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It’s a sugar verse day.
Lovely.
From a tangent on a dead thread. Lego smart Brick. Granted it’s a guy talking about another guys video but I’m with JANG here. That’s a hard nope. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k9YrDEPdunc&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D
Look at this guy here – not even waiting the required minimum of 30 minutes before going off topic.
How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you.
You’re just jealous.
Anti-Semantic
I like it
Oooh, Javy Milei’s comin’ back! Haven’t heard much from him, recently. Oooh:
“Milei euphoria drives Argentina sovereign risk to seven-year low
Investors are betting that Milei’s increased support in Congress will help him push through a new wave of deregulation, overhaul labour and tax laws and cut spending.”
I strongly approve. Also: Anti-Semantic. *mwah*
His hair looks awesome in this episode.
I must be old because I just landed on Price Is Right for some reason and some little Jeep looking vehicle from a brand I never heard of* went for more than $84K. Wut?
*Grenadier, apparently
French built, British company designed modern Land Rover clone with a BMW sourced motor.
If that doesn’t scream reliability, what does?
Still cool as it is as mechanical as modern vehicle regulations will allow…
The last time I watched the show with any regularity the new cars were going for like 3 or 4 thousand lol
+ Pontiac Sunbird
I saw one of those on the road in Colorado, I think. Took me forever to figure out what the heck it was.
I was gonna further work on my People of Walgo sub today, but my ‘Sunday’ got hijacked when my talk with an AI recruiter led to a job interview with a real person tomorrow. Pretty much, it’s a lock if it’s full-time, and if it’s a contract? Fuck. If it’s over maybe 3 months.. that might be worth it. Six months, absolutely. Well. Something like that. I’ll have tomorrow to flesh it out, I suppose.
Having a schedule with an actual weekend would be a tremendous improvement, methinks.
I got my first M-F 9-5 in my early 30s and I loved it so much I never looked back.
Except it’s 8-5 now which kind of sucks. 😠
I see a 3 martini lunch, Evan, whole hour works perfectly
Beats my current 5-2pm with Tues/Wed off…
Second shift, esp in Korea, was the pinnacle of schedules, esp for a 22-35yo with no kids: Mon-Fri, ~2-10pm. Many midweek band practices till the early am, sleep til noon, then fresh as a daisy for teaching. *mwah*
They had to pass a law, the first few years classes for middle schoolers on schooldays would go to 10:55pm. (The law stopped everything at 10pm. Such mercy! While swung the pendulum WAY too far, Korean /Asian schools make ours look much worse than pathetic or pitiful. (A shameful embarrassment no one talks about? Ah. Like Kamala!))
Before my first office job I worked a mix of evenings and overnights for many years, never a standard schedule, no social life. Especially in CA where the bars close at 1AM and I was able to get like 1 hour of partying in yay.
Eek. But I remember some of your skiing stories. Seems the yay-o would keep ya goin’ for more than an hour.
Shame.
Good luck, Evan, hope all goes well. Don’t mention my name, that might be a deal killer.
No reason whatsoever. Not like they were intentionally blocking the road or anything. And politicians of all varieties wonder why the public despises them. Fuck you Timmy.
Minnesota governor says he is preparing National Guard amid furor over fatal ICE shooting
I watched three angles of the shooting. Looked like a good shoot to me. Frankly I’m surprised that none of the other Karen’s with whistles, chants, general annoyances don’t get put down from time to time.
I get not being happy with the cops. That’s a you thing.
Don’t orphan your kid over it.
Yeah, this is a direct result of politicians urging their voters to “RESIST!”
If you don’t want to get shot by ICE, stay the fuck home instead of deliberately trying to impede federal officers enforcing longstanding federal law, while simultaneously disobeying lawful orders, and instead panicking and doing something that gets you shot.
If politicians gave a single fuck about their constituencies, that’s the message they’d send. Instead we have people like Tampon Timmy actively encouraging these dumbfucks to go out and do things that get people shot.
But only when it’s Orange Hitler in charge.
Enforcing longstanding federal law was perfectly acceptable when a good Democrat was in charge.
Like the mayor throwing around anti-ICE F-bombs?
Somebody is driving this shit and it’s starting to piss me off.
Curious..if Walz calls us NatG…and then orders them to go after ICE agents…I mean…we’ve seen this movie before ya?
It’s the dumbest threat I’ve ever heard and Waltz is far too much of a pussy to go through with it. Trump isn’t the guy you are going to bluff into backing down on this shit.
They have to remember not to follow ‘illegal orders’
“She was trying to get out of their way” is what I keep seeing. No word on how she ended up parked innocently enough perpendicular mid-block in the first place. I’m sure it was all just a misunderstanding. I’m so tired of this shit.
I guess the consensus of the voters is that it’s better to have expensive ICE raids and risk deadly violence than to build a decent wall/fence on the southern border and use existing idle troops to guard it.
We charge money for visas, so why not charge money for work and residency permits?
Also, walls and fences are never impenetrable, they exist to discourage and slow down the intruders so the guards can catch them. They work pretty well for prisons.
A wall does nothing about the ones already here. Many of those who came have left simply out of fear and the raids have acted as one hell of a deterrent to the crossings. Maybe just as good as a wall, though I’ll take that too
The people who could afford to pay for that wouldn’t vote D which is what this is all really about.
I can’t help but shake my head every time I hear that immigration is both far too difficult and that illegals don’t receive benefits. I live in Florida. I see this shit every day. Illegals (presumably) on SNAP and Medicaid. If they aren’t illegal, then it is far, far too easy to get legal status here of any kind. You can walk into any grocery or pharmacy and see this shit is rampant. Just raking in the free shit at rates far, far higher than citizens.
Given the situation, I agree that roundups and raids are justified. Like you say, there’s basically an ongoing scheme to import a new voting bloc get them on the dole.
I suppose you could argue the welfare state is the real problem, but there hasn’t been much progress in dismantling that.
There’s not much difference between de facto open immigration and an invasion.
I’m still not sure what the least bad option is.
All it takes is one family member to get legal status and then his or her entire extended family can come in and get bennies too. All legal.
Voting forms need to be consensus forms
i.e. Check off yes/no to questions such as: Selective Immigration Yes No
and then with the qualifiers as to race/religion/education, etc
and body types such as slim/average/stocky/morbidly obese
any way, you get the picture.
Consensus of (D) politicians, more like. The voters are an afterthought.
When I was in the army (good night twenty years ago now) I thought it would be a good idea to close NTC and JRTC and do all of our train g on the border.
Build wall. Dig trenches. Run around at night and catch people.
There’s a lot of voters who want ICE to deport the 20-30MM illegals already here, and a fortified southern border to stop these incursions. A better wall ain’t gonna get rid of the millions of illegals who need to leave.
Guys…? I’m tuckin’ in soon, but… I can only get so hard… (but I need to switch to some APPROPRIATE bunk material!…)
“US will exit 66 international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation”
Well. I’d have to leave work at noon anyway if I went, and I have 40ppto hours, so I’m gonna put in time off for tomorrow. I believe this to be wise. (I also once asked and was allowed to drive a dude’s tuktuk somewhere in Thailand with (my then) gf along. That had zero negative consequences! (Legit.)
So I’m gonna pull a Me Card. (Leaving at noon, I’d still be forced to take an hour lunch, I think. Fuck it.)
Mostly UN crap. That is good news. It’s all anti-US bullshit anyway.
Isn’t tucking and being hard mutually exclusive?
There’s a whole lot of propaganda around this woman shot in Minna-sota.
I’ve heard that she was a single mom to a 6 year old who was now left behind with no one in the world (in a story talking about how the grandparents would come take him)
I’ve now heard she leaves behind a “wife” and 6 year old.
The parent supposed have sworn there was no way she was protesting ICE
They want to turn this into another Saint Floyd situation.
Yep. I’ve heard mother of 3, and mother of a 6 year old with a wife, who was apparently on the corner filming like she’s Quintin Fucking Tarantino.
Oh god, the Antifa who put on a jacket with the word PRESS and think this gives them 1A privilege to break every law known to man.
While at the same time thinking Nick Shirley isn’t a legitimate reporter.
The idea that “freedom of the press” only applies to person with a press card from a mainstream outlet is one that needs to be stamped out.
I feel good about my latest cartoon:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/01/mission-impossible.html
Not exactly what I wanted, but that’s the downside of using AI.
That’s why you shouldn’t use AI. And can it be called “your” cartoon if it was made by shitty AI?
AI has yet to produce a single actual First.
I First so many times in a day that I’m often left feeling raw and agitated in sensitive areas.
Shitty, indeed.
Well, I’m too lazy to learn to draw, so AI it is. Yeah, the AI does most of the work, but I came up with the premise.
I like the way these turned out, especially the first one: https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/11/space-final-frontier.html
If you told a painter what you wanted in a short prompt, and he painted it, would it be yours? You had the premise for that too.
You would get directing credits Muzzled.
Solid. If you can add color, the marshmallow melting/bleeding rainbow blood would pop. (Ooh. Only the marsh-blood in color.)
Ulvade cops are starting their trials this week.
I find it curious that the government doesn’t bat an eye at forcing men into service and forcing them to kill and holding them accountable for failing to do so. Cowardice in the face of the state’s enemies is unacceptable. But the courts have ruled time and time again the in the context of protecting the people the state nominally serves, there is absolutely no obligation for police to actually act.
These cases are going to fail miserably. Even if they get a jury conviction, the precedent is clear. The courts have determined cops have no obligation to act in the face of danger or even to enforce the law to protect you.
Yet some LEOs are quick to whip out their gun and shoot when risk to their lives is virtually nil. (J6, ICE, etc.)
Cops are a rich target – I’ve seen a few cases of targeted assassinations when I lived in NYC to not discount the idea. *shrug*
I don’t disagree, but I’m not sure of the legal way around this. If cops become soldiers, they have different rules of engagement, different rules, different courts. If they still are normal citizens, as we frequently and properly yell, then it’s awful tough to force them to face danger in such fashion when they are still under the normal, and not military, rules. There’d be a lot of 2nd degree murders or negligent homicides. I don’t see how an “oath to uphold the law” circumvents or supersedes that. Likely something complicated or difficult for a jury to parse?
As I kinda understand it, meaning I really don’t, they exist in an odd shimmy-world of make believe in between justice systems. I’m not sure how to clarify their inter-world for ‘normal’ juries and justice.
They already have special privileges and rules for them. There’s a litany of court cases granting them qualified immunity in a host of circumstances that would get any average schmuck thrown in prison and in which they’d be subject to hefty civil penalties. They have a far lower burden for self-defense claims and have a basic monopoly on the use of force.
Saying that this comes with an actual obligation to enforce the law and protect citizens would simply make them earn the special status they already have in law.
And in the specific case of the Uvalde shooter, children are literally enforced to attend school. There’s nominal choice in terms of some private options if you can afford it or homeschooling if you can make that work and have the ability to do it, but most children are basically just forced to participate in that public institution. They are basically wards of the state for those hours of the day in which they attend it.
Like prisoners in jail/prison.
Cops aren’t obligated to defend you and you aren’t allowed to defend yourself. Get used to it citizen.
Thank you for the music link. Just where I went with that line.
Donations for shooting victims go to Somalis (& others) The corruption is everywhere and everything
Dear media, commies, and concern trolls:
Let me be perfectly clear. IDGAF about the woman who committed suicide by ICE. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
🫢☠️🪦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2PEt8IGFhA
🎶🎶
Ashli Babbitt-ed
If Ashli Babbit were driving a vehicle among the cops.
Unlike Minnesota politicians, it is too early for me to call “good shot” or not but the fact remains it’s a clear cut case of FAFO.
Compare and contrast with the treatment of the Covington Catholic kids.
another martard
Good morning, Sean, Teh Hype, Ted’S., and Roat!
Morning.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
I’m trying to figure out if I’m going to apply for a lateral into the cloud computing group. The only good reason to do so is that it might have better prospects for promotion, as there’s no organic career path from where I am now.
🤔
Any chance you know anyone in that group you trust enough to talk to about it?
The group does not currently exist. They’re forming it. Which means it may dissolve again.
Oh god, listening to a piece on ORF about a new staging of “Arsenic and Old Lace” in Austria, and they’re using it to make commentary about OMB and Greenland.
So fucking tedious.
I didn’t know NPR had a branch in Austria.
I groaned as soon as I heard the phrase “politische Gegenwart”.
Their coverage of “culture” is instructive: shit that only a small portion of the metropolitan upper-middle class might be interested in, and always with the predictable virtue signaling.
Morning.
Naturally. Fuck the taxpayer and punt for 2 years.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/aca-subsidies-deal-republican-senate-d3e73e2c?st=SWDgha&reflink=article_copyURL_share
TEAM RED will fix it when they get majorities in both houses of Congress, and the presidency.
“We’ll vote for this boondoggle, y’all remember to vote for the 1.5 trillion defense budget for FY 2027.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5677699-trump-calls-for-1-5t-budget-for-dream-military/
It’s the best of two idiotic, fiscally irresponsible worlds.
We can get to $40T in debt by the end of the year if we do what is necessary.
It’s 40T in the rear view mirror. It’s gonna take more than 50M barrels of oil to break even.
The guy that’s had 4 bankruptcies is running the show.
“to buy time for more comprehensive changes”
And people will buy it which just boggles the mind. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me a hundred times and counting, shame on me.
Exactly.
The Dems win even when they lose. The “subsidies” are now permanent.
Who would have thought that Minnesoda would become auditions for a comedy show?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/tim-walz-slams-ice-buffoonery-for-needing-50-agents-to-arrest-single-person-as-minnesota-raids-begin/ar-AA1TLNt4
Between Walz, Frey, graft, Omar, Peggy Flanagan, Klobuchar and a host of others it’s the Keystone Kops on steroids.
Minnesoda Nice has become MN Stupid. Even leering has taken a hit…
I never expected Minneapolis to overtake Portland as the hot-spot for Antifa funsters.
Rioting and demonstrations (see George Floyd) are summertime activities here, Global Warming has changed that to a year ’round sport
It’s not so much stupidity as it is stirring up chaos for short-term political benefit but the Minnesotans are either nuts or they like what they’re getting because they keep voting for it.
Funny how media and so-called consumer groups bitch about businesses keeping your personal data private but don’t talk about the state harvesting your data.
More realpolitik… everyone was wondering if Hochul would lurch to the left.
We have an answer.
“Free”… for now. I’m already making plans to exit this state.
The funny thing is the left still can’t stand her no matter what she does as they see her, rightly, as just another neolib. She’ll get replaced by some Mamdaniesque nutbar if things keep going the way they are because the pandering won’t work.
If she survives the primaries the job is hers. She has the advantage of incumbency and while the GOP is effectively dead statewide, the state as a whole is not quite as radical as that. I doubt a communist is going to get the D nomination.
It’s not free, for now. It will cost tens, hundreds of millions of dollars. Hell, NM has a line item in its budget of $600MM for “universal child care”.
It’s a great way to plunder the treasury while making AWFLs’ panties damp.