Wyndham Clark took everybody on a roller coaster ride before finally buckling down and winning his second US Open. The World Cup is a good part of the way through the second round of pool play games and there’s some teams that aren’t living up to the hype. It has been quite entertaining though. Especially the meltdown of the Socceroo fans. The Iranians are bitching like crazy about their travel arrangements, which are basically the same as everybody else’s. And I think that’s pretty much it for sports.
It’s like crack 2.0. Except it’s everybody this time and not just aimed at black people (according to black people).
Oh, man. They missed the best part. When the current guy in charge blamed the Jews. But I will note how strange it is that every election in Latin America has turned sharply to the right once USAID was basically shut down.
He better watch out. They’ll probably charge him with hate speech for talking about it and fine him for the settlement amount.
I’m just gonna go ahead and hate everybody involved. That’s probably the easiest way to be correct.
The math ain’t mathing. Which should surprise exactly nobody.
Won’t somebody think of the poor…scammers? Wait, what?!?!?!?!
“Hey, that’s our thing!” -team blue Sorry for your luck, chumps. Turnabout is fair play.
Oh, give it a rest. Nobody should be automatically registered. Especially for their first registration. They’re adults now. They can have a little responsibility for managing their own affairs.
I’ll give you three guesses as to what language this driver speaks. Just as soon as they release his name, that is.
Will they ever get rid of this fucking idiot? Probably never, since she’s such a good representation of her constituents.
Such a great song. What a wonderful sound. There weren’t many like them. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
It is weird watching the slow-motion surrender in real time.
When those who consider themselves your elite hate you for voting for what you want instead of what they want….
How is the environmental lawsuit against return-to-work going?
Fire them all, save the planet.
🤣😂
SEIU might be one of the few entities even more loathsome than Gavin Newsome.
A petri dish up stupid and evil..
Like anybody believes for one instant a bunch of pubsecs are going to give up their phat salaries, bloated benefits, and immunity from consequences.
It’s awful hard to fill in a pothole from your bed.
NPR so Trump’s fault, I would assume.
I looked at the picture of Ugandan migrants forced into scamming who are now sadly heading home… with enough luggage to require a luggage cart, and nicer clothes than me.
The misery of the sweat-shop (when all who worked in them considered it a trade-up from the misery of the farm).
Kier Starmer quits
https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/u-k-prime-minister-keir-starmer-quits-amid-rebellion-d5ede8d4?st=AZpvZL
No, Keir says he will quit some time several months from now.
Exactly. He’s going to stretch this out as long as he can.
Chances are he will end up some “elder statesman “ who has negative comments regarding all the various successors’ policies. It’s a 50/50 he gets a substack. Dude just can’t keep out of it.
The best outcome would be if he got culturally enriched by a migrant and could not have an open-casket funeral.
He did, indeed, actually resign.
“Mr Starmer, he gone.”
Starmer said he would quit as Labour leader but stay on as prime minister to ensure an orderly transition to his successor, a process that could be completed by mid-July.
RJ, He should build a brutalist Prime Minister Center on public land to remind everyone of his glory.
Starmer will be replaced with another asshat that will still push for the same evil…
Those people are doomed unless they start hanging their top men.
That is definitely the case. It’s asshats on parade.
So are we. They just started on the path sooner.
Indeed.
That’s how Labour manages to stick it out, they see the writing on the wall and the other party gaining popularity, so they axe the current leader and offer up another and the masses just assume it will be better, when it’s just the same policies under a new name.
Note that they are under no obligation to hold a general election before July 2029.
The anointed successor seems to be offering more of the same far-left nonsense that amazingly has not led to the promised utopia yet.
Always the kulaks and wreckers. Clearly enough blood has yet to be spilled.
They can have a little responsibility for managing their own affairs.
What kind of monster are you? In loco parentis to keep them dependent!
Bureaucratic exodus from cushy state jobs???? BWAHAhahahahahahahahahaha [gasps for air] hahahahahahahaha [passes out]
It baffles me that regular working class Americans have not yet caught on that our government is subsidizing a cabal of useless crooks to the tune of $2 trillion a year in fraud from social services at every level of government and in every government venture, national or international. These crooks tell the rubes they are “solving problems and need more funding”, and the morons that believe in unicorns and utopia g along and screw us productive tax payers over to fund them. Instead of a black market, government has become the mechanism for stealing from the productive.
the morons that believe
A majority of voters, though possibly not a majority of taxpayers. There is a lesson in that.
I have always said nobody but net tax payers should have a vote.
Whycome you hate democracy Alex?
because I know democracy is 10 wolves and 9 sheep deciding what is for dinner, and I live in a REPUBLIC…
Not only will there be no exodus, they will get huge raises and fatter bennies because they control the Party and the State. Every Dem voter wants one of those jobs and they are not going to cut anything..
How long until California is nothing but government and government-funded non-profits?
““We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP in a series of interviews in New Mexico. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.””
You didn’t do either of those things.
A more interesting question is why do so many people turn to that shit instead of finding something productive to do. But nobody wants to ask it.
“I learned it from you, Dad”
“Influential economist Alan Greenspan who headed Federal Reserve for nearly two decades dead at 100”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/business/influential-economist-alan-greenspan-who-led-federal-reserve-for-nearly-two-decades-dead-at-100/
Does that include interest?
Not much interest in the Greenspan Put.
Modern Monetary Policy for the win!
I was thinking “Work is awfully quiet today”.
Turns out my supervisor took today off.
Junetecond?
Well, it makes for a longer weekend.
Liberating
From a WSJ article…
What is that saying about “cheap, fast, good”, choose two?
Go to your states sex offender registry.
Go to your states repository and look up their criminal history.
Do that for every state they have lived in.
Check their claims of education, jobs, and military service against the outfits they have claimed to work for.
Look at their social media.
Shouldn’t take more than a few days and a lot less than $20,000.
Vetting, LOL
The only requirement is do they support every far-left plank of that commie outfit. Character does not matter one bit – every one of them that I have read about is a thoroughly despicable human being.
So much this.
Yeah, it takes way too long to pull up the candidates *checks notes* public social media posts.
This is more about The Candidate – the machinations of political operators.
There’s two columnists in today’s paper warning that Trump’s deal with Iran is flawed, that Iran won’t honor any non-nuke deal for long because they always lie, etc. Perhaps they have a point, but neither has the guts to say what Trump should have done instead. I hate the kind of criticism that fails to put forth alternate courses of action.
That requires critical thought and not just regurgitation of their tweet timeline in long form.
What? Admit that America doesn’t rule the world, or that we can, but only with enormous bloodshed?
Until the missile stockpile begins to run low.
Time for another Operation Warp Speed. This time it’s personal.
Unlike some/many, I don’t think Trump is stupid. I think he decided that playing the endless hudna game with Iran was stupid, so to break that cycle he agreed to whatever, because he knows the current batch of Iranians won’t comply. Then, when they break the deal (which they have already done, I believe), we can do a rinse and repeat on the whole bombing thing, maybe get a different batch of Iranians, and try again.
I do wonder if the whole “I’m so mad at Bibi” thing is just kayfabe, part of the posturing for negotiation, as well.
A man’s gotta think about his legacy (all the time)
It seems if he was truly intelligent, he wouldn’t have waded into yet another middle east entanglement…
My wife is convinced this is the case, that Trump is making deals he knows the IRGC will break, so he can justify going back to bombing. I’m less charitable, I suspect Trump first thought they could bomb Iran into submission; then when that didn’t work, thought he could make a deal, ’cause he’s the great deal-maker. And that is destined for failure. There will be more bombing, but barring an internal uprising, the IRGC will not be broken by just bombing.
I would like to know how the US is supposedly at war with Iran yet somehow they found the time to send a soccer team to the World Cup taking place in enemy territory?! It makes no sense.
There will be more bombing, but barring an internal uprising, the IRGC will not be broken by just bombing.
America, the all-conquering power. Oops.
Oops, indeed.
Good morning!
An unexpected package arrived over the weekend:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/High-L10.jpg
I shot the Mid-Atlantic Sectionals during a match in which all of the competition in my particular division(which is not at all popular in free states) decided not to show up, so I “won” it by forfeit. was initially pretty angry about receiving this as part of the whole “don’t take charity and/or participation trophies” ethos.
However, fighting against that was also my upbringing of “you must accept gifts and display them” considering that the people who ran that match were so nice to me. And of course, it would be validating of the eternal Dad advice that “the most important part of success is showing up.”
What tipped things over to the “don’t throw it out, hang it up” decision was when I actually looked at the thing. Note the storm cloud at the top and the logo being covered with water droplets. The rain won this match. Hanging it up is not bragging about being good, it’s an acknowledgement of making it through a match shot in godawful conditions (like literally 25% of the shooters who had paid their $125 match fee bailed).
If it ain’t raining you ain’t training
What language does he speak
Probably Spanish, it’s also likely that it’s like over 80% of fatal crashes involving a commercial vehicle that it was caused by the driver of a car.
But her exit was right there, she just knew she could make it all the way from the left lane.
So, I had heard that Arcane was good, but nobody told me it was freaking amazing. I don’t think I’ve watched a show with characters written loke that in… well, ever. Yes they sanded off the rough edges of Councilwoman Blackhottie, but other than that they kept all of them actual people. So far. I’ve only watched the first season.
While Sturgeon’s Law applies, Netflix has made some faboo animated shows.
I have heard that about the show.
But not watched it.
I’ve been worried that it was going to be crap. Netflix is about 50/50.
Their animated stuff has been pretty decent. I enjoyed the first Castlvania show. Couldn’t make it more than three episodes into the second one.
It is dark, with a complete lack of unidimensional characters of either the heroic or villainous variety. Basically people with personalities and goals, and the conflict comes from how those misalign. Kind of steampunk dystopia smooshed with a mob move.
Sounds interesting.
What I had read about Arcane was that people really loved the characters and their development.
Season 1 is fucking brilliant. Look up critical drinker’s review.
Season 2 is merely good, which makes it a huge let down.
The first season of Arcane is 👍👍. I have heard not such good things about the second, and haven’t watched it yet.
“The leaders of three Republican House committees threatened Monday to hold Democratic fundraising powerhouse ActBlue in contempt of Congress after the firm refused to turn over more than 400 documents, citing attorney-client privilege….
ActBlue has helped Democratic campaigns and causes raise more than $19 billion since it was founded in 2004.
Nearly $2 billion of those funds flowed to Democrats during the 2024 election cycle, at the same time that internal records, later obtained by The Post, showed ActBlue made its fraud standards “more lenient.””
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/house-republicans-issue-contempt-threat-against-actblue-after-dem-fundraiser-refuses-to-turn-over-hundreds-of-documents/
ActBlue isn’t a PAC or fundraiser. They are a money laundering operation set up as a payment processor. Jillian Michaels did a good video on this. Apparently, they accepted pre-paid cards without CVV numbers.
How much of that nineteen billion dollars was stolen from taxpayers?
I would not be surprise it is higher than 90%.
Nah, all of that was laundered via NGOs.
Much of it is from rich donors, so they can donate money way above the limit to campaigns in order to buy ads at the campaign rate rather than the PAC rate, which is often 2 -3 times higher.
I believe you mean liberated comrade.
$32,500,000 | Wimberley, Texas | 471± acres
471± acres in the heart of the Texas Hill Country — over 4,000 feet of Blanco River frontage, two spring-fed creeks, three luxury residences, and a private runway and hangar unlike anything else on the market.
This rare riverfront ranch boasts 1.2 miles of the crystal-clear spring-fed Blanco River + Carpers and Dutch Branch creeks, park-like riverbanks, lots of topography with unbelievable views of the river valley, and the state-of-the-art hangar with a 3,300-ft private runway that doubles as a world-class event venue. This is a true legacy ranch, 45 minutes from Austin and San Antonio, 8 minutes to Downtown Wimberley. This is truly one of the finest live-water ranch offerings in the State of Texas.
📍 Wimberley, Texas — Hays County.
🏷️ $32,500,000
📐 471± acres
🌊 4,000+ ft of Blanco River frontage
✈️ Private 3,300-ft runway + luxury hangar
🏡 4 luxury residences + guest & ranch-hand quarters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKjchNxW-BY
Wimberly!
Don’t move there. It’s pretty much crap as far as geography/weather/flora/fauna. Scorpion and grackles. None of the wild trees make it to six feet tall due to the constant lack of rain.
Haven’t spent a ton of time in Wimberly, but I grew up vacationing in the Hill Country and I have an abiding love of that area. I suspect the trees along the river (cypress mostly, I’d bet) get plenty of water and therefore height.
I’ve had a great deal of fun there. However, it was completely due to the people and what they did. Wimberly, Driftwood, Buda — great people living in cheap land because it’s undesirable. Is it worse than say the undesirable outskirts of DFW? No. But for $32MM there are vastly better places to spend the money.
That place looks like it has a lot of water and big trees. Would it be the one I’d pick if I had $32MM? Probably not*, but it looks pretty dang nice.
*The 4 houses are big negative for me. One is plenty, thanks. The other three would just be resource sinks.
Oh, I wouldn’t spend $32MM to buy a Wimberly property. Even if I had it, which I don’t. But I do love the Hill Country, and we’ve seriously discussed moving there in retirement.
One of the better properties you have shared Pie.
Buildings look nice. Runway needs paved.
Too small for that price though. Put another 0 on the size and halve the price.
“A notice to customers remains on the doors of the Pink Taco two years after it closed down.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/21/us-news/los-angeles-sunset-strip-is-now-on-struggle-street-the-post-walked-it-for-a-week-heres-what-we-found/
pink taco?
Sounds like an escort service.
Saw that. The plague that Fauci started has basically turned off a generation of youngsters that would have kept that scene going in the Before Times. Now they just sit around at home and InstaTok each other.
It’s both the journey, AND the destination
Rolex opened a boutique nearly 10,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps — and getting there costs almost as much as a watch
New definition of “high times.”
I note they didn’t say it cost as much as a rolex watch – so I have to assume it’s a Timex.
“Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”
Heck of a way to keep out the riff-raff…
Ableist.
Not only do I have to be rich but have the body of the REI catalogue set.
Ah WSJ – never change.
“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Mr. Vance added, though no Israeli cabinet member had done so. “Over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.”
They don’t like it when the obvious is pointed out.
Iran and Trump Blame Israel First
To protect his bad deal, Trump makes the Jewish state the scapegoat.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iran-and-trump-blame-israel-first-a122a0d7?st=guCeCY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
(((Scapegoating))) – why that’s never been done!!!
“Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will need to be investigated for the “4.5 million children” whom he “possibly sentenced to death” through his spending cuts, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., argued Saturday….
“I do believe once we take power, there needs to be accountability,” Khanna said on the “I’ve Had It” podcast. “There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk. You know, they’re celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don’t talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID.”
Khanna has also encouraged a massive new tax proposal called the “Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act,” targeting wealthy men like Musk with a direct 5% annual wealth tax on assets, not just income, exceeding $1 billion.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/elon-musk-needs-to-answer-for-4-5m-kids-sentenced-to-death-over-doge-cuts-ro-khanna-argues/
CWAA
He wants that money so badly.
Fuck off, commie.
I eagerly look forward to the forensic accounting of USAID expenditures to prove that it was spending money on starving children and whatnot.
That’ll come right after the ActBlue financial autopsy.
We’re all somebody’s children and NGO employees have to eat too!
I think showing what USAID international and US domestic now look like despite DOGE not being as effective/efficient as it should be, is a great start.
Damn, I can’t wait for Khanna to have a terrible woodchipping accident.
He is really one of the worst of them, which is quite an achievement.
Meh. Children are a renewable resource.
Against the wall
Commie.
I’m sure they will be very inexpensive to run. You are still going to have to crew them and have crew life support. And they are going to take forever to cross the Atlantic. Also they are going to have aux power when they aren’t out to sea.
The vessels are called trimarans—boats with three hulls—and at 220 feet long are able to carry 415 metric tons of goods. That means they have about five times more cargo space than an airplane, but are five times smaller in length than a typical container ship. The boats are made of aluminum, whose light weight helps them move swiftly to a target speed of about 14 knots, which is about 16 miles per hour, said one of Vela’s founders, Michaël Fernandez-Ferri.
DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
https://www.wsj.com/pro/sustainable-business/dhl-set-to-transport-goods-on-new-wind-powered-cargo-ships-eca5d5a0?st=obVs4P&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They’re doing the meme, aren’t they?
The meme.
move swiftly to a target speed of about 14 knots
The Doldrums smile malignly.
So they are reinventing the clipper ship.
Yes roughly the same speed.
For a non-planing boat the speed is function of the waterline. Speedboats and the like are a different design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed
Can’t you make a robot sailing ship and slowly move cargo with much lower labor costs?
Their tonnage is in the lower range of clippers too.
I bet pirates would love robot ships.
I LOL’d, but I’m not surprised.
After Spirit Airlines shut down in early May, Flix North America saw a 30% increase in passengers on overlapping routes.
They Can’t Fly Spirit Anymore, So They’re Taking the Bus Instead
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/they-cant-fly-spirit-anymore-so-theyre-taking-the-bus-instead-175054af?st=vB6Tg3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I could fly to NYC from my town for $500 each way or take the bus for $35.
There is a campus-to-campus bus that one of my doctors clued me into that is supposed to be much nicer than the budget outfits but of course like everything else in town it’s not running during the summer.
“Nancy Mace brutally fact-checked on claim government is funding ‘radical transgender experiments’ on mice”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15918239/Nancy-Mace-transgender-experiments-mice.html
STIJLTH
So it’s the “it’s not happening” phase.
Well its transgenic nerd…and also we are testing these hormone therapies on mice but mice can never be trans cause gender is a human concept.
/my quick read around the cesspool of the internet.
“America brutally fact-checked on claims the Dr. Fauci spent millions of tax dollars funding a plague.”
Yeah, “fact checkers” can fuck right off anymore.
Supreme Leader Loji
@thelongmarch86
You are not a Marxist if Cuba’s setbacks makes you give up.
Marxism is a science based solely on dialectical materialism. Just like Capitalism struggled in its emergence against feudalism, so too will socialism struggle at first.
We must continue to learn from our mistakes.
https://x.com/thelongmarch86/status/2068431622672617493
High priest of science there.
It’s spreading like wildfire across the United States so there is that, I guess.
Funny how actual scientific breakthroughs rarely have to struggle.
“Marxism is a science based solely on dialectical materialism. Just like Capitalism struggled in its emergence against feudalism, so too will socialism struggle at first.”
This level of delusion is what frightens me. How do you correct for stupid fucks that believe this sort of nonsense? How high has that pile of bodies have to get for them to say, maybe their ideology is downright fucking evil?
Paging OMWC!
Serious Chemical Accidents Are Rising in the U.S.—and Getting More Dangerous
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/serious-chemical-accidents-are-rising-in-the-u-s-and-getting-more-dangerous-e94fab53?st=SYCQhp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When you’ve basically stopped industrial development of all kinds because of NIMBY green utopian dreams you wind up running existing facilities well beyond their expected life and capacity. I can’t see how that can be problemtatic.
“Of those injured in the incident, 22 refused medical attention.”
Then how do you know they were injured?
If someone want to improve crypto trading strategies, this is for you
https://x.com/edgecraftapp/status/2068065675953000872
“Map reveals every state’s favorite fast food cheeseburger”
https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-15836929/Map-reveals-states-favorite-fast-food-cheeseburger.html
Fast food must mean something different in English English.
There is one Rail location (here used to be 4), and it is far from fast food. They do have good burgers, but if they were going to pander to locals, I would have expected Swensons (which still leaves the majority of the state in the dark). If they were talking chains, Max and Erma’s still exists and was started down in Columbus.
Fucking hipsters.
(Which isn’t going to keep me from stopping at Farmer’s Daughter next time I drive through Capon Bridge – that place is great!)
“Fast casual”, maybe?
“For better or worse — and we all know it’s for worse — artificial intelligence has become a part of everyday life.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/22/ai-doomerism-is-misplaced-heres-what-it-will-take-to-pop-the-bubble/
That settles it.
“You don’t need Charlize Theron in a bathtub explaining this to you, right?”
Pretty sure that was Margot Robbie.
“Will our political class have the bravery to do something different? Probably not these politicians, but you know, one of the things I am quite alarmed by but also somewhat heartened by is the extent to which Donald Trump is making the case for doing a bunch of things that I failed to make the case for. Like getting rid of the useless Democratic leadership and replacing them with political radicals.
Also, stop using the American internet. Also, stop using oil. Trump is doing more to get people off oil than I ever did in all the summers I spent ringing doorbells for Greenpeace, and he’s doing more to convince people that they shouldn’t use American technology than I did in 25 years working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He’s convincing people around the world that their progressive leaders suck, and that they need to be replaced with radical leaders.”
Sure, Jan.
“look at the fact that we’ve just made a man who has only failed for the last five years into a trillionaire. Every initiative of Musk’s that succeeded predates the pandemic.”
LOLOL
Internet was a mistake.
Nothing like having a reporter with no real-world work experience judging the world’s richest man.
I played https://squaredle.com 06/22:
*39/39 words (+5 bonus words)
⏱️ In the top 1% by speed
🔥 Solve streak: 1356
Feeling feisty today.
When pols try to drive a narrative but no one knows who they are.
Current Thing
Weird to pivot from affordability and gas prices to something every pool owner has dealt with at one point.