Could be better
The Ryder Cup is this week. And some of the best players are being forced to sit out, which is stupid. Baseball great Brooks Robinson has passed away. Carabao Cup midweek games are all going on. And ManUre actually looked decent for a change. The Astros continue their death spiral as we approach the last 4 games of the season. Will they get bailed out by the fact that the Rangers and Mariners finish with a four game series? I’m starting to think they will not. And that’s it for sports.
BANG! BANG! BANGBANGBANG!
Problem solved.
Get out of the cities. What I don’t understand is why the authorities don’t simply say “if you’re looting or rioting and are shot and killed by someone protecting their property, we will not have the resources to investigate your cause of death.” A few dozen looters/rioters stacked up like cordwood outside the local Lululemon or Louis Vuitton store might just be the influence these people require.
What kind of crazy bullshit is this? It should be another nail in the coffin of Chevron. Hopefully it goes all the way through and the agency doesn’t simply change the rule prior to the hearing to avoid the absolute smackdown the court should lay on them.
I’m not even going to make the very obvious leap here. When will the states adopt a more serious approach to sentencing of violent pieces of shit? That’s the bigger issue.
How is this even controversial? If this was anything like the private sector, shareholders would be suing the piss out of everybody involved. And they’d be winning the cases.
Crazy asshole
What a crazy asshole. I got nothing else.
I guess they weren’t her kids. This is the UK, so they belong to the state.
Good. We’re over this shit…and it’s becoming bipartisan.
What a bunch of retards. And I’m referring to everybody in this story, from the moronic and meddlesome government officials to the rent-seekers who are all a-ok with a ton of regulations limiting competition but now freak out when that regulation limits their activities. Fuck em all.
What a bunch of retards. And I’m referring to everybody in this story, from the moronic guy throwing fries in a rampage to the employee who thought it wise to break out her 9 and start popping caps.
Here’s a lovely song for you to start the day with. Such a great composition. And this one is magical based on the intro alone. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Re: Philadelphia – the only logical conclusion I see is that This is exactly what they want. The Soros influenced DAs particularly – but the city governance in general across the country. I presume it is so things will get bad enough people will accept whatever totalitarian schemes they have to get some peace and order back — but I think it is much more likely those who can will leave the cities, and trying that crap outside of the cities will quickly turn into shoot, shovel and shut up (since the cities until the next census will still have the political power and will persecute anyone daring to do self defense in the ‘burbs).
Barbarism was not on my bingo card for the 21st Century, that’s for sure.
I think some of the cities are realizing they leapt a bit too far forward.
That bint is so far out over her ski’s.
I called this the minute I read the decision. It’s sad that it’s the first thing that came to mind.
Yup. The pols want this. The cops generally don’t but they do what the pols say or else.
I suspect we’re simply repeating the seventies and eighties. It won’t in end in totalitarian schemes, it will just end in “superpredator” legislation and stop & frisk just like last time.
This chick saw what was coming and tapped out.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/danielle-outlaw-releases-farewell-message-ahead-of-final-day-leading-philadelphia-police/
Wonderful. She’s coming my way.
SHE’S COMING RIGHT FOR US!
Something wicked this way comes.
I eagerly await an article like this one:
Cleveland Doesn’t Need Your Love—It Needs Your Fire
Commentary: A goodbye letter to the city
It is possible to drive the busybodies out.
Great, she moved to TX…
I couldn’t have written a better satire if I tried.
Not Adahn:
That’s why I love that article so much. Great prog hope comes to a blue collar working class town and tries to tear down the entire culture. Gets upset when they’re shut down. Blames the people for not accepting her.
I am tempted to see what she’s written about her time in Texas.
OMFG, she’s at the university where Lady Friend teaches.
I don’t think this is what they want, but I do think this is the result of the things they want. Namely that the left feels that anyone can do these jobs, that the reason people commit crimes is due to capitalism and if they just put in the right social programs everything will work out in time.
Of course, it is idiotic. Putting someone in charge of policing that wont buck up on their bosses when the pols put stupid ideas in place wont work. Policing is a tough job to do honestly and fairly, and you have to go into it with that idea. Also, capitalism is the engine that makes all of this possible, and greed is what fuels that engine.
The radical left is in charge. They are pro-criminal, there is no other way to put it. There is no wiggle room between that and being pro-crime, so it is essentially the same thing.
No, they really think that cops and capitalism turn people into criminals. It’s Rousseau 101. State of Nature, noble savage type crap. Mix it with a healthy dose of Marx and Malthus, and you have the modern progressive in a nutshell.
Stealing from Tim Dillon, but during his rant this weekend he was discussing the robot police and the Digidogs in NYC. No better way to get people on board with robot police.
“You have 10 seconds to comply!”
Using a machine-dog hybrid. The dog however was obtained by a police officer shooting a family pet.
“The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse“
“The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah’s. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that’s the only ratlike part – incredibly long and flexible.”
“They sent a slamhound on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.”
What is that from?
In order:
– Fahrenheit 451
– Snow Crash
– Count Zero
Hmm, I haven’t read that in a while, might need to rectify.
This is about making the US unattractive to European capital.
It’s not a coincidence that it’s getting more extreme across the board (wokism, illegals, chaos in the cities, political instability) as the financial situation in Europe deteriorates.
https://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/bond-historical-data/germany/10-years/
https://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/bond-historical-data/france/10-years/
The ECB can’t hold these bond yields down any more. Things are about to pop over there and as they do, there will be some crazy shit that happens in order to distract and redirect blame.
When you’ve used all the emergency tools on non-emergencies …
Re: The herring fishermen… I know it doesn’t directly apply (not being soldiers) — but if there was ever a case that met the spirit of violating the Third Amendment (ok, that one where the police took over someone’s house so they could spy on a neighbor was better, admittedly), this is it. What insane holy hell is this… “You must take ze Political Watcher with you, Citizen.. and must pay hees salary!” Ooops… hit by a mast and fell overboard. Such a shame.
Assholes.
Being the Roberts court, I’d assume they’d find a way to support it and Thomas or Alito can write a scathing dissent of how cowardly they are.
Man, I hope that gets overturned. It’s crazy.
Someone else is awake! I was starting to wonder….
Yeah. I work with Team India, so I am up early early. I had a meeting cancelled so I can snark a little.
Nah. They ain’t got the votes to uphold this.
You must pay the salary of the bureaucrat assigned to you. And the bureaucrat can use that paid time for union activities. Because your bureaucrat is too busy with union activities you need to pay for a second bureaucrat to perform the oversight.
Just to nitpick myself… dammit, I meant a swinging boom, not a mast of course. Don’t know how you could accidentally be knocked overboard by a fracking mast. Sigh.
Brandon could do it, based on his UN performance the other day.
A gaff rig could do it.
Way I read it, he was sentenced to 30 years — Soros-backed DA just let him out early anyway. I suppose rewriting the laws to say “30 years and we mean it, dammit…” but if they can twist “shall not be infringed”, I’m sure they’d work around it.
Prosecuting the asshole DAs and Soros in RICO for manslaughter seems one route if folks don’t want to do the lampposts. I think there’s a strong case there, personally.
Given the location and nature of her business I’m thinking she got exactly what she voted for. It’s horrible but I really see no other way for this to stop but for the idiot progressives who go all in on “social justice” to face the real world consequences on themselves and those they love.
Harsh, but true.
30 years w/16 suspended and released after 7, probably for ‘good time’, means he served his full sentence and wouldn’t serve the remainder unless he fucked up again. In other words, he’ll be out in 10-15 after they catch him this time.
Pretty clear case of: “Not out money… what do we care?” from the government(s) there, yeah. Steal all you want… we’ll print more! Pbbbtt.
“People will lose their benefits! … because states will be required to verify eligibility again.”
As mentioned before — I’m mentally getting to “Treat it like the invasion it is”. And certainly the states involved have a strong argument that the Feds are failing to uphold the Constitutional clause about it being their job to repel invasions. Not that it matters because the Feds don’t give a crap about the Constitution and all, granted. Every single one of the Cabinet (and probably lower) bastards has an impeachable offense at this point, I think.
It ain’t bipartisan and nobody’s over shit. These places won’t vote Republican and they will continue to vote for the incumbent.
“People want to know that I’m a Black, queer woman. How else will they know if I don’t show them my face?” Senter said.
So fucking tedious. The law is stupid, of course. But then, California.
I assume, like a crossfitter, vegan, or atheist, she’ll tell people right off the bat.
Can you tell me how to get to the nearest Metro station?
Go down this street. Turn left at the vegan restaurant. It is really good. You should try a vegan diet. It is healthier and less harmful to the planet. …
Hell for these folks is that Matrix scene with Smith and Neo…. “What good is your vegan lifestyle…. if you can’t… speak?”
“Who are these people, and why are they so damned nosey?”
(Seriously — the melanin content / genetic makeup and who they like to get funky in the sheets with are typically the last things I want to know in a business transaction (or most of life)… I know, I know… have to establish their position in the Victim Hierarchy and all… bleah.)
Ask a gay white male about the difficulty in maintaining one’s position on the victim stack.
Who are these people who want to know she’s black and queer and a woman?
Sounds to me like she wants people to know, etc. Not the other way around.
Not clear on how you can tell somebody’s queer by looking at their face, either, but whatev.
“nobody cares” was my first reaction…. but then I figured out what she meant…
How are people to virtuesignal about having black female genderqueer pot dealer of her face isn’t on it?
When your sales model is “all of your friends will see how tolerant you are”, this is mission critical
So how is this Islamic-sounding bill constitutional?
Maybe change the name of your business to “Black, Queer Woman”?
I love these infighting stories. Always great for outrageous quotes.
🤣😂
“How can I make gummies that says ‘I’m a minority into lesbian sex?'”
These fucking people.
I wonder how these dickheads would feel if the cigarette companies said they wanted to put photos of smiling kids on the packages. Especially if they’re black kids when the packs are menthols.
Joe Camel remembers.
As does Black Death cigarettes.
Black, Queer Woman
You can have any two.
I’m not sure queer and woman really go together at all. I mean, I know they say it… but “queer” is a gender, apparently.
Lululemon?
More like LuluDeadmon.
I think Charizard would take Lululemon down anyway.
Lululemon evolves to Lizzo.
LizzoLime?
No way…
And I didn’t know BMW was currently manufacturing arms.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/the-war-in-ukraine-is-also-a-giant-arms-fair-20841740?st=h8tx5fn0vqfh7ck&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Because in the field it’s always easy to care for as well as fix lots of electronics.
The iFire comes standard now.
And the polarizing style designed to appeal to Asian markets.
“The new BMW Panzerhaubitze M12 comes in saloon, 4 door sedan, and convertible options. Over 700 HP* available to propel you through the countryside in quiet electric luxury.”
*HP numbers dependent on customer buying the $200 a month maintenance subscription, weather conditions, state of charge, tire inflation rates and total mileage.
“It worked in our controlled test environment.”
If you look at those ESG ratings, weapons manufacturers are super duper ESG-y. And a lot of the ESG portfolios are at least 20% weapons manufacturers. They’ve made war profiteering woke
Depends on the criteria. Many of them make civilian aviation.
You can also get on certain approved lists depending on the munitions. Landmines are generally a deal stopper.
The whole thing is a joke.
Landmines out, Cluster bombs in!
Yes, it depends on who is doing the ESG rating. As it stands, though, S&P has Raytheon as a top rated ESG company, while Tesla was removed from its approved list shortly after Musk bought Twitter. I have a hard time believing that if ESG was around during the Iraq War that Raytheon would be rated ESG. I don’t know of any other ethical investing strategy that allows for the purchase of weapons manufacturers.
They are totally on board with the same culture as the government bureaucracy and political appointees who control their purse strings.
Not gonna happen while out of the other side of his mouth he’s still preening about “sanctuary” nonsense.
Besides, where are they gonna go?
Upstate!
Isn’t there a farm upstate that people send their pets to?
And they live happily ever after there too.
Canada, here they come!
So, are you saying we need a land bridge from Mexico to Canada?
Maybe call it the Spic-Span?
Good union jobs!
Albany. Let them camp on the grounds of the executive mansion.
That is one of the things that pisses me off about the college town next door. Most of the members of the town council are professors, and they make noises about helping homeless people and make sure they can stay pretty much where ever they want, but then they make sure that they aren’t on campus grounds where there is a huge green space, perfect for camping in. But its OK that the bums live down by the river, by the skate park/dog park, and back around neighborhoods with children.
Upstate isn’t awash in cash to throw at them in the way that NYC is. So, nope.
Albany seems the appropriate upstate choice. Plenty of ill-gotten money there.
I vote Canada.
Great minds think alike.
🙂
Brain function pre and post DPRK entry TBD.
American Soldier Travis King to Be Deported by North Korea
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/american-soldier-travis-king-to-be-deported-by-north-korea-9e1fcd68?st=hbxn0743nk2qxee&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nobody seems to want this shitbird.
Park him in the DMZ?
“Too crazy for North Korea” is a syndrome that may require further study.
I don’t think he had much brain function to begin with. I do wonder what the Biden administration gave up to get this idiot back?
I was specifically referencing this guy. Not the smartest move…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier
“Anything to declare?”
“Yeah. Don’t go to North Korea.”
Yes, North Korea. You know, juché, bark soup, no food, worse weather, Kim Jong fucking Un; North Korea!
The Juche is loose!
I’m aware of the reference. I’m just thinking the before and after wouldn’t be as pronounced a difference.
Going rate these days is about $1.2 billion
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Bleah… got stuck on that one for a while….
Stockdale’s little toe has more integrity than Biden. Low bar, I know.
Interesting thought – could the Fed go bankrupt?
Good morning, Sloop!
A lot of crazy in those lynx. The chick killing her mom has to be the worst, though.
Get out of the cities.
How long before it spreads? Eventually this shit has to be dealt with. Living as far out as I do it’s easy to pretend, but there is no way this stays contained.
Excellent song choices today. I’ve mentioned it before, but the Smiths are a band I didn’t like back in the day and really like now.
Yeah, The Smiths are good and whoever thought the world would go so crazy that Morrissey would become sort of a right wing icon?
The Smiths, Siouxsie, the Cure, all of that genre was dismissed as chick music back in high school (not hardcore enough!) and now I love it.
Listened to by permed tanned blondes in convertible VWs.
Hawt.
I loved it back then but the punks and post-punks were often mixed at high school. Chicks had other stuff.
“How long before it spreads?”
I don’t think it will spread beyond where it is legally and politically protected. Granted, some places that could be at the state level, but for the moment I think it’s a city-level thing.
It will only spread as far as total-Democrat control goes – which means it dies in the suburbs and won’t ever threaten the rural areas.
Not sure.
This is an interesting point.
I recall an incident from my rural youth. Thieves had been hitting homes – until they were caught in the act and chased to a wash where they abandoned their van and fled on foot. The ‘posse’ didn’t pursue them further, but lit the van on fire. It was quite a long time before that area was troubled again.
Lot of nice cars in that video – be a shame if they got out of their hood and didn’t come back.
As they leave the Dem-controlled areas, they will encounter the kind of response (law enforcement and more . . . spontaneous . . .) that will bring it to a halt.
Even in Tucson during the Summer of Mostly Peacefulness, there was one riot with a little light looting. Heads were cracked, university students were dragged out of classrooms in handcuffs, and that was it.
Get out of the cities. – but the best wine bars and specialty coffee shops are in the city
What a bunch of retards. And I’m referring to everybody in this story, from the moronic guy throwing fries in a rampage to the employee who thought it wise to break out her 9 and start popping caps.
Ban fries.
Forcing fishermen to pay the salary of some bureaucrat while they’re out fishing is just asking for some tragic accident to happen to said bureaucrat while out in the open ocean.
CNBC is reveling in the Trump civil fraud case this morning. They are gleeful at the prospect that the court is about to confiscate all of his NY properties, including Trump Tower.
I didn’t follow this one. But they were saying that he clearly misrepresented the value of his property in getting loans.
I can say with 100% certainty that the fraud here was perpetrated by the court and the DA. I have done $100 million loans, lines of credit and purchases of financial assets. They do not take anyone’s word for anything at that level. They don’t look at a form and jeck off “approved”. They send an entire team to audit the assets. Real experts who will not be fooled by “because I said so.”.
So, I don’t know anything about the case, but I know enough to know they are full of crap, from the prosecutor to the judge. And including the media experts. No “expert” in law could buy any of this.
In a funny counter-point, James (POS) Clapper is on video saying that if Trump wins he will go after his political enemies.
Yeah, no shit, asshole, and you deserve it after the last ten years.
Good. I hope those evil fucks spend the whole next year staying up all night worrying.
Forget “go after”…. whether Trump wins or not, there are hundreds of corrupt assholes who need serious jail time.
Maybe thousands.
Aside from all the people using the government to go after Trump, the is the massive federal censorship infrastructure. Zero people in that chain of command are innocent. They all know they are violating the constitution for partisan political purposes.
It is never going to happen… but the only way to kill this corruption is to cut out the cancer and throw them all in jail.
Trump can use the Jan 6 precedent to lock them up without charges for a few years. Then go after anybody that bitches about it as domestic terrorists.
I’m getting past “jail time’ and to “mass graves”, myself.
Maybe I need to step away from the Hardcore History on Genghis Khan.
Perhaps a new turn on the Bonfire of the Vanities?
He should be clappered in irons and tossed in the supermax for a bit along with the Easter Island head guy. These motherfuckers really are shameless.
Did he somehow profit off this? Outside of getting a loan? Unless a building burned down and he claimed more than it was worth, I don’t see any harm.
That’s the beauty of this whole legal sham – no tort. No one suffered any loss, not even the govt.
No crime or tort needed. You just need to be an enemy of the state.
Maybe they can touch up the BLACK LIVES MATTER street sign they painted in front of Trump Tower.
Take that, OMB!
The “Get out of the cities” link appears broken to me.
There’s a trailing ` in the URL. It should be fixed shortly.
Book release: an examination of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s political career: “The ambiguous dictator”
https://www.g4media.ro/book-release-an-examination-of-nicolae-ceausescus-political-career-the-ambiguous-dictator.html
The Pirates of Oakland!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seabound-bandits-terrorize-san-francisco-bay-amid-surge-homeless-camps
I blame One Piece.
Hahahah.. that is great.
I really enjoyed that series, BTW. But I have gotten zero traction getting anyone in my circle to watch it.
“Live action anime? Hard pass.” Seems to be the consensus.
The plebes are wrong. This weirdness is cool.
I’ve seen one episode. It seems better than the series that shall not be named.
Make Piracy Great Again.
JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL | WHITE Team vs RED Team – Who Will Win The SPORTS DAY?! – Part 2 [ENG SUB]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZgpIf0M7XQ
like what
Ok.. this might sound crazy. But hear me out on this one….
That was bizarre.
I’m pretty sure watching that got me on another list.
*books flight to Japan*
It’s a privilege
The federal government already taxes the sale of guns and ammunition at either 10% or 11%, depending on the type of gun. With the signing of AB 28 on Tuesday, California will now add an 11% excise tax on the purchase of guns and ammunition, an amount that the bill’s author states is lower than the excise tax on marijuana sales.
This makes California the only state with a separate tax on guns and ammunition, according to the gun control advocacy group Brady.
The money will pay for security improvements at public schools and a variety of gun violence prevention programs, including those geared toward young people in gangs. The money from the federal tax, which has been in place for more than 100 years, pays for wildlife conservation and hunter education programs.
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Another significant bill signed into law on Tuesday is SB 2, by Sen. Anthony Portantino, which will change the rules for carrying concealed weapons.
California’s new law requires permit holders to be 21, bans concealed weapons from most public places — parks, schools, government buildings, hospitals, and places where alcohol is sold, as well as at public demonstrations and gatherings.
We might let you have a permit, but you can’t carry anywhere outside your home.
And definitely not anywhere where it would be useful
The courts will hem and haw over whether or not this is in violation of the 2nd Amendment, but somehow I doubt an excise tax on abortion would last more than a week. The 2nd Amendment will be whittled away like has been done to the First, the courts will just ignore it.
“The money will pay for security improvements at public schools and a variety of gun violence prevention programs, including those geared toward young people in gangs.”
Sure it will.
All staffed by perfectly qualified politically correct apparatchiks – who’s compensation will consume all of the available funding and who’s purpose will be to secure more funding.
bans concealed weapons from most public places — parks, schools, government buildings, hospitals, and places where alcohol is sold, as well as at public demonstrations and gatherings.
New Jersey tried this and a judge pretty quickly enjoined just about all of it.
The UK suffered a diplomatic defeat recently when the EU referred to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1706614582641336381
retard fight between various retards
I like how most comments were no way Americans understood the question
The Economic Freedom of the World 2023 was recently released (data based on 2021). US ranked #5.
They have five categories, the USA’s best catgpru was “Regulation”, were we also finished 5th.
But, our worst sub-category (actually sub-sub category) was 5.a.ii. Regulation/Credit Market Regulation/Private Sector Credit, scoring a 3.23 out of 10. I couldn’t find an exact description of that, but I assume it is regulation of personal banking. Switzerland, for example, scored 9.85 in that sub-sub-cat and #3 overall.
That seems like some low hanging fruit for the US to boost their ranking.
Link if anyone cares: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/economic-freedom-of-the-world-2023.pdf
Bottom 5:
Venezuela 3.01 (See, the USA’s private sector credit is barely better than Venezuela’s average score, that is pathetic)
Zimbabwe 3.81 (And its worse than Zimbabwe’s average score, even more pathetic)
Syria 3.90
Sudan 3.98
Yemen 4.18
BTW, Argentina is #8 from the bottom at 4.77. That is why they need Javier Milei.
that takes forever to load…
Romania 27 I find that surprising… out government is crap, regulation not that good but probably not always enforced, corruption is high… Taxes on labor are high and about to get higher…
My conclusion is if Romania is that good most countries on earth suck balls
Your conclusion is almost surely correct.
That seems like some low hanging fruit for the US to boost their ranking.
Somehow I don’t think the DNC (or the GOP) is interested.
I concur.
I have done $100 million loans, lines of credit and purchases of financial assets. They do not take anyone’s word for anything at that level.
An article I read a while back quoted one of Trump’s bankers. She said, “We never even looked at that stuff.”
“that stuff” being the valuations the Tump organization claimed?
And none of the banks that Trump allegedly defrauded are party to the complaint.
And apparently the only property in question that was actually sold afterwards went for about $100 million more than Trump had claimed it was worth.
Listening to Scott Adams right now. He used to work at a bank in charge of loans. And he’s saying the same thing. The bank and insurance companies will send out an appraiser, look at taxes, etc. He also says the banks and insurance companies had no complaints, in fact they made money off Trump. The insurance companies probably made more if he inflated the value of his property and bought more insurance than he needed.
Then the bank will be sued for fraud and failure of fiduciary responsibility by it’s investors and owners. They have a duty to their investors to not just loan out money because “I said so”, especially to someone that they know is leveraged to the hilt because that’s how real estate works.
Fraud requires damages. Breach of fiduciary duty requires some harm. There was none, so there is no claim.
Leaving aside, of course, that the statutes of limitations ran long ago.
You’re adorable. That’s not even a thing anymore.
Adam Britton: British croc expert admits sexually abusing dogs
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66920778
Aaaaand… I really didn’t need to know that…
He needs killing.
I would have zero moral qualms about his execution, whether done judicially or extra-judicially.
Good lord…
Well, that’s a bit off.
“that stuff” being the valuations the Tump organization claimed?
Yes.
Dane Cook, 51, marries longtime partner Kelsi Taylor, 24, after dating for five years.
https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1706383625573503003
lemme se divide by 2 add 7… the math dont check out
Dunno who Dane Cook is, but if someone’s net worth is >$1MM, then it’s divide by 3 and add 7. So he just hit it.
Thats why he had to wait 5 years.
Stand up comic/actor that had women swooning for a few years back like 12 or 15 years ago.
I remember from Archer where the insult was you are the Dane Cook of X
Dane Cook was also accused quite a bit of stealing material from other comics.
I think he did more than “just hit it.”
Even worse, he was 46 dating a 19 year old.
It didnt for my parents either…but they were married for 60 years.
27 and 18 btw.
wha? 13.5 + 7 = 20.5
Exactly, my Dad violated the “rule”.
I think you don;t get the rule or I don’t know what you are saying
I am saying my Dad married someone too young for him according to the rule, just like Dane Cook.
shit my bad
I find this far less enraging than his shitty comedy. They’re both adults so whatever.
Wait, that rule sets a floor, not a ceiling?
Oopsie.
A British Airways pilot has been sacked after reports he snorted cocaine off a topless woman before trying to fly a passenger plane back to London.
https://news.sky.com/story/pilot-mike-beaton-sacked-by-british-airways-and-banned-from-flying-after-cocaine-binge-before-flight-12970783?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
In his defense I have tried snorting off clothed women and you waste a lot of powder, and cocaine aint as cheap as it once was
Driving that plane
High on….
Existential threat
The Palmetto State Armory retail outlet in Summerville, South Carolina, did not only have a Glock semi-automatic pistol inscribed with his name and likeness. The company itself has a history of capitalizing on the crazy core of Trumpism: insurrection and racial conflict and disrespect for democracy.
Palmetto State Armory manufactured the assault rifle that a racist gunman decorated with two white swastikas before he used it to murder three Black people at a Dollar General Store in Jacksonville, Florida, late last month. But that could have just as easily been Smith & Wesson or Bushmaster or Daniel Defense.
Only Palmetto State Armory has painted a whole line of assault weapons in the style of an Hawaiian shirt, the unofficial uniform of the Boogaloo Boys, a militant movement that calls for the violent overthrow of the federal government accompanied by a racial civil war.
If you’re going to shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, you’re going to need a gun.
We already have hate crimes, now we get hate guns.
PSA is a good outfit with good prices from what I’ve seen. I’ll pass on the Hawaiian themed ARs though. Once again the left shows they don’t comprehend tongue-in-cheek.
one thing i don’t like about much modern fantasy is that magic is integrated with the operations of natural world (one sees this in e.g. the dresden files, sanderson’s stuff, arguably wot)
i find the idea of magic as essentially a rupture with reality’s rules more interesting
https://twitter.com/d08890/status/1706984365450744012
I actually prefer this kind of magic than the other kind which is often overpowered
The only way you can mix magic with reality without some major contradiction is to have some conscious entity say “no, you can’t do that.”
I like The Dresden Files but the magic “system” is just “whatever the plot requires”.
“We don’t know quite how it works, but here goes…”
The one thing I try to do in my paranormal stories (calm down—I’m just tinkering) is not create matter where there was none. For instance, girl conjures maple nut goodies (which, by the way, Brachs does not make/sell anymore). They have to come from somewhere. If they come from a store, that’s stealing. So she has a standing account linked to the store she pulls from and pays for all her shit. But since Brachs does not make/sell them anymore, if she conjures them, she has to get ingredients somewhere that makes them. She may or may not be pulling from her mother’s pantry.
https://x.com/d08890/status/1706984703318782290?s=20
https://x.com/MoriahJovan/status/1707055881160994937?s=20
Good magic always has limits even if not obvious. Johnathan Strange was one of thise not obvious ones
Libertarian Party NH
@LPNH
The US government delayed @elonmusk
‘s Starship for an entire quarter over seven quail eggs.
It is not possible to hate these people enough.
https://twitter.com/LPNH/status/1707005812571324686
If there are no more quail eggs, what will you eat your caviar with?
The eggs were acceptably charred. They could have been consumed with caviar and a fine beverage. I see no problem here.
Whales killed by wind farms unavailable for comment.
DC’s national cathedral removes stained-glass windows honoring robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. replaces them with BLM eyesores.
Because of course they did.
That’s just ugly.
It’s fucking retarded.
What is “no foul play” supposed to mean?
I don’t see a direct reference to BLM in there.
That was my thought. WTF?
Those are not the same windows. Just sayin’
This is the most correct graph ever created.
https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1706707995403362424
Bottom left should be Keith Olbermann.
That’d be perfect, sir!
He’s off the chart.
…that’s not wrong.
Are there no workhouses?
Montana is joining a growing list of state and city officials nationwide urging the Supreme Court to give individual communities the power to address homelessness.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 19 other state attorneys general are calling upon the Supreme Court to give local governments power to ban homeless encampments.
The petition filed Tuesday asks for a 2018 Ninth Circuit Court ruling to be overturned.
Currently states and cities are prohibited from outlawing any urban and homeless encampments unless the community has enough shelter beds to house those who need it.
Knudsen specifically notes state power over land-use policies and criminal law. The states hope local officials will have the power to manage homelessness in their own jurisdiction or at least want clarification on what states can do to combat the homelessness crisis.
We just need more non profit helping hands.
address homelessness can mean may things…
I think they can ban encampments, as long as they provide a space for them to go. But, if you require sobriety as a condition of the provided space, then most of the homeless want nothing to do with the space. Ergo, win-win.
“Ohio high school football coach resigns after his team repeatedly used ‘Nazi’ as a play call against rival from a largely Jewish suburb of Cleveland”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12566597/Nazi-Ohio-high-school-football-coach-resigns.html
“Fury as Idaho high school students spell out the N-word on their t-shirts while standing behind a mixed race girl – as parent brands it a hate crime”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12564877/Fury-Idaho-high-school-students-spell-N-word-t-shirts-standing-mixed-race-girl-parent-brands-hate-crime.html
Nazis everywhere!
“Black guitarist who has played with Dave Matthews and John Mayer slams American Airlines after flight attendant suspected he had kidnapped his biracial children and called police who were waiting for him when he arrived in LA”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12565871/Black-guitarist-played-Dave-Matthews-John-Mayer-slams-American-Airlines-flight-attendant-suspected-kidnapped-biracial-children-called-police-waiting-arrived-LA.html
“Canadian police launch probe into adverts for ‘whites only moms and tots’ sessions for parents who want to ‘escape forced diversity and join other proud parents of European children”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12566421/canadian-police-whites-mom-group-probe.html
That second one is top level trolling
20 years hard labor for the lot of em
The Army War College thinks war with China could cause 3600 casualties per day. So, they’re considering a draft.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1707010559559061724
They can get fucked on that one.
this is actually hilarious. Quora SEO’d themselves to the top of every search result, and is now serving chatGPT answers on their page, so that’s propagating to the answers google gives
the internet is dying
https://twitter.com/TylerGlaiel/status/1706395577964208395
“California state senator Scott Wiener praises street fair where men openly pee on each other in kiddie pools
“It’s fun, it’s (relatively) safe, and it’s wonderfully shocking to the muggles,” the group said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/california-state-senator-scott-wiener-praises-street-fair-where-men-openly-pee-on-each-other-in-kiddie-pools
Worst politician in the country?
“Folsom Street describes itself as “committed to cultivating a safe, open, and inclusive environment for the kink, leather, and alternative sexuality communities while centering equity for BIPOC and LGBTQA2I+ people in our work. We are rooted historically in the fight against gentrification and displacement both here in San Francisco, on unceded Ohlone land, and worldwide.””
Are we sure he’s the worst even just in California?
I think Tater is on to something. That guy is behind pretty much every insane, radical, groomer piece of legislation in California. Like the one that makes California a tranny sanctuary, IIRC.
Howl, monkey, howl
From the federal bench in Amarillo, Texas, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk laid another plank last week in the expanding Christian nationalist platform for the United States, in a ruling favoring a public university president who banned a drag show organized by a campus LGBTQ student group. In this court order, the latest twist in a case filed in March by Spectrum WT, a student organization at West Texas A&M University, Kacsmaryk denied the group’s request to restrain the school’s president and his administration from banning drag while their case is still in process. With Kacsmaryk’s order, we are witnessing the strengthening of the Christian right’s preferred legal reality, in which drag performance is not protected speech or expression under the First Amendment—thanks in part to the (literally) Victorian turn Kacsmaryk has made.
The university president’s drag ban comes as recently passed drag bans in several states face their own legal scrutiny. On Tuesday, Texas’s June 2023 drag ban was ruled unconstitutional, following a similar drag ban that was also overturned earlier this year in Tennessee. Other drag bans in Florida and Montana were also temporarily blocked by courts because of the damage the bans could do in their respective states while these cases were being argued. Kacsmaryk refused to follow suit.
Damage?
DAMAGE?
Same kind of DAMAGE that Trump’s purported real estate fraud did!
I bet if I look into it it’s not a ban on drag, but kids at drag shows.
That thing that never happens in academia, happened again.. Presidents of @AMericanAnthro
and @CASCATweet
deplatform a conference panel on biological sex in anthropology, on grounds of “harm to Trans and LGBTQI”. An open letter from those deplatformed follows in next tweet.
https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1706715042027086334
In an order that points to his likely eventual ruling in the Spectrum WT case, Kacsmaryk deploys the same arguments as the Christian-right players behind the drag bans: that drag is “sexualized” expression or conduct, thus a danger to children, and thus fair game for their restrictions. Judge Kacsmaryk does not shy from the source of such spurious reasoning in the written order. He cited not only Christopher Rufo, the self-admitted architect of the moral panic that incited drag bans, but also Gays Against Groomers, the pseudo-grassroots group that claims to be “a coalition of gay people” opposed to “gender identity” (and whose rhetoric neatly follows the rest of the Christian right’s anti-trans rhetoric).
Oh, no, somebody is astroturfing the queers! They must be silenced!
I wonder if this free speech absolutist would be willing to go to bat for a troupe of dancers goosestepping around the stage in lederhosen with arms upraised in a certain well known salute, encouraging the boys and girls to join in the fun.
Springtime for Hitler was a Broadway hit.
Take the ICE vehicle owners!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hyundai-kia-recall-34-million-vehicles-due-fire-103523213
The remedy is replacing one fuse with another, but brake fluid can still leak, potentially causing a safety problem, Brooks said.
That IS awesome. I’m assuming they are replacing it with a lower amperage fuse and likely going to increase tripping and nuisance tripping as well.
In a statement, Kia said an engine compartment fire could happen in the area of the brake control unit due to an electrical short that results in excessive current. The statement says the exact cause of the short circuit is unknown and that there have been no crashes or injuries.
Irrelevant.