The Dutch lost to a better Moroccan team. The Germans lost to a not very good Paraguayan team (and got robbed of a goal). And Brazil beat Japan at the death. I wonder how long these knockout games will be as entertaining as yesterday’s group of them were. There’s a few interesting ones on tap today. Wimbledon is underway. And there’s not much else going on in the sports world right now. So I’m moving on.
What a retarded headline. But it’s what you’d expect. Of course the head of the Executive Branch is in charge of Executive Branch departments. It’s right there in the Constitution. It’s just a shame it took this long for the courts to reinforce that fact after almost a century of there being an unelected fourth branch of bureaucrats.
I ain’t reading this story. But I’ll give my two reasons and you can tell me in the comments if I’m right: They’re poor and they’ve been brainwashed. How did I do?
What the hell is wrong with these people? Oh yeah, they simply don’t give a shit about anybody else, especially children.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha. The kids are gonna be alright.
Holy crap, that’s a lot of cuts. Hopefully they’ll spin Porsche back off on its own so they don’t suffer.
Does the word “temporary” mean anything to these people? They can all go back home or to the countries they’d been ,living in for years before coming to the US. They’ll be fine and so will we without our quasi-slave labor.
I don’t think these are serious people. They could have done this a year ago. They’re not trying to save the bill. They’re trying to save their jobs after ignoring the public for so long that even the passage of it won’t matter for the next election.
They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel with these stories. It says they entered the US through another safe country right there in the first paragraph. SO why did they not stay there (or one of the other safe countries they transited to get here)? Why can’t the media ever ask them that simple question?
I’m sure the bill is shit. Because they’ve all been shit.
Why would people have ever expected it? It makes no sense.
This video cracks me up. The song is solid though. As is this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
“What a retarded headline.”
Was the food bad?
The text of the article is even more retarded, at least the initial couple sentences before I had to tap out.
iNdEpEnDeNt aGeNcIeS!!!!1!
What a farce. What is the constitutional basis for establishing rogue agencies that Democrats get to permanently stack with their toadies, pray tell. “Dramatically expanding Orange Hitler’s power”. Bullshit. Every president has that power.
The absolute levels of gaslighting are insanely high. Light a single match within a square mile of the media and shit will blow sky high.
Hey, “Civil Service Reform” was there for a reason.
What about uncivilservice reform?
That depends on what the proposal is.
Making him a morning person?
How about a torus? Can we reform you into a torus?
@Jar – No, that is not an acceptable shape and would discard all my weight loss progress.
@Ted – Hell No.
lol Exactly.
Even without deliberate selection the regulatory State is going to lean left. When your job is regulating other people’s behavior the ordinary workplace incentives are going to push you toward more regulation not less.
True.
Nuke them from orbit.
Also, any job where there are no real performance standards is going to be catnip to free shit party adherents.
They sure as hell did. The reffing in general for that one was shit.
They were going to get boat raced by the French anyway.
No doubt. Die Mannschaft still sucks.
*sniggers like a schoolboy*
“In 1999, then-President Bill Clinton officially declared June the “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,”
So when is Oral Sex Isn’t Cheating Month?
It depends on what the definition of “is” is.
It’s not cheating when you have a wife like Hillary.
Fair.
Cause Chelsey is Hillary and Janet reno’s child, right? RIGHT???
Webb Hubbell
I dunno… every Track Day enthusiast that I know is itching to get his hands on a Chinese Polsche.
You son of a bitch.
So all of them can assume the Polsche Position?
You mean, the parents? Because who the hell would take children to a Pride Parade, given what everyone knows goes on there?
And I guess public nudity is perfectly legal in Seattle.
Im general the weather solves that problem.
Meaning it should rain on that parade?
They are brainwashed to believe that the squeamish feeling they get at the thought of their kids watching naked men on leashes is bigotry that they must overcome. Teachers belong in the same you don’t hate them enough category as the media.
I don’t know. Feels like it is pillars of salt time again.
This is why I live in a small town known in the immediate news cycle for its Seminary that was just withdrawn from the Methodist list of approved seminaries because they refused to give the thumbs up to gay marriage.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/united-methodist-church-severs-ties-with-asbury-seminary-over-gay-marriage/
fast fwd to 55 seconds
https://youtu.be/7Vy9MhBppMY?si=kEXMLyorSrYkc0a6
What if they’re just in town with their kids doing something else? Do they have to give up their right to be in public because a bunch of scumbags want to walk down the street with their junk out?
Yes, you fucking bigot. Only the worst of the worst Nazis don’t want to expose their children to naked men being leashed around by their ball sack while trannies come and lovingly caress your child’s face.
What *isn’t* wrong with these people?
Yeah, that’s a real case of I hate everyone involved.
Only in June.
The thing that I find really striking about the discussion of ac or the lack thereof in Europe is the implication regarding their energy prices. European energy bills are already several times the size of US energy bills, but that comparison gets magnified when you realize that what is probably the single largest electricity user in our houses is not in theirs. They are paying several times as much to power their lights and appliances as I am paying to power my lights and appliances in my house with ac chilling it down to frigid.
Nice observation.
Their electricity is not just more expensive per household, it’s significantly more expensive per household with significantly fewer power demands.
“energy prices are much higher than in the U.S.”
Yeah, I was surprised that CBS let that bit of honesty slip past the censors.
After the flapdoodle about AC cooking the earth in the previous paragraph but we take what we can get.
That’s why we need to move cooking to electricity, heating too. Need to catch up to Europe on electricity bills.
I already use electricity for both. And my bill for my 4200 ft^2 house is still lower than one of their mouse trap houses.
I am also all-electric by law here in leftopia but my bills aren’t terribly bad.
That’s no joke Fourscore. Here in WA, they aggressively pushed people into electric cars via high gas prices, provided massive subsidies for heat pumps, talked about banning gas stoves etc.
Then their Climate Commitment Act taxes are sending Washington’s traditionally low electrical prices up by 20% over a 2 year period.
“He released a video address touting state policies and spending to provide free meals at school, expand internet access, ramp up renewable energy production, and raise the minimum wage for fast food and healthcare workers.”
Yes, it’s shit.
How can a state keep spending money that it doesn’t have? Isn’t CA deeply in the hole already?
The federal government has been doing the same thing for decades.
I’ve been a VW/Audi fan and owner for almost 30 continuous years and it saddens me to see what they’ve become.
They did this to themselves.
They had a lot of help from the EU.
Yes. EU regulations and labor rules pretty much wrecked everything coming out of Europe. It’s astounding how fast that happened.
It’s almost as though there is a flaw somewhere in central planning. It can’t be that though, so I say we blame the US.
Not just the US. You have to blame Trump first, and KkKaPiTuLiZuM.
It’s a variation of dieselgate.
They should bring back the Beetle.
My mom had one of the last models before being phased out again.
It was the loudest car I’ve ever driven. One could scarcely hear the radio or have a conversation from all the wind and road noise.
I saw a B5 Audi S4 on my drive in this morning. What a beautiful car.
I was definitely privileged to have had one when new.
So many bitch about the evil corporations without putting any blame on the ever increasing government micromanagement.
We were close to perfecting turbo diesel light trucks about 15-20 years ago and then the garbage emissions requirements kicked in.
Do you hate the planet?
Yes, it has been trying to kill me for the last 60 years.
If a train, or even light rail straight from the airport to the cruise port was an economically viable idea, Miami or Fort Lauderdale would’ve already done it.
And in Ft Lauderdale it’s a close commute from one to the other. The airport is quite close to Port Everglades. If ever there were a test case, that would be it. But it’s a shit idea that simply isn’t viable.
I can’t figure out why the Repubs think giving Dems a structural advantage in elections is going to protect the Repub’s jobs. But the AZ Repubs threw away every statewide seat because elections security had the stink of Trump on it, so why not the national Republican Party.
The national republican party hates Trump, because he represents a failure of the system the national republican party helped create where they control who the rubes are allowed to vote for so they always have someone they control. Trump just represents the people these elite despise and want to replace with commies from the 3rd world that will know their place.
Ha most of them were raised in France and Spain. But yeah, “nations” are a very fluid concept in these kind of events.
The funniest thing I heard was that 3 of the Moroccan players are Dutch born and play in the Dutch league, but had not been put on the Dutch team cause they were told they were not the “best”… Guess they showed them Dutch…
Yeah, that happens all the time but sometimes you can get it hot water for talking about it.
You mean like the entirety of the Greek baseball team just being American kids, many of them 3rd or 4th generation, with Greek last names?
“You mean like the entirety of the Greek baseball team just being American kids, many of them 3rd or 4th generation, with Greek last names?”
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Do they do that for “real” international competitions as well or just for the WBC?
It happens every Olympics.
Some kid who can’t make the US Team points to a Great Grandparent from a small Euro country and is suddenly on the team waving the flag of a country they’ve visited twice.
From the ded thred:
This has not been my experience on either Celebrity or Princess. At all. I’ve vaped everywhere on various ships. From stateroom to the buffet to just walking around. I don’t flaunt it or blow out big clouds of vapor. I’ve not only taken my vape off the boat and back on, but brought on new vapes purchased on shore. Security has never once bat an eye, and this is with just putting it in the basket along with phone, wallet, etc.
As if being stuck with 5000 other people in a 50 cubic giraffe sized disney theme park weren’t enough to swear off cruises, having to go through the lovely caress of the equivalent TSA ever single day after wandering through a fake ethnically themed “it’s a small world” “native” village being fleeced for cheap ass-trinkets might do it.
Mmm, ass-trinkets….
Klingons?
What doesn’t everyone have ass-trinkets? Or is that just me?
Wish I could say I did that on purpose…
To be honest, I was thinking of this cartoon:
https://xkcd.com/37/
“Hernandez — one of dozens of tenants in Fuerzas Activas de la Damen, a tenant union affiliated with the All-Chicago Tenant Alliance — has been complaining about the nasty rodent problem in his apartment for months.
The union has claimed that rats and cockroaches plague multiple units and that maintenance concerns haven’t been resolved by building management….
The company also claimed that Hernandez is involved in ongoing eviction proceedings for failing to pay his rent for eight months, and that they have made multiple offers to relocate him to a newly renovated apartment, to no avail.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/29/us-news/chicago-tenant-says-he-woke-up-to-rats-gnawing-on-his-face/
tenant union?
I see signs from the local commies pushing that shit.
I’d never want to be a landlord around here.
With landlords being treated as some form of flophouse manager by most governments these days, I can’t understand why there are any landlords at all.
Fuck it. Let the city handle all rent. That ought to end well.
If you have a single building or house you will go broke. Only big landlords with a lot of properties can make it work.
Spokane city council is discussing a “right to cool” ordinance which would limit indoor temperatures to 80 degrees in rental units.
Uuuuuuuuuugh
Have they researched why they have that rat & roach problem? My bet is they will not diagnose correctly that the problem is that the tenants do not bother cleaning up at all….
I had a friend like that.
His house was absolutely filthy. Filled to the brim with fast food bags and piles of soda cans in the living room that were months old.
And he complained he had bugs.
Yeah, it is always the filthy people complaining about pests… And wanting someone else to solve the problem for them..
I HATE those people.
In 29 Palms we lived in a 4 condo base housing.
We started getting cockroaches after living there 2 years without any bug problem.
The exterminator came and explained that our neighbors had moved out and they kaept trash everywhere and had paths to walk through.
He said the infiltration was so bad that when the fist cleaning lady walked in (with no idea how nasty it was) there were so many cockroaches on the floor, they climbed up her leg.
Because of those pigs, we had to get our place fumigated.
“Santa Claus among 11 busted in Louisiana child sex predator sting”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/30/us-news/santa-claus-among-11-busted-in-louisiana-child-sex-predator-sting/
STIJLTH
Santa Claus is the ultimate pimp because he likes to ho, ho, ho!
Wait until he tells you to come sit on his lap and talk to him about the first thing that comes up…
Traitor to our country!!!
Next up is a timed lock on the refrigerator.
Can a $60 Plastic Cube Solve Our Screen-Time Crisis?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/brick-smartphone-screen-time-6dd4fe69?st=KbBELQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
More than three million people 62 and older owe federal student loans, up from 1.8 million in 2018, according to Education Department data.
JFC.
They’re in Their 60s and Their Student Loans Won’t Let Them Retire
Student loans are following more Americans into what were supposed to be their retirement years
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-debt-retirement-865978d2?st=eTDjKG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
People who neither save, nor pay down their debts, find themselves without savings and with debts. It’s a shocking development!
What system plagued with moral hazard shall we create to “help” them?
We could put a bounty on bureaucrats and journalists to give them an opportunity to make some quick cash!
They’ve had 40 fucking years.
My parents paid less for my entire university education 30 years ago than I paid for my oldest son’s first year of college.
They’re not “having problems” with paying their 40 year old student loans. They’ve been profligate in the rest of their lives and refused to take responsibility for them.
But they “needed” to go on those vacations! They “needed” a new kitchen!
People make poor decisions. News at 11.
And the people suffering from toxic empathy want others to pay for the dumb but totally obvious consequences of stupid decisions, cause consequences are icky…
This is glibertarians. No need for political correctness. You can just type “(mostly) liberal white women.”
Poor people make poor decisions. That’s why they stay poor.
The Family Keeping Watch Over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup
At Bangkok restaurant Wattana Panich, three generations have tended their ‘mother stock’ with military precision and excellent taste buds
Not a new concept as noted in the article. I’d eat there.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-family-keeping-watch-over-a-52-year-old-pot-of-soup-1e72f115?st=RRPCXy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So, like a bread starter?
We probably have food in the freezer with a BUBD back to the turn of the century. Part of the kids’ inheritance.
Morning!
Can one of you sportsglibs explain to me how one gets into Wimbledon? I had assumed there was a qualification process, but is it just “organizers think you’ll bring in crowds?”
If it’s anything like other sports there are some that are chosen because they draw well and some that won other tournaments that qualify them.
Also I read that a lot of current top players don’t want to play it because of UK taxes and being taxed on other earnings over certain periods of time outside the UK.
I didn’t follow it closely because I don’t care about UK tax laws.
1) Be high enough in the rankings six (IIRC) weeks before the start of an event.
2) For lower-ranked players, there’s a pre-qualifying tournament the last several spots.
3) Tournaments depending on the size have a number of wild cards they can give out, generally to promising local-ish players, but sometimes to a top player who didn’t sign up before the deadline. I assume you’re asking about über-asshole Serena Williams, who got one on the basis of being a famous name.
Yup. NPR sports was saying it had been four years since she competed, which struck me as a rather odd qualification for a major tournament.
Not surprising. German industry is on its last legs because it is too expensive to build anything there. Their only hope is if the Chinese house of cards collapses first.
The next decade in global economics will be fun to watch.. As long as you are not in one of those countries…
The EU is cooked in the western nations, especially the UK and Germany, and Xi’s shit combined with the demographic changes in China promises to make the crappy days of the Soviet economy look tame.
After VAR review, Titty Tuesday was offside.
https://archive.is/1CcbN
“Sydney Sweeney shows off her famous cleavage in a low-cut top as she poses with locals during surprise visit to hot spot on the Gold Coast”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15940201/Sydney-Sweeney-cleavage-Australia.html
Are we still at war with Iran?
The reflecting pool has replaced concern about a conflict effecting global energy.
Chatbots Are Replacing Therapists With Little Scientific Evidence Behind Them
Experts warn that chatbots shouldn’t take
the place of therapytheir jobshttps://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/chatbots-are-replacing-therapists-with-little-scientific-evidence-behind-them-584a1532?st=F3htXt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What’s so bad about replacing therapists with little scientific evidence behind them? I’d think unscientific therapists should be replaced.
Precisely.
“We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs”
In local news….
I got my US visa approved today.
Enjoy!
🥳
So, when are you going to be where we can pester you?
well best plan at this point will be end of July in the Gulch. For a full US trip no idea.
Please keep us updated, as I’d like to try to say hi.
I have my Toronto plane ticket bought and paid for. I now am in the stage of figuring out if there is any chance of reaching the gulch without renting a car and the answer seems no 🙂 But I can rent a car I spose
Given the location, you would be looking at a rental. It’s a just a reality of most of this country.
Rent a car and experience America as it is meant to be.
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Yay!
Excellent!
Make life hell for OMWC’s nightmare employee!
Is OMWC’s cafe open at night?
So they invited you in?
The right one?
“I asked Brynn Tannehill — a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, former naval aviator, trans activist and author who is now a resident of Canada — about what she is feeling as the holiday approaches. “I’m not sure I can say I love the U.S. anymore,” she said. “What is happening goes beyond ‘doesn’t love you back”: The U.S. voted for a man, and a party, that promised to eradicate transgender people, everyone like me, from public life.””
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/30/america-turns-250-not-everyone-is-celebrating/
OFFS!
The U.S. voted for a man, and a party, that promised to eradicate transgender people, everyone like me, from public life.
Citation, please. Just because nobody is required to go along with your apparent delusion, it doesn’t mean you’ve been “eradicated”.
The freaks lie to fools in order to get them to support the agenda of making all people worship at the altar of Bhaal, instead of ignoring the freaks as was done forever before.
Tell “her” it’s OK. It’s how I feel about NJ. My family has been here since before the American revolution, fought in the Civil War and more. NJ most certainly doesn’t love me and wants me out of the state.
I’ve been told this explicitly and publicly by a former NJ governor.
Somehow I’ll get over it.
The International Magazine
@TheIntlMagz
A powerful moment in Graz as Austrian communists celebrate their historic result by singing “The Internationale.” 🚩
https://x.com/TheIntlMagz/status/2071647790049210527
“A woman known as Jane Doe 4 in the Jeffrey Epstein files is “staying off the grid” and lives in fear of retaliation from the Trump administration amid an escalating controversy over its handling of her case, according to a family member….
The woman had four interviews with FBI agents in 2019 that keep resurfacing in the Epstein sex-trafficking scandal. She made unproven allegations she was abused by the New York financier in the 1980s, then sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, when she was between 13 and 15 years old. The White House has called her allegations “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence”, a claim it said was supported by the fact that the Biden administration’s justice department knew about the allegations but “did nothing with them”…..
Journalists at NPR and elsewhere used the woman’s case file number to discover other missing records. Under pressure, the justice department in March released three additional interviews with Jane Doe 4, which included her fuzzy memory of an alleged 1980s encounter with Trump after she said Epstein introduced her in New York or New Jersey.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/alleged-epstein-victim-trump-accuser
Anonymous forty-year old allegations?
There is no need for a trial with such strong evidence.
Rape is bad.
Pedophilia is bad.
Orange Man is Bad.
QED Orange Man is a pedo rapist!
“Pedophilia is bad.”
Not sure they agree on that.
Or not – I don’t care. Either way, it’s not a US responsibility to feed and care for the wretched refuse of the earth.
Geoffrey Lean
@GeoffreyLean
Every £1 of public money invested in net zero delivers between £ 2.20and £4.10 in return says top economist @MazzucatoM
citing official figures. Gives the lie to all to that stuff about the huge cost of it.
https://x.com/GeoffreyLean/status/2071339922242380245
Spend a trillion you get 4 trillion. Free money glitch!!!!!
So, Mazzucato is a brazen liar. Got it.
Boy is he. No way he is that retarded to believe the verbal diarrhea coming from his mouth.
Mazz is a she
Good. I feel even better misgendering.
The return is only for the insiders involved.
Every public pound wasted wastes four private pounds, possibly more. I have no doubt this is true.
A group of activists have “renamed” several iconic London Underground stations as the UK struggled through a record-breaking heatwave with highs of 37C.
https://x.com/Independent/status/2071569427380748324
edgy and brave.
You know why.
“Attacks from federal and state governments marred a month of celebration, including in states with explicitly pro-LGBTQ+ elected officials and policies in place. And as other communities face attacks – whether through ICE’s deportation campaign or repression against protesters exercising the first amendment in speaking out against it – the American history LGBTQ+ people seem to be holding up most is one of protest and riot, a legacy that traces back to the country’s founding.
“My understanding of what democracy is is not what the American experiment actually did or is currently doing, because of the history of slavery, because of white supremacy, because of the way the federal government is treating immigrants,” said Christen Clifford, who spent the week protesting. “Our freedoms are all intrinsically tied together, and so in an America that is celebrating its 250th anniversary, we deserve more.””
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/30/nyc-queer-community-america-250-birthday
“But since Donald Trump retook office, multiple New York City hospitals have pre-emptively stopped providing gender affirming care over the threat of losing federal funding.
“We’re longtime New Yorkers. We thought we were safe here,” said Clifford, a queer mom of two.
Both of Clifford’s kids received gender-affirming care through local hospital NYU Langone, and she spoke highly of that care – except that her youngest, 17, had their care denied part of the way through after the Trump administration threatened hospitals with federal funding cuts.”
Ass munching by proxy.
This longing for “democracy” seems misplaced by these trans folks. If America was a true democracy, where the will of the majority ruled, I doubt the trans folks would be very happy with the results. Nor would criminals, illegal immigrants, minorities, socialists, commies, pacifists, and most libertarians and others at the extreme ends of the bell curve.
“Members of the Airheads of Colorado march during the Pride Parade in Denver on Sunday”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2026/jun/28/pride-parade-celebrations-gallery
We demand to be taken seriously!
Yesterday’s interview went remarkably well, and these should be my last three days at Meijer. The end of the interview was more of an intro to how the trainer and I would get me up to speed. Exquisitely positive.
I hope to soon join Costanza in the real-estate game. The last couple Cubs games have been dramatically exciting, as well.
*Fingers crossed* and we’ll see. Up and atom.
https://x.com/KNTFootball/status/2071680156351988029
For those who want to bitch about not being able to see tweets:
https://www.news18.com/sports/football/south-koreas-coach-booed-by-fans-in-airport-upon-return-home-after-world-cup-disaster-watch-ws-l-10181212.html
This video cracks me up.
The story is that they gained some new fans from that video because people thought that was seriously their look. Lemmings gonna lemming.