The playoff race in MLN is red hot and it’s still only mid-August. Football the means something is less that two weeks away. Soccer starts this weekend. And the Olympic torch has been extinguished. All is well in the world. On to the links!
Well, it is his after all. Does this reporter not know how to mute or block people?
This will be an interesting case. I’m kind of curious how it works out, because those contracts should be pretty well written to account for these contingencies.
Please, please, please, please, please let this woman lose. That would be absolutely delightful.
I will shed no tears. These guys deserve medals, not scorn. Also, if the cops did their job it wouldn’t be necessary.
This was the correct thing to say. In fact, he could have been even more insulting.
For the love of God. Are they really trying to do this again?
How dare they do this! Imagine the temerity of Jews praying on the Temple Mount. Outrageous!
I guess this is one way to stop being called “insurrectionist.” In fact, the word doesn’t show up once in the piece.
This song is timely. Some of the lyrics are, anyway. And this one is always timely. For English boarding school students. Anyway, I love them both. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“Well, it is his after all. Does this reporter not know how to mute or block people?”
HOW DARE HE RUIN OUR PROPAGANDA AND LIES CAMPAIGN!!!
Proggies: You call them lies, we call them OUR LIVED TRUTH.
Makes me wonder if the people claiming human civilization has risen and fallen numerous times over tens of millennia are not the ones that have it right. As things get really good, societies discard the old things that were in place because of lessons learned, and eventually it all unravels.
We may be on a very long cycle.
https://bigthink.com/the-past/sapient-paradox-prehistory/
Note how the AP put free speech in sneer quotes.
How long before a completely unironical goodthink appears?
They have already told us free speech is a problem, nay a real bad thing, because nobody should have that….
Throughout human history, progress has only been possible when property rights and free speech were considered immutable. As soon as those two go away, you are back to feudalism. And have no doubt that is what the masters want, cause ruling free people requires hard work, real expertise, and smarts, all of which are things that they lack.
Seconded.
Lies, she wasn’t representing Minnesota, but Somalia.
They have a really, really good vote purchasing program in her district as I recall the news over the years. So I would be very surprised if she does.
Minnessoda allows ballot harvesting for a reason..
Phylis Khan was a legendary pol in Minnesoda. A crazy progressive back when no one was crazy. In the last campaign she won she had to call out Somali voter fraud to keep her seat.
Amazing that a progressive knew where to look for voter fraud. She lost the next race. Mostly because more Somalis flooded into her district and – probably – their vote harvesting got much more sophisticated.
I’d be giddy if Omar lost, but I think the machine will print enough ballots for her. Too bad Don Samuels is a decent person. He is very, very liberal but he isn’t whacko. He has a long history of working with lots of people too.
“Please, please, please, please, please let this woman lose. That would be absolutely delightful.”
Yeah, that is a nice wish, but she lives in the shitty remake of Mogadishu part of the US, and they will elected her for that reason.
I’ve been hearing rumors that a lot of GOP (ok, that makes me laugh, there aren’t a lot of GOP voters in Mpls) voters who are thinking of voting in the DFL primary to try to help push Samuels over the finish line.
Morning, Sloopy — morning, all.
Because rich men owning media outlets has never happened and certainly would never spawn tripe like Democracy dies in darkness! or anything. :eyeroll:
Heaven forfend regular people (not the Newspaper Priesthood) have a place they can talk about something other than Communism, right? Because they might say the wrong things… and then where would we be, Comrade Napoleon? (Unfortunately we’d apparently be back in London Farm where they can’t tell the pigs from the farmers anymore…)
The man is a thorn in the side of the criminal cabal that brainwashes the mob, and he has become too good at hurting them (the truth is that the cabal really is a bunch of absolute idiots).
“I will shed no tears. These guys deserve medals, not scorn. Also, if the cops did their job it wouldn’t be necessary.”
When people take the law in their own hand, that is bad for society. The fact that they have to take the law in their own hands because so many of the people in charge are all perverted fucks that actually want to legalize evil shit like fucking children, makes it doubly more bad that citizens resist that.
People take the law into their own hands when the authorities fail to enforce law and order. That is where we are currently at.
Rule of law is to keep things from spiraling out of control. It appears that quite a few modern factions don’t understand that when the gloves come off, they don’t go back on until at least one side has been cowed.
Yeah — in a perfect world these things would go through the Rule of Law and have a significant burden of proof (which granted, the guys in the article sure sound like they’d easily meet… if all they do is put out a doctored picture of an adult de-aged and a profile specifying the age, and the idiots message the “kid” with explicit requests, that should be a slam dunk…).
There was a video making the rounds lately about a content creator (early 20s I think) who killed himself after being framed by a 17 year old girl, her older boyfriend and some other jackass (she wheedled her way to editing some videos for him, then selectively edited messages where he praised her work as being ‘flirting’ was what I got out of it). Hence I’m a little loathe to go full on rah-rah for vigilantism at the moment. People can abuse power (yeah yeah.. the King’s Men are the best at it, I know… but there are supposed to be checks and balances for that reason, whereas for vigilantes they’d be outside that system).
Dammit… who ordered the heavy discussion topic first thing in the morning? Plus I think my thoughts are under done! Send them back to the kitchen!
My point was that so many of the people in the legal chain, academia, and government that should be prosecuting those in society wanting to do evil shit like sexually abusing kids, or simple things as (not) protecting private property rights, are doing it because they want to legalize sex with children and stealing. That term “Minor Attracted person” or MAP was created by some sick fucks that wanted to destigmatize the disgusting behavior of fucking little kids, and legalize it. And these sick fucks always turn out to be people in positions of authority of some kind.
Our elites want to make some of the basic things every society in history eventually saw as destructive as the norm again. It is almost like their goal is to make debauchery and evil the norm. It is one thing to say you will respect what consenting adults do in privacy, but it is another when you want to cause this kind of harm to little kids (or animals).
Not disagreeing with you (or with WTF). I can definitely see why these guys are stepping up, why the Pillars of Society keep trying to make them the bad guys, etc…. just don’t like the potential for abuse inherent in throwing around accusations of this nature.
And yes, I certainly think they believe if they can break down all morality they can replace it with State worship or something. (As if what they’ll actually accomplish by breaking down Western Civilization isn’t being overwhelmed by Middle Eastern and/or Eastern societies…)
“ just don’t like the potential for abuse inherent in throwing around accusations of this nature.”
Abuses can be anywhere. We should always be vigilant against it.
SDF is right to be skeptical of vigilante/mob behavior. That is the entire reason we give govt a monopoly on force.
“if all they do is put out a doctored picture of an adult de-aged and a profile specifying the age,”
I was wondering why do they do all that, and then it occurred to me that if they used a picture of an actual child, the cops would come after them hard and heavy even though they weren’t actually soliciting or doing anything illegal. Because these guys embarrass the law enforcement industrial complex and step on their monopoly of deciding who gets punished for doing what.
Yeah; wait until they drive an innocent person to suicide the way Chris Hansen did.
Because no innocent person has ever been driven to suicide by the law enforcement industrial complex?
“When people take the law in their own hand, that is bad for society.”
I would say that depends entirely on how good the government is at maintaining order.
—“When people take the law in their own hand, that is bad for society.”—
How is this taking the law into their own hands. They do not arrest anyone, they do not conduct trials and they administer no punishment. What they do is gather information and give it to the PROPER AUTHORITIES and move on to their next project.
If a citizen observes a store robbery and gives the police a description of the suspect and info about where they saw him, are they taking the law into their own hands. Of course not. If they invite the police along on the sting, they are still not taking the law into their own hands.
This is me climbing back up on my soapbox to point out that “society” is a fiction and there is nothing that is good or bad for it. It has no wants or needs and anthropomorphizing it will always lead to arguments by analogy that are even more bullshit than the median.
Mobs and mob behavior is no fiction. Moral panics are fictions, but they can have disastrous consequences.
NA, if you have room on that soapbox I’ll be glad to join you.
I decided long ago that words like ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘social’ as used by all too many people are arguments for their points of view, in furtherance of their own interests. Whenever those words appear in someone’s statements, red flags pop up.
I find that substituting the word “God” can make intent much clearer.
kinnath gets back on his soapbox
The four great lies of progressivism:
1) Society is a real thing
2) Society has rights
3) The rights of society trump the rights of individuals
4) The purpose of government is to promote the rights of society over the rights of individuals.
Society is the illusion that appears when you look at the patterns that occur in the interactions of thousands (or millions or billions depending upon your point of reference) of free people going about their own business in a mostly cooperative fashion.
Society doesn’t exist. People exist.
Society is an emergant pattern described by the actions of its members – it exists and is real as long as there are at least two people who interact, but cannot be directly controlled or hold any rights or property.
Surely AP ran something similar to my edits a few years ago right?!
Legacy media cannot accept they are no longer the gatekeepers.
That was different, because those guys agreed with us.
“Legacy media cannot accept they are no longer the gatekeepers.”
It is even worse than this: the idiots manning the desks in the legacy media are so inept and so boorish in their ways that any serious competition destroys them. They simply can’t compete, even against some comedian with a large following doing a podcast, and that threatens the whole model.
Unfortunately the intel community that now wholly own the media are not bright enough to understand they have lost control of the narrative.
If you go back to before WWII, most of the journalos were people who had gotten a job at the paper doing something and then worked their way into being a newsman. Hardly anyone went to college to become a journalist. It was far more like being a cop or a fireman. You got your foot in the door and worked your way up.
Now anyone wanting to write for a paper or work on TV news needs to have a college degree.
Someone who wanted to get a Phd in something could easily do some research on how the differences in backgrounds between then and now affected the news coverage. The old fuckers who came up from the streets were a lot less charitable to govt weasels. They understood that taxes were taking money away from people.
Doesn’t hurt to be blonde, attractive, young. Some of them are good journalists (news readers)
Pay no attention to the Alphabet and Meta behind the curtains.
They are part of the effort to prevent misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech. Meaning that they are against anything that hurts whatever bullshit the ruler class wants to gaslight the serfs with, and even more importantly, will amplify whatever bullshit lie they want to tell.
More projection. I am shocked.
“For the love of God. Are they really trying to do this again?”
There still is a whole bunch of idiots that wear the face diapers, to virtue signal or for whatever dumb reason, and is ready and willing to clutch their pearls at the first sign of their cabal of morons giving the Kung Flu marching orders.
One more shot will do it, right?
One? Shit. Too many of these idiots will keep taking these poison pills until it kills them. And all in the name of showing their loyalty to the marxist cause. Fucking insane.
I seem to remember them recommending as many as monthly boosters cuz when something doesnt work you just aren’t doing it hard enough. Also, lets see how far these sheep will go.
Safe and effective.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fauci-touts-vaccine-boosters-and-masks-after-getting-covid-19-for-the-third-time/ar-AA1oGOPY
Well, safe anyway.
Look, just get the shot and mask up okay?
Many people, including young healthy adults, most likely wouldn’t need more than one Covid shot a year, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto.
“I think it’s impossible to make a blanket statement for a population of over 300 million people,” he said.
*blank stare*
It’s just a cold now. It’s not even the flu anymore.
That is a rich statement but looking over his past interviews from 2021, he was one of the saner ones in Canada.
I’m always fond of the classic American in Europe response of: “Nuts!“.
It’s still used. But it’s prefaced with “Deez.”
– Is that a positive or negative reply?
– Nuts is strictly negative.
Why do they want to hang the DJ?
He’s always trying to turn the tables on them?
That’s quite the spin you put on it and only scratches the surface
*narrows gaze*
It’s just a sample.
Because it’s murder on the dancefloor?
Ahem: sorry to come over all Cliff Claven on you, Sloopy, but Morrissey attended St Marys Secondary Modern (unisex state school in decline). Apparently it lacked music, drama, concerts, plays, a school magazine, and a library.
Did I mention that I cried?
I expect they’re just milking the Covid hysterics for what they can — and like the last few rounds of “boosters” most people will continue to completely ignore them. As I hope they’re doing with the “flu” vaccines — since I wouldn’t trust what crap they put in those these days either.
So… in other words she’s a weak willed sheep and the flock has pushed her the other way (and love how close she comes to “clean and articulate” earlier in the article…). Ladies and gentlemen… the American Electorate. Sigh.
Question: What is a good term for someone who is among the most experienced in a technical field.
I was thinking leading experts but seems a bit much.
In my line of work we use either technician-in-depth or subject matter expert
SME is what I hear.
To go with what the Rat says, SME (Subject Matter Expert) has been used in several companies I work in.
Mrs OBE said I lied in this reply. She said you call them “OBE” *obviously not using my name, but I have a big head in terms of my technical ability so thus, my name is what we call someone as the most experienced in my technical field.
We use OBE at work in a negative context.
Overcome By Events == OBE
Tech guru?
Geek?
J6 lady now voting for Harris after Trump in ’16 and ’20. Her last Dem vote was for Obama in ’08 for…reasons: “I like the policies he was talking about at the time, and he’s just very intelligent. I just thought he would be good for the country. And you know, it’s the first time we had a person of color,” she said.
“And ya know, like whatever.” Just so very intelligent. Based on what? At best, I’d like people to think them as good presenters, good showmen. What gives you insight into a person’s intelligence when they haven’t created anything? Being an orator is a a valuable social primate skill, but whether selling fish sticks, religion, politics or a bridge, ya kinda got to have a ‘point.’ And preferably, something directly attributable to the ‘person of intelligence’ who ‘designed’ it.
I am not hopeful, as I know folk aren’t really ‘thinking.’ It’s just basic human herd mentality. Folk flock for whatever reasons, and not always based on reality, truth or foresight. Just feeliness, is enough.
Anyone, on to stabbing practice for a tune-up! I predict good things. And must note to ask questions specifically about plasma donation centers, learning tools and hopefully practice donor needles. Hrm. Onward and upward!
Must have been part of her appeal to avoid jail…
Evan:
Hope you enjoyed the game last night. The girlfriend got some free tickets from the radio station she advertises on. So we were sitting ~8 rows back on the third base line near home plate. There were a lot of Cubs fans there, the crowd got a bit riled up when the lead changed.
Be sure to bring a compass and a swivel chair so you can be stabbing westward.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E25/605438
That’s some great sleuthing, USA Today!
Uh huh.
Did they not have some guy play this exact script on X just a month ago? Claiming to be a life long republican and Trump guy, only to have the readers within days out him as a life long democrat operative? And where are the articles of all the people now saying they have been life long democrats (or indifferent to politics) that are voting Trump? Don’t hold your breath….
Well, it was an American Reichstag Fire.
Can those of you in freer states do the same with ammunition? Let me know how that goes.
The Parties Where Volunteers Pack Abortion Pills for Red-State Women
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/abortion-pill-parties-shipping-148e3c15?st=8ddp7s1d63qqonf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m on the pro side, but the joy here is just awful.
I may have delivered ammo to friends in unfree states. It makes a great Christmas gift to those in need.
The Satanic joy they take in spreading death is repulsive.
Are you saying your Christmas gifts are skyrocketing to #1 with a bullet?
The joy is inevitable. They are Warriors. On the Right Side of History.
Plus they are sticking it to Trump.
It’s kinda been done, in the lead-up to the standard-capacity magazine bans in Colorado and Washington states, and again during at least one of the legal amnesty periods in California. Magpul, and possibly a few other manufacturers, diverted most of their production to those states to boost the supply of grandfathered standard-cap mags before it became illegal to do so.
I listened to some (nowhere near all) of the Trump / Musk chat. Trump was doing his usual rambling that I generally agree with while wishing he’d get to the point.
Elon sounded much like Massie and Paul – very concerned about government size, debt and cost. Several times he pushed Trump to create a commission on government waste.
People might not remember, but Musk cut 80% plus of the Twitter staff when he bought it, and finally make that thing clean and productive (killed the bots that allowed Twitter to fleece advertisers). I can only dream he would do the same to the bloated unelected and unaccountable den of inequity that passes for government agencies.
He did bring up Milei and sounds like a big fan of what he’s doing in Argentina.
Have you seen that all the people that bombarded the news cycle with negative stories about Milei seem to have completely gone silent? Milei’s success at dismantling the socialist bullshit machine that had straddled the country with perpetual decline has left them with the options of either avoiding covering the changes he is making and their positive results to Argentina, or telling blatant and easily disproved lies.
Ignoring important stories is the most powerful tactic of our fake news propaganda machine.
Preach it, Drake.
There’s a reason “material omission of fact” is a species of fraud.
government waste
Is all in the eye of the beholder. You threaten to cut any kind of spending and the tears will flow until there is enough to drown kittens. Waste isn’t the problem even though it exists – it is what is considered necessary spending that is the problem. That must be cut, ruthlessly. The entire Dept of Education, not just whatever “waste” exists in it, is a good example.
Another example – big, beautiful infrastructure programs, just like Trump promised before.
Interesting point, JI. I hadn’t really thought about how “waste” implicitly concedes that the entire program/department is a good and legitimate use of money.
Last night Trump said he wants to completely eliminate the Dept of Education and make the states responsible.
The biggest wastes are required medical and SS spending – and not going anywhere.
Buying votes ain’t what it used be. A picnic and a barrel of whisky used to bring in a crowd. Now we need a lifelong career of perpetual grift to get people to sign on.
/Perpetual life long grifter
A great summary of the Trump-Musk event last night….
Hmm, they didn’t discuss their plans for world domination via Project 2025?
They wouldn’t be that blatant. It was 2 hours of dog whistles.
Racist dog whistles that somehow only the left can hear.
Sit! Down! Roll-over! Good dog!
New purchase request training, designed to make the people at procurement’s lives easier and fuck everyone else.
They had a helpful slide of acronyms. Two slides later there was an acronym not on that helpful slide.
We too have also completely revamped procurement.
When procurement is difficult to do people will only work it because they have an absolute need…
/some retard trying to impress senior leadership
Regarding the Temple Mount story, there’s the spectacular hypocrisy of secular Jews telling the Haredi you have to let us pray wherever we want, but how dare you pray where you want.
And yes, that hypocrisy goes both ways.
Watching a video on MOSFETs… it seems the only thing these things want to do is destroy themselves.
Like any component, they need to be used in the operational window. MOSFETs can be very rugged. The biggest challenge if you are used to bipolar devices is preventing gate voltage spikes or using TVS or ESD protection.
It was just my initial reaction since it seemed like most of the material was “it will then do X which will destroy it”
Heat sinks are your friend, isolation on the board helps.
You can tell it’s a working-class election by Harris and Walz’s dishonesty and lies….
BURN!
You know what time it is? It’s Yasukuni Shrine time. I’d forgotten that it follows H-Bomb time. You can set your watch by it.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/memorial-to-war-dead-or-reminder-of-dark-past-tokyo-shrine-divides-japan-irks-china-1a089bee?st=b3canvs2d3n4rsw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“This will be an interesting case.”
I doubt the WNBA can even come up with an interesting contract dispute.
I am sure the contract basically states “girlpower”, with no clauses re pregnancy, leave, pay disputes, etc.
—“The lawsuit says the Aces promised Hamby “certain benefits and inducements outside of the contract,”—
You fucked up, you trusted us. If certain benefits are that important to you, get them in the contract.
If it’s not in writing, it doesn’t exist.
“The state broke me.”
Was that not what they did to Winston in 1984?
Orwell understood the value of breaking those opposed to the state, then publicly showing their “mea culpa” before offing them…
She had her struggle session and had been reformed.
Yeah.
She learned to love Big Brother.
That just begs to be read in a robotic monotone, doesn’t it.
Gee, also what was her conditions set upon her release? Like the most recent ones I have read they are onerous and overreaching.
Example:
Ridiculous editorializing aside, this is the conditions they are putting people through that were charged and convicted. Maybe Hemphill changed her heart, maybe the Government did it for her. No one will know.
Her public statements of support for the Dem nominee are probably part of her plea deal.
Only half joking.
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
See above of the most recent conviction. Because the person was ‘unrepentant’ and probably still expressed her desire to vote Trump, the conditions are ‘no internet’.
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Interesting thought I just had. I get that an incumbent president utilizing AF1 for ‘campaign’ trips gets fuzzy because they are governing too, even if it is obviously not a governing trip. What about the VP. They really aren’t governing anything and any trip the VP takes at this point, especially with Walz onboard are purely political campaigning. Would be interesting to see the books on if the campaign is paying those.
See conferences in vacation spots.
True. Reason there is rarely an FAA meeting in Vegas.
I recall my time at the NSA. Management rarely attended local conferences. Workers rarely attended remote conferences.
I’d love to see Vance, Harris, Walz, Biden get their salaries docked for the time they are campaigning and not doing their job.
Good morning!
More cultural enrichment
They just wanted to feel like they were back home?
Nicaragua-Mexico friendship edition.
I love the corporate media.
https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1823339387783893155
CORPORATE MEDIA LOVE YOU, TOO. AND BY LOVE, MEAN . . . .
I dunno..Harris-Walz whiney memo might take the cake. Seems Trump was over the target on this one. Still trying to find word if Elon really did offer Kamala too and they declined.
Not sure about behind the scenes, but I saw Elon Musk post on X last night that Kamala was welcome for a similar interview.
I saw the same reaction to his long press conference.
Long…incoherent…rambling
Oddly, none of them had clips to really back up their point.
Mrs OBE said it sounded like he had bridge work done or partials worked on, based on her experience working in dental. Other than that, it was Trump. Make point, jump all over the place, get back to point, jump around, etc, etc.
To paraphrase that movie “Princes’ Bride”: The media keeps using the words “conspiracy theories”, I do not think they know what it means…
Especially in todays world where we keep discovering that conspiracy theories are actually conspiracy truths…
How many things that people used to believe was made nonsense have to be proven true, despite ardent and constant pushback by a bunch of lying cuntes in media, for these losers to feel they are being idiots peddling that shit…
Where are the juicy conspiracy theories?
In a very one-sided conversation on X, Trump vented about a “zombie apocalypse” of immigration, repeatedly blasted President Biden as “stupid” and mused on developing a new missile defense system based on the one that defends Israel.
The Republican standard-bearer also dismissed climate change, whose sea-level rises he said would simply create more real estate opportunities.
Sea level rise is real and unprecedented. That is why coastal real estate can be had for pennies on the dollar here in the United States. People can’t unload their beachfront properties fast enough. Obama was kind enough to buy ocean front estates on two oceans just so no one else would have to suffer the financial ruin of buying them.
Musk and Trump are still pushing the conspiracy theories that Biden has dementia and was forced out of the race. CRAZY!
Soros prosecutors not doing their job. “Defund the police.” Cops retiring in droves and not being replaced. You are 100% guaranteed to have vigilantes.
This week, in
RednecksPrivileged Wypipo in the Mist:In many ways, they’re typical homeschool parents, according to prepandemic U.S. Department of Education data. White families were more than twice as likely to homeschool as Black or Hispanic families. Rural and upper-middle-class families were also more likely to homeschool than their peers.
Between 2003 and 2019, homeschooling grew the fastest among rural, white families like the Schurdells, according to federal survey data.
In most homeschool families, at least one parent has some college education. Victoria Schurdell went to college, studying education, though she never completed her degree. She spent two years interning and substitute teaching in Pasco County schools.
Family time was the driving reason to stay home with her children, but she also had concerns about public schools.
Rich weirdos who (shuffles cards)… want the best outcome for their kids. There oughta be a law! (Hey lady… stop doing that!)
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Awesome. Thanks, Holiness!
Speaking of the vaxx- I stumbled across a thing about Aaron Rodgers yesterday. Some sports writer was huffing and puffing about Rodgers playing word games about being “immunized”. The only reason he got caught was because he tested positive and had to sit out. The best part? This buffoon was claiming Rodgers only caught the plague because he hadn’t been vaccinated with the Approved Holy Cure. Talk about word games.
I see your mistake: thinking these cuntes in the media actually care about telling the truth versus all being owned by people with agendas that are anti common man.
Meanwhile, Fauci has gotten Covid. Again.
Too bad. I really feel sorry for him. Elderly man like that needs daily vaccinations. Can’t be too safe.
Maybe the DNC will move him to the top of the ticket
Walz helped make Minnesota’s tax system one of the most progressive of any state in the country. Through a series of tax cuts, rebates, and credits for low and middle-income Minnesotans and moderate tax hikes on the rich, Walz has helped transform Minnesota’s tax system into one of the few in the nation that is “moderately progressive,” according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Most other states, according to this think tank, tax the rich at lower rates and therefore have tax systems that aren’t progressive at all.
Walz has done a lot on the tax reform front. Facing a multibillion-dollar budget surplus, the governor was able to enact “the largest tax cut in state history.” These tax cuts included the aforementioned child tax credit as well tax rebates of up to $1,300 for working class Minnesotans, which some dubbed “Walz checks.” Walz also cut taxes for recipients of Social Security in Minnesota.
To help pay for these cuts, Walz put a new tax on multinational corporations. He put a one percent surtax on investment income over $1 million a year. Walz also increased taxes on gas to help fund infrastructure.
Robbing Peter to buy Paul’s vote; works every time.
He put a one percent surtax on investment income over $1 million a year.
I’m just gonna assume 401(k) and IRA accounts were not exempt.
I’m going to guess everyone with money moves to Florida the day after they retire.
Yep, most people eat this shit up. Until they find themselves staring into a ditch full of dead people.
Except there’s no reason to be rich and living in Minnesota.
Well, there is Prince. Oh shit, never mind.
There was a time when the benefits outweighed the costs. I knew lots of rich dudes who lived there in their giant lake places or cool condos downtown. Those days are loooooooong gone.
We just recently had our state per capita gdp drop below the average in the US. First time that ever happened. Why?
Because poor people keep moving in to get generous bennies and rich people move to TN or FL to avoid taxes.
Uffda. WTF is this person talking about?
We had a $17B surplus. And Walz still raised taxes. He gave out a pittance in rebates. And now the entire surplus is gone and we are running a deficit. Because of course, they used the surplus to start all sorts of new offices and programs. You know shit that needs to be paid for every year.
Every year he was governor, he wanted a $.20 gas tax even though he mostly had surpluses. He’d just ramble about needing that money for “infrastructure” but never actually said exactly what it was that needed to be fixed.
This 14.8 ft (4.5 m) anime-style transformer robot can be piloted by a real person and it looks like we’re this close to a real Gundam.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1823343131577786783
Water released from the Verbund Hydro Power dam, located in Austria.
20,000 liters per second, travelling at 50m/s with 190 m of water exerting pressure.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1823318431451537683
Bird launcher
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1823226726538682378
He looked angry.
Water released
So, I drank a lot of beer last night…
Bird Launcher
Poodle Launcher
Squirrel Launcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjYLRLwphcs
I’m guessing that’s for real old school pigeon shoots. The kind with live, not clay, pigeons.
no one can shoot a real pidgen they are too fast. Humans cant aim that fast.
How do you have sex with that?
lots of grease ?
A can-do attitude and a light coat of gear oil.
Enough courage?
BREAKING: Former Mesa, CO Clerk and Election Patriot Tina Peters Found Guilty on 7 of 10 Charges
Sickening. How long can this shit continue?
heat death of the universe?
Infuriating.
Well of course her defenses were excluded, she might have been found not guilty otherwise and we can’t have that now.
Uffda. I must be the biggest sissy in Minnesoda. You can’t swing a cat in Minnesoda and not hit someone who had defrauded the state out of a million bucks or so. Am I a naïve rube for thinking that I could go to jail for stealing a million bucks?
At least these guys put in some work. The examples I was listing yesterday were just lazy bastards who’d email someone at a govt office and tell them to send the payments to a different bank account. And it worked. Over and over.
not just in Minnesoda.
Justice at last
Crews on Monday tore down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017, using heavy machinery to raze the small building even after some families sought to preserve the scene of the deadliest church shooting in U.S. history.
A judge cleared the way last month for the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs to tear down the sanctuary where the attack took place, which until now had been kept as a memorial. Church members voted in 2021 to tear it down, but some families in the community of less than 1,000 people filed a lawsuit hoping for a new vote on the building’s fate.
Authorities put the number of dead in the Nov. 5, 2017, shooting at 26 people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. After the shooting, the interior of the sanctuary was painted white and chairs with the names of those who were killed were placed there. A new church was completed for the congregation about a year and a half after the shooting.
That building can’t kill anybody else, now. Praise de lawd.
In spite of all our cool toys, we really are just a few steps out of the cave.
We’re the smartest monkeys
By this logic, the capitol building in DC should be demolished.
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I think the logic requires that somebody other than a Bad Person be shot or beaten to death in order for the building to be demolished. So, no, Ashley Babbitt and Roseann Boyland don’t count.
Perhaps I’m insensitive or lacking in empathy or some other bullshit, but these displays of naked animism make me weep for the future of my people…
I’m right there with you. I have no issue with memorials being included, but there’s no reason to tear down a perfectly good structure because something terrible happened there.
Render unto the shooter what is the shooter’s…
Sounds like the church (organization) itself wanted the church (building) demolished. Their property, their call.
I agree with this, of course. I’m saying that their call is a bad one, both practically and spiritually.
“Trump suggests he will flee to Venezuela if he loses the election because it is ‘far safer’ than the U.S.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13738331/donald-trump-elon-musk-venezuela-flee-election-migrants.html
Way to miss the point.
“How dare they do this! Imagine the temerity of Jews praying on the Temple Mount. Outrageous!”
I am not a super ‘ra-ra, go Israel’ guy, but I’m also not above enjoying seeing the feefees of sensitive snow flakes being hurt. And most of all, that’s just religious freedom. So yeah, stuck agreeing with the ultra far right again.
Change of heart?
Trump endorsed electric vehicles in his Monday night interview with Musk as strongly as he ever has. “Your cars don’t require too much gasoline,” he told Musk. “You do make a great product … That doesn’t mean everybody should have an electric car, but these are minor details, but your product is incredible.”
But former California regulators and auto industry analysts aren’t banking on Musk, who built Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker with the help of California subsidies, helping to soften Trump’s attacks on California’s nation-leading EV policies.
“Do I believe for a second this will result in Donald Trump supporting EVs? No,” said Craig Segall, a former deputy executive officer at the California Air Resources Board who now serves as vice president of the environmental group Evergreen Action, after Trump said last week that he has to be for electric cars, “because Elon endorsed me very strongly.”
Trump’s campaign, meanwhile, shows no signs of backing down on its promise to undermine state and federal emissions rules. When asked whether Musk’s support has pushed Trump to reconsider his plan to revoke California’s clean cars waiver and undo the Biden administration’s federal emissions standards, the campaign responded Monday with a statement from Republican National Committee spokesperson Anna Kelly blasting EV mandates.
Trump doesn’t want to ban internal combustion vehicles, either. What an asshole.
Oh, fer fuck’s sake. EVs have a use case, and by almost any measure Tesla makes the best ones for most people. Trump can say that, and still be opposed to outlawing ICEs, subsidizing the shit out of EVs, etc.
These rudimentary binary thinkers (everything not prohibited is mandatory, and everything not mandatory is prohibited) really grind my gears.
That little exchange is why I can’t stand to listen to Trump. He really does pander just like any other politician.
Of course, he panders because he is a politician and he’d be an absolute fool to not pander to Musk the Friendly Quarter Trillionaire.
Libertarianism, or in this context, right-wing libertarianism, refers to the ultra-indivdualist and highly idealistic ideologies that view the government as the primary force that reduces their “liberty”, and view capitalism as a largely voluntary and effective system. Similar to liberals, libertarians put a large amount of stock in the ideas of “natural law”, but unlike liberals, libertarians take “natural law”, as well as individualism, to a much more extreme conclusion, to the point where many of them are willing to deprive the poor and needful of basic social programs all in the goal of creating an idealistic “free-market” utopia.[1][2][3]
Right-wing libertarians can be broadly split into three groups: mainstream libertarians (those who make up the majority of the movement, and whom are the least extreme), “minarchists” (those who want a “minimal state”), and anarcho-capitalists (who are the most idealistic and extreme).[4] Furthermore, while libertarians are some of the most fanatical apologists of capitalism, they are often times rather progressive on certain social issues, such as drug prohibition, firearm ownership, and mass incarceration of the poor.[5]
In spite of libertarianism being, in theory, an anti-state ideology, libertarians often have a trend of embracing white-supremacist ideas, and otherwise fascist ideology. This trend is known as the Alt-Right Pipeline.[6] Additionally, people such as Gavin McInnes, founder of the neo-fascist paramilitary group known as the Proud Boys, and Ben Shapiro, a devout Trumpist and white-supremacist commentator, have identified themselves as libertarians.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Libertarianism
So the progressives want to get rid of the FDA, BATFE, and victimless crimes?
The only thing I care less about than neo-communist commentary on libertarianism, is neo-communist commentary on anything else…
“Ben Shapiro, a devout Trumpist and white-supremacist commentator”
What?
“Big Khazar milkers” is a white supremacist shibboleth.
Sounds like the church (organization) itself wanted the church (building) demolished. Their property, their call.
Reading the whole thing it sounds like the church elders want a shiny new pyramid, but a not-insignificant subset of the congregation doesn’t.
Internal church squabbling is so endemic in Texas that there is an entire subspecialty of mediators for it.
Tesla also squabbled with regulators when they sought to limit EV rebates to companies that abide by “fair and responsible” labor practices, which he said would disadvantage his Fremont factory. And the political gulf between Musk and California Democrats has only grown. Last month, he again threatened to move his other companies’ headquarters, this time SpaceX and X, from California to Texas in protest of new state protections for transgender students in schools.
Why would he object to being blackmailed into letting the UAW in?
Finished writing up these darn performance goals for my direct reports.
Now waiting for my supervisor to sign off on them before I go and tell my people what we expect of them in greater detail. (They already know, but forms must be followed)
Auto industry analysts are also skeptical that Trump’s softened language on EVs will result in a real policy shift or prevent him from going after federal EV credits, which Musk has indicated he’d be fine with gutting.
Trump is “going to take a step back from making EVs a punching bag,” said Nick Nigro, founder of EV analysis firm Atlas Public Policy. “But that doesn’t mean that he’s going to become a staunch advocate of EVs in the near term.”
No more price supports for EVs? Oh, HORROR. The nation is doomed.
That little exchange is why I can’t stand to listen to Trump. He really does pander just like any other politician.
He wants to be loved. Just like every other politician.
Just buy the socks, Brooks.
Colorado taxes the taxes…
She shares a photo of her itemized receipt totaling $114.57. The math may sound easy as a 2.5% PIF should equal $2.86. But the PIF in turn gets hit by Colorado’s 2.9% sales tax, which gets mighty confusing unless you’re standing in line next to an accountant.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/colorado-shopper-confused-mysterious-2-100800213.html