The US Open is here! The US Open is here! Gonna be a great couple of weeks. Especially with football starting up and some big games on the slate. Although I guess Dave Portnoy is gonna have to find a bar to watch the game in. No idea what that’s all about. The dude always draws a crown when he’s in Columbus. Usually a heckling one, so I’m sure he’ll set up a stage on Lane and do his usual routine. And Liverpool started the season with two wins they didn’t deserve after a last-gasp goal by a 16 year old got them all 3 points at Newcastle. And that’s it for sports.
Well…bye! I’m sorry, but making the same exact sworn statement about two different properties in two different states in a week is no mere accident. It’s fraud. Now prosecute her and the others, since mortgage applications were deserving of such scrutiny when the shoe was on the other foot.
Let’s see if the courts follow the law. I suspect they’ll ignore it for political reasons, but it’s pretty plainly written, and the way this is being done completely goes against the timeline requirements for this kind of ballot initiative. Not to mention the purpose was to help a specific political party at the expense of another, based on the words of the governor himself.
This will be called racist in 3…2…1. Don’t be surprised when the riots start after the prosecutions. And city “leaders” will be loving it.
What the shit? How does a project get to this point?
Ironic, isn’t it? Ultimately it’s probably, in their minds, still the fault of the unwoke for not bending the knee.
Oh no, not paint!!! Fortunately we’re past the stage where this would be prosecuted, zealously, as a “hate crime.”
Yeah, no shit. Maybe they just don’t associate with people who call them evil and want to steal everything they work hard for. It’s no deeper than that.
I find this fascinating. Especially since the proposed solution is to throw more money at the women and tell working men (and women) that they must continue sacrificing days and days of pay.
He’s so relatable and just like us! Except, you know, for the fact that he’s a retarded faggot.
The money pit that will never end. There should have been prosecutions years ago for this financial malfeasance. Instead, they’ll probably be rewarded.
He’s right, but not in the way he thinks. Houston is a problem because of Houston’s one-party leadership. And because of all the shitheads that came to the city after Katrina and never left.
A masterpiece. Even with the silly voice-over in the video. The same statement applies to this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Muslim or space alien?
If this is a variation on the teenage girl FMK game… it would greatly depend on which Muslim and which space alien to me.
I’m still trying to figure out the context of the initial question, but if your context is correct, I have the same additional conditionals before I can answer.
China.
So… Muslim or space alien?
New Intel Blue Man group marketing team.
(And thanks for the context, Sloopy… I saw the front page image, but that didn’t click in my brain as what CT was referencing).
¿Por qué no los dos?
He must regal-e folks with good stories. He’s absolutely the king at it.
Morning Sloopy… I get the feeling the US Open might be starting soon… no idea why…
Morning all!
Barthrone sports just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Is the open golf or tennis?
I dont know sports ball.
Unfortunately, the federal government will have to bail out California because if California goes bankrupt it will bankrupt the country.
Hopefully not… if the state government goes bankrupt and has to void pension plans / debt it shouldn’t.
And if they do get a Fed bailout, it should be mandatory (and a precedent) that that means you are rolled back to a territory. And given the size of the Western states and the relative population now-a-days, that should result in said territory being broken up (Free Cascadia!)
No readmittance for a minimum of a century and after you can prove good governance.
*no readmittance as a state
They stay a territory for a century and a day then we draw new lines to make them proportional to other states.
A Fed bailout would only enable them. Sell all state assets to meet the shortfall and renegotiate the legacy payouts in the bankruptcy so they’re solvent. And bar pubsec unions going forward nationwide.
Not if we sell/trade it to Russia or Mexico first!
In what way?
Just have a fire sale of state-owned assets with a bar on politically connected persons from making any purchases of these assets for at least 57 years. And then sentence a whole lot of people who made the decisions to death by hard labor.
This is the way.
I’m sure I’m not the only one wondering just how rampant this is and how little anyone bothered to enforce it given this lady, Schiffty, the NY AG, etc…
Of course, that’s not terribly surprising given the “Only idiots play by the rules” vibes the “elite” class have been giving off for at least the last 30 years (presumably the likelihood of lampposts in their future has something to do with how brazen they can get about these things… pendulum as most other social trends — but the population has been letting them get away with almost everything for quite a while now).
You are not. And somehow, all of these lies on sworn statements are somehow less of a crime than two parties coming to a mutual agreement over the value of a property.
Sworn statements? I’ve bought two properties in the last 15 years and I don’t recall making a sworn statement on either. Also, I didn’t even try to claim the second property as a primary residence – just that it wouldn’t be a short-term rental.
Juris imprudent:
Did you do federally backed mortgages? I know when I did mine, there was a lot of legal notes and attestations to the veracity of the information provided therein.
Who was backing these loans?
Everything written on your mortgage docs is a sworn statement. They’re binding legal documents, therefore an affidavit of fact.
If you look through the closing package you will find a number of documents that you sign under penalty of perjury, so they are legally sworn statement. I don’t think the loan application has that language usually, but making false statements on a loan application is still fraud, and the lending criteria, closing costs, and rate are all higher on non-owner occupied properties. Ostensibly because such loans add a layer of risk.
Neph, I suppose it is possible that somewhere in that avalanche of paper I did, but it doesn’t stand out in my mind. What really doesn’t stand out is that I was ever advised of federal criminal sanctions being attached.
In SC we had to attest that the property is our primary residence or else we would pay a substantially higher property tax rate.
If I recall correctly, in NJ you are taxed differently on the sale of a 2nd home.
They’re binding legal documents
That’s true of any contract, but that doesn’t make it subject to federal criminal prosecution.
The loan apps themselves wouldn’t necessarily be a problem. But when she signed the closing docs, there would have been disclaimers that attest all the information she’d provided to that point to secure the two loans was truthful. When she signed those, she committed fraud that resulted in monetary gain on her part (reduced interest rates).
She’s cooked if the government opts to prosecute. It’s all there in black and white and the two instances happened within a week of each other.
Fine Sloop, she defrauded the bank and the bank can pursue that as a civil matter.
That this is criminal is AS criminal as James’ case against Trump.
That this is criminal is AS criminal as James’ case against Trump.
They should prosecute this case, and the others, just as zealously as James did Trump’s. If for no other reason than to prove to those idiots that they no longer have a monopoly on lawfare. Id even go so far as to say that not prosecuting them would be a slap in the face of the equal protection clause.
Furthermore, she not only defrauded the backer of the mortgage (the US govt through Freddie and Fannie), she defrauded one of the states out of tax money. I’m sure she’ll pick the state least likely to go after her when she ultimately declares which is her primary residence, which is fine.
But there’s also the perjury piece. And since those lenders, unlike in the Trump case, are federally run that makes this a federal perjury case rather than a state one.
There’s big differences between these situations and Trump’s, which was between two private parties unaffiliated with the government. Hell, James went after Trump for giving a lower value of Florida properties, which isn’t even in her jurisdiction. She claimed he defrauded them of tax money and secured a conviction for NYS when the alleged damaged party was a whole lot different political division altogether and wasn’t interested in prosecution since their own assessors said everything was above board. And there’s also the matter that James ran in a platform of finding a crime to prosecute Trump for. Nobody involved in investigating Schiff, James, or Cook said their goal was to go after them specifically or political opposition in general. They just happened across their illegal acts in the normal course of their work and notified their superiors.
Nothing similar in these cases whatsoever.
They should prosecute this case, and the others, just as zealously as James did Trump’s.
No because that was not a valid prosecution. Even if this one has a gram of validity, the justification of “because Trump” is as much bullshit as Ms. James is full of.
At least for James, there is a federal claim because larger rental properties are riskier, and the federal purchase of those loans has a discount. So her fraudulent claim that it was only 4 units got it into a program where the feds paid more for it.
There is also a suspicion of further dishonesty by the Fed governor – one of her two houses is a rental property, but she never declared income from it on her disclosure forms. I’ll bet my own money she never declared income from it on her taxes, either.
No because that was not a valid prosecution. Even if this one has a gram of validity, the justification of “because Trump” is as much bullshit as Ms. James is full of.
First of all, that is for a judge to decide, not you, JI. Second, in game theory, this is called the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and the way you end this sort of defection (for that is what the D’s have been doing for years with selective prosecutions like this) is to prosecute it fully, which will show that acting that you are above the law, so to speak, will have consequences. If it isn’t punished in the exact same way, then there is no way to stop it.
game theory
Don’t play stupid games and then you don’t need stupid theories.
ZWAK game theory is right down there with the Trolley Dilemma, as far as intellectual masturbation goes.
she not only defrauded the backer of the mortgage (the US govt through Freddie and Fannie)
I see the problem.
Even if this one has a gram of validity, the justification of “because Trump” is as much bullshit as Ms. James is full of.
That’s why I personally want them prosecuted: because of the lawfare. If they choose to prosecute them, it will hopefully be because they committed actual fraud against the government-run entities and committed perjury.
Who better to hold to such lofty standards than those who used those standards in the past to persecute someone outside the normal and established use of the laws?
It won’t stop either way until the Democrats are hammered by voters. Look at my earlier comment about the Democrats in CA and the insane shit they are proposing for redistricting – demanding the whole country use independent commissions while at the same time bypassing their own.
If voters won’t bitchslap that shit into the fires of hell, then the Democrats won’t be chastened. And I don’t have much hope in that.
JI: Not going after James won’t stop TEAM BLUE from using such bogus prosecutions as lawfare.
And taking the high road has worked out so well in the past.
What makes you think Democrats won’t double-down on lawfare? Just because they lost? Have they EVER shown they have even a tiny bit of common sense?
You want the left to lose at the ballot box you have to prove you are willing to fight them. Acting like you are above that sort of thing has proven to be a ballot box loser;
I want the left to lose at the ballot box because voters won’t support them, not just because you can squeeze out a majority win. That just leaves a minority that still thinks they are right.
Then you want electoral integrety measures to end the fraud. All the Fraud.
Until then, ballot box victories within the margin of fraud are not probitive.
What I want are political competence tests and poll taxes to qualify voters. With any luck, I’d eliminate 60-80% of the current electorate, and ALL frauds.
Who gets to write and score the tests?
Why are we letting Canadians build our buildings?
Because we kicked the mexicans out?
I read Canadian and see Chinese contractors.
Some offshoot of TDS, sounds like. fAuX nEwS!
Well at $1 BILLION a year, that high speed rail will be done (checks math) in 95 years (assuming costs don’t rise again).
It’ll be completed sometime after teleportation becomes cost effective.
The C&O canal of high speed rail!
Yeah.. I have no faith in the California Supreme Court. It might have a chance even with the 9th Circuit (they’ve had some surprisingly sensible rulings from time to time)… but that court is beholden to the same machine that wants to push this… so I wouldn’t give it a crystallized water precipitation sphere’s probability of survival in Lucifer’s realm.
I think it was the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that ran the the political cartoon in ’75 about Jimmy Carter winning the Democratic nomination against the snowball’s chance in hell with the tagline, I’m betting on the snowball.
As someone who’s lived in Georgia several years out of my life — please refer to our preeminent paper properly.
The Gerbil Constipation or The Urinal Constitution — either is acceptable and properly conveys the stunning journalism they evidence.
The majority of business owners are right leaning because they are greedy capitalist racists and sexists devoted to oppressing El Gibbetique, Womyn, and BIPOC! It has nothing to do with seeing first hand what a free human being can accomplish if left alone by the State, and wanting more of that. And obviously it can have nothing to do with seeing how asinine, disconnected from reality, slow and incompetent the bureaucracy is, because we all know that bureaucrats are wonderful.
When the oppression lens is affixed to your eyeballs, then oppression is all you will ever see.
Or (as I’ve seen) when well meaning Democrats start trying to open a business and run into the massive amounts of red tape, hassling inspectors, and petty bureaucrats. Nothing has caused more anti state ranting than a well meaning soft lefty being told he has to spend thousands of dollars to move a panel two inches.
Yup… I lack your personal experience — but I can’t imagine anyone starting / running a small business that can’t afford the legions of compliance personnel the larger corps lock the markets up with would have a favorable view of expanding government oversight, overreach and programs that “the rich business owners can pay for”.
No brainer.
Move a panel two inches? Oh no, you won’t get an order that clear. First you will get a letter explaining that you have failed the inspection. It will list ways in which you failed, but they won’t be anything like detailed enough for you to tell what is wrong, just that you are not in compliance with code sections you will have to look up yourself, and which will reference other documents for the specific standards. In some cases those other documents will be available and will contain, albeit in confusing and abstract language, some defined standard which you must meet, but in other cases you will discover that the document containing the standards was actually repealed 47 years ago, and the replacement version is numbered differently and is 987 pages long and you will be entirely unable to tell how you have failed to comply. After 3 or 4 failed inspections, each costing a fee, and each inspecting another couple thousand dollars of changes, you will eventually get the one 72 year old guy at the building department who actually knows what he is doing, and he will look at your work, and the 4 sets of changes and shake his head as he explains that you were fully compliant from the start and signs off.
The next time you have a project you will specifically ask for him to inspect, only to find out that he has retired and that his replacement is extremely diverse, and prickly about it. Things will get really fun then.
(((Jarflx:
It was quite literally move a panel two inches. The part that really got him wound up was that a friend of his had just recently been made the inspector for a nearby city, and inspected it first and said it was fine.
This was also for a brewery, which gets more inspections and licenses.
Or in this case… “our fellow citizens who discovered they can vote themselves money from the treasuries”… sigh….
Neph, The one that got me to the point of considering the merits of various vantage points as sniper nests, was when I was told I could not board up the windows on the unused, not allowed to be used, accessible only by removing a wall panel, upper floors of the building I leased for my nightclub. I had to leave the existing, ‘historic’ wood double hung windows in place. The reason I wanted to replace them was that they were over 100 years old and were falling apart, a fact I discovered when a roughly 4 foot by 3 foot pane of glass fell out of one and landed on the sidewalk on Main Street, Lexington. If it had hit someone they would have died on the spot. I was eventually able to persuade them to let me build removeable frames to be installed over the windows, which btw looked exactly the same as the boarding up would have from the street, but which were substantially, as in 10x, as expensive.
Really brings into sharp relief that witticism about not trading one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 a mile away.
George McGovern says “hi” from 1992:
“A Politician’s Dream Is a Businessman’s Nightmare”
Slumbrew beat me to it.
I resemble this statement.
“Oh no, not paint!!!”
Paywalled.
Works for me. Perhaps your VPN is causing issues again?
Worked for me opened as a private tab… but I may just be “lucky” to read such stunning journalism. So brave. So stunning.
More seriously — yeah.. I really buy that “The government just wanted to study different colored crosswalks. The rainbow isn’t at all political, despite our making it so incessantly over the last few decades!”
Of course — given crosswalks are inherently sunbaked and driven on… I’d say go with whatever fades the slowest (which I assume is the traditional one or a bright yellow). I can’t really bring myself to care all that much.
Agreed that it is good if it isn’t called a “hate crime” though.
I have a stop sign as the center of my merry go round. Over the course of three years it has faded to white.
Go with white. It’s all going to fade out and reds and yellows are the more expensive pigments.
If proven true — eminent domain for controlled demolition for public safety leaps to mind. If they can make you trim a gorram tree because of power lines… your private property shouldn’t get to loom over downtown either.
This assumes it can’t be shored up at this point by the owner and a competent builder, of course… but one or the other.
You can shore up anything.
/Redneck
“Gimme a match… I think my skyscraper’s generator fuel tank is empty”?
Will they give money to other people who qualify for exclusion? Compensate small business owners for lost income? Provide elder care? Provide a temporary employee for key personnel?
These are questions a misogynist would ask. Why do you hate women?
when the line between Los Angeles and San Francisco is someday completed, the project is expected to create more than 1 million jobs and generate roughly $86 billion in labor income
according to my model
Only if they ban air travel.
Which I wouldn’t put it past them (for the plebes at least). Similar to how “cap and trade” taxes will be stolen to keep this gravy train going… the important thing is that their cartel’s future is secure.
Didn’t you get the memo?
Which has been the silent bug-a-boo in the whole damn project. No set of train tracks can move as many people as the number of flights from three airports in the LA region to three airports in the bay area. There is just too much travel, with all the amenities already set up at the six airports that no choo-choo line will ever be able to compensate for, unless you force the removal of air travel.
1 million jobs? What, are the trains going to be pulled by teams of coolies?
The only thing holding back the Los Angeles and San Francisco job markets is the difficult commute between them.
LMAO, yes, San Francisco longs for a daily throng of Angelenos coming in to work, or running down to L.A. for some decent tacos.
I dont understand how high speed rail is consistent with 15-minute cities.
I just want someone to point it out to a lefty so i can enjoy the twisted logic in their replies.
“In April 2025, United Airlines alone operated 582 flights between LAX and SFO, averaging nearly 20 daily flights.
This route is highly saturated, with multiple airlines operating frequent services to cater to business travelers and connect passengers through major hubs.
While the exact daily passenger count is not specified, the high flight frequency, particularly by United Airlines, suggests a very large volume of passengers. For instance, United alone offered over 93,000 seats on this route in April 2025, generating more than 31.5 million available seat miles.”
AI answer, but it gives you the scope of the issue.
So he’s half like me?
Don’t be retarded. He’s nothing like you.
If I were dumb enough to dance or try to be a politician, you might well change your mind. I have a long history of being a goofy dumbass in person, good sir.
Step outside, you retarded faggot! I’ll even put one arm behind my back.
🤣
I don’t generally go “I bet I could take that guy in a fight”, but I’m pretty sure I could beat up Tim Walz in a fair fight.
WTF is with Democrats threatening Republican voters? It used to be politicians would go after politicians. Ever since Obama, dems attack the actual voters and then wonder why they lose huge swaths of the voting public.
Who else are Democrats going to hate on, when hate is otherwise forbidden to them?
I’m not a Trump supporter and Walz could probably kick my ass. That’s not a high bar. I could probably take him in reloading a gun though.
I could beat that guy in a fight and I can’t even stand up without assistance.
The balls of the Democrats – we demand the use of an independent commission, which we are bypassing because we want more than we got from ours.
I just wish I had enough faith in California voters that they would bitchslap this into the sun. But these are the same voters that produced the government leadership that is in Sacramento pushing this – so no, I won’t give even odds.
I’ve been seeing headlines about how we all need to back Gavin, because he’s doing the only good fight by (checks notes) further gerrymandering California to counterbalance the pernicious Republican influence in (checks notes) the rest of the country.
Real simple. If you’re not going by city or county lines, your shit’s all fucked up and you’re gaming the system.
the rest of the country.
MA, MD, NY and IL conspicuously not part of the rest of the country.
They need to be demoted to territories.
Which makes them subject to governance from DC. That’s an improvement – how, exactly?
Every so often it’ll be less stupid than rule from NYC.
BTW UCS, MD, NY and MA were never territories, so pretty much impossible (or even more impossible) to devolve them back to that.
You can be demoted to a status you never held.
So what’s the exact Constitutional mechanism for that UCS? Because my butt hurts?
Why would we care about your backside, JI?
That has as much meaning as your silly opinion on this.
Looking for a bailout is a form of insurrection?
(Not that I agree, but the Reconstruction model is there.)
What’s so special about “county lines?”
creech:
They’re preexisting organizations of territory that were developed by the states. My preference for congressional districts would be to follow county lines, unless the county has too much population, at which point it would have to go by city lines (in the case of megacities like NYC, than likely by burrough or other existing demarcation lines).
Neph all of these lines of political subdivision are political. State, city, county, representative district – all of them, every last one is political. It’s politics, all the way down.
They are all political demarcations, but they are existing political demarcations. Which is important in that they keep the the incidence of gerrymandering down to preexisting levels, as opposed to the willy-nilly BS that we see now.
Not to mention, SF’s problems are poop, drugs and everyone fleeing. The murder is over in Oakland. (Even the gangs don’t want to go into SF proper apparently)
“The mysterious case of how a Canadian in Dubai became ‘Miss Palestine’ — and will compete in the Miss Universe pageant
A contestant in this year’s Miss Universe pageant will represent a country most nations don’t recognize, for a religious culture that rejects her, after winning a competition that apparently didn’t happen.
Miss Palestine will compete in the pageant for the first time ever in November — represented by Nadeen Ayoub, 27, who is also listed as founder and manager of the Miss Palestine Organization, the group behind her title.
The Post could not find any record of a Miss Palestine pageant having been held, the names of any other contestants, or ways for them to have registered to compete.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/world-news/mysterious-case-of-how-nadeen-ayoub-became-miss-palestine/
Sydney Sweeney should run as Miss Narnia.
Sophie Cunningham as Miss Arby’s.
Huh:
I like the cut of her jib.
(Still not gonna watch the WNBA)
No, no, no, to really troll them it has to be Miss Hyperboria
Miss Rhodesia.
“Be a Woman among Women”
“In 2022, Nadeen Ayoub (second from right) was one of four winners of the Miss Earth competition in the Philippines. She was crowned Miss Earth Water. “
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. Maybe in Ohio you can get away with that kind of hatred.
It was in one of the big cities, so likely to get prosecuted.
But they say it wasn’t a pride rainbow. So a hate crime against who?
Kermit the Frog of course… they’re keeping him from finding his connection!
Hate doesn’t need to be against anyone now. It is just an inherent trait of white males.
““President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so,” Cook said, according to multiple outlets. “I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”
The longtime academic, who previously served on former President Barack Obama’s White House Council of Economic Advisers and former President Joe Biden’s transition team, has hired former first son Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, to represent her. ”
What a self-entitled twat. Imagine anyone trying that at a non-government job.
That should be “the longtime academic fraudster”, given her record of plagiarism.
She apparently no speakee the English so good, either, as Trump hasn’t “purported” to fire hire, he has “threatened” to fire her.
“Vanity Fair’s new boss reportedly wants first lady Melania Trump to grace the glossy magazine’s coveted cover — leaving disgruntled woke staff threatening to “walk out the motherf–king door” if it goes ahead.
The fashion mag’s global editorial director, Mark Guiducci, has floated the possibility of putting President Trump’s wife on the cover of the Conde Nast-owned publication as he tries to make his mark in his newly minted role, Semafor reported.
But the mere thought of having the former model as a cover girl sparked fierce backlash from raging lefty staffers.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/media/vanity-fair-employees-lash-out-over-proposed-melania-trump-cover/
I don’t think Conde Nast will let him.
An actual, no-shit, former professional model on the cover? No siree.
The mannish wife of the president, with no particular personal accomplishments? Fashion icon! Multiple covers!
Did Doctor Jill ever make the cover?
No, but Frau Docktor Professor Jill was on the cover of Vogue.
I read that as ‘cover of Vague’.
My glasses need cleaning
That just might be a nice way to get rid of bloat, if you think about it.
And not have to pay severance.
Disgruntled staff that quit will hire lawyers and sue for emotional damages.
Interesting that he chose SF. The demographics of the place are, let’s just say, a bit unusual by American city standards.
The only black guys are gay?
With St George’s flags everywhere and this poor girl, maybe the Englishman is starting to hate and wake up.
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1960290601061998674
She looks ready to serve up the Royal Navy.
Not enough meat on those bones to be cooke… I mean, there is no cannibalism in the Navy.
Wot’s she doing with those dangerous weapons? She needs a proper educatin’. Go back to the old ways – lie back, and think of England dearie.
For those without X.
Turn off the prison cameras and ‘discover’ the aspiring rapist found a new way to hang around.
Something tells me that this wasn’t his first nor would it be his last.
Syrians are enriching Germany too. Jelly.
Well you can understand why young women in Scotland wouldn’t fear Scottish men, unless they happen to be wearing a lot of wool.
Time for Scottish men to paint their faces blue?
“The Scottish Government has announced a review of self-defense legislation, expected to conclude by early 2026.”
Any bets on if this will increase or decrease punishment for people trying to defend themselves?
“Self-defense is usurping the crown’s perogative to protect you, therefore Treason.”
Any bets on if this will increase or decrease punishment for people trying to defend themselves?
In Clown World? I’m not going to touch that. Too risky.
Pretty sure Walz is throwing a Nazi salute in the pic on his article.
“Washington DC’s most secretive sex workers say they are being paid thousands of dollars for late-night trysts with the very same Republican lawmakers who publicly rail against them.
In a series of bombshell interviews with the Daily Mail, transgender escorts in the nation’s capital revealed buttoned-up GOP officials are among their most loyal — and discreet — customers.
The revelations mark the latest in a stream of sex scandals for the Republican Party, and come as the Trump administration takes a tough stand against trans people in areas such as the military and sports.
‘They absolutely demonize us in public but use us behind closed doors,’ said one of the women, who advertises herself online as a $1,000-per-hour ‘curvy blonde trans girl’ and has tens of thousands of followers on X and OnlyFans.”
https://archive.is/q8cmq
More anonymous bullshit.
I’ll take shit that never happened for $10,000, Alex.
That sounds like confirmed sex work talk to me there buddy!
The life and times of Bat-Boy is more credible a news story with the evidence provided.
At least Bat Boy escaped!
“stream of sex scandals”
Sure, Jan.
I mean, I can think of…
No, those that come to mind are Democrat staffers and spouses.
Didn’t Madison Cawthorne confirm that DC pols are a bunch of coked up whoremongers?
And Washingtonienne complained that some Republicans were so boring they’d finish missionary and so cruel they wound get her drunk enough before sticking it in her butt?
That’s how and why he got blackballed and primaried out of his seat.
The only part I don’t believe is the $1k/hour. These are Republicans. Fiscally responsible. They’re doing circuit hookups from out of state, $350/hour tops.
“These are Republicans. Fiscally responsible.”
LOL
I am NOT going to check out tryst.link to see what DC tranny hooker prices are. I’m at work.
“a stream of sex scandals for the Republican Party,”
I try to keep up. I dont know how I missed that.
The revelations mark the latest in a stream of sex scandals for the Republican Party
Yes, stream of sex scandals that consist of vague accusations against unnamed people, who we are assured by the mentally ill prostitute, are Republicans…
Who are these Republicans allegedly railing against moral corruption? Did a bunch of guys from 1986 get re-elected to Congress?
The love children of Ed Meese and Pat Robertson.
Sounds like a headline they dug up from 1926.
Just like when the gay reporter went after Larry Craig and accused him of being gay.
“Ghislaine Maxwell was reportedly celebrated at a Clinton Global Initiative event four years after sex crime allegations emerged against the accomplice of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The report may shed more light on Maxwell’s relationship with the Clintons, even as allegations against her emerged.
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty of sex trafficking and conspiracy charges in 2021, was praised as a guest at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in September 2013, according to a new report from CNN.
Maxwell was on the list of guests who had been personally recommended by Bill or Hillary Clinton for complimentary access to the conference, a source familiar with the list told the outlet. She was lauded alongside other “Commitment to Action” leaders at the event.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/clinton-global-initiative-celebrated-ghislaine-maxwell-4-years-after-sexual-abuse-allegations-surfaced-report
An anonymous source via CNN?
LOL at people who set their Teams status to Do Not Disturb, then get pissy when someone sends them a message.
I’m not following… if I signify do not disturb and you disturb me… yeah, I’ll be disturbed.
Yeah, I mean I say “Leave me alone” and you don’t, I’m going to be annoyed.
Or you could, you know, turn off Teams.
It’s still on so I can be reached in for something important, particularly by my manager, while I’m otherwise trying to concentrate on some code or something. Not for stupid “I made an update to a Jira ticket [which got e-mailed to you, as they all do], can you please take a look and do the needful” messages.
Yeah, I’m not going to guess as to what every other individual’s definition of “important” is.
This is definately sounding like a Chipping problem, not the recipients he’s being rude to.
Dude, if you can’t figure out how to turn off Teams, that’s on you, not me.
Or, you could stop being rude to people and work on your communication skills.
That would help you more in any endeavor.
ok cool
Yeah, I’m going to have to side with UCS and Slum here. They asked not to be disturbed, you disturbed them, what the hell did you expect? That they’d be delighted you are pestering them?
That said,
“Or, you could stop being rude to people and work on your communication skills.
That would help you more in any endeavor.”
is bringing to mind a person holding a bag of stones inside their luxurious glass walled abode for some reason.
I have no idea what ‘teams’ is.
I feel like I am the winner here.
“I am conditioned to respond immediately to every message by years of social media usage.”
I thought that setting meant the messages just didn’t pop up or whatever on your devices. If you’re part of a big group that messaging, would you really want people to delete you from the group because you were DND during your private time in the men’s room, anyway?
“The executive order instructs the Attorney General to aggressively pursue legal action against flag burning when it “incites violence or violates laws, such as disturbing the peace,” and imposes one-year of imprisonment without early release and permitting visa cancellation or deportation for foreign nationals who deface the flag under certain circumstances….
The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 in a 5-4 decision, that flag burning is protected as free-speech under the First Amendment in the landmark case Texas v. Johnson and reaffirmed in the Supreme Court case United States v. Eichman in 1990. ”
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trumps-order-protect-flag-hits-heart-culture
Sounds like a waste of time.
Definitely in the “Sounds stupid and unconstitutional” category of Trump spew, yes.
Pleases the hurr-durr-hurr crowd (which sadly outnumbers this little crowd).
That decision was made with the 1989 Supreme Court.
I was wondering what the point is myself, I have no doubt Trump knew about the ruling. He is either trying to change the law, or make leftists do something stupid like go on a televised flag-burning spree.
I think it is the latter.
Look at them chase that laser pointer…
NPR is declaring this is a distraction from the Epstein “scandal.”
At least people here can fly our flag
“You might have already seen in the last week or two, Britons defiantly flying the U.K. Union Jack or England’s St. George’s Cross — only to have officials who seem to have no problem with displays of Palestinian or Pakistani pride take them down……
Some residents have found the sudden appearance of St George’s and union flags ‘intimidating”, a council has said.
While many people were flying the flag to cheer on the Lionesses during the 2025 Euros, thousands more have appeared in towns and cities in England during August – many attached to lampposts.
Leader of Dorset Council, Liberal Democrat Councillor Nick Ireland, described the movement as an “explosion of patriotism”, but also said it was “naive” to suggest the emblems had not been “hijacked” by some far-right groups.”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/08/25/britains-war-on-britain-n4943012
Hahahahahaha.
The protesters are learning. Well done.
When I lived in the Chicago area, a super Lefty neighbor asked me if I was a Republican and a Trump supporter since I flew an American flag outside of my house.
I predict with Europe especially in places like the UK and the Nordic countries, there will eventually be a huge violent backlash towards the Muslim immigrants.
No right-thinking person is patriotic except under very limited conditions.
What part of dulce et decorum est pro patria mori do you not understand?
towards the
Muslim immigrantsidiot political leadersThe Muslims will self-deport or change the minute they are held accountable for their bullshit. The politicians need to be held accountable first, and perhaps with extreme prejudice.
I really want a Huntington Liberty flag (my hometown) but with the color and ‘Liberty’, I’m 100% certain one of the smart, compassionate leftys around here would steal or vandalize it.
No right-thinking person is patriotic except under very limited conditions.
I can understand the very individualistic sentiment you are trying to convey here, but using the prescriptive phrasing “no right-thinking person” to convey it wrecks it to my mind. If it is an error to be patriotic, it is the same, or at least a closely related, error to believe that one’s own thinking is a standard that others should adhere to.
double tag fail, thanks NA!
(((Jarflax I suppose I could’ve put that in quotes to better signal the sarcasm.
Slumbrew: that’s why you spray your flags with poison ivy oil. You can definitely get this cheaper:
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sial/phl80181
“What part of dulce et decorum est pro patria mori do you not understand?”
All of it.
Go home, England. You’re drunk.
JI, sorry, I misread the threading and didn’t read your comment as a reply to Ed, so I missed the context, and the sarcasm.
Nobody will be held accountable for anything – especially as the proportion of Muslims increases. And in the meantime the remaining English politicians are terrified of them.
If flying your country’s flag is an act of rebellion, your country has been conquered.
English politicians are terrified of the wrong set of people, and that is the problem.
Ed:
I was entertained when one set of neighbors asked my about my Whiskey Rebellion flag and asked if it was the Jewish American flag. The part that really tickled me is the husband of that couple is a damned Yinzer, and should recognize it.
For now. They tried to ban patriotic attire at my kids’ high school on 9/11/21, as “some (unidentified) people see the flag as a symbol of oppression and imperialism.” After the shitstorm that followed, there was a lot of attempts to smokescreen the situation.
Soo many questions started coming out – who complained? Students? Teachers? If teachers, why would teachers be teaching that in school? Who signed off on the ban? Buck stops at the principal’s office, but he said an administrator signed off without his knowledge. Really? Which administrator?
Even in my lefty loony land district, the Principal was shown the door.
I read the full text of the EO.
Trump is saying that SCOTUS said burning a flag for political protest is protected. But SCOTUS didn’t say that burning a flag to incite a riot is protected.
So, Trump will look into the hearts and minds of all people burning flags and decide who is is making a political gesture and who is inciting a riot.
This is literally the reasoning behind banning cross burning by Klansmen but not Mosselmen.
The current doctrine is, basically, that flag burning per se can’t be prosecuted, but burning a flag doesn’t immunize you from prosecution for other crimes you may have committed while doing so.
Yes, such as snatching said flag off a flagpole, or engaging in rioting.
The local American Legion post has regular flag burnings. That’s the approved way to dispose of old and tattered U.S. flags.
Yes, what’s left of the Boy Scouts also still retires flags.
The real question re flag burning is: can you burn a rainbow flag?
That would be inciting violence
“An unprecedented incident shook daily life in England when a British pub refused entry to customers carrying their own country’s flag. What might seem trivial has become a focus of debate about national identity, freedom of expression, and the growing imposition of arbitrary rules by certain local administrations. Witnesses and affected patrons reported that the ban is clear and direct: carrying the English flag in a pub located in England may result in being denied service, regardless of whether the visitors’ intent is simply to show national pride.”
https://gatewayhispanic.com/video/unreal-british-pub-owner-refuses-entry-people-wearing/
It’s literal “terrorism” being practiced by their new neighbors.
Could this possibly be because people who go into pubs while carrying flags, perhaps during televised sporting events, have a history of causing trouble?
Excellent, you shall never have my business again, flag or not. Good luck.
EvilSheldon:
You mean hooligans are going to hooligan?
Neph – Exactamundo. Bar owners don’t like trouble, especially trouble that causes damage that they’ll have to pay for. ‘No bringing flags into my bar,’ strikes me as a policy intended to weed out obvious problem customers, not some higher culture war fusillade.
ES the question is – all flags or only certain flags? The article isn’t quite clear on that.
EvilSheldon:
And this is why you follow the rules as indicated by the decor of the bar. No fighting in a cocktail bar, no spitting in a dance club, no cocktails in a dive bar, etc.
Mr Ilium – That’s too complicated. Much easier to not go in.
Oooo. Now Juris has an excellent point. Are there other flags that have penalties for burning? Answer is yes. This EO would force the issue, flag burning overall is protected speech or it is not.
RJ: There are a number of people in the US who have been imprisoned for burning pride flags. Their charges were for tresspassing, theft, unauthorized making fire etc. etc. but the tell is that they were enhanced with ‘hate crime’ statutes.
Trump’s flag burning EO is simply him playing by their rules.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50861259
Disgraceful.
And you know millions and millions of Americans are 100% in agreement with that sentence.
He was arrested later that day, and told local media in a jail house interview that he was “guilty as charged”.
“It was an honour to do that. It’s a blessing from the Lord,” he said, explaining that he did it because he “opposed homosexuality”.
“I burned down their pride, plain and simple,” he told KCCI-TV. The interview was entered into the trial as evidence against him.
Perhaps you should learn when to shut the fuck up.
Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said Martinez was the first person in the county’s history to be convicted of a hate crime.
The story doesn’t say what the actual crime was that he was convicted of.
https://smkw.com/shop/?tag=microtech-sale
PSA: Smokey Mountain Knife Works has a big sale on Microtechs right now.
Those handles look like they’d cut me if I tried to use the knife.
Pocketknife prices make Zero Halliburton luggage seem reasonable.
Before I was willing to shell out more for quality, I didn’t really get the difference between “sharp” knives and sharp knives.
The relationship between quality and price is tenuous at best. I used to sell these things.
I’m not saying there’s an absolute rule, but there is a price floor for each quality grade. Don’t buy them online where you can’t inspect them.
I’ve seen all the criticism of Cracker Barrel. The most impressive one was a comparison of new logos and how they are all so similar (use of lowercase letters, oversimplification, etc.) So now I think it’s just a case of intellectual laziness in two parts. First, the woke idea that everything in the past is from a time when everything was racist, so it’s problematic. And second, they’re just going with the “modern” look in the logo and the store design because that’s what everyone else is doing. The laziness comes from not bothering to find out what differentiates the brand and not leaning into it. To me, this is just an example of poor marketing.
There was discussion that corps want the logo to fit recognizably into the thumbnail pic on social media postings. I find that bullshit, because you could have a separate logo (maybe a CB in team colors?) used for the social posts and leave the store signage alone.
This hit my mailbox in the past day, and I pretty much agree with it. I don’t lament chains changing, because they’re chains. I will lament when a local establishment closes (especially if they’re a local chain).
Cracker Barrel: Y’all Folks Git On Down Here for Some Microwaved Soy and Corn Syrup Product, ‘Cause We’re Servin’ Up Country
This also may be due to my proximity to Amish country.
That tracks with my experience. I remember the food being pretty good in the 80’s and 90’s, but now it’s just bland, salty, and greasy AKA mass produced. I think a better move would have been to go the Dominos route, and say “We admit our food sucks, we’re working on it.”
This echoes my thoughts. I’m no more bothered by the marketing changes at Cracker Barrel than I would be for Denny’s or Ruby Tuesday’s.
But if The Virginian removed all the chicken-related ephemera from behind the counter, I’d have a major sad…
EvilSheldon:
I was appalled when I realized (several years back) that the girlfriend had never eaten at the iconic Kleifeld’s. This was then rectified (and she now remembers it as the place that has the old 50s jukeboxes still active).
The ownership has changed several times, but none of them have fucked with the formula. Cheap, fast, good breakfast/lunch food.
@Neph we have a cheap place like that in town called Jimmy’s. It’s a little Greek restaurant where you can get a standard eggs, meat, hash browns, and toast for about $10. Made to order, service is amazingly fast, and the food is great. We support that business as much as we can.
Nice!
I’m not an expert on good diners, except to say that the large number of good diners and greasy spoons is the single saving grace of the state of New Jersey.
I also found a terrific place in Imperial, PA when I was up there for the Area 8 – Our Diner. If you stop by, and you should, do not get the Imperial Platter unless you don’t have anything else to do that day. Those ‘mini’ pancakes are what I’d normally call a large.
TOK:
We’ve got them all over the place around here (and in most of the inner ring suburbs).
The key is finding the good old places versus the ones just reheating Sysco/GFS food. The best of them are still cash only, which infuriates the yutes.
“Yeah, no shit.”
We are subleasing our building for the gym. During one of the first meetings between my wife and our landlady, they were alone in the building, and the landlady leaned in and whispered something about it being ok that she was a Republican. Mrs. TOK laughed and said no problem there, her dad was awarded “Republican of the year” once.
Jordan Peterson says that sex evolved to try and win an evolutionary arms race with parasites, but I refuse to give the IRS credit for the best way to spend a long weekend.
https://archive.is/ad86s
Titty Tuesday.
When I think entrepreneur, I think nonprofit scammer.
Hot/crazy matrix location?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15035101/boston-female-fire-cadet-beat-cheating-boyfriend.html
No-Go Zone.
Pretty sure I’d never date a fire fighter.
I technically only.
Put out two fires and assisted on a third.
No thanks. Just say no to drama.
We are still in the monkey stage.
See story below about the chimp losing a cucumber in her ass.
Last night youtoob puked up a thing about a prefab house. It was kind of interesting, for a glorified mobile home with a waft of container house aesthetic. 16 x 50, as I recall, but potentially livable. I thought to myself, I could probably live in that, for less than 100k. Price tag? 385k Canadian. Plus transport, taxes and tariff.
It’s the future of affordable housing.
That’s half the size of my house at 4x the price.
That’s more expensive than even Zillow says my current house is worth.
Here’s the perfect piece of land to put that on! This isn’t too far from me, and you might notice a mobile home in the pics – it is in the process of being disassembled and removed. That entire lot is a slope, barely any level ground.
$385k Canadian is what, $200 bucks? Seems like a good deal to me…
Prefab USFS pit toilets routinely come in over $200,000 before instillation.
“A million-to-one shot doc!”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-found-king-cucumber-inside-35792861
Editor’s note: nothing without a flared base goes in her ass lest you end up like these two. Pussy *might* be ok since it’s a cul-de-sac but still better to stick to professionally crafted tools like this:
https://dashx7am4qhi3z.archive.is/vzLAE/ddb03480fe283d426f53d9a2c94e599afcc7ffce.webp
What, do I have to be the one to make a ‘tossing the salad’ comment?
Perhaps a better question would be “when was it bitten, and by who?
I think the only thing you can say here is “oops”.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/husbands-secret-marriage-busted-second-35783587
I knew a Belgian dude who had a wife back in Brussels AND a Chinese wife in Guangdong. He was hotheaded and untrustworthy.
Maybe I lack imagination, but I don’t see what “woke” has to do with Cracker Barrel’s logo. It’s not like they put an Oompa Loompa on it.
It’s more the archetype the CEO falls into. She ticks the boxes and made a stupid decision, thenattempted to gaslight about it.
It’s mostly the resume/personality/style of the CEO doing it.
They got rid of the old white guy, which is literally erasing him.
I don’t think it’s woke, and just think it’s bland, like their food usually is.
I think it is seen as erasing ‘white’ culture.
Erasing the white guy, yes, but I think the woke part has more to do with remodeling the restaurants and getting rid of the antiques. I’ve also seen where they changed the wording on the peg game. As I said earlier, they’re getting rid of the things that differentiate the brand, now they’ve put themselves into competition with other big chains that have the same look and menu.
It’s “Republicans pounce” nonsense.
So is it a swingers’ club or something?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/36438693/poundland-shops-future-doubt-administration/
It’s a dollar store.
If you’re losing more than the rent it’s time to quit.
Welp. Another day, another trip to the ER for Mom.
Bummer, I’m sorry.
Sorry
What happened? If you are willing to tell the miscreants here.
She thinks bowel obstruction, and then on the way here, she tells me she didn’t take any Dulcolax because it hurts. WTF.
“So having gas pain
for 48 hours and a trip to the ER is PREFERABLE to suffering a turbo cleanse for 12 hours?”
“Yes.” 🙄
I see.
What I am hearing is that your mom is full of shit.
That’s not a nice thing to say!
Please tell us it’s not a cucumber…
(Sorry, sorry, sorry, please don’t hit me.)
I have never been “Well, actually”‘d more in my entire life than I have the last 8 months.
Ye olde potato pessary.
She needs to keep a daily diary of when those things happen. For her reference a well as others.
Sometimes the memory reminders are not so accurate.
Sorry. Hope everything comes out ok in the end.
They got rid of the old white guy, which is literally erasing him.
*pours one out for Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben*
Why do you hate the Indian from the Land-O-Lakes box you bigot?!
I always thought she was hot so of course the fact activists and poison frog hair crowd had her nixed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9CAGxjuJ-o
Too local
Daily Ray of Sunshine
It’s not a money pit. It’s an investment. Didn’t you read the headline?
It’s not a money pit. It’s an investment. Didn’t you read the headline?
Just because we call it a nonprofit doesn’t mean nobody gets rich.
Doin’ right ain’t got no end
An appellate court knocked down two of his orders but left intact a third: that Voice of America be brought back to full power so it can provide, as the law compels, “news which is consistently reliable and authoritative, accurate, objective, and comprehensive.” He said simply having journalists on paid leave and on call to return temporarily, if needed, does not fill that mission.
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The U.S. government launched Voice of America in 1942 to broadcast accurate news reports into Nazi-controlled territory. During the Cold War, it flourished, along with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, as a show of soft power. It beamed news and music programs that advertised the appeal of American culture, but also modeled democratic discourse to people living under authoritarian regimes.
The plaintiffs who brought the case against the Trump administration say its actions violate Congress’ intent and the black letter of the law.
In other news, the Post Office has been ordered to supply and maintain an adequate supply of horses and tack for the Pony Express.
Didn’t Sammy Hagar have an album called VOA? Just play that 24/7