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Good morning!
Iran to resume hostilities Saturday.
Memorandum of It Polled Really Badly to Put Boots on the Ground, and It Turns Out You Need Boots on the Ground to Overthrow a Regime.
This right here. They got cocky after Venezuela.
Venezuela didn’t get overthrown either.
And we’re not going to overthrow Cuba, either.
I assume we’ll go back to warring as soon as Iran drains its oil storage.
Israel will beat them to it.
https://www.news18.com/world/political-disaster-netanyahu-allies-turn-on-trump-over-us-iran-peace-deal-call-vance-scag-ws-l-10157595.html
Let them fight it out without us (or our money).
^^ this.
Agreed.
It has been interesting watching various Teams fight this out.
NY Post for one sure does not want the fun to end.
Calling my friends gay has always been a hobby of mine. California is providing a way to turn it into a business!
Yes. I will happily call all of my male friends gay on official letterhead.
It is, after all, a title of nobility.
Basic Gay Service: $100 For this I will write a letter on rainbow letterhead calling you Gay.
Premium Gay Service: $500 For this I will write a letter saying we have had sex.
Super Premium Gay Service: $2000 For this I will provide the Premium service, but will add a detailed review of your performance.
LOL@Jarflax
Budget Gay Service: For $10, I’ll drive by in a pickup truck and call you a fag.
I’ll start giving them out as birthday gifts.
That was you in downtown Boston around 2005, wasn’t it.
Wasn’t there an Adam Sandler movie about this? Or am I remembering something else?
I think there is an Adam Sandler movie covering every situation that has ever occurred in the history of everything. And they are all terrible.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Sandler was ok in Punch Drunk Love and Spanglish. Of course that opinion probably makes me gay.
Look at all the pretenders in this thread – GRIFTERS one and all. Not one authentic gay Glib making this offer!
It’s California. Authenticity is inauthentic to the culture.
“gayfishing”
lol Have to remember that one.
Does that get you fabulous seafood?
(((Jarflax:
Just Rainbow Trout and that fish from the gay children’s book.
What does the CA law say about claiming to be Queer?
I’ve been doing it since the 90s.
Usually not my friends though. But times have changed. One of my buddies married a former marine, he totally takes it up the butt now.
I play cards every Wednesday night, 90% of our conversations have to do with just how gay everyone else is.
“I’m the least gay guy here.”
“Least gay is still gay.”
What happened to keeping government out of bedrooms? Now CA is embracing that again. What if a transtrender is banging a member of the opposite sex (IRL, not their fantasy world gender ID), is that now a hate crime in CA?
The activists never wanted government out of bedrooms, they just wanted to enforce their own proclivities on normal people.
Just like murder leads to chewing gum, having set-asides for black women business loans leads to snooping in bedrooms.
“transTRENDER” for the WIN! If that was a typo, don’t say anything. Using that. Thanks, Doc.
Agreed!
One of our potato people insists on using it if you suggest trannies are faking it. Those aren’t *real* transgenders, don’t you know.
Has social life always been a competition between gatekeepers and entryists, or is this a social media invention?
Has social life always been a competition between gatekeepers and entryists, or is this a social media invention?
Yes, at least the heterosexual dating part has always been a competition to gain entry by persuading the gatekeeper to open the gate.
“I am the Keymaster”
Pretty sure Blaire White coined transtrender a long time ago.
Interestingly enough for the people involved, “transtrender” remains resistant to reclaiming. They had to invent “tucute” for themselves.
Also, if I claim I’m gay, but then they find my “I’m not gay, but $20 is $20” can coozie, am I now in legal trouble?
Did you claim the $20 on your taxes?
Looks like the Senate is flexing its muscles.
Good(?)
It would still have to be passed by both senate and house and then signed by Trump to take effect. I don’t see House and Senate winning a stare down with the president and actually refusing to fund the military if they don’t get their way. They’ve never had the stones to do it before, so I doubt they’ll actually follow through this time.
It can?
If a man claims to be a woman that is attracted to women, that makes them gay, right?
I’m reminded of that think with the Turkish (?) army a few years back – they didn’t allow gay conscripts, but in order to get an exemption one would have to submit a photograph of them receiving anal sex from another man, while looking into the camera and smiling. No word on whether a thumbs-up would help or hurt.
A thumbs-up where?
“But I’m a top!”
“We need a money shot for proof.”
One time I was talking to my army buddies while walking away from the company area, I remarked that “I washing was a gay black female.”
From somewhere behind us came a response, “hooah, sergeant Major!”
No problem! We’ll just make sure that we own the Office of the Attorney General, too!
Seriously, people, haven’t we gotten over the idea that the government can effectively oversee the government?
You know the DA done fucked up when the Commie PASC ruled against him.
“A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned.”
California Will Throw You In Jail For A Year If You Lie About Being Gay
I suppose it is better than being thrown off the jailhouse roof for being gay.
And you may end up kinda gay in jail.
The irony is strong there.
In the Middle East they throw the Gays off roofs for not being straight. In California they jail you for not being Gay. Totally different!
jail is an ugly word though. straight reeducation camp.
Would you rather we say “gaol”?
because it looks like it should be pronounced gay-l?
Three hots, a cot, and all the gay sex you can handle.
How much you can handle may not actually enter the equation.
Bubba says “I don’t know how much you can handle, but I know how much you’re gonna get.”
“Warden, I’m afraid poor Bubba fell and twisted his head near clean off.”
I am pretty sure Illinois, like most States, allows subcontractors to place liens.
But liens usually only get paid when a property is put up for sale/sold. I doubt that thing is going on the market anytime soon and when it does, it’s going to be a tear down.
You can foreclose a mechanic’s lien. It seldom happens because the cost and hassle are usually not worth it, but for a couple million I’d sure proceed. I very much want this to happen! Obama’s Library going to foreclosure would warm the cockles of my heart like Cindy Lou Who with the Grinch.
In Turkey you can get out of compulsory military service if you are gay but you need to prove it with video.
Proving you’re gay to the Turkish army
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17474967
“Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish Prison…”
”I had a few days’ beard and I am a masculine guy – they told me I didn’t look like a normal gay man.”
This is both hilarious, and sad.
You need to start looking like Johnny Weir, Tonio.
Do you guys carry membership cards?
To get yours go to areyouafriendofdorothy.com
I think they carry colored bandanas, Sensei.
Electric Six – I Wanna Take You to a Gay Bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslF_EyhMzg
pistoffnick:
I wish I were queer.
Did someone say Johnny Weir ?
the photos must show you as the passive partner
Ahh yes, the boy game loophole. You are only Gay if you catch, pitching, especially to a helpless boy, is fine.
That reads like a bad fifties sitcom plot.
I would never pass under those conditions.
Yes, it’s government going after an enemy, but it might also coincide with actual wrongdoing:
FTC suing Big Trans
ttps://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/06/ftc-states-sue-world-professional-association-transgender-health-over-deceptive-claims-regarding-treatment-children
I suspect the reason so many congress critters are in favor of FISA is because NSA has been spying on and blackmailing all of them.
The spirit of J Edgar Hoover lives on.
https://futuredude.substack.com/p/kompromat-in-america-the-secret-history
***
No figure in American history mastered the art of kompromat quite like J. Edgar Hoover. During his 48-year reign as FBI director, Hoover amassed an unprecedented archive of damaging information on politicians, activists, and celebrities.
…
Hoover’s files were not just passive collections of data—they were active tools of political control. By selectively leaking information, he could destroy careers, shape legislation, and even influence presidential decision-making. His reign demonstrated how state surveillance could be weaponized into a kompromat machine.
…
Watergate proved that even the most powerful figures could be undone by their own blackmail schemes. It also led to reforms like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), though these measures ultimately failed to prevent future abuses.
***
reforms like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
reforms….
bwahahahahahahaha
The idea that government being honest and non-abusive is the default is such bizarre nonsense to me, and represents a triumph of propaganda over historical literacy.
If someone thinks the FBI isn’t a political blackmail tool, when did it stop being one and how was it stopped?
If there is no fraud in elections, when did that stop happening and how was it stopped?
Repeat as needed depending on the combination of letters/bad conduct required.
Why Derp, the legislation creating the NSA expressly forbids them from spying on Americans in America. That’s why we have the 5-eyes agreement!
Half of America Cannot Afford to Live, and Other Wrong Numbers
Any country with below-replacement fertility is in the fast lane for collapse. Oddly enough, the problem is the worst in high-income countries where one would assume it would be *easier* to have a large family.
Americans aren’t going to reproduce unless they can provide a similar standard of living to what they grew up with.
People who can’t afford a decent house or apartment aren’t going to breed.
Build. Cheap. Housing. Just do it.
You are not putting this genie back in its bottle with cheap houses. You need to somehow restore the cultural conditions to get people marrying earlier, and women to stay at home and raise kids. And other than in religious niches I don’t see that happening.
The cheap housing is expensive, too. They put up three small cheap houses next to where my wife works.
lol Good one.
Oops, premature submission….
Those houses are 2/2s, 1000sqft on a busy road in the middle of nowhere Missouri and they’re 225k.
And yes, the only “cheap housing” DemSoc-run cities are interested in does not solve anything.
WRT Rhywun’s link, it is interesting that of all the “Eurolanders loving the shit out of being in America for the World Cup” videos algorithms are pushing at me, zero of them involve Seattle.
All the ones I’ve seen were from Texas.
Their chamber of commerce must be paying for all that coverage.
Somehow Big Algo must think you don’t like Scotsmen, since Boston is very well represented.
The Tartan Army are absolutely killing it in Boston. No Scotland, no party, indeed.
They’ve likely done more for Scottish tourism than every penny their tourism board has spent in the last decade.
does not solve anything.
Oh, it solved everything is was supposed to solve. Cheap political grandstanding, redirection of stolen money to reward the correct political actors, and ‘problem’ not solved leaving an opportunity for infinite parasitical recursion.
I assumed the Scotsmen were in Texas? Guess not.
AL also getting a lot of love, and there’s some Swiss Warty Hugeman in various southern states I think.
It’s the death of a thousand cuts and housing is not one of them.
Houses are larger and nicer than the ones I grew up in, opulent compared to the ones my parents did.
It’s diet, perpetual adolescence, a culture of death, government education, over medication, continuing to raise the drinking age, raising the age at which one can get a job….
People had large families during the Great Fucking Depression. Gen Y and Z are fucking Panda Bears. That’s the problem.
Americans aren’t going to reproduce unless they can provide a similar standard of living to what they grew up with.
People who can’t afford a decent house or apartment aren’t going to breed.
This isn’t why the birth rate dropped. It’s birth control and culture. Neither of which would be fixed by cheap housing. People in scratching in the dirt has historically bred like rabbits.
It’s all about priorities. Get out of SF, Boston or NY, for starters. I don’t recall the meritocratic American dream saying you don’t have to make sacrifices or hard choices.
Exactly. Funny I have the reverse issue and sacrafice. I was able to find good employment in NYC a place I had and still have no desire to be.
Look, if I want a $100k home on the Pacific, I’m owed it by the constitution. Also, I want to do this while pursuing my dream of being an artist. So my job of poorly filling coffee cups should pay a wage to support this vision. Otherwise society has failed me.
“put them in decent schools”
So you have to be able to afford private school?
Any mention of the fact that the leaders of San Francisco, Boston, and New York have caused that problem by pursuing a decades-long campaign of deliberately pushing out the middle class?
rhywun – a not insignificant part is the rent control in NYC. I’m sure it’s similar in the other cities, but I’ve not research too closely.
No rent control in Mass, by law, since 1994.
Local dummies are, of course, trying to bring it back.
With the Boston area, it’s already quite densely populated, so there are few greenfields development opportunties.
Local commies solution is, of course, to destroy the single family homes and put up big multi-unit buildings.
e.g., in my little square, the tallest buildings are around 4 stories, with a lot of two-family homes surrounding it (if you’re a big-shot you buy a two family and convert it into a single family).
People like this area a lot, so prices are very high.
The solution for the local busybodies? A 26 story, 500 unit building in the middle of the square. Oh, with no parking – if you live there you won’t be elegable for an on-street parking sticker, either.
This proposal has the advantage of destroying the desirable character of the local square while ensuring the new residents are childless (because anyone who thinks you can live without a car even here has never had to go to a 24-hour CVS at midnight with your sick child and their sibling in tow).
Rent control is whole ‘nother beast. I wrote an article about it.
But yes, it is a not insignificant part of the problem but by no means would the problem go away without it. There is just so much other bullshit going on. Off the top of my head… landmarks and historical districts, klimate bullshit, required set-asides for the poors, and so much more.
You could live amazingly well here in Cleveland on $400k.
Maybe get out of the Progressive run shitholes?
Nobody is going to pay me $400k anywhere.
Stop spending on childcare.
Become a one income household and homeschool.
When you farm the raising of your kids out to others you like your kids less. They like you less. They don’t know their siblings.
They in turn have fewer children.
+1 tradwife
Another genie that won’t go back in the bottle.
Then, after you do what threedoor says, make some good friends who are like minded, move close to them, and build community. Focus on bringing as much production of necessities into the community as possible, and use barter and “friends and family” deals to keep the community thriving.
Slumbrew, just lie back and think of CommieTowns.
I think I figured out where they went wrong and I didn’t even have to read past the first sentence.
Yep.
The two income family was the true start of the population crash.
I was talking to an ex-Phila. Eagle player who wanted to get into the tiny affordable homes business with some outfit in Texas. He looked around the Philly suburbs and pretty much discovered that, despite all the political rhetoric, there would be no townships where zoning would allow for such development.
OMG zoning is another gigantic clusterfuck that is maybe the biggest cause of all of these problems. And nobody wants to do anything about it because NIMBY.
The neo-con WSJ trying to make lemonade has an interesting quote.
Is Iran Really a ‘Normal Country’?
Still not our problem.
this is probably old but
https://x.com/RespectfulMemes/status/2067328424486797581
Yes the FDA is useless.
Robert Reich
@RBReich
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
…don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
…doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
…doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
https://x.com/RBReich/status/2066970351754428863
How would we know?
the US has practically 0 regulations at this point. extreme free market.
Increasing regulation certainly increases the number or regulatory-related jobs. If we regulate enough we could have a job market of just regulators and compliance administrators.
Dean from the top rope!
Still trolling us with tankies eh?
Aaaahh…
Still smoking crack, I see.
Because raising taxes and deficit spending has a sterling track record.
Qantas has announced that the world’s first non-stop flights between Sydney and London will begin in October 2027
https://x.com/PolitlcsGlobal/status/2067283524411904338
Unless you’ve got supersonic jets, fuck that noise. That’s too long in an airline seat.
After flying NY to Japan for 14 hours it stops mattering after about 8 hours.
You really do just become numb to it. Although the suck and the jetlag are not to be trifled with.
After flying NY to Japan for 14 hours- raw-dogging it?
I was actually watching some of the Japanese movies and TV on the plane and getting some interesting looks from the Asians around me.
I did BOS to ORD, then ORD to NRT – that second leg was 13+ hours.
It is, indeed, a lot.
If work is picking up the tab, I can highly recommend business class. I can only imagine doing that in economy.
One of the nice things about that job is that travel to and from Japan was a regular thing for people so “don’t bother coming in to work for a day or two after you get back” was the norm – the jet lag was just something else.
In 2012 I did a cheap flight to Kuala Lumpur. The cheap part meant instead of going from Bucharest towards Asia we went the other way around to london for 4 hours and then London to KL. It was tough. But we was young back then.
China back to LA was something like 14 hours IIRC.
Never again.
Flying across the Pacific sucks. The last time I did with the family my son declared he wanted off with 4 hours left in the flight.
slumbrew – without a doubt the worst jetlag I’ve ever had.
My feeling is I’d rather suck up coach and a “plus seat” and spend on hotel or food in Japan. Since I don’t travel anymore I have no airline perks.
BOS to Hawaii was almost as bad; first to LAX, then to the Big Island, back to back 6 hour flights.
If we go again we’ll spend a couple days in LA vs. doing it in one shot.
Flying coach from ORD to HKG will make you want to never fly again. 12-14 hrs is doable EWR to NRT for example. >14 hours is too long.
Those long flights aren’t the greatest, but they’re not so bad.
Tricks: 1. Don’t have kids. Ya solve many flight troubles with this one, right here. 2) Party before the flight, mostly at home before your cab to the ‘port. Keep partying at the airport, but it’s expensive and ya wanna try to blend. Get as many free drinks as ya can on the plane. Ya sleep through eight hours, at least, recovering from the stress of packing up a smaller version of your life and shuttling to a new country.
Well, I guess that’s it. Don’t have kids, pack light; and drink the travel day into its proper theme. Ya arrive fresh! Slept off the party and you’ve arrived, fresh to conquer new land. Not that difficult.
(Oh? 3: Be tiny. Not required, but I’m sure it helps.)
All of this sounds terrible.
Last time I flew they weren’t charging extra for the emergency exit row and people didn’t like to book it because there is usually a patrician there. I’m 6’5” and need every inch I can get. Much too poor to buy a first class ticket, I got bumped to first class in uniform once and it was nice. Longest flight was Germany to Atlanta may have been eight hours or something. Both the wife and I have back injuries and it kicked our asses. Haven’t flown for over a decade.
I’ve done JFK-NRT in first. Even that got old before the plane landed and just wanted to get off. Same 8-10 hour mark.
My longest flight was LA to Singapore — 18 hours — in business class. I think I watched three movies, then slept for 8 hours and the flight still wasn’t over.
I’ve done the Minneapolis to Narita (and back) flights many times. I’ve also done LA to Sydney and Guangzhou to LA.
Overall, Iowa to Singapore is about 26 to 27 hours of total travel time including check in; layovers; and waiting for bags to arrive.
My last international trip was almost 20 years ago. I can’t imagine doing it at my current age.
My first trip to the Philippines was Washington to Tokyo to Manila. Door to door was 24 hours. It was brutal with the 12 hour time zone change.
My worst jet lag ever: Iowa to London to Paris to Guangzhou to LA to Iowa — all in under 10 days on the road.
Tornado last night a little too close for comfort. All the boys got to experience that…parents and dogs rushing everyone downstairs.
We were just outside the path.
Living in hurricane country I’ve never experience the “joy” of tornados. The scale is generally smaller, but the concentrated “suck” they provide is truly scary.
For those in those areas can you explain the specialized devices that fedgov installs in the trailer parks that magically attract them?
Sadly, I only have the vinyl and no online link for Martin Mull’s Trailer Waltz song about tornados and mobile homes.
Don’t hurricanes usually spawn off some tornadoes as they pass?
And as to why the trailer parks attract them… they’re large flat areas with little tree coverage or large structures to slow the winds.
I had no idea as generally you are more concerned with the hurricane proper.
https://www.clickorlando.com/weather/2019/09/05/how-can-hurricanes-tornadoes-happen-at-same-time/
This article says yes, but they aren’t particularly strong.
Also because the devastation is spread over such a wide range it takes longer to recover. Last hurricane I had no electricity for 10 days. Roads were impassable for three days alone just because of all the trees.
Sensei:
I figured the hurricane is more destructive than the tornadoes they threw off. When I had a tornado pass a block away, quite a few roads were closed for a couple of days due to downed lines and trees, and I didn’t have steady power for over a week.
There was a tornado in Oak Grove KY when I lived on Ft Campbell. We went fo a coworker of my wife’s house and took a wrong turn coming back and drove through the trailer park it hit. Less than a mile and a half from our place and we had no idea that it had happened the night before.
Concentrated suck you say?
Go on.
Concentrated suck is what you get from a girl who gives really good head.
Well, she’s focused at least.
https://ibb.co/Qx8GGmm
We are the housing development just south of that rotation…
Any adjacent lots you can pick up on the cheep after that?
Thanks for letting us know. Glad you’re okay.
Who Is America’s Homer?
If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions
https://x.com/Plough/status/2066879374167548300
🅱️askerville 🇦🇪
@WB_Baskerville
For there to be an “American Homer” the answer would have to be immediately obvious to everyone, to such a degree that doubting it would immediately mark you as an eccentric. E.g the Italian Homer is Dante. So that this is even a question shows there isn’t one.
Poetry is gay.
Longfellow?
I still have hopes for either SugarFree or DeliciousTacos
Nipsey Russel
It probably means something that the greatest US born poet is English to the core.
Twain.
Because fuck poetry.
My thoughts exactly
This.
Yep. I agree.
Poetry is for people who haven’t invented writing.
Verse is a mnemonic device, not a format for literature.
Agile Cyborg?
Walt Whitman. Next Question.
Ogden Nash
I think I ate too many cherries and sour cherries and strawberries and raspberries the past couple of weeks. Mom’s garden was overflowing of the things.
“Large utility companies are required to submit plans to “encourage, recruit, and utilize” businesses owned by non-whites, women, disabled veterans, and individuals who identify as LGBT.”
All of this shit should be illegal. Does non-white include asians?
Also, I thought it was LGBTQ+ in California?
We all know the answer to that.
I know the ‘tards have declared Japanese to be white, not sure the ruling on Chinese.
In NYC? They generally work hard, value family and education.
We know how large chunks of the left feel about that.
All of that shit IS illegal as far as I believed.
Imagine how much better New York would be if 6,000 of its residents were living here!
https://x.com/edwest/status/2067157618397732985
There are dozens if not hundreds of those across the US. All abandoned.
A small one outside of my hometown that’s being slowly converted into a home. Weirdos painted the brick white. Who paints brick? Other than people that already live in an asylum I suppose.
“Illegal migrant who raped a corpse on NYC subway is slapped with 5 years in prison”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-who-raped-a-corpse-on-nyc-subway-is-slapped-with-5-years-in-prison/
Was that wrong?
Gonzalez boarded the R train, lost consciousness and died on a bench inside the subway car nearly three hours before Rojas showed up and violated him.
He was asking for it by staying on the train.
Meanwhile illegal immigrants convicted of assault on living people in NYC able to feel pain get far more lenient sentences.
JFC.
The Corpse I Fell in Love With.
Fortuneteller: I see a grim future for you. Death comes on the subway, and nobody notices.
Customer: That sucks.
Fortunteller: Wait. It gets worse.
Shoot. You get less time for murder.
So they both were illegals?
Look if that’s your culture who are we to judge?
Irish author Sally Rooney gave a speech last night blaming Israel for the rise of fascism and the far right in Europe and concluding that the “liberation of Palestine represents the liberation of the world”. How very 1930s Europe of her to blame the Jews for everything.
https://x.com/HeidiBachram/status/2067350529835999730
Irish author Sally Rooney is completely ignorant of history and the meanings of various words.
Carry on, the left.
Who?
Technically anyone who has a piece posted here is an author. We’re in her league.
Sadly Jesse Jackson is no longer with us to determine if she should get official endorsement.
Florida Redistricting Pits Democrats Against Each Other—and It’s Getting Messy
Oh my God, there are concerns about Black representation! SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING.
And Gerrymandering is no good anymore!
Black representation
Ain’t got nuthin to do with skin color and everything to do with party color.
Hugh Grant has arrived at Labour’s Makerfield HQ to support Andy Burnham
Hugh Grant got banned from my uni (St Andrews) for partying with 17/18-year-old first-years.
He’ll fit right in with Labour.
https://x.com/NicholasLissack/status/2067349521688900033
looks like something Clavicular would do.
Women have no agency, it is known.
Gotta say, the optics of signing a peace deal at Versailles are not the greatest, considering the last time that was tried.
I can’t imaginot what could go wrong.
That line is just imaginary.
The Imaginot Line?
Is it manned with imaginary cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
Was a boxcar involved?
If not, no problem.
As a child I toured the rail car the Armistice and the 1940 surrender were signed in.
What I don’t understand is how SCOTUS has not definitively and comprehensively struck down these “preferential” programs across the board for being in violation of 14A.
https://archive.is/KPYVW
Thot Thursday.
They are too chicken-shit. Every one of them knows damn well that shit is unconstitutional.
As is every public accommodation law and the 1964 Civil rights law, the voting rights act…
Every single one of them is a member of the urban clerisy, educated in Ivy League schools, with a social circle that is composed entirely of people who think these preferential programs are a Good Thing, perhaps even required.
It’s the same reason they won’t enforce the Second Amendment. They aren’t Icky People, they don’t know any Icky People, so they have no connection to or desire to do Icky People things.
““Lilo & Stitch” star Daveigh Chase was “too far gone” to collect millions of dollars in residuals she had sitting in an account as she spiraled into addiction, her manager told The California Post….
Chase was “too far gone,” allegedly hooked on heroin and fentanyl, to collect the money despite Ryan’s attempts to get in touch with Chase over the years….
Chase died June 17 in Los Angeles shortly after she was hospitalized for malnutrition, TMZ reported her final cause of death was meningitis and an infection in her blood.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/entertainment/lilo-stitch-actress-daveigh-chase-reportedly-had-millions-in-residuals-at-time-of-death/
Sad.
Child star, big money and likely all the bad things that happen to child stars.
Yep. https://amp.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3283701/when-diddy-invited-12-year-old-daveigh-chase-party-former-child-star-known-appearing-lilo-stitch
Karl Rove continues show why I haven’t voted for a Republican since his steel tariffs. I now skim his column in the WSJ to figure out what the current conventional thinking is on Team Red.
You want to drive your faithful to actually vote. And since we now have mail in voting of all kinds this is even easier for Team Blue. These “moderates” barely exist.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/talking-crazy-is-how-you-lose-elections-484f9d24?st=eQo3YA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well, if we’re talking actual voters, I seem to recall independents outnumbering either party.
Voters, pfft. What matters is ballots, and everybody knows it.
“To conclude, modern diff-in-diff methods yield the… old answer: minimum wages reduce jobs. The opposite finding… is the consequence of discretionary, narrow, and unsound… choices that favor that result.”
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2067281773369917735
As one of (((them))), I’m reflexively pro-Israel and have had little issue with them pounding Gaza into a parking lot. What I am not is an interventionist or pro-Israel at the expense of being pro-American. Through that lens, this Iran clusterfuck has been an absolute debacle IMO. We blew up their nuclear facilities last year seemingly with impunity. OK, great; I don’t want Islamofascist lunatics to have a nuclear bomb so I guess I can get on board with that, but why couldn’t we leave it at that? A war of aggression with the objective of regime change is absolutely NOT in US interests. It’s in Israeli interests for sure, and I’m sure the US wouldn’t cry any tears of sadness if the regime went away by other means, but it was never, never, NEVER in US interests to start and conduct the war. I’m not sure how Trump got convinced into doing this, but the knock-on effects are going to be horrible.
1. Commies win the House for sure and maybe the Senate. R gains in key demographics in 2024 are essentially erased instead of being solidified.
2. This has emboldened Woke Right antisemites with a tailor-made argument that the US acts on behalf of the Israeli government.
3. Iran rebuilds and regroups to build a nuclear weapon with even more urgency; they’re not blind to the fact that North Korea isn’t being bombed into oblivion.
This is one of the most retarded own-goals I’ve seen in my lifetime; the pro-war wing of the GOP must be incredibly powerful because they just tore up the party makeover (that was a long-term winner) and threw it in the trash while simultaneously undercutting the only reason Trump won: the economy.
Yup to all of that.
I was willing to play along for “two weeks” but not anymore. Get ready for another 40 years or so of DemSoc “leadership”.
I seriously doubt the deranged DemSocs can hold power for 40 years.
Without massive cheating, at least.
If they do take and hold power for any length of time, I think we can pretty much guarantee the US in its current form won’t last 40 years.
“A war of aggression with the objective of regime change is absolutely NOT in US interests.”
Regime change is in the U.S. interest. Although war wasn’t the way to do it, and I don’t think it was the objective.
Why is Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport called ORD when there is no “d” in the name?
Orchard Douglas Airport
“A woman is facing murder charges after the self-proclaimed “fire goddess” allegedly set her friend’s Honda Element ablaze following a fight over Xanax as two people slept inside with a propane tank nearby.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/18/us-news/fire-dancer-accused-of-trying-to-burn-her-friends-alive-while-they-slept-as-twisted-details-emerge/
Sounds like she needed to relax.
Looks like a Burner chick. Just a little crazier than average.
Only when you want to come.
California woman.
From the world of sports:
https://x.com/barstoolsports/status/2067428861097177381
Noted “bad boy”. 🙄
Oh great, “tornado watch” today here.
A tornado in NY?
It happens.
I had one hit a block away when I was living in Brooklyn.
A F0 hit a town in Western MA.
It did more lasting damage than the F5 that wiped out Moore, since the various levels of government prevented rebuilding.
We had a tornado alert (south-central PA) a couple of nights back, don’t know if it was confirmed.
Looks like something touched down in the next county over.
Just strong storms here.
“‘Ringleader’ of alleged UFC drone attack to kill Trump is unmasked as illegal migrant who was granted DACA stay under Obama”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15910815/Ringleader-UFC-drone-attack-Trump-unmasked-illegal-migrant.html
At least he’s happy?
This is all a little *too* perfect.
It really is.
I watch a lot of old movies. Like ’30s and ’40s movies. An extremely popular category is what I’ll call the Cinderella tale; poor girl/boy jumps the class/wealth divide, finds true love. I watched one last night.
The question I found myself asking was, can you even make something like that now, or has the world become so stratified and security conscious that breaking through the lines has become impossible? Where do the children of the mega rich go to play (under the watchful eyes of their security details)?
You can make it if the cast and crew meet the required race quotas.
Ain’t progressivism great?
You can make it as long as the Billionaire Princess Diva is trans and their lover is a handicapped underaged Black Lesbian who teaches the jaded Billionaire Tranny Diva important lessons about acceptance and being true to themself while overcoming the evil forces of hate represented by a supposedly straight white male, who is oddly Gay coded and likely British.
There is tons of that on Hallmark — rich girlboss falls in love with small town hunk.
If you haven’t played Hallmark Bingo, especially the Christmas Edition, you are truly missing out.
More fun if you have 3-4 people and play a couple of Bingo Cards each.
But wouldn’t that require that you have to watch Hallmark Christmas movies?
“Hundreds more people have been sickened and dozens more hospitalized with an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria being linked to backyard chickens.
In April, the CDC warned of an outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul among people who reported contact with backyard poultry….
In the latest update, published Wednesday, there were 513 total cases, 134 total hospitalizations and one death across 42 states and Puerto Rico.”
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15909091/deadly-bacteria-chickens-eggs-salmonella-outbreak.html
No.
In the largest cluster among the outbreak, the CDC said there is ‘an unusually high number of people reporting contact with ducks.’
If hate birds ever get hold of this biological weapon …
“President Donald Trump turned on the charm Wednesday night as he arrived at the Palace of Versailles for a lavish dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte.
After their trademark extended handshake, which lasted around 10 seconds, and a kiss on each of Brigitte’s cheeks, Trump commended the first couple of France.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15909115/donald-trump-emmanuel-macron-versailles.html
He kissed a boy and he liked it?
What is the status of the lawsuit against Owen?
I haven’t seen anything about it recently.
Alligator Alcatraz Abandoned
All detainees at an immigration detention center in an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” have been transferred to other facilities, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said, citing concerns related to the hurricane season.
The South Florida Detention Center has been praised by President Donald Trump. But its conditions have been harshly criticized by lawyers, families and human rights groups, who have persistently denounced the mistreatment of detainees since the center opened 11 months ago, during the Atlantic hurricane season.
DHS said that all detainees at the Florida state-run facility had been transferred but did not specify how many or where they were taken. Nor did it say whether the facility would close permanently or only temporarily.
We’ll have to find something new to hyperventilate about.
They could have put them up in 4-star hotels and fed them catered meals (like NYC did with thousands of illegal aliens) and it would have been “harshly criticized” by the left because the conditions are not the issue – the border is the issue and those people don’t believe in them.
“No one makes these demands of me, and yet, I feel burdened by them anyway — by the opaque feeling of obligation on a day my birthright says I should have none. The older I get, the less persistent these emotions are. But when they hit, and they always do, it’s a psychic whallop. For a brief moment in time, I’m questioning everything tangentially related to my dual identities (gay guy and June-born person), which can be an exhausting emotional shift when you spend 11 out of 12 months of the year blissfully ignorant of what others in your community might perceive as shortcomings.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/18/pride-month-makes-me-feel-like-an-imposter/
dual identities?
No one makes these demands of me, and yet, I feel burdened by them anyway
This is called mental illness.
See my solution below.
Being a self-absorbed serial whiner isn’t really mental illness.
OMG, that person need to go jump off a cliff.
Then he would also have to identify as a cliff jumper.
At least one of them is retarded.
“reveration of all things queer”
What now?
“English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?”
That sounds sorta binary.
Obviously his identity as a Gemini is primary.
Katie Blankenship, an immigration attorney at Sanctuary of the South, said all 50 clients that she and other attorneys have been providing free advice during the past 20 days have been moved from “Alligator Alcatraz” to other facilities in South Florida, California, Arizona, Louisiana and Texas.
“They are all gone,” Blankenship said. “They have been moved and disappeared into the system and are unavailable to family or counsel, typically for a period of about a week.”
She noted that she hasn’t received any official notice about the transfers, but instead found out because her clients did not appear at hearings or did not show up at calls. When she tried to find out what had happened to them, she located them using the official detainee search tool and saw that they had been transferred to other facilities, Blankenship said.
Those people were only moved out to inconvenience her and her fellow advocates. What a dastardly plan.
Immigrant hide and seek.
“For one, the petitioners argue that these bans on transgender athletes’ participation in sports, should they be upheld, will protect women from injury, allow for competitive fairness and preserve women and girls’ equal opportunity. Countless trans rights advocates and women’s rights organizations have highlighted, however, how such bans ostensibly open cisgender women and girls, particularly those perceived as more masculine for one reason or another, up to invasive body examinations and discrimination.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/18/scotus-cases-on-transgender-rights-test-every-americans-freedom/
There have never been butch lesbians in women’s sports.
And whose fault is that?
Trump, of course.
It’s like voting. Girls don’t have ID.
Not sure why you need invasive body examinations when all you have to do is go into the locker room and look around.
There was that trans volleyball player that no one in the locker room knew was trans until the information came out later. So I’m thinking she had bottom surgery.
Behold the baying mob
A proposal to raise taxes on the wealthiest Californians has qualified for the November ballot, state officials said Wednesday, setting up what could be an expensive and divisive fight.
The so-called billionaire tax — which has divided Democrats in the state — would implement a one-time tax on rich Californians if approved by voters.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said in a statement late Wednesday that the measure was eligible for the ballot this fall after her department verified the required number of signatures submitted by organizers.
There is still a chance, however, that the initiative will not appear on California’s ballot. The proposal’s supporters — led by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, a large California healthcare workers union — have until June 25 to decide whether they want to move forward with their push.
Several groups and lawmakers have for months engaged in negotiations over ways to reach a deal that would appease the unions supporting the tax while also preventing it from appearing on the ballot.
It’s all so simple, really.
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Until there are no rich no more
“one-time”
Pull the other finger.
Correct. And it is written in a way that the taxes could reoccur, and move down the wealth ladder, by a simple say so of the state leg.
FTFY
So I got back from a dentist appointment and fired up my laptop to work from home while workers continue replacing the office’s roof. I discovered immediately that despite payroll having been approved early to be paid early due to the federal holiday, the money having been wired to the payroll processor, and all the reports and pay stubs having been generated, no one has gotten their direct deposit yet.
Latest word is that it should happen before close of business, but I’m glad to be working from a safe distance.
What is the minimum safe distance for a payroll printing snafu?
I’m across town and working from under the bed.
due to the federal holiday
Holiday?
Yes, Pride month. You get the whole month of if you are QUILTBAG. But you have to prove your QUILTBAG status or go to jail.
*unzips*
That just proves your (((status))).
Expecting payment for your work is white supremacy.
I look forward to the foreclosure sale.
you have to prove your QUILTBAG status or go to jail.
Proof is white man colonizer slavery to objective reality. Not fair, man.
On the other side, Rep. Ro Khanna, who also has his eye on a future White House bid, and Tom Steyer, a billionaire activist who ran unsuccessfully for governor, have backed the effort, arguing that it would help close income inequality gaps. Proponents have also made the case that it will help make up for state budget shortfalls as a result of Medicaid cuts in the “big, beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law last year.
A massive wealth transfer to unionized state employees will close the wealth gap. Trust us.
lol Bullshit
When push comes to shove every single Dem will be on board with this. They cannot be otherwise because that is the Party platform now.
Remember when every single Dem presidential candidate stood on the debate stage and declared without hesitation that every illegal alien gets free healthcare? Same shit. They don’t do “divisive”. That’s the Stupid Party’s responsibility.
Those are the Medicaid cuts, afaik.
More state employes should be ionized.
Nothing personal, UCS.
anions or cations?
Looking for a Montana Ranch For Sale? The 2,200± acre Muddy Creek Ranch enjoys a dramatically beautiful setting on the west side of the Shields Valley between the communities of Wilsall and Sedan. The ease of access to the town of Livingston to the southeast and Bridger Bowl Ski Resort and Bozeman to the southwest makes this quiet, ranching community a highly coveted location. A grass-fed beef operation specializing in American Aberdeen cattle, Muddy Creek uses regenerative agricultural practices to produce nutrient-dense, grass-finished beef.
A primary feature of the ranch is its irrigation rights, with an abundance of early priority rights supplying five pivots covering 570± acres, plus additional flood irrigation. Additional water features include approximately two and a quarter miles of Muddy Creek and two ponds. The Muddy Creek headquarters totals 1,407± total acres, including a 180± acre state lease. The headquarters has a ranch residence and entertainment barn, bull pen facilities, one additional residential building site, and full indoor and outdoor livestock working facilities. The Sedan Pasture unit lies three and a half miles west of the headquarters and totals 794± deeded acres with no structural improvements and one building envelope within the eased acreage. The ranch may be purchased in its entirety or as separate parcels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX5dIexCi6g
$13,500,000 Wilsall, MT 2,020± Deeded Acres
For that kind of money, I’d really rather the creek NOT be muddy.
I guess they expect you to already have filtering orphans.
I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know how you filter water through orphans.
Holding the silk cloth across the water flow is trivial. Moving the fish to the other side is the tricky part.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Scotsman who honored his late friend’s request for him to pour fine whiskey on the friend’s grave.
6k an acre.
Tillable that’s high, ranch land it’s really high.
But prices have been nuts for the last six years.
Close to 20k per acre in central Illinois for tillable land
Headlines say children vaccinated for HPV have “near zero” chance of dying of cervical cancer.
Why do I presume they would have a “near zero” chance without the vax?
What was the mortality rate from cervical cancer before the vaccine?
Not being a whore is an easier way not to get cervical cancer.
Did they include troons in the stats?
That shit is poison.
TW:TOS
“Greenpeace and its activists allies have blocked for more than two decades the adoption of Golden Rice, which is genetically enhanced to produce the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene. The result, according to new calculations by DC Abundance founder and research director at the Golden Gate Institute for AI Abi Olvera, is that “delay has killed about 106,000 children and left another 210,000 to 425,000 blind.”
https://reason.com/2026/06/17/over-100000-kids-have-died-due-to-greenpeace-blocking-genetically-enhanced-rice-new-calculation-shows/
CWABOA
Not surprising. They are a death cult just like all those groups.
It’s amazing that they want African kids to die and not just white ones.
No shit, Shirley?
In the two-page voluntary dismissal of Sorsby’s lawsuit, as posted by Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, Sorsby’s lawyers stated this: “On June 15, 2026, Plaintiff was informed by Texas Tech that, notwithstanding the Temporary Injunction Order, the University would not permit Plaintiff to play for his football team during the 2026-27 football season, thereby rendered the relief afforded by the Temporary Injunction Order moot.”
That judge is going to have to appoint himself head coach, next.