Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
House Faces Mass Exit With Nearly 10% Forgoing Reelection
House releases $901 billion Defense spending authorization bill, $9B over Trump’s requested
President Trump Announces $12B in Farm Subsidies
Trump calls for nationwide AI standards, plans executive order
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Campaign Finance Restrictions
Justice Gorsuch Exposes Attorney’s Illogical Defense Of Unchecked Bureaucracy
Crockett Enters Texas Senate Race as Allred Drops Out to Run for House
U.S. Average Gas Price Dips Again, Under $3 a Gallon
Florida Designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Millennial Snot: The smarmy, patronizing way liberal elites talk down to the rest of us
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Hey Glibronis!
“House Faces Mass Exit With Nearly 10% Forgoing Reelection”
These are the people that actually realize how destructive they have been and feel it is better to slink away now before the peasants go all guillotine and wood chippers.
Finally, a proper decimation! Well almost.
The fact that 10% is considered a “mass exodus” shows one of the dysfunctions of our current government.
Fossilization doesn’t happen all at once you know!
What’s the average age and tenure of the dropouts?
If only we could get that many in the teaching profession to quit a year.
40 UniParty pigs (23 R, 17 D) who’ve decided they can step away from their current trough and help the Democrats retake the house and begin impeachment proceedings. I wonder how many have lined up cushy jobs on the outside.
I would like some good news.
Who has good news today?
Wherever you go, there you are…
Semper Ubi, Sub Ubi!
Good news, I don’t have cancer or AIDS… yet.
It is almost Christmas!
The gen 6 Glock comes out next month.
https://gen6.glock.us/en
Supposedly designed to defeat the “Glock switch”. We’ll see how long that lasts.
@RC – wasn’t that the Gen V?
@Sean – The site asked for my birthdate, that’s more info than I’m willing to give them
It asks for a birth year UCS.
You can put in 1900 and feel smug about.
Lie? On the internet? Why I never…
It looks even more generic, and still doesn’t have a proper safety.
What, do you want a safety on a revolver, too?
No, the Gen5 has been out for a while. The Gen6 (and the previous interregnum) were designed to prevent installation of a full-auto conversion, and managed to do it for almost a week before the switch designers adapted.
And my birthday, as far as the greater internet is concerned, is 04/20/1969…
@ZWAK – Yes.
Glocks aren’t revolvers, and revolvers aren’t Glocks. On a gun with a 4-5# trigger, I want something other than my own conscientiousness between me, and shooting myself when I reholster.
The very excellent Striker Control Device provides this function on Glocks, but the Gen6 Glocks can’t make use of it. *sigh*
I always went with 7/7/77, faster to type.
4-5# triggers? What level of heavy hell is that?
8oz of GTFO!
You know who else was born on 4/20?
Harold Lloyd?
4-5# on my carry gun, that’s generally carried pointed at my nutsack.
My competition 2011s have about a 2# trigger. I don’t carry those.
My old TOZ-35 free pistol could have the trigger adjusted down to 20 grams. That was a neat gun…
20 grams is light, even for me.
My KKM is 5oz first stage, 10 second. Man, I love that thing. I have an 70s East German Olympic 10 meter meter rifle, Haenel 312, and that breaks at 4.12 oz. That thing does scare me a little.
Good news for UCS
“House releases $901 billion Defense spending authorization bill, $9B over Trump’s requested”
Our problem isn’t that we are spending too much on defense, but tat the bulk of that money is actually not only buying us nothing of value defense wise, because it is being stolen by people that live from government handouts.
Good thing they got rid of DOGE before they got to defense spending.
I remember the $25,000 flatrack with Chinese BII.
Like the employees and shareholders of General Dynamics and Lockheed-Martin?
Yes.
“Florida Designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations”
Call me back when people finally realize the suicide of the west is too far along in too many places because of these invaders.
“U.S. Average Gas Price Dips Again, Under $3 a Gallon”
Globalists that want to murder 3/4 of humanity and saddle us with a marxist feudal aristocracy ruling the serfs, hardest hit.
I bought gas for $2.34 making baby Greta cry.
“Trump calls for nationwide AI standards, plans executive order”
Enough with these executive orders. Don’t know about AI, but we need laws and policies that don’t change every four years.
What “we need” is common-sense AI control.
Congress has over the years created a power vacuum. It has been filled by the Executive and Judicial branches. The current Congress seems determined to do absolutely nothing about anything, so it’s executive orders and executive/judicial slapfights all the way down.
I support any move that pops this stupid bubble faster.
/Make Computing Affordable Again
He who controls the super autocorrect controls the cyberverse!
Soon the autopen will create and sign EOs.
Well, now we know who misses the Bi-pen administration.
“This action created or saved 13794 executive orders!”
The 3,086-page bill was released on Sunday, and is about $8 billion more than what Trump initially requested in the budget, Deseret News reported.
So Trump will veto it in an attempt to get spending under control?
How did I type that with a straight face?
Stoicism!
The gold plated military is the best military….
So, the country really is heading down the toilet?
Is Paramount trying that hostile takeover to stop Netflix from feeding us dregs like this?
New movie description: “A trans woman dreams of working the coal mines — but in a town steeped in superstition and patriarchy, Carlita must fight to earn her place underground.”
He promised not to use a flood to wipe us out again, and since he already killed the dinos for being trans with an asteroid 66 million years ago, I am curious what you think his new way to eradicate us will be?
You know the answer – when suicide looks better than living.
Derp, he is allowing us to derp ourselves to death.
Paramount? The network that’s making an angsty teem drama set at Starfleet Academy?
I never thought I’d see a day when voyager was considered top half trek.
Shovel enough slop and mediocre rises above average.
Half the slop is above average, more or less, the rest is not so good.
But, but, but, if agencies aren’t independent of executive interference how will the experts rule???
Still, this is dramatically lower than the all-time high summer Americans experienced in 2022 under President Joe Biden. That summer, gas prices soared, reaching an all-time high of $5.016 average for a gallon of regular unleaded on June 14, 2022. Days later, the diesel reached an average high of $5.816.
I like how Brietbart only goes back to the Biden peak just like how people pushing masking during the Rona Panic ignored data that was inconvenient.
The St. Louis Fed’s gasoline chart going back to 1992, not inflation adjusted, regular gas only. Note the drop in price at the beginning of the Rona Panic. Note also the increase in prices to current levels started during the Trump Administration soon after the CARES Act was signed. And note that current levels are higher than they were during most of the first Trump administration.
Is there a partisan slant to that? If not, it’s of no use to anyone.
Note that my state gas taxes doubled during the time from CARES to today….
A doubling of the state gas tax (highest in 2025 is California at about $0.7092/gallon, lowest is Alaska at $0.0895/gallon) does not explain the change shown in the Fed chart. Note the Fed chart includes all taxes as it is the retail price at the pump.
Doubled?!
Washington?
CA or NY “no name give” CDL?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1pg66z4/how_did_he_get_a_licenseoc/
Not Sure
I see what you did there.
“Doing the jobs that Americans won’t do”
Doing the jobs Americans are priced out of.
#winning
Yeah, the stupidity on the farm subsidies boggles the mind. But, I guess, gotta keep those ethanol producers happy.
Farmers are such welfare queens.
They all piss me off.
“The deadly wreck occurred in Hopkinton around 7:20 a.m. Saturday, when Shannon Godbout veered out of her lane and struck multiple objects, including two telephone poles, before hitting 70-year-old Roderick MacLeod as he was walking his pup on the shoulder of the road, the Hopkinton Police Department said.
MacLeod — a Grammy-nominated bassist and member of the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame — was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital by ambulance, where he was pronounced dead.
MacLeod’s dog survived the crash and ran home, police said….
Godbout has a lengthy criminal history, including more than 100 arrests, the department revealed.
She has also previously had 82 court warrants issued against her and received 40 traffic citations.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/us-news/grammy-nominated-musician-roderick-macleod-killed-by-driver-with-more-than-100-arrests/
WTF??
I had a discussion last night with my wife about a hat that popped up on YouTube with over 80 arrests.
If I was arrested more than three times I’d be in for life.
These frequent flyers don’t have any assets so the courts go light on them.
Oh look what we just discovered!
I look forward to their expose on FDR marrying his cousin.
Which was really weird since she was an ugo.
Maybe soon they will find out Hunter Biden was a crack addict with a do nothing job in Ukraine and his dad extorted the government to make sure it wasn’t investigated.
You’ll have to wait until Joe passes for that one.
“Democrats are being trolled mercilessly online after the party tried to roast President Trump by comparing him to the Kansas City Chiefs — with some quipping: “You mean the team with Mr Taylor Swift?”
The Democrats’ official X account posted a nonsensical video on Monday featuring footage from the Chiefs’ disastrous loss over the weekend that was sliced together with various clips of Trump sleeping.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/us-news/dems-roasted-after-posting-nonsensical-video-comparing-trump-to-struggling-kansas-city-chiefs/
That doesn’t even make sense.
No wonder everybody on the football forum I frequent was making jokes about sleeping.
He was always a shell with the support of the officials?
I call bullshit
Seems like a trend.
“In 2022, Mississippi high school football star Walker Montgomery, 16, committed suicide in a story nearly identical to Bryce’s, after he was contacted on Instagram by a “girl” who turned out to be a Nigerian scam artist….
That same year, 16-year-old Waylon Scheffer of Montana, 17-year-old Ryan Last of California; and 17-year-old Jordan DeMay of Michigan all took their lives after being contacted by East Africa-based scammers who had proxies operating in the US.”
The takeaway seems to be “don’t post your dick pics online”.
That has been the best advice for close to 20 years now.
Maybe teach your kids that it’s a bad idea to take pictures of yourself jacking off?
I thought that millennials and zoomers were supposed to be internet-savvy. Experience suggests that they’re mostly savvy at playing video games and wasting time on social media…
Or don’t show your face, at least.
/backs slowly out of chat room
My exposure to the younger generations is that they have no understanding of the underlying bits of how anything tech related works. Far too many of the yutes I work with only grasp Cargo Cult troubleshooting, without understanding what they’re changing or doing.
Neph – exactly.
Not a good trend for the future, but it does keep me employed…
To be fair, Indian call center troubleshooting amounts to “turn the device off and back on”.
“Suspend the motive force, say three ‘Ave Machinas’ and toggle the motive force to on.”
My exposure to the younger generations is that they have no understanding of the underlying bits of how anything tech related works. Far too many of the yutes I work with only grasp Cargo Cult troubleshooting, without understanding what they’re changing or doing.
The older generation that had the same level of understanding has been weeded out.
Modern managers are unwilling to weed out.
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
“Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?” says Olivier Jutel, a lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand and an expert in cyberlibertarianism. “They think they are the grand solutionists that can fix all the problems, but it’s so insular. But just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth.”
When the FT needs a go to talking head about libertarians he seems like an unbiased choice.
https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7
https://archive.fo/uVbU7
Finally, I get the Cyberpunk 2020 future I was promised!
BURBCLAVES!
I know, right!
It’s either that or Bioshock. We won’t know until it happens.
Yeah, where do I sign up??
“Galt’s Island”
WTF does “inherit the earth” mean?
It’s a friendlier version of, “Know your place, serf!”
You’ve heard “2112”, right? 😉
“Quick, strangle the idea in its crib before it can be tried because if it works we’re in trouble.”
“Can you imagine being as educated as I am, and I’m not as rich as I should be. No wonder I’m a miserable scold.” says Olivier Jutel, a lecturer at the University of Otago
“I don’t even have tenure!”
Probably does under the NZ system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecturer#United_Kingdom
Moron however you slice it…
That is an amazing pile of meaningless gibberish.
“Colonial” anything = immediately ignore anything the person has to say.
JI, always making jokes – you can’t fool us, that’s from a Sokal Hoax text generator.
Romans sure loved their aqueducts.
“there is nothing more worthy of our admiration throughout the whole universe.” – Strabo
“The extraordinary greatness of the Roman Empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains.” – Dionysius of Halicarnassus
At its peak, Rome moved about 1 million cubic meters of water per day into the city, more per person than many modern capitals.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1998322656324600244
Without clean water you end up with Montezuma-like revenges.
No surprise there, it took a lot of water to not stink like a Gaul.
Ugh…3 days of SAFe meetings. Shoot me now
Oh Lord. You’ll be as agile as a turtle after that.
agile waterfall as a coworker described it
Yeah. And you are in the barrel going over the falls.
My company has a lady coming over to do a sexual harassment class tomorrow. I am hoping the lady coming to do it has big tiddies and dresses like a slut.
I think you may have the concept backwards Alex. For some bizarre reason they are against sexual stimulation at work.
The only good thing about our online compliance courses is getting paid to do them.
Well, the “crisis management” course has some amusing stock photos.
“Why arent you on any of the breakout rooms” wasnt sent invite so im gonna shitpost online
Self employed guy that goes productive work here.
I’m probably glad I don’t know what that means.
This was pointed out to me the other day.
The MSRP for the new 2026 Honda Prelude starts at $43,195.
2025/2026 Nissan Z: Starts around $42,970 (MSRP) for the base model.
Honda is nuts. It’s $13k more than the Civic it is based on. Yes, it’s got better suspension bits and nicer interior materials, but no way. And after it doesn’t sell it will be used as an excuse why two door sporty cars don’t sell.
Yep, it’ll be a money losing fiasco. Just drop the 2.0 turbo (detune it a little even) into the Si, charge a modest premium, and call it a day.
You mean like the original? That’s crazy talk!
It’s a complex hybrid that isn’t even fast, from what I understand. How dis this pass all the stopping points and get launched?
Honda’s hybrid system isn’t bad. It definitely adds complexity, but it’s not an awful design. You get legitimate benefits from the complexity.
OTH – Stellantis says “hold my beer”.
https://www.waconiadodgechryslerjeep.com/what-is-etorque-understanding-ram-and-jeeps-mild-hybrid-technology/
Dodge/Ram has enough trouble with ICE. No thanks to the hybrid, mild or otherwise.
I could fit another Z into the driveway . . .
My wife got a Acura Integra. Great sporty car and it seems like there are too many overlaps in models.
The car was~$40K but has all of the bells and whistles as the Prelude. Other than the hybrid engine what is the difference?
On my list of cars I like as well. It’s got 4 doors, however.
At this point BMW seems to be your only option for coupes. I’m not sure why they tough it out, but they still seem to manage to make money on them. They are basically the same size and weight so the only thing you gain is looks and you sacrifice usability.
The fun to drive factor with the 6 speed is very high. Great shifter and clutch, lots of pep with fast revving and a nice turbo rush. Handles and feels like a sports car. It is the opposite of my Challenger.
The Prelude looks like a Hyundai.
The Nissan is a little bulky for being a Z I think.
Whatever, I will keep my 24 year old truck and 21 year old car.
Which Glib was this?
Royal Caribbean passenger who died on board cruise ship was served 33 drinks, lawsuit claims
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-virgil-royal-caribbean-alcohol-death-lawsuit-california/
Me, this coming August!
We won’t be on Royal Caribbean until 2027. Did Icon of the Seas last time, which was idyllic.
Served?
Ordered.
The customer is always right.
The Fourth Branch of Government is Titty Tuesday!
https://archive.is/n5kIs
FTFY
https://daipfbxihpsyhb.archive.is/scrO2/5e70d0ca830176192e8454c43a9994575171ae9c.jpg
“The man accused of attempting to blow up both the Republican and Democratic National Committees in Washington, DC on Jan 5. 2021 was a highly active My Little Pony fan.
Brian Cole Jr., 30, was seemingly obsessed with the toys — marketed at young girls — creating art of plastic pony dolls, remixes of songs about them, and writing fan fiction dedicated to them.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/us-news/brian-cole-jr-has-secret-online-obsession-with-my-little-pony/
The Urkelbomber is a bronie.
SMDH.
It will be very interesting if it somehow leaks who directed this op.
Poor guy’s obviously a nutbar. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if he was groomed into this by some FBI plant.
I read that hoping that there would be something to form the basis of a joke about his sexual depravity, but the truth is somehow even worse. How the hell do you fixate on My Little Pony as your outlet for nihilistic violence?
How the hell do you fixate on My Little Pony as your outlet for nihilistic violence?
James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams: “You’re seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren’t you?”
MAGA confirmed!
The Mane and The Hoofshoe.
You leave Twilight Sparkle out of this!!!
“An Arkansas mom allegedly orchestrated a staged kidnapping of her mentally disabled daughter as a scare tactic to stop her from speaking to a stranger posing as singer Luke Bryan online, according to authorities and reports.
Tamara “Tammi” Hamby, who formerly served on the Crawford County Library Board, turned herself in on Wednesday after allegedly enlisting three people to help kidnap her 22-year-old daughter, 5news reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/us-news/arkansas-mom-orchestrated-staged-kidnapping-of-mentally-disabled-daughter-to-teach-her-bizarre-lesson/
So both of them are retarded.
Two generations of imbeciles!
WTF is up with the Japanese Yen banknotes?
Five Takeaways From Luigi Mangione’s Evidence Hearing
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/luigi-mangione-evidence-hearing-what-to-know-15520120?st=PW27At&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“”During the spirited discussion, Maher challenged Kasparian to name a city in a Muslim-majority country where she would feel safe wearing her white mini-dress, insisting Israel is the only country in the region that is accepting of Western culture.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/media/bill-maher-leaves-lefty-news-host-fumbling-for-words-during-clash-about-islam/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15365583/Bill-Maher-Ana-Kasparian-Middle-East-spirals.html
Great dress. I wonder if those are her real boobs.
Branham or Brahmin?
https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/us-news/human-swastika-formed-by-students-at-bay-area-branham-high-school/
What’s really shocking is that they are all wearing dust masks.
Oh wait, those are white outs on the screen. Hard to tell on the tiny phone.
Yeah, they should have work keffiyehs.
So, Zelensky met with all his useless European allies, then 48 hours later he categorically rejects the American peace plan.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVROqGETwE
CWAA
Sounds like he needs to be ousted. His term is up anyway.
Hold new elections with him off the ballot and in prison.
Good, let’s categorically reject sending any further aid to Zelensky and Ukraine.
I hope that happens. It won’t.
haha good one.
All by design. He gets to say I tried but the EU wouldn’t go for it and we have to continue to support them. Conspiratorial, sure, but I think this whole peace process was a fake psy op.
No one has ever really explained why we need to support the Ukraine, it’s just assumed.
Russians occupying Ukraine = bad. Soviets occupying Ukraine = good.
Because Putin will take over all of Europe!
One lady at work was talking about Ukraine for some reason and how it was all Putin’s fault.
I asked her if she had ever heard of the Nyet Means Nyet memo and she had no idea what I was talking about.
Because Russians abandoned our dupe and insisted on having someone that doesn’t play ball with us. So whatever spites Putin – that’s our policy!!!
Soviets occupying Ukraine = good.
The current Ukrainian borders were defined by Soviet Moscow, and included ethnic Russian enclaves.
Be that as it may, Ukraine as a nation goes back pre-Bolshevik days. You might as well claim Finns are just some particularly backward Russian peasants.
l
The lefty hive mind sent out the message. It’s all part of the Russia Russia Russia hysteria that has dominated the left since the middle of the last decade.
You have to feel bad for the Ukrainian people because they have a corrupt incompetent leader, the Russians attempting to dominate them, and on top of that the EU and some members of the US keeping them in the meat grinder to prove some point to the Russians and enrich their MIC patrons.
Saying that though, at some point, the US is going to have to realize that we need to back out of this and let the EU, Russians, and Ukrainians sort this situation out. Us sending money and weapons to them is prolonging this conflict and needlessly killing more people.
“A Somali community leader in Minnesota has come forward to say that Rep Ilhan Omar of Minnesota did in fact marry her brother, Ahmed Elmi. The leader said that Omar did so because he “needed to get papers for her brother to go to school.” Elmi was Omar’s second husband and they were married by a Christian pastor. In Somali culture, only her first marriage, which took place in a mosque, was counted as legitimate.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/somali-community-leader-in-minn-says-ilham-omar-married-brother-so-he-could-get-student-loans-report
“”People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside (Hirsi) were often with a very effeminate young guy,” said Osman. “He was very feminine in the way he dressed — he would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very, short shorts in the summer. People started whispering about him. [Hirsi] and Ilhan both told me it was Ilhan’s brother and he had been living in London but he was mixing with what were seen as bad influences that the family did not like. So they sent him to Minneapolis as ‘rehab.'”
Sounds a bit gay.
IIRC she never stopped banging her first husband until she hooked up with her employee.
We have to respect their culture
Fuck that noise. They can have their culture back in their shithole homeland.
No we don’t, not in the US anyway. They need to respect our culture, or send them the fuck back where they came from.
That is a sexual history with enough twists and turns to make any white-trash family proud.
Much more Mississippi than Minnesota!
Weippe ID has entered the chat. They even say “warsh” there.
So does that mean that Minnesota needs to go invalidate a bunch of marriage licenses?
I’d say based on the amount of fraud committed in Minnesota means they can’t be trusted to govern themselves and should devolve into a territory.
Rhode Island needs to be turned into a county while we’re at it.
“Federal court filings indicate the Biden FBI identified the January 6 pipe bomber as early as April 2021 but did not move to arrest or charge the suspect for several years, according to an affidavit and a report released by the January 6 Select Subcommittee….
The arrest came nearly five years after the Biden DOJ’s discovery. The House Select Subcommittee on January 6th noted that in its report, the subcommittee found that an FBI case team in April 2021 identified a redacted user who had been in the area where the pipe bombs were placed using their phone.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-biden-fbi-knew-identity-of-dc-pipe-bomber-in-2021-court-docs
The FBI is run by bronies.
J. Edgar was born too soon to indulge in that particular perversion.
That’s the only logical conclusion.
“Leftist agitators in Minnesota have doxed the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and are keeping them up in the middle of the night, as agents have been staying at multiple hotels in the Twin Cities region.
The local chapter of the leftist Sunrise Movement, “Sunrise Twin Cities,” which has an ICE spotter hotline on its Linktree, posted over the weekend with the leftist protesters yelling over blowhorns and playing loud instruments as they marched around the Hilton Mall of America. The post was made in coordination with “ICE out of Twin Ports,” the leftist account Dear White Staffers, and the Sunrise Movement….
The Sunrise Movement, which claims to be an organization looking to end climate change, also posted a graphic doxing the different locations of ICE agents staying in the city. The graphic further instructed left-wing activists to leave a one-star review at the hotel locations where the ICE agents were staying and posted the phone numbers to each hotel location.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/sunrise-climate-change-agitators-target-dox-ice-agents-in-overnight-blowhorn-barrage-in-minnesota
CWABOA
Meh. Being assholes to The King’s Men is a proud American tradition.
One might almost say a founding tenant.
Leased that one out Neph?
Protest-larping is all fun and games until they start shooting at cops – which I am surprised isn’t happening more often given the hysteria the left is whipping up.
Does driver’s license training work?
No.
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/does-drivers-license-training-work
That is because it is not stringent enough and too many people pass the license test.
Japan has a very extensive driver’s ed that is required to get a license.
They seem to have lower accident rates, but I don’t know how much is the class, lower speed limits , or their general rule following culture.
My wife had to get a special license to drive a manual car over there.
they allow women to drive? Scratch Japan from the list of places to move to.
Partly geography and where people live too. You don’t need to drive in lots of cities.
This is one of my arguments against the existent e of the Commercial Drivers License.
It has not increased safety.
Safer cars and better brakes on trucks have done that. Over 70% of fatal crashes involving commercial trucks are caused by the car driver.
All liscencing does is prevent people from working and increases cost.
It would be better to bar people from driving than to give them permission. Blind? You don’t get to drive. Illegal? You don’t get to drive? Caught driving drunk? You don’t get to drive?
Very strong new evidence against the notion that poverty causes crime.
*Experimental* data on unconditional monthly payments to poor individuals in Finland, finds that the treatment (payment) has no causal effect on criminal perpetration or victimization.
https://x.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1998072801182527536
the payment was obviously not large enough
Payment was obviously too large.
Dare I ask if there was anything different about the class observed other than income level?
Poverty does not cause crime. That analogy is a falsehood peddled to allow a cabal of real evil fucks to get rich sucking money from government and other people paying danegeld. BOTH poverty and crime are caused by the same low morality/lack of impulse control shit people affected by these things suffer from.
Poor people want to be poor. They do everything in their power to maintain a low standard of living. Giving them money doesn’t raise them.out if poverty, it just reduces the minimum effort they have to put in to maintain that low level. Give. Them. Nothing. It doesn’t help them. It hurts them. And hurts society.
There’s nothing wrong with being poor. There may be something wrong with liking it.
Ah, the old “I stole this case of laundry detergent to feed my kids” bullshit.
Nobody without a leftist agenda to push actually believed that nonsense.
Tangental , but one of my favorite lines from Ted Lasso was, roughly,
“Why were you in jail?”
“I stole a loaf of meth.”
Compare the crime rate of US poors to all of Europe which is poor.
EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech
in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanwhile public internet tech companies paid only €3.2B in income tax
https://x.com/da_fant/status/1998090511807381613
hey one must make a buck one way or another
Solution seems to be simple – Forbid the EU from collecting fines levied against US companies.
you can’t do that you need to pay up.
Transnational corporations just have to pay the Danegild wherever they do business.
I would like to fine google myself a billion or two but alas, not unlike the pope, I do not have sufficient divisions
And just like the vikings, they will keep taking and taking.
Elon has enough fuck-you money to just stop doing business there. I would love to see that happen.
Elon needs to park a rocket where it hurts them. Physically. At Mach velocity.
Why do any U.S. companies pay a dime of it?
They need to tell Brussels to gfys.
Wealth inequality is not a problem in Britain
https://capx.co/wealth-inequality-is-not-a-problem-in-britain
exactly what a capitalist shill would say.
Wealth inequality is not a problem
in BritainanywhereFIFY
If Bill Gates were magically twice as rich as he is now, it wouldn’t change anything.
“Those emails, calling Trump the “dog that hadn’t barked” and saying he “knew about the girls,” might well have kneecapped Trump’s successful coopting of the conspiracist right. The emails, in the possession of Joe Biden’s Department of Justice for four years, are currently tearing a hole through Trump’s movement. A simple control-F of those files by Merrick Garland — himself a sad reminder of what Democrats think winning looks like — could have upended the last election and saved us all the misery of Trump’s second term.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/09/the-democrats-are-not-serious-people/
Does anyone give a shit about those emails?
“Why didn’t it happen? Well, that wouldn’t have been polite. It wouldn’t have been decent. It might have seemed partisan.”
LOL
😂🤣
It’s almost like there was nothing there.
an expert in cyberlibertarianism
*guffaws, slaps knee*
There are no female libertarians to cyber with. It’s just drunken raccoons everywhere.
A world full of drunken racoons is not even vaguely the worst possible world.
But how do you know they are drunken raccoons? When you post on glibertarians.com, no one knows if you are a drunken raccoon.
Recently, he has been exploring opportunities in eight countries in Africa, proposing initiatives that will develop around their existing economic engine, whether that is agriculture or cheap renewable power.
Rhodesia 2.0!
“High Costs Drive Bay Staters North. Will They ‘Mass Up’ New Hampshire?”
Is this even a question?
https://nhjournal.com/high-costs-drive-bay-staters-north-will-they-mass-up-new-hampshire/
It’s like a plague of locusts.
That article is about thirty or forty years late.