A24 makes some very interesting horror movies, but the new one is so disturbing, I’m not sure I’m up to watching it.
This is my favorite of the many cryptid feeds I follow on Tweeter.
<https://twitter.com/creepyacres>
They make these wonderful graphics on cryptid events.
Hamas senior official invites Elon Musk to visit Gaza
A Hamas senior official invited U.S. billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday to visit the Palestinian Gaza strip to see the extent of destruction caused by the Israeli bombardment.
“We invite him to visit Gaza to see the extent of the massacres and destruction committed against the people of Gaza, in compliance with the standards of objectivity and credibility,” Hamas’ senior official Osama Hamdan said in a press conference in Beirut.
On Monday, Elon Musk, the social media mogul assailed for his endorsement of an anti-Jewish post, toured the site of the Hamas assault on Israel and declared his commitment to do whatever was necessary to stop the spread of hatred.
The Horror of Who Is Still Listening to Trump
[the last three paragraphs]
In this sense, then, asking why nobody learned the lesson of Trump in 2016 is also a galactic category error. Trump in 2016 was a thought experiment: What if we allowed a guy who talks like this to run for and secure the U.S. presidency? Trump in 2023 is a much, much scarier proposition: How many people who once struggled to condone and parse and rationalize the opaque notions floated by a mediocre demagogue can now do so knowing his full intentions and ability to achieve them, without breaking a sweat?
This is not to minimize the important, even existential debates about what Trump can say and how we might level consequences for the things he says that result in violence. I am simply suggesting that Donald Trump is still one mediocre human who could be reduced to global irrelevance were there not an army of folks who not only like what he says, but another set that will also tolerate anything he says simply because they kind of like him now.
If you want to fret about something, it shouldn’t be that former President Donald J. Trump is allowed by the machinery of media and First Amendment law to keep talking. It’s that the pool of people who think what he says is vitally, life-alteringly, and materially important is not just vast, it’s also now incapable of shame.
Allowed? Trump broke these people so utterly.
Make sure to have the captions on for the dark lyrics of despair and cultural senescence.
So there’s not going be a Laura Loomer/Casey DeSantis sex tape? Why am I paying taxes?
We had drunken celebrity blowjobs in the last post.
Where’s Q?
There’s got to be an AI program that can manage that for you.
A24 is great.
I thought that bizarre Marcel movie came out last year though. Some French writer got some bad shrooms, I figured.
The rhetoric is the same, but the intent behind it is clearer than it’s ever been.
It’s progjection and dog whistles all the way down.
It will get worse. The histrionics will continue without conveying any actual information.
“Trump bad!”
Why is he bad?
“Because he is evil!”
Why is he evil?
“Because he is bad!”
OK. Take your meds.
You couldn’t pay me enough to visit Gaza, and I’m not the richest man in world. Maybe Elon could buy it?
Cryptids rock.
RAWR.
I miss COWDOZ.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YEE-HAW, Y’ALL. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
lulz
I assume he gives the gift of the six shooter. Maybe the coffee grinder style Gatling if you’re really lucky.
Of course, when the Cowdoz with a pistol meets a Cowdoz with a rifle — the Cowdoz with the pistol… is a dead man.
(Aim for the heart, Cowdoz… or you’ll never stop him…)
Thank you. That made my week.
Nice music choice!
Venezuelan fairy tales…
THERE NO SUCH THING AS SPACE SMITH!
STEVE SMITH learned how to anal probe from ancient alien cousin.
By anal probe, mean…
That reads like e.e. smith, STEVE SMITH’S poetic cousin.
soon comes the probe
in the autumn
in my ass
no one will cry tears for my loss
Sato Smith-san sez:
Be still or struggle
STEVE SMITH anal probe better
When you wiggle more
“How many people who once struggled to condone and parse and rationalize the opaque notions floated by a mediocre demagogue can now do so knowing his full intentions and ability to achieve them, without breaking a sweat?”
That sentence sucks. I had to read it twice.
The poor thing has lost her mind.
in compliance with the standards of objectivity and credibility
Rigorous standards, as prescribed by the United Nations?
I am simply suggesting that Donald Trump is still one mediocre human who could be reduced to global irrelevance were there not an army of folks who not only like what he says, but another set that will also tolerate anything he says simply because they kind of like him now.
Don’t forget the vast army of people like you who screech in terror as they hang desperately on his every word, and then broadcast his message far and wide. I suspect the left listens to the cartoon villain much more intently than your run of the mill Flyoverstan Republican.
By obsessing about him and using every two-bit prosecutor to go after him, they’ve made him into the ultimate martyr. Not to mention censoring and persecuting anyone who even liked one of his tweets (that’s in the news today) – do they really think those supporters are going to give up and declare their love for Big Biden?
another set that will also tolerate anything he says simply because they kind of like him now.
The word you’re looking for is cobelligerent.
I may not want to get a beer with the guy, but I sure do appreciate the way he makes the people who hate me squirm.
There is not a lot of words that rhyme with cobelligerent. I am going to work on that.
Detergent.
Tokyo Calling
a new detergent,
to cobelligerent, cutting our history!
Cold refrigerant
He has all the right enemies, but he still destroyed the USFL, so lost my vote forever.
That makes him a hero in some quarters.
From earlier today…
All presentations on this will be given by Rep. Hank Johnson.
Oh, they’re coming…
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/08/climate-change-trigger-earthquakes-volcanoes/
There aren’t enough people (or land for that matter) in the Antipodes!!!
I don’t suppose it has occurred to them that this might actually be a feedback cycle (even if their insanity is true?).
Glacier melt == more water == widening cracks == earthquakes / volcanic activity == more particulates shot into stratosphere == global cooling == glaciers…. I mean… duh?
When the Gods are angry they dont fuck around, do they?
He’d flip over that!
And the dripping, elitist contempt. Not to mention the galactic projection.
Biden’s outdone him though, he’s President and not only is he a staggering mediocrity of a human being, the man’s senile. But, yes, everything this yutz claims can be turned around on his guy no problem.
It can be turned on anyone you don’t like. Replace Trump with Obama, and every sentence works from another point of view.
Yep, like racial jokes. The butt of the joke can be interchanged at will.
It does all boil down to the existence of those Not of the Body (who they want to eliminate… finally….).
“What if we allowed a guy who talks like this”
Not what he says. Not what he does. How he talks. About the most superficial thing you could fixate on.
I recall some hilarious overdubs of him during the first campaign. With an English accent, it’s remarkable how reasonable he sounded.
they kind of like him now.
Let’s see: Trump’s Presidency, compared to Biden’s? I certainly have a preference.
The first three years were ok I guess. When he turned the country over to Fauci and racked up another $8 trillion in spending I was nonplussed.
Hillary would have been even worse.
Of course.
And that’s why I really wish DeSantis was catching on better. I like Trump for some of the things he did (foreign policy, energy independence) but his propensity to let the flunkies run amok and let Congress spend is a showstopper for me. And I really don’t think he’ll do better the second time around (because I think he’ll be too busy chasing the laser pointer of whatever / whomever hurt his ego).
Unfortunately — as bloody always when it comes to politics, it seems I’m decidedly in the minority. I don’t get it, but there it is.
Ditto.
I, of course, have problems with everyone but I would not mind DeSantis.
Yes you would. There is no savior. We desperately want there to be a good guy who can set things right. There is no such critter.
DeSantis will screw the pooch just like they all do.
It is always about choosing the least stinky turd.
blockquote fail, also he died last year.
This is true. However, things seemed to be skating along at a merely bad level until Commander in Briefs took over. Then the federal mandates started.
Trump’s 2020 was bad. Biden’s 2021 was the start of the post-legitimacy era.
Trshy gets it. And I think everyone would have fallen into that trap, it was a serious full-court press, with no quarter taken.
Given. sheesh.
It’s that the pool of people who think what he says is vitally, life-alteringly, and materially important is not just vast, it’s also now incapable of shame.
There is most definitely a vast pool of people who think what Trump says is vitally, life-alteringly, and materially important, and you are slashing in it right now.
“Democracy hangs in the balance.”
Get a fucking grip.
“Horrific moment white student yells ‘N-word’ as he attacks black girl, leaving her hospitalized with a broken nose … and school suspends HER sparking outrage”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12805207/Horrific-moment-white-students-yells-N-word-attacks-black-girl-leaving-hospitalized-broken-nose-school-suspends-sparking-outrage.html
Both of them got suspended.
I like how the horrific moment is the yelling of a forbidden word and not the beating the shit out of each other part.
It just shows that words are the true violence.
As much of a lovely little cunt as she comes across as, the white kid started the physical altercation, as well.
And the walk-out looks like it consists of like 20 students;
Something tells me this girl wasn’t very popular.
As long as Nigger is a magical word, everyone is going to attempt to use its power.
Uh oh. Ban for this guy right here.
Looks like they both started it… Par for the course in public schools to suspend anyone in a fight.
Serious punishment would be to keep them in school and make them eat the free lunch
8th amendment violation, that is
They amended the constitution of the US to include “…And I eight it!”?
“Horrific”
OFFS
This story has “we’re not getting the whole picture” written all over it, and is therefore, not worth wasting one second more time on.
I’ve been thinking about this—I can hardly help it because it’s a local school and all over the news—and I’m thinking they’re both problem children and this is an ongoing feud.
The end is near and maybe it will be glorious?
That’s the LEFT’s tactic motherfuckers – you don’t get to use it!!!
At least three justices will embrace overturning the 5th’s constitutional decision.
Pure crazy talk.
‘which holds that there may be some limits on the kinds of powers that Congress can give to agencies.’
Uh, no one seriously disputes that there ARE limits (not may be…) It’s just the exact outline of those limits that are in question.
How about, delegation is not an enumerated power of Congress, so any attempt to do so exceeds its powers?
A large chunk of the populace, including many elected officials, think that the only limit on powers that can be delegated by Congress is whether they can muster enough votes, or sneak stuff thru that they can’t get by voting. They think the Constitution is a dead document that bad people use as an excuse to hold up implementing good stuff.
Possibly a majority of the populace.
Constitution is a dead document that bad people use as an excuse to hold up implementing good stuff.
It’s important to note that this is a two pronged approach. They simultaneously delegitimize the Constitution while also skinsuiting it. They win either way. Either they kill any remaining fidelity to the document or they so mangle the document that the remaining fidelity is actually to their ideals instead.
I say this in present tense, but it mostly happened and succeeded a century ago. There are very few parts of the Constitution that made it through Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and the Civil Rights Era unscathed.
I don’t think this is a game the progressives want to play.
No they seriously think they can blame today’s Republicans for all past bad Democratic acts. Look at the dipshit mayor of Chicago.
LOL the breathless hyperbole is just beginning.
This shit is a huge source of the left’s power and they are NOT gonna let it go easily.
My God, what sort of monster would oppose those things?
Obama’s IRS has entered the chat.
The first three years were ok I guess. When he turned the country over to Fauci and racked up another $8 trillion in spending I was nonplussed.
Well, yeah, that part was kind of tough to take. But it’s not like he announced his specific intent to destroy the economy on day one, like Biden.
Shutting down the Keystone pipeline and declaring open war on fossil fuels was problematic.
Hey. I’m with you on the lesser of two evils thing.
But also a big fan of the guy I am not.
I know nobody who voted for Trump who hangs on his every word like the writer claims. At this point they pretty much admit he’s not perfect, and kind of an asshole who shoots his mouth off too much. But they support him because Biden is wrecking this country and using the government to go after his political opponents.
All Biden had to do was an ok job running the country, and just move on from Trump. But as SF said, Trump broke them.
I remember when Biden was going to be the calm, reassuring adult ushering us back to a sense of normalcy. Then the radicals in his party captured him.
He was captured already. The very first debate he announced his intent to crush the oil and gas industry, turn off the pipeline, and basically wreck our economy. He was absolutely open about all the evil shit he planned to do. And people voted for their own destruction.
Yes. This.
With the help of a very compliant MSM to deemphasize his pronouncements on what he planned to do to the economy and instead emphasize what a steady, gentlemanly leader he is.
Some Voters: This is your platform?
Biden: Yes. And I am not Donald Trump.
Some Voters: OK, you got mine.
Think about Hillary controlling SCOTUS.
That’s what was important about Trump. The rest was a mixed bag of good and bad. The disaster occurred when the notorious germaphobe was given an epidemic to manage.
indeed.
He could’ve picked even better justices though.
Yes. They were not great picks.
But we know how Garland turned out.
And we’ve seen what Biden did.
So, Trump’s justices are the best we could hope for.
I don’t think you could armchair quarterback that one. He had to really thread the needle to get in what he got.
Replacing RBG with a young Catholic with 7 kids was sublime.
There is not a hypothetical electable president who wasn’t going to sell the country down the river to that fucking asshole Fauci.
The realy disreputable part of all of this is that Donald is still bragging about his performance during that period.
First off, Fauci took advantage of Trump’s incompetence, and Obama to his credit shut down the funding of GoF research. Second, Trump was deer in the headlights, and I think any number of people could’ve handled it better, and kept Fauci from becoming the front man. Trump’s other problem was swinging as he did to whatever someone told him last – first he downplayed it too much, then when he ran from that, it was to allow his subordinates to take the lead, and he never got them back in line.
Oh, Hell, Regan got caught in that little homonculus’ headlights re AIDS. Trump didn’t stand a chance. And it seems that Obama’s “shutting down GoF” worked about as well as anything in his presidency.
In his administration yes, it did. The money went out under Trump. I would think that Fauci actually didn’t have legit authority to do that, which is another point swept under the rug.
Apparently it wasn’t a complete ban apparently, just a 3-year moratorium while “experts” assessed the risks.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-lifts-moratorium-on-funding-controversial-high-risk-virus-research/
lol stupid critics, they need to listen to the experts.
Anyways, good news is they continued to fund much of the research anyways:
Humbly disagree.
Note, I said “electable”.
Trump brought in Atlas too late, didn’t listen to him, and didn’t back him up.
Fauci was the front man, but behind the scenes was Birx. Birx did the heavy lifting behind the scenes. She went around to the governors to convince them to lockdown and go with whatever screwed up restriction the Fauci/Birx/Redfield troika backed at that point. And Pence supporting the Troika. I suspect, based on a few things Atlas said in his book, is that Kushner also had his own agenda that didn’t always line up with Trump.
Without the benefit of hindsight, the initial decisions are understandable. It’d be like having some foreign policy crisis, and the Joint Chiefs are unanimously recommending a targeted nuclear strike. It’s going to take a while to untangle what’s going on there.
That said, Trump’s fault was his same fault he exhibited his whole presidency. He was too reliant on his experts, too slow to pivot away from them when they went off script, and he has too much of an ego to admit failure, change course, and learn from it.
The initial decisions to lock down were never understandable.
I didn’t think much of COVID at first, and figured the response was an overreaction. I shrugged at two weeks to flatten the curve, naively thinking that was it. I stocked up on booze. Soon after, cities were taking down basketball rims and filling skate parks with sand. I knew then that it was insane.
I give some grace on “two weeks to flatten the curve”. He had a room full of experts saying “we can keep this from going full epidemic with 14 days of sacrifice” and he bought it. However, day 15 is when Trump’s culpability starts to increase dramatically, in my opinion.
Frankly, I’m likely to be sitting out this next election. As much as I want Biden out of there, Trump burned a lot of goodwill in 2020 and I’m not interested in lending legitimacy to an electoral system that, at very best, operates in a way that is indistinguishable from fraud.
What trshy said.
^^^ This. Thanks Trshy.
Of course, when the Cowdoz with a pistol meets a Cowdoz with a rifle — the Cowdoz with the pistol… is a dead man.
Whatever you do, don’t laugh at the mule.
Well, this sucks.
I got to meet and converse with Tim on several occasions, and even sorta became his unofficial docent-at-large and drinking buddy in Big College Town for a time when he was here for research or a book tour. He was just as funny in person as he was in print. My life is richer for that.
Resquiat in pace, pal.
Unsolicited advice to the Glibertariat: go to your local lending library and check out Florida Roadkill and Hammerhead Ranch Hotel. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be laughing out loud and clamoring for the next twenty novels.
Dave Barry has a number of hilarious Florida Man novels too.
I’ve read at least one of those and it was good. But I’m A Barry fan.
Yep, take the zaniness of Carl Hiaasen and add in the guffaw induction of Barry and you have Tim Dorsey.
I’m pretty sure all of them got their material from just scanning the wire feeds at their respective newspapers for Florida Man stories.
Interesting . thanks for the tip
I have never read any Barry novels, but had a number of his books from the 80s/90s era.
For some reason, his one serious chapter in Dave Barry Does Japan has always stood out.
Bought the first one off Thriftbooks.
Oh joy — another moron believing that what their country needs is a short, victorious war.
This will doubtless end well and I’m sure the PPP admin won’t try to stick our fingers in it (out of misplaced statesmanship, love of socialist comrades or whatnot…).
They want the gold. They had the oil and fucked that up royally. What makes them think they will do any better with an even lower profit margin resource?
Who goes to war with a nation where 99% of the population spends all of their time drinking, smoking pot and screwing? I would be surprised if the country could field a single competent soldier.
Also they’re communist so everything will break and every troop will steal and defect.
Brazil is not unprepared. They have a professional officer’s corps, special forces, etc.. they would not be a pushover.
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Brazilian_Army
And the finest bikini waxes!
Gavin tries to look more presidential… I’d like to think the rest of the country isn’t as gullible as CA voters seem to have been. (Not that Biden isn’t trying too with his “bribe the youth vote” student loan crap today…)
Nope. People are damn stupid.
Seems pretty straightforward.
1) Kick the homeless off of state-owned land and into the cities
2) Give the cities money
3)
4) No more homeless
LOL
My town tried some of that – the cops are called over there every day. A couple weeks ago there were two arsons in the same night.
IOW this is nothing new – just the same old leftist fantasizing.
“It’s that the pool of people who think what he says is vitally, life-alteringly, and materially important is not just vast, it’s also now incapable of shame.”
But, enough about Obama’s followers.
It’s a mystery
The public charging network is not reliable enough and not growing fast enough to keep up with the number of new EVs hitting the road, says Elizabeth Krear, vice president of electric vehicle practice at J.D. Power. One in five charging attempts fails.
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Then there’s the price challenge. EVs generally cost thousands more than their gas-powered versions. Tesla price cuts have brought prices down to the point where premium EVs are now on par with gas-powered counterparts, when measured by total ownership costs, according to J.D. Power. But at the mass market level, gas-powered models are still cheaper.
Government intervention complicates the picture. On the one hand, the federal government is encouraging the transition to battery-powered transportation by offering up to a $7,500 tax credit for purchases of qualifying EVs, and nearly 20 states offer additional tax breaks. On the other hand, it could force the technology on reluctant consumers, sparking a backlash. As things stand now, emission standards under the Biden administration means automakers effectively will be required to ensure that two-thirds of their new car sales are EVs by 2032.
“Silly,” says Ashley Nunes, director for federal policy at the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental research organization based in Oakland, California. “Many of these automakers will effectively be forced to underprice their EVs by offering huge discounts and price cuts just to comply with the standard that the administration has put out. But that is a one-way ticket to bankruptcy.”
Instead, government should incentivize a competition among manufacturers, he says. “We need a space race, if you will, for the cheap electric car – not just an electric car that consumers can buy but an electric car that they want to buy.”
Or the government could fuck off and let the market handle it. Oh, wait it did, 100 years ago, when multiple electric car companies went belly up trying to compete with internal combustion vehicles.
Unforeseen events could change the EV calculus: a battery breakthrough, for example, or a huge hike in gasoline prices. For the moment, though, it looks as though automakers will face years of steady but less-than-spectacular growth in EV sales.
“I’m not doom and gloom,” says Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of industry insights for Cox Automotive, an automotive services and technology provider. “This is a huge transition, and it’s so complex. It’s a change in lifestyle.” By 2030, she forecasts, EVs will account for close to half of new cars sold in the U.S.
Unless a not-insane person gets elected President and undoes the ridiculous imaginary “zero-emission” EPA rules which are the sole motivation for such a rapid and radical change.
I know that when I am making long-term plans for the secure future of my family and country I count on unforeseen events and
artificial price hikes to make practical, proven systems economically unfeasible.
Also, wishes, shits and unicorn farts.
Of those three things you can actually hold one in your hand.
Relevant
I am gonna guess that guy is not getting laid any time soon.
The way I remember 2016, these were things people liked about voting for Trump:
1) Not Hillary
2) Trump wasn’t an America apologist like Obama, who began his own presidency with a World Apology Tour
3) The message “Make America Great Again” had broad appeal, and sounded positive, not tearing anyone down
4) Trump didn’t seem to be beholden to mega donors. He barely spent a dime because his publicity was free
5) Trump whipped libs into a frenzy, and he whipped MSM into a frenzy. People don’t like journalists much, so this was fun to watch
6) a vote for Trump was a big “Eff You” to the establishment
7) voting for the same old same old hasn’t been working; let’s try something else’
Trump made good on some of his promises (undoing executive orders that prevented growth, clipping the wings of the EPA), and less so on others.
I do think he can’t recapture the “magic” in 2024, and he screwed up Covid. But Republicans would do well to recognize the things that people liked about Trump.
Even COVID lockdown lovers criticize Trump for his response, so he gets little love from anyone on that issue.
Hmmm… My thoughts:
Recapturing the magic involves reversing Biden’s energy mandates and giving us back energy independence. Also forcing Europe to pay their way and get the F off our gravy train. That would be magic enough for me.
Four years of Trump would mean Hillary would be too decrepit to run.The democrats have literally no one in the wings. Just trash. Republicans have Vivek, DeSantis, and others who could give a good run, and would most likely be good presidents. Trump will have to preside over this last gasp of “go along, get along” republicans one last time, then we may have some real conservatives in 2028.
Look at the optimist over here!
then we may have some real conservatives in 2028.
Optimist? I think he’s been hitting the ‘shrooms.
World Apology Tour
And picking up his Peace Prize.
Make America Great Again
Empty nostalgia and cheap patriotism – not that it isn’t effective, but it doesn’t speak well to people who buy it.
To be fair, sloganeering has been standard fare in politics for millennia. It’s effective because 60%+ of voters vote based on some combination of charisma, marketing and/or TEAM. A slogan really gets them riled up to go pull that lever good and hard.
Yeah, I don’t like people that fall for that, and there are a lot of people I don’t like (not limited to one side of the aisle).
I’m not going to chase it down tonight, but I’ve linked to a study on voter motivations done in the 60s. If you’re under any illusion that people are thoughtful with their votes, that study will shatter it. IIRC, more people were classified as having no intelligible reason for their choices than were classified as voting on the policies and positions of the candidates.
That’s why I hate “get out the vote” campaigns, mail-in ballots, or anything that encourages “just vote!” As a virtue in itself.
If you can’t be arsed to go to a polling place and pull the lever, odds are you won’t be a thoughtful voter.
I’d bet 90% of it is hereditary.
Funnily enough, that was a separate category. The unintelligible category was for “they wrote words on the survey page, but they didn’t convey any meaningful thought.”
I was thinking of a different study that had the hereditary component broken out from the “unintelligible” component, but the linked article shows enough to prove the broader point. Roughly 1 in 10 approach politics from the perspective of ideas.
The vast majority are TEAM players, vote a referendum on the economy/society, or have no intelligible motivation behind their vote.
I chased it down tonight…
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The-nature-of-belief-systems-in-mass-publics-1964.pdf
“I like the way he says Cuber.”
I didn’t catch the 2016 RNC except the last night of it, with “I am your voice.” I thought, holy crud, he might just take this.
I know it’s just words, but they are words that Obama wouldn’t have said. It was like Trump was saying it’s ok to be American.
Have to agree that Trump was not actively anti-American the way Obama, and to a somewhat lesser extent Biden, are.
I know it’s just words, but they are words that Obama wouldn’t have said. It was like Trump was saying it’s ok to be American.
In the AM links, there was a link to blinged out Beretta Tomcat. I would caution anyone to stay away. I own a non-bling version, and somehow, someway, Beretta made .32acp painful to shoot. Couple this with the far too small beavertail leading to frequent slide bite, and the Tomcat just doesnt see much range time – thus the Tomcat doesnt see much carry time.
My dad had a .38 with that same design. Absolutely miserable to shoot. My brother has it now and it never comes out of the box.
I have one.
*rubs 20 yo scar on inside of thumb*
Where would you rather spend a day doing tourist stuff: Copenhagen or Oslo?
From the last links, all the cars in Norway now are electric and so fuck them because I am a hillbilly.
So Copenhagen.
Beer is $10/pint in Oslo, so Copenhagen I guess
I’m sure Copenhagen is not far off.
I got the car lined up to put on the trailer tomorrow. Not leaving til Saturday but there’s 80% rain chance for Friday. I’m trying to become one with my anxiety. It will be good to get back to the misfits and rednecks back at home base.
Are you in Washington?
No – Appalachia
Still more pleasant than DFW.
Israel vs Hamas online game
Paul Chato being sensible and not particularly funny. Weird what the world is coming to.
If I had seen what I am seeing today 20 years ago I would think I was hallucinating and probably locked away in an asylum.
In case anyone has not overspent their gun budget I will drop this here.
I am told they are very reliable and accurate. I am guessing introductory price, hikes to come later. I still kick myself for not buying Benelli shotguns when they hit the market for $250.
https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/products2.cfm/ID/283854
The Turks make good 1911s, no doubt.
I have one, and I only keep it as my father built it. Even its designer upgraded it to the true masterpiece, the Hi Power, which I also have, and will not part with.
Also, gun budget has gone to upgrading a Smith Model 15 to a Colt Officers Model Match.
At this point, I desperately want Trump to be re-elected, just for the mass suicides.
If he is re-elected, cities will burn.
I did not vote for him in 2016, but I may never again laugh as hard and as long as I did staying up late into election night watching the media coverage.
Must… resist…. voting…… for Trump.
“If he is re-elected, cities will burn.”
You don’t have to sell me on it.
Allow me to interject with the idea that “cities burning” is not a good thing.
Certainly not, but I do wonder if it’s inevitable at this point. Much like an economic crash, it could become worse the longer it takes to happen.
We have 3-4 generations of people who have been taught that the reason they’re stuck in a shit culture in a shit neighborhood in a shit economy is solely because of racial animus. That doesn’t go away overnight.