Good morning one and all to another amazing day!
Bessent Says Tariffs Will ‘Boomerang Back’ to April Levels by Aug. 1 for Countries Without Deals
DOJ memo says Jeffrey Epstein had no client list, died by suicide, did not blackmail people
Republican House Majority Narrows By One
Presidential intel board prepping reform options for Trump, with an eye on shrinking DNI
New Batch of Kennedy Assassination Docs Begin Peeling the Onion of CIA Lies
Vaccine advisory board votes to remove controversial mercury-based compound from flu vax
Death Toll From Texas Floods Rises to 82, Including 28 Children; Trump Plans Visit
Anti-Trump ICE Protests in Portland Erupt in Chaos
1,000-year-old medieval sword emerges from Dutch river after chance discovery: ‘Barely corroded’
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning Banjos 🙂
You OK?
“DOJ memo says Jeffrey Epstein had no client list, died by suicide, did not blackmail people”
OK, sure.
Childers points out there are no markings like “FOIA” on the memo.
Also, the link to the ten hour video of Epstein’s cell seems to have disappeared.
Sad that he killed himself when there was no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Devil’s Advocate – People have offed themselves for less than going from being a billionaire with a private island to locked in a prison cell.
Yep. No wrong doing, nothing to see here, move along.
Not sure thats what they concluded…
We already knew the legal case against Maxwell and Epstein was based exclusively on the many hours of testimony of young girls they trafficked.
The “clients” were simply not used as evidence anywhere and so the government never had to record, keep, etc any such record.
Did they intentionally not keep any such evidence? Maybe.
But there was never going to be any client list for Trump to just find.
It was always a hollow political promise. One of many.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-new-york-fbi-b1971344.html
Nothing incrementing on any of theses CDs or video tapes? Really?
What CD’s and video tapes? They weren’t in any of the file cabinets we opened.
Can John Brennan and P Diddy be cell mates?
I am King of the Lowlands!
Liar.
. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
We have neutron bombs. We know where Portland is. What’s the hold up?
I got Excalibur in Nethack by repeatedly #dipping a +1 longsword into a fountain
“Pictures show the sword with a long crossguard and a pommel shaped like a Brazil nut, the museum noted.”
At least they didnt say toe-shaped.
That was bad. But I laughed.
What kind of toe?
I made a different joke in the exact same vein last week and I didn’t know if it made anyone cringe so thank you for that Tres. My friend’s GF once called all of my childhood friends and I “racist” just for knowing/remembering that term from childhood.
A conspiracy to kill the president would be very hard to pull off, even in an agency famous for assassinating world leaders and keeping secrets. It would be hard to ensure that every person needed to accomplish that task wouldn’t fink–after all, it would only take one person getting cold feet to blow the op and get everybody killed.
And yet… people have been inventing grand conspiracy theories regarding the assassination for decades — mostly because they don’t want to believe that some 24-year old nobody could end the life of our youthful and glamorous President.
Or… A patsy commie who may or may not have taken the shots. Killed before serious questioning by a guy with Mossad ties. He conveniently gets turbo cancer and dies in prison.
I am sure he was on Epstein’s client list.
I doubt it. He’s into tall womanly blondes, not low-status teenagers.
So, July 9 is the deadline, but August 1 is when the tariffs revert, but that is not a new deadline, just when the tariffs revert unless you have a deal by then. I’m glad that our incoherent trade policy is getting an equally incoherent explanation. Coherent incoherence!
Sounds a lot like the “ceasefire” 😉
“A pediatrician has been fired over a vile post suggesting that the more than 80 killed in the horrific Texas floods — including dozens of kids — were Trump supporters who got “what they voted for.”
Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite.
“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” Probst wrote in the now-viral post.
“Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.””
https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/us-news/pediatrician-fired-for-vile-post-politicizing-devastating-texas-floods-may-they-get-what-they-voted-for/
CWAC
I was waiting for one of these idiots…
Oh there were multitudes that couldnt wait to dine in the bodies of those little girls while claiming their archnemsis was evil.
When politics is your religion the hate flows easily.
So she believes that there are MAGA housepets?
The seven signs your pet may be fascist …
Hmm, dogs do love to gather sticks…
And they don’t take kindly to unvetted people just wandering on to your property.
Progressives seem to love putting their perfidy on display.
Yikes. Be careful drunkposting folks.
Someone I know very well said something dumb like this. Hopefully they weren’t stupid enough to also post the thought anywhere online.
For some reason this story is hitting me harder than the usual disaster. Probably because of who the victims are.
It’s very disproportionately the left who engage in the Blurting.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2019/09/the-blurting.html
The solution to this problem is to tell the Blurter, in so many words, “Shut the fuck up. No one wants to hear your dumbshit political posturing.”
Don’t argue. Don’t engage. Just tell them to shut the fuck up, in the manner of a parent exasperated with a toddler’s tantrum-throwing (but ideally with more swearing.)
These people
Never get kicked off of a social
Media platform, they have multiple troll accounts and say whatever they want.
“Powerlifting influencer Stefi Cohen has been arrested for domestic violence — a year after she allegedly hacked into her ex-boyfriend’s laptop and posted nude photos of his new flame.
The 33-year-old influencer, real name Stefanie Cohen Magarici, was arrested in Miami on Wednesday on a domestic violence battery charge, TMZ reported…
However, the Venezuela-born powerlifting champ’s arrest comes more than a year after she faced a felony charge of unauthorized access to a computer, a misdemeanor sexual cyberharassment, criminal mischief, and resisting arrest without violence.
The lifter-turned-boxer — who has more than 1 million followers on her Instagram page, where sher’s known as Dr. Stefi Cohen — allegedly accessed her ex-boyfriend’s laptop, which he had left behind in a house he used to live in with her in March 2022, NBC 6 had reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/us-news/powerlifting-influencer-stefi-cohen-arrested-for-domestic-violence/
Obviously all the earmarks of Russian collusion.
First thing I was surprised by – She was straight.
Second thing I was surprised by – He was dumb enough to leave a laptop at his Ex’s place. Even if it was an old laptop from when they were together, he didn’t change the passwords to make his online content inaccessable to it.
Thing I am not surprised by – the domestic violence charges.
“First thing I was surprised by – She was straight.”
Women commit more domestic violence then men, but are way less likely to be arrested for it.
I am well aware of those statistics, which is why I expected a female arrestee for it to have been in a relationship with another woman.
resisting arrest without violence.
‘Why am I being detained?”
Extra charges for you! Dont you dare ask the King’s men such questions
Watch some more body cam videos. I recall one with a shrieking banshee who refused to let her feet be put inside the cruiser so they could close the door. Each time the officers put her in, she would be trying to get back out again. It wasn’t violence but it was certainly resisting arrest.
One of the dumbest charges.
It should be a note on the actual charge, not a charge in and of itself.
The dumbest ones are when a person is arrested for resisting arrest without any other charges.
latinas be cray cray?
maybe it was just the roids though
I clicked to see where she was in the hot/crazy matrix.
She’s just crazy. Don’t stick it in crazy.
not into muscle mommies?
She’s not as grotesque as expected, but still a solid no.
Her facial structure makes me think acromegaly. Which is not a fun condition.
acromegaly – probably just abusing PEDs and growth hormone
Yeah…Look at the hips, the jaw, the wrists the fingers….are we sure that is a she? Sure looks like tranny crazy to me. A little voice whispering in my. ears is saying “That’s a man, baby!”
Enough of certain PEDs will do that to a woman.
There have always been masculine woman. It’s not like Janet Reno was juicing. Although that would explain Waco.
“Nine newly minted graduates of Cardinal Spellman Catholic high school are now in the “Millionaire’s Club’’ — raking in a whopping total nearly $11 million in scholarship money.
The teen geniuses were each awarded more than $1 million in merit-based grants — much of it from a plethora of prestigious schools, including Ivy Leagues — for a staggering total of $10,799,476.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/nine-from-nyc-high-school-reap-nearly-11m-in-scholarships/
merit?
You would be hard pressed to convince me a single high school graduate is worth that much on merit, let alone nine.
And that one that would convince me wouldn’t be handed it by the festering cesspit of academia, they would have earned it by starting a business empire.
I wonder if anything other than academics were taken into consideration. Nah, couldn’t be.
That said, you can only claim the scholarships for where you actually attend, right?
A full ride at retail prices for 4 years at an Ivy or similar is probably in the mid to high six figures.
….and these genius’s are studying what? Physics? Cosmology? Medicine? Oh, public policy and politics. So…future Obamas. Just when you think all is lost baby community organizers step in to save the day.
Want to know where the problem is? Look at the boards that voted to give those scholarships. It really isn’t anything a good rope cant fix.
Someone has to pick up the work of USAID.
Every time I see a young female genius overachiever character in a TV show or movie I know who their hero will be. Even if she wants to be a nuclear engineer that character is still gonna be nuts about RBG.
I remember when the Democrats were attacking McCain for being against thimerosal, and some people called Hillary a “Thimerosal Queen”.
There is a schizo project in Wyoming of monks building a random mega Gothic abbey through selling coffee tho, and it’s mega kino
The info is that they’re building this in Wyoming by selling coffee
Here’s their progress
https://x.com/Italian347/status/1941797676569293271
How is it “schizo”? It’s their land, their money and their faith and they’re not bothering anyone.
well I don;t know I am not the OP I just linked for the picture
They should be building soulless rectangular buildings for people to push paper around all day.
Good on them
the coffee
https://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/collections/single-origin
The monks get up before dawn to either tend to the landscaping or tend to the coffee beans.
Either way, they hit the grounds running.
Wonder if the French press will report on this if its too latte for them.
Of course an Italian is trying to roast them.
The two fisted coffee mug!
https://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/collections/coffee-mugs
In keeping with ancient tradition, shouldn’t they be brewing and selling beer?
The regulations of alcohol sales make that a pain. You can sell coffee over the internet to a wider market base with less trouble.
Depends on the Monastic order. Even the Trappists don’t just make beer (they just created an organization to control what is a Trappist beer). Pretty sure all of them allow the sales of hand crafted goods to finance the monastery.
I still remember when there was a “glut” of because the monastery needed a new roof.
It’s been a year or more since I have checked in on that project.
It’s awesome.
Some great granite in Wyoming.
The other bit of archaeological news coming out of Europe this summer…
Do not repeat my mistake do not deign that link a click. You can just narrow your gaze and move on.
I bow to you Shpip, you are the apple of my eye! I’ll tell you truly this makes you a Swiss hero!
Usually I like your puns, but I am split on this one, and think it might be a strike against your record.
I heard that on a dare he once knocked down two pins placed atop of his sons’ heads. The children were 7 and 10 at the time.
Shpip on fire today! I larfed pretty good.
Thank ye.
This man:
> Survived a Sioux massacre as a child
> On his own since age 12
> Tracked Apaches as a teen
> Fought in Rhodesia
> Staked claims in the Klondike gold rush
> Assassinated an African chieftain, securing victory for Cecil Rhodes
> Was recruited to the Rough Riders by Teddy Roosevelt
> Was one of the only survivors of the “Rhodesian Alamo”
> Became entangled in a family feud in Arizona
> Helped Baden-Powell establish the Boy Scouts
> Struck oil in California, making him and his sons rich
> Was decorated by the King of England
His name was Frederick Russell Burnham. He’s my second cousin, three times removed.
More below.
https://x.com/JoshuaClemans/status/1942023683331268799
This guy sounds like the villain in a prog fantasy. Colonialist exploiter of both humans and mother earth, proto global warmer,
“At age 19, working as a ranch hand, Burnham became unintentionally entangled in the Pleasant Valley War––a family feud between the
Grahams and the Tewksburys which ultimately claimed the lives of most of the men in each family.
It was during this time in the Arizona Territory that Burnham purchased the pistol he would use through his life––a Remington that would see action in the West, Rhodesia, East Africa, and Mexico.
At 23, Burnham married his childhood sweetheart, Blanche Blick.
Blanche was a true frontier woman––protecting the children and pack animals, using a rifle against hyenas, lions, and later natives in the Siege of Bulawayo.
They were married for 55 years and had three children.”
I mean at least the guy was loyal to both his gun and his wife
How did he have time for a woman?
Bet he’d be more interesting to have a drink with than Ms. Bluehair Problemglasses…
And less likely to kill you in your sleep
1,000-year-old medieval sword emerges from Dutch river after chance discovery: ‘Barely corroded’
We should take that as payback for the fuckers losing our helmet
Certainly not the basis for a system of government.
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you.
That was some real bullshit.
Sorry, but that’s not barely corroded. I mean, it’s amazing that it survived as well as it did, but c’mon.
For a medieval-period blade, that’s barely corroded.
Barely corroded like a Southern Craigslist add for a “rust free” 70s Chevy.
Robert Heinlein’s birthday today.
I’ll raise a glass to his memory. One of the sane people in an increasingly unsane world.
he did write of the crazy times
“In 1987’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset the heroine gazes back from the distant future on that era of mass psychoses:
So many casual killings in public streets and public parks and public transports that most lawful citizens avoided going out after dark…
Public school teachers and state university professors who taught that patriotism was an obsolete concept, that marriage was an obsolete concept, that sin was an obsolete concept, that politeness was an obsolete concept – that the United States itself was an obsolete concept…
Cocaine and heroin called “recreational drugs”, felony theft called “joyriding” … felonious assault by gangs called “muggings”, and the reaction to all these crimes was “boys will be boys”, so scold them and put them on probation but don’t ruin their lives by treating them as criminals…
”
Millions of women who found it more rewarding to have babies out of wedlock than it would be to get married or to go to work…”
I have drafted and deleted many nasty, mean-spirited, and pointlessly antagonistic comments this morning.
Please let me retain the sense to not hit “Submit” on any more that may come. I seem to be in a right awful mood.
Welcome to my world Uncivil. I had smoke coming out of my ears before the sun was up. A shame I dont drink anymore. In the old days I would have reset by taking a couple of shots and then a nap.
Oakton Community College Professor Peter Hudis explains at Socialism 2025 how Frantz Fanon critiqued Western ideas of time and labor, proposing an alternative grounded in indigenous rhythms and Marxist humanism.
To be clear, I flat-out reject this framework. But if you’ve ever sat through a DEI training where someone said “time is a white supremacist construct,” this is where that idea comes from.
According to Hudis, Fanon believed that rural Algerian peasants experienced time differently than the industrialized West:
“Villagers… do not have an experience of duration as universal and abstract as that of the Westerner, a notion of time valid for all of the great natural rhythms.”
This critique of abstract, mechanized time gets linked to Marxist views of labor:
“Labor must be recovered as a humanization of man. Man, when he throws himself into work, he fecundated nature and he fecundated also himself.”
What began as a dense, theoretical Decolonial and Marxist critique has now filtered into DEI trainings—even in medical schools—where things like punctuality, deadlines, and “urgency” are casually labeled traits of white supremacy.
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1941604285969739851
How fucking stoned and lazy are you?
Any serious institution would expel and blacklist him.
So, he gave a speech about Colored People Time? Sounds racist.
/considers that his family is predominantly Eastern European and Irish
/realizes that neither Slavs nor Micks were considered white
/reframes the fact that he’s the only person in his family who appears to understand how clocks work in relation to schedules
I was born a poor black child…
Makes no sense, the Irish are whiter than the Angles.
/Anglo-Irish
They were trying to judge by the content of their character not the color of their skin!
Pretty much all of the postmodernist progressive bullshit originally came from the KGB, filtered through Marxist intellectuals like Fanon and Gramsci.
I blame the French.
We can never know the complete truth about anything but we can easily gauge how close we are to it by taking what we believe and putting into practice. Does it work? What works best?
Do we know the gravitational constant? No, of course not but we are close enough that we can land a rocket on Mars FFS. I would say that is pretty goddamned good. If you look closely at that feat you start to get an idea of just how amazing that is.
You can apply the same principle to culture and economics. The ‘indigenous’ horseshit leftists are in love with is precisely because it results in failure. You get 45yo men marrying 6yo girls, rape, murder, pillage and most importantly – grinding poverty. Prosperity and competence gives people options.The direct attacks on western culture is because these people want to enslave you. It is simple as that. They are trying to destroy any power you have over your own life.
“A Houston mayoral appointee went ballistic by criticizing a Texas camp site where seven little girls perished in floodwaters – then blaming Donald Trump for the tragedy.
In a series of cruel videos, Sade Perkins vented her frustrations, calling Camp Mystic ‘whites only Christian camp’ hours after a heavy deluge ripped through in Hunt on the Fourth of July.
‘I know I’m going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls’ Christian camp,’ she raged on TikTok as girls were still missing.
‘They don’t even have a token Asian. They don’t have a token black person. It’s an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp.’
Perkins was admonished by Houston Mayor John Whitmire, who said he would take steps to remove her from the board.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14880909/camp-mystic-houston-sade-perkins-blame-trump-whites-only.html
Then she kept going…
With the implication being that they had it coming. There are some seriously hateful people in this world.
And they are so intent on letting everyone know how hateful they are.
Once upon a time people would put differences aside when this kind of tragedy happened. But we’re in a world where politics infects everything, and to some people everything is viewed through a filter of “my side vs your side.”
I put it squarely on social media. People want the dopamine hit, the social credit, internet points and of course, genuine shaming gone out the window.
I was shocked when I clicked on the link and discovered Sade is a black woman commie. Truly shocked.
I expect a lot more of this bile from commies, male, female, black, white, whatever.
“Afghan man, 45, ‘marries girl aged SIX before Taliban intervene… and say he must wait until she is NINE'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14860725/Afghan-man-45-marries-girl-SIX.html
Oh, that’s better.
He was just trying to follow historical example.
what was the dowry? or the bride price? I don;t know which they do in Afghanistan
Two goats and a left behind Bradley.
But if he’s got a wife, what does he need the goats for?
“That’s seriously ugly pig you have there”
“My good man, I’ll have you know that its purebred Airedale, registered with papers”
“I was talking to the Airedale”
*guffaw*
Rcd, You never feel like mixing it up?
Also, he’s got three years to wait out, so…
Just like his prophet.
Researchers have found that more species of crocodiles can gallop than previously thought. And they are fast
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1942149097223340253
A sunbathing owl at Fuji Kachoen Garden Park
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1942186538768515496
Cuban crocs are very fast on dry land. AK’s are even faster, so not as many of them left.
I’m not going to worry until they can gambol.
That’s terrifying. I’d be like, “see you later!”
That only works on alligators. For crocs the incantation is “In a while.”
The Galloping Crocodiles is a great band/team name
“DOJ memo says Jeffrey Epstein had no client list, died by suicide, did not blackmail people”
An unsigned, undated memo that is, on its face, contrary to observations. Why, it’s almost like that is indistinguishable from a fiction.
I doubt there was a physical “list”, titled “Men Who F’d Girls on my Island”. But there are various ways they can tell who was there, and the girls testified they had sex with men when they were minors. So WTF? Sounds like we have another “too big to fail” situation, where there are too many rich and powerful people and going after them would destabilize things. As a wise person once said, “Mongo only pawn in game of life.”
There is a big black scrap book titled ‘Men who F’d Girls on my Island’. No, I am serious. There is a list, tapes photos the whole bit. It was an IC honey-trap. If the whole thing were to come out it would no doubt result in a radical shake-up of the power balance ini DC and who knows where else. And yes, they killed Epstein.
No way they are going to let this stuff see the light of day.
The tapes and flight logs certainly existed. The choices are:
1. Expose the names and prosecute – bringing down the government
2. Use them for your own blackmail purposes
3. Ignore as too dangerous
Trump chose 2 or 3.
“Hamas gang-rape horror revealed in shocking new report: Terrorists stripped October 7 sex attack victims, tied them to trees and mutilated them during ‘systematic’ onslaught”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14881371/hamas-gang-rape-victims-october-7-attacks.html
Thought all of that was already known. Still not a peep out of the #MeToo people.
Still not a peep out of the #MeToo people.
The #MeToo people think they had it coming because they were dirty Jews.
I’ll volunteer to drive a D9 pushing that mess into the Mediterranean.
Ancient Greek plays were in fact hilarious.
https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1941519951883534829
Can you (((people))) turn down the humidity?
we have 28C with 25% humidity. It is rather fucking hot.
25%? That’s darn dry.
You must not live in a swamp.
Celsius humidity is higher.
38C not 28 damn it.
100 American with a quarter humid. anyway.
Nice dry beach day.
We just got a cold front. It’s been in the 90’s for a month and now we’re in the 70’s.
Humidity here is around 50% usually, right now it will be between 65% and 90% today. You could just leave cigars outside. No humidor needed.
For our Japanophiles:
https://sp.m.jiji.com/english/show/40977
I am very disappointed that there is only one or two pictures.
“If Jeffrey Epstein Had No Client List Then Why Did AG Pam Bondi Tell Reporters the List “Is Sitting on My Desk Right Now to Review – That’s in the Process of Being Reviewed””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/if-jeffrey-epstein-had-no-client-list-then/
“Wait, What? If There Was No Epstein Client List Then Why Did NY Court Refuse The Gateway Pundit’s Legal Request for the List Based on an Anonymous ‘John Doe’ Who Was On the List?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/wait-what-if-there-was-no-epstein-client/
List or no list, we know there were clients. If you write down the names of the clients, then there is a list.
There is a list. Epstein’s operation was an intelligence community honey-trap. There are tapes. Epstein killed himself the same way I appointed myself kind of the universe.
Really, who do they think they are fooling? I am highly skeptical that the memo is genuine.
That there is “no list” is just semantics.
It is a collection of files not a list.
I have no doubt that powerful people frequently indulge in perversity of all types, and Epstein was apparently offering one of the historically common types. But none of us has any real basis for asserting what lists or other evidence exist, or ever existed. Bondi exaggerating (polite word for lying) about the list being on her desk proves nothing except that politicians and bureaucrats lie, even the ones on ‘our side.’ This whole thing is a distraction; there was never going to be a widespread prosecution of rich and powerful people for screwing underaged hookers. Rich and powerful people have been screwing underaged hookers longer than the concept of underaged has been in use, and they are almost never prosecuted for it.
I’m seeing articles on SubStack about how Trump was supposedly a big Epstein “client”. Haven’t read any of them, but I suppose I should give one a look.
Also articles about how Trump totally has dementia, so there’s that, too.
If Trump were a client, wouldn’t they have brought it during the Ghislaine Maxwell trial to get Trump?
Tater, the argument would be that it might also take down some Dems with him. But I would think they’d be willing to pay that price.
I’m actually a bit surprised that Maurene Comey didn’t coach up some fake witness (all but one of them were anonymous) just to accuse Trump.
The sword thing: Not uncommon. Apparently in pre-medieval, pre-christian Europe it was some kind of ritual, probably a funerary ritual that involved tossing swords in the rivers. The Danube is full of them.
Seems we kept up that tradition with all the boating accidents and firearms
I can’t imagine burying or sacrificing such a valuable item as a sword.
All my swords are going to my kids.
Unless it’s a Sarah Conner type burial.
Marxist humanism? Is this some sort of word game?
There’s a cohort of U.S. universities that have minimal academic reputation, but parents are happy to send their kids there for $50k+/year
They operate like Teen Country Clubs
https://x.com/LindyTasteful/status/1941887711125622815
I hope they are wearing plenty of sunscreen.
Im not getting the point.
Provide amenities on campus to ensure tomfoolery is reduced in town.
Military does the same thing on bases.
I think the main point of that X account is to show scantly clad wimminz
Then approved!
The amenities that the U of A has spent tens of millions of dollars on are poshy apartment buildings, gyms, and the like. They are absolutely selling a lifestyle, not so much an education.
I doubt many universities are putting in bars and nightclubs, which would be the main way to reduce tomfoolery in town.
Aren’t Fraternities usually on campus?
Aren’t Fraternities usually on campus?
That depends on the school.
Frats aren’t university properties or operations.
Before the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 there were plenty of bars on campuses.
It doesn’t matter who owns the land or runs the houses, they allow for (underage) drinking on campus.
If the university doesn’t own the land it’s by definition not on campus.
From the replies:
I mean, I’m opposed to heavy-handed regulation, but on the other hand we do have a baby shortage…
Pounding money down a rathole
Tesla stock fell about 8% Monday after CEO Elon Musk announced plans to form a new political party.
Musk said over the weekend that the party would be called the “America Party” and could focus “on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts.” He suggested this would be “enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people.”
The billionaire’s involvement in politics has been a point of contention for investors. Musk earlier this year was part of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and worked closely with President Donald Trump — a move seen as potentially hurting Tesla’s brand.
We don’t need another party. Just give the money to the Democratic Socialists. They’ll put it to good use.
So the outcome will be that Red states that have 40% Democrat voters will now have a Dem senator after the American Party splits the MAGA, moderate GOP and Independent voters in a three way race? Isn’t that how we got the fricking Clintons in 1992?
There’s a strategy, where the America party targets RINOs, and swampers of both parties, lists good-enough Repubs as their candidates, too, and caucuses with the Repubs. Who knows if that’s what Elon is going to do.
But, you know, if the Repubs didn’t want third parties peeling off big chunks of their base, they might trying doing what they promised big chunks of their base they would do. I’m not feeling terribly bad for the Repubs over all this. What’s the acronym? FAFO?
Failure is a learning tool, but one has to learn from it.
I don’t normally feel bad for a lot of billionaires, but I kinda feel bad for Elon. I think that he genuinely believed that he and Donnie were at least working towards a common goal. Hard lesson to learn so late.
He’s definitely pissed at the BBB targeting EV subsidies.
Bad news – the red dot on my competition pistol started flickering off under recoil this past weekend. I may have mentioned that I’m shooting the Area 8 championship this coming weekend.
Good news – Vortex Optics is overnighting me a replacement. I should be able to install and zero it in plenty of time before I leave on Friday. Pretty solid service.
shoot from the hip like a man
When’s the last time you’ve fired a gun?
I can do reasonably good shooting just indexing through the window of the optic. But ‘reasonably good’ isn’t exactly what I’m going for, in the biggest match of the year (for me.)
I’ve watched too much Mystbusters. They did at least one episode on the most accurate methods for shooting. We were watching a cop show the other day, and I pointed out how there was no way a criminal would be that accurate while holding the gun sideways.
I fired a gun in 2013 so pretty recent
I pointed out how there was no way a criminal would be that accurate while holding the gun sideways.
Apparently it’s more important to look cool than to actually hit what you’re shooting at.
What was it you shot?
well a piece of paper. Though I could have been shot myself. I think I told the story before.
By “paper” you mean a cutout of Van Helsing?
A lot of criminals who participate in gunfights aren’t really trying to hit anyone. Instead, they’re basically using suppressive fire in an attempt to avoid getting hit themselves. Still very dangerous, of course, but worth keeping in mind. Understanding the tactics of the adversary, and all that…
Monetarist jingoism
A series of chaotic policies and statements by Trump — from tariffs to attacking the Federal Reserve — has shaken some of the confidence investors around the world had long held in the U.S.
But it goes beyond that. The country’s debt is ballooning — and will grow even more with the GOP megabill that was passed by Congress last week. Meanwhile, there are real concerns about what the deep political divisions will mean for the U.S.
The big question now is: Does this re-assessment reflect a long-term shift or just a momentary blip?
Whether one agrees or disagrees with President Trump, one thing is clear: His second term is shaping up to be quite different — and it’s unnerving many investors, both in the U.S. and abroad.
A strong dollar helps us rule the world, or something.
But President Trump has also disregarded other norms. He’s picked a fight with the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell over interest rates, for example, upending a tradition upheld by most American presidents not to interfere with the independence of the central bank.
Not in front of the children, anyway.
It was last night when Black Sabbath made a final show like no other, BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
A thread🧵for those who missed some incredible live performances & highlights.
1- Steven Tyler, 77 years old, kicked the hell of a Whole Lotta Love performance by Led Zeppelin.
https://x.com/rocknrollofall/status/1942007932423479624
“kicked the hell of a Whole Lotta Love performance by Led Zeppelin”
I miss coherent English sentences.
So does Ozzy.
Damn Twitter/X ban.
I can only see a few posts a day.
“There’s a temptation for a lot of people to think of the strength of your currency as some sort of national virility symbol,” says Kit Juckes, the Chief FX Strategist at Societe Generale. “It really isn’t.”
“You shouldn’t expect to have a super, super, super strong currency forever,” Juckes adds, citing the impact on workers in sectors such as manufacturing or agriculture that become less competitive when the dollar is strong.
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But the concerns remain about whether the dollar’s decline is a reflection of a long-term reassessment of the U.S. financial standing in the world — and a sign that the overwhelming dominance of the dollar might be coming to an end.
But things have to stay the same forever.
Well, it does if Raytheon and the war-mongers are going to keep the century old grift going!
Smedley’s ghost wails in despair. “No one fucking listened!”
“You shouldn’t expect to have a super, super, super strong currency forever,”
Certainly not if your currency is debt (which all fiat currencies are) and you are constantly devaluing it by issuing more (as all countries that matter do).
False hope
News about the on-again, off-again tariffs has become such a daily fixture of the second Trump administration that, at times, it can be hard to remember why the president started down this path in the first place. Trump has given many different reasons for why he believes tariffs are a crucial part of his policy agenda, but they can be categorized into four main goals:
Restore America’s manufacturing prowess.
Grow US revenue.
Equalize the balance of trade.
Pressure foreign countries into setting policies that benefit the United States.
Trump has often treated tariffs like a panacea — a catch-all economic tool that can simultaneously restore blue-collar jobs, pay off the US deficit, bring foreign nations to heel on key disputes and reduce Americans’ tax burdens.
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Economists and business leaders maintain that tariffs probably won’t lead to a major American factory boom. They argue revenue from tariffs will remain a drop in the bucket compared to the massive budget deficit that was just exacerbated by Trump signing his expensive domestic policy agenda and tax cuts into law. Tariffs and trade deals probably won’t dramatically increase demand for US goods in foreign countries. And some trading partners have already shown there’s a limit to how much tariff threats can achieve.
Bring back Bidenomics.
“News about the on-again, off-again tariffs”
JFC. It’s a fucking negotiation, people. Actually, dozens of simultaneous negotiations. Opening offers, flexible deadlines, etc. are a completely normal part of the jockeying for position and advantage.
Nuh-uh, negotiations only happen in quiet backrooms away from prying eyes where you can agree to shit no one wants to happen.
/The way its always been done.
Another major complication: Skilled manufacturing labor is hard to come by in the United States. That’s why in May, the Labor Department reported 414,000 job openings in the manufacturing sector: There just aren’t enough people in the United States who want to or are skilled enough to complete the work. And American labor can be much more expensive than in other countries. That’s why some industry experts estimate the cost of an iPhone would surge to over $3,000 if it were made in the USA.
Meanwhile, manufacturing jobs are not booming — quite the opposite. After Trump declared victory with gains of 9,000 manufacturing jobs in his first two full months in office, they have since tumbled by 7,000 jobs in each of the past two months, and the number of manufacturing jobs is now lower since Trump took office than when he started.
Nobody wants those jobs, anyway. Americans would rather be social justice advocates.
“We don’t want to train people we can’t pay slave labor rates to.”
Also, if you took out the anti-repair technology from the iPhone design, it’d be easier to assemble and require less time from the expensive human for those steps that the robots don’t do.
Or just get a PinePhone or equivalent. Honestly the constantly escalating phone technology is irritating. Cost should be dropping dramatically, not skyrocketing past $1,000.
I’m trying to advise the company on strategies to make things in this country.
The fact that I don’t buy their products isn’t a factor.
“Cost should be dropping dramatically, not skyrocketing past $1,000.”
True, all electronics should be going down in price.
It all seems to be in the camera. People go nuts for that shit. Me, I buy the cheapest model of whichever brand i.e. the one with one lens not four.
Still calling it a phone does seem odd, since they are used for other things way more than making phone calls.
I mean, the iPhone has a legitimately amazing camera.
“To support containment efforts, the USDA announced last month it would open a new sterile fly dispersal facility in Texas and invest $21 million to update a similar plant in Mexico. That facility will distribute sterile flies that are grown in Panama. No sterile fly factory exists right now in the United States.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/usda-set-to-reopen-mexican-beef-imports-despite-concerns-over-flesh-eating-screwworm-infestation
Doing the jobs American flies won’t do.
Does this ongoing effort actually stop the expansion of the bugs’ range?
That’s the claim being made.
I’m not interested in the claim, I’m interested in whether it has been shown to be TRUE
“The latest example is Brett Cooper, a 23-year-old right-wing commentator whose vibe is “young female Ben Shapiro,” right down to her failed Hollywood career and the pompous tones she uses to deliver pandering, half-baked opinions. Cooper even looks like Shapiro, with a similar face, similar coloring and the same permanent smirk. She was hired by the Daily Wire in 2022 for a show called “The Comment Section,” in an apparent bid to reach a younger audience, It’s not clear whether she actually accomplished that, or it was more like creepy older MAGA men enjoy looking at her. Either way, she soon rivaled and often surpassed Shapiro in views for her videos, whose inspiring titles included “Leftists Are Sterilizing Themselves” and “Hot Girls Love Trump.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/07/brett-cooper-the-maga-girlboss-ben-shapiro-cant-control/
Shorter Mandy: “I’m ugly, and bitter.”
Also, not mentioned.
“Fox News signs conservative podcaster and influencer Brett Cooper as contributor”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-signs-conservative-podcaster-influencer-brett-cooper-contributor
She could be describing Rachel Maddow, except for the “men enjoy looking at her” part.
If there’s one thing women really hate, it’s each other.
We had some friends over last week, and I had a long conversation with one about my oldest. He wondered (as I have) how many other people there are like her. I wouldn’t point to one specific generation, but there do seem to be many, many people who are overweight, unhealthy, addicted to screens, and lazy. As evidence I point to an estimate by the CBO of how many people (I think 4-5 million?) they estimate will lose their Medicaid because they refused to meet the new work requirement. As a country we have taken away most of the consequences of living like this.
Today we talked to my kid about how she’s not getting a lot of hours at work. She’s getting about 32, which she says if “full time”. For benefits, yes, that is full time, but Mrs. TOK and I count anything less than 40 hours as part time. So we suggested she get a second part time job, and the response was “all those hours will kill me.” So working 40-50 hours like most of us do is going to be fatal.
When I was young I often worked 70 hours. She’ll live.
She definitely will. We don’t expect it to be forever, but when someone wants to have her own place and a car, and currently nothing but free time, busting ass for a year seems like the best move.
I’ll readily admit to ‘lazy’. And while this extra ten pounds of waistline flab is annoyingly persistent, I’m quite happy to no longer be overweight…
Our oldest just “moved out”, e.g. moved in with her boyfriend, who is 21 and still lives at home (so not really out on her own; just in somebody else’s parents house where there aren’t any rules, from what I understand. They just live in a trashpile and periodically get evicted for not paying rent).
They both work in fast food and seem to have no plans to get into a better career. Despite our efforts over the years to get her to cook real food and try to be healthy, she doesn’t appear to be interested in any of that; they just eat drive-thru garbage for every single meal. But she’s the captain of her own ship now; it’s out of our hands.
Everyone knows people who have a bad health and/or money situation and absolutely refuse to take any steps to change things, but then when we talk about public policy, we’re supposed to conceive of these things as misfortunes that are randomly bestowed on people by the cruel hand of capitalism. It’s maddening.
Well I hope your daughter gets a spark from somewhere or another and improves her situation.
Good vs Evil
America just handed a victory to the fossil fuel industry by passing the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in both the House and the Senate. But don’t mistake that for a turning point in the global trajectory of clean transport. The future of zero-emissions road travel isn’t stalling, it’s still accelerating. Despite the latest setback to EVs in Washington D.C., the world remains firmly on track for sustained EV adoption.
For starters, the bill ends the federal tax credits for clean energy programs such as solar, wind and electric vehicles years ahead of schedule. It gives tax breaks to oil and gas companies for drilling and development costs. U.S. companies are now also free to leak as much methane—a hazardous planet-warming greenhouse gas—as they want into the atmosphere for another decade, throwing out a Biden-era penalty on methane emissions.
It sounds bad—and it indeed is. Climate scientists and environmentalists have warned that the bill could seriously harm air quality, jeopardize public health and accelerate planet warming by encouraging more fossil fuel use. But according to research firm BloombergNEF’s Electric Vehicle Outlook 2025, there’s still some reason for optimism: EVs are expected to continue displacing millions of barrels of crude oil each year.
Skipping gaily into the zero pollution future.
The comment section is as would be expected.
I could feel the seed oils
And soy protein.