Good morning one and all to another marvelous day!
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Banjos
Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.
3 Dead, 3 Others Sick From Suspected Hantavirus Outbreak Aboard Cruise Ship: WHO
Not-so-glib cruise.
Yeah I saw that yesterday and thought, “bad timing for our Fun Department”.
Talk about tone-deaf. It’s the bloated social safety net that is driving people away, both the taxes that it costs to fund and the dysfunctional people that it draws and maintains.
And, of course, she reveals that, like most politicians, she sees people as nothing but tax cattle, and the economy as nothing but a way to fund government.
“Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. Okay? Get out of town. Because you don’t represent our values.”
“WAIT!! COME BACK SO WE CAN ROB YOU!!”
None of this stuff is set in stone. NYC lost 700,000 people during the 70s and by 2020 gained double that back. Taxes go (mostly) up and sometimes down but the real cause of all of that was the up and down violent crime.
But yeah, I’ve been hearing variations of this story my entire life.
Regarding SNAP: 38 million is too damn high!
It’s a good start though. I’ll take any reduction.
More up and down. Hell, didn’t Clinton kick a bunch off? 45 probably did too and then 46 signed them all back up and invited in a couple dozen million more from across the border to sign up too.
3.8 million is too damn high.
The programs are designed to be easy to get on.
Those votes are not going to buy themselves.
“Todd Blanche: Indictment Against James Comey Goes Beyond Seashell Photo”
Although he can’t say how.
I don’t care what they get him on as long as they find something that sticks.
Don’t believe this asshole for a second. I’m old enough to remember when Clinton was being indicted over a blue dress with his DNA on it, with assurances from the prosecution that this was just phase 1, and phase 2 would show the lying sonofabitch was up to his neck in the Whitewater scandal.
Spoiler alert – the second shoe never dropped.
When a dude who had a male prostitution ring operating in his apartment (in the 1980s!) says you might be getting a little too extreme, one might want to pay attention.
On his death bed, practically. But yeah, many of today’s Dems are on record from barely a decade ago saying the exact opposite on issues like trannies and immigration as they say today in order to appeal to the radicals that took over their party. It’s bananas.
Obama was against gay marriage before he was for it.
He EVOLVED!!!
My first thought as well NA.
I am sure a creative prosecutor could find something in the FBI-SPLC interactions to indict some feebs.
Only some? Can they indict all the feebs?
That’s nice.
Too bad President Sandy from the Block will just sign them right back up on Day One.
General welfare, such as TANF was tackled my Clinton and Gingrich and worked.
While SNAP or its predecessor program doubled with Obama and his Congress and has stayed at or near those levels since.
Gingrich had to pass it three times before bill realized he was the bottom in that relationship.
“Bombshell sex harassment suit against Lorna Hajdini, JPMorgan branded ‘complete fabrication’ as John Doe is unmasked
A former JPMorgan staffer whom sources identified as Chirayu Rana has been accused of making fabricated sexual harassment claims against a high-ranking executive at the bank after an internal investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing, The Post has learned.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/30/business/bombshell-jpmorgan-sex-harassment-suit-that-went-viral-branded-complete-fabrication-as-john-doe-accuser-unmasked/
I don’t remember the papers ever “unmasking” a female accuser.
The photos sure make the whole thing seem unlikely.
Lyle Lovett bagged Julia Roberts for a couple of years…anything is possible
That was my first thought. Yikes!
No love for the Billy Bob and Angelina Jolie marriage?
The photos seem inconclusive as they don’t reveal whether or not the guy is a tripod.
‘Empathy’ and ‘justice’ go right out the window when it’s someone at the top of the victim stack getting attacked.
Anyone need a boat?
“A source tells Page Six that Jeff Bezos is quietly shopping his $500 million floating palace, Koru — because it’s just too huge to manage.
The jaw-dropping vessel also has a $75 million support ship, Abeona, though it is unclear if this is part of the deal. According to reports, it cost $30 million per year to operate the two ships together. (Not that that’s a burden for the 250 Billion Dollar Man, but it may make buyers scarce).”
https://pagesix.com/2026/05/04/celebrity-news/jeff-bezos-is-selling-his-500-million-superyacht-koru/
I can see this. Even when you’re worth a quarter trillion, boats and aircraft are better to rent than own. Especially when you get to that age where you’re more concerned with time than money…
The 2 happiest days of a boat owner’s life…
The boat features a likeness of Lauren Sanchez on the prow.
I was considering until this.
Isn’t “Koru” a disease you get from cannibalizing infected brains?
Close enough.
How many people can live on it? I say we buy it, install a small nuclear reactor, and cruise the earth forever on the SS Libertopia.
Anyone seen Ragnar recently?
Being a long-time Southerner of 5 years, I’d be okay if South Carolina growth slowed down a bit.
(I do have ancestors buried in a family plot dating back 200 years about a mile from my my office)
Almost every state that exploded over the last 50 years has gone further left. It is inevitable.
Florida at one point was reliabily left and seems to be no longer.
It’s a mixed bag here. Some of the newcomers we’ve met are clearly liberals fleeing the consequences of their voting habits. Others are like people just released from 20 years in prison and savoring their first taste of freedom.
The south in general is pretty densely populated. I was last in the area in 2010 and it seemed to me that you couldn’t throw a rock and not hit a house.
I’m glad some other state has taken the flag from Idaho.
May the recent transplants here keep moving east.
“So, how was your weekend?”
“Not baaaaaaaaaaahhhd…”
Something you want to tell us, ES?
Something you want to hear about, Zwak?
I’ll warn you, my activities this weekend might have been too salacious for your ears… 😁
Velcro boots?
Fishing trip to Montana?
You masturbated?
Worse.
I did a bunch of laundry, cleaned my bathroom, did my meal prep for the week, dropped off my guitar to have the neck adjusted, loaded a bunch of 9mm practice ammo, and went for a walk. The weather was nice.
We had a little bit of snow. New kid with a Staccato decided I was his person to beat at the SCSA match. He failed, but will get there eventually. New personal best on at least two stages, nowhere close to A yet though.
Yeah, as I mentioned there was a bit of frost on top of Balsam Lake Mountain at 3700′.
Yeah, let’s go with the details! Unload salaciousness! I watched the Kentucky Derby w my nephews. Dad had to pay $7.50 to the oldest (not present) nephew for his ‘in house’ bet he made.
Underage family gambling, eh? What doesn’t get more salacious than that?!
(Oh.)
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’ ?
“Sydney Sweeney shares steamy lesbian kiss and dons revealing leopard bodysuit in wildest Euphoria scene yet
Cassie also took part in a wild party that ended up with her snorting cocaine and rubbing the drug into her intimate area.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tv/article-15787643/Sydney-Sweeney-lesbian-kiss-Euphoria.html
Flag on her field: That kinda works for the partner going down on her. Kinda works really well, frankly (if ya’ve got enough blow). If you’re her, though, uh. Coke and its little bro, lidocaine, are really fucking good at numbing you up.
(Numbies on your gums are really fun.)
The SPLC link I shared in the ded-rhred explains how far their reach exceeds just the FBI.
Is there a summary somewhere? My browser choked on an attempt to summarize it.
And you complain about *my* links…. :-p
Long story short, they broke several bright line rules and later admitted to it in an e-mail to the bank. The only way they aren’t guilty is if they get the Hillary judge and jury.
Good, whatever it takes.
They have been so enormously destructive.
The complexity is that whole fucking ecosystem of non-governmental regulatory practice. Set up by the feds semi-deliberately.
Neph misses the delicious irony that SPLC is a primary part of the regulatory apparatus that they are now caught up in.
They were used as outside consultants for the FBI, to the point their analysis was used to set FBI policy. For example, the “Traditional Catholics” memo came from the SPLC. So the Biden FBI was using the SPLC to do things they were not allowed to do.
No different than education unions feeding ‘data’ to states and districts to control policy. All this crap is incestuous.
Things like corps kicking charities from their employee giving programs because the SLPC labeled them hate groups? I know that was something my wife’s company did, along with pressure employees to give to Black Lives Mansion.
South Carolina came out as the fastest-growing state in the country, even as Democrat-led cities on both coasts continue hemorrhaging residents at striking rates.
And thanks to Evenwel v. Abbott, you don’t need to have citizens occupying those urban Congressional districts. Any warm body will do. Now you know why the Donks imported tens of millions of illiterate peasants. They’re replacing the productive citizens who are re-enacting white flight on a much larger scale — instead of from the urban core to the suburbs, from the suburbs to a low-tax state with mild winters.
Best of all, the peasants that can evade ICE for a decade or so will get amnesty, all while popping out new birthright citizens — and both groups will be reliable Democrat constituencies for decades to come.
And they would brag about it to one audience and deny it’s happening to another. But now they said fuckit and they’re all campaigning on it now (“End ICE!”). It’s unreal.
Under Obama, there were white papers written by leftwing non-profit “research” institutes crowing about demographic destiny. It was a major left wing talking point by Democrats who thought they’d never lose another election as white populations declined. (Some) white people noticed and called it white-replacement theory. Then it became a conspiracy theory.
Ask ChatGTP to tell you the difference. It’ll claim that the racists are arguing that it’s intentional. The people who laughed at the slow death of white America and tied it to the inevitable success of the Democratic party just note that it’s happening, but it’s ridiculous according to “scholars” that it’s deliberate.
Like, sure the Dems benefit from it and realize it, but they only opened the flood gates to the third world out of the kindness of their hearts!
My favorite is following up with ChatGPT on whether Democratic policies have led to an increase in legal and non-legal immigration from third world countries. It meanders like any midwit academic trying to deflect blame before admitting that while yes Democrats have supported policies that have increased immigration from non-white countries and more has happened on their watch, the problem is more structural and the result of policies passed decades ago (by primarily Democrats, though that’s not mentioned).
It’s just distilling the information that is already online, which is heavily biased in favor of whatever the Dems are pushing.
I’d rather drive a nail through my dick every hour on the hour than have arguments with AI.
“They’re replacing the productive citizens”
Yeah it seems like some of the more esteemed think tanks (e.g. Cato) seem to have missed the change in immigrant motivations that happened under Biden. They continue to cite 10-year old data about how immigrants are a net gain for the US economy.
And repeating myself, I continue to be (morbidly) fascinated by libertarian thinkers who focus on immigration as the worst thing about Trump (I mean, there’s a fairly long list of Trump policies dating back to 2016 that one could hate. I just don’t understand that one being the focus). And, of course, the continual representation of Trump as an existential threat to liberty. KMW at TOS has routinely written editorials to that effect but, a few months back, assured readers that NYC would survive Mandami without too many problems.
Seems like the capture of Cato and TOS by the “chamber of commerce” set was complete by around that time. Their rejection of obvious stuff visible to anyone with open eyes is the main reason I ditched that crowd.
It will survive but only if Mamdami is unsuccessful at enacting most of the fantastical plots that got him elected.
See also: Bill Deblasio.
It’s taco truck diversity. They think that as long as there are more and different food truck, immigration is a net good, as “they” aren’t going to get think tank jobs anytime soon.
Fuck the rest of the working class that was left after the “awesomeness” of NAFTA.
I love tacos.
We still don’t need an army of illegals to make them, and if we do, I can live just fine without tacos.
I think TOS has hammered Trump pretty hard on tariffs too.
@ Creech. Yes, fair point. And, they’ve diversified their attacks recently (it’s a target-rich environment), but early on in 2016/17 it was a lot of immigration stuff.
Taco truck diversity indeed. Whenever you ask an open borderite about the benefits of multi culti diversity, almost invariably the first thing out of their mouth is “ethnic food” and very often, a long pause before they change the subject.
The Chamber of Commerce/country club crowd hate Trump at least as much as the leftists do. They also hated the Tea Party, BTW. No surprise that their captured institutions have TDS.
The Dems are led by elites who are immune to most of the destruction their policies cause. The problem they have now, after a lot of that working class left, is that they are entirely dependent on let’s say “disengaged” voters plus whatever they can squeeze out of the hordes that Biden let in. It explains pretty much all the batshit insane stuff coming out of them lately. The “end ICE”, the neverending ramping up of racial hostility, et al.
In terms of TOS, you can’t really discount the who pays for them factor. They aren’t staying in business through the individual donations. It’s the big donors with money and cheap labor is their primary focus. Libertarianism is just a vehicle for open borders nonsense for those people.
Christ, the individual donors probably barely cover Kathy’s hair coloring and Robby buying a new dress for his Asian twink let alone his divorce from his wife to live that lifestyle.
Robby’s got to suck to get sucked here.
Yep, which is a large part of what made this political stunt so funny.
Shpip:
I’ve mentioned the same thing regarding Gov. Abbott sending immigrants north to sanctuary cities. Team Blue’s response was pretty much, “That’s the point, that social disruption happens in red areas.”
That, and “How dare you notice That Which Must Not Be Noticed!”
LOL I had completely forgotten about Suave’s recent, uh, romantic history.
Yeah that was amazing. He should run again if Vance flames out or something in 2028.
It’s not his fault that he lost to Donald’s cult of personality.
I found this interesting.
A bit to unpack, but it seems plausible at first glance.
Which is why I’ll give it more than one glance.
Fuck the boldface font that yields gray boxes on certain browsers.
Fuck self-censoring words like “murder” and “Hamas”.
And changing fonts gross.
They do that for a reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ohs noes, the font changes! And bold face, why that is as bad as black face!
Come on, guys.
On my tablet, each character in that bold font is rendered as a gray box that makes the post impossible to read.
It’s just annoying Zwak.
Stick with one font, bold is fine, italics are fine.
Self censoring is stupid but it’s probably copy paste to his FB profile as well.
Yup, all plausible.
I can think of a couple solutions that would probably require a Constitutional amendment or two.
I don’t know if throwing people out of helicopters requires a constitutional amendment per se or would be a good look, but I do love the idea of the Pinochet Amendment being enshrined does war the cockles of my heart.
Perhaps, but I was thinking more along the lines of restricting the vote in certain ways.
Reality is that there aren’t enough homegrown white socialists for that shit to ever take over.
This shit had to be imported to reach a critical mass. It may not be the immigrant parents, but by the time their children come of age most of them are indoctrinated by a lifetime victimhood narrative that soothes their soul and helps them avoid any and all accountability for who or what they are.
You aren’t a failure living a vacuous empty life. It’s the white man!
Part of the situation is that the left has a purity test, so if you’re a standard lefty you have to agree 100% with the extreme stuff otherwise you’re kicked out of the club. Or in the case of my parents, they never see the extreme stuff in the nightly news.
I think the hard firewalls prevalent in the US political system do a lot to contain the spread of that 20% and can even fight it. That we have individual states, that they can use the electoral college to keep this from taking over, and the silent vote not being forced to be shown go a long ways in keeping this at bay.
For now.
The Dems are open about their plans to at least try to tear all of that down when they return to power.
The 17th amendment was the last hard firewall.
I’m going to let you all in on a little secret. 86-2 is Firster slang/code.
It refers to a final solution. For you.
46 & 2 just ahead of me.
25 or 6 24 ?
That’s Numberwang.
No.
This is Numberwang.
[You’ve been visited by the ghost fairy]
Edit fairy?
36-24-36
Only if she’s 5’3″
Ugh gross!
42-39-56?
Well folks, today is 5/4, otherwise known as Dave Brubeck Day!
Some people call today something else though… so here you go.
Pia Zadora Day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-PIYgcPok
In the civilized world this is 80% day.
That was last month.
Next you’ll tell me that waltz day was the day people march forth.
Need to end it with Rubio masturbating the light saber.
“The deranged firebug accused of igniting the devastating Palisades Fire had become “fixated” on Luigi Mangione in the lead-up to the deadly blaze — and then allegedly suggested the inferno was started out of “resentment of the rich,” prosecutors said.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, was obsessed with the accused health care CEO killer and had routinely searched “free Luigi Mangione” and “lets take down all the billionaires” online, court documents show….
Rinderknecht has pleaded not guilty to a string of federal arson charges for sparking the inferno that leveled 7,000 homes and businesses, caused $150 billion in damages and left 12 people dead in early 2025.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/04/us-news/palisades-arsonist-became-fixated-with-luigi-mangione-before-deadly-blaze-prosecutors/
CWAA
In other news, Democrats swear that there is no political violence problem. According to Dr Leftasfuck of the Harvard Sociology Dept, “All of the political violence is from the right.”
Honestly forgot they caught someone for that.
And completely unsurprised that he’s an Antifa waste of humanity. One wonders if he will get an honest trial in a city dominated by commie pols.
Fake news. It were Klymut Chaynje what dunnit
This guy gets it.
I thought it was MAGAt what done it.
Is “burning at the stake” a cruel and unusual punishment in this case?
We knew bums were starting fires -both maliciously and just for the camping lifestyle. The city and state didn’t want to look into it.
It does seem implausible that one guy could start all those fires.
And yeah, they will never find let alone prosecute one of that protected class.
I thought the original story was the firefighters didn’t completely put out a fire because of “sensitive environment” and the damage that their firefighting may have caused – which I find just as plausible in California as some nut case committing arson.
I have read that as well.
Both are possible
Burn him at the stake.
I bet he’d eat the jizz and piss out of Luig’s underwear.
Pretentious gibberish for the Smart Set
According to The Met, the dress code “Fashion is Art” invites guests to “express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate the countless depictions of the dressed body throughout art history.”
No nipples.
I am completely willing to believe couture can be capital-A Art.
The event where Sandy From The Politburo wore a $4,000 dress stamped “Tax the Rich” a few years ago.
Yeah, I expect a whole lot of commie twaddle like always.
Who will Chik-Fil-A’s guerilla marketing team be dressing this year?
How did the Jacket land an interview with Gorsuch?
Gorsuch is hawking his new book on 1776.
Ah. Thanks.
The Jacket almost landed an interview with *me* after The Incident but I guess he lost interest. Sad!
Too local.
the firefighters didn’t completely put out a fire because of “sensitive environment” and the damage that their firefighting may have caused
Firemen dragging hoses and driving pickup trucks around in that sensitive microhabitat could have caused irreparable damage.
Who will be there?
Simply put, the rich and the famous.
Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair the gala.
Zoë Kravitz and Anthony Vaccarello will co-chair the gala host committee, which includes big names such as Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Misty Copeland, Teyana Taylor, Gwendoline Christie, Sam Smith, and Angela Bassett.
Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchéz, are honorary chairs and lead sponsors of the gala — which has provoked an activist group to call for a boycott of the event.
Will fashion provocateur Ella Emhoff be there?
Does anyone give a fuck?
Wait… they hate Bezos now? What on earth for?
How he’s run the Washington Post.
Poseurs
The enthusiasm with which the Bezoses have stormed the gates of the fashion world is the latest attempt among today’s oligarchs to seize cultural cachet. These titans of industry, apparently no longer satisfied with enormous wealth and power, now seem hellbent on sealing their reputation as fashion insiders.
But is any of this landing with the public? Will serving as honorary chair at the top of fashion’s biggest staircase cement the Bezoses’ status in high fashion? I talked to Anne Higonnet, an art historian at Columbia University, for more.
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What’s happening now is that the hierarchies of the art world are tumbling around, and fashion is really rising in the cultural scheme. As it does that, the super-rich, who are smart, are increasingly involved in fashion. One very, very visible, important way to do that is to be the chair of the Met Gala. So, surprise, surprise: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are the chairs of the Met Gala.
We’ll just gloss over the centuries where “fashion artistes” lived on table scraps in the castles and mansions of wealthy gate crashers like Mrs Bezos.
“Who else could wear a sleeping bag to the Met Gala?”
It would be appropriate dress for the vast majority of us as I imagine it’s a snore fest.
Zoolander 2 was so prescient regarding the fashion world. Fashion shows in toxic waste dumps, utterly retarded fashion gurus who should rightfully be homeless, etc…
Zoolander 2 is the rare movie like Deuce Bigalow 2 and The Godfather Part II. that is better than the original.
Arguably WWII was better than its predecessor as well because it had jets and rockets.