Friday Morning Links

by | Jun 9, 2023 | Daily Links | 275 comments

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!

 

Trump indicted on federal charges related to document handling and obstruction of justice

 

Burisma executive ‘paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5million EACH to end corruption investigations’

 

Biden admin denies reports that China plans to build spy facility in Cuba to gather intelligence on United States

 

US Applications for Jobless Benefits Highest Since October 2021

 

House GOP begins to see results from subpoenas and proposed contempt resolutions

 

Shock-Ruling From SCOTUS Puts Republican House Majority in Jeopardy

 

White House Quietly Prepares Backup Plan If SCOTUS Strikes Down Student Loan Giveaway

 

Biden creates ‘anti-book ban’ coordinator among ‘new actions to protect LGBTQI+ communities’

 

California Takes a Big Step Towards Legalizing Shoplifting

 

One-third of Oregon counties vote to secede to join ‘Greater Idaho’

 

Uber to Offer Car Rental Services in US

 

Page Scheduled Transgender Surgery Consultation ‘Within Weeks’ of Hearing Voices and Self-Mutilating

 

Bud Light’s Nightmare Plunge Continues, and What Distributors Are Saying Is Even Worse

 

That’s all I got for today.  I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.

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Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

275 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    Biden admin denies reports that China plans to build spy facility in Cuba to gather intelligence on United States

    Yeah, he doesn’t need the competition… he can funnel plenty of intelligence back to the CCP, no need to bring in the Cubans!

    • UnCivilServant

      The Chinese hedge their bets.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s easier to ship the info to Cuba than it is all across the Pacific to his masters.

    • The Last American Hero

      I think Biden is right. Why build a special facility when you can just fly balloons at will across the country?

    • The Other Kevin

      Neither he nor his family can make money off it, so no, he will not allow this.

  2. SDF-7

    US Applications for Jobless Benefits Highest Since October 2021

    Needs the “I Did That!” Biden picture beside it.

  3. Drake

    Bidens bribed $5 mill each for getting a prosecutor fired – which Joe bragged about in public. So… they indict Trump for doing something perfectly legal for a President.

    The Banana Republic of America.

    • AlexinCT

      Trump is a giant asshole. But he represents the people that know the machine is corrupt and evil and want it burned down. That makes him and all those people terrorists for daring to challenge the people in power and their hold on it. Don’t these fucking serfs know their place and that their betters should never be fucked with?

      • Drake

        A feature / bug of banana republics are the somewhat frequent coups and peasant revolts. We had a coup 3 years ago, the peasants may get revolting.

      • SDF-7

        Borderline OT in general — but given it was close to a peasant revolt up north… bit of an anti-black pill this morning if accurate. I really thought the Great Northern Twink came off not just scot-free but empowered after the crackdowns… this implies otherwise. Any of us living in America’s Hat have a perspective on the article’s accuracy / arguments?

      • juris imprudent

        But he represents the people that know the machine is corrupt and evil and want it burned down.

        Nope. He represents a lot more people that still believe in the system than those who want it burned down.

      • AlexinCT

        You keep telling yourself that.

      • Drake

        Either way, he represents the FUCK YOU vote against everything happening right now. He wins easily in a clean election (for the third time).

      • juris imprudent

        People want to believe the system can be reformed, not burned down. We’re as out of the majority opinion on that as we are on most things.

    • waffles

      I really didn’t think they’d do it. How sick and deluded people are to excuse this action. What do they think happens next? We just return to some happy normal?
      The whole Biden-era has been unhinged.

      • SDF-7

        I think after 2020’s fortifications, and then 2022 showed them there were no consequences and they could ramp it up… they seriously don’t believe they’ll ever be out of power again (not as the Uniparty in any event). So they don’t have to pretend any more… they may still mouth platitudes from time to time, but what the people want is irrelevant… they’ll determine what the people should get (and give it to them good and hard).

      • rhywun

        This. They’re feeling their oats. They will grab every scrap of power they can get and no matter the pushback, if any, they will end up with more power than before the country went insane in 2020.

      • AlexinCT

        Their numbers are showing them that the orange asshole will win the election unless they so blatantly cheat that there will be no defending their “fortification” as everyone will see the election was stolen. The fucking serfs are angry. And since the machine can’t yet just tell the serfs to fuck off and there will be no vote without that confirming it is corrupt, they have gone with their option of just taking the guy out. I am betting that if their criminally evil attempts to use the law to take that orange guy out so he can’t be in the next election fails, they will just kill him. They will not just roll over and risk having this guy lock their asses up as Comey already told us.

      • rhywun

        Biden is leading Trump in every poll. Orange has no route to victory, barring something momentous that is yet unimaginable.

      • waffles

        so why not just let him run? why is this the safer option?

        there’s no reason they had to prosecute this. if anyone thinks otherwise just ask would they indict trump if he weren’t running?

      • Sean

        Of course they would.

      • waffles

        I have a lot to learn. I’m also fundamentally incapable of seeing trump as the threat. all I see is corruption.

      • rhywun

        Yes. If you’ve ever observed the left’s feelings about Trump, you’d see why.

      • AlexinCT

        The Trump indictment is a two pronged attack. The first purpose/reason is to take Trump out. The second is to send the message to his voters that the machine will not let them challenge it and will not reform to serve the people ever again.

      • Nephilium

        He went against the party, he must be punished. Orange. Man. Bad.

      • Not Adahn

        So he gets the nom over a candidate that might win in hte general?

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        What polls are you seeing that in? I checked the RCP average and it’s Trump +1.8
        https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

      • rhywun

        I dunno. Just random blurbs I’ve read.

        Trump +1.8 may be a new development because I swear I saw Biden ahead before.

      • Lackadaisical

        Not sure we should trust polls, not to say they’re definitely wrong but you can only gleen so much from them.

      • SDF-7

        I’m going to disagree on that — I think OMB is the one thing that will motivate their base (and the Never Trumpers / warhawk neocons) enough to give them cover for fortification like 2020. Which is why they really, really want him to win the GOP primary.

        The indictments serve the purpose of riling up the GOP base behind OMB to make that happen and disrupting his campaign (note all the trials are after the primaries are determined but before the election… they want him as the nominee, but tied up enough to not be able to do rallies — and they’ll sweep in with “enthusiasm for not Trump” to cover their fortification).

        I don’t think they’re scared of him winning an election at all.

      • waffles

        the republicans really hope trump become ineligible. but I don’t think there’s any energy in the uniparty gop. with trump you lose with vigor. you lose trump, you just lose.

      • SDF-7

        I may be completely wrong — but I think DeSantis could pull it off. He has the culture war / results from Florida to give him credibility with the base and the mind share. I think there’s a lot that aren’t considering him because they’re still revved up for Trump — but if he stepped down, they’d pivot over and he could fire them up.

        I don’t think Trump’s ego would let him do that, mind you… so I fully expect barring Desantis pulling off one heck of a primary season, we’ll get Trump as the nominee and the Donkeys will happily crush him in the states where it matters (especially since Maricopa will lock him out of AZ, and I think WI and MI have effectively flipped blue). Thinking about the EC map is black-pilling me again… so I’m going to stop ruminating on it now. grumble grumble stupid fucks rewarding dictatorial overreach grumble grumble

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s the same strategy as they used against his Twitter supporters prior to 2020. Remember how much fewer memes there were?

      • R C Dean

        “there will be no defending their “fortification” as everyone will see the election was stolen”

        Well, half the country doesn’t care. At all. If the Dems win by cheating.

        Of the remaining half, a sizable plurality (majority?) won’t say anything, out of apathy, muh norms, fear after J6, etc.

        There are no legal mechanisms to contest or fix a stolen election. The only way to change the outcome is a coup. And that just ain’t happening.

      • The Last American Hero

        It almost did after Trump won in 2016.

      • Ted S.

        Principals, not principles.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We aren’t a banana republic, we’re a retarded republic. Please get it straight.

      • Sean

        Please get it straight.

        Bigot!

        You can’t say that during Pride month.

      • AlexinCT

        I heard someone recently ask “When do we get to Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, or Sloth months”? He was not happy when I told him those are every day things.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wrath is January, Envy is April, Lust is February, Gluttony and Sloth have a sliding month between November and December.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wrath is January

        Please Explain. I don’t get that one.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Relatively new and lazy tie into J6 stuff…

      • hayeksplosives

        Thanks for the genuine LOL of the morning.

      • Lackadaisical

        Kakistocracy for the win.

        Also, your Avatar is scary.

  4. SDF-7

    White House Quietly Prepares Backup Plan If SCOTUS Strikes Down Student Loan Giveaway

    The wacky, wacky idea of trying to get this done via the Legislature not being one of them, obviously.

    The New York gun law flavor of court ruling compliance… if we’re going to ever add an amendment, some sort of liability (organizational and personal) for knowingly pushing unconstitutional laws/actions needs to be considered. This “Oops… did I do that? Bad llama!” garbage has to stop.

    • AlexinCT

      It can’t be done through the legislature. They can’t get the votes. And if they could, they wouldn’t want that. But they will keep pretending they will do this because there is a large group of fucking leftards that will show up to vote for them even though they get psyched every time.

      • Rat on a train

        When Congress fails to pass what the President wants, the President is forced to use pen and phone. Does the legislature not understand its role is to pass what the king desires?

      • Drake

        That was the essentially the difference between the Roman Republic and the Empire.

  5. AlexinCT

    On the day we find out that the FBI had covered for Biden taking bribes so they could rig the 2020 election for him, the machine indicts their political enemy on charges of committing a crime they have ignored when it was committed by Obama and Biden amongst others. The machine needs to make sure the serfs know their place.

    • WTF

      This kind of shit is what the second amendment was actually intended to address.

      • AlexinCT

        Yep. That’s why they have removing our second amendment right as one of their highest priorities.

    • Rat on a train

      There aren’t enough reasonable prosecutors for every crime.

  6. SDF-7

    One-third of Oregon counties vote to secede to join ‘Greater Idaho’

    I can certainly appreciate that they’d rather be living in their own private Idaho — but I don’t think the Oregon legislature or Congress are ever going to allow state breakups. Can’t have folks out of the control of a few urban center elites, after all.

  7. SDF-7

    Page Scheduled Transgender Surgery Consultation ‘Within Weeks’ of Hearing Voices and Self-Mutilating

    Yup… because nothing says “Let’s go along with major body modification” like listening to an obvious crazy person. Get that woman some actual mental health care, assholes.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m not really qualified to judge, but Eliot Page makes a passable twink.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        How dare you, that is a straight man.

      • Not Adahn

        I choose to headcanon Eliot as the product of Ellen unable to reconcile her love of anal.

    • AlexinCT

      The fact people are not just encouraging this mental disorder, but encouraging more people to get it, scares me. Remember these are the people that tell you they are socially liberal and the ones that care. They care so much that they are encouraging destructive things at the same time their policies are causing massive harm to those that that really need to be protected.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Within a span of a few months, he had become the most famous transgender man in the world.

      And there was so much joy.

      Completely organic.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Page’s visibility means that he — a man who wears Nike shoes from the boys section because the ones in the adult department are too large for his feet — shoulders the weight of a roiling, often very ugly cultural conversation.

        This LA Times article is just full of gold.

    • R C Dean

      Well, we all know she had her tits cut off. Do we know if she had a shenis sewed on?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Depends on what the voices in her head were telling her apparently.

  8. rhywun

    Further, the precedent being set that race-based drawing of districts doesn’t violate the US Constitution will no doubt be used in the future to push back on other Republican-drawn maps.

    Seems to me the same logic would have to apply with maps that are obviously drawn to favor minorities.

    • Rat on a train

      How do ratchets work?

      • hayeksplosives

        One way, baby. Like a diode.

  9. SDF-7

    Morning, Banjos! Love some good Johnny Cash… that song in particular worked very well for a bit of action not that long ago.

  10. AlexinCT

    House GOP begins to see results from subpoenas and proposed contempt resolutions

    The machine has decided it was simpler to just release the information, have their controlled legacy media ignore the revelations or better yet, lie them away, then completely ignore the fact they are criminally corrupt. Nothing will come about it because Obama’s weaponized bureaucratic machine protects its own (and team blue has sold out to them).

    • Rat on a train

      The House can refer charges which the DOJ will place in the circular file. They can impeach which Democrats can block in the Senate. Tribalism is an insurance policy.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep. The Senate and DOJ will block any serious consequences, and the media will run cover. The narrative right now is that the document is nothing, the totally impartial and not corrupt FBI investigated and found there was no wrongdoing.

    • UnCivilServant

      It doesn’t look like the AC is functional.

    • Nephilium

      Yeah, but who wants to deal with intergalactic bounty hunters who embody the worst parts of 90’s/00’s comics?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’ve always wanted a gulch.

    • The Other Kevin

      It is in Texas, so it’s got that going for it.

  11. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘Ordles — I see a line of scores and they’re all painted “Meh”.

    Daily Duotrigordle #464
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 04:08.05
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 501
    8️⃣5️⃣
    6️⃣4️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle/

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 501
      7️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣3️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle/

      Blossom Puzzle, June 9
      Letters: A E G R M N T
      My score: 375 points
      My longest word: 13 letters
      🌷 🌼 🌹 🌸 🏵 🌻 💐 🌺 💮 🌷 🌼 🌹 🌸

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

    • rhywun

      Feh.

      Daily Quordle 501
      7️⃣4️⃣
      8️⃣5️⃣

      #Worldle #504 1/6 (100%)
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
      ⭐⭐🏙️🪙
      https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 501
      7️⃣6️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣

      Lineage

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 501
      6️⃣4️⃣
      8️⃣3️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle/

      Blossom Puzzle, June 9
      Letters: A E G R M N T
      My score: 374 points
      My longest word: 13 letters
      🌺 🌻 🌸 💐 🏵 💮 🌹 🌷 🌼 🌺 🌻 🌸 💐

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

    • Not Adahn

      1. Lots of wildfires are started by arson.

      2. Smouldering from lighting strikes + rising winds = simultanteous flareups.

  12. Sensei

    Warning – watch your blood pressure.

    Sullivan’s target was what some in the policy world call neoliberalism: the free-trade, laissez-faire economic priorities shared by Republican and Democratic administrations for decades. This doctrine, in his view, has hollowed out the U.S. industrial base, undermined America’s middle class and left the country dangerously vulnerable to climate change, Covid-19 and the weaponization of supply chains by hostile nations. To deal with these problems, Sullivan said, the U.S. needs a new approach, a “modern American industrial strategy” in which a more assertive federal government guides investment, industry and trade to bolster both the middle class and national security.

    Bidenomics and Its Contradictions
    Competition with China has reinforced President Biden’s commitment to industrial policy, but his vision for government intervention carries risks for the U.S. economy and allies
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidenomics-and-its-contradictions-4d76ee7d?st=4ustf3cq4xj5p4w&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • SDF-7

      I’m certainly on the “globalism is stupid for vital national resources” front and so am not as free trade as most around here… but we’d be talking tariffs at most. Phrases like “fed gov guides investment, industry and trade” scream “Government picks winners EVEN MORE” at best and downright fucking Classical Fascism (government dictating to private capital what they can do) at worst. No fucking thanks.

      • Count Potato

        +1

  13. Certified Public Asshat

    Due to recent events, we have removed the “NICKMERCS Operator” bundle from the Modern Warfare II and Warzone store. We are focused on celebrating PRIDE with our employees and our community.— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) June 9, 2023

    TRIGGER WARNING! The comment is so heinous, you will not believe how horrible it is…

    • Certified Public Asshat

      They should leave little children alone. That’s the real issue.— FaZe Nickmercs (@NICKMERCS) June 7, 2023

      • SDF-7

        Reminds me of this article. Wrongthink will not be tolerated, heretics!

  14. The Late P Brooks

    To deal with these problems, Sullivan said, the U.S. needs a new approach, a “modern American industrial strategy” in which a more assertive federal government guides investment, industry and trade to bolster both the middle class and national security.

    Did he deliver this message from a balcony while dressed in a snazzy military uniform?

  15. PieInTheSky

    Construction of a Mountain-Side Getaway Home

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9Nb6IpCN0

    I still find this type of wooden house Americans seem to build a lot of strange. Houses should be made of bricks.

    • Not Adahn

      We are a forest people.

      • Rat on a train

        In some times and places we were a earth people. I have a photo of an ancestral sod house.

    • SDF-7

      Romanian wolves presumably have greater lung capacity.

    • Drake

      Looks like a normal house to me, not far from where I live now.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Brick houses aren’t so good in earthquakes.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh come now, they’re not so bad. You just need to… um… seimically isolate the entire structure?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Which they do in LA.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s the MAGA people making the streets unsafe, right?

      • Sean

        Just like in Chicago.

      • SDF-7

        And LA now. Who knew?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not just LA, but the bastion of the gay community, West Hollywood. Teeming with red hats and roving moped gangs in search of queers.

    • rhywun

      Cool, more room for asylum seekers

    • R C Dean

      “Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. announced this week that it stopped making payments on a $725 million loan that secured both its 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and 1,024-room Parc 55 San Francisco properties”

      No, the hotels secure the loan, not the other way around.

      The real issue here isn’t the purely local impact on a declining city. It’s how this knocks on through the finance and banking sectors.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the same is going to happen all over. And not just hotels, but all downtown commercial real estate.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        talking to some of my friends who live in SF, there is a mixture of “awesome, now we can give the homeless places to live” and “that took long enough”.

      • Sean

        “awesome, now we can give the homeless places to live”

        You might need better friends.

      • rhywun

        lol

        Except it won’t be homeless, it will be “asylum seekers”. The actual homeless who are capable of living in a shelter already are. The ones you see on the street are not.

  16. Not Adahn

    Ohio Glibs:

    The hotel is the Fairfield Inn in C-bus. Any recommendations for good and preferably interesting places to eat? Fortunately most of the food will be provide by the match, but there are a couple of unaccounted for mealtimes.

    • Nephilium

      The one outside of the 270 loop? That’s a bit out in the burbs for my area knowledge. Most of the places I know about are in downtown cowtown. The Short North is usually a pretty common destination, but there’s been some high profile shootings in the area, and the city has enacted curfews and the like (which are currently being fought over in the courts).

      If you’re planning on going into the city proper, it’ll depend on what you’d like to do. There’s a decent selection of breweries, meaderies, and distilleries that will gladly take your cash in exchange for delicious beverages. If you’re looking for some retro fun, there’s both a 16-bit barcade and a Pins Mechanical there (16-bit is free play arcade games, Pins is duckpin bowling and the like).

      I’ve got a soft spot for Barley’s Brewing company, as they were (if not the, then one of) the first craft breweries in the area, and they used to do a sampler platter of their beers (a sample of everything they had on tap). Elevator brewery (now operated under something else, as they sold the brewery a while back) is in a beautiful building and has some solid food. Antiques on High does sour beers, craft cocktails, and has a charcuterie vending machine.

      • R C Dean

        “a charcuterie vending machine”

        * insert Homer drool gif*

      • Nephilium

        That’s the one I was thinking of. Just trying to avoid giving too many specifics about the location. That’s out of my usual area when I go down there.

        Assuming you’re taking 71 south through Ashland, I would recommend stopping at Grandpa’s Cheesebarn. Last time I went through there, they were back to giving free samples.

      • UnCivilServant

        I did stop there, and I was expecting more cheese.

      • Not Adahn

        Thanks!

      • UnCivilServant

        You will probably find something.

      • Grummun

        I’m never on that end of town, so I don’t have specific recommendations. Polaris area is pretty much as swanky as Columbus gets, so there will be a raft of restaurants, albeit mostly chains. If you think you’ll be run down after a long day, I wouldn’t advise trying to get into downtown. It’s a twisty maze of passages that all look the same one way streets and street parking is questionable.

        I am thinking about coming up to the match for one day just to gawk, maybe I’ll run into you.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Downtown’s not bad unless they’re working on the roads, which they always are.

      • Not Adahn

        Right now, I’m assigned to run the side matches and supervise the demo/sighting-in bays.

      • Grummun

        I’ll just wander around yelling Marco Fuck You, and listening for Polo Cut Spending.

    • rhywun

      Living above a bunch of them that scream and thunder around all. day. long… I have to agree.

      It has been going on for around four years and I’m wondering why the hell they aren’t in school or something.

  17. DEG

    Republicans, in the aftermath, boasted they had bent Wray to their will. “The FBI caved. Members of the Oversight Committee will now be allowed to review the record alleging a bribery scheme by VP Biden,” Chairman James Comer (R-KY) tweeted. “This record is still being used in an ongoing investigation. The FBI is ALSO making 2 docs referenced in the record available to me.”

    Blah blah blah. Call me when the FBI is disbanded.

    When we last left them about a week ago, the sales volume was down by almost 30 percent and I noted that they were in danger of losing their “number one beer in America” title to Modelo Especial.

    In part, because of all the efforts by Bud Light to sell beer for basically nothing, the drop this week is not quite as steep as the prior week, but it’s still significant and it’s still dropping.

    🙂

  18. PieInTheSky

    Dear Americans
    You will soon all die.
    Alternatively you can decide not to die. Never forget you always had that choice.
    RESIST!
    Myself and Adam McKay plan an online call on how to do it. Details coming very soon.

    https://twitter.com/RogerHallamCS21/status/1666720855408234498

    can I have some of your stuff when you all die? Especially collections of rare bourbon if you have any

    • UnCivilServant

      Sorry, man, I’ve been wired with a dead man switch which nukes the world if I croak.

      Better keep me alive.

      • SDF-7

        We’ll stop the world and melt for you?

      • Rat on a train

        I’ve seen how to get around those in the Dredd historical document.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      In the scheme of things we WILL all soon die…he’s got that much right at least.

      • AlexinCT

        Speaking of your Avatar Stinky, I heard now that Licht is out at CNN, they are bringing someone in that understands their business model well. Sam Brinton. Both CNN and Brinton do their best work at airports.

      • Tres Cool

        At least Sam did something. Airport CNN is just re-education.

    • Nephilium

      Sure thing. You’ll just have to make it here in person, as I won’t be able to ship much after I’m ded.

      You may have to fight off the hordes of people aware that there’s a beer and whisk(e)y stash here though.

    • rhywun

      Is that a threat?

      Come at me, bruh.

    • EvilSheldon

      Dear Whoever the Fuck You Might Be,

      Catastrophic Thinking is a common marker for mental illness. You should seriously consider entering treatment.

      Sincerely,
      EvilSheldon

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Deepfake. AI. Disinformation. TRUMP. This story has got it all.

    Artificial intelligence is hitting the campaign trail. This week, a video from Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis included apparently fake images of former President Donald Trump hugging Anthony Fauci. It’s the latest example of how rapidly evolving AI tools are supercharging political attacks by allowing politicians to blur the line between fact and fiction.

    The video, posted Monday on Twitter by the Florida governor’s rapid response team, slammed the former president’s alleged support of Fauci, who has become a punching bag for Republicans for his role in crafting the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Poor Foochy. Putting him in a hug with the cartoon villain is the ultimate indignity. Those images don’t look that special. A shaved monkey could come up with them.

    • rhywun

      alleged support of Fauci

      wut

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah the AI picture might be fake but Trump slobbed on Fauci’s knob often and with vigor. Everything after is just populist tea leaves readings by Trump.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    MSNBC talking about jury nullification was my B7 square on my 2023 bingo card.

    • UnCivilServant

      Wait, why are you trying to break up the traditional family brawl?

      • AlexinCT

        I am more interested in understanding the evolution that gave Florida people poisonous bites.

      • UnCivilServant

        Bad dental hygene leads to bacterial colonies in the mouth which are transferred by biting.

        Also, will be transferred with a punch to the mouth. Do not look up ‘fight bite’.

      • AlexinCT

        So you telling me I need to be careful around people with bad teeth that tell me I have a purdy mouth?

    • EvilSheldon

      Human bites are no joke. Especially in Florida.

    • creech

      I must be getting real old ’cause the bimbo look and the tats are more off-putting than ever. But, thankfully, there’s always a couple fresh-faced “girl next door” types in the archive.

      • UnCivilServant

        Tattoos always have been and always will be ugly.

  21. PieInTheSky

    Hit-and-run driver, 26, who mowed down schoolgirl, 10, while she was cycling home then left her for dead in horror smash avoids jail

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12160139/Hit-run-driver-26-mowed-schoolgirl-10-avoids-jail.html

    “Farhan Musaji, 26, jumped a red light at a junction in his Audi A4 and ploughed into Layla Shepard as she was cycling home, before fleeing the scene and abandoning his car.

    The horrific incident in Deane, near Bolton, Greater Manchester left the ten-year-old with a fractured cheekbone and a broken nose, as well as needing surgery on her leg.

    Musaji, a pharmacist, faced up to two years in jail after he admitted causing serious injury by careless driving and failing to stop after an accident.

    But at Bolton Crown Court, he was sentenced to a 12-month community order and ordered to pay the child £900 damages. ”

    900 seems low to me. And running away in Romania kinda means jail. How bout the US?

    • AlexinCT

      Children hurt Gaia. This guy almost succeeded at reducing the human population, so he is a half hero.

    • Drake

      In a big city it depends on the color scale.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      An, cultural enrichment…is the better food really worth it?

      • UnCivilServant

        A: The food isn’t proven to be better, since most of the people are not involved in the culinary arts.

        B: Even if they were all chefs, the downsides outweigh any benefits.

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, the running away is its own charge on top of whatever they may have done to inspire flight.

      I didn’t really think about it, but NHS really benefits those that injure others by taking medical expenses off the table.

    • DrOtto

      Depends on what city – I was rear end in Austin and had to chase the guy at gunpoint. 911 called off the police after I got the guy corned in a parking lot and said I could “self report” after that.

      • PieInTheSky

        I was rear end in Austin – sexual assault should be taken more seriously

      • SDF-7

        He got his revenge… “got the guy corned in a parking lot” after all. Kinky.

  22. Count Potato

    “Washington judge orders female-only spa with compulsory nudity to admit transgender women with penises, after owner said facility was for ‘biological women only’ and pre-op trans activist complained

    Olympus Spa had attempted to sue the Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC) after being ordered to change their rules.

    Now, a Washington District Court has dismissed the lawsuit filed by the spa and upheld the original ruling by the WSHRC. The Pacific Northwest state is one of several Dem-run areas where trans people are permitted to use facilities which align with their gender without question.

    In her judgement, District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein upheld the ruling made by the WSHRC and said that the measures taken to the prevent the spa from having a female-only policy had been lawful.

    She said: ‘I did it! I worked with the WSHRC and got Olympus Spa (the main naked lady spa in the area) to change their policies and allow all self-identified women access regardless of surgery and genitals.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12176407/Washington-womens-spa-compulsory-nudity-ordered-judge-start-admitting-trans-women.html

    This whole self-ID thing is just dangerously silly. Anyone who has a beard is not a trans woman. Regardless, businesses should be able to make their own rules.

    • Nephilium

      Bearded women hardest hit.

    • Rat on a train

      Since blacks want segregation, why not repeal public accommodation laws and let businesses decide.

    • Not Adahn

      “Main naked lady spa?”

      I’m sure that Koreans would totally refer to it that way.

    • rhywun

      She [sic] said: ‘I did it! I worked with the WSHRC and got Olympus Spa (the main naked lady spa in the area) to change their policies and allow all self-identified women access regardless of surgery and genitals go out of business.’”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. With as much grift and money that is flowing their direction right now, you’d think they would just open up their own space. Once you realize that they never will, it is all about burning down that which opposes them.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        It has nothing to do with whatever the business is providing, but to be declared “one of the girls”.

    • Not Adahn

      “All women admitted. All penises must be covered.”

      • UnCivilServant

        That will still lead their primary customer base of women to not show up as being undressed in front of men is not what they signed up for.

      • Not Adahn

        But maybe the men won’t show up if they’re not permitted to expose themselves? Not sure what the kink is they’re feeding.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t think this is due to a kink. This was politically motivated.

      • EvilSheldon

        If the personal is political, then publicly spreading* your kinks is an act of political activism.

        * – pun very much intended.

      • AlexinCT

        The four horsemen of the apocalypse have been joined by the least known fifth horseman: Depravity.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Depravity don’t ride no horse! Depravity rides a Hawg.

    • PieInTheSky

      I had a friend in Austria which told me most saunas there seem to be nude only even the mixed ones

    • Homple

      “Regardless, businesses should be able to make their own rules.”

      Lester Maddox said the same thing.

      • robc

        GT ended up owning the building his restaurant was in. I think it finally got torn down for Olympic construction. I think it housed the Co-op offices or something when I was in school.

      • robc

        If I have the right location, it is now “EcoCommons”.

    • The Other Kevin

      “compulsory nudity”
      All of a sudden this is my new favorite phrase.

    • creech

      Are there still such things as private clubs that can admit whomever they wish? Can the Jewish country club not admit gentile golfers? Can the Muslim day care center not admit Jewish kids? Can the D.A.R. refuse to admit those who can’t establish descent from a Rev War supporter?

    • EvilSheldon

      Replace the term ‘gender’ with ‘whim’.

    • AlexinCT

      I am gonna be telling the ladies my meat is full of Taurine then.. Along with another 12 essential vitamins & minerals. And I would like to help them with their minimum daily requirements.

  23. Sensei

    Put a fork in it. The huge and clunky SAE CCS adapter plug is dead in North America. Electrically and from a communication standpoint it was interoperable with Tesla’s connector. But, for whatever reason, the SAE felt compelled to create and adapter that is like three times as large and more expensive. The fact that Electrify America can’t find its ass from a hole in the ground in terms of availability and ease of use was the final nail.

    GM will begin to integrate the North American Charging Standard (NACS) in new EVs starting in 2025
    GM customers will be able to access 12,000 Tesla Superchargers and growing beginning in early 2024

    https://news.gm.com/newsroom.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2023/jun/0608-gm.html

    • Gustave Lytton

      Wonder if they will be (or maybe already are) retrofit charging kits for existing vehicles.

      • Sensei

        That’s what they said. It’s a physical adapter. Nothing is electronic within it.

  24. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Hands off

    Thursday’s indictment came out of a probe by special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland has been scrupulous about not getting involved in the probe, and he said Smith would make his own charging decisions. Biden has also emphasized his distance from the probe, and the White House said it learned of the indictment from media reports Thursday evening.

    They only know what they read in the newspapers.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Scrupulous about making his fingerprinted we’re not directly viable all over the entire thing.

  26. Grummun

    House GOP begins to see results

    Get back to me when “results” turns into prosecutions, or at the very least firings.

    • Not Adahn

      I wanna see the presidential debates where each candidate is participating vial jail-cam.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    The Trump team is closely monitoring which members of leadership have defended him on Twitter, sources said.

    Enemies list!

  28. PieInTheSky

    Exclamation marks in emails and texts are violence. Stop it!

    • Nephilium

      What does that make emoji in business e-mails?

    • SDF-7

      Right up there with “All absolute statements are wrong – including this one.”

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the ranking member on the Oversight Committee and the lead manager for Trump’s second impeachment trial, pushed back against the GOP.

    “Dangerous rhetoric about a ‘two-tiered system of justice’ — discriminating against the rich no less — in order to prop up the twice-impeached former president not only undermines the Department of Justice but betrays the essential principle of justice that no one is above the commands of law, not even a former President or a self-proclaimed billionaire,” he said in a statement.

    Raskin vowed to pursue oversight, saying Democrats are “determined to understand the full sweep of Trump’s unlawful possession of hundreds of government documents and his offenses against our government and people.”

    Burn the witch.

    • The Other Kevin

      Dangerous disinformation. Time to call in Nina.

    • AlexinCT

      The gall of warning people that pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is a detriment to the emperor is just stunning.

    • AlexinCT

      Is kankles still running all over the place?

    • MikeS

      CWAC

    • SDF-7

      I suppose my guess of “Velociraptor” was improbable anyway. (At least the modern version… cassowary).

      • UnCivilServant

        If it were a large flightless bird, I’d have given the 3 year old some credit.

    • UnCivilServant

      That kid either needs glasses, or more instruction on the basics of barnyard animal identification.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or…..shit parents make up to pretend their kid said something funny.

      • UnCivilServant

        But there was nothing funny there.

    • Tundra

      Clearly a bird of refined tastes. Thanks, Holiness!

      I needed some wholesomeness today!

      • ron73440

        I needed some wholesomeness today!

        #metoo

        Especially after that article you dropped on us.

    • Mojeaux

      Paging Mrs. OBE. Mrs. OBE to the white courtesy phone.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its cute and Malamutes are a pain in the ass to groom.

  30. Pope Jimbo

    Racist Canadian scientists blames Polish for wildfires!

    Benji Jones
    So is climate change making this the new normal?

    Morgan Crowley
    We do expect to see more events like this.

    Climate change is going to impact Canada more than other regions because it’s closer to the poles. In the west, we expect longer fire seasons. And across Canada in general, we expect fire seasons to get more extreme. The annual area of burned regions is expected to increase — some predictions suggest it could as much as double by 2100.

    What’s also happening is that across the country, people are moving to forested areas. Fire activity might be shifting with climate change, but communities are also moving into new areas. Our wildland-urban interface is growing.

    She may also be blaming those asshole truckers for bringing supplies out to those other assholes who left their high density utopias.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What’s also happening is that across the country, people are moving to forested areas. Fire activity might be shifting with climate change, but communities are also moving into new areas. Our wildland-urban interface is growing.

      Part of that is conjecture and the other a known way to increase the likelihood of fires breaking out.

  31. Pope Jimbo

    Calling CPRM! Your state needs you!

    MADISON, Wis. (FOX 9) – Calling all cheese heads! The Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wants to hire a cheese taste tester.

    The job, which was posted this month, is seeking people who are “passionate about all types of foods, but especially cheese, pizza and other dairy products.” The people hired will be responsible for describing and evaluating the food they’re eating’s “appearance, texture, aroma and flavor.”

    The position is called a “descriptive sensory panelist” and it pays $15/hour. And if you don’t have the skills needed, don’t worry — the job posting says “we will train you to become part of a group of expert tasters capable of verbally describing their sensory experience on the basis of appearance, texture, taste and aroma attributes for research and product development purposes.”

    The posting says those hired should expect to taste up to 24 cheese samples and 12 pizzas per week, as well as other food products. Those who apply would need to be available for three, in-person sessions per week, with each session lasting about three hours.

  32. Count Potato

    “After CHOP, the uber-left Molly Moon’s Ice Cream owner made it clear and didn’t support cops. This sign was posted to tell cops to not enter their shop, while declaring online that it supported divesting funds from Seattle Police. Now they’re suing over Antifa and BLM activism?”

    https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1666974853734490112

    Ridiculous.

    • Sean

      Would be a shame if Antifa took a walk by their windows.

    • rhywun

      *face-palm*

    • Rat on a train

      “We support CHOP but demand you to control them so they don’t hurt business.”

    • Not Adahn

      To be fair, the defendant isn’t SPD, it’s the City of Seattle. Perhaps she expected them to provide LGBTQ Peace Facilitators of Color in order to mindfully enact restorative justice or something.

  33. robc

    Norway Chess final round is about to start. It comes down to the top two Americans who play today. Hikaru Nakamura needs a win, Fabiano Caruana just needs a draw. Hikaru is playing white.

    Magnus Carlsen is sucking it up in his home tournament. His classic play is has been slipping lately, with him not playing it much (and giving up his World Championship title).

    • robc

      Magnus won the last 4 Norway Chess tourneys.

    • Grummun

      Catch it live on ESPN 8 “The Ocho”

    • robc

      I am less than half way thru…I just go to the part written by SugarFree.

      • robc

        Example:

        The installation included witchy sayings painted in pig’s blood on white walls including: “Mix fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk, drink on earthquake nights”, “With a sharp knife, cut deeply into the middle finger of your left hand. Eat the pain”, and “Fresh morning urine, sprinkle over nightmare dreams.” An effigy of a human infant, completely covered in pig’s blood as if a bucket of the stuff had been thrown on it, has placed in the corner of room.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *blink* I need to see a priest after reading that.

      • Nephilium

        An old priest and a young priest?

      • Tundra

        MMs series on Epstein and the pedos is ridiculous. If anything, the conspiracy theories are orders of magnitude too tame.

        Our elites are actual monsters.

      • Mojeaux

        What is it about children that’s got people (a lot more than I care to think about) all hot and bothered? I really just don’t get it.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t understand it either. Then again, I don’t understand less extereme paraphilia, heck, I can’t even figure out what women see in dudes.

        In short, I got nothin.

      • Tundra

        “What are all these powerful and prominent people doing with a monster like Epstein? Taking into account the behavior and inclinations of many people of Epstein’s social class, an obvious, if uncomfortable answer presents itself. To these people, Epstein is not a monster.” —

        Even scarier.

      • Drake

        They are cruel evil people. The sacrifice of innocent children was always the most powerful kind of sacrifice.

        I don’t exaggerate when I call them demonic.

      • Tundra

        I don’t exaggerate when I call them demonic.

        It’s true. I didn’t used to believe in Satan but those days are long gone.

      • robc

        I am going to be that guy, but I dont think Epstein catered to pedos, but to ephebos.

        That doesn’t make it right, but it isnt QUITE as bad. We have age of consent laws for a reason, but there is a BIG difference between a 15 year old and an 8 year old.

      • Mojeaux

        I will agree with you about teenagers above the age of consent. Don’t like it, but having been a 15-year-old girl once, devouring Harlequins with 18yo ingenues and 36-year-old McHotties, I developed a taste for the May-December romance, so I get it, with both sides. I mean, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” was written for a reason.

        However, I don’t believe for one moment that someone who would cater to ephebos wouldn’t also cater to pedos.

        Now, for something completely different. I listened to a podcast with a name-withheld self-proclaimed pedophile who had never touched a child and stayed away from children. He said for some reason, his attraction to the opposite sex stopped at the age range of the onset of puberty, and he grew up while his sexual tastes did not. He said he felt stuck in the past, to what he had been attracted to as a child.

      • robc

        However, I don’t believe for one moment that someone who would cater to ephebos wouldn’t also cater to pedos.

        You are probably right on that.

      • Tundra

        Breathtakingly obscene, isn’t it?

      • MikeS

        Breathtakingly obscene? Alright, I’m in.

      • MikeS

        Wow.

    • ron73440

      What the hell?

      I am about halfway through it and Podesta’s art collection is creepy.

      • robc

        I am now entirely convinced that SF is writing non-fiction.

        I talking hat would not surprise me in the least.

      • robc

        “A” talking hat. Sigh.

    • rhywun

      TL;MaybeReadLater but I did not know any of this:

      But it turned out that Podesta did not have to take him to court, since Breitbart mysteriously died on the street near his home a short time later. The coroner who performed the autopsy was himself found dead of arsenic poisoning soon after examining Breitbart’s body, and a spokesman for the coroner’s office subsequently announced that Breitbart had died of “natural causes.”

      Just a coincidence, I suppose.

    • Chipwooder

      Most of this is directly from his Epstein podcasts, which I listened to recently.

      The wilder rumors about Epstein become much easier to believe given the general depravity of “elite” society. Recently, you may have seen a story about a Virginia socialite being arrested for child pornography. I was particularly interested because her ex-husband, a federal judge, was my high school classmate. She is the scion of a wealthy family of lawyers whose great-grandfather was one of the founding partners of the prominent law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth.

      Along the lines of what’s discussed in the link, it is still astonishing to me that Woody Allen’s 1979 film Manhattan, one of his most acclaimed movies, featured a 44 year old man (Allen) dating a 17 year old high school girl (Mariel Hemingway), and this was not particularly controversial.

      • ron73440

        I have never seen a Woody Allen film, so maybe I’m missing something, but I read the Wilipedia plot summation of that movie, and I can’t see why anyone would watch that.

      • Chipwooder

        I like some Woody Allen movies , mostly his early comedies, and hate some others. I’ve never seen Manhattan. I will also add that Night Moves, a really good 1975 detective movie with Gene Hackman, had a 16 year old Melanie Griffith doing nude scenes. Weird shit was a-OK in the Seventies.

      • MikeS

        Blue Lagoon

      • robc

        Blame it on Rio.

      • robc

        “I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.” — Michael Caine

        He said it about Jaws 4, but it applies to Blame it on Rio as well.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Huh, somehow I’ve never seen that. Wonder if it’s on streaming anywhere.

      • Chipwooder

        It used to be, that’s how I saw it – Amazon Prime I think. No idea if it still is. It’s a pretty dark movie.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Bidenomics at work

    Wall Street is feeling bullish again.

    The S&P 500 rallied Thursday to end the day in a bull market, marking a 20% surge since its most recent low, reached on October 12, 2022. That brings to end the bear market that began in January 2022.

    Buoyed by gains in big technology stocks, the broad-based index closed at 4,293.93 and crossed the threshold that separates a bear market from a bull market — that’s investor-speak for a period of time marked by rising stock prices and optimism on Wall Street. Investors are certainly in a buying mood: CNN’s Fear and Greed Index hit “Extreme Greed” Thursday

    ——-

    Over the past week, markets have gained momentum, likely because of the end of the debt ceiling crisis, optimism that the Federal Reserve will pause rate hikes at its June meeting and a recent string of strong economic readings.

    Cans were kicked.

    • Mojeaux

      Cans were kicked.

      The road never actually seems to end, tho.

      • R.J.

        Spend money, extend the road, kick the can.

      • Nephilium

        /books a room at the retirement home

    • creech

      My retirement funds salute. Yet, till down 30% on my regional bank stock since February. Thanks Silicon Valley.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Reality intrudes

    I General Motors plans to invest more than $500 million in a plant in Texas to prepare the facility for production of its highly profitable next-generation large SUVs.

    The Detroit automaker said Thursday the investment will include new tooling and equipment in Arlington Assembly’s stamping, body shop and general assembly areas for the gas- and diesel-powered Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Tahoe/Suburban and GMC Yukon/Yukon XL SUVs.

    The investment is further confirmation that the company plans to continue to spend on its traditional operations to assist in funding its emerging electric vehicle business.

    GM on Monday made a similar announcement for its next-generation heavy-duty pickups, which share the frame of the large SUVS. The truck investment included more than $1 billion in two Michigan plants for production of next-generation heavy-duty trucks.

    The notably profitable vehicles remain in high demand, and sales are needed to assist in funding the automaker’s investments in EVs. The company has said it plans to exclusively offer consumer EVs by 2035. The automaker recently confirmed an all-electric version of its Cadillac Escalade but declined to disclose when the vehicle will come to market.

    It takes money to fund vanity projects.