset right now is US treasury bills. The Oracle significantly boosted his treasury and cash equivalent holdings during the quarter.

    That could be a savvy move for retail investors as well — as the interest rate on savings accounts rises.

    Treasuries? Seriously?

    Buy War Bonds!

    • R C Dean

      T-Bills are short term, a decent place to sit out a crap market and rising inflation/interest rates. Stock and bond investments will decline as rates go up in a recession. Cash loses value as inflation runs. T-bills get you out of stocks and bonds and give you some inflation protection, as they roll over into higher rate T-bills when rates rise.

    • The Gunslinger

      I don’t think Buffett ever tries to time the market. If he doesn’t see any attractive buying opportunities he will pile up cash until good buys come along.