What a wild pair of World Cup games yesterday. Argentina came back from the dead and beat Egypt. And the Swiss topped Colombia on penalties. The quarterfinals are now set and it’s definitely UEFA-heavy. Elsewhere, Djokovic managed to pull off a hell of a five-set tiebreaker winner against a much younger and higher-seeded player to set up a semifinal against Sinner. The other semifinal will be set today. Go Fritz! And that’s it for sports, aside from a bit of little league for you to enjoy. So moving on.
I’m shocked! And by now, you know that means that this is the least surprising development imaginable.
Good. Now actually do it. Especially if you can prove state actors facilitated it. This reminds me of the case where some person was found not guilty of illegally voting because she said the person at the DMV entrapped her. So go after the DMV employee.
“Your kids belong to the state.” Brazil has become a shithole.
What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap! This is great. Now every teacher is gonna have to have a Barbara Billinglsey-type teachers aide when these kids get to elementary school.
This could have been really bad. Hopefully they got it upright, but somebody needs to rethink their jacked up engineering.
You dumbasses made your bed. Now lie in it. And that’s not just the party, it’s every media personality who championed this piece of shit for more than a year.
What a shame this would be. Oh wait, it would be awesome.
Yeah, this would go over really well. Aside from the cheering from much of the American left, a good part of Canada and Europe, and the minority of people holding your country hostage, I doubt too many others in the world would be thrilled.
Who gives a shit? ::cranks A/C:: Those dumbasses can wallow in their own misery while China and India do the overwhelming majority of the so-called damage.
Yeah, great. Now revoke every CDL for a illegal alien and foreign national or I won’t really think you give a shit about road safety.
This song gets right down to business. As do many of theirs. Unlike this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Little League homer: Of all teams that to go *for,* wow. The Mets are brutal defensively, and that (lack of) play by KC? Wow. Embarrassing. No one teaches defense, these days. Not sexy enough.
Your Cubs, who won a good one, don’t have that issue (frequently). We’re still very good, but damn, +1 to the Brewers for being an incredibly well run small market org.
That was hilarious. I was expecting some colossal Mets fuckup given that it’s the Mets. I guess this was last night, before KC got 16 past them?
Yes, Mets still managed to lose that game, even putting up 10 runs.
The Swiss WC tourist guy that’s been posting “America is freaking great!” content on social media might be related to Warty Hugeman.
This administration seems to really like announcing “We’re going to do Good Thing X”, followed by not doing Good Thing X.
I’m sick of it.
It’s all well and good until some commie judge issues a country wide injunction.
I get that that is the point of my second sentence. But on things like deporting immigrants and fixing electoral security where Trump seems to have a plan, the problem is that opposition from entrenched forces, and the sheer scale of the problem means it can’t be solved instantly and there is plenty of griping on the right about that fact.
meant to reply to ES below
I’m not criticizing Trump for having to deal with entrenched political opposition – although I will point out that I said that Trump wasn’t equipped to deal with such opposition all the way back in 2020.
I am going to criticize him for continuing to talk a big game when he can’t deliver.
And yet when it swings the other way, like creating a CFPB that is accountable to neither Congress or the Executive, it gets set up in weeks with no judicial winging.
I think some of this is unavoidable. There is too much broken to fix in four years, and there is too much entrenched opposition for any of it to go quickly. But yes, some of it is Trump scoring own goals by promising things without having a plan, figuring out that the thing will be hard, and just moving on to the next shiny.
There’s nothing unavoidable about keeping one’s big mouth shut until you actually do something.
Of course, anyone who voted for/supported Trump, but did not expect a substantial amount of bushwah, is simply not living in reality…
SLD: OMB.
Having said that, there does seem to be a thing where Trump says something he doesn’t believe (2A is good!) He hires people who agree with his actual beliefs (Pam Bondi) but insignificant underlings who agree with the stated position also get themselves involved. Then when the OG hires piss off POUTS get punted, these lowbie true believers actually get to implement policies in line with the stated beliefs wile POUTS is tweeting.
And that’s it for sports, aside from a bit of little league for you to enjoy.
I watched the same exact thing happen (overthrow to first, missed throw to third, inside the park home run) in an 8 year old ball game on Monday. They at least have the excuse of being 8.
I am surprised I missed that game, seeing as my wife watches every. single. baseball. game. As soon as we got the MLB channel, she will just sit and watch baseball no matter who is playing, whether it is live or recorded, and so on.
That’s it for sports? No love for The Tour and an American sitting second in the GC?
I’ve had no love for the Tour since the doping scandals. I used to get up an hour early to watch every stage of the race.
So Pfizer vaxxed their building then sold it off before the side effects got too bad.
I wonder if they just decided to slap another 11 floors on top of the building without fortifying the load-bearing capacity of the original structure. Because that’s kind of what it looks like.
I was trying to do a little deeper research. Hard to tell. The original Pfizer building was from 1905, and then it had an addendum in 1960, and now this. The architecture firm in charge of this current renovation is Gensler. https://www.gensler.com/
The should have imploded the building, as you know this is gonna come back and bite someone in the ass 15-20 years from now.
Four floors is what I read.
Mark the lot as a wilderness area where no human activity is permitted.
Sure the building will collapse, but by then the neighboring structures should also be abandoned. It is NYC we’re talking about.
No; don’t send NYC “people” out to infect the rest of the state!
Yes, definitely. Considering these are the structural beams that run through the entire building, chances are they’ve been there since either 1905 or 1960. They were probably reinforced by the walls around the building. When those were removed, they couldn’t hold it up anymore. Scary thought.
No, Ted, the plan isn’t to send them upstate, but deport them, even if they’re paper citizens.
But the building beams are probably wrapped with that killer asbestos fire retardant, which is deadly if even one fiber is breathed into the lungs of a non-smoker. Or that’s what the billionaire asbestos attorneys claim.
Since we’re a half hour in:
Emoji smuggling
https://sosintel.co.uk/emoji-smuggling-hiding-malicious-code-in-plain-sight/
Try not to laugh too hard.
Too many things I don’t understand. Glad I’m old.
It’s nothing new. It’s an old school substitution cypher like used to be on the back of cereal boxes to get messages past the security scanners.
E.A.T.Y.O.U.R,O.V.A.T.I.N.E.
“”The spokesperson said the letters were a result of the DMV’s regular internal monitoring process and did not respond to questions on the nature of the irregularities detected – such as whether they were suspected to be evidence of cheating or the result of internal technical problems.”
Because they don’t know, or know they fucked up?
“Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced that the state had entered into a new partnership with Anthropic to expand the use of the AI assistant Claude within government agencies. The announcement noted that the DMV is already using Claude to improve customer service and reduce wait times.”
WCPGW?
WCPGW?
Walruses Carry Penile Growing Wands?
Almost, Growth Warts are the two last words.
Which Commie’s Pecker’s Got Warts?
All of them?
The AI could do a better job than the GovSec workers?
It takes fewer breaks.
Put AI in charge of the HSR project.
Ze Trains Will Run On Time! (or else we get Skynet)
thisishowyougetskynet
“ANKARA, Turkey — President Trump said Wednesday that he believes his memorandum of understanding with Iran is dead after he ordered overnight airstrikes on 80 targets in response to Iranian attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
“I don’t like them at all. And frankly, I think we wasted a lot of time with them, I think we should just do our business,” Trump said in his first public remarks after ordering the airstrikes.
When asked by a reporter if the preliminary peace deal, which Trump signed at the Palace of Versailles in France June 17, was dead, the president replied: “To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/world-news/trump-says-iran-peace-deal-likely-dead-he-no-longer-will-deal-with-sick-people/
OFFS!
$4/gal gas, here we come again….
*Sighs
$6.25 here. Quit complaining.
Never went under $5 here.
80% of what I burn is diesel.
This was as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning. A peace deal with the psychopaths running Iran was never even slightly possible.
Wasn’t Israel the one who got it started by ramping up their offensive in Lebanon? Or was that a different MOU? I can’t keep track anymore given how many times Trump has announced they almost had a resolution.
Psychos all around.
Israel doesn’t want us to stop the war.
A neat little game Iran is playing now. Let the insane IRGC continue being asshats while the government strings along negotiations.
Only solution other than capitualtion would be for other nations to actually engage but many of those are okay with oil getting strangled.
This debacle has to be one of the worst own goals I’ve ever seen in politics. And the timing is exquisite, right when the Commies are literally taking over the Dems, we’re going to hand them complete power on a silver platter.
Yeah, Trump clearly went into this with absolutely no idea how he was going to end it or what ‘victory’ or even success was supposed to look like.
Trump didn’t dream this up on his own. I want to know the real motherfuckers behind this.
Probably the generals who drew up Venezuela and said “we will do the same in Iran!”
Trump being Trump, took it and ran without listening to the other 999 plans that said “this will be a shitshow”?
No, generals don’t have those kind of stupid ideas usually. This stinks of Intel and State.
Everyone in his Cabinet is a Neo-Con. Some, like Hegseth, are the weird Christian-Zionist variety.
Gabbard, Vance, and Chris Wright (Energy) were the only ones opposed.
My opinion for years is that OMB like to talk tough but doesn’t actually have the requisite qualities of a wartime national leader: he lacks the hard core in his being to actually hurt people and things over and over to impose his will despite setbacks, bad press, and hesitant allies; AND he lacks the patience required to actually dismantle a large state. Lincoln, Churchill, FDR had these qualities.
Look how he recoiled when we struck the school and again when the fighter was shot down. Killing innocents is part of warfare- always has been. Losing pilots, hell entire divisions, is part of war. Almost a third of the 66th ID drowned on their way to France when a transport was sunk in the Channel. FDR didn’t go “oh woe”, the war went on and the depleted division was assigned to bottle up the Wehrmacht in some Channel port cities.
🙁 I was rooting for FAA.
Note that Sloopy can’t be bothered to name Auger-Aliassime, since players like that only exist to serve as foils to the star players.
lol I would never disparage our gracious host even if that was his intent.
I hate when the media do it, though.
What was the Federal Aviation Administration doing that you approved of?
Preventing people from flying drones?
“Obamacare premiums surged this year. A new analysis shows it’s likely to happen again in 2027”
Almost like it was designed to fail from the beginning to pave the way for fully socialized medicine!
No, it would have worked if no Republicans had ever been elected again! It’s their fault!
That’s the vibe in the comment section Grumble.
Subsidizing failure since 2014!
Terrifying footage filmed by workers inside the building showed the massive silver beams buckling and bending just moments before the floor started to crumble
Thank you Daily Fail. I don’t think the “massive” metal interior 2x4s were holding up the structure.
There was an addition made. I thought that was done prior to this renovation and they discovered the problem during this renovation. It would appear the recent addition they did caused the structure to fail.
Now comes the fun part. Did the architects and engineers completely mess up the addition or did the team on site not follow the design? Either way this is going to be really interesting because it’s a huge fail.
Not shocked about one building having support or structural problems. There are thousands of buildings in Manhattan alone built over the span of over a hundred and fifty years.
It’s amazing that more of them haven’t started falling down.
That’s what you get for building structural beams from silver instead of steel.
Metal studs briefly and unintetionally became load bearing.
(Props to Reddit for pointing that out)
Uh… wow.
On Paris, Texas’s track DnD, they rap meaning that black people are only preferred by society to like one like of music. They are interesting. A duo out of LA who combine rock (they play their own instruments) and rap.
Whoops. They say “if you’re black, it’s all trap”
Yeah, my kids would be taken away from me in an instant. They literally listen to religious music and Beethoven. Nevermind all the subversive Tuttle Twins books they read.
I need to break those out for the boy.
He’s ready.
“BlackECE is a nonprofit organization centered around a 10-point policy plan that seeks to gain reparations and help Black children, families, and workers.”
https://blackece.org/policy-demands/
tl;dr: Give us money.
Cutting USAID was supposed to kill these front groups.
Not the local ones.
“Williams also recalled her experiences in having to “talk white” and talking in her comfortable English and feeling insecure.”
Talk white? It’s called English. How long have you been in the country?
She needs to get out of the country for a while, see what the world is really like.
English you say?
I remember the Ebonics push circa 1981. That went nowhere unless you count the BBC’s Pidgin sites.
Ya even CNN can’t be asked to spin up a Black English service
Well CNN isn’t tax-supported yet.
“Stewardess, I speak jive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzIcec_bQss
“BBC’s Pidgin sites”
Those are fine. Just like Brazilian papers are in Brazilian Portuguese.
invisible finger:
I thought DOGE showed CNN was getting plenty of tax funds through ‘grants’.
Invisible, I had a college Spanish teacher in 2010 that tried to convince the class that “Ebonics” was a real thing.
She was not impressed when I pushed back and told her that it was simply poor grammar and a lack of being taught the proper way.
Less impressed when most of the class backed me up.
It’s AAVE now.
“She also remembered how speaking Black English is full of slangs and grammatical errors so it came with a lot of embarrassment.”
It should be embarrassing.
“A mom of three claimed she was thrown out of a UK supermarket after a male security guard said that her backless top could encourage someone to untie it.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/lifestyle/mom-of-three-alixe-galatis-thrown-out-of-tesco-over-backless-top-during-uk-heat-wave/
I wonder who?
Probably someone from a rape culture. So Bill Clinton.
ALT Headline: Souls of grocery shoppers saved as slutty whore baby factory tossed from store by heroic guard.
She’s a British 7, but the nose ring makes her a 3.
Fantastic
Great day on the lake.
Thunderstorm initially stalled us launching into the water.
However, 10 minutes later skies cleared.
https://ibb.co/wNyPRMcW
https://ibb.co/MxTCdGwd
You should stop advertising how beautiful some parts of ‘hick-land’ are. The rats fleeing the commie ships they’ve created might get an idea to come fuck it up for you.
Some of us in flyover are offensive enough to drive the invaders out.
Well you at least are.
Neph. That damn carpetbagger commie Karen needs to fuck off and keep fucking off.
I hope Texas treats he even better than the slight she felt from Ohio.
Pretty.
Except I can feel the humidity. Through the internet.
Ass Wednesday doesn’t give a shit about the new mods to your car.
https://archive.is/yu4EH
Aussie fans chant “we’re going to Wal Mart,” take it over, get kicked out, change their chant to “We’re getting deported.”
Surprised that the US media hasn’t ran endless articles on the Norwegian ‘viking rowing’ and how its all white people and the evil connections to their past.
They have run a few. Don’t think those articles caught on.
Haaland is Drago in real life. Im not sure that guy was not born but rather reincarnated from the DNA of past vikings.
Their only goal is the Western shore?
Immigrant song in Old Norse
That’s awesome WTF.
Norway is apparently not utopia, however.
They Traded America for a Remote Archipelago. Now They’re Moving Back.
The couple is listing their Norwegian farmhouse after culture shock and logistical challenges prompted a return to Montana
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/lofoten-norway-farmhouse-fb6dcad8?st=Dy8WoQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Meh, life got in the way and by all accounts, they enjoyed it.
“I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck… maybe even a ‘recreational vehicle.’ And drive from state to state.”
Maybe they will have some kids and become human.
“Texas Dem James Talarico hired brains behind ‘Cocks not Glocks’ protest to draft gun control bills”
Lopez took over the leadership of “Cocks Not Glocks,” which once handed out more than 4,500 dildos on the UT-Austin campus to protest a 2015 law allowing licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons at state universities and community colleges, from founder Jessica Jin — an alum of the school, like Talarico….
With its motto of “fighting absurdity with absurdity,” members of “Cocks Not Glocks” marched on campus with t-shirts and banners depicting male genitalia emblazoned with perverse takes on pro-Second Amendment slogans such as “take it and come,” while others donned dog collar sex toys.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/us-news/texas-dem-james-talarico-hired-brains-behind-cocks-not-glocks-protest-to-draft-gun-control-bills/
Narrator: There were no brains behind the protest.
Hiring the facilitator of a failed college protest from ten years ago? That’s a big brain move right there…
She’s pegging him isn’t she?
“Office romances are going cold across the US – where workplace crushes, coworker dates and steamy office flings are becoming less and less common every year, survey data shows.
Just 22% of employees surveyed by the human resources group SHRM in 2025 said they had a workplace crush – a staggering drop from the 49% who admitted the same in 2024.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/lifestyle/gen-z-and-hr-have-killed-office-romance-as-fewer-workers-report-crushes-and-flings/
I can’t imagine why.
Paging Evan to the white courtesy phone, Evan….
It is kind of hard to have a real office romance when you are just phoning it in every day.
Ive developed what I call Kentucky Barn Burner seasoning.
So far have made bacon, ribs and a tester marinade for some jerky.
Its smoky, earthy, and is created to give that old barn memory of wood, hay, and countryside feel to it.
The bacon in particular is quite tasty and works well as a breakfast or cooking bacon.
On the ribs it held up well even underneath a blackberry bbq sauce.
The jerky is quite nice cause its not overly salty not sweet and carries forward a lot of the flavors of the spice mixture.
flavors of the spice mixture.
And?! You’re going to leave us hanging like that?
He must protect the source of his burnt barn ash
He’s combined Melange with Charcoal and Cinnamon (but not Cassia)
Think classic smokehouse flavors with a few Appalachian twists. It’s smoky, savory, slightly sweet, warmly spiced, and finishes with a gentle kick.
The kick is just fresh cracked pepper and a hint of cayenne to waken things up.
So…Mountain Dew and Meth?
So, smokehouse with hints of meth and moonshine?
And your cousins cherry chapstick.
Where your cousin is also your wife and your sister.
Well…meth does play a part and my sister-cousin approves.
YOU GODDAMNED TEASE
Really! I want to know the recipe!
The receipe will never leave Burlington alive.
Translation – OBE doesn’t know, he uses an unlabelled can of something he found in a neighbor’s shed.
Has the label stayed on he’d know it came from a funeral home.
Kosher salt, black pepper, smoked paprika, dark brown sugar, mustard powder, rubbed sage, coriander, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, espresso powder, clove.
Try some black cardamom.
*checks spices in cupboard*
Shouldn’t you be using treif salt on bacon?
A perfect chaser for those looks like this. My wife refused to let me film her eating one. She fed the kids some but she was too fast. The girl gave me a nasty look, the boy said “it’s not good, it’s also not bad.”
https://ibb.co/pBzWGgwC
I would like to hear more about your Blackberry bbq sauce.
Their defense rests partly on the threat of a doom spiral: Without the hole, the club couldn’t host professional tournaments. Without tournaments, the property value would sink along with the dirt and turf.
So an array of contractors built the wall out of stone and cobble in the dead of winter without a permit. And nobody’s been able to stop talking about it since.
Popcorn time!
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/rhode-island-country-club-quidnessett-wall-8e2c4417?st=3F1rCK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“You must let the erosion from the sea destroy your property. Because reasons.”
I guess seawalls are doubleplusungood now.
As an owner of a seashore property this is always fun.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/north-wildwood-new-jersey-environmental-protection-beach-replenishment-lawsuit/
NJ extracts some cash back from FedGov and the rest of the state for these ridiculous beach replenishment projects. You can’t fight mother nature, but people with multimillion dollars ocean homes sure want somebody else to pay to do exactly that.
So, its someplace on the low-bid/high-grift matrix?
way to make golfers look like the good guys
Nice!
Rhode Island shouldn’t even be a state.
Sean gets it.
Rhode Island and Delaware should be counties. Strip them of their senators.
That’s not a wall
Dropping rock on your own property requires no permitting where I’m at.
Cut a Tree – Permit
Plant a tree – Permit
Dig a hole – Permit
Fill a hole – Permit
Move a rock – Permit
Repair a wall – Permit
Try to stop from falling into the sea – Permit Denied
The good news is the same investment bankers that sweet talked Smucker’s into this disastrous acquisition will now “help” them sell of the underperforming pieces.
Why Smucker’s $5 Billion Bet on the Twinkie Flopped
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/smucker-hostess-twinkies-365614e5?st=3yGoaP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They should bill the investment bankers $10 Billion
“A new virus catalogue reveals the terrifying pathogens most likely to spark the next global health emergency.
Researchers have compiled the most comprehensive list of all known RNA viruses that are capable of infecting humans.
Among those high on the watch list are bird flu viruses, which have raised growing concern after infecting mammals and people around the world, as well as SARS–like coronaviruses.”
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15961729/pandemic-Virus-catalogue-pathogens-outbreak.html
No.
White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)
https://youtu.be/DwRXI-y6M9o?si=mCdjG-t3JBi1BTbU
Oh, sorry wrong link.
This Simple White Line Is America’s Greatest Unsung Innovation
You know about the lightbulb and the iPhone. This is the unknown story of another ingenious creation that changed a nation.
https://www.wsj.com/business/white-line-road-invention-america-250-8ce6bb89?st=8JWWiG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Neat.
Hearing them called edge lines is wild.
I’ve only ever heard them referred to as fog lines.
Must be a regional thing.
I wonder what Dorr called them.
Our libertarian president!
White House launches 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations in this region
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/07/white-house-announces-freedom-fuel-gas-stations/90838506007/
OFFS
Please tell me this is some kind of AI hallucination…
You wish. Question is…are they being subsidized or just using the WH as marketting cover to briefly drop prices and take a haircut?
$3.47/gallon. Get it. 47!!!! Yeah!!!!
“3” is in reference to his upcoming 3rd term, right?
LOL
How do you launch 25 gas stations that quickly?
Probably just a rebrand of existing stations, with subsidized gas. All you have to do is change a sign.
I read “participating stations” with lists of stations in the area on some other reports. It looks like they are selling at the national average so not really clear if there are any subsidies or just promotion.
“The month of July kicked off in New York City with two showy stories of couples disrupting life to celebrate their love. On July 1, extreme climbers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus announced their engagement by scaling the Empire State Building and unfurling a banner from its famous antenna that proclaimed the healing power of love….
The difference? Swift is a billionaire who can afford to rent a massive arena and spend an eye-watering sum — reported to be up to $20 million — on her nuptials. The Russians weren’t.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/08/taylor-swifts-wedding-proves-aoc-right-there-are-no-good-billionaires/
It’s almost as if private property exists.
Fuck Salon. That is all.
“Many fans have blamed her relationship with Kelce, suggesting that the couple’s contented monogamy means Swift has lost her edge as the queen of heartbreak songs. But plenty of pop stars, from Madonna to Britney Spears, have changed their brand as they age without losing faith from their fans, which means the likelier explanation for Swift’s dip in popularity is financial.
In 2023, Swift joined the fewer than 1,000 Americans — less than .0003% — who can call themselves a billionaire. Since then, her net worth has doubled, and while most of us can’t claim to know her on a personal level, from the outside it seems she has developed billionaire brain worms. This chronic condition is contagious among the ultra-rich; its main symptoms are forgetting what it’s like to be a normal person who endures occasional inconveniences and the indignity of people saying “no.””
LOL
Goddammit why did you have to go and quote their retardity. Now I feel dumber.
Now do the Met Gala shits.
Better headline:
“Taylor Swift’s wedding proves Glibertarians right: There are still way too many nosey busybodies”
I get why they were arrested, but that’s pretty cool to climb a building together to get engaged.
Add that it wasn’t some stupid political stunt.
He’s fine. Just fine. People in good health spends three weeks in the hospital all the time.
“The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family’s philanthropic endeavors. During the trip, she met with a number of people, including the US ambassador. The Senator’s health did not warrant an immediate return to the US.”
Elaine Chao releases statement amid husband Mitch McConnell’s long hospital stay
https://www.wlky.com/article/elaine-chao-mitch-mcconnell-health-statement/71858467
Turtles take a long time to come back out of their shells. Just give him a couple more weeks to get comfortable with the change in scenery.
Not the Bee did an article about all the people saying ”I just talked to Mitch on the phone!” He’s the new Elvis!
“It was on a conference call with the Ayatollah.”
I remember when the media couldn’t be bothered to question a woman who said she feared her politician husband was stroking out on live national TV but couldn’t be bothered to call for help.
Philanthropic? Like, giving US money to China?
What would we do without stock analysts? (These are target prices – duration unknown – if 18 month – crazy!)
Major investment banks that underwrote the record IPO, including Goldman Sachs ($205 a share), Morgan Stanley ($300) and UBS ($210) were all predictably optimistic. Smaller “co-manager” Raymond James stood out with an $800 target that would value SpaceX at $10 trillion.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/spacex-analysts-are-from-mars-investors-are-from-venus-03270cbe?st=sPyyDY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s $147 and headed down now.
Was going to dump 20k into it until I read Elon folded the ai side into it.
No bubble there at all.
Name-calling
The problem for Trump is that the stars of the Democratic party whom Trump wants to defile have nothing whatsoever to do with communism. They barely have anything to do with socialism. Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Seattle’s Katie Wilson, Colorado’s Melat Kiros, and dozens of others are popular because they’re taking on corporate America, attacking political corruption by big money, and dealing with the real problems of ordinary Americans.
——-
To the extent Americans are thinking about the American system as a whole, they seem more concerned about Trump’s neofascism than about socialism or communism. That same new Cato poll finds 56% of Americans worried that the US could stop being a free country within the next 50 years because of corruption and abuses of power at the highest reaches of government.
Those proud young Democrats aren’t communists, they’re just politicians, spouting a lot of vapid empty slogans designed to stir the emotions of the gullible proles.
Trump, on the other hand, is an existential menace to civilization who must be stopped at any cost.
“They barely have anything to do with socialism.”
Is anyone buying this?
Yes, the normies who still watch the evening news.
Never mind the explicitly “socialist” ranging to “communist” words coming out of their pretty little heads.
State-owned grocery stores aren’t socialist at all. How could you be so stupid as to think such a thing?
To the extent Americans are thinking about the American system as a whole, they seem more concerned about Trump’s neofascism than about socialism or communism. That same new Cato poll finds 56% of Americans worried that the US could stop being a free country within the next 50 years because of corruption and abuses of power at the highest reaches of government.
Holy non-sequitur, Batman!
Such as the ascendancy of communism?
You should not be saying such ungoodthoughtful things, comrade.
They “stabilized” the Pfizer building.
What did they do, tape some popsicle sticks to the beams?
They injected Viagra into the beams.
I saw “Ronald Hamburger” quoted in the NY Post story, they probably used the old plastic yellow McDonald’s straws.
“Leaning Tower of Manhattan”
Not bad.
er “Midtown”
Mine is better 😛
Is there a Famous Ray’s on the bottom floor? You could call it the Leaning Tower of Pizza!
They melted and tempered the beams using jet fuel.
Revolutionary
“I wasn’t interested in working full time,” says the 68-year-old grandmother, who considered herself retired when she learned of the opportunity to pick up shifts at the Roper Corp., a kitchen appliance plant owned by GE Appliances. “I was just wanting to work part time, maybe two days a week somewhere. You know, just to get out of the house.”
Today, Ransom is part of a pool of more than 900 workers who sign up for shifts via an app. Not only do workers make their own schedules, deciding how many four-hour shifts to pick up each week, but they also choose what kind of work they want to do. Assembly line jobs are fast-paced and physically demanding, so Ransom often opts for quality control, which she finds less taxing.
“It’s your choice,” she says. “I love it.”
I’m guessing that’s not a union plant.
My first thought was – These people are paid by the piece.
Amid the crunch, Gabbert learned of a staffing firm called MyWorkChoice. Its pitch was intriguing. The firm would recruit and vet a pool of workers who could be trained to do different jobs, building ovens and ranges across the plant. The workers, who would remain employees of MyWorkChoice, would use an app to sign up for open shifts, covering for absences and helping out with increased demand.
So innovation.
Wonder if they get 1099s?
That would possibly lower their tax burden enough that they likely make more even with a lower hourly wage.
Looks like they are W2 employees.
So they are paying my work choice and making less. Meh.
I worked for a temp agency for a while. Their cut was about $2 an hour which was brutal when I was getting $8