Morning one and all to another exhilarating day!
Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts in gun trial
Hunter Biden still has legal troubles ahead as House Republicans call for more accountability
Judge Cannon Rejects Trump Request in Classified Documents Case
Biden Freezes During Juneteenth Event at White House
In shocking litmus test, FBI security inquiry tried to unmask employee’s Trump support, memos show
Bad News for “Gig Economy” Companies As 9th Circuit Upholds California’s AB5
Elon Musk Threatens to Ban Apple Devices over AI “Spyware” Integration
Democrat Leaders Arrested on Charges of Election Fraud in Connecticut
Federal Judge Overturns Key Parts of Florida Ban on Transgender Procedures For Minors
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Good morning Spicers!
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
The spice is life!
A smiling Buster Keaton?
All *3* counts, not thirty-four felonies like Trump was convicted of. Also, the judge in Hunter’s case was Trump appointed, and only worked in civil law prior to becoming a judge.
Hunter was in clear violation of an established law, no novel theories to try to shoehorn in some obscure theory to create a novel, never-before seen “felony”.
In any case, I’m sure Hunter will get a stern admonition and probation.
The felony business records laws isn’t all that novel. The novelty was applying it in absence of the predicate felony charge.
Totally.
I am just giving you the AP news spin.
“Hold still, pig! Lipstick don’t hurt you!”
The business records laws are misdemeanors, on which the statute of limitations had already expired. It can only become a felony if there is proof that there was actual fraud committed in furtherance of another felony crime. They decided that election fraud (or maybe something else, jury didn’t have to agree on what, and FEC said no election fraud anyway when they looked into it) was another crime that magically created 34 felonies out of entering a payment to an attorney as a legal expense.
That’s pretty fucking out there as far as novelty goes, since nothing even remotely similar has ever been charged previously.
Yeah, I would say the assumption of an undisclosed underlying felony in order to kick the charges up to felony pretty much turns due process on it’s ear is what makes it such a sham trial, amongst other things like Bobby D. showing up on behalf of Biden to deride Trump and the DNC hiring the judges kid for some no-show job. I didn’t see Kevin Sorbo or Kirk Cameron (is that really the best conservatives can do?) at Hunter’s trial.
Kevin Sorbo or Kirk Cameron (is that really the best conservatives can do?)
James Wood or Adam Baldwin?
Federal Judge Overturns Key Parts of Florida Ban on Transgender Procedures For Minors
Is it “you and what army” time yet?
No because conservatives are pussies.
It is hard for people deeply committed to rule of, and respect for the, law to suddenly veer off into revolt against it. Jefferson: “all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
Remember, most of these cases end up with parental consent (granted not necessarily well informed consent).
It is hard for people deeply committed to rule of, and respect for the, law to suddenly veer off into revolt against it.
Of course the Democrats are hard at work destroying the rule of law and replacing it with naked will to power.
Well lets face it – that is the natural governance of mankind. Rules that inhibit the capricious punishment of enemies – damn, where is the fun in that?
And of course that is the sort of shit the second amendment was actually intended to address, which is why the government has been so Hell-bent on neutering it.
An article on how republicans became so comfortable would be great. Did it start with Ike? Reagan? Earlier? At some point they became “Progressives in the slow lane.” I personally suspect the Bushes of making this happen. Maybe because I despise them both.
Just for you RJ. I feel the same. Note the author.
The George Bush Century
The 41st president’s life set an example for a divided country.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-george-bush-century-7f4c62d0?st=46l4d1q1bwwr4sg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
At some point they became “Progressives in the slow lane.”
They were the OG progressives. Ever since Teddy Roosevelt. The democrats took the mantle in the late 1800s and ran with it, quickly stripping out the religious underpinnings that the original progressives had.
Also, it’s worth remembering that the bulk of the 20th century was heavily Democrat at the national scale, which created this “lovable loser” trope. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Combined–Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png)
RJ – Ike over Taft was indeed a watershed. Remember, both parties were open to Ike – he could choose. The internationalist (and strongest anti-communist) Republicans hated Taft. He wasn’t on board with the Wilsonian project. Reagan failed to live up to his rhetoric (after all, we still have the Dept of Education) – but he was more committed to a realignment of govt than Ike was. Ike was completely good with conserving the New Deal.
Ike was the epitome of country club republicanism. Worked his entire life in big gov and thought there was nothing wrong with it.
Ike’s austerity programs ground military promotions to a halt. The EM, 5s and above, were disappointed. He also made some rules, one I remember was scotch whisky had to go to the US first and then transshipped with duties being paid. Prior to that we were getting it directly from the overseas bottler/distributor and it was much, much cheaper. Officers hardest hit.
The idea that the New Deal was a bad deal wasn’t even a glimpse in someone’s eye until Goldwater came around, and was solidly defeated. Both R’s and D’s were on board, and still a lot of R’s are right there with it. Hell, the whole world was in support of the idea of Big Gov’t. We are only seeing action on this now as the whole shebang is teetering. If it was still delivering, we wouldn’t hear a peep from the likes of Trump, Orban, etc.
Biden “freezing” up is normal. What the fuck is going on with his face? Botox injections?
Looks like it. He’s just a giant cocktail of drugs, just like his son.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBuXyi_-t54
System updates.
Looked like he needed to be turned off and rebooted.
Microsoft stopped running updates for Biden ’98 about 15 years ago.
He wasn’t freezing up. He was thoughtfully contemplating the importance of civil rights, and how St. George of Floyd died for our original sin of racism.
Election fraud is a right wing myth!
With mail-in ballots. But see, the rare cases like these juts prove the rule.
Savor that it was blue-on-blue cheating at that.
The fraud took place in 2019. It took them until mid-2024 to complete the investigation? The beneficiary of the fraud has almost completed his term at this point.
The employee’s security clearance was revoked months after the interviews, which confirmed his support for Trump and gun rights and his concerns about the COVID vaccine, according to the documents obtained by Just the News.
Three for three!
I wonder if, he had not done one of those things, like attended 2nd amendment rallies, would he still have his security clearance.
Well, there’s definitive proof for anyone who cares to look that the three-letter agencies are run by Democrat operatives, and act as the Democrat’s Praetorian guard.
We can’t have disloyal Stasi Agents.
Part of the problem is that the left no longer can distinguish, if it ever could, between political questions where there’s room for debate and questions of basic morality. There’s no room for debate left.
For the left politics is morality, basically an actual fanatical religion where heretics must be ostracized and destroyed.
Yup. Any departure from the Dominant Culture’s demands-of-the-day is immoral. If you are looking for why the culture war divide is so deep and bitter, that’s it. There’s no live-and-let-live possible at this point.
R C Dean:
The part that gets me is the blatant contradictions and reversals that are just memory holed after the fact.
Mix of willing collaboration and intimidation makes the mainstream media incredibly compliant with the memory-holing.
A nice ray of sunshine.
A Man, His Land Rover and a 20-Year Mission to See Every Corner of His Country
Diego Rosselli set out to visit each of Colombia’s 1,103 municipalities, battling bumpy roads and breakdowns – but gaining a loyal fan club along the way.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/land-rover-road-trip-colombia-diego-rosselli-648383ab?st=agrodcpkznfxs81&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I saw a documentary on Colombia’s natural beauty. It is a stunning country with a lot more to offer than steamy jungles. Too bad it’s the world’s deadliest armpit or they could have a booming tourism industry.
I was there in the late 90’s for a month or so and it was fantastic. The people were great as well, in the one month I was invited to stay at two different houses, one a shack in a favela in Cali, the other a nice apartment in Bogata. I wasn’t surprised that it has become a much bigger tourist destination, although I see that lately there have been a number of crimes against the contingent of expat dudes who have discovered that Colombia also has amazing natural riches in incredibly hot women.
Followed by, naturally, this:
Warren Bill Would Jail Buyout Execs Whose ‘Looting’ of Hospitals Caused Death
Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls for sentences as long as six years for private-equity executives whose dealings put excessive pressure on a hospital’s finances, resulting in a patient’s death
I have just about zero love for either PE or a large swath of healthcare executives, but JFC.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-bill-would-jail-buyout-execs-whose-looting-of-hospitals-caused-death-ffec140d?st=83f9zs5lnusyxn5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That should have no adverse effects on investment in hospitals and health care corporations.
A few “Alternate Investments” and the bill will quietly go away
I don’t remember the articles celebrating the USCGA Commandant being trans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-deep-moral-rot-coast-guard-leader-grilled-by-senators-at-hearing-on-sexual-assault-cover-up/ar-BB1o3dBo
I don’t think I’ve ever been so put off by an act of fellatio.
What reference class do you assign to Bulwark writers?
Three levels of professionalism removed from Winston’s Mom.
Wowza. Everything about that is not only nonsensical bullshit, force-fed through The Algorithm to fellate Biden, it’s terribly written. The latter adds to the desperation of the former obligation.
Not fellatio, that there is coprophilia.
Out of control
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Tuesday said they will be introducing legislation in response to the increased ethics concerns related to the Supreme Court.
Ocasio-Cortez and Raskin, who serve as the ranking and vice-ranking members, respectively, on the House Oversight Committee, were part of a committee roundtable Tuesday regarding these concerns. They explored various “avenues” for holding Supreme Court justices accountable, they told MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes.
“And so, it is not a question…of if Congress has jurisdiction and power over the Supreme Court. It is, what power are we going to exercise in order to rein in a fundamentally unaccountable and rogue court?” Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday night.
Democracy in action.
🙄
I’d love for them to articulate what makes the justices “rogues.” At least when I throw hyperbolic vitriol at my political enemies, it makes sense and I can fall back on the actual text of the nation’s founding documents. What the fuck does AOC have?
They do extra damage when attacking from behind, plus they have Fan of Knives.
Please don’t add ‘attacking from behind’ and ‘Fan of Knives’ to their AOC fetish.
“Daaaaaamn. It’d take an awful-lot of Butterface to make me NOT wanna fuck her.”
“Don’t worry. There’s a whole position for that if she is for ya.”
They stopped bending over and inventing leftist “rights” the way the court did for the previous half century or so.
Bingo. No “positive rights” out of the blue.
“Congressman Raskin and myself will be introducing forthcoming legislation to even have the Supreme Court be subject to the same $50 gift rule that he and I are subject to, as everyone else who are members of Congress,” she added later.
How about insider trading?
I so hope they pass this so that the SC can rule that the law is unconstitutional.
The reaction from AOC and friends will be awesome.
The same $50 gift rule that allows 7 figure advances on books that don’t sell? 5 and 6 figure payments for short speeches? That rule?
Get back to me when they ban stock trading for members of Congress.
Article 3 says:
“In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
“Under such Regulations as the Congress shall make” is, under current application of such things, quite broad. Congress could presumably even create an agency to “manage” the judiciary.
Just like “shall not be infringed” really means we can make any police-power we like over this because COMMERZE!!!
Of course they are out of control, rogue if you will. That is what ‘co-equal’ means. They aren’t under your control. They are independent.
Vox has the solution:
Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now –
I am begging the justices to learn from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s historic mistake.
That way Biden can nominate (and the Senate can confirm) a couple of twenty-something, pink-haired, pro Hamas paralegal activists.
Good morning fellow miscreants!
I usually don’t watch those videos of Biden, because I can’t stand the guy. But I’ve seen a few this week and holy hell, that is frightening. He walks with his hands extended out like a robot (people don’t walk like that). And he just freezes with this “not there” look on his face. It’s disturbing.
His handlers were probably glad he froze. The animated robotic systems weren’t working all that well.
And yet they are still running the guy. Incredible.
The smartest course of action would be for him to pardon his son, then resign. Wins all around.
Not Adahn:
You think Kamala can handle the campaign trail? They may decide to go with the pardon and resignation a couple weeks before the election, but that would require the state courts to change the name on the ballots (unless they think the pardon/resignation will gain enough good will for Biden that he would win with that).
The clock is running out on replacing Biden on the ballot, even without Ohio’s very early deadline. It will have to be done much sooner than a few weeks before the election. Hell, tens of millions of junk mail ballots will have been sent, and millions will be in the hopper, by then.
It would be a truly bizarre scenario for Biden to pardon Hunter, resign, and still run. I think the whole reason behind the pardon-and-resignation maneuver is to get him the hell off the ballot.
But these are fucked-up times, so nothing’s impossible, I guess.
2020 demonstrated that you don’t need to campaign — you can stay inside and hold “campaign events” with 8 or 9 socially distanced people.
But I do honestly believe the narrative of the heroic sacrifice for his family would rally undecided/double-haters to the D side.
And as far as the “name on the ballot” goes, I really don’t see how it’s a problem, as long as the slate of electors for whatever name is on the ballot votes the way they’re “supposed” to.
NA:
Didn’t several states pass laws requiring their electors to only vote for the name on the ballot? The constitutionality of those laws aside, that could cause a problem with voting for Biden, and expecting it to count for Harris.
Interesting question about electors. There are multiple prosecutions going right now of people who tried to organize slates of electors who wouldn’t vote for the guy who won the majority in their state. This is an area rife with technicalities I am not familiar with, even leaving the blatantly political prosecutions aside.
But can you imagine the utter shitshow amongst the public if Biden is on the ballot, somehow wins (and I doubt the pardon-and-resignation two-sep is going to bring over a net plus of voters), and then some other Democrat is sworn in?
Assuming that there is a TEAM mismatch between the state government and the electors (if there was a match, there would be no indictments, I am certain) I don’t think a state prosecution could unring the bell of the EC vote.
The way I understand electors is: Both parties elect their electors. Each set of electors will vote, so in theory, all of the Democrat electors, depending on how the particular state has legislated, will most likely vote for the popular vote candidate. Same for the Republican electors. Those are then up channeled to that state’s SOS for certification.
As it stands, they are trying to criminally prosecute duly elected electors for doing their job. The SOS did their job and certified the electors of the winner (just go with it was all on the up and up) and onto Congress for final certification. The Republican electors votes, certified vote sheets, etc mean nothing at that point. They stopped at the SOS.
So this whole “fake electors” is absolutely bullshit and I do not understand how any court is even hearing these cases.
The smartest move would be to let Hunter fall on his sword, take the two years in Camp Fed light sec prison. That way the right cannot bitch too much about Ol’ Joe being soft on crime. As far as Pudin’ Head Biden? What choice do they have right now? Kamalamadingdong? They shut Newsome up the last few weeks, which tells me he ain’t poling too good outside Cali (and maybe not so well inside). They don’t have anyone else at this point, so run Biden and hope the loses aren’t too bad, and maybe he pulls it out.
Angry Joe wouldn’t go for it.
“No Biden will spend a minute in jail! My son did nothing wrong!”
Aren’t each party’s electors elected to vote for the candidate whose name is on the ballot? I just don’t see Biden being on the ballot, and then all the Dem electors vote for Rashida Tlaib, and everybody goes “yup, that’s the way its supposed to work” and she takes office.
The Supreme Court has come under scrutiny over the past year following a series of reports detailing various undisclosed luxury trips, gifts, and questionable extrajudicial activities involving multiple justices. The reports spiked interest in congressional oversight of the justices’ behavior and the gifts they accept.
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have repeatedly pushed for legislation to increase oversight of the Supreme Court. This pressure increased last month after reports surfaced about a pair of flags flown over Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s homes, including an upside-down American flag over his Alexandria, Va. residence in the days surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, and President Biden’s inauguration.
“It’s the highest court in the land with the lowest ethical standards. These are the only governmental officials in the land who are not governed by a binding ethics code. There’s no process by which we can hold any of them accountable,” Raskin said.
Disagreeing with us is unethical.
Ruling against Democrats is anti-democratic. Duh.
It’s right there in the name.
Maybe they can setup a taxpayer funded account to pay victims of their misdeeds.
I think Congress already runs a lot of slush funds.
They sure are determined to bring the SC to heel. If they cant pack it and control it from within they are going to try to control it from without. Good luck with that you banana republic monkeys.
It would be nice to see Congress try to claw more power back from the Executive instead of the Judiciary.
Start telling the EPA, the FDA and other agencies that they need to get Congressional approval for any new rules that they want to promulgate.
If anything the Democrats are complaining that the executive departments aren’t going far enough.
Yes, it is anti-democratic to have the House of Representatives actually pass laws and budgets. Just let the Executive decide, oh, and the Executive is never allowed to be in the hands of the opposition party.
We need common sense pen and phone control.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“He’s just like his daddy”
I wonder why just Apple.
*All* devices are loaded with AI now.
Apple because of a fight with OpenAI IIRC.
Havent I heard a barage of gibberish from Clapper, Comey and Garland about how we should stop being mean to the DOJ cuz they are purer than the driven snow?
Just plopped my ass down here. Morning all. Up since 2. House is cleaned, plants watered, all critters fed including hummingbird feeders. Laundry started and did a quick oil change in the car. I am tired and have nearly a day’s work done. It is only ~8:30. I see a nap in my near future.
I have seen that from Garland etc. They are the absolute worst, corrupt POS’s and they’re hiding behind their office. Sickening.
I had a similar day yesterday. Haven’t been sleeping well lately, so at 4:30 I woke up with the Mrs. and went to the gym. By 6 I was done, so I came home and did dishes and laundry, cooked some bacon, and a few other things while she taught a class. It’s amazing what you can accomplish that time of day when everyone leaves you alone.
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish that time of day when everyone leaves you alone.”
Bingo.
After all the stories about Caitlyn Clark, the Women’s Professional Hockey League says “Hold my beer”
The Minnesoda team should select “Shrieking Harpies” as their team name.
I like the casual accusation of racism, without a single supporting data point.
She’s a right wing fascist. There’s no need to elaborate on her racism.
Look, once you touch the dark crystal of %current thing%phobia/ism, the rest will slowly come to take your entire being over. The only way to be safe is to cut out the part that has blasphemed.
The bright lords have decreed it.
Hockey players are disproportionately white, therefore racist. Until the roster looks like that of the NFL or NBA, it won’t be representative of America.
Xer “safe space” was on the ice where they could slam actual girls into the boards with xer superior size and strength?
Ya gotta admit, a dude playing against women is pretty damn safe.
Actually Harrison was a girl who became a guy but kept playing professional women’s hockey. (didn’t get surgery while playing?).
“a girl who became a guy”
Umm, not really, no.
Wait, if “trans women are women” hsouldn’t he have been playing men’s hockey? After all, we’re told there is no athletic advantage to being born male.
Do we hate journalists enough?
No. I also like how a normal person reacts when trying to answer a journalo’s questions:
Yeah, I’m sure the guy trying to win a second championship is going to call The Community to get their buy in while he’s on the clock. Who exactly is he supposed to call anyhow? Does the LGBTQ+ run a hotline? And does he have to call that hotline AND the LGBTQ2S+ hotline?
Wait. Maybe he should have called this gal?
If I was able to scam my way into being a “intersectionality consultant” for a pro team, I’d keep my mouth shut so I could keep grifting.
the Alphabet Sports Collective
Unintentionally hilarious.
neo-fascist and post-fascist
W T absolute F??? English MOTHERFUCKER, do you speak it?
You assume anyone using those terms understands the definition of fascist, let alone the other parts.
Icky. That is as deep as it goes.
Why do these types always tack on unfounded accusations of “racism”? To make it extra super convincing?
Or what Dean said.
As a signal that their argument is shit. That is how I take it. I got a confused look a while back when I responded to that accusation with “It is a honor to be called a racist by the likes of you.”
Racism is the equivalent of God Bless, or Hail Mary, or any other phrase of affirmation.
This is it
The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe, who cautioned that it’s also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals.
“The birth of this calf is both a blessing and warning. We must do more,” said Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota, and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle.
The birth of the sacred calf comes as after a severe winter in 2023 drove thousands of Yellowstone buffalo, also known as bison, to lower elevations. More than 1,500 were killed, sent to slaughter or transferred to tribes seeking to reclaim stewardship over an animal their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.
For the Lakota, the birth of a white buffalo calf with a black nose, eyes and hooves is akin to the second coming of Jesus Christ, Looking Horse said.
Looks delicious.
White buffalo show up every few years, and every time they are cited as fulfilling some prophecy.
I saw Jesus’ face on a piece of toast just a few minutes ago. Does that portend something good or mean that Jesus is toast? These ‘signs’ are always so nebulous. I am confused.
None of those things. It means you are a closeted homosexual.
Goddammit. I get up to all kinds of shit all of the time and I am always the last one to find out about it. I am just now at this age and two marriages in finding out I am gay? WTF?
Now you can relax and stop pretending.
I saw a 900 ft. Jesus above Tulsa…
Must be a huge weight off your chest. Now you can post on QUILTBAGGLIBS.COM with no fear of repercussions.
Definitely delicious, make sure to mix some beef fat in though.
There’s hope for tomorrow…
Heinert sees the calf’s birth as a reminder “that we need to live in a good way and treat others with respect.”
Do it for the white buffalo.
Gambol in His memory!
I’m not doing anything for a racist buffalo.
So, I heard about this white bison calf so I thinking Climate Change is over. At least it’s not an albino, those things are bad news.
/Not a Sacred Keeper of anything.
White Buffalo.
Huh, looks like Biden busted out the they’ll need F-15s to beat us line again at Everytown yesterday. He is such a damn douchebag.
Even with 100% support from the military it would take years if ever to subjugate all of the United States.
Never mind that the military will fracture if the rest of the country does.
Couldn’t find a standalone clip but it begins at 1:18 on this one:
https://youtu.be/8_p1my6ocFo?si=l1qNyedOIivGwG_l
His mind is freaking gone.
I mean a press class that like to run with every story from AOC about how Trump wants to
datetoss her into camps and that “believe Donald in what he says”, I’d say this too should get that treatment. A sitting president that has no problem green-lighting an F-15 sorte on their own citizens because they might be rabble-rousers.All they would have to do is bomb the MAGA training camps where all the white supremacists insurrectionists were gathered. Duh.
Thanks Juris, I needed a food a laugh. The “fracture” in the military would be a platoon of guys actually rebelling and a battalion worth of guys retiring or pretending to do their jobs. The rest will fall in line like good soldiers.
Someone should have pointed out that the Afghans (with only rifles) chased us out of their country.
Bonus: Because of Biden’s Bugout, the Afghans now have all sorts of nifty new military toys to use if we ever decide to go back. Not sure if we left any F-15’s though.
*Getting out of Afghanistan was a good thing. It would have been nice if we had taken a more measured withdrawal instead of the chaos.
On the plus side, the material was made by the lowest bidder, constantly breaks down, and most of it will end up useless in a few years due to maintenance and supply difficulties.
And yet, without a single airplane of any kind, the country almost died on January 6th.
Cute white girl gets cancelled for saying “nigga” in a cooking video. TW: It’s a video you cunts. She has doubled down and refused to apologize. They doxed her, costing her her job. Banned from Tiktok.
Shouldn’t have happened but it looks like she’s embracing the infamy. She can parlay this into some decent coin if she plays her cards right.
She wears a cross of gold, upon which she will crucify all otherkin!
From Nephilium’s link:
That means that, if Justices Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan remain on the Supreme Court past this year, they risk allowing their seat to be filled by a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States of America, inciting an insurrection at the United States Capitol in the process.
The full picture for liberals on the Supreme Court is even grimmer. It is still possible that Biden will prevail this November — polls fairly consistently suggest that the most engaged voters prefer the incumbent — but Democrats need a miracle to keep their majority in the malapportioned United States Senate.
Senate malapportionment is such a liability for Democrats that Republicans would not have controlled the Senate at all since the late 1990s if Senate seats were distributed fairly based on population. In the likely event that Democrats lose control of the Senate in November, they may not have a realistic shot at regaining the Senate again until 2030 or even later — and that’s assuming that population shifts do not place the Senate permanently in Republican Party hands.
Can you imagine the carnival of imbecility resulting from a Supreme Court nomination between now and November?
The problem with their basis for optimism is that Trump tends to motivate unengaged voters to actually vote. If he does manage to pull this off my schadenboner is going to last for a month.
They are, as utterly predictably expected, leaning way hard into the “convicted felon” shtick. I predicted the day that they got their mug shot of T Dog that it wasn’t going to go the way they thought. He is going to end up winning bigly. I expect we will be in for quite a bumpy ride after that, but at least the next few seasons of the Trump Show should be must watch television.
They really, really, really want a one party state.
Do you think that writer could explain what “The Great Compromise” was and why it was important?
I’m always unclear if someone is ignorant or disingenuous.
A.k.a., “stupid or liar?”
I’m going with ignorant in most cases.
Never mind that the military will fracture if the rest of the country does.
If we’re lucky it will fracture in such a way that there will be n one available or willing to carry out the orders from On High.
A collapsing empire with a nuclear arsenal and unhinged leadership is a problem the world has not faced before.
Yeah, this is like Nero with nuclear weapons only stupider.
At least the USSR had Gorbachev.
I remember getting a bit of a cold sweat when he said “I am standing knee deep in gasoline and everyone around me has a match.”
Somehow he managed the collapse without taking all human life with the USSR. It was remarkable really.
I think he and others, including Yeltsin saw it coming and planned accordingly.
What is happening here is not being managed by anyone sane.
Yeah, Gorbachev was a sane and competent human being, maybe even a decent one.
“At least the USSR had Gorbachev.”
Outside Milei and that DudeBro guy, I don’t see any good leaders out there. That’s a big reason why it’s scary.
Magnanimous acquiescence
New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the hush money case against former President Donald Trump, will testify before the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee in July, along with prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, a source familiar with the plans confirmed Tuesday.
“The Manhattan D.A.’s Office is proud to play a crucial role in upholding and enforcing the rule of law for the people of New York,” a Bragg spokesman said in a statement Tuesday, confirming Bragg’s planned testimony. “It undermines the rule of law to spread dangerous misinformation, baseless claims, and conspiracy theories following the jury’s return of a full-count felony conviction in People v. Trump.
“Nonetheless, we respect our government institutions and plan to appear voluntarily before the subcommittee after sentencing,” the spokesman said.
Maybe somebody will ask him how Trump could be convicted of election interference without ever actually being charged or tried for it.
None of this would be happening if the R’s had any balls or integrity. They have been playing along on the D’s terms for decades.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
Trump and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, are waging war on the justice system. They’ve claimed that Bragg and local Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, as well as special counsel Jack Smith and other federal prosecutors, are politically targeting Trump ahead of the presidential election.
Preposterous nonsense. These people are doing their jobs to the best of their ability, which is to preserve democracy by preventing Donald Trump fr being elected by any means possible.
is it Friday yet? Idiot PM has been basically ignoring what I told her she needs to do to get her customer order back on track. Ignoring the process and just email blasting the wrong people. Fuck her. That’s not going to get it done. And fuck the checked out assholes who are the right people and blow off the cc because it’s not addressed to their manager.
According to our model…
The International Energy Agency said Wednesday that a U.S.-led surge in global oil production is expected to outstrip demand growth between now and the end of the decade, pushing spare capacity to unprecedented levels and potentially upending OPEC+ market management.
The forecast prompted a stern warning for Big Oil from IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, who suggested the world’s largest energy majors may wish to align their business strategies with the changes taking place.
In its latest medium-term market report, titled Oil 2024, the global energy watchdog said oil demand growth was on track to slow down before ultimately reaching its peak of near 106 million barrels per day by 2030. That’s up from just over 102 million barrels per day in 2023.
At the same time, the IEA expects total oil production capacity to surge to nearly 114 million barrels per day by 2030 — a whopping 8 million barrels per day above projected global demand.
Nobody wants cheap reliable energy.
Prices might go down, and the US might afford to fill up our strategic reserve. What kind of monster wants that?
The forecast prompted a stern warning for Big Oil from IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol…
Those stupid executives – what do they know about running a business? They should heed the unelected bureaucrat and his vast experience running an unaccountable quango.
NY to VT – “Hold my beer!’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-legislators-pass-climate-superfund-bill-4547b80e?st=bln9sl5f47hctd2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
5 years from now, the fund will be audited and no one will know where the money went.
Because the middle class isn’t fleeing the state fast enough.
Well… everyone will know but nobody will talk about it.
The evidence will be in the number of legislators sunning on Caribbean beaches.
Five years from now, someone will want to audit it, but be denied because there was no entity authorized not audit it in the legislation. By the time amended legislation is passed, the original party will have retired off somewhere.
At least in Europe, they’ve always admitted that laws only apply to some people:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/06/10/italian-antifa-activist-accused-of-hammer-attack-elected-to-eu-parliament/
In ancient Mesopotamia, states were more likely to form when large-scale irrigation projects were needed after losing access to a river.
These states arose because small settlements banded together to cooperate, not because an elite created a state to dominate.
https://x.com/whyvert/status/1800554439163642074
The report comes as countries seek to move away from fossil fuels, with momentum building behind clean and energy-saving technologies. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas is the chief driver of the climate crisis.
The share of fossil fuels in the global energy supply has stayed at around 80% for decades, according to the IEA, although it expects this to drop to around 73% by 2030.
Despite the projected slowdown in oil demand growth, the IEA noted that in the absence of stronger policy measures or behavioral changes, crude demand is still expected to be around 3.2 million barrels per day higher by 2030 than in 2023.
Needs more central planning and world socialist dictatorship.
Fake news. We reached peak oil in the 90’s.
Thank you for injecting some sanity into this discussion, Rapist Hitler 420
https://x.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1800515398632362371
Legit LOL
A rough month for basketball hall-of-famers. Deaths of Bill Walton, then Chet Walker, and today Jerry West.
West was my boyhood idol.
NEW: Two female teachers forced to resign after allegedly trying to set up a four some with one of their students.
Teachers Alexsia Saldaris and Jennifer Larson allegedly tried seducing one of their male students at Joseph Craig High School in Wisconsin.
The women admitted to snapchatting the student and sending flirtatious messages and inappropriate photos.
During a school trip from April 7 to April 9, the women said they wanted to “have fun” with him and asked if he could get another student to join.
Saldaris sent the student photos on the 9th of herself and they made plans to meet up.
The situation became public a couple of days later when Larson told on Saldaris for letting the student drive a district van around the parking lot where they allegedly kissed.
The women were placed on leave and resigned about 10 days later.
The Janesville Police Department is currently investigating.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1800665297806045196
Did the fat one narc on the skinny one because the student only wanted to bang the skinny one?
I wouldn’t bet against that.
Half of that would have been fun for the teen.
The kid attracts fiveheads I see. Cute dimples on the blonde though.
The media are not interested in reporting on the probably much more common but less salacious sexes-reversed situations because fewer clicks?
I don’t know that it is much more common. Guys know that they’re likely to be rejected any time they make a pass at someone, and they know the risks if/when that rejector tells someone else what happened.
Women may not have been socialized the same way.
Probably has more to do with the fact that there are very few male teachers.
I would expect the media to jump all over a male sexual predator story.
Be afraid! “COVID is teeming in SF wastewater”
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/covid-california-san-francisco-wastewater-19509336.php
That is the Least dangerous thing in that water.
Especially during Pride Month.
Heh. They should release the results of venereal disease contamination in the water in San Fran. That would make COVID look like a blip.
Be afraid for the COVID?
This is how we get gay frogs.
On Danish exceptionalism
There is no ‘getting to Denmark’ without Danes
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/on-danish-exceptionalism
Without reading it, I assume it can be summed up as: “culture matters”.
See, also, Somali’s in Minne.
Plus a big helping of “my country is smaller than West Virginia and less diverse”.
True. I usually think of it in terms of NYC, (e.g., Denmark has 3/4ths the population of NYC) but that doesn’t capture how spread out people are or aren’t.
The goal is obvious
By most estimates, roughly one in five American households are living with medical debts, which is a burden that affects families’ finances in a variety of difficult ways. In fact, as CNBC noted last year, medical debt “can lead to a debt spiral for some consumers and narrow their options for housing, loans and credit cards.”
With this in mind, the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched an effort to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports altogether. The goal was obvious: The Democratic administration wants to help Americans keep unpaid medical bills from affecting their credit scores.
First student loans, ow this. The Biden administration is actively working to destroy credit as a functioning institution in the economy.
Because credit interest rates aren’t high enough already.
They’ll lower for the irresponsible and raise for the responsible. Why bother anymore?
Welcome to Chump Nation. Population: us.
So what you’re saying is, ObamaCare was a huge failure?
It was meant to fail, so it was a huge success.
The road to medical socialism is paved with medical bankruptcies.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the proposed rule, released through the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, would reduce the number of people in the U.S. with medical debt listed on their credit reports to zero, down from 46 million in 2020. … The administration calculates that if it is implemented, the rule would raise affected people’s credit scores by an average of 20 points and could lead to the approval of about 22,000 additional mortgages every year as a result of the cleaned-up credit reports.
Let’s make creditworthiness impossible to accurately determine. That way people will be able to take on even more unpayable debt. What could possibly go wrong?
Pay. Your. Goddamn. Bills.
I can’t. I need the new iPhone, a big SUV, my daily $8 drink from Starbucks and my Netflix account.
That’s got to be racist.
WASHINGTON — NASA confirmed that Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has suffered a fifth, although minor, helium leak in its propulsion system as engineers work to prepare the vehicle for its return to Earth next week.
https://spacenews.com/fifth-helium-leak-detected-on-starliner/
This may be more than just a “bad O-ring”…..
Just drop it unmanned and return the crew on a reliable entry vehicle.
Check me if I’m wrong, UCS, but if I
kill all the golfers, crash it into Florida, they’re gonna lock me up and throw away the key.There are a couple of very big bodies of water to aim at. Florida is a difficult target to hit.
^^ this. Nobody wants to watch a Columbia reenactment. I believe they have a spare Soyuz up there for this purpose.
OMG. How can this remain unsolved?
Boeing and NASA, perhaps?
It was a project pushed so far to the right that it circled back around and they rushed it out thinking they were ahead of schedule.
SpaceX went from: IFT-1 – shit, it didn’t work. IFT-2 – well it worked a bit, but didn’t account for extra weight. IFT-3 – Launching it is no problem, landing, not so much. IFT-4 – We landed not only the booster but the vehicle on water, with half a flap missing.
NASA/Boeing: We launched anyway after several scrubs, known issues, etc but its ‘human rated’ so *raspberrrrrrrrry*
Some ancient history on that approach:
“XBox 1 testing complete. It’s good enough. Let’s launch!”
*Red ring of death taps Gates on the shoulder.
A: the RRoD was the 360.
B: They knew the production process had a high failure rate, but wanted to beat Sony to market, so rather than fix the production process they shoved any that booted out the door.
C: the 1 kerfuffle was the Kinect mandate they walked back.