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Those Wild Card series didn’t last long. All four were wrapped up in two games. And now that the divisional series are all set, we can see teams actually travel for both home and away games, as playoff baseball is meant to be played. Across the pond, the UCL Wednesday matched went more to form than Tuesday’s with the exception of Newcastle throttling PSG 4-1. Which I found to be delightful. Right, now on to…the links!
Oh, now the feds care?
You gotta be fucking kidding me. And they’ll act like they’d been on top of things all along and this was necessitated by a sudden change in immigration patterns. And the media will help them spin that bullshit.
This is kind of sus. And by “kind of,” I mean it’s really, really suspect. I guess the people in charge really want machines doing the counting and local people to have no control over their own systems. It’s almost as if they have a vested interest in who determines how the outcome is counted more than what the actual count is. Which is pretty fucked up.
In a world where we have separation of powers, the answer would be “no.” But in the age of the imperial presidency, I’m sure they’ll just ignore the will of the legislature and do whatever the fuck they want.
Are the other 40% of the respondents retarded or something? How anybody could be for this is beyond me.
I’m absolutely shocked by this. I figured they were incompetent and there was a lot of graft, but I had no idea it was this bad. This is California-level corruption.
::sigh:: No photos with the story make it useless. Unless she’s a pig. If that’s the case, thank you, lazy news outlet. Also, this is a dick move on her part.
As hideous as its namesake
Wait, what’s the name of the building again? This whole story makes me angry. From the naming of the building, to the fact that the government is evasive when asked what’s going on, and finally that there are federal cops roaming the streets with no explanation whatsoever as to why.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, if there’s any group’s feelings these quiltbag people should be concerned with, it’s that natural ally of their movement: the Islamists. What a complete bunch of fucking dipshits.
Let’s rock! Well, kind of. How about now? That’s better. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
The home page pic made me think of Jim Lahey
I aspire to that level of drunkenness.
The girlfriend’s late mother at one point managed to get cut off at a Las Vegas bar. I did not even know that was possible.
She wasn’t tipping.
I’m only happy that digital cameras were not around in days long ago.
This is kind of sus.
Kind of?
I was being generous.
They’re literally making it illegal for local precincts to count ballots rather than stuff them in a machine they have no control over. It’s insanity.
Ba-da-ba-ba-da-da…. That’s Sacramento!
One party state wants complete control. Nothing new in this f’ed up state, unfortunately. I find the “it’ll take longer… waaaaah!” laughable given the “trickle in ‘mail in’ ballots until we get the results we want” from the last few elections anyway. Funny how it all used to work promptly with hand counting, voter id and in person mainly voting… strange, that….
Well, there was a court case here in AZ after the last election that said that counties were required to certify the election results by a certain date, regardless of whether the county actually thought the results were valid.
But the flurry of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories!!
JFC how transparently corrupt. And not just the media.
Whenever US election observers see this shit in another country, they declare the election illegitimate.
But if you notice it in the US you are an election denying terrorist.
Shit. The USA would bomb another country for having elections in this manner.
Interesting interview about how Google manipulates election information.
https://rumble.com/v3n0rk1-how-google-manipulated-elections.html
Trigger warning Steven Crowder’s show.
I can only assume that 40% believes they won the culture war and all companies must inflict maximum pain on their enemies (by force of law), and that that boot will be stomping on the human face forever.
And cheer that (because they think it is always their foot in the boot).
Bleah.
Re: Mayorkas coming around on a tiny bit of the wall — obvious next thought is obvious… are they going to need all the materials they were selling at fire sale prices for the last few years so they couldn’t build said wall? Are they going to blow more 3-generation-away-or-more tax dollars repurchasing materials?
Second obvious-thought-is-obvious… announce it, but actually do nothing up to the election (just “have plans” so you can check the box and say the Stupid Party is lying that they’re incompetent on border security) and trust the “fact checkers” to push the narrative….
They’ll just steer these migrants somewhere other than the 30 miles of wall they’re installing. Then when it gets close to election time they’ll complain that Team Red refused to fund anything else and that it’s really their fault.
And all the major networks will run with the narrative.
That was one of my other thoughts — the last one being “Is this wall to steer them around anything Texas is doing so they don’t have those bad optics?”
I have it on good authority that Republicans defunded the police as well.
It’s purely political, the polls must be REALLY bad on this right now. Nothing much will actually happen, except the usual graft.
Probably because it is visible in Blue cities — so they’re worried that either their urban voters (hah!) or more likely the city machines are thinking “Hey, this kind of sucks and the Feds don’t give a shit… why are we supporting these morons?”. If it wasn’t impacting Blue states / Blue cities they’d continue to not give a shit.
That’s probably it, they can’t afford to lose their base on this issue.
Meanwhile, in AZ, I think they just finished tearing down the makeshift border wall that the the previous administration put up.
If you want a Karenish, mediocre, lockstep lefty useful idiot, you’d be hard pressed to do better than our governor.
*Whitmer has entered the chat*
Walz is an “also ran”? He needs to step up his game.
It has been quiet on the nation reporting front — so curious if local reporters have gotten her to do press conferences, or if she’s still hiding in the basement still.
Hobbs? Hell, she’s hiding so hard that we actually had somebody serving as interim governor for a few days. I still haven’t heard why.
I thought it was (well, reported as) because she and the next 2 Dems in the line all fled the state rather than have a chance of being seen with President Poopy Pants… of course, that seems stupid — NM is a pretty big state, one would have thought they could have found somewhere else to be.
Probably needed to get a memory update on their controlling slugs from Titan or some shit.
The Feds: “It is illegal to discriminate in hiring based on sex, gender, race, etc…”
Also the Feds: You must give us a plan for how you intend to discriminate in hiring based on sex and race!
Doublespeak totalitarian morons. So fucking stupid and unconstitutional.
Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas
So they are no longer welding open gates?
Nobody said they were going to stop waving illegals through and fist-bumping them on the way.
‘see, we built the wall and it didn’t stop them’
I think Biden can keep $millions flowing to the Ukraine (and then back into his offshore accounts). He’ll need Congress to get freshly printed $billions going there.
This is kind of sus.
Any semblance of election integrity is a racism or something.
Speaking of foreign boondoggles. Why are we in Syria again? (Other than to steal oil and launder money)
We are now in an armed conflict with another member of NATO for reasons.
https://twitter.com/301military/status/1709892805865165062
In a country without their permission fighting an ally. My BINGO card is almost full.
Lockheed-Martin execs need another yacht? Hell if I know.
Syria is the new Ukraine.
Wait, I thought Ukraine was the new Syria.
A cyclical reference is not an error in politics.
Syria was supposed to be the new Iraq, because that was such a glorious success.
I thought Syria was the next Libya?
Libya was supposed to be the next Egypt.
wait… no…
Yemen?
no that can’t be right…
There were a lot of smaller conflicts between Vietnam and its sequel. Give the US some time to complete the trilogy.
Trilogy? I thought the US went all George RR Martin, and has a never ending stream of door stoppers lined up?
Armed conflict with an actual ally over a puppet described as an ally with which we don’t have a formal treaty.
Why are we in Syria again?
Al Queda aint gonna arm itself.
The Biden administration is scrambling to find a way to keep U.S. weapons flowing to Ukraine in its war with Russia after the ouster of the Republican House speaker put future assistance to Kyiv in serious jeopardy.
There is no reason for the US to be supporting Ukraine in the first place.
You don’t consider giving Lady Graham multiple climaxes as he imagines all the dead Russian soldiers a reason?
(Because that and the graft seem to be the only real reasons we’re given… “Proxy war!” — except why the hell do we need to be at war with the Russians in the first place, dumbasses? Don’t put NATO on their borders and they’re no actual threat to NATO. Don’t like Putin? Fine… what about all the other dictators… oh shit… forget I said that before you fuckups try to bomb the whole fucking world….)
Because the hawks, and grifters, have dusted off the domino theory.
There is nothing in this war for the US. This is all neocon and British globalist fantasy bullshit..
When the USSR collapsed, NATO should have been disbanded and Russia should have been welcomed as a partner in the Western economic and cultural sphere.
But where’s the graft in that?
I can not disagree with you (nor have I in the past… not doing so made no sense to me in the fucking ’90s when I was much more tolerant of interventionism…)
That did happen briefly. Then Russia got their oligarchs under control and stopped the financial strip mining of the country. That made the western oligarchs sad.
Putin was supposed to just be another drunk like Yeltsin who let London ass-rape the country.
Russia stopped the financial strip mining by oligarchs? I missed that. I thought Putin just stopped financial stripmining by oligarchs who weren’t supporting him.
Putin’s condition was that the oligarchs could continue so long as they stayed out of politics.
Those that didn’t had unfortunate window accidents.
He did this. Would be fun to watch with a Bezos or auto execs.
https://youtu.be/VjrlTMvirVo?feature=shared
Knew before I clicked.
Some money will keep flowing, but now the neo-cons have lost the cover of sliding it into other resolutions. They’ll have to come out publicly and try to explain why they are taking $billions from Americans and sending it there.
‘There is no reason for the US to be supporting Ukraine in the first place.’
I wouldn’t go that far. Given that we have an enmity, we could have a legitimate interest in screwing with Russia.
Now, whether it makes any sense to have antagonized Russia after the USSR failed is a different question.
Russia != USSR
Are the other 40% of the respondents retarded or something?
Yes.
“Are the other 40% of the respondents retarded or something?”
Quite the contrary. The other 40% are leftists who know big business is pushing a leftist agenda.
That was my thought. Or, in other words, the other 40% are owned by Google.
So they’re retarded.
In early August, amid public safety and crime concerns in downtown San Francisco, federal employees at the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in the city’s SoMa neighborhood were told to work from home as much as possible.
Antifa is in town? Or is that still just an idea?
“The Federal Protective Service is entrusted with the safety and security of federal employees and visitors at more than 9,000 facilities nationwide daily,”
I was not even aware of the FPS. 9000 = 180 per state average. They must be small facilities or very, very secretive.
Oh hell yeah. PSG is devil-spawn.
Says something about the owner.
One of President Joe Biden’s dogs, a German shepherd named Commander, has been removed from the White House after a string of biting incidents.
“Commander is not presently on the White House campus while next steps are evaluated,” Elizabeth Alexander, a spokesperson for First Lady Jill Biden, said in a statement to CNN, which first reported Commander’s removal.
He’s been sent to a post upstate.
Glad I checked before letting drugs fall out of my ass.
This would have been a ‘major scandal’ for Trump. Its just another day for Biden.
It would have been nonstop “There are no bad pets, only bad owners”.
Maybe Joe’s buddy Mitt can give the dog a ride to New England.
The spin I’ve seen is that the dog is only attacking the Secret Service because they are loyal to Trump, and the dog can sense that.
Re: Pelosi Federal Building — my opinion on naming things for political figures is the same as naming ships — not before they’re dead. Granted, Pelosi is a shambling zombie at this point – but she ain’t dead-dead yet.
This.
Also, ships should be named after standard, historically-sound naming conventions. And mostly re-using historical ship names of notes. And never, ever after politicians, or as pop political sops or signalling.
Some people in a nearby county were upset because the county doesn’t allow naming buildings for living people. They complained the rule was discriminatory.
If they really want to name something after a corrupt politician in that county — there’s a way to speed that process along…
Three Words: Six Sigma Voting.
With hand counts of random races in every precinct to verify.
I missed this one earlier this week. Ben Wallace goes full retard, admittedly not a far distance for him.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/01/ben-wallace-ukraine-counteroffensive-succeeding/
The average age is over forty because you’ve already sacrificed all the young. There’s nothing left. Congratufuckinglations to you and others like you and others like you *cough* Lindsey *cough*
Yeah — that attitude and the US War College shit seem like trial balloons. As the father of a 14 year old boy… fuck no he’s not getting shot for your fucking tingles in a couple of years, assholes.
Still curious how that fits in with the 13th amendment.
Other than FYTW of course.
Another one of those great SC decisions circa WWI.
Well not showing up to the draft is a crime, and slavery is permitted as punishment for a crime…
Another case where Alito’s shitty judicial philosophy would support the status quo.
Press-gangs like they used the Ukraine aren’t going to work so well in a country with more firearms than people.
Yeah, and theres no way they could lockdown the whole country.
It happened multiple times already, sadly there will be no armed resistance.
They come for my son, I can guarantee armed resistance.
I don’t think the lockdowns are comparable. Very few people would be willing to take lives over being told you need to wear a mask while grocery shopping. And the mandates were roundly ignored around me.
Roving bands of slavers trying to kidnap your children at gunpoint is a whole different universe. The Troubles wouldn’t come close to describing the carnage. In the country, the slavers would just disappear unless going door to door in force. And then that will just mean a large body count on both sides. The number of people willing to risk their lives to carry out the draft would quickly diminish, especially once their own families start getting targeted in reprisals. It’s very likely civil war of some sort would follow, possibly rural vs urban.
Yes. And people clearly forget what happened during the last draft. Bombings were commonplace, ffs.
Unless there are is a foreign army currently inside the Contiguous 48 (sorry AK/HI, you are too far away to be important to me) I wouldn’t even consider letting my son anywhere near a draft.
#metoo
Never thought I’d actually be glad my oldest son got out of the Marines after his first contract, but here we are.
Except that’s not how it would happen.
You’ve been drafted. Report to xyz in 5 days. Oh, you don’t want to? Your bank account is frozen, you have no credit cards, you are not able to shop anywhere and all financial and commercial endeavors – which we have complete control over – are forbidden from doing business with you and all your assets, conveniently in electronic form, are hereby seized. Oh, you’ve reconsidered, that’s great! Welcome aboard, volunteer!
We never have the ‘deaths head’ squad to directly confront. It’s all done under the table. I sincerely hope there would be widespread resistance, but think it would likely only manifest in rare, easily ostracized instances.
Where were you in 2020?
The sheeple will bend over and beg for more.
Try the 90’s. Ruby Ridge, Waco, and OKC are what any armed resistance would be portrayed as.
I find it impossible to believe the average age of a Ukrainian soldier is over 40. There’s just no possible way that’s the case unless they’re so far into their reserves that their chances of winning are infinitesimally small.
That’s an admission by one of the staunchest Ukraine warhawks in existence. He has every motivation to play up Ukraine’s chance of success. So I’m taking it at face value and assuming it’s probably worse.
It should be 19.
Before I clicked I thought, “this better be Paul Hardcastle”. Well done.
Their chances of winning were always zero – particularly when their goals included nonsense like taking Crimea, nevermind the neo-con wet dreams of causing a collapse in the Russian Federation.
Which I really don’t get… who the hell thinks the Russian Federation collapsing would be a good thing? The various border-Stans would likely go Pakistan at best (selling nuke tech, fostering terrorism, fighting border wars) — China would likely happily expand into Siberia… and the chaos in Russia proper would only bring on another strong man (because if history proves anything — it is that Russia loves a dictator, frankly…). Putin is a hardline asshole who may dream of rebuilding the USSR — but he’s more of a known quantity and contrary to IC / neocon screaming, mainly stays in areas of actual Russian concern. Unlike our crop of morons.
And of course, Germany / EU would continue to be royally screwed when it comes to energy.
You can’t help but wonder if there’s some credence to the whole “countries that are looking to keep pride in Western Civ / religion” honestly.
If they are trying to keep pride in Western Civ, they should start teaching it again in schools.
^
Age at the front, allegedly, not their entire armed forces. Their upper age on conscription was pretty high until recently, too. The cutoff on being prohibited from leaving the country is even higher.
It is reported fairly regularly how these costs are up to ten times higher than similar projects in various European cities. And it’s not just New York – it’s the U.S. in general.
Yeah, the Tammany machine was in full swing when California was still an infant. I think the reference is ass-backwards.
You cuntes are the ones that orchestrated it in the first place.
The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current “anti-government” investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.
“The FBI is in an almost impossible position,” says a current FBI official, who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive internal matters. The official said that the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But the Bureau must also preserve the Constitutional right of all Americans to campaign, speak freely and protest the government. By focusing on former president Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, the official said, the Bureau runs the risk of provoking the very anti-government activists that the terrorism agencies hope to counter.
“Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has ‘weaponized’ the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully,” says the official.
And you have been persecuting people for their speech/protest for years at this point.
Salt. The. Earth. The IC is irredeemable as far as I can tell, and given their track record — I’m not at all convinced we actually need them (as opposed to them making themselves work since the 1950s).
The blending of the IC and LEC is another legacy of 9/11.
prevent what it calls domestic terrorism
I posit that the FBI has fostered more domestic terrorism than it could possibly prevent.
I know my vote.
Math Nerd or Villain: Trial Starts for FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
Mark Cohen, a lawyer for Bankman-Fried, told jurors that the government was falsely portraying his client as a cartoonish villain when in reality he was a “math nerd who didn’t drink or party” and acted in good faith in building his crypto exchange in the emerging cryptocurrency space.
Pay no attention the Bagman-Fraud’s well documented Adderall usage.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/sam-bankman-fried-jury-hears-dueling-narratives-as-fraud-trial-begins-27fd678d?st=tvk5u3gbh8xcdd8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was in the “Front man for political money laundering idiot to take the fall” camp, myself.
Hence the “Bagman-Fraud” nickname. Wish I could take credit for it, but it’s perfectly fitting.
I just find it hysterical that this is the opening for the defense.
A villain with a huge number of villainous backers who are politically connected.
So he’ll be acquitted.
–NOFX, I’ve Become a Cliche
“a “math nerd who didn’t drink or party”
Technically not a denial that he was high as a kite the whole time. Didn’t he have some kind of orientation presentation on recommended on-the-job drug cocktails for employees?
He was also a swinger. It just seems like a false or misleading characterization.
money launderer for the elite was as pure as the driven cocaine.
Yeah, that is one of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen. The neighborhood is a toilet, too. I would refuse to work there.
The warmongering and grift must continue.
Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell are moving forward on a major Ukraine aid package, even as there’s a very good chance the next speaker is even less receptive than Kevin McCarthy was.
Majority Leader Schumer said he’s spoken specifically to McConnell about the issue and added “we’ll work together to get a big package done.” Ukraine was in the Senate’s bipartisan spending proposal last week, but was ultimately left out of the eventual stopgap government funding law approved over the weekend.
Now there’s no clear path forward, particularly since there isn’t even a House speaker. So the two Senate leaders appear willing to plunge forward on their own for now.
“We have large bipartisan majorities for aid to Ukraine, and we’re going to work to get it done,” Schumer said.
Meanwhile the US is collapsing under the weight of an invasion at the southern border that is being facilitated by the federal government. But none call it treason…
Um, spending bills are supposed to originate in the House.
Not that anyone gives a shit about the constitution anymore.
That’s revenue bills, not spending. I’ve never been able to figure
out how it could possibly make any difference, since it
has to pass both houses anyway, but there it is.
Silly founding fathers that thought government activity would need a specific revenue enactment to support it, rather than a pot of money to be doled out at will.
Large majorities of whom? Politicians?
I suspect the voters are getting rather tired of throwing money at that meat grinder.
I have a modest proposal – if they want to work in this sector, they are stripped of pension and benefits (with no possibility of restoration).
And no possibility of ever working in or for government again. No appointments.
Yeah — the article raised my “Let’s be very careful about this” hackles when it tried to pitch a Lizzie Warrens ethics bill, though. Might as well sign up for a class on cooking meat from a vegan.
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Your daily reminder that you will never be as cool as Kurt Russell. The guy was born that way.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/170ei9s/kurt_russell_in_1964_tv_commercial_for_the_mattel/
Have to say that was my first thought as well… That toy should have been a hot seller… wonder why I never heard of it?
The WSJ never fails to impress. This is an unsigned editorial
Republicans Against U.S. Weapons
GOP hostility to Ukraine is hurting American arms production.
___________
Take 155mm artillery. The U.S. is producing 28,000 shells a month, a Pentagon under secretary said in September, up from about 14,000. By 2025? On track for 100,000 a month. The Biden ramp up has been too slow given Ukraine’s need for shells, but it’s far superior to the meager previous output that couldn’t sustain a protracted fight.
Not only are we not showering Ukraine with enough money, but if it weren’t for a few holdouts from Team Red we could keeping the killing going on through at least 2025 at a 4x rate.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-funding-u-s-weapons-backfill-republicans-1e78dfb1?st=c54a6sxvshcyqif&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nothing like blatent bloodthirsty warmongering to fatten your wallets, asswipes. Disgusting.
Are we the baddies, Hans?
The Biden ramp up has been too slow given Ukraine’s need for shells
What about our need?
Fuck us.
They have never been more obvious about it than in recent years.
What in the everloving fuck?
“We’re just doing live field trials to ensure our shells work”
This is how the tail wags the dog.
If they really need to crank up the ammo factories, I could use another 50k small pistol primers…
Would.
A high-flying recruitment specialist who hurled xenophobic abuse at a group of German tourists on a New York train has been fired from her job.
Brianna Pinnix, 30, worked as a senior talent acquisition specialist at Capital Rx, specializing in technology recruiting, according to her now-deleted LinkedIn page.
She’s since been fired from her position after Capital Rx said they ‘acted immediately and terminated the employee,’ after the clip of her disgusting behavior went viral.
Pinnix was caught on video screaming at a group of German tourists on a New Jersey Transit train earlier this week.
During the confrontation, Pinnix is seen becoming increasingly aggressive towards the group of young travelers before shouting ‘lets not let immigrants take up our country…how about you get the f**k out of our country.’
After two world wars I figure the Germans have this coming.
What I find odd is that the 24/7 filming of everyone, everywhere seems to be encouraging more boorish behavior than ever before – despite the fact it can ruin your life.
WTF?
Another day that ends in “y” on NJTransit.
I’m also not a fan of wrecking somebody’s career and ability to make a living via social media.
Don’t mention the war!
“Stop talking about the war?!? We didn’t start it!”
“Yes you did, you invaded Poland”
Still one of the greatest lines ever.
Even typing it makes me laugh.
Administration officials said that even though a vocal minority in Congress was wary of more assistance for Ukraine, there was still majority support in both chambers to keep weapons, ammunition and other aid moving to Kyiv. Biden has argued that Ukraine is a key battleground in a global struggle between democracies and authoritarian regimes, like Russia’s.
“There is still strong bipartisan support for aid to Ukraine, but we don’t take it for granted,” another senior administration official said.
However, McCarthy’s short tenure as speaker demonstrated that a minority of hard-line lawmakers can shape the congressional agenda and undermine the legislative priorities of the majority.
Even before McCarthy was voted out Tuesday, political support for billions more in military aid had increasingly been in doubt.
Democracy would be more efficient if we could just get rid of those vocal minority naysayers.
Democracy would be more efficient if leftists and warmongers got everything they wanted. Anything less is a white-supreme terrorism against America.
“The majority” can fuck right off. It can’t keep working against the interests of the voters forever, after all.
Good morning, Sloop!
What makes the wall story even worse is that the fuckwits sold a bunch of wall parts for pennies on the dollar.
Stupid? Evil? Does it even matter anymore?
The Department of Homeland Security had concluded “it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads” in Starr County, Texas, along the US border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the filing posted in the US Federal Registry.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” Mayorkas said in the notice.
Construction of the wall will be paid for through a 2019 appropriations bill that funneled money specifically to a “border barrier” in the Rio Grande Valley, and according to Mayorkas, “DHS is required to use those funds for their appropriated purpose.” The funds needed to be spent by the end of fiscal year 2023, prompting the administration to choose to move forward this year with construction in south Texas, according to a source familiar.
It’s a Trump anti-immigrant policy? Oh, for shame.
Isn’t the Brandon regime suing TX for having its own barriers?
I did nazi this coming.
I sat down today with former Fox News reporter, Clayton Morris, to discuss disturbing reports of Ukrainian troops being drugged. This was in response to a chat I had on Wednesday with Russian war correspondent, Marat Khairullin. Marat told me that Ukrainian troops who are captured or who have surrendered to Russian forces are showing clear signs of being under the influence of some narcotic. They are oblivious to pain and, while in Russian custody, go through painful withdrawal. In some cases the sobering up takes more than a week. Marat said this is becoming pretty common. It is not an isolated case.
+1 Pervitin
Nice malware scam they’ve got going on at that website. No, my browser is not “out of date”.
So that’s where the world supply of Aderall has been going…
Easy. It’s the new dead alien storage facility.
Among the laws the Biden administration is bypassing to build the wall are several of the same statutes the administration has in the past moved to protect, including: the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.
,/em>
Most environmentally friendly President ever.
I believe the left was using those to stop the Trump wall. How ironic.
Littering the soil of the most fertile country in Europe with unexploded cluster munitions will save GAIA from the scourge of farming.
Migration along the southern border has been a relentless focus of the Republican presidential primary field and conservative media, and leading Democrats, including the mayors of New York and Chicago, have begun publicly demanding stronger efforts by the federal government to provide resources to accommodate arrivals.
It’s only a problem because certain parties won’t stop talking about it.
BREAKING: GoFundMe for girlfriend of far-left activist brutally murdered raises over $50,000 in 24 hours after she refused to give black suspect’s description to police
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1709687396848091462
One might begin to think she arranged a hit and is now profiting from it.
I saw the video. She seemed suspiciously unconcerned.
It was bizarre.
But then again, these people are mentally broken in a way that I don’t fully understand.
I think it’s wacky wokeness.
Guy was one of increasingly more prevalent NYC mentally ill homeless.
But he’s black so what can you do?
It gets worse:
https://twitter.com/FuckKoroks/status/1709806587056173167
Vacation time!
Yeah, everything I’ve seen has this guy and his entire circle being crazy radical leftist freaks.
I can’t get past the fact they were sitting on a bench in Bed-Stuy at 4am. I’m sorry but for some of us that’s just begging for trouble.
Not the only thing that doesn’t add up about this story but it’s up there.
Yeah, they did everything wrong, and she was useless. (Coming back from a wedding where?)
We have to remember that young middle class people grew up when crime was at 1950’s levels. They don’t have street smarts, and they’re actively taught to ignore their instincts.
This guy was from Boston and had lived in NYC for over a decade. Nothing bad ever happens in Boston? 🙄
That explains it – he was clearly a Synth.
Proggies who haven’t been mugged by reality yet.
Howard Stern used to rant how his parents deliberately moved to the ghetto for the optics. There is likely a similar effect at play here.
“… they’re actively taught to ignore their instincts.”
This needs to be repeated loudly. “Don’t be racist/classist/bitchy/stuck-up” has gotten more people assaulted and murdered than money, drugs, and poontang combined.
Your soviet level prosecution is a political stunt.
Letitia James: “Trump’s comments were offensive. They were baseless. They were void of any facts and or any evidence,” James said to reporters. “What they were, were comments that were unfortunately fomenting violence, comments that I would describe as race-baiting, Comments unfortunately that appeals to the bottom of our humanity. I will not be bullied, and so Mr. Trump is no longer here. The Donald Trump show is over. This was nothing more than a political stunt.”
“Lelita” – You have no business practicing law, nor being an elected official. Resign. Spend more time with your family. Focus on your mental health. Destress. Whatever euphemism you want to use, but get the fuck out.
Remember this advice when she wins her next election in another landslide.
“Election”.
New York has never had an honest election in history.
Why does Rice play Texas?
For the money?
Early-season patty-cake game for Longhorns, so $$$$$ for Rice?
Or is the question the setup for a joke?
It was part of Kennedy’s moon shot speech.
Funny thing: In the 9 years prior to the moon speech, Rice was 5-4 vs Texas.
Following the speech, thru 1993, Rice went 1-30-1 vs Texas.
So, the reference makes much more sense at then end of the SWC than it did at the time.
Rice did finally win again in 1994 and is 0-16 since it.
In Summary, since speech 2-46-1.
Before speech, 19-29-0.
tldr: Kennedy sucked at analogy.
To get fried.
But it passed though, so…
DOOCY TIME: “How are you going to blame Republicans for [Cuellar being carjacked]? Isn’t D.C. run by a bunch of Democrats?”
KJP: “I’m going to speak to what [Biden] has done…American Rescue Plan, not Republican…voted for it. Not one…Billions of dollars…to make sure communities…got funding that they could indeed hire more police officers, so that they can keep their communities safe. Republicans had nothing to do with that…That’s just a fact.”
Wow. She is something else.
Imagine if she worked for a Republican president. The press would destroy her.
The Supreme Court’s first week of arguments this term featured a case that could upend the structure of government — and Justice Elena Kagan made that clear Tuesday.
“You’re just flying in the face of 250 years of history,” she told Noel Francisco, who served as Donald Trump’s solicitor general and is now in private practice and pushing to crush the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on behalf of payday lenders.
And what makes the challenge so radical, as Kagan described?
By way of background, the right-wing 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals broke new ground when it deemed the CFPB’s funding structure unconstitutional. The agency is funded through the Federal Reserve, as opposed to annual appropriations from Congress. The panel of Trump-appointed judges said that setup violates the Constitution’s separation of powers and its Appropriations Clause.
Underscoring the unhinged nature of the ruling, President Joe Biden’s solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar, explained at the Supreme Court argument that it’s “the first time any court in our nation’s history has held that Congress violated the Appropriations Clause by enacting a statute providing funding.”
And if this method of funding is an explicit attempt to remove the CFPB from future Congressional oversight, how does that fit in the Constitutional analysis?
By objecting to a funding mechanism that bypasses Congress and assigns it to a party that only came into existence a century ago?
JFC I knew Kagan was a hack, but this is absurd.
There’s a difference between a statute providing funding and appropriations. Appropriations are one-time, a specific amount for a specific purpose, not an infinite checkbook of blank checks.
Whoops- Forgot the CFPB link
But even if the justices don’t take the drastic step leading to the consequences Kagan warned against, that won’t be cause for celebration. Rather, it would simply serve to highlight the extreme nature of the 5th Circuit by comparison — a court that, like the Supreme Court, was made more extreme by Trump and his fellow Republicans, and a court that felt emboldened enough by the current state of the GOP-led judiciary.
The only sensible course of action is to remove all judges appointed by Trump from the court system.
Dishonest cunte is dishonest and cuntey.
Saying the border is “open” or “uncontrolled” will come as a surprise to the 10s of 1000s of migrants in ICE detention and is one of the dumbest, most dishonest statements that’s regularly made by both politicians and pundits.
Up there alongside “Covid, it’s just like the flu!”
Tens of thousands in detention, several million released to roam the interior.
Eh, close enough to “open and uncontrolled” for government work.
This morning I drove to work past two hotels that are being used to house immigrants (the city kicked the homeless out of them a couple of months ago). There were dozens of folks hanging around outside chatting on cell phones. I had to drop off a car at the repair shop, which is right behind a Home Depot. A dozen or so immigrants used to hang out there, now it’s in the hundreds. I finally made it downtown. More immigrants in the park. People can actually see things with their eyes, Mr. Hasan.
Rice PRIDE is severing its relationship with its only official partner after Palestinian students expressed discomfort with the Jewish organization’s “discriminatory” pro-Israel activities.
I don’t think these victims should put up with this any more. They should go back to Palestine, where Israel is still The Enemy. I’m sure Hamas will fully respect their LGBTQetc status.
Or at least be a stone’s throw away from respect, I suppose.
So, do we have a set time for the Gourmeltz meet-up on Saturday? Noon?
Noon works for me.
I think EvilSheldon said he would like to have it a little later?
I’m good for whenever, just put a new turbo on the truck, so I need to get some miles on her before I drive to PA next month.
Noon would be fine.
Then noon works for me.
Got to sleep with the windows open last night. Best sleep ever.
I once had an odd roommate with many interesting ideas, but fresh air was one of the correct ones.
High is in the low 70’s here today. windows at my house are open.
If the next day is going to be 80 or above, we will only open our windows at night if the low is below 60, in order for the house to get cooled down to outlast the next day. That doesn’t make sense when written out, but it does to me.
Anyway, 78 is supposed to be the high today and the house is at 70 right now, so we can last through it. The rest of the week is supposed to be 60s during the day.
I LOVE sleeping in the cold and all bundled up with my blankies. I also have to wear feet, but my feet are always cold, so that’s not unusual.
Do you get blue fingers?
No. I’ve got no circulation issues (I checked with a doc). Just cold feet.
Yesterday’s high was 88 here.
By Sunday the high will be 53. 😮
opposite here. High today of 58 but back into 80s on Sunday.
FALL IS COMING!!!! w00t!!!!
Today’s the first day we might keep the windows open all day, instead of closing up in the early am as it gets hot.
Despite growing scrutiny on costs, the agency revealed massively increased price tags for long-awaited projects, such as a $600 million increase in the cost of a new West Side 7 train station and a $4 billion increase in the cost of the next phase of the Second Avenue Subway.
They need a little more before they’re talking real money.
No peasants allowed
Senator Dianne Feinstein’s memorial service taking place on Thursday will now be closed to the public, according to officials from the late senator’s office.
“Due to increased security, tomorrow’s memorial service” is no longer open to the public, only guests with invites will be allowed to attend, according to the short press release.
Officials said that those who still wish to view the service are welcome to stream it online.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Sunday that he would appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Sen. Feinstein’s Senate seat.
Butler is the first openly LGBTQ+ person to represent California in the Senate.
Gotta get that queer cred in the story.
Re DF: Hilarious. I would do this too. If you opened it to the public maybe four people would show up. Instead, install security and force a bunch of government employees to show up for a photo op. Genius. Make it look like a big deal. Of course we all pay for it.
If she’s all of those things, then she probably is the first.
“LGBTQ+ person“
That reads as if xe is L and G and B and T and Q and +. Which I’m pretty sure is impossible.
use your imagination.
When I try, all I hear is the sound of Velcro. So I stopped.
But the border is secure.
Footage has been released of migrants wreaking havoc at the Southern Border last night near El Paso, first reported by @ElPasoYa
Rest assured: The border is completely secure according to the Biden White House.
In the clip, the migrants appear to be chanting “Si se puede” which means “yes, it can be done” or “yes you can.”
The number of migrant encounters at the southern border has already surpassed last year’s total as the president continues to ignore the crisis.
Shameful.
He and his admin are facilitating it.
Carnival mind reader and fortune teller
Ian Ward: You’ve written extensively about the history of the tea party movement and its aftereffects for the Republican Party. How does the vote to oust Speaker McCarthy fit into that history?
Theda Skocpol: Shortly into Barack Obama’s presidency, we saw this explosion of tea party demonstrations and a remarkable degree of grassroots organizing — a couple thousand local tea parties, according to our research. There was a lot of writing at the time claiming that this organization was motivated by the same thing that people now claim drives the Republican Party when they shut down the government — cutting the deficit. But it was never about cutting the deficit. The popular side of the tea party was about anger and fear of a changing country in which a guy with ‘Hussein’ as his middle name and black skin could be elected president. The tea party — especially at the grassroots — was trying to pressure the Republican Party and its elected leaders not to compromise with a changing country or with Democratic Party politicians in Washington.
I sense a deeply rooted fear and hatred.
That guy who totally turned out to not be a racist bigoted radical? That guy?
Huh. A Marxist arguing in bad faith.
The tea party movement started BEFORE Obama was president, so this person is an idiot.
The first tea party event was a Ron Paul fundraiser in late 2007.
I think those were the money bombs. The Tea Party movement is generally agreed to have been started by Rick Santelli’s rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange,