Good morning one and all to another amazing day!
FBI opens ‘grand conspiracy’ probe on weaponization, opening door to special prosecutor
Feds spent $247 billion more in 9 months of fiscal year than same period of 2024, Treasury says
Senate Set to Consider Trump’s $9.4 Billion Rescissions Request
Trump Defends Bondi, Urges Supporters to Move On From Epstein Files
Trump Gets Ratioed by His Own Truth Social Followers Over Epstein Post
Elmo Hacked: Goes Full Nazi with ‘Kill All Jews’
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
What if Elmo actually is a nazi?
IIRC, Elmo was designed to be a self-entitled brat as part of a child psychology strategy of having “representative” characters rather than role models.
Elmo killed Sesame Street. Change my mind.
Making everyone see Snuffalupagus was another bad decision.
I thought the guy playing Elmo was… unnaturally attracted to children.
He was! He was one of the early ones to get tagged with kiddie porn charges.
At the time the media was at the “it almost never happens” stage. Now we are at the “kiddie porn is normal and healthy” stage.
Sick of having a bunch of leftists at PBS shoving their hands up his ass, he turns to the alt-right.
I dont know what alt-right means. Kill the Jews is a socialist thing.
Ha! I read all that and felt the same way. If somebody was trying to imitate so called “right wing” they ended up copying almost the exact wording of leftists.
He is a commie…he is red, isn’t he? I know, potato/potahto.
You making an Irish Joke?
*incoherent celtic noises*
See the “rampage” clip below.
Just call them all commies. The commies all keep trying to subdivide their political fetishes just like they did with sexes.
Refuse to have anything to do with it. A commie is a commie.
True R.J.
Parsing all of the language, splitting all the hairs, changing all of the labels….in the end they are all the same. You dont own yourself. All of your shit belongs to them so get on your knees and do as you are told.
A commie is a commie.
Q: What’s the last thing they do with an Rlmo doll before it leaves the factory?
A: Give it two test tickles.
For those that haven’t already seen it, Elmo tortured by the Bene Gesserit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHK5fBm1YWk
Check his closet for Hugo Boss.
Special Forces raid on ‘narco tanker’ that could expose the Irish gangsters behind the largest drug smuggling cartel in the world
Time for a rampage.
That was such a good show.
Archer. So weak compared to Frisky Dingo, or Bob’s Burgers.
The donks knew who was going to win the election, so they turned on the money spigot full blast. Any attempt to throttle it back, of course, would be dangerous cuts that would mean that POEPLE WILL DIE!!!
$9B in recissions against $247B more in spending. I think we might be losing this war.
That is a whole lot of “No shit.” in one post.
Not good enough. Pass it then CUT MORE
Shumer/Sorority Girl have been claiming that the only source of news in rural NY is NPR.
If true, it might explain a few things.
None of my rural NY relations listened to NPR. (Past tense – they’ve fled for freer states)
I came closest when they were playing classical music, turned off any talking programming.
Plus, the distances between cities is much smaller, so even over the air broadcasting covers the population rural areas with no problem.
Do they not have access to the internet in upstate NY? I know it can be rural, but still…
We have plenty of internet access. Even ‘broadband’.
The political nutcases have never come north of the Tappen Zee save when slumming it in Albany, and then only as long as the task at hand mandates.
If idiots bought into food deserts, they will surely buy in on news deserts.
Rochester isn’t rural.
Jar – Who said anything about Rochester?
My only association with that city was at college.
Yeah, all of upstate is covered by “big city” news and yes, they’re all super lefty.
UCS, I was saying the only part of Upstate that I know worships NPR isn’t rural
I see.
Trump took taxes in the wrong direction – more complexity to give targeted deductions to buy votes (which will fail, because as we saw in his first term, tax benefits fade into the background when it comes voting time).
Congress is in the process of making sure spending isn’t reduced. Even the pitiful rescission package is being whittled away. Whatever Trump’s success on two existential threats (immigration and the administrative state), we are on track to fail on the third (debt).
Congress is 530 people with their hand out. The BBB had extra free shit for Alaska just to buy one vote.
It’s really going to suck for the MAGAs if there’s no there there.
Damnedest thing is… we’ll never know.
Then what was on Pam Bondi’s desk?
A request for bribes?
A to-go menu from Epstein’s Deli.
Bondi loves smoked whitefish salad.
That’s an unusual euphemism.
There were clients. If you write down their names, you have a list of clients.
Then what?
Call Iron Mountain?
It’s really going to suck for the MAGAs if there’s no there there.
Epstein was just a guy.
A guy? I think he’s really just an idea.
He’s infrastructure.
Oh, my god, so much this.
I made a flippant comment about forgetting to wind my watch. This led me to think about the watch in question. It’s a skeletonized* pocket watch I bought more as an art piece than a time piece (Unfortunately the only pieces of the mechanism that move fast enough to actually see motion from are the balance wheel and the escape wheel, the rest move too slowly to see)
But my thoughts went to the front and back crystal and the plastic film put on them for protection during shipping. Since the stupid thing turns out to not have an outer cover, the two crystals would be exposed to whatever bumps, impacts and scratches that come along. I’m not sure what material they’re made of, so for the time being I’ve left the shipping plastic in place. (It’s fully transparent so the view isn’t obstructed). This is so far the only product where I haven’t peeled that stuff off. I tend to get rid of it, but understand some people leave it in place unless there’s stuff printed on it that gets in the way.
I guess what I was wondering was whether you guys removed the shipping plastic or left it on.
*built so that the mechanism is visible when the watch is assembled and running
I have a friend who really enjoys peeling it off. Similar to the people who dig bubble wrap, I suppose.
I take it off.
Interesting euphemism.
And we’re marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, o choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise.
I never thought I’d write these words, but Al Gore is responsible for America’s success in leaving Europe in our dust. He spewed climate-change rhetoric based on flawed models, and Europeans believed him.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/al-gore-helped-the-u-s-surpass-europe-bastille-day-climate-economy-e0f6ad5a?st=Dqje4z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They were looking for any excuse to suicide themselves.
News for you and Tonio:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250713_13/
That is typically Japanese. They get worked up over tail probabilities all the time while ignore real risk. No pun intended.
That incident could have been a mass casualty event if they had the right to arm bears.
Local news.
Argument over pants gets out of pocket and ends with 3 juveniles in custody
The fashion police are coming for you.
That headline is pleating for Swiss to give it a narrowed gaze.
This isn’t going to fly with him, we better zip it.
I’m sure he will tailor his gaze just sew.
Carefull, he might come ’round and cuff you on the back of the head.
The suede denim secret police?
Sorry to hear about your uncool niece.
My niece is actually pretty cool. I don’t think she has much to worry about, unless goth goes out of style again…
Yokai, Someone will have to reconsecrate a shrine or battle a demon.
hmm, supposed to be above about the ‘bear’ in Japan.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
“A couple in West Virginia was arrested after police pulled over their stolen RV and allegedly found the duo both in the driver’s seat, totally nude and having drunken sex, according to a criminal complaint.
Authorities pulled over Shannon Bryant, 35, and Matthew McDonnell, 48, while they were driving through Bluefield, West Virginia last Wednesday afternoon….
When police searched the RV, they found drug paraphernalia inside including a bag of white powder. They also recovered painkillers and a broken glass pipe that Bryant admitted McDonnell had tossed out the window during the stop.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/us-news/west-virginia-couple-pulled-over-ater-cops-spot-them-having-sex-while-drunk-driving-stolen-rv/
I can’t believe drugs were involved.
I’m sorry I thought this was America
Pie gets it.
I normally don’t care what you do inside your RV – but it wasn’t your RV, and you were endangering anyone else on the road.
Right? Your RV and parked on side of road…carry on.
Ha! I was born in Bluefield! In ’87, we moved to Eville at ~6mo.
And we call ourselves a free country.
Going OT a bit early, but the girlfriend and I went and saw Superman yesterday. Overall, pretty good, I’d give it a B. It was entertaining to us to watch
ClevelandMetropolis get destroyed.I cannot work up any interest for another superman reboot.
At least there is no origin story. The beginning of the movie lays out the world:
300 years ago metahumans appeared
30 years ago an alien landed in Kansas and was fostered by the Kents
3 years ago Superman announced himself as the most powerful metahuman in the world
3 minutes ago Superman lost his first fight
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/superman-bounds-to-122-million-domestic-opening-e2164d3f?st=9J9BpL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Why exactly does the US DEA care about and enforce drug smuggling in/out Ireland/England?
they want a cut?
Need to justify their budget?
From what I’ve been putting together, it seems like the DEA essentially has arrest powers and enforcement all over the world (excepting in outright hostile nations).
Escobar was a violent criminal, but damned if the DEA didn’t back him into a corner by basically stripping any preface of autonomy from the Colombian government. They got their trophy to mount at a steep cost in human lives.
Team America!!!
The Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA or i.t.a.) is a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of a system of shorthand) in the early 1960s. It was not intended to be a strictly phonetic transcription of English sounds, or a spelling reform for English as such, but instead a practical simplified writing system which could be used to teach English-speaking children to read more easily than can be done with traditional orthography. After children had learned to read using ITA, they would then eventually move on to learn standard English spelling. Although it achieved a certain degree of popularity in the 1960s, it has fallen out of use since the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet
stupid English you need to learn to read a fake alphabet in order to learn to read
The reason Fads like this fail to gain traction is because they don’t even make sense at first blush and make it harder to learn the actual language afterwards.
I learned to read at home, before I started school. I never learned to spell, but that’s because I went to state school.
I learned to read in school in the 1970’s from books about a dog named Pug. As the Good Lord intended.
I’m pretty sure we used Dr Seuss.
For me, it was Sesame Street, Electric Company, and the kids readers from the publisher of Seuss (Scholastic IIRC), they weren’t all Seuss books, but were all about the same word count and heavy on the art. I remember my parents laughing at me for asking what a thermometer was, which I slaughtered the pronunciation of (therm-o-meter), which caused a laugh out of them when I pointed at the word and they corrected me.
To be fair “Thermo-meter” is probably the original intended formation.
I never learned to spell, but that’s because I went to state school.
I was a C’s and D’s student on the best of school years, except for spelling, which I somehow aced consistently. I never remember sitting down and studying how to spell; I just kind of knew it. Unfortunately it’s a rather useless skill just by itself.
I actually wouldn’t mind a universal alphabet. Supposedly IPA works for that, but I kind of doubt that it crosses into tonal languages.
I thought I was one of the few fans of India Pale Ales here, never thought about using it for language lessons though.
It just gets so Hopped up on Phonics people can’t deal.
Drinking helps with speaking Russian like a native.
Language lessons have been known to make students quite bitter.
(((Jarflax:
Language lessons.
The IPA does have symbols for tones.
But for Mandarin at least, nobody uses the IPA as Pinyin is (mostly) phonetic anyway and easier to use.
IPA only works on unfiltered, hazy verbs.
English spelling sucks ass.
English spelling makes sense, but all of the words we stole from other languages kept their spelling, leading to the fun insanity of the current realm.
On the other hand, there’s no body in charge of standardizing the spelling either, if enough people start spelling it kat, that’ll become the proper spelling.
to be honest, I don’t see “kat” replacing “it” anytime soon. But kat may come to pass.
Like Nephilium said, English spelling is respectful and non-aggressive towards other languages’ spelling.
Very Libertarian.
What we need is a French-style bureaucracy to enforce spelling norms.
@ Zwak:
Sometimes I think the EU should revoke the Frenchies’ freedom of pronunciation until they come up with a consistent decision on whether terminal consonants will be voiced or not.
to repost the classic
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain¹ (aka Samuel L. Clemens5)
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and Iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c”, “y” and “x” — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais “ch”, “sh”, and “th” rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Note 1: The authorship of this piece is in question. Although frequently posted on the internet as authored by Mark Twain, there are some claims that it is authored by M. J. Shields in a letter by him to the Economist. See http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/spelling.html.
Note 2: Mark Twain is not related to Shania Twain, unless her name is also a pseudonym and her real family name is Clemens. And due to the generational difference, never shall the twain Twains meet.
(The word “twain” is related to the number two. So is the text “Shania”. To “mark twain” is to notate twice. “shania twain” is twice-twice. Quadruple for short?)
Is this where I go on my rant about how unnesessary the letter “c” is to the alphabet? It is a redundansy and “s” or “k” kan be used in any instanse instead. At least onse we get over the rasist konnotations of the letter “k”. I think we could possibly knok out “f” as well, but phuk it, that’s a rant for another day.
Missed it by that much
Why would you want to use PH for the F sound?
Bring back eth and thorn.
ROAT:
We really should bring back yorn.
Yogh, man.
They toseed kat out without realizing it miȝt be useful.
yorn
I remember an episode of QI:
A sign with a rose and the words “Ye Olde Flower Shoppe” – Where is the thorn on the sign?
Now hold on, was it a “Ye” or a “Þe”?
Ye = Þe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The#”Ye”_form
No, Ye is a typological bastardization that is only needed in print.
On a sign when you have a painter, it’s a choice to discard the thorn for the Y, thus changing the word.
KanÞe West?
Seems Russian to me…
“A Wisconsin nurse who amputated a patient’s frostbitten foot without authorization and planned to use it as a ghoulish display in her family’s taxidermy shop was given a sweetheart plea deal in which she’ll serve no time in prison and pay just $443 in court costs.
Mary K. Brown, 40, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of negligently abusing a 62-year-old patient at Spring Valley Senior Living and Healthcare Campus in 2022 for the rogue surgical procedure.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/us-news/nurse-who-cut-off-patients-foot-for-use-in-sickening-taxidermy-shop-display-escapes-jail-sentence/
WTF?
foot fetish gone too far.
Dude, I know Nurses to a lot of minor procedures, but amputation is still the Doctor’s purview.
And without whose authorization? If the patient didn’t authorize it, she should have jail time.
From the whole article the thing is a disaster that involved more than just that nurse. The foot was so severely damaged that it was barley held by single tendon and some skin.
I’ve no why the poor person wasn’t treated in a hospital. Any respectable institution would have turfed that patient to the ER faster than you can press 911.
A friend once told me that he had a weird dream where he was chased by a horde of taxidermists.
He asked “What do I do if that happens in real life?”
I told him “Whatever you do, don’t play dead.”
I’ve never been in Truth Social, but I doubt Trump’s recent statements on the Ukraine War were received any better.
He’s become a skinsuited version of Lindsay Graham. That damn fool can kiss the midterms goodbye.
Why? Republicans are gonna vote for Republicans, Dems for Dems – nothing changes there. And the swing vote is small and gerrymandered out of relevance for Congress.
Not too mention that the D’s are so far underwater right now, I don’t think even the made up Epstein BS will move the needle.
The blue states will get bluer. The red states will get redder.
A few seats might change hands.
Kinnath – I hope we have an accurate 2030 census. Post-apportionment, the data from 2020 was revealed to have been “adjusted” enough to keep some seats blue. New York has too many house seats.
Dems will vote for Dems, Reps won’t show up. Y’all are whistling past the graveyard but we’ll see.
The news stories that will determine the midterms haven’t happened yet. I know the people selling rage clicks talk about the next election cycle starting immediately after inauguration day, but people don’t have long memories for this stuff. Things happening between this time next year and the election will decide the elections.
I’m not voting for Lindsey Graham ever.
Trump really fucking handed the Democraps a “we toldya so” moment when he started saying Putin is deranged and doesn’t want peace.
His term so far has been a pretty big disappointment (something I had accepted as a strong possibility when I voted for him) but I reasoned that the Dems were probably going to escalate more and more on the Ukraine shit and quite possibly get us into a hot war with Russia, and at least Trump would not do that.
But this is not going in a good direction. I hope he just gets it down to a Korea-style frozen conflict. Probably the best we can hope for at this point. Maybe in a few generations, after the passing of everyone who personally lost a loved one in that war, they can agree that it’s just dumb and come up with some kind of peace settlement.
Why not add another 12 pumps? Seems like they’ve got the room.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bucees-gas-station-malone-colorado-d0c2c131?st=m7Btdq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Canopies may come in packs of tweleve, but pumps come in packs of ten. They’s be committed to 120 if they put more in.
Sixty.
Sixty More for a total of 120.
I invest in boat and RV storage and what I’ve learned is nobody wants anything to ever change for any reason whatsoever. All land is sacred once you want to build on it. We bought land to do a storage lot outside a subdivision and there was an opposition Facebook page the day we announced what was being built. I told our managing partner to announce the regions largest pr0no theater instead and that they’d be begging for boat and RV storage.
The northeast is interesting. Developing the remaining open space is usually highly controversial. What’s equally interesting is the redevelopment. So in town here a commercial space is becoming residential. That’s going to actually add more traffic as well as NJ obligatory low income housing requirement.
Any topless protesters?
Speaking of that, I hope Mr. and Mrs. Robodruid are getting justice (in the positive sense).
I can’t think of better way to keep the poors poor than to warehouse them into housing for the poor.
We are alive. Spouse had a self harm episode in February. She is alive.
Two felonies have been dismissed.
Motion to dismiss three misdemeanors imminent.
Fired lawyers for not vigorously representing us. a lot to say.
I have to get NVG today because cayotes have been killing sheep, we are getting 3 donkeys next week.
I hope things keep going for the better, Robo.
Same with the PNW. Except that much of the land is tied up by government of all levels.
I want to start doing this.
Looks like pretty good mostly passive income with a minimum of employees.
What does Emerson have to say about it?
Does it matter if Lake and Palmer out vote him?
“France’s first lady has taken her case against two women over claims she used to be man to the highest appeals court after a lower court let them off, her lawyer said today.
On Thursday, the Paris appeals court overturned earlier convictions against the two women for spreading false claims – that went viral online – that Brigitte Macron, 72, used to be a man.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14903647/Brigitte-Macron-launches-appeal-French-court-women-claimed-born-man-cleared-defamation.html
She could have a genetic test done.
I can’t trust any teacher who marries a student of theirs.
New tax-and-spending law could push as many as half of graduate student borrowers into private loans
What’s the interest rate on a gender studies degree?
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-student-loans-tax-spending-bill-9dfc96eb?st=CnovKb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Anything above a negative rate is a ripoff.
““The Justice Department and FBI are sending out contradictory messages: telling the American people that no more Epstein material will be released, while telling the federal court in our case that the Epstein FOIA review is proceeding,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement on Thursday.”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/doj-informs-court-ongoing-review-epstein-documents-judicial-watch-foia-case
I don’t know what the Trump administration should do at this point, but the “Phase One” binder thing was just stupid.
That was all Bondi overplaying her hand in the situation…from the desk comment, to the binders to promises of more to come.
She spoke before she even had a handle on it to appease and bolster that side of MAGA
It could very well be that they don’t have any real evidence on anyone else, because any videos and flight logs have disappeared. If that’s the case, just be honest.
She burned down the reputations of some of Trump’s biggest supporters with that stunt.
So releasing names is potentially libel. Also I don’t know how statutes of limitations would play into this.
Only libel if that didn’t go to the island or the mansion. Nobody is going to sue if they are recorded doing nasty stuff.
We know plenty of people went to the island and mansion. That’s not proof of anything. We also don’t know what recordings exist at this point.
Government might remove superfluous paint from crosswalks. Normies hardest hit.
Rainbow crosswalks could be removed under FDOT and USDOT memos
Coastal communities that have been walloped by hurricanes recently might have to remove public references to the Noahic Covenant. Just another way to show that government discriminates against religion.
This will get even more fun when someone points out the various BLACK LIVES MATTER “public displays of acceptance”.
How dare people drive on them and leave tire marks!
“Prosecuted for blogging, ‘Crazy Fat Lady’ returns to SCOTUS to hold public officials accountable
If publishing information from a cop, criticizing a city official’s pay raise and reading Bible quotes outside a Pride event can be criminalized, the First Amendment has no meaning, Priscilla Villarreal’s lawyers tell high court…..
After a police officer “freely shared” facts with Villarreal for two stories on her 200,000-follower “unfiltered” Facebook page – which features “information, livestreams, and commentary about local crime, traffic, and other news” and often criticizes local police – officials charged her under “a Texas felony statute no local official had enforced in its 23-year history.”
It prohibits soliciting or even receiving information from a “public servant” that has “not been made public,” as defined by the Texas Public Information Act, if the intent is to “obtain a benefit,” defined as “anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage,” similar to the charge against Gonzalez.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/prosecuted-blogging-crazy-fat-lady-returns-scotus-hold-public-officials
That sounds like a stupid law.
Sounds like a protectionist law for local journalist. Cant have everyday folks think they can disseminate ‘news’
[ Don Escaped Another Handle Change enters the chat to bitch about Texas’ phony libertarianism ]
Non-AI generated human females with unusually large breasts.
https://archive.is/63UAC
Mammary Monday.
Photoshop-generated?
A few of them do look kind of AI like don’t they?
I would bet that there are more than a few that have been AI “enhanced” and filtered.
That said, no point going past #2.
Fake pictures of fake breasts.
Jesus tapdancing Christ, the comments on the Fox article about Ukraine. MAGA has gone completely warmonger neocon it looks like. Anyone here with military aged kids might want to start teaching them Ukrainian/Russian.
“Мы изучим русский чтобы вам не надо.”
Naturally former Reagan mouthpiece Peggy Noonan is all in. I don’t understand how the WSJ keeps printing her stuff.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-coming-around-on-ukraine-war-russia-foreign-policy-f3c85f5d?st=TS6D8v&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Their editorial board agrees with her would be my guess.
She has a regular column. She hasn’t changed a position since Clinton.
She’s that country club RINO with bipartisan respect for “Top Men” that is literally a dying off daily now. I don’t think she understand new media in any form.
Trump’s bluff poker style was never going to work on Russia. He should have walked away. Now he’s going to own the debacle their like Biden owned it in Afghanistan. Or he’s going to start WWIII and lose it.
This. Without outside troop commitments, meaning ultimately us, that war is lost. May take a bit yet but the biggest question is how much do the Russians end up taking.
Who, exactly, could the US lose to? Russia can’t even conquer a pissy ex-Soviet territory.
A direct war with Russia will involve nukes and everyone loses.
We couldn’t conquer Afghanistan after 20 years and Trillions of dollars. WWIII is NATO (maybe without Turkey) against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea. I do not like our odds.
“we couldn’t” do something that was not a stated objective?
We didn’t pacify/transform Afghanistan, but we conquered it in days.
Russia can’t manage to do that over the course of years.
Iran can’t stop a country the size of New Jersey from doing whatever the fuck they want to it (contra your assertion that their air defenses were impregnable).
The Norks can’t feed their army.
China can’t project force.
@NA – I think a question of definitions is in order. I’ve always seen “conquest’ as implying annexation or an intent to annex. We occupied Afghanistan within days, but never intended to conquer it.
I’m not for fighting or funding any of this bullshit, but I think the likelihood of Russia vs US is very low so long as we keep the boots out of Ukraine.
How many proxy wars did we fight against the Soviets in the 20th Century? And outside of the Cuban Missile Crisis, we were never that close to actual nuclear war.
We aren’t going to war with Russia. This whole thing is Trump turning up the pressure on Putin because he wants credit for ending the Ukraine war. It was not only absolutely predictable once Putin refused to seriously negotiate, it’s the correct move in response. And I say that as someone who is openly hostile to Ukraine and thinks Trumps error in this case was trying to broker a peace deal at all.
The number one believer of Trumps bullshit is Trump himself.
Oh wow.
At least 9 dead, 30 hospitalized after fire tears through Fall River assisted living facility: ‘Unfathomable tragedy’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/us-news/9-dead-30-hospitalized-after-fire-at-fall-river-assisted-living-facility/
Now the blame pointing among all of the various government agencies can begin.
Trump’s funding cuts strike again …
This. Bet on it.
Klimate kaos.
Speaking of GRRRL PAWR! I watched Salt last night. They might as well have called it Super Girl; Secret Agent. She sure could take some punishment, as well as dish it out.
““She would be more than happy to sit before Congress and tell her story,” a source close to Maxwell told the news outlet.
“No one from the government has ever asked her. She remains the only person jailed in connection to Epstein and would welcome the chance to tell the American public the truth.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/report-ghislaine-maxwell-ready-testify-before-congress-could/
A little bird told me isn’t news.
Is she actually considering it? Suicide incoming…
Now that would be a great idea. Hopefully someone can get that in Trump’s beautiful, patriotic ear. He needs to get some of the heat off on this Epstein stuff.
This another one of those things that makes the whole affair stink to high heaven. Why haven’t we heard from her?
Every single thing about the Trump shooting smells the same.
I heard a rumor that some dude shot up a crowd in Las Vegas. How many details do we know about that?
Mark Levin comes to mind: “No matter how bad you think it is, it is worse.”
She was convicted of sex-trafficking with no mention of who she trafficked to. Has that ever happened before?
I think so. Hasn’t there be kiddie porn without kiddies? OMB was guilty of fraud without a fraud victim.
Maybe Epstein just had a Herculean libido, banging a half-dozen underage models a day for thirty years?
Hmmm. I wonder if there’s a plant that grows only on that island…
NA:
The closest to kiddie porn without kiddies would be the Supreme Court ruling that animations, drawings, and items that were not based on real people qualified as it.
What became of the investigation into that guy who shot some legislators in Minnesota?
“FBI opens ‘grand conspiracy’ probe on weaponization, opening door to special prosecutor”
Yes, just like with Trump, the “Walls are (always) closing in on the Clintons.” Yet Hill and Billary will die peacefully in their beds, surrounded by their money and awards, and be given the royal funeral sendoffs that Americans give most of the crooks and scumbags who have inhabited the Swamp.
Is a grand conspiracy when some great conspiracies get together and agree to coordinate?
So years and years of investigation followed by whitewash? That sounds about right.
What difference at this point does it make? Move on.
I will not stand by while you insult America!
“Any assertion or implication that I provided misleading testimony is patently false and does a disservice to those men and women on the front lines who have been unfairly disciplined for a team, rather than individual, failure,” Cheatle said.
They did their best.
It was a failure alright but not in the way they are painting it.
But when individuals were subpoenaed, Paul said, “no one would actually admit to being in charge of security for Butler.”
There’s a shocker.
Obligatory.
Was there a committee?
Am I the only one here who thinks that there is nothing much there on the Epstein files? I certainly believe there may have been something there six years ago, but at this point, no. There may be lists of names, but how much evidence is there? I’d say little to none, especially looking at how the Feds were operating at the end of Trumps first term and all through Biden’s. And that’s not even saying I trust them right now. One thing I would say is fairly certain, that as much as the lefties want, Trump’s name is not on any of those “lists” or we would have heard of it by now. I am also of the opinions that Epstein very well could have killed himself. Then again maybe he didn’t.
Whether he offed himself or not is a red herring. Plenty of people have killed themselves for less though so it’s likely that’s just what happened.
Otoh, plenty of people have been snuffed by the Clintons.
I’m sticking with I don’t know. I am perfectly willing to believe there are thousands of hours of video with important people banging teen hookers, and perfectly willing to believe there aren’t. The thing is all of this is basically projection. It’s a deliberately amorphous story, so everyone hearing it projects their prejudices about various flavors of VIP onto it. True believer Dems think there are cabinets full of video of Republicans and Billionaires; true believer Repubs think they are full of Democrats and other Billionaires; people like us who hate all politicians think they are full of both. But basically everyone from Epstein on who had custody of the stuff had motives to destroy or redact it, and we don’t really know what was there to start with.
“Am I the only one here who thinks that there is nothing much there on the Epstein files? I certainly believe there may have been something there six years ago, but at this point, no.”
Statutes of limitations aside, I don’t think there is enough to convict anyone important. If they whacked Epstein to keep him from talking, why would they leave evidence of the same?
“Trump’s name is not on any of those “lists” or we would have heard of it by now. ”
I agree. That, and underage girls don’t seem to be his thing.
+1 Stormy Daniels
He does seem to prefer late 20 somethings with big milkers.
I’m with you on this one. When they raided his island, wasn’t there some mysterious boat they were loading things onto? I think they either destroyed the evidence, or some government agency (not necessarily the US) has it all in a mountain deeper than an Iranian nuke lab. No way there is anything in a file cabinet at the Hoover building. I think it’s just too late at this point.
They can produce flight logs, but he was also doing some shady investment things so how would you know if someone was there for the girls, or to find out how to do offshore banking?
Yup, I think the most likely at this point is that they have not all that much. What are they going to do, release a bunch of names with no evidence they did anything illegal? Bondi majorly f’d this up. They should have said they were looking for any evidence for six months and then released what they did while saying we expected to find more and didn’t.
My take:
Epstein was one of many blackmail/influence ops run by various governments/intel agencies over the decades.
There was a lot in his files. A lot. That’s how blackmail/influence ops work. And we know the files were voluminous, because the FBI actually admitted they were.
Those files have not been destroyed. That’s not how blackmail/influence ops work. They will also never be released, because that is also not how blackmail/influence ops work.
The upper reaches of society and government are rotten with horrible people, because you can’t run a blackmail/influence op on good people.
This strikes me as the most likely explanation that accounts for the available facts in light of human nature and organizational incentives.
“Consider gene editing as well. If one country achieves the ability to genetically engineer its citizens to boost their intelligence, reflexes, or whatever else, it could have an enormous advantage over other nations, and not only in wartime. How, then, could any adversary fail to do the same? It couldn’t, not without jeopardizing its own security, even if doing so requires abusing its own citizens. Here too, then, the security dilemma is apposite. As the bioethicist Françoise Baylis has suggested, “There is reason to expect that the science will seed fierce competition among research teams, for-profit companies, and nation states. . . similar to that which characterized the twentieth century’s space race and nuclear arms race.”
Such a race may be only speculative for now, given both the early state of gene-editing technology and widespread aversion at the thought of where it may lead. But we should not count on either constraint lasting long—after all, Americans are already selecting for desirable features in their children through embryo screening in the lab. Any aversion to gene editing will likely crumble in the face of a geopolitical imperative. For the technological security dilemma suggests that only one nation will need to start experimenting on its citizens before every competing nation will find itself strategically compelled to do the same.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/eat-your-ai-slop-or-china-wins
A national security argument for genetically engineered catgirls?
*subscribes to newsletter*
Kahn!!!
Didnt some guy with a funny little mustache go down this road already?
Genetic engineering didn’t exist then.
+1 Gattaca
Gattaca was the goal, Idiocracy the result.
King of vacuous platitudes
“What’s being asked of us is make some effort to stand up for the things that you think are right. And be willing to be a little bit uncomfortable in defense of your values, and in defense of the country, and in defense of the world that you want to leave to your children and your grandchildren,” Obama said.
“And if we all do that — if we do our jobs over the next year and a half — then I think we will rebuild momentum, and we will position ourselves to get this country moving in the direction it should.”
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“Stop looking for the quick fix. Stop looking for the messiah. You have great candidates running races right now. Support those candidates,” Obama said, saying the off-year elections in New Jersey and Virginia could be “a big jump-start for where we need to go.”
Your job is to funnel money into our slush funds. Get to work.
“in defense of your values”
I think those values are the actual problem.
We probably shouldn’t skate past the “be willing to be a little bit uncomfortable” part, either. Is this another wink at violence/disruption?
Stop looking for the messiah.
I was your messiah, and look at what it got you.
I’m sticking with I don’t know.
I’m sticking with I don’t fucking care.
Just as long as the proles get their Two Minute Hate on.
Yeah I mean, the bad people implicated are really sorry and probably won’t do anything like it again.
What are the odds the press will breathlessly wail about “flash flooding” every time a storm drain backs up for the next six months?
This is worth a watch. How much weight you give it is up to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaoGl-soL1g
“(Yeah, I was surprised by the presence of those lobbyists among the identitarian left, and I bet they were too. Vance and other right-wing hysterics claim to believe that pharmaceutical companies are pushing a pro-trans agenda in order to reap vast fortunes off hormone therapies and other medications related to gender transition.)”
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/13/whos-a-true-american-and-who-decides-jd-vance-has-answers/
Pharmaceutical companies funding a trans kid agenda is well-documented.
Get ‘em at a young age and they’re locked in for life to various expensive treatments and meds. There’s no way the pharmaceutical industry would do something like that.
I remember when the left was after big pharma for their “obscene profits”, and for “taking advantage” of poor people. Ever since the COVID shots (which generated record “obscene profits” BTW), the left just loves them some big pharma.
The left learned how Big Pharma could be a tool of control. Why wouldn’t they love that?
The Left has come up with kookier shit than that. I remember some article pointing out that some mutual fund includes both healthcare conglomerates and gun companies, so they must be flooding the civilian market with guns so that more shootings will happen, then the healthcare companies can make money.
Because apparently, the gangbanger shooting victims (which comprise a huge chunk of shootings in the US) bust out their Blue Cross Blue Shield card and always come back to the hospital the next day to pay their copay.
There oughtta be a panic
The new research found that the rate of poisonings involving nicotine pouches among kids under 6 rose from 0.48 per 100,000 children in 2020 to 4.14 per 100,000 in 2023.
That’s an increase of 763% in just three years — a startling finding that correlates with a surge in sales of nicotine pouches.
Nicotine pouches — which users tuck between their lip and gum and later discard — can contain as much as 6 milligrams of nicotine, a stimulant, and have been promoted as tobacco-free, spit-free and hands-free alternatives to cigarettes and chewing tobacco.
Children will die.
Nicotine is a chemical that’s highly toxic and could easily exceed a fatal dose in small children, according to a 2013 study.
The chemical increases heart rate and blood pressure, and could lead to nausea, vomiting or even coma, the study authors wrote.
Most cases included in the new research weren’t serious enough to warrant medical attention. But 39 children had significant side effects, like trouble breathing and seizures, said Natalie Rine, an author of the new study and director of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus.
And let that be a lesson to you.
Now do dihydrogen monoxide’s effects on children.
So poisonings, but no deaths? This is the modern version of taking a puff from one of Dad’s cigarettes when he wasn’t looking, and nearly choking to death.
“could easily exceed a fatal dose in small children”
So how many have actually died from it?
*scrolls article*
Ah, there it is. Two. From drinking vape fluid. Not from the nicotine pouches that the article is mostly about.
*closes tab, moves on*
Saw the first of the hospital bills from the wife’s stay. I thought it would be bad, but holy hell.
Even with insurance, our medical bills are crazy, and neither of us is seriously sick. Just PT and chiro for wear and tear. Plus I had that colonoscopy, with my share being $800, and now I need a redo.
Sorry to hear you’re getting stuck with this.
Plus I had that colonoscopy … and now I need a redo.
Someone has a crush on you.
The pre-adjusted bill?
*directs Gustave to recent post about crowdfunded health expenses*
https://www.glibertarians.com/2025/07/not-health-insurance/