Karine adjusts her pantyhose and fluffs up her hair. She is now ready for the carefully vetted studio audience. The moderator, finger lingering over the shock collar button, collars the entire audience had agreed to wear, readies themself to Piker anyone that goes off script.
Moderator: What inspired you to write Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines?
Karine: Well, my bravery for one. And of course my burden as a Black woman who is gay and a gay immigrant.
Moderator: But there has been some controversy within members of the Biden administration over your assertion that Biden was, and I quote you here, a “drooling retard.”
Karine: As it says in the title that the marketing team approved, I’m an independent. I’ve never worked for anyone but a Democratic organization, and I shilled for an unfit Democratic President as part of the Democratic propaganda machine, but I’m obviously an independent and outside party lines.
Moderator (nodding): It must have been very difficult for you to be so brave, especially since you are so Black and so gay and so immigrant.
Karine: Biden used to call me “Blackberry,” which is clearly racist in reference to a Black, gay brave, strong woman of gay immigrant Blackness.
Moderator: Are you ready for some audience questions?
Karine: Yes, I’m brave and strong and gay and Black and not from this country.
[Moderator gestures to the audience, her thumb a scant millimeter from the shock button]
An audience member, them’s green hair dirty dreadlocking, nervously bounces behind the microphone.
AM1: Ohmergawd, I’m so happy to be here!
Karine (looking at her notes): Yes, you are privileged to be in my independent presence.
AM1: What makes you so great?
Karine: Well, obviously my Blackness. My Blackness is very important. And I’m Lesbian with a capital “L.” And an immigrant with a capital “I” which give me a unique Blagaygrant perspective.
AM1: Ohmergawd! I’m a lesbian too!
Karine (archly): But do you have the capital ‘L?”
AM1: I hope so one day, after I finish dilating.
Karine: Then you are the best sort of lesbian, the kind that used to be a man.
Audience Member 1 faints dead away.
Moderator: Next, please.
A new audience member–corpulent, sweaty, out-of-breath–waddles to the mic.
AM2: We all know you are great…
[audience finger claps vigorously]
AM2: But what makes you so awesome?
Karine: Well, my Blackness, obviously. And my Gayness. And my Immigrantness. My Black gayness and gay Blackness is an important part of my identity. And being an immigrant. An enlightened person of gay Blackocity would say it is the very core of who I am. What would I even be without my gay Black Immigrant vigor?
AM2: Did you know anyone else with gayness or Blackness or gay Blackness in the Glorious Reign of Biden, peace be upon him?
Karine: Well, Jen, I guess, sort of, I guess, I guess, I guess.
[Moderator kicks her chair to stop her record from skipping]
AM2: Jen Psaki is a lesbian? So exciting!
Karine: A LUG and a pillow princess, but a little lesbian. Like 10% dyke.
AM2: Isn’t “dyke” a no-no word?
[Moderator triggers the collar and audience member yelps and pisses theyselves]
Moderator: I warn the audience again that no deviation from the script is allowed.
Them’s earpiece piece crackles: “Telling people to not go off script is going off script. Remember that you have a shock collar too.”
Stone him! She said Jehova!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnn2aGVcCEc
This is just so, incredibly on the nose. If you had written this a month ago it would have seemed ludicrous.
Would have been?
I want to say it was CNN, but the interviewer asked her about the book and Karine’s answer literally began “As a gay Black woman who is an immigrant…”
All she is her intersectional identities, a hollow shell.
So empty of self, just external labels.
It’s a really good window into how the left thinks. She doesn’t lead with any accomplishments or what position she held. She leads with her identity, and you should admire her for that alone.
As a fat, bearded Colonel Sanders look-alike Glibertarian, I agree. They always lead with labels.
As an old white guy with long hair, her bravery is astounding.
I did notice she looks less like a clown with straight hair, but the purple lipstick is still off putting.
I think she looked better with the curly hair.
Obsession [even mentioning] black women’s hair is a sign of incurable whiteness.
Could you please be more specific?
*tap tap tap*
Yup, way better.
I say we brand people’s intersectionality on their foreheads so we can
avoid the dangerously retardedproperly assess the wonderfulness of the true intersectional thems.I for example claim 0 intersectionality and therefore will be among the disgusting unburnt. KJP would be a thrice burnt, and hence a
person to be ignoredthem of great importanceThem’s earpiece piece crackles: “Telling people to not go off script is going off script. Remember that you have a shock collar too.”
THERE IS NO SCRIPT.
As it says in the title that the marketing team approved, I’m an independent. I’ve never worked for anyone but a Democratic organization, and I shilled for an unfit Democratic President as part of the Democratic propaganda machine, but I’m obviously an independent and outside party lines.
Democrats just have the best answers to America’s problems. Them’s the fax, folx.
They used to say “reality has a left leaning bias”, they should probably update that to “reality has an extreme left communist bias”.
I really hate when they spout that counterfactual.
If anything, reality rebuts most to all of their tenets.
Agreed. That’s one of those “say it enough, it becomes the truth” statements. The left has no idea how anything in real life works.
Well then reality is wrong.
Circle back girl doesn’t actually circle back? Color me shocked.
She ain’t no circle back girl
She ain’t no circle back girl
This her script
This her script
All she is her intersectional identities, a hollow shell.
Comrade Checklist, reporting for duty.
Comrade Checklist: Solid. Will borrow.
Sadly for Karine, she’s walk-powered and lacks crucial cripple cachet. (CCC. Good band name.)
An aborted, non-binary atheist, beige, crippled and orphaned illegal alien fills the Bingo card more thoroughly.
Karine, really bad at her job. To be slightly fair, she was given tough material to work with, even w a heavily docile and compliant media.
Your pronouns amused me, certainly a defining moment in our Orwellian descent. Fucking madness where nothing’s real. Yay. I’m glad that shit is slightly cooling off. Finally. But school’s taking jurisdiction over parents continues unabated, AFAIK.
Counter Point: If the job was being a representation of the intersectionality of the administration, she was great at it.
I assume there’s an organization like Movie Dogs where you can rent
trained sealsaudience members to fit your needs.This should be made into a Sora 2 thing…
“So, as a Strong Gay Black Immigrant Woman…”
*pregnant pause*
“…how was Hunter?”
The convulsions would be worth it.
Moderator (nodding): It must have been very difficult for you to be so brave, especially since you are so Black and so gay and so immigrant.
She persisted.
OT – “shocking”?
General Motors Lays Off Thousands of Electric-Vehicle Workers in U.S. Plants
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/general-motors-lays-off-thousands-of-electric-vehicle-workers-in-u-s-plants-ff4f75de?st=gp6CS4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m sure the welding robots can be given new jobs in other product areas.
Maybe they can go to work fixing all those bad LS motors.
Never fear NHTSA is on it!
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/nhtsa-open-probe-into-286000-gm-vehicles-over-possible-engine-failure-issue-2025-10-27/
Or the LZ0 3.0 Duramax in the new 1500 pickups.
Those seem to have a pretty bad failure rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrVNeuup-28
This guy is a huge Duramax fan.
Sugarfree is Katie Miller?
https://x.com/saras76/status/1983338800857420018
CNN is allowing some diversified opinions lately.
[Moderator kicks her chair to stop her record from skipping]
This is the best part.
And a reference that is beautifully useful, but unfortunately increasingly inaccessible. Like stopped clock.
After her interview I’ve enjoyed seeing Dems tweet stuff like, “She’s really bad at this. How did she get that job?”
They can notice things like that now that she is not on their team.
Yup.
The curse of blackness
“If permanent Daylight Savings Time becomes the law of the land, it will again make winter a dark and dismal time for millions of Americans,” said Cotton in his objection to a request by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to advance the bill by unanimous consent.
“For many Arkansans, permanent daylight savings time would mean the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8:00 or even 8:30am during the dead of winter,” Cotton continued. “The darkness of permanent savings time would be especially harmful for school children and working Americans.”
I had no idea the law affected the actual amount of daylight. Boy do I feel silly.
No it doesn’t. But it doesn’t account that schools and many workplaces have standardized times.
Personally, I prefer full time standard time. But I’ll take a one single time regardless even if it is full time daylight time.
Agreed. As a fat, bearded Colonel Sanders look-alike Glibertarian, I am tired of this nonsense.
Heck, I’d almost take Hawaiian time if it means the clock changes stop.
Why does Alaska change?
For those of us older folks who cut back on night driving due to declining sight combined with those ungodly bright headlights, we appreciate daylight savings giving us an extra hour in the evening to run errands, attend meetings, and distribute candy from the van.
😠😡🤬
Stop the clock changes! Local organizations can control their own hours of operation – if they value daylight, they can pick a time after the winter sunrise.
People won’t go golfing in the snow when it’s dark.
Is Pie free of this nonsense in Romania? I would imagine it is critical for him to know when daylight arrives. Any monkey business with clocks could be fatal.
I wish my state would opt for permanent standard time like Arizona.
I don’t care which is selected, I just want the changing to stop. It gets even worse with modern tech. Old tech you knew you had to walk around and change clocks and time, and it was fine. Modern tech will “auto” set the time, even if it’s not sure when DST starts or stops.
/glares at the TV that has decided DST ended a couple weeks back
“Whycome your TV not online for NTP?”
UCS:
That’s what makes it worse. It’s a smart TV, so it’s connected to the internet and was set to automatically set time and DST. It’s decided that DST ended a while back.
…
Stupid TV, NTP exists for a reason!
*stares off in the distance remembering when the DST start/stop dates changed*
It sucked so bad trying to update Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers to use the new dates when they extended the DST. Registry updates, then hope it “stuck”. For 3-4 years after the change, it seemed like a server or two wouldn’t change correctly and time series data collected by that server sucked.
NTP doesn’t handle DST. It keeps UTC. You local system must configure the offset.
Then it needs to be ammended! UTC is useless.
General Motors Lays Off Thousands of Electric-Vehicle Workers in U.S. Plants
Trump is killing jobs and destroying the economy!
I think she looked better with the curly hair.
She always looked to me like she wandered off the set of Our Gang with that Raggedy Ann doll hairdo.
That doesn’t mean I find the look unattractive.
Now on Brooks’ Xmas list.
I don’t seem to recall this in the constitution.
Differential privacy keeps that data private. It’s a mathematical framework whereby a statistical output can’t be used to determine any individual’s data in a dataset, and the bureau’s algorithm for differential privacy is called TopDown. It injects “noise” into the data starting at the highest level (national), moving progressively downward. There are certain constraints placed around the kind of noise that can be introduced—for instance, the total number of people in a state or census block has to remain the same. But other demographic characteristics, like race or gender, are randomly reassigned to individual records within a set tranche of data.
The usual TW applies to the source.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/republican-plan-would-make-deanonymization-of-census-data-trivial/
GM had said the connecting rod and crankshaft engine components may have manufacturing defects that can lead to engine damage or failure, boosting the risk of a crash.
The NHTSA on Monday upgraded the probe to an engineering analysis on the basis of 1,157 reports of engine bearing failure.
I thought it was because they told people to run 3-in-one oil in them.
My understanding was improper sizing of the crank (and fuzzy memory here) rods. So the solution was not to use the the sewing machine oil because it wouldn’t work with the clearances the actual crank (and rod?) was made with. There may have been some stack up between the two.
Holy cow, that is a bad problem.
OT, but the scammers and hackers are going full force on me today. Someone hacked my Amazon account and helped themselves to a new laptop on my checking, and I am getting a full force attack from Paypal scammers.
Fuck this is annoying. I am glad I have cash to cover this until everything gets sorted, but damn is it irritating.
That stinks. I have Amazon and PayPal with two factor (2FA) to help prevent that.
I just hope nobody steals my phone…
I’ve got multiple second factors. But yes.
Also I had my phone decide to brick itself earlier this year. Having no phone for 3 days was quite annoying. It’s rather scary how dependent society is on them.
Well, it’s a computational and communications device connected to the rest of our information infrastructure that just about everybody has, so the path of least resistance was to leverage that, as it risked losing the fewest customers, and that just made it more critical. Like the overreliance on SSNs for unique identifiers.
Everything is getting taken care of, but it is a giant hassle. Gotta call the bank, find out if it is that account, or just the card. Gotta call amazon to change the password, brick the email, cancel (hopefully) the order. Gotta call the wife, make sure she has enough cash on her and doesn’t use the account, gotta short term transfer money to cover the over draft. And so on.
Fortunately, everyone I talked too this AM understood what was going on, didn’t question anything, and where really helpful in finding out what happened and where to plug the leak, so to speak.
Sorry ZWAK, I can relate to what you’re going through. It’s been constant texts and calls and emails for me too.
Yikes.
Furloughed government employees are the worst.
Sugarfree never fails to grace us with new terminology.
I knew ‘LUG’ (Lesbian Until Graduation) but ‘pillow princess’ was a new one to me…
Wait….she is a gay black lesbian? Why am I just now hearing of this?
My understanding was improper sizing of the crank (and fuzzy memory here) rods. So the solution was not to use the the sewing machine oil because it wouldn’t work with the clearances the actual crank (and rod?) was made with. There may have been some stack up between the two.
I’m not sure anybody knows for certain. If they do, they aren’t saying. What I have seen is the Corvettes with that motor call for a (slightly) heavier oil and do not have the failure rate of the trucks. If nothing else, it apparently allows for a greater margin of error.
That whole quote is really about sex.
Lubrication matters
They do help determine stroke. Oh and piston action…
So – hypothetically of course, do you think fractional fuel mileage benefits of lighter weight oil might create CAFE benefits to GM more from the volume of trucks sold compared to ‘Vettes? 😉
That was probably the heart of the equation.
0w-20 to 0w-40 is a pretty good jump in oil weight.
That whole quote is really about sex.
Everybody knows your crank has to be lubed properly.
😉
So – hypothetically of course, do you think fractional fuel mileage benefits of lighter weight oil might create CAFE benefits to GM more from the volume of trucks sold compared to ‘Vettes?
It wouldn’t surprise me. But the EPA has dropped the penalties, haven’t they?
*until the next Democrat reinstates them and calls for 150mpg fleet mileage.
Whoopsie.
I love how she’s still trying to drive after the car is on its side and obviously not going anywhere.
At least the tow truck is already on site.
I love how she’s still trying to drive after the car is on its side and obviously not going anywhere.
The best part is the smoke coming out of the tailpipe because it’s still running with no oil getting to the oil pump.
It’s possible she wasn’t belted in and wound up in the passenger seat.
ZWAK is getting his identity stolen, meanwhile Mrs. TOK is trying to pay bills and put in a grocery order, and multiple web sites and apps are down. Is there another AWS problem?
Azure (MS cloud offering) outage.
Thanks, that would explain it. She went into her Meijer rewards to redeem points for gas and it showed a balance of 0. Which of course freaked her out. She also put in a grocery order that wiped itself out before she could submit it.
I so want to quip “Sounds like she has a Meijer problem” but that only works with the wrong pronunciation.
“We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue. ”
They hired the fired AWS engineer?
Their chinese techs got told to “do the needful” by their indian consultants, and got confused.
Huh. I’ve never heard it spoken so that is the only one I ever had in mind.
according to Glibs who live near them, it’s a “Looks like a J, sounds like a Y” situation.
rhy – Meijer is pronounced “Myer.” Big grocery/discount store chain originally out of Michigan, I believe.
We pronounce it “MY-er” which I think is correct.
This would be the best timeline if she started answering every question with: “It do be like that Mr. Stancil”.
Fuck!
Will Stancil should hire her as his PR spokesperson. The merchandising alone would make them both rich.
It scooby dooby doo be like that Mr. Stancil
Shibbidy bee bop 6 7. 🤷♂️
“It scooby dooby doo be like that…” <— GOLD, right there, Jerry! Solid gold.
Doobity do what, say what, yeah…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dR5j_GYOQA
Circle Jerks for the win.
I can’t believe I used to be in to those guys.
Found what I was looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veqm0lJezqc&t=90s
Dirty dreadlocked…and full of mange?
A common problem with dreadlocks is that they can grow mold. Like cut them open and the core of the dreadlock is a mold eating the dirt and grease in them. This not a joke.
SugarFree, teaching me something new (and usually gross) every Wednesday without fail.
I have such dark delights to show you.
Speaking of, you should gird your mental loins for the links today.
Once a week is just fine, the spot in the corner where I rock back and forth is getting a little worn out.
A more common problem with dreadlocks is that they are attached to a screeching leftist.
Steve Martin had this stuff figured out almost 50 years ago
https://youtu.be/5NeS4ueaU6w
I’m not a bum, I’m just a jerk.
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/illinois-harmful-tax-unrealized-gains/
“Under a proposal called the Extremely High Wealth Mark-to-Market Tax Act, Illinois would impose a 4.95 percent tax on the unrealized gains of all assets, tangible and intangible, of billionaires. That includes their stocks and bonds, but also everything else they own, including their ownership and investment stakes in businesses. Essentially, they would have to pay taxes on the value these assets have on paper, even though that value has not been taken as income.”
This is so astoundly stupid and probably would be smacked down by the courts. Also, half of Governor Pritzker’s family account for the top 15 billionaires in Illinois, so you know he is going to veto the shit out of it.
In that case I would almost respect him.
OTOH I would not be surprised if he signed it anyway to show “he’s one of the good ones”.
I mean, he sides with the radical left in every other way – it’s hard to imagine him vetoing a tax of any kind.
I would expect him and his family to not satisfy whatever criteria they come up with to define “billionaire”. “Oh we don’t include THOSE assets in determining a person’s net worth.”
I bet no matter how hard you tried you could not find that he owns anything….it. all belongs to a trust based in Vermont. That is true for all of his donors as well.
I wonder….since regular Joe’s retirement fund is being paid for by stock dividends……..
I hate that people are actually considering this. It needs to be struck down quickly.
What? You can write off your losses, it’s totally the same thing, right?
Just like all spending and taxation, the ratchet only moves one way. The US Government is like a giant check valve on liberty.
They’ll creep it down too: the very rich now, then the kinda rich, then the upper middle class, then everyone that owns assets that appreciate. Forcing people to liquidate investments so they can buy a lot of shit they don’t need will be the new American way.
It’s stupid and dangerous, by design no less.
It is 100% by design. Success must be punished until everyone is equally miserable or, better yet, dead.
+1 non indexed AMT
This is why communism never succeeds. These little shit commies are too incrementalist. Don’t take 4.95%, take it ALL.
The last time this proposal came up my son called me. He had been watching Kimmel or Stewart or one of those shitbirds. The ‘comedian’ was plugging the idea, looked wide-eyed in the camera and said “Think of all that money just sitting there!” with envy and greed dripping from his chin. My son, horrified to see it so naked finally understood what I had been telling him for years.
Such a tax would murder the economy overnight. It is so unbelievably stupid as to be beyond belief. I remember seeing a video of some young college commie girl going on like that how Elon Musk could buy a new jumbo jet every day or….I dont remember how many bananas. She could not understand why he would not make every person in the US a millionaire. She literally thought that guy has a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool full of gold, diamonds and million dollar bills.
*At one time I had a ream of paper box I had filled with brand new beautiful 1000 Bolivian peso bills right off of the press. I intended to use them for wall paper. I had a break in and the thieves took them and left everything else. The bills as currency at the time were probably worth fifty cents. They left a lot of valuable stuff in lieu of that. Holy fuck some people are such dunces.
“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
Also, half of Governor Pritzker’s family account for the top 15 billionaires in Illinois, so you know he is going to veto the shit out of it.
There is a high degree of probability his family office worked hand in hand with the other lobbyists and the legislature to structure it in such a way as to minimize the Pritzgers’ exposure.
See my comments above. This is an attempt to look the retirement funds of the middle class. The wealthy people in Illinois own zero assets in Illinois. That is my guess.
These are the worst kinds of people, worse than you think. Think of the worst possible thing and it is either that or something even more evil.
Christ, I am about to jump through the window. Wife is watching some Airbender thing on the TV. My God that is horrible. The sound track, obviously meant to distract from the shitty movie is even worse.
I went to the butcher shop to buy a tenderloin, and somehow came home with two kittens…
.
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They are alive you heathens!
So… you prepare them the same way you prepare lobster?
Srsly, please post a link to pics when you can! 🐈🐈