Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Judge Denies Special Counsel’s Motion To Seal Witness List In Trump’s Classified Docs Trial
Russia dismisses criminal charges against against Prigozhin, other Wagner Group members in rebellion
Harris scores lowest net approval rating of any VP in history of NBC poll
Bud Light Will Permanently Lose Nearly a Fourth of Its Business
Pickleball injuries could cost America up to $400 million a year
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you to provide your own songs and move along with my day.
Russia dismisses criminal charges against against Prigozhin, other Wagner Group members in rebellion – it was all a cunning ruse
Putin is not settling this in any court but with assassins.
I’m not convinced the whole thing wasn’t kayfabe of some kind.
At this point, having Baldrick and Blackadder in charge would be a breath of fresh air.
Not a running coose?
“And what is a rubber button?”
What do you want for nothing? …….a rrrrrrrrubber biscuit??
“Judge Denies Special Counsel’s Motion To Seal Witness List In Trump’s Classified Docs Trial”
How the hell was this even an ask? We are taking you to court, but your defense doesn’t get to know what the state will bring to bear on you? WTF has happened to the law not being about the accused being presumed innocent and the state having a high bar to make sure they can prove without any reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty?
The defense would know — the motion was to seal it from the public, not Trump’s lawyers. Probably yet more “State Secrets” and “Means and Methods” crap — if they can try to hyper-classify, they will.
NATIONAL SECURITY!
They are fighting this shit in the court of public opinion, cause their evidence isn’t enough for even a D.C or California court to think their is a real crime, so their choice is to hide create a reality show effect like the whole J6 joke of a hearing, it sounds like.
Harris scores lowest net approval rating of any VP in history of NBC poll – which is more likely the cause racism or sexism? I think too many American women have internalized misogyny. Government should make all women do implicit bias training.
God knows women hate other women far more than men do.
/TIWTANFL
I think it was a bold move for Bud Light to have their logo on all those pride floats. These brands can’t help themselves.
At this point the fucking company has decided it will be vindicative and taunt the people it tried to dump on for torpedoing Bud Light’s business. They are simply saying they don’t care they have permanently lost 1/4 of their customers. If I owned stock in that shithole, I would be looking for lawyers to do a class action suit for tanking my investments and then doubling down on keeping them tanked.
I am hoping that is what will happen. The only way DEI / ESG is defeated is when normal share holders sue for intentional losses. There is only so much ESG shareholder losses to go around before WEF’s power is exhausted. All the revolutionary ESG true believers have to be running out of daddy’s money soon.
I never thought I’d see the day when minority shareholder lawsuits would turn out to be a social benefit…
didn’t modelo get a boost in sales?
modelo group is a subsidiary of inbev, as is budweiser
it’s all so very fake and fruitless. but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the shitshow.
It was my understanding that due to antitrust issues, the Modelo brand in the US is under a different company.
In the US Modelo is under Constellation Brands (i think) because gov’t reasons.
But Modelo in the US is opened by Constellation, so Inbev only gets a boost if Modelo sales outside the US go up.
s/opened/owned/
plus I am slow.
You have to look at something this big as monolithic.
They had all these marketing agreements already in place long before things blew up. Cancelling all these sponsorships only would have highlighted them even more and antagonized the the LGBT+ community.
So you really have little choice but to run them off and not renew them
Those agreements involve (a) funding by the company and (b) the event organizers allowing certain visibility to the company. The company is not obligated to have big banners, signs, give-aways, etc. Using the visibility it bought is a choice by the company. AB could have said “keep the money, but we’ll pass on the banners, etc.” They didn’t.
Yup, but that’s going to attract even more attention as all the groups scream that Bud doesn’t love them anymore. The usual MSM places will pick it up.
It’s a no win situation. If I’d been in Bud’s shoes I’d have likely reluctantly done the same.
As the old saying goes; the only way to win is to not play. Getting on the wrong side of a culture war issue is mondo stupidio, and any decent ad exec would know this. But, when you put a wannabe culture warrior* in charge, this is the shit in the sandwitch.
*sorry, we aren’t supposed to use this term anymore. How about we go with CutlureSS? Seems about right.
Gosh, piss off a small percentage of the population that doesn’t buy your products anyway, or a larger percentage that does.
I don’t think it’s a good business decision. It’s a decision driven by ideology and status seeking.
At this point it just keeps them in the headlines in a negative manner.
It has nothing to do with targeting any demographic – what decision is going to result in the lowest negative headline risk.
This particular negative headline series will have lower coverage than if they asked for the branding to be removed. It’s also inconsistent with their desire to be a beer for everyone. (Also ludicrous, but that’s what they want to do – have their cake and eat it too,)
Negative, to who? The small demo that doesn’t buy their beer (and never will), or the larger demo that used to (and might again).
Non pay/register walled version of Bud Light story: https://archive.fo/fE5Q5
Bud Light Will Permanently Lose Nearly a Fourth of Its Business – I’ve had some. its shit anyways.
Is there any American beer Europeans will admit to liking? I’ve never had the impression that there was, honestly.
By law, they are only permitted to import the shittiest of beers.
well I had something called “American Pale Ale” made by a local brewer and I did not like it. that counts as American to me.
I liked some beers from Sierra Nevada, Stone IPA was not bad. I had some other American beers I assume but I do not remember. Something three floyds once I think. I never did try the alaskan smoked porter the craft beer shop had because it was expensive.
3 Floyds is a solid craft brewer.
I wonder if they get anything other than our swill.
Much as Fosters is more popular outside of Australia.
An old girlfriend of mine said that in Tahiti, all of the local big shots drank Bud down at the bar, as that was the “imported” beer.
I saw some good American beers here. Interestingly, they had some beers that I can’t get in NH.
There’s a lot of teasing in the craft beer community regarding Europeans and their irrational dislike of American beer. There’s quite a few of them that are still stuck thinking it’s the 70’s.
On the other hand, usually the most prolific drinkers/raters/commenters were all from Norway or Belgium.
Britain has had a rise in “American-style” craft beer pushing out Real Ale.
Everybody goes for the “import”, as you gotta look cool.
American beer is like making love in a canoe?
Yep, exactly like water. We don’t know how to make strong beers. Just milds, goldens, and light lagers.
I was very entertained when I was in Dublin, and found that nearly all of the beers there were sub 4% ABV. One’s that reached the mighty levels of a 5.5% were rare, and generally labeled as “American IPA’s”.
By the way, I was hanging out at the local brewery, and they have a seasonal IPA that is only 3.8 ABV. Nice and light, not too bitter, I rather liked it, plus you can day drink quite well at that point.
I’m a fan of the lighter ABV beers. I want my old-man beers, so I can have a few while shooting the shit with my friends.
Notch Brewing are all under 5%, which is great.
https://www.notchbrewing.com/year-round-beers
I’ve got nothing against session beers (I routinely praise one of my local breweries who cans and distributes a mild ale as part of their year round profile). I just found it funny that the people making fun of American beer being fucking close to water were the ones who were all focused on low ABV beers.
I also feel styles should be descriptive, so if you’ve got an American IPA at 5%, I’m going to question it, same as I did when a local place had a 7.5% “radler” on tap.
No, but apparently Stella and Heineken are the height of how “real” beer is made, according to the Euros. While they aren’t terrible, it’s funny to turn your nose up as US Brewers when those 2 are your standard bearers.
Saw lots of Budweiser on tap in Ireland when I vacationed there. It was the “import” beer that everyone drank.
Funny. When the wife and I toured Ireland, pretty much the only beer available outside the city was Guinness.
I even have an amusing anecdote where I asked for something lighter like a bock or lager and the guy at the bar next to me said “The fuck you talkin’ ’bout? Bring him a Guinness!”
Maybe things have changed in the decade and a half since that visit… But we hit most of the country and the experience was universal. They drank Guinness.
Pickleball injuries could cost America up to $400 million a year – those are rookie numbers.
The only pickleball injury I ever got was that I twisted my left nut banging the lady I had beaten on the court earlier during the day, before we went out for drinks, that night. It was worth the sacrifice.
Pickleball appeals to old people. Old people are prone to injuries and more likely to see a doctor after a new pain.
/Experienced old guy
Sit at a desk for 30 years with minimal exercise and then start playing a sport in retirement. What could go wrong?
My suggestion for music today… just feels like that sort of day.
Alternate suggestion. Probably should have gone with We’re All Criminals Now, but I think I’ve tossed that out there before.
“Harris scores lowest net approval rating of any VP in history of NBC poll”
Who?
Oh! The cackling drunk lady that sounds like she is a few beer cans short of a twelve pack!
Thank you Banjos.
We do very much appreciate your work.
They are losing the information battle, most people are seeing through the government gaslighting, so they want to criminalize calling them out..
Ireland passed a similar law for real.
Ok Glibertariat, what’s everyone’s preferred crypto exchange?
I don’t trust crypto.
STEVE SMITH SAY YOU S-M-R-T AND WISE TO FEAR CRYPTIDS!
Well it ain’t swapping spit with STEVE SMITH in the shower, that is for sure.
kraken works well though I dont use it much these days
The rum?
precisely
That stuff is blackout juice.
Thanks for reminding me I need to pick up more gin today.
I think I alone account for enough of Tanqueray’s sales that I should be made an honorary board member.
Kraken is good. The owner has been defiant of government actions and seems to be an upright guy.
Bullets/silver/alcohol?
I really don’t understand the fascination with crypto.
But you definitely do you.
BTC primarily. I’m not interested in shitcoins.
They all pretty much have some issues. Coinbase is probably the largest and most stable; however, they do have an ongoing beef w/ the SEC.
Fiat is fiat.
I lose money the old fashioned way, buy high, sell low. Works for me.
I am more of a buy, hold, watch the stock get very high (Target) then see it erode much of the gains…all while sitting helplessly.
Would you like to buy some Worldcom? How about some WaMu?
I should really learn the concept of stop-loss.
a mattress?
Real libertarians keep their gold coins in a vault, for swimming.
Yes. Like Scrooge McDuck.
Doesn’t help the narrative, so it won’t be news.
Especially since the take-away here is that when you harden places these nutbags go to, they will be less likely to pick them as targets.
I know who should get a raise.
Oh, yeah? Well what if he didn’t have access to the gun in the first place, smart guy? Did you think of that? ///TheLeft
Renowned, multi-award winning science writer Dr. David Whitehouse – who has an asteroid named after him – has slammed the New Scientist as “offensive and prejudicial” for rejecting a feature it commissioned from him on the Earth’s inner core after it discovered that he serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The GWPF is a climate contrarian think tank founded by the former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/26/the-new-scientist-cancels-distinguished-scientist-because-of-his-links-to-the-global-warming-policy-foundation/
How else can you guarantee “consensus” unless you cancel the scientists who disagree?
SciLence!
Heretics must be suppressed.
Ad hominem is one of the foundational scientific principles….
Judge Denies Special Counsel’s Motion To Seal Witness List In Trump’s Classified Docs Trial
Why seal it? I’m sure the prosecution has nothing to hide.
I can’t figure out what state secrets would be involved in the prosecution. There weren’t undercover CIA assets or the like involved in uncovering the documents – everybody (and I mean everybody) knew he had them. This isn’t about Trump disabling the security for the documents, which would mean putting the security measures into evidence.
So what is the state secret the prosecution is relying on for its case?
Tainting the Jury Pool?
A jury pool full of taints?
So what is the state secret the prosecution is relying on for its case?
Duh, it’s a secret and we can’t tell any of you citizens, which is exactly what Trump would do.
How do you know that the Third World is on the rise?
https://zerohedge.com/markets/un-finds-prolonged-surge-cocaine-demand-supply
Yay! That means people are coming up with new ways to beat the recession! Snort that coke and start a business!
Titty Tuesday returns with real women, not AI generated crap!
https://archive.is/m5pKp
driving tip of the day
https://twitter.com/NoContextHumans/status/1673268469473714176
Ackshually that picture shows clutch and brake.
*Goes back to hole
Lol
Russia dismisses criminal charges against against Prigozhin, other Wagner Group members in rebellion
The Federal Security Service closed the criminal case.
Maybe this “rebellion” glows. Which is to say it was to fool the west. Just speculating.
It was a mutiny against Wagner being absorbed into the Russian military and Prigozhin losing control over his organization and Putin was lenient because the fighters are too valuable and Prighozin’s too popular to be too harsh with. If he goes and hangs out in Belarus it’s no skin off his nose. If it’s not necessary to kill him he’ll probably be fine in his retirement, he just needs to shut his damn mouth.
Throw in Putin got rid of the MoD chief. Maybe, if it’s true.
Just 32% of respondents to the survey expressed a positive view of Harris compared to 49% who held a negative view. That -17 net approval rating marks the lowest for any VP in the history of the poll.
It’s because she is black, Asian and female.
Being incompetent and supremely annoying to most organic life is not a factor, of course.
I’d comment on this article — but to be honest, Grenell’s quote about Wiener in the middle of it pretty much sums it up.
How about we just stop honoring people based on sexual preference, be they Democrat or Republican?
This is the California Legislature — I’m sure the few Republicans there are desperately looking for anything to do to generate some press. I’d be surprised if the SuperMajority Dems even let them on committees.
Today we’ll be honoring Stinky for loving, and I mean *LOVING*, pussy. He just can’t get enough. He’d drown in pussy if he could.
I’m in my fifties and don’t have the sex drive I used to. Drowning in pussy sounds like too much work.
I don’t understand these words.
^^^THIS^^^
Interest? Sure.
Pigheaded insistence in jamming it into anybody who can’t outrun me? Not so much.
That’s the processed foods talking! Drop the bread and get back on the wagon!
well I am going to die anyway…..
Wiener might be the most despicable character in California politics and that is saying something.
Bud Light Will Permanently Lose Nearly a Fourth of Its Business
Clearly they have insufficient pride.
If they have any pride at all, it’s more than they should have.
Today’s link that will surprise precisely no one.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
We need more of that in this crazy world. Thanks Jimbo
Wonderful.
Thanks Holiness!
C’mon, man. I was only joke – uh…you know the thing.
BIDEN (last week): “I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things…”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
In the full video from the White House, President Biden says “Now, all kidding aside — look” after those remarks.
It’s just a flubbed joke looks like to me. What’s interesting is the way the press is treating it in comparison to Trump’s obvious Russia/Hillary’s emails joke.
It was pretty obviously a joke and right wingers falling all over themselves about it in social media has not been a good look.
This Biden fuck is obviously corrupt. Don’t make him seem clever by comparison.
Yep, there’s plenty of legitimate and unambiguous stuff to go after him on-this kind of stuff casts doubt on that too.
Yeah, don’t give them the thumbs up to be even bigger jackasses.
If I knew what pickleball was I still wouldn’t care.
That’s just not kosher.
Pickleball is quite the dill.
Stop it or Swiss is going get pretty sour.
But puns are our bread and butter around here!
I think he’ll spear us a narrowed gaze.
I think he would relish the chance to squint his eye at us!
tennis for the lazy?
or over 65.
Yeah, it is the old coots around here.
My son’s high school lacrosse and baseball teammates all play pickleball together. The court here is packed from basically sunup until the lights are turned off. Teens to octogenarians. Mostly well-to-do.
The nearby clay and hardcourts are rarely full, but also well-used.
The teens also play a lot of smashball and beach volleyball.
Oddly, basketball is not much of a thing… And they never play ultimate, soccer, kickball, or football.
Times change, I suppose.
Hockey parents are the worse. Parents chase off coach who brought their kids to the state title game in his first year.
Also, is it any wonder kids are so fucked up now when they see their parents acting like this?
Because when I think of coddling your little Princess… I think of hockey.
Huh? Weird weird parents there….
After this article, who the Hell would be stupid enough to go coach that team? Might as well dissolve it now.
I had a buddy who played for the Gophers way back when and when they started playing girls hockey in high school was talked into coaching. He lasted two years before he quit.
His main problem was the girls themselves. He had one girl break down into tears because he had said “terrific” when Mary did a drill and only “good job” when she did the drill.
Hockey parents were the same for both boys and girls hockey according to him. Same sort of shit that was in this article. All of them though their kid was the star of the team and should be playing way more.
I have coached girls teams for a couple of decades. “,There is no crying in baseball” wasn’t far from reality. Every season I have at least a couple of crying girls need a hug moments….and since I started in the 90s after PC was a thing and you are atutomaticallya child molester if you give a girl a hug, it definitely creates some tough situations. I try to have a mom around to shove into the hug situation, but that actually happens less than 50% of the time. Despite the stereotype, moms don’t really like to help with coaching all that much (yes, sarcasm).
Until now, I have been with elementary and middle school kids. But my middle child is coming up on high school. And if she picks up baseball or softball again, I may be pressed into service. That could be rough.
Heck, we even have crying girl needs a hug in debate and robotics. And I have definitely had my share of pushy parents with our robotics teams (we have traditionally been one of the better teams in the world). Yet somehow, those pushy parents can’t be bothered to help… So I can’t be bothered to give a crap about their feels.
When your retirement plans rely on your child becoming a franchise player …
When my son was 10 or so he said he was going to be a major league star and take care of me in my old age. Some things take longer than others, I guess.
He’ll be 61 next month.
THERE IS STILL TIME
Belatedly speaking of hockey, our Hershey Bears won the Calder Cup – game 7 overtime.
*tap tap tap*
Amerks disappoint again, I see… and WTF is a “Coachella Valley”? That does not sound like a place where hockey should be played.
Irony that LV and CV were both finalists this year. You won’t ever find ice there even in winter.
It’s important to note that Orono is one of the wealthiest suburbs in Minne. And apparently being wealthy means being insufferable cunts.
A plan to build 20 football pitches in a village is “nonsensical” and should not be allowed to go ahead, an MP has said.
The Russell Foster Sports Foundation has lodged an application to build a grassroots training facility in Leamside, County Durham.
Labour MP Mary Foy said it would attract hundreds of extra cars through the village, creating traffic problems.
However, the foundation said it would be a “community asset”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-66004940
NIMBY stuff in Romania is primitive, there are rarely anti development arguments based on it will increase traffic. It sort of goes without saying that if you build stuff it will increase traffic,
It is the go-to excuse here in the US, too.
And if that doesn’t work, they drown it in “environment impact reviews”.
Here in pompano beach Florida,our geniuses in government have fallen under the spell of some developers who convinced them that turning the main road from the interstate to the beach into a pedestrian friendly upscale shopping. Food and entertainment plaza would be great for the town. So they are taking out lanes and intentionally bricking traffic on the only multilane road in and out of town.
Clearly someone in government bought up a bunch of crappy properties near the courthouse and intends to get stinky rich off of the transformation…. But this sort of thing rarely works, and the dining and shops corridor to the beach exists all up and down the coast here. Choking off beach access isn’t likely to enhance the brand, and killing the daily commute isn’t likely to enhance property values.
Bonus… The city planning office helpfully explained that by slowing traffic down, cars would be closer together so you will actually get where you are going faster. Yes. This really happened.
Makes me proud….
I’d love to know the market share of Medicare/Medicaid, the VA and United Health.
WTH is left – something like 20% split among a a few dozen private insurers and HMOs?
Amedisys Agrees to UnitedHealth Takeover, Scraps Option Care Health Merger
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amedisys-agrees-to-unitedhealth-takeover-scraps-option-care-merger-35e02853?st=ebz4p5xyhcl9ud1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
With a breakdown of Medicare Advantage, rather than just lumping it as “Medicare”
Add in their pharmacy and self insured managements, it’s probably even larger.
*headdesk*
This is supposed to be these people’s only jobs and they’re failing basic concepts.
Look, if you demonstrate competence at performing a shitty job you will be stuck doing that job forever.
The smart worker makes sure that they do a really bad job at those tasks so they are free to be promoted or given the fun jobs.
I don’t understand you.
Around here, people accumulate at the jobs they’re bad at because they can’t test into something better.
Biden invites Italian PM Meloni to visit White House in July
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-invites-italian-pm-meloni-visit-white-house-july-2023-06-27/
I wonder what her hair smells like
I’m guessing Biden does too.
This is supposed to be these people’s only jobs and they’re failing basic concepts.
You know what they say about the private sector.
Getting Sached.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has started cutting managing directors across the globe as the firm reduces its headcount amid a deals slump, according to people familiar with the matter.
About 125 MDs, including some in investment banking, will lose their jobs, said one of the people, who asked not be identified because the cuts aren’t public. Not all of the layoffs have happened yet, the people said,
A representative for Goldman Sachs declined to comment.
The moves are part of a deep cost-savings drive at the bank, which has seen at least three rounds of job cuts in less than a year.
I don’t suppose there are any underlying economic problems to worry about.
My wife is a Goldman Sachs MD and desperately hoping to be fired.
I guess the package is nice?
Yes very. And usually you get hired quickly with Goldman on your resume for a job that’s not as brutal
That’s what she said….
I keep reading that as medical doctor, but that doesn’t make sense for that company…
No charity for you because Drumpf.
Jordan Poyer has revealed his annual charity golf event has been canceled due to pulled funding as a result of the location; Trump National in Doral, Florida.
Poyer took to Instagram overtly exasperated with the outcome – and broader state of America – Sunday, to tell his followers that golfers and sponsors had withdrawn ‘last-minute’ due to ‘external pressures.’
The All-Pro said Erie County Medical Center — a Buffalo hospital, who he described as a ‘big sponsor’ pulled out. ECMC told the Buffalo News they were a ‘beneficiary.’
I read about that yesterday and again today and I still can’t figure out the chain of events here.
Golfers pulled out? ECMC pulled out?
ECMC by the way is the public hospital of last resort in Buffalo – they would be stupid to decline any dollar they can get.
Anyway, it’s disgusting.
The derp is strong in Buffalo.
Why is a NY hospital sponsoring a golf tournament in FL?
Because all their recent employees and patients now live in FL?
Kneejerk do-something-ism
Officials in Washington state and Vermont looked at the housing crisis in San Francisco this year and took action to prevent the same thing happening in their states: They effectively banned single-family zoning.
Those new laws are part of a wave of municipal and state efforts to guard against the worst effects of the crunch already on display in California’s fourth-largest city as housing costs ballooned nationwide since the pandemic.
The solutions to skyrocketing housing costs all take time to have an effect. But officials are considering everything from mandating that cities zone for greater residential density to allowing duplexes to be built nearly anywhere statewide.
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While San Francisco’s well-documented problems have long been red meat for Republicans and Fox News, they’re also inspiring Democrats across the country to spend political capital on tackling housing affordability issues in their own states, namely by increasing the supply of housing.
Fox’s relentless focus on the 12-block stretch of downtown San Francisco where drug use and squalor are thickest made it the poster child for Democrats’ urban woes. Democrats are also paying attention to other factors: The pandemic further hollowed out the city’s downtown as tech workers stayed home, and the spiral shows no signs of abating, with retailers announcing new departures daily and office vacancies still ticking higher.
And yet- state and local governments will undoubtedly continue to make it unprofitable to build small simple homes.
A few years ago there was a big kerfluffle in Bozeman when the city council found out builders wanted to downgrade finish and materials in the mandated “low income” units. Not fair.
“How can we get everyone moved into our human hamster mazes… *cough* 15 minute cities if we allow the proles to just build whereever and whatever they want?!?”
The funny thing is…if we got rid of zoning, we would have more “15 minute cities”.
Not properly curated/planned. What use is a functioning neighborhood if it wasn’t DESIGNED?
The euro cities than urban planners love most were not curated/planned to any great degree.
Or to paraphrase Hayek, there were plans by the many, not plans by the few.
No, they wouldn’t. The essential problem is people buying new houses don’t want to live in mixed zoned communitees.
We’ve got little communities that are being built that are fitting the walkable city model. Condos, restaurants, clothing stores, grocery stores, and the like. Those are going for $250k+ up in the areas I’m aware of.
There are a bunch around here (albeit more expensive); I think they’re targeting empty-nesters who are sick of maintaining homes.
My mom would certainly be interested in such a place.
I used to live in a neighborhood that would qualify as a 15 minute walkable neighborhood.
The problem the central planners have is this: Those can only exist with small businesses. Big box stores don’t get the volume they need. National chains of small storefronts, maybe. Even Trader Joe’s, though, is too big a footprint for a 15 minute neighborhood.
And the central planners hate, hate, hate small businesses. You can have millions of small businesses and walkable neighborhoods, or you can have big centralized corporations, with stores and parking lots to match. You can’t have both.
This is very true.
There were a few areas like that built in Sacramento when I lived there, but as soon as there was an economic downturn, they went to shit, for all the reasons I keep mentioning. When there is no money sloshing around, realtors and landlords look for other streams of revenue, and they seem to be Section 8 housing and either convience stores, cigarette shops, or payday loan counters. You might get a storefront church, also,
People will hedge on it, or, when they have kids, move out to the ‘burbs.
Why are so few condos built in the Twin Cities?
How about ban zoning and build what people want?
How about stop pretending you can build “affordable” and just build, period, and let naturally affordable housing open up as the new housing attracts residents?
Its a real trickle down effect…if you build expensive new housing, the rest of the housing stock gets less pricy.
Jane Jacobs pointed this out sixty years ago but she’s some crazy right-winger now, I guess.
In Portland about a dozen years ago, a couple contracters who were very much on the left tried to make affordable housing, but gave up. Far too many conflicting regs to try and get the subsidies needed to make the units “affordable”, so it seemed there was no point, or profit to be made.
Also, I seem to remember that when Portland went to multi-used zoning, no one was building as no one wanted to buy in that sort of area.
People want to live in areas with like minded people, not 7-11’s.
I wonder if it’s the ones he fought over control of the car. Because that allegation was totally legit…
About half a dozen Secret Service agents have testified before the grand jury that will decide whether to indict former President Donald Trump for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and efforts to interfere in the peaceful transfer of the presidency, according to two sources familiar with their testimony.
Roughly five or six agents have appeared, the sources said, in compliance with subpoenas they received. It is not known what the agents’ proximity to Trump was on Jan. 6 or what information they may have provided to the grand jury.
Have any secret service agents detailed to the president ever been called before a grand jury aimed at the protectee before? It feels like we are crossing lines that can’t be uncrossed.
Didn’t we already do this? Now we are doing it again? What a waste. Democrats are bemoaning the waste of tax dollars by Republicans, yet this shit drags on for years. With no results.
Those SS agents have no personal loyalty to any president. We pay them, and they protect the asshole we elect.
Yes, that’s how it is supposed to be. Is it really? One does wonder how the ss allegedly picked up Hunter’s gun (who I don’t believe was a protectee) and nothing else happened whereas they are in front of a grand jury over Jan 6.
Setting aside that the SS has zero reason to be guarding Hunter, I would bet that the ones selected for duty such as that are also selected for their loyalty to the state.
In Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott (R) signed a law earlier this month that effectively bans single-family zoning statewide. Its author, state Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden), is a Los Angeles native who said she was inspired by personal experience: Her sister had experienced homelessness for several months, while her father struggled to find affordable housing in the San Francisco suburbs. Much of California, from San Francisco to San Diego, has a “high housing shortage,” according to the National Association of Realtors as of last year, and the U.S. housing market is short 6.5 million homes, according to one recent analysis.
She very graciously decided to move to Vermont where she could bring enlightenment and promote the same sort of heavy handed nannytarianism which has turned California into a shithole.
She had to. Those rubes in Vermont wouldn’t have preserved enough green space without her enlightened guidance. They would have let icky people build homes there.
I would not object to requiring, say, 10 years residence in an area before you can run for an office to represent that area.
“Ron DeSantis vows to use DEADLY FORCE to stop migrants entering the U.S. as he unveils border plan to build the wall, end birthright citizenship and catch and release, and start mass deportations
The presidential candidate agrees with Trump that birthright citizenship needs to end – meaning that just because someone is born in the U.S. doesn’t mean that are automatically a citizen. DeSantis says birthright citizenship is something that Trump has promised to end, but failed to do so in four years as president.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12235711/Ron-DeSantis-vows-use-DEADLY-FORCE-stop-migrants-entering-U-S.html
Pretty sure the President can’t do that.
I agree with using deadly force to protect our border, if it’s necessary.
Ending birthright citizenship is going to be a pretty heavy lift, and I’m not sure I agree with that. We just need to assimilate people instead of fostering diversity.
The only time a person should get citizenship at birth is if they have one or more citizen parent. All others are citizens of their parents’ countries of citizenship.
I agree with using deadly force to protect our border, if it’s necessary.
I share this likely unpopular opinion. Set an example to deter people. I think that is the only way to stop the flow at this point.
Protecting a nation’s borders was the traditional role of a standing army. And they would get rough about people trying to sneak in.
Our consistitution strictly forbids a standing army. Which is why it can only be funded for 2 years at a time.
And yet, we functionally have a standing army.
The founders tried, but they didnt always succeed.
Getting rid of birthright citizenship is a bad idea, because without it you end up with a permanent underclass of non-citizens.
He might be able to, since birthright citizenship is mostly based on an erroneous interpretation of the language in the 14th amendment. And we know executive orders basically have the force of law nowadays.
What he said.
That’s going to be covered by the fytw clause for why the President can’t change that. It certainly is murky law regarding birthright citizenship, but I like it ideally as I don’t like having hereditary second class people in our country.
Congress is in charge of naturalization rules, and should he be able to push for it, he could change the current rules. As far as deadly force, the border patrol has had that option for years. Very few incidents required it in 2020. Curious what recent years have done.
Congress will never go along with changes to naturalization ideas even if the chickenshit GOP takes over again.
Yes. One can only hope for more aggro republicans. They are most amusing and would change it. The current chickenshit variety from the Bush years is tiring.
Declare war on invaders, and he is good to go.
Wait, do you even need to declare war on an invading army?
“Pickleball injuries could cost America up to $400 million a year”
Chump change. The real hurt is going to be when we have fewer workers than retirees.
No shit. How many years do you think? Ten more?
I’m sure there’s a good projection somewhere.
Looks like 2050 it should be 2 workers to one retiree. Projections further out than that I wouldn’t trust. Even then, 2:1 is really bad, American’s health is worse than ever and healthcare costs more.
So many western nations are staring down this problem I am seriously wondering how this will play out. Old people war? Old people famine?
I am 66. I plan to work another 10 years or more. I expect things to be very, very bad in the not so distant future.
2050, I might still be part of the problem then, but I’m not counting on it.
American’s health is worse than ever and healthcare costs more
There’s a correlation there, but not necessarily the one everyone would assume.
They effectively banned single-family zoning.
Well, that should reduce the cost of single family housing.
I assume that means that single family and multi family units are both allowed.
I assume it means you can only build residences of a minimum number of units.
I have no idea what this means in the woods of Vermont. Does a family of cows count?
No.
I can only assume they’re going to require at least three or four apartments per build to start, with an aim to ramp up towards tower blocks as they destroy real houses.
That is what it generally means, but devil is in the details as always.
The problem is, it still isn’t mixed use zoning be default.
San Francisco’s new director of economic development, Sarah Dennis Phillips, described it as an “opportunity.”
“We are often at the forefront of technology and civil rights here in San Francisco,” she said. “We have the opportunity to be at the forefront of changing urbanism, and perhaps our economic efforts can give guidance to other cities going through urban transitions as well. “
This person may suffer from narcissistic delusions.
Too bad this tiff isn’t between Boebert and APL. Then they could work it out via mud wrestling, as God intended.
“Well, you know, I find it unfortunate that Lauren Boebert leaked that conversation that we had to the press. But once she leaked it out, I had to confirm that that’s, in fact, what I said. But here’s the real issue. I’ve introduced articles of impeachment, and each time I do so, along with my other bills, I communicate with all of my Republican colleagues and ask for support by asking their co-sponsorship, because I co-sponsor many other Republicans’ bills,” Greene said to Fox News.
“I’d asked her to co-sponsor my articles of impeachment against Joe Biden on the border, and she never responded and, apparently, refused to do so,” she continued. “Then, when she introduced her own and forced them to the floor with a privilege resolution, without even having the courage to talk to any other Republican in our conference before doing so, except Speaker McCarthy and, apparently, a few others, yeah, we had a tense conversation when she confronted me about things I had said about it. But this is unfortunate that this becomes public on the House floor.”
You guys should really stop squabbling.
“Mick Mars says Mötley Crüe is ‘trying to take my legacy away’”
https://pagesix.com/2023/06/27/mick-mars-says-motley-crue-is-trying-to-take-my-legacy-away/
*lights mojo signal*
They were pretty kind to him and his tragic story in the movie.
Being old and in pain, realizing you can no longer do what you did can make you angry and bitter. He may be suffering from depression that is making him lash out. He has to be replaced for touring purposes, but that doesn’t mean his legacy is erased or his royalties end.
Dude is 72? Just pack it in at that point.
Too old for rock’n’roll but too young to die?
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) proposed legislation earlier this year to force local governments to zone for greater residential density and boost multi-family homes but was met with a “firestorm of opposition from local governments,” according to Eric Bergman, policy director at Colorado Counties Inc., a nonprofit that helps local Colorado governments work together.
“I don’t want us to become like California,” Polis said in a public forum last month.
That’s especially funny, coming from you.
I will support him if he proposes eliminating zoning.
And fuck the local governments.
The funny thing is…if we got rid of zoning, we would have more “15 minute cities”.
Eliminate single use zoning.
Eliminate
single usezoning.FTFY.
I would be willing to compromise on two zones: Heavy industrial and Other.
I am in a 15-minute suburb but it’s not what they envision.
The real question is: how many people want to live in these places, and how many of those people already live in inner cities?
People are trying to flee shitholes, and many of them see multi-use zoning as replicating a lot of the problems they want to flee. They don’t want section 8 housing, they don’t want a Circle K around the corner, they don’t want stumble bums hiding under the bushes. In short, they want the suburbs, a two car garage, and neighbors who want these things also. There is a reason Del Webb makes so many cookie-cutter developments, and it ain’t becouse people are screaming for life in the cities.
Sorry, repeat post from yesterday in the late-ish eve: [My] Assessment was an interesting 90 minutes. She’s going to speak with her team. We both agreed that it’s difficult to figure out in what facility I ‘belong/’ They don’t do inpatient. I may need that many eyes on me. I was thinking like 3 days a week of inpatient. Or 4 or some mix. Intensive outpatient? I need to figure out in my brain what that means.
It was a behavioral health facility, so a lot of it was about substance abuse. (I only do two! Oh. And the six others I’ve been prescribed.)
They asked a shitload of questions about gambling. Uh, other than Ellis Park growing up or college poker games for $20…I don’t gamble (for money.)
Best y/n questions that HAD to be checked off: “Can you read?” “Can you write?”
This was after she knew I graduated university and was a teacher for 13 years and ran a newspaper on my own for ten months. It got a legit laugh out of both of us.
“Yes. I am literate.”
“Yes. I am literate.”
BUT CAN YOU READ.
Oh, dear…valid point…
I once read ’bout Red from Reading reading a red rag regarding reading requisite reading material for matriculation.
I don’t think that counts, but I DID do it.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
I don’t buffalo buffalo. I eat them.
s Shut up, Mike.
NEW: Mike Pence takes a shot at Ron DeSantis
“…when the governor of Florida decided to launch a full-scale campaign of governmental retribution against Disney, he wasn’t taking a page out of the conservative playbook—he was following in the footsteps of the radical left.”
Because real conservatives defer to the left and lose with dignity.
Fucker published an article at TOS the other day.
They have unapologetically gone full establishment.
They toss out a libertarian bone every now and again, but the kids clearly didn’t buy in to the libertarian philosophy and probably see the pathway to continued wealth in being on the inside of the coming communist oligarchy. (Nee fascist regime)
It’s a ratchet. Real conservatives never try to undo the work of the radical left.
Deals with Ford and G.M. will make it easier to find a charger but could give Elon Musk control of critical infrastructure.
Better we have no infrastructure if it is controlled by Musk. I wonder how they feel about SpaceX?
Paywall NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/business/energy-environment/tesla-gm-ford-charging-electric-vehicles.html
They hate SpaceX. That is how they feel about Spacex.
According to pundits, conservatives think liberals are stupid, whereas liberals think conservatives are evil. But actually both sides think the other is stupid. So that’s nice – something they both have in common.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1673680444196544512
cant it be both?
Wow – amazing drone display at the Bordeaux Wine Festival, 2023
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1673458634137952258
Of course, if those concerned politicians and advocates were truly interested in helping the homeless, they would be promoting an increase in dirt cheap single room occupancy flophouses. But those places are icky and everybody should live in a nice 2500 square foot condo.
Preferable in a walkable, mixed zoning area.
Better we have no infrastructure if it is controlled by Musk.
Exactly.
It’s been pretty clear he is a lawyer who doesn’t understand consent.
Go play with yourself in traffic Toobin.
WTF? Even the hardest-liners will admit that the vax doesn’t prevent transmission, as was claimed (although not by the drug companies, evidentially). That was the thinnest twig that ‘causing harm to others’ was resting on. So where’s the ‘physical risk’ now?
His stick market gains?
Jeffrey Toobin on Why He’s a ‘Hardliner’
I don’t need to hear about Toobin being hard.
who doesn’t understand consent.
Or 1A apparently.
yo
https://twitter.com/ImperatorOfPuns/status/1673543435351912449
Noooooope.
Time to panic
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the first time won a district council election as it overtook Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats in national polls, sparking concerns over a broader rise of the populist party in upcoming elections.
AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann on Sunday won a runoff election in Sonneberg, in the eastern German state of Thuringia, against incumbent district administrator Jürgen Köpper from the center-right Christian Democrat Party (CDU) — despite other parties like the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats endorsing the CDU candidate.
“I’m dismayed by the result in Sonneberg,” said Green lawmaker Katrin Göring-Eckardt, who is also one of the vice chairs of the Bundestag. “Thank you to all who continue to fight for this county to remain democratic, open-minded and friendly.”
They’re coming for you, Poland.
Steak > Soy
People realize that *no one* is the most jacked they’ve ever been at the age of 69 without some…help, right?
also no one save this and shove it back in my face 25 years from now when I’m juicing like crazy
soy should be mandatory
Hikaru Nakamura, top American and currently #2 in the world chess rankings claims his IQ is 102.
I had heard him say before he wasn’t a genius. And I believe him, but I think that might be a touch low, but maybe not. He is clearly a smart guy in some areas other than chess, and also not that smart in other areas (or maybe just not educated?). But 102 seems a bit low to me.
Anyway, the point being that people think of chess grandmasters as being highly intelligent. And in some cases, yes. But not necessarily.
but I think that might be a touch low – dunno I saw his youtube channel. Meh.
Its not my favorite, but he has some fun bits too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzCLtrfeSg
And this is more arrow fun from Hikaru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K2k-JIQow&t=28s
Not enough pr0n?
Look, anyone sitting across the table from that redhead in the Queen’s gambit is going to lose a couple IQ points.
Hikaru Nakamura
Japanese for “no worries”?
Hikaru = light
Naka = within
Mura = forest
Harris may be less popular than AlGore, but she has a very high chance of being our next President. I made the prediction in 2017 that she would be the VP. Now, I don’t quite know if the Dems are gonna ditch Joe for Greaseball or for her (or even a more long shot like Michelle, although I don’t think she wants to be Pres). It’s really 50/50 chance I’d say for her to get the top spot. There is almost zero chance of Trump winning and I don’t think any other Team Red member is gonna win the nomination at this point. Hopefully the Senate can flip to GOP to ensure some gridlock. That’s really the best we could hope for at this point.
I believe that unlike Al Gore, Kamala will change the climate
He can be the new climate czar and Kerry can move over to the newly created Department of the Climate.
At least we won’t be subject to any “historical first president to ever participate in a blow job” nonsense.
A new report by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket has found that the English game is racist, sexist and elitist. Cindy Butts, Chair of the ICEC and previously Deputy Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, writes that discrimination “is … baked into the structures and processes within cricket”.
I do not plan to respond to the whole of the report — clocking in at more than three hundred pages — and my criticisms here are not meant to obscure the instances of genuine bullying and unfair prejudice that it has uncovered. But I take issue not just with some of its findings but some of its premises. I’m sure it has exposed inequalities. I’m less sure that inequalities are necessarily bad.
The authors of the report are horrified that men’s cricket and women’s cricket are approached differently. They must be considered “of equal value” if “cricket is to become a truly equitable sport”. “Significant pay disparities persist” and “women have the right to equal pay for equal work”. In the report’s recommendations, we hear “there should be equal pay at domestic level by 2029 and international level by 2030”.
https://thecritic.co.uk/in-defence-of-inequalities/
cricket is not a real sport and as such there should be no difference between men and women
Chatter
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday is releasing a new report on the intelligence failures ahead of the insurrection.
The report details how the agencies failed to recognize and warn of the potential for violence as some of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters openly planned the siege in messages and forums online.
Among the multitude of intelligence that was overlooked was a December 2020 tip to the FBI that members of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys planned to be in Washington, D.C., for the certification of Joe Biden’s victory and their “plan is to literally kill people,” the report said. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said the agencies were also aware of many social media posts that foreshadowed violence, some calling on Trump’s supporters to “come armed” and storm the Capitol, kill lawmakers or “burn the place to the ground.”
Are they really still pushing this? I suppose the Capitol Police should have been operating under “shoot to kill” orders.
Apparently only one cop was.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol,
Because the chatter was originating from the FBI.
their “plan is to literally kill people,”
Their what?
some calling on Trump’s supporters to “come armed” and storm the Capitol, kill lawmakers or “burn the place to the ground.”
Yeah, they were feds, like I said.
Let’s say the chatter was legit, and they disregarded it.
Weren’t they right to do so? The protestors were not, in fact, armed, had no plan to kill people or burn the Capitol down. That intel was just wrong, and acting on it would have been wrong.
So the DEA agent was a Trump supporter? He’s the only one I’ve ever heard of that was actually packing there that day.
Laura Martinez Long Jump | Iberdola League 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJTRqHwoKTE
thicc?
Dang. Even Warty would agree that she is not skipping the squats.
every time someone invents a radically new technology some guy is like “i bet this solves economic central planning”
and then 40 million people die
https://twitter.com/WillManidis/status/1673322731742580737
“Socialism under AI hasn’t been tried before”
I chuckled and then I realized they might be serious.
They are dead serious.
They all think it’s going to be like The Culture novels. Asher’s The Owner series is far more likely.
Yes. I was expecting this development. They are desperate for a solution to the calculation problem, so long as they get to control the switches.
And, of course, controlling the switches negates whatever advantage AI might have. And they will insist on controlling the switches.
Yup
The report by the panel’s majority staff says the intelligence community has not entirely recalibrated to focus on the threats of domestic, rather than international, terrorism. And government intelligence leaders failed to sound the alarm “in part because they could not conceive that the U.S. Capitol Building would be overrun by rioters.”
Suspected right wing domestic dissidents must be locked up on speculation. How else can we expect democracy to survive?
I’m so old, I can remember when the intelligence community wasn’t supposed to hove one fucking thing to do with domestic anything.
This is what just won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Mainstream SFF is in a bad place man.
GODDAMNIT
https://twitter.com/misterbloat/status/1672967411136442371
I need a ruling on the prose
It’s Scalzi. It’s a choice.
“Old Man’s War” kicked ass. Too bad his shitty politics and personality have soured me on giving him money.
but that gets him all the awards, deserved or not.
Which is why the awards are now worthless to me.
Neuromancer won the Hugo, Nebula and PKD awards, when that was a huge accomplishment.
Now, winning the first two, at least, is no longer any sort of indication of quality, just proper politics.
Wait for the trans to win…
Man dies after trying to drink all 21 cocktails on menu on Jamaican vacation
https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1673681833546985472
Pic checks out…RIP my man
As Trump, a Republican, falsely claimed he had won the 2020 election and tried to overturn his election defeat, telling his supporters to “ fight like hell ” in a speech in front of the White House that day, thousands of them marched to the Capitol. More than 2,000 rioters overran law enforcement, assaulted police officers, and caused more than $2.7 billion in damage to the Capitol, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report earlier this year.
Are you fucking kidding me? You could tear it down and rebuild it for that.
Did they subcontract to DOD for repairs?
“caused more than $2.7 billion in damage to the Capitol”
That must have been one expensive lectern.
Without one fire being set or one tool being used for demolition. Truly impressive.
Are they including the cost of the propaganda they used afterwards to try to convince everyone it was an insurrection?
Sure, why not. The entire dome built during Civil War cost about $30 million in today’s dollars. And the 2014-2016 renovation cost about $60 million. Add a few million consultants, union featherbedders, etc. and just re-enforcing AOC’s office door is going to be $1 million alone.
“REUTERS INVESTIGATION REVEALS: Every living President is a descendent of slaveholders – except Donald Trump
Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were found to have slaveholding ancestors.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/reuters-investigation-reveals-every-living-president-is-a-descendent-of-slaveholders-except-donald-trump
LOLOLOL
Fantastic.
Heh
Were Obama’s in the US or Africa or both?
I bet both, salient question.
One set of his ancestors sold his ancestors to another set of his ancestors.
I thought his black side was (recently) from Kenya?
I love the internet
YOWZA!
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1672838892020432896
CWAC
Esteemed scholar finds a home
Esteemed infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has served as chief medical adviser to seven U.S. presidents, including Donald Trump, and played a pivotal role in America’s fight against infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, is set to join the faculty at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., starting July 1, CBS News reports.
Fauci will serve as a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases. The university’s President, John J. DeGioia, expressed deep honor in welcoming Fauci, praising him as a dedicated public servant, humanitarian, and visionary global health leader.
Johns Hopkins must be seething with jealousy. They should have raised their bid.
Foochy had to go back to work. He dedicated his life to public service, and as a consequence of his selfless devotion to the Common Man has barely got two nickels to rub together.
Buried way down in the story is your typical level of care from an Italian public servant.
“And as you see in the video, I kind of approach him and ask him, dumbfounded at this point, ‘Are you serious? Are you really serious?’” Litz recalled. “And all he could do is like smile at me.”
Litz, a recent graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, said he tried to get a guard to take action, but neither the guard nor his supervisor did anything, even after Litz identified the man and offered to share the video.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-colosseum-tourists-graffiti-9cea0f4c74ad80549feafad28510362c
That doesn’t sound like the Italy I’m familiar with.
Oh, wait, yes, yes it does.
*shrugs, goes back to smoking*
Daily Quordle 519
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 27
Letters: D E O R P V W
My score: 281 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌻 🌷 🌺 🌹 💮 🌸 💐 🌼 🏵 🌻 🌷
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 519
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8️⃣7️⃣
OFFS.
Daily Quordle 519
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Daily Quordle 519
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Blossom Puzzle, June 27
Letters: D E O R P V W
My score: 337 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌼 🌸 🌷 🌺 💐 💮 🌻 🌹 🏵 🌼 🌸
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
In The State of Things anecdotes:
Customer does drywall. He’s been doing this for decades and made a very good living at it. mostly servicing higher-end clientele and homes. He’s now in his seventies and looks like your typical well-to-do contractor. Nice truck, polo, jeans… He manages his crews but doesn’t do install himself.
He goes into a lady’s house in an upper end neighborhood. She’s probably in her sixties. They’ve already started the work and the owner asks him about his politics. He makes a point of not expressing pro or con for either Democrat or Republican and tries to avoid the question, instead just expressing a desire for better leadership in general.
Lady goes away and then comes back a few minutes later. “I think you’re a Republican but not admitting to it. I’m not comfortable having you do this work. Here’s a couple hundred dollars for your time, but I’d like for you and your crew to leave now.”
This is why we’re headed for a very bad place.
Was he not under contract?
Does it matter? Would you want to continue to work for someone like that?
Just curious. We won’t even schedule an appointment without 30% down. And oh, hell NO!
Oh noes, not a Republican!
Half the country is like that lady.
Big yikes.
They’ve potentially been identified.
https://twitter.com/DillonFillionIA/status/1673097369485815808
Antifa, as expected.
Dan Bongino needs more flags. Four just isn’t patriotic enough.
The smart thing to do would be to hang the NAZI sign around their necks. Hey, they showed up as Nazis, make them own it the rest of their lives.
Nice
It also raises the question of how Patriot Front is getting police protection for their marches around DC.
The planned layoffs are concentrated in the engineering ranks, where Ford is targeting costs across its business units, he said.
That should really help with all the quality issues at Ford during the last decade or so.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-plans-to-lay-off-at-least-1-000-contract-salaried-workers-bf4f5ef3?st=7clhgh7w79w3g6o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Contract engineers are disposable. They are hired to fill temporary gaps.
Lady goes away and then comes back a few minutes later. “I think you’re a Republican but not admitting to it. I’m not comfortable having you do this work. Here’s a couple hundred dollars for your time, but I’d like for you and your crew to leave now.”
She got him dead to rights before he could put the Republican mind control joint compound on her walls and turn her into a member of Trump’s zombie army.
He wears a cross on a necklace. I’m sure that was the giveaway.
Would you want to continue to work for someone like that?
But now the boot is on the other neck. “You wanted cake. I’m going to force feed it to you, crumb by crumb.”