So this week I took a fun little trip up to… Attica. Fortunately, not as a guest of the state, I was visiting a factory that makes glass microbeads. The area is actually quite pretty, greening of spring, rolling hills. It did make me wonder why the most notorious prisons (Attica, Alcatraz, Guantanamo, Sing Sing…) are set in pretty lovely areas. Speculations welcome. Anyway, I was looking for something humorous so I can say that the place was a riot, but charm was actually the impression. Ah well.
Birthdays today include the true BLM guy; the guy who invented Wendy’s; the guy who invented the plate job; the original Indiana Jones; one of my very favorite kids’ book writers; a woman who couldn’t release a record because the center hole kept healing up; one of my homeboys from when liberals were actually against wars; my academic grandfather; a piece of shit who was… a piece of shit; and one of my top three fantasies as a kid who surprisingly was no dummy.
And Links are the usual witty little things.
I truly believe that it was one of the street food videos that started this whole thing. But in good news, we’re making the right decision.
There’s a simple solution for this…
Let’s be honest, they stopped being The Who after Keith Moon died.
The affinity for nominating TV personalities is baffling.
Cops are known for poor marksmanship.
Our local morons are extra-ugly.
This perfectly summarizes my cynicism about academic science.
Perspective: this is a very short-term problem.
There’s lots of examples of musicians dying young, but Clifford Brown was clearly the most tragic of the bunch. He had a reputation of clean living, no drinking, smoking, or drugs, not a womanizer. His personality won him tons of friends among the jazz elites. He died in a car crash at the age of 25, but his meteoritic talent left a permanent mark on modern jazz trumpet, even 70 years later. Other jazz musicians wrote songs about him. If he had lived, you wouldn’t even have heard of Miles Davis. An absolute favorite of the Old Guy.
Text is pale and tiny.
It has to be your monitor, there’s nothing wrong here.
Not the monitor. I had to reload the page. So browser server miscommunication.
The NOC assures me it is Never the Network.
UCS:
It’s never THEIR network that’s the problem.
The Reality TV host appoints people he’s seen on TV?
Shocking!
I’m sure this helps:
TV allows him to see if the person has the ability to do the most important thing needed today to face off against the evil and conquered cabal of liars that passes for legacy media and the democrats they serve. You would be stupid not to use that filter to help you pick people in our current climate where the most important thing his people need to do is call the shenanigans of the media and democrats, but I repeat myself, out for the lies and attempts to influence stupid people to believe bullshit.
It drives the left nuts is probably a contributing factor.
Yeah, but everything drives the left nuts.
As my dad would say, “that’s not a drive, that’s a short walk”.
“It did make me wonder why the most notorious prisons (Attica, Alcatraz, Guantanamo, Sing Sing…) are set in pretty lovely areas. Speculations welcome”
It’s because they are built out in the country, away from people.
Well, Alcatraz isn’t really out in the country per se relative to San Fran, even back in the day.
My speculation was: “To increase the longing for freedom and hence the resolve to never repeat the actions that resulted in incarceration?”
I just hope those microbeads aren’t going to be used in the back of the white van…..
It’s not so much “Out in the country” as “Away from people” insofar as the NIMBYs are concerned.
“I’ve been really concerned about all the money this country spends on war,” Perry said. “When it comes to Israel, we are the primary funder of it. I see it as an extension of our overall desire to own the Middle East.”
Restore funding for Ukraine!
While that sentiment’s heart is in the right place (“…you have no heart…” indeed), what a moronic platitude.
And yes — one has to wonder if these 10 people cared about Ukraine (not to mention, how about US support for China? Lot’s of “not free” people there, Perry…
“JD Vance has said that the US will not intervene in the conflict between Pakistan and India, calling fighting between the two nuclear powers “fundamentally none of our business”.”
Huh, nothing in that Guardian article about how that’s exactly what Hitler would do.
I only we could have that same policy towards the Ukrainian War, the Middle East, Iran…
And the Guardian kicks a pebble…
His wife is brown. I wonder if that has anything to do with it…
You’d think his wife being an Indian national would mean he would have come out supporting India, if she was trying to influence him.
It’s always hard to get along with the in-laws.
Usha Vance is a US citizen born in San Diego to Indian immigrant parents.
Godammit. I hate it when people bring their stupid facts to my uninformed opinions.
C’mon, we’ve got “I-talians” in this country that haven’t had a relative set foot in Italy in 100 years.
I’m just wondering how much low, low price equipment the Taliban sold/donated to their Pakistani Intelligence Service handlers. I suppose if India starts getting hit with airstrikes from ex-Bagram, we’ll have some idea. (slaps down a Joe Biden “I did that!” virtual sticker).
But outside of our ineptitude making things worse… given the Indian government has rumbled more and more hard line Hindi and nationalist… and Pakistan remains, well… Pakistan… a resumption of conflict seems inevitable. Hopefully it will stay at the border skirmish level. And yeah — Vance’s position is mine as well.
Meanwhile the DC consensus: “would you look at the size of that hornets’ nest? Can’t you just imagine our national dick stuck into it?”
Wait… who?
*falls out of chair*
Now, now, we SAY we’re making the right decision, but have faith, we’ll find a way to get involved.
Cities want to put their trash and dirty industries as far away as possible and NYS/Cuba/SF got lucky geographically?
RE: the firing squad, there was an interview with the lawyers who was taking about how they “missed the heart” and said “there were only two perforations of the right ventricle.”
I mean yes, had they perforated the left ventricle death would have been quicker but…
They also complained that the bullet fragments were not retrieved and submitted as evidence because that’s the standard procedure for gunshot homicide victims.
“The firing squad replied that they could have done better if not for the man off to the side who kept mumbling: ‘The heart, Ramone… don’t forget the heart. Aim for the heart or you’ll never stop him…'”
The fragments aren’t needed because there’s no need to prove in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt who killed him. We know who – the State of South Carolina. So there is no point in fishing out the fragments.
The guy killed a cop. You don’t think the purposely made it painful?
If they really wanted to do that they would have gut-shot him.
Among the many superior methods of execution, I would include using shotguns rather than rifles if you simply must use a firing squad.
Yes – A big foster slug would make quite a hole.
Thompson 45’s full-auto. They could even dress up in gangster outfits.
Sure, Tater, make him perform the Spandau Ballet.
Some SE Asian country legitimately had “mag dump an MP5” as their official execution method. IIRC, they also hung a sheet between the condemned and the mag dumper so they didn’t need to witness the results.
Also: Thompsons would be wasteful government spending. M3’s do the same thing much cheaper.
“mag dump an MP5”
Not a WAV or FLAC?
No, ted, those formats are not supported.
I want to make a “lossy” joke, but I don’t have the bandwidth to find one.
“Cattaraugus-Allegany Liberation Collective (CALC)”
Terrible name, but at least they aren’t violent assholes.
They do seem set in their ways, though — a bit CALCified.
It was all CALCulated to make you think that way.
I was wondering from the URL why calculus students were protesting.
it is integral to the process? Sorry my comment is a bit derivative.
Obligatory — if they’ve done nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear….
Wait until they team up with TRIG.
Yup.. just ignore him and FRAU DOKTOR… they’ll go away soon enough. And what a shock… the family finances don’t look good either…
Now that there’s no more influence left to sell.
Worse – having paid in is now a highly toxic association.
Come now, I was always told Hunter was a prodigy at business stuff and quite a talented artist. Surely he’s still bringing in 7 figures a month?
Hunter got more done in less time went he was coked up. Now that he’s clean and sober (yeah right), he’s not as productive or creative, so the value just isn’t there anymore.
Hunter’s next autobiography: “Why yes, I am a fortunate son”.
“Speculations welcome.”
Some are, some aren’t. Leavenworth, the SuperMax in Colorado, are both in pretty meh locations, scenery-wise.
I’ll bet Hawaii’s prisons have spectacular scenery.
Texas’ on the other hand…
Hey, dust and mesquite have a certain rugged beauty….
Nah, fuck that. They really don’t.
Huntsville is actually in East Texas, so not much in the way of dust and mesquite.
I’ve driven by TC Jester often enough to confirm that it’s ugly.
Mesquite springs up in Huntsville very quickly if you clear out the trees.
The prison near the college town I grew up in (Yale By The Jail) sits on prime real estate, both view and price.
Buena Vista Correctional Facility in Colorado has the Collegiate Peaks as a backdrop, providing quite stunning vistas.
On the pope front there are two overused jokes on the interwebs
one about communion now being deep dish wafers and malort
the second about Chicago getting a pope before a quarterback
Also the pope seems to have a sox fetish of some sort.
Anyhoo
Papal Bull naming MJ the GOAT expected shortly
There is every indication that we still do not have a Catholic pope.
Not a Jesuit thankfully. Seems to be at least as much a commie open-border globalist as the last guy.
Many of the NGO immigrant smuggling operations were “Catholic charities”. He’ll be looking to get that scam going again.
Precisely — I wouldn’t expect anything different from any of the US Bishops at this point given how in bed they and “Catholic Charities” were with this.
And I’m sure they could defend it with doctrine about “loving thy neighbor” and borders being fences to keep us from loving each other and whatnot. I disagree… but I’m not surprised when they’ve been preaching this stuff for decades at us.
Make the next Pope a monk from the monasteries in the mountains of the South East that seem to be pretty old school? Then I might be surprised if he immediately went commie… but the existing crop of Bishops are fairly lock step on most things.
The Holy Roman Empire was not noted for its love of nation-states.
The Papacy was not noted for its fondness for the HRE after the initial crisis had been dealt with.
There is a line between loving (distant) neighbors and trying to rebuild the Tower of Babel / hating your neighbors who will be overrun with third worlders.
Bratwurst on fridays during Lent, beatification of Michaels Jordan and Ditka.
“The affinity for nominating TV personalities is baffling.”
It really is.
47 got off to a really strong start, IMO, and I even think the whole tariff kerfuffle could well end up a net positive, but between this kind of thing, his budget proposal, and the Republican Congress deciding its just going to do squat* and wait him out, I think the last chance to postpone collapse is going to slip through our fingers.
*I mean, c’mon, they won’t even vote on the rescissions for blatant fraud and waste identified by DOGE. Why exactly anyone should vote for Republican Congressional candidates is a mystery.
Why exactly anyone should vote for Republican Congressional candidates is a mystery.
My only guess is because voting for Democrats would make it worse faster.
“Why exactly anyone should vote for Republican Congressional candidates is a mystery.”
They aren’t Democrats?
There’s plenty of reasons to vote against Democrats. I’m looking for reasons to vote for Republicans.
Both parties serve people that only want to vote against the other.
It’s perfect.
Because if you don’t vote for one of them, you still end up with the one of them winning anyway. And see how well that did in England?
It may actually have worked in England, Reform is surging as it appears voters really are fed up with both Labor and Tories.
Not so sure the British Caliphate willl be on board with Reform candidates.
The essential issue re Republican Congress is that they are all voting for their constituents*, not you.
*If they don’t bring home the bacon, then they get punted by the likes of AOC, and they really don’t want that.
Except that a majority of their constituents* want them to support Trump’s agenda with legislation.
*Well, if by constituents you mean voters who voted for them, and likely even citizens in their districts/states.
Ehem, Mr. Dean, your thesis may have a problem. At least in this example.
AOC won in a wacky left seat by out lefting the lefty. This is like Jayapal winning in Seattle.
I would wager the voters in OK or rural TN pull the lever for whichever candidate has an R by their name.
LAH Oh, I concur – the parties are served best by the faithful. Nothing better than a well engineered district producing reliable results.
They couldn’t fit “People’s” in there somewhere?
But yeah, commies are ugly. It is axiomatic.
“The second thing that is becoming increasingly clear is that the US government should order a swift and deep inquiry into the way in which foreign funding is being used to subvert American institutions, especially institutions of higher learning.
If they carry out such an investigation they will find, among much else, the billions of dollars of Qatari money that have been pumped into American universities in recent years. As well as having one of the largest lobbying organizations in the US, the Qataris have in recent years also used their vast oil wealth to try to subvert American institutions and buy off American politicians.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/opinion/probe-foreign-influence-behind-terror-loving-anti-jew-college-agitators/
Douglas Murray, but he has a point, someone is funding this shit, and it’s not college students.
“Our local morons are extra-ugly.”
Looks like the usual grab-bag of seemingly unrelated issues – kill the Jews, groom the children, gimme free stuff.
Are these idiots unaware that Hamas would kill them?
“Why did you bring me to this ditch half-full of dead people?”
“because there is a rainbow flag marking the spot”
When your underlying beliefs are so confused that you think eliminating private property is liberating, is there anything surprising when that leads to bizarre results?
Because dig a little and it’s all funded by the same types, Soros and similar Marxist friends.
Smash the system, stir shit up, etc. Chaos is the only goal they all share. Well, that and communism.
“Chaos is a ladder” — Littlefinger (who was no commie)
Starmer is now forcing the UK to import 13,000 tonnes of American beef.
No thank you! The sensible people of the UK will continue to eat the superior Great British Beef, the best in the world.
https://x.com/aIIegoricaI/status/1920505225732866179
American been aint fit for dogs let alone humans.
They’ll just boil it anyway.
Makes Trump’s steaks well done with ketchup seem almost civilized.
You mean the same British Beef that gave people Mad Cow Disease?
It’s got prions! It’s what brains crave!
That goes along with the part where the UK agrees to open 250 new McDonald’s.
lol
I wonder what the going rate is for being the CCP’s bitch.
The Chinese spy who knows him is a nice touch.
Firing squad thing: A lot of historical military firing squad traditions (probably not US-ian civilian capital punishment examples, though) have the built-in step that the officer-in-charge goes and administers a coup de grace to the ‘tater with his sidearm after the rifles are done.
Also, 2 rounds through one hole is low-ish likelihood, but totally credible. The hints of “zounds how could this be???” are nonsense.
Given how many times I’ve hit the same spot twice on paper, just because I was aiming for the same spot each time, I would not call two people aiming for the same spot hitting the same spot a low likelihood event.
I wonder what would happen if one of the shooters said “Fuckit. It’s fifteen yards. I’m going for the headshot.” And succeeded.
Nutshot. He was a cop killer
What’s wrong with a good old fashioned long drop hanging? I mean, long enough to pop the head off? That seems pretty instantaneous…
It’s cruel and unusual punishment if the condemned is afraid of heights.
It would be crueler and unusualler to use a bungee instead of rope.
Eh, we have a general rule of “Unless you saw it happen, there’s no such thing as a perfect double.” Having said that the “hole” caused by a rifle round in flesh isn’t the best-defined thing out there. Having said that, unless said entry was right under the aiming point, I’m not going to believe two separate shooters matched their POIs by accident.
I’ve done it enough times just in casual shooting that I’d believe it. That’s why I said “low-ish”. Almost-perfect ones are REAL common, so sure, with all the different things going on at impact point, then yeah they could be indistinguishable.
…and I’m not especially great or anything. Just do it enough and it’ll happen sometimes.
To clarify, yes it’s common for two holes to overlap. I was meaning “two shots went through the hole so perfectly that you couldn’t tell that there were two shots.” The first example would count as “one hole” but I in my own idiosyncratic way wouldn’t say they went through the same hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7GfGN4cPQ
Considering how elastic live human tissue is, I suspect that a ‘perfect double’ is much harder to establish on a body than on a sheet of cardboard.
That elacticity may work in favor of it too, if one bullet were hot on the heels of another, the entry wound might be expanded while the second comes through due to the initial shock wave, closing behind the second round.
These are the same people who create graphics of entire cartridges flying down range. What they know about firearms could be written in sharpie on a .22
“Here at Aperture Science, we fire the whole bullet. That’s fifty percent more bullet per bullet.”
This looks like an incredible piece of work by Rod Stewart. Too bad there aren’t more/better pix.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561
He had to be really careful when he started cutting the pieces.
The first cut is the deepest.
I was trying do do something there, but I guess nobody wanted to Stay With Me.
“modelled on both New York and Chicago around 1945.”
Great choice in time period. Not a lot of photos, but what they show is beautiful.
“Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Prevost, voted in several Republican primaries before being elevated as successor to Pope Francis, election records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Leo XIV, who previously lived in Chicago, voted in Republican primaries during the 2012, 2014, and 2016 election cycles, according to records from conservative polling firm Pulse Decision Science.
He also voted in general elections in 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2024…
Matt Knee, Pulse Decision Science’s chief data officer, told the Free Beacon the pope’s voting history and public pronouncements lead him to believe Leo XIV is a former Republican.
“The fact that he hasn’t voted in a Republican primary since 2016 and, in fact, didn’t vote in the general in ‘16—and his public statements—if I had to guess, he certainly would fit the profile of a former or Never Trump-type ex-Republican,” Knee said.
Leo XIV has over the past several years used his X account to share criticisms of President Donald Trump and in February shared a National Catholic Reporter article taking aim at Vice President J.D. Vance. He also reposted statements calling for gun control from Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.”
https://freebeacon.com/america/first-american-pope-leo-xiv-voted-in-republican-primaries-records-show/
Disregarding a Peruvian citizen voting in American elections, is he going to vote in a US election now that he’s a foreign head of state?
He was born in Chicago. So he’ll vote again after he dies.
Because when I think religious guidance and shepherding the flock.. the pontiff’s opinion on a given politician over the next three years matter so much.
Especially following a Pope that made people actually have to question his fealty to dogma and who certainly influenced the College of Cardinals such that his successor would likely be in a similar vein. I just entire expected a MAGA happy, OMB obliging Pope right now. Sure I did. Definitely.
Have I mentioned this lovely bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn? It is a real bargain right now!
(seriously — let’s just give him a chance to make his own positions plain… anything that isn’t lurching more to the Commie Left would be welcome… if he is in the mold of Francis, well… we were there anyway…)
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and see what he does. I think any Pope is going to be more politically left. Here’s what I’m hoping for:
1) Going back to more traditional views on trans, liturgy, etc.
2) Being a champion of freedom and peace like JP II. I’d love to see him call for an end to the many conflicts we have right now.
Pope’s brother described him as a “moderate”, like Francis.
How ragingly commie is this brother?
What Las Vegas shooting?
Signing up for this course. Will report back
https://x.com/NEETOCRACY/status/1920024051814388134
From the replies
“I can make money disappear!”
Ironically enough, Krishna’s proclamation that humans doing “rote process work” are easily replaced by AI came a day before his company released the results of a study of CEOs that found AI investments are mostly not paying off, at least not yet.
“Mostly not paying off”, why am I not surprised?
I was shocked at how quickly Radish sprouts burst from the ground. I put them in the planter last saturday and they’re already standing over two inches tall. Still clearly seedlings, but yeah, I guess 30 days isn’t unrealistic.
Reason why are cars so expensive – reason 1,001.
I’ve already talked about “the seat is too big” FedGov stupidity.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/volkswagen-recalls-id-buzz-because-the-back-seat-is-too-big-e9e33d89?st=AcUthb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I finally saw one on the road yesterday. MEH.
I think it would be an awesome hybrid. You’d get great range and have a good amount of electricity with no motor running for camping and travel and the like.
Right now it’s just fun, but relatively useless because of poor highway range.
Oh wow. That hood design and panel placement is awful.
The Twisted Design Logic of Kia’s K4 Sedan
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/2025-kia-k4-gt-line-turbo-sedan-review-96187e14?st=jjCMAJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I thought Kia went out of business. I haven’t seen many of their cars on the road since that KИ Motors started selling.
From those photos, I like it. It doesn’t have the bland sameness that all of the Japanese cars blended into over the last decade or two.
I like that Hyundai / Kia takes styling risks. I’m one of the few that likes the Ioniq 5 and its focus on squares and angles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Ioniq_5
@Zwak – you aren’t kidding. Go to a salvage yard and when the bumper covers are missing, it’s hard to tell what you’re looking at brand-wise.
That’s due to ridiculous safety regulations.
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN
Toyota missed the opportunity to place the side mirrors on the hood of their US Crown. I expect there’s an aftermarket kit to do so.
I hate new cars:
https://www.edmunds.com/toyota/crown/
When I lived in Okinawa, the Crown was a very upscale car for old folks.
What is that?
Eww.
This is what they used to look like:
https://carsandbids.com/auctions/KV0LeabQ/1996-toyota-crown-royal-extra
“Shiloh Hendrix was doxxed after calling a toddler the “N” word and then proceeded to raise over $753,000.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/opinion/crowd-funding-alleged-cold-blooded-killers-and-racists-this-is-no-way-to-fight-a-culture-war/
For $700K, I’ll call a toddler whatever you want.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s not sunshine, it makes me want to call the children all sorts of slurs.
Would it help your blackened heart to think of them as unpainted miniatures?
You’re only doing it for the money.
Jimbo is using the word sunshine as a stand in for joy. That is an emotional state, just one other than anger or annoyance, so it is unfamiliar and maybe a bit scary, but it won’t harm you.
It is hard to find Rays of Sunshine involving gloves. I try.
My wife and I still talk about the first time my son tasted vanilla ice cream as infant. His expression went from curiosity to to bliss in like two seconds.
My SIL read that you weren’t supposed to feed babies meat because [current science]. When the little tyke was teething we were at Van’s and gave her a rib bone to teeth on. Her eyes widened enormously and she turned into one of those cartoon beavers.
The youngest Altar Boy loved to drink lemon juice out of the bottle. He loved sour stuff.
Not Adahn:
The girlfriend would not listen to me for years about mango lassi. She liked Indian food, liked mangoes, liked yogurt, but refused to try lassi, because when she first saw it at a buffet, she thought it was soup.
She has since tried them, and they’re one of her favorite drinks.
I have had more than a few epiphanies when I suddenly understand why a particular food was A Big Deal after having previously only had crappy versions of it. Coffee, croissants, Champagne, Scotch, sushi…
Words fail me…
Their Fridge Obsession Is a Recipe for Discontent
Rattan baskets, framed photos and twinkly lights. How do you ever find the milk?
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/they-spend-hours-decorating-their-fridge-shelves-then-someone-messes-it-up-df9b7bcc?st=tyK9x9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It would appear these people have few other problems to be concerned about.
That’s what I am going to start calling the top shelf of our fridge.
My wife keeps everything up there FOREVER.
Once you go past the first layer of stuff we use often, there is no telling what you might find.
Funny.
My Japanese (female) friends are convinced they are going to instantly become ill the exact moment the expiration date is reached on item of food.
My wife does not have that problem.
She likes to live dangerously.
I always figure if it doesn’t smell or taste wrong, should be fine.
My wife leans toward honoring expiration dates. However, for some expensive items her … um, frugality … makes her be a bit more flexible.
I lean towards the other extreme. I figure if you don’t check the dates, you are fine.
I thought fridgescaping was just vajazzling on an ice queen?
I thought Fridgescaping was what the low person on the totem pole at the waxing store had to do when William Perry showed up.
OCD is a thing..
“Terrifying moment MAGA star suffers heart-stopping medical emergency live on Fox News.. as anchor’s reaction sparks fury”
“Former Trump administration official Camryn Kinsey fainted on live television when she railed against former President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday night.
Kinsey’s frightening caught-on-camera moment happened during her appearance on “Fox News @ Night” as she talked with Jonathan Hunt who was filling in for Trace Gallagher.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14694515/Camryn-Kinsey-faints-Fox-News.html
Is this going to be a trend?
It’s been a trend. Seemed to have slowed down this past year.
Interesting. It appears AB InBev is slowly fixing itself globally. In the US it appears it is still shrinking. No idea if that was all self inflicted damage or other market trends outside Bud Light.
Bud Brewer AB InBev’s Profit Soars Ahead of Expectations
Lower costs helped offset a decline in sales volumes
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/bud-brewer-ab-inbev-profit-jumps-as-volumes-beat-expectations-9c6fed03?st=Q6d5wf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Likely, the only brand still impacted is Bud Light itself. Most people don’t care enough to look into what all is encompassed by AB In-Bev. They’re fairly big in the RTD (Ready to Drink) cocktail market under the Cutwater brand (and I think they’ve got other entries in that space as well) based on my understanding.
“That was not the case for Sokola, who told a New York City jury that Weinstein held her down on a hotel bed and forced oral sex on her just days before her 20th birthday in 2006….
Earlier in the day, Sokola broke down on the stand, sobbing uncontrollably, as she told the jury about another time Weinstein allegedly abused her when she was just 16.
She told the jury he groped her vagina under her underwear, and forced her to touch his penis in 2002 after luring her to an apartment.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14694013/Harvey-Weinstein-rape-victim-Kaja-Sokola-Gwyneth-Paltrow-Penelope-Cruz.html
So why would you be with him four years later?
Money and influence, maybe?
In Weinstein’s trial the only woman he wasn’t convicted of raping was Gavin Newsom’s wife. A big part of that was likely the fact that she wrote friendly emails to him years after the alleged rape asking his “advice” on her film project.
One Democratic strategist said Biden needs to “take responsibility for his actions” and “own up to the fact that he caused Democrats to lose.”
“I don’t think there’s a willingness to cop to the fact that he should never have run again in the first place,” the strategist said. “Why can’t he come out and acknowledge that part of this is on him?”
That’s right. Lay the blame squarely on Biden’s shoulders. We all know there was nothing wrong with the message; they just got stuck with the wrong messenger.
The Democrat strategists who inflicted Biden on us bear no responsibility at all!
Nor the entire left-wing media and every Democrat politician who told us all Biden was “sharp as a tack”, “the best Biden ever”, “his staff can’t keep up with him”, incessantly.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1920676914466803918
New McDonald’s play area. Yikes.
“Trump fires left-wing Library of Congress head who invited Lizzo to play James Madison’s flute”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-fires-left-wing-library-of-congress-head-who-invited-lizzo-to-play-james-madisons-flute
SIJLTH
Qué?
sometimes I just like the headline
TAAGWOOH
STEVE SMITH NOT HAVE FLUTE. STEVE SMITH HAVE CONTRABASSOON.
When Hayden was questioned during her confirmation hearings in 2016, Hayden defended keeping pornography filters off public library systems, claiming that doing so would restrict patron’s access to health information, the Post reported.
Wut
So for those who really follow German politics how many legit true neo Na z i s are in the AfD party?
Germany Still Doesn’t Know What to Do With the Far-Right AfD
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/germany-still-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-the-far-right-afd-d5a53c6e?st=hNTRKu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s like the go to move for MSM. I’d like to know if it’s under 1%, 5% or more than 10%. Naturally, I’ve never read anything that helps inform that.
All of them Sensei, all of them.
Exactly, if they were good Germans, they’d go along with the powers that be.
I too wonder what exactly to believe because I hear Elon Musk calling them a moderate party.
Are there racists in Team Red? Yes.
Are there antisemites in Team Blue? Yes.
Somehow how MSM can provide nuance and color here. But AfD is always the planning the Fourth Reich.
“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has said he supports the decision for the city to permanently eliminate statues of Christopher Columbus from two different city parks. He said that the decision shows the city’s “collective humanity.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-mayor-permanently-removes-all-columbus-statues-from-city-parks
CWAA
“Mayor Johnson’s Park District CEO Rosa Ramirez-Rosa said of the plan, “The Chicago Park District is committed to diversifying our statuary to ensure we are honoring Chicago’s rich history and diversity.”
diversifying our statuary?
Wait until they find out how white the Polack community is in their grand diversity.
All the other cool cities felt left behind when NYC put up a statue of a chunky, grumpy woman.
It’s rage inducing. These idiots are destroying Chicago brick by brick and they’ll largely succeed because we have a populace that is either apathetic or dye in the wool red.
Put the statues back up, pressurize them with tear gas and permanent paint. Collect the marxists that try to knock them down.
Chicago voted for this, let them have it, good and hard.
There’s plenty of time for this sort of thing now that all the crime has been eliminated and the city is the safest it’s ever been.
Exactly. When you want to distract people from real problems, you make shit like this up.
Anytime you see something stupid like fights about statues, assume you are dealing with a criminal cabal trying to get you to look away.
All turns from center lane!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ketp10/oc_missed_collision_by_millimeters/
Woman driver making that turn, right?
Stirring the melting pot
“The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take appropriate steps, consistent with law, to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination,” the order, signed Feb. 7, said. It also cut aid to South Africa.
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The source noted it is unusual for refugees to be welcomed at the airport by U.S. dignitaries, and said the process of interviewing them in South Africa and granting them refugee status has been unusually quick.
The Afrikaners have been given P1 refugee status. According to the State Department website this is given to “individual cases referred by designated entities to the program by virtue of their circumstances and apparent need for resettlement.”
The South Africans will now have a pathway to U.S. citizenship and be eligible for government benefits.
One source told NPR the UN’s International Organization for Migration had refused to be involved in the process. A spokesperson for the IOM did not immediately reply to request for comment.
Nooooo. There are too many white people in America already.
Im in favor of letting as many in as possible as they have the best accent in English of any besides French women.
That is hardly the criteria I’d use.
I gotta say, I don’t think the Afrikaaners can just drive across a border and get protection from persecution.
Lets see… countries that border South Africa… Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho… Not seeing places that would be too welcoming of Boers.
Is Botswana unfriendly to Boers? They’ve been stable for a long time. I doubt they’d like mass immigration, being a very low-population country. I know German-Namibians still live in country.
“They try to act like oh, political violence. It’s the Democrats and the liberals. Actually, actually, actually, I mean I’m not gon’ say that like a left leaning person can not be violent cuz’ that would be like crazy to say that somebody can’t be. But baybay, baybay, y’all got the white supremacist galore. Okay?
Like all of them— ya got the Proud Boys, you got the neo-nazis, you have people that literally should be classified as domestic terrorists because a lot of times that is what they are doing. They are engaging in domestic terrorism, and guess what? They all align with your side, including the KKK, so like I mean, this is, this is who aligns with that— so like, inherently, and like who you are, yall are violent, and most of your violence has to do with people that’s got a little bit of melanin.
But nevertheless, like y’all are a violent group of— like y’all attract violent actors and like I’m sorry. I know they tried to make Black Lives Matter out to be the most violent. They like “Oh, what about Black Lives Matter?””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/watch-race-baiting-democrat-jasmine-crockett-attacks-republicans/
She’s trolling, and she’s getting attention, but unless someone picks her as a running mate, I don’t see where she is going with this.
Was there a dog whistle in all that, because all I heard was a lot of barking.
Affirmative action
When the Republican-controlled state legislature failed to create a new district in 2023 that would give Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice, a federal court drew one. It resulted in the 2024 election of a Black Democrat — Rep. Shomari Figures. So Alabama now has two Black members of Congress, out of its seven seats in the U.S. House.
But the litigation continued, and federal judges Stanley Marcus, Anna Manasco and Terry Moorer, held a trial in February.
In finding for the Black voters who sued, they wrote, “try as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians’ voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way.”
It’s good to know a federal judge can effectively guarantee a seat in Congress to a particular party.
Let’s just ponder the thinking behind this for a moment:
“Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice”
Umm… wouldn’t that just be voting. They can vote in whatever district they live in.
I mean, that’s the excuse I get when I complain that I’m stuck with Taxin’ Tonko.
“In March 2025, Candace Owens alleged that Kennedy is being blackmailed as part of an “elaborate sexual blackmail scheme.” These claims, made on her YouTube podcast, accused journalist Olivia Nuzzi and blogger Jessica Reed Kraus, known by her Instagram handle @houseinhabit, of being part of a plot to control him.
Nuzzi had a “digital affair” with Kennedy in 2024 and was sending him lewd photos, despite being engaged.
Kraus has been hanging around the White House due to her ties to Kennedy and has long supported Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/watch-rfk-responds-former-running-mate-nicole-shanahan/
Who knows?
Kennedy could do so much better. She may have sent photos but did he ever respond with anything but “blech?”
She looks like a tranny ready to run in the Preakness.
There sure are a lot of wackos involved in that story.
They tend to find each other
Birds of a feather…
So the announcement has been made by Secretary Duffy that they will replace every single piece of equipment in the Air Traffic sphere in 3-4 years.
It was a circle jerk of nearly 2 hours of congrats on announcing a plan…
He even brought floppy disks and paper flight strips! Along with equipment we probably havent disposed of from the 80s/90s that sit around our facilities and claimed they were being used in towers.
If you can get the congratulations and rewards when you announce the plan it saves time. That way you never have to actually implement it, you got paid up front and no one will notice when nothing happens
For example, see terminating the Department of Education.
Charitable donations strengthening the fabric of civil society
AmeriCorps dispatches about 200,000 Americans to a diverse array of community service projects. Corps members — who are mostly 18 to 26 years old — work in classrooms and after-school programs and with veterans. They do disaster recovery and conservation work on public lands. They support name-brand charities like Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross as well as local organizations and faith-based groups that rely on corps members to deliver their programs. In essence, AmeriCorps powers nonprofits, schools, government agencies, and other organizations with vetted labor paid in part by the federal government.
Staff from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the agency in mid-April and soon announced substantial reductions to its 500-person headquarters staff and $1 billion budget. Advocates fear the cuts will erode the values of community and service that have been a source of national unity.
“We’re losing a sense of idealism that we’re all trying to work together to make the country better,” said Catherine Milton, the first executive director of AmeriCorps’s predecessor, the Commission on National and Community Service. “It’s picking away at something that’s really important in the country.”
These “private” charities will wither and die without your tax dollars.
Kind of related, my wife’s cousin works as a biologist for NASA, and she just had her job cut. That part of the family are not Trump fans, I can only imagine how much they hate him now.
My friend on FB works there and has been complaining loudly about this. so I’ve been very curious about what exactly they do and who they allegedly help.
Federal ran comminity service…or really, slush fund for pet projects
I could not read this article without “Fuck you, cut spending” on repeat in my mind… If the city commercial vacancy rate is up, the city services should be lower, so you lower your expenditures to match. Not “Oh… we can’t fleece business as much — raise rates on grandma on a pension!” so you don’t have to re-do your precious precious union contracts and fat fat pensions for your overtime manipulating “public servants”.
Really boils my blood.
They cant help themselves…out ‘Maryland Dad’, in ‘California Grandma’
On April 15, the roughly 750 members of the agency’s National Civilian Community Corps were informed that they would be immediately discharged from their service terms, which had several months remaining. The full-time residential service program, modeled after a New Deal effort that put young men to work on public lands, employed young people between age 18 and 26 to address community needs.
Corps members received a small stipend, a $7,000 scholarship, and health insurance for what is generally 10 or 12 months of service. That income and benefits were abruptly cut off, and the education awards will be prorated.
“It’s jarring, it’s painful; it’s a shame all around,” said Conrad von Moltke, 24, who led a team of eight corps members.
In Ahwahnee, Calif., his team built cabins and worked to mitigate the risk of wildfire at a summer camp for kids and adults with mental and physical disabilities. Following Hurricane Helene, they traveled to North Carolina to help distribute emergency aid and clean debris. They had recently finished a stint repairing affordable housing in a gentrifying neighborhood in Portland, Ore., when the crew was abruptly sent home.
Will we as a nation ever recover?
I’m sure these hundreds of thousands of teen/tweenagers who are being flown here and there have an endless bounty of skills to offer. I suppose there’s something to be said for idle hands getting some hands-on experience they wouldn’t get otherwise, particularly ones who are getting boxed out of employment by insanely high local minimum wages, but this seems like a boondoggle.
AmeriCorps is a public good that’s hard to quantify. By some estimates, national service generates $17 in benefits to the U.S. for every tax dollar invested.
Did it hurt when you pulled that out of your ass?
Really shows that the dollar ain’t what it used to be.
As rationale for the cuts, the White House has cited the agency’s failure to pass an audit for the past eight years. According to a 2024 report from the Office of Inspector General at AmeriCorps, the agency has made progress but failed to produce auditable financial statements.
Totally not a slush fund.
Progress in this context being 3 receipts they found in the trashcan. The other 99.99% of expenditures remain untracked.
I’m thinking of posting this on FB, just not sure if I want to kick a hornet’s nest. Let’s see if you super smart Glibs can spot what I’m doing here:
5.3 MILLION DEPORTATIONS AND 377,000 PEOPLE FIRED FROM FEDERAL JOBS. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
A good start?
Is that what Clinton did?
Half right. The firings were Clinton, the deportations were Obama. Trump’s numbers are much lower than either of those.
I have a vague memory of Obama’s numbers being padded by folks turned away at the border being counted as “deportations” after it was discovered that the general public really, really doesn’t like unfettered open borders.
He was all about the word games.
“Jobs ‘saved’ or created”.
“Half right. The firings were Clinton, the deportations were Obama. Trump’s numbers are much lower than either of those.”
To be fair, it’s pretty common knowledge how the Obama numbers were “gamed” to make them higher.
Nevertheless, it goes to show you how all the talking points reverse when different guys are in offense.
“I have a vague memory of Obama’s numbers being padded by folks turned away at the border being counted as “deportations” after it”
Correct.
Trump couldn’t get away with this as people are watching too closely.
The exercise was about the reversed talking points as the pickle said. I have never heard a Democrat upset by either of those numbers.
I am outraged that those numbers are so small.
Those are Rookie numbers.
You should be outraged, Trump promised more and delivered less.
To be fair, I don’t how he could deliver four years of promises in 100 days.
That is true, it is early.
I never expected him to deliver anything as he never does. I just expected him to be slightly better than Democrats.
377,000 PEOPLE FIRED FROM FEDERAL JOBS. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
I like how it’s just taken as a given that everyone in a federal job is doing very good, important work, and firing them is always a bad thing.
Ok, I didn’t read the original post thoroughly and thought that was a legit thing that somebody posted.
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