Good morning one and all to another exhilarating day!
Oil Prices Fall After US, Iran Pause Attacks
Controversial anti-Trump Judge Boasberg keeps ruling against POTUS, but keeps getting overturned
Democrats Mortgage Headquarters for $15 Million to Bail Out of Their Financial Fiasco
Dr. Fauci’s bizarre fame fixation as COVID deaths mounted revealed in newly released diaries
Fauci Toadies Privately Called Lab Leak Theory ‘Highly Likely’ While Publicly Shutting It Down
GAO says fraud risk high in $1.1T of state-run federal programs
Texas AI Startup Aims to Empower Everyday Americans As Ron Paul Joins Advisory Team
Poll: Most Americans Say Cost of Living Is Worst Ever
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Will food prices ever fall?
As soon as you get the warm embrace of socialism and have to stand on line for your free food…
If people are willing to stand in line to get it it must be good …
You don’t like being valuable?
Eggs.
Saturday I bought a half dozen for $0.74
Not sure whether that’s high or low, as I onl occassionally buy eggs, eyren, or whatever you want to call them
Wasn’t that due to some bird flu nonsense?
Yes and no, a few weeks ago they were at their lowest price in 10 years.
Eggs are down to $2.19 for 18.
I don’t know where that is compared to before the Big Egg Freakout.
Strips were $7.99/lb this weekend.
Why do you hate the new normal?
People have to eat. One more way to control the masses.
Not while Trump keeps fucking around in the Persian Gulf. Fertilizer is made from natural gas. Farm equipment and the trucks the deliver food to the groceries all run on diesel.
Doritos have lowered prices because of GLP-1 sales.
“The complaint was ultimately dismissed by another federal judge, who concluded it did not establish misconduct.”
Retards all the way down?
I have zero faith in our legal system not punishing me for my politics.
Clearly impeachment as envisioned by the founders is not an effective tool to reigning in rogue judges. So many can’t seem to follow the law, yet no action is ever taken.
My biggest hangup on recommending a replacement or augmentive mechanism is that I keep coming up with ideas that can be weaponized against people who are doing their jobs by bad actors.
At least I recognize the flaws in my ideas.
Any mechanism that can be used to easily remove bad actors can be used to remove the ones you like. I am increasingly convinced that it is impossible to move forward as a nation with the populace split between two systems of morality which are mutually contradictory, and we have that now.
Yup and any “fix” is going to be ruinous.
Reality is going to prevail ultimately, but not necessarily cleanly.
That’s the case for nearly anything. Any system that can be used by good people to punish bad people can be used by bad people to punish good people. If you say “We can’t do anything about those bad people because it creates a risk that something can be done to good people”, you won’t ever do anything.
There’s no point in making it really easy to abuse, however.
It’s the fundamental contradiction of government – those who make the rules don’t have to obey them.
Rules are for the plebes…
The Anti-Federalists warned against this – that lifetime appointment and independence would lead to judicial tyranny.
The worst part of the problem is that this erodes the only thing that sustains judicial independence, and that is trust. Trust requires humility on the part of people in power (any power, judicial or otherwise) and we’re running real fucking short on that these days.
Trust is capital, unless you replenish it faster than you spend it it goes away and the core of ‘skin suiting’ is spending the trust capital of the institution without replenishing it. This is probably the area in which I am most black pilled. The progressive march through the institutions has squandered the capital those institutions depend on. The Populist right is fighting back against the Progressives, but not in Conservative or restorative ways. It’s understandable that they adopt the left’s tactics, it’s probably necessary that they do so, but those tactics cannot restore trust. As you say that requires the humility to put the credibility and honor of the institution ahead of your personal or political desires. Once even one side stopped doing that the institution was doomed.
You can’t have that kind of trust among people who lack common cultural, or even intellectual, anchors.
Good government can only exist among a cohort of people who think in broadly similar ways. In our current multicultural non-reality…good government is every bit the utopian fantasy that anarchism is. More so even, because anarchy will actually happen (though probably not for very long…)
That is also true. The idea that you can have a multi-cultural society ignores what makes a society. And it is worse than merely creating an ongoing conflict that you hope the civilized win. Inviting savages inside the walls gives away the advantages of civilization over savagery. The wealth and advancement that civilization allows you to accumulate can keep the barbarians outside the gates, but they struggle to overcome them once inside.
Good government can only exist among a cohort of people who think in broadly similar ways.
Franklin’s …can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
I don’t think we’re quite there yet, but the path is plain to see.
“That is also true. The idea that you can have a multi-cultural society ignores what makes a society.”
That’s the racket. You can have a successful multiethnic society, as long as all subscribe to the same societal beliefs and customs. You can’t have a successful multicultural society, especially when some of those cultures have diametrically opposed values that lead to conflict, period. Diversity is our strength is a massive lie if the diversity is in culture.
The left has been playing that game since at least the sixties. Star Trek is my first memory of it.
It’s hard to believe the post-modern freaks who pushed it were doing so for anyone’s benefit but their own destructive sadism.
Trek had ethnic and sex diversity, but all crew members where of the same culture.
“Trek had ethnic and sex diversity, but all crew members where of the same culture.”
^^^^THIS^^^^
Again, multiethnic works if we all share the same culture. Diversity from multiculturalism, will never work for blatantly obvious reasons….
Specifically, I had a Vulcan quote in mind, something like “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” or some twaddle like that. I read it one of the books and I think even Spock went there once or twice.
But yeah, on a ship everyone’s culture was “Federation”.
Star Trek also had a perfectly accurate model of human social behavior, and an unaccountable technocratic bureaucracy (backed by a highly efficient secret police) that kept everyone in line with it.
Gene Roddenberry was an old-school scientific socialist, and everything about Star Trek reflects his views of human perfectibility…
ES except of course Kirk edging around the prime directive nearly every episode.
“ES except of course Kirk edging around the prime directive nearly every episode.”
Star Trekking across the universe…
Always going forward, cause we can’t find reverse…
And Kirk’s mission was to bang as much strange as he could..
Impeachment is designed specifically to prevent its being politicized. And the prime example of that is the Dems hard push on Trump and how it was doomed to failure. The recorse on judges is that the opinions are subject to higher scrutiny by higher courts on appeal, with the knowledge that it takes the full senate to approve any one judge at the federal level.
All of that is to reflect that the law is subject to interpretation, and the judiciary is, again, by design, the long tails of public thought on any given matter.
I think the exercise is scoped wrongly in the first place. You can’t fix widespread moral failings by process. That’s enlightenment twaddle.
The process is effective only insofar as it prevents mistakes and emotional overreach from a generally moral people. As we have seen over the past century, a motivated and malicious subculture will easily change the definition of words to get their way, and there’s nothing in the process that will stop them. It only slows them down somewhat as they try to avoid detection by the masses.
Exactly – Franklin’s admonition had not a damn thing to do with our contemporary foibles, it had everything to do with what is timeless with humans.
They couldn’t rent it out to illegal aliens and underage hookers?
Is this the new plot of the remake of The Illiad?
Rent what out?
The DNC building.
They were already there as guests.
Sounds redundant
“Former Congressman Ron Paul has joined the advisory team of Lineage, a Texas-based artificial intelligence company whose first product, Bishop, is designed specifically for families, small business owners, and local organizations.”
They never saw Alien?
I’m gonna be honest. The last few interviews I’ve seen with Ron Paul make me question how far down the dementia path he is.
I dont think his seal of approval is worth what it was 10 years ago because I have no clue who is actually pulling the trigger on those things. I’m fairly certain it’s not him, at least in any meaningful sense.
Seems like he’s becoming more of a nutter. I used to watch his show but it’s too much for me too.
Kind of like Kim Dotcom, who used to have interesting things to say but I unfollowed him after the second prediction of “My unimpeachable sources tell me Israel will drop a nuclear bomb on Iran in the next 24 hours”.
The Fauci+fame story is predictably infuriating. What I didn’t see is his legacy-making kick, as I can easily see his zeal tempered by ‘legacy’ of his fuck-up with AIDS. And with COVID, ya know, he did the same thing. ‘Ya can get COVID by sharing bathrooms! Or HUGGING! Or BEING IN THE SAME PLACE! Ya get it extra hard if you’re gay!’
*Chippendale dancer peeks in* ‘Extra hard, didja say?’
He deserves to be remembered as the fuck who funded gain-of -function research, had it slip out, and he shut down society because he was too afraid to let his involvement be let known. Cuz it’d make his legacy even worse. That swarmy li’l goblin gnome.
I’m leaning more towards the whole affair was a deliberate test run. Now they know how easy it is to control the world.
It was at least well documented how easy it was for the Masses to be swayed into (further) domination.
Much nodding was done.
I hate more than anything an arrogant SOB like Fauci. But even worse, people’s lives were ruined or even lost because of this asshole’s lies. And that didn’t matter one bit to him.
Hubris is supposed to be met by nemesis, or so the ancient Greeks believed. Where, oh where, are the Fates?
“Fauci Toadies Privately Called Lab Leak Theory ‘Highly Likely’ While Publicly Shutting It Down”
This is a fake. As late as March 2020 USAAMRID had all the details of their Wuhan lab research work, and the Kung Flu was one of the top 5 viruses they were working on for “vaccine and gain of function” research, for anyone with the clearance to look at. That all disappeared overnight when Fauci and his cabal decided to tell the lie and use this event to undermine US national security and rig the 2020 election for the globalist marxists cabal’s chose crypt keeper.
Ooooooh, two cabals in one!
You better believe it.
I just can’t believe that a pack of psychopaths sat down together and worked out and executed a years-long plan to kill millions and squander trillions by deliberately developing and releasing a bioweapon, all to get rid of Donald Trump.
If that’s who we are up against, then it’s game over. A cabal that can pull that off can do whatever it wants, to whoever it wants, for any purpose it wants.
It’s Alextown. Not believing any of it is a wise move.
Most disasters happen from a series of ad hoc decisions not a grand plan. I think this one was no different. At each stage people acted selfishly, shortsightedly, and often dishonestly, because in that moment they thought that action would give them something. Then when it produced predictably disastrous results, they took the next ad hoc action.
Or you could just believe that the system has been taken over by control freaks who are constantly developing tools to control people “just in case” they might be useful later on.
And then Trump shows up on day . . . .
Much more than that – he just happened to be in the way and it was definitely a plus to take him out.
I don’t know any of this, of course, but it’s no less believable than all the other conspiracies that are turning out to be true.
“I just can’t believe that a pack of psychopaths sat down together and worked out and executed a years-long plan to kill millions and squander trillions by deliberately developing and releasing a bioweapon, all to get rid of Donald Trump.”
Getting rid of Trump was incidental to the plot of the global reset. People need to read that Klaus Schwab book called “The Global Reset” that he published in 2018… He spells the whole thing out. If Trump had not been there, we would not have a clue they played us and be living in a much different world (well, those of us they had not killed off yet would). Trump derailed that. and the poor way they handled him prevented them from fulfilling the plan after with the puppet they put in for Obama 3.0. Have no doubt that these people call Trump and people that believe in national sovereignty fascist and Nazis, because they really need the populous at large to accept that premise so they will go along with the effort to exterminate them.
Alex, this shit goes all the way back to Eisenhower. Sure the decay gets worse the longer it hangs around, but it isn’t like this all came into existence post 9/11.
My theory is that they knew right away it was one of their viruses, they just didn’t know which one. That’s where “2 weeks” came from – they had an “oh shit” moment in which they thought they had just made humans extinct. Then they saw it was only killing vulnerable people, and dozens of interests realized they had a crisis too good to waste. The CDC could finally try out those pandemic plans they’d been working on. The drug companies saw $$$. The politicians saw a chance to grab power. Big business saw a way to shut down smaller competitors. And we all suffered for it.
Let’s also not forget that the germ-phobic Commander-in-chief abdicated his role of soothing the panicked masses to his scientific gnome.
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals.”
“Alex, this shit goes all the way back to Eisenhower. Sure the decay gets worse the longer it hangs around, but it isn’t like this all came into existence post 9/11.”
I am well aware of the when it started. Brent Woods and all that. At that point the agenda was to fight communism and model the world on America and American values and systems. But the shit really went stupid and evil when the third generation of inept losers running things decided that to avoid conflict with CCP China in a far away future, they would give China capitalism – and in the process getting stupid rich, while wrecking the American middle class, which was necessary for Americans to accept global government, and thus creating a new global hereditary aristocracy for their offspring – and then FUBARed the reset and ended up with Trump playing spoiler. Freedom became a problem because stupid people, which is what they needed to foist this new evil on us, kept making real bad choices.
I understood the Brent Woods agreement. Not support, but understood. What we have now is outright evil and run by inept kleptocratic assholes. Nobody should want any of this marxist shit.
Music for Alex:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YgUDSbHJCx4
to fight communism and model the world on America and American values and systems.
As God said to do, right?
Not our fucking job – not in the Constitution and not the reason this country was founded.
they would give China capitalism
Oh, are you forgetting how we lost China? Remember it was ours to decide what to do with – God’s mission for America!
I see you bring God up as a snide JI. Interesting…
And I told you I understood that agreement back when. Not that I was for it. If we are going to play empire, lets do it all the way. If not, do not.
You’re the one that’s willing to be a half-hearted Wilsonian. I give no quarter to anyone who gives him any credit.
Fuck Wilson. As I said: if we are going to play empire, lets really do it. If not, let the world burn.
Can you imagine the chaos if that money was kept by the taxpayers to spend as they see fit?!
How would the wannabe aristocrats maintain their standard of living if you proles keep your money?
They could learn a trade and be productive members of society.
We already have two much prosperity UCS, increasing that wouldn’t solve the problem of the human need for parasitic drain.
You don’t want three much prosperity, JI?
Ted S., it would just make four more problems.
Thr portion you quoted is the point, of course.
Indeed.
“Feature, not bug.”
What the article didn’t mention is that every layer is also a new place to skim.
The rubes wouldn’t spend that money properly to help support Nepalese transgender people, bigot!
Or to bomb Iran!
While technically correct, the alternative is programs run entirely by the government, which suffer from severe lack of accountability, terribly inefficiency, and generally poor service.
If a program is going to exist, having the government act as sponsor and regulator of said program keeps government doing the things it is marginally better at, like regulation, monitoring, and enforcement – and private actors doing the part they are good at – building things, running programs.
If you don’t believe me, read up on the history of HUD and the tax credit program- especially the bit prior to the Reagan administration.
And every layer is made up of often unionized Democrat voters.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin
“A Rhode Island dad leaving a remote Connecticut cabin after the Fourth of July claims he came face to face with a Bigfoot — and answered everyone’s question — confirming the mythical creatures have no breasts….
The beast also had no visible genitalia or other anatomy signifying its sex, according to Outkick.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/rhode-island-dad-claims-he-saw-bigfoot-in-connecticut-woods-and-detailed-that-it-had-no-boobs/
STEVE SMITH GROWER NOT SHOWER
Furry Camp?
I like the steam-punky truck driver. She’s cute. Nice boots.
Today’s Day 1 of Week 3. Rumor has it we’re gonna be busy, and I’ve heard the end of months really are such. May be having a meeting with my higher-ups, along with Other New Dude, but I feel much more positive about such, now. Should go well. I don’t wanna be swamped with work today, but enough to keep busy and get my eye more in on the SureClose system we use.
Not difficult work, but many shells to look for in their different sandy spots. Kick ass and do well with your work and lives, as well.
“The United Cajun Navy said that they’ve never spoken with Nolan Wells’ family attorney Ben Crump – despite the lawyer claiming the group told him bombshell information about the condition the teen’s body was found in.
The volunteer search group took to social media to blast statements made by the prominent civil rights attorney at a Wednesday press conference where he said that the Cajun Navy told him that Wells was “fully clothed” when he was found two days after he went missing from Horn Island off the Mississippi coast.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/united-cajun-navy-said-theyve-never-spoken-to-nolan-wells-family-attorney-ben-crump-despite-his-claims-they-have/
Is there anything to this story, or are people just desperate to find racism everywhere?
People desperate to find racism to gleam some grift from a kid who swam in bad seas and drowned.
Pretty sure it’s the latter, but I’ve been ignoring it as hard as I can, so *shrug*.
Same.
Hmmm.
I could buy* a backup for me EDC, or for the same price, buy an optic (the only one that fits!) for my RM calibration gun.
https://www.sigsauer.com/romeo-x-sig-loctm-compact.html
I am starting to really hate SIG.
*I have an employee discount voucher, plus $250 in store credit from the last match I worked at SIG.
Do you really need an optic for a gun that you’re only going to use to test poppers with? Aside, wouldn’t it make sense for the calibrations guns to be provided by the match? I’ve always wondered about that.
(Not really. Money.)
Anyway, go for the backup EDC gun. Backup guns make the shooting life much easier.
Apparently my S2 is a bit snug borewise, or has a magical go-fast barrel. When I was ARMing A7 I was using the official calibration ammo, and the unofficial even lighter calibration ammo (Ely PCC) and I was always at least PF128, with one day being 133. I already own a 365 Fuse (thanks for the random drawing prizes, SIG!), and that’s actually the only thing I own in the 4″ range. I was also considering buying a backup EDC AND the optic for it so I could perform calibrations with a 3.1″ gun for the lulz, but that would involve too much out of pocket for this moment in time.
Also, as far as the “do you need?” well, no. BUT. I do like stacking my shot on top of the competitors hit if it’s in the scoring zone, and that’s a lot easier to do if I can look at it. That resulted in a successful challenge at A7 and the RM who was my training wheels was unhappy that I did it. IMO, I was demonstrating that a legitimate scoring hit did not knock down the popper and said RM could take the us-v.-them attitude of his and stuff it up his ass. I will of course never say such a thing until I have my cert in my fat little fist.
TMI
Maybe he meant to say that gun people are smug bores?
/jk
Speaking of, time for a colonoscopy!
shoot the shit?
I have an Olight brand Osight I’m not using.
So do I. SIGs don’t make use of the mounting bosses found on normal optics, regardless of the external footprint. So either they slide around or have all the recoil taken up by the mounting screws.
“Paige Lorenze got into a surprising beef with a local Nantucket business over their “No influencers” sign….
Lorenze commented, “If you call yourself a feminist but proudly put up a ‘No Influencers’ sign, it’s worth asking who you are attempting to delegitimize, and why…”
She continued, “Mocking women when they become powerful in a new industry isn’t new. It’s just a strange message coming from a store that celebrates a craft with such a rich history of women shaping the island and its economy.””
https://pagesix.com/2026/07/26/celebrity-news/tennis-star-tommy-pauls-wife-goes-on-lengthy-rant-against-nantucket-store-with-no-influencers-sign/
CWAC
Still would tho.
Mocking women when they become powerful in a new industry
Since when is whoring new?
That poor guy, I like him. Did not know he was married to… that. But aren’t they all?
Reasonable question, and I’ll answer it for them. They’re trying to ‘delegitimize’ useless annoying people who do nothing but beg for attention and take up space.
Influencers have this annoying tendency to insist on “paying” for product or services in “Exposure” to their “followers” who would never do business at the establishment anyway.
This too is part of the parasitic drain in our economy, proving that even government can’t fully provide that function.
Of course, influencers can shop there. What they can’t do is use it for their own business and benefit by using it as a prop for their “look-at-me” videos.
I’d personally prefer it if influencers weren’t allowed to shop there, or anywhere.
🙄
I’m trying to find documentation on methods used for draining literal swampland to make it arable, and my searches keep dredging up political screeds.
I know why, but I really need to up my internet searching game.
Much as I would enjoy teasing you about this, I think it’s less your game and more that search engines/AI lack the faculty needed to avoid giving the most popular results the key words could possibly refer to, no matter what terms you add.
I read recently that the pine forests burning near Bordeaux were planted as part of a swamp-draining process.
Ask in Dutch?
Pol Pot also drained some swamp or something…
Mussolini drained the swamps around Anzio.
IIRC, extreme NW Ohio (Toledo and/or westward) was swampland, so that might be a more recent example of swamp draining than European examples.
Look at St. Petersburg. It was built on swamp; there might be some historical accounts of how it was done. I think it involves a combination of digging canals for drainage and hauling in fill.
Don’t forget the corpses of tens of thousands of serfs used to bolster that city’s foundations.
I don’t think a single article could tick more stereotypes. It starts right from the picture.
Townhouse Life Wasn’t For Them. A Downtown Loft Turned Out to Be a Perfect Fit.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/manhattan-loft-renovation-980ac78e?st=isvjuD&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
OMG that pic
*diving in when work allows*
Fabulous!
Im reminded of when Stern would play the Rip Taylor sound bite:
Hello, Frisco!
Ha that was him? I know the exact clip.
To be fair I’m not “handy” either but I didn’t luck into Google millions like they did. 🙄
Ridiculous as advertised.
I thought the NYT was the natural outlet for that kind of pretentious twattery, not the WSJ.
They have a similar real estate section.
They failed to squeeze a Miata into the picture.
It’s a loft. It’s probably parked in a corner somewhere.
That headboard though…
Yeah, hideous.
Proof we don’t all have taste.
“Look what we’ve done here. I almost cried,” he tells the crew, laughing loudly just after U.S. strikes on Iran began in February. “How long have we been pushing this?”
He then tells the crew that Trump was equally happy about the war. “I talked to Trump this morning, he’s jacked, he said, ‘best thing I have ever done.’ He loves blowing stuff up.”
Unreleased Documentary Footage Captures Graham’s Obsessive Push for Iran War
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/lindsey-graham-iran-war-netanyahu-call-598b1e85?st=KGwYFZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
lol These things happen.
ugh misthread.
Maybe one of them got hit by a bus.
I heard a trip to Puerto Rico can fix a bus accident.
There is still a housing bubble in DFW and Houston. I do not know if housing prices will flatten here or pop and go down. Hell of a lot of people moved here. This started as far back as the 1990s, so the past few years are just another wave.
The constant drumbeat of stories about everyone fleeing to Texas and Florida is wearing thin.
I have been reading the exact same story my entire life. All they need to do is swap in different dates.
I suppose the twist this time is building isn’t catching up with demand? Is the fault of regs or illegals, I wonder.
Building is catching up, I had no problem. Landlocked cities like the center of Dallas are definitely going to have skyrocketing prices. I move further out into the country since my house in the mid-metroplex printed money when I sold it.
In the Austin area in 2008-2010 it briefly went down and stayed flat and then took right off again. We’re overbuilt for apartments right now, and apartment rents have been dropping, but housing prices have remained fairly steady and new starts are still going crazy.
Seattle would still be red hot, but the commies have already kicked one leg out from the table and are working hard on kicking another.
Carolyn Travis was smitten by a man she met in an entrepreneurship course. It took a spreadsheet to realize the relationship was doomed.
After a few dates, the 27-year-old debriefed her two best friends over lunch. When she went to the bathroom, they got to work. They plugged Travis’s core values into an app one of the friends built to assess compatibility. Then they entered everything they knew about her date, an engineer more than a decade her senior.
The first thing I do is have ChatGPT create a compatibility spreadsheet on my dates. I have to use ChatGPT because I’ve lost the ability to reason and to actually create a spreadsheet as well.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/dating-singles-love-hackers-spreadsheets-711a493b?st=YqkM3h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I think it’s time for humanity to die off and let the cockroaches have their shot…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-protests-education-cockroach-party/
She would be a hard no if f O was single. I have a feeling that I would probably be single forever if I was not married at this point. I have not met a single woman my age that isn’t hard left for years.
Attractive right leaning women are spoiled for choice. Left leaning men would be as well, except they tend to not be what women actually prefer.
Imagine a piece like this about men evaluating their dates with women.
Careful, talking about that gets you charged with sex trafficking
It would be interesting to see what model inputs men choose compared to women.
***lights the Q signal***
Not all men . . . .
Old men of course are excluded kinnath. I wouldn’t want to be a young man these days.
“Did you vote for Donald Trump?”
You don’t need a spreadsheet.
^^^^THIS^^^^’
And then you get to see them cheat on their beta husband/boifirend with the alpha that thy can’t have a relationship with…
These women are nuts…And self destructively stupid.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
There still are some good kids out there. We just don’t recognize them.
“Plans for the world’s first octopus ‘megafarm’ have been cancelled amid a flurry of ethical and environmental concerns.
Nueva Pescanova, a Spanish seafood group, was aiming to build the aquaculture project in the maritime hub of Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands….
In particular, scientists had slammed the group’s decision to intensively farm sentient animals that are capable of feeling pain and experiencing emotions.”
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16007583/octopus-megafarm-CANCELLED-sentient-concerns.html
OFFS!
I’m okay with this. Octopi (and squid) have demonstrated sufficient intelligent behavior that I’m not real comfortable eating them.
If the squid demonstrates intelligence promote it to petty officer and you’ve solved the problem.
Octopus maze – Mark Rober
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__r4FVj-EI
Then again, pigs are as intelligent as some dogs, yet…bacon.
Ranking of Animal Intelligence
1. Humans
2. Dolphins
3. Ravens
4. Pigs
5. Chimpanzees
6. Elephants
7. African Grey Parrots
8. Octopuses
9. Bonobos
10. Rats
11. Pigeons
12. Crows
13. Dogs
14. Cats
15. Horses
16 Squirrels
according to https://sentientmedia.org/which-animals-are-most-intelligent/
Dogs over cats?
Doubt.
Dogs aren’t exceptionally smart. They just excel at “connecting” with humans.
17: Socialists
Inorite?? Cats are smarter than dogs. Cats just don’t give a shit about your “approval.” 🙄😼
2 questions – 1) what are their views on abortion.
2) only a handful of animals don’t feel pain.
This was my understanding too.
The Democrats message since Trump arrived on the scene has been that they are going to save Democracy from OMB and his fascists.
So it is weird to see that the DSA/Dems are now trumpeting their goal to get rid of the Senate, Supreme Court and President.
Has any journalo asked the Dem leadership to square that circle? “How can you ‘save Democracy’ while advocating for the complete destruction of our current form of govt?”
Trump in his quest to destroy Democracy hasn’t come anywhere close to the DSA proposals.
How expensive is a used helicopter?
Does it have to be able to fly?
I think pushing commies out of a grounded helicopter would be less effective.
If you positioned it at the top of a cliff overlooking a quarry pit, the drop would still be sufficient.
Maybe park it on the edge of the Grand Canyon (((Jar?
Two things. First, other than a sort of nod to tradition what does the helicopter add? and second, you are going to overload the scavengers in the Canyon and end up with a bad smell, so do it in an isolated part.
It’s not even a nod to tradition, so much as a nod to Scarface.
Pinochet’s regime disposed of commies off the back ramp of C-123s, over the ocean. Which I think everyone will agree, is far more efficient.
Yes, the ocean handles clean up, fish get fed, and the crew gets flight hours to stay current.
They’re not for democracy, they’re for Democratcy.
Power, for them. Always…
People seeking power say or do what they think will get them power. The defense against their lies is an informed and responsible electorate. Not to parrot JI but that is the thing we lack that leads to this state of affairs.
It’s hell to be part of a minority watching what the majority is ever so willing to do.
Why do you hate affordability and equity you bigot?
Every journalo is on board with the communist takeover so they are not going to go there at all. On the rare occasions that a dissident pol or media outlet presses for an explanation, they ignore it or rattle off some random, meaningless duckspeak.
What’s infuriating is that if they win any of these elections, they’ll be required to take an oath to uphold the Constitution. They are openly campaigning on breaking that oath.
But this is how leftism works: The ends always justify the means.
Why do you hate our Glorious Vision?
And additionally, commie Mamdani is arguable fomenting insurrection and is therefore subject to denaturalization and deportation. I won’t hold my breath on that one either.
As an insurrectionist, he is subject to much worse than being kicked out of the country.
“Emma Roberts Is Married! Inside Her Final Wedding Dress Fitting With Monique Lhuillier”
https://www.vogue.com/article/final-fitting-emma-roberts
last time I saw a mouth that big it had a hook in it!
“What impact could Dorothy and Marshall’s existence as queer direct descendants of the Declaration’s author have on attitudes towards LGBTQ+ Americans in the present and future?”
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/27/meet-thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-queer-descendants/
Salon asking the important questions.
Who’s bankrolling Salon?
I refuse to believe that rag is able to turn a profit off its own merits.
Pompadour
Kindly elaborate on that response.
Madame Pompadour funded a salon
Soros, Brookings, Ford, Gates, that ex-Bezos chick, that ex-Jobs chick, etc etc
All the billionaire foundation playgrounds.
Guessing no impact whatsoever beyond the leftqueer community that reads Salon.
Murtenschiessen 2026
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6HEes8daw&ra=m
Worth the watch. Destin from Smarter Everyday talking through the realities of trying to build an American made product. I think he has an over oversimplified view of the macro issues, but it’s enlightening if you think that reshoring jobs is just a matter of turning the lights back on and hiring some guys.
I watched that last night. I knew basically all of that, but it’s really interesting watching other people realize it.
Although I take issue with his discussion of “exploitation” in his Costa Rican sourced parts. He has the option to validate if workers making his components are exploited there or not. Otherwise why wouldn’t you want people there to also be able to earn a living?
The reason he wants US components is to have a fully US made product. Nothing wrong with that, but he’s playing semantics when he was forced to use a Canadian supplier for some of his stock.
I agree that his Canada shift was somewhat hypocritical. If he had been more honest and said “it’s a compromise for now, and our long term plan is to find a way to get the full production of the chainmail into the US”, I think it lands better.
I also think the exploitation part is way underdeveloped. He treats it like a binary, when it really isn’t. It also isn’t the main point either. People can be exploited in the US or Costa Rica or China, but you have to actually define exploitation in a reasonable way to have a worthwhile conversation on the topic.
He also completely ignores the why. Why did companies start doing this in the late 80s and really ramp up in the 90s and 2000s? What was forcing all this overseas. He made some short comments on China being crafty, but he never really addressed the motivation, aside from hand waving about greed.
It’s hard to give all of those topics a fair shake in 50 minutes, but I left the video thinking he hit on some very true issues but had a crayon scribble of an economic model he was operating from.
He highlights some interesting issues, but the proposed cure would be 100x worse than the disease.
I also take issue with “the problems of capitalism” since what other system would provide a better solution?
He’s right. My company’s Canadian raw material supplier looked into building a plant to supply us here in U.S. Even if we donated some surplus land at our current factory site, it would take minimum three years to draw up plans, get the plans by the local township regulators, let building contracts, order complex machinery (with one year backlog), hire skilled and semi-skilled labor, etc.
In the meantime, being in a highly competitive marketplace where any tariff costs largely have to be absorbed, we would have been driven out of business by the capricious presidential tariffs on Canadian imports.
I have stopped caring about this stuff.
There will *always* be somewhere cheaper. That cat is out of the bag and barring some sort of catastrophic event you don’t want to think about, that isn’t changing.
The problem is that means we’re going to be a finance and services debt-based economy, which is a fast pass to socialism.
Oh yeah, I don’t LIKE this situation, at all.
Just trying to be realistic.
“Rape, after all, might be the most quintessentially anti-democracy act: a violent refusal of equality in the most intimate terms. One could imagine an opposition to Trumpism that built from anti-rape principles into pro-democracy ones; less ambitiously, one could imagine an opposition to Trumpism that merely drew a link between Trump’s pathetic narcissism and that of the sleazeball Tates and their manosphere ilk. It seems like an easy win.
That the Democratic party is not taking it shows how broadly male supremacist thinking has seeped into the conventional wisdom of political strategists, and how anathema even the most basic and remedial feminist claims are now understood to be by those same forces. Because one explanation for why the Democrats are not taking advantage of the Tates’ links to Trump is as simple as it is dark: they do not want to alienate the Tates’ base of manosphere content consumers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/27/andrew-tristain-tate-democrats
Because they haven’t been doing this already?
OK Guardian dipshit, tell us about rape in the UK, and how you punish ALL rapists there.
You would have to be a brain-dead Guardian reader to not immediately jump to that example.
It makes me wonder if the Guardian even wrote about it at all.
https://gawaintowler.substack.com/p/silence-for-some
Meanwhile, gang rape is the ultimate form of pure democracy in action.
Hadn’t thought about it that way, but I’m stealing it now.
Rape is quintessentially an aspect of White Patriarchy. Ergo when persons of color have unilaterally consensual sex it is not rape, and when white cismen have sex of any type with an adult woman it is rape.
I think pushing commies out of a grounded helicopter would be less effective.
That’s why you park it next to a woodchipper.
You mean my stock portfolio falls.
“Auburn University students recently circulated a seven-page document that compiled a list of over 250 racial slurs toward White people. The document was sent in a GroupMe chat called “AU Student Connect” used by students at Auburn University.”
https://www.campusreform.org/article/exclusive-auburn-student-group-circulates-list-racial-slurs-toward-white-people/21290
250?
Well the problem is after each one failed to actually garner the hurt feelings of a proper slur, they had to find a new one. This resulted in a great deal of churn.
If any of those really hit, the list would be about 5.
A Rice Rascal is clearly Asian, not white. Jeez.
Some of these are pretty funny. I have White Privilege because all I do is laugh at them.
Related: Are there any good anti-white slurs I could appropriate for my latest hip-hop album?”
the realities of trying to build an American made product
I watched something last night; tour of the S&S motorcycle parts factory in Wisconsin. The “newest” employee he spoke to had been working there for 15 years, the others, more than 25. That’s awesome, but how are they doing on replacing their 60 year old workforce?
I wanted to know, but that wasn’t the point of the video.
They expect to hire a guy with no experience and he’ll come out swinging the day after the last guy dies suddenly.
I see it with my customers and it’s stupid. Management isn’t planing for the future.
I also take issue with “the problems of capitalism” since what other system would provide a better solution?
The Ministry of Plenty will allocate resources and divine prices far more efficiently than a bunch of wheeler-dealer shopkeepers.
“A 21-year-old university student, young mother, and pregnant woman has been convicted in Poland for the “crime” of speaking the truth about mass immigration.
On July 16, 2026, the District Court in Zamość found Oliwia Olejniczak guilty of “inciting hatred” and slapped her with a 3,000 PLN fine (roughly $800–$1,000) for remarks she made at a completely legal and peaceful “Stop Immigration” rally on July 19, 2025. She was pregnant with her second child at the time of the verdict.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/pregnant-polish-mother-convicted-fined-speaking-against-mass/
How many polacks does it take to ruin a country?
Integration into the EU has really worked there, hasn’t it?
I hope Eastern Europe, the countries that lived behind the iron curtain, wake up to the fact the unelected EU cabal in Brussels are their new commie masters, or at least working real, real hard to be that.
50% + 1
Same as everywhere else this is happening.
Call your doctor if Mammary Monday causes an erection lasting more than 4 hours.
https://archive.is/6mVN3
The White House honing in on CPRM’s turf?
It’s been silly for a long time now.
“LA weed company boosts brand by giving out logo-emblazoned tents to Skid Row homeless”
https://thepostmillennial.com/la-weed-company-boosts-brand-by-giving-out-logo-emblazoned-tents-to-skid-row-homeless
STIJLTH
This was one of my predictions back when OR and WA legalized.
That’s the goal
Nearly half of Americans can’t explain the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Trump signed into law last summer, according to a new poll from Politico.
In the Politico poll, 49 percent of respondents said that they either “have not heard of” the legislation or “have heard of it, but could not explain what it is.” Another 27 percent said they “could explain some elements of” the bill and 11 percent said they can explain it “in detail.” Thirteen percent said they were unsure of their knowledge of the bill.
The people voting on it didn’t know what was in it.
Anyone saying they know and understand the full thing is a liar.
Counterrevolutionaries and footdraggers
Layering “socialist” onto Democrats’ preexisting challenges will not help. Less than 4 in 10 (38 percent) independents had a positive view of socialism in Gallup’s September 2025 survey.
More recently, CNBC’s All America Economic Survey revealed that just 32 percent of Americans would be more likely to vote for a Democratic Socialist while 50 percent would be less likely. CNBC also reported that only 28 percent of Americans had a favorable view of socialism, with 48 percent viewing it negatively.
There is emerging evidence that Democrats are being harmed by perceptions that the party is drifting towards socialism. Despite Trump having a grim 37 percent approval rating — per Washington Post/Ipsos — Democrats lead the generic congressional ballot by just 3 points.
Trade the cow for the magic beans, America!
“Perceptions”
That word is doing some massive lifitng…
“Socialism”
Have they read the official Party platform? It is communism – literally. But they probably know socialism is just a stepping stone.
Hey sometimes people actually do perceive reality, though it seems more often that reality must beat them into submission.
official Party platform
Selectively quoting the NSDAP platform would get some enthusiastic concurrence from our contemporary left.
Didn’t someone used to do tumblr or stormfront posts where the object was to guess which statement was from which hellhole?
DSA candidates elected to office have increased from 17 or so in 2019 to about 260 now.
Fewer than 4 in 10, The Hill.