Since the Pro Bowl doesn’t count as sports news, I’ll just move past that and straight on to the links today.
“Please send moar moneys.”
This is a recurring theme. I assume the old leadership will retire to their shiny new villas on the Riviera. And the means with which they procured them will all be above board. ::YAWN::
They can fuck right off with this. This might possibly be the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen come down the pike since the PATRIOT Act. It’s that fucking bad. So of course Dan Crenshaw is touting it.
“No biggie. Move along.”
Which classified docs probe is this? Oh, right. It’s the one where nobody is being charged from when a Senator without classification authority took classified docs home, stuck them in a garage or a desk at a university, and simply left them there for more than a decade. Which is all perfectly fine, I suppose.
I only hope there’s a reckoning for this kind of thing one day. Because its barbaric and until there are consequences it will continue.
Hippos!
This story is hilarious. I’ll let you decide if you agree or not.
I assume this will go nowhere. Because the rule of law doesn’t really exist in DC anymore.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! What’s next, are they gonna posthumously give the Peace Prize to people who colluded with the Nazis to deport Jews from Poland and France to concentration camps?
This can’t be good for the bottom line. Or for their public image.
Ah, the 80’s. The best decade. The absolute best. Enjoy a taste of it.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
I only hope there’s a reckoning for this kind of thing one day. Because its barbaric and until there are consequences it will continue. – it is not coming as fast as I had assumed it would
The reckoning?
Unwinding the five or six decades of propaganda that got us to this point was always going to be a long, drawn-out process. People don’t like their basic assumptions challenged, even when those assumptions are the result of monstrous lies.
I don’t know if there were 5 to 6 decades of propaganda leading up to this. That’s what is so amazing about it. When my daughter was born, less than 20 years ago, the message was still “You are the most perfect you that ever was, self acceptance is good!” which is the direct opposite of today’s “You were born fucked up, cut your dick/tits off”.
Not specifically about the tranny stuff, but I just meant in general there has been constant propaganda intended to tear us apart, tear families apart, the whole “post-modern” BS – this is all a part of that.
This can’t be good for the bottom line. Or for their public image. – it depends if it happens again soon otherwise probably not there were plenty recalls in history.
Sure. But how many times in history has a WH admin and half of the pols in DC had a hard-on for the owner of an auto company because of his politics?
Well there is obvious Musk hate but I assumed no additional attack on the company besides the need for a recall.
Wasn’t that “recall” one that was fixed with a software update to change the font size though?
Yes. Has absolutely nothing to do with a vendetta against Elon. Completely legit. Nothing to see here.
Comply or we will punish you….
That’s the intent – to damage Tesla because Musk. These articles are all written as hit jobs. A more accurate headline would be “Tesla pushes out firmware update to change font size”, which isn’t even news, really.
Thankfully is was published on Jalopnik so only a few dozen people will see it.
Hell, it’s not even a recall. Owners don’t have to take their vehicles in to get this software patch, if I read it correctly. This article would be like saying Samsung is recalling every phone ever made because the periodic automatic system update is gonna change the FAQ section to Times New Roman font.
Anyone with an android right now knows Google fucked up the fonts in the messaging app with no way to fix it.
Quoi?
How is there “no way” to fix a font?
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/19ewjii/google_text_messaging_app_added_15_line_spacing/
Specifically it is the spacing.
Oh, they mean no way for the customer to modify it?
Well, a pic of the problem would be helpful before I can shitpost any further.
“They can fuck right off with this. This might possibly be the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen come down the pike since the PATRIOT Act. It’s that fucking bad. So of course Dan Crenshaw is touting it.”
The uniparty has decided that too many of the American people, despite brainwashing, lies, and propaganda on a scale that is ridiculous, refuses to believe the lies they have been peddling to us to destroy (a.k.a. fundamentally change) America in order to make us compliant and willing to go along with the new globalist world order feudal marxist system they plan to put in place after they kill off 4 billion or more of the people they consider to be mouth breathing colonizers.
But, but, but a Republican Senator is behind it!!!
Fuck Eyepatch McCain.
No, Chris Murphy from CT. You know, a very pliable Republican. The good kind (per Dems and the media).
Murphy is a Dem. The Republican senator whose name is attached to this garbage is Jay Langford from Oklahoma.
But eyepatch is touting it on the House side.
Weird, some other site where I read about this mentioned him as a Republican – which seemed off to me, but I went with it.
Murphy is just a little less of a scumbag than Da Nang Dick (head) Blumenthal. But on the scumbag scale they are both at the top.
I still dont get why that fucking coward has not been punished in any way for stolen valor.
Laws are for the little people apparently.
Freedom of Speech. You take the good with the bad.
If he was a republican his career would have been DOA. The only time there is repercussions – to real OR FALSE – accusations, is if you are one of those people that actually wants to do some of the things the people that elected you want.
Fuck them all except Massie (I know, not Senator) and Paul. That being said, Crenshaw is the fucking worst.
It’s bipartisan, so it’s both Stupid and Evil!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! What’s next, are they gonna posthumously give the Peace Prize to people who colluded with the Nazis to deport Jews from Poland and France to concentration camps?
What exactly is the criteria for peace price? Did the UNRWA objectively achieve peace? Rhetorical question, obviously
What exactly is the criteria for peace price?
Supporting the narrative.
“A little piece of Poland…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYYIUh_qdAQ
Nominating UNRWA is kind of a pussy move. They should just go ahead and nominate Hamas like they want to.
FBI agents who didn’t have anything to do with Babbitt, but who oppose illegal FBI activities, will be the ones punished.
As I understand it, the FBI can suspend an agent, deny him pay, but because of employment agreements, the agent cannot quit and find another job. Something like that, but I am a little fuzzy on the details.
The ability to keep you on the payroll (so you have to follow all the FBI employment rules) while not paying you or allowing you to find other work is a powerful way of cancelling someone…
My 80’s playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRT7Lz5YKoIll4ejPHz0dKH9UihsHeJ4r&si=mq41KoBhvqJA9zUD
That’s a pretty solid playlist.
Well done.
Thanks!
I can’t remember the last time I heard Martika…
Nice – The first 2 Cars albums were in the 70’s. I owned the cassette tapes.
It surprises me that the band name “The Cars” had not been already taken.
“Which classified docs probe is this? Oh, right. It’s the one where nobody is being charged from when a Senator without classification authority took classified docs home, stuck them in a garage or a desk at a university, and simply left them there for more than a decade. Which is all perfectly fine, I suppose.”
Bill Ayers and Herbert Marcuse though the left that the way to get & use power was to legalize and allow your side any and all actions, no matter how criminal and/or violent, while criminalizing anything the other side does. The left has the mostly peaceful summer of love where they destroy $2 billion of other people’s property (they have insurance!), killed some 32 people, and basically terrorized most major urban areas they have controlled for decades, while pretending the J6 bullshit they staged and exaggerated into the equivalent to 9-11 or Pearl Harbor was the worst thing ever and the country is over run with terrorists (a.k.a. people that resist their evil agenda).
And team red just keeps pretending they are a better option than the crime syndicates that comprise team blue, fighting with Marquis de Queensbury rules, while getting prison yard shanked and then traded for sex for a candy bar and a pack of cigarettes. And that is because team red’s old guard leadership is not just in bed with the crime syndicate of team blue, but also wants the same outcome, just not as fast as team blue wants to drag us there.
The songs today should have been winners of the recent Grammy Awards. I am disappoint.
If the news coverage I saw is accurate, that event has nothing to do with music and everything to do with females walking down a red carpet.
So, I keep hearing that if a population gets too small, it’s the same thing as going extinct since there won’t be enough genetic diversity. And yet wer have a population of FOUR turn into a an army sufficiently healthy to go off and conquer more territory for the local hairless apes.
Even if they’re not tasty, surely they’d produce high-quality leather.
I’m pretty sure you can get hippo leather holsters.
You can. You used to be able to get elephant hide — I had a knife sheath made from it.
Giraffe bone makes excellent knife handles.
Apparently elephant is cheaper than hippo. I don’t understand how.
https://theleatherguy.org/collections/exotic-leathers
https://www.rojeleather.com/products/hippo-chocolate/
real leather is murder, but some synthetic stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIQos8yR17E
Naturally water repellent leather at that!
The use of the word Hippo is demeaning to some people. The only way to get rid of it is to get rid of real hippos
Tasmanian Devils have such a small genetic diversity that cancer is a communicable illness among them (specifically facial cancers, as they fight each other viciously, so the cancer cells are traded during the battle and take root in the new host without issue).
Lab rats are specifically bred to have minimal genetic diversity for consistant results (but are kept in controlled environments, so it’s not probitive to whether they’d thrive in the wild)
It really depends on what genes your bottleneck population was carrying. These four hippos were apparently quite healthy, genetically speaking, and so long as there isn’t some disease or outside factor that hits some weakness specific to the population, the inbred offspring will survive.
Hippo is one of the hides used to make a sjambok, which every good Glibertarian should keep around in case the orphans get to backsassin’.
We see that happen with “invasive species” all the time. They probably do have some genetic issues, but not enough to offset being in an ideal environment with little or no competition.
“I assume this will go nowhere. Because the rule of law doesn’t really exist in DC anymore.”
See my post above about the use of power and how the left sees things.
They have the same mentality as tyrants and dictators everywhere forever. They are banana republic monkeys.
Delenda est Democratic Party.
Really, the Executive doesn’t have this power NOW? All anyone has to do is stand at the border and ask for asylum and they have to be let in, no questions asked? I know my shoes are wet – don’t tell me it’s rain.
This.
Refusal to enforce border policy doesn’t mean we don’t have one.
“I just peed on your shoe!”
I’m sure Joe is itching to stop the flow.
I know the GOP is stupid but this is world-historical levels of Lucy-with-the-football stupid.
A real fix takes discretion away from the President – Suspends asylum law pending future congressional review, mandates deportation, and requires construction of border barriers.
Or even dictates use of lethal force.
In this case the GOP is not stupid, they are being mendacious, evil fucks – as bad if not worse than the Dems. The Stupid GOP are the ones that are refusing to go along. And don’t for one minute think they wouldn’t go along if they got the proper motivation.
this is world historic stupid. tying it to the warboner funding is breathtaking.
I don’t understand the compromise either.
It isn’t like Joe wants to deport illegals but his hands are tied. Does the GOP really think that this will result in any deportations?
Also, this is something that Congress should be driving. They should be passing explicit immigration laws and then suing the administration if it doesn’t enforce them.
An easy law would be one that barred border patrol employees from removing any razor wire or other obstacles at the border.
I thought we already had sufficient immigration laws.
The last twenty years or so have really opened my eyes that it’s not which laws you pass, it’s which laws you choose to enforce.
Somehow this never happened in the history of our country no matter what party was in charge, but just by coincidence under Biden the laws just stopped working.
In college (in the 80’s) I would occasionally blast a few songs from Stop Making Sense.
Same here. Great album. Take Me to the River comes to mind as a favorite track.
Stay Up Late.
“In college [in the ’00s] I would often blast all of Stop Making Sense.”
My take. Absolutely love everything about it.
Inside the Censorship Scandal That Rocked Sci-Fi and Fantasy’s Biggest Awards
Last week, the Hugo Awards melted down over unexplained disqualifications. Insiders tell Esquire what really happened—and what it could mean for the future of literary awards
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/books/a46637123/science-fiction-hugo-awards-2024/
Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to resemble a star nebula, this is the 59,000-square-foot Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, constructed at lightspeed over the course of a single year to host the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, also known as WorldCon.
Three months later, the truth came out when McCarty shared the Hugo nominating statistics on Facebook: Someone had stolen nominations from The Sandman legend Neil Gaiman, Babel author R. F. Kuang, Iron Widow novelist Xiran Jay Zhao, and fan writer Paul Weimer. All four of them earned enough votes to be finalists—and therefore eventually winners—but for unknown reasons, someone had secretly marked their works as “ineligible” after the first rounds of voting.
Later, when Chengdu was announced as the winning site for the 2023 convention, more than 100 authors—including N. K. Jemisin, G. Willow Wilson, S. A. Chakraborty, and Tochi Onyebuchi—signed an open letter “in protest of serious and ongoing human rights violations taking place in the Uyghur region of China.” Other authors were concerned about the Chinese Communist Party’s history of censoring LGBTQ content, as well as material that criticises the party’s government.
Brandon Sanderson, another past Hugo winner, says this incident damages the reputation of the award: “To find out that the committee behind the scenes [overrode] the voter base without saying anything AND with possible political motivations is extremely unsettling.”
However, multiple former WorldCon committee members who spoke with me on the condition of anonymity do not believe the Chinese government—nor the Chinese members of last year’s Hugo Awards administration—directly or indirectly censored the awards.
It’s all rigged by people with an agenda to screw us all over…
If you do not hold the thoughts they consider to be the ones they want, then you will be canceled.
The Hugos being covered by Esquire should tell you all you need to know about the relationship between media outlets.
More inbred than Colombian hippos.
Probably just as fat.
And mean.
And yet hungry, hungry.
“However, multiple former WorldCon committee members who spoke with me on the condition of anonymity”
That certainly inspires confidence that everything is on the up and up.
Anonymous sources are the most trust worthy, dear reader.
Ah, the ever-trustworthy ‘anonymous sources with knowledge’ citation. Totes legit.
Going to China made perfect sense, considering the people who run the Hugos have been a censorious lot for what, a couple of decades now?
at least they manage to keep the evil right wingers out, that’s something
I am not particularly interested in whatever current scandals are rocking the syfy world given that it turned into an “affirmative action” club years ago. I can already assume that whatever authors are being pushed today are being pushed for political reasons.
Every single bus I get on now has people using their phone on loudspeaker. 100%.
This wasn’t true two years ago. How does a society restore unspoken, shared community standards? Are there any examples of it being achieved?
https://twitter.com/gavinantonyrice/status/1754090255580291366
shit like this is getting more common here too. Public transport, on the street in the parks people of all ages speak on the speakerphone. It is quite annoying.
I find the ear piece people, walking around talking just as annoying – after all, you’re only hearing one side of the conversation. At least with the speaker on you can hear the whole thing – almost like the govt!
I try to speak quietly on the phone when in public
Sure, if you hold it up by the side of your head – so you can double your dose of radiation into your brain.
Same in regional rail from NYC to New Jersey.
You can look at the demographics of those that do it and be right about 90% of the time.
Here there are more older men than women on speaker, but more younger women than young men.
Around here, the only ones doing that are our Somali neighbors. The also seem to think that it is necessary to shout for them to be heard on the phone so it is extra better.
Go back in time forty or fifty years?
I usually use the term “speakerphone” but “loudspeaker” is more accurate so I’m using that from now on.
Fuck speakerphone. I hate that shit with great passion.
I dont give a fuck what shitty music some other skidmark likes. Turn the fuckin’ radio down.
I dont give a fuck what two apes with room temperature IQs have to say to each other. Take it off of speaker phone.
And no, I am in fact in a decent mood today.
It’s the giant boomboxes updated for the new millenium.
The people who pull this shit in places like the NYC subway are the same people who will pull a knife on you if you look at them wrong. Everybody knows this so the phenomenon does not go away.
—“people using their phone on loudspeaker”—
I was at breakfast at the restaurant last week, and a woman at another table had her phone on loud speaker. I politely (really, politely) if she would turn the volume down. Her reply, “Somebody just sent me a video to watch.”
The fuckers in airport hold rooms that would watch such videos instead of using headphones…
‘The Yellow Peril’ — American cartoon published in Puck magazine (23 March 1904) comparing an oppressive and backwards Russia with a modern and progressive Japan. Artist: Udo Keppler.
Russia is depicted with a flail labelled ‘Absolutism’, ‘Persecution’ and ‘Tyranny’, while Modern Japan is depicted in the rays of ‘Justice’, ‘Progressiveness’, ‘Humaneness’, ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Tolerance’ and ‘Religious Liberty’.
https://twitter.com/propagandopolis/status/1753793719164117387
I wonder how ol’ Udo felt two or three decades later?
The Austrian-based company Migaloo is offering a 541-foot-long “private submersible superyacht” for a base price of $2 billion. The M5 has a range of 9,300 miles and can take its passengers to a depth of 820 feet. The luxury submarine includes a helipad, two swimming pools, a Jacuzzi, and two midget subs. There have been no orders for the M5 yet.
https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1754249074226725346
If I had that kind of money, I’d buy it and christen it “Wretched Excess”.
My desire to go on rich-guy submarines has subsided in recent years.
Not named The Nautilus? What the hell were they thinking?
Has Glibertarians done anything celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons?
Even if no one plays the game, Gary Gygax *was* a libertarian, and was under FBI surveillance for awhile. A story about a guy who made millions by turning his hobby into a business, then lost it all to corporate shenanigans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8
I eagerly await your article about it 😀
(Seriously, I’d love to read something about that)
Agreed.
dittoes
I would have cared had the whole mess not already been culture war raped by WoTC.
The big negative change in DnD was when the game changed from “Will we beat the scenario?” to “How will we beat the scenario?”
I think the best description I have heard is superhero movies — you know the superheroes are going to win, but you don’t know how. Old school DnD was about survival. And you probably weren’t going to.
That’s all in the hands of whoever’s running the game.
Yes, it was mostly a cultural change, but the rules did change to support and encourage it.
“Save or Die” with the saving throw being >10? Yup.
I remember rolling 25 or so dice to survive a fall once. Turned out the door I opened was 20,000 feet up in the air or something.
I didn’t make it.
Sounds like you’re just the one to write it up.
Sorry, he made his saving throw and won’t have to enact any labor.
If I find the time, I will, but it won’t be a thoroughly researched and footnoted tome of knowledge, I think. More of a personal history, with bits of lore thrown in.
I remember being a nerdy jr high kid playing DnD. My buddies and I all dreamed of getting a drivers license, a girl friend and going on a road trip to Lake Geneva to see where it all started.
We did get licenses and girl friends, but never made the road trip.
2 out of 3 was the most you could hope for.
I would have been happy with 1 out of 3.
Drivers license? Or the trip?
I was introduced to D&D when I was in college.
One of my favorite exchanges:
Player (talking to himself during a quiet moment): Damn, I wish I knew what this ring does.
DM: You now know.
Player: What?!?
DM: You now know what the ring did.
Player: *confused silence*
Player: Fuck . . . Do I at least get the experience points?
1 charge? Well, that sucks. Well played by the DM though.
I bet that was not the original function and it was changed upon hearing the comment just to be a dick.
I was not being a dick.
No one in the party ever uttered the words “I wish” without careful thought again.
[golf claps]
Would happily read.
Never played D&D, but was highly into the GURPS universe. My bro and his friends semi-played, but I (six years younger) was just in it for the fantasy. I’d just read the guide books of races/classes/ etc and go into imagination land. Did the same with the Werewolf and (to a lesser extent) Vampire:The Masquerade game universes.
I did the same with The Hobbit, which I’d sneak out of mass on Sunday to read in the church bathrooms or other inner alleys I would find. Dad never went to church as an adult and Mom was in the choir. Bro and I had free reign. He’d go off and play basketball, usually.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Too early for that kind of stuff.
Now do the one of two teenage girls turning tricks to get bail money for their Mom in the slammer for selling crack to Hunter.
I think that’s a different “tube”…
In Sudan, 9 million internally displaced. The largest in the world currently.
The protesting classes don’t get passionate about it because the two warring sides can’t be seen as oppressor and victim.
(It’s just two factions fighting over the spoils.)
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1753788115762737593
I see a lack of creativity. I am sure we can find a way to blame whitey
Duh. “The Persistent and Intergenerational Traumatic Legacy of Colonialism.”
Post Colonial Traumatic Dysfunction.
You should come up with a catchier name that abbreviates to “Honky’s fault”.
Well, using the color swatch test, most of North Sudan is of mixed Semitic/Subsaharan African peoples so… it’s white adjacent peoples supremacy-ing all over each other and themselves.
They need to get to Mexico and to the border. Real refugees
Nikki Haley on SNL at 5:23
https://youtu.be/EwPQn7i-6JQ?si=v0u_A4smcGeQrrj7
My God SNL…my…God…
Still funnier than some of the skits they’ve made entire movies out of though (I’m looking at you Stewart Smalley).
Gosh darnit he likes himself. *blows brains out in front of mirror
Heard there was something about that.
Is there a text version so I don’t have to actually watch it?
Mark Cuban
@mcuban
Im sorry. I can say with 100 pct confidence that anyone who believes “Equity” is “about providing equal outcomes” does not understand what the Equity in DEI is.
“Equal Outcomes” is the disclaimer the Anti DEI movement uses to try to scapegoat DEI as unusable and unsuitable.
You will not find that in any corporate DEI program. Ever. (Feel free to provide a company website that says equality of outcomes to prove me wrong )
It’s just the usual ridiculous commentary.
How would that even work? Have everyone who started the same day at comparable jobs all have the exact same career progression ?
https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1754282647885426911
In a strange way I respect Cuban for continuing to respond to this even though he says bullshit over bullshit with some bullshit added and probably knows it.
I don’t, the man’s too damn stupid to know when to shut up. The people that agree are convinced already or in on the grift and the ones that don’t know he’s full of shit-there’s very little upside and considerable downside.
I really don’t understand how he ever made a fortune. Born into one I could get, but he shows zero evidence of having the smarts to build one.
The same way Jared Polis made his fortune…a decent idea that someone incredibly overpaid for in the 90s.
Broadcast.com and Blue Mountain Arts respectively.
He’s Russ “radio on the internet” Hanneman, but not nearly as funny.
You are assuming he believes this shit he is peddling. I am convinced this is nothing but theatre to stay in D.C. and the globalist cabal’s good graces. Most of these powerful people peddling this shit know damned well it is just bullshit, but they will be damned if they admit it in public (like Musk does) because then they will be ostracized and attacked.
I tend to think Cuban’s a true believer/useful idiot. Remember this was the guy who publicly expressed surprise that Obama didn’t have many entreprenuers in his economic advisory program.
Idiot? Yep. Useful? Not convinced.
Agreed.
You will not find that in any corporate DEI program. Ever. (Feel free to provide a company website that says equality of outcomes to prove me wrong )
Huh look at that, James Lindsay provided him an example from Disney.
If DEI is so great, why is Cuban telling his competitors about it?
Wouldn’t it be smarter to let all his competitors overlook all the super smart and hardworking trans, black and other downtrodden workers? He could snap them up on the cheap and dominate the business world!
Because he wants equity is corporate performance?
s/is/in/
The standard graphic explaining equity is about equal outcomes. Its the kids standing on boxes to watch a baseball game over a fence.
Its the starter description of equity. Cuban is just plain wrong.
And I see at least 2 respondents have posted it.
Has anyone posted the response where equity is cutting off the legs of the taller two so all three are too short to steal the view of the game?
Cuban peaked when he put radio on the internet.
I would like to formally announce my new venture: Hippo Hunt with Cocaine Safari™.
Uh-huh. Here’s your spear, here’s your coke, there’s the hippos. Go! Probably not going to get a lot of repeat business.
Well, not without the celebratory post-hunt snu-snu.
Hookers are part of the package.
If you want me to really get into your new sport of hunting Hippos with cocaine and prostitutes, I’d suggest having the prostitutes serve up limburger cheese during the hunt.
I’d fall for that hooker, line and stinker.
Sir, I am American, we do not use that weapon. *busts out .50 cal BMG
How would you like a wonderful example of regulatory capture?
https://www.wsj.com/business/how-the-funeral-industry-got-the-ftc-to-hide-bad-actors-b0028ac3?st=wqdtuuiu39kobr2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[Police unions look up and shrug.]
+1 Paid vacation and additional training.
I’m not sure, but this seems like a dumb thing to do. Turning Sunny Minnesoda into a sanctuary state has the potential of driving turnout amongst the jackpine savages to the point where it overwhelms the wimmen who will be showing up to codify abortion for all into our state constitution.
Have the legislators consulted with the Somali elders? Competition may be unwanted. Grift is limited to the money available.
Depends on demographics. Do the Twin Cities have 50%+1 of the state population? If so, congrations. You are a one-party state.
Here’s what I think I just read about the proposed immigration law:
The White House unilaterally decided to change border policy without consulting Congress. Instead of impeaching the president for this, the Republicans are asking for billions in bribes to Ukraine in their proxy war, in exchange for passing legislation that will allow Democrats to blame Republicans for the consequences of Biden’s change in border policy, and then hope the president who refused to follow existing law will somehow follow the new law instead of doing whatever the heck they think is politically advantageous.
Did I get that wrong?
Odd how the Obama Administration had no problem deporting record numbers of people.
The bookies changed the spread.
That Post story pretty much proves my theory that trans kids are the product of Munchausen Mom’s.
You ever see that big American empty concrete river in a movie and think “well they made that way too fucking big”
Yeah they didn’t
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1754406537806688650
Sorry it was a quiet sports weekend. Not a major thing, but I thought this was interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdc8-AAQu84
BREAKING: Only minutes after polls closed in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele has won with close to 90% of the vote
El Salvador’s Trump will remain President for the next 5 years in a big blow to the radical left & gangs
This is what happens when politicians deliver on their promises. The people reward them with overwhelming confidence
https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1754284013995307023
90% seems suspicious
Imagine how much you would want to reward a politician who elevated your country out of being a shit-hole.
Seems typical for dictator reelection efforts.
It does but I wonder what their elections are like. There’s a good chance they’re less corrupt than in the U.S.
This guy needs a newsletter. Although I’m sure Cato has one…
https://www.wsj.com/articles/incompetent-elites-make-trump-look-appealing-2024-primary-general-45691931?st=qgd2oh6cxwbrarw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s a good screed, but I’m not sure if it will convince much of Team Red WSJ readers.
Shouldn’t the real story on the Tesla recall be that gov’t regulators had failed to find and order a correction of such a “glaring” fault for well over a decade despite new cars going through rigorous gov’t and insurance safety inspections well before they ever see production and several states having safety inspections that should have caught and corrected this years ago (back when the CEO of Tesla was full of goodthink – totally unrelated, I’m sure)?
Plus I’ve mentioned this before. FedGov pitched a fix when Tesla fixes anything via software without formally “recalling” the vehicle.
So any update of any consequence is a “recall”. As more and more manufacturers add the ability to do on air updates the number of recalls is going to increase exponentially.
So Telsa makes any update it does in response to regulation a recall. Several years ago they had a “recall” because I could change my car to display KPH. However, US regs require MPH to be displayed at all times. So if I switch my car to KPH there is a smaller display of MPH under it now.
In this case the ******* font for the BRAKE light among others was too small for FedGov.
No way…
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/one-countrys-dream-of-ev-driven-prosperity-helps-fuel-a-coal-binge-instead-e007cc86?st=pjes2si3v3f6ju6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bad text. The world is not trying to phase out fossil fuels. A small group of psychopaths are.
“[Judicial Watch attorney] Fitton said, “Ashli Babbit was the only homicide victim on Jan. 6, yet the FBI has been illicitly hiding its files on Ashli Babbitt from her family for a year. Why the cover-up?”’
Um. Uh. Cuz it makes ’em look bad. Duh. OR, and I’ve had fun asking this about two Trump impeachments, (how many?) indictments, but why no conviction (or at least more than pay-away $$)?… Is the FBI/Are the prosecutors just THAT incompetent? (IMO Real Goal: Just keep Trump’s name in the papers until the election to keep Team Blue’s base riled. Simple.)
The answer is yes.
“FBI charged with Jan. 6 ‘cover-up’ in Ashli Babbitt shooting case”
They can’t comment on an ongoing investigation. Even though the investigation is closed and they found themselves clear of all wrongdoing.
They are laughing their ass off at this because they know the DOJ will do nothing…
The criminal left plays to win. To them the legal system is a weapon to be used against their enemies (like every authoritarian banana republic does). Unfortunately for us, the other choice is a bunch of asshats that want to not stoop to that low a level getting passed around.
I tell you that everyone in D.C. is bought and paid for or being blackmailed into doing whatever the cabal’s agenda is. The people and the country be damned.
What should Democrats do? Listen. Stop screaming your talking points and hyperventilating that Mr. Trump is a dictator in waiting. Stop falling into the obvious trap. Mr. Trump is gifted at provoking ridiculous overreaction from his opponents. You promised moderation, openness, conciliation and simple competence. You delivered the opposite. It is still possible to acknowledge, listen and pivot.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Technically it is possible. It’s just the likelihood is too small to measure (even with an electron microscope).
Making it harder to catch the usual authoritarians scum when they decide to change the story they are telling, or calling back to them lying back when…
Nice…
The intrusive thoughts
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ajdyvm/the_intrusive_thoughts_oc/
Although I’d imagine the cager decided to get out and block traffic for 30 seconds or so to fix what he rightly deserved.
Giant storms in California. What happens to all that rainwater in a place where the ground is about 99% covered by impermeable pavement and buildings? At least it will wash some of the trash away.
And we need more urbanisms; swimmable cities are the next big thing.
swimmable cities
RACIST!!!!!
Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum of the streets.
-Travis Bickle
Aenima
Where some of our previous $17B surplus went. A 40 person commission to come up with a low carbon fuel standard.
The best part is that they must have let a few wrong thinkers in because someone let a few shards of reality slip in. Luckily the right thinkers (with help from the NGO Industrial Complex) issued their own report demanding that unicorn farts be the new standard.
Rural growth = Ethanol subsidies. That is what got the minority report generated. They don’t want any more ethanol. I have no idea where they think power will come from, but at least they are against ethanol.
The beauty of it is that the excess ethanol need not be wasted. A Phillips screwdriver and a Florida orange team up would work
Where some of our previous $17B surplus went – well if it was not that you would have blown it on something silly like beer or hockey pucks or whatever you people buy
Hookers, blow, and fast cars…
and here I though Pope Jimbo was a law abiding fella
Technically it is possible.
Any Democrat who attempted to tone down the rhetoric would be deemed traitorous third party backstabber, at minimum. Usurpers not wanted.
Fetterlump nods sagely.
Pretty cool technology for anyone who is getting ready to build a home.
Being able to virtually walk around in your blueprints. Like, really walk, not “stroll” through on your monitor.
That’s really cool. Now I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it first.
Could be useful but unfortunately the floor plan is not that hard to visualize imo… When my parents built their house most issues were not floor plan related.
Let me guess. Their big problem was that they didn’t anticipate so much sunlight getting into the house?
…Nickel smelters have led to a surge in coal use, with new coal plants coming up at a time when the world is trying to phase out the fossil fuel.
Now they say coal is less badder than natural gas. I don’t know what to believe. Can’t they run smelters with solar panels?
ban nickel plated guns
Not at night.
Apropos of nothing, Saturday night, courtesy of I Do Cars, I learned BMW is now making a three cylinder turbo (half of one of their V6s, apparently) to put in the Mini and some other models. Best part, there was no obvious defect, aside from what appeared to be completely ineffectual oil rings. The broken front pulley might have occurred after the fact.
Ultimate driving machine, indeed.
Inline 6 and 4.
Still has the issue of carbon buildup like all direct injected only motors.
All you need to know is bipartisan compromise
Schumer said the bill is a “compromise,” adding that is “the only way you get important things done” in the Senate. He blamed pressure from former President Trump and his allies for the hard-right Republicans’ opposition to the legislation.
“Will the senators drown out the political noise from Trump and his minions and do the right thing for America?” he asked. “It’s a crucial question. History will is looking down on every one of us right now.”
Asked what happens next if the bill passes through the Senate, Schumer listed groups within the House that he argued the bill would appeal to.
“First is a big group of hawks in the middle, and they care about funding Ukraine — they always have — and the strategy of Johnson is right now do nothing,” he said. “There’s a large number of pro-Israel people — they care about that. Then there’s a large number of progressive legislators, I’m included, who want to see that Gaza, the people in Gaza, don’t starve and we get that aid to them.”
“Plus, there are some who care about Taiwan, and there’s money there to bolster us against China’s aggression there,” he added. “You know, we’re in an aggressive world and we got a lot of dictators linking up — Russia, China, Iran. If we don’t defend ourselves, we don’t want this to be like 1938.”
Fuck-all about what is actually says.
Intentions are what matters. See Mao and Stalin.
Look it’s called the Border Security Bill, what more do you people want?
So the one thing we know for sure that it doesn’t do is secure the border.
“If he put this bill on the floor of this House right now, it would pass,” Schumer said. “We’d get a lot of Democratic votes, and we get some good number of Republican votes.”
Yes, of course. Declare victory. It’s not like those clowns on Morning Joke are going to ask any hard questions.
Hey Chuck, if it is a bi-partisan compromise appealing to the middle – how many defections were there from the Democratic left?
I hope somebody has Yusef’s contact info. He posted a very cryptic message last night.
He did! I saw that. And no follow up explanation.
EU mulls emergency aid for collapsing solar producers
The European Commission will make a statement Monday as state-backed Chinese competition fuels a wave of bankruptcies in Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-mulls-emergency-aid-for-collapsing-solar-producers/
Evita Swimwear Fashion Show 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ne4I11BU0
Partisan obstructionism
“I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, “the border never closes.” If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival,” Johnson said in a statement on X, echoing comments he made before the bill’s release.
Johnson’s statement comes just hours after the text of the bill dropped. The Senate spent months working in a bipartisan manner to come to a deal on a national security supplemental plan.
Muh sunk costs! We can’t just start over and waste all that hard work.
They must be exhausted from all of that mutual masturbation.
Over in the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed the bipartisan bill, saying, “I am grateful to Senator Lankford for working tirelessly to ensure that supplemental national security legislation begins with direct and immediate solutions to the crisis at our southern border.”
Did Mitch fall down and hit his head again? That’s the only charitable explanation I can come up with.
Ethics? I do not think that word means what you think it does.
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-establishment-prefers-distractions-to-solutions/
Why invent scenarios? David Amess MP was stabbed to death by a jihadi in 2021 and politicians and journalists started to bang on about people who were being mean online. What did that have to do with anything? Bugger all. But it was a lot easier to talk about than Islamic radicalism.
Last week, in London, twelve people were injured by a corrosive alkaline substance, with the suspect, Abdul Ezedi, promptly disappearing. Mr Ezedi, who reportedly had a relationship with one of the victims, successfully applied for asylum in the UK in 2020 following not just two failed attempts but a suspended sentence for a sexual offence.
If indeed Abdul Ezedi is the assailant, it would be tough to find a clearer example of Britain’s asylum system failing the British people. This guy, we have been told, was an actual, factual sex criminal and yet was granted leave to remain. Nonetheless, Gillian Keegan MP, Secretary of State for Education, tells us that the story “is not really about asylum”. Caroline Nokes MP, former Minister for Immigration, told Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark that wants to talk about “microaggressions”, as if the attacker is liable to have graduated from calling women “love” to alkaline attacks. Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP claims that this terrible crime shows that society “normalises violence against women and girls” (does she mean Britain or Afghanistan, where Ezedi spent most of his life?)
Inline 6 and 4.
I was thinking they split a V6 in half because that would give them the cylinder head ready made.
Does BMW have a V6? No idea.
Not as far as I know.
They have a V8.
So they just need to do a GM with 3800.
Who knew that turning a V8 into a 90 degree V6 requiring a balance shaft would make one of GM’s most durable engines.
OTH, that BMW V8 is fragile. I believe it’s one of the ones that has rod bearings as a “service item”.
COVID: All Australian governments failed completely.
Long form Submission from Ian Brighthope in gratitude to Senator Malcolm Roberts and his Senatorial colleagues seeking the truth about the Covid Plandemic.
https://ianbrighthope.substack.com/p/covid-all-australian-governments
So the one thing we know for sure that it doesn’t do is secure the border.
Maybe it will reduce inflation.
Haha, I crack myself up.
“Is pregnancy a disease?” the article’s title asks. Why yes, yes, it is, the authors answer.
It’s not a disease, it’s a parasitic invasion, and the parasite must be removed.
Me, a relationship trainer: So, the key thing to remember is that if you have a girlfriend or a wife you *shouldn’t* have kids with another woman.
*Football players mumble in surprise and take notes*
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1753790043603313049
The moment you start to think like this you can retire the word “romantic” from your vocabulary.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1754436704272797831
I’ve always felt uneasy with the AEI. Sure FedGov will immediately put those funds right into social security. I’m sure of it.
Co-authored by a lefty and:
Andrew G. Biggs is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies Social Security reform, state and local government pensions, and public sector pay and benefits.
https://crr.bc.edu/the-case-for-using-subsidies-for-retirement-plans-to-fix-social-security-2/
fixing Social Security’s finances. – for how long?
Long enough for the current establishment to have rolled over to the next one. So… five to ten years?
Have you ever wondered why America has such a high incarceration rate? If you weren’t even aware of that fact, consider this graph from Prison Policy:
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1705283540420546814
loong tweet…
This clears up why America has such a high incarceration rate: it’s because Americans are relatively violent people!
…I’ll believe that.
Yes, we are.
And it’s no coincidence that crime spiralled up when the left got it into their heads to empty the prisons.
“A Washington therapist has revealed how she was told to ‘throw out’ all of her medical training and give ‘gender affirming care’ to an abused, autistic, and suicidal 13-year-old.
Tamara Pietzke, 36, quit the profession after she was reprimanded by her superiors for not immediately signing off on children’s requests for puberty blockers and sex change surgeries.
Some of the kids who wanted to be transgender had a multitude of issues – including physical and mental abuse, raging anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts.
Despite this, she was shunned into quickly signing papers to give them life-changing medication – and when she brought up her concerns, she was accused of being prejudiced against trans kids, reports The Free Press.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13046891/washington-doctor-gender-affirming-care-minor.html
This shit is way out of hand.
Also, The Free Press article is paywalled (which is another thing that is getting out of hand).
The conspiracy theories write themselves.
And they’re more sinister than anyone will believe.
Thus, the case is strong for eliminating or reducing these preferences.
The resulting increase in tax revenues could be reallocated to fixing Social Security’s finances.
We just need to return to the confiscatory tax rates we had before that radical libertarian JFK screwed everything up.
Sure, sure that general tax revenue will just get plugged into SocSec. Pull the other one.
If BMW wanted a three cylinder turbo why didn’t they just snag the one made by their technical partners at Toyota? Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.
I think BMW did if before Toyota. However, Toyota may have had one for the domestic kei car market.
Has Tucker defected the Russia yet?
+ 1 Yevgeny Prigozhin
“Pass the bill or we will send your kids to war” doesn’t seem like a winning strategy and the use of “we” when talking about Ukraine is quite telling.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1754539288048357886
He is a scummier POS than even I had ever suspected.
Yeah, “we”.
“We will lose this war.”
Go fuck yourself you f— [redacted]. I can’t even anymore.
Experts agree
But what if the court shocks the country, and rules Trump is no longer eligible? What would it mean for the 2024 presidential race, for the Supreme Court, and for a society where political tensions are spiking? Is some kind of violence sure to follow, or could the decision nip it in the bud?
We asked some of the smartest political analysts, legal scholars and security experts out there on what would happen next in such an extraordinary circumstance. Here’s what they said.
Long Politico Magazine “What If? piece.
tl;dr- It would be bad. Real bad. Interestingly enough, several mentioned the wholesale intimidation tactics of the Justice Department’s ruthless pursuit of J6 sympathizers approvingly.
They did not report if anybody responded with, “What a stupid question”.
OFFS GFY
Anything short of 9:0 against the banana republic’s latest soft-coup attempt will be a shock – they’re right about that, if nothing else.