Don’t you dare call this sloppy seconds when you’re still sitting in the cuck chair hours after I leave.
Whatever, lets get this over with.
Oh look they’re pushing EVs again. Its amazing how much coin they threw at this and Elon still has his dick in half the EV market.
I’ll be fine, I’m in the most recession proof industry there is!
What a nice, heartwarming story about hating communists.
We may be living in the shittiest version of America in living memory, but its still better than all the other shitholes.
This country will never accept the result of an election ever again.
If this is true, they’re really pining for the cocksucker vote.
I would like to note I have been asked by many what my position on Kamala is’ given we share the same profession. I want everyone to know she is not part of the guild, and therefore cannot receive endorsement from myself or any other guild member. We have standards you know and aren’t going to associate with stupid broads that accept bullshit puff peices from dirty rags like this!
Is that really the reason for the chair? When I’m pleasuring myself while watching my wife get railed by another dude I prefer to stand.
So, you like to jack it while standing?
Doesn’t everyone?
If this is true, they’re really pining for the cocksucker vote.
She’s not wrong, you know.
How could anyone look at those 2 together and not think it?
Shocking, isn’t it?
I knew that would produce some highly-charged comments.
As long as folks keep it civil — wouldn’t want any battery charges.
Don’t suck start a Tesla?
We just can’t resist.
Ohm My – George Takei voice
They are making a farad point.
Only if you stick your dick in it…..
Hey Yusef, speaking of sticking my dick in it, I’ve been shopping for a new HVAC system for my place. Any objection to a few questions? I’m happy to do email or the forum if you prefer.
*narrows gaze*
It’ll be okay Swiss… just clear your mind and chant for relaxation…
Ohm…..
Ohm…..
Ohm….
You’re just gonna Amp him up.
I don’t know if I have the capacitance for more puns right now.
Well, at the current time it seems to be just a trickle — if it wasn’t for Swiss we might have had a surge (but he managed to be a protector).
Mr. Anti-democracy! He is going to pass judgement on us and doesn’t even care what the volters think about puns.
Don’t bother putting up any resistance.
I knew this wasn’t going to short out.
1. How much does Alex pay for that InfoWars link that leads to the front page?
2. I already called it as Cackletta/Booty Juice for 2024.
Buttglug’s most troubling quality to me is his penchant for laying out of work for extended periods of time. It’s great that y’all adopted a kid and all but GET BACK TO WORK!!!
Have you seen his work products?
laying out of work for extended periods of time
Sounds like the ideal politician to me. I hope he gets all the maternity leave he could ever want.
Let’s just hope they don’t take hints from Paola Saulino… I don’t want any of that political action.
Two completely ineffective people who will be touted as the most successful. Yay.
Choosing Pete makes her look good in comparison.
The pool of people who can do that is extremely limited.
You’re definitely not fucking kidding.
And the article dances around the fact that this is “Feature, not Bug” material. When the “Elites” act like they want everyone else to be homeless, renting peasants…. well, we should believe them. That “increased poverty” (and corresponding decrease in the population) is how they’ll get their Utopia away from the smelly deplorables.
“Stealing” an election by…. asking the Federal commission in charge of monitoring elections for clarification on election law (and the Harris campaign’s actions)? Really? That’s the argument y’all are making?
But OMB is the “chaos and lawlessness” option… pull the other one — its got bells on.
Once you realize almost everything they say is in a cynical furtherance of power it all makes sense.
It’s easily fixable with voter id and paper ballots. The fact that it’s not getting fixed in most places feeds the suspicion.
Yep. Every Dem idiot that voted for Biden, gave money to Biden…it has landed in the lap of the woman who couldn’t get a single vote in the primary. Democracy!
Get money out of politics!
If this is true, they’re really pining for the cocksucker vote.
First Ladyboy .
Putting up a candidate in opposition to our Democrat-ocracy is a blatant attempt to steal the election.
Certainly if there’s any chance of them winning. As much as they said about Mittens at the time, I don’t think they really felt anything for him or about him — he’s a safe squishy opponent after all.
As I have mentioned previously, Pandora apparently thinks I still live in Montana, and feeds me Montana political ads, mostly nonstop “Tim Sheehy is a rich out of state carpetbagger who believes in property rights” stuff; he is buying up “our” land and putting up no trespassing and no hunting signs. He will, however, let you hunt FOR A FEE, the cad.
Yesterday, however, there was a “Jon Tester stood up to Joe Biden and ultra liberal DC politicians to protect Montana” ad. The handcuffs are off.
Did the price of gas shoot up for anyone else? Last night it went from 3.75 to 4.29 near me.
I haven’t left the house yet, but I would not be surprised. Didn’t Biden totally drain the strategic reserve to try to keep prices down?
Not yet here — but I am driving back to California next week… so I’m mentally preparing for $6/gal or whatever stupid price it is (I think a manadatory gas tax ratchet clank kicked in while I was gone… so that’ll be “fun”….)
4.59
A few stations around here under $3. I’ll fill up on the way home in case another spike is coming.
Don’t fill up often enough to notice but https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
Running Kamala Harris may actually be a political masterstroke for the Democrats
“I guess we go with her?” = masterstroke.
Point
Chickens for KFC Counterpoint
Summer of Love ’24 looks to be coming to a boil. I would at this point vote for free one way airfare to Gaza for the lot of them since they love Hamas so much.
Nice. 🙄
Yeah, getting into the Watergate and into the conference room used by the PM is another USSS failure. Way to go there guys… keep it up and maybe we’ll just defund the lot of ya and start over.
That DNC convention is going to be lit.
Sure is. It starts on the 18th, which is a Sunday. I expect 3 Stooges levels of disruption and chaos, no matter how badly they want to keep out the protestors. Also i expect the whole place will be ringed with protestors. Remember the repubs convention? Hardly any protests.
Ew.
Will it be like Three Stooges levels with the black butler that says “This house ‘sho gone crazy.”? That’ll be worth a watch.
Comparing Jews to maggots but they’re just anti-Zionist, not antisemitic, nosiree
slumbrew:
Not Jews, just Israelis, it’s totally different!
The pics on twitter of DC right now are just nuts. They imported 200 NYPD cops for this event (guess that National Guard wasn’t available this time) – doesn’t seem to be making a difference from the pics I’m seeing. An awful lot of graffiti, etc going on. Waiting for the commentary.
Haven’t heard about anyone getting tossed out of congress yet, but Tlaib appeared to be silently protesting. These people are just trash – while there are still US citizens held hostage by terrorists.
with the black butler
That is Mayor Brandon Johnson to you!
Certainly if there’s any chance of them winning. As much as they said about Mittens at the time, I don’t think they really felt anything for him or about him — he’s a safe squishy opponent after all.
Swap out Obama for Mitt? Why bother?
An analyst on GM’s earnings call asked Barra whether GM’s EV strategy would shift if the next administration takes a less favorable view of policies promoting EVs after noting that one candidate, former President Trump, has discussed pulling back the federal EV mandate.
Barra explained that GM’s offerings, including both EVs and traditional gas-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, give the automaker flexibility in adjusting to meet
consumer demand.ever-changing government mandates.We’re seeing that right now with 54% of EV sales being customers that are
new to GM.unfamiliar with GM’s core competencies, which is pickup trucks.Fixed it for her.
Everyone’s EV numbers suck. VW saw an increase of 30% for their normal cars and nearly the same decrease in EVs.
The market is clearly saturated and none of these companies would even be fucking with it if it wasn’t for that execrable CAFE horseshit.
Europe and its regulatory push to EVs is even worse.
And yet you can still buy diesels.
None of this makes sense. EVs are and will always be a niche product. Just like Ariel Atoms or Cobras or any of a gazillion other vehicle types.
I know the conspiracy hypothesis is that they are trying to eliminate cars (and therefore mobility) but damn if it doesn’t seem feasible.
If they were really serious about reducing emissions they would push hybrids. They produce fewer emissions, don’t require charging, and require smaller batteries so less destructive mining.
But the focus of all modern environmentalism is less consumption.
But the focus of all modern environmentalism is less consumption.
Just for us normies.
“But the focus of all modern environmentalism is less consumption.”
The goal is a mud hut, a sari and a daily bowl of gruel for all but the elite. You will own nothing and like it.
But the focus of all modern environmentalism is less consumption, by decreasing and impoverishing the population.
You will own nothing and like it.
Oh, and do keep up the production – we in the elite aren’t expecting to do without anything.
You guys know I love my Tesla. It’s perfect for my lifestyle.
Nobody compelled me to buy it.
I vigorously agree that everyone should buy the vehicle that suits them.
It’s called the free market. Let it work!!
Amazing spin on the fact that he said they were putting a pause on new EV factories, not just for six months, but to continually reappraise the need for more EVs. GM has hit market capacity for the things already.
The left is shitting bricks because reality is like five years away, when everything is supposed to be “net zero”, and it ain’t happening.
Since when has leftist horseshit, when proven to be complete horseshit, prevented them from successfully selling more complete horseshit?
You know, even the Bolsheviks couldn’t sell horseshit for ever.
Brooksie: Thanks for the Tiff and Sabine video. That was great! I love the Atom but damn they are pricy. Especially for something you can never drive on the street.
RJ: I think you are right about the Slingshot – our roads here are atrocious and straddling potholes is a required art.
If I was looking to go down that road, a Caterham 7 would be on my short list.
https://caterhamcars.com/us/models/the-range
Or, if you want something a little different, a Morgan 3
https://morgan-motor.com/models/past-models/3-wheeler/
You should watch that video Brooks linked. All three are featured. I think the Morgan would be the most fun fucking-around car, but the Caterham is definitely more “practical.”
That DNC convention is going to be lit.
Any disruptions will be 100% the fault of the cartoon villain.
Oh, I’m sure there will be several disruptions that are blamed on Israel.
I love the Atom but damn they are pricy. Especially for something you can never drive on the street.
Caterham or GTFO.
Hell, I’m just ready to get a Miata and deal with the jokes and the hate.
From whom? Nobody who knows anything about fun cars.
I will not joke or hate. Those are fine cars.
Smart Car. That is what you get if you want to be mocked relentlessly. Extra mockery if you are taller than 6’3″.
If I had a mistress I would buy her a Miata…I would get laid more every month than the lot of you knuckleheads put together.
*handing keys over*
Here sweetheart. I was torn on the color…match your hair (red) or your eyes…I went with your eyes.
https://mediacloud.carbuyer.co.uk/image/private/s–t1avRSI7–/v1579634635/carbuyer/2018/04/rf_mx5_0002_-_copy_0.jpg
Yep. More than all you knuckleheads put together…in a year.
The best I ever pulled was driving my mothers ’66 Mustang ‘vert around the college town. Girls would just run up and jump in…
Midlife crisis is no joking matter!
Midlife crisis is no joking matter!
/looks at fun cars
/considers how much they cost
Yeah… not a joke.
There are still reasonably priced fun cars.
The Subaru WRX STI is one that I know of.
The Honda S2000 beat the living shit out of the Miata. Unfortunately it was too good for this world.
/checks bringatrailer
Both are going used for cheaper than both of my fun cars.
Subaru’s website sucks. I tried to see what a new WRX costs, but they’re pissy about cookie settings.
The dealer near me.
Doesn’t look promising.
Oh my! Dealers that speak in Latin are VERY fancy!
Boy scanning the headlines Journolist 2.0 aka the Harris campaign put out the hit on Vance.
It’s amazing how they all have the same topic.
Did you know Vance said negative things about Harris several years ago that shows how racist and misogynistic he is?
/still not a big Vance fan
Surprising as he seems to like Indian women.
“Suthenboy, why are you not a fan of xyzzy?”
“Because xyzzy is a politician, the best of which are hardly worth the water it takes to keep them alive.”
It’s amazing how they all have the same topic.
More “affirmative action candidate”?
It’s funny how they ignore the class factor.
I know jack shit about Kamala, nor do I want to, but I’m guessing she and Vance had a lot of daylight between them, in terms of class and cultural standing.
Looks like today’s narratives are:
– Referring to DEI is racist
– Kamala was NOT the border czar (complete with scrubbing archives)
– Kamala way up in the polls
– Kamal is so great and a genius pick
She’s explicitly a DEI hore.
Whoops, “hire”
Both are accurate assessments.
You said what you said Stinky. LOL
Oh, very nice.
*golf clap*
I think that is what is called a Freudian slip.
I thought a true Freudian slip was when you say one thing but meant your mother.
Is Cool Aunt on the acceptable list of talking points. Or is the Minnesoda DFL going off reservation?
Reproductive freedom sounds like freedom to reproduce. I think they mean freedom from reproduction.
freedom from reproduction
Fucking soy-boys isn’t enough?
I see crowd strike is offering a $10 gift card to everyone who is affected by the outage. It’s for Uber eats. You can’t even get a hamburger from McDonald’s delivered for that.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/
Uber is on my shit list for refusing to stop spamming me with notifications to send them more money despite finally finding the hidden web page to tell them to stop doing that shit.
Emergency use transportation only over here. And never for food, it costs 150% more for them to deliver than it does to go get it. Amazing.
I flip between Uber/Lyft for each trip depending on which is the cheaper option (including wait times as part of the cost). Makes it much easier to plan a night out.
I’ve never tried Lyft. I guess I could check it out.
It’s probably the same half dozen drivers anyway. (Not many of them here and the prices suck too.)
Hey, don’t knock it. You can almost get a twelver of Natural Light for that.
It’s for Uber Eats. So your 12 pack is ten dollars, you owe a mandatory tip, delivery fee, etc… now you owe $25 to have that Natty Light dropped on your door step.
Wait, you have to use it for Uber Eats specifically? What a joke.
Smart Car. That is what you get if you want to be mocked relentlessly. Extra mockery if you are taller than 6’3″.
K swap it.
Honda Insight K swap. Just not sure how much tire you can put on that. But there are a few on the road.
Hmm…. one of these things is not like the other:
We do think the market for EVs will continue to grow
and
The company is in the process of scaling up production of the Chevrolet Equinox EV and plans to launch several other battery-powered models in the months ahead, although it lowered its projected EV output for this year from an upper end of 300,000 units to 250,000 units.
GM last week declined to reiterate a target of 1 million units of EV production capacity in North America by the end of 2025.
Barra also told investors GM would delay the opening of its Orion Assembly EV truck plant by six months until mid-2026. She also said the company plans to introduce plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2027.
Flinging shit at the wall
Climate change also exacerbates inflation, research shows — a dynamic dubbed “climate-flation.”
Warming is expected to raise global inflation by 0.3 to 1.2 percentage points per year, on average, by 2035, according to a recent study by researchers at the European Central Bank and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact.
Climate change also exacerbates inflation, research shows — a dynamic dubbed “climate-flation.”
Warming is expected to raise global inflation by 0.3 to 1.2 percentage points per year, on average, by 2035, according to a recent study by researchers at the European Central Bank and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact.
Don’t you get it? Climate change is here now. Why aren’t you panicking?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Programming note: I am now setting up shop in Kobe, Japan so the Daily Rays of Sunshine links are more likely to be in the afternoon comments for a while.
Oh, do tell!
Temporary?
Work? Life? Fleeing from an angry wife?
Not after he shaved his beard.
His holiness has family there.
lol. I’m staying with the angry wife at her sister’s house. If anything, I added more angry women to my life.
I was going to retire in May, but my employer begged me to stay. Since we are a 100% remote shop, I made the deal that I would stay on for another year, but only if I could work from Japan. And I wouldn’t need to do any concerted effort to overlap my work day with the work day of the US based folks.
So I get to work while they are all in bed. No meetings, no chats, no nothing. I just get to work on “special projects”.
We have a year penciled in, but it will sort of depend on how successfully we can handle the visa stuff. I am here on a tourist visa for 90 days. After that we will go to Korea and visit family there for a while and then return to Japan. A lot of uncertainty about how many times you can do that. I’m pretty sure we will be over here for at least 9 months.
I’m trying to figure out when we might make it up to Tokyo so I can embarrass Straff with my shitty Japanese skillz.
When your Japanese finally becomes legit jōzu / 日本語が本当にうまくなったら
I’m jealous!
Hot as shit here and the locals don’t seem to have embraced high quality AC into their lives. Lots of places are “mildly air-conditioned”.
People in the US who are advocating for Net Zero should be dragged here and get to experience what life without real AC would be like.
There are also other disappointments. For example, the old handicapped toilet at the local beach has been upgraded. It is now an ADA compliant western toilet. I miss the old one.
I was there in October and missed the fucking AC.
It’s both cultural and because of the energy cost.
In the old days though the office was freezing as a display of wealth. After 3/11 that stopped and we now have Cool Japan casual.
We went in September the first time. Damn near needed to take my wife to hospital for heat exhaustion.
The fucking humidity was the killer. Claustrophobic sweat boxes, most buildings are.
Honda Insight K swap. Just not sure how much tire you can put on that. But there are a few on the road.
One of those youtube guys k swapped a Fit. Looked like a pretty clean job.
I’ll confess the Fit has been a great car for us but at 120,000 mi I’m sure it’s not generating that 117HP it did when new.
A couple hundred more horses would be interesting…
120K is barely broken in. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t at least close.
Jack Baruth from Road & Track wrote about a K-swapped Fit several years ago. The money shot:
It’s not just the engine that intrigues me, although the idea of nearly doubling the power of a stock Fit is cheering to say the least. It’s the hyper-alert way that this car sits low on it’s reverse-stagger-setup Maxxis tires, kinda like a frog that’s managed to steal Fleetwood Mac’s weekly supply of cocaine and do the whole thing in one shot.
That would be one helluva Track Day sleeper.
See, that’s the whole point of this fucked up automotive world. There was a time when you could buy insane versions of normal cars. Basic Mustang, somewhat better Mustang, clearly better Mustang, insane Mustang.’
But we can no longer have nice things.
Or you get a perfectly cromulent fast car and take it to an evil genius to perform witch-doctor stuff.
This is the reason that I traded into a GT4 (even with the mods, still $100K less than a GT3RS).
I love the Cayman.
Which I believe is dead in the EU because of emissions after this year.
Reply about the Caymen.
Comment *Secret Service to Trump: The Roofs? We Can’t Handle the Roofs!
Meanwhile, the DEI hore (Thanks, Stinky) is “selling out stadiums” which are in fact high school gymnasiums.
But yeah, there isn’t any plot. Simply incompetence.
Trump on in the background, killing it in one of the Carolinas.
“They said I was being nice. No, I’m not going to be nice anymore.”
lol
I hate to say it, but I might have to watch Joe’s address to the nation. I imagine a boisterous cheer from sea to shining sea as he says, “You won’t have Joe Biden to kick around anymore.”
I am going to see the Aquabats. Biden can suck it. I’ll check in later and see how it went.
What the fuck?
Turns out the shit in the river is gonna be the high point of the Olympics.
Couldn’t they find a more passable “woman”? Was Michelle too busy?
I think ‘not passable’ , obviously creepy fruitcake dude is the point. It translates to ‘FUCK YOU’.
Wait, is that the coconut pilled I keep hearing about? ‘Cause he looks to have shoved a couple under his shirt!
Wait, is that the coconut pilled I keep hearing about?
I still think that has to be a 4-chan joke. No way that is a real thing that the Dems think is a cool meme. Right?
If it is real, then Obama should start using oreo emoji’s in his twitter feed.
Fits with LETELU, though.
That HS teacher dude with the 200lb fake boobs was not available.
I didn’t think the Euros were as stuck into the tranny thing as the Americans.
It certainly won’t be the US men’s soccer team. But everybody knew that going in.
The insane are truly running the asylum. I would say the cancer has finished its long march through the institutions.
Congratulations Karl.
A characture of a woman painted up like a Goddamn circus clown. Pretty damn shameful.
There was a time when you could buy insane versions of normal cars.
A Dodge Dart with a 440.
Your deadass common, run of the mill Ford F-150… mostly.
The fuck are “Ford Performance Front Floor Mats”?
Wasn’t there some deal about a ’60s Galaxie wagon special ordered from the factory with a 427 and four speed?
Couldn’t they find a more passable “woman”? Was Michelle too busy?
They have rodeo clowns in France? I had no idea.
Twice in one day for Winston’s mom. Light schedule for her.
lol I thought I was still on the Krugnuts post.
Winston’s Mom Does the Links
Winston’s mom does it all.
Oh, how I laughed.
Join the Elite Sloped Roof Division: Secret Service Recruitment Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2A9yJoZfok
I still can’t get over that woman’s comment about the sloped roof. How hard would it have been to say “We’re still investigating why nobody was on that roof”? Instead she made it look like she had zero familiarity with what happened, which maybe she didn’t.
As I recall when she was first ambushed by reporters a couple of days after the event, the look on her face, the sound of her voice, her initial reaction clearly said “I have no idea what you people are talking about”
Do you have what it takes?
I’m in the most recession proof industry there is!
Most of us don’t get paid for getting royally fucked.
Hm…’unceremoniously’ works better.
but its still better than all the other shitholes.
Not all holes are equal.
HARRIS CAMPAIGN SAID TO BE CONSIDERING BUTTIGIEG FOR VP – MSNBC
Well they both spend a considerable amount of time on their knees. ///Winston’sMomForPresident
Harris Campaign Spokesman Charles Lutvak claimed that the complaint was “baseless” and part of Republicans’ strategy to “steal elections.”
By A) trying to ensure the rules are enforced and B) winning beyond the margin of fraud by the system.
Seems legit.
Anybody going to zoom tonight?
I had planned to but am now about to collapse into bed for a nap.
I certainly would like to, but I should go over notes to soothe my mind. And get to bed semi-early(ish). After tomorrow’s written exam, which I should do just fine on, I’ll certainly be keen to chat tomorrow unless something alters.
I passed my medical examination with “flying colors” though I kinda doubt
that/(myself). Minnesota Lady is back in touch, which is all positive. She’s excitedly going to a Trump Convention event in St. Cloud this weekend. She’s poli sci grad who has further legal degrees, but she hasn’t taken the bar. She’s right in my/our alley of making fun of the absolute shitshow Team Blue is putting on. She’d get along well here. I’ve invited her, but she doesn’t spend time online. Can’t much, in shitty-internet Sauk Centre.Tried to woo her here with Pope’s involvement and frequently linking to Minnesotan stories. *shrug* Anyways, haven’t I heard Thurs is a pretty ‘hot’ zoom crew?
Thursday isn’t a scheduled Zoom.
Wednesdays are a crapshoot. I didn’t join tonight because the need for sleep overwhelmed me a couple of hours ago!!
“This country will never accept the result of an election ever again.“
Time for citizen IDs, in person votes on paper ballots counted same day, and purple dye on fingers.
For Gustave this is what happens when you can’t keeping singing your teen hit.
Ai Otsuka – Sakuranbo -Cocktail
Want something to melt your brain? Need a solid dose of “yeah she’s broken”.
I challenge you to drink a shot each time she mentions class.
“White Trash” Historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” & Class in America