Good morning one and all to another amazing day!
Supreme Court stays lower court ruling, allowing Trump transgender ban to proceed
Trump Announces First Wave Of Federal Court Nominations
Bessent says US is negotiating with 17 out of 18 major trade partners
Biden-Appointed Judge Requires Trump to Resettle 12K Refugees in American Communities
Biden memo let feds target Americans for ‘non-criminal behavior’ before Catholics, parents probed
India Launches Air Strikes Against Terrorists in Pakistan-Controlled Territories
Conservative Politician Secures Chancellorship After Historic Rejection Upends German Parliament
Cardinals gather in St. Peter’s Basilica for final Mass before conclave to choose new pope
Joann is closing for good after 82 years
Rite Aid files for bankruptcy for second time in less than 2 years
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
China is assho
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the administration’s appeal and kept the lower court injunction in place.
They would have, but decided not to.
I guess.
Nothing in the article about a 6-3 vote, I don’t even know if this was a decision by the whole court, or if it was one of those decisions made by whoever was on the rotation that day.
Here is the order:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/050625zr_6j37.pdf
I read it as “This isn’t a full decision — just a temporary stay on the injunction, so we don’t write fleshed out opinions. But if we did we three Right Thinkers want you to know we’re on your side, as if you didn’t know already!”
I was wrong. When Obama was president I accused him of appointing all of the worst possible people to every post he could. Then Biden puppet came along.
Pretty clearly looks like the Biden aides/cabal were operating under the presumption that The Government Is Good. Any activity that might hamper the Government is Bad.
Hence — anyone getting information which might reflect badly on the Government — might hamper in the future == Bad. Misinformation. Must be censored.
Guns / armed populace? Might resist the Government. Bad. Must disarm the people.
Loss of “faith in democracy / government”? Might resist the Government. Bad. Must censor / harass / investigate Wrong Thinkers.
etc etc etc
We’ve seen this playbook so many times — this just happens to be one time when they’re explicitly not supposed to be doing these things. The kicker is — who has gone to jail for this? Who has been held to account? No one? Right… so where’s the disincentive for them to try again the next time they slime and wiggle their way into being behind another suitable set of puppets (assuming they aren’t still already)?
But remember, Trump is the fascist.
WTF – just reading that name causes a rage to start rising in me
It’s amazing that they actually wrote down the obvious policy that everyone knew was happening of spying on innocent, non-leftist Americans.
Not that anything else will happen.
Suddenly the ‘press’ cares again…
Socialists have a good track record of documenting their various crimes.
“Conservative”. You keep using that word, Germany. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
“I got the votes through various shells and proxies…. Look, it’s all very complicated. The important thing is — our EU puppethood is safe.
Oh and AfD? You’re dissolved… didn’t you get the memo?”
In this case, it means hideous technocrat globalist. And he has the look of a childhood-bullied supervillain about him.
“Preservative” might be a more appropriate word. As in “we must preserve our government against the will of the people!”
That seems to be a basic premise in most of Europe. Few people here understand just how different they are from us.
My working hypothesis is that European mind needs a King.
“My working hypothesis is that European mind needs a King.”
My working hypothesis is that European needs The King. If we can bring back the woolly mammoth, we can bring back Elvis and put him in charge of the Holy Roman Empire.
Common Tater:
I have a suggestion for an alternate.
Yeah, I wonder if he is a former commie like the last “conservative”. 🙄
How? Was he appointed Chancellor by von Hindenburg?
Leftist judges ordering the Trump admin to enact leftist policies that are the antithesis of the policies Trump was elected to enact.
I wonder how this is going to turn out.
WWIII?
It’s going to turn out thwarting the president’s authority to act under the constitution unless they get around to saying “Fuck you, you have no authority under the constitution to order the president to implement your policy preferences, so we are ignoring your illegal order”.
I am afraid this is going to be it. There is a constitutional crisis alright but it isn’t Trump creating it.
It’s insanity. Here’s the subheadline from the WSJ:
Federal judge had blocked reversal of Biden policy, saying government provided no evidence that trans people undermined armed forces
The new judicial standard is that Trump has to produce evidence to overturn a Biden EO.
Again, what WTF said. Ironically if Trump does end up looking dictatorial it will be the left’s doing, a response to their own totalitarianism.
I have a lot of veterans on my social media and people still in. The order is complicated. Few think they should be serving, but few want to see people already serving kicked out when they’ve done nothing wrong but enlist on the terms set by the previous administration.
That’s separate from the court decision and whether Trump has the authority to do this. But just offering another perspective.
It’s not a matter of “done nothing wrong”. It’s a matter of fitness for military service.
I can see instances where some trans people in the military might be in hard-to-fill posts and doing their jobs well — obscure language translation, high-tech stuff I don’t understand, etc. Not every job in the military is charging up San Juan Hill. As I understand it, the MTF trans set of the autogyno-whatever variety supposedly skew heavily to the high IQ autist side and are extremely competent in certain fields, mental issues and hangups aside. If they are good at stuff and want to serve their country, more power to them, as long as they’re not getting into the army for political reasons or seeking free surgeries and so forth.
Pardons for people who assassinate federal judges?
(A plot device in a Tom Kratman novel which overcame similar problems)
Joann and Rite Aid should have teamed up for one of those combined stores. Retirees can get medication and hobby supplies in one place.
The last time I was in a Joann’s, I was looking for one item – mercerized cotton thread (black) to sew buttons back on with. My difficulty in finding it and checking back out left me unsurprised that they have gone bankrupt. The store was dark, cramped, terribly laid out, and even finding the checkout was achore, despite it being in the middle of the space. It was just not conducive to shopping.
I think you just described every single one of their stores. Personally, I liked it. It had the feel of looking through granddaddy’s attic. A surprise around every corner, under and in every box. But that is just me, I can see why they went tits-up.
Suthenboy:
I understand the appeal of that, but when I just want one item, I’ll go to the place that’s well lit, well organized, and sensibly organized.
/looks over at half of the old hobby/gaming stores
Contrast with:
Yesterday I went into a Harbor Freight because I have misplaced my punch set somehow. The guy at the front desk knew exactly where they were.
If you remember my “replacing your CZ disconnector” post, I had to have the fancy aftermarket one fit by a gunsmith. Apparently he overfitted it since it wore out in <2000 rounds. However the factory one I got to replace that one dropped in without any ftiment needed.
OFFS, five years later?!
No, this store and many others were killed by Amazon. Not everything that happens revolves around the fucking scamdemic.
See, I was sure they were going to blame climate change.
As the article mentions, Michaels and Hobby Lobby are thriving. Joann’s was just mismanaged.
To go with the music link;
The Genius of Tom Sawyer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nqmBjBIXOg
The Genius of Tom Sawyer:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVg2pm0YdQ0
If that doesn’t summon MikeS I don’t know what will.
Needs more Saint Huck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncYnkSeNFc
From where? Approved why?
From outside the US.
Approved because fuck you.
I saw a meme that said I’ve never been anywhere and thought you know what, this place would be improved with a couple extra hundred or thousand Somalians.
Basically sums up the progressive push here.
But Bro, don’t you know that diversity is our strength?
It might result in a yummy food truck or something.
I don’t know anything about Somali cuisine.
“A man shot dead in a road rage incident nearly four years ago appeared in an Arizona courtroom Monday to forgive his killer from beyond the grave — through an eerie AI video played by his family.
A lifelike simulacrum of Christopher Pelkey — who was gunned down by Gabriel Horcasitas in 2021 following a dispute in Chandler, Ariz. — spoke to a court audience in what is believed to be the first use of artificial intelligence to deliver a victim impact statement, according to local reports. ”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/us-news/man-shot-dead-in-road-rage-incident-reincarnated-in-ai-video-to-deliver-message-to-his-killer-in-court/
That should be illegal, as there is no way of knowing what he would say.
Is there something beyond hearsay? Because that sounds like beyond hearsay.
perjury.
What the hell is that?
Neo-Spiritualism.
What the hell is that?
A judge that should be removed from the bench for allowing complete twaddle in a judicial proceeding.
I guess its no different than if a parent delivers an impact statement on the behalf of their deceased love one….its just clunky and forced here with this AI nonsense
It is a fabrication and pointless.
The man took something that wasn’t his to take, a life. What everyone thinks or feels means jack shit. He should rot in prison until he can put back what he took.
Watching a family succumb to Stockholm syndrome is very sad. Watching a court facilitate it is disgusting.
A parent would be speaking as themself, not putting words in someone else’s mouth.
But it wasnt testimony. It was impact statement. It would be bo different that me bringing in a letter claiming it would be in anothers words.
Should it sway the judge to sentence longer than they would have? I dunno, sentanceing phase gets murky and squishy
Did the person write that letter? I don’t see where he wrote the script prior to his death for this AI delivery.
““I love that AI,” the clearly emotional Judge Lang said, and then proceeded to give the defendant 10-and-a-half years for his role in Pelkey’s death – a full year more than the prosecutors asked for.”
In rebuttal the defense played an AI video of Pelkey stating he was at fault.
This judge is just asking for an appeal of the sentencing if you ask me. Why allow what is so obviously next level emotional manipulation? It isn’t the same as allowing family to step in for a lost loved one.
we need a video of Gabriel Horcasitas singing I shot a man in road rage just to watch him die
Why don’t they just have an AI of Jesus forgiving him?
Same damn thing, in the end.
A man shot dead in a road rage incident nearly four years ago appeared in an Arizona courtroom Monday to forgive his killer from beyond the grave — through an eerie AI video played by his family. – zombie would have been cooler
Something out of an Alistair Reynolds novel. Even in his books, only alpha level simulations (complete personality copies) can give admissible testimony.
Why the hell would a judge allow that in xer courtroom?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
those sheep need to realize they have the numbers and not take it no more
We’ve managed to breed all the intelligence and independence out of them.
Now I’m wondering how Robodruid, the mussus and their sheepies are doing.
Who took that shot?
NASA?
Drone footage. They’re not that expensive anymore.
I figured but it’s very very still.
India Launches Air Strikes Against Terrorists in Pakistan-Controlled Territories
To repeat a sports meme saw on the itnernets, I just hope both teams are having fun.
NO NUCLEAR WAR until I drink my wine collection
If Pakistan and India want to wipe each other off the map, I say good riddance. Think about a world without Indian call centers. It’d be a much better place.
I mean if they limit it to themself and drop a few at most on China by accident, I do not have as big of a problem, though I am unsure if the fallout reaches Romania.
They’ve all moved to more lucrative models.
Neph:
Are you claiming that they have taken over the market for telephone surveys?
Who woulda thunk that they’d become rich with that fat Poll Pot of money.
I can’t help but wonder what effect a limited exchange would have – that is, the subcontinent burns but the nuclear exchange doesn’t expand past the general area.
what about the climate impact?
That would depend on the size of the bombs and the altitude of detonation.
World ends; woken and children hardest hit.
woken and children hardest hit. – why are you excluding based wommens and POC?
Considering that the US alone conducted over 200 above ground nuclear tests (don’t know how many the Soviets did), I don’t think a limited nuclear exchange is going to snuff out life on the planet.
@RC but not all in the same year. The two of them have something like 400 nukes between them.
Though I have no idea if they can actually launch them all.
Addendum: agree that it won’t snuff out all life… But it might make for shitty weather or fallout concerns depends on their yield.
Like I said, Lack – Size and altitude. A higher air burst will pick up less dust and produce less fallout. And for a lot of cities in that region, an air burst will be more than enough.
Lackadaisical:
Though I have no idea if they can actually launch them all.
Imagine the panicked call to get help with technical issues launching those nukes and hearing:
<indian-accent>”Hello, my name is Tom, how may be I helping you today?” </indian-accent>
The flop sweat as you pleaded with him to skip the first 37 pages of the manual for launching a nuke and get to the part that you are having trouble with.
“Sir. Please be turning off the command center launch terminal and leaving it unplugged for five minutes”
India and Pakistan are our future
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3398686/india-pakistan-are-our-future/
The remarkable thing, to me, is not the continuing tension between the two states after that but that it did not follow their diaspora communities in North America, the Gulf, and elsewhere.
This is especially true of Britain, where migrants from South Asia came largely from the provinces that were most scarred by the atrocities — Gujarat, Kashmir, Bengal, and above all, Punjab. Children of the perpetrators and of the victims managed to live in the same towns, the same streets, leaving their quarrels behind them.
I have asked Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu friends whether they ever discuss this among themselves (obviously, you need to get to know someone before you can ask such a thing). Almost always, the response is a look of polite bewilderment and a remark along the lines of “Why the hell would anyone want to drag all that up?”
This unremarked and rather beautiful fact is a tribute to the individualist morality that dominated the Anglosphere when the migrations happened. In contrast to most cultures, it left no space for notions of vendetta. We were responsible for our own actions.
Riiight individualist morality is what most migrants in Europe are know for
I have… doubts.
/remembers Croats and Serbs back in the 90’s
And Germans and French in the 1890s
Same. I find it difficult to believe that those folks are any different from all the others who bring their grievances everywhere they go.
Everywhere I’ve been, the local Hindu temple has either been dedicated to one group, or cliques form based on area of origin.
It’s not that they can’t get along (since they did collaborate to at some extent in building the temple) but there are definitely in and out groups. Maybe the next generation that will dissipate, but just crossing the border doesn’t make immigrants forget where they came from
To be fair it is Serbs and everyone else in the world.
Minor counter-argument – the people most likely to let those grievances go are the ones most likely to emigrate elsewhere; I could see above-average levels of tolerance for those folks.
(as long as they’re not Irish)
How do you come to that conclusion?
Note that is of no import – I got my extra strength recoil spring from Wolff springs, dropped it the mini-14 and it works like a charm. The gun runs like a sewing machine.
I have heard of this problem from enough people to make me think the standard factory springs from Ruger in the Mini-14 and Mini-30 are all weak. Considering how common the problem is and how very simple and cheap to fix I cant help but think Ruger and Wolff are in cahoots.
*joke
https://www.gunsprings.com. – in case someone needs it
Another note: I have had the same problem with Browning BAR’s, a .243 and a 7mm Rem Mag
“Browning BAR’s”
I hate those things — expensive, heavy, complicated, and rather pointless for hunting. After missing the first shot, that buck is going to be in the next parish.
I cant say I disagree. My primary hunting rifle is a very nice Ruger No1 in 7mm rem mag. My brother nick-named it ‘The Razorblade’.
I two BAR’s that I use as dust collectors.
BARs’re for hunting Krauts, not deer.
The BAR was designed to be a single-operator LMG. It did that fairly well.
I met a WWII Marine, he was 5’6″ and weighed maybe 120lbs.
His issued weapon was a BAR and he carried that at Tarawa and Guadalcanal.
I was impressed.
I would like to shoot one just to do it, but I don’t see a reason to buy one.
**Eye twitching intensifies**
Browning
Browning
Automatic
Rifle
You obviously don’t know what it means to be a collector. You can’t leave a famous and obvious item out of a collection.
Jar, where do you keep those Browning BAR Rifles?
Did I mention how much I like my Browning BPS pump shotgun?
I expect Suthen is talking about the Browning semi-automatic hunting rifle, not the full-auto military weapon.
Oh, sure, interrupt us with Facts
I didn’t know there was such a thing. I thought it was just a semi auto version of the BAR.
Designed by the grandson of JMB? Way to ride granddad’s coatttails.
Also, it’s not clear to me that the hunting version isn’t the LMG with different furniture.
https://www.browning.com/news/articles/historical/bar-rifle-history.html
I’d buy one, but first I need to stop by the Automatic ATM Machine.
Now I want bar cookies.
I stopped using automatic ATM machines because I forgot my personal PIN number.
I don’t need a personald PIN Number, I have a CAC Card.
Ted S:
We told you those were just urinal cakes, not cookies. But did you listen…
https://accu-strut.com/main-page.html
Ever tried this?
Behold, I Teach You the Supermang
Nietzschean Themes in Scarface and other films of Oliver Stone
https://semmelweis7.substack.com/p/behold-i-teach-you-the-supermang
Oliver Stone is today mostly thought of as an idiosyncratic boomer who epitomizes his generation’s obsession with their own era by making films about Vietnam, the JFK assassination, the Doors, and Richard Nixon. I say idiosyncratic because he is also known for liking and interviewing the dreaded Vladimir Putler, and for traveling to Russia during covid to get the Russian vaccine because he trusted it more than any of the others. (And from what I’ve seen, he gambled correctly.)
A lesser known aspect of Stone’s work is how much he was influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, and how much of that influence is apparent in some of his early films. There is Conan the Barbarian, for which Stone wrote the screenplay, and which begins with Nietzsche’s famous dictum: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” That Conan is in many ways a Nietzschean character is rather obvious, and he was so before Stone adapted him for the big screen. So what I want to look at here are two other films which together with Conan form a trilogy, each one a meditation on different aspects of the Nietzschean Superman and the will to power.
Two years after Conan came Scarface, for which Stone also wrote the screenplay. It tells the tale of Tony Montana, a Cuban migrant who enters the US as part of the Mariel boatlift in 1980, when Castro allowed some Cubans to leave the island for the US, and also packed the boats with criminals from Cuban jails. Tony, one of the criminals freed from jail, embarks on a life of crime in his new home, working his way up from hitman to low level drug dealer to drug kingpin, until hubris and greed ultimately become his undoing. In its essential framework, Scarface is a Greek tragedy.
“Russia during covid to get the Russian vaccine because he trusted it more than any of the others. (And from what I’ve seen, he gambled correctly.)”
Why? Does it actually work?
“Is Placebo, comrade.”
Sounds like he “did his own research”. I thought that was a Bad Thing.
The power of placebo should be used for good more often, plus, fewer side effects!
The Conan movies were missing something that original works had. They seemed a bit superficial and dry. Almost soulless. I was a big fan of Howard while growing up but the movies, both Conan and Kane just didnt work for me.
That reminds me – I’ve exhausted Howard’s work, did any of the people who wrote for his characters later do a good job?
I loved the books and the comics, Hour of the Dragon is still one of my all time favorites.
I enjoyed the 1st movie, but losing his whole history as a wanderer and making him a slave fighter instead definitely changed the character.
Yes, Ah-Nold isn’t playing Conan the Cimmerian. just wall it off as a different character.
Yes and no, the later stories are entertaining, but I never have reread them like I do Howard’s Conan every 3-4 years.
I have read all of Howards Conan stories, and when younger (back in the ’80s) read everything published with that name, except comics. But, you come to find out that Lin Carter and LS DeCamp had changed a lot in the tales for publication, and written their own, that I have gone looking for the originals, either the Gnome Press editions (pricy but cool) or the later Grant monographs (not as pricy, but beautiful) and much of his other works, such as Skull Face and Others, his boxing stories, westerns, you name it. I loved the first movie, when I was 12. And it is fun in a camp sort of way, but, no, it isn’t Conan.
I was 12 when Conan the Destroyer was released. 12 year old me found the princess quite…charming.
Incredibly, Olivia d’Abo (the princess) was 15 years old when the movie was released.
In its essential framework, Scarface is a Greek tragedy.
It’s also a remake of “Scarface” from the ’30s, which was based on a novel, which was based on Al Capone’s career.
With all these refugees would it kill you assholes to give us back *our* visa waiver?
I don’t have it.
have you checked your other coat pockets?
Just three pairs of gloves. Sorry.
I believe it was destroyed in the wash.
I think my dog ate it.
He is a Russian (Siberian Husky).
Y’all need to get your hemoterrorists under control.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/02/dhs-announces-rescission-romanias-designation-visa-waiver-program
Hudson Institute
@HudsonInstitute
“Reforming the Vatican’s policy on China should be a priority of the next papacy,” writes Nina Shea.
As the Catholic church prepares to elect a new pope, Shea urges the Vatican to reverse the dangerous 2018 deal that endangers clergy and erodes papal authority in China.
https://x.com/HudsonInstitute/status/1919801795758481831
“How many divisions did you say the Pope has?”
There are still three or four militant orders in existance. Not sure how combat ready the Knights of these groups are…
rather pathetic really… Have fallen quite a bit hardly a challenge
Dan Brown’s documentary novels assured me that there is a small but dedicated group of albino assassin religious fanatics able to take care of anyone that needs taking care of.
They are going to get another woke commie pope, aren’t they? Of course they are.
‘the Vatican to reverse the dangerous 2018 deal that endangers clergy and erodes papal authority in China.:
Yeah, that was really bad.
Previous Popes has preferred to be martyred rather than allow such arrangements.
Previous Popes went to war with the Holy Roman Empire over the same sort of disputes.
Honestly, I think our new paper has serious implications for experimental econ
22–27% failed comprehension in the Dictator and Ultimatum games
In the Trust Game and Public Goods Game, that number hit 70% and 52%
These are foundational tools of exp econ
We ran the study with incentivized comprehension checks
– No effect.
What mattered was numeracy—lower numeracy predicted higher misunderstanding.
So the issue isn’t just attention or effort. It’s cognitive.
https://x.com/tinghog/status/1919656396070560032
And I was hoping experimental economics would be the last remaining accurate science…
If only there were some way to set up controlled economics experiments with willing participants.
The Financial & Equality Impact Assessment for @kimleadbeater
s assisted dying Bill was published at 4pm yesterday, and shows Parliament can introduce a safe, fair and compassionate assisted dying law. The key findings of the thoughtful and considered report are: (a thread)
The Bill is inclusive – it includes safeguards to protect people who may be more vulnerable, would apply equally to all sexes equally, may have a positive impact on those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and does not discriminate against people with mental illness
https://x.com/sarah_wootton/status/1918622475358703696
for some strange reason the replies seem obsessed with a band called The Dead Kennedys
I always get them confused with the Dead Milkmen.
Well there’s always room for Jello.
That’s what the bureau of federal prisons said!
They found more whites would die from the plan then anyone else, so it’s good to go.
“does not discriminate against people with mental illness”
I kind of think a euthanasia law should probably have at least some discrimination against the mentally ill. It seems to me that the capacity to make the decision is kind of a key element.
““Governor, forgive me, I’ve got to sit down, because I am not feeling well,” she said, before her eyelids dropped and she toppled from her feet.
But waiting in the wings was Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, 46, who leaped from his seat to the stage within moments and caught Garcia before she could crash to the floor.
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, got you, got you, got you,” Ladapo said, before slowly easing Garcia into a chair.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/us-news/florida-surgeon-general-leaps-onto-stage-and-saves-the-day-as-state-senator-faints-at-presser-in-scary-scene-video/
No idea why she fainted.
She got “the vapors” like the well-bred Southern lady she is?
I thought that was just farting
Global warming?
Covid jab?
Zelensky?
“Goddammit! Don’t lock out your fucking knees!”
No idea why she fainted.
If I had been at the event, I’d be telling all my buddies it was because my barn door was open and she got a glimpse of it.
She squinted too hard?
“Jane Doe 4 said that in addition to being hired as the couple’s housekeeper, she also worked as Frances’ personal assistant, cook and hairdresser from October 2006 until April 22, 2024.
“Robinson first sexually assaulted her in 2007 when she accompanied him to his Las Vegas home. While there and alone with him, Defendant Smokey Robinson forced her into his bedroom and raped her,” she claimed in the lawsuit.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/entertainment/smokey-robinson-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-employees/
Then continued to work for him the next 17 years?
What’s the punchline to the old joke?
“I don’t think you’re coming out here for the hunting”?
It’ll be a miracle if she gets justice.
She didn’t say it wasn’t good.
Then continued to work for him the next 17 years? – capitalism is to blame, had no choice
Then continued to work for him the next 17 years?
Yeah, that doesn’t sound like a bullshit money-grab at all!
The conclave is finally underway. I expect to get that call any time now, so if I suddenly stop posting here, it’s because The Other Pope the First will have a lot of ceremonial things to do in the next few weeks.
Jimbo will be the new Bishop of Rome?
I don’t have high hopes in being the first apostate pope.
I hope I get the job. I will bring back whores to the Vatican!!! If they ever went away that is
Bring back the Crusades and lower the price of indulgences, and you have my vote.
20 bucks, same as downtown
Go ahead and have your fun, rook.
Everyone knows that there is only One True Pope and that slot is taken. Anyone trying to take it will have to battle Mrs. Holiness because she isn’t going to give up all the perks that come with the office.
you may not like it but this is what peak literary criticism looks like
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqRYg9kbAAEk_QE?format=jpg&name=large
“The Associated Press reported Tuesday night that Trump will put his finger on the scale and say that the U.S. will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14685629/donald-trump-gulf-arabia-middle-east-trip.html
OFFS!!
You mean the Gulf of Uruk?
Uruk lost the gods favor and the kingship moved to Rihad
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has a name that sounds like a joke Italian name. Like Bigus Dickus.
So, his wife is Incontinentia Buttocks?
For some reason the thought of married clergy makes me protest.
If he becomes Pope, I hope he picks Guido as his new name.
Guido sounds like the kind of Guy who Fawkes up blowing up parliment.
“Blake has also face criticism by admitting she would wear a ‘Scary Spice ‘fro’ and cover herself in bronzer while ‘stalking’ boys as a teenager, saying her disguise woulc make them ‘think I was a Black girl’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14683703/Blake-Lively-criticised-impersonating-black-woman.html
WTF??
Media outrage
Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America.
Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network: on Tuesday night she announced that she had struck a deal to serve up the pro-Trump outlet’s news reports for Voice of America’s foreign audiences, at no taxpayer cost.
——-
The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.
“Kari Lake providing One America News Network to our global audiences makes a mockery of the agency’s history of independent non-partisan journalism,” former U.S. Agency for Global Media Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner tells NPR.
I wonder how many people working there realize Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were created as explicitly anti-communist propaganda outlets.
… the agency’s history of independent non-partisan journalism…
Wow, I think they actually believe that.
Remember pre-trump when governemnt officials were sober, serious, non-wacko people?
https://nypost.com/2025/05/05/real-estate/bush-housing-official-claims-us-built-21t-city-for-rich-and-powerful-to-live-in-near-extinction-event/
From what I have seen, things don’t typically go well for vault-dwellers.
You can bank on it.
But they went pretty well for the Chosen One.
You want Morlocks? Because this is how you get Morlocks!
Except I think the vault-dwellers will be more Eloi than Morlock.
This is literally the plot of a (mediocre) tv show on Hulu that I watched.
Since World War II, the Voice of America has provided news coverage and cultural programming to lands across the globe without access to a free press, serving an audience that has grown to more than 360 million people weekly. Its charge – established by Congress – is to incorporate criticism of the government’s official line to convey the news in its complexity but also to model what a pluralistic democracy looks like.
What the fuck does that even supposed to mean?
“Trump is bad.”
Lefties are angry that the propaganda arm they captured and locked into their message is going to be used to propagandize someone else’s message now that they lost control of it. So unfair!
Lay of the un-American anti-consumerist claptrap
“All I’m saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old-girl, 9-year-old girl, 15-year-old-girl, doesn’t need 37 dolls,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, hours after he defended the comments in a “Meet the Press” interview. “She could be very happy with two or three or four or five.”
When a half-dozen GOP senators were asked about the remarks, none of them threw their full weight behind them. Some said they understood Trump’s point to a certain degree or pointed to his “unique” style of communication.
However, several indicated they wished Trump would discontinue the line and use a different comparison that would better apply to middle-class Americans.
“The thing that I admire about it is he is willing to acknowledge that tariffs may have a short-term consequence, but be believes in the long run, they’ll have a long-term benefit and he’s setting expectations at the family-table level,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) told The Hill. “But he might be setting the expectations as a millionaire that may not translate to the family worker.”
Next he’ll be saying something crazy like spend your money on quality non-disposable things instead of shoddy crap.
I remember a presidential candidate a while back that said you didn’t need so many pairs of sneakers. Colonel Sanders? Sanders something….
Do we really need both regular and extra crispy?
No, but we do need more coleslaw.
As predicted…
“On Tuesday, Antifa militants and transgender activists mobilized to disrupt a Turning Point USA event featuring women’s rights activists Riley Gaines and Olivia Krolczyk at the University of Washington in Seattle. Antifa, clad in black bloc attire, violently targeted elderly disabled attendees, members of the press, and TPUSA volunteers. This included following people to their vehicles, chasing them down, and throwing bags of dog feces at individuals attending the event. No arrests were made.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/aGFydmFyZC
“On Monday, authorities arrested more than 30 individuals who seized and occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington to protest Israel and its war against Hamas terrorists. Among those arrested was a King County public defender and several affiliates of the left-wing extremist group Antifa. All of them were booked into local jails on criminal trespassing charges, with a bail set at $1,000, according to records.
It’s unclear if the apprehended individuals were students and/or outside agitators. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a statement that more than two dozen protesters have been charged with gross misdemeanor offenses, and several of them have had initial court appearances. The majority of the protesters have already been released from custody, jail records show.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/king-county-public-defender-among-30-arrested-after-antifa-occupation-of-university-of-washington-building
The prediction was that we’d see more of this as the weather got nicer, so here we are.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one of Trump’s foremost critics on his sweeping levies, also heavily criticized the comparison and said that it comes off like government controls.
“How many dolls you have is up to the people who buy them, not up to the president,” said Paul, the libertarian-leaning member. “When you start listening to people talk about [tariff policy], it sounds like industrial policy, and it sounds like the government choosing for you what is a good amount of things to buy.”
“I don’t care if you have four TVs in your house or one TV or no TVs. It’s none of my business,” he continued. “But for the government to tell you you shouldn’t have so many TVs. That sounds like big brother.”
Good. Have the argument, but make it about more than “Trump sucks”.
How many of our other decisions are none of the government’s goddam business?
I mean Trump echoing Bernie Sanders is not a good look for him. Good on Paul.
Proxy Firms Split on Harley-Davidson Board Shake-Up
https://www.wsj.com/business/proxy-firms-split-on-harley-davidson-board-shake-up-bd394b69?st=PfPRgx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This is a bit rare. Should be entertaining.
I don’t think you can get any more California than this. https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/los-angeles-social-equity-cannabis-stores-20313738.php
Maybe he should have, I don’t know, paid his taxes? It’s not like they were a surprise.
You see that all the time with restaurants – you know what your receipts are and you know what the tax rate is, why are you surprised when the tax bill comes due?
Eh. Looks like they were forced to build up a pretty heinous debt before the were legally allowed to have any revenue.
When a local brewery hit the news for failure to pay sales tax, we knew they were not long for the world. Of all the things you can pay late, taxes are not one of them. Especially in a highly regulated and taxed industry like alcohol.
Yes. And I don’t necessarily want to read that article, but I think California is one of the places where you have to estimate and pay your taxes ahead of time if you run a business. It might not just be product they sold, but product they expected to sell.
What a shitshow. Read the whole article.
“Shockley said his store is on the verge of failure. He owes $1.1 million in taxes, he said, a bill that will chase him even if he shuts the shop down. His investment partners have bowed out.”
Doesn’t say why he owes so much in taxes.
Want to bet his “investment partners” were pulling cash out the entire time? Left this poor yutz holding the bag.
I had a buddy who had something similar happen to him. He joined a group opening a new restaurant. When things went bad, he was the only investor who hadn’t funneled the money through a LLC. So the other investors were insulated from bankruptcy. My buddy used his own money, so the creditors went after his personal assets. He ended up losing his house and a lot of cash.
SINO SMITH? Concerns Mount as Invasive Chinese creature that can climb 13ft walls Found In California
“The Chinese mitten crab is native to East Asia and uses its hairy claws and burrowing habits to destabilize levees, outcompete native species, and clog critical water infrastructure.”
THIS FAKE NEWS. STEVE SMITH ONLY ONE WITH HAIRY CLAWS AND BURROWING HABITS. HIM ALSO GIVE YOU CHINESE CRABS.
But does it taste good?
Well all you have to do is outlaw 13 ft. walls. Duh!
Require all walls to be 14′ high! Do I have to think of everything?
I, for one, am looking forward to American tax dollars going to both sides of the India-Pakistan unpleasantness.
If they aren’t already.
Evergreen:
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