A client last night just wanted to watch the US Women’s Soccer Team. I guess they were playing Columbia? whatever, I only bring it up because this homely broad playing in the midfield kept hiking her shorts up. Is she doing this on purpose or is it one of those subconscious reactions to maintain a certain level of comfort under stress?
if its the former she’s gotta do a lot better than that!
Ghilishane Maxwell sentenced to 20 years. I’m totally jealous of her tits by the way, get a load of these things!
CA Attorney General doxes a bunch of gun owners. Great idea, piss off everyone after making themuse a bullet button.
Fear of inflation driving down consumer sentiment. Not sure its fear anymore its reality.
This has to be the most UK thing since they decided to go all 6’s and 7’s and tell the dirty bloger to drive a lorry up their arse before shating upon turtles or something.
No shit, now quit losing my money cunt!
If Trump tried to choke out the SS driver, and commadeer an urban assault vehicle, why would they sit on such a kick ass story for two goddamn years?
”I don’t want to discuss my area of expertise. Im too saddened anout the downfall of democracy.” What a bitch!
“Ghilishane Maxwell sentenced to 20 years. I’m totally jealous of her tits by the way, get a load of these things!”
The patriarchy put her in jail so she couldn’t fuck with the men that were going to child rape island…
She can have sex with the tranny inmates female penises instead.
Oh, I am willing to take bets she doesn’t last a year in prison before she has an accident or commits suicide by putting two bullets in the back of her head after hanging herself.
She gets out in 4 years for good behavior.
Teen-age girls, but yeah, let’s not talk about who was there.
I know it’s a somewhat nit-picky position, but I hate the constant conflation of pedophilia with ephebophilia.
Sleeping with 17 year old girls is malum prohibitum , not malum in se.
I don’t disagree that it should be illegal (SLD), but they are very different things.
“Age of consent” is another slippery slope in the same way people sometimes struggle with abortion. Fucking a ten year old is bad, is fucking an eleven year old bad? Yes, but is fucking a twelve year old bad? Yes, but is fucking a thirteen year old bad… etc. etc. From a legal standpoint, the line has to be drawn somewhere.
Shameless self promotion (all the way from 2017 bitches!):
https://www.glibertarians2017.link/2017/10/24/exploration-of-philosophical-vagueness-aka-principles-are-hard-lets-go-shopping/
My moral line is at “Completed Puberty” Which, naturally, is a different age for different people.
My squick factor for those who have passed the moral line is in age discrepancies.
No, I can’t draw explicitly numerical lines.
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explicitly numerical line
So many decapitated snowmen. I didn’t realize you were that violent, Nick.
‘8’? Really?
Why are all the other numbers afraid of 7?
Because 7 is black!
Age/2+7 works surprisingly well as a “rule-of-thumb”, wouldn’t want to encode it in law. But for squick factor, it works.
My Dad was 27 and my Mom was 18 when they got married, so he violated it, so YMMV.
That puts a hard line at 14. And it says an 18 year old with a 16 year old is okay, but a HS Senior with a HS freshman is right out (and knowing more than a few cases of that, they were all exploitive). However a College Senior with a Freshman is okay (22 and 18), but a Grad Student with a Freshman is icky.
Grad students are icky, but that’s in and of themselves.
I never liked that mathematical formulation, it just didn’t seem to add up.
Not making a pedophile joke: I originally heard the rule as being Age/3 +7
Age/2+7 works surprisingly well as a “rule-of-thumb”
*does some math*
*tries to imagine being married to a 24 year old*
i’ll be in my bunk
/just kidding
I get that the age discrepancies become less of an issue as you get older, but I have a hard time imagining actually living life with somebody a decade younger than me, at least at this stage. I have no desire to do the things that 24 year old women like to do with their boyfriends/husbands (besides the sex, of course).
a Grad Student with a Freshman is icky.
I think there’s a caveat on the 23-26 age range where it’s okay to drop slightly below the line if you’re still in school. College sort of retards the mental and emotional maturity of people in that way. That said, I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered anybody in their last year of a PhD program who wanted anything to do with the incoming freshman class. I’m sure such people exist, but I haven’t met any. Thinking of it from a different perspective, somebody who has been working at their post-college career for 4 years would be considered weird if they were slumming it with college freshmen on the regular.
Hey Nineteen
No, we can’t dance together
(We can’t dance together)
No, we can’t talk at all
Please take me along
When you slide on down
I completed puberty by the age of 24.
I don’t think it’s nitpicky at all, there’s a huge difference between them.
Maybe my problem is that even when I was a teen, I like mature women more… Never been attracted to those that are too young and will keep my thoughts of that to myself.
I was also always attracted to women older than me. Then I got old.
Jugsy is 14 years younger.
I think, at least for me, it has more to do with avoiding the immaturity and shit attitude of younger women than the actual age, per se. Now that I am closer to hitting 60, I am not looking for 70 or 80 year old grannies to bang, but I am not at all interested in women under 45 either. Some guys want them young as hell still.
^ This guy gets it.
/carefully hides DVDs of “Airtight Grannies” 1, 2, and 3
Ronnie McDowell – Older Women Make Good Lovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hRamSOlDk
”St. Winifred’s School Choir Presents There’s No One Quite Like Grandma?”
“They don’t yell, swell or tell and they’re grateful as hell”.
The summer I was 18, I was… involved with a divorcee who was exactly twice my age – 36. She had a daughter than was only four years younger than me.
Pro: I learned more that summer than I would have in ten years with girls my own age, and that has paid dividends since.
Con: The bunch of assholes and miscreants I called my friends were in the habit of loudly singing “Mrs. Rpbinson” whenever I showed up someplace.
If I remembered the lyrics, I’d quote them here.
Are you the guy in this song, Animal?
I agree there’s a huge difference, but is it in degree or in kind?
If a 40 year old teacher boinks a 14 year old girl, is that particularly less bad than him molesting an 8 year old? I guess it comes down to whether you think a 14 year old is capable of consenting to that. The assumption would be that she can’t be easily manipulated by an authority figure to bend to his will. She couldn’t possibly be convinced that this was an okay thing or even a good thing through sheer imposition of his will on her. It’s essentially the same manipulative process that a predator would use on an 8 year old, but a bit more sophisticated because the 14 year old has lived more life.
(I use 14 as an example rather than 16 or 17 because I think the age of majority should be 16)
Sexually immature child vs. sexually mature biological adult is clearly a difference in kind.
If a 40 year old teacher boinks a 14 year old girl, is that particularly less bad than him molesting an 8 year old?
Yes. I’m not saying either should be legal, far from it. But they are not the same at all.
Looking thru the KY statutes once, there were something like 6 categories based on age of perp and age of victim, ranging from “slap on wrist” to “pound me in the ass prison”.
The KY legislature made the distinctions and seemed to get it right.
I think that bright lines something that isn’t nearly so bright. A cocoon isn’t a caterpillar, but it’s not a butterfly either.
Of course its arbitrary. But I don’t think a case-by-case determination without clear lines is a good basis for criminal law.
Y’know, with all the leaks we hear about, I’m kinda surprised that no one has leaked the client list yet.
Leaks are usually self-serving. I guess nobody with access is feeling particularly suicidal at the moment.
“Relax, there are no pills involved today”
What if I want pills?
You take the pill you get more inflation.
What if the inflation isn’t transitory and lasts more than 4 hours?
Consult your economist. Do not take the pill if interest rates are under 3% or if you don’t have an emergency fund of 3 to 6 months. Pregnant and lactating women should use caution when taking the pill, as side effects may include lack of baby formula.
Call a friend, and brag about it
You need Stimulus!
I’m not in that business
Dude, haven’t you heard? The supreme court banned the pill. And they banned women from voting. That’s what I gather from all the hubub at least
“CA Attorney General doxes a bunch of gun owners. Great idea, piss off everyone after making themuse a bullet button.”
This was done on purpose. That’s how fucking evil these people are.
No standing to sue anyone, of course. Just an honest mistake.
It’s telling that the defense of their criminal behavior is that it was an accident of incompetence. When you can claim incompetence to avoid consequences, you know your system is beyond broken.
look, Hillary didn’t mean to break any rules when she set up her unsecured server!
Interesting that they used a pic of a gun gamer to go with that article. I don’t know that I’ve seen that in a normie publication before.
At least they were wearing a mask in the story pic.
Think of how dangerous she would have been if unmasked!
The leak included the private information of 244 judges and 420 reserve officers in addition to thousands of private civilians.
That will teach em!
I never registered my guns in CA nor even bought ammo during my brief 3-year stay there. Just had a gut feel that it’d be best not to tip them off that I was a gun owner (before the boat accident on Tahoe of course. Now I got nuthin.)
Smart that it was Tahoe, if you had opted for Lake Mead you might be in trouble.
244 judges and 420 reserve officers
The most likely reason the site is offline right now – while they scrub them off that list.
I suspect Tonio was pointing out that all of those people are civilians
Indeed, and I think my point stands as well.
You are both correct.
“Fear of inflation driving down consumer sentiment. Not sure its fear anymore its reality.”
It was
TrumpPutinUkraine warSCOTUSbad messaging’s fault!“since they decided to go all 6’s and 7’s and tell the dirty bloger to drive a lorry up their arse before shating upon turtles or something”
Does anyone speak English in England?
–Snatch
Oh, stewardess? I speak British.
cold gots to be!
Sheeeit! (golly!)
Are you talking about that dreary little village in the west north counties, or Americanizing the word for crawly-bumps?
Where’s Limey been, btw?
Good question.
And I oop.
That asshat Krugman predicted a destructive recession and the collapse of the stock market under Trump, then told us after the 2020 election was fortified that the good times were finally here! I guess his idea of good economic times is the globalist agenda destroying the middle class and making us all poorer, while the government and the propagandist arm tell the serfs constant lies through circuses, but we get no mean tweets.
I’m guessing he’s already written the “inflation is good” article, but I refuse to check
Briefly off-topic:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887
makes Trashy’s Eyepiece extension work with Safari on my iPad and I am a very happy Glib.
That link warns me that it is a virus….
Huh, wonder why? Should just link to ‘Userscripts’ in the App Store
Better call Fauci then.
If I wanted to be abused I would ask Winston’s mom, cause at least in that case I might get me a reach around.
So you’re saying you just came here for an argument?
Just never gets old.
Worked for me thanks!
Any idea what the most recent version of eyepiece is? I found one that is more than a few years old.
3.17, I think
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/blob/Eyepiece/monocle.user.js
OK, help me out here. On Safari on my IPad. Downloaded the Userscripts app, turned it on in Settings. Clicked the link for Eyepiece, and . . . Nothing. What am I missing?
The iPad ain’t fun to kludge things into. You need to create a directory for scripts – i.e Scripts. Point the App you just downloaded to use that directory as your source of scripts. Download Trashy’s script into that folder.
The Morning After Links
Zwak’s post wasn’t that bad. Actually, it was good.
I’m totally jealous of her tits by the way, get a load of these things!
She does have a nice rack. In this picture, she looks way too much like a Jewish gal I knew through dancing whom I asked out. She shot me down.
On the Maxwell/Epstein note, I will go out on a limb here and predict that the Heat Death of the Universe will happen before we see their client list.
“Today’s announcement puts power and information into the hands of our communities by helping them better understand the role and potential dangers of firearms within our state,” Bonta said of the dashboard.
Go Fuck Yourself.
Also, Paul Krugman can go fuck himself.
“She shot me down.”
You miss 100% of the the shots you don’t take.
“I will go out on a limb here and predict that the Heat Death of the Universe will happen before we see their client list.”
She is already on suicide watch.
Well, they can’t keep her on that forever.
Purely as a thought exercise — say you were an older inmate with at least a decade or two left on your sentence, unlikely to get parole, and developing health issues that pretty much ensure you’ll die while still a prisoner. And one day you have a visit from your new lawyer who you don’t remember hiring, and the lawyer offers you something you want — money for your family, the convenient death of someone on the outside, whatever. And all you have to do is get into a fight with a fellow inmate and make sure you kill her or that she suffers severe brain damage…
You stab the lawyer because that kind tends to also take out at least the first round of assassins.
Yeah, they sent her to prison instead of having her too die from suicide because two in a row would make it too hard for them to keep pretending it was not by design.
She is already on suicide watch.
Lately that seems to mean someone is watching to see how long it takes her to kill herself.
There’s at least a few betting pools going.
On the Maxwell/Epstein note, I will go out on a limb here and predict that the Heat Death of the Universe will happen before we see their client list.
I don’t know. If some govt IT group is charged with preserving that list somewhere, there is a 50/50 chance it gets exposed on some public web server. (90-10 that it is stolen by Chinese hackers).
Your odds are off. There’s a 100% chance it’s already in the hands of foreign nationals.
She shot me down.
That bitch
Last day of work before a glorious 5 day weekend!
https://archive.ph/5vC8h
Ass Wednesday.
I’ve still got three more days (counting today), but next week is only a three day work week for me thanks to Punk in Drublic being next Friday.
I’ve requested to use the comp time I acquired last week to try to make a 3.5 day weekend, but I haven’t heard back yet.
If I’m not declined by friday, I’m taking the shorter day.
5 day weekend! – and you call Europeans lazy
For Euros isn’t a five day weekend just A Weekend?
We only get them once in a blue moon.
They are rather rare in fact
“R&B star R Kelly is due in court today to be sentenced for up to 25 years over sex- trafficking conviction”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10963783/R-B-hitmaker-R-Kelly-court-sex-abuse-sentencing.html
He must be pissed.
*golf clap*
The actions performed, they were observed.
They might rain on his parade.
No matter what he tells you, that’s not rain.
“No shit, now quit losing my money cunt!”
What investment advice do you working ladies have for us shlubs trying to do a regular 9-5 job, Winston’s mom?
Plan B pills as trade goods?
That’s one way to diversify, I tell ya…
Dry goods, liquor, cigarettes, prophylaxis..
“I’m totally jealous of her tits by the way, get a load of these things!”
The interwebz says she wears a 34D which looks about right. Crossing the border into Q territory.
“BREAKING NEWS: FDA recommends new COVID-19 shots to target Omicron with jabs expected to rollout in October”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10962801/FDA-panel-recommends-new-COVID-19-shots-target-Omicron-variant.html
“Anthony Fauci says that he’s experienced rebound Covid symptoms after taking a Pfizer’s antiviral Paxlovid – which studies now show is NOT effective for people who are vaccinated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10963301/Anthony-Fauci-says-hes-experienced-rebound-Covid-symptoms-Paxlovid-course.html
Maybe they should just stick to boner pills.
I have my schedule. 2 flue shots 2 covid vaxxes and one for dengue fever just for the hell of it
Do you get a punch card? How many shots get you a free sandwich?
5 vaxx and you get a free enema
Coffee or yogurt?
Aren’t we hundreds if not thousands of viral generations from omicron?
These cuntes are not serious.
They are dead serious about making money.
I feel like you deserve a 🏆 for that comment.
🏅
That’s what I was going to say. They’re getting so lazy about trying to scare me that they can’t even be bothered pick a new letter from the Greek alphabet? They had such a zeal for making the elderly and soccer moms irrationally terrified before. It’s kind of sad to see them losing their sense of purpose.
Maybe they should just stick to boner pills.
You know the saying “when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail”?
Well what do you think a bureaucrat with priapism will think when you looks at your taxpaying asshole?
Geez I thought the “private tutor” scenario was just in porn. Thirteen year old me would have.
this kind of double standard is harmful to boys.
Is it rape if the younger male is in complete agreement?
“Just don’t tell your Mom?”
Or older brother/friends
I feel for this 13 year old. It was a horrible experience for me when my (older) baby sitter got caught and I had to wait from 11 to 16 to again get me some of that….
Do you still hear from him ?
Your momma!
And I did hear about her… She was getting divorced around the same time I did some 12 years ago. Seems her husband caught her with the 17 year old neighbor boy that mowed their lawn or cleaned their pool or something…
“I think there’s clear evidence that the current murder spike was caused primarily by the 2020 BLM protests. The timing matches the protests well, and the pandemic poorly. The spike is concentrated in black communities and not in any of the other communities affected by the pandemic. It matches homicide spikes corresponding to other anti-police protests, most notably in the cities where those protests happened but to a lesser degree around the country. And the spike seems limited to the US, while other countries had basically stable murder rates over the same period.”
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-caused-the-2020-homicide-spike
So Black Lives Matter decreased black lives.
Steve Sailer’s been saying that for months.
Are they still desperately working hard to punish anyone pointing out BLM was a dnc sponsored marxist crime syndicate entity that served to do team blue’s dirty work while the leadership stole money from the idiots that donated to it?
There’s another problem with the pandemic cause theory which is that a smaller uptick already occurred before. The so-called Ferguson Effect can’t possibly be confounded by a pandemic.
That’s also in the article.
Fair enough. I’ve soured on Scott Alexander re: COVID. If he writes an article about how everything since March 2020 has been total bullshit, I’ll reconsider.
I was squadding up for the ME state championship and I noticed a couple named “Kaylee” and “Mason.” I was mentally mocking them until I saw one of them with a “G” in the class field.
The bricklayer division?
Could you decode that for us?
Look at Tonio, who doesn’t understand that stuff!
*chuckles nervously*
From previous posting, and the vagaries of my brain, I would lean towards that G meaning Grandmaster (really good at pew pew while moving).
Ah, I was thinking ‘Gangsta’ and that they shot with their guns sideways.
Two guns, 90 degrees off true, angled towards each other, at least a minimum amount of bling.
Gangsta Doesn’t necessarily mean best technique
I was thinking that Not Adahn was excited about a woman in a G-spot.
She’s “just” an A shooter.
8
Mason might be Mason Lane, who is…somewhat more than a mere Grandmaster.
Seems you’re right.
https://www.theknot.com/us/kaylee-bennett-and-mason-lane-aug-2021/our-story
It’s Kaylee Lane now, at least according to Practiscore.
Awwwwww…
Neph got it. It’s amazing how a teeny bit of information can bring down your whole stereotyping.
USPSA ranks:
G M A B C D
No E and F?
I’m disappointed that my repeated failure to show hasn’t been recorded.
Anything below B is just untermenchen anyway. C is an “aww, you tried!” class.
California law requiring property owners to pay one month’s rent to legally evicted tenants is upheld
Lex Luthor was the good guy. Prove me wrong.
Dropping Cali into the sea seems a bit much. Couldn’t we just give it to the Chinese or something?
And give them a staging area to launch a ground invasion?
No, I’d sooner see it reduced to nuclear slag and sunk to the seabed than give it up!
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19012669/kissed-my-friends-husband-memory/
suck his cock while your at it if you are repressing things anyway
Slut ready to bloom her sluttiness…
Boris Johnson: Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he were a woman
Prime minister says Russian president’s gender a contributory factor to Ukraine invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/boris-johnson-claims-putin-would-not-have-invaded-ukraine-if-he-was-a-woman
Boris Johnson has claimed that Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he was a woman and believes that the war is a “perfect example of toxic masculinity”.
Boris seemed a bit of a chad before election, how the fuck did he get this cucked? I am trying to use the alt right lingo did I get it right?
For a man named Boris, he seems woefully ignorant of the type of woman that would have survived in the career Vlad had.
Exactly, that woman would have nuked half of Europe.
Certainly would have barebacked a horse a bit differently…. we know that much.
Probably his wife/girlfriend.
He would have invaded Ukraine and the rest of eastern Europe if he were a woman.
“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”?
You should look up that concept of Angel of mercy nurses…..
Women are just a lot less brutal about their murderous desires…
The California Attorney General’s Office leaked the named and addresses of thousands of gun owners across the state, The Reload reported Tuesday.
Do you want more gun crime?
Only if those crimes involve victimless, procedural ones levied against otherwise law-abiding gun owners so you have an excuse to lock them up.
Yeah, them Sacramento shooters, they are just misunderstood yutes.
Yes
Huh. I just cannot understand why gun owners don’t want to register their guns. Real head scratcher.
I am still unsure if this idiocy was done because she simply didn’t realize their could be consequences to being this stupid/evil, or was she expecting that in today’s environment where leftist cuntes can get away with criminality while the other side gets railroaded under false charges constantly, that she would not have to worry. And she is not alone in doing this sort of idiocy on social media. Virtue signaling is seriously a sign of a mental disorder with leftists.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. She’s merely the first person to get caught. And it’s not just life-enhancing things like Viagra; if you pay attention to the leftists they are starting to talk about “medical justice.” IOW, you as an older white person will suffer denial or delay of actual life-saving medical treatment because black people were historically denied that.
The Hippocratic Oath is a living document! Hippocrates couldn’t possibly have known about the existence of advanced cancer treatment! We have to evolve with the times! Besides he was a white slave owner (didn’t everyone own slaves in those days?)!
I have been telling people that were always talking about socialized government controlled healthcare being a right and what we need that after the way government handled medical decisions – the life & death kind – during the Kung Flu purely through the political lens of social justice (meaning my team vs. yours), that they might want to rethink the whole concept. Do you think unelected & unaccountable government bureaucracies, after showing us that they care more about their own dynamics and political advantage, wouldn’t basically be petty entities where the decision makers would do whatever tickled their fancy or hurt their enemies?
They are all pissed off and refuse to discuss the subject the moment I bring that back up when they get going on how bad for profit healthcare is….
I’m reading this book. There’s lots of talk of big hospitals doing what NIH/NIAID/CDC say.
I see that as just a variation of what this woman claimed to do.
Article doesn’t say how she would know if they are conservative.
They wouldn’t be watching The View?
How does she know who they vote for? Is that a question in the medical history?
You can ask them if they support the patriarchy, and unless they get all bent out of shape and demand a soy latte to calm down after that horrible accusation, you know they are evil?
doctor visit
https://twitter.com/adamtotscomix/status/1541834780781715456
That’s gonna leave a mark?
UK Police Now Investigating Playground Insults
You got a loisance for dat juvenile banter, mate?
So… you won’t investigate rape cases for fear of being called racist, but will harass children for being children?
Harassing kids has got to be the easiest way for a cop to “do something.”
Lead Secret Service Agent Will Testify Trump Did Not Try to Commandeer Car on January 6
This farce has gotten more absurd than I originally thought it would.
Just wait until you find out that Trump had installed a remote control in the secret service limo, and was controlling it from the back seat this whole time.
He only had to press one button and the Beast would locate the nearest McDonalds drive-thru.
“Perspective: It’s no coincidence that the court is making our democracy less democratic at the very moment it returns the issue of abortion to the political process.”
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1541909324091490305
What?
“Anything that goes against our policy proscriptions is anti-democratic. Update your newspeak dictionary, bigot.”
it seems pretty clear to me
Cause you are an oppressor?
More voting is less democratic. Or something.
Voting which does not result in their desired outcome is less democratic.
Democracy=Controlling others through force . . .duh
“A Title IX officer told me she thought of her job as running “The Break Up Office.”Many students didn’t want to navigate relationships.Instead they got the message they could recast any sexual experience as malign and then report it to school authorities.”
https://twitter.com/EmilyYoffe/status/1541786331461853185
“Biden’s Sex Police
The White Houses’s new regulations will gut due-process rights for college students accused of sexual misconduct…
During his vice presidency, Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s point man for a major domestic initiative: ending sexual assault on campus. There is no question bad, sometimes criminal, sexual behavior occurs on campus. Eliminating it is a worthy, if elusive, goal. But the Obama-Biden mandate expanded the definition of sexual misconduct so broadly that jokes, flirting, or “any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” could be punishable offenses.
The Obama administration set out to change campus culture, and it did. But in doing so, it undermined women, demonized men, and diverted vast resources away from education. Under rules promulgated by Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education under Trump, many of these policies were rolled back. The Biden administration now plans to restore much of this.”
https://www.commonsense.news/p/bidens-sex-police
Biden was also behind the VAWA.
College is a place where you can cause significant mental damage to weak-minded idiots that tend to not realize it is a horrible idea to waste piles of money learning nothing of value, and make them perpetual wards of the nanny state.
Dude, careful, that kind of talk is going to cause erections in leftist circles like triple-strength viagra.
It certainly would explain why they keep telling these poor kids that it is a great idea to rack up debt that would give a mortgage a run for the money to go study whatever they are “passionate” about (meaning the shit that will take the least amount of effort so they can focus on partying)….
No more orgies at the frat house.
Meanwhile he engages in pervy behavior he’s condemn. What a douchebag.
A good friend of mine in college slept with a girl while she was on a break with her boyfriend. My friend made it clear he wasn’t looking for a relationship. Girl’s exish boyfriend found out and she freaked when he wouldn’t get back together with her because of it.
Then the girl claimed my friend raped her so it wasn’t her fault. Not rape-rape but rape-light… like taking advantage of her (it was college, they were of course both drinking). And never mind the nice text messages she had sent him the next day. My friend had to lawyer up immediately and he got lucky she didn’t press charges. I’d say she declined to press because she was felt guilty about being full of shit, but we’ve seen that hasn’t stopped many others.
Anyone that has one of these experiences of being unjustly accused and doesn’t lawyer up and immediately threatens the institution with a multi million dollar lawsuit, is an idiot.
Any effort by the school to adjudicate these should be met with a lawsuit.
If there was rape, report it to the police. If there was regret, live and learn.
Hell, my son when he was an under-grad had some girlfriend who’s mother came onto him. When he broke up with her there were accusations and we immediately got a lawyer involved and announced that we had the entire record of text messages between the two of them – suddenly everything blew over. That was his first lesson about sticking it in crazy; he would ultimately have to learn that lesson a second time for it to stick, but that’s another story.
Use a fake name, a burner phone, and never, ever bring her someplace you’d be recognized?
Oh it was going to be a Title IX farce, but real evidence shut it down.
I feel like I understand his situation
Wood explained that supply-chain issues had led to major retailers to mismanage their inventories, leading to a glut of certain finished goods, like furniture, that were in high demand during the pandemic. Even “the best-managed companies in the world” are having problems she said. She added that the surge in inventories seen over the past year has been larger than anything she has seen during her 45-year career.
They can’t afford nice new furniture because they’re spending all their money on gas and groceries.
Key point: the Fed should not slam the brakes because of phantom inflation fears
The massive cost increase you are experiencing are a figment of your imagination.
Ghosts are still as inexpensive as they’ve ever been!
“Don’t worry — I can see it too…”
Lost on a 50/50 for the top left. Got really lucky on the 4th guess. I was going for bottom right but got top right.
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I need to tune up QB’s word value algorithm. It’s taking too many impossible combinations into account, which leads to suboptimal guesses in the 3-5 range. Once it gets down to 5 available words or less, it doesn’t matter anymore, but I’ve noticed a weakness in the word choices for guesses 3-5 for a while now.
QB
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I think I just rage quit quordle. My problem was I failed to notice a letter I had gotten for bottom right, which cost me two turns at least.
Bottom left, I am too upset to get directions correct.
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Barely
A perfect 30 is a proud achievement, IMO.
I got one the other day.
X 3
X 4
You got a MikeS! I’m so proud of you!
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Same with the 50/50 UL still can’t get below 4 on the first one.
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Sub-20; I’ll take it.
Meh. Right on the Tundra Line:
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So, this week we have a 20, a chump, and a 19. Tomorrow is looking grim.
8 4
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Just got done getting temp crowns on a couple of lower back teeth. So far so good. ::fist bumps ‘patzie, who’s been there done that:: ::also fist bumps RoaT re: the smell of burning tooth:: 😳🦷🔥
Have they stopped burning?
Finally, after a mouthful of that fire extinguisher stuff. Boy does that taste nasty! 😝🧯
Good.
After I get back from FreedomFest, I get to have some crowns replaced. Yay.
::fist bumps DEG👊::
I need to get my wisdoms removed. My orthodontist back in thr day did a great job of ensuring they were good but it’s time…
“I regret to inform everyone that yes, Pennsylvanians do call this chicken and waffles.”
https://twitter.com/AlisonSomin/status/1541936703090434049
WTF?
Sooo…. rather than tasty fried chicken a syrup, they put boiled skinless chiocken and white gravy on the waffle?
Looks to me like a creamed chicken topping a waffle instead of another starchy goodness (such as dumplings).
To be fair, chicken and waffles in any form is rank.
You need to try it. Shredded Chicken on waffles, with a cream and chicken stock based gravy. Best served with mashed potatoes and stuffing, because diabetes.
what is wrong with chicken and nice mixed greens salad
It’s not steak.
There’s a similar dish called “chicken and biscuits” here.
no there isn’t. I looked twice
It is a yummy breakfast when it’s cold.
The weather being cold. Not the chicken and biscuits. Those should be hot. To counterbalance the cold weather you see.
is there beer?
Can be, depending on the establishment and the day/time combination, yes.
The UK is now ranked fourteenth on LGBTQ+ rights in Europe, having been ranked first in 2015. There is a trans moral panic. Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes are rising. We are still waiting for conversion practices to be banned. Three of the many reasons it’s
https://twitter.com/philipcbaldwin/status/1542039349558124547
I am sure those ranking are objective. And I am sure the rising crime has nothing to do with certain immigrants.
Why should we care if the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2KsZHRrFpU"girls came from Iran?
/kicks rock
At least the link still works.
Now do the Middle East.
That can’t happen in Canada.
Police say two suspects are dead, and six members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team are in the hospital following an exchange of gunfire at a bank in Saanich, B.C., on Tuesday.
Officers were called when two armed men believed to be wearing body armour entered a bank on Shelbourne Street at approximately 11 a.m Tuesday.
In a media briefing Tuesday afternoon, Saanich police Chief Dean Duthie said the shooting started when the suspects left the bank, creating a situation that was very dangerous for the public.
“I don’t know who fired first at this point. But there were multiple gunshots that were fired. And where we’re at, I don’t know.”
Will someone not save us from those bank robbing guns???
Canadian body armor ban in 3.. 2.. 1..
I’m amazed it isn’t already.
Very well may be and these are just right wing NAZIS flouting Canada’s common sense laws.
Yeah, imagine the gall of bank robbers to flout the law like that.
Canada needs common sense banking laws.
Sounds aboot like Heat, eh?
Anglo Respecter 40K 🇸🇪🤝🇰🇵
@Tinkzorg
the destruction of this entire class of people, drowned in the cold waters of general economic depression, will be humanity’s dearest achievement during the 21st century.
https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1541875731390730241
to be fair the american chickprobably consume a north korean family’s worth of calories in the video
Yeah, but NK is a socially just place!
“get a load of these things”
The best that hush money can buy I’d imagine. Now where’s that client list?
Go for it.
Now is her moment. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade creates the opening for Hillary Clinton to get out of stealth mode and start down the path toward declaring her candidacy for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
VOTE FOR ANOTHER OLD PUPPET (this one is a spawn of the old ones however)!
She oughtta run , truly a God amongst women…so charismatic, so moral…
They had to invent a Russia collusion plot to mitigate the fact most people saw her as a criminal that got off because otherwise Obama and a lot of the Obama admin members would have gone down in flames with her if she was prosecuted for her criminality. I wonder what they will invent this time….
Ban this shit lord!
the border is wide open – people would not be dying in trucks if that were true. it is not quite wide
I’ve never seen anything like the Democrat obsession with Donald Trump. He broke their brains. He’s been out of office for 18 months — the entire country has gone to shit with Joe Biden in office & Democrat control of the House & Senate — and yet it’s still all Trump. Wild.
Trump is the cartoon villain that Dems need.
They sure as hell are working overtime to convince people that he is…
#HumbleBrag
I’ve hired multiple new employees in the past couple weeks.
just to fire them when the recession is at it’s deepest? evil. I like it.
Nope. We’re recession proof.
What percent is that by volume?
Mortuary?
I’m not too proud of this, though.
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Daily Ray of Sunshine
You can’t fool me! That’s a Kangaroo!
Awwww.
Sweet pups. Thanks, Holiness!
Can the left meme? a question
https://twitter.com/sallyhunt666/status/1541806890409238530
The wall of text having to explain what they were trying to do with the borrowed template says no.
When you put together that particular template, you need to use something recognizable.
Though the people telling her to delete it for racist reasons are the only amusing thing on that link.
I mean the use of that template is pretty standard here no wall of text
Scroll down for the text.
The screed follows. Because the poster realized a ton of people are not going to recognise the fictional characters chosen.
lol. I did not scroll down. I did not realize there was a long text explanation 🙂
If you let everyone know the addresses of everyone with a (legal) gun, by the process of elimination you are letting everyone know which houses are safe to rob.
I hope this is exactly how it plays out…
Good call. However, expecting progressives to think through their emotional tantrums is NOT going to happen.
New PC term? Or am I late to the party:
USWNT’s Carson Pickett becomes first player with a limb difference to feature for U.S. national team
What the fuck is a ‘limb difference’? Chaos mutant with tentacle arms?
Japanese Glibs hardest hit?
Missing a limb. And those uniforms are awful.
Looks like psychedelic ship camouflage.
Think Jim Abbot the former professional baseball pitcher.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess it is when you can play “One of these things isn’t like the others” with your own arms and legs?
50% less hands calls.
25%*
I’m not using that term. In my sport you’re a double amp, single amp, you have legs, you’re an able body.
Hearsay, schmearsy, we’ll allow it
Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on Jan. 6, 2021, when his security detail declined to take him to the U.S. Capitol where his supporters were rioting, a former aide testified on Tuesday.
The then-president dismissed concerns that some supporters gathered for his fiery speech outside the White House that day carried AR-15-style rifles, instead asking security to stop screening attendees with metal-detecting magnetometers so the crowd would look larger, the aide testified.
“Take the effing mags away; they’re not here to hurt me,” Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a top aide to Trump’s then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, quoted Trump as saying that morning.
Hutchinson, in testimony on the sixth day of House of Representatives hearings into the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol assault by Trump’s followers, said the conversation was relayed to her by Tony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official who was Trump’s deputy chief of staff for operations.
They probably had to call a recess so the kangaroos could compose themselves and get a change of panties, after that.
Except for the fact the Secret Service volunteered to testify, under oath (something none of the clowns that are part of this reality TeeVee shit are doing), that never happened. I am going on a limb that based on how hard these asshats are trying to ignore that offer from the Secret Service, or the news this was offered, that the whole thing is gonna do nothing for them.
some supporters gathered for his fiery speech outside the White House that day carried AR-15-style rifles
I listened. I watched. I saw no evidence of this presented. No one was arrested with weapons. No one got a weapons charge. I have several bridges in Alaska to sell to anyone that believes a word of this nonsense.
get a change of panties, after that.
Way more than that. They had to bring in drip buckets
In the interest of old-fashioned factual accuracy, I would note that video of Trump’s ride that day shows that it was not the Presidential limo, it was an SUV. So the difficulty of a passenger in the limo getting to the driver/steering wheel (which I am among many others pointed out yesterday) does not apply.
Of course, its still a fairy tale. As is the assault rifle toting attendees at his speech (until I see photographic/video evidence, at least).
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
Does the SS not insist on The Beast?
Probably not in DC. They have other assets available in the district.
Nope. We’re recession proof.
I didn’t know you were a mortician.
He’s the coffin maker with Trump on one side, Biden on the other… and us smack in the middle?
We’re pretty safe. If we don’t make it through, almost no small business will.
“Challenge finubinated, Fat”
/Biden
Britain (England, really) used to be a hell of a good country once. Ah cahn’t understand wot’s gone wrong wif it.
same as with anything. collectivism in all its forms.
Was it not “collectivism” that built the British Empire in the first place?
“For God, King, and Country” is not exactly an individualist motto.
Yeah, but the only people that got to collect shit were the rulership class…
Wait a minute…
the economy that supported that was pretty liberal for its time and that enabled the empire
The British economy is still pretty liberal. It seems to me their ambitions atrophied. Instead of ruling the world, they’d rather be coddled by the NHS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49cYeA55Y_8
They were once rather Swiss; e.g., Lloyds underwriters. Fucking Blair, I suppose.
“‘I’m the effing president. Take me up to the Capitol now,'” Hutchinson quoted an enraged Trump as saying. She said Trump tried from the back seat to grab the steering wheel of the heavily armored presidential vehicle and lunged in anger at a Secret Service official.
Trump, a Republican, denied her account of his actions.
*outright prolonged laughter*
I can see Trump pulling the “I’m the President and you’re supposed to do what I want” card. I mean, who wouldn’t?
Even if this asinine allegation is true, does that mean I’m supposed to view the Secret Service as the Praetorian Guard? Like, it’s the job of the guys who “protect the President” to actually decide what he’s allowed to do?
Why not? It’s what Biden’s handlers do, and he’s the most competent president evah!
I’m surprised he didn’t hang a noose around the rearview mirror and yell “this is MAGA country.”
I mean….. even if this were true and not the obviously false product of a kangaroo court…. who cares?
The usurper should have known his place
Good morning, WM!
Sorry you had to watch soccer. I hope you charged a lot extra for that torture.
Ghislaine Maxwell (and her tits) get 20 years for sexually abusing and trafficking young girls while Ross Ulbricht is gonna die in prison. Seems a little fucked up.
Daryl Cooper’s series on the Epstein saga is amazing. I’m about halfway through and just learned a bunch about Ghislaine’s old man. The whole story is rotten with intelligence agencies and governments. WIld.
Here’s one for Krugnuts.
Poor Ross. Writing to him would probably get one placed on A List.
yeah but unimportant young girls. randos.
What I can’t figure out is:
All of her records were sealed to protect the privacy of the “victims”. Leaving aside that some of them had already gone public,
(1) Since when do we refuse to prosecute people to protect the victims? Doesn’t that seem backwards?
(2) Couldn’t the names of the victims be redacted?
(3) Isn’t this convicting someone based on secret evidence, which is a violation of due process?
Well, this case is different because shut up!
All of the procedural shit we’re ignoring – warm up for the Assange trial.
W*men are funny, guys. Get used to it.
https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1542005850956615680
Angeles City Pool Party ‘Miss Dollhouse’ at Score Birds Hotel, Philippines 🇵🇭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3p03skwBfU
That looks like a parade of sex trafficker’s merchandise…
the ones from italy look the same just slightly more high end
Una Ragazza x il Cinema, Castelli Giulietta e Romeo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35sjAN4x9HY
Che catzo?
Bret, you dishonest cunte.
“She had another, obviously, another session behind the scenes with the committee they are playing the sound bites from and realized the power of this testimony. Perhaps politically, in the wake of Roe v. Wade and everything else to keep January 6 on the front burner. Bottom line, the testimony is stunning, and we are going to likely hear from the former president and his reaction to all of this, in one way or another. But you also have other officials, Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel. You have others who are weighing in here, behind the scenes through her testimony. Listen, I think it does move the ball in this hearing.”
Nobody but TMITE and their drones care about this. Seriously, I don’t think the average person even knows this crap is happening.
This reality TeeVee shit is a desperate attempt by the people that have nothing positive to offer to the country to make things better, and need a villain they can all hate to gather the usual moorlochs.
Even if nothing comes of this, they are being way too transparent about trying to set up a(nother) coup here.
Trump did drive in the ’90s: https://www.reddit.com/r/lamborghini/comments/epb4kj/donald_trump_with_his_lamborghini_diablo_at_a_gas/
Boss.
Full service, too.
Yeah, caught that.
That spoils my vision of him driving a 90’s K car.
Driven by Jon Voight?
https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mom_and_Pop_Store
$1.29 for gas…on the east coast!?
I need a cigarette
Speaking of that, Sheetz is trying to grab some customers by pricing some gas at $3.99/gallon until after the Fourth. Local news is on it:
Ohio Sheetz $3.99 gas: Will it damage your car?
That had to be wildly uncomfortable for a guy his size.
I pictured him driving a gaudy Roller
We’re overdue for a major European war anyway.
NATO continues to revel in collective delusion and pretend that it can change the outcome in Ukraine. That was demonstrated today by the fanfare surrounding the news that Turkey will no longer block Sweden and Finland from joining the crew of the Titanic. On Monday (June 27), NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced NATO would boost its troops on the western border near Russia: …
The 300,000 man NATO force is not going to be deployed in a single formation in one location. The force will be dispersed along Ukraine’s border, which stretches from Romania to Poland. In addition, NATO will probably put some troops in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. But that dispersion of forces means all you have are trip wires or speed bumps in the event Russia decided to launch a ground invasion of one or more of the NATO countries nearest to Russia. Russia is not going to do that, even if those NATO forces initiate military operations that threaten Russian troops in Ukraine or Moldova.
Russia has demonstrated forcefully during the last four months that it can and will use hyper-sonic missiles to hit targets where troops and munitions are located. NATO is simply trying to poking a caged Bear with a stick and hoping it does not strike back. This is beyond foolish. It is dangerous.
Considering that the last two World Wars worked out very well for the progressive cause in the end, why wouldn’t they go for the Triple Crown?
But that dispersion of forces means all you have are trip wires or speed bumps in the event Russia decided to launch a ground invasion of one or more of the NATO countries nearest to Russia.
Based on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I’m not sure you need more than a speed bump. The Russians apparently suck at maneuver, and need an established front they can deploy heavy artillery to in order to advance.
Russia has demonstrated forcefully during the last four months that it can and will use hyper-sonic missiles to hit targets
I’m not sure what counts as a “hypersonic” missile. Have the Russians actually deployed a new technology in Ukraine? I really don’t know, but I am reflexively suspicious of any reporting on the Ukraine war.
All the best Brits left the islands and came to America in the 17th-19th centuries.
And the worst went to Australia. 😉
Terry Pratchett is a sterling counter example.
was
Well, at least we still have Tolkien.
At the end of about two hours of testimony, Representative Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the nine-member House panel, presented possible evidence of witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
Cheney showed messages to unidentified witnesses advising them that an unidentified person would be watching their testimony closely and expecting loyalty.
Irrefutable. It’s an open and shut case.
JFC – this is sinking below junior high cafeteria gossip.
Sounds like those could have come from the J6 Committee members themselves.
The most amazing thing to me about the 1/6 Show Trial is that the sole purpose is to stop Trump from being able to run again. They will use any excuse to keep him off the ballot because they are terrified that he will win again and really fuck up The Narrative.
Yet…. This is happening. WTF? I’ve said it here before, but once more: I will listen to arguments that there is some secret reason for bouncing Trump only after you have a similar committee ban Hillary from running again for all her well documented and proven crimes.
“Stealth mode Hillary Clinton”
Two thoughts:
1. Prime SugarFree material
2. I’m reminded of when they kept saying Obama was reluctant to speak out against his successor, just like when he spoke out against him the week before
Stopping Trump isn’t its sole purpose. It’s also pour encourager les autres.
It’s about putting the deplorables back in their place – quiet and subservient.
The unaccountable and unelected weaponized Obama era bureaucratic machine, needs the serfs to know that they are expected to comply and not to rattle their cages…
pour décourager.
No mention of Michelle Obama or Stacey Fields? Racist and misogynistic!
Do you mean Stacey Abrams?
Derp, yes.
But surprisingly close to rational.
Democrats are even more pessimistic about Kamala Harris as a potential presidential nominee
Already handled the racist/misogynist angle.
The most amazing thing to me about the 1/6 Show Trial is that the sole purpose is to stop Trump from being able to run again. They will use any excuse to keep him off the ballot because they are terrified that he will win again and really fuck up The Narrative.
I doubt they care if he runs again. The election will just be rigged again by the Cathedral to make sure he loses.
It’s what GT and JI are saying, punishing Trump to send a message to anyone doesn’t support their corrupt system. Same as with January 6 political prisoners. The relevancy of Trump is about the same as January 6th really being an attempt at violently overthrow of the government. In other words, the Cathedral is just as scared of Trump as they are of the J6 prisoners.
I think its more than keeping Trump off the ballot. I think its battlespace prep for treating Republicans generally as anti-American insurgents or somesuch, and pushing the whole Team Red fundraising wing off the stage.
Exactly, it’s about making not accepting whatever the machine tells you is reality, criminal and punishable… Cause then everyone must accept whatever bullshit sammich they are told to eat and then tell everyone else how much of a culinary delight it is to eat it…
I think it’s all the things mentioned above. Keep outsiders in their place, keep deplorables in their place, keep Trump off the ballot so the cheating doesn’t have to be as blatant and won’t be called out by the only non-squishy R, battlespace prep, everything else.
They hate competition and they want it suppressed by any means imaginable.
pushing the whole Team Red fundraising wing off the stage
Yeah, not much of a plan. That sucker is in overdrive now – put a real threat to it and watch how that is backlashed at the threat.
I think I’ve figured out where beer went off the rails.
Some poor German was wandering around a brewhouse trying to get a drink, and the bewers all thought he was saying beer was supposed to be bitter when all he was saying was “Bier, Bitte.”
booooo
Aw, c’mon! A good pun is good for what ales you!
Maybe he’s worried that what comes areound gose around.
Swiss will give this thread a good stout kick.
Swiss can be a sour puss about puns sometimes…
I don’t know wort’s wrong with y’ale. Swiss is probably barley up at this time.
I suspect, deep down, he appreciates a rye wit.
Bah. *narrows gaze*
Right in the Heine.
Glad to see that your sense of humor wasn’t impaired by your dental ordeal.
Never! The worst experiences barley impair it, and then it hops right back!
I went out on a limb this past weekend and tried a Bent Paddle Wilderness Tuxedo sour ale. I normally don’t like beer, but maybe I like sour beer?
my normal swill is Mich Ultra (2.6carbs!) The joke among friends is that it is sex in a canoe* beer.
*punchline: fucking close to water
Even in sours, there’s a big difference between a kettle soured ale, a gose, a Flemish red, or an oude gueuze. Find what you like and drink it.
Warsaw hails planned U.S. military base in Poland as clear signal to Russia
Yay.
Just one? make it half a dozen
A good grift takes time to build.
I did not see the Poland gets cucked arc coming. First they “welcome” a bunch of migrants, now they “welcome” foreign bases. So much for their euroskepticism.
not that euroskeptic when it comes to western european money…
Everyone loves them that sweet EU cash.
True, and money always comes with strings attached.
yes and Easterners often play ball, give or take. Except Romanians, who get all the negatives but do not try to get some cash out of it.
Given their history with Russia, I can’t really blame them.
Yeah, the rest of Western Europe would let the Russians pound them in the ass, again, without even blinking.
Choosing to be America’s bitch instead of Russia’s or Germany’s may not work out as well for them as they might hope.
In reality, no country gets to choose who’s bitch they are – it’s all about who you live next door to. For Poland, that’s about as bad as it gets.
Remember when Trump risked WWIII just by moving the U.S. embassy in Israel?
From the CCP to the Biden family: the check is in the mail!
Reading between the lines, it sounds vaguely like they intend to (re)make the army out of Antifa/black bloc lumpen types.
I read this whole thing, but never found out what the dead people are buying with their food stamps….
Because the current law and system doesn’t provide any mechanism to not send payments to dead people.
WWII Spotter Cat, represent.
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1541821883976384519
Apparently there are pro-choice protests happening in my town, and one of our close friends is going to one on July 4. I’m trying to be a good libertarian and remember people are free to protest whatever they want.
is it a good place to meet some easy women? Why would they be pro choice unless they like to do it a lot?
You would think, but a lot of them are on a “no sex unless abortions are legal” kick.
And abortion is still legal in Mississippi under the law just upheld.
Don’t harsh their craze ji
Me? I’m just egging them on, so to speak.
Always Sunny has become like The Simpsons, with a relevant episode for everything
I was actually thinking of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vYIF1ntrCA
That commie org linked to yesterday had a line that “[commie org] is a political organization, not a social club or a dating service!”
Indeed, TOK. I don’t really have a problem with moving this to the states (although Congress is inevitably going to horn in). Its a good issue for the states to handle, given the variation in what different parts of the country want. And as a legislative issue, it should absolutely be open to input, including protests, by the public.
My work here is done
Andrew Formica of the U.K.-based investment firm Jupiter Fund Management is the latest top executive to join the Great Resignation, retiring after three years as CEO to hit the beach in time for Australia’s summer season.
“I just want to go sit at the beach and do nothing. I’m not thinking about anything else,” the 51-year-old Formica told Bloomberg in an interview.
Formica will step down as chief executive and a director of the $67.9 billion asset manager on Oct. 1, Jupiter announced Tuesday.
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Since Formica took over as CEO in 2019, Jupiter has seen its shares more than halve in value.
Eat your heart out, Kathie Wood.
Hopefully he’ll be living on the beach because he has no home and no other assets.
You do not, it seems, know the ways of the world. That is not how it works.
You’re adorable.
He will be enjoying the millions he made while driving the fund into the ground.
He was just not as good of a CEO as William Tile
Good mornin
https://ibb.co/zhGTS3W
🙁
Work proxy hates me.
Good morning, KK!
How’s things in NC? Birds singing?
Birds, dragonflies, bullfrogs, fireflies – all is good
damn that is a huge spider over there
YOU ARE MY HERO!
P.S. I discovered Vivian has tank heaters. If I combine that with heating wire & insulation on the pipes & valves, I may be able to go to the 20s, temperature-wise.
Presumably you would only tolerate such temps because you are skiing.
Good morning! Nice rig!
On the abortion front, I am still amazed by people having casual sex without the immortal rule “don’t be a fool wrap your tool”. STDs do exist…
Hey, what about those unfortunate girls getting pregnant from the tractor seat?
Wait, I thought they get pregnant by getting hit by a bus?
It’s a very small subset of crazies…most of the population understands how sex and reproduction works. Though schools are working extra hard to correct that
Everyone knows how it works. Vagina possessing men and women can get pregnant if they have sex. However, it is not their fault. It’s the paternalistic state’s fault for not giving them free birth control, and when they did get free birth control, it’s because they can’t terminate the pregnancy, but if for some reason they don’t terminate the pregnancy, it is not their responsibility to pay for the child and it’s healthcare.
Simple. Never their fault, no matter what choices are made.
Virtue, signalled
Target will cover employees’ travel if they live in a state where abortion is banned, according to a company memo obtained by CNBC.
The new policy will take effect in July, according to the email, which was sent to employees Monday from Target’s Chief Human Resources Officer Melissa Kremer.
“For years, our healthcare benefits have included some financial support for travel, when team members needed select healthcare procedures that weren’t available where they live,” Kremer said in the memo. “A few months ago, we started re-evaluating our benefits with the goal of understanding what it would look like if we broadened the travel reimbursement to any care that’s needed and covered – but not available in the team member’s community. This effort became even more relevant as we learned about the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion, given that it would impact access to healthcare in some states.”
Don’t come in our stores without a mask, though. That choice is not yours to make.
“we started re-evaluating our benefits”
i.e. the bean counters realized we can save beaucoup bucks if we pay abortion costs rather than birthing and maternity leave costs.
Wonder if their is a successful court case in all this under unfair labor practices. Providing extra care for one set of people and what not.
Companies should of course be free to offer whatever they want
Hopefully he’ll be living on the beach because he has no home and no other assets.
Thanks. I needed that.
*mops up coffee from monitor*
My job here is done.
CNN is desperately trying to find something good to say about Biden.
“Inside Biden’s successful six-month bid to expand NATO”
Wonder how they would frame this under a Team Red presidency.
We’d never hear the end of how the “deeply unpopular” and “embattled” team red president was “flailing” and hitting “historic unpopularity levels”. The recession would not be a possibility, it would be here, and every single day would be a drumbeat of doom.
“Trump’s unsuccessful bid to destroy NATO by getting other members to live up to their pledge to commit 2% of GDP for defense”.
“Needlessly poking the Russian Bear.” or “Warmonger Trump Betrays his friend, Putin.”
Trump expanding NATO gives 1931 vibes in Europe
I’m getting more of a 1913 vibe, myself.
A client last night just wanted to watch the US Women’s Soccer Team.
There are some truly sick and perverted people out there.
“Inside Biden’s successful six-month bid to expand NATO”
First, it must be made to appear necessary. This will be accomplished by provoking the Russians.
Employees become ill after touching unknown substance while cleaning rental car at Hertz near airport
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/employees-become-ill-after-touching-unknown-substance-while-cleaning-rental-car-at-hertz-near-airport
“I’ll take cooking meth for $100 Alex.”
at least it is not chlorine
Don’t forget fentanyl.
Global Times
@globaltimesnews
China state-affiliated media
#Opinion: When the UK acts and expresses today the interference in China’s internal affairs, it does so not on its own behalf, but on behalf of the American empire as the tail of the American dog, says six-term British parliamentarian @georgegalloway
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1542055954341998593
Okay, Commie Shill.
Tomorrow is the final opinion day of the Supreme Court’s term.
Two opinions issued today. Neither of which is the West Virginia case.
That one, if goes the way it should will send ripples through the Executive level that will be a far bigger gnashing and wailing than the Roe decision.
Cries of “it will hamstring the government! Grandma will die! Billy will get lead poisoning! “
Eh. The agencies have shown they don’t give a crap what two of the three branches (Executive and Congress) have to say. Why should they care about the third?
Fascism is coming to Britain and it’s terrifying
Alternatively, everyone is just being a bit hysterical
https://edwest.substack.com/p/fascism-is-coming-to-britain-and
a ranking of mainstream german beer
Lol, Kristian Niemietz is reading A Book
@K_Niemietz
Gold tier: Karlsberg, Eichbaum, Jever
Good tier: Flensburger
OK tier: Krombacher, Bitburger, Paulaner Radeberger, Hasseröder, Köstritzer
Subpar tier: Holsten, Oettinger
Dreck tier: Berliner Kindl
Can’t remember: Binding, Duckstein
WTF? tier: Darguner, Paderborner, Neuzeller
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1541873351043448834
No Augustiner? Kloster Andechs? Hacker-Pschorr?
Shitty list.
No idea why they’d bother with any of those when they can just import Pabst Fucking Blue Ribbon from the US.
I know . . . I mean it won first place!!! Once, in 1893.
“Ve vere so drnk, ve didn’t know who ve were voting for!”
alol
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/burger-that-tastes-like-human-27347170
Isn’t that akin to tasting like shit. Like someone who have to have a reference to base that comparison on?
It would be amusing if the first vegan meat to actually taste like meat was long pig flavored
The media lies, Part 2,345,765. Yesterday I saw that a Brazilian Formula 1 champ from the 80’s was accused of calling current driver Lewis Hamilton the “n word”. The use was allegedly in a podcast in Portuguese from a year ago when Nelson Piquet was discussing last year’s Silverstone GP when Hamilton and Verstappen crashed. Verstappen is currently dating Piquet’s daughter. I quickly looked through four or five news reports that all said the same thing, that Piquet used the Brazilian Portuguese slang for “n word”. As a Portuguese speaker, I was highly doubtful of this translation as there really is no word in the language with anything close to the same connotation. Tellingly not one of the reports gave the actual word so I had to look for a Brazilian one. He used the word “neguinho” once in reference to Hamilton. It literally means “little black guy”. It’s also colloquially used to mean “dude”. I see that this morning Piquet apologized, but said that the media completely got the meaning of the word wrong.
If the media twisted it and got it wrong, why apologize?
Because you can’t kill the motherfucking liars in the media?
Forgot to add that before I found the actual word, I thought he may have called him “aquele preto” which certainly would have been closer to what was alleged.
Piquet got massive amounts of worldwide negative press from it, including from Hamilton who being Lewis Hamilton of course took massive umbrage at the term he had never heard until yesterday. In Brazilian Portuguese the word for black for anything other than a person is “preto/a”, the word for black person is negro/a. Using the diminutive form either is friendly or can be dismissive, depending on your relationship to the person. In this case I’d say it was the latter as he has no relationship to Hamilton. There is no real equivalent in English, maybe calling him “that black kid” would be the closest. So while not anything like the press reported probably not the word he should have used.
Biden.
Clinton
What’s the difference?
Clinton doesn’t have a period
Lauren Boebert fends off primary challenger
“Fends off”. By 30 points.
Just a bit outside
Still a nutjob though if i am not confusing people
Some people think Boebert and MTG are nutjobs.
I don’t. I think that’s media/Establishment smear.
I doubt I’d agree with every one of their policy positions as neither are libertarian.
MTG is pretty damn close. I took the time to actually read the things she wrote and came away wondering if we were all talking about the same person.
Her positions re warmongering and Assange are particularly strong.
I’ve read multiple posts by MTG that set off the left. I think I agreed with everyone that I saw. Her comments were clear, concise, and well-thought.
I assume that she hold positions that I will disagree with, but I haven’t seen them yet.
She triggered cyclops McCain. That makes her aces in my book.
I pay little attention to the antics of members of our decorative national legislature.
I like her.
she’s hawt
The right-wing mens new Sarah Palin?
Sarah Palin may be the new Sarah Palin. It’s looking like we’ll be sending her to Congress.
Yeah, but she’s ten years older now and Boebert is fresher.
The great thing about female politicians is I get older….
Lol. No mention of the hit piece that she was a paid escort. I guess the lawsuits tempered even the dipshits at NBC.
a scandal involving mileage reimbursement from her campaign account
I larfed. If that’s all they’ve got on her abuse of the slush funds that are campaign accounts, she’s probably the cleanest member of Congress.
She did it wrong. She was supposed to pay out family members and have a D behind her name
I think campaign slush funds are abused by any and all.
“The newly drawn district still leans significantly to the right.”
The final version was clearly drawn for incumbent protection. It did make the new 8th district very competitive.
The big change between the original version and the final was putting some republican parts of Larimer County in with Weld County making both districts more solid. And similar other moves around the state.
58% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck after inflation spike — including 30% of those earning $250,000 or more
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/27/more-than-half-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-amid-inflation.html
This would not happen in prosperous europe
I have to admit to being in that category. I’ve never been a responsible spender and it’s clear that these good times will last forever and ever.
I’ve found at times my spending expands to meet my paycheck. Though I do rein it in.
Marginal Propensity to Spend
Yeah I may be surprised that it’s only 60%
Indeed, you’d all still be stuck on the dole, not even making it up to paycheck to paycheck standards of living.
Right. Europeans live benefits check to benefits check
If you are living paycheck to paycheck on $250K, then the problem is you.
For reals.
Or you live in one of 3 or 4 states.
Assuming one of those states is California where I live, I still say the problem is you. I make somewhat less than that, have two kids in college, had student loans that I paid off, have a mortgage, and I still don’t live paycheck to paycheck. I bought a home in a cheaper suburb, don’t have the latest phone, buy cars used in cash, etc. I guess if I felt I had to live in a swankier suburb or in SF, I could see a problem, but living in those places is a choice.
No one is ever supposed to have to live with the consequences of their choices! It’s in the Constitution!!!
Or (so I’ve heard) NYC.
House poor.
I know a lot of those people. The problem is them. Lifestyle inflation to the extreme. Then they bitch about how their student loans will outlive them.
And I include insisting on living in areas that you can’t really afford as lifestyle inflation. I’ve run the numbers for fun, and for me to live in, say, San Francisco or even San Diego at anything close to the lifestyle I have now would require a salary that no one would pay me. As in, high 6 figures. Largely real estate, but also taxes and just general cost of living. Sorry, just not worth it to me.
When I see vote buying rackets like this, I can’t help but think the problem is with the idiots that don’t realize how badly they are being abused by these criminals that hand out table scraps after they steal all your food.
Yesterday we discussed the Trump jumping the limo driver story and I tiptoes up to it because it was minutes old at the time, but we were highly skeptical.
Now there is a new story. The story is, how completely lacking in reasoning ability is the average human?
To recap, the story that was told by one young lady was that Trump demanded that his limo driver take him to the capital building. When he refused, Trump tried to wrest the wheel from him and tried to strangle him.
I watched Anderson Cooper and a panel of grownups, including former Obama officials like Van Jones discuss how this was proof that Trump was dangerously unstable, that he desperately wanted to lead a violent attack on congress from the front, and that AG garland should charge him with sedition immediately. This discussion lasted a solid hour.
Now, let us be explicit. Here is what you had to ignore to buy that story at the time:
1. The commander in chief is the hostage of the secret service and cannot order them to take him to the capital building.
2. The guy who rides in the back of a limousine built like a tank can get to the steering g wheel.
3. That a 74 year old Trump is going to try to strangle one of the most elite secret service agents who is trained to defend the President against assassination attempts.
4. That all of that would have happened in the environment of “get Trump at any cost” and we would not have heard it by now.
So, for many of us that combination immediately set off our BS detectors. But not if you are a partisan. If you are a partisan, this confirms that Trump was actually leading a violent attempt to overthrow the government when he said “peacefully protest”.
So now the Secret Service agents who were there say they will testify under oath that this never happened.
And we are supposed to believe that none of the people involved didn’t know that this testimony was false when they put her up. As if with a year and a half to prepare, they have never interviewed any of these people who are career civil servants, not Trump appointees.
We are supposed to ignore that these are the identical people who told us that Trunp was secretly working for Putin… and they totally had seen the secret, classified evidence that proved it. Adam Schiff. Anderson Cooper. Van Jones. They were all on the inside of that conspiracy to overthrow the government.
But for some reason, everyone is pretending that this isn’t the case.
Hell, I turned on the radio just now and the media is STILL selling this testimony as legit.
The guy who rides in the back of a limousine built like a tank can get to the steering g wheel.
He wasn’t in the limo. He was in an SUV.
Other than that, you are on point.
With points given even the SUV probably doesn’t have easy access for someone in the middle to back seat easy access to the driver. If it does, then they need to rethink that vehicle.
On top of it, her testimony is all 2nd hand knowledge and “what amounts to…”. Plus did you know Trump flipped tablecloths! Not tables, but the cloths!
This is of personal interest to me because my SO is all in. She was astonished by this revelation, and quite angry when I expressed skepticism (which I quickly kept to myself when I noticed the irrational anger attached to having this challenged).
My instincts tell me this is a particularly teachable moment. The signs that this story was false were built in to the story itself. Like Amber Heard claiming to have been repeatedly punched in the face by a grown man wearing giant rings on every finger… yet leaving a barely discernable mark. Or claiming to have been violently beaten and dragged across broken bottles and then raped with a large liquor bottle so violently that she thought she was being punched repeatedly…. yet not a mark was left and she needed no medical attention.
You didn’t have to know anything about what actually happened in order to know that Heard was lying. And you didn’t have to know anything about what happened in Trumps limousine to know that this version was BS.
She was astonished by this revelation, and quite angry when I expressed skepticism (which I quickly kept to myself when I noticed the irrational anger attached to having this challenged).
“Why are you so upset that I think a member of Trump’s entourage is lying?”
We have discussed this ability to look at things with a skeptical eye here many times. Trump in particular seems to inspire a particularly intractable form of suspension of disbelief.
I opined that the Russia story was a hoax way back in mid 2017 when Comey announced that they had been using FISA courts and FBI surveillance against the Trump campaign because they had “reliable intelligence” that the Russians were trying to infiltrate the campaign…. so they started a counterintelligence investigation to protect the Trump campaign and transition team from foreign interference.
This is internally inconsistent, and therefore an obvious lie. I do not have to know what intelligence he had, nor do I have to know what the Russians were doing in order to know that he was lying and they were not acting in good faith. Because you do not protect a group from being spied upon and infiltrated by keeping this a secret from the group leadership, and you do not protect them by setting members of the group up for fake crimes in an effort to coerce them into testifying against the group leader.
This was obvious from the very beginning.
So it is a great example of just how incredibly strong cognitive bias is…. but it is also a proof of just how many people are cynically pushing the lies that their masters tell them to push. People like Anderson Cooper. He was there for the wiretap story. He personally ridiculed Trump for believing his wires were tapped. Finding out that he was lied to did nothing. He continued to promulgate the hoax. He was there for the claims that the investigation was based on secret intelligence from the Kremlin, and then for the FISA revelations. Yet this caused not one second of reflection.
At some point, one cannot believe you are being duped. You have to be in on it.
Like Savannah Guthrie interviewing Nathan Philips and having the internet do her homework for her and exposing several lies in that interview…. she didn’t go after him with that information… she hand walked him through a rehabilitation interview and then went after a 16 year old autistic kid with a bunch of lies and dishonest attempts to get him to confess to being a racist and to apologize for attacking an innocent old man for racist reasons. This was no mistake, error in judgment or misunderstanding. It was a lie that she knew full well was a lie at the time.
Just as she knew that she was lying in her coverage of the Kavanaugh rape allegations, since she was in the room at Chuck Schumers penthouse when the strategy to leak the letter from Blasey-Ford.
Yet we continue to have these people on the airwaves as our trusted news sources.
This is how you know that the heads of CNN, NBC etc. AL. are in on it. They know these people are partisan propagandists working directly with the DNC. Yet they leave them in key anchor spots. This isn’t like Hannity claiming that he is a partisan advocate over at Fox. He is exactly what he claims to be.
How does all this tie back to the wife? Because she is the average voters. And she does not see the propaganda machine. She likes and trusts Guthrie and Cooper. She does not believe that they would lie to her.
And she represents the mass of America. Ahe is center-left. A conservative Christian, raised democrats, educated in a leftist social justice field. She is that Democrat base in the suburbs. And she seems to be impervious to information from outside the propaganda machine.
This probably falls into the bucket of “Its not worth arguing politics at home”. Mrs. Dean and I have our differences, but other than occasionally touching on them we don’t make any effort to change the other’s mind. Its actually not a bad reality check on my own bubble, to be perfectly honest. She was the one, for example, who pointed out Trump was in an SUV, not the limo. Although she does think that particular tall tale is obvious bullshit.
This is exactly how I felt when the Russian Colluzion!!! bullshit began. I mean, this story is even more preposterous on its face, and approximately ten seconds of rational thought should show anyone over the age of 10 that it is absolute fantasy. But I was astonished at how many people bought the Russian story when it first came out. There are still sizable numbers of people in this country (I know a few) who still somehow believe that Trump was colluding with Putin and they just could never quite prove it. It just sounded so unbelievable and outlandish from day 1, and yet it turned into almost a three year long thing. At this point I think they learned that you can literally say anything and a certain percentage of the population will eat it up.
You can be partisan without being a moron, but you can’t be a partisan pundit on TV. You have to be 110% moron to do that.
Nuance doesn’t get a share of those declining ratings.
You can be partisan without being a moron
Theoretically possible, but partisanship is strongly correlated with moronitude. It lays in a very strong tribalist/confirmation bias, which is unlikely to result in clear thinking.
I, for one, think I am seeing increasing partisanship in this community, which is really too bad. Not to say “A pox on both houses” is always the right thing, but it often is. My views on the political parties as essentially fundraising operations for our largely unified ruling class, that need to stoke partisan animosity to keep the money coming, are pretty well known.
Yeah, that made your comment about the Dems shutting down Team Red’s fundraising raise an eyebrow.
Good point. Do the Dems really want to shut them down (and take the air out of their own fundraising in the process), or just raise the temperature to increase their own collections? Its probably a struggle between the cynical opportunists in the party who want to keep the cash rolling in, and the troo bleevers who want “one-party” rule.
It’s so dumb, it really is hard to believe that anybody would fall for it. But I still see them trying to argue that it happened on Twitter.
Heh.
Credit, she used the template correctly and concisely.
Extra points for making “Pussy” look upset that Trump doesn’t want to grab it any more.
https://twitter.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1541973106339631105
Awww, leave her alone.
Kinda where I am. At some point, the statute of limitations runs on “victimless crimes”.
Still, I laughed. Because I am a bad person.
I posted it because it’s funny.
I never had a problem with what she did, never really had a problem with Clinton doing it either, except that he knowingly tried to turn her into the bad guy and make her into a pariah, which is a very bad thing, IMO.
I had a problem with what Clinton did mainly because it came after a long line of Dems making hay out of sexual harassment charges against Republicans. Clarence Thomas allegedly makes a joke about a pubic hair on a Coke can and it’s the end of the world. Sen. Packwood gets run out of the Senate for being a letch. We got lectures about the power differentials. But Clinton gets a blowie from an intern and suddenly it’s no big deal. Well, which is it?
Yeah, it exposed some hypocrisy, but that doesn’t really reflect on the act itself being some terrible thing.
It was still pretty sleazy, but not impeachment worthy. Yeah, I know he was impeached for lying under oath, but there would have been no oath to lie under without investigating the BJ.
But investigating the blowie was required under the standards and laws that Clinton and his party publicly supported. Play stupid games, etc.