Friday Morning Links

by | Nov 14, 2025 | Daily Links | 240 comments

Ohtani won the NL MVP unanimously again. Judge won in the AL, which kind of surprised me. Trey Henderson went off after Mike Vravel said he was gonna be given a big load last night. And across the pond, more teams are punching their card for the World Cup, and more will follow over the next few days. This raised a few eyebrows. I’m sure they’ll replace him with an AD from an SEC school and help the committee “correct” their rankings to get another conference member in the playoffs. Lastly, there’s a rumor that UCLA and Ohio State will both wear their home uniforms tomorrow night in Columbus and I really hope that happens because I’m gonna be at the game and that would look really cool. Right, that’s it for sports.

What an interesting piece. You’ll notice that they threw in blame for white people gentrifying the neighborhood. And no responsibility is given to the parent for anything. Nice job, AP.

Nobody is above the law. Or so we were told endlessly for 4 straight years by the people who no longer want the law applied to them.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Lazy fucks can’t even bother to show up for their phone-baloney jobs.

This is an absolutely fucked up situation. I hope the feds drop the hammer on more states, because this CDL shitshow is hardly just a California problem.

This guy talked to everybody. And he wrote like a high school freshman, which makes it all the more bizarre and hilarious.

They’ve got him now! When late night talk show hosts have turned on Trump, you know he’s cooked.

“Controversial,” lol. Dixie Normous is a hilarious nickname. Especially since she’s fat.

Oh, no! Where will people get burnt, shitty coffee now? Oh yeah, I guess at one of the other gazillion coffee shops out there.

City Supervisor shouldn’t be a full time job. But yes, it does look like this lady runs a lousy business. Still, government should be comprised of part-timers who are also normal people with normal careers and/or businesses.

Bankrupt them. It’s the only way they, or any of their ilk, will learn.

Playing this before my flight today. And yes, I know I’m going to a different city. I’m also playing this gem just because I want to. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, my friends.

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240 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “with his young Denzel Washington looks”

    Really?

    • Common Tater

      Still reading article, are they going to get to the point?

      • rhywun

        I gave up waiting for it to go somewhere.

        This genre of “sob story with an obvious agenda” is beyond tedious.

      • Common Tater

        She can afford to rent a house and an apartment at the same time.

        “support desert” is a new one for me though.

      • Ted S.

        A lack of underwire bras?

      • rhywun

        “support desert”

        OFFS. I guess that means “not enough big government”.

      • sloopyinca

        OFFS. I guess that means “not enough big government”.

        Her neighborhood was gentrified, bigot. GENTRIFIED!!!
        Therefore nothing is her responsibility anymore because white people.

    • Common Tater

      I give up.

      • sloopyinca

        It just kept going and going and going.

        Damn, I was hoping someone in the comments would finish it and tell me what happened.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        AI Summary:

        Here is a summary of the key points:

        *The Problem: McNair and her three children were evicted from their apartment in the rapidly gentrifying Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta. This forced them to move to a rental home 40 minutes away in the suburban district of Jonesboro.

        *The Education Gap: The move meant switching from the Atlanta school district, which spends nearly $20,000 per student annually, to the Jonesboro district, which spends about $7,000 less. McNair was determined to keep her kids in Atlanta schools for the better resources, like smaller class sizes and more support staff.

        *Federal Protections and Setbacks: Federal law (the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act) allowed McNair’s children to continue attending their original Atlanta schools despite living in Jonesboro, but this eligibility expired at the end of the school year. The law also mandates free transportation, but McNair reported that the district failed to inform her of this right until the school year had ended.

        *The Quest for Stability: To ensure her eldest son, Elias (who was struggling academically after the death of his father and multiple displacements), could remain at Midtown High School, McNair embarked on a difficult search for an apartment back in the Old Fourth Ward.

        *Triumph and New Challenges: Driving extra hours for Uber and borrowing money, she eventually secured a three-bedroom apartment for $2,200 a month—one of the only “semi-affordable” options in the area willing to rent to a single mother with a recent eviction on her record.

        *The Trade-Off: While McNair achieved her goal of getting her son back into his school district, the victory was fragile. The Atlanta apartment had issues, and she faced the financial burden of trying to maintain two homes for a time. The ongoing instability and stress also affected her son’s well-being, leading her to temporarily consider homeschooling when he began skipping school.

        The article highlights the profound link between housing insecurity (eviction) and educational opportunity, particularly the challenges faced by low-income families in rapidly gentrifying areas trying to access adequate school resources.

        Still too long.

      • UnCivilServant

        Evictions are not unilateral events, they are the result of the tenant not meeting the terms of the contract of lease.

        Also, as New York proves, dolalrs wasted per pupil are not an indicator of educational excellence. In fact, parental involvement is still the biggest indicator of success, since the teachers are for the most part fuckwits

      • (((Jarflax

        A bunch of stuff happened in her life and that made it impossible for her to make her kid show up to school or do his work so she decided to home school him, which in this case apparently means letting him do school work at home, or at a home schooling group unattended, but he didn’t do the work and it was hard so she took him back to the same school he had already not attended. So in a nutshell, nothing happened at all, and anyway it isn’t her fault.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Presumably the three kids receive SS.

    • Tonio

      Thanks to federal laws protecting homeless and evicted students, her kids were able to keep attending their Atlanta schools…

      WTF? Why is this a federal law? Also, as long as laws like this exist they will be used to justify keeping the USDoEd.

      • Nephilium

        There was a fairly large story somewhat local controversy about a woman claiming her father’s residence to get her kids into a better school.

        You know what would get rid of this? Backpack funding.

    • Threedoor

      When you can’t make payments on your van you can’t afford a vacation or to send your kids to camp.

  2. Ted S.

    Will Cristiano Ronaldo have to sit out three competitive games like the red card requires?

  3. Common Tater

    “Leadership of the union representing DNC employees ”

    LOL

  4. Nephilium

    Isn’t England already broke? How do you bankrupt the BBC when they’re being backed by the crown?

  5. Not Adahn

    Is it possible to bankrupt the BBC? Aren’t they government funded?

    • R.J.

      Makes me wonder if he can even sue them without government permission.

    • Drake

      So they’re already bankrupt – morally and financially.

      • mindyourbusiness

        For some interesting articles, check out Quillette. There’s an interesting take on the BBC’s stupid moves.

  6. Not Adahn

    IDK if I’d never seen that before, or hadn’t watched The Avengers prior to seeing it.

  7. Common Tater

    “They’ve got him now! When late night talk show hosts have turned on Trump, you know he’s cooked.”

    Fuck the NYT for making you solve a puzzle only to tell you it’s paywalled.

    https://archive.is/F0Nkj

  8. Not Adahn

    Re: CT’s Hyuna link in the dedthred:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9CALKOvAI

    That needs to be stored in an archive for future social historians. I mean the whole “cover the rack, show all the leg you want,” and the mandatory dubstep break is just perfectly so of the time and place.

    Then again, it’s 15 years old, so I can see why her health might be failing now.

    • Common Tater

      She’s only 33.

      “Earlier this month, HyunA revealed that she had embarked on a rigorous dieting regimen. On 4 November, she posted a photo of a scale showing she had lost approximately 10 kg (22 lbs) in one month….

      Many have linked the fainting to this rapid weight loss and the physical demands of her performance. The condition known as vasovagal syncope—which HyunA has previously spoken about—was suggested as a contributing factor, especially under conditions of low stamina and dietary stress.”

      • Ted S.

        +1 Laird Cregar

  9. Common Tater

    Dixie seems like a perfectly cromulent name.

    • sloopyinca

      It’s a normal name, but there aren’t normal times.

      • Ted S.

        [ Lights the Tonio signal ]

    • Pope Jimbo

      There was a girl named Dixie in our school and I’m ashamed we didn’t think of Dixie Normous for a nickname for her.

  10. The Gunslinger

    Let’s go Bruins!!!

    • Ted S.

      Er, my previous comment was supposed to go here….

  11. Common Tater

    “Bankrupt them. It’s the only way they, or any of their ilk, will learn.”

    It’s not just their ilk, as it turns out most of the independent journalists, podcasters, bloggers, etc. are also full of shit.

    • The Last American Hero

      The size of the megaphone matters. And BBC is part of a national monopoly/duopoly with taxpayers required to support it.

  12. Common Tater

    “Baran told the San Francisco Standard that she found hundreds of dead mice, cages covered in rodent urine, mounds of trash, and a freezer filled with deceased pets.”

    So perfect for Los Angeles supervisor?

    • sloopyinca

      San Francisco, but your point is still correct.

      I wonder how many junkies shooting up or people masturbating on the sidewalk Baran had to walk around to get in there and take her video.

      • Common Tater

        I meant Los Angeles, which I’ve heard is way worse than SF now.

      • sloopyinca

        It’ll be cleaned up before the WC and the Olympics.

        Or a visit by the Chinese head of state, whichever comes first.

    • (((Jarflax

      The people who can’t run a pet store want to run every aspect of your life. I’m sure it will be fine.

  13. Sensei

    I’ll highlight it again as I did yesterday.

    “We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action,” the statement said.

    Sure it was “unintentional”. Who doesn’t join together two parts of two different statements an hour apart and make it appear as if it wasn’t said at the same time.

    • juris imprudent

      “No one paid any attention to what was said in between, so we really were only highlighting the important parts.”

  14. UnCivilServant

    Nobody is above the law.

    Mortgage Fraud Again?

    Did they hold a seminar and everyone got in on the scheme?

    • juris imprudent

      It isn’t often that the Ayn Rand villains are caught in their own snares.

    • Nephilium

      The other talking point I keep seeing repeated is “Everyone does it!”

      • UnCivilServant

        Then everyone should be prosecuted.

        Speaking as a person who has never committed fraud, I do not see rampancy as a defence, but an exacerbating factor. Increase the penalties.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        No silly, only Trump should be prosecuted.

      • Suthenboy

        “No silly, only Trump should be prosecuted.”

        Kathy Hochul said exactly that…on TV.

    • Suthenboy

      Yeah, they are all in on the scheme.

  15. Common Tater

    The woman who told the House Ethics Committee that she had sex with then-Rep. Matt Gaetz at a house party when she was 17 years old, all but ending his national political career, lived part-time at a Florida homeless shelter with one of her parents and turned to selling her “companionship” to buy braces for her teeth.

    The still-unidentified woman’s circumstances were detailed for the first time by her lawyer to the New York Times after a federal judge unsealed documents in a related civil case that described the alleged victim as a “then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/11/14/us-news/matt-gaetz-sex-case-teen-started-sex-work-to-pay-for-braces-report/

    Doesn’t medicaid pay for braces?

    • Common Tater

      “The girl took a job at McDonald’s to make extra money, but also lied about her age to make an account on SeekingArrangement.com, a website that primarily connects older men with younger women for “sugar daddy/sugar baby” relationships.

      It was through Seeking Arrangement that the teen met Joel Greenberg, then tax collector of Seminole County, Fla. and a friend and political ally of Gaetz, in 2017. According to the Times, citing court documents, Greenberg paid her $400 at an initial meeting on his boat and also gave the teen ecstasy and implored her to try it…..”

      A Jew with a boat? Did he also go hunting?

    • Common Tater

      “The Justice Department declined to prosecute Gaetz after a prolonged sex-trafficking investigation that ensnared Greenberg, who pleaded guilty in May 2021 to charges including child sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking and conspiracy and was later sentenced to 11 years in prison….”

      A pimp’s love is different than that of a square.

    • Common Tater

      “As for the girl, Wolf told the Times that she moved to Texas to live with a family member and continued to work minimum wage food service jobs, eventually saving up to buy braces.”

      All is well that ends well?

    • juris imprudent

      Doesn’t medicaid pay for braces?

      I don’t know for sure, but I doubt it. Medicaid isn’t all that generous – which is why the socialists never say Medicaid for all even when that is exactly what they are proposing.

      • Pope Jimbo

        All our kids braces were out of pocket.

    • slumbrew

      Without even looking, I will bet you $50 that none of those ladies have any idea who GG Allin was.

  16. Not Adahn

    As much as I take shooting seriously, it is very good to have a “silly” match from time to time. We had our backup gun match last weekend and just seeing the variety made it worthwhile. The guy who won the autoloader division was running a (actual Walther) PPK/s, the geezer who has the most gorgeous guns brought out some sort of revolver that I still don’t know what it was but it was gorgeous (assuming it was a Ruger because of the pushbutton cylinder release, non-fluted cylinder), and other guy brought out a mirror-polished Diamondback. So very shiny.

    I am NOT interested in adding calibers at this time, but there was a Browning “Black Label” 1911 in .380 that was suspiciously quiet and the guy shot it very well.

    • Sensei

      Is .22LR an option? Or does it actually have to move something like a steel plate?

      • UnCivilServant

        The biggest downside of running .22LR is that the timer doesn’t reliably register the shots. It works off sound and they tend to be quieter (as far as gunshots go).

      • Sensei

        .25ACP it is!

      • Not Adahn

        For this match, .22LR would be fine, but nobody brought one.

    • Suthenboy

      I am not a big fan of the 380. Eurotards like tiny, feeble pistol rounds for some reason…”You dont need all that!” mentality. The TV show “Tool Time” used to make fun of that. I am the tool time guy. I like robust pistol rounds and big, heavy flat nosed bullets. I think 45 acp is a moderate round.
      Still…I used to have some 380s and hand loaded for them. At close range they have a surprising amount of punch. I had some 100 grain plated bullets that would zip through 3/4 plywood easily. I remember shooting a junked refrigerator through the bottom and it came out of the top in a nice round hole. That is two sheets of probably 12 ga sheet metal, two inch and a half insulation, one glass shelf and the plastic drawer.
      That’s nothing to sneeze at. I still want my 10mm and 45acp carry though.

  17. rhywun

    $10,000 bonus checks for TSA flunkies doing their jobs.

    #winning 🙄

    • UnCivilServant

      I’d be okay if those were severence checks.

    • Nephilium

      Only the US government can have employee costs go UP due to a shut down.

      • (((Jarflax

        Cope and seethe tax cattle

  18. Sensei

    “We are not qualified to tell people how to live their lives,” Gleicher said. “If she feels she has to do one more cycle because she needs to be sure that she will not be sorry for not trying, we will give her the chance.”

    And while low the risk of having a baby with a disability rises exponentially with maternal age. And who all pays for that care?

    Couple Wagers Time, Hope and $300,000 on a Quest for Children

    • Threedoor

      Eat fatty red meat.
      Make sure you have enough magnesium.

      Things we wish we knew when trying to have kids.

      Low fat high carb is bad for fertility.

  19. Common Tater

    “Mutant meat enters Canada’s food supply… and shocked Americans get a nasty surprise

    Health Canada recently scrapped its 22-year-old policy that classified cloned meat as novel foods, removing pre-market safety assessments and allowing these products to be sold with no disclosure.

    The move has sparked outrage in the US, where similar products have quietly been on shelves for years without labels.

    The FDA approved meat and milk from cloned cattle, swine and goats, along with their offspring, back in January 2008.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15289311/cloned-meat-enters-Canadas-food-supply-shocked-Americans-nasty-surprise.html

    Mutant?

    • Ownbestenemy

      New Fallout season is due in a month, its a cross promotion

      • Sean

        lulz.

        Where’s my Brahmin steak?

      • (((Jarflax

        Sorry fresh out, would you care for roasted radroach?

      • Nephilium

        (((Jarflax:

        Got any of Iguana Bob’s Iguana bits?

      • EvilSheldon

        Lame. Nuka-Cola (with collectable bottle cap) or get the fuck out.

      • UnCivilServant

        With all the hubbub over radioactive shrimp, the management was worried about lawsuits from selling intentionally radioactive beverages.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Hint, hint people

    Is Trump channeling Marie Antoinette’s royalty?

    Luckily our education system is so shitty no one knows who Antoinette is except the boomers protesting.

    • R.J.

      Don’t laugh. It’s true.

      • Ted S.

        These are also the people who refer to the Kennedy era as Camelot….

      • Suthenboy

        “…the Kennedy era as Camelot…”

        Typical leftist horseshit. Ah…the romance…the ideal….it’s all so dreamy! All braindead feelz.
        Does anyone ever ask what Kennedy, as president, actually did? No one seems to talk about that much.

      • rhywun

        Serious journalism.

      • (((Jarflax

        Abandoned the Cubans at the Bay of Pigs, then proved he wasn’t soft on Communism by playing brinksmanship games with nukes in Turkey and Cuba, backed down and removed the missiles from Turkey in exchange for a BS promise that the Soviets would remove the missiles from Cuba? Much glamourous.

      • EvilSheldon

        Does anyone ever ask what Kennedy, as president, actually did? No one seems to talk about that much.

        Absent all the other stuff, good and bad, Kennedy signed the bill allowing government employees to unionize. For that, he deserves an eternity impaled on Satan’s barbed cock.

        On the other hand, he was a pathological misogynist and drug addict. So not all bad…

      • rhywun

        Kennedy signed the bill allowing government employees to unionize

        Yikes – I did not know that.

        A giant fuck you to the rest of America.

    • Ted S.

      Does our education system teach people how not to SugarFree links?

  21. Certified Public Asshat

    More money in schools means smaller classrooms and more psychologists, guidance counselors and other support.

    Not even pretending it’s about learning.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    Writing like a freshman was generious. It all reads like a scorned and desperate lover.

  23. robc

    It is late enough in the season that my resume ranking algorithm makes sense. It has a lot in common with Colley (doesn’t care about score or location of game) but fixes some problems that Colley has…I like it. Last 3 columns are rating, quality of wins, quality of losses.

    1. Texas A&M ( 9- 0) 4.537 40.835 0.000
    2. Indiana (10- 0) 4.384 43.842 0.000
    3. Ohio State ( 9- 0) 4.295 38.654 0.000
    4. Alabama ( 8- 1) 4.088 35.011 1.778
    5. Georgia ( 8- 1) 4.048 33.348 3.088
    6. Mississippi ( 9- 1) 3.896 35.911 3.048
    7. Brigham Young ( 8- 1) 3.840 31.787 2.777
    8. Oregon ( 8- 1) 3.806 30.874 3.384
    9. Texas Tech ( 9- 1) 3.777 35.330 2.441
    10. Notre Dame ( 7- 2) 3.769 27.839 6.081
    11. Texas ( 7- 2) 3.727 28.222 5.318
    12. Oklahoma ( 7- 2) 3.704 27.714 5.623
    13. Vanderbilt ( 8- 2) 3.659 30.780 5.814
    14. Utah ( 7- 2) 3.620 26.963 5.617
    15. Southern Cal ( 7- 2) 3.599 27.136 5.259
    16. Georgia Tech ( 8- 1) 3.593 30.155 2.182
    17. Michigan ( 7- 2) 3.554 26.680 5.304
    18. Miami FL ( 7- 2) 3.544 27.305 4.590
    19. Illinois ( 6- 3) 3.490 22.433 8.974
    20. North Texas ( 8- 1) 3.488 28.943 2.452
    21. Tulane ( 7- 2) 3.482 26.827 4.507
    22. Louisville ( 7- 2) 3.474 27.042 4.228
    23. South Florida ( 7- 2) 3.452 26.424 4.648
    24. Arizona St ( 6- 3) 3.441 23.898 7.067
    25. Houston ( 8- 2) 3.410 29.615 4.489

  24. Sensei

    The US determines that certain things can not be economically made in the US. Who knew?

    The U.S. plans to eliminate tariffs on bananas, coffee, beef and certain apparel and textile products under framework agreements with four Latin American nations, a senior administration official told reporters Thursday.

    https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-to-cut-tariffs-on-bananas-coffee-and-other-goods-from-four-countries-5a527e94?st=ry4xTd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

  25. Common Tater

    “A groundbreaking study has found a common virus that effects more than 90 percent of the population could trigger a devastating autoimmune condition suffered by Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga.

    The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which most people are exposed to at some point in their lives, is best known for causing the contagious viral infection ‘mono’ (often called the ‘kissing disease’ as it is spread through saliva).

    But scientists have long suspected that it may also play a role in autoimmune diseases and researchers at Stanford University recently looked at its link to lupus.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15287809/study-common-virus-trigger-autoimmune-lupus.html

    So it causes three diseases?

    • robc

      Its never lupus.

      • DrOtto

        Fruit lupus then?

      • trshmnstr

        You eat fruit sushi and you catch fruit lupus.

    • Nephilium

      It’s never lupus.

      • robc

        The apostrophe took you two minutes.

      • (((Jarflax

        Lupus is so 2000, now it’s never Ehler-Danlos syndrom.

    • Ted S.

      Nobody needs 23 kinds of lupu.

    • Ted S.

      Epstein-Barr didn’t kill itself.

    • UnCivilServant

      You know what I don’t see? A mechanism for reloading that single magazine on the assault rifle.

      • UnCivilServant

        And why is the embedded video one of US army utility robots? I know the design for the Chinese robots was stolen from us, but you’ll note that the US Army robots have a drone controller walking behind it with a short range remote control. If the chinese robots have no autonomy, and are just gun platforms, they’re not particularly scary, above and beyond the fact that they’re arriving as part of a larger army.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That’s the thing about Chinese war robots. 30 minutes after attacking you are always hungry for more ammo

      • UnCivilServant

        So close Jimbo – I would have gone with “Thirty Rounds Later”

  26. Semi-Spartan Dad

    As bad as the war on obtainable pain relief is, the restriction of blue juice is equally frustrating. One of our old GSDs suffered a spinal injury and was in excruciating pain. Laid on the ground immobile with alternating screams and whimpers. Couldn’t be moved and couldn’t get a vet to come to the house.

    It was instant but fucking miserable to do for a best friend of 10 years. Probably will be having a few drinks this weekend. It’s evil that people can’t directly buy medicine without going through a guild that acts as a gatekeeper.

    • Sensei

      Agreed on the evil. So sorry to read that.

    • ron73440

      That’s rough, sorry.

    • Common Tater

      Sorry 🙁

      What is blue juice?

      • Sensei

        What vets refer to their euthanasia meds. I think its a barbiturate. It’s colored so it’s not mistakenly given.

      • Tonio

        Trade name “Euthanasol.” Phenobarbitol IIRC.

    • (((Jarflax

      That is rough, but you did your friend one last service.

      • R.J.

        Agreed. Condolences to you.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      So sorry about that, it deeply sucks.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’m sorry SSD, condolences. There’s a mobile vet in our area that offers at home service just for that, rather than needing to bring your animal into an exam room.

      • Sensei

        Same here, but it still sucks.

    • slumbrew

      That’s incredibly rough and you’re a better man than I. My condolences.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda.

      I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. Especially the way things went down.

      Apologies for today’s Daily Ray. I didn’t read this before posting. I would have gone with a different Ray if I had seen this.

    • Tonio

      I’m so sorry about that, SSD. Thank you for having the courage and resolve to do that for your friend. Wishing you peace and closure.

    • Sean

      Oof. Sorry.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Thank you everyone for your condolences and well wishes. Feels so strange not to see him. Jimbo, no worries, the daily ray was a great watch.

    • DEG

      Sorry

    • Threedoor

      That’s tough. I have a cat whose time is coming this winter. Not looking forward to that.

    • Common Tater

      Can’t use an ATM?

      • Sensei

        You’d have to leave the hookers alone in the apartment.

      • DrOtto

        Artie Lange liked to talk about you can’t even leave the room without them stealing shit, so he would make them clap when he had to leave the room for whatever reason.

      • Ted S.

        I think the hookers already had clap. Artie didn’t need to make it for them.

  27. Suthenboy

    Government education and government media are not compatible with a free society. You can have one or the other, take your pick.

    Yes, break the BBC. I suppose they are accustomed to being called out for lying less in the UK. This isn’t the UK.

    Speaking of breaking, break California, specifically Newsome. It is impossible for me to believe that they did not incur any liability for murdering people via passing out CDLs to third world monkeys in blatant non-compliance with their own and fed law. Sue the living fuck out of them. Any chance of criminal liability?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “and is now making money on OnlyFans.”

      Maybe that’s why she’s getting the disapproving looks. Anyway, I hope for her sake she’s saving that OnlyFans money for back surgery in the future.

  28. Common Tater

    “Speaking with a reporter at the 44th annual Black Tie Dinner in Dallas, Rep Jasmine Crockett mocked MAGA women for their appearances, suggesting that their lips are too large and that she knows a MAGA woman when she sees one, while appearing alongside a drag performer.

    “Okay a lot of the MAGA women receive gender-affirming care such as lip fillers, breast augmentation, etcetera. Why do you think they are so against gender affirming care for trans people,” Dallas Voice host Larry The Fairy asked Crockett, who was seen laughing and jumping up and down.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/jasmine-crockett-jokes-with-giant-drag-queen-that-you-know-a-maga-woman-when-you-see-one

    WTF??

    • Common Tater

      “”They all have a look, right? But they, like, they lips be up to,” she said, gesturing with her hands on her face to resemble large lips. “Anywhay, that’s a whole other issue. But yeah, it’s, they don’t even know, cause, um, when that was brought up on the House floor, cause there was a discussion about this on the House floor, they were like, how dare you say we use — and it’s like, no, this is exactly what y’all do. Y’all just didn’t realize that that’s what it is.””

      Does anyone speak jive?

      • R.J.

        Did you see the clown she was standing next to? That is what made her rant so special.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Cut me some slack, Jack.
        Sheeeit.

      • Ted S.

        Cut me some slack, Jack

        Make a new plan, Stan.

      • Threedoor

        Not since I got out of the army. Thankfully I have forgotten.

    • Ted S.

      Now talk like this about Michelle Obama.

      • rhywun

        “It’s so tiresome that I have to style my hair like a white woman.”

        (paraphrased)

        🙄

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Stereotypes for me, not for thee.

      Also, come on…we know a man in a dress when we see one.

    • rhywun

      I love the base paying so much attention to tranny issues. It’s a real winner for America.

    • Suthenboy

      I thought their latest schtick was claiming to be winning over MAGA voters?
      Interesting strategy.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      She’s not completely wrong. There is a certain look that many of the women in Trump’s circle have. But if we were to make fun of Crocket’s look, the big nails and fake eyelashes, it would be racist.

  29. Common Tater

    “A Colorado professor unleashed a tirade on conservative students, calling them “Nazis” after Fort Lewis College reversed a prior decision and approved a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter on campus. Turning Point chapters have been springing up across the country in the wake of founder Charlie Kirk’s Sept. 10 murder.

    Anthropology professor David Kozak was caught flipping off students during an unhinged meltdown, appearing visibly upset at the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College’s (ASFLC) decision to reverse its initial denial of the TPUSA chapter just days earlier, which was triggered by a petition that amassed over 1,000 signatures, according to Rocky Mountain Voice.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/colorado-college-prof-calls-students-nazis-fascists-in-response-to-opening-of-tpusa-chapter

    CWAA

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Another douchebag professor throws gasoline on his career and lights a match, film at eleven.

      • R.J.

        Amazing how little self-control that guy has. Or any of them. The loonies are coming out of the woodwork and finally getting fired. Who knew opening conservative clubs would be so effective at clearing psychos from education?

      • rhywun

        Until a woker college snaps him up ten minutes later.

    • Suthenboy

      They stole that plot line from a TV series. I dont remember the name of it

    • EvilSheldon

      Or Germans…

      • The Last American Hero

        They tried that this week when Germany began sketching out conscription plans.

  30. Gustave Lytton

    Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a version where Chris Farley still lives and his cousin died of an OD in 1997. If not a better world, perhaps one with fewer automotive recalls.

      • Sensei

        It’s been such a useful word to learn.

        I didn’t realize that 差 is also used in Japanese. So I get to learn a new character too.

        差し, 指し, 差, 指 さしꜜ

        between (e.g. two people), face to face
        Noun
        hindrance, impediment

      • Gustave Lytton

        My Chinese teacher, who spent his pretty much his entire career working in China & HK, offered a personal perspective when we learned cha bu duo. “Good enough for government work”

  31. PieInTheSky

    Extraordinary 7,000+ sq ft timber frame estate on 121 acres of pristine land with panoramic mountain views. This custom-built sanctuary offers the ultimate in privacy, sustainability, and luxury living. Designed as a legacy property, every detail was thoughtfully crafted, from the soaring Douglas Fir beams, grand stone fireplaces, extensive storage, expansive decks, and mahogany finishes. Entertain in style with an English-style pub, multiple guest suites, a state-of-the-art entertainment network, heated gunite pool & hot tub with a chemical-free EcoSmart system, pool house with an outdoor kitchen, pergola, and fireplace. A large woodshop, equipment barn, and multiple garages offer ample space for hobbies and storage. Additional outdoor amenities include separate koi and bass ponds, rose garden, a yoga platform with water feature, and 1.5 miles of private trails. Gardeners will delight in 70+ fruit and nut trees, 44 raised beds, greenhouses. Electrically independent with a 135KW solar array, battery storage, and two EV chargers. The estate was built as a forever home with an elevator and handicap accessibility. Located in tax friendly NH, near Fryeburg Airport, major ski resorts, golf, and the White Mountain National Forest. 80 minutes to Portland and 2.5 hours to Boston.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGQ9l9v4h_Q

    • PieInTheSky

      4 mil

      • Threedoor

        It would be six or seven in my area.

    • R.J.

      I don’t have enough orphans to maintain that property and I don’t like people enough to go get more.

    • slumbrew

      Would.

      Decent location, too.

    • DEG

      Center Conway?

      Too close to North Conway. MA Tourist Central.

      • slumbrew

        121 acres provides a good buffer.

  32. Rat on a train

    COP30 Needs a Security Upgrade and Better Air Conditioning, UN Says

    A top United Nations climate official demanded Brazilian authorities immediately develop a plan for addressing security lapses, soaring temperatures, flooding and other poor conditions at the COP30 conference in the city of Belém.
    Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, rapped Brazilian authorities for a security breach Tuesday night, when activists stormed into the conference venue, and said officers had failed to disperse other protesters Wednesday morning inside a security zone where such civil actions are forbidden.

    I was promised a luxury junket.

    • UnCivilServant

      Wait, you mean security didn’t fire on the attendees to create the false flag event the warmists want?

    • Nephilium

      Sorry, we removed the AC to lower the climate cost of the convention.

    • Suthenboy

      so the climate conference, after clear cutting square miles of jungle and installing AC etc will get cancelled.
      Perfect.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Last year, McNair and her three kids were evicted from their beloved apartment in the rapidly gentrifying Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta. Like many evicted families, they went from living in a school district that spends more money on students to one that spends less.

    Money per pupil, the single most meaningful measure of a quality education.

    Need I continue?

    • Rat on a train

      Baltimore City spends the most per pupil in Maryland …

    • Ed Wuncler

      Chicago Public spends round $30k per a student and we see the results.

      • rhywun

        NYC is up to $42K. Keep that in mind the next time the unions go on and on about “class sizes” as if it has anything to do with anything other than money.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Silly rabbit. The most important metric is class size.

      Can’t have 30 kids in a class (what was normal when I was schoolin’). Has to be under 20 or you schools suck.

      • Pope Jimbo

        LAG* I didn’t read the article.

        Did they mention how much this mother read to her kids? Or worked with them on their homework?

        Parental involvement is the main factor that determines how well kids do in school. Parents who care have kids that do well. Parents who think it is the school’s job have kids that don’t do as well.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Shoot. LAG = Like a Glib

    • rhywun

      “willingness”

      Good luck with that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ich will nicht!

      • Rat on a train

        At least they ask unlike the US.

      • rhywun

        After decades of self-loathing propaganda they expect people who won’t even mumble the words to their national anthem to pick up a weapon to defend their country. lol

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Also thanks to RJ for last night’s instructional video. Highly educational. Much red paint.

    • R.J.

      You are welcome! I thought you would enjoy the jest. I do promise I will play some of your actual requests next time.

      • Rat on a train

        Do you have a list of what has been shown and current requests?

      • R.J.

        Yes! It is in the Forum. I have an Excel sheet there that I update quarterly. It also has comment stats, because that is how I roll. You can download it if you want and look up movies you didn’t know about.

      • Rat on a train

        Thanks. I found it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Faith in SNAP and welfare replaced hope for manna from heaven. Sounds about right.

    • Rat on a train

      The Capitol is the Temple of Democracy.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Midtown is a high school so coveted that school administrators investigate student residency throughout the year to keep out kids from other parts of Atlanta and beyond. For McNair, the day Elias returned to the high school was a momentous one.

    Maybe you should be asking why all those other schools suck so bad, AP writer, but they probably didn’t teach you stuff like that in journalisming school.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Over 80 freaking Gs after delivery for a Wrangler. No thanks, I’d barely be able to afford the sure to be needed tow truck.

      • Sensei

        But it’s got a Hemi and heated seats!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        At least the lesbians and their dogs riding around in the things will be comfy.

      • R.J.

        For one with a Hemi and all the options? Yes. It’s half that for a functional one with the old V6. I still like the Gladiator.

      • Ted S.

        So Jeep is stealing market share from Subaru?

      • Sensei

        RJ – I had one with the minivan V6. I still liked it. Rubicon soft top and half doors.

        The problem is for anything but real hardcore offroad the the Bronco with IFS gives you everything the Jeep does, but with much better on road manners and and as crappy as Ford quality is – it’s better than Stellantis.

        They had a cash cow that they didn’t need to do much with. Now rather than creating a no frills 4×4 they’ve doubled down on luxury crap and big motors. The margins are better that way, but for that kind of money you’ve got lots of options.

        https://stock.ineosgrenadier.com/us

  36. The Late P Brooks

    McNair, the first person in her family to attend college, studied theater management. Her job rigging stage sets was lucrative until the writers’ and actors’ strike and other changes paralyzed the film industry in 2023. The scarcity of work on movie sets, combined with her tendency to take in family and non-family alike, wrecked her home economy.

    “That job sucks. We’d rather see you starve.”

    According to somebody I met in Livingston, Atlanta at one time had a bustling film/teevee business ecosphere. Not no mo, I guess.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “her tendency to take in family and non-family alike”

      🤦🏻‍♀️

  37. The Late P Brooks

    From the sidebar of Sensei’s Jeep link:

    Vintage rally cars and zingy four-cylinders go together like peanut butter and jelly—or, to use a more appropriate comparison, gravel slung at high speed and slightly buzzed race fans. That’s why the new Boreham Ten-K engine exists. It’s a 2.1-liter lump with individual throttle bodies, dual-overhead cams, and billet internals. Extensive lightweighting helps it come in at just 85 kilograms, or roughly 187 pounds in freedom units, and it hits peak power at 10,000 rpm.

    ——-

    Boreham refers to the Ten-K in its press release as a “motorsport-derived, belt-driven twin-cam with modern electronics.” It features all the typical top-shelf components, like a crank, cradle, dry sump, cam cover, and rods made from billet material. And because it’s a total clean sheet design, Boreham developed it with “F1-inspired” port geometry from the start. That descriptor has become about as cliche as “military grade” when talking about trucks, but the company insists that it optimizes gas flow and power delivery. Finally, modern manufacturing techniques were implemented to keep the weight down; Boreham “sculpted” the engine block closely around the internals with help from 3D-printed casting technology.

    “Clean sheet design”?

    Sounds like a “reimagined” Cosworth BDA with an ECU.

  38. Pope Jimbo

    Turns out that Minneapolis missed its chance to become a Socialist Utopia because of SPLITTERS! The spin has been that the two major Somali clans feud so much that the non-Fateh clan voted for Frey just to prevent Fateh from winning.

    I’ve been reading about that since the election. I haven’t seen this new twist though. (((Frey))) manipulated the tribal divisions like his sneaky kind does.

    Jacob Frey is one of our great colony leaders: Do you know how Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey fended off his socialist challenger, the Somali American Omar Fateh? Apparently by exploiting Somali clan divisions. Here is Ilhan Omar standing next to Omar Fateh, slamming the community for fragmenting.
     
    And here’s Jacob: “Whether you are from Galmudug or Garowe, you are from Minneapolis,” he says, the crowd roaring. “Whether you are from Bosaso or Mogadishu, you are from Minneapolis. Whether you are from Hargeisa, Somaliland, Ogadenia, you are from Minneapolis.” Frey spoke for nearly a minute in Somali. Truly impressive. How long do we think he spent on Duolingo? Or were they fed to him with an earpiece?
     
    A lot of people made the joke afterward that Jacob Frey is, in fact, a brilliant colonial administrator. He exploited local tensions to be the great unifier. The weird thing is that he’s not in Hargeisa doing this—it’s just regular ol’ Minneapolis, Minnesota. A place that, until recently, was pretty boring, known for its wetlands and Mall of America, but is now the site of full-on Somalian tribal warfare and a Jewish king. Anyway, these are the skills a modern politician needs. America is Mogadishu and Jacob Frey is the man for the job.

    • UnCivilServant

      Now send the Somalis packing back to Somalia.

      • Threedoor

        Fast rope them out of Blackhawks. Make sure the rope is about 40’ off the ground.

    • (((Jarflax

      Vicious amoral tribalists are tribal? Who knew?

    • rhywun

      Good gravy what a mess they have made of that place.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    “Starting today, the Jeep brand will unveil a new limited-edition Wrangler model on the 12th of each month for the next 12 months—an integral part of our yearlong Twelve 4 Twelve celebration commemorating 85 years of off-road leadership and adventure,” Jeep CEO Bob Broderdorf said in the company’s announcement. “Each product release will embody the boldness, authenticity and unapologetic spirit that defines our brand. It’s an ongoing tribute to the capability, freedom and adventurous DNA that have shaped our brand for generations.”

    Who needs reliability and ease of repair when you have a sack full of marketing gimmicks?

    • Rat on a train

      includes a limited edition rubber duck?

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Just yesterday, Jeep announced an official collaboration with Fox Factory to build a supercharged 392 Wrangler that will be sold exclusively to service members and veterans.

    Will it be OD green with a star on the hood?

    • UnCivilServant

      It will have a star on the hood, but the star will be yellow and the jeep CCP red.

    • The Last American Hero

      Veteran Veterans or Supreme High Commander Tim Walz veterans?

    • Threedoor

      Gross.

    • UnCivilServant

      That they’re evenly distributed around the city in a ring as best as could be managed to not cannibalize each others’ customer base?

    • The Gunslinger

      The Jews have created a hardware desert in Des Moines?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    I tapped out of that Atlanta story. The truly baffling part is why doesn’t she have any money? It’s inexplicable.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Buried lede: “her tendency to take in family and non-family alike”.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    See the 7.0 L 1500HP quad turbo V12 with all gear driven cams.

    *bangs head on desk*

    • Common Tater

      I’m going to drop that in a Vega.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Pound-foolish.

      BUY NEW STUFF!

    • creech

      Their lawyers, at $300 an hour, were happy to encourage or at least tolerate such childish behavior. And this is a guy who thinks he is qualified to run the lives of 340 million Americans.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    They’ve got him now

    “Look, every word the president just said is a lie,” University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on The Source. “Worse with that, it’s such a lie that I worry that there’s literally a break with reality inside the man’s mind.”

    The economist said Trump’s remarks aren’t just political spin—they’re flatly contradicted by government data. “I can tell you that because I’m a statistics nerd,” he said. “You can go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They’ve got people in supermarkets all across the country, and almost every category of goods or services sees the prices rising.”

    Wolfers said there’s “a reasonable argument to be had” about whether inflation is too high or too low—but denying its existence altogether crosses a line.

    Bring on the men in the white coats.

    • Rat on a train

      Trump said he would bring down inflation but prices are still higher than when Biden was in charge …

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Wolfers, a frequent economic commentator, said Trump’s statements reflect something more troubling than a bad policy take. “I don’t understand the logic of looking us in the eye and telling us an outright falsehood,” he said.

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • R.J.

      I like it better than the silver dress.

      • slumbrew

        Same.

    • kinnath

      The firewall says page 6 is a no no.