248 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    So going all in on Russia Russia Russia to distract from Epstein?

    • Drake

      Or Tulsi just has a lot more guts than Bondi.

      • juris imprudent

        C’mon you guys are just playing right along. Has everyone forgotten this?

        In a stunning interview on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, former Secret Service agent and current Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino dropped a bombshell that could reignite scrutiny of the FBI under former Director James Comey. Bongino revealed that his team recently uncovered previously hidden FBI documents from Comey’s tenure — and the details could be explosive.

        Granted, that was all the way back at the end of May, so it is easily forgotten.

    • invisible finger

      Seems like the common theme is falsified evidence.

    • R C Dean

      Or maybe the Dem and media uproar on Epstein after Bondi’s botched announcement was to distract from Russiagate?

      • Common Tater

        Much of it was coming from the right though.

    • AlexinCT

      May I ask what information you think they have to release, and what that will do? Will anything short of that belief that there are thousands of people on some magic list satisfy the people still demanding a release?

      I am not being difficult, but the way I see things, I am certain there is nothing that can be released that will be accepted by the people with their own niche conspiracy theories unless it 100% validates whatever crazy shit they believe.

      And yes, I totally agree they absolutely botched the whole thing, and Pam Bondi should lose her job, but this thing is a waste of time otherwise.

      • DrOtto

        You mean the crazy idea he was an intelligence asset using honeypots against politicians? That crazy idea? Let’s ask Prince Andrew to weigh in with his thoughts.

      • juris imprudent

        Never mind that not everyone who went to the island f*&ked some teenage girl.

      • AlexinCT

        You mean the crazy idea he was an intelligence asset using honeypots against politicians? That crazy idea? Let’s ask Prince Andrew to weigh in with his thoughts.

        Wait, you still think this was not already confirmed? If you didn’t hear them kinda admit this already, the fact they suddenly don’t want to release more should all but make you certain the man was an intel asset. Or is it that you desperately want him to be linked to some foreign intel agency instead of our CIA/NSA?

        And I am specifically talking about the nutjobs that think Epstein served a powerful cabal of elites that belonged to some demonic entity in charge of grooming humanity into fucking kids, and demand the list of those people so they can confirm their inlaws are on it.

      • AlexinCT

        Never mind that not everyone who went to the island f*&ked some teenage girl.

        I suspect there are people that might have seen the whole island visit as a setup and avoided it for sure. I am also sure they wouldn’t avoid fucking the kids, even when they realized this was a honey trap, if they were democrats.

      • juris imprudent

        a powerful cabal of elites

        Could it be… Satan?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, Otto, he was strawmanning the shit out of that. Arguing against the implausible to distract against the plausible isn’t the best tactic.

      • AlexinCT

        Could it be… Satan?

        I am sure he is out there doing his thing. After all, marxism is his great creation. But from what I have seen by those that look down upon the whole concept of a higher power, they do not need any outside prodding to justify evil behavior at all.

  2. Common Tater

    “Trump Threatens to Block Stadium Deal Unless Washington Commanders Restores Old Name”

    LOL

    • juris imprudent

      He so often manages to be right, for the wrong reason.

      • AlexinCT

        I can live with that. Especially when it angers all the right people.

    • Rat on a train

      Washington Football Team?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I’m still holding out for Washington War Pigs.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Washington Team, Football.

        Or, WTF.

    • EvilSheldon

      Go back to Washington Redskins, same color scheme, same logo, but change out the Indian head for a big ol’ redskin potato.

      • B.P.

        This is the way.

        Also, maybe Trump could hone his focus a little and stop dicking around with cola recipes and such.

      • EvilSheldon

        And maybe circa-1998 Thandie Newton and Mia Sorvino will call me up today to schedule that threesome.

  3. juris imprudent

    I want to see what’s under those redactions – classified by WHOM and derived from WHAT.

    • Rat on a train

      Classified by Top Men sourced from their asses.

      • juris imprudent

        We should see at least the names – who said this, and to whom.

      • R C Dean

        Redacting all the names does not exactly inspire confidence in accountability.

      • juris imprudent

        Yep, it instead assures that we aren’t going to hold anyone accountable, not even the putative targets.

    • The Last American Hero

      It grinds on me that there is a highly classified version that members of Congress are not allowed to see.

      I get that you don’t want it passed around to every staffer with an ax to grind, but this is bullshit.

  4. Shpip

    Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., whose committee is leading a probe into the incident, told Just the News. Chief among the unknowns: the would-be assassin’s motivation.

    To be fair, the would-be assassin caught a .300 WinMag upside the noggin about ten seconds after he started firing, so no one can ask him.

    Say what you will about the protective detail, but the counter-snipers know their business.

    • Suthenboy

      A guy who was seen by numerous people, was suspicious as hell and the cops were told there is a man on a roof with a rifle was shot ten seconds AFTER he opened fire.

      Everything about that incident stinks like hell and none of the explanations seem plausible. Here is a thought, just a thought mind you, but what if the story is so thin because Trump was not supposed to be elected and have his people look into it?
      Before you put on your tin foil hat consider that all of the other revelations in the link turn out to be what we tin foil hatters were saying the whole time. The only thing surprising about them is that the scum that did it were stupid enough to do it documented it…again, not expecting Trump’s people to be looking into it.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I think it is kinda clear: he wanted to kill Trump.

      Anything else is just icing on the cake.

    • The Last American Hero

      I’m still on Team “It’d be a damn shame if we left a few gaps in the security net. Why some unhinged nut could just get in here and do something terrible.”

      Every member on that detail should not only be fired and banned from government service, but the so-called leadership should face criminal charges for being so bad at their job.

      • Threedoor

        This.

        I suggest this for every major, and most minor government screwups.

        Banned from public sector jobs for life is the ultimate punishment for their kind.

  5. Common Tater

    ‘Documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) show that prior to the infamous Oct. 4, 2021, “domestic terrorist” memo from former Attorney General Merrick Garland, staff were looking for any possible way to go after parents concerned with coronavirus mandates, critical race theory, and “transgender” policies.”

    Good thing that asshole isn’t on the Supreme Court.

    • juris imprudent

      I really hate having to praise Sen. Turtlehead for that.

      • Suthenboy

        This. We really dodged a bullet there….so I guess he gets a pass on the floggings.

  6. Common Tater

    “A Rasmussen poll conducted just two weeks ago found 60 percent of Democrat voters and 45 percent of “moderates” still believe “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.””

    OFFS!!

    • Rat on a train

      They also believe real socialism hasn’t been tried.

      • juris imprudent

        And that THEIR taxes pay for all the good things and the only reason we don’t have better results is OTHER PEOPLE aren’t paying enough.

    • rhywun

      Propaganda works.

      • Suthenboy

        We are herd animals so a certain amount of stupidity is an evolutionary adaptation.

      • AlexinCT

        The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

  7. Shpip

    The Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025 broke the record for the costliest fire insurance losses in history, with the insured losses alone reaching $40 billion, according to a new report.

    Folks in coastal Florida have been complaining about the cost of insurance after a slew of hurricanes in the past ten years. Eventually the market will sort itself out.

    Don’t buy a shanty in a hurricane zone. Don’t buy a flammable house in a wildfire zone. Or you can, just be ready to pay the price — via insurance or on your own.

    • juris imprudent

      It will be interesting, the collapse in CA real estate when there are no property insurance providers (given the state won’t allow them to balance losses against premiums).

      • Suthenboy

        Khrushchevkas dont require insurance.

      • Fourscore

        Need government fire care insurance.

        Call it MandatoryNewsomCare

      • AlexinCT

        Well, they solve that by having government own everything. Including the serfs…

      • Suthenboy

        I would ask “If they were deliberately trying to turn CA into a communist shithole what would they do differently?” but we all know that is exactly what they are doing.

      • AlexinCT

        To be honest, the people affected are practically all rabid left wing idiots that, to virtue signal, gave big money and voted for the people that gave them these policies, regulations, and rules that will now fuck them in the ass, and I am cool with that side effect. I just want to make sure it stays in CA for those fools to suffer.

      • The Last American Hero

        It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Those people were mostly wealthy liberals who brought this shit on themselves, but don’t forget – they are also the “socialism for thee but not for me” crowd and they have money. I wonder if the next election may see a temporary hard tack to the right so they can rebuild their homes.

  8. Ted S.

    Having fun listening to a bunch of Swiss journalists whine that a Japanese political party has the “wrong” views on the sort of multiculturalism that hasn’t exactly been a benefit to Europe.

    • Ted S.

      And why did Japan schedule a national election for the day before a public holiday?

    • rhywun

      If there is one thing leftists are good at it’s ignoring evidence that is front of their eyes.

    • Rat on a train

      Lead by example, Switzerland. Open up to the horde. Don’t complain when the horde outvotes you and changes your culture.

    • PieInTheSky

      if they are leftists it matters not they be Swiss, whine they will regardless

    • AlexinCT

      Comply you xenophobes!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I blame John Lennon, and, by the transitive property, all Beatles fans.

      • dbleagle

        Zwak is more correct that you know.

  9. Common Tater

    “A North Carolina model, who said she hasn’t been on a date in almost a year, blames her good looks for intimating men from striking up a conversation with her.

    “It’s difficult being this hot,” the single woman told Jam Press. “Men think I’m too beautiful to date or worry that I’ll turn them down.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/lifestyle/why-single-men-arent-approaching-women-in-person-anymore/

    They’re just overwhelmed by your humility.

    • rhywun

      I think the NY Post employs a “journalist” who does nothing but write that story over and over again.

    • Ted S.

      Who’s trying to promote something with this story.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Any selfies on Insta is automatically a ‘model’ in a journalists eyes

    • Drake

      Did you follow the link to her pictures? They are overwhelmed all right.

      • slumbrew

        *clicks*

        Gaaah! My eyes!

        “model” is doing a lot of work there.

        Though Très may be interested.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That will light the Tres signal

      • The Other Kevin

        I kept looking for a super hot model, but they must have made a mistake and used photos of some woman who is at best a 7.5.

      • Fourscore

        I’d hate to take her to dinner, have to get a second job first

      • bacon-magic

        Tres-bait.

      • Tres Cool

        She’s size-appropriate (maybe a little light) but not with that cunty attitude.

    • Rat on a train

      Is she modelling as a before in weight loss advertisements?

      • Tres Cool

        10 years from now she’ll be seen chain smoking menthols, with a couple of mixed kids an arm’s length away

    • Fourscore

      AOC, it that you?

    • DrOtto

      Intimating? Strange word for that sentence. I assume she meant intimidate. I would suggest it’s the combination of her being fat and high maintenance that is keeping her from getting laid. Here’s a piece of advice for her “eager beats pretty”.

      • Threedoor

        A fat friend of mine said that in a fight her move was to knock the opponent down and down and sit on them.

    • juris imprudent

      It’s difficult being this hotdelusional.

      Poor thing.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      She’s just going out too early. She needs to be at the bars closer to closing time.

      • ron73440

        “I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I sure woke up with a few”

        -Bobby Bare

  10. Common Tater

    “A Florida “predator” was given a slap on the wrist after pleading guilty to luring rich men to hotels, pepper-spraying them, and robbing them of their luxury watches.

    Esther Torres, 20, avoided jail time and was sentenced to five years’ probation on Wednesday following two incidents where she isolated the men and sprayed them, robbing one of an expensive Hugo Boss watch, and another of a luxurious $22,000 Rolex watch in late March, Law & Crime reported….

    Police said Torres had a child in her car when she was taken in. The child in the vehicle was picked up before she was taken to jail.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/florida-predator-esther-torres-given-probation-for-pepper-spraying-rich-men-and-stealing-luxury-watches-off-their-wrists/

    We need to stop women using children as children as get out of jail free cards.

    • Sean

      I thought Florida was tough on crime.

      • AlexinCT

        If you are a Florida man, you get railroaded. But if you are a woman, the legal system seems to treat you with kid gloves. And that is not just in FL.

    • Ted S.

      +1 Sophia Loren in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    • Cunctator

      –“We need to stop women using children as children as get out of jail free cards.”–

      I remember an old Sophia Loren (or Gina Lollobrigida, it was a long time ago). It was set in Italy and there was a law that pregnant women or women with children under two years old (I think) were not sent to jail. I forget the crime she was convicted of, but she kept getting pregnant every two years so she wouldn’t have to go to jail.

      • Ted S.

        Ieri, Oggi e Domani

    • slumbrew

      an expensive Hugo Boss watch

      They retail for about $300. She probably got $30 for it.

      She needs to pick her marks better.

    • Suthenboy

      Love the smirk.

      I am guessing the case is weak…as in the men probably want this to go away quietly.

    • PieInTheSky

      Hugo Boss watch – no one with any taste would buy that

      • Ted S.

        I don’t know…. They had good taste in uniforms.

      • bacon-magic

        The watch makes sure the train runs on time.

    • DrOtto

      Lol

      • juris imprudent

        Dude – this is serious, they’re threatening to sit out the rest of the season!!! [breaks into giggles]

      • AlexinCT

        Laugh all you want JI. When they realize nobody serious gives a fuck, they will demand retribution against all of us!!!11!!!

    • Rat on a train

      I encourage the WNBA players to strike until they are paid as much as NBA players.

      • The Last American Hero

        Why don’t they just join the NBA? I mean, if I play baseball and want to command an MLB salary, it would make sense to join and MLB team.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Why don’t they just join the NBA? I mean, if I play baseball and want to command an MLB salary, it would make sense to join and MLB team.

        Given that misogynist ideas about sex-based differences in sports have now been thoroughly debunked by Muh Science (Which I Fucking Love), that sounds like a great idea.

  11. Common Tater

    “What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years — at least half of the DOT’s entire budget for a typical fiscal year, records show….

    Programs such as “Justice40” ended up shelling out 55% of around $150 billion in infrastructure investments to “disadvantaged communities,” pursuant to an executive order Biden signed to “advance equitable outcomes.”

    Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure law in 2021 provided much of the funding, but some Democrats were critical of the outcomes — including a $5 billion equity effort to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations that resulted in just seven being built by June 2024.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/pete-buttigiegs-dot-spent-80-billion-on-dei-grants-delayed-air-traffic-control-upgrades-records-industry-insiders/

    So handing out money to NGO’s?

    • Rat on a train

      They needed to care for their people before they even considered caring for the people.

    • rhywun

      One of the more lucrative grifts the left had running.

      “Infrastructure” is a bottomless pit into which you can never get tired of throwing money. Ask Gavin Newsome.

      • juris imprudent

        We can have high speed rail, for only another $100B or so!

    • Suthenboy

      They are not supposed to actually accomplish anything beyond sucking up money and passing it out to their friends. It is as simple as that.

      • juris imprudent

        In their eyes, all of the right people are profiting.

      • AlexinCT

        Part of the whole “Hope and Change” shitshow was the creation of a new economy based on people with useless college degrees making bank shuffling papers in the name of whatever globalist big government agenda the government shoveled the tax payer lucre it stole towards.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      “an executive order Biden signed”

      LOL. Pull the other one.

      • dbleagle

        They didn’t say WHICH biden signed it.

      • juris imprudent

        So, The Hat and The Hair, and the Pen?

  12. Common Tater

    “‘The model, who has over 700,000 followers on Instagram, hit out at women who, in her opinion, ‘act weak’ and ‘can barely cook a meal, let alone catch their own dinner.’

    If you’re prepping for an apocalypse or any kind of emergency, everyone should have a water filter straw and a large stainless steel knife,’ she said.

    ‘With just those two things, you can survive anywhere.’

    In addition, Emily said she personally has a ‘collection of firearms’ as well as a gas mask, a Geiger counter – which detects radiation – and adult toys tucked away.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14923321/survivalist-slams-women-basic-survival-skills.html

    No one is following her for her survival tips.

    • PieInTheSky

      that is a fine fish… fine fish

    • DrOtto

      “Follow me for tips on where to get lip filler in a post-apocalyptic world”

      • (((Jarflax

        “Follow me for tips on where to get lip filler in a post-apocalyptic world”

        Kiss a bee.

      • PieInTheSky

        a wasp is reusable

    • juris imprudent

      femail? Is that intentional self parody?

    • Suthenboy

      She is making a shit-ton of money off of her fans. Good for her but the ‘survivalist’ shtick is just that…an act.

      The hard truth is that if the SHTF hard resources, including wildlife will disappear pretty quickly. That will be followed by mass starvation, cannibalism and savagery that hasn’t been seen since the neolithic. The human population will drop precipitously to about 1/10,000 of what it is now. Yes, I just pulled that number out of my ass.

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s about knowing where to go for resources. Me? I’m headed for that compound that Bill Gates is trying to build.

        Zuck was smart and built his layer in Hawaii, so it’s hard to access without modern tech.

      • Tres Cool

        “Now, she often gets up at the crack of dawn to track down a deer – which she shoots and skins herself – before enjoying a wild swim or fishing in the nude. ”

        Sounds like a pretty full day.

    • AlexinCT

      No one is following her for her survival tips.

      HEY!

      I resemble that remark..

  13. PieInTheSky

    What difference at this point does it make?

    • AlexinCT

      Bitch Please!

      Hillary needs to make my new license plates!

  14. Common Tater

    Still no picture of that alleged Trump drawing.

    • DrOtto

      They missed the manufacturing deadline.

    • juris imprudent

      It’s with the piss tapes, and literally connected to Fusion GPS.

  15. The Other Kevin

    I thought Tulsi has been quiet, turns out she was saving up for something big.

    • AlexinCT

      She definitely was not pulling a Pam Bondi and fucking this up royally. And I remind you Kash Patel had mentioned a few months back that something YUGE was coming. I believe everyone thought it was Epstein related because everyone seems to have that on the brain, but I suspected it was this. While I also believe that the Pulitzer prize winning legacy media will avoid the story until they have to defend the criminals involved, I believe that these criminals will just use stall tactics in the hope of holding Trump off until they can fortify the next election, and then nothing will happen. But Trump should start worrying about them taking a third shot at him.

      • juris imprudent

        You haven’t looked at the redactions. She’s fucked it up – very carefully, to protect a lot of people that should be exposed.

      • AlexinCT

        You haven’t looked at the redactions. She’s fucked it up – very carefully, to protect a lot of people that should be exposed.

        Hopefully for now..

      • juris imprudent

        Oh Alex are you holding out for Bongino’s exposé on Comey too?

      • AlexinCT

        Oh Alex are you holding out for Bongino’s exposé on Comey too?

        As I said: I will settle for Obama’s legacy and the stupid claims he was scandal free to all vanish and everyone to see him for the crooked fuck he is.

      • juris imprudent

        everyone to see him

        Don’t hold your breath.

    • Suthenboy

      Question: Will there be prosecutions?

      • AlexinCT

        You can bet your ass the democrats will make sure that isn’t allowed. Only they can commit crimes and get away with those, and also accuse others of fake crimes and prosecute them. After all, republicans are spineless shit. And that is why they got Trump. Unfortunately, he can’t get that done, because the machine won’t let it happen.

      • juris imprudent

        Why don’t you tell me exactly what law they violated? Unethical doesn’t always mean illegal.

      • AlexinCT

        Why don’t you tell me exactly what law they violated? Unethical doesn’t always mean illegal.

        Soft couping a president elected by the American people simply cause you hate said people I think qualifies for the charge of sedition.

      • juris imprudent

        Sedition? Really? Why not treason?

      • AlexinCT

        Sedition? Really? Why not treason?

        Because the bar for treason is different and much higher?

        What they did definitely meets the requirement for sedition. While they will try to hem & haw about it all, they meet that bar easily. And while some might even meet the bar for treason, well, that is for the DOJ to deal with.

      • juris imprudent

        Sedition is a bullshit law/charge, at all times and in all places.

  16. DrOtto

    Obama made Nixon look like a piker, but there is no way he’ll ever be held accountable. He’s too articulate and bright and clean.

    • juris imprudent

      “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy”

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^^THIS^^^^

        I will settle for his “legacy” and the lying fucker’s claim he was scandal free and a great leader to all be wrecked permanently, since I doubt they will be able to ;lock that fuck up as it should be.

      • (((Jarflax

        This will change nothing. The people who love him will ignore it or assume it is falsified. The people who hate him already assumed all of this was true. Our ‘betters’ have corrupted the concept of evidence and fairness in reporting to the point where nothing breaks through our bubbles of confirmation bias and positive reinforcement of beliefs.

      • The Last American Hero

        One of the worst outcomes of the press becoming full on propagandists is that even if the big 3 news networks starting covering it seriously and legitimately is that nobody watches or believes them much anymore either.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m willing to bet that a network that called out the lies of both sides could attract a sizable audience. I’m also willing to lose the money on that bet, and probably will.

  17. Common Tater

    “Rep. Mark Harris (R-N.C.) wants better for America’s youth. “The National Education Association’s time is over,” he said Wednesday, announcing new legislation to remove NEA’s congressional charter, which it has had since 1906. “They call themselves a teachers’ union, but their true mission is clear: indoctrinating our children with toxic propaganda.”

    Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) agreed with him. Revoking NEA’s congressional charter would “send a strong message” that the “federal government… no longer endorses the extremist politics or the damage they’re doing to our nation and to our education system.”

    https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/18/congressmen-aim-to-un-charter-woke-teachers-union-n4941876

    No idea why college-educated employees would need a labor union in the first place. Teachers don’t do labor.

    • juris imprudent

      What Congress giveth, Congress can taketh away.

    • AlexinCT

      Globalist marxist indoctrination is hard work, yo…

    • Suthenboy

      I am betting Trump would sign that so fast his pen would catch fire.

      • The Other Kevin

        And definitely not with an auto pen.

    • rhywun

      “They call themselves a teachers’ union, but their true mission is clear: indoctrinating our children with toxic propaganda.”

      What is “laundering money to elect Democrats”, chopped liver?

      • (((Jarflax

        Pate, chopped liver is for proles and Jews.

      • rhywun

        It just seems to me that the GOP should run with “criminal money laundering operation” which can be objectively proven rather than the subjective “toxic propaganda” route that will probably fail.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        In other words, they should RICO them, being a criminal enterprise.

        I like it.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Not only did Alex Palou not win yesterday, he didn’t even finish in the top ten. Sometimes your pit strategy doesn’t pan out. His lead has dwindled to a paltry 100 points.

    • PieInTheSky

      is that American circle driving or something else?

      • juris imprudent

        It’s driving at speeds the F1 crowd can’t handle.

      • juris imprudent

        CotA is an F1 course, not an oval, correct?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Group B rally drivers laugh at both F1 and Indy car “racers”

  19. Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

    F’n Microsoft. My network credentials have been locked. I can’t access any of my network directories or the stupid cloud. This seems to happen every Monday and sometimes during the week. The IT help desk is swamped. FML

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Have some doom porn propaganda with your corn flakes

    Once synonymous with leisure and reprieve, summer has increasingly become a season marked by anxiety and disruption. Fossil fuel pollution — alongside other compounding factors — has transformed these months into a time of mounting peril, punctuated by relentless heat waves, rampant wildfires and catastrophic flooding.

    ——-

    Some of these floods resulted from rainfall that has a return frequency of about 1,000 years, meaning it has just a 0.1% chance of occurring in any given year. But climate change is loading the dice in favor of extreme precipitation.

    “When we talk about e.g. ‘1000 year’ events, we’re talking about the likelihood of these events in the absence of human-caused warming (i.e. how often we would expect them from natural variability alone),” said climate scientist Michael Mann of the University of Pennsylvania. “These events are of course much more frequent *because* of human-caused warming,” he said in an email.

    But his research has identified other factors, such as persistent large-scale weather patterns known as “atmospheric resonance,” that can make extreme weather, including floods, even more likely. Just as sound waves or ocean waves can resonate and reinforce each other, atmospheric resonance can happen to undulating jet stream patterns in the upper atmosphere, resulting in weather systems that stay in place for weeks.

    A recent study Mann worked on found such weather patterns have tripled in incidence since the mid-20th century during the summer months. The problem is these patterns are “not necessarily well-captured in climate models,” he said. This increases uncertainty about future projections for extreme weather trends.

    How do we reach these ignorant plebs? The truth is right there in front of them. Fossil fuels are evil and must be abandoned immediately.

    • Suthenboy

      Unfalsifiable assertions and outright lies. Amazing that these shitbirds are making money at this.

      • juris imprudent

        I thought they weren’t making money?

      • Fourscore

        It’s always about the money. That’s why it’s called research. Always just a little we need to learn.

        It’s sort of like communism.

      • Common Tater

        The science is settled so they need more money for research.

    • Rat on a train

      summer has increasingly become a season marked by anxiety and disruption
      Cutting USAID funding may reduce the length and intensity of the riot season.

      • Fourscore

        Is there a point where excessive heat tends to reduce the length and intensity of the riot season?
        I’m sort of thinking a -20 or -30 would put a damper on outside activities of this nature.

        A little money for research would go a long ways in identifying the Riot Factors.

      • R.J.

        Factor 1: Money.

        That’s it. These riots don’t happen without some money stolen from us and repurposed to fund communism. They would just steal enough money to provide air conditioned riot suits if it got hotter.

    • rhywun

      Michael Mann LOL

      • Suthenboy

        I did take note of that. Ehrlich and Mann are both sinister fabulists but Mann’s lies I think have done more damage. Why anyone listens to what either has to say is a mystery to me.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    “Whether a downpour turns into a catastrophic flood depends on a lot of things: how porous the ground is, the topography of the area, the people and things in harm’s way. But there is absolutely no doubt that climate change, caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases, is making extreme rainfall more extreme.”

    I thought the planet was running out of water. I can’t keep up.

    • rhywun

      Science!

    • Suthenboy

      “…there is no doubt that…”, “…we can agree that…”

      These are what are known as ‘tells’.

    • juris imprudent

      First strike – he’s a Congress-critter. Second strike – he’s a Democrat. Third strike – he’s from the state that elects Sheldon Whitehouse to the Senate.

      • The Other Kevin

        They usually send someone out there for counter-messaging. It’s usually Schiff or Goldman but in this case, the guy is on the intelligence committee so that gives him some fake credibility.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m sure that to plenty of rather stupid people, he’s very credible.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I think that Schiff and Goldman have burned whatever credibility they might have, at one time, had.

        Time for a new round of useful idiots. I see Hakeeeeeeeeem Jefferies is starting to make noise…

    • The Other Kevin

      At National Review they’re calling the documents “frivolous”. Also not too surprising.

      • juris imprudent

        Hahaha

        I wrote a book about it, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. There have been multiple extensive investigations and government reports since then, but what I argued in the book is that the real collusion was between the Clinton campaign and Obama administration officials to put the government’s law enforcement and intelligence apparatus in the service of Democratic Party objectives.

        I guess not too many people bought his book. But I will say, this reinforces the point that you have to stretch the law to file charges. I kinda thought we weren’t in favor of that kind of abuse of prosecutorial power.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        But what does the Bulwark say? They seem to be on top of…

        Sorry, couldn’t keep it going, I was laughing too hard.

    • creech

      “Move along folks, nothing to see here.” Or maybe, “Why waste millions of the taxpayers’ money to investigate something that happened a decade ago?” The potential “waste of money” always seems a good tactic: it’s apparently being used by some in the Libertarian Party to hand wave away the allegation that the previous Chair misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the coffers are so low they can’t pursue the matter legally.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Why would the Russians choose wild card upstart Donald Trump over seasoned predictable globalist Hillary Clinton?

    • The Other Kevin

      And after she pressed the Reset button!

    • Common Tater

      So people on Saturday Night Live can sing about the Mueller report?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Another HR crisis

    “Quiet cracking” is the latest buzzword to describe a lack of fulfillment at work — often as it pertains to job satisfaction, workloads or the potential for growth, among other factors. And unlike “quiet quitting,” it might not necessarily manifest in an employee’s performance — just their happiness.

    “I mostly see it in my students who are graduating college, and starting their careers with a lot of energy and enthusiasm,” said Wayne Hochwarter, a senior professor at Florida State University’s College of Business. “Then, three or five years in … they begin to ask, ‘Am I really enjoying this? Do I think this is the path to get me where I want to get?’”

    It’s not just younger members of the workforce who feel disengaged, either. A recent survey from TalentLMS, a company that offers training resources for businesses, found that over half of the respondents experienced “quiet cracking” at their jobs, with about 20% saying they experience it “constantly.”

    You won’t have to worry about work/life balance when AI takes your job.

    • Common Tater

      Stop making up words.

    • PieInTheSky

      Am I really enjoying this? – its work it is not meant to be enjoyed

      Do I think this is the path to get me where I want to get? – being able to afford coke and hookers? yes if you are productive enough.

    • rhywun

      “I hate my job” is totally something nobody used to say in the good old days.

      • PieInTheSky

        So I hated my job before it was cool to?

      • The Other Kevin

        Yes but did they have a new-fangled buzz word to describe it?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (fictional) Drew Carey: “You think you’re alone in hating your job? There’s a support group. We meet at the bar.”

    • rhywun

      lack of fulfillment at work

      After decades of propaganda telling kids they can do “anything” and “have it all”… what a surprise.

      • Fourscore

        Can’t wait ’til I can get a factory job. It’s all I ever wanted, putting small things in plastic bags and sending them to the next station, where the college kids can box ’em up and send them out to our fellow Americans.

    • AlexinCT

      These people are stupid.

      • PieInTheSky

        these?

      • AlexinCT

        People complaining about having to work when they are always replaceable.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Hochwarter, also a distinguished research professor at United Arab Emirates University, said he often sees issues of disengagement crop up in the healthcare industry. Many nurses he’s spoken with, he said, feel they aren’t doing as much nursing as before, but instead spending a significant amount of time on bureaucratic tasks or learning new record-keeping software. He imagines there are similar issues for educators, and especially teachers who are being instructed to “teach toward tests,” and “have certain topics they can and can’t talk about.”

    Those poor teachers. They just want to focus on making the classroom experience better for the children.

  25. Common Tater

    Since when do sports team names have to make sense anyway? There are no lakes in Los Angeles or tigers in Ohio.

    • PieInTheSky

      But is there Jazz in Utah?

      • Common Tater

        Pretty sure music is illegal. Might lead to dancing.

      • juris imprudent

        You joke, but my mom joked she almost converted to LDS as a teenager because they had dances. She had been raised on Christian Science.

    • (((Jarflax

      The Bengals are actually named after the logo on a stove.

      • Tres Cool

        And the Dayton Triangles were named after 3 local businesses.

        “The team was reorganized in 1916 as a recreational football team from among the employees of three downtown Dayton factories: the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (or Delco), the Dayton Metal Products Company, and the Domestic Engineering Company (now called Delco-Light). Carl Storck, who later served as treasurer of the NFL and as acting league president from 1939 to 1941, co-sponsored the Dayton Cadets and used players recruited from the three factories to fill out the team roster. Storck would later become the team’s manager, while Bud Talbott, a Walter Camp All-American tackle and team captain at Yale University, was named the team’s coach. The team’s name was also changed to the Dayton Triangles that season.”

      • Ted S.

        It’s the tranny team: Been Gals.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    As for what can be done about the phenomenon, Gallup’s report suggested better training and coaching techniques for managers. But even Gallup acknowledged that managers were among the most disengaged employes at their own companies.

    We need to re-brand all those DEI cheerleaders and invent some new training routines.

    • rhywun

      OFFS!!!

      The taking of the knee is a powerful anti-racist act herpity derpity doo

      It’s amazing watching an entire nation swirl down the drain in real time.

      • juris imprudent

        You missed the irony – it’s a man explaining why they shouldn’t stop bending the knee.

      • Raven Nation

        Also the cognitive dissonance: racism is a big problem right now (apparently) and taking the knee is a “powerful anti-racist act” which is accomplishing very little.

        Not to worry, the Brits plan to keep locking up people who are racist.

      • rhywun

        keep locking up people who are racist

        Yup. The performative acts of fealty to BLM aren’t “working” so they are going to go full totalitarian in order to “solve” a problem that doesn’t even exist.

      • (((Jarflax

        It will exist more and more as they keep locking up the people who complain about crime for longer periods than the ones committing the crimes.

    • juris imprudent

      It’s on video.

      Why do you insist on believing your lying eyes (and ears)?

    • rhywun

      Nor was it all that believable that Colbert’s bosses would suddenly drop one of their biggest and most beloved celebrities without some more unseemly objectives in mind.

      LOL several paragraphs later they mention that he’s losing them $40 million a year.

      TDS is a bitch of a disease.

    • juris imprudent

      We really need to stop calling some of those Executive branch bureaucrats “judges”.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Amen. They used to be hearings officers, not ALJs.

    • rhywun

      I still think the masks are a terrible look but what are you gonna do when the left inevitably resorts to violence. I presume this is for the same reason.

  27. Common Tater

    “Is it unfair if a company that specializes in picking up and transporting heavy loads emphasizes hiring younger people over employing senior citizens? That’s the federal government’s position in the case of Meathead Movers, a California business that bills itself as offering “athlete movers” who are “clean-cut, strong, and professionally-trained.” The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has spent years investigating the company for age discrimination and even filed a rare agency-initiated lawsuit against the company with no individual plaintiff claiming harm. Now, Arizona’s Goldwater Institute is suing the EEOC to find out what’s behind the federal bureaucracy’s anti-meathead jihad.”

    TW:TOS

    https://reason.com/2025/07/21/feds-try-to-bankrupt-a-moving-company-for-hiring-strong-young-movers/

    TOXIC MASCULINITY!!!

    • Tres Cool

      They could hire some out of work WNBA players….

      • juris imprudent

        You want Angel Reese tossing around boxes of your possessions?

    • Suthenboy

      I am guessing the EEOC is run by Obama/Biden types who are literally waging outright war on competence and merit. If they have their way the meatheads would all look like Steven Hawking.

    • Sean

      Yeah, that’s some grade A fuckery.

    • rhywun

      clean-cut

      I can hear the alarm bells going off from here.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Life in exile

    Ellen DeGeneres has made no secret of her new British life, posting social media clips of sheep charmingly trotting into her luxury rural home while she mows the lawn of the sprawling estate, her trademark hair now natural and undyed.

    But on Sunday she confirmed for the first time that she moved to the United Kingdom permanently for one reason: the election of President Donald Trump last November.

    “We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here,” she told an audience at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, central England.

    After her long-running talk show ended amid allegations of workplace bullying, DeGeneres, 67, bought a home in England’s picturesque Cotswolds region with her wife, “Arrested Development” star Portia de Rossi, 52.

    Endeavor to persevere, ladies.

    • creech

      So Brave. Until the “Cotswolds Regional Jihad” decides it is time to put women and gays in their proper Koranical place.

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t think even a goat-fucker would be after Ellen. Portia, even in her 50s – might be another story.

    • Raven Nation

      At least she followed through unlike most other celebs.

      • juris imprudent

        Strange that England would take in someone who had created a toxic work environment.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    several paragraphs later they mention that he’s losing them $40 million a year.

    An article I saw over the weekend said Colbert’s show had a huge staff. Why do you need hundreds of [people for

    • Ted S.

      One of those people is for threading properly.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    That’s bizarre. Is there some sort of keystroke combination to trigger the “submit comment” button?

    • juris imprudent

      Everyone has a premature one now and again. If it becomes a consistent problem, see your doctor.

    • ron73440

      Even in the picture they use, he looks confused.

    • Suthenboy

      The problem, Mr.’s Barrow and Brown, is that if Joe Biden was unaware or incompetent how should we regard the legitimacy of his presidency and possibly ALL of the actions taken during their tenure? That seems like something important that we should be talking about. Were not all of the funding Trump is now trying to reduce a result of supposedly Biden funding them? And how ’bout those pardons….

    • robc

      I still hear comments about Reagan. Its been nearly 40 years since he left office, get over it.

      To be fair, I take shots at FDR now and again.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    “Everything here is just better,” DeGeneres said, while lamenting the current state of her homeland.

    “I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are. I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences,” she said. “So until we’re there, I think there’s a hard place to say we have huge progress.”

    The limeys know how to keep the rabble in their place.

    • B.P.

      Reminder: Trump was the first president to be supportive of gay marriage upon entering office.

      • robc

        Do we know that for sure? Maybe William Henry Harrison supported it too, for all we know?

  32. The Late P Brooks

    While DeGeneres appears to be enjoying an idyllic rural life, there is some evidence the grass may not be greener on the other side of the Pond.

    Though the U.K. is often vaunted for its universal free healthcare, public transportation network, and lack of mass shootings, it actually performs worse than the U.S. on a raft of quality-of-life indices measured by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which tracks such data.

    Money smooths out the rough patches.