Good morning one and all to another fantastic day!
274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’
Comey indicted for alleged false statements, obstruction of congressional proceeding
Senior DOJ Officials Pushing for Bolton to Be Charged This Week
Hegseth Summons Top Military Brass for Meeting in Virginia
Trump supports expanding Antifa terror designation internationally
Trump Cancels Meeting With Schumer, Jeffries on Shutdown Talks
Schumer Apparently No Longer Cares If Trump Fires Feds During A Shutdown
Trump admin reunites with Elon Musk in pursuit of AI dominance: ‘Benefit of the country’
Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion
Disney Spent Quarter-Billion on Flop Lesbian-Witch ‘Star Wars’ Series
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Yay! Early links!
“The early link catches the snark!”
Obligatory — and interesting, because I don’t think I’d ever come across the full / long version of the work. So there’s some proto-Agile Cyborg to start y’all’s day.
Morning all — morning, Banjos! Thanks for the links… I shall now go read before I
boojumsnark.Huh, I thought it was pronounced snipe.
NPR was shitting themselves over the Big Brass Meeting. They were all “Hegseth is telling China when to invade!”
Huh. Given their politics, I’m not sure why that would alarm them. But of course, the real reason they said it is to scare boomer voters in swing states.
Apparently the reason the US military is great is that it relies on rigid procedures, and this sort of improptu-ish meeting shakes it to the core. Also some of these generals are coming from “really really hot” areas. Two different people used the “really really hot” formulation to describe how it was simply unthinkable that a soldier wouldn’t have a multi-star looking over his shoulder.
Yeah… because if there’s anything our military is known for, it is Prussian level adherence to strict organization, complete lack of improvisation in the field and the expectations of individual initiative.
Personally — that we have that many flag ranks that can be spared to attend such a meeting (because the ones in actual vital roles are not required to attend as I understand it) is rather indicative of the ossification of the Pentagon class. Of course — we’ve been here before. Grant was out before the Civil War (and I think brought back as a Major of volunteers before moving up in the West). Ike was a long time Major… most of these guys seriously need to find a pasture to be put out in.
And RoaT — that was my first thought as well to NA’s comment.
Must blogwhore again:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/oh-tannenbaum.html
Technically you don’t *have* to….
SDF: I suggested during Trump’s first term that if I were in charge I would have deployed all the non-civilian Pentagon officers to Afghanistan.
fred for ted:
https://fredoneverything.org/fredwitz-on-war/
There are at least a magnitude more chiefs than Indians needed in the military.
I once read there are fewer ships in the navy than flag level officers.
I would decimate the number of officers, eliminate twice the percentage of NCOs if I were God Emperor. I’d also make the vast majority of the army reserve overnight. No one would miss them.
I thought it was great because of the diversity? Diversity is our strength, after all.
That’s Milley’s job.
And he won’t stop?
So they’re admitting some of those admirals/generals are going to give that information to the PRC?
To make sure the CCP can fight the evil of America, man!
Morning Banjos!
Regarding the AI, still waiting on the flying cars from the Tyrell Corp that Ridley Scott foretold.
About AI, I have a warning. If you wonder why the left keeps blatantly lying and repeating lies, it is because of AI. Training AI involves giving it access to things that have been written or have been said, and the AI starts assuming something is right/true when it sees it a lot, and repeatedly. It is Wikipedia all over again. And with so many lazy people looking for something to be the fact checker, you can bet the AIs are gonna be peddling leftist bullshit by design.
I am already seeing that.
Me two, and I have pointed this out to my employer. The scumbags gave up with trying to override the learned things the AI settled on while finding their talking points were bullshit, and decided the answer was overwhelming amounts of bullshit to get the AI to simply believe their bullshit must be the truth.
Yeah, there’s another problem there – LE and intelligence? GTFO with intelligence. You wanna play spook – you need do that in foreign countries, not domestically.
*hands JI a bag*
*points to cat far in the distance*
I mean, I’m okay with delenda est on the whole FBI, but if they want to at least preserve some function, it should be a legitimate one.
As if it wasn’t motivation by political bias before Trump.
“You wanna play spook – you need do that in foreign countries, not domestically.”
But white supremacy domestic terrorism!!!!
I see you have been to the same power point presentations I have Alex
“Viable exit options”
JFC, the entitlement. You can just quit, you know, without some kind of payoff or cushy sinecure to land in.
What? Like one of the stinking private sector serfs? How can you so demean the noble courtiers?
“You think I became a public servant in order to serve the public”?
They service the public in an animal husbandry sense.
“What took you so long?” says everyone paying attention since Occupy Wall Street. (“The Uniparty was perfectly fine with it” of course being the likely answer…)
They were pre-occupied with the Epstein files? Oh, and we’re still waiting on Bongino’s disclosure that he teased back in May.
I’m not holding my breath – that guy is a literal Bond villain & I don’t know if the rest of the world has what it takes to take him and his evil spawn down.
The spawn is a lot less impressive than dad. If dad keeled over tomorrow, his empire would wither away pretty quickly.
I hope you’re right.
To be fair, Huma must be a considerable distraction.
To be fair, Huma must be a considerable distraction.
Lesbian Space-Witch? In the service of the Eldritch Queen of Velcro?
““What took you so long?””
The corruptocracy was feeding the Soros machine money through every NGO and USAID to do their dirty work that otherwise would have had people in government locked up for criminal activity. After DOGE dried up the USAID money and the American people were informed that there were seriously no NGOs, as government was paying them all to do evil shit, and the bullshit went from a firehose to a trickle, the game was exposed finally. That was why it took so long.
All the adds for lefty causes on talk radio have dropped the line “paid for by the ad council.”
If you can’t make lesbian space witches work, you aren’t even trying.
Wasn’t the main bad girl in Buck Rodgers a lesbian space witch?
I thought she was a straight alien princess obsessed with Buck and not willing to “enter a treaty” with Colonel Wilma Deering.
If lesbian space witch was brought in for Season 2 — well, Season 2 sucked and I choose not to remember it.
And obligatory.
I only watched it when it was on the air, but I thought she had some sort of magic powers.
*shrugs*
She had the magic power to entrance teenage boys who watched the show. And she had the hots for Buck. She was not a lesbian.
It worked for George Newman.
At least the 80s knew what to do with lesbian space vampires.
She was lesbian? I thought it was a big plot point that she somehow / for some reason wanted the idiot that woke her up in the first place and otherwise would suck anything that moved.
Probably not but I had to fit it in somehow.
.. “That’s what he said!”
55 Fictional Witches, Ranked by Lesbianism
Someone actually got paid to write that.
I tried to read it, but it looks like the retarded opening you quoted might have been the closest she came to making sense in that piece.
Everything I saw about that show looked god-awful.
Linked to the Schumer shutdown article. They are not deep thinkers.
Democrats Can’t Name Single Thing They Dislike About GOP Bill To Avoid Government Shutdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/17/democrats-gop-stopgap-funding-bill-government-shutdown/
It doesn’t extend COVID emergency funding. Republicans are going to let a crisis go to waste.
“Linked to the Schumer shutdown article. They are not deep thinkers.”
They have never been. The real game was that their supposed opponents were both weak and actually big deep staters too, willing to take the giant L as long as they got their personal needs met, and fuck the people they claimed to be supporting, until Trump came along and broke that racket.
The parasite sucks until the host can’t give anymore.
We are unfortunately almost there…
Other Democrats told the DCNF they would not vote for the CR because it does not include language that would force Trump to spend congressionally-appropriated funds.
To be fair, if you say “I’m not in favor of this because it doesn’t include X”, not being able to say what you don’t like that is included is not really a gotcha moment for me.
6 fucking trillion dollars and he can’t find one program that pisses him off?
The lesser known constitutional amendment that Article I is moot and all governance is through EO we’ve been living with… (maybe it is because this somehow was under the FTC or FCC or some bullcrap… but I don’t really buy it. Block them under national security concerns, maybe… but dictate who gets to own it for how much… that’s not the Fed’s job… and maybe, just maybe you don’t want to give actual credence to the allegation that you’re into picking up sticks and bundling them so they’re stronger together about now there, OMB? sigh…)
Disney’s shareholders and board should be revolting at their years now of complete mismanagement in the name of The Message. One or two of these stupid decisions — that’s the industry… this continued profligate spending on crap any first year marketing undergrad could tell them wasn’t going to appeal to their audience nor draw in new ones, only get praise from Left Wing TwiX (that would never actually watch)… might as well just spend it on hookers and blow. At least then you’d come to a proper ending.
I saw a meme that was along the lines of:
Disney’s business plan
1) Be loved by girls everywhere for their stories and movies
2) Buy Marvel, which was popular with boys everywhere
3) Decide that the MCU needed to appeal to women, wonder why boys stop watching.
4) Decide that they should make romance stories for girls, because it’s problematic, wonder why girls stop watching
5) Blame sexism and racism for the problem
Way ahead of you:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/barbie-world-war.html
Hence that big “ESG” push the sole purpose of which was to shame investors into supporting radical leftism or else.
“Disney’s shareholders and board should be revolting at their years now of complete mismanagement in the name of The Message.”
Do you wonder why they have not taken this shit to court yet?
I am wondering if Disney was also getting USAID money to pay for these flops…
Unfortunately, a DC jury won’t convict Comey, even if they had video evidence of him raping babies and killing puppies.
Concur. And we now know they have evidence that is absolutely damning. It at a minimum should make Americans aware that the legal system in blue areas is a criminal enterprise as well. They need to file to move that shitshow to a different venue.
I may be mistaken, but I thought I had heard they filed in Virginia, although that may not be much better.
And that’s fine. The process is the punishment.
Not a DC jury. It’s the Eastern District of Virginia. The district stretches from NoVA through Richmond to the Hampton Roads area.
So… possible they could get a jury that would convict.
If you feel like a Nelson Muntz laugh would be cathartic:
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/woke-bookstore-that-lured-junkies-to-posh-les-nabe-suddenly-shuts-down/
OMG sooo much derp…. What a clown show.
“melanated POC”
😂🤣
“POC” should be pronounced “pock”.
And “BIPOC” should be pronounced “bip-ock”.
Ted S.:
Why would I call a Point Of Contact a Pock?
Is there such a thing as a POC without melanin?
African albinos are a thing.
African albinos are a thing. – until they get murders for their body parts to be used in witchcraft and good luck charms.
PieInTheSky:
Tombstone and Tobias “White” Whale say hello.
There was a family of African albinos in my hometown while I was growing up.
Ace at AOSHQ pointed out that the purpose of terms like “melanated POC” and “BIPOC” are to specifically exclude Asians.
And Jooz.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Blame it all on other people not wanting to let you steal their money.
So it wasn’t really worker-owned as such.
“My collective of in-store workers, all melanated POC, did not make this decision. the white folks on the lease who are former worker owners made this decision without consulting any of us. hold the white folks attempting to act like this was a collective process accountable. this is false and white violence”
Damn those white racists! How dare they stop subsidizing my make believe job.
Everything is violence.
When even your lefty neighbors are sick of your shit.
There are a number of animals that can’t count past 3. The lesbian space witches couldn’t manage that. At least they were better than Gully Dwarves I guess.
I’d watch an Adventures of Bupu if they didn’t try to shoehorn in too much Raistlin.
I want more Kitiara.
The sequel would be Adventures of Bupu: Be 2, or not be 2?
I never got Kitiara or why idiot Tanis even thought there was a choice. Laurana was better in every measurable way.
I can only count to four!
Can only count to three:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O6rHeD5x2tI
Also feel obliged to point out that where we are now feels by design, considering how the powers that be controlled the visibility of some things – like 9/11 or the “mostly peaceful” summer of love – in order to steer people’s feelings a certain way for so long. And the machine feels freaked out they are losing that control…
QUIET, YOU!
Who, me??
Name one time in history that leadership was happy about losing control.
Corn Pop’s overworked flunkies in 2025?
1975: JELLIED EELS and SMOKED HADDOCK | A Taste of Britain | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaS0EIqESc4
They better also eat ass…
“See… I know you were joking — but my mule.. he just doesn’t get it.”
I have eaten donkey
So have I. In Italy in a ragu with pappardelle
Ma va fare un culo!
Building a Brick House (1946) — Postwar Home Construction Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEL3K45yWUw
https://youtu.be/ZdJmXeod0RE
that is a bad song.
for pie:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/vlad-emailer.html
The American version would have been how to build wood and paper houses.
FWIW, I liked the Welsh island & castle you posted yesterday.
you Americans could not build a sea fort!!!!!
How far out to sea does it need to be?
Bah. Oklahoma has traditionally built brick houses. No trees in the western half of the state, but lots of mud. Plus that whole “huff and puff” thing with the tornadoes.
lots of mud
And sod. I have a photograph of a family sod house in Kansas. I don’t recall who lived there.
“Comey indicted for alleged false statements, obstruction of congressional proceeding”
So, who else has noticed that not a single person calling this indictment a travesty and political has come out to say Comey didn’t commit perjury? It is all smoke and mirrors to say even if he did, the prosecution is political, cause the left is above the law…
The demoted and fired prosecutors who wrote a stern memo saying that their buddy Comey is of course innocent give fuel to the narrative.
You can’t even begin to question the motives of career prosecutors who all pull the lever for Dems in their off-time.
Euphemism checks out.
I proved my accuser of perjury in court and not a damn thing happened. She still has a security clearance.
Yeah, this is where I am getting ready to burn it all down. Either everyone has to follow the rules, or nobody does. When they let Hillary Clinton walk away for her criminal shit, I saw this writing on the wall..
What happened to all of the idiots mindlessly repeating, “no one is above the law”?
They are now laughing at the people asking what happened to them cause they were blatantly posturing with zero intention of actually believing or enforcing that bullshit lie of theirs unless it benefitted them?
I wonder if those fiduciary hawks at AFT and CalPers are calling Disney to complain about wasting investors’ money on that Star Wars crap.
Day 4 of the event bridge. Guesses, speculation, and grasping at straws.
I really hope they get this fixed before I get back from vacation.
They fixed the issue that eas expiring my account every day, but now we get random VPN failures. 😂
Leftie trying the midwit meme. I am not impressed.
https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1970924679029457027
That hurt my brain.
“PrIcE cOnTrOlS pRoTeCt PeOpLe!”
No, price controls cause shortages, black markets, and lower quality.
that is only for primitive thinkers who believe supply and demand is real
marxist douchebag: SHUT UP WRECKER/KULAK! I will impose my idiot reality on the world!
Of 20 fastest-growing European cities, 10 are Polish
https://x.com/YIMBYPoland/status/1971364803970212202
Romania got 2
Fucking or importing?
Romania is still quite rural so mostly moving from rural to urban, but we have started importing
I recently read a story that Poland has been accepting a large number of Ukrainian refugees, who (surprising few) are acclimating quickly.
My company has a lot of Ukrainians that moved to Poland.
Same.
Trump: Rigged election. *points to Erdogan* He knows about rigged elections better than anybody.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1971239367172817119
alol
I mean I assume that is AI cannot be real
When interests align, there is no need for a conspiracy.
“The deadly mosquito-borne virus that prompted quarantines and restrictions in China this summer has been detected in the United States…
Chikungunya virus is spread by mosquitoes and can cause sudden, agonizing joint pain in the hands and feet that can be so severe it leaves sufferers unable to move normally for months.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15136759/chikungunya-virus-China-circulating-US.html
No.
Jesse Singal
@jessesingal
I have obtained the short section of Kamala’s book where she discusses trans issues and I think I need to be institutionalized
(yes, this is real)
https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1971258802302484508
Fuck these people are stupid.
Sesame Street level philosophy: is she quoting Big Bird?
No, even bird brain knows the difference between a dude and a chick.
I was thinking that could not be real and then I remembered it was from Kamala’s book, so it probably is real.
Side note, on the trip back from Minnesota in the Minneapolis airport there was a woman wearing an “I’m speaking” Kamala shirt.
I didn’t know those were an actual thing people would wear.
Of course she was wearing a mask.
“Your mouth is talkin’, Jayne. You should see to that.”
LOL she is a certain kind of special.
😂🤣
related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQ8ll8duw0
I found this meme pedantic and stupid. The real lesson is not that there are different truths, but that there is one truth and people either lacking full information, or worse, with agendas that lead them to lie, distort that truth. This nihilistic shit that each person has their own truth is ridiculous and why the world is so fucked up.
optical illusions mean no truth
People acting in good faith with good information can and do disagree. The problems arise from the bullshitters and there are plenty of them on all sides of politics although the left tends to have more because they don’t tend to be restrained by an objective moral system.
The left really is that aggressively and childishly ignorant.
An abandoned church in the Netherlands is now a 24/7 gym.
The Church of Saint Gertrude was built in 1923, but it was closed in 2018 due to fire safety violations. The building remained empty until it was purchased by a private company.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1971570451920097307
The Church of Iron!
Peter Gatien hardest hit.
who?
The allegedly mobbed up guy who ran the Limelight, a nightclub in NYC that used to be a church. I thought the votive candles on the urinals was a nice touch.
I can’t remember if it was already “Avalon” the few times I visited. Probably.
Looking at wikipedia I know I visited one of his other ones The Tunnel a few times but mostly my gang and I didn’t like those big clubs.
And FFS… drugs are gonna flow at places like that regardless of what the owner does.
The “Slimelight” is up for sale right now.
It’s nice to see the relics of an abandoned religion finding new uses.
There is an abandoned Catholic church in Quebec City that is a used book store. But they just wheeled in shelves. They didn’t clean up anything from the time it was abandoned. Kind of sad really.
Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh is an old catholic church.
Great food and beer, but it is a little weird.
It has some of the coolest stained glass windows also.
https://churchbrew.com/
Can concur on Church Brew Works (and on the eighth day God created beer).
I’ve already posted good things about this place:
https://www.holygrailrestaurantandpub.com/
Someone turned an old church in Dayton, Ohio, into a climbing center.
“An Arizona father faces felony charges after his nine-year-old son shot his five-year-old daughter with a firearm he stored in the boy’s bedroom.
Maricopa County Police announced on Wednesday that Irvin Ramos-Jimenez, 33, had been indicted on one count of child abuse, a class three dangerous felony, and a domestic violence offense…
Ramos-Jimenez had stored his AR-style rifle on a high-up shelf in his nine-year-old son’s bedroom closet.
The boy easily found the weapon and accidentally shot his little sister, Layla Ramos, in the torso on the night of June 3.
At first, the girl was taken to a psychiatric hospital where the family sought medical help.
She was then transferred to a trauma hospital and was pronounced dead there.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15135649/arizona-father-shot-daughter-arrested.html
That’s a lot of wrong.
9 years old is definitely old enough to have been taught firearm safety.
That plus keeping a loaded gun where a 9 year old could reach it, ” not a great plan”.
Your gun is either on your person, or locked in a safe. There are no other acceptable options.
Rednecks disagree.
Just one of the many things that rednecks are wrong about.
Every crime drama where the lady of the house has a piece in a desk drawer also disagrees.
Oh well, I’ve lost Evil Sheldon’s approval of acceptable options.
I keep my carry piece holstered on my nightstand and have another one downstairs on a magnet under my end table.
All of my rifles and other pistols are in the closet.
Few carries in Podunkville but at home, in the house,I can access something quickly.
I have taken a few unwelcome, nuisance critters, as required, to a new resting place.
What we need is couples therapy
The truth is that it is America’s political leadership that is more polarized than the general population. Simply put, our leaders don’t currently provide a balanced ideological representation of the country, and they seem unable or unwilling to fix problems that are increasingly driving us apart.
We are in desperate need of responsible leaders who are willing to take moderate positions, work together and denounce political violence in all its ugly forms. If left unchecked, the polarization in America will get worse and energize the demand for a national divorce, which would inevitably turn violent.
America needs to fix the problems that divide us. The answer is not divorce but a search for common ground.
This is the sort of hard nosed pragmatism the nation needs. If only there were a third way, where everyone could get along, guided by insipid hopes and dreams. Let’s all join hands and sing.
What do you want to bet that the person writing that thought the Biden administration was middle of the road and did accurately represent the ideological make-up of the country?
No bet.
Of course to someone who would write like that every compromise will go the way of the left.
🤮
This is just warmed over consensus history. Much as I dislike socialists, within a lot of academia, the consensus model is the real cancer. There’s a lot of reasons for that but it’s mostly because compromise for everyone is seen as something good all by itself – regardless of what the compromise is. Idiots.
I am going to talk about this in the episodic series I’m doing.
We are in desperate need of responsible leaders who are willing to take moderate positions, work together and denounce political violence in all its ugly form.
Well, good luck with that.
Perdelle system installed in a French supermarket to prevent Repetitive Strain Injury.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1971568713813110970
the wank-o-matic is next
This is why we need more self-checkout.
Liars. That is clearly a BDSM suspension rig.
^^^^THIS^^^^
And one for fugly people..
It’s back!
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/a-supersedan-hopes-for-a-second-chance-at-karma-155f5d06?st=Nus42R&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The thing they can’t change is the shape dictates the small interior volume. It looks huge, but it is incredibly cramped inside. I can’t understand why you’d pay this kind of money for it.
If this is your jam just buy a Taycan. It’s a better automobile in just about every way and it will both work and be able to be repaired easily.
https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/taycan/taycan-models/taycan/
$170k for a car that does 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, top speed a whopping 125 mph, and has a touch screen half the size of most of its competitors.
Yeah, I wonder why Fisker is code for pissing money down the drain.
“A massive UK study found that genes associated with earlier childbirth in women and higher BMI in men are being favored by natural selection. Meanwhile, genes associated with intelligence and educational attainment are being selected against.”
https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1971360469899411674
Swole dudes banging sluts?
skinny dudes banging fat sluts
Wouldn’t skinner guys be a lower BMI, not higher?
The fat chicks are fat enough to compensate
Captain Obvious is the hero we need in these troubled times.
Incels everywhere: “I knew it! I’m too smart for women to want to fuck!”
In other words, Idiocracy.
Scro, you sound gay and retarded…
That was covered in the documentary ‘Idiocracy’.
This should be interesting. We’ve be assured that these people are top tech talent easily drawing six figures that we need for their specialized competitive knowledge. It’s going to be interesting when it turns out that it is Samir the DBA who gets paid $60k and that Charlie the DBA making $90k was recently RIF’d.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/h1b-visa-grassley-durbin-letter-tech-firms-8fe931e9?st=FB3VY7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I know I’m interested in the H1-B visa fight.
While I’ve worked with some really good H1-Bs, I’ve worked with my share that could have likely been replaced by a head of cabbage.
I’ve worked with quite a few good ones. I’m also friends with more than a few. In my personal experience it’s 80/20 good to bad.
However, none of them holds some specific expertise that distinguishes them from US citizens that I’ve also worked with. However, for my area of work they are paid the same wages as US workers. There is no cost savings.
Sensei:
My experience is closer to 50/50. And I agree, I do not see specific expertise or knowledge that sets them apart from the US employees. I did not know what their wages were in comparison to mine, so I have no data on that. I can see the companies I worked for leaning towards H1-B for employee security more than cost savings (can’t quite your job if you have to leave the US to do it).
We do way more offshore than visas now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same. Tons of offshore. It does hurt us in the long run as the younger kids have limited options.
Yup. How many openings for baristas can there possibly be.
I’d be pissed if I was at the beginning of my career right now instead of near the end.
rhywun/R.J.:
Both current company and previous also had large amounts of outsourcing. So far, the Indian based support has been the absolute worst I’ve dealt with. Ignoring process, poor communication skills, very fast to assume issues are fixed without testing, and rude. The centers in the Philippines are much better, but they mask ignorance with politeness and disassembly, and they go very formal with names (I’ve managed to convince a handful of them that I actually prefer they use the abbreviated version of my name instead of my full name). The Costa Rica support groups have been great to work with, outside of some minor language issues. Australia and Israel don’t feel quite as different than US, outside of some cultural differences.
rhywun:
Locally, at least, I still see quite a few openings for entry level help desk at the $20-$25/hour range.
Shocking
Welcome to President Trump’s new business agenda: extracting payments as if the federal government is brokering deals like a white-shoe consulting firm fueled by lucrative “fees for service.”
Whether it’s the U.S. taking 15% of Nvidia and AMD’s chip sales to China, the federal government securing a “golden share” in U.S. Steel or the Trump administration reportedly seeking an equity stake in Lithium Americas as part of a government loan negotiation, the White House is on a campaign of squeezing businesses with few parallels in modern history.
“At a minimum, this now means there is a tax imposed on every major business transaction,” said Luigi Zingales, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago. “But even worse, businesses will no longer be focused on innovating and creating value and instead the whole game now is rent-seeking. It’s all about ingratiating yourself with Trump.”
Nothing like this has ever happened before. No government has ever “facilitated” business transactions or directed flows of funds in the past.
Doesn’t mean it’s suddenly a salutary thing now.
Rival otter clans fighting over territory in Singapore.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1971442105546621253
how to learn Japanese fast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBdEzdQ5EU
“Donald Trump on Thursday announced a new round of punishing tariffs, saying the United States will impose a 100% tariffs on imported branded drugs, 25% tariff on imports of all heavy-duty trucks and 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets.
The US president also said he would start charging a 50% tariff on bathroom vanities and a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture next week, with all the new duties to take effect from 1 October.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/trump-tariffs-heavy-trucks-drugs-kitchen-cabinets
This is getting silly.
Yeah.
Amused at the left climbing all aboard the FREE TRADE wagon they never gave a shit about in history ever.
Alol.
In today’s “Not Adahn sticks it in crazy” news, I don’t know how many of you remember I dated a (((woman))) for about five months until she got arrested for stalking her ex. Well, apparently she’s had her meds adjusted again (not kidding, dropped one of the SSRIs and added Vyvanse) and has texted me offering nude housecleaning for $20/hr with a happy ending “until she gets a new job.”
You are an engineer. You can fix her.
What does normal housecleaning go for?
To quote Admiral Ackbar, “It’s a trap!”
My house could use a good cleaning. Is that a personalized offer or a general going rate?
…
So $20 same as in town
You didn’t stick it in crazy you fucked a punchline
LOL
You sure know how to pick ’em.
Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
Run Away – Monty Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ_cih-x3Qo
Adjusted by a doctor?
I presume so, since Vyvance is by prescription.
Cheep. Go for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFKDR2S8Ec
when an irresistible force meets an immovable object…kinda
[kif sigh]
That lady was cold.
“There is a growing set of examples of crony capitalism that the Trump administration is putting into place across this country,” says Tofel, a lawyer who later went on to become president of the nonprofit investigative news site ProPublica. “American industry — which would have regarded this behavior from a Democrat as anathema and inconsistent with the tenets of unfettered capitalism — is rolling over for it time after time.”
The only meaningful distinction is that Democrats use their “influence” to shovel money to nonprofits.
How to read a topographical map
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1971493916483649889
the tits one are the easiest
Yale School of Management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld recently helped organize a gathering of more than 100 top CEOs, and he said there was near-unanimous consensus in surveys conducted at the event that Trump’s interventions in private business are undermining America’s free market principles.
“These are shakedown schemes. It’s a gross violation of what capitalism is supposed to stand for. I’d even call it extortion,” Sonnenfeld said. “Privately, CEOs are horrified.”
But Sonnenfeld said executives are not banding together to push back on Trump, as top business leaders did following Trump’s election denialism in November 2020.
“CEOs need to speak up, like they did then, but they aren’t doing it publicly,” Sonnenfeld said. “Fear of retaliation is motivating the silence, but there has got to be a trigger line to stop this. We just don’t know what that is yet.”
And of course it would never occur to them that the cure for that is to reduce government power and influence. That power just needs to be in the right hands.
That never occurs to anyone in the uniparty.
You are talking about Top Men here.
nude housecleaning for $20/hr with a happy ending “until she gets a new job.”
What does she charge for a car wash?
Rose Royce – Car Wash (1976)
https://youtu.be/eB0aROCl530?si=H1ro4BdvkieqkSO0
Takin’ ’em off, boss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cINFeXqwbDo
The one part of the agreement that caught investors by surprise? The multibillion-dollar fee request.
“They were taken aback when they were told they’d have to kick in,” the source said. “But I think they see it as just the price of doing business right now.”
Worse than Teapot Dome.
Rose Royce – Car Wash (1976)
I was thinking Cool Hand Luke.
George Kennedy said the young lady did her part of that scene separately, and that when it came time for the men, it was a chilly morning with an older woman in a heavy jacket standing in where the car would be.
Also- We need more fee-for-service government, not less.
Explains why Wray lied to everyone…
Now they will tell you “Sure there were close to 300 FBI agents in the crowd, but they did nothing untoward.”.
I am going to say it again: Jan 6 was a setup and the same people that “fortified” the 2020 election were behind that as well..
It all depends on the definition of “is” I guess.
The document actually doesn’t say this. It says almost 300 agents were deployed that day (possibly some in response to events) and we know nothing else.
I’d be eager to get… you know… more details on what actually happened from our government. Any time now.
Don’t hold your breath or anything.
From our government, no.
From me? Sure. Pelosi and co. set the whole thing up. It was a false flag and obviously so.
Unrelated to anything: Actors and actresses should just shut up and do the job, be good meat puppets and enjoy the high salary that comes with it. Their opinions are worthless and counterproductive to any projects they are doing. This goes for people on the right or left side of the spectrum.
“He soon followed that by reiterating, while fighting back tears, that he never meant to “make light of the murder of a young man,” referring to Charlie Kirk, who was gunned down on Sept. 10. Neither did he mean to imply the accused assassin was affiliated with MAGA, he added. “That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some, that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both.””
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/26/jimmy-kimmel-was-meant-for-this-moment/
Bullshit.
He literally said the shooter was one of them, referring to MAGA.
The people cheering him on know this, but just don’t care because they want it to be true and side with his politics.
He cries because he was caught. Like most heartless commies or petulant children.
I agree with Kimmel. He didn’t mean to make light of it. He meant to lie about it.
I’m not going to get worked up at this. His shitty echo chamber will eventually collapse. Carr of the FCC made an unforced error by saying anything about this dipshit at all.
Carr truly should have just kept his big yap shut but he just couldn’t help himself. Hopefully he learned his damn lesson.
Agreed.
Hegseth should make all the brass pass a PT test and tape ran by a bunch of E4s to show how much bullshit it is.
But he likes the stupid standards.
Trump’s trail of destruction
Silicon Valley founders say they look worldwide because there is a shortage of technical talent in the U.S., especially for skills like AI engineering.
Brian Sathianathan, co-founder and CTO of the AI company Iterate, has a handful of employees on the visa and credits the visa for his previous successful startup exit.
“My last company I co-founded and sold, my co-founder was on an H-1B visa. My head of engineering was on an H-1B visa,” Sathianathan said. With such high fees for the visa application, that “would not have been possible.”
Other founders warn that the fee sends a signal that foreign talent might not be welcomed.
Why is there a shortage of home grown talent? Too many girls being excluded from STEM programs, I guess.
Do we want this country to be a magnet for bright talented motivated people? Of course we do. Let’s focus on people who add value, economic and cultural.
I’m a free market and competition guy, but I have a really hard time to believing this is true.
There was an article just like this the other day from the founders of Facebook. Seriously. Facebook. Nothing about that product is particularly technologically amazing. It was just an amazing product idea at the time. Exactly what the hell does Facebook do that anyone couldn’t have done? It’s not like they invented some newfangled computer chip.
Exactly what the hell does Facebook do that anyone couldn’t have done? It’s not like they invented some newfangled computer chip.
I recall in the early days both Facebook and Google rolled their own stuff for the datacenter since at the time no one that made datacenter servers, routers, and other infrastructure were making what they needed.
That is no longer true.
Well, first off, this is bullshit. There’s no such thing as a shortage of talent; there’s only ever a shortage of talent at a given cost.
But beyond that, am I supposed to shed many tears for C-suite assholes who can’t build their ‘success’ off gaming the system anymore?
Well, first off, this is bullshit. There’s no such thing as a shortage of talent; there’s only ever a shortage of talent at a given cost.
Bingo. But that’s anathema to the Harvard Business School types who care more about shareholder value than developing a quality product.
A co owner of a company being on a H1B is transparently bullshit.
Maybe there’s a shortage of homegrown talent because prospective coders, engineers, etc. see the pipeline clogged with H1B imports, and decide to do something else.
Maybe the people laid off to be replaced by H1B imports have gone stale because there aren’t jobs for them.
“In yet another glaring example of the radical left’s two-tiered justice system, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dismissed all charges against Brianna J. Rivers, the unhinged pro-abortion extremist who viciously assaulted pro-life activist Savannah Craven Antao on camera back in April.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/shocking-injustice-soros-funded-da-alvin-bragg-lets/
CWAA
“Here Are 20 Different Confirmed and Documented Incidents Involving Dozens of Feds, FBI Agents, and State Operatives Leading the Charge on Jan. 6”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/here-are-20-different-confirmed-documented-incidents-involving/
Poorly edited, but informative.
But I’ve been assured as an EV driver that only EVs combust!
“Owners should park outside and away from buildings and other vehicles until they either confirm their vehicle is not subject to the recall or have their vehicle remedied,” NHTSA warned.
BMW owners warned: Don’t park these vehicles inside
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/bmw-recall-engine-defect
Ahhh, the fiery smell of German quality.
Any time you store large amounts of energy in concentrated form you have danger of combusion/explosion etc.
How about those hydrogen cars? A distant relative has a farm and switched his farm trucks with hydrogen tanks. He got in a wreck in one and the fucking tank srpung a leak, took off like a rocket and the thing went straight up in the air out of sight on a clear day. It came back down and landed in the road about a mile away. Luckily no one was hurt but he immediately switched his trucks back to diesel.