Good morning one and all to another glorious day! Yes, the bureaucrats are still suffering as the government is still shutdown.
Last night’s election highlighted the major issue that the Republican Party now faces where they are now the party of the low propensity voters who are hard to motivate to show up to the polls on off election cycles up against a party of crazy over-educated professional Karens who never miss an election and genuinely hate and wish deaths upon their opponents.
Election night bloodbath sends warning to GOP for midterms
California Approves Democratic Redistricting Plan
Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayor Election
Democrats Want Republicans To Bail Them Out Of Their Bad Political Gamble
Trump’s Phone Got Seized by Special Counsel in Arctic Frost Spy Probe
Trump, tariff challengers each make arguments to SCOTUS in a case that could reshape admin strategy
5 Months Later, Elon Wins The War Over NASA
Trump foe Boasberg hit with articles of impeachment
Florida Wins Battle To Keep Chinese Land Buyers Off Its Soil
All Texas Propositions (Amendments to their State Constitution) Passed
Job Postings Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels as Labor Market Cools Steadily
UK Man Arrested for Possessing Gunpowder Recipe
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“There was, in short, simply no silver lining for the GOP Tuesday evening whatsoever. ”
Fuck
They won’t even get out of being blamed when things go bad in those places.
That is no joke in California. Maybe one day it will be – this wouldn’t have happened if the Republicans had been around.
If they won’t even get out of being the scapegoat, then the GOP should go ahead and do whatever they want while they have the power. If the GOP was capable of learning anything, that would be the lesson.
“If only the GOP ran sensible RINOs instead of extremist Magats..”
I found it remarkable that all the voters said they were concerned about high prices on groceries and utilities and then they all went and voted for the candidates who will make their concerns dramatically worse.
If I had a shred of faith in American voters before, it’s entirely gone now.
People vote on emotions not reason.
Some thoughts on that last night.
Things I learned along life’s journey, JI
They feel pain and vote against the party in power.
Isn’t the silver lining that these were Democratic Party bastions electing democrats?
Yeah, Democrats won in heavily Democrat areas. I don’t see how that’s a real message for Republicans as that is the expected outcome. As a comment I saw pointed out, Republicans can’t be surprised at losing elections in places they keep leaving.
My beloved Kalispell MT just elected a Democrat mayor (Libertarian and Republican split the ticket, but still). Technically nonpartisan but everybody knew who they were.
I’m not worried about the future of Kalispell, but maybe a blue wave really is coming.
I’m sorry to hear that, Pedantic. And a belated “Fuck Off, Tulpa.”
The cities and larger towns are done, even in Red states.
Meh. Democrats win races in Democrat dominated cities and states. Film at 11.
That the media is whooping this up is what is most transparent.
For me, the high point was Obama busting on the Repubs for opposing DEI while pimping a white woman to keep a black woman out of office. Diaper Diplomacy, as ever, does it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbeSCWPO3R0
That asshole actually had the balls to complain about high health care costs?
Whaddup’ doh
Hey Banjos- how YOU doin?
Not bad. Texas weather has changed to perfect. Think I’m going to go take a long walk outside.
Same. It’s so nice here. We get just a few weeks of this a year it seems.
Too bad the article about the poor soul arrested for a recipe was published yesterday, it would be funnier today.
The British do not remember the 5th of November.
Well, parelement doesn’t want to encourage copycats.
Greetings fellow Libertarians! Anyone planning to “celebrate” the 5th of November with me *nudge nudge*?
/notafed
Penny for the Guy, Guv’nor?
What about the 21st night of September?
/Hides reloading manuals
“Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is formally wheeling in a giant woodchipper against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday for his role in the “Arctic Frost” probe.”
Good.
We can take credit for this!
If we claim partial credit, will Banjos and I still be able to visit the UK next year without facing potential arrest?
Why is anyone surprised about the results. The Zohran was going to win and CA and NJ are both shit-holes filled with morons (Glibs excepted of course). VA should’ve been expected because the last election, with a Republican sweep, was a shock.
In VA, Democrats chose a white person from the CIA over a black immigrant woman.
She wouldn’t have voted for PPP and toed the socialist line — therefore, she ain’t Black. QED.
Oh, you were expecting Democrats – who voted for a guy to be AG that had fantasies of killing a political opponent that he said out loud – would suddenly embrace a “diverse” candidate over a Democrat?
HELLO, MCFLY!!!
Nice demonstration that all the oohing and ahhing over dIvErSiTy was always complete bullshit.
“Oh, you were expecting”
I wasn’t expecting anything, I’m saying what happened.
Excessive optimism about what 2024 said about trends, and a failure to recognize that even if those trends are real, which is a big if, they don’t necessarily have the same force everywhere.
This.
We left VA 5 years ago because the writing was on the wall. Just because there was a few years of reprieve during to the Dems tripping over their own she-dicks doesn’t mean that the state isn’t just as screwed as it was when they elected Blackie Northam.
Even my wife has brought up leaving Virginia because of the trajectory it is on.
Rat – See NJ for what to expect in VA.
VA is doing in years what NJ did in decades.
Makes me wonder when the southwestern parts of the state are going to demand to join West Virginia.
JI: Not just “the toe” (far SW Virginia), but many other counties adjacent to WV. The Democrat-controlled General Assembly won’t let them go. They will claim they can’t “abandon” all the blacks/women/gays/troons, but we all know it’s about power.
Just like OR/WA will never let their easternmost counties become part of Idaho.
Instead of arguing over counties going to west virginia – expand DC to swallow NoVA. Take it out of Virginia and reclaim a state and two senators.
Um, WRONG, UCS. It’s not just NoVa, but also Richmond, Charlottesville, and Hampton Roads (Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk, Portsmouth, VA Beach). Even the large military and fundagelical population of HR isn’t enough to overcome proggie and free-stuff inertia.
And the last thing we need is to increase the population of DC which will only ramp up their efforts to become a state.
No. Just no.
They will claim they can’t “abandon” all…
A replay as it were of the Virginia Slave Debates?
The only “surprise” was that the A-G in Vagina was elected. But, off year, heavy blue zones, Trump fury, etc.
Funny how this election, considering the above, was able to be called so quick. Almost like they didn’t need to go scrounge for ballots to get it through.
Love your typo (joke?).
The absolute best Virginia vanity tag is a UVA sports booster tag (all of which have a large “V” logo on the left). The user-specified lettering on this tag reads “AGINA.” Somehow the notoriously humorless DMV let that through.
I’d lay odds their computer system doesn’t show the final plate appearance and just has a text box of the requested plate.
I hope that (for once) I’m more in line with the average person who’s wondering why the hell I’m paying taxes to subsidize an early retirees health
careinsurance costs.Oh, you’re paying for my health care, I pay for the MC supplemental insurance.
This is why being all up in a twist about Obamacare only is kinda ridiculous. One QUARTER of all federal spending is for healthcare.
If you’re on MediCare, you aren’t an early retiree.
Well, I did retire at 65 and 2 months – MC eligible but before my full retirement age of 66 and 8 months.
“A 49-year-old man from Leeds has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for possessing a handwritten recipe for gunpowder.”
Isn’t it on the internet?
If nothing else EvilSheldon posted a variant in yesterday’s afternoon links. But yeah — thousands of years old chemical recipe isn’t exactly the secret of the new fusion bomb (“Communism was just a red herring…”)
But who killed Mr. Body?
Mr. Green… in the hallway… with the revolver.
And now he’s going to go home and sleep with his wife.
https://x.com/natlgunrights/status/1985912562722951552?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
Well, I learned how to make napalm from Fight Club…
Which version of “Napalm”? The real stuff, or styrafoam and gasoline?
UCS:
Well, the version done in the movie (per the commentary) was adjusted after a request from law enforcement, but there were three (I think) versions listed in the book that are supposed to be accurate.
Then there were the dozens of various versions of the Anarchist Cookbook and the like flying around the early days of BBSs.
I’m sure – if we are talking about black powder.
Apparently there is a series of videos on YouTube about nitrocellulose hosted by scantily clad women.
The case is confusing. Either in the past or currently he had a hard drive full of kiddie porn and he had previously engaged in actual terrorism. It isn’t clear if he was previously convicted and this is an excuse to lock him away again or if all of this is fresh charges and people are just focusing on the gunpowder recipe.
Uh-huh… probably biased towards the tech sector here… but steady layoffs across the sector (and big ones at MS and Amazon recently) combined with the constant “AI will make it so we don’t need actual workers!” make me a little cynical towards the “labor market normalizing, just cooling a little”. I think it is rough out there and likely to get rougher for at least a while (I still think the AI bubble will pop due to it not doing what folks think and the hidden costs coming home to roost as energy prices explode… but obviously I’m no market analyst…)
Morning all.
Yeah. Things in the IT world are not looking as shiny, especially if you’re of the opinion (as I am) that the LLM trend is a massive bubble that’s waiting to pop and bring down quite a few companies with it.
But if they can combine LLM with VR and blockchain …
*Glares malevolently at Rat on a train*
Very few people with Master of Law degrees have anything to do with tech, other than helping tech people with tax issues.
I want that glare as a NFT.
I’m still busy building my metaverse storefront.
I’m of a mind that the AI is a scapegoat and they’re really culling the cruft and problematic employees like they wanted to, but now have cover against “Muh Discriminations” cries.
There’s a lot of that going on.
AI is replacing a job here or there. It is not currently replacing whole job roles or departments.
I still hold that your given white collar department could cut more headcount by doing an extensive audit of their processes, followed by a streamline and (non-AI) automate.
Both of you have valid points. I would add that real-life AI assistance for telephony seem to average maybe 5% of calls successfully answered. Not a real threat.
Outsourcing is the real threat.
R.J.:
Depends on what you mean by “real-life AI assistance for telephony”. There’s a lot of it being layered in behind the scenes and being implemented on the workforce management and quality management levels besides the standard ASR (Advanced/Automatic Speech Recognition) or IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems.
It’s being rolled out more in chat and e-mail where some delay is more acceptable.
Yes, and my experience with it is it only fully eliminates a person and generates savings in 5% of cases. And based on the per transaction cost charged by AI vendors, it’s a slim savings over just outsourcing the whole call center.
It would have to take at least 25% of all calls without any human intervention to make it a compelling case.
R.J.:
The dirty secret is that the LLM companies aren’t making money at the current rates either. Internally, as more of the LLM features get rolled out, the worse and worse it looks. Company I work for rolled out an LLM powered KB tool. It makes up features, makes up patches, conflates completely different sections of the application, and is just terrible. After the internal results came back, they rolled it out to the public…
It’s still just a toy. I hope the bubble bursts soon, and bursts hard.
On Indeed.
Sucks for non paperwork job postings.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd4nx7588o
The Last sentence of the article
“ Police also discovered about 39,000 indecent images of children, including film and photographs.”
It’s nuts he got arrested for the 1200 year old recipe but it’s even nuttier that the child p//n is an afterthought in these reports.
Brits will be Brits…
The Brits honestly don’t seem to have much of a problem with kiddie-diddlers.
The old English schoolboy tradition?
Yeah, the rape gangs come to mind.
My only concern about the election results is that the usual RINO suspects will use it as an excuse to cave on the shutdown.
WSJ article suggests Team Blue is unhappy, but starting to negotiate. I don’t know what’s up.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lawmakers-see-hope-for-ending-shutdown-as-record-nears-863df59d?st=dGgzsu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
All the other MSM suspects are suggesting that Team Blue has popular support for as long as it takes. So I’m trying to reconcile the two realities.
I think team blue held off on real negotiations to see how this election would play out. If the DSA did poorly, then the negotiations take one turn, and if they won, as they did, they go a different direction.
SOP is Ds run to their base while Rs run from their base.
That comes from the fact that the Dem base is made up of progressives, while the R base is made up of reactionaries.
And the public is somewhere in the middle of those, and going from one to the other over time.
“Trump spent all year on the Middle East, his big donors loved this, the voters did not,” said commentator Mike Cernovich. “Virginia is going to be under a Democrat super majority now. Keep listening to Mark Levin, Mr President, and you’ll be back to impeachment trials in 2026.”
Cernovich is one of those retards that thinks Massie is actually the real problem.
Also, what evidence is there that everyone who won last night is less likely to want foreign interventions?
From what I’ve read, several of them are all in favor of foreign interventions (in the US, of course).
Right, and the two are intertwined.
Wasn’t the Dems supposed to be dead? In my little corner of Philly suburbs the Dems were so discouraged they didn’t,’t have a candidate for township supervisor on the primary ballot. So they persuaded some woman to run as a write in and she won primary with like ten votes. No campaign to speak of, but early results show she beat the GOP candidate yesterday. She got more votes than Kommie did and GOP guy got less than Trump did. Whatever Trump is up to isn’t working down ballot. Look for another impeachment in 2027.
Blue areas had all of the reasons to show up, and, as they are blue areas, the red team had little reason to show up.
Off year elections ALWAYS go this way. No surprises there.
Reading some comments about Colorado elections. People voted to raise taxes on wealthy people (those with a household income over $200k, if that’s wealthy these days) in order to pay for school lunches.
People who said they voted for it are pissed that it covers school lunches for everybody, including the children of the people whose taxes will be raised to pay for it. They’re unironically saying it’s not fair that they’ll get their lunches paid for as well.
Our society is broken.
I suppose “greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” is back in fashion. Although with a very big twist.
No the rich are greedy, the rest just stink with envy.
These same people will tell you you’re unchristian because you want to lower taxes, all the while coveting the shit out of what their neighbors have and demanding the state steal it and give it to them.
I’ve read enough defenses of free lunches for everyone on the grounds that it is stigmatizing when only the poor get them.
Same here. Which is why I’m a bit perplexed. I guess these people really want to stick it to the people they’re already forcing to foot the bill for everything.
Which is bullshit. My kid’s school the kids pay with their student ID and parents periodically replenish their account. There is no way to know if the parents or the state replenished the card.
The whole free-school-lunches-for-all is to remove shame from the equation.
Right. I guess they think they’ll be able to shame the handful of kids who have to pay for lunch now.
“Look at you, Billy. Your parents have to pay for our lunches and your lunch too. Don’t you feel like a greedy asshole now? Your parents are evil hoarders.”
The children of the rich need to be shamed! /modern progs
I’m thinking that the “rich” kids will start bringing lunches from home as a status symbol of not needing a handout.
Similarly, during the pandemic this lib guy I know (worked at Booz Allen, so not poor) would DRIVE (!) to the local school for a free school lunch. Why the fuck would you do this? Because if participation was low the school would stop doing these lunches. He is a good person you know.
The entire ‘free’ school thing is garbage.
The next step will be government schools banning BYO lunches. They will use the predictable excuses of security, safety (lack of refrigeration), and the supposed peanut allergies of non-BYO kids.
Tonio, there’s no “will start”. Rich people lunch shaming is here already.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hERRD37jkd4?si=qzJjzv7q3ku9agjX
Jebus, if I saw a kid with that lunch I would shame them too, and if I was that kid I would hide it under in a bush on the way to school.
Those nails…
I was feeling pretty dang flush at 185 then all the money printing hit hard.
Bastards.
Gobsmacked by the Virginia election results. I know better than to trust polls, but all the polls were off by at least 8 points, some more than 10. I suspect low-turnout, particularly among Black voters, more than cheating; but I could be wrong.
To quote Mollie Hemingway: As bad as Jay Jones [VA AG-elect] is, knowing that my neighbors genuinely support him as AG while wishing death on Republicans and their children is far worse.
Yep, that is the real killer, so to speak. And you can bet every one of them screeched about Trump’s remark about killing someone on 5th Avenue.
Never underestimate the monomania of rage-filled harpies…
I’m not even going to blame cheating this time.
I really just think that the voters are fucking stupid.
Don’t confuse stupidity for malevolent narcissism.
I can forgive someone for being stupid. All you can do with malevolent narcissists is minimize your contact with them…
OK, “ignorant” then.
I think “ignorant” greatly outnumbers “malevolent”. I truly believe that the great majority of voters have no idea what their candidates stand for, nor do they care.
^^^ rhy is dead on. We’ve not advanced past pulling the lever at all. Even voting for Trump wasn’t really about him as much as repudiating everyone else.
I think “ignorant” greatly outnumbers “malevolent”.
I’m settling on something I’ll label as “moral ignorance”. People so ignorant of how reality works that they’re becoming increasingly ignorant of the fundamentals of morality like don’t murder people and don’t steal their stuff.
With these elections being called so quickly, when every single Dem election has taken weeks on average, I am not so sure they are on the up and up. Especially with the D’s winning everything last night.
Two points on a line, waiting for a third.
(this is the real damage done by mail ins, rank choice and other changes, the total disbelief in election results no matter how they turn out.)
I believe the election results – because I believe most actual voters are morons.
I was unfriend by a Montanan, of all people. Worked out well for both of us. I unfriended another, he kept insinuating that I was a Republican. Neither could understand are there are other places politically to be.
My oldest grand daughter, as a teenager, wanted me to be a Facebook friend. I really didn’t need to know how the quarterback was hung, it was a good decision. I’m not on any of her lists but it could be worse.
I believe most actual voters are morons
Less than 10% of people voted on issue content in the 1960s. I see no reason why that number would have gone up since then. It’s a beauty contest, and always has been.
Yes, JI, everyone who doesn’t share your (or mine for that matter) set of priors is a moron.
That is every bit as stupid as you think they are.
Zwak – you really think people vote with deep consideration of what is best for the country?
BWAHAHAHahahahahaha
Back in 2019, I got off facebook because my ‘friend’ network was scaring the hell out of me. I went to a prep school that produced a lot of prog movers and shakers. Some of them legally represent people involved in the original Trump impeachement, one became chief editor of the Atlantic, etc. The climate cultists wanted me dead.
One, married to a cousin of mine, accused me of being a russian spy. Not jokingly, but seriously. All for expressing skepticism and asking socratic questions that made them uncomfortable.
After the russian spy accusation, I had a long think. I recalled the lesson of IBM and the Holocaust, where basically all the people filling out census forms in the 1920’s, dutifully indicating that they were Jewish as part of their civic duty to help the government make wiser decisions were unknowingly signing not only their own death warrants, but the ones for their children and relatives. I realized that communicating on social media sites with friends was in fact giving my enemies, the people that Michael Malice accurately describes as ‘wanting [me] dead but being willing to settle for [my] submission’, lots of intelligence as to who I was, who I communicated with, where they stood on the friend-enemy scale as perceived by my enemies, etc.
I considered the benefits, keeping in touch with my social circle and inducing them to feel benevolently towards me, the opportunity to persuade those people to not to do bad things, against the dangers that I was painting some sort of bulls-eye on my back. I realized that the benevolence I sought was wholly absent. These people who had thirty years ago written things in my yearbook like ‘I wish I had the courage to be like you’ were quite happily baying for my blood. I certainly wasn’t persuading them of anything other than that I was one of the bad people that the woman in the box was warning them was sabotaging society and endangering humanity. And if things got really bad, a simple data mining exercise on the dataset of facebook posts would pop up my name.
I realized I wanted these people to forget I existed.
So I stopped communicating with them.
When the pandemic hit, they all went off the deep end. Fortunately, I wasn’t arguing with them, and I know now that I am a distant memory.
It’s sad; I really wanted them to be my friends.
Damn, tarran…that is one of the most depressing (if keenly insightful) things I have read in a dog’s age.
Would you consider fleshing that out as a post/warning to us all?
Yes. I would. It might be some time before I can do it; My wife and I just moved and we’ve got an insane number of boxes to unpack.
I more or less lost contact with my “friend circle” well before the plague hit.
No movers and shakers there but I suspect most of them probably went off the deep end starting around 2016 and I’m not particularly keen to find out.
Don’t worry.
All that data still exists and remains as your permanent record.
I’m perma banned on X and FB as of this spring.
I guarantee they will pull out the information when the blue team requests it once fully back in power.
They won’t find much on Facebook or X.
I have never posted on TwiXXer and nothing interesting on Facebook which I haven’t touched in 15 years or more.
Maybe if they go after TOS….
rhywun:
You may be surprised. Facebook (before they were Meta) got in some deep trouble for dropping tracking bugs on websites, and building shadow profiles of users who never signed up for nor used their service. The Facebook defense was, “We’re just building things for them so when they do join, we have the info!”
Yeah, Terran. I grew up in similar circumstances, and have a family made up of the academic equivalent of your group. I does suck, as I do love many of these people. But, like you, I had to pull away from it, and stay being an outsider.
Burger King operator Gary Andrzejewski isn’t waiting around. The armored car service he uses recently cut off his penny deliveries, so Andrzejewski is stockpiling them, asking employees to pick up rolls when any of them head to the bank.
Andrzejewski’s company now has 30 boxes of pennies squirreled away. If he’s lucky, the stash will get his Baltimore-area locations through two months of transactions.
https://www.wsj.com/business/burger-king-braces-for-the-demise-of-the-penny-967e00c5?st=fRGDvq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Regional grocery store chain Giant Eagle just did a promo in the area asking for people to bring in pennies last weekend. They called it the Big Penny Exchange, and were offering gift cards double the value of the pennies brought in (minimum $0.50, maximum $100.00).
One thing I noticed in London was that quite a few places that “accepted cash” didn’t give change at all, which seems ass backwards to me.
WTF actually does cash transactions for things that small anymore? I know, I know… poor ppl and old ppl.
I go out of my way to pay cash for barber, food truck, and tips (all whole-dollar amounts), but fast food chains and franchises? NFW
I prefer cash for quick transactions (buying a single round of drinks at a bar, buying something from a street vendor, paying a cover charge, etc.) as it’s much more efficient (and in the case of the round of drinks, I can leave extra for a tip, and just walk away).
Few things are as annoying as a concert venue going cashless, and not allowing customers to run a tab. Great, every person ordering a single beer now needs to hand over a credit card, wait for the print out, sign the print out, find a dry spot on the bar to put it down, and hope it doesn’t get lost. All taking a lot more time than throwing a $10 (or at some venues now, a $20) on the bar.
I don’t eat a fast food or franchises very much, if at all, but I try to do cash for the same reasons.
I try to avoid food trucks at all costs.
They need to reformulate the penny. We can give up the copper if need be to shave costs.
I was surprised to learn that nickels cost more than 13 cents to make.
They should do what e.g. East Germany did decades ago – make them all out of aluminum.
The penny needs to be solid copper.
At least have a small part of our currency be based on commodities.
A penny’s weight of copper is more than $0.01 in price. Unless you propose re-basing the currenct to peg the price of the penny to it’s copper content and the remaining currency floats on that?
An entertaining and informative video on the problem with nickels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SrtQNt4YE
Not mentioned: this problem will be inevitable with physical currency and inflation.
That’s exactly what I mean UCS.
Orange sack of shit and his clown posse mistake face value with value as a currency unit.
“The election’s high stakes inspired a stunning 2 million New Yorkers to cast ballots — the biggest turnout since 1969, preliminary results show.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/us-news/zohran-mamdani-wins-2025-nyc-mayoral-election/
Huh.
I recall people demanding Sliwa drop out to keep from splitting the anti-commie vote with Cuomo. The numbers I saw yesterday had the commie getting more votes than both of them combined.
NYC really wants their Islamist Communist regime, I guess. When your safety net is Harpy Hochul, you are well and truly fooked.
He got the D next to his name so it was inevitable.
I doubt even half of his voters have the slightest clue what he is all about.
Two million is, what, a quarter of the city? Taking away the under 18’s, and it still isn’t much.
5.3M registered voters in NYC and he got a little over 1M votes. And this was a big turn out year?
Two Tier Keir nods and smiles.
Yeah, that’s kinda where my head is at – you got LESS votes but won more seats. That’s no mandate.
*knock* *knock*
I’m afraid you’ve been saying some very illegal things, and you’ll have to come with us.
I knew that India made a large portion of the NSAIDs in the US. It never occurred to me that they source the vast majority of the raw ingredients from China.
How China’s Chokehold on Drugs, Chips and More Threatens the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/how-chinas-chokehold-on-drugs-chips-and-more-threatens-the-u-s-8b3f6b2e?st=Ed8pCj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I did not know India was involved.
I always assumed it was just China, and I remember that was a big issue during the “plague” years when it became widely known how entirely dependent we are on China for drugs.
India does a ton of pharma manufacturing.
Call me old fashioned, but I remember a time when “I desire to murder children if I disagree with their dad politically” was kind of a disqualifier for holding a state’s top law enforcement job.
It’s rapidly becoming a prerequisite in Prog-land.
Can’t really bitch about Trump and “I could kill someone…” anymore, can they?
Sure they can, never underestimate the speed at which
Democratspeople in general can clear their mind of inconvenient memories.Oh I know they’ll try, but I’ll be happy to bitchslap back into reality – no, no really, you hated it when Trump said it. Don’t tell me you don’t remember.
you hated it when Trump said it.
I don’t think one can even compare the two, at least as far as I understand it only being marginally aware of what Trump said. I don’t think he was saying “I want to kill my political opponents. No really, that’s the only way to accomplish my political goal here, I’m not making a hyperbolic comment, I truly want to kill someone in NYC.” That’s pretty much what the new VA DA said though from what I read. They are not remotely the same thing and really shouldn’t be juxtapositioned in what-about-ism moment.
PM which actually makes the Democratic hypocrisy far worse. That’s the mess to rub their noses in.
“Japan’s military deployed troops to the country’s mountainous north on Wednesday to help trap bears after an urgent request from local authorities struggling to cope with a wave of attacks.
The operation began in the town of Kazuno, where residents for weeks have been told to avoid the thick forests that surround it, stay home after dark and carry bells to deter bears that might forage near their homes for food.
There have been more than 100 bear attacks with a record 12 people killed across Japan in the year since April, according to the environment ministry….
Japanese black bears, common across most of the country, can weigh up to 287 pounds. Brown bears on its northern island of Hokkaido can weigh as much as 400kg.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/world-news/japan-dispatches-troops-to-help-combat-deadly-bear-attacks/
How many schoolgirls is that?
JKs are tiny! Maybe 50 kilos each.
I thought you measured bears in twinks not schoolgirls?
Twinks in schoolgirl uniforms?
The line between twink and femboy is g-string thin.
About 9 given each weighs about 100lbs.
I read an article on this somewhere that blamed the bear attacks on population expansion due to less bear hunting. I’d be fascinated to know more about the hunting culture in Japan, if there really is any…
I watched a videos on it about a year ago.
I exists but seems to be pretty small and of course highly regulated.
I’d bet there are air rifles that would work.
Plus spears of course.
There are clubs and organizations that do it. If you want to participate it is relatively straightforward.
However, Japan’s population decline is really acute in rural areas. There is little interest from young people in remaining in the country and even less in hunting.
Airguns have been used to take black bear. Most of the states that allow it want an airgun of .35 caliber/250fpe or up.
My father found a gun shop in Tokyo back in the nineties, but could only nod and smile along with the proprietor.
carry BELLS?? Unserious suggestion, is bear spray banned in Japan?
Bear kami hate the sound of bells.
Onikuma, Oni not Kami
We did that back in my Boy Scout days too. Bears don’t seem to like loud noises.
Operation Kumamon.
“Kathy Griffin celebrated her 65th birthday by showing off her washboard abs.
The comedian appeared on Sherri Shepherd’s talk show Tuesday wearing nothing but a bright red bikini and a pair of gold pumps.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/11/04/celebrity-news/kathy-griffin-rings-in-65th-birthday-by-baring-her-abs-in-red-hot-bikini/
No.
Not clicking through to that. Nope.
Ray of sunshine for Tonio
Thanks!
A race to the Finnish line?
Ray of Sunshine, but you wouldn’t think so given the tone of the article.
https://www.rawstory.com/kkk-2674263240/
lol Leave it to a university professor to come up with a line of bullshit like that.
“The elimination of the Black scholarship program at University of California at San Diego – which McClellan said the law firm was “flipping the purpose of the law on its face””…
Maybe, just maybe, you are the racist now, and you are the ones abusing law. Law is a blunt instrument, and can be used in all sorts of ways, intentions be damned.
Because it was claimed as bait last night when it wasn’t. Let me be clear one more time: Belgian style beer sucks and I do not drink it even for free. It is not instant pour down the sink beer (like say a Scottish wee heavy) so I can drink some, but I do not like em and have not had one in more than a year.
You mean yesterday afternoon.
I do not.
I didn’t see you in the overnight thread.
You must have been confused.
Pie is correct.
Saying all Belgian beer is bad is as ignorant as saying all American beer is bad. Now, for some of you, both of those are true (/waves at Ted S.), but for the rest, there’s a wide variety of Belgian styles. You can stick with a light pils, saisons, asingle or a table beer, go with some spice with a wit, delve into sours, and all of that is before getting into the dubbels, tripels, and quads (oh my!).
The vast majority of beer is bad.
light pils, saisons, asingle or a table beer, go with some spice with a wit, delve into sours, and all of that is before getting into the dubbels, tripels, and quads – I have tried most of those and no.
Nothing made in Scotland is fit for human consumption. Which is why it is belove by Scotts.
OMG – not mustard stains!
Border Patrol agent testifies sandwich thrown at him “exploded all over,” left mustard stains
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-dunn-trial-dc-sandwich-thrower-testimony-onions-mustard/
You could smell the onions!
I looked around for you?
You would think that one of this BP agent’s superiors would take him aside and tell him to knock it the fuck off…
It occurs to me that Mamadani can get an easy twofer by combining “free busses” with “free housing.” Now I’m wondering if he can ALSO use those vehicles for the “free childcare” promise and if he can substitute housing/transportation in lieu of the $30 minimum wage for the “childcare” workers.
Put the children to work maintaining the buses.
The homeless providing the childcare!
The free buses thing is literally a way to turn them into roving homeless camps. If Kwame cared about “transportation” like he claims, he would make the subways free too.
Right now bums use the subways for that purpose as it is considerably easier to hang out there all day without anyone noticing.
Those free buses will be free housing alright. New Yorkers can enjoy riding alongside the fentanyl addicts and crazy people who were excluded by the smallest of fees.
“This Leftist election landslide was caused by the same vile disease that’s triggered a GOP civil war. We now need the courage to do what must happen next:
For such anti-Semitism to be embraced by the right, however, should cause grave alarm.
Unto the breach steps the repugnant white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
To be clear, most mainstream conservative figures want Fuentes and his rabid anti-Semitism — not to mention white supremacism, homophobia, racism and misogyny — ignored and expelled.
But not every GOP star agrees — least of all Tucker Carlson, whose recent interview with Fuentes has the party reeling.”
https://archive.is/NkAuy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15259511/zohran-mamdani-mayor-new-york-city-win-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html
“The well-known conservative commentator Rod Dreher, who is close to Vice President JD Vance, said Monday that he was told ‘by someone in a position to know that something like 30 to 40 percent of DC GOP staffers under the age of 30 are groypers.'”
LOL
So well known I’ve never heard of him.
Honest question – Can somebody explain what a “groyper” is, what they believe, and why I am supposed to care about them one way or another?
Dreher doesn’t like the competition for the disaffected, he wants those types to embrace The Benedict Option.
Sheesh, it’s the political version of “My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.”
OFFS bullshit.
You know how SJWs were Uptight Old Church Ladies with different morals? Groypers are quarter-aged terminally online Uptight Old Church Ladies, but mostly male an unable to bake.
I’m afraid I grew up in the hood and Uptight Old Church Ladies were not a demographic I can do justice to.
“Honest question – Can somebody explain what a “groyper” is, what they believe, and why I am supposed to care about them one way or another?”
I can answer the first two.
A groyper is a follower of Nick Fuentes. They believe in identitarian nationalism.
They believe in identitarian nationalism.
So about as appealing as a poison-frog-haired leftist harpy?
Yes, Mamdani’s election was a repudiation of antisemitism. What kind of retarded bullshit is that?
Well damn, guess I should’ve read the article first.
Baffled at the attention that idiot “edgelord” Fuentes gets.
Me neither, but he is currently feuding with Ted Cruz and Randy Fine, so… *exasperated shrug*
I’m not at all convinced he isn’t punk’ing us.
I, for one, am dreading the inevitable influx of NYers fleeing Mamdani. Sure, these will be the more conservative (by NY standards) and productive ppl, but still Yankee carpetbaggers.
Meh. NYCers seem to be particularly provincial and unlikely to move. Our own Rhywun excepted, but any glib is going to be abnormal, no?
Damon Linker
@DamonLinker
Dick Cheney’s life is a huge tribute to the miracle of modern medicine. The guy suffered his first heart attack at age 37 and ended up having a total of 5 of them. He had quadruple bypass surgery in 1988, and a heart transplant in 2012. And he lived to the age of 84!
https://x.com/DamonLinker/status/1985728897917600260
I feel this guy was more appreciated in Romania than among the glibs.
Cheney shared the Romanian lust for blood?
ha ha ha
Democrats’ triumph: The Dems won in NYC against a corrupt and disgraced shitbag ex gov and a cringe Rep candidate, in NJ which is NYC lite, in Virginia which is hopeless, and in Cali (I suppose in other places too but come on). So what else is new? Y’all take your heads out of the oven.
^^
Part of me expected NJ to be closer.
*shrug*
We couldn’t even rid ourselves of three rotten SC justices.
The Team Red polls were the only ones that were close within the margin of error. The remaining partisan and non partisan polls had the helicopter pilot, did you know she flew helicopters?, by high single digits.
*sigh*
At least the chick ages out in 2 years.
Liberals sure loves some old white folx.
For those of us stuck with the results, things are a little more bleak.
Yes.
The winners are all so unbelievably repugnant – that’s what I can’t get past.
We Used to Read Things in This Country
The history of literacy is the history of class
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
Marxist bros have long been interested in the financial press. Karl Marx first turned to The Economist to help understand the failure of the revolutions of 1848, and in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, he directed readers to that “organ” of the “aristocracy of finance” to understand what liberalism was up to. The mid-century American cartoonist Don Wright featured in one sketch a supposed Moscow newsstand selling three papers: Pravda, Izvestia, and the Wall Street Journal.
This tendency went into something of an eclipse in America as the Red Scare suppressed Marxism and the New Left and the cultural turn pointed attention elsewhere. But as interest in historical materialism surged after the global financial crisis of 2008, the left rediscovered the financial press as they searched for the rational kernel within the mystical shell. At first, the Financial Times was the center of attention. As Amber A’Lee Frost wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review, the FT “covers the world as it is—a global battle not of ideas or values, but of economic and political interests.” After the FT came the writings of the Columbia University financial historian and blogger Adam Tooze, with people declaring themselves “Tooze bros” (mostly for reading his newsletter, Chartbook, not his mammoth histories). Lately, the left has fixated on the Bloomberg podcast Odd Lots, hosted by Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, with Marxists going gaga over their interviews with figures ranging from Zohran Mamdani to the CEOs of logistics companies—subjects who are uniquely able to offer insight into the supply chain shocks during Covid and, again, with the ongoing tariff volatility.
One-third of all newspapers in America closed between 2004 and 2025. When newspapers close, local businesses commit more legal violations, local government borrowing costs grow because of decreased public scrutiny of spending decisions, people vote less, and what is inaccurately referred to as “political polarization” increases as social isolation grows and feelings of community diminish.
If the period from the 1880s into the early twentieth century was a golden age of reading, it was one by default: there was no other mass form of entertainment. With the rise of radio—which, being spoken from written scripts, was initially and forlornly hoped to be a literacy-enhancing medium—and then television, everything changed. The latter replaced print as, in the words of Postman, the “paradigm for our conception of public information.” That paradigm was very stupid. Reading and library usage immediately dipped as television spread widely in the 1950s. However, there was a countervailing cultural force: the Cold War and competition with the Soviets. The government invested in K–12 education and a vast expansion of higher education because after Sputnik, as the historian Lawrence Samuel explains in Literacy in America, “the news that college students read few books and even fewer after they graduate (confirmed by Gallup polls) was thus disturbing, leading to the arguable conclusion that young people weren’t as smart as they used to be (and not as smart as their Russian counterparts).” The next fifty years saw the government continually intervening in education, successfully or not, to counter perceived (and actual) American education deficiencies compared with the Russians, then the Europeans and the Japanese, and finally the Chinese.
American society is dominated by wealthy mountebanks and literally demented politicians who are happy to take on all the risks of AI because it promises to create workers who cannot even conceptualize quitting, much less striking. The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign. Theodor Adorno noted in the 1940s that when bourgeois liberalism is replaced by fascism, so, too, is literate culture. Some of the American elite are embracing idiocy themselves.
I love the First Amendment and abhor censorship, and yet I have reluctantly come to believe that the Great Firewall of China will be a long-term benefit to that country. What China shows us is that, contra the whole line of technology-first scholarship following McLuhan, it’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters. China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary and retains primacy over private capital.
dominated by wealthy mountebanks
Oh how that chafes the hide of the vastly superior intellect of the Marxist! How can these fools succeed where I starve? The unjustness of it all!!!
“When newspapers close, local businesses commit more legal violations, ”
Don’t know about that. In suburbs, the rise of Karenism has exposed businesses to all sorts of trivial harassment by the authorities that would have been overlooked (with a couple $20 bills slipped to the right officials) in the past. Many local newspapers were essentially arms of the Chamber of Commerce, so “exposure of wrongdoing” was usually directed only at upstart competitors.
Mamdani seals remarkable victory – but real challenges await
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4kr8gzr2o
QUICK FACTS
Born: 18 October 1991
Famous for: Mamdani is New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor
Political views: He describes himself as a democratic socialist, which has no clear definition but essentially means giving a voice to workers, not corporations
ladies and germs the BBC…
“democratic socialist, which has no clear definition”
Just like Antifa is only an idea, not an actual terrorist organization.
Shocking how many labels have no clear definition and how many clearly mean “Republican”.
Whereas as Nazi once had an actual and specific meaning.
Let’s ignore the fact they are an actual organization with an actual website and a platform that does not differ from communism in any way.
Japan struggles with gender equity. It ranked 118th out of 148 countries in the 2025 Global Gender Gap Index. Against this backdrop, the election of a woman, Sanae Takaichi, as Japan’s prime minister on 21 October is a milestone.
Japan’s first female prime minister doesn’t call herself a feminist — but the country needs her to tackle sexism in science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03569-5
So that pointed me to this:
https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2025.pdf
That’s the country rankings for Global Gender Gap Report 2025. I’ve have zero interest in the methodology, but was curious about what countries ranked ahead. To no surprise South Africa ranks ahead of both Japan and the US at 33.
So obviously if you are an oppressed woman in Japan or here in the US get yourself on an airplane to South Africa.
The results show the methodology, whatever it was, to be flawed at best and determinative at worst.
0=0
This is the way.
Whoops…
Where’s my Earth-shattering Kaboom?
Drive it like you stole it?
I was waiting for a fireball. I am disappointed.
“NFL superstar Tom Brady has revealed the strange reason that his new dog looks so similar to his previous pooch.
The seven-time Super Bowl winner says the uncanny likeness is because his puppy, Junie, is a clone of his pit bull-mix, Lua, who passed away two years earlier.
Lua was cloned by the biotech firm Colossal Bioscience, which is most famous for its attempts to ‘de-extinct’ the woolly mammoth.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15260723/Tom-Brady-clone-dog-not-identical.html
WTF, Tom?
Wait until he reveals the Gisele clone.
With Stepford enhancements?
Tom Brady is a weirdo exhibit XXIII
Cloned dogs have been a rich-person option for about a decade. I remember reading about Barbara Streisand’s cloned dogs long ago.
TBH, if I had the means I’d consider it – current pup is just fantastic, but she came spayed.
Jean-François Gariépy 🧬
@JFGariepy
The answer is you shouldn’t wait a second. Move on, next woman.
Women often die or disappear on purpose. It’s their way of trying to stop your reproductive streak. Don’t let their instability be an obstacle to having a large family with many children.
https://x.com/JFGariepy/status/1985592792194949188
there are takes out there and this is certainly one of them
Cromartie was just ahead of his time?
I feel bad for laughing at this but I did not see the punchline coming and often i do
https://youtube.com/shorts/PbJLLX_fg2g?si=WKGZA5Ir-aGpw8JB
Now Trump’s urging the GOP Senators to get rid of the filibuster so the federal government can re-open. Yeah, let’s do that and, next time the Dems get 51 senators (and they will) get ready to welcome 13 SCOTUS members, D.C. and Puerto Rico as new states, and whatever taxes can be wrung out of unrealized capital gains and your 401K/IRA savings.
I’d bet that it won’t happen. I feel like this is Trump posturing, but I never put anything past the stupid party.
Reasonably certain Rand wouldn’t go along, but that’s a thin margin. It would be interesting if Democrats broke for it.
“Breaking her silence on the backlash for the first time, Sweeney told the publication: ‘I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15257363/sydney-sweeney-gq-men-year-cover.html
Perfect reply.
It will drive the left apeshit.
Lena has a mental fuckup causing her to zero a stage. Keeps her cool. Someone in marketing needs to watch her videos and pay her truckloads to be their spox. She combines Manic Pixie Dream Girl Next Door with Actually Relatable Human.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVMhMlLUUiw
BREAKING: A leaked memo exposes the BBC’s direct coordination with Hamas to push Jihadist propaganda, according to a new Telegraph report.
The memo has completely destroyed what little credibility the BBC had left.
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1985838647598543236
Did you already cover this one?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3600f547718a08ac
I read it but I do not think I linked it on glibs
And… Nothing will happen.
It’s not like they – you know, them – were ever being honest about being fair or not really advocating for the fall of western civ and its replacement with totalitarian dictatorships run by them – you know, they.
It’s sort of the deny, oh its happening but rare, to yes its happening and its a good thing now get on the train chain of events. They always deny it and when incontrovertible proof shows up about what sort of vicious totalitarians they are surfaces they just say “well of course, everyone knew that, all right thinking people think that, now stop whining.” And the people who supported them when they had the comfortable lie of “no-one really believes that/wants that” to rest their world view on and assuage whatever conscience they have, will pivot right with them to “no actually it’s a good thing.”
Kind of like the political class – and the population at large to a great degree – paying lip service to Constitutional principles of individual sovereignty and limited government while doing and supporting the exact opposite. Hello MO v. Biden. You accuse them of it and it’s “No way, you fascist”. Then you actually catch them at it and it’s “Of course, you can’t have the Kulaks and wreckers going around wrecking everything, you need to control them for the good of society! It’s a good thing and you are a bad person!” No cognitive dissonance or concussion from having your brain splat into the inside of your skull from the whiplash/dp of turning on a dime.
Least surprising news of the day.
The UK is lost. Forget South Africa, Donald should let some freedom-loving Britons in – lord knows they are not safe in Britain.
The discussion above about free school lunches above jogged a memory loose. At my high school the students who got free lunches were issued tickets which they wrote their names on and then turned into the lunch lady working the cash register.
One day between classes I found a lunch ticket on the floor of the hallway. The space on the ticket for the name was blank. My lucky day I thought, no cold baloney sandwich today. I wrote a fake name on the ticket, something stupid like Porky Pig as the lunch lady never looked at the tickets. I went thru the lunch line and at the end I gave the lunch lady my ticket. Instead of chucking the ticket in the drawer as she usually did she looked me over and then looked at the ticket and noticed the fake name. She asked for my student ID which I handed over and she kept. Fuck! I did get to keep the lunch although I did not enjoy it knowing what was coming later. After lunch at my next class the intercom crackled to life and I was called down to the office as I expected. I was told to sit in a waiting room with a female student whom I didn’t know. She was kind of cute so I decided to start some small talk and asked what she was down here for. She told it me it over a lunch ticket. Ha! I said, me too. Then the vice principals door opened and she called us both into her office and told us sit in the two chairs in front of her desk. She then asked me if I had enjoyed my lunch and if I aware that the person sitting next to me didn’t get to eat lunch today because I had stolen her lunch ticket. I felt about 2 inches tall.
WTF? You didn’t steal it, you found a blank one.
And they had her go hungry to teach you a lesson?
Fuckin’ “educators”.
That’s the way we learn life’s tough lessons.
I worked in the high school cafeteria as a junior/senior. We got free lunches and all we could eat, The cooks really took care of us. Working the tray turn-in window we’d occasionally see a lunch card on the tray but almost always could catch the person before they walked away. If not, we gave the tickets to one of the cooks and they resolved the problem, cards were signed.
My folks were happy that they didn’t have to come with the 70 cents for lunches every week.
“Over the course of a week I log on to the platform as a child to experience first-hand the gaming app of choice for Australian children. In my short time there my avatar is cyberbullied, aggressively killed, sexually assaulted and shat on – all with parental control settings in place.”
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/05/roblox-game-robux-children-child-kids-safety-parental-controls
WTF?
“Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/san-francisco-waymo-kitkat-cat-death
STIJLTH
off course… no human driver ever killed a cat.
President Cartoon Villain lost the referendum?
He must resign now – the tribe has spoken!!!
Happy Flux Capacitor Day, everyone!
Back in 2015, Ford listed on its website the option of having a Flux Capacitor installed on a new car build. They priced it at $1,210,000,000
A bargain, until you realize it doesn’t come with a nuclear power source to run it, so you’d have to rely on random lightning strikes when holding at 88 MPH.
“Kristen Stewart has spoken out against “the violence of silencing” female directors in the film industry, which she described as being “in a state of emergency”.
Speaking at the Academy Women’s Luncheon on Tuesday, Stewart said her fellow women in film should reject tokenism and “print our own currency”.
“It’s awkward to talk about inequality for some people,” said Stewart. “We can discuss wage gaps and taxes on tampons and measure it in lots of quantifiable ways, but the violence of silencing … It’s like we’re not even supposed to be angry. But I could eat this podium with a fork and fucking knife, I’m so angry.””
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/05/kristen-stewart-female-film-makers-the-chronology-of-water
At least she would be eating something.
I know what the poop knife is for, but the fucking knife? *Shudders*
the force is female
so I’ve been told
Yes, and all male directors have been universally respected and loved. [didn’t know my eyes could roll that far]
Behold the spectacle of all-female entertainment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbs7q5E5mHE
I figure I should say something now that I’ve been MIA for a while. Got 17 days in Florida psych ward because of a mystical experience.
Safe and sound now in Tennessee at my new apartment.
Gathered the first part. Didn’t know you’d left FL.
Glibs move a lot, at least lately.
I became the apotheosis of Florida Man for a night.
At least the mystical experience was cool. From it, I learned the ultimate question whose answer is 42.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-magical-mystery-tour.html
Hint: there were 42 generations between Abraham and Jesus. And another name for cicada is 17-year locust.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/10/42.html
Not sure if I was drugged or poisoned. The toxicology report came back negative for everything including alcohol.
I just went to tgoogle nooz “headlines” tab and got a “There are no items to show” message.
No news is good news.
The stupid here is impressive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1oolg3r/oc_bro_did_not_check_his_mirrors/
just like too may people vote, to many people drive
The driver coming up in the right line not even reacting to the truck pulling into the lane is just perfect. Nope, just gonna keep on truckin’
The term “democratic socialism” implies that regular socialism is authoritarian and undemocratic. Oh well, I’m sure Nathan J Robinson is creaming his jeans at the outcome.
Poe’s Law strikes again:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/we-really-need-to-stop-poisoning-rats
“A Democrat trans activist has won the mayoral race in Downingtown, PA, a small town of about 9,000 people in Chester County, west of Philadelphia. Deuso defeated Republican Richard Bryant.
Erica Deuso, who is openly transgender, had recently suggested armed violence against the federal government after footage came out of illegal immigrants being detained…
Deuso previously posted on X “I foresee violent pushback from an armed citizenry in the future. The 2nd amendment folx were very clear that weapons are meant to oppose a tyrannical government…,” in reply to an image of someone in handcuffs which Homeland Security posted, with the phrase “Gotta Catch ‘Em All.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-trans-activist-wins-mayoral-race-in-pa-suggested-armed-violence-against-government-is-coming
CWAA
look if you dare:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/10/presented-without-comment-emilia.html
No one needs to see that.
Everything is a crisis. Even with the fungus among us.
“Invasive fungi are part of the biodiversity crisis,”
Golden oyster mushrooms cultivated, sold in Florida: Scientist urges caution
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-golden-oyster-mushrooms-cultivated-sold.html
Never seen Golden Oyster Mushrooms. Just Blue Oyster Mushrooms.
… why isn’t there a Godzilla Emoji? 🗾
He fears the reaper?
Cultist
ME-262 was a turbo jet.
Dude did three laps in a protype car and he’s sold!
2026 Honda Prelude First Drive Review: The Reborn Icon Glides From Corner To Corner
People might scoff at the price, but enthusiasts who buy the new Honda Prelude will be delighted owners.
It’s a hybrid civic wrapped in an extremely rare two door coupe form. Sure, it’s nostalgic, but it’s far removed from what the Prelude was in the 80s. And you know who is going for that nostalgia…
2026 Honda Prelude Is Surprisingly Popular with Older Buyers in Japan
Demand for the new sport compact has been eight times what Honda expected, largely because of the 50-plus crowd.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a68909576/2026-honda-prelude-popular-older-buyers-japan/
It’s like the Honda Element Part 2.
I absolutely scoff at the price. Starting at $42,000 in America? KMA.
That’s $40k more than I’d pay for a Honda.
Justice for the workers
Analysis from Columbia Business School shared on Wednesday morning via email pointed to studies which have struggled to conclusively answer this question. There is a risk of increased worker productivity resulting from higher wages being offset by profit declines, but real estate costs and red tape are also often cited by business owners more frequently than wages as the bigger challenge. Certain sectors would likely be hit harder than others by a higher minimum wage.
“A $30 minimum wage in New York City would hit the restaurant and food business sector like a tsunami—one that could lift workers’ incomes while simultaneously reshaping the entire dining landscape,” wrote Stephen Zagor, adjunct assistant professor of business in Columbia Business School’s management division and a long-time consultant to the food industry.
increased worker productivity resulting from higher wages
Yeah, what the hell, let’s go with that.
so if realestate and red tape are bigger problems, lets also make wage a bigger problem. 3 problems negate each other after all.
minimum wage = minimal jobs
There, I just saved someone the trouble of getting a degree in economics.
Reality says otherwise.
Our biggest expense is already payroll.
I recall a cost accounting exercise for GM showed the biggest expense in the production of each vehicle was the benefits to retirees.
“Starting immediately, our benefits only cover MAiD.”
So I only know two restaurant owners, but both of them tell me that their biggest expense is maintenance.
In addition to eating out less often, I think my tip percent would go to zero if the server is making $30 per hour.
The biggest experiment for small businesses in New York and ultimately around the nation, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, will be in pitting reduced costs and entry barriers against higher wages. Mamdani has to prove that lessening the burdens of bureaucracies, licenses, regulatory compliance, and all of the red tape associated with starting and running a small business can be balanced against potentially higher labor costs to produce a net win for the small business, the community and the cities at large.
That tsunami of freedom and creativity includes breaking the stranglehold of the unions, right?
I expect that the Dems will regain control of congress and the presidency at some point. And denizens of the red states will get completely fucked over as CA and NY get bailed out by the Feds.
I don’t care how much the residents of CA and NY deserve to get what is coming to them. I am still going to get hurt by this, and I am pissed.
It’s how I feel every time I’m forced to put ethanol in my gas tank.
I’d happily drive a Fox body notchback restomod, but I don’t care how you power it or what you put in it if it costs $400k.
https://www.theautopian.com/this-fox-body-mustang-restomod-costs-400k/
This is the only Mustang body type that I care for:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1293207
I had that one in candy apple red, black convertible top. Sold it eventually for $400 – what an idiot.
The engine, if you’re wondering, is pretty nutty. It’s a brand-new 5.0-liter Coyote crate motor with a 3.0-liter Whipple supercharger bolted to the top. It’s connected to that nine-inch rear end through a 10R80 10-speed automatic transmission and a carbon-fiber driveshaft.
Boring. 750 inch V10 or GTFO.
Automatic transmission….
Oh yeah, and now that I have 20+ days of 24/7 surveillance under my belt, I can confirm once more that Epstein didn’t kill himself. There was a cockroach that kept crawling in the path of laser alarm which was kind of funny at the time.
Our biggest expense is already payroll.
But he’s going to cut fees and fines. Nothing about getting rid of regulations, but it will be a small business paradise.
You say you want a hopped up Mustang like nobody else has?
Fucking awesome. look at the pictures. Especially the four cam.
I’ll take over the automatic $400k restomod above any day of the week.
That is beautiful.