We just had our local elections, and as expected, the ballot was Soviet style- here’s the candidates, no competition, the choices have been made for you by our Politburo Democratic Committee. Some irony in that, but no matter. The only position that was contested at all was a pair of town council seats, with three people running for two seats, sort of political Musical Chairs. Much to all of the locals’ delight and following national trends, the lone Republican was soundly defeated, so we have maintained our diversity purity. I did vote for one of the Team Blue candidates, which was of course mathematically mandatory. And I made my choice in a logical way- her dog and my dog are great friends and love playing together.
But just because there’s an election doesn’t mean there aren’t birthdays. There are, including the original Captain Kangaroo; a woman with a very healthy glow; a guy who was picky right up to the end; a guy who always seemed to be a bit scattered; an exemplar of French windiness; the original televangelist, Billy Sunday without the antisemitism; a guy whom I wish modern pitchers would emulate; one of my favorite singer/songwriters who always gets negative reactions when I use her for Old Guy Music; and a child star whom we’ve seen naked.
We’ve also seen Links naked.
Trump channels Obama’s love of murder.
“How many divisions does the judge have?” And an archive version.
“The well is right over there, Shlomo.”
Could this be related to the previous Link?
SugarFree needs one more whack at the Mafia Princess before she leaves the scene and quietly croaks.
KBJ once again shows off her remarkably vacuous stupidity.
As do the leftists at NYT. Let the hate flow. And here’s the archive version, complete with quotes from the newest commie Pope.
So here’s a story. Back in July, I told Prime that I had enough confidence that we were in it for a long haul to cause me to buy tickets for us to a show I badly wanted to see in November. This past Tuesday night, my confidence was vindicated. We planned to meet at a nearby restaurant for a quick dinner beforehand. I arrived at the restaurant, walked in, and there at the first table was… Tomb Raider. After exchanging a few pleasantries, she asked, “Are you here by yourself tonight or are you meeting someone?” Just then I spotted Prime, across the restaurant waving. Hilarity ensued, classic sitcom material. Prime and I got to the concert venue which was general admission open seating. I spotted a couple seats in a great location and said, “There’s a good spot,” and started in that direction. And, of course, Tomb Raider was sitting next to those. “Let’s find some seats in a less great location.” In any case, the concert was amazing, and here’s one of the songs.
whaddup doh’
I suppose that’s a good reason not to bitch about things.
I really hope that sign isn’t real… if it is, we’re past due for the ole firestorm on the cities Old Testament style. No one needs or wants fish fingerers and custard.
Rule 34 suggests someone does.
(As always, I am *not* that someone.)
1) No quotes I saw.. just paraphrasing. But yeah, more “income disparity” stuff… would think the Church stance should be more to encourage Mr. Musk to charitably share, not be unable to earn it in the first place. 2) Too bad Envy isn’t one of the big sins… seems like the Pontiff might want to say something about that when it comes to critiquing private contracts and all…
Whatever.. not in the mood for the crap today. Y’all have a good morning. And may your currents and your exes stay far, far apart.
Not sure if serious on point 2 – Envy is one of the seven deadly sins. If we listen to Gregory I, it’s the second most serious behind Pride.
Sorry — thought the blatant sarcasm there would need no tag. ;P
Envy is good as it drives advancement and progress. Becomes bad when the envious resort to coercion (which is exactly what is driving America towards the cliff.)
Of note with regard to the deadly sins – all of them have an element of “to excess” as part of the base definition. Wrath, Gluttony, Hubris – all sins of excess of something safe and necessary in moderation.
I’ve always thought that the only real deadly sins are obliviousness, incompetence, and irrationality.
The Devil cannot create he can only corrupt.
No big surprise, Marxism is Catholicism without Jesus (though Marx is The Prophet) and capitalism is largely a Protestant thing.
The same commie hope who was blessing ice because of climate change?
Or maybe the Pope should just keep his cakehole shut on political and business matters.
MSM never quotes anyone accurately. Not even Hitler.
That would be a first, at least during my lifetime.
Or maybe Elon should buy the Cubs and rename them the Leos.
Pope talking about politics is half the reason for the fall of the Soviet Union.
Typical of the wealthy to preach about others being wealthy.
Those people over there have more than I do!! Go target them mob of angry idiots motivated by jealousy & envy!
Man, those women have some big teeth!
The better to eat Jews with my dear.
WRT Judge McConnell, I suggest he read Hamilton on the judiciary, Federalist #78…
“The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”
The hunger for power is all consuming. I dont understand that but I see it all over the place.
Fish fuckers unite!
Someone has to link it. Should have been Old Man Music really.
Alex, I knew you were a fish fucker the moment I saw your cod piece.
You should try it once, just for the halibut.
Walleye be damned! I was worried no one was going to jump in with a pun
Damn, you really hooked him.
You pikers are always carping about other people’s sex lives, so catty. You just flounder around.
I’m just perched on the catbird seat enjoying it all. With my sunny disposition, nothing can bother me all day.
I thought it was headed here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3s9RVg2STY&pp=ygUJb2xkIGdyZWdn
I’m not seeing the irony in the party that supports outright commies and misc. “Everything for the State, etc.” candidates having authoritarian-style elections.
They believe that they are the good guys. That justifies any and all evil to win…
Looking at our local results, my city (thank heavens) turned back from utter madness and swept out some of the progressive trash. However, there were 2 key state senate races won by the Dems. Turnout for the election was about 20 percent of eligible voters in those races, so a big push by “Team Red to just turn your fucking prepaid postage mail in ballot assholes” could easily have won the races and broken the Dem trifecta at the state level.
But stupid team gonna stupid.
Hopefully the state south of you does the same soon.
Canada’s Economy Starts to Buckle Under Trump’s Tariffs
But they talked so big about resisting. They pulled US spirits from their government liquor stores. They took out ads quoting Reagan. Who could have expected this?
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/canada-economy-trump-tariff-impact-fe920d5d?st=b2BA8Q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
We’ve had billboards like this one up around Cleveland for most of the year.
How is this not posted yet? Timmy is further annoyed:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oeT5otk2R1g
Canada discovers that they need America more than America needs them.
Shocking, who could have foreseen such a thing?
A hat is nothing without a head to keep warm…
Stellantis’s assembly plant who have been on an extended layoff since 2023 , waiting for the factory to complete a retooling so the company could build the Jeep cars there. Now, they are facing the prospect of permanent job losses.
“It’s a nightmare,” said Branco
Uuuhhh.
Any day now…
Oh no fewer recaps and garbage cars on the road.
I had to reread the last paragraph, I assumed you would only go to a concert like that because you were forced into it
a show I badly wanted to see in November
*blinks*
I can only assume it was a bubblegum K-Pop group because I’ve pointedly ignored the embedded video.
Worse, indie folk with violins.
Are they trying to point out the violins inherent in the system?
Worse, indie folk with violins.
As one who like violins – or fiddles maybe more appropriate for folk – in my metal and has a soft spot for some folk music (including fold metal), I just tapped out at “I’m with her”
Imagine saying aloud, “I’m going to the I’m with her concert tonight.”
Perhaps some Skyclad will cleanse your pallet?
Some immensely great vocals, lyric poetry, and complex chords and timing. Other than that…
Skyclad
Not terrible, but probably not something I’d seek out.
Ne Obliviscaris tickles my fancy (though I sometimes wish the harsh vocalist would shut the hell up. Eluvietie of course – Can’t beat Inis Mona for some weird instrumentation. In more folky direction, used to listen to Tempest quite a bit. Dan Ar Braz has some good stuff in that direction as well.
Some immensely great vocals, lyric poetry, and complex chords and timing. Other than that…
There’s no shortage of that out there, depending on your tastes I suppose. I can pick and choose to some degree. I like me some good female vocalists, but more in the operatic/classical direction than the singer/songwriter folksy direction. This is not necessarily my bag and, given what we have access to these days musically should you choose to seek it out, I don’t think I’m missing out by applying the – absolutely necessary given the infinite choices we have in general – filter I’ve developed over the years. To each their own.
Also, the band regularly points out that their name predated the Hilary slogan by nearly a decade.
That doesn’t mean it’s not a bad name. It doesn’t work in the contexts where it is used as an identifying token.
There are worse shows to want to see in November.
I read show, and thought he was talking about going to see Rent on Broadway.
I mean, (((We))) love when people pay us rent, so…
Think of how many more ex’s OMWC would have run into at Sesame Street The Musical
As much as Nick Fuentes is a little dumbshit – he’s punching in the right weight class, intellectually.
Good article
Hmm, you and I took some different points away from it (as I think it is as brainless as Fuentes’ rants). Kisin has a better take on Fuentes.
What’s the text-based version?
“So here’s a story.”
I am increasingly convinced the world is really just a small town. I’ve just had way too many million-to-one “chance” encounters.
An ex ran into another ex at a deli in Dayton. In addition to pleasantries I was told by both they exchanged stories about what an asshole I am.
They weren’t wrong. :-p
Gets creepy when you find out they discussed your performance in bed.
Why were they in bed with each other discussing missing updated TPS report cover sheets?
One of them (the most recent) said, “I should have told her I was wearing her socks”
I’ve had a few, like someone knowing a brother or someone knowing me that knew a brother, in far away places, with strange sounding names.
I once ran into a libertarian friend from the West Coast in a park in Capri.
The punchline was that Prime was delighted: “I’ve never seen you actually flustered before. It makes you more human.”
I wonder if Tomb Raider is considering the mistake she made.
Didn’t she rectify that when she dumped him?
I’ve seen a documentary or two on the internet where things start out awkward but ended very amicably for all parties.
I wonder if Tomb Raider is considering the mistake she made.
I had a buddy who would bed the ugliest gal in a group first. The rest of the group would be upset that he picked her and not them and make moves on him. He’d eventually work his way through all of them. He would refer to the first one as the Judas Goat.
Pope Jimbo:
There was a group of female friends I had, of them, one was married and thought I was the best. She forbade the rest of the friend group from dating me, because she thought I was too good (she wasn’t the brightest one).
The rest of the group all dated me eventually, and were the ones to initiate as well.
“I am increasingly convinced the world is really just a small town. I’ve just had way too many million-to-one “chance” encounters.”
No shit. Same here.
No way…
Ford Considers Scrapping Electric Version of F-150 Truck
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-150-lightning-ev-decision-89dc0d84?st=yEcufy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I thought that decision had already been made?
Well yeah, but we need to put the right spin on it.
Like firing someone and explaining that it’s an opportunity for them to pursue goals more in line with their education, interests, etc.
The Lightning, once described by Ford as a modern Model T for its importance to the company…
Shades of the Edsel?
Shades of the GAZ-A, more likely.
Wait until the next oil price spike. Toyota and Honda will be their with their full suite of hybrids, HEV’s, full EV’s etc., just like they were with the Prius in the early 2000’s.
Ford and GM will be there with truck that get 18 mpg highway looking for a bailout (again) and wondering if they should have kept one toe in the water on fuel efficient vehicles and EV’s.
My GM one ton gets 18, mom mobile with the 6.2 tickles 20 mpg.
Best milage I’ve ever gotten outside of a bike.
would you stop embedding the music in the post. (((you people)))
“one of my favorite singer/songwriters who always gets negative reactions when I use her for Old Guy Music.”
I’ve listened to many of her albums and the only one I go back to is Court and Spark, IMO her best record.
I have a very soft spot for Blue – listened to often when I was depressed.
I’m split between Hejira and Mingus. Compromise is Shadows and Light.
All of those are good. Sometimes I’ll listen to Miles of Aisles as well.
Today is Romanian Black Friday. They never discount the good stuff. There is not one cheap coravin out there
Also I wanted a Peugeot pepper grinder and no discounts either
A 403 or a 404?
No one can find a 404.
And the 403 is forbidden.
Better luck next time.
My wife has one, she loves it.
My wife has one, she loves it.
A 403 Forbidden? For when you click on her?
Putrid:
The 403 is for when he tries to talk her into a double clicking.
Are there any discounts on the ladies of the night?
off course not. the good stuff is not discounted, did you not read my comment?
Everything gets cheaper at closing time. Take a walk after midnight.
It’s Romania, I think you mean after noon.
I don’t think he wants to burst into flames.
Or sparkles…
Pie is better than that, ES. He would burst into glitter.
““I hear everyone else’s frustration: media, fans,” Gano said. “Shoot, ever since sports betting started happening, I get people telling me to kill myself every week because I’ll hit a kick that loses them money [or] I’ll miss a kick and it loses them money. The other day, somebody told me to get cancer and die.”
Sports betting was better when it was illegal.
Sports betting was better when it was illegal.
That’s one of those things I can’t come up with a good libertarian reason to ‘outlaw’, but it sure seems to have mucked things up/made the product worse – worse from my perspective anyway. Probably one of those cases where it’s inevitable (the muck-up) and sports will devolve to a lower/more local level as pro sports evolves to WWE style. And the whole cycle will begin again.
Legal versus illegal just changes where the problems are. Legal bettors don’t end up with broken bones, but they become appalling assholes. I’m not sure which I can say is better socially.
“That’s one of those things I can’t come up with a good libertarian reason to ‘outlaw’”
Me neither, but the these betting apps and their constant advertisement can’t be good.
Addictive betting plus addictive phones seems like a disaster.
Agree with all of the above. I’m just so tired of the constant promotion during every game I watch. I can’t believe how many people are suckers.
Gambling is the only vice that I don’t get.
Why people find it addictive is beyond me. Any time I do bet and lose money I get pissed. I think about how much fun I could have had if I spent that money on one of the other vices instead.
Mrs. Holiness has the typical Korean penchant for gambling. Luckily her cheapness keeps that pretty much in check. But when we have gone to charity events that had a “Casino Night”, she gets scarily into it.
I play poker occasionally, but it’s with a group of friends. It’s more about b-sing with the boys than winning money. And really, we just end up trading money around anyway over a long enough time period.
“Addictive betting plus addictive phones seems like a disaster.”
I’m sure that’s part of the business model.
#meneither
“Gambling debts” is such a stock situation in crime shows & I always wondered how does that even happen.
Not from personal experience, but I’ve known enough “Makes poor life choices” people to not be surprised when someone is convinced “One win and I’ll get it all back” as they keep losing and doubling down.
Rhywun:
We know two couples here in River City that have problems. Both Koreans.
One couple had a sizable inheritance but into a trust where they get monthly stipends because their parents knew they’d blow it at a casino if they got in a lump sum like their siblings did.
The other couple will lose big chunks of money because they chase early losses. If they blow some money, they feel like they have to win it back.
They have casinos in Korea, but you have to be a foreigner to enter. The casinos are just giant cash machines to get money from Chinese and Japanese gamblers. The govt knows that it would be bad to let their citizens blow all their cash in them though, so the only way they get in is as an employee.
The Koreans have adopted crypto currency as their casino game of choice. On our last visit, there was a lot of tut-tutting about various relatives (mostly younger) who have blown big chunks of money investing in various crypto currencies.
I don’t get the attraction of gambling, either.
One thing I have noticed gamblers do is that they tend to focus on the gross, not the net. If they come home with money, they seem to process that as winning, even if it’s less than they left with.
As someone who does enjoy gambling, there’s different draws and reasons for each. For sports betting, it’s thinking you’ve got a better handle on a team/match-up than the masses (as that’s who’s setting the odds over the long term), think there’s too much (or too little) hype around a player, and flat out chance. I’m up overall on sports betting, mainly by using sign up bonuses and playing with their money.
Card games are a different animal, as you have the social aspect as well as the statistics to deal with. I prefer games with a defined buy in rather than an open one.
Casinos are the one place I’m sure I’m down overall, even counting the comps, but when I’m in Vegas, I’ll still spend some time at the tables.
Personally, I think the professional sports leagues should have stayed far away from partnering with gambling sites, and the sports media getting involved with the gambling sites just made both products worse.
Because no athlete was ever harmed or threatened over illegal gambling.
It wasn’t so atomized.
One of the Altar Boys and I have a theory that the vehement denials by the NFL that Will The Thrill’s kick was blocked by a camera wire in London is because of some massive bet that someone had on it.
Somebody with pull in the NFL bet on when Will would miss his first kick, or something.
There doesn’t seem to be any other reason that they should fight this hard over the play.
When my father was still working as a probation officer, one of the questions he had to ask when doing a pre-sentence investigation was if any of the stolen loot was used to gamble. Even if all the guy did was buy a scratcher it was added to the “gambling addiction” bucket of crime stats.
He said that it was very clear from the higher ups that they wanted as much in that bucket as they could. More gambling crime leads to more money to counter the scourge of gambline.
I’m sure this sports betting is getting added to those stats too.
“A convicted killer who was sentenced to a decade behind bars for suffocating a Canadian tourist with sand was elected to the city council of a Maine city that inspired Stephen King’s “It.”
Angela Walker was elected as a Bangor council member on Tuesday, more than two decades after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges alongside her brother, Benjamin Humphrey, in the 2002 death of Derek Rogers, the Bangor Daily News reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/maine-elects-woman-convicted-of-killing-canadian-tourist-to-city-council-so-broken/
sand?
If it can clog an airway, it can suffocate.
Maybe her victim was an uber liberal and she tried to tell him things like men can’t be women. The victim suffocated from sticking his head so far down into the sand to avoid the truth.
Bangor will surely get what they deserve with her in office. Jesus…
Squaw* bread for all?
*presumably the victim’s offending insult
*rolls for disbelief, with a +15 modifier after looking at the photo*
I will forever hold the beliefs that the Calvary didnt go far enough.
“The BBC has upheld a complaint that presenter Martine Croxall broke the network’s guidelines by correcting the term “pregnant people” to “women” during a live broadcast…
According to the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU), 20 viewers filed complaints about Croxall’s reaction and determined that she breached the BBC’s editorial standards of impartiality.
“The phrase ‘pregnant people’ was followed by a facial expression which has been variously interpreted by complainants as showing disgust, ridicule, contempt or exasperation,” the BBC reported in a news release Thursday.
BBC’s style guide also does not include specific rules about using the term “pregnant people.”
However, the ECU claimed Croxall’s expression and the praise she received online showed she was sharing a “personal view” on a “controversial matter.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/media/bbc-claims-anchor-broke-guidelines-with-facial-expression-replacing-pregnant-people-with-women-in-viral-video/
OFFS!
she breached the BBC’s editorial standards of impartiality
Using the term “pregnant people” breaches standards of impartiality by endorsing the leftist fiction that men can have babies.
You have a reactionary definition of impartiality and are probably a wrecker, please remain where you are, a reeducation team will be along shortly to correct this.
WTF gets it.
Sorry, not controversial.
I guess their staff are expected to keep abreast of the latest trendy luxury beliefs all on their own.
Keep ’em on their toes!
“Only women can get pregnant” is controversial?
If your thing is denial of reality, sure.
Update:
“The transgender person caught up in a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row had been convicted of assaulting their now ex-wife while living in Ohio as a man — before taking the victim’s first name as their own.
Alexis Black ran afoul of women at a gym in Beverly Hills, including singer-songwriter Tish Hyman, who accused them of exposing himself and harassing her in the locker room.
Black, formerly Grant Freeman, pleaded guilty in 2022 to savagely beating his wife Alexis Freeman, causing a compound fractured jaw among other serious injuries.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/trans-person-accused-of-exposing-self-in-womans-locker-room-was-convicted-of-brutally-beating-ex-wife-before-taking-her-name/
A compound fracture of the jaw?
Gross.
A Hyman was broken my a man?
He seems nice.
But he/she/it is totally sincere. He’s not a pervert or looking for attention.
So, he was a Freeman.
Then when he was locked up, he became a Black?
Tucker gives the correct answer about interviewing controversial people.
https://x.com/Kaizerrev/status/1986540993336729685
I loved her talk with Tucker. He can interview anyone with the level of courtesy he wants to. I don’t understand how elements of the conservative movement want to crucify him for that.
Because conservatives aren’t any different that liberals when they hold the whip hand.
For a whole lot of conservatives, free speech and debate are just a weapon for pw0ning the libs, rather than something they really believe in.
Both very true comments. And I hate that.
Because the only thing they want to conserve is their grift.
I don’t understand how elements of the conservative movement want to crucify him for that.
1) This is jockeying ahead of the midterms to see who has the king making power left empty by Charlie Kirk. I genuinely think we didn’t realize just how powerful Charlie was in the GOp machine.
2) The Israel and Jew thing gets the weirdos to come out on both sides. The conspiratorial weirdos on one side, and the woke (but only for one victim class) neocons on the other side.
3) conservative inc is losing control of the narrative. People like Tucker, Megyn, Dave Smith, Joe Rogan, and (regrettably) Nick Fuentes command leadership over a growing segment of the right, and the Matt Walshs and Ben Shapiros and Sean Hannitys of the world don’t like that.
how powerful Charlie was in the GOp machine
Particularly for the young male demographic, and that was a pretty significant part of Trump’s electoral success.
trshmnstr – I think that’s on point!
Isn’t this an awful lot like the left and Joe Rogan?
Very similar but the ones bellyaching, who also know just what they’re doing, don’t give a shit.
And points out correctly there are much worse people that actually have more power than Fuentes.
I’m not gay, but:
What is that from?
Whatever event he was doing with Megyn yesterday.
I think she is on tour.
“Please do not fuck the fish.”
Don’t tell me what to do.
Just to let you know, these have been known to skeletonize a full grown human in the time it takes for even the quickest to get their rocks off.
Did you ever think there may be a reason.
“The Piranha?”
Ahem.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/candiru
Da fish dat fuck you!
When sounding and felching have gotten too tame, why not try both at the same time!
Ahem. The Dreaded… Candiru.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SLWF_by-E
COP30 begins
“two weeks to flatten the curve”
It’s an epic level of self-aggrandizement.
“This should never happen in America,” the judge said, as he warned that millions of poor families could go hungry in the absence of reliable federal aid. He gave the government until Friday to make the SNAP payments.
Or what?
Will he stamp his widdle feet and hold his breath ’til he turns blue?
Yep. How many divisions does he have backing him up? It’s past time to start ignoring some rulings.
Send them all to New York. Mamdami will take care of them.
Maybe hooking millions of Americans on FedBux wasn’t such a great idea?
If they fail to die, can we just stop SNAP?
The lack of any emaciated scarecrows shuffling along the roads should be proof that we really don’t need the program.
Or tie SNAP to BMI?
I doubt that anyone has starved to death in the United States in the past fifty years, save for cases of deliberate abuse.
ES:
Only because the vulnerable were killed by Net Neutrality first.
I’m sorry, where in the constitution does it give the judiciary the authority to order spending by the executive?
Because my copy has nothing.
Penumbras and shit bro.
It’s always struck me how selective penumbras and emanations are, like the second amendment never gets any of that shit.
Something the anti-federalists anticipated.
General welfare clause.
/only half kidding
The argument a while back was that Trump had to spend the money on USAID because Congress had appropriated it. Only Congress could decide when/where money was spent.
Now this judge has ordered Trump to pay for SNAP somehow. There were $5B in an emergency fund that Congress appropriated. But SNAP costs $8B or so. So you can’t fully fund it. Judge says “Don’t bother me with math BS. Get the money from somewhere”.
So which is it? Trump has no discretion or Trump is a king and can pull money from anywhere?
So the executive can ignore laws they don’t like, or minimize enforcement efforts like Biden did on immigration, but have to spend every penny and then some that is appropriated.
Sorry, but no.
Or what? Ignoring him will only cause the 2026 Blue Wave to be higher as it washes away more of those heartless Republicans.
At some point the right actually has to accomplish something and stop pissing themselves about how much the left is doing to trounce them in the next election.
Better to die fighting for your cause than live as a slave of your enemies.
At some point the right actually has to accomplish something and stop pissing themselves about how much the left is doing to trounce them in the next election.
For this reason, I think in NH, Republicans at the state level will buck any blue wave trend. Ending car inspections (hugely popular across party lines), more school choice options, keeping taxes low. In other words, they’ve delivered on things average citizens care about.
And yes, as I typed this, I realized they will probably do something stupid and get whacked in 2026.
Republicans need to turn out. In 2025 many didn’t. My local GOP guy told me last night that preliminary results show 60% of registered Dems voted on Tuesday, 45% of registered Republicans, and only 35% of indies and third parties.
This was in an county where GOP still has a very slight registration lead, but has been losing for last three elections (except Trump 2024). He says GOP has two problems: low interest voters tend to be Republicans and college educated voters now heavily lean Democrat.
The most enlightening thing I saw about the Big 3 elections is that in each case the Dem lost the male vote and won the female vote. Young gals went like 80% Dem. No idea how the GOP overcomes that.
Indeed. Tens of millions should never depend on the government for food in America.
Many families stood to receive nothing this month because of the way that the Agriculture Department had required states to calculate benefits. While the agency admitted late Wednesday that it had made a mistake, and updated its policies, the change only further bogged down the food stamp program.
“Golly, Your Honor, we’re doing our best, but this stuff is pretty complicated. There’s laws and stuff.”
Since the emergency fund isn’t big enough to fund even one month of SNAP, I sure hope Trump solves this by sending that money to Red states.
The howling would be great if the leeches in Red states got 100% of their bennies, while the leeches in NYC got nothing.
On the other hand, it would be better in the long run if Trump only sent SNAP money to NYC leeches. Make them a magnet for all the fat bums in other states. I know I’d love it if all the Somalis decamped from Minneapolis to go live in NYC.
Even better idea – after all the migration to one spot – wall it in and fill it with water.
UCS:
How about luring them into Puerto Rico? Tell them they can get SNAP there AND a free Bad Bunny concert.
Once they are there we could have the Navy start blasting boats from there and Venezuela. Max efficiency.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15267449/Bruce-Willis-rare-outing-frontotemporal-dementia.html
The pictures make it look like he is dating some black guy.
The black guy is a high-priced escort.
If I worked in home medical care, I would totally describe my job as a high-priced escort.
Escorts are DSPs.
Digital Signal Processors?
The Agriculture Dept should play the Washington game of coaching some other client group into filing a competing lawsuit over that money, and get it tied up in the courts for a decade.
Neurologist was on Monday and, shockingly, mostly I s’pose cuz the last appt fell through, I somehow got an ASAP MRI for today. So I’m off to get brain-scanned for 30-50 min. I’ve done ’em before, and I have a rather fond memory of one of ’em related to the anti-Radiohead talk.
I’m not as into their electronic stuff as OK Computer, pretty much cuz as I drummer I kind of hate fake drums. But the last MRI had a backing machine-whirr with beeps, bloops and much interesting. It kinda naturally turned into backing track of the experience and I was able to have fun with the semi-repeatable changes in speed and bloops.
So leaving for the Machine now, and soon into It, and then I hope to find some productivity on my end before I go back to present-paycheck work tomorrow. If you let the whirrs become fun, they can be. Too many folk are insistent on finding shit in their lives to further complain about and sink into. There’s plenty of that anyway, folk. Why give it ammunition?
Hopefully all else goes well with y’all and yours.
I love an MRI.
Once I’m in the tube and it starts thumping I immediately fall asleep.
I hope so as well. Bad things afoot over here, potential layoff and my mother had another TIA.
As some levity, I am posting the results of your MRI:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Lj0VvW86t8TKeBEZ3p2k6isqjSykRU3DAu7z-5jmQdZIKNLJ1MgoU1GnaJVZuTXGl3SEINTazzLJXm-qaq-7Nma20REbaDv0LYF6BG5KjOEzK26w5W4JlAIihhyw2_2iw4xdohosqeA/w400-h300/Three+Stooges+-+A+Bird+In+The+Head+%2842%29.png
I hope the TIAs don’t lead to multi-infarct dementia like they did with my mom.
@RJ: Legit in the parking lot LOL from me.
@TOK: It’s remarkably exhausting, when your brain is skipping a bit from concussion confusion. You’re seeing someone again, or ya just did, iIRC?
Best of luck, Brian Bud. Off I officially go. Hope the nurse is cute. Oooh! I really hope so…
Had to look up TIA. Eek.
Best wishes, RJ.
She’s 94. So far she came out of it and is talking today. Still scary. We are heading down to the end.
Best wishes RJ
Best of luck, Brian Bud
We had a kid named Brian in our class. He was a nice guy and a middle of the road student. However, in the 8th grade he once signed his name “Brain” on a test. The kid passing the tests back noticed and burst into laughter and showed the rest of us.
He was known as Brain until we graduated. If I ever ran into him again, I would call him Brain.
This country needs more crippling nicknames.
@Evan yes, I did see a concussion specialist this week, and I see him again in 2 weeks. Next week I’m going to “vestibular therapy” to help with the dizziness I get when I go from lying to sitting. I hope your nurse is cute too. The one I saw this week sure was. And with the concussion I got to see two of her!
Good luck. And good attitude!
I’m learning the hard way about brain injuries. They suck. It really hit me when I took the computer memory/reaction time test. It was tricky, but I should have done pretty well. But I didn’t, it was a struggle, and it was exhausting.
Even if your butt plug advertises itself as 100% silicone, do not trust it. It could very well have a heart of metal. While that ordinarily would not be a problem, in certain situations, such as an MRI, it could be a big problem.
https://radiologybusiness.com/topics/medical-imaging/magnetic-resonance-imaging-mri/mri-accident-triggered-object-patients-rectum
*jots down reminder on Post-it note*
“Israeli hostage who revealed sexual abuse by his captors details full horror he endured: 20-minute torture seven times a day, made to dance, blindfolded with stones in his ears for weeks – ‘I have met the Devil'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15268405/Israeli-hostage-revealed-sexual-abuse-captors-details-horror-endured-20-minute-torture-seven-times-day-dance-blindfolded-stones-ears-weeks-met-Devil.html
I’m sure the UN will get right on this.
Right after they deal with Nigeria and Sudan.
… and sanction the hostage for slandering the terrorists.
“Look what those terrible Zionists made the poor Gazans do!”
I’m sure the UN is incorporating all those things into the SOP manual for UN Peacekeeping troops as we speak.
Sexual exploitation of the locals has been UN SOP for a long time now…
ES:
Yes, but now there are new fun ways to do it. You can’t just keep raping them over and over again. You need to mix things up. Keep the relationship fresh.
“Israeli hostage who revealed sexual abuse by his captors details full horror he endured: 20-minute torture seven times a day, made to dance, blindfolded with stones in his ears for weeks – ‘I have met the Devil’”
A couple of nights ago I stumbled onto Black Sails on tubi. I had seen qa few random episodes in the past, but it’s all there. Now I have something to watch. It’s definitely good for a few belly laughs.
*Impossibly beautiful women (and men) in ridiculous dress-up pirate show, for anyone not familiar.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news….
First few seasons were great, but then it goes full woke and retarded.
No more gratuitous scenes of naked prostitutes in the bar. Replaced with Forced Homo Relationship and other bullshit.
Swing… and a miss!
Moderna MRNA swung to a loss and logged lower sales in the third quarter as it works to expand its offerings amid weakening demand for its Covid-19 vaccine.
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/moderna-swings-to-a-loss-on-fewer-covid-19-vaccine-sales-b3512a72?st=M6VUgR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
One-trick pony has one trick.
Have they ever had a product successfully make it through a real clinical trial?
The supreme court on Thursday allowed Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and non-binary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity.
That’s a genteel way to say “falsifying official documents”.
No more gratuitous scenes of naked prostitutes in the bar.
GODDAMIT. Is there to be no beauty in the world?
And odds of this being mass hysteria…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/white-powder-package-joint-base-andrews
It doesn’t say what it was.
It says right in the article, that it was white powder. Which according to BBC standards = “assault rifle capable of fully automatic fire”.
“Thune “Willing To Give Democrats All The Things They Want” As Friday Shutdown Vote Looms”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/thune-willing-give-democrats-all-things-they-want-friday-shutdown-vote-looms
I fucking knew they’d blow it. I just knew it! A party of loser wusses.
They like being the useless bottom, and they hate Trump actually showing the people that republicans should actually fight for them. I am not surprised Thune would sabotage this all just to fuck over MAGA,
He’s a sack of dogshit and a moron, even if you’re willing to cave you don’t broadcast that.
Unclear. If they are going to put fourth legislation to extend the ACA separate from the the continuing resolution I’m OK with that.
If they actually vote for extending the ACA however, I’m not OK with that…
Interesting that when Dems have a senate majority and the trifecta, they get everything on their wishlist while Rand Paul wails and gnashes his teeth. Meanwhile, the only way for Team Red to get anything done is to have a trifecta and 65 senate seats.
Sadly, if the GOP had the trifecta and 65 Senate seats, they still wouldn’t get anything done. It would be interesting to hear their excuses, but the GOP has no intention of doing anything that might land their asses back in their home districts unemployed.
I have to admire the DFL in Minnesoda. When they had the trifecta they passed everything they wanted and didn’t give a shit about trying to get bipartisan support. Spent $17B surplus getting everything they wanted.
Even if the Minnesoda GOP wins control back, they’d never dare to roll back any of these new programs.
So not only will they extend the Biden Covid spending, they’ll raise it. Trump will sign it because he takes only bad advice these days.
For some reason we can’t return to the 2019 budget.
Only thing I can think of this is political posturing because of the embolden statements from Dems and media that they have gained momentum.
So now, Rs say hey, here is what you want hoping the Ds try to press for more…
Give an inch in hoping they take a mile?
Strategy, maybe
Capitulation, probably
Most likely as vote today will crumble as Dems dig in.
Meanwhile, the court’s three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson calling the decision a “pointless but painful perversion”.
She added: “Such senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome has become an unfortunate pattern. So, too, has my own refusal to look the other way when basic principles are selectively discarded. This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification.
There is no objective reality. The world is nothing more than a child’s make believe tea party.
The left believes they should be able to shape reality to their whims.. Heaven on earth and all that shit…
“the obvious equitable outcome”
That really says it all doesn’t it?
“On Wednesday, the outlet posted a link to a story about a teacher arrested by ICE at a daycare in Chicago, Rayito de Sol, which is both a daycare and immersion school. The Post tried to paint the occasion as evil ICE officers striking fear into the hearts of young children and parents as they barged in, apprehending a woman who apparently had a work permit but was taken into custody anyway…..
“Here is the real story: Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female illegal alien from Colombia. Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over.
“Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare — recklessly endangering the children inside.
“The illegal alien female was arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school. Upon arrest, she lied about her identity.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/wapos-latest-ice-lie-bad-official-dhs-x/
TMITE
Yep. This was all over X, and was immediately shown to be bullshit, which means the so called reporters were once again shoveling a narrative and not doing any journalism.
Transgender actor Hunter Schafer, for example, said in February that her new passport had been issued with a male gender marker, even though she has been marked female on her driver’s license and passport for years.
The plaintiffs argue that passports limited to the sex listed on a birth certificate can spark harassment or even violence for transgender people.
“By classifying people based on sex assigned at birth and exclusively issuing sex markers on passports based on that sex classification, the State Department deprives plaintiffs of a usable identification document and the ability to travel safely,” attorneys wrote in court documents.
Reading that makes me woozy.
Such passports need to be stamped “The bearer frequently wears disguises. Suggest border control official conduct additional interrogation and investigation upon presentation of this document.”
I haven’t looked, but I assume there has been a massive sell-off in Tesla shares this morning as all responsible fiduciaries flee to safe, responsibly run companies.
The compensation package was explicitly tied to performance benchmarks in increased product and subscription sales and market capitalization. odds are he won’t get most of the potential stock in the agreement because the EV market is on a downturn.
They’re an EV company?
The carbon credit market depends on there being credits from the EV wing – which also has its own benchmarks in the compensation preconditions.
“I’m enjoying my popcorn.”
I’ve only been vaguely following the shutdown. As I understand it, my flights might be cancelled unless I help pay for someone else’s health insurance premiums. Is that about right?
Perhaps; also if you paid for their bag of Doritos.
These discrete moments offered strikingly different lessons about America and who deserves how much of its wealth.
I believe this is what’s known as “tipping your hand”.
From the dedthread:
Not Adahn – On the 1911 safeties – I had it backwards. Browning thought the grip safety was sufficient. He added the thumb safety at the Army’s (specifically the Calvary) request. See Ian’s video on it, best reference I could find this morning.
UCS – My gym is less busy during the morning and lunch rushes compared to the evening rush. The people who tend to be there during the morning and lunch rushes also tend to be a better crowd. A little more considerate of others – put away their stuff and don’t hog machines. The only times when the gym comes close to being empty are late morning and early afternoon (just before and just after the lunch rush) and late in the day on Saturdays and Sundays.
Do gyms usually have dress code?
I’ve been debating a membership, but the best time for me is directly after the workday and I’d arrive in my work clothes. I really would prefer not to get changed there, since most “work-out clothes” are disagreeable to me.
Some do. Some actually try and stop the influencer nonsense…but they are far and few between
I mean, I guess nobody would kick you out for wearing a three piece suit, monocle, and driving gloves, but you’d get some looks.
Yes, some have dress codes. And even among those that do, how strictly enforced depends on the gym.
Depending on what you wear for work, training in your work clothes might be a bad idea. Mobility limiting and lack of comfort while sweating immediately come to mind.
At least weight gloves are a thing.
We have one guy that works out in khakis. We asked him about it. He says he tends to squat lower than parallel, and wearing those pants, he can tell when he’s hit parallel. Funny but also clever.
I used to try to hit the gym at 1:30 in the afternoon.
By that time, the rush was over, I was pretty much done being productive at work and could channel any of the daily frustrations into the workout.
After I got back from the gym it would be the administrative stuff and documentation for the rest of the day.
For some reason swimmers believe that the only time to get a real swim in is at the crack of dawn. Pool lanes are jammed early in the day and empty for the rest of the day.
For some reason swimmers believe that the only time to get a real swim in is at the crack of dawn.
Or earlier. Probably partially a result of training schedules coming up. To get a good work out for the day in, one would do either distance swimming in the morning or weights and the more stroke oriented/race training in the afternoon after school. That schedule sticks with you and the morning is usually more convenient for adulting.
Or it’s just get the hell out of the way first thing and then the rest of the day is easy.
Since I stopped growing taller in the 7th grade, I was finally forced to drop basketball as a Junior. I wanted to be a three sport letterman in my Senior year, so I took up swimming again (I had done well in AAU swimming as a kid).
The training schedule wasn’t what got me, it was the swim meets. I had forgotten how incredibly stupid and boring they are. I lasted two meets before I quit the team.
No regrets though. Getting my letter in tennis would have been hard because I quit/was kicked off the team half way through the season. I think I qualified for the letter, but I was done with school by that time.
Traci Lords?
If you go full bore, and snip off the frank and beans, I have no problem with your drivers license and passport being changed. But if you are going the Shania Twain, “I Feel Like a Woman” route where it’s purely feelings instead of real commitment, then it should stay what sex you we’re assigned at conception.
Fuck it. All official ID cards must have full body nudes on it. It’s the only way to be sure.
I hate cops and TSA but man…that is cruel
Whenever someone has mentioned to me that they had their boy circumcised I always ask why they chose that. Invariably the response is, “to look like their dad.” My response is “for the family photos?” It never is as amusing to others as it is to me.
K:
Genuine snort. We had the Altar Boys snipped because I didn’t realize that there were any controversies about it at the time.
🤭
I don’t remember my circumcision but I know it hurt like hell. I couldn’t walk for a year.
For some reason we can’t return to the 2019 budget.
People will die. Millions of them.
Foot draggers
The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency block on a judge’s order that it pay 42 million Americans their full SNAP benefits for November by Friday as the federal government shutdown persists.
The administration requested that the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals allow it to pay 65% of the food stamp benefits this month from a contingency fund, as the administration had proposed to the judge earlier this week.
The request came a day after Judge Jack McConnell issued an order in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island rejecting the partial payment option.
What’s the problem? Just reach into the magic hat and pull out some more money.
Just tell the treasury to mint a trillion dollar coin.
Remind me why a dictator has to go to the courts to ‘get things done’. Cant he just issue edicts like a proper tyrant? What is going on here?
Justice Department lawyers wrote in the filing that instead of Congress passing new SNAP funding “a single district judge has devised his own solution: ordering USDA to cover the SNAP shortfall by transferring billions of dollars that were appropriated for different, equally critical food-security programs —and to do so within just one business day (i.e., by today).”
“This unprecedented injunction makes a mockery of the separation of powers,” the lawyers wrote. “Courts hold neither the power to appropriate nor the power to spend. Courts are charged with enforcing the law, but the law is explicit that SNAP benefits are subject to available appropriations.”
But the heartless cruelty of it all!
You misunderstand the spirit of the law. Kentaji explained it earlier. You go for the ‘obvious equitable outcome’. It’s obvious.
Jebus. If there was ever a reason to invoke article III KJB is the walking, talking personification of it.