This dog gets it.
Brett was last seen twitching in the corner muttering, “but I’m Florida Man”.
SCOTUS was it’s less than satisfying self today, but the release of Donny’s taxes does look like it will be after the election.
Dumb ass is going to dumb ass.
Have we hit peak derp yet? I hate myself for reading my own link.
Seems appropriate.
A First by any other name would feel just as sweet.
Sweet as being first for a cyptid gang bang?
Someone should set up a charity for the cancelled.
To be the first loser is its own sort of first, I suppose.
So that’s why you covet the position so much. Greetings, First Loser.
first loser doesn’t deserve the capitalization. It’s a place of shame. See Count Potato’s anger and jealousy.
No, sir. As First, you are First Loser.
An no one is jealous.
I can feel the envy seeping through in every comment that attempts to discredit my achievements. Being First makes me first loser? The logic doesn’t even begin to make sense.
It makes perfect sense – we are all losers.
And you are the only one who cares about who comments first.
Fuck off, asshole. No one cares who is first. That meme is older than the dancing baby from Ally McBeal.
The Dancing Baby from Ally McBeal is All Grown Up! What it looks like now will SHOCK you!
The baby from The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is around 30 now. I wonder if he ever thinks to himself, “Holy shit, I was sucking on Rebecca De Mornay’s tits!”
Same thing Tom Cruise says.
Anyway, I think a charity for the cancelled might be the best way to fight it. There are other charities for victims of circumstance (eg. veterans), and legal aid funds (Innocence Project). I think there would be less cancellations if employers and social media companies knew they could be facing a lawsuit or some other backlash. IANAL, but it might even be legal to hire private investigators against the cancelers. The most aggressive SJW’s tend to have pyramid of Cambodian skulls in their closet.
The charity would probably get cut off by the banks just to make sure there are no survivors.
The whole bank thing seems to be a real problem with people starting their own platforms as well. Maybe that’s the law that needs to be reformed.
Blockchain.
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the billionaire president’s tax records. But in good political news for Trump, his taxes and other financial records almost certainly will be kept out of the public eye at least until after the November election.”
Is it over his New York State taxes? Otherwise, I don’t see why a New York prosecutor should get them.
It’s preet’s replacement… a fed.
Technically, NY was subpoenaing the financial records from the firm and/or banks and can do so under the guise of the criminal inquiry and the grand jury. This one I think they (SCOTUS) got right. They also highlighted that State laws are in place, for every citizen, to continue to fight it and the President has no uniqueness to wave a wand and make it go away.
The second one, they punted. Trump’s lawyers properly invoked separation of powers and not executive privilege in this one and it is probably what saved them from allowing Congress to just pull private citizen tax records on a whim. TJs dissent was basically, impeach him for those records if you want them; or at least what I got from it.
Purely a idiots reading of the orders.
I thought the IRS said the records are confidential? Is someone looking over my records, calling around, laughing, etc because I may have made a mistake in addition and/or spelling?
If the NY guys get Trump’s records they’ll be guarded and none of us without a need to know will know, right?
‘Vance and the House Oversight and Reform Committee sought records from Mazars concerning Trump and his businesses based on payments that Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, arranged to keep two women from airing their claims of decade-old extramarital affairs with Trump during the 2016 presidential race.’
All this is apparently about him dicking around on his ex wives. That’s it. Fuel for political theater. Though after reading the article I’m initially pleased with denying a sitting president immunity from such things if the request is legitimate, emphasis on the legitimacy.
Or current wife, whatever.
The Congressional subpoena absolutely it was just political fodder and continuous news cycles on what they find in them. The NY one, not so much because of the criminal inquiry (legitimate or not)
Ah, I guess I mentally glossed over that part of the investigation. I can’t skim read and retain everything like some of the quicker pricks here.
A bit of a warning…I also skimmed and formed an opinion, so I could very well be wrong
Unlike you guys I’m not a Russian bot. So what happened in the first link? Meteor strike?
It’s a twitter link, they never work.
Maybe set up a VPN?
Why? It’s Twitter, it’s not worth any effort to make it work.
WTF? Twitter is 99% of news reporting, how can yousay it is worthless? Without twitter what would WaPo and HuffPo and all the other POS in the media get orangemanbad?
Lightning
https://www.totalprosports.com/2020/07/09/terrifying-video-shows-shocking-moment-teen-soccer-player-gets-struck-by-lightning-currently-in-coma-video/
“The teenage goalkeeper, who was training separately from his teammates, was wearing a metal chain around his neck which was struck by the lightning,”
Why?
At least it explains why he got hit by lightning.
Soccer player got hit by lightning.
He’s in stable condition and his EKG is normal.
According to doctors, his injuries are not life-threatening.
O geez lightning. Looked like a bomb
I thought at first that he stepped on a landmine.
Especially with that second part with him dancing around those things on the ground.
Damn serious training aids, landmines. Sure you lose a few good kids, but the ones that survive!
It looked like Tottenham trying to shoot against Bournemouth.
I guess it was lightening – but I thought at first Bugs Bunny put an ACME exploding soccer ball out there.
Relevant
“So what are you in for?”
“I snuck out for for a salad.”
Tossed? With Jelly or Honey?
To the group “W” bench with you!
+27 8×10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows
I really really really loathe the Branch Covidian doomsayers more than any deathcult I’ve ever seen.
I’ve never seen so many so happy about sickness and death.
Has Cohen done anything that would upset a Clinton? Two for one at the same jail would be convenient.
“Feds were so worried Ghislaine Maxwell would kill herself in jail that they gave her paper clothes and took away her bed sheets”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8507367/Feds-feared-Epstein-confidante-kill-herself.html
That just sounds uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable enough to off herself?
The paper catches fire?
Death by a thousand paper cuts!
Of course, Epstein was on suicide watch, too.
Until he wasn’t.
Well somebody watched him die, that’s for sure.
Maybe Hillary closed her eyes? You ever think about that smart guy?
“Have we hit peak derp yet? ”
I don’t think it exists. I also don’t think it’s as bad as arresting people for painting over BLM graffiti that was illegal in the first place.
Yeah, but in Canada, hatethink is illegal.
You’re not going to believe this, but the BLM “graffitti” was actually permitted by the city.
Did they get an actual permit, or did the city just ignore the law?
Whose property was it on?
I wonder if that paint is slippery when wet. I look forward to someone suing the city when they can’t brake properly, and they get in an accident.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. Peak derp is an impossibility.
“And I have doubts about the Universe.”
Good old Albert. I have the t-shirt.
I guess they’re not playing around anymore.
My favorite is the chunky female cop in the back that’s just kind of vaguely pushing the pile.
The Bush Push.
Today on Reddit’s NFL page, thousands and thousands of earnest white middle class leftists learn how prevalent anti-Semitism is in the black community.
And they all smiled?
The left has always been anti-semitic. What I never understood are leftist Jews.
1. Proximity breeding contempt – both tend to live in big cities.
2. Real or perceived exploitation – back to the “who runs BLM and why” stuff.
Sitting in a booth in Crocket, Tx eating boudain (that’s how it was spelled on the menu) with wife when three cattle ranchers came in and sat in the booth next to us. As they walked in I noticed one of them had a large cowboy style buckle in the shape of the Star of David. My eyes went from his buckle to his face and as we made eye contact I said “Good morning”. He responded by pointing to his belt buckle and saying “I know….right?”
Yeah, most of (((them))) live in cities, but not all.
totally relevant
Steven Wright was hysterical. What became of him?
Kinky for governor: Why the hell not?
They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore
corrected link
bc: of course
ok, this link stuff ain’t funny any more
I’m amazed at how many lefties use Palestine to hide their antisemitism.
Supporting a culture whose sole purpose is to commit genocide on the Jews is not a very good strategy. They may think they are hiding it but the Palestine support is a dead give away.
Truth is no one actually supports Palestine. All of the adjacent countries have built walls and avoid the Palis like the plague. No one wants to have anything to do with them.
Nobody likes them but they are happy to use them as cannon fodder.
That was the explicit decision by multiple Arab states after their 1967 and 1973 drubbings.
Never forget that “Black September” refers to Jordan crushing PLO in 1970. The PLO threatened the standing of the royal family.
The Palis used to be the workers in Kuwait. After Iraq overran Kuwait in 1990 Arafat backed Hussein. Once the Kuwaiti royal family returned it threw every Pali out which crushed the Pali economy. Kuwait has stood by that decision even today.
As Iran becomes more of a regional threat to the Arab states you’ll the Pali being further dropped since Israel can help protect the Arab states and the Palis can’t.
No one squawked when Jordan said “no”, to the right of return.
Hmmmm….I haven’t bothered going to Reddit since all this insanity started but now I have to look.
The thing about Reddit is, I signed up there once, only because there was some topic I was interested in and I couldn’t find anywhere to discuss it with others interested in it, so I found there was a subreddit. Then I straight away ran into that ‘you cannot post because you have negative karma’. WTF? That was the end of my Reddit days.
I’ve found some subreddits that don’t suck, but they’re few and far between, and they tend to still be inhabited by morons.
You know it’s a thing when my 18 year old daughter knows about it.
NY cops literally can’t retire fast enough.
NYPD limits retirement applications amid 400 percent surge this week
I hope y’all are well stocked on popcorn.
And Bill canceled the new class. #defundthepolice #winning
Things are getting very interesting very fast and it is only gonna get more so. You might want to get the hell out of there. Get to gettin’ while the gettin’s good.
The best part will be when they drag deBlasholio into the street to personally thank him for defunding the fuzz.
At this point when I have to go back to work in the city I’m more concerned about the lawlessness than catching the current plague.
Maybe he should hire Omni Consumer Products to run the NYPD?
“NY cops literally can’t retire fast enough.”
No worries, it’s going to be a summer of love, just like CHOP, only with 20 million people.
Hey, half those people are not in the NYPD’s jurisdiction, and a million aren’t even in New York.
OK, 8 million, pedant! Summer of love with only 8 millionz!
Judge Sullivan Digs In – Asks DC Circuit for a Full Panel Rehearing (en banc) on Dismissal of Flynn Case…
CWAA
CWAA = Christ, what an asshole.
For those who didn’t know.
Thanks, I didn’t.
Quite frankly I wonder what the en banc court will say.
That Judge is a dbag.
That is just bizarre.
I don’t think they have to grant the request. I think there was a dissent the first time, which means they probably will. Let’s hope they move on it.
Of course, its way too much to hope that they will look into Sullivan’s fitness to be a federal judge.
I don’t understand how this can continue if the gov’t has dropped the case. That should be the end of it.
As a point of procedural formality, the judge has to rubber stamp the prosecution’s motion to dismiss. In any normal case, that is a given, but this petulent whelp is throwing a temper tantrum and should be removed from the bench.
Couldn’t agree more. He literally waited to do this until the last two hours of the two-week window in which he had to rubber stamp it. What a jackass.
If any of the judges entertain this nonsense, you will know who the partisan assholes are.
My guess is that [delay] will not go over well at the appellate level – you knew, and you could’ve asked sooner, but you went for the last-second Hail Mary.
I’m telling you, Flynn has some pretty earth shattering stuff on some people. There is no other explanation. This is no longer simply about punishing Trump, apparently it never was. They want this guy shut up like they wanted Epstein shut up.
I thought they only had 10 days to move for a full en banc hearing.
Drag it out long enough so that Flynn can’t say anything before the election.
I’m surprised Flynn has not been the victim of a Epsteincide yet. Or is that a Clintoncide?
A post from the West Vancouver PD on Twitter explained further: “You’ll see the tire marks in the photo. The suspect accelerated at a high rate of speed, leaving tire skid marks across the pedestrian crosswalk as well as along Esquimalt Ave. We are hoping that someone will recognize the vehicle and contact us.”
Maybe he was late for some important event, like a peaceful protest.
You forgot the ‘mostly’
They threw it through the window.
Police investigating tire marks on a road. Maybe they should be defunded.
How exciting would you be to be placed in charge of that task force? That is a real Resume Builder right there!
I dunno. Surely catching a racisty racist gets you as many good boy points at City Hall as being the mayor’s driver does.
Hoo boy. Working late tonight. Very odd responses from the cations channel. Literally every other sample would come back at 10% of nominal. Replaced the cations concentrator and now the anions channel is freaking TF out.
I have checked the thermostat, but because of how fragile the com system is on this thing, I will NOT be turning it off and back on again unless I really need to.
The signal spikes are pretty rhythmic, I’ll see if there’s a bubble rattling around in the cell.
Is it a good rhythm? Musical?
About 80 bpm.
You might as well skip all of the usual trouble shooting steps and just go right to the thermostat.
Purging the cell definitely did something.
Now to wait for the 20 min uptake time and see if it fixed that particular issue.
I might be out of here by 19:00
Sounds like you fried your anions.
Hmm, fried anion rings sound like an idea for supper.
Wife made some the other night that were the best I have ever had. I asked her where she got the recipe and she said ‘The internet’. *facepalm*
She sleuthed around a bit and said this is probably it: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/56236/best-ever-onion-rings/
Our onions were particularly sweet…that helped a lot.
Onion salt?
I’m guessing some air got trapped in the cell. The noise is greatly reduced, but not eliminated. Probably reduced enough to bring it back up as long as I get the cations channel fixed.
This whole “make a change, wait an hour to see its effect” thing is annoying.
Hokay, it’s shift change.
If I degown, I could re-enter the building and get a free meal ticket for night shift.
Running spike recovery…NOW!
Anions is OK. Cations is fine, beautiful actually… but the way this problem manifests I’ll need to get two good recoveries in a row before I can bail out and pass it down to the techs.
The techs who’s shift starts at 18:00 and yet here I am, alone in the lab at 18:32…
I wonder if they’re going to try and bribe me to keep me quiet. We have a pretty good bakery here, it would work.
Too late, you’ve blabbed to us…
But I don’t really care enough to rat on people at a place I don’t work.
Alas, 19:00 ain’t happening.
And I’ve missed the window for a meal ticket. I haven’t been to Five Guys in almost a decade, and one opened up near here.
There’s a couple, and they’re medicore.
Unfortunately there’s no place for a good burger between here and my house, and I’m getting more and more in the mood for a burger.
I have food at home, but I’d have to cook it.
#defundthepolice.
This reminds of the scene in The Jerk when Steve Martin exclaims, “He hates these cans!”
Show us your cans!
Aren’t cans slang for boobies, and butts are pails?
The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!
God do I love that fucking movie.
Today I found out what my special purpose is for. Gosh what a great time I had. I wish my whole family could have been here with me. Maybe some other time as I intend to do this a lot.
This was my opening line in my email announcing promotions this year.
“Miniluv thanks you for your service.”
Anybody check to see if the crosswalk burnout guy was leaving Cars and Coffee?
“Did Ghislaine Maxwell secretly run one of most powerful Reddit accounts in history? Conspiracy theory suggests Epstein’s ‘pimp’ posted about everything from Israel to legalization of child porn for 14 years until thread fell silent on her arrest
In a Twitter post, YouTuber Joe Leonard wrote: ‘Ghislane Maxwell was the first person on reddit to hit 1 million karma LMAO! She’s the #8 karma to this day. Her posts to /r/worldnews constituted roughly 30% of the posts there. This connection was made after she was arrested and that account stopped posting there after 14 years.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-Maxwell-secretly-operated-one-powerful-Reddit-accounts-time.html
If she was beloved of r/worldnews, that’s sufficient justification for the death penalty.
She may have slipped up and said something there that gave her away. It would be funny if that is how they found her.
The username was maxwellhill, and stopped posting during times when she was out in public. Circumstantial evidence, but I WANT TO BELIEVE.
It’d be funny if it was, a YouTube vid I saw talking about that said there were a lot of spicy and relevant posts that dealt with the same *ahem* touchy subjects you’d kind of expect her to be interested in.
The country pours billions into 17 intelligence agencies. Shouldn’t they be able to find anyone in 45 minutes?
Dude, /pol/ found a flag in BFE with no landmarks and a camera pointing to the sky.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, take five minutes and witness the power of weaponized autism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q
It’s actually rather sad, since I’m convinced Shia has some sort of untreated mental illness.
Johnny Depp, back off on the alcohol two notches and you have Shia.
A troll of epic proportions.
“Thank God we don’t get all the government we’re paying for.”
“Americans get a lot more government than they need, and a lot less government than they pay for.”
Victimizers beware!
https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1281327808833359875?s=19
Perfect.
Send the creator an invite to here.
That will be in GTA VI, I presume.
Excellent.
Nice.
final day before Jugsy gets home….Im fr fr about to fall into my keybord
Ill join ya
We’re gonna break out the hats and hooters
When Jugsy comes home
We’re gonna rev up the motor scooters
When Jugsy comes home to stay
We’re gonna park in the street
Sleep on the beach and make it
Throw down the jam till the girls say when
Lay down the law and break it
When Jugsy comes home
Rio De Janeiro Will Reopen Beaches When There Is a COVID-19 Vaccine: Mayor
The muggers are going to riot.
Rio De Janeiro Will Reopen Beaches
WhenIf There Is a COVID-19 Vaccine: MayorIf there is one, it’ll be the first coronavirus vaccine ever. I’d bet on some kind of partially effective shot that gets people to stop panicking and acting like idiots.
If that gets the governors to cut way back on the bullshit, then I’ll take it.
+1 saline placebo
“On the beach, you don’t use a mask and the level of infection goes up.”
Doesn’t UV kill Covid after a few seconds?
Let’s start off with a bang.
Quite a boot on that guy.
Huh. You can literally get away with murder now if you’re a Creek. Remind me not to get in any fights next time I’m back for a visit.
No peeking, voters: Court keeps Trump taxes private for now
Isn’t he still under audit and isn’t illegal to release that info as long as he is under audit?
And nice pic. While we are following the money, let’s follow some Clinton, Biden and Obama money.
The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for prosecutors in New York to see President Trump’s financial records in a stunning defeat for Mr. Trump and a major statement on the scope and limits of presidential power.
“If we fish long enough we are sure to catch something.”
Eh, I think it was the correct ruling.
“No citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts wrote for the majority.
Fishing expeditions are not criminal proceedings.
So far as I can tell, it’s a Grand Jury subpoena. Grand Juries generally have significant powers for fact-finding purposes, as they can’t actually endanger life or limb (of their own accord, anyway). The bigger problem, I think, is the potential for someone on the Grand Jury to leak what they find.
but surely that would be a crime and no one would support them in committing it.
We say its a fishing expedition, the State says otherwise. The court pointed out that Trump et al still has other recourse to persue in the matter.
Vancouver Police to investigate tire marks on LGBT crosswalk as ‘gesture of hate’
The culprit is black with geometrically patterned lacerations.
LAST WEEK IN THE CULTURE #1
LAST WEEK IN THE CULTURE #2
I wouldn’t bat an eye if we rounded up the pinko college profs and beat them within an inch of their lives.
Me neither. And if it comes down to it, I’ll be happy to take the last inch from them.
Remember this guy? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7r4Fg7fLJJY/maxresdefault.jpg
Shitweasel extraordinaire, totally self serving, self absorbed, sociopathic. Every time I hear the name Deblasio, that is who I think of.
Not a clue who any of them are.
You didnt watch The Walking Dead. Center character was the leader of one group of survivors. The guy was a dead ringer for 90% of politicians but for some reason he makes me think of DeBlasio. He kept his position by bluffing but he didnt actually do or contribute to the group in any way. He was completely spineless and the instant he was in danger he threw the entire group under the bus.
They should have gotten Bill to play the part.
If we keep electing those sorts of guys, the leftist rabble is going to put Negan in charge.
I finished editing Chapter 2! Twenty pages in only an hour. Lemon squeezy.
I took care of tax stuff which pisses me off beyond belief. I payed $1900 on family demand to have my old tax records sorted (I frequently didn’t even file for them) for the past two years. This is exceptionally stupid because, though I bite my tongue and do it for them, because I haven’t earned a cent of money in the US for 11 years. It’s a bizarre world for people to possibly care about my relatively meager income that I earned as a teacher in separate Asian countries. But I must pay!…for money that I made elsewhere. I do not live in America. I’m just here for the moment. It’s stupidly annoying.
I took my most recent EEG on June 9th (a day after my bro’s birthday) and I still haven’t gotten results. Which I smartly assume are jack shit. I didn’t have any seizure spikes the last time, or the time before that, that I took one. I’m guessing if there’s anything important I would have gotten emergency notice. Nothing. I expect nothing. So what is the point? I suppose making my scared, yet loving and incredibly supportive, family happy. Bite tongue. Comply. They’ve earned it and a sense of safety for their youngest. I don’t mind. But it is pointless.
I hope that everyone else is doing well! If things are rough, just look for whatever bright spark you can find. Ridicule the stupidity around you. For me at least it helps me keep my feet planted and my spine upright.
Finally, Evan, it’s beginning to sound as though some things are coming up roses in Evansville. Good news, ‘ceptin’ for the tax crapola but the other non redeemable is worse. You sound well(er) and optimistic, two out of two ain’t bad. Keep up the good word and stay busy with your new career.
Dude, isn’t the first ~100k exempt? Did you earn that much? And was the $1900 to the IRS or to an accountant?
That was to an accountant. It seems incredibly stupid. I just payed it to go along and not bring up family fights. That was actually by brother’s insistence. I think it was dumb. I make (take away rent, cuz you’re given that by contract in Korea) roughly $2200 a month. There is no reason for me to be paying US taxes on that shit. Especially when I am paying Korean taxes with that. It’s beyond reasoning stupid.
And thanks FourScore! Everything is going well. Just annoying. But I bite my tongue and do my part! Helps me get back into the game!
That seems like a lot for an accountant. Can you get a second opinion sub rosa from someone more reasonable, and perhaps file an amended return?
“There is no reason for me to be paying US taxes on that shit. Especially when I am paying Korean taxes with that. It’s beyond reasoning stupid.”
Is that the FATCA? You can personally thank Moobz Schumer for that. Pretty sure Biden must had his greasy paws in it as well. He does in every other slimey turd of a law. Or maybe it’s just a regulation. I’m not sure we have actual laws anymore, the FYTW clause superseded all that law stuff.
I was a bit surprised Fat Cat wasn’t done away with in Trump’s first two years.
Still, don’t the IRS shits still make you file a return?
What?
“It’s way past time to put the end to the era of shareholder capitalism. The idea the only responsibility a corporation has is its shareholders — that is simply not true, it’s an absolute farce. They have a responsibility to their workers, their community, to their country.”
In place of “shareholder capitalism,” Biden proposed a more inclusive system built on the power of labor unions and on “black, brown, and Native American” communities that he said had been left out of economic prosperity.
So moderate. Much middle of the road.
“Much of his speech was devoted to criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus. Biden claimed (falsely) that Trump told Americans to “drink bleach” to fight the disease”
It’s annoying when there right does it too.
As for the shareholder capitalism, I can guarantee you he’s not talking about socialism. Biden it’s the corporate wall Street candidate. He’s taking about making it easier for managers to defraud owners.
hmmm: where do jobs even come from?
The sad thing is he just expressed Mussolini’s central argument to sell fascism, and nobody in the punditry class even recognizes it, let alone is fazed by it.
Fascism:
1.”Everything within the state”. The federal government is supreme and the country is all-encompasing, and all sorts of within it should comply with the ruling body, frequently a dictator.2.”Nothing away from state”. The nation must grow as well as the implied goal of any fascist country will be rule the whole world, and now have every human submit into the federal government.3.”absolutely nothing against the state”. Any questioning the us government is not becoming accepted. If you fail to see things our way, you may be incorrect.People that disagree with me politically. //leftistJust rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
LOL what a clown show. Trump’s probably measuring new curtains today.
You know he can’t say it twice without screwing it up.
Sir Mix-a-Lot agrees?
And what will happen to the value of those companies?
I hope you all have a good shovel. If Biden wins we are all going to be digging for grubs and roots so we can eat.
I’ll be eating commie, because one should eat what he shoots.
How about the white folks that live in decaying small towns and cities across America? Fuck ‘em, amirite? Take their land and redistribute that too while you’re at it.
Isn’t the whole purpose of “shareholder capitalism” to give the public a stake in corporations? Maybe we should be asking why that didn’t work out the way people wanted instead of upending the whole thing without understanding it.
Isn’t the whole purpose of “shareholder capitalism” to give the public a stake in corporations?
No, it is not. The purpose is to allow people to pool resources in pursuit of a business goal without thereby becoming liable for the acts of the business. The public has no stake until they buy a share. And it has worked out immensely well. The fact that some person dislikes some outcome does not give that person a right to any say in how a business he does not own or manage is run.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, was sent back to jail Thursday after being told he could not write a planned tell-all book while on home detention and refusing to comply.
He was taken by U.S. Marshals to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged procurer, is also in custody.
Conspiracy theorists are working overtime.
The police department is now investigating the incident, with Cst. Kevin Goodmurphy telling 1130 that the person “[chose] to leave a gesture of hate on a crosswalk that stands for the exact opposite.”
Burnouts are hate speech? Fuck.
A “gesture of hate”.
Orwell is once again spinning in his grave.
It is a damned shame no one warned us it would come to this when they were debating whether passing ‘hate crime’ laws should be passed.
Cohen is a real world but incompetent Saul Goodman. He’s so sleazy I almost like the guy.
Grab your wallets.
Every American has the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live without fear of exposure to toxic waste. And all Americans should benefit from the clean energy economy— especially those who have been left out and left behind for generations. Democrats will create an environmental justice fund to make historic investments across federal agencies aimed at eliminating legacy pollution, which disproportionately causes illness and premature death in communities of color, low-income communities, and indigenous communities, including protecting children’s health by replacing lead service lines and remediating lead paint in homes and schools; remediating Superfund and other contaminated sites; and ensuring housing and schools have adequate plumbing and safe wastewater disposal systems.
“Every American has the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live without fear of exposure to toxic waste”
I always forget which is the motte and which is the bailey, but this is a textbook example of it.
“We need to protect nature!!”
“What does giving 500 million dollars to a politically connected solar energy company have to do with clean air and water?”
“Shut up bigot.”
OH! I am going to put together an article about my Cambodia travels for everyone. Get ready for Prison S21 and the Killing Fields. Those experiences, along with my trip to Dachau, are the most intense and depressing places that I have ever been to.
I will be touching on those, but I have tons of pictures and experiences to highlight the positives of life there post Pol Pot. It ain’t Year Zero anymore. Everyone was so nice and the travel was spectacular.
I do need to finish editing this book, but that’s my personal project that I’m going to focus on. I’m not sure how long it will take me to fully assemble, but it’s number 2 on the docket. I’ll get in touch with TPTB and make sure that I can share it will all of y’all.
Sounds interesting! Looking forward to the article.
So you haven’t been to Winston’s Mom.
Forecast – High 92, Low 71. Current Temp – 93.
And apparently there’s a tropical storm inbound.
“A total of 236 bigoted words were removed from the official Scrabble word list used at tournaments — in order to make the game friendlier to all types of people, The North American Scrabble Players Association. said Wednesday.”
https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/classic-board-game-scrabble-bans-236-bigoted-words-slurs/
They didn’t release a list though.
They did — and they’re scrambled.
So “ginger”?
LOL.
This is the literal definition of “Newspeak” – removing words to make crimethought impossible.
https://scrabbleplayers.org/w/Slurs
“Jews” is in there, I think.
Why are they scrambled? What’s the point? Or are they admitting to being so childish that they fear the totemic power of mean words?
Those bad words aren’t allowed to be used, duh.
Yes. JEW was in the dictionary as a verb meaning “to haggle with”.
The very useful JISM was also removed.
I distinctly recall about 15 years ago there was a short stretch where the finals of the national championships were recorded and run on ESPN. One of the contestants tried to play LEZ and was forced to play something else.
And NASPA was founded specifically because Milton Bradley/Hasbro about 25 years ago expurgated the ‘Official” dictionary you can get in bookstores and tournament players protested.
We used to have it. It was loaded with bad words.
You know who else didn’t release a list?
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1281069172865347585
Wow.
There’s no explaining why she was found dead in a ditch.
I am so so very happy I dodged the bullet of online dating.
What a Kunte.
In place of “shareholder capitalism,” Biden proposed a more inclusive system built on the power of labor unions and on “black, brown, and Native American” communities that he said had been left out of economic prosperity.
Gobbledygook in, gobbledygook out.
Funny, I’ve reviewed many 401K proposals and never found one that stated “By Federal Law, the Plan sponsor is not permitted to offer a 401K plan to any employee who is of African American, Hispanic, or Native American descent.”
Of course not.
They don’t advertise the hidden blacklists of services.
“blacklists”?
racist.
I have never had Excess Firearms. Is that good brand?
Amazingly, a new “study” is making headlines, despite the fact that it relies on obviously faulty assumptions, irrational methodology and has not been peer-reviewed.
The authors cite themselves as support for spurious statements like “Surges in firearm purchasing…have been well documented in association with mass shootings and significant political events and are followed by population-level increases in firearm violence.” Crime data for the most recent months isn’t available yet, but we know history proves otherwise.
Sure, Americans tend to buy more of something they think will soon be scarce. Just as there was an increase in toilet paper buying during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, adults are more likely to legally purchase a certain firearm they have been thinking about when there is a political discussion of banning that firearm. Does that mean those purchases are, as the author argues, “excess” firearms?
I think they’re a remarked Lorcin.
“Dr. Wintemute and his team conducted “undercover operations” of gun shows for their report, Inside Gun Shows: What Goes on When Everyone Thinks Nobody is Watching.”
Want to get your ass kicked and then thrown in jail? Go to a gun show and try to buy a gun off of the books from a dealer.
No such thing as an excess firearm. I refer back to a guy I used to know at my first duty station – when I asked him how many guns he owned, he replied, “More than I need, less than I want.”
On that note, if anyone thinks they have any excess firearms, I will gladly offer to take them off your hands. You’re welcome.
I do have one I’m eventually going to part with, but I’ll wait until I get around to buying my M1A to sell it. no point in having a bunch of 308 laying around with nothing to eat it.
As for the shareholder capitalism, I can guarantee you he’s not talking about socialism. Biden it’s the corporate wall Street candidate. He’s taking about making it easier for managers to defraud owners.
Stakeholders, FTW!
LOL what a clown show. Trump’s probably measuring new curtains today.
Working on new paint schemes for air Force One.
Gold leaf. The classiest.
Definitely gold. But will he comman an unannounced low flight over Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty like Chocolate Jesus did?
“Anonymity vs. Cancel Culture”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBwYHwrgdQ
“I’m joined by Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex to discuss anonymity, being doxxed by the NYT, the double edged sword of cancel culture, China, groupthink, and why banning anonymity won’t help the internet.”
https://twitter.com/gogreen18/status/1280941931627810816
Who needs police?
https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/crime/shreveport-store-clerk-arrested-after-shooting-at-customer-in-mask-dispute/
Been in there a few times. I am guessing. I have been there for the last time.
Dumbass is dealing pot to students from behind the counter and does something like this to attract police attention to himself?
Genius.
Hey I haven’t been here for awhile, what’s the deal with adding an “-e” to the end of “cunt”? Or was it always spelled like that and I’m just a retarde?
It sprung from the discussion of Mojeaux’s medieval romance book, which had been “Cunts and Cods” but the glibertariat insisted on making ite ye ole englishy to Cuntes, and then picked that up as the standard spelling around here.
Oh that is excellent. I’ll have to go back and read them.
Disclaimer, that was the working title. I don’t know the real title, but someone should be able to provide it.
It has the word “Knight” in the title I think. I bought it, and now my Fire recommendations are all shirtless torsos with swords.
?️?
Turns out, they’re public domain recreations of fighting manuals.
Black as Knight
Huh, no wonder I can’t remember it, it’s unmemorable.
Jelly.
Buy a copy, see what happens.
Huh.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/gp7rBIgLQruR0upIsBelOg.R3QQUPdKM-Dx1YcZkf8hp2
I thought you read “Shadowrealm”, why is it still being recommended?
I read Beyond the Edge of the map.
I have not read Shadowrealm yet.
My gf read Shadowboy, and I really need to sit down and start on it myself.
I highly recommend the series.
Mojeaux’s Chapter 18
A historical romance porn scene.
Wait, that was supposed to be romantic???
What a giant piece of shit: https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1281323352842371072
And no one kicked his ass?
Turn the other cheek and that…
I am not Christian. Didnt think of that.
I never take offensive action but I have no problem with defensive action.
I wish I understood that mentality, I really do. However you can’t ask them why without falling into a racist trap.
Isn’t that assaulting people’s ears?
Yes.
It’s straight up assault.
Ah, 2020. The gift that keeps on giving.
Anyone discuss the “Not Bee” legislation out of California called the CARENact?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-08/lawmaker-proposes-caren-act-making-racially-biased-911-calls-illegal.
Idiocracy is more of entertainment than a roadmap normally.
Hey….I like maps! I am a true mapophile.
Yes that was discussed…this morning? Yesterday evening?
‘Hey….I like maps! I am a true mapophile.’
Porn for Suthen:
http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/download-91000-historic-maps-from-the-massive-david-rumsey-map-collection.html
#metoo
Been there.
Nice!
Thank you Sir
Welcome.
I saw that and first thing I thought was ‘CARENact’… no, really?
Even when they’re being kinda obviously subtle the Bee still knocks it out of the park
https://babylonbee.com/news/people-on-boat-drifting-left-accuse-shore-of-drifting-far-to-the-right
How is it possible to hit it out of the park every damned time? Who has an imagination like that? It is pure gold every day with that bunch.
It’s crazy to think that there may even be funnier stories that they don’t select for the site.
Apparently, they’ve knocked it so far out of the park, that they’re pay walled now.
I hope they make millions
Me too, but $50/year is too steep for their volume. I’ll pay that here, but not there.
We don’t actually need them since reality is sillier than anything they can possibly try to parody now.
evidently thats one of their headline-only articles, which is a thing, I guess.
That’s a thing on the Onion as well. Sometimes brevity is the soul of wit.
“breaking his curfew at a $29-a-salad restaurant”
Did Cohen hang out any with Epstein? The difference being that Epstein’s curfew breaking episodes costs $200 or some multiplication of that.
“WATCH: Vancouver Police to investigate tire marks on LGBT crosswalk as ‘gesture of hate'”
OFFS. Why not defund the police? The apparently have nothing serious to do.
I heard news a week or so ago that a local organization here reported that ‘someone’ spotted a noose nearby at a construction site. And the first thing I thought was ‘construction site, ropes with knots in them, that’s weird…’. Anyway, they were apparently having this investigated. That will be the last anyone reports on that, guaranteed.
I saw that story, it was some university (can’t remember which one). The colleges are so skittish they’re going to be investigating people for the knots they tie their shoelaces with before this is all over.
There are many ways you can tie your shoelaces into racist symbols. Only we wypipo who were born with subliminal racism can know about that. We have to ban shoe laces!
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
I don’t see any.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Tactical_review/status/1281347680229371907
Heh.
How quickly does she go screaming to a guy with a gun when something scary starts going down?
And why do I bother having WordPress preview pull twitter links?
And I’d be like, “Sorry, my gun and my penis can’t help you.”
I remember there was a story in NJ when Sandy hit about two neighbors, one anti-gun, the other a gun guy. They had argued repeatedly about the issue until the storm hit and looters started hitting their neighborhood. The anti-gun guy begged the gun guy to help him protect his property. Gun guy said “Sorry Pal, you are on your own.”
That story has played out several ways over the years. Most anti-gunners are under the mistaken impression that they can count on the cops to protect them. When the SHTF and they realize that they can’t their attitude changes very quickly.
De Blasio is a fucking ass clown. https://mobile.twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1281354252422651904
Bill de Blasio tells Wolf Blitzer that he is banning all large gatherings in New York City except for Black Lives Matter protests.
I have it on good authority that the chinese corona virus, which is in fact from china, hits the black community harder than others. I can only deduce that De Bolshevik wants black people to die.
He is the elected mayor of NYC.
Elected by a majority. In fairness the ones that ran against him seemed exponentially worse…if you can believe that.
With a voter turnout of 17%.
Ouch, and it is no wonder. As I recall, looking over the candidates was like walking through a ward at a mental hospital.
It is a problem. With so many people recognizing it for the waste of time it is what with machine politics, what do you do? How bad does it have to get? I guess we’ll find out.
It looks like you will.
Like I said before….while the gettin’s good.
*readies popcorn*
I know the answer but seriously a mayor can say this publically and nost likely get away with it but some poor ass baker in Colorado has to be forced to bake a fucking cake.
That has to be overturned by a court, or I have lost what little faith I have left. All gatherings are forbidden, except the ones we approve.
Useless Wolf Blitzer asking about fucking tennis.
Sorry if I missed it, but did we go back a couple days?
suggested music: Monty Python theme
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/08/889112818/what-it-would-take-to-get-an-effective-anti-racist-education
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When we say anti-racist education, or anti-racist teaching, what does that mean to you?
So for me, anti-racist teaching means a fundamental disruption of the way in which teaching and learning happens in our schools today: It centers whiteness and white people. And so we have to start with the preparation of teachers.
You looked closely at how diverse teachers can reshape education and how, in particular, Black teachers can play a role. Why is having Black teachers inside classrooms important — not just for Black students to get a quality education, but for all children to get a quality education?
There is convincing evidence that Black children perform better in school, that they are able to persist through high school, that they are less likely to get suspended and expelled if they have a Black teacher compared to a white teacher. So there’s clear evidence that for Black students there is this added value for Black teachers. There is a growing body of evidence that for white students, that there is a preference for having a teacher of color when compared to a white teacher.
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Interesting stuff, NPR. Did you there was a time when blacks were *required* to have their own schools and teachers? It was called “segregation” and it had some drawbacks.
Now do this with boys and male teachers.
Give ’em a few decades and we will be right back to chattel slavery.
I am firmly convinced that Jim Crow laws could be restored if they were repackaged in social justice jargon.
With enough social justice gibberish, you could probably get people to wear hats on their feet, and walk on their hands.
That is exactly what they are up to.
If they do manage to tear down the system the useful idiots will be first, the blacks second.
When it rains derp, it pours derp.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/09/889446825/veteran-educator-on-the-endless-but-joyful-work-of-creating-anti-racist-educatio
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When do you know that you’ve succeeded in implementing anti-racist education? When do the demands for anti-racist education end?
Schools are a reflection of the society, so they really never end. But … the question is almost like saying, “When can I stop working hard to raise my child?” Well, that’s just what it takes to raise a child, is that you have to confront yourself, you have to reach out for help and support when you need it.
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[head desk]
If there were more black teachers this deplorable racist hive of scum and villainy wouldn’t exist.
Brainwashing.
I was reading Biden’s webpage description of how he intends to de facto abolish the 2nd Amendment by death from a thousand cuts – page after page of gun control proposals. Didn’t anyone on his team get the memo about running to the political center after locking up the primary?
He is too busy working on the….that, uh…the thing. You know, the thing.
C’mon man.
I think the left is so wrapped up within themselves that they have no idea that moving hard left is a losing idea in a national election.
4 months ago Id say you were dead on…today? Its a razors edge chance the People go for it just to shit them all the hell up.
Shut…not shit. Now autocorrect apparently is going for my most used use of the sh- combination
Like any good bully, the DNC senses a weakness and wants to hit hard.
a derp horn of plenty
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
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Establish a new Task Force on Online Harassment and Abuse to focus on the connection between mass shootings, online harassment, extremism, and violence against women. As President, Joe Biden will convene a national Task Force with federal agencies, state leaders, advocates, law enforcement, and technology experts to study rampant online sexual harassment, stalking, and threats, including revenge porn and deepfakes — and the connection between this harassment, mass shootings, extremism and violence against women.
***
So, flush the Bill of Rights. Got it. That is what that gibberish is cover for.
Ooh, found another gem:
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Hold adults accountable for giving minors access to firearms. Biden supports legislation holding adults criminally and civilly liable for directly or negligently giving a minor access to a firearm, regardless of whether the minor actually gains possession of the firearm.
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So…it would basically be illegal for parents to own guns? It would also be illegal for parents to go hunting with their children.
Top notch ideas there, Joe. Now I see why your campaign has all the momentum of a runaway freight train.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryVdIxMQZjE
I would honestly vote for Mr Burns over Joe.
“regardless of whether the minor actually gains possession of the firearm.”
Yeah that’s literally criminalizing owning guns if you have kids. That’s like saying someone that has booze in the house and also a car in the driveway has committed DUI just by having the ability to do so.
Mighty Joe Old hits another home run:
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SUPPORT LGBTQ+ YOUTH
“These children are the kite strings that lift our national ambitions aloft. And how we treat them is the measure of what kind of decency and honor we have as a society.”
—Joe Biden, June 1, 2019
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I’m not sure what’s funnier: the corniness of the metaphor or the fact that whoever wrote that seems not to understand kites.
Whatever it is, it sounds totally gay.
Well thats cause you use cis-strings and rely upon your straightness to hold the kite aloft.
If you were to use trans-strings it just goes up!
Marxist employees “stop making cop cars”
CEO “fuck off”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/07/09/adult-in-the-room-ford-ceo-responds-to-employee-demand-to-stop-making-police-vehicles-n624395
The CEO will be on his knees groveling and apologizing by tomorrow.
The CEO will be on his knees groveling and apologizing by tomorrow. He’ll probably then amend his response with something including that all their Police cruisers will be painted with BLM symbols and a portion of all sales will go to fund BLM and pay reparations.
Not until the contract runs out I suspect.
Sailors gonna be fat in January of next year.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/07/09/no-more-physical-fitness-assessments-for-2020-navy-says/
My music contribution for tonight.
I like this version better than any other.