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“Media’s Only Motive in Taking Out Eric Swalwell Is to Benefit Democrats”
Didn’t he fart on TV?
“The Penthouse model engaged to billionaire Eric Swalwell supporter Stephen Cloobeck was previously married to a porn star who slammed their Honda into a motorcyclist, killing him.”
retard by association?
I thought that was Jerry Nadler.
Well, since cis white men will only vote for one of their own I guess the two Republicans benefit most.
The media is helping the democrats narrow the field. The incredible takeaway is that they all knew the guy was a scumbag, and anyone in the media could have at any point made a name for themselves exposing the creep. Instead they protected him until orders came down telling them that since he wouldn’t bow out when asked, they could destroy him.
That Swalwell is a scumbag is not the story. I doubt there is a democrat pol that is not a scumbag and evil (and plenty of republicans too), but the media is willing to protect them at any cost until it no longer is convenient. And they do this while having no shame making up shit to hurt the political enemies of democrats.
The lesson here is that we do not hate the media enough.
This is the same thing they did to Biden. They told us he was sharp as a tack, doing cartwheels behind closed doors, nobody could keep up with him. Until it was clear he couldn’t win.
It amazes me that any voter thinks the Dems care about them. If they’ll throw these anointed ones under the bus at any time, do you think they give a shit about Joe Smith from Arkansas?
“Lefty billionaire Stephen Cloobeck dramatically cut ties with Eric Swalwell and revealed he has kicked him out of his mansion — hours before the congressman dropped his run for California governor.
“I am no longer supporting Eric,” Cloobeck told The Post in an exclusive interview. “F—ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F— you, Democrat Party. I’m a libertarian now.”
LOL
It would be funny if he threw a hundred million at the LP.
I wonder exactly what the proportion of the LP would be opportunistic grifters then? I assume there are still some actual libertarians in that party currently.
“US Court Strikes Down 158-Year-Old Home Distilling Ban”
What about my meth lab?
Is that distillation?
More like titration…
I think it’s Q who’s into titration.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
When’s the appeal? What happens to people outside that geographic area if there is none?
More for the rest of us to drink?
Distilling ruling adjacent question: Why do people on the Moonshiners show still go out in the middle of the woods to make Moonshine? It’s fucking legal where they distill it.
Because it’s for the show. The viewers expect the shiners to be out in the back woods. They give what the viewers want.
I find a Hungarian with the surname of “Magyar” sounds fictional.
Funny how Orban was so tied to Trump, considering he preceded him into office. 16 years is a pretty long run.
Sports news – after winning the Masters last year to complete the career slam, McIlroy joins another rare club – back to back winners. Also, Spurs get comfortable in relegation spot after listless loss at Sunderland.
Which reminds me…
What is the difference between a golf ball and a BMW?
,,,,,,
Well, Tiger drives the hell out of a golf ball…
I thought it was that the turn signals on the golf ball use less power.
Will Bayern screw it up on Wednesday?
It is strange that we’ve spent decades guaranteeing freedom of navigation, and now we do the opposite.
We’re due for some blockades. I propose we blockade China.
Not strange at all…
We’re not allowed to actually try to win a war.
That’s kind of the point of naval power. Trade happens by your leave.
Naval power or piracy?
JI, JI, JI, The difference is in the paperwork.
Who’s starting the privateer group?
Blockading a hostile nation that is already interfering with a sea lane is piracy?
More to the latter point of your comment (((Jar.
See, I find it strange that we weren’t blockading Iranian ports since Day One. We are allowing any ship not going to or leaving an Iranian port to pass through Hormuz.
The freedom of navigation thing has more to do with opening Hormuz, which we didn’t block off, and the Iranian blockade is intended to accomplish.
“See, I find it strange that we weren’t blockading Iranian ports since Day One. We are allowing any ship not going to or leaving an Iranian port to pass through Hormuz.”
So much this…
Nono, see, when Iran does it it’s justified response to aggression. When the US does it, it’s a war crime.
It’s not really a blockade. We’ll be tracking ships out of Hormuz. When they get well out to sea, they’ll intercept and seize ships. (On what authority is a good question).
India has already been escorting tankers with their warships and they don’t really need to go onto the open seas to get to Indian territorial waters. Will we attacking Indian ships in their backyard?
What happens when China escorts their tankers with their navy?
“What happens when China escorts their tankers with their navy?”
It will make them decide the cost is too high, both financially and politically, and they will put pressure on their client state to tone their shit down?
Maybe. We’ll see how stupid this can get. We going to attack Chinese ships in Indian territorial waters?
“The documents declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the request of Just the News provide a starkly different portrait of the alleged whistleblower whose name and face were never shown to the public and whose lawyerly written letter accusing Trump of hijacking Ukraine policy for political gain was heralded by Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings.”
I remember when you could get kicked off YouTube for saying his name. Probably still true.
They need to make sure you don’t hear about things they don’t want you to know, cause it makes them look bad?
“A young mother had her face torn apart by her rescue pit bull after she suffered a seizure and passed out on her kitchen floor, harrowing images show.
Karma Davis, 25, of Peoria, Illinois, suffered an epileptic attack on March 2 that left her unconscious and at the mercy of her family’s pit bull, Fayzo….
Fayzo, who the family had for four years, was taken away by animal control and euthanized following the attack.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/12/us-news/illinois-mom-gets-face-ripped-apart-by-rescue-dog-after-suffering-seizure/
yikes!
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The victim’s given name, oh man…
I should maybe note that I do not currently know anything about Ms. Davis to suggest that she deserved this. I think that I may have sounded like an asshole.
Again.
Good morning everyone!
Shooting season is underway here, and for whatever reason the good shooters didn’t show up to either match yesterday, with the net result that I had ridiculously high finishes, including a stage win.
Swimming between ponds like I do is good at both keeping me humble and not making me despair.
Both congrats at the performance, and sorry about it being because your biggest challengers were absent.
It offsets my bottom decile placement at Nats.
I had what I (still) believe to be the absolutely, mathematical optimal stage plan on one of the stages on Saturday, and I came in 2nd by 0.6s because the sub-optimal plan guy is just that much more of an athlete/gunslinger than I am.
The strangest thing was the Steel Challenge match. I know there must be some way of divining a shooters’ skills/shortcomings by how they shoot the various stages but I shot “Speed Option” faster than “Roundabout” when the latter is objectively a faster stage, and I’ve done this before. I’m guessing it’s something about the time it takes to get my eyes and hands synched up between transitions and misses. I was down to 1.3 shots/hit this match but it’s the first of the season.
Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.
Congrats!
I always do well on multi-day local matches because there are very few of us that bother showing up all the days.
Today’s Mammary Monday is sponsored by Eric Swalwell’s former staffers.
https://archive.is/HyHNX
“The traditional method of boiling lobsters alive causes extreme pain and should be immediately banned under UK law, according to a study.
Scientists have discovered that Norway lobsters – the main ingredient in scampi – can experience pain in a way similar to humans and other mammals.
The researchers found that common painkillers, lidocaine and aspirin, reduce the crustaceans’ reactions to harmful electric shocks.
According to the authors, this suggests that lobsters really are feeling pain when they get hurt, rather than simply following mechanical reflexes.
Boiling the animals alive is already illegal in Norway, New Zealand, Austria and several Australian states.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15728133/Scientists-call-BAN-boiling-lobsters.html
OFFS!!
Won’t be long before lobsters are banned in the UK entirely. Seeing as they are haram.
Soon you will only be allowed to boil infidels..
Fine, I’ll stick a knife in its head first.
That was the CIA method.
*crunch* – *dead*
PS, lobster shells are sharper than you’d think.
If you hold them upside down, they pass out. Then you put them in the water, which kills them instantly.
There have been a few stories recently about family members of Iranian regime honchos getting deported. These serve to prove yet another conspiracy theory that most people have forgotten – that Obama didn’t just send pallets of cash to Iran, he also gave members of the regime green cards for their families.
Obama’s obsession with Iran is one thing that continues to puzzle me to this day.
Non Arab Muslim wanting to support Islam but tired of Arab supremacy?
And the media will go out of their way to hide yet another revelation of how much evil the Obama admin did, cause Obama’s legacy needs to remain scandal free so the left has their black Jesus…
Can webdom or someone do something about all the captcha? It’s getting way out of hand.
🤖
I don’t get hit with Captcha, but then I am a mere human.
What captcha?
(Seriously, I don’t see one.)
#meneither
I only get a check when connected via VPN
I only get a box to check to “prove that your human” once in a blue moon.
Please be more specific about the circumstances and frequency where you experience the captcha.
It often happens when posting a comment or logging onto the site.
I also get many 405 errors.
I don’t see captcha either, and I was the one bitching about getting logged out a whole bunch on an ipad.
Man who should be in prison writes op-ed.
lolwut
Same people who spent four years lying about Biden’s cognitive decline.
And then decided it was cool to let him finish out the term even though it was clear he wasn’t all there.
What do you know, Swalwell isn’t the only dumbshit in Congress!
I think we all knew there are ~530 dumbshits in Congress.
Kick them all out and fold up shop till the next term.
“Kick them all out and fold up shop till the next term.”
En masse sans Massie, maybe? 😉
“Lauren Sanchez Bezos, 56, says she’d have a baby ‘tomorrow’ with husband Jeff Bezos.
She made the surprising admission during a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times that was published on Sunday.
‘I would have a baby tomorrow,’ she declared. Her spokeswoman later had to phone the newspaper to confirm she is not pregnant.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15727221/Lauren-Sanchez-Jeff-Bezos-happier-life-baby.html
Can you hit menopause while pregnant?
A baby would guarantee future cash flow for 9 months of work. After that, the brat is handed off to the staff to care for.
One of the worst-written headlines I’ve seen in a while.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/12/us-news/eric-swalwells-billionaire-backer-stephen-cloobeck-engaged-to-penthouse-pet-who-married-porn-star/
“A Texas TikToker who used her self-professed ‘psychic abilities’ to falsely claim a University of Idaho professor orchestrated the murders of four students in 2022 made a desperate appeal in court after being ordered to pay $10million in damages for defamation.
Ashley Guillard, 41, of Houston, filed a notice of appeal on April 6 in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, according to the Seattle Times.
Guillard represented herself at a four-day trial in February in the civil defamation case brought against her by 40-year-old University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield.
The ‘psychic’ published more than 100 videos framing Scofield as the culprit directly after the murders. The murders were actually committed by Bryan Kohberger.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15726519/psychic-tiktoker-idaho-professor-defamation.html
Lots of tarded here, but if Temu Candy-O is claiming it’s because she’s a psychic, is it defamation?
She wasn’t able to defend with “My predictions were only one possible outcome. How people reacted changed the outcome.” or “They were for entertainment purposes only.”
Doesn’t defamation rest on two things? That it’s deliberately false, and that there is intent to cause harm? Honest opinion — no matter how kooky — isn’t either of those things.
More gunsport commentary:
USPSA/IPSC is unique as far as I know in that its formal ranking system is competitive. The people that shoot the best are the grandmasters and everyone else is ranked in comparison to how they did. NRA, National Match, IDPA (and now GPA) instead have an more-or-less-arbitrary “par time” or “points” system were anyone that puts up X points in bullseye is Y rank or people that shoot a classifier so fast are classed suchly, regardless of how many people there are involved.
This leads to some hilarious disparities between systems.
NRA: (square range, accuracy but with time limits, some pistol manipulation skills) I’m a Distinguished Expert (highest rank).
GPA: (points down, par time) Gold class (2nd highest)
USPSA: (hit factor, competitive based on the pool of active competitors) – C class (second lowest)
One of these games is not like the others…
Grade inflation is a thing….
“Euphoria season 3 premiere SLAMMED as ‘humiliation ritual’ with horrified fans blasting ‘nasty’ Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney scenes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15727497/euphoria-season-three-slammed-fans-nasty-zendaya-sydney-sweeney-scenes.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15712043/Euphoria-toxic-nudity-scandals-feuds-walkouts.html
Toxic nudity is more a Hilary Clinton thing than Sydney Sweeny IMO.
Sydney Sweeny in puppy play gear is much nicer to look than the stereotypical player.
An HBO show criticized for excessive unnecessary and graphic nudity? That’s a first.
Hear me out — what if we made a show about a Westworld park based on Game of Thrones?
“Now, 10 years later, the Democratic Party is running headlong from LGBTQ+ issues, and by extension one of its few, remaining reliable voter bases, on the word of opinion polls that include many people who would never vote for a Democrat anyway. With their head down in spreadsheets and presentations — which they invariably call “decks” — the party is missing that folding on moral issues makes a candidate untrustworthy and their party unlikable.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/13/the-solution-to-creeping-technofacism-be-annoying/
“The problem is relatively new, but the solution is very, very old. It’s the same answer trotted out by acolytes of the entirely-made-up Ned Ludd. It’s acted out on robotaxis, brought to halt by activists using strategically placed cones. We see it from every protester who has ever gone limp in the arms of state-sanctioned goons. The very messy humanity that these technical solutions seek to eradicate often become the best way to fight back against creeping technofascism. Become a real nuisance and tech boosters will eventually give up, handing the future back to the pestering, teeming masses.”
“And it’s especially silly to imagine that young American women want to leave the workplace and enter traditional marriages where the wife is financially dependent on her husband.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/13/gen-z-women-dont-long-to-be-tradwives/
Inconceivable!
Her other writings on this topic is comedic gold.
Should we just take the win?
On the other hand, growing evidence, including a study last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that eating more meat—particularly unprocessed red meat—can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s in the quarter or so of people with a particular genetic predisposition.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/studies-suggest-red-meat-may-help-prevent-alzheimers-4f4b47f8?st=mB2YZN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Eat more steak.