I probably listen to more podcasts than I should, due to the mindless nature of my work day to day auditing FDRs. I kept finding this woman on my feed, and then she kept coming up more and more so I listened to a YouTube short. I don’t care that she tells women how much they suck. I don’t care that she’s a redhead. I don’t care she posts pictures of herself at the gym. Okay, maybe not that last one but she needs to stop using the Smith machine.
She’s a psy-op. She’s Peter Zeihan in a trad-wife dress.
¡Enlaces!
I have to quibble about this one. El Paso can’t be at the “breaking point” if it was already broken since…forever.
WTF?
I’ve actually seen this as a kid. The trains run through Nogales and they just hop right on top from the hillside.
Menendez should’ve diversified and accepted Bitcoin. Now even El Presidente Dudebro is making fun of him.
Marijuana, Ketamine, and Bitcoin mining sounds like a pretty good time.
Joke’s on them, I’m never riding this train.
Brandon walks into a flagpole, and leaves Lula confused on stage. He’s going to be out of the news a bit due to hip surgery.
When you see a volcano, remember to always duck and cover.
Since I already made a South Park reference: Primus sucks.
I think I download way too many podcasts.
Smith machine still seems better than not having a spotter.
https://heavy.com/news/smith-machine-squat-death-video/
Looks like she had two potential spotters. Why is that bench there?
Sad. But why was the bench there? Seems like that’s what killed her.
There are dozens of ways to get killed in a gym. Some people are dumb.
No way.
In the rack with the safety bars set at the proper height.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used one, but doesn’t a Smith machine have stops?
Yes, but you still have to twist the bar to engage them. Shit happens.
A thousand times no!!!
I have some expertise on this issue from setting up a risk retention group in the gym industry. (The largest single provider of gym insurance by number of gyms in the US at one point).
My now-wife was then our claims manager when she worked at an independent claims management provider. She handled those claims for all of the gym chains you know.
Smith Machines are (a) garbage equipment that is bad for you, (b) with the worst thing of all – danger hidden under the illusion of safety.
1. You will almost NEVER twist those things in time once you fail. Rare to NEVER. Not in a squat and probably not in a bench.
2. At the moment you have muscular failure, the Smith machine has you trapped in an artificially constrained vertical motion that puts your body in compromised and injurious positions.
It is a fucking death trap and responsible for A LOT of injuries – and therefore, insurance claims – on an annual basis.
FUCK. THOSE. THINGS.
Do not use them – ever.
Squat rack with pins OR nothing – learn how to drop a weight in the bottom of your squat. Practice with light weights.
You should be able to sit in the bottom of the squat comfortably with weight on the bar and, if you fail, you push yourself forward and it backward slightly… ideally.
The thing is that most of these influencers/podcasters/youtubers that give relationship advice are single.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/618183
“Carlos “N” was later released, local outlets reported, though the Chucky doll’s whereabouts are still unknown.”
LOLOLOLOL
Carlos Nagger?
Why are leaf blowers so fucking loud?
That’s why we’ve never owned one.
Just use hearing protection.
Still annoys the neighbors and everyone else.
Because you touch yourself at night?
SCIENCE!!
Science?
Excellent series in Mexico by YTer Ran Out On a Rail. Lots of beauty & danger
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooFWMJbNy6FQNv2cG5h4Gizlqu4SPc6u&si=CkWtDWIlbOP-kA55
My last job was 35 minutes away, so I listed to a lot of long-form podcasts in the car. I’m WFH so I never listen anymore. I’m ok with having that time back every day.
Same.
I’m working Hardcore History on my twice-weekly commutes (40 minutes, Allah willing). Just started the last ep of Wrath of the Khans.
Holy shit, what a catastrophe Genghis Khan was. I pulled into the driveway just as the Mongols were poised to conquer Western Europe (as in there was nothing and nobody that could stop them), when his successor died. Tomorrow morning I’ll find out what happened next.
Good stuff.
If my memory serves me he was responsible for murdering a quarter of the human race. The greatest mass murderer in history. Catastrophe doesn’t really cover it.
Villarrica is one of the most active volcanoes in South America.
Some 30 families who live in a radius of 8km (5 miles) from the crater will be evacuated and access to the area will be blocked, officials said.
Slow learners, or people with a death wish? Either way, leave them to their fate.
Duck… and cover!
https://youtu.be/v3EvJCO4RQc
Brandon spent 12 minutes at that UAW protest today. Tomorrow Trump will be there. I’m betting he’ll spend a lot longer.
.
Wow. A whole 12 minutes? Did he call anyone “boy”?
Just waiting for him to say “What up, my N*&er”
Biden would call them colored, as a term of respect.
And, just like that, it was OK to say colored people instead of people of color.
“Biden joins the picket line – for 12 minutes: President tells UAW strikers they DESERVE more pay as he stands alongside workers demanding a four-day week and 40% raise”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12562595/Biden-picket-line-12-minutes-striking-auto-workers-pay-increase.html
CWAA
“Biden shook a few more hands before he departed. He’s headed to California to raise money for his re-election campaign. Saturday marks the end of third quarter fundraising.”
I bet he spends a lot more than 12 minutes at fundraisers.
One of the reasons Herself lost the election was drinking champagne at a hoity toity fundraiser SF while Trump was passing out food, blankets and water bottles that he personally paid for after a disastrous flood in Louisiana. He locked the state then and it is still solidly locked for him. Biden couldn’t get elected dog catcher in my state.
Flyover my ass. Fuck the Borg.
Hillary Clinton’s portrait unveiled at State Department https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1706765510774325533
Don’t worry, all the scary parts are hidden behind the reporters’ heads.
The ovipositor is too big to be hidden by any reporter’s head.
They should have the door to the bathroom behind her with a server just visible.
The sound of Velcro was heard as they unveiled the portrait.
Lemme guess. When the public views it they can pay a buck for five darts? Or do we get free throws?
I like the morons holding their phones up, blocking everyone’s view, to get a crappy picture of a painting that will be posted in high-def on the internet if you just hafta have a copy.
The incident underscores the growing trend of criminals leveraging cryptocurrencies for money laundering.
A trend, based on one incident where it is in no way shown that the bitcoin mining has anything to do with the illicit plant matter processing?
As cryptocurrencies become more mainstream, it’s essential for law enforcement agencies worldwide to adapt and develop strategies to combat these new methods of illicit activities.
Sez who?
Listen, they don’t have the resources to monitor every transaction on the blockchain until they get enough banks involved, and they can just require the banks do it for them.
Money laundering is just tax avoidance. Only terrible criminals avoid paying their taxes.
Money laundering is about paying a lot of money to someone to get income transformed so that you can pay taxes on it.
That’s why, after more than 80 years of dithering, Bogotá officials are finally building a metro, with help from China.
So the intent is that commuters will go through their commute like Chinese food goes through a digestive system?
Yes
It is Colombia, so they might just
(puts on sunglasses)
Blow it.
30 minutes after getting off you need another ride?
Euphemism?
Not for a long time, brother. A long time.
“The Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca Covid vaccines cause unexpected vaginal bleeding in older women and women on birth control, a study has confirmed… a new study – that looked at data from more than 20,000 women in this category – found the risk of vaginal bleeding increased two to three times in the four weeks after Covid vaccination compared to before the shot.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12562479/Covid-vaccines-vaginal-bleeding-women-period.html
There is nothing funny about iatrogenic effects. Period.
That is some spotty reporting.
I know it sound tinfoil hat of me — but I will not be at all surprised if 10 years from now it finally comes out that it was intentionally built up in the reproductive organs, that the placebo doses were all for the “right” people according to the technocrats and that the whole thing was a mass eugenics / sterilization program. These are the same assholes who firmly believe there are too many people, after all. Abortion wasn’t fast enough — so sterilize the herd and get them to even pay your for the privilege….
There is a bit in RFK, Jr.’s “The Real Anthony Fauci” about testing of vaccines in Africa which resulted in sterilizing the recipients. Fauci was not involved in this batch of vaccine testing. Bill Gates was. If I remember correctly, Gates’ foundation paid for the testing.
You are not the only one with a tin foil hat SDF.
It could be true, but recently two of my millennial, medical world, true believer, willingly boosted nieces just gave birth to seemingly perfect babies after idyllic pregnancies.
We’ll see what happens, but it looks like 2021 was the worst of it.
Can you trust what you read in that rag?
🤨
Latest NH polling
Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the First in the Nation GOP primary despite the fervent opposition of Granite State Gov. Chris Sununu. And as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stumbles in the polls, South Carolina’s Nikki Haley is stepping up in New Hampshire.
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Orange Man.
Only one thing can rid us Orange Man…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PIaDWnt7w
I was thinking Dr. J running as his Veep.
So we could all decide on an Orange Julius.
Not a Syracuse fan?
You hear that? That’s the sound of my back aching from carrying all the Firsting around here.
This is not an equal relationship.
WRT Primus – the sounds Les Claypool pulls out of his bass guitar bends my brain. Some of it I find catchy and enjoyable, and other stuff makes me scratch my head.
This is for Sean.
How stupid is it of Ron DeSantis to debate Newsom? DeSantis has everything to lose. Ron needs to just go home and take care of Florida. That debate is not in any way going to make him look good. Newsom is a hideous freak who will tell any lie, do anything to strike out at Ron and the Republicans. Don’t give him a forum.
The narrative will be that Newsome “looks presidential” and that will pave the way for him to replace Biden.
Eh…Newsome is the polar opposite of DeSantis on the issue that defines DeSantis. And Newsome is an empty suit so I fail to see why anyone should be scared to debate him outside having to probably fight the moderator while he’s at it. DeSantis needs to swing for the fences right now.
Newsome is the one with nothing to really gain. He will look like a clown, he’ll be further away from the presidency than ever when it’s over, and he’ll have to scurry back home to his fiefdom in Cali.
I personally find it galling that DeSantis is flailing around to gain support in the GOP and it really makes me question how many voters – let alone elected officials – have done any reflection on their own positions during covid. The guy was the only one inn the country in a position of executive authority who said fuck covid. He becam3e the brunt of the media’s propaganda storm and weathered it. He stuck by freedom when the easier position was to just cave like everyone else.
The criticisms of him are inane.
I do agree, it seems a concentrated effort to knock out DeSantis. I like the guy. I wanted him to do good. I just can’t see how his campaign has floundered so badly.
Same. It really seemed like a no brainer to me — yeah, Trump is still a finger in the eyes of the Swamp… but so’s DeSantis, he has a better record actually governing and with COVID — and while there’s always the default “binders of women! dog on the car!” slander against any GOP candidate — he’s less likely to trigger the visceral reaction of Orange Julius *cough* Man Bad and be close to the margin of fraud right out of the gate.
But then again — it is still a long way to Iowa (or whatever primary is first).
NH worries me more with that special election in a red district that the Stupid Party lost by a large margin. That screams 2022 Red Wave Redux to me…
NH worries me more with that special election in a red district that the Stupid Party lost by a large margin. That screams 2022 Red Wave Redux to me…
Here’s my thoughts:
The Republican candidate was a Trump guy. Media often quoted him as saying that he talked to “the prophets” who told him Trump won in 2020. From talks with some folks I know who are getting involved in the upcoming presidential primary, the Trump brand is toxic in NH.
There is infighting in the NH GOP. The Establishment is fighting back against libertarians, folks who pushed back on Sununu, and other outsiders.
The Democrats had a better Get Out The Vote program active in the 2022 election. I suspect they are still using it.
I’ve read that Democrats in NH generally do better in a special election than in the general election for a district. I haven’t looked at enough special elections to see if this is true, but based on those few that I’ve followed, I believe it. Note that this doesn’t mean that they will win, just that they will do better than in the general.
DeSantis is an idiot. Trying to run for POTUS when half the country is out for blood, and Trump is their standard bearer. Dude is young, and can wait another 4 years for when Trump is done and gone. If he ran for anything it should be the senate, were he can burnish his chops.
Right now, running against the Donald is a fools errand.
That is one interpretation. The cult of ‘Trump is strong and irrational.
I think he needed to do something bold to take down Trump. Unless he’s banking on the Dems lawfare to force Trump out. Which was/is a distinct possibility.
True on the lawfare, but he can be seen as having hoped for that. If that happens, it instantly becomes one of the swamp, and that is a loser on the right.
Can’t. Not can.
As they prove every time they go after Biden’s age.
Exactly.
If Biden wins, he’ll be the oldest president ever.
If Trump wins, he’ll be the oldest president ever.
All should fuck off.
I’d say age is a proxy for decline here, not numerical age. Not to claim the ‘cult’ of Trump is not irrational, but it’s not really irrational to claim Trump at his age is not in the same state of decline as Biden is at his age.
Now you could say “well then go after Biden’s cognitive decline, not his age!”, but it seems pretty clear that going after Biden’s age is using age as a proxy for cognitive abilities going/gone bye-bye.
Of course it’s a proxy. But, “Well, that won’t happen to our guy anytime in the next 5-6 years. He’s at the peak of fitness, just ask him!” is, well, irrational.
He probably figured that the GOP electorate would have Donald Fatigue (Lord knows that I do), and even if they didn’t, portraying himself as a smart, principled, somewhat liberty-oriented conservative would play well with the base. He did, after all, catch a lot of flack from The Donald for re-opening Florida as early as he did, and he was right. And he delivered a fair bunch of policy wins for the right at the statewide level. And you have to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak — wait until 2028, and a fair chunk of folks would be “Who? Oh, that guy?”
What he didn’t count on was that the Boomer Booboisie still loves them some OMB, or anyone else who can “tell it like it is” and “stick it to the libs.” Nevermind that the possibility of winning (or actually creating effective policy if Donnie Two-Scoops somehow manages to squeak by a fortified election) is nil.
I still run across some folks who think DeSantis should run as Trumps’s VP candidate, like the job is some kind of apprenticeship in statecraft or something.
On the other hand… look where Bill Clinton was polling in September 1991, when the Democrat clown car was jostling for position to get steamrolled by George H. W. Bush. Lots can happen in thirteen months.
Speaker of Canada’s parliament steps down. Her sin isn’t paying tribute to a Nazi, but revealing everyone in parliament to be absolute clowns who will applaud like seals if told to do so.
I Googled this one and intentionally selected Al Jazeera. I’d rather link to them than mainstream American news outlets.
“Many Western countries, including Canada, have raised a young generation that does not know who fought whom or what happened during the second world war. And they know nothing about the threat of fascism.”
Says a Kremlin spokesman. Correctly.
Sadly, your link is broken. I looked it up myself.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/canada-parliament-speaker-faces-calls-to-step-down-after-honouring-nazi
Many Western countries, including Canada, have raised a young generation that does not know who fought whom or what happened during the second world war.
Yeah; Poland more or less fought both the Germans and the Soviets.
I want fish and chips but I don’t want to pay 25 bucks.
If I went to the grocery store and got Mrs. Gorton’s and french fries right now, it would still be over $15.
Yikes!
I tried Gorton’s filets in the air fryer for the first time the other day. It was surprisingly good, you can get them really crisp without turning the fish into mush.
That sounds good. I have been Jonesing for some fried fish.
I listen to a lot of podcasts – mostly when I’m walking, though. Can’t concentrate while I’m working.
Lots of train stuff today. I wonder if it’s an omen.
I spent last week in Sicily. The trains still run on time.
I could make a crude comment.
But I won’t. I’m a better person now.
*Ducks
More train stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mnx8jnsYfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxXI2BPRzaA&ab_channel=thewhorocks524
https://youtu.be/erhng4EMnqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THh7yp530g
“Travis Kelce’s relationship history: A look at the Kansas City Chiefs star’s dating life as rumored romance with Taylor Swift continues to heat up”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12560027/Travis-Kelce-relationship-history-Kansas-City-Chiefs-star-dating-life-rumored-romance-Taylor-Swift.html
So once you go black you just shake it off?
“EXCLUSIVE: Travis Kelce’s ex Maya Benberry warns Taylor Swift to stay AWAY from ‘unfaithful’ NFL star – urging her to ‘be smart’ and realize he is ‘just using her’: ‘Once a cheater, always a cheater'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12562963/Travis-Kelce-ex-girlfriend-Maya-Benberry-Taylor-Swift.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12562093/Travis-Kelce-ex-maya-beneberry-cheater-taylor-swift.html
Because she has such a great track record with men so far and all…
If it works out for them, great. I really don’t give a shit. She’s more than old enough to know what she’s doing – and he certainly should know that if he screws up, he’ll be at least a song, possibly an album — or a 10+ minute video. So whatever.
A famous athlete was unfaithful? I’m shocked.
Publicity stunt for shits’n’giggles.
https://babylonbee.com/news/taylor-swift-releases-new-song-i-knew-you-were-trouble-when-you-hauled-in-7-receptions-for-69-yards-and-a-td-against-the-bears
I’ve got a case of the Tuesdays. Today at work:
1) Our HR department sent me a PDF to be posted to the website for the Disabilities Employment Program. As is my wont (and literally part of my job), I checked it for accessibility. I thought: “this should be fully compliant and accessible because it comes from the HR disability folks.” LOL. No. It was the hottest mess of a PDF as I’ve seen in a long time. Call me a softy or a commie or whatever, but I think the cripples have just as much right to government information as the normals. 🤷♀️
2) back in January we launched a new website. This meant that we would be able to import content from an old site and decommission the old site and take it offline. We informed the team that would be handling the import back in January and gave them training. Then we gave them another training a couple months later when nothing had been accomplished. Then another training. And another training 2 weeks ago. The deadline is this Friday. It takes ~2 hours to import one piece of content (they have to do it manually, copypasta style). I was informed TODAY that the team doesn’t have access to the particular content template we’re using. Also come to find out one of the team hasn’t even submitted her paperwork to get a login for the website. They’re literally delaying until it’s so far gone that my team will have to do the work. They want to be the Big-Idea-Havers that toss their brilliance to the plebs to implement.
“Call me a softy or a commie or whatever, but I think the cripples have just as much right to government information as the normals.”
On behalf of the cripples, thank you. Because once you put that up, you won’t be able to walk it back.
I see what you did there
(I hope I didn’t offend – I was trying to mimic the attitude of the assholes who think it’s ok to post inaccessible documents)
How about we shorten it to Crips?
Oh wait, that’s taken…
Timmy!
Careful. They’ll be out for blood.
Most definitely did not offend. 🙂
lol pull the other one
At my old company we got up to I think five or six “systems”, where each new one was supposed to replace all the previous ones.
Don’t get me started on how WordPress and government websites don’t work and play well with each other.
That’s why you need to keep your PMP hand strong.
/tries to remember the last good project manager he worked with
If they follow that crap it’s no wonder they suck.
I am a certified scrum master, sir!
Bogota is nerd-famous for the BRT but I guess it doesn’t offer quite the same possibilities for graft.
What would you do in this situation?
Slowly walk away. It’s not a fucking Grizz.
Call over that drunk redneck guy from the next campsite to shoo him off.
I would just grin and bear it.
You wouldn’t hit on the bear? “Hey baby… what’s ur sine?”
😸
That gent had quite a tan.
Are you serious?! That bear bruined their picnic!
Edge off the bench and calmly back away.
And ask the bear if it wants condiments. But damned treat the bear like the apocryphal 600 pound gorilla — “Where does it eat / What does it eat?” “Wherever and whatever it wants!”
That’s pretty puny bear, I think I could take it. Probably use some kind of choke hold, while kidney punching. Classic Joyce Gracie submission move.
Yeah….that’s not going to happen.
10X the muscle density, 10X the bone density….grab him any way you like…even a smallish juvenile like that one will crunch you up like you are a potato chip. Diplomacy is the best approach….distract him with food and inch away.
Germany can’t help themselves.
Weimar says wut?
I would have figured they would have had an influx of Ukrainian women and wouldn’t need to have German women get into that trade.
OFFS!
It’s a rational thing to do and not an extremist thing at all. What are you? Some kind of redneck religious nut bag.
They didn’t tell Rosie to mutilate herself and become a boy. Is that not progress?
How do you know Rosie wasn’t Ross?
Bigot.
“Students find meth in teacher’s hair scrunchie during ‘Family Fun Night’: cops”
https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/teacher-arrested-after-students-find-meth-during-family-fun-night/
Oh come on, it was fun night.
Purple hair and some RBF, but doesn’t look too methy.
“An Indiana middle school teacher”
Oh, hell.
Indiana, the Yankee version of Florida.
“CNN reported Tuesday that Joe Biden’s German Shepherd named Commander has bitten yet another Secret Service agent. This is the eleventh known attack by Commander on a Secret Service agent since the Bidens brought him in to replace their other German Shepherd named Major after he attacked and bit Secret Service agents. One of Commander’s attacks sent an agent to the hospital.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/report-bidens-german-shepherd-commander-bites-another-secret/
OFFS!
Who’s a good boy?
Not anyone in the Biden family.
😂😂
Well, they say our pets take on our personalities.
Poor pupper. Nothing to do all day, repellant owners and cops everywhere.
I *mostly* don’t think Davis exaggerates her opinions for attention. I *mostly* think she means it, and is different in that she’s saying it out loud and not equivocating/moderating, like most people do when they think things they know are edgy.
And I say that because (though I’ve seen relatively little of her stuff), quite a few of the young ladies of my acquaintance, to the extent they get into socio-politics at all, feel the same way.
So whether she herself is 100% sincere, that subculture is very definitely for real.
For those who ever listened to Howard Stern and wondered what the hell happened to him.
He’s 69 years old and turned into a yenta.
Out of all of the piece of shit shockjocks of the ‘90s he turned out to be the piece of shittiest. Unsettling to look at, uncritical of authority, uninteresting to listen to, and worst of all unfuckingfunny.
I never listened to him, except for when some dumb fuck thing he said made the rounds. I had buddies that were avid fans, though.
I was more of an Opie and Anthony (Cumia’s still funny at least) guy myself.
He was kinda amusing playing himself. Or maybe I just liked Paul Giamatti. WNnnnnnBC!
I won’t argue about what he’s become, or really defend his character all that much in general.
The show was funny as fuck from the 80’s through to the end of the Artie Lange era around 2009 or so. And there was a realness to it with what he was willing to put on air that made it what it was. That was unique and is long gone. It isn’t the gross out humor that made him, though I enjoyed my fair share of that.
Forgot about Lange-he actually is funny.
Speaking of Newsom
That’s super convenient since left-wing activists never remove books from schools for “discriminatory reasons”, they’re just decolonizing the school bookshelf by clearing out the old so-called “classics” written by dead racist white men in order to make room for the BIPOCAAPILGBTQ++ voices of today.
They keep using the word “ban” as though a library has every book in the universe.
Won’t somebody please think of the sexually active toddlers!
Adding to my rage today: pearl couscous has taken over at my supermarket and I can no longer find normal couscous
Pearl is a psy-op!
Nobody needs 23 kinds of couscou.
Somebody please post the South Park where Meatloaf lost weight and changed his stage name to Couscous.
Superfluous commas breed like rabbits, curse them.
Yeah. I write my post completely first. Then I go back and kill the commas.
Not too many deletions, please. Don’t write like a Brit (not that I think you do).
I get paid by the exclamation marks on Thursday nights.
Oxford comma 4evah!
This is a lady by the name of “Peraly things”?
I have seen her on Youtube. She is not horrible, am i missing something?
“Marijuana, Ketamine, and Bitcoin”
The new weed, Mexicans and ass sex? Or por que no los cincos?
Deviled eggs for dinner.
MOAR PAPRIKA!
*drools*
I think it was KK who first introduced me to Three Year Letterman.
So thanks, KK!
Some of the funnest, most wholesome trolling on the intertubes.
This comment from James Carville says a lot:
***
After Maher suggested that true overt racists were hard to find in today’s society, Carville disagreed. “They’re everywhere,” he said, arguing he often he sees Confederate flags on the back of pickup trucks.
***
The US is full of racists and the Stars and Bars is their secret sign. There’s no way it could be merely a symbol of regional pride or playful rebelliousness. Oh, no. Far from it. It’s just like the time I had a skull and crossbones as a decorative front license plate. I was required by law to display that as I was indeed a pirate at the time.
Le sigh, as Peppy LePew would say.
Racists are everywhere. Just look at the Democratic Party.
You used to see them all the time up here on the east side of Cleveland. The first drive to get rid of that mascot was in the mid/late 90’s. It was the black students who fought against that the most, and why the mascot and flag stayed (most of the flag decals were blue and grey outlines instead of the colored ones after that). Lots of people driving through town would be confused as hell by all the black teenagers driving around with the stars and bars on the back window of their car.
I have plenty of Yankee co-workers, smart people, who are utterly convinced that it’s just a racist thing and can’t comprehend how wrong they are. Even ones who are otherwise not woke are totally in on that.
NBC is reporting yet another Trump legal problem – something about committing fraud to obtain favorable bank loans by inflating the value of his assets. So who is the plaintiff in this case – some bank that got scammed and Trump defaulted on the loan? Claiming something is worth X when it is really worth Y is resolved through due diligence (or it should be). If Chumley on “Pawn Stars” pays $20,000 for a Picasso etching because the seller claims it is worth that much, and it turns out to be some Picasso wantabe’s work, worth $200, then Rick has cause to fire Chumley, not sue the seller.
NY State of course, and the judge has summarily ruled a bunch of shit and revoked the Trump org business license… the trial starts Monday….
Trump bad, mkay?
Near as I can tell, the loan was paid in full, it’s the bank’s duty to perform due diligence, and it was the state filing charges under the Get Trump Clause, because the bank was not damaged.
That one’s been around for a while. I think it’s what Tish James has “got him” on.
Megyn Kelly asks Trump Covid questions
One reporter has proven brave enough not to take the deal. The deal is: you can interview Trump provided you don’t ask perfectly obvious questions about his Covid response that shredded the Bill of Rights, wrecked his presidency, enabled mass mail-in ballots, elevated agencies to the status of dictators, and kicked off the biggest national crisis of our lifetimes from which we aren’t even close to recovering.
We still do not know when or if we will get the Constitution back. Inflation still rages, education nationwide is slipping more by the day, there is a resulting crime epidemic, and the cultural demoralization is like nothing we’ve ever seen – which is what happens when leaders dare to imagine that their power and prowess is some kind of match for the microbial kingdom.
We’ve watched in amazement as myriad reporters have entirely avoided the topic, including the otherwise intrepid Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck. This is because Trump forbids it and it is where he is most vulnerable. He wants it to go away, while many people on the center-left let him off the hook because they approve of how he handled Covid. As a result, the country and the world are not getting anything close to the answers we seek.
Finally, Megyn Kelly stepped up and did it. She barely scratched the surface. She didn’t know the right follow up questions. She let him get away with nonsense. But the interview is still notable, at least a beginning. She is the first to have begun the grilling process.
Meanwhile, in topsy-turvy land…
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American right-wing and conservative movements have undermined high-quality public education for decades with the goal of creating a compliant public that lacks the critical thinking skills and knowledge to be engaged citizens.
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In Chauncey DeVega’s world, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.
It’s true. I went through school thinking there were only 2 genders, so obviously my education in mathematics was incomplete.
The projection is strong there.
Stress
A uniformed division officer was bitten by the dog around 8 p.m. Monday at the White House, and was treated on-site by medical personnel, said USSS chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi. The officer is doing just fine, he said.
Elizabeth Alexander, communications director for first lady Jill Biden, said “the White House can be a stressful environment for family pets, and the first family continues to work on ways to help Commander handle the often unpredictable nature of the White House grounds.”
A claw hammer will rectify this situation.
I thought the dog had been exiled to Delaware.
To be clear, I’m talking about Commander, not Jill.
Or you could put him down just like you would any other dog that shows a tendency to bite people.
Theeeeeeeeeee Hyperbole is right.
We are probably on the fourth or fifth German Shepard. They go crazy from the contact high of Biden’s drug cocktail and have to be put down.
I think this is the correct argument. There’s no other dog in the country who could get away with biting people 11 times and there be no repercussions for the owner or dog.
After the second the dog needed to go to someone who knows what the fuck they are doing. After 11 I’m not even sure Caesar could do anything.
Those fucks.
And no repercussions for the shitty owners?
Or, twist, you could give the dog to people who like dogs and are willing to work with him.
As opposed to the fuckwits in the White House.
I thought the dog had been exiled to Delaware.
That was the previous bitey dog.
There’s more than one? Maybe they are hanging out with Cracky.