The Dodgers are on the brink of winning the World Series. The Steelers won an exciting, albeit very ugly, game against the Giants and somehow sit atop the AFC North. ManUre fired Ten Hag. And a player from the Premier League won the Ballon D’Or. And that’s it for sports.
OK, I understand this headline. And so do the owners of those papers. But they also understand that their ever-shrinking readership is a problem. As is their refusal reach out to a broader base of people.
I hope he has his affairs in order. Because I feel pretty confident I know how this is gonna turn out in a few weeks.
I’d like to say I’m shocked, but I’m not. They all need to go to jail. The kids deserve a lot better than this. And so do the taxpayers.
I wonder what he’s gonna say now that he’s out. Hopefully something about political trials and two-tiered justice systems. Ands I hope he screams it into a megaphone in front of Eric Holder’s house.
The word “threat” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. First off, he actually wished the opposite of harm on the guy. Second, the dude literally had just called him a Nazi. And lastly, the target of his barb has literally called for the death of all non-Muslims and is generally a piece of shit human being that even MSNBC found unpalatable.
This is not a smart person. But we already knew that.
And in that same vein… These might be the dumbest people in America.
This is gonna go even worse than the one in New York. But some Irish people might get a free trip to the US to be witnesses in a crime. So that’s an upside.
And I’m closing with some amazingly good news. This is exactly what America needs. God bless these wonderful people for doing the right thing for humanity.
Let’s keep it fun today. These guys make that easy. Especially with tracks like this. No wonder that ugly man married a supermodel. He was a genius. Enjoy.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
GO DODGERS!!!
Dodgers be damned — GO LOBSTER GIRL!
Thanks for the smile to start the day there, Sloopy! Always a classic.
Sometimes it’s nice to do nice things for nice people.
Yeah, but you did it for this hive of reprobates anyway! 😉
@SDF – I had thought to make a similar joke, but decided not to.
Now I see I should have taken the opportunity presented.
They sure are playing close to flawless baseball.
I pull for the Dodgers because the Montreal Royals were the farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers. My grandfather used to go watch Campanella, Lasorda, Drysdale, Snider, Hodges, Clemente, Altobelli, Alston, and of course Robinson.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/montreal-royals-team-ownership-history/
‘For’ the Brooklyn blah, blah etc.
What’s up, Muppet – haven’t seen you around in a while.
Busy giving lectures on how to manage anal conditions.
Howdy, Rufus.
/narrows gaze.
Fuck the Dodgers.
I hope he has his affairs in order. Because I feel pretty confident I know how this is gonna turn out in a few weeks. – don’t be sop bloodthirsty I am sure he will have a long successful career.
Of all people to call someone else “bloodthirsty”!
“Write what you know!”
I’d like to say I’m shocked, but I’m not. They all need to go to jail. The kids deserve a lot better than this. And so do the taxpayers.
Do you know how hard it is to be a teacher? You work long hours grading papers and need to buy supplies with your own money!
That reminds me that I need to go fill out my mail-in ballot (because there really isn’t anything else in CA now… show up in person and your ballot just goes in a drop box… yay…).
Said ballot has I swear in the exact same language the Perpetual “Fix leaking roof / run down class rooms” bond increase that has been on every single fucking ballot since I moved to this county. One really weeps at the concept that no one else is paying attention and ever wondering… “Wait a minute… what happened to the last 12 of these?!?”
grumble bitch moan complain….
I vote no on all school budgets/tax requests.
My idiot neighbors…
Reminds me of Peter’s pence, funds supposedly donated to repair the Sistine Chapel, or some other building in Rome that never seemed to get fixed . . .
Oh come now — really? The evil plot to have Banjos do Mondays so you don’t have to discuss F1 if you don’t feel like it is working! 😉
Given how many (interminable to the rest of y’all) times I’ve harped on how Max keeps driving people off the road as a tactic and he never gets called on it… was more than a little curious on your thoughts on his 2×10 second Mexican Grand Prix penalties. “Finally!” was about the sum of my reactions…. Maybe he’ll tone it down before he really does wreck somebody.
He deserved one of the two penalties. And it should have been even more severe. They probably should have parked him and made sure he didn’t score any points at all.
I can see that — I assume you mean the T8 insanity one? I don’t remember the exact problem with T4 (I think it was 4), but it did seem more “normal” compared with the “almost wreck Lando” crap that I was thinking “black flag him!” for… I just figured I was too predisposed to coming down like a hammer on that for it to be likely. 😉
Yeah, for turn 8. Turn 4, there was no way Lando was gonna make that corner with a full load of fuel and the line he was on coupled with his ridiculously high rate of speed (he was going 15 kph faster than he entered the corner on the proper line in his fastest lap of the race on lap 68).
The crazy part is that they would have not issued a penalty at all for his turn 8 move had he just given the place back.
The stewards really need to get their act together and/or the FIA needs to rewrite the rules package on who has the right to a corner when someone runs way too deep but technically is ahead at an apex.
Yup… no argument from me. Make it crystal clear and stick to it. And if need be harp on it a few times for idiot fans like me who feel like it is too reckless if that’s actually going to be allowed.
I was listening to the Sky feed (I just am more comfortable with their commentators… though I’m weird enough that I still miss the ones NBC had when they were allowed to do it) and they called out that the drivers need to hash this out with the stewards, so I think the sentiment is there.
One of the commentators pointed out that we are going to see more of this with 4 teams bunched much closer to the front for much longer stretches of the race than we’ve had in the past.
Max was a dick but his team hung his ass out to dry by not telling him to give the spot back pronto.
More interestingly, does Checo have a chance of keeping his seat next year? At this point, signs point to no.
Checo is a drag on the team – hard to win a constructor’s championship with only one car scoring points.
RB aside, I think Ferrari is nuts for swapping Sainz for Hamilton at this point in Hamilton’s career.
Sainz will be a big pickup for Williams.
OK, I understand this headline. And so do the owners of those papers. But they also understand that their ever-shrinking readership is a problem. As is their refusal torch out to a broader base of people.
You know, newspaper refusing to endorse was how Hitler got into power. Think about that.
Der Speigel?
Bezos has a column in the Washington Post today explaining his decision. The comments are insane. link
I love how that KC Star story uses the word “pounce”.
The “NRA training counselor” also blamed the reporter for getting too close. If you were the counselor, why did you allow the reporter to get close? Just say we fucked up and move on.
If cops or politicians invite you to go shooting, say, “Fuck no!” and run. I lost count of all the ways this was a shitshow…
While I appreciate the sentiment, I soon remember that this is Taco bell.
I was going to say that I am a shareholder, but PepsiCo spun off the restaurant arm into its own company before I bought stock, so… it’s just Taco Bell.
Where is that chihuahua that used to say “You quiero Taco Hell”?
It was put down.
Because it had the mad squirts?
I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a Taco Bell. If I have, it must have been when I was very young.
I haven’t been to Taco Bell since the 90s, so the new old menu wouldn’t be different for me.
That was one heck of a Caribbean lobster on that pic..
Wish it was me 🙂
Taco Bell sees the writing on the wall and started making it’s move to become the only restaurant in San Angeles
Well, according to Ideocracy, the big companies that win, will be the ones that also include sex. Like the place you can get lattes and handjobs.
Oh come on this was not an Ideocracy[sic] reference
Yeah, but you expect Alex to respond with mellow greetings?
Starbucks is here to stay.
Those places already exist in the PNW, according to news reports.
I 1000% could see Alex giving us a full on Edgar Friendly rant, actually.
“I 1000% could see Alex giving us a full on Edgar Friendly rant, actually.”
He gets me!!!
No, Alex, I wager your real personality and online persona don’t look alike. You’re definately someone who reports to Associate Bob.
My online and real life personalities are practically 90% in alignment. I am an equal opportunity hater and offender.
I am perpetually angry that I now live in a time I need to watch how I say things because so many people are uneducated and stupid people looking to be offended.
That was on last weekend.
I watched most of it.
Hmm… is that a sign of a mob mentality, that they’re trying to inflame tensions — or just their plan for the rabble?
More seriously — I surprisingly agree with Bezos on this. I don’t think anyone is seriously swayed by newspaper endorsements (unlike union especially SEIU endorsements, which will almost automatically move me in the opposite direction) and I do think it fosters their appearance of bias. If I were Bezos I’d start by firing their “fact checker” who’s literally been caught out multiple times on bias — get some actual neutral folks for that role and then start on finding editors that aren’t activists. On the plus side, the activist ones will probably quit in protest… so that’ll save on severance.
That said — I don’t know the long term “fix” for newspapers… the answer may well be that there isn’t one and blogs / podcasts are the replacements and we’ll just have to adjust/adapt to figure out trustworthiness (much like we seemed to after Yellow Journalism — which as I’ve seen more in this life I feel just got subtle like Cronkite…. biased as hell, but limited enough and savvy enough to not make it obvious).
There’s your insurmountable task.
“I don’t know the long term “fix” for newspapers…”
There is none. It’s a form of communication that has become obsolete due to the internet and the speed of information. Like the buggy whip.
I keep thinking that if an organization could remove most of the slant and do actual good reporting, then people would pay a modest subscription fee. However, the aggregators would just poach the good stories and people wouldn’t need to subscribe.
I miss getting buggy whips from home when I was away.
Print is mostly dead. And there’s waaaaay too many online outlets for an ultra-partisan media outlet to be the voice of a nation anymore.
They will either retreat further into their bubble (most likely) and Bezos will sell them off, or they’ll become an actual reporting agency with little editorializing and see a moderate level of financial success (very unlikely, as the people they’ll need to attend as paying customers largely write them off a long time ago).
And there’s waaaaay too many online outlets for an ultra-partisan media outlet to be the voice of a nation anymore.
There was an opportunity to carve out a social role in the new landscape, but the newspapers pissed all over it by turning up the bias instead of ratcheting it down. They deserve their inevitable demise.
“As is their refusal torch out to a broader base of people.”
Hilarious and appropriate typo as their “torching” and demonizing of normal people is what got them here in the first place.
Except papers have always been biased. The difference today is that only a handful of cities have more than one paper anymore.
The long term fix is that newspapers die with the Boomers.
When will they bring back the original Taco Bell?
Maybe. Personally, I wouldn’t blame him one iota if he at least waits a week (or two… given the Nevada court decision) to see who wins and avoids poking the Federal Bear more than he needs to if we’re stuck with Kamala The Frog puppet after finding sufficient ballots in the swing states.
Taco Bell is bringing back the chalupa, which they call a tostada, as opposed to their chalupa which is actually a gordita, which is not the same thing as their gordita.
Just let us have our delicious, misnamed “Mexican” “food,” ok?
When will Mexico sue Taco Bell for defamation?
Pretty sure she was ragging more on Chili’s… but obligatory. And since we were blessed with Lobster Girl — obligatory palate cleanser for those who aren’t fans of Rachel Bloom.
The double-decker taco and the chili cheese Fritos burrito were my favorites.
I never go there, because I eat fast food while driving, and it’s too messy.
Some people don’t like to take pills or mix fiber into their drinks to fix their constipation problems, I guess…
I don’t understand you people with weak GI tracts. Likewise, no capsaicin has ever made it through my digestive system intact.
I used to fully digest capsaicin, but then my gall bladder got taken out. I figure the loss of bile regulation means some gets passed undigested.
“I don’t understand you people with weak GI tracts. Likewise, no capsaicin has ever made it through my digestive system intact.”
Having gone through SERE I have eaten bark, insects, and some real dubious plants, and had zero problems. I also love all sorts of cuisine ranging from heavy French & Italian all the way to heavily spiced Mexican and Indian and have never had issues. But I have eaten taco Hell twice in my life (around the same time I did SERE), and both times I ended up with the rocket squirts.
That stuff is shit.
I don’t get it. I’ve eaten Chili’s, Taco Bell, other fast food (albeit infrequently) and never once have I had a bad reaction.
Question:
Is part of your/US military personnel training about “these plants and animal in your deployment area are edible, these are poisonous?”
Yes. It was a component of it. But with various environments.
“And in that same vein… These might be the dumbest people in America.”
My favorite part of this ridiculous story is the revelation that the guy that hosted the event and was showing off all his guns is currently in court getting a divorce. And because his soon to be ex-wife labeled him a threat to her safety, the state had confiscated his fire arms and legally prohibited him from owning one. I guess he told them some of those guns were lost in a boating accident before he decided to show the world he had lied.
Genius.
Ill give that guy the benefit of the doubt. Sounds like a messy divorce and appears he was acquitted by a jury. If all true that aspect of he, is not the issue. The paper reported he identified as the NRA training counselor. If so, NRA would be best to cut ties with him because if that is what they are putting out as training counselors, they are worse off than what I already think they are.
Jeff Bezos https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
The Washington Post owner confirming why I thought he allowed no endorsement.
Meh. As long as you label it “Opinion”, lie away.
Bias masquerading as news is a different story.
From a team I refuse to watch – surprise. That guy must not be getting himself in front of a camera like several of his teammates are more skilled at. 🙄
So… you’re saying he’s the perfect guest for CNN these days?
Like a stopped clock being correct twice a day – here is the UN:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trans-ideology-has-womens-sports-on-the-ropes-2854e451?st=LZWMbS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Turtle Bay? Before or after the Smoke Jaguars paid a visit?
Uh huh.
myself, when I hear colonialism first think I think is badminton.
Not cricket?
They have to toss in some postmodern gibberish so anyone will take them seriously.
These are the fuckers that will buy a robot arm to jerk them off, but claim it is to wash dishes, because buying a sex doll will be a dead giveaway.
So they are acting like jealous high school girl cliques and ragging on people they feel unfairly make more money or get more fame than they do? Who would have thunk that! The UN is a fucking terror organization, anway.
How very unenlightened.
Not that I follow sports much anymore but the Chiefs look like they’re gonna surpass the Patriots dominance at this rate.
Also, people are retarded. Serious unfettered retardation when it comes to Trump and RFK Jr. Ooo nelly, the pearl clutching retardation. There oughta be a law against retardation. And if retard had a face it would be Hasan.
“Also, people are retarded.”
I used to battle the universe’s penchant for creating stupid people back when I was young and naive, and it was a losing battle. These days I basically accept Einstein’s premise that the two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
It had to be worse for Einstein — probably 95 percent of humanity seemed stupid to him, so naturally it seemed abundant. I’m only looking down on probably 20 percent or so — like Kamala and the ricochet gang cited above. Stupid and Successful (with exceptions — I understand completely Stupid, Successful because Pretty when it comes to entertainment… that’s a lot of ’em) is what exasperates me on a personal note.
Pretty much. Gotta just look in horror.
To whit (wit?):
https://x.com/CaulfieldTim/status/1850957770834452851
This is Canada’s ‘public health law professor’ or some crap. He has influence. And look at what retardation looks like in his X account.
Just eat your Red Dye #10 and your corn syrup with fructose and shut the hell up.
I am certain that WP:RS will tell me the cheating scandal is totes the fault of those awful republicans taking over the school district.
I’m making a note here — huge success.
Chiraq:
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-826386#google_vignette
Lobster girl! Are we begging for more money for the site?
And 20,000 others.
But really, you’re on CNN dune. The only winning move is not to play. You are not going to win that argument there.
dunedudeIf you’re saying we should feed them all to sandworms, you get my vote.
And a player from the Premier League won the Ballon D’Or.
And no doubt Vinicius Jr will be whining about racism. And apparently Real Madrid have racist fans – at least racist when it comes to Barcelona players, not their own black players – them are totes okay.
I mean it is not like Spaniards count as white.
You saying that cause those moors dominated half that country and used to do the wild thing with the local ladies?
Other than Man City, Real Madrid might be the only other team I refuse to watch. It’s whiny spoiled brats all the way down on both.
Off Topic – I’ve been trying to figure out a reliable way to cook bacon-wrapped scallops, but I keep running into a problem with the difference in required cooking time. Either that, or liquid coming out of the scallops slows the bacon’s cooking time.
Anyone got a fix for this? All I can think of is par-cooking the bacon before wrapping the scallops, but then it becomes a question of “for how long?”
I don’t think that’s actually doable without some serious high-tech equipment.
Tangentially, the best scallops I’ve ever had were at Morimoto’s place in Philly. Live scallops, pulled out of the tank, the meat removed and sashimi’d, a drizzle of boiling chili oil to give both cooked and raw meat. So freaking good. Excellent with the champagne they served it with.
I’ve had them before, so it’s possible. And I don’t think they had any high tech anything.
I think you’re destined to have one of the two undercooked or overcooked unless par cook the bacon. Then you gotta cook them in oil at a fairly high temp and get at least half the scallop covered.
Wait, are you pan frying or broiling them?
I’ve tried both. Since I haven’t gotten a working combination, I’m open to recommendations.
make crispy bacon. Cook the scallops perfectly. Sprinkle bacon bits on the scallops. Don’t wrap, it is pointless.
Well, you’re just wrong about that.
This. Unless you’re looking to impress somebody why bother.
The textural contrast is the whole purpose of the dish!
Crumbles do not have the right texture for anything but salad topping.
Make correctly fried bacon. Make a slit in scallop, insert bacon. Cook scallop appropriately?
I’d try baking or pan searing, laying the scallops on their side and turning frequently so the bacon gets cooked faster.
They should come up with some sort of thing where you can hook up your computer to other computers, and you can watch videos on just about any topic.
That’s just silly. Who would make use of that?
Joe Rogan
@joerogan
Also, for the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.
https://x.com/joerogan/status/1851118464447971595
You can’t humanize a psycho bitch-witch.
now now don’t get all radicalized on us
Did she cave on the “no conditions” rule? Of course, if she gives him only an hour (which will probably actually be 50 minutes or less) she could run the clock out.
He’s being very diplomatic, which is good. But he’s now the one who came out first and said what happened, so the Harris camp can’t spin it as “he wouldn’t let her in without ridiculous demands.”
Smart move on his part.
And she does travel for podcasts, so her demands of course are ridiculous.
If they want to do it in a different location and a different format/time, then I would say that they have, indeed passed on the podcast and are just bobbing and weaving to run out the clock. The podcast is 3 hours in Austin. They said no to that.
Yep. Set pre-conditions that can not be followed and then come back and say it wasn’t your fault.
Same ol’ shit.
My understanding is that Trump originally wanted to do his interview from Mar a Lago and Rogan refused.
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
https://thecritic.co.uk/there-is-no-woke-right/
The membership criteria of the modern Left is unquestioning conformity to the logic of liberal progressivism. All non-whites are oppressed; gender is a social construct; and human nature is a Blank Slate shaped by education, and economic circumstances. Technology, state power, and consciousness-raising cultural products must be used to usher us into an egalitarian utopia. As a result, the Right has become a refugee camp for heterodox thinkers.
Yet cracks are showing in this anti-Woke coalition. Charges of Wokeness are now being levelled at various figures by politically homeless liberals. The problem is, the term “Woke Right” is ill-defined, self-contradictory, and a tactical blunder for an anti-Woke coalition to use.
Ponce de Leon, who lives in Las Vegas, brought the car into a local dealership earlier this month, hoping to trade it in.
The dealership told him the Volvo was worth roughly $24,000, just under half of the roughly $50,000 he still owed on his loan from USAA. A week later, he and his partner visited another dealership where employees told them the car’s value had dropped to $20,000.
“We want another electric vehicle eventually but we’re going to have to wait till our negative equity is much less,” Ponce de Leon said. “We just didn’t expect it to be this high.”
Don’t worry – just wrap it into a new note and continue driving things you can’t afford.
Their Car Is Totaled, but They Still Owe Years of Payments
Roughly a third of people who financed cars owe more than their vehicles are worth, which can be consequential once they get rid of the car
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/auto-loans-negative-equity-aa742965?st=nZgc3x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Their Car Is Totaled – well the insurance money should cover that
Also electric cars losing value is a known fact for years one cannot claim to be surprised at it
In the US you get the value of the car and not the amount financed. There is an optional product called “gap insurance” for exactly this purpose.
Most people, but not all get it because the manufacturer finance companies require it. OTH, Bob’s used cars selling to the less affluent and knowledgeable won’t care.
Depends on the insurance. If you’re only carrying the required liability, your own car isn’t covered by your insurance, just the damage you do to others. If you’re carrying more comprehensive, it might cover the value of the car at the time of loss.
I only got $2,500 for my Focus when the Buick parked in the wheel well, because it wasn’t that new.
well yes but for cars that do not drop in value to much, that is not that far off usually.
Now, if you finance an electric car for more than 50k, that’s just kinda silly
If you’re only carrying the required liability, your own car isn’t covered by your insurance – again, this would be dumb for a new car which is financed. I had full insurance for the first 7 or 8 years of my car, after that I only got the liability.
Here, if you finance full insurance is a requirement. But for a new car first 5-6 years even if you buy money down, it is a reasonable idea to have full insurance. Never know what happens.
If it’s financed they have to carry full coverage for collision and comp. Gap is not mandatory.
“Everything will be safer once we regulate the auto industry to death so the plebians are forced into mass transit!”
The real problem here is that 5 year notes for cars are now routine. You go underwater immediately on driving it off the lot, and pay mostly interest for the first few years while the car continues to depreciate.
People bought on 4 and 5 year for decades, the real issue is people now financing for 6-10 years. At one bank website, it defaults the car loan calculator to 6 years and you have to dial it back.
It’s been so long since I borrowed for a car. I thought it was 3 year loans as the standard until five years ago, maybe a little more, and then it crept up to five. I had no idea people were taking out ten year notes on cars.
Dealers make their money servicing vehicles. OEMs make their money financing vehicles.
When new cars cost as much as a house used to to cost, you need to get a mini-mortgage to buy a car.
Jesus Christ, if you have to take out a tem year note to afford a car, you can’t afford that car. Buy something you can afford.
My first car (non-used) was 2008 – 5 yr loan. I bought a preowned in 2015 on a 5 year loan. Expect the next one will be 5 yrs or less. I can always pay it off sooner.
He’s going to grow old paying for that car.
How a slice of cheese almost derailed Europe’s most important rocket test
“Yes, it was indeed Gruyère cheese, and it almost caused a disaster!” acknowledged GSP president Jérémy Marciacq.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/how-cheese-slice-almost-derailed-rocket-test
“A team of students made history this month by performing Europe’s first rocket hop test.
Those who have followed SpaceX’s trajectory will know hop tests are a vital stepping stone for a reusable rocket program, as they allow engineers to test their rocket’s landing capabilities.
Impressively, no private company or space agency in Europe had ever performed a rocket hop test before. Essentially, a group of students performed one of the most important rocket tests in the history of European rocketry. ”
Europe is coming back baby! SpaceX is toast in 10 years
because of the Gruyère?
I notice the article does not address the single biggest question – why did you guys even attach the cheese to the rocket?
If you’re sitting the rocket back down — it is important to know the stress on your dairy air.
why did you guys even attach the cheese to the rocket?
French engineering.
*opera applause*
why does anyone do anything UCS?
Genetic breakdown of modern Turks from Anatolia
p : 0.280
~36.4% Anatolian Farmer
~17.2% Zagrosian Farmer
~14.4% Caucasus HG
~11.7% SlabGrave Culture
~10% Natufian HG
~10.3% East-Euro HG
https://x.com/sapphiregnm/status/1850607946243174892
SlabGrave = bronze age mongolia
Which one is “Greek?”
I expect greek have a mix of those as well with less SlabGrave and maybe Zagrosian
Genetic breakdown of modern Georgian.
p : 0.577
~35.7% Anatolian Farmer
~29.5% Caucasus HG
~18.5% Zagrosian Farmer
~9.4% East-Euro HG
~6.9% Natufian HG
https://x.com/sapphiregnm/status/1850914642454831235
Great useful info. to bring to the daycare. And dinner tonight.
The curious thing to me was how the proggies ever thought they were the majority of Dems, which they aren’t, even more than their insane belief they were the majority of the country.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease…
They’re illiberal retards.
Let’s keep it academic around here.
No but they were able to do massive amounts of damage over the last decade+.
They have. But I hope and pray everyone else is as tired of this as everyone else.
Since when the fuck were they not?
-Green new deal? Check. Ban Fracking? Check. Abortion up to and including after birth? Check. Packing the supreme court? Check. Unlimited immigration? Check. Unlimited spending? Check. Widespread support for BLM and the race baiters? Check. Condemnation of Israel? Check. Imprisoning political opponents? Check. Weaponizing 3 letter agencies against wrong-thinkers? Check. Transing the kids? Check.
What position did they not get?
All of this openly supported not just by AOC and the squad but by a national presidential nominee and virtually all of the dems in Congress.
The Dems have been relying on their now shaky coalition for decades in order to get away with all their radical shit. They had pandering to each one’s conflicting wishes down to an exquisite art form.
It’s falling apart and it’s glorious.
Case in point: The reason minorities are moving toward Trump is that their communities are flooded with migrants, which bring a whole host of problems, and those migrants get free money and housing while citizens struggle financially.
Case in point 2: Big donors are Jewish, but college radicals support Hamas.
It’s falling apart and it’s glorious.
Killjoy – you’ll take all the hate right out of them.
I pointed out to someone once that every time you push one of the Green New Deal (or whatever they called it at any given point in time) it kills job creation, usually in the poorer parts of the country. And guess who works those jobs? Poor whites, and poor blacks. And, as we see time and time again, cutting off the black job creation system puts them back were they were, economically and socially, 10-20 years before that. So they create work arounds: Afirmative Action, DEI, and so on.
And now, how is that working out for them?
They are in influential positions that have a small bubble.
For the dog lovers
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OT- You still in Asia or you back in the US?
On a mini vacation in Jeju Island Korea.
Nice! Coming back to the US after that or staying more in Asia?
Your Holiness – did you catch this delightful clip of comedian Bobby Lee learning some Korean history when I posted it the other night?
https://youtu.be/KMPAAuG2pH8
Just the thing to share with any new Korean friends.
(contains salty language)
Hilarious.
Aside from the DMZ, make sure you visit Gangwha island. The forts there are great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_expedition_to_Korea
Never knew we had bombarded Korea in the 19th century until I visited the tourist site. Great views too. I have pics somewhere.
Just remember to pay for your kinks on Jeju and not kill the enforcer for the yakuza.
/insert Pierre Taki clip from Outrage Coda here
Oh bravo.
hey, Tundra, an article about a Matador band you might find interesting
https://mcbrodie.substack.com/p/alex-ross-perrys-hall-of-mirrors
Nice find, Zwak! Thank you!
Not sure I’ll see the movie, but I was (am) a huge fan.
Is that a regular stack for you?
No, I just came across it. But, I have always been a fan if Pavement, and, oddly, they are from the same shitty small city my father grew up in, I used to work in, and my wife recovered from a broken back in.
Stockton?
I had family in Galt and Antioch (when it was still rural).
Another speedrun from “it’s not happening” to “it’s happening and it’s good that it’s happening” in under 24 hours.
This time it’s a former Seattle Public Schools principal who thinks schools shouldn’t support kids with the talent to go to Stanford
https://x.com/NielsHoven/status/1850933982931624295
Stanford is overrated
Stanford is over-rated. The list of words you cannot use was the nail in the coffin.
This is the same school district that banned AP classes because racism.
I worked for Taco Bell in 1998. The gordita came out while I was working there. 99 cents for any variety. We got $5 free food per shift, and it was glorious.
If they brought back 99 cent gorditas (Fiesta chicken – original varieties were Fiesta, Supreme, and Santa Fe), I’d hit them up.
We can not let the gaijin take control of this national treasure!
That said convivence stores in Japan are not the same as the US. However, why would you purchase this company with the intention to change the way it successfully operates? It’s also not like you can’t go to a Lawson or a Family Mart. So once again, why would you let the quality slip?
https://www.wsj.com/business/7-eleven-acquisition-japan-high-quality-food-437e1534?st=qtuhii&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The issue is that the unaccountable relationship that the Japanese companies have with shareholders could come to and end. It’s one of many reasons that Japanese companies have depressed values compared to even peers in Europe let alone the US.
will they still sell schoolgirl panties?
Never underestimate people’s stupidity.
Really strange things are afoot at the Japanese Circle K.
Not anymore. FamilyMart bought Circle K in Japan about 10 years ago.
(reads article)
Apparently not. The 7-11 on my corner is a garbage dump that I only visit as a last resort.
Yes, in my corner of the world Wawa would be much preferred.
They only came to northern NJ in the past 15 years or so. No Sheetz in NJ unfortunately.
“However, why would you purchase this company with the intention to change the way it successfully operates?”
Because the managerial class has to demonstrate they are worth their salaries, and the only way they can think to do that is by pushing out a continuous stream of “change” and “innovation”?
Believe me I get M&A and corporate restructuring. However, this isn’t a distressed situation so you wouldn’t walk in saying this. You do it on the sly and destroy it over a series of years while getting rich.
See Boeing pre 737Max debacle and Ford pre 2010.
Funny how 2 of the three conbini chains started in the U.S. (7Eleven, Lawson).
I didn’t know Lawson was originally US based.
Yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_(store)#Origins_in_Ohio
If NPR’s report is true, that would be a startling blow to an outlet that lost money and shed staff despite having more than 2.5 million subscribers last year. A Post spokeswoman would not comment on the report.
Maybe it means they should have pulled their tongue out of the Democrat Party’s ass a long time ago.
And leave the Democratic party mute?
Ford, warranty costs? No way…
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/ford-earnings-q3-2024-f-d3c18468?st=AC6Ccb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Retired Post editor Martin Baron, on social media, said the decision showed “disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage” and that Trump would see it as a further invitation to intimidate Bezos.
The people who published the Pentagon Papers should show how courageous and independent they are by towing the lion and endorsing the establishmentarian ornament.
For anyone looking for 2 hours of listening, America This Week was particularly good this week. They talk a lot about the Trump “Nazi Rally” coverage, and Walter Kirn is particularly spicy. He is tired of this shit.
https://rumble.com/v5kgrrm-america-this-week-monday-livestream-10282024.html
USPSA Nationals have been announced.
One is at Marengo, which is good.
One is in Utah, which will be expensive.
Expensive but beautiful. Make sure you add a little extra time for an NP or four.
The cost drivers are going to be the car rental and any additional hotel nights.
The range is in Hurricane. Which I didn’t know UT ever experienced. It’ll be late October, Aaaand even better there are no Nats during HH in 2025!
Perfect. Right by St. George and really close to Zion NP and the Grand Canyon.
Love that area.
Also, consider flying to Vegas. It’s an easy drive and the flights are often cheaper.
Yes flying into St. George is more expensive route…plus if you want booze you can pick it up on the border before driving into Utah illegally!
Another great place to visit near there is the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park out of Kanab.
I stayed in La Verkin (nice AirBnB), right next to Hurricane, a few weeks back.
As others have suggested, the drive from Vegas wasn’t bad.
We had various plans to eat in Hurricane that didn’t pan out, but Lin’s Market was nice.
Thank you for this excellent practical advice!
Booze is important for winding down and getting enough sleep to function at the level that wrangling gunslinging prima donnas requires.
I believe Utah you can get booze, but its state ran and hour specific. There is a Lee’s Liquor (our choice when we lived in Vegas) just prior/over the AZ border in Mesquite. Good news is Utah got rid of the “Zion Curtain” a few years ago that gave off “Im getting drugged” vibes.
Easier to just buy prior and smuggle it in if more than a case I believe.
In Cleveland, Plain Dealer Editor Chris Quinn polled his editorial board about whether to make a presidential endorsement. “We don’t delude ourselves about our presidential endorsement impacting voters,” Quinn wrote. “If we are not going to impact voters, why publish something that will anger half our audience?”
He cast the deciding vote. The Plain Dealer endorsed Harris. Quinn had raised the question via text to some of his readers. They felt a non-endorsement would be a betrayal, he wrote — an act of cowardice.
“That was enough for me,” Quinn wrote. “Our duty is to the readers.”
Such brave.
You can’t risk losing your spot at the cool kids’ table in the lunchroom.
No way!
Steve Bannon live right now.
https://rumble.com/v3by09g-warroom-live.html
Another peppy Cars number
In the first 2 minutes he mentioned getting out the vote and fighting the Mark Elias lawfare and election nullification that will happen if Trump wins. Good to have him back.
Which is really weird for a song that came out in 1984.
No way this model could possibly be wrong or political.
Pollutants from gas stoves kill 40,000 Europeans each year, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/pollutants-from-gas-stoves-kill-40000-europeans-each-year-report-finds
I call bullshit.
No way more Euroes are killed by stoves annually than Americans are killed by cars.
The won’t have any gas, anyway, so they are prepping the battlespace.
“Pollutants kill”. I’m guessing they don’t find 40,000 people collapsed in front of their stove, and that the connection between those pollutants and deaths are purely speculative.
“These Amyloid clots clogging their veins don’t mean anything!”
Experts never speculate or drive conclusions they are hoping to find
Every person who has ever cooked using a gas stove eventually dies.
You know who else killed with gas…
Le Petomane?
Trump?
California?
GEN Black Jack Pershing?
Well if the Guardian says so it must be true.
Will Diddy go down because he was also potentially diddling boys…unlike Epstien only banging young girls?
The “live boy or dead girl” era is over. It’s now a question of how useful you are to the regime.
Meanwhile, back home:
https://alphanews.org/two-triple-shootings-at-minneapolis-encampments-leave-three-dead-three-injured/
Minnesoda nice, FTW!
“encampments”
🙄
But the Dems have assured me that vIoLeNt cRiMe iS dOwN.
Apparently USGov didn’t learn from the FitBit fiasco a decade ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fitness-app-strava-gives-away-175005294.html
And of course the obligatory “‘this points out need for governments to strictly regulate how companies use our data’ according to Professor Shit-bag, Whore Monger University” quote.
Wha? Various security agents breached security and violated rules by being narcissistic weasels – obvious that it’s the companies fault! How about just don’t give them your damn data? No one cares how much you ran or worked out or how many damn steps you took. Just do it if you want to, don’t advertise it to everyone. If you want to track your personal progress or schedule for some reason, I’m pretty sure you can do that without broadcasting to the world how active and cool you are.
Correction…2 decades ago.
“the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris”
And here I thought they were scheduled and announced well in advance, and accompanied by large and highly visible entourages.
Well the general movements are publicly available and seen. I suspect this app had some close information that gave altitude and +/- 40feet location data even when they weren’t working out. Working that out, say for an unscheduled golf trip and some intelligence gathering of specific movements when said golf trips happened in the past, wouldn’t take someone who possibly had foreign government contacts to piece that together.
Ah, the return of Lobster Girl. Almost as much fun as the Tuesday afternoon rump-slapping gif.
Of course, GlibsCruise had their own Lobster Girl.
(Okay, it’s a fiftysomething dude — work with me here)
Nice.
I wonder what Lobster Girl looks like today. Probably a little saggy, huh?
That pic _is_ Lobster Girl today.
lol
Those breasts look man made on her so I imagine they are still holding up pretty well, although she may have had to have a tune up. Nice size tho, she didn’t go crazy on that.
Who’s that dude you’re posing with and did you return to the sea?
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4958806-melania-trump-defends-husband-hitler/"< What would she know?
Former first lady Melania Trump said her husband is “not Hitler” in a Fox News interview on Tuesday morning.
“He’s not Hilter, and all of his supporters, [they’re] standing behind him because they want [to] see [the] country successful, and we see how — what kind of support he has,” the former first lady said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.”
Melania Trump’s comments come in the wake of recent interviews of former White House chief of staff John Kelly from The Atlantic and The New York Times in which he said former President Trump lauded Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s generals due to their loyalty. Kelly also told The Atlantic that Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”
Vice President Harris also said that she believes the former president “is a fascist” during a CNN town hall last week.
“He loves his country, and he wants to make it successful and to — for all of the people,” Melania Trump said in her Fox News appearance. “You know, he — he loves people, and he wants to make this country great again.”
“He loves his country.” That’s Hitler talk. what further proof do we need?
Nazi Germany was the Fatherland, and everyone knows about Mother Russia. Donald Trump is the love child of those!!!
Have you seen anything from the MSM? It’s sickening. There was a pro-Nazi rally in 1939 in MSG (not even the same building), and they start with clips of that to set the tone. Then they list all unsubstantiated quotes about how he admires Hitler and wants to arrest his political enemies. Just when I think they can’t go any lower, they prove me wrong.
Some speculate this isn’t an attempt to influence the election, it’s to set us up for what happens after the election.
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If the Nazi wins, we’ll tell you.
Any reporting that doesn’t have an immediate clear connection to any given State SoS is all speculation. Even polls today and ballot return numbers.
The over confidence I see with “republican ballots are in the lead” is nothing. Means nothing. We know with Biden people were free to switch to the opposite party and stay there. So Republicans could very well be Democrats
In regards to F1, I agree with Sloop that Max deserved the 10 second penalty (or more) for the Turn 8 incident, but the Turn 4 one was questionable. Nice to see there is a bit of a battle for the driver’s championship and constructors is a toss up as well.
The most important piece of news was missed from the links today. I can’t believe it is finally coming back after disappearing sometime during the Vid Panic. Oh happy day.
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/taco-bell-nostalgic-menu-19868799.php
*cough*
*cough*
Haha. I guess I just glossed over “amazingly good news”. I assume the Sloop is referring to the tostada. I could mow down a few of those. I hope they keep that one, it was an original menu item from the 60’s. I loved it since back when they had the sombrero and blanket wrapped around the bell as their sign. I imagine their stock price has reflected the awesomeness, I gotta give it a look, I’m long on Yum!
Just what the masses are clamoring for! A $300,000 DeLorean EV that doesn’t like a DeLorean! Genius!
How to fail bigger than Fisker…
I wonder if the “classic” company that owns the name and a ton of parts is the new company or they licensed it out.
The web site is notably opaque on exactly that.
300k isn’t too bad for a time machine. I didn’t see where they put the flux capacitor in this model.
Last time I saw a flux capacitor on the market, it was going for 1.21 Gigadollars.
We’re all fascists now
Name-calling, especially in the final act of a presidential race, is common. But many experts who say the fascist label is apt argue that it’s more than just political polemics. They say the term is useful — serving as a distress signal for the threat to democracy.
Other experts say it’s an imprecise critique that obscures other, very real threats of Trumpism.
The Trump campaign responded to NPR’s request for comment on the accusations with a statement insulting NPR.
Call him what you will, just as long as we all agree he is the embodiment of evil.
*I hope the response included a poop emoji
Who are these “experts”?
As my father said long ago, an ex- is a has-been and a [s]pert is a drip.
I hope one of Trump’s advisors is whispering “defund NPR” into his ear.
KULTUR WAR!!!!
TW – https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-x-elon-musk-startup-competitition-town-square-election-2024-10
Jeff Bezos slammed everyone who’s complaining about WaPo not endorsing. He basically said, “We’re supposed to be neutral. Endorsements aren’t. Suck it up, princess.”
My husband is from SoCal. He LOVES the Dodgers.
I don’t know why anybody cares about anything but the Chiefs.
Lucas Kunce is running stupid ads and I am HIGHLY invested in Josh Hawley because he does good work.
Also, I don’t know how @TheHyperbole can be so phlegmatic about everything. “Turning off the TV” does not help with long-term planning.
When I was pregnant with XX, I had been low-carbing for years, and then suddenly couldn’t stand meat. At all. I subsisted on Taco Bell bean and cheese tostadas and Mt Dew. This was not good for my gestational weight gain.
One MUST pick a side. Main difference I see is one side has the “world is going to end” mentality with the mentality set in their minds. The other has the same but soon after shrug and get back to work. The latter is becoming less and less though.
One MUST pick a side.
Not really, one must pick [my] the only good side. Anything choice other than that is choosing the worst side even if you have no interest/affiliation at all with that side.
That’s the real dynamic of the fucksticks.
Scholars have long argued over the definition of fascism.
Roger Griffin, an emeritus professor of modern history at Oxford Brookes University in the U.K. and a widely cited political theorist on the topic, offers one explanation: an authoritarian, “revolutionary form of extreme nationalism” that often incorporates racism, xenophobia, male chauvinism and the culture of violence.
Not a whiff of a hint about an economic foundation.
What a retard.
Scholars have long argued over the definition of fascism – anything I don’t like
The two-part strategy to get Republican women to vote for Harris—even if their husbands like Trump:
1. Assure them that backing Harris “doesn’t mean you aren’t a Republican anymore.”
2. Remind them that “no one’s going to find out.”
https://x.com/elainejgodfrey/status/1850922637347750270
how many millions of women vote republican out of fear of their husbands I wonder…
Stronk independent Wiminz with complete boss-gurl-power unite against that misogynist fascist Trump! But sssshhh, hide it from your husband and other repulsive republicans. That’s what strong independent and powerful people do! And strong independent and powerful people certainly don’t come to their own conclusions and choose to vote for Trump; they must just be pleasing their husbands and social circles, not thinking for themselves. But in a totally strong and independent way of course.
Left out step 0: Abortion. Abortion abortion abortion.
Griffin, however, said the fascist label is a red herring. What we’re witnessing with Trump is “far more dangerous because it can sit in a democracy,” in his view.
“Trump is dangerous not because he’s a fascist,” he said, “but because he is systematically trying to destroy the fundamental principles of liberal democracy — freedom of speech, and respect for experts and open mindedness — all this stuff which is fundamental to healthy democracy all over the world.”
Trump is tearing down respect for the sort of experts who decide what is acceptable speech and thought. If that’s not fascism, I’ll eat my hat.
So now he’s WORSE than a fascist.
When was that established as a fundamental principle of liberal democracy?
That in the CIA’s Color Revolution Handbook.
the fundamental principles of liberal democracy — freedom of speech, and respect for experts and open mindedness
LOL, what a garbage definition. Freedom of speech is fine, but respect for experts? That’s technocracy, a huge stepping stone to authoritarianism. Open mindedness? Go grow some morals you nihilistic fuck.
I. Cannot. Wait. For. This. Election. To. Be. Over.
take a week off. Get lots of booze and some paper books. Go to an offgrid cabin in the mountains. Read and drink. Come back when it is all over.
Uncle Ted? Is that you?
I have a feeling we’re about to enter a time of unrest, and we’ll look at now as “the good old days.” I do hope I’m wrong.
That is my fear and the Dem’s hope, that we will soon look at these as the good ‘ol days.
Looking forward to CommaLa’s nuclear wars?
*cackles*
Yeah, I’m ready for the 2028 campaign to begin.
Progressive academics are so addicted to the belief that words are magic spells (unhoused! Latinx!) that when it turns out that everyone hates their dumb jargon, they convince themselves that their magic spells were SO POWERFUL they made Florida Cubans want to build the wall.
https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/1851065331206300066
YouTube is angrier about VPNs than ad blockers.
And no, I will not “sign in to prove I’m not a bot” I don’t have an account and bots are better at signing in than I am.
Yeah, getting pretty irritating.
https://x.com/gasipo_opinions/status/1850909073169866940
Messi fans are more left than Ronaldo fans.
Dislike both. What does that make me?
High IQ.
A normiert?
A Delorean but it doesn’t look like a
Deloreancheap kitchen sink. It has gull wing doors. It must be a Delorean.Not really, one must pick [my] the only good side. Anything choice other than that is choosing the worst side even if you have no interest/affiliation at all with that side.
That’s the real dynamic of the fucksticks.
Freedom of thought does not include the freedom to be wrong. That would be stupid and dangerous.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14015637/jd-vance-joe-rogan-kamala-harris-podcast.html
Lol.
Victory lap.
I would still love to see Kammy and Timmy each try it.