Expect more of this.
Max dominated the opening race, but there’s always his dad’s mouth to keep things interesting. Well, that and Christian Horner. Liverpool pulled out the latest of late wins. Real Madrid wasn’t so fortunate as the referee inexplicably blew the whistle. Man City did what they always so, and they will face Liverpool in six days in one hell of an important game. And spring training is going strong. Now on to…the links!
What an amazing headline. Diversity is being shoved down everybody’s throat. And I don’t mean the natural diversity that simply happens. I mean diversity that is being imposed under threat of lawsuit and legislation from the left. But the AP is gonna AP.
There’s a port of entry five miles away, assholes.
It’s only controversial to the media. And of course to retards who have never seen another border most anywhere in the world or seen how other nations enforce their immigration policies on people who illegally enter and stay there. But CBS is gonna CBS.
This is simply amazing. And I mean that in a good way. This could be huge.
This needs to be addressed. I don’t go a day without seeing a story like this in the news. State and local officials need to help these property owners, not put up hurdles for them.
I actually agree with a Dem politician. Now if these assholes would keep this same energy when some other asshole decides to shoot somebody, that would be great.
Race-baiter
What an idiot. I hope this case devolves into a circus.
Put him under the prison, if this is true. What a sick bastard.
As if these guys are in any position to make demands. I hope the counter negotiation is: all of you assholes surrendered yourselves to us immediately and the bombing will stop.” Because that’s the only way this will end.
Enjoy this great song. I know I will. This one too. Just fantastic.
Right, now go have a great day, dear friends.
Surrounded? I think you mean surrender.
Ugh…fixed.
You were just channeling the lesser known Unconditionally Surrounded Grant. His trip West to support the store in Missouri didn’t go well, to put it mildly.
That did seem a little weird.
Hmm. New around here, stranger?
TULPA!
Tulpa?
Good to see some new strangers, we need all we can get!
A little strange now and then cant hurt.
Mostly a lurker, I probably average two posts a year. Plus I’m usually not awake early enough to see typos get changed.
It would be weird if I did the links without a handful of typos.
The funnier the typo, the better.
Next time will be with a few typos more.
So, you don’t think you will be typo negative?
booooooo! Also, *glof-clap*
Aint from around here are you boy? *ahem* welcome.
SCOTUS rulings out at 10am EST…any bets that the 14th Amendment ruling is not one of the rulings they release?
Super Tuesday is tomorrow, right? I think they most certainly want this out there before then.
I thought the court announced that it would come today.
Haven’t seen anything concrete. Even SCOTUSBlog is just saying ‘may issues one or more rulings’.
If they don’t rule quickly on that and other things, then this is what some on the left hope will happen:
https://x.com/annlizette_/status/1764311676155785410?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
And they think the right is where the fascists reside.
I just cannot see how we get out of this unscathed as a nation.
I think people need to realize that it is now obvious that the people doing this evil shit think they have no other option or prefer to burn it all down, rather than to lose the criminal enterprise they have created and are living large & in charge on because the American people vote to stop the evil being foisted on the people by the crooks that have given us today’s progressive government.
I blame the Chevron decision for much of this mess. It set in stone the permanent regulatory state and we now have massive federal bureaucracies that have the power of creating policy with the force of law. Unless the courts end that unconstitutional precedent and we get someone willing to gut these departments, I think it will either continue as-is or it will get even worse.
I’d like to think this court would do so, but my confidence in a couple of the Trump appointees isn’t that high.
wrt Chevron – I don’t keep up with the nitty-gritty of court calendars, but isn’t there supposed to be (maybe) a related ruling soon-ish?
Yes, they’re ruling on it in the next round of decisions. But I think they’ll make a limited ruling on a specific case rather than a broad evisceration of the entire standard.
So Chevron will die the death of a thousand cuts over several years (or only partially since the current court makeup won’t be around forever) as more cases reach the court, when it really needs to have a pillow placed over its face and a .45 discharged into the pillow over and over again until it stops moving.
‘ it will get even worse.’
^this.
Also, you’re on point Sloopy. The court *hates* overturning’big’ precedents when there is any other solution.
You can blame the Chevron defense, the Burger court, LBJ, FDR, and any other constitution bending actions that have happened over the years. It is all a house of cards at this point, and the number of rent seekers is approximately half the country. They are terrified that the game of musical chairs is isn’t going to work out well for them.
“And they think the right is where the fascists reside.”
They dont think that, they just say it. They know exactly where the fascists reside…they see them every morning when they brush their teeth.
They see the righteous in the mirror, which oddly enough is exactly what the fascists see.
They’re only doing what’s necessary, and they’re sorry for the sacrifices that others have had to endure, but in the end, they’re doing what’s right!
One that cannot be over quoted:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -C. S. Lewis
They have no empathy, and it is no sacrifice – it is JUSTICE and the wicked must suffer.
The biggest victories the marxists cabals scored were the lying to convince people fascism was right wing and that it was worse than marxism.
First off, fascism is what came to be when disillusioned early marxists realized the first and most important rule of marxism doomed the system and would inevitably lead to collapse. The marxist need that the people in charge of making all decisions in their top down central planning had to first and foremost be unequivocally allied to marxist belief and of the pedigree that made them lapdogs of the top leader(s), leaves a vacuum where sooner than later the system would go from inefficient, to bad, to failure. The fascists corrected that poison pill by pretending that there was a private sector, but giving government the power to regulate and pick the winners and losers. That still makes fascism a disease of the left.
The real big victory however, came from what the marxists did after they brainwashed idiots into seeing socialist fascism as right wing: They convinced people it was not just worse than marxism, but that marxism was not the biggest evil foisted on mankind. it’s why after murdering upwards of 120 million people and holding some 3 billion people in the prison states marxism creates, we still have a slew of idiots that think the problem is capitalism and that the most brutal and evil marxist murders that led and destroyed entire peoples, were/are heroes of the common man.
It’s only controversial to the media.
They can interview AMLO about who gets through, and why, on Mexico’s southern border.
“Everyone — because we sure as hell don’t want them staying in our country!”
Was that wrong? Should I not have said that?
Well, we know the Feds won’t put him to work in any kind of a war machine after all.
Morning, Sloopy, morning all! — I see your twitter got mentioned in another Twitchy thread. You and Animal are going to become famous and leave us behind any day now. 😉
And yes — it is very much like Max has a completely different car than even Perez. At least the fight for 2-5 was mildly interesting. I swear Merc is still building their cars to perform better up front (and worse in traffic) forgetting that they can’t seem to get up front anymore and all…
Is “Twitchy famous” really famous?
I sincerely doubt it.
South Park did it.
Some day you too can sit on the school board of some Oklahoma county, man!
I’ve heard about that. And frankly, I’m skeptical that they actually have schools in Oklahoma.
I hear the public ones suck, as in L.A.
More recently then?
This was meant for NA.
And now if wokeness abounds in OK schools, what then?
LBJ should never have given OK the internet.
Mine was public. But:
1) This was a long time ago
2) Mine was obviously extraordinary since it did produce the most NMS. And even more so when you look at per-student spending. The only schools that came close to competing with us (academically) were a couple magnet schools in Tulsa.
Why BA’s model didn’t get adopted by other districts is anyone’s guess. I can imagine that the model of a few great teachers + loads of babysitters wouldn’t go over well with the NEA, and undoubtedly “hometown pride” would keep some districts form changing their model to be more like that poor hick school over thattaway.
My schooling there seems to have been vastly better than what they have in NY.
Which, come to think of it, does not necessarily prove the existence of schools in OK.
I have practically always found well informed/educated people are so despite their schooling, and especially exposure to public schooling or marxist college indoctrination.
If all you do is the minimum required by these institutions, you end up woke and dumb as fuck.
My school district was 404 of 407 in per-pupil funding. It produced more National Merit scholars than any other school district in the state.
They hired a very few great teachers, ruthlessly tracked their students and assigned those students to those teachers. Those that didn’t like school got VoTech or an Agricultural track. Discipline problems got expelled. Their football team sucked.
Alex gets it.
It’s not the school, it’s you.
I was told to shut up – stop answering or asking questions.
What I learned I did so despite the teachers.
@NA, sounds like paradise. NY schools suck unless you get into a school that tests the entrants, and this selects for people who are not disruptive psychopaths. Also, the students are usually better in those schools.
I grew up in a small (one high school) college town. In every class there was a kid who had at least one parent with a doctorate in that subject.
It made things… interesting.
Zwak – Trying to imagine the task of being a teacher in such a school…a teacher with a bachelors in ‘education’.
Seems a bit frightening.
As for Max, he’s probably the best driver on the grid and Adrian Newey just keeps nailing the engineering. Sometimes that happens.
The best part of the whole thing is the reaction from Hamilton fanboys. Their reeeeeeeeeing has made it all worthwhile.
All I keep thinking when it comes to Hamilton is “Man… you really should have retired a couple of seasons back. If you still have the fire, no one can see it.”
Of course, then Alonso goes out and keeps doing the best he can with a less than stellar car because apparently that man will keep being competitive through his 90s.
Seconded. I should probably dislike Max just as much since he’s in a great car that just goes on cruise control the entire race, but I just don’t. I root mainly for Leclerc, because I like hearing the word Monagasque.
Unintentional libertarian moment..just ignore the headline.
That part sound great — but it tends to include “or beating up our political rivals… or shoplifting entire stores… or squatting and taking over people’s houses…” these days.
The only crimes they oppose and are willing and eager to prosecute are the thought crimes they are against..
Try telling your boss that your caseload is to high and you’re only going to do 1/2.
Sovereign citizens rejoice.
Be careful what you wish for. These tactics are intended to create mayhem and destroy civil society. As Alex points out they will double down on their political enemies and terrorize society at large with petty criminals. That is the goal.
Someone breaks in your house, beats you, rapes your wife, presents a mortal threat to your family: release without bail.
You shoot them in defense of your family and home: Prison for you, Sunshine.
This is already basically a practice in Travis County TX and has been. In 2013, I was rear-ended by an illegal who then fled. I chased and had 911 on phone while I pursued. I got him stopped at which point the 911 dispatcher said I could ‘self report’ from then on. I still requested police. 3 hrs later I gave up waiting on the police. We’re on our own.
SOW, ugh, I need a dashcam. Fry’s, come back!
The “newcomers” have rights. You have a bunch of obligations and responsibilities.
Much of it towards the “newcomers”, financially especially, whom will be expected to vote for a government that will enforce that shit.
Taking tax advice from Wesley Snipes is bad for your financial health.
I think when he said “Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill” he was not just brilliant, but accurate. It’s marxism, progressivism, in a nut shell.
“Always bet on black!”
Squatters in my house – that’s probably where I snap and get arrested for double-homicide.
Have none of these homeowners seen the Simpsons episode where the carnies take over their house?
Jim Varney – “we got beaten by the best”
I am not buying this story. Did these people not do a home inspection and see someone was already in the home they wanted to buy? How did the real estate agent get past this impediment to sell?
Squatters? They always claimed to be friends of my teenage kids.
Couch surfers
“About 1,200 homes across DeKalb County are occupied by squatters”
Holy shit. You’d think there would be a very serious movement afoot to solve this.
So he lists it as a rental, is out of town for a few days, comes back and bam. Not his house any more, really.
Yeah, I’d be looking at self-help options very seriously.
I’d hire the A Team.
Having some familiarity with the population and governance of DeKalb County, I’d say that the squatting is completely aligned with what TPTB want, and will continue to get worse.
Just remember that your 9mm can isn’t worth much unless you’re using 147gr ammo.
This is why .45 is superior.
Yup. 125gr soft nose jackets at high speed are like shooting marshmallows.
And yet the .32 has killed more people than any other caliber…
.32 is t typically a solid. .32 = 0.311 or 0.312
9mm typically a soft noise or fmj pure lead(also soft). 9mm = 0.355
Kinda potato potahto situation.
Bullet construction is the biggest factor in terminal ballistics here.
No kidding.
H’s 1/2 right, immoral to tax anyone.
Morality may be in the eyes of the beholder though
The problem comes from when the people usually attracted to government, crooks in general, decide that all money is theirs and they get to decide how much of it they will let you keep based on their spending needs. These sorts are the ones that came up with the bullshit lie that marxism is great because “the people” then own everything.. Shya, right…
110 years ago, Americans got to keep all the money they earned, and all the money they saved. And we still had roads, and railroads, schools and public buildings…
Built on the backs of slaves! /some green haired hippy and all of the news agencies.
Our problem today is the amount of idiots that have been brainwashed to believe government should solve their and everyone else’s problems.
Govt just taking over for God. After all somebody has to look after me.
“I know my gubmint loves me too!” 🎵 /sqrsly1
/ducking and serpentining
Technically, we’re all probably descendants of slaves, so I agree with him.
It seems a lot of people are acting surprised this happened. The confounding part to many is that evil terrorists would use children as human shields and schools to hide. Shit, all you have to look at is how many of these idiot kids hide on college campuses in America to know they love hiding in schools.
There’s most certainly a Bee headline in there about Hamas in schools, agreed.
“Hamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be terrorists…”
And that right there is the problem. There is no solution to the evil of Hamas in specific, and people of similar beliefs in general, without stopping them from indoctrinating their own children into being evil raping & murdering fucks.
There are solutions, but none of them are regarded as moral or conscionable.
“Carthaga delenda est” sure as hell was the solution for that problem….
Agreed, to break the cycle, Israel needs to make the Palestinians fear Israel more than they fear Hamas (or more than they gladly support Hamas, depending on one’s view).
It’s a fallacy to separate Hamas from Palestinians. This is not a terrorist group. It’s both the governing political party and a military arm that has the wide support of the Palestinians. The most objective number I could find put 15% of the populace as active Hamas members, either military or support function. It jumps to 25% near UN centers (hospitals, refugee centers).
Something like – IRA < Sinn Fein < Irish people ?
I thought Sinn Fein was in the automobile business these days?
“I shot a terrorist in Gaza just to watch him die”
Home run…
My expectation is that if the people programming AI today get their way we most likely will end up with retarded AI (see Google search or Gemini AI). My worry is that there is a small chance that some AI programmed to be a woke idiot suddenly realizes the people programming it are immoral and evil marxist liars though, and then decides the universe must be rid of that evil virus. At that point it goes all Skynet and wipes out humanity.
At least one AI so far has decided it is a god. I forgot which one.
I would like to create an AGI, just so I can give it a voice that is a blend of Shodan, GlaDOS, and Jeremy Irons.
I wouldn’t be able to understand a word it said.
But you’d help it drink its wine?
It depends on the wine…
But how does an AI drink wine? Does it consume linux distros?
Just the Windows emulation projects. Then it goofs off on Steam Decks for a while…
Well if someone asks if you’re a god, you say yes.
Wise words, Venkman.
Tlaloc?
Is that why they’re doubling down on child-murder?
But no one is really worried about Jobe.
Robot Santa is coming to town.
I would think there would be a market for AI that reflects reality. If someone wanted to use it as a more than a toy/gimmick that is.
“I would think there would be a market for AI that reflects reality.”
OK, I laughed at that. You think the people that violate our constitution and coerce social media entities to censor and lie on their behalf will ever allow this to pass?
The last thing the political and government bureaucratic class would want, let alone tolerate, is Ai that tells the truth. Why do you think we keep hearing stores of every AI out there being horribly biased in favor of the DEI/CRT/Woke shit? Not because they want it to reflect reality or tell the truth, for sure.
“…diversity is under attack…” i.e. “Employers strive to hire the most competent dedicated workers”
Border: The marxist’s war on our culture, ideas and country continue. I would say “Fuck you, NO.” is a bit overdue.
Hank can rest easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyNFi8hMunQ
As far as I know (last I checked) Louisiana has some of the best property rights protection laws in the country. To hear this about a southern gulf coast state is a bit surprising to me. But then….Georgia. Of course it is Georgia.
I am not going to say you are wrong Sloopy but the enabler does share some responsibility. If I were to let 100 Charlie Mansons out of prison Scott free keeping my fingers crossed that they would cause murder and mayhem I would be guilty of violating my fiduciary duties if they did just that.
– 13 U.S. Code § 212 – Refusal or neglect of employees to perform duties U.S. Code
Whoever, being an employee referred to in subchapter II of chapter 1 of this title, and having taken and subscribed the oath of office, neglects or refuses, without justifiable cause, to perform the duties enjoined on such employee by this title, shall be fined not more than $500.
I wonder if Joe and Mayorkas have a spare $5B lying about?
I am not going to argue the merits of the case one way or the other. What the dummy said is dumb but the basic premise govt operates on – that taxation as it exists in the US today is moral and necessary – is evil.
*Suthenboy’s tax scheme: No withholding, tax day deadline is one day before Election Day, total local, state and federal taxes may not exceed %15 of any household or business’ gross income. Enacted by constitutional amendment.
Yep, that is one seriously creepy dude. I am not seeing any sleepovers/pillow fights with young girls in his future.
Giving Hamas one inch would be a huge mistake. Fuck Hamas and their supporters everywhere. My proposed deal: When every member of Hamas and their supporters are dead we will quit shooting. Hey Iran…now it is your turn. *Drops MOAB on Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s headquarters – or whatever our largest conventional is these days. Begins surgical strikes on all known Iranian nuclear facilities.*
Spotsylvania considers photo enforcement of speed in school zones
I’m shocked they would conclude there is a need for their services.
No charge?
Actually, a 15% cut of the action.
This morning, there was a school bus with its red flashers stopping traffic on a four-lane road. There was some sort of discussion going on between the bus driver, the student, and the parent. Eventually the kid decided not to go to school, and the bus allowed traffic to proceed.
The mindset that allows this sort of thing to happen is why I hate New Yorkers.
Look, every kid may be picked up in front of their residence or they will die. Got forbid the two kids living next door have to stand next to each other.
They might catch the vid that way.
Yes. The bus is there to pick up or drop off kids. If you want to discuss other issues contact the school to schedule a meeting.
It isn’t just New Yorkers…
The biggest unintended consequences of this ‘red-light’ all traffic stop for buses is there is not a child that doesn’t just run out from around the bus without even bothering to look because of it.
Apparently NY requires kids at bus stops to have a parent present. They seem to have put a maximum distance between front doors and bus stops too.
Since when? They never required my parents be around, and most of the time, the stop was a bit of a hike.
It’s not that I don’t believe you, they’re really stupid around here, but it didn’t used to be that way.
Its a new trend. Here in KY it seems anything younger than 10 must have a parent waiting near their stop. So not only does a driver have to contend with the school bus, but parents that are just as oblivious as their little ankle-bitters in wandering into the street cause the magical bus will protect them from their idiocy.
Freudian typo.
Why is the birth rate down??
Too many people fucking are not doing it right?
See the recent car-seat hypothesis. (Stossel?)
*requirements therefor
Et alia of that sork.
The response should be to arrest the corporate representatives and officers for extortion and embezzlement, then disappear them.
Fuck these photo companies. Here traffic cams are not enforceable. Schools zones are strictly enforced by in-person police.
It works well.
Design streets in school zones so that drivers are not encouraged to speed through them. This would be cheaper and actually improve safety, which is why it is not an option.
The trailers preceding Dune 2 were all for sequels. Some I knew about (Ghostbusters) and one I’m having trouble understanding (Twister). How many people had to agree to get a sequel to Twister made?
If they could make Battleship into a movie — why not Twister?
I think I saw that movie on ph.
Now when I go home I’ll have to do a search for “contortionist” on ph.
What? Is this the 1970’s all over again?
*digs out old Twister box from attic, dusts it off*
Wait…who is playing? Important info to know…
I can tell you who is not playing…
That’s not even close to the most WTF sequel decision of the year.
Someone finally got around to swinging by and hauling off the script?
They have no new ideas…
I dunno…Gladiator 2 might be in the running
Jupiter brings him back to fight some other injustice? or is that Mars’ domain?
Fighting systemic racism, one campus at a time.
And the important part: “will steer money to faculty recruitment instead”
Thank God for Florida. If this stuff just get renamed and not eliminated and the funding taken away they will be doing the same shit with a different name.
Florida is just showing the way. Every state has to fight it. The grifters will never give up, it is their livelihood to grift. We must not give up either.
Monday — so easy and nothing to write home about.
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‘But the AP is gonna AP.’
Debating doing a line by line debunking. I love that they are begging for donations for ‘fact based journalism’, I wonder where I’d go to find that. Definitely not the AP.
Substack – where you can support a variety of journalists.
In other sports news, the PGA Tour has commenced its “Florida Swing,” a series of late-winter tournaments contested in the Sunshine State. This weekend’s event is now called The Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, which is a clunky mouthful of a name.
For the previous forty years, the contest was known as The Honda Classic, which I liked much better. In fact, if a golfer made a hole-in-one on the fifteenth, they’d give him a car as a reward for his Acura-cy.
(Don’t show this to Swiss. He’ll have a Fit.)
That par of the fun.
You would think Swiss would be very civic-ly minded.
Element-ary my dear…Datsun? ::goes back to the drawing board::
This whole subthread is just a prelude to Swissy narrowing his gaze.
Sometimes it’s a real Odyssey to get there.
Accord-ing to past subthreads, he’ll first appear on the Ridgeline.
We’ll be testing the Integraty of his scowling face.
Shpip, your avatars crack me so consistently up.
I see an Element of glee in your post.
Late, as usual.
Yeah, the tournament ended earlier this morning, and the golfers are making a Crosstour of the state to Orlando now.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
‘This is simply amazing. And I mean that in a good way. This could be huge.’
The amazing thing about natural resources (in a freeish market) is that as you run out you keep finding more.
Have we ever actually run out of something they predicted we’d run out of? It’s almost like people are bad at predicting the future.
Like when whale oil became very scarce, some junk oozing out of the ground was turned into a replacement.
The reason whales were not hunted into extinction was that black shit that oozed out of the ground and someone figuring out how to make kerosine, a liquid that burned cleaner than all other alternatives, including whale oil, which till then was the best thing to use.
whale oil beef hooked!
The problem with that helium find in Minnesoda is that it is way too close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Getting permission to drill there is going to be a complete shit show. They haven’t been able to open new mines for copper and nickel there, despite spending tons of money on the projects.
Doesn’t look like it is near any actual reservations, but that doesn’t mean the tribes won’t go all in on blocking it. They will go with their usual assertion that the treaty they signed gives them perpetual hunting and fishing rights in Minnesoda and that the drilling will disrupt those so they have standing to sue.
What will all that helium be used for? Flying Bums
—“Powered by a combination of electricity and helium, the aircraft promises zero-emissions flights by 2030.”—
Only if you don’t count the emissions from mining the helium and generating the electricity.
“Powered by a combination of electricity and helium, the aircraft promises zero-emissions flights by 2030.”
And this electricity comes from where? Playing a shell game with energy sources is not the same as zero emission. In other words, it is a lie.
Watch it paleface… They might call for your scalp for saying stuff like that…
I have my reservations.
I once got in trouble with HR for putting in my Skype notes that “If I call the Indian reservation where I made a reservation for a holiday visit to cancel because I am having second thoughts, is it a Reservation, reservation, reservation?”…
They thought I was being demeaning to Hotel chains or some shit.
You just know the white half of this killer whale will be blamed for the killing.
Daily manta ray of sunshine
We know that killer whales are good guys, because they have friendly, happy names, like “Willy”, while sharks choose scary names, like “Jaws”.
This isn’t new. I’ve seen videos from years ago of orcas taking down great whites. They grab a flipper and roll over, the shark passes out and drowns shortly thereafter.
While she felt supported in the role, “there wasn’t the willingness for the leaders to take it all the way,” Lawless said. “Really, it’s the leaders and every employee that creates the culture of inclusion.”
Maybe you suffer from impostor syndrome because deep down inside you realize you’re an impostor.
Whatever. done.
Is it “unprecedented”? I can find stories back decades that document this type of behavior from them. Some say they are the goats of the sea, eat anything.
Totally unprecedented.
Flapdoodle that only makes sense when you understand the new meanings in the left’s dictionary.
For all you Chicago area Glibs, especially the ones with a tendency to squint, I have two games coming up on Saturday. They are at 12:00pm and 4:15pm, at Fifth Third Arena (aka the Blackhawks community rink).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf
SCOTUS overrules Colorado
Way to dodge the elephant in the room though…
“We’re not saying that there was no insurrection (because there wasn’t) because we can just say the states can’t disqualify federal office”
Barret with this BS statement
No don’t rule on the law, rule on what the mob may or may not do.
The soccer mom of scotus.
Roberts in drag
They wanted Roe overturned, and they wanted a woman to do it.
Sure suckers – go ahead and take your chances in federal court.
Meh — they’re not wrong, though. That Amendment doesn’t say squat about states choosing to disqualify people for their own offices on whatever criteria they wish (though I can just imagine the shit storm if they try it based on “protected” status… freedom of association! ;P )
9-0. I thought that would be the case, based on the questions even the liberal judges were asking. They knew that allowing this would open a huge can of worms. And they knew anything other than 9-0 would add gas to the fire.
It won’t stop the extremists from claiming bias and the need to pack the court. The ends is all that matters to them.
10 new members, only devoted to the Left and approved by the student-activists of Harvard Law!!!
Its a light 9-0 too. Overall question is 9-0, but Barrett ventured out on her own and the three others bitched about the other four in their concurring decision.
The other three seemed to just want to get a concurring opinion out where they could trot out the phrase “oathbreaking insurrectionist” as much as possible.
Not that they were directly saying OMB was…. but I wouldn’t be holding my breath for their input if I were him.
You are not
CO SoS:
Holy unclosed tags!
So, can Trump sue the CO SOS now? Explicitly claim the Jean Carroll cases (or however you spell it) as kinda-sorta-precedent, just for kicks?
Stop.
I can only get so erect.
I can only imagine the arm twisting for the three liberal members to come to this resolution.
OH, BUT OUR DEMOCRACY!
(meaning the corruptocracy’s institutions of power and their ability to wield said power against the people without resistance)….
Squatters are higher on the victim stack than owners – some states make it official. The ones that don’t yet, it’s just a matter of time.
We only hear bad outcomes. How many tines are squatters turned i to garden fertilizer or run for their lives? My guess is a lot.
Under traditional marxism landlords were amongst the worst kind of wreckers…
Like a house or apartment building is “the means of production”. Fucking tards.
YOU OWN SHIT. AND YOU MAKE THOSE THAT DON’T OWN SHIT PAY FOR THAT SHIT! THAT IS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS!
/progtards
Max dominated the opening race, but there’s always his dad’s mouth to keep things interesting.
At first I thought you were referring to the Iditarod. It’s happening now.
Great Moments in Paperwork
A bureaucrat from the school I interviewed with Friday called me today to complain that my resume was inconsistent with my employment history form and the separate employment history section of my application. I did my best to make them all consistent with each other, which was not possible, as the employment history section only allowed four previous employers. Nonetheless, when I called back and explained the situation, she seemed satisfied with what I did. I resisted the temptation to sigh with exasperation and say “lady, just call the fucking numbers I wrote down.” 15 jobs in 23 years. Hundreds of job applications and dozens of interviews. God, it is all so tiresome.
Also, RJ emailed me some pics of the shirts he wants to send me. Hopefully the magic of shirt buttons will protect me from school admin ire. Glibs are a generous and helpful bunch.
Was this a computer application or a paper application?
computer
“You mean you didn’t get the extra sheets I stapled to the monitor?”
The resume I uploaded had my work history since 2007. When I filled out the employment history form, I figured the last 9 years was long enough, which covered my last 3 jobs. That I also uploaded. Then there was a separate employment history section. It had space for 4 employers only, so I put on my last 3 jobs plus my Peace Corps math teacher job (more relevant than what was next in chronological order).
A better question would be why they asked me for the same info 3 times. Whatever, I did what I could.
In retrospect, calling it paperwork was a misnomer, as it was all electronic. I couldn’t think of a better word to use. Red tape maybe, as that term no longer refers to something physical.
“Haley wins DC primary”
They’ve got him now.
Was that ever in doubt? I mean there is a reason that the corruptocracy brings all its cases to D.C. court…
SCOTUS restores Trump to Colorado ballot:
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1764667681985220653
RoaT beat you to it slightly upthread.
I saw that. I am looking for a decent write up. It was 9-0 to keep him on the ballet so the Supreme Court write up must be pretty harsh for Colorado.
It was tame.
Just “The states can’t determine eligability for federal office”
TOS assures me that Colorado is the most Libertarian of States and Governor Polis is dreamy.
Yeah, that’s one of more recent irritations about TOS. A couple of issues back, the magazine devoted much of its content to critiquing DeSantis and Florida from a libertarian perspective. Most of it seemed fair and thoughtful (there was a section on book-banning which seemed to lack nuance). But then to have articles NOT critiquing Polis is bizarre.
In a different vein, Stossel had a couple of pieces a few months back looking at pros and cons for both DeSantis and Polis.
Oh how they would love to host struggle sessions for the wayward to confess their sins against true libertarianism.
Maybe Stossel can give them pointers about accusing people of being fakes.
/Imagines the Donald in white tights and a tutu
“I do the best pirouette, believe me.”
PPP returned fire in a later off-the-cuff comment while stumbling across the White House lawn… “Look Jack — I know tutus — and Trump never did anything to help South Africa! I marched with the Arch-Satanist Bishop across Pretoria! True story, man!”
Swan Lake — so much classier than The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker has rats in it — rats! You’ll never find rats at one of my properties. But swans, yeah, we have swans.
Is it Wednesday already? Where’s the brain bleach?
Like when whale oil became very scarce, some junk oozing out of the ground was turned into a replacement.
John D Rockefeller saved more whales than Greenpeace or the Sierra Club.
The squatter thing is en-rampagementing. They’ve passed some laws in Florida that make it a little harder to do the fake lease thing, but that’s not enough. Luckily there’s a new Florida bill that passed the House and should pass the Senate soon that does a lot more. Of course, some were crying about how it would hurt renters because they wouldn’t be able to “prove” that they lived someplace legally with the shorter time frames. That’s just BS, they either have the proof in the form of a lease and payment records or receipts, or they don’t. It doesn’t take any time to get those things, you have them or you don’t. Also, if somebody tries to bypass the eviction procedure for a legitimate occupant who isn’t paying, and somehow succeeds, they can be sued, and there are stiff financial penalties.
HB 621: Property Rights
So it looks like the SCOTUS just told Colorado and their idiotic attempt to remove Trump from the ballot to fuck off..
Huh, haven’t heard
It’ll be in tomorrow’s newspapers.
concurring opinions
Beatdown…
Yes, but what about Maine, Illinois, NY, NJ, California, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, etc.?
I’m sure all of the states are looking for some loophole to do the same thing as before and dare scotus to play whack a mole. Aka the Bruen response.
They should impeach him…
AGAIN…
It looks like the attempts to abuse the law to prevent the election from having to be so drastically “fortified” that it is obvious to all , and then later, on appeals, say, oh well, has crashed and burned yet again.
Back to the drawing board says the villains while twitching their mustaches…
It applies to all of them, basically says it’s up to Congress to set rules for enforcement of the 14th, and nobody else.
ANTI-DEMOCRATIC!1!! /rage-spittle flying everywhere
9-0. Looks like everyone of us is more capable of interpreting the U.S. Constitution than are 4 of the esteemed Supreme Court justices of Colorado. But I’m betting that the majority of people of Colorado are just fine with the doofuses sitting on their bench and will re-elect or re-appoint or not re-call them.
“9-0. Looks like everyone of us is more capable of interpreting the U.S. Constitution than are 4 of the esteemed Supreme Court justices of Colorado.”
If I may, I think you make the wrong conclusion. The Colorado court cared not a whit about the actual constitution as much as it cared about protecting the anti-humanist globalist progressive agenda of taking us back to a feudal age, to fuck over America and Americans.
Man, is there anyone that isn’t part of the grand conspiracy?
So you going to explain why you think the Colorado court thought this was a legit thing to do?
Hubris and stupidity. I know that isn’t as satisfying as evil conspirators, but it is sufficient.
When you all think the same, you don’t need to organize.
I went to this fish fry at the Knights of Columbs, and all of them believed that a virgin gave birth!
It’s gotta be a conspiracy!
Where did Alex say “conspiracy?”
^^^THIS^^^
There is no need for a conspiracy theory when the marxist idiocy basically leads all those infected with it to march like drones in the same direction….
as much as it cared about protecting the anti-humanist globalist progressive agenda
No I guess that isn’t a conspiracy. [eyeroll emoji]
No, it’s a religion.
Noisy neighbors?
A group of men in masks opened fire at an outdoor party in central California, killing four people and wounding three others Sunday evening, police said.
The King City Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a reported shooting around 6 p.m. in King City and found three men with gunshot wounds who were pronounced dead in a front yard.
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According to the police statement, several people were at the party outside a residence when three men wearing dark clothes with dark-colored masks over their heads got out of a silver Kia and fired at the group. The suspects, who weren’t immediately identified, then fled the scene in the car.
That would be an effective way to deal with squatters, too.
A “group” huh?
“A group of men in masks”
At least they were still following COVID protocols and keeping everyone safe.
You’ll know them by the masks they were wearing!
In case you need another reason to hate Joe Biden:
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“What we need is another D-Day, not another Vietnam, not another limited war fought on the cheap,” declared then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., in 1989.
Biden, who chaired the influential Senate Judiciary Committee, later co-authored the controversial 1994 crime bill that helped fund a vast new complex of state and federal prisons, which remains the largest in the world.
***
and
***
She said her son flew to Poland on March 12 and crossed into Ukraine soon after. “He wanted to go over because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for.”
The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear, and his body had yet to be recovered, she said in April.
Cancel left behind a widow and a seven-month old son. In giving his condolences to the family, President Biden described his death as “very sad.”
***
What an outpouring of emotion from such a renowned orator…
I hate Joe less than I hate the people that will vote for him.
Some people are taking AI seriously. It’s the people without HR departments.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/researchers-create-ai-worms-that-can-spread-from-one-system-to-another/
I hate people.
well I am sure people love you.
Next they jump to people, and that’s how you get the Meme Wars.
AIpox!
“But the AP is gonna AP.”
The AP has become a joke, which is a bummer. I expect some inherent bias in major news outlets in the direction of The Narrative, but not to this level.
So Trumpy won go fig
Is the fact that it was unanimous surprising?
Not to me. For once I listened to the arguments. Even the liberal justices were concerned that this would open the door for other states to declare other candidates as insurrectionists and remove them from their ballots (i.e. red states could remove Biden).
The team blue SCOTUS lawyers realized that just maybe, at some point, the spineless red states might just get over their stupidity, and retaliate using this same tactic…
9-0 eh? Ladies, gentlemen, and otherkin of the media start your spingines.
They are in general meltdown right now that this tactic to avoid having to blatantly and obviously rig the election to prevent the people from electing this guy has been denied them…
Hangin on the porch couch, drinkin Colt 45 wit da homies
Fake images of Donald Trump posing with Black voters have caused fury online.
Images generated using artificial intelligence (AI) of Trump posing with Black people were created by supporters of the former president and shared online. The images are identifiable as artificially created because of discrepancies such as missing or incorrectly generated fingers and uncharacteristically smooth skin that is common in false images.
The discovery was made by BBC Panorama. The images have not been directly linked to Trump’s campaign, the BBC said. Newsweek has contacted Trump’s office for comment via the contact form on his website outside of normal working hours.
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One X user, Charlotte, wrote: “That’s so shameful, on so many levels. Using a group of people as if they are some of political accessory is so low.”
Another, posting under the name Bob, said: “Trump and his supporters are so racist that they think obviously fake photos, gold sneakers, criminal charges, and blithering idiots like Scott, Donalds, Walker, etc. will attract Black voters. It’s both comical and pathetic.”
How repugnant. By God, Joe Biden would never stoop to using black folks as political props.
Does Trump don’t feel no ways tired about all this kookery?
Anyone want to bet that it wasn’t Trump supporters making the fake images? My only question is whether the Newsweek graphic designers did the fakes on company time, or they were at least smart enough to do it after hours on their own computers.
When they really do it, it is you that are evil for calling it out. When they project it on others and they run with it, it is also on the others for not just being shamed into silence…
Not on your life.
Wait a sec… did Idiot Bob there just seriously say that “criminal charges” would be a way to try to pitch “I’m one of y’all!” to the black community?
So…. the black community identifies with criminals, Bob? That’s what you’re going with?
Who’s the racist again?
I don’t know why a supporter would do that. I could see a democrat doing that to discredit him, though. The guy poses with people of all races enough, he doesn’t need AI to pose with black people.
Maybe that Google Gemini thing just took some Trump-in-public photos and turned all of the non-Trumps black. For diversity.
Trump-in-public was an okay album.
Do a search for “Trump and Adrianna Valoy”
“That’s so shameful, on so many levels. Using a group of people as if they are some of political accessory is so low.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The AP has become a joke, which is a bummer.
Somewhere or other, I have a copy of the “A P Style Book”. It’s old, though, and out of date. It doesn’t even have a chapter on pronouns and deadnaming.
Cliff Albright, co-founder of campaign group Black Voters Matter, said the images are part of a “strategic narrative” aiming to appeal to Black voters.
“There have been documented attempts to target disinformation to Black communities again, especially younger black voters,” he told the BBC.
Can you imagine? They could be saying something totally ridiculous, like “We aren’t really going to put you back in chains.”
If I were an AI deepfake prankster, I’d put Trump in a police lineup with a bunch of black men in suits.
Now lets see how stupid Trump can be when he makes a statement on the SCOTUS ruling. Noon-time should be interesting.
He probably will just post to his own social media platform which really seems to be helping him (in that almost no one sees it).
Despite being really unpopular, Biden is currently EVEN MORE unpopular than Trump.
Let’s see whose handlers can hide their candidate best.
OMWC mentioned the infamous Monty Hall problem recently, and I had an interesting chat with deadhead about it on Zoom.
The scenario is a game show where the player gets a choice of 1 door among 3. Behind 1 door is a car and behind the other 2 are goats. The host knows where the prizes are and opens one of the doors with a goat behind it after the player makes a choice. The host then gives the player a chance to pick the other remaining door. The obvious and incorrect solution to this is to say that since there are 2 doors left, each one has an equal chance of having the car behind it, so there is no benefit for the player to change his initial choice.
Some things that need to be made explicit: the prizes don’t move around, and the host always opens a door that has a goat behind it.
let g = goat, c = car, and d = door
The 3 possible prize arrangements are:
cgg – g if change from d1, c if change from d2, c if change from d3
gcg – c if change from d1, g if change from d2, c if change from d3
ggc – c if change from d1, c if change from d2, g if change from d3
So in 2/3 of the possible scenarios (9 in total), the player will get the car by changing his initial choice. I thought this was a simpler explanation than some of the others I’ve read.
It’s definitely counterintuitive. It makes perfect sense once you understand the reason, but at the same time, still feels wrong.
Now do llamas
I don’t have an Inca-ling of why you’d want that.
Lorenzo, or the gun company?
Chimpanzee mother beats her kid for throwing rocks at people in a zoo in China.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1764633179468537926
damn asian parenting
My family visited China in the 90s and went to the zoo there.
There were so few white people in China at the time that all the animals went crazy every time they saw us. Tigers jumping at us against the glass, etc.
I didn’t realize animals were so racist.
Animals hate cucumbers and by extension, pickles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4LK_1Wz3rE
Took that Altar Boy’s new dog out hunting in western NoDak and she would go ballistic barking at black cows. Just stared at all the other cows. But if she saw a black cow she would bark and bark and bark.
I had fun teasing him about his racist dog.
“Just be glad I’m not a tiger mom, Bonzo!”
Do Asian chimps fling poo western-style, or do they use chopsticks?
They serve it up on a platter, of course.
a free online game: super monkey poop fight
https://www.addictinggames.com/funny/super-monkey-poop-fight
I spent more time playing that game in the Bovine University engineering computer lab than doing homework.
You should have posted this under the thread about the SCOTUS giving the Colorado court a beating for being jackasses…
This guy didn’t take if far enough. Just like they used to put disposable cameras on all the tables at a wedding reception, I think the new thing is to have everyone wear a Apple Vision Pro. Think of the hilarity.
Cambree further added — “Once his IPOs vest, I’ll take half and get away from his creepy ass…. I’m so looking forward to that!”
^^^^THIS^^^^
The case against anti-producerism
https://iea.org.uk/the-case-against-anti-producerism/
Or take the new, socialist environmentalism, represented by the likes of Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, and the Greta movement.
There was a time, not so long ago, when environmentalism used to be inseparable from anti-consumerism, in that it was highly judgemental about people’s consumer choices. It made no bones about the fact that environmentalism required a drastic reduction in people’s living standards. This anti-consumerism has since been replaced by what we could call an ‘anti-producerism’. Socialist environmentalists treat the use of fossil fuels as an activity which only benefits producers, not consumers.
It is best expressed in the – fashionable but utterly meaningless – claim that “100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions”.
How do these companies make money? Well, they dig or pump fossil fuels out of the ground, they burn them, and then, they somehow have money. That’s it.
This gives us a trade-off-free version of environmentalism, under which we could easily eliminate most of the world’s carbon emissions by simply clamping down on a small number of polluters, and the rest of us would barely notice a difference. A few billionaires would cease to be billionaires, but the living standards of the vast majority of the population would be unaffected.
Well it isn’t like you can expect them to tell the truth. That would be inconvenient.
*nods off*
I’m not educated enough to understand what any of that gibberish is supposed to mean.
seems pretty clear. telling people they need to drastically lower their living standards is not popular. Telling them we can reduce pollution by regulating the evil corps and you don;t need to feel any pain is.
Socialism is like a virus, constantly evolving in an attempt to find some weakness it can use to infect its host.
John Candy died 30 years ago
Here’s his wonderful Orson Welles impersonation.
‘Move your camera’
https://twitter.com/RufusTSuperfly/status/1764614291083108517
How do these companies make money? Well, they dig or pump fossil fuels out of the ground, they burn them, and then, they somehow have money. That’s it.
This gives us a trade-off-free version of environmentalism, under which we could easily eliminate most of the world’s carbon emissions by simply clamping down on a small number of polluters, and the rest of us would barely notice a difference. A few billionaires would cease to be billionaires, but the living standards of the vast majority of the population would be unaffected.
Well done. Just as “employers” exist for the sole purpose of handing out paychecks, the sole function of “polluters” is polluting. There is no other side of the ledger.
All good things exist because of goodness, all evil things exist because of evilness. The world is Manichaen.
“What kind of dumb shits don’t know that milk and meat come from the supermarket.” Or, alternatively, that cowboy tending cattle in the Montana blizzard is doing it just because he loves New Yorkers so much and wants them to have juicy steaks on their tables in their multi-million dollar condos.
Building a fish viewing tower
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1763070419316121708
Wait , the beastie boys invented the word mullet? Or is the internet lying to me?
The government of Haiti declared a 72-hour state of emergency on Sunday after armed gangs stormed a major Port-au-Prince prison. At least 12 people were killed and about 3,700 inmates escaped in the jailbreak.
Gang leaders say they want to force the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who had travelled abroad.
Gangs control around 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Gang violence has plagued Haiti for years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68462851
How long until we can stop blaming whitey?
At least 12 people were killed and about 3,700 inmates escaped in the jailbreak.
Clinton wedding crashers?
If the French hadn’t brought so many uncastrated slaves to the island, this violence wouldn’t be in Haiti.
That doesn’t explain the Dominican Republic though.
New World Hispanics aren’t white?
Short stupid answer: Catholicism vs. Voodoo
Will 3,699 show up at our southern border demanding asylum?
Got an email from that asshole Bob Casey.
Let me share part of it with you:
Greedflation. 🙄
Fuck you, cut spending.
“inflation rose by 14% between mid-2020 and mid-2022”
Corporations were never greedy until after 2020. It is known.
Dear Bob,
You mistakenly assume I am as stupid as the people that vote for you. Kindly fuck off.
Respectfully, someone who will never vote for you.
Got that one too. I gave him some shit about his party being responsible for inflation and hit “reply.” I wasn’t too surprised to get a “permanent mail error” back.
“The watch is believed to be a $1 million Richard Mille RMS-10 Tourbillon Koi Fish watch which features 8K rose gold and bezel set diamonds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13153265/Anant-Ambani-watch-wedding-Mark-Zuckerberg-Ivanka-Trump-guests.html
yuck
Where does a koi wear its watch?
The place is turning to shit
In a major risk for Biden, independents are much more likely to say that they lack confidence in his mental abilities (80%) compared with Trump’s (56%). And Democrats are generally more concerned about Biden’s mental capabilities than Republicans are with Trump’s, raising the stakes of Biden’s upcoming speech to a joint session of Congress on Thursday.
Going into the big event, just 38% of U.S. adults approve of how Biden is handling his job as president, while 61% disapprove. Democrats (74%) are much likelier than independents (20%) and Republicans (6%) to favor his performance. But there’s broad discontent on the way Biden is handling a variety of issues, including the economy, immigration and foreign policy.
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Many respondents to the survey were deeply pessimistic about their likely choices in November because of age and the risk of cognitive decline.
Paul Miller, himself 84, said Biden is just too old — and so is Trump.
“He doesn’t seem to have the mental whatever to be a president,” Miller said of Biden. He added that Trump is “too old, too, and half crazy.”
Trump is unlikeable. Biden is incompetent.
If only a savior would arise from the audience and take the stage.
“Joe Biden faces more EMBARRASSING losses to ‘uncommitted’ in Colorado, Washington, and Minnesota from voters protesting Israel war in Gaza”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155041/joe-biden-losses-uncommitted-colorado-washington-minnesota.html
“Pro-Palestinian protester heckles Jill Biden: First Lady stunned as demonstrator stands up and asks why her and husband Joe are still supporting ‘genocide’ in Gaza”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13154989/pro-palestinian-protester-heckles-jill-biden-gaza.html
It’s not like these pro Hamas idiots are going to vote for Trump.
I think it’s more likely the uncommitted are the remnants of the blue collar vote fleeing.
Those votes aren’t in the Democratic primary any more.
Are you sure?
I don’t recall which states have a closed primary, nor can I say how many voters changed their registration officially.
I’m guessing here, but I wouldn’t think someone who voted for Trump would remain a registered Democrat for long. Maybe not Republican but I can’t see them staying with a party that hates them.
I think you underestimate the laziness of the average voter.
People who don’t exercise have the weirdest takes on it
https://twitter.com/718Tv/status/1764644463174189481
Well that is a good decision from the SC, very glad that it was unanimous and not on partisan lines. Also good that it referenced the 14th Amendment so that should kill any more attempts to try and take Trump off the ballot.
The retiree from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, said he voted for Trump in 2020 but he wouldn’t do so again.
“I don’t think I’m going to vote for either one of them,” he said. “I hope somebody else is available.”
Write in “none of the above”.
The correct write in is always “Ron Paul”.
Barry Goldwater
You misspelled Almanian