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VIRGINIA STATE LEGISLATURE APPARENTLY HAS A PROBLEM: Original tweet here. This tweet has been confirmed by a member of the House of Delegates in the comments. Whoever this pathetic excuse for a human being is should be caned at a minimum. Also, the “they” is infuriating.
FUNNY HOW WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT THESE REPORTS FOR LAUNCHES FROM US GOVERNMENT FACILITIES: Fish and Wildlife Service documents damage from Starship launch. –SpaceNews (Spoiler: “At this time, no dead birds or wildlife have been found on refuge-owned or managed lands,” the agency said.) Also, the launch pad took significant damage; sorry to see SpaceNews bury that at the end of the article and promote a government nothingburger to the top. TMITE
BUTTONS ARE BACK: Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. –Slate But, being Slate, they of course open with some regime narrative arglebargle about pedestrian and cyclist fatalities, and some sucking-up to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is every day more obviously being positioned as Feyd-Rautha to Kamala’s Beast Rabban. TMITE
WOKE BIOLOGY: Vermont school district removes ‘male,’ ‘female’ from reproductive system lessons. –Fox News
LONG, SERIOUS READ OF THE DAY: From those crazy madcaps at American Greatness comes this cheerful little piece. Every mass killing begins as a social or economic justice movement seeking to redress a historical grievance narrative.
ANCESTORS OF UK’S KING CHARLES OWNED SLAVES: Buckingham palace has acknowledged this, but says that no statement will be forthcoming until after the coronation. Meanwhile, grifters predictably grift: Race equality and reparations campaigners told the Guardian that while they mostly welcomed the support for research, they believed Charles must go further, and acknowledge the established history now.
HHS WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES LAX VETTING OF SPONSORS OF CHILD MIGRANTS: “Whether intentional or not, it could be argued that the U.S. government has become the middleman in a large-scale, multibillion-dollar child trafficking operation that is run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children,” Rodas said.
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS AS COMIC OPERA: During hearings about the very serious, horrific accusations of trafficking of child migrants (previous link), partisan hack Rep. Eric Swalwell diverted from the topic to quiz one of the witnesses about her activities on Jan 6., and whether she was on Capitol grounds during the riot. Not to be outdone, Rep. Troy Nehls, then referred to Swalwell’s “[a]lleged affairs, relationships with Yum Yum,” seemingly confusing reality with The Mikado, and producing a foot-stamping reaction from Swalwell. Which leads us to your bonus tune.
Virginia: Just what need, an LBJ fan.
Joe Morrissey?
Would not surprise me. That would also explain why the person is being protected.
Mitch McConnell is the whippersnapper! His leathery down-low turtleneck can barely clear the shell!
Virginia State legislature, not US Congress. Womp-womp.
Not my worst mistake.
We don’t blame you for Congress.
I blame RJ for congress. 😠
“I’m just a Patsy!”
*Sound of gunfire
*RJ falls down
Ha! That would be too predictable.
There is always Cobra!
I just assumed some idiot didn’t understand what a party whip was in legislatures.
[golf clap]
Delonte West?
Well, when a problem comes along you must whip it.
Best response:
Good catch. Thanks.
Correct response:
“There wasn’t a biologist on hand to confirm.”
Dazz Band – Let It Whip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDMfH1rx7rk
Stones
Watch Me (Whip/NeNe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjW8wmF5VWc
/I’m so sorry
Excuse me while I whip this out.
How many slaves did King Charles own? Not a big fan of the royals but get fucked grifter.
No bigger grifters than the UK royal family. Serves ‘im right, it does, what with all his virtue-signalling and whatnot. Meghan must be loving this.
She’ll be demanding reparations.
She’ll be keeping a royal hostage until she gets it!
She’s been holding his balls hostage for some time now.
I suppose I should refresh before commenting but where’s the fun in that.
Well his balls at least.
Are we talking American slaves or British (re: Irish) slaves?
Good catch.
Considering the course of the 20th century, I suspect they flatter the collective conscience by suggesting it would require much in the way of preparation.
Not at all, the past few years have taught me that much of the public is far more malleable than I’d imagined and the political zeitgeist has reached The Dehumanization of the Other phase already.
“It’s okay to throat-punch fascists.”
“Hate speech isn’t protected.”
“Deplorables.”
🎶Every killing begins with K 🎶
One Christmas, Kay Jewelers had a TV spot featuring a deaf women getting jewelry from a guy. If they had her sing the “Every Kiss Begins with Kay” jingle in her deaf Geri Jewell voice, I would’ve ran right out to the nearest one and bought like $10k worth of jewelry from them.
ANCESTORS OF UK’S KING CHARLES OWNED SLAVES
Somebody remind them what “king” means.
He’s a KINO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z8SpgmF0sA
There’s a History of the World Part 2 out somewhere, but the reviews are terrible.
All the previews made it look excruciatingly bad.
I saw the trailer. The total irreverence, while not completely replaced, was tainted with modern sensibilities. It sucked the life out of it.
But how could you possibly top this anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk
Unfortunately for that movie, that one sequence is so good, it makes the rest of it pretty bad by comparison.
It is on Hulu. I can only imagine how bad it is.
It’s really, really, unwatchably bad. I tapped out before the half-way mark.
I suspected as much.
We don’t have a lord, we’re an anarcho-capitalist collective. We all take turns acting as an executive officer for a week, but all the decisions of that officer…
Bloody peasant!
Ancestors of King Charles outlawed slavery in the 1830s and had the royal navy basically put a stop to the trans Atlantic slave trade.
Does that count for anything? No?
Didn’t think so.
Good call.
It counts exactly as much as having a family member that died fighting for the north in the Civil War.
G&S FTW!! 😃🎶 Thank you, Tonio! 😁
[winks, tips hat, like Roy Scheider in “All that Jazz”]
I can’t hear that without thinking of the Kelsey Grammer version.
I was going to link to the Magnum PI clip of TC and Rick doing the Makaido, but I found some new(?) remake of that awesome show. What fresh hell is this?
So long as they can pick lettuce, pad census stats, and perhaps one day have their ballots harvested, everything else is just incidental.
“who is every day more obviously being positioned as Feyd-Rautha to Kamala’s Beast Rabban. ”
GLORIOUS.
Bonus points to any glib willing to put in the photoshopping legwork.
Challenge accepted
Considering the cod piece, it really should be
Hunter = Feyd
Kamala = Rabban
Buttigeg = Piter de Vries
Joe = The Baron, just barely able to peak out of the oversized flight suit.
If only we had people who like drew panel cartoons, or did animated japeries, or somesuch.
You’re welcome?
https://imgur.com/a/4SF5kS7
Oh for the love of…
Cod
It needs some more tweaking but my wife is hovering around and might start asking questions.
Just tell her it’s art
She’s gonna ask “Art who?”
Standing ovation!!! Now that I know you can do this, I’m going to start making more requests.
Dude. Put a warning label on that.
The Mikado is so problematic I can’t even.
The Japanese of the time it was released understood it to be a satire of UK society and loved it.
By the by, in memoriam of the late, great Jerry Springer
Thanks, Tonio.
Loins are girded, armored and ready for lynx!
Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
I hate the touchscreen, but my truck has a surprising number of useful buttons. I don’t really need the screen, so if it pukes, I doubt I’ll spend the money to replace it.
I read that AG piece yesterday. The 21st century has really sucked so far.
The baby trafficking stories are hard to read. I hope everyone is ready for the cleansing fire, because it’s coming.
Ugh. Well, you warned me.
Politics is a mental illness.
Also- “victims”?
Sorry, but people who have been beaten/shot/raped are victims. People who have viewed body parts, willingly or not, are in a different category.
If that’s flashing, then lock me up
Be glad they’re not calling them “survivors”.
Dave Smith on Rogan. It’s pretty good so far. Dave is schooling Rogan as usual.
Nice. I’d like to think Dave manages to bring in a couple hundred converts every time he’s on there.
Easily. He’s getting better all the time.
Poor Rogan wants to believe that there are good people in government. I don’t think that particular delusion is gonna survive.
Rogan is getting there. Very very slowly. I think the Twitter files and his Ivermectin adventure have been big wake up calls for him.
I know you’re one of the other big Dave Smith fans in here. I really just started getting into Clint Russell. I think he may be even better, but that might just be because I’m not as familiar with him yet. Do you listen to him at all?
I do. I think his business background positively influences his analysis. Terrific communication skills as well.
Rogan is “purple”-pilled.
Not quite enough to give up all his lefty delusions, but too intellectually honest to ignore all the deceit he sees around him (from either “side”). See also: Michael Schellenburger, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald; Tulsi Gabbard; Bret Weinstein; et al.
One of the big “reasons” I’ve heard about why Rogan isn’t an intellectual is because ‘all he does is listen’.. Think about that. Especially coming from people who never listen to anyone.
But Tundra, we need less losers, and you need Bernie Sanders ideas to pull that off.
Lol. Dave takes a subtle shot at Joe about that
Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
That’s not all they hate, But- then again, I watched a Hoovie video in which he went on a long and completely justified rant about one of his piece-of-shit BMWs and how much modern BMWs in general suck, but I did not hear him say, “I will never ever buy another BMW, new or used.” If people keep buying them as they are, why bother to fix them?
They lease them. No sane person buys a BMW anymore.
David Tracy, Rebel:
https://www.theautopian.com/remember-that-high-mileage-electric-car-i-bought-with-a-bad-battery-i-just-got-its-battery-replaced-for-free-heres-a-first-look-at-its-overall-condition/
Why does it have an exhaust? Brain not compute. Is fully electric, yes?
Aaaah. “Range extender”. Thank you, internal combustion.
Alternate title: I made an obviously poor economic decision and then California came and put a gun to the head of the manufacturer so I didn’t face any consequences. Now that I’m broadcasting this loophole, all EV manufactures will need to raise prices upfront to compensate for this exploit. You’re welcome.
Friend o’ mine says the paint on new BMWs is terrible these days, all orange peel. I have a sample size of about 1 new BMW seen up close in the past year or so and it was really nice so that didn’t jive but what do I know? It was an M4 so maybe they have a different production line for the M cars. I can’t imagine many people buying new M3s, 4s etc would be too happy with a bad paint job.
Hoovie gets content from shit BMWs. Why would he stop?
Same reason they buy Hondas.
Disposable one owner cars. Throw away when done.
Ron DeSantis is right to fight back against woke capitalism
I remember having more fights than I can count with leftist friends who used to tell me that ALL corporate influence in politics was a bad thing. I haven’t heard a peep about it since about 2014. Strange.
That’s rich.
Here I figured we’d have music from “Under the Yum Yum Tree.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXJrtNUgNkA
I’m hoping this thing where, every time Swalwell opens his yap in Congress, a Repub slaps him down with a Fang Fang quip, catches on. And spreads to include other Congressholes.
It should. That asshole should commit Seppuku for getting fooled into sleeping with a spy (and god knows what she got out of him). He doesn’t even have the honor to apologize to his constituency, let alone resign. He deserves ridicule every time he opens his treacherous yap.
I see nothing wrong with taking my penis out my pants to let it breathe. It is inhumane to keep such a beautiful Firsting organ concealed all day. Oppressively confined to my pants where no one can see it and be in awe of its splendor.
If you think that’s good, you should try putting it in a vagina sometime.
I am here fighting to destigmatize the penis.
It’s not going to work. It’s not like you’re the first to try.
At least once.
Maybe try a pickup line that doesn’t include finishing first. You’ll understand why that’s not a great sales pitch when you actually try it.
ROFL!
That would be a first.
The myth of the ‘trans genocide’
I want to know how many of those were by men who got a little sumpinsumpin they weren’t expecting and didn’t appreciate.
Generally speaking, people like to get what they are expecting to get by the packaging.
Most dysphorics who are murdered are murdered for the same reasons anyone else is. There are some bait and switch retaliation killings, but it’s not the most common motive.
The same people that will tell you holocaust denial needs to be outlawed because it degrades the real loss of life that happened will turn around and tell you that genocide is the appropriate word for unorganized anecdotal cases of individuals killing a trans because they got a live interactive reenactment of The Crying Game. They do understand that there are actual genocides that still happen in the world right?
My understanding is that most of the killings are by their romantic partners.
I suspect that a lot of trans people are not only psychologically unstable, but end up in relationships with other psychologically unstable people. The result is a much higher than average likelihood of extreme violence within their relationships.
Andy Ngo crunched the numbers a couple years ago and in every case it was a “domestic dispute” or a drug deal gone bad.
Also, politicians lie. Always.
No way…
👆👆👆
These people are definitionally (well, maybe not anymore) mentally ill.
So nobody’s going to link the song?
I read an article that quoted a study that showed 80% of the violence was against transgender sex workers.
“As Dennis Kneale notes in the Washington Examiner, ‘this works out to a murder rate for trans people of just 2.66 people per 100,000 transgender people. The murder rate in the general population is almost three times as high”
How do they know how many trans people there are? Also, that being trans makes a person a third less likely to be murdered seems odd.
Looks like the murder rate in the U.S. 6.4 per 100K for men, and 1.4 for women.
Separate out the inner cities.
DeSantis might have votes, but we have money, Disney essentially said.
And how do the shareholders feel about management pissing away their money feuding with the state of Florida?
stakeholders > shareholders
The Hill reports that ‘deep divides’ are emerging in the GOP, with some ‘worried the party is straying from its roots by going after the internal politics of big business
Infinite government spending is A-okay, but don’t piss off the Chamber of Commerce.
Is Downton Abbey any good?
For some reason the Monks never made an appearance.
*disclaimer – I have not watched it.
I will watch it for both of us. At some point. Perhaps.
No. Next question.
Does your wife like it?
She likes the costumes. Rolls her eyes at the storyline.
Then again, when they make a mistake with the costumes she yells at the TV.
That’s important though. She should write an article for Glibs about it.
Is she on Facebook? If so, she should check out Zach Pinsent/Zach Pinsent Tailoring. Quite the independent young man, who’s been eschewing modern fashion since he was 14. Dresses in (mostly) Regency style clothes, and is a stickler for accuracy. And fun. He looks good in it, too.
She is, and I will mention this Zach to her. Thank you!
I reluctantly started watching it because my wife liked it. I was actually surprised that I started liking it, something fascinating about the history of that period.
Yum Yum?
I’m sorry I don’t speak Asian.
I’ve always wondered how they came up with that name as it essentially isn’t pronounceable in Japanese nor have I ever heard a name close to it.
It also makes the insult even funnier since the woman was Chinese which brings us back to speaking Asian.
Yum Yum? Maybe he meant Fang Fang Bang Bang.
Is Downton Abbey any good?
It’s a soap opera.
I have been watching season two of “Carnival Row”. I watched the first season so long ago I forgot what it was about, but it doesn’t really matter. I’m liking it. Rich visuals, kind of gory. A new story line has been introduced about a Workers’ Paradise.
Rich visuals are for the over 35s since everyone else is just looking at their phone 95% of the time, right?
ヤムヤム！
Brooksed it. Was supposed to be a response to Sensei.
Yamu Yamu?
That sounds like Yah Moo Yah Moo.
Weab
専門家だ。
The u on the “yamu yamu” isn’t elongated though, is it?
Yāmu yāmu.
It would be barely pronounced with falling pitch.
The big issue with the u in “yum” as in delicious in English pronunciation.
Japanese only has 5 vowel like sounds and that ain’t one of them.
I am fully cognisant of everything you have just explained, and I do not disagree.
I just put up the ヤムヤム！as a throwaway fun comment.
I’d never heard it, but it appears to be Japanese version of what English would make RanRan from an original Chinese name.
+ 1 Pretty Cure for explaining it.
https://prettycure.fandom.com/wiki/DPPC07
Hoovie gets content from shit BMWs. Why would he stop?
True.
Disposable one owner cars. Throw away when done.
I didn’t used to think that was true, but this Element has changed my mind.
At least Hondas are cheap(er than BMWs).
I had one of those. It was an accident magnet. Cursed by a gypsy. It also had a poor front wheel drive layout that led to endless alignments and brake pad wear. Very glad when I traded it in.
It also had a poor front wheel drive layout that led to endless alignments and brake pad wear.
The control arm bushings are all completely shot, which is apparently considered normal wear and tear.
I remember the traction control could not be turned off, so every right turn from a stop meant the front brakes activated (bad front wheel drive wheel spin). Rub, wear, repeat.
Traction control is not being able to control your traction.
Traction control is when other people control your traction.
A growing number of automakers are backpedaling away from the huge, complex touchscreens that have infested dashboard design over the past 15 years. Buttons and knobs are coming back.
The touchscreen pullback is the result of consumer backlash
Good.
not the enactment of overdue regulations or an awakening of corporate responsibility.
Fuck off, Slate.
God forbid they should do it for the correct reasons
Upcoming SoHo Forum debate
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