Good morning one and all to another spectacular day!
Trump says $9 trillion of investments being injected into U.S. economy, manufacturing, supply chain
Lesser-Known Provisions of the House-Passed ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Tool to make it easier for Trump to return excess funds to Treasury without Congress gains steam
DOGE: Social Security Officially Removes 12.3 Million Individuals Listed Age 120+
Former NY Democratic Rep Charlie Rangel dead at 94
Kamala Harris Returns To Serve Up Fresh Word Salad On ‘Humility’
Report: Democrats Set $20 Million Plan to Win Back Young Men
John Deere addresses farm labor shortages with autonomous tractors
Turns Out There’s A Catch To California’s Rosy Population Stats
3 More New Orleans Jail Inmates Recaptured, Search Continues for 2 Others
Olympic legend Mary Lou Retton, 57, arrested on DUI charge in West Virginia, court records reveal
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Where the white women at?
Busy scolding white men for not being Democrats.
In jail for a DUI.
It’s a WV thing…
Getting arrested in West Virginia apparently
“Trump says $9 trillion of investments being injected into U.S. economy, manufacturing, supply chain”
Yeah, I take this with a grain of salt and do recognize this will take time, but while I am all for it, I still think we have a much bigger problem: congress doesn’t care and sees this as just an excuse to keep spending far beyond our means. And until we make it impossible for congress to ignore the debt problem – make it so they do not get paid unless the budget is balanced and the debt is being worked on – we are not going to see change.
Unfortunately congress would have to vote to hold themselves accountable, and that ain’t gonna happen.
Voters could hold Congress accountable – if only they could vote on every other Congress member and not just their own.
That would defeat the purpose of voting for congresspeople. What we need is a penalty for congress to vote to overspend (print new money) and every time they add to the deficit unless it is a national emergency. And no, being reelected is not a a national emergency.
You want national emergencies? This is how you get national emergencies. It is bad enough without the incentive.
Actually, this might not be such a bad idea. If your local candidate gets more negative votes from the rest of the country then positive votes within your district – DQed, vote again for someone else.
Should be a negative vote allowed. Instead of voting for a candidate, a vote against a candidate. Maybe 2 votes, 1 positive, 1 negative.
We did the “state of emergency” thing in my state to allow unconstitutional tax increases.
Governor gets elected and declares a state of emergency. The emergency? The state doesn’t have enough money for all its projects.
Yes. And also the president of the United States does not care.
Here is the full WSJ article about CA’s change in population.
https://www.wsj.com/business/california-population-growth-immigration-h-1b-visa-4b526478?st=B8wyQi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I dont really know what to say. That is so moronic that I just have no words.
I did think of something to say….build a wall.
My mom was a native Californian and she used to say that about walling off California from the the Ohioans, Jerseyites, etc. that were ruining California in the 60s and 70s.
Oh those were simpler times.
California was great before the Democrats turned it into a shithole.
To be fair, New Jerseyans and Tosu fans ruin everything. :-p
Ted S.:
Hey now. All of us aren’t fans of tOSU, but there is still the O-H-I-O chant during NFL ( and MLB games.
California was great before the Democrats…
Gov. Earl Warren (R) – just as a reminder.
OFFS. We can’t find HR hacks in America?
Why do I get the feeling this article isn’t being very straight with us.
Customer = Marketing.
If they need a marketing super genius, Jennifer Salke is available. Just look what she accomplished for Amazon Prime.
HR is never outside customer facing.
Meh, customer hack. The point is that is not something we need to hire an Indian supergenius for.
“Tool to make it easier for Trump to return excess funds to Treasury without Congress gains steam”
As long as staying in congress comes from pissing away US tax payer money (and printed money), this fight is not just uphill, but Sisyphean.
Which can only be repaired by autonomous service robots.
Repaired? What craziness is this?
The new solid state autonomous tractor from John Deere is fully enclosed and unserviceable by design. Instead of wasteful and time consuming repair jobs, you just trade it in for a new model when it breaks. Low monthly payment plans available now!
Neph gets it!
Service contracts are more lucrative. Every month it doesn’t break down is money for nothing. Don’t need as many robots in the factory churning out more units either.
Wait, I thought it was a Deere, not a Honda?
It’s a lower capital investment to not have to replace them.
Service contracts and subscriptions can be bundled together like any payment streams and the resold as derivative securities. If you do it right (lie a lot) you can turn one dollar of revenue into five, or ten, or a thousand (enron).
ZWAK – show me on the doll where Soichiro Honda touched you.
It was Honda Tadakatsu
I know you are a bit of a Honda fan, Sensei, but those issues were the exact type of problems we came across with the brand when I worked at the auto electrician shop. Far too many proprietary connectors, sealed systems that had to be replaced in toto as opposed to being rebuilt, and an overall build quality/parts cost that was designed with complete replacement of the vehicle instead of repair after a certain point was reached.
ZWAK, I know you knew I was being tongue in cheek.
To me Honda is no better or worse than most automotive brands when it comes to whole module / assembly replacement instead of repair. However, unlike you, I never services them for a living.
It’s pretty much ridiculous how any brand is disposable at this point.
Ishiro Honda addresses farm labor shortages by having a giant lizard destroy the city.
It is very true that most brands are going down this road, sadly.
Interestingly, prices of ag equipment from the nineties is going up, at least the farmers in NoDak that I know are remarking on it. Much easier to fix, although there is, apparently, quite the black market in hacks of current farm machines electronics.
“Kamala Harris Returns To Serve Up Fresh Word Salad On ‘Humility’”
It’s our fault for not realizing that she was better than us cause vagina and skin color.
Heaven sends us an angel and you don’t recognize it. For shame, Alex.
My guess is that we had the other place send us something, and it ain’t no angel.
A drunken succubus. A drunkubus if you will.
“drunkubus”
I’m going to have to remember that!
Donald Trump is not magic. Donald Trump does not possess some great wisdom that no one else does. The iron law ‘foreseeable consequences are not unintended’ applies here. All of the problems we had and currently have were created deliberately by the people who held power. What Trump has is a lack of hatred for this country. That is really all it takes to be a great president.
Donald Trump is proof that if the political class meant to keep their promises, they could. The fact they have not, shows they care very little what the sheep they are supposedly representing want and elected them for. When you explain THAT to the usual TDS fools, they all have a short circuit. And it is obvious this is one of the things they fear the most. After all, if you let the unwashed common moron have a say, it fucks up their academia concocted vision of paradise on earth.
Everyone who ever graduated from Harvard: BUT WE’RE SMAHT!!!
*tugs collar, looks around furtively*
I started telling people that I was seeing a sever problem in the circles of “elites” those that claimed they were the SHMARTHEST and the most educated about 15 years ago. And it was primarily around the whole climate shit show and the absolutely dogmatic cultist adherence to the marxist orthodoxy peddling it. I have always believed that the dumbest shit you could imagine came from the liberal arts schools, especially from the Ivy leagues, where the supposedly smart academic tools could concoct some of the dumbest shit humanly imaginable and sell it, because of human nature and the fact they never had to make it work in the real world. This has spread everywhere in those circles.
We now have a credentialed elite that believe they should be allowed to run things, doing whatever the fuck they want, because, well, credentials, and nothing drives them more batshit crazy than the fact common people – the ones they look down upon – use common sense to call them and their dumb shit out. It is thus all out war on common sense and systems that work, because these elites want to force you to accept their nonsense is a better option. When the system fails (see communism), it was not done right, or the wreckers & kulaks ruining things, and the answer is to double down – spend even more money – on the failed shit.
Until we destroy the hold these credentialed morons have on things and shame them into realizing they believe in idiotic shit, we will be yoked by the evil that these credentialed elites keep foisting on humanity.
*tugs collar, looks around furtively*
Yeah, but HLS. They’re more-sufferable. Or undergrad, too?
You gotta go for the undergrad + JD/MBA for maximum insufferability.
Smart people are good at rationalizing their way into insane ideas. Stupid people are sometimes impressed by smart people and adopt those ideas. and the wheel turns on.
Trump and DOGE are pushing grandma over the cliff.
BY GRANDMA MEAN…
Nancy Pelosi
Rangel? Good riddance for Mr. ‘That’s different’. Fuck him.
I have no idea what the Epoch Times has to say. I am not giving them any money and I am not giving them my email.
Same sentiment for the article on the Big Ugly Bill.
The democrats have an amazing ability to produce people that make my skin crawl. Rangel dies, Pelosi gets what she deserves, etc and there is Newsome and Harris promising to creep me out for a couple of more decades.
“Kamala Harris Returns To Serve Up Fresh Word Salad On ‘Humility’”
After reading it, it seems reasonably coherent.
I would not be surprised to hear they “edited” it, again, for content. I mean that was consistent and constant during the Obama 3.0 admin, where they repeatedly did that shit while telling us it was our imagination we saw some guy whose bran was operating like a six pack missing three or four beer cans. Yes, the same people right now trying desperately to sell you that they were not shills for democrats, but had been taken advantage off.
It’s always the same shit with these leftists: we are not evil, just really, really gullible and stupid. And people keep letting them off.
Wait, I thought John Deere was leaving the US because Trump, not because their sleazy business practices make customers want to kill them.
“Report: Democrats Set $20 Million Plan to Win Back Young Men”
Let me guess???
They intend to find more ways to scold them into compliance for not wanting the shit heaped on them from these stupid 4th wave marxist feminist harridans that are the heart of the progressive mental disorder?
That’s the conclusion. They need to spread the $20m around first, before they say that.
There are some Democrats with at least partially functioning brains – fortunately or not, they’re not in charge.
Once again, the problem is messaging and not that their ideas are absolute garbage. They just need to convince more people that shit sandwich tastes great.
Shit sandwich sounds too plain, how about a paté d’excrement banh mi?
That’s how you sell it…
“The Democrats reportedly plan to spend $20 million as part of an elaborate plan to win back all the young men President Donald Trump captured.”
I thought he preferred people who haven’t been captured?
“You don’t win wars by getting captured for your country, you win wars by making the other poor dumb bastard get captured for his.”
– General Patton, probably
““The prospectus for one new $20 million effort, obtained by The Times, aims to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online,” wrote Goldmacher. “It is code-named SAM — short for ‘Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan’ — and promises investment to ‘study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.’””
$20M isn’t much of an effort.
Our academic machine, and by default all the entities that get populated from that academic machine’s output, have a YUGE problem right now. That problem is that they are unable and unwilling to even diagnose the REAL root causes of problems and issues outside of the demands of the cult they live in and its marxist progressive globalist dogma. You can never solve a problem if you refuse to diagnose it correctly. And when you don’t have the ability to do that – diagnose a problem and its cause correctly – no amount of money, time, or effort thrown at it can fix that. When your marxist beliefs interfere with your ability to deal with the truth…
Alex: “Once they are demoralized you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them. No matter how much authentic information you give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion. You can take them to Siberia and show them the death camps. They still will not believe it. If you cannot think you cannot identify problems. If you cannot identify problems you cannot solve problems. If you cannot solve problems you cannot defend yourself, your family or your country.” – Yuri Bezmenov, fifty years ago.
The left are drug dealers using their own product. Evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Our academic machine was summarized quite nicely by Dr. Stantz.
“The Democrats reportedly plan to spend $20 million as part of an elaborate plan to launder $20 million dollars”
Got it.
There is a reason everything is infested with stupidity in academia and the supposed elite expert circles: they all make money from research financed by government handouts. And those handouts depend on putting out the message government wants. That’s how we have things like the climate change marxist globalist agenda racket, the whole more than 2 genders biology defying shit, and other idiocies that even an uneducated bum missing half their teeth would figure out because of common sense passing for gospel and “The science”.
Taking the money away from them should be the beginning. I see now ay to give them money without it being abused by people with agendas controlling access to that money.
If this were a money laundry operation, it wouldn’t be $20 million, it would be $200 million.
This is tossing some cash to the intelligent and perceptive wing of the D’s party in the hopes that they’ll sit down, shut up, and quit rocking the cultural control boat…
I’m guessing this “elaborate plan” doesn’t include things like “addressing the issues important to most voters” or “being really good at doing our jobs.”
The elite know what is better for them unwashed voters. So what if the plan is to kill off 80% of humanity and go back to a feudal system where these credentialed elites keep power for themselves at the expense of the unwashed rubes. I doubt there are people out there that hate freeloaders more than me, but I have never contemplated just killing them to be rid of them. At a minimum I would give them the option to start being productive. I doubt the globalists care one bit.
Re: My comment that Trump’s real virtue is not trying to destroy the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hud-terminates-obama-era-housing-trump-destroy-home-values
The left hates you, wants to impoverish you and kill you. I dont know why people dont get that. They have been saying it out loud and proving it for years.
As long as the American dream, the desire to be free and self sufficient most of all, remains, the globalists will never get a majority of Americans to go along with their globalist marxist progressive plans. For them to inflict globalism on us, and especially globalism with a marxist totalitarian flavor (very likely with the CCP on top these days) they have to completely wreck the American dream and so demoralize Americans by destroying their ability to remain free and self sufficient, that they bend the knee.
The last 20 years was a fast track of that agenda to get us there and under the yoke of an elite marxist progressive hereditary aristocracy claiming the right to power because they were the experts. Then this Trump orange guy came along, convinced people that had seen the end goal and wanted nothing to do with that shit to vote him into power despite a fortified election for the devil’s own daughter, and wrecked that agenda these evil globalists thought was a given for them. Not just in the US, but globally.
They are not going to give up, and my fear is things have to get way, way worse, before we finally can beat them back. Cause the alternative is existential in its banality and evil.
This morning the WSJ’s Jenkins says the quiet part out loud.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-is-policy-making-so-bad-22b87e2e?st=qjdYPe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfekgjfh1Rk
I will just leave that here.
Dont forget to wear your mask.
USA, USA!
https://www.wsj.com/business/chatgpt-ai-cheating-college-blue-books-5e3014a6?st=nvfLAQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yup. I used to have those in college. And the professor/exam proctor would generally pick a random page at exam time for you to draw an X through and leave blank so you couldn’t sneak in pre-written essays on the subject matter.
At our school they collected the blank bluebooks when you came in and randomized them and redistributed them.
We had the randomizer too.
I think when I went to college they handed out blue books for exams.
“painfully old-school”
Boo hoo. I’ve also decided that starting now, I’m assuming every piece of photo or video “evidence” is fake. We survived hundreds of year without that technology, I think we’ll be fine.
$20 million isnt even fifty cents per young man. I don’t think that’s going to work.
But its 20 million of their own money. If it was taxpayer money they would commit $20 trillion.
Hang on, I’m sure some judge in a blue state will reinstate funding of some “voter outreach” NGO’s any second now.
“A renowned Harvard University professor was stripped of her tenure and fired after an investigation found she fabricated data on multiple studies focused on dishonesty.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/harvard-professor-of-honesty-stripped-of-tenure-fired-for-manipulating-data-in-studies/
LOL
Waiting for the claim that the fabricated data was a purposeful part of a study on dishonesty, and it was just “research”.
She was starting a discussion!
I felt a disturbance in the force, as if millions of assholes suddenly clenched…
OK, if they had had that line in Star Wars, the movie would have been even more epic.
It was probably used in Star Whores (or whatever the porn parody was called).
It was not in the 4 out of the 5 movies I saw, so now I got to go see that last one…
I thought this sounded familiar.
Two years to get it hashed out sounds like she got a fair hearing.
Just for Neph!
Mocktails Cost $15 and Nobody Knows Why
Bar owners say blame the distillers, who say making virgin versions of tequila, gin and whiskey is akin to alchemy
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/mocktails-cost-bars-alcohol-drinks-8d01137d?st=y9JLbu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I know why!
Because people are willing to pay that much for them. And yes, making virgin versions of distilled spirits is hard and stupid, with no real benefit (IMNSHO). From my experience, what I’ve seen is that mocktails are generally at about a 25-30% discount from cocktails. So a bar with $20 cocktails will have $15 mocktails, $15 cocktails, $10-11 mocktails, $10 cocktails… they’ll serve you mixer on the rocks for a buck or two.
“Because people are willing to pay that much for them.”
I think you need to add the word “stupid” before people in that sentence….
I’m sure there are things you’ll pay stupidly high prices for.
Dating women.
AlexinCT:
I don’t see spending $15 for a mocktail at an upscale cocktail bar for the girlfriend as being stupid. The places (at least around here) that are at that price point also have equipment and ingredients that I generally don’t keep on hand, so I’m willing to pay the price for it. At least one has leaned into it with several of the mocktails also being dessert drinks (such as a Bananas Foster and a Death by Chocolate mock/cocktail).
Neph,
Do not confuse the fact that I personally would never pay that much for a cocktail, especially one without the alcohol, with what you should be allowed to do. You can do what you please with your money. I was just making the point I wouldn’t ever do it for myself, but to be honest, for a hot date, I would.
I found a bar this Monday with $9-10 cocktails. It was awesome. They also had fried dill pickles.
Mix your own drinks.
/inveterate cheapskate
“Meth-crazed Florida man is bitten by alligator, charges at cops with garden shears before he’s shot dead in wild series of events
A meth-crazed Florida man survived getting bitten by an alligator — just to be fatally shot when he charged at cops trying to help him…
“At that time our deputies shot multiple times,” the sheriff said. “As a result, Timothy is deceased.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/meth-crazed-florida-man-is-bitten-by-alligator-charges-at-cops-with-garden-shears-before-hes-shot-dead-in-wild-series-of-events/
These things happen.
Meth is a hellofa drug… makes cocaine look tame.
Cocaine Bear vs. Meth Alligator – I sense next summer’s big blockbuster.
Right… that explains all the blowout spending on AI. 🙄
The problem the AI programmers have is that they still have and want to control the way the AI responds with. And when your biases affect the AI, the AI will end up being unreliable. The reason the CCP and the EU have made it impossible for private AI to be created is because they HAVE to control the output to prevent the AI from undermining their hold on their sheep. In the US our problem is that much of that AI work is being done by woke idiots that want the AI to be woke like them.
They can afford the regulatory capture. This helps prevent new entrants.
I like Billy Joel’s stuff, but I don’t think it’s going to have the staying power of others from the same era.
The opening act, a 24-year-old singer, was struggling for the audience’s attention. This was at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis on the night of Dec. 3, 1973. The Beach Boys were the headliners, and try as he might, the young singer couldn’t get the crowd to listen.
The rudeness was so evident to the reviewer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that, feeling sorry for the performer, she wrote of him—“Billy Joel, a not-untalented singer-pianist”—that “unfortunately, the audience treated him with the indifference that customarily goes to anyone but the name act,” even though he clearly “deserved an attentive audience.”
Two months later—on Feb. 2, 1974—the same singer returned to the same stage. This time, a Post-Dispatch critic wrote that even though “no one listened” in December, now the audience “rewarded his excellent performance with three standing ovations to bring him back for two encores.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/billy-joels-last-moment-of-obscurity-a0eb1b17?st=2StCgR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Such is show business. I saw Taylor Swift as an opening act, it was just her, 17 years old, barefoot on a stage with an acoustic guitar. I think she had one song out at the time.
I love this video from Twenty One Pilots. They filmed this video over three years, playing the same song at three venues. The first part they are performing in what looks like a church basement with like 12 people. Next is a smallish club, and next is a full stadium. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I find it inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OnO3UXFZdE&list=RD2OnO3UXFZdE&start_radio=1
“17 years old, barefoot”
It was produced by Nickelodeon?
“The head of state was just 15 years old — the age of consent in France — in 1993 when he met Madame Brigitte Auziere, a 39-year-old high school teacher, at the Catholic Lycee La Providence in Amiens, where he was also a classmate of her eldest daughter, Laurence.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/world-news/emmanuel-and-brigitte-macrons-scandal-plagued-relationship-from-student-teacher-affair-to-shocking-physical-altercation/
Then he snorted cocaine off her dick.
Hey, Tater, I was never able to get back to you on the Blair White question the other day. The reason Blair was what put an end to any questions about trans issues for me wasn’t the voice, it was the laughter. I never heard anything so false in my life, and, when I went back and listened again, it was clear that, unlike an attempt to change the register of a vocal pitch, it was a crude facsimile of how a woman laughs. It was a like a cheap knock off, all tee-hee (literally) as opposed to how anyone laughs, really, male or female.
That is what convinced me the whole thing was play acting, a role put on, LARPing. Call it what you wish.
I never noticed anything about her laugh. I’ve been following her on YouTube for a long time, and her IG goes even farther back. So I can’t believe her whole adult life is just seamless play acting.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, NYPD officer and conservative commentator, posted on X that he and FBI Director Kash Patel have decided to “either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention” to the leak of a draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the discovery of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House in 2023, and the planting of pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committees shortly before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the New York Post.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/bongino-announces-reviews-3-unsolved-mysteries-wh-cocaine-scotus-leak-roe-jan-6-pipe
It was Hunter.
What’s he talking about? None of those things ever happened. Just like nothing unusual ever happened at a Los Vegas concert. Nope. Nosiree.
“Los Vegas”?
WTF. I need more cofefe
It’s OK. We know you meant “Los Vegos”.
A whole bunch of people driving Vega’s?
Not the Vegans!
😱
“Lost Veggies” ?
/Sad in the woods
Hunter never laid any pipe bombs.
There are so many scandals to choose from… how do they pick just three?
The right turn signal was a nice touch.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1kv7ox2/oc_illegal_uturn_leads_to_disaster/
DOH!
That’s gonna hurt.
WTF was the driver of the video doing? Plenty of room to stop or at least slow down. Something idiotic was going on up ahead.
Regarding stupid ideas and academia, this sort of stupidity has been happening for decades. I think it just took time to overwhelm the academy. I distinctly remember *hating* discussions of literature in English classes, because people would make the stupidest assertions after reading a passage, and the teacher(s), instead of asking them how in the everloving fuck you could come up with that assertion or interpretation, would nod and say something like “I never thought about it that way”. That sort of intellectual laziness, of entertaining a thought and *not* rejecting it based on evidence, appears to have taken over many disciplines.
Back in high school. There were a small group of us in the honors/AP track that really hated the one teacher saying everything was a valid interpretation. After one piece, one of the guys had had it. He wrote up an entire paper saying that the true theme of a book was (from memory) the recipe of the corn muffins that the wife cooked for the husband showing the love of family, and his taking them for granted was a signifier of pending societal issues with the two parent home.
He got an A on the paper, and the teacher backed down on saying everything was valid.
These Marcuseian bullshit is an existential threat to life. There is one truth. The rest is idiot’s opinions. Those that choose the truth are right. Those that do not don’t have their own truth, they are delusional and dangerous idiots.
That’s exactly the kind of thing I saw. I understand that literature can be validly interpreted different ways at times, but when the interpretation directly contravenes the text, or depends on something pulled from the interpreter’s brain (or, more likely, ass), you *have* to call them out on it. But so few do these days – and the trend isn’t new.
Unreconstructed:
I’m not quite sure where I sit with the concept of Death of the Author. I get it to a point, but I kind of feel like the author is the only source of truth as to what he was TRYING to say. Whether they pulled it off or not is where the analysis comes in. On the gripping hand, you’ve got people like Bradbury who retconned the meaning of Fahrenheit 451 at least twice in my lifetime (originally anti-book burning/censorship; then against always on screens; then against social media and groupthink).
I always wondered how much cognitive dissonance the abortion criticism in F-451 caused some readers.
“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson celebrates ‘Africa Day’ on Memorial Day weekend
“The African diaspora can be found in cities and countries around the globe, and right here in Chicago.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-celebrates-africa-day-on-memorial-day-weekend
No way!
It’s all about me! Hey, look at me!
Chicago voted for it, I hope they’re enjoying it.
Johnson is the poster boy for Heinlein’s quote about democracy being the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. It was obvious from the beginning that he was an empty vessel only put in place so the teacher’s union and progressives can implement their bullshit utopian wet dreams but yet everyone is surprised at how bad of a job he’s doing.
*Mencken
damn, I always attributed that quote to him.
If it’s firm yet with an emphasis on personal responsibility, it’s probably Heinlein.
If it’s hilariously mean, it’s probably Mencken.
He was supposed to just shut up and let the pubsec unions suck all the money up from everyone else, like any good Dem mayor.
Dont worry Ed, all quotes are stolen.
“The state of Alabama paid a law firm to defend its prison system, only to have that firm use fake, AI-created citations in the legal case. The case came in reaction to a prisoner filing a lawsuit against the prison system, which argued that his safety was not protected.
According to the Guardian, inmate Frankie Johnson, who was being held at the William E Donaldson prison just outside Birmingham, Alabama, says that he was stabbed “at least nine times” when he was in is housing unit after he was handcuffed to a desk in March of 2020 and then stabbed by a prisoner five times, as well as November later that year when he was handcuffed and brought out to the prison yard, where another inmate stabbed with an ice pick “five to six” times as officers watched…
Reeves had cited the case law generated by AI in order to get Johnson deposed quickly in the case when his attorneys opposed dates that were proposed by Alabama. Each citation was entirely fabricated.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/federal-judge-threatens-law-firm-with-sanctions-after-lawyers-used-fabricated-chatgpt-citations-in-alabama-court-case
CWABOA
Now we could argue that some innocent people go to jail because the system is broken/evil, or that some things are crimes that shouldn’t be, but in general avoiding crimes, and thus prison, should be something we all aspire to. But I think the best recourse to avoid your safety not being protected in prison, is not to go to prison.
There is a percentage of the prison population who do not deserve to be there, chiefly those who committed victimless crimes or those who were wrongly convicted. It’s hard to get accurate numbers on those because it would require the government to investigate itself and determine wrongdoing, which it rarely does with the necessary rigor.
Having said that, there’s really no excuse for the amount of violence and rape that goes on in prisons. It’s a zero-freedom environment; it really shouldn’t be that hard to prevent it.
I know the prison rights activists don’t like solitary confinement, and they have a point that it has been abused and really fucked people up for life. But if somebody is committing assaults, murders, and rapes WHILE in prison, I don’t see a problem with sticking them in solitary (or something close to it) forever. There should never be a place in a prison where these acts can be committed without being caught on camera.
On Michael Malice’s recent “Your Welcome” episode with Buck Sexton, they were talking about how this “progressive” push for laxity in law enforcement doesn’t solve the problem of high incarceration rates of blacks and Hispanics; it just pushes the harm onto other people: the regular people in the community who have to walk the streets with aggressive criminals, and the business owners who have to deal with them constantly stealing because they know there will be no consequences.
The prison situation is just a microcosm of that. By letting “Bubba” walk around in general population out of concern for his mental well-being, you’re sentencing all the other inmates to a very serious risk of murder and rape. It’s an 8th Amendment violation, in my view. And it creates an environment where inmates HAVE to be as violent and sociopathic as Bubba so they don’t become a victim. Probably the opposite of “rehabilitation”.
You are talking about instituting Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
I think I’d rather be in solitary than deal with fellow inmates. And it’s not much different from how I live my life anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Best Breakdown of America You’ve Never Heard – Richard Miniter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hj5uwclmk
Report: Democrats Set $20 Million Plan to Win Back Young Men
I hope it implies calling them racist sexist and telling them to check their privilege and that they are everything wrong with the world to day
Devon Eriksen
@Devon_Eriksen_
If you keep telling people that everything they want is fascism, they will eventually conclude that fascism is everything they want.
https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1927199532724465675
The other day I saw some hippies protesting Trump’s “fascist” removal of grant money from wealthy colleges.
Fascism just means “stuff I don’t like” now.
Gee, maybe I should have checked to see if this Scripting CAD software supported loops. I just shrank an ungainly 2900 line file down to less than 70 by turning the basic element into a module and looping it.
I feel like a dunce for overlooking it the first time around.
Creating an NPR story.
1. Wistful photo
2. Reference Trump
3. Reference George Floyd
4. Mention conservatives, but not liberals
5. Use the word “attacks”
Corporate America’s retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5307319/dei-jobs-trump
I’ll be pleased if they got rid our Chief Diversity
GrifterOfficer.But “gay” and “black” and “tech”. He’s in there like a tick.
Can he actually do anything technical?
“tech” in the sense we’re a tech company and “tech so white” (ignoring the thousands of employees in Bangalore and Costa Rica).
“tech so white”
Haha, I always thought the stereotype (basically backed up by the actual data) is that the IT sector – even restricting it to the operations located “on-shore” in the US – was full of Wangs and Patels (I know, I know, these euphemisms).
No, the Patels go into hotel management.
More seriously, though – from my experience, you get a vast majority of the tech people split between white dudes and indian dudes with a smattering of “other” containing the remaining demographics.
Maybe it’s because I’ve always worked the unglamorous side of tech where it needs to be done but nobody comes out of school going “I want to support batch management and fax infrastructure!” and nobody sane goes “I want to support PeopleSoft”. I guess the chinese go for the high profile sectors.
6. Add 37 annoying pop-ups.
“This Sunday, May 25, marked the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a white police officer and the start of a national reckoning over systemic racism. Corporate America rushed to join in, loudly proclaiming that businesses should and would do more to fight discrimination and create more opportunities for workers of all backgrounds.”
He died on Africa Day.
George Floyd’s murder by a white police officer
Was he though?
You need a controversial incident. Which BLM picked all three times. You need people to call bullshit so you can call them racist.
“You need a controversial incident.”
The goal of BLM and other activists is to make money and get power. And they can’t do that if everyone got to together and actually fought for criminal justice reform. I remember some anchor on Fox News expressed that perhaps their needs to be some reform but by the Summer of 2020, all that good will evaporated because BLM didn’t want reform or unity. They wanted chaos and division so they can keep their power and get the money.
The goal of BLM and other activists is to make money and get power. And they can’t do that if everyone got to together and actually fought for criminal justice reform. I remember some anchor on Fox News expressed that perhaps their needs to be some reform but by the Summer of 2020, all that good will evaporated because BLM didn’t want reform or unity. They wanted chaos and division so they can keep their power and get the money.
That has been the MO of the “civil rights” leadership since King’s death. Jackson and Sharpton became very wealthy following this pattern, and the inner city black population has paid dearly for it.
True, if they wanted reform they wouldn’t have gone with Defund The Police. Training cops to be better costs more money, not less money.
You can say what you will about Malcolm X, but one of the things he started preaching about before his death was self-reliance and lifting ourselves up from poverty through education and a change in culture.
“The DEI backlash really started gaining steam in 2023, when the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at colleges and universities. That same year, Bud Light lost more than $1 billion in sales due to a conservative boycott, after it hired a transgender influencer for a brief promotional video.”
Well, I mean if they both happened in the same year.
I tried, but I could not make it through that.
“That’s having a crushing professional impact on people like Byrdsong Williams, who was laid off even before Trump was elected”
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Just look at this old Harvard Business Review article and decide for yourself: is DEI a new management classic, or a fad?
“Hidden within the bill is also a provision that would allow Trump to crown himself king.
For months now, Trump has been trying to act like a king by ignoring court rulings against him….
So what’s the next step? Will the supreme court and lower courts hold the administration in contempt and enforce the contempt citations?
Trump and his Republican stooges in Congress apparently anticipated this. Hidden inside their Big Ugly Bill is a provision intended to block the courts from using contempt to enforce its orders. It reads:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued … ”
Translated: no federal court may enforce a contempt citation…
In other words, with this single measure, Trump will have crowned himself king.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/a-hidden-measure-in-the-republican-budget-bill-would-crown-trump-king
Totally sound level-headed reasoning from Robert Reich.
“Hidden inside their Big Ugly Bill”
Zing! See this is the type of top-notch messaging they are spending $20million on.
Tragic retreat
Executive recruiters confirm that they’re seeing a slowdown in companies seeking chief diversity officers and other top executives. “It’s a challenging time to be in diversity, equity and inclusion work,” says Yen Ling Shek of Russell Reynolds Associates, a global recruiting and advisory firm.
All of this leaves veterans like Byrdsong Williams, with nearly two decades of experience in what she calls “my heart’s work,” facing prolonged unemployment. There’s also her fear and pain at seeing her profession publicly vilified.
“I just want a company to see me,” she says. “Which is really ironic — because part of DEI is being seen and being heard.”
With DEI under attack, many in corporate America stopped talking about it. The omerta has left many people working in diversity feeling isolated, worried about their employment prospects — and terrified of discussing it in public.
This poor woman has poured her heart and soul into her phony baloney job, and now she’s out on the street. And we all know whose fault it is.
How dare you interfere with her racket???
I worked at a company that had one of those positions and it’s a phony baloney job that creates no value whatsoever.
In one way, it does. It signals to all the other elites that the company is part of the club.
Asked if she’s given up on her dream of becoming a chief diversity officer, Byrdsong Williams paused for several seconds, fighting back tears.
“I’m not chasing the title,” she said. “I just want to do good work until it’s time for me to retire.”
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As Siminoff points out, many people who specialize in diversity work have some lived experience with feeling marginalized in corporate America. Black women like Byrdsong Williams, for example, hold fewer than 3% of the top “C-Suite” executive jobs in corporate America, even though they account for nearly 8% of the U.S. population.
For a few years, the DEI hiring boom offered more opportunities. According to Revelio Labs, women accounted for more than 71% of all DEI professionals from 2020 through 2024 — compared with 51% of other roles. Black and Hispanic workers together held only 21% of other jobs — but 33% of DEI roles.
You-know-who hardest hit.
hold fewer than 3% of the top “C-Suite” executive jobs in corporate America, even though they account for nearly 8% of the U.S.
Yay, it’s the unsupported assumption that the prevalence of a minority group in a desirable job must be at least equal to their prevalence in the general population!
(Because nobody has ever complained that there are “not enough women” working as garbage collectors and cab drivers, or that there are “too many African-Americans” earning astronomical salaries as pro athletes, actors, and musical performers).
“even though they account for nearly 8% of the U.S. population”
I’ll be the disparity is even worse for underwater welders and people who work on oil platforms. We should focus DEI on those types of dirty jobs.
There are two types of people: those that eat ass and those that don’t..
Come at me bruh.
I was on the phone with my sister the other and I shared with her that this George Floyd/Black Lives Matter/DEI shit is going to have a huge backlash on the black community. As black people we’ve made the lazy but grave error of looking outward instead of looking inwards to solve the issues of our community and our unwillingness to be accountable for our actions and change our culture.
There have always been racists, and they will be here for however long we exist as a species, but I do notice this so-called black fatigue where even reasonable and non-racist whites have started to express that they are tired of hearing about black issues and being blamed for everything shitty that has happened to the black community. And who can blame them? Shit I’m black and I’m tired of hearing it all the time because it makes us seem helpless and has turned us into people who honestly doesn’t give a shit about the present or the future because they are waiting for someone to rescue them. Just my $0.02.
So much this Ed.
Even looking outward the black politicians ignore things such as perverse incentives resulting in fatherless homes.
Look at the Cleveland Heights mayor situation, where you had a council member (who was half-black per the helpful news story) calling out the mayor for saying he was being attacked because of his race.
LOL. Seren is being called out because he’s a fucking idiot who doesn’t have a clue. He’s lost the White progressives in town which means his time is over, he’s just too stupid to know.
All I heard about Charley Rangel was praise for his having “started the Congressional Black Caucus.” He didn’t invent the “race hustle” but sure helped advance it. I guess everyone is afraid to criticize him for fear of being tarred as a white supremacist.
He was also responsible for much of the War on Drugs targeting blacks.
I read somewhere that the biggest effect of BLM was to reawaken white identarianism.
11 hospitalized, including 2 kids, after boat explosion in Florida
Looking at the video – fuel vapor and spark.
Normally you run the bilge blower when you first take the boat out. But this guy looked to be moored or anchored. And I confess I never ran the bilge blower on every restart of the motor. Might just be awful luck.
Also 12 people on a boat that size seems a bit crowded to me.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/11-hospitalized-2-kids-boat-explosion-florida-rcna209138
11 hospitalized, including 9 adults.
I always had “run the blower” drilled into me growing up, albeit it never directly applied, since we were lowly Boston Whaler people with removable tanks.
Anyone actually watch the Jordan Petersen 1 v 20 Jubilee “debate”? Is he as awful as all the clips floating around make him seem?
I’m just hearing about it now. But Jubilee puts out lots of trash.
Why Obama’s former budget director is now sounding alarms about debt
Because the other team is now in control?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wolf-at-the-door-why-obamas-former-budget-director-is-now-sounding-alarms-about-debt-875f8ae9
This game is so transparent, and so tiresome. “Smart” people with some type of credentials are completely objective and tell things as they see them, it’s just a coincidence they agree with one political party 100% of the time.
Reason over rhetoric
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said Monday the hurried deportations were an overt violation of orders he put in place weeks ago, which required the administration to provide “meaningful” notice before deporting people to countries where they could face torture or death. Even after the violation, Murphy said he exercised restraint by not forcing the administration to bring the seven convicted violent criminals back to the United States.
Rather, the Boston-based Biden appointee agreed to a request from the Trump administration: Instead of requiring the men be brought back to the U.S., he allowed them to remain in U.S. custody overseas while giving them a chance to raise fear of potential violence and danger in South Sudan. They’re currently being held on a U.S. military base in Djibouti, a small country on the nearby Horn of Africa.
“It continues to be the court’s hope that reason can get the better of rhetoric,” Murphy wrote in his withering Monday night order rejecting the Trump administration’s demand that he reconsider or delay the effect of his ruling. “The orders put in place here are sensible and conservative.”
What was the question again?
They didn’t complain about an abuse of the law when the Obama politburo that ran the supposed Biden admin used tax payer money to bring in something like 21 million illegals to rig elections and the US census, now did they…
If fear of potential violence and danger in South Sudan is all it takes to legally migrate to the US, is there anybody there who wouldn’t qualify?
At the root of the latest conflict is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to engage in speedy deportations of people it deems dangerous with little to no due process. Murphy has already ordered that when sending people to a country other than their native one or one designated during their deportation proceedings, the deportees must have the right to raise any fear of torture or persecution at their intended destination. In recent weeks, as the administration has sought to race migrants to El Salvador, Libya and South Sudan — sometimes with just hours’ notice and no chance to consult a lawyer — judges have raised alarms about violations of due process.
“The court recognizes that the class members at issue here have criminal histories,” Murphy wrote. “But that does not change due process. … The court treats its obligation to these principles with the seriousness that anyone committed to the rule of law should understand.”
We cannot allow these arbitrary and capricious actions by the Executive to continue. We must defend the invented rights of these people to the death.
I am surprised the left has not demanded men sit down to pee, yet.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/sitzpinkler-german-men-pee-sitting-down/
Feminists in Sweden did.