Good morning one and all to another splendid day!
Putin demands control of key Ukrainian territory in exchange for peace
Trump to Host High-Stakes Meetings With Zelenskyy, European Leaders
Federal government to drop 300,000 workers this year
More Than 300 Arrested in Washington Amid Federal Crackdown on Crime
Trump IRS seeks to block whistleblower trial that alleges Clinton Foundation tax irregularities
Immigration Chief Reveals What He Found In Aftermath Of Biden Admin
Migrant Trucker Accused of Killing 3 on Florida Turnpike Identified
I Lost My Freedom, Money, And Guns Based On No Evidence And With No Chance To Defend Myself
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Putin demands control of key Ukrainian territory in exchange for peace”
No surprise there.
Yup… my reaction as well (well I was going to say “Surprising absolutely no one paying attention”… but close enough).
Morning all.
Doesn’t he currently hold most or all of it?
He wants it legitimized.
Yes they hold most of it and have broken through Ukrainian lines in other places.
More importantly, since those territories formally joined the Russian Federation, Putin can’t legally give the territory back. Just like Trump couldn’t give away Maine or Montana without Congress and the state agreeing.
That Crimean plebiscite of a Russian-speaking population has no weight!
If Putin doesn’t get that extra territory, he can’t agree to any peace deals. It is very simple. His oligarchs and the Russian people will kill him for this stupid war that cost Russia over a million casualties so far and has guaranteed their economy will end up wrecked sooner than later. What Russia has conquered so far after that sacrifice would be an abject failure in their minds.
So unless Putin can get a lot more, he won’t accept peace. His life depends on that.
He’s almost repeated the mistakes of 1914 France and Germany.
Sounds like he’s fine with keeping the Donbas areas and returning to the Minsk Agreements.
That 13 trillion dollars of rare earth they found recently in Ukraine was in Donbas….
All the neo-cons are going apeshit.
We spent billions of dollars on that miserable place and Putin is still in power!
Reality never slowed them down before, why would it now?
Trump is figuring out how worthless our “European Allies” are. Screaming for war against Russia, with no capacity to fight such a war.
How dare Russians elect someone we don’t approve of! They need to be like the rest of Europe!
The problem was that most of that money they “spent” was not on fighting, but on graft. The amount of that money that made its way back into NGOs and democrat campaign coffers was YUGE. The intent was never to win the war as much as to finance the machine wrecking the US.
I heard someone on the news complaining the Putin wants to install a puppet there and almost spit coffee.
“Federal government to drop 300,000 workers this year”
How far?
That would make it an extra unfortunate time to be a NASA employee…. (“I got dropped from the ISS!”)
Just a side thought on this… since if I recall correctly, some of the employment number fiddling in the PPP era was “All the growth is actually in the government / parasite sector” — but this will doubtless drive the labor statistics south (and be glossed over in reporting). Honestly don’t think “public sector” (ha!) employment should be lumped in with the normal economy, but I’m sure it gets too fuzzy on many levels to do anything else.
We drop people from the ISS on the regular. What do you think Reentry is?
True… though I was assuming CT meant without any government aid or materials. Which would make reentry a bit of a hot take and all.
I was employed for 20 years as a federal contractor; so “privately” employed, or not?
I like the idea for the lot of them that are credentialed marxists. Helicopter rides for them all!
😂🤣
The problem with DC, just like LA, is that these car jackers are juveniles so nothing else happens.
The problem is that the people enforcing the laws endorse the criminality and criminals by going soft on it all. As long as society doesn’t respond to this jackassery with “You are gonna get locked away or ended, cause we will not accept this shit.”, you will have way too much of it.
“Don’t you do nuthin’ to our poor boys”!!! /battle-cry of the mamas of the hood
Those boys are what they are cause of those hood mamas. The people that go apoplectic when you mention the lack of a male role model do not go spastic nuts just cause they are evil. They know that is the issue.
And I also won’t be surprised when they dig their heels in and refuse any movement towards peace because “Not one meter” or “Putin can not profit from this illegal war” or whatnot.
Which are admirable sentiments and all… but completely devoid of reality as we’ve discussed here many times.
On the plus side — that leaves lots and lots of room for me to be pleasantly surprised, and very little space for disappointment. Progress!
And I also won’t be surprised when they dig their heels in and refuse any movement towards peace because “Not one meter” or “Putin can not profit from this illegal war” or whatnot.
And Trump’s response should be “Okay, that’s your choice, but if you don’t make any concessions you will continue on your own without US support”.
Should be, yes… I still worry that damned “rare earths” deal is going to lock him into US support mode.
Yep – It gives Trump the opportunity to completely wash his hands of this mess and walk away.
Then he can pursue trade negotiations with the Russians and try to pry them away from China.
Europe is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian.
And the last American dollar!
Not true. Many have accepted Ukrainian refugee males of fighting age. Maybe if they believe in this war so much, they should consider sending them back home.
True — and with a bit of a nosy buttinski of a neighbor… but not the best reporting on the visit, given his rumpled trench coat.
Deport them all.
From what I read I believe he is an Illegal Alien who was given a CDL by California.
I believe California’s response is “oops, ya we screwed up but Trump!”
Funny how illegals were given CDLs when trucking was supposedly a dying industry (because self-driving trucks are just around the corner).
I believe California’s response is “oops, ya we screwed up but Trump!”
Nah. It is somehow Florida’s fault.
I don’t quite get how it’s funny. If you have an industry that is currently done by hand but about to be automated, giving out the work to non-union illegals who have zero political leverage isn’t a crazy idea. You get below market labor costs during the transition to automation.
You hire some legit US citizen Teamsters and all you will get is obstructionism and strikes in adopting the new tech.
From Gord about what precipitated this, and who all is playing.
More blood on the hands of the Biden administration. How anyone could support those evil retards is beyond me.
I don’t know who the American Trucking Association is, but they are entitled to their share of that blood, and the opprobrium that goes with that.
Interesting. So it’s even more sinister than just handing out licenses to illegals which we know they are doing for regular licenses.
From my neck of the woods. Here’s a guy who was deported 16 times, ended up killing someone as a semi driver…
https://kdvr.com/news/local/driver-in-deadly-us-285-crash-had-been-ordered-to-return-to-mexico-16-times/
I agree with this guy. He shouldn’t be jailed or deported.
https://x.com/pnwguerrilla/status/1957218216037728680
The feds made it a lot harder and more expensive for the average Joe to get a CDL and then give some states the ability to give them the illegals.
Get rid of the requirement alltogether.
No surprise there… there are 435 Representatives and 100 Senators after all… they must not be quite done yet is all.
““While his former wife told reporters that Stewart was dangerously unstable, her examples — that he had watched ‘prison movies’ with his 8- and 6-year-old sons and promised to send them some live caterpillars to grow into butterflies — seem shocking only in their innocuousness.”
How did we reach the point that judges are so completely ridiculous?
“Out of an abundance of caution …”
People got told their feelings were more important than anything else…
Family Law judges are a different breed of fuckery. Fuck em all.
CPS and family law courts are happy to throw their weight around at people that can actually be bullied, because they are law-abiding. I would imagine they spend a lot of time banging their heads against the wall of people who just don’t give a fuck.
I imagine dudes in the hood aren’t quaking in fear over CPS
Dudes arent, the single moms are as they rip the kids from one shitty home to put through the even shittier foster system.
And not necessarily experienced in family law. They could be fresh from traffic court rotation.
I’m not up to date with that field, but I seem to remember that private mediation was faster and more satisfactory (am not sure of the cost). e.g., https://www.jamsadr.com/
We were foster parents in Kansas for 6 years. We ended up adopting one of our foster daughters. It is/was a super shitty system for the kids, the birth parents, the foster parents, and the charities that actually place the foster kids. We got investigated by the state for abusing our foster daughter (now adopted daughter) because the birth dad filed an accusation against us.
You didn’t read the rest of the article. It’s not ridiculous, if you correctly identify the entire family law industry as a money grab.
“You didn’t read the rest of the article.”
Yes, I did. Judges shouldn’t stand for that shit.
Judges are employees of the state, and serve state interests above all else.
And people wonder why some guys put in this position go on a murder/suicide spree. It’s dangerous to put men into a position where they feel like they have absolutely nothing left to lose.
Admittedly just skimmed it… but it reeks of “middle management bureaucrat annoyed by whistleblowers in general [Iron Law — org always protects itself] and ‘processes weren’t followed’ allowing weaseling out”. Maybe it has bubbled up to a political appointee that might be trying to push OMB’s agenda… but my gut magic 8 ball says “Indications negative at this time”.
Also skimmed – the justification for dismissal seems to be standing (I understand the concept of standing, but JTFC, talk about an abused notion). We, the IRS, opened an investigation and closed it. Therefore the matter is over and you have no standing. Must be nice to be the king.
Cocaine, pudding and stocks of Depends?
Oh sorry.. that’s the White House cleaning crew chief…
Anyone with kids who isn’t sincerely terrified at CPS getting an idea in their heads and coming for you — and that they’re an unelected, unaccountable tyranny isn’t thinking. Yet another example of “For the Children!” being easily corrupted into power… made worse by the “Ideas [I disagree with!] are equal to physical harm” brigade, of course.
See, Mrs OBE didnt understand the crap position I was in as the ‘respondant’ in my custody case with my two boys. The State of California saw me as the bad guy, no matter what I did.
She was the petitioner in her custody battle and said her experience was completely different.
Not supposed to matter. I know: ha.
When I see some drama-farming asshole on social media complaining about their enemies harassing them, I know it’s not serious if there hasn’t been a bogus CPS complaint.
“And that happened because open borders radicals love immigration fraud. They have treated it as a feature of the system, not a bug,” O’Brien said. “That’s why we currently have hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who have never experienced persecution getting asylum.”
Weird how millions of ordinary peasants were suddenly targets of political oppression once it became known that claiming such would allow them to stay in the country a while longer.
“That’s a 12.5% reduction in the federal workforce since January.”
I’ll take a 1/8 reduction, although many of us would have preferred that the number of ppl on the taxpayers’ payroll be reduced to 12.5% of what it was before Trump took office the second time.
So all in all…normal attrition numbers with a slight reduction in back-fill hires
Comey comes out of the closet as a Swiftie
I’m not going to blame her for her fans.
🌈 GAY! 🦄
He might as well come out as a Bronie.
Do we know he isn’t?
The angle of the article is, of course, “conservatives pounce!”
Musk initially said DOGE would aim to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, but he later cut that in half. At a Cabinet meeting in April, Musk said DOGE was on pace to cut $150 billion from the federal budget.
Well, okay.
It was a cheap stunt from the get-go.
Give it to me, I can cut two trillion easy.
I don’t understand what the problem is. Oh, you mean it wasn’t serious?
Put an end to the MilitaryIndustrialComplex – and collapse the entire economy?
I think he was serious. But unlike Twitter, you don’t just wave the wand and cut the red tape. This stuff has a whole bureaucracy fighting against you, and many of the cuts would have to go through Congress first.
Amateur. Add $2T to the budget then cut it so you can claim the savings.
Propose increasing by $4T, slash to $2T, claim the savings, and actually spend an additional $5T.
Wut? Trump was never going to support Z’s fantasy where Russia gives up everything, if that is what the writer is implying.
“Legalizing or downgrading the classification of pot was not a campaign promise by Trump, but was instead apparently raised by a donor at a fundraising event.”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/18/trump-reclassifying-marijuana-would-be-a-huge-political-blunder/
Socons are still whining about weed.
Further showing that “conservatives” don’t really give a shit about the constitution. Because the constitution grants no authority to the federal government to ban or restrict drugs. Or anything else for that matter. At least for alcohol prohibition they had the decency to pass a constitutional amendment to give themselves the authority.
The authority is snuck in as treaty law – which has always been a tricky question.
Treaties cannot grant the government a power it does not possess. You cannot agree to do something beyond your purview and go “but we agreed to it with these filthy foreign despots!”
““but we agreed to it with these filthy foreign despots!””
The globalists WEF, the WHO, and the UN want a word with you…
They can all go suck on a shotgun barrel.
UCS there is a whole Con-law argument about that, and the Constitution itself doesn’t help by making the treaty power something above statutory law.
Lawyers, judges, and politicians have a personal interest in making matters more complicated than they are.
I’m fine with no restrictions on drugs but can we please ban potheads??
Duuuuuude……
/actually never used
“Progressives in the slow lane” will forever be the best description of so-called conservatives.
I’ve used it plenty but only at home where it belongs. People who smoke it in public are assholes.
“Trump knows the dangers of addiction — he must reject Big Weed’s push to reclassify marijuana”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/17/opinion/trump-knows-the-dangers-of-addiction-he-must-reject-big-weeds-push-to-reclassify-marijuana/
Baptist or bootlegger?
This might surprise you but generally it is both at the same time.
Today, in huge boobs
“Ex-Nashville cop enters new plea after being arrested for groping OnlyFans star’s breasts during mock traffic stop”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/us-news/ex-nashville-cop-sean-herman-enters-new-plea-after-being-arrested-for-groping-onlyfans-stars-breasts-during-mock-traffic-stop/
Apparently the crime was wearing his real uniform.
And also participating in the skit while on duty.
If he was an ex cop why was he allowed to keep the uniform? Isn’t that department property.
Most places cops/firemen get a equipment allowance and have to buy their own.
It’s usually to get buried in.
How much does OnlyFans pay you to repost these ads masquerading as news?
“HRC wrote a booklet with the 2024 name Supporting Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender-Expansive Children for parents and people who work with children ages five to ten, the Do No Harm report notes. The booklet claims young children, even “sometimes in preverbal stages,” can be different genders, no gender at all, or constantly changing their gender. It also claims a child’s “well-being depends on their ability to express their gender freely,” says the report.”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/16/report-exposes-how-gender-extremism-group-pressures-hospitals-to-damage-children/
CWABOA
“constantly changing”
The left loves that shit. Keeps everyone walking around on eggshells.
“Migrant allegedly scalded baby with hot coffee in sickening random attack after visa application was rejected ”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/17/world-news/migrant-allegedly-attacked-baby-after-visa-application-rejection/
CWAA
“Bianca Censori goes braless in plunging tank top and hot pants for movie date with Kanye West”
https://pagesix.com/2025/08/17/celebrity-news/bianca-censori-wears-plunging-tank-top-hot-pants-for-movie-date-with-kanye-west/
How cold is it in Los Angeles that Kanye isn’t drenched in sweat?
Cooler than usual in SoCal right now.
Denny’s, of all places?
Bay Area has had a much cooler than normal summer. Where is this global warming I was promised?
Poor Eastern Time Zone got it, I guess.
“Local Ohio Chick-fil-A to require chaperones for teenage customers — causing community uproar
In March, a Brooklyn Target banned kids under 18 from shopping at the store without adult supervision to curb delinquent behavior….
In February, a crime-ridden Brooklyn McDonald’s also began carding customers at the door and forbidding anyone under 20 to enter without a parent or proper ID.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/17/us-news/local-ohio-chick-fil-a-to-require-chaperones-for-teenage-customers-causing-community-uproar/
Seems like it’s either helicopter parenting or no parenting. Properly raised free range kids are extinct.
They’re using Teenage as a proxy for other demographic risk factors they are not allowed to discriminate on. Of the traits the troublemakers share, it’s the age that’s the only one they aren’t going to get sued to oblivion over.
At 85% white, I am sure you are correct
“Other residents argued the move could unfairly target older children taking their younger siblings out, or teenage parents with young children.”
Guarantee if you went the other route, removing customers at will, it would be burned down within a year
Burned down, and the perpetrators given a stern, but compassionate, talking to by the court, before being released.
That’s down in the Dayton area. To add confusion to the story, there’s a Brooklyn, OH as well.
Given the line at the drive-through at the Chick-fil-A on the other side of town (which we can see while dining in at Culver’s,) I didn’t think anyone ever walked into a Chick-fil-A to eat.
Some teenagers are incapable of jacking a car to make use of the drive-thru.
@GT – Both times I have been to a Chick-fil-a, I walked inside because I was not going to sit in the drive through.
Let them come in on Sundays.
Begun, the chick wars have.
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/chicken-fast-food-menus-4a192f12?st=UdNjkY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In local news:
“[Samaritan] says he used his tunicate to stop [crash victim] from losing any more blood.”
🤦🏻♀️
Look, I can’t spell it correctly after a few tries either.
All &s forg$ven.
“tunicate”? Are there no editors?
Editors support the oppressive patriarchy!
I didn’t know of the term, so Today I Learned a bit more about marine biology.
“Passes spell-check, print it!”
Another job Americans won’t do.
At least he wasn’t spineless.
“Urgent warning to meat-eaters as scientists discover pigs with ‘neon BLUE’ flesh that may be poisonous
An investigation found the dramatic colour was likely caused by diphacinone, a dyed rodenticide commonly used by farmers and companies to control the population of rats, mice and squirrels.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15009965/urgent-warning-meat-eaters-pigs-blue-flesh.html
Yikes!
The meat is blue specifically to warn hunters that it’s contaminated.
So they’re saying I shouldn’t eat bright blue pork?
Yes, yes I do want blue eggs and ham Sam I am.
That federalist thing is so melodramatically well written I tapped out. Get to the fucking point. Finish the fucking story.
I had to watch The Limey last night, didn’t I?
Did you buy an English car?
Mammary Monday refuses to fund the Chinese war machine.
https://archive.is/VfCeR
Tunicate? Maybe he ripped his jacket into strips to tie off the bleeding limb.
Voter suppression
Trump has for years opposed mail-in ballots, insisting that they played a role in voter fraud he baselessly claims cost him the 2020 presidential election.
The president on Monday indicated he would sign an executive order to assist with the effort to roll back mail-in voting. He also said he would target voting machines, instead favoring watermark paper for ballots. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what the order would entail.
Verification of eligibility is racist fascism.
“Baltimore Ravens superstar QB Lamar Jackson is facing a left-wing cancel mob after reposting a message of faith from Charlie Kirk.
The repost on X simply said “It’s all about Jesus” – a sentiment all Christians should agree on despite political leanings.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/lamar-jackson-faces-leftist-cancel-mob-after-reposting-charlie-kirks-christian-message-on-x
OFFS!
“The NFL will again cover its fields with social justice slogans this season, marking the sixth straight year of the campaign, according to ESPN. Fans attending games will see phrases stenciled into end zones such as “End Racism,” “Stop Hate,” “Choose Love,” or “Inspire Change,” with “It Takes All of Us” appearing on the opposite end zone of every stadium.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/nfl-reveals-new-lineup-of-virtue-signaling-on-field-slogans
Please stop.
I’m not sure what it would take to get me back to watching the NFL, but that sure ain’t it, quite the opposite.
Maybe someday the league will live up to those words.
It will stop when New Soviet Man has been achieved.
End Racism and division. Now to sing the Black National Anthem….
Most of the left are not Christians. They have a different religion.
Agreed. “Jesus wants you to take care of others and we will point a gun at you unless you comply.”
Cheating
This is, at the moment, the official voice of the US government: a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating, an effort, as Wired’s Tess Owen recently put it, to turn actions like mass deportation into “one big joke.” On Instagram and Twitter (their largest audience), government entities including the White House, ICE, and the Department of Homeland Security attempt to surf viral trends to expanded public attention: They twist memes and sounds popular on TikTok, repurpose South Park’s parodies for their own self-promotion, and blend it all with images that draw on or directly reproduce classical art and Americana paintings that are designed to stir nostalgia for an imagined past. (The use of some of this art, as the Washington Post has written, has stirred the ire of the artists themselves or their representatives; it’s not easy to extract a stern condemnation from the estate of treacly pastoral painter Thomas Kinkade, but this government managed to do it.)
A lot of the trends are specifically designed to appeal to young white men, like one that repurposes a 1970s-looking ad for a van to ask, “Want to deport illegals with your absolute boys?” Another ICE recruitment effort asks, “Which way, American man?” in front a befuddled-looking Uncle Sam gazing at a crossroads post labeled with signs including “INVASION,” “CULTURAL DECLINE” pointing one way, and, pointing the other, “SERVICE,” “OPPORTUNITY”; in Uncle Sam’s hands lies “LAW AND ORDER.” The phrase “Which way, American man?” is a barely altered reference to the phrase “Which way, Western man?,” the title of a book by white nationalist author William Gayley Simpson that’s been popularized by the far right as a meme. In this case, the white supremacist undertones are more like overtones.
It’s like wartime propaganda, or something.
Things were much better when the government was saying things that were clearly false, and telling us to not believe our own eyes.
The only problem is Simpson was an anti-semite, which puts him in good stead with the left not the right these days.
“”During the arrest, an individual unlawfully towed a government police vehicle. He mocked and videotaped ICE officers chasing after him. Secretary Noem has been clear: Anyone who seeks to impede law enforcement will be found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-tiktok-influencer-for-driving-under-the-influence-in-los-angeles
WTF?
Someone’s going to federal prison.
Columbian is the new black.
Disinformation researchers and experts on propaganda have followed the sludge and bile emanating from these governmental accounts with alarm.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley; he’s a philosopher, author, and professor at University of Toronto who’s in the process of leaving the United States because of, as he baldly puts it, “concerns over fascism.”
He should write a book about sneaking over the border and living in the shadows. Constantly in fear, looking over his shoulder for those relentless Mounties.
Disinformation researchers and experts…
Closes tab, moves onto something more interesting, relevant, and enriching of my knowledge. Like the Paint Drying Channel.
Is that on Pluto TV?
Yeah, that’s where I noped out of Brooks” quote of the article.
Not putting up with illegal aliens hoovering money out of my wallet anymore is “sadism”.
Go home, the left. You’re drunk.
Can he take most of the Dem pols and voters with him?
He’s not wrong. It’s absolutely fun to watch vile, stupid, entitled people get treated like vile, stupid, entitled people, especially if they melt down over getting what they deserve.
I might go to hell for laughing at them, but that beats going to hell crying…
John Rahm came in 2nd in the Liv tournament yesterday and won the season championship – without winning a single tournament. Joaquin Niemann won 5 tournaments but ended up with fewer points.
https://www.livgolf.com/news/jon-rahm-wins-season-long-liv-golf-individual-championship-indianapolis-2025
Eric Grauffel won USPSA Carry Optics nationals without winning a single (out of 20) stage.
Meh, that can happy with any points-based championship.
Come in second in every F1 race, you’ll win the championship.
Basically what Rahm did. Lost a couple of playoffs.
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Stanley says that it’s part of the overall structure of what his colleague Timothy Snyder calls “sadopopulism“: putting policies into place that inflict real pain and harm on the US populace, while also encouraging scapegoating and xenophobia against stigmatized groups.
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“It’s classic, textbook propaganda,” echoes Joan Donovan, a disinformation scholar and the co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute; she’s also a co-author of the book Meme Wars, which looked at how the far right has weaponized memes to draw people to their cause.
Sadopopulism- that’s pretty good.
What really pisses them off is it’s working. But what they don’t see is that what they call propaganda is not mind control. It won’t work on somebody who doesn’t already resent the mass influx of people swarming over the border with the encouragement of political groups with an agenda of their own.
You mean like forcing people to close their businesses for a year and blaming them for being upset about it?
“That’s different!”, they explained…
populace is doing a lot of work there, too. Do you mean illegals?
“The Swiss watchmaker Swatch has apologised and removed an advert featuring a model pulling the corners of his eyes, after the image prompted accusations of racism and calls for a boycott on Chinese social media.
Internet users heavily criticised the “slanted eye” gesture made by the Asian male model as racist.
In a post on Instagram and the Chinese social media platform Weibo on Saturday, Swatch acknowledged the “recent concerns regarding the portrayal of a model” in the advert and said it had deleted the promotional material worldwide.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/swatch-slanted-eye-ad-backlash-china
Model was a different kind of asian? I can’t find his name.
Hu?
Step it up, Swatch. If you’re going to have a controversial ad, it better involve a hot girl with a nice rack.
Stupid decision, stupid ad, don’t apologize.
Chinese accusing westerners of being “racist”. That’s rich.
And when did they all turn into perfect little Democrats?
You can’t make this shit up.
The CCP has been funding Western enviro groups for a long while, I would say they are also funding some of the social justice warrior groups as well. Every now and then the CCP makes noises about how racist something is in the States or Europe.
“Chinese accusing westerners of being “racist”. That’s rich.”
I wonder how many people know that the largest financiers of the woke DEI shit and the climate change racket are the Chinese CCP and Russia. Yes, even more money than USAID. They have profited greatly from these anti-American efforts. Both financially and politically. And have no doubt both these things exit to wreck the US. The globalist marxist cabal can’t win and give us that evil one world government they want so desperately to return us to true feudalism, as long as America is strong and there is a US middle class that will not give away their right to self determination.
They funded Gavin Nuisance.
And yet, I’ve seen videos of conversations of Japanese women describing the preferred shape of Japanese men’s eyes.
For example some preferring narrow eyes and others wider.
Today is middle kid’s birthday, and she’s been texting me all weekend. Thanks for the good wishes Glibs, I’m going to say they are working. I’m inviting her to Mrs. TOK’s birthday party Friday, we’ll see how that goes.
We were in Baldwin, MI this weekend to hang out at a friend’s lake house an eat THC cookies. There was an RC air show at a small airport, and this time it was jets. I have never seen anything like it. These planes were 6-8 feet long, weighed 75-115 pounds, cost up to $30k, and were full on jets. Most were very realistic replicas of military planes. The FA/18 Hornet was popular, but there was a Canadian jet and a Russian jet. One guy had a fully functioning F14 but we didn’t get to see that one fly. The speed was insane. You could smell the jet fuel, and the sound was awesome. If you have the ability to see one of these shows, definitely do it. One guy said this hobby was only 10-12 years old.
I wonder if they do fighting RC, like battlebots, but in the air?
We developed a detailed plan for adding lasers to the jets and having dogfight competitions. A direct hit would trigger release of smoke.
Awesome!
Here’s a video of the types of planes we saw. It captures the sound really well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkKTb_Q15DE
Those are F-16 model planes, as the video is named.
Cultural suicide
Bolivia is set to elect a non-left wing president after nearly two decades of near-continuous rule by the incumbent socialist party, according to official preliminary results.
They’re turning their backs on justice.
“Russian leader Vladimir Putin has proposed for Moscow to take full control of the Donbas region and freeze the front lines elsewhere in exchange for ending his nation’s war with Ukraine, and President Trump supports the terms, a European diplomat told Fox News.”
I feel bad for the Ukrainians because we all know that Putin and the Russians won’t stop there even if he gets everything, he wants in the peace deal. The US shouldn’t have anything to do with what’s going on over there, but I don’t blame the Ukrainian government asking for entry into NATO when Russia’s MO has always been invading its neighbors under some false pretense of security.
Maybe losing thirty million to a hostile power in living memory has made them a bit paranoid.
I also read somewhere else that the Russians want the Ukrainians to restrict their military capabilities which is an absurd demand considering they were just invaded and they’re a sovereign country. I get the demand for not joining NATO but to tell another sovereign country how to handle their military while you’re invading them is an unreasonable demand.
If they don’t agree to that it’ll be imposed. Unreasonable maybe but they don’t have much choice.
At the end of the day, Ukraine is fucked no matter what they agree to, but I hate to see it. The Ukrainian people are saddled with a grifter as a leader and a hostile neighbor to the West.
You cracking on Pie?
I meant East.
Damn that was a geography fail.
“Never give up your nucs.” Sun Tzu
Not for long, I would bet.
““South Park” and the high price of free speech
With our First Amendment rights under attack, those in the best position to defend them also happen to be rich”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/17/south-park-and-the-high-price-of-free-speech/
Not mentioned: how First Amendment rights are under attack
Has the WSJ released a picture of that drawing Trump allegedly sent to Epstein?
Trump’s “Disinformation Experts” strike again!
Well, South Park has the five banned episodes, and there was the censorship done by Comedy Central to avoid showing a cartoon Mohammad, but I doubt that’s what they’re talking about.
/looks over at the pulled It’s Always Sunny, 30 Rock, and Community episodes
Martina Martinez, Taiwan Tammy, and Blackface Murtaugh haz a sad.
I think I’ve had my fill of leftist praise of the current season.
Now do JK Rowling’s free speech, or Lamar Jackson’s.
TBF, their First Amendment rights aren’t under attack.
Nor are those of the people mentioned in the Salon piece.
Eff these assholes. They got a hard on when the Biden Administration wanted to create a Disinformation Board on top of cheerleading the government putting pressure on social media to ban opinions that went against the official government view. They are the same assholes who say, “We believe in the First Amendment, but….”
And how the Left turned on Elon Musk for pointing this out.
Been awhile since I’ve been on here.
Moved into college on Saturday, small private Catholic university.
That’s awesome!
Welcome back! Don’t be
anya stranger!Nice to have you back. I’m sure you’ll be busy setting up your OF.
Gotta pay for college somehow.
It’s a great hook, you have to differentiate yourself somehow.
“Trump Is spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/18/trump-is-spitting-on-the-grave-of-martin-luther-king-jr/
By releasing files.
One begins to wonder what horrors will be uncovered in those files if the family is so against releasing them?
His children have done nothing productive but live off of his name.
LOL the left has been shitting on his legacy for decades.
Projection as usual.
Texas Democrats End Walkout, Ensuring GOP Redistricting Plans Will Pass
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/texas-democrats-walkout-republican-redistricting-00f277f3?st=BqMdi5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Has this walkout worked in any state where it has been tried?
Depends: if by successful you mean successful in your stated goal then no. If you mean successful at grandstanding and appearing to be a martyr in the furtherance of your own political career then yes.
Yes, until the next session.
Doesn’t matter; Team Blue has promised to gerrymander even harder in return, in every state they control. Not that I expect them to be able to squeeze much more out of the gerrymandering already in place.
Low hanging fruit, but glad he got called out.
Sean O’Brien Has a Credit Card for You
The Teamsters offer a ‘privilege’ card with, er, sky-high interest rates.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/sean-obrien-has-a-credit-card-for-you-4e2a0789?st=wCfYxa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
If you miss a payment do you get your legs broke or do they just torch your house?
Will the dow hit 50?
You expecting that much of a crash?
Needs more business buzzwords.
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/fast-casual-chains-struggle-as-diners-ditch-pricey-bowls-for-cheaper-eats-b4de5f91?st=Diy4uN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Fast food is getting too expensive. Subway used to have $5 footlongs. Now it’s $15 to assault a federal agent, or claim MAGA put a noose around your neck.
The lower tier sit down places (Chili’s, Applebees, TGIFriday, etc.) are now cheaper than fast food. That boggles my mind.
Some states demand higher minimum wages specifically for fast-food workers. And then they wonder why the food is garbage.
But yeah, labor costs seem to be absolutely destroying the industry. At some point only the wealthy will eat out anywhere.
“The lower tier sit down places (Chili’s, Applebees, TGIFriday, etc.) are now cheaper than fast food. That boggles my mind.”
They make money on drinks.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cgeLY7CL5IE
Wow. That’s a lot of metaphor mixing.
Wheeling out the big guns
President Trump has “completely ceded narrative control” of the Russia-Ukraine war to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former top-adviser-turned-vocal-critic said in an interview published Monday.
Fiona Hill, who served as a senior adviser on Russia at the National Security Council during Trump’s first term, argued in a Politico interview that Trump is endorsing Moscow’s position that it’s enough if it decides to stop fighting.
“What Ukraine is just basically getting as a concession is for the Russians to stop fighting. And this is Putin’s way all the way through the 25 years of his presidency, which is: ‘I’m going to beat you up, and my concession is that I stopped beating you up,’” she said.
Hill said in another interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that Trump’s red-carpet treatment of Putin in Alaska on Friday also played into the Russian leader’s hands.
Why should we care what Putin says?
Yeah, Ukraine is OUR playground.
TW:TOS
“California’s one-gun-a-month law was challenged by a coalition of individuals and groups including Michelle Nguyen, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and the Second Amendment Foundation in Nguyen v. Bonta. A U.S. district judge found the law unconstitutional last year, though the decision was stayed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals pending appeal. A three-judge panel of the same court reversed the stay last August, leaving the law unenforceable. Then, in June of this year, three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the appeal that the law in fact violates the Second Amendment.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/18/court-kills-californias-one-gun-a-month-law/
The Ninth Circus made a good decision?
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/stored-20-years-1968-ford-mustang-fastback/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)
That just seem pricey given the remaining work needed. But what do I know…
The one thing about Mustangs is they made plenty.
That’s high. Way too high. It’s inches from being a confirmed rust bucket. Also that hideous green is everyone’s least favorite collector color.
The Mustang in Bullitt was green though.
People in CA in masks charging their EVs in 3,2,1…
https://insideevs.com/news/769144/ev-fast-charger-particle-pollution/
TLDR:
But the particles aren’t coming from the chargers themselves. They are likely being stirred up by vortexes created by the chargers’ powerful cooling fans, which lift the particulate matter settled on the ground and inside the chargers.
What does the writer have against vortices?
EV’s are heavier. Also, ridiculous safety regulations are making cars heavier.
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN!
Dozens indicted for conducting weapons/narcotics operations out of apartment complex that was not at all (nope, no siree) taken over by transnational gang members:
https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/affidavits-released-reveal-narcotics-firearms-trafficking-denver/73-cd77422e-8d30-45bd-8ec0-286099fca6aa
That just seem pricey given the remaining work needed. But what do I know…
People are goofy for the fastbacks. They cut up notchbacks and convert them.
I prefer the 60s notchbacks myself.
Why not. If the thing is no longer a numbers matching collector piece you may as well have the style and combination you want.
The notchback actually grew on me, but given a choice I’d pick the fastback.
Trained professional.
https://abc7ny.com/post/mta-police-officer-accidentally-shoots-grand-central-station/17568739/
My least favorite thing as a hypothetical Glock owner would be pulling the trigger to field strip it. I always would intend to check it like three times that it is clear.
First time I took apart a Glock I kept thinking there has to be a way without pulling the trigger.
I’ve never understood this. Don’t we ensure that our guns are clear, and point them is the safest possible direction before pressing the trigger?
Of course, I’ve spent years doing dry fire practice on a daily basis, so I might be a little more comfortable with the process…
Well, I drop the mag and pull the slide back on the 1911. When I know the chamber is clear, I release the slide. And then I pull the trigger to drop the hammer.
But I don’t have to pull the trigger to disassemble the 1911.
Okay, upon reading the article – the cop wasn’t cleaning the gun. He was fucking around with it where he had no reason to have it out, and someone noticed, so he hurriedly tried to shove it back into the holster with his finger on the trigger, and BOOM!
You-know-who hardest hit
Donald Trump’s attempt to replace the nonpartisan chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a woefully underqualified MAGA extremist has advocates for women in the workplace worried about how the administration could potentially manipulate data to serve its political agenda.
As Alana Samuels wrote earlier this month for Time magazine, there’s already evidence that the Trump administration’s policies — particularly its mass deportation agenda and strict return-to-work requirements for federal employees — have contributed to a mass exodus of women from the workplace in the first several months of Trump’s second term. Some women’s advocates fear this trend could worsen — and that a MAGA-fied BLS could cook the books or simply withhold data to hide the true scope of this growing problem.
“This is economic sabotage wrapped in bureaucratic language,” Noreen Farrell, executive director of the pro-woman workplace advocacy group Equal Rights Advocates, told MSNBC. “Eliminating the jobs report while women flee the workforce isn’t incompetence, it’s the intended outcome of their war on civil rights.”
Barefoot and pregnant.
These have to be AI. The prog is too pretty.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2025/08/1753536564785blob.png
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-9.57.20%E2%80%AFAM.png
The first is def AI, the 2nd doesn’t work for me.
It’s also AI, but the hand deformities are less blatant.
“The data over the past six months — from our perspective and our work — show that 200,000 women have left the U.S. workforce since January 2025. Labor force participation for mothers with young children has plummeted 3%, as Fortune just reported,” Farrell said.
PLUMMETED 3 % I tell you!
Maybe they finally noticed that paying as much for daycare as they were earning and dealing with corporate BS was a poor decision?