Who am I? Why am I here!? Why am I making reference to a Vice-Presidential debate that occurred last century!? Sloopy and Banjos are off auctioning things. I hope Sloopy got his mustache to trustworthy proportions. Only thing worse than a slow talking auctioneer is one with a sad mustache. How the hell are y’all. I’m going to make it a point to get back here more now that I’ve survived the adoption of my software product.
Did the Normies just discover that NFTs are just bits on a server somewhere?
And just like that, we were always in favor of a good peace for Ukraine. Also, holy shit. I think this is the first time I’ve been on NR in a decade. Long, long way from The Corner circa 2003.
Some see influencers, I just see Italian bros from back in the day.
How does T. Rex leather compare to Corinthian leather? Short version, without Ricardo, its not as sexy.
Looking back, I think this contributed to my (liber)contrarian attitude.
And, as the person who nominally writes the checks to pay the server bill, always remember you can give on Zelle at squirrelchow@glibertarians.com. We want your beer money, not your rent money (unless the rent money is the lesser amount).
Did the Normies just discover that NFTs are just bits on a server somewhere?
They are links to bits on a server.
Where are your NFTs? They’re in Microsoft’s servers over there! And they’re in Amazon’s servers over there! Don’t you see, your NFTs are all around you!
And that’s different from bank accounts how?
Money is actually useful?
But are those bits in the bank server money?
Have a bank run and see what happens.
The NCUA covers what the CU doesn’t have?
😃😄😂🤣
Wait, you’re serious?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Forget the questions someone give Brett another beer?
Mornin’ Brett… hope life is treating you well and your kids are having fun wrasslin’ gators and whatnot.
Because you’re reminding those of us who were at Tech for that debate of those fun times? 😉
Alright, for Brett.
🤔
They will just edit genes of crocodilians to create “T-Rex-like characteristics” and then sell the leather for ridiculous prices to people with more money than sense.
Or mix in ostriches for oversized T-rex style birds…. they could call them Rocs or something… might cause farmgirls to become orphans though.
Sexy orphans…
SDF thinks this product will ROC their world!
Sean might have an answer for that. He’ll just need to take a Deep Breath.
What is the point? We already have plenty of reptilian and avian leathers.
T-Rex leather would be much more expensive.
T-Rex leather would be perfect for boots you can wear as you T-Rek across the prairie.
What about for gamboling?
Suthen:
You want Vegas leather boots for that.
You need T. Rex to Bang a Gong properly.
I want to see a fight between a T. Rex and a pack of Dire Wolves.
Best we can do is CGI.
Getting hopefully something back (outside the Swamp) for all the money thrown at it? Okay.
Getting locked into “security” for a country run by corrupt and/or idiots right next to Russia who historically has invaded a lot and regards them at the least in their sphere of influence and at worst as their land? What a fucking future mess.
I would very much have favored simply cutting all ties to the mess (including NATO as everyone here knows I favor) and saying “Your problem, Europe. Fuck off.” Ah well.
No tripwires. Trade with Ukraine. Let them buy arms and munitions. Take the loss on previous grifts.
This is the way. (Which is why, of course, we’re not doing it… “We’re the USG and we’ll do the right thing after exhausting all other options!”)
Ukraine has no money.
Do they have NFTs?
Chipping Pioneer FTW!
I would really like to see an end to that horror but I dont see anything good coming out of our entanglement.
What is to keep the Russians from saying “don’t worry, we’ll sign the same agreement. Your mineral rights will stay the same”?
Is it still a tripwire?
Or did we just swindle a bunch of valuable minerals out of a country?
Tripwire.
It’s a tripwire – there is reportedly some kind of security guarantee attached to it.
Which makes it a bad deal, IMO.
We have no business there. But if we are going to piss away treasure, help men get tossed into a meatgrinder, and flirt with WWIII, we might as well get something in return.
Yeah I am raising an eyebrow skeptically.
Just, no.
Influencer….right up there with govt bureaucrat as fake jobs go. At least influencers dont hamper the production of wealth.
The influencers I like are the ones less than 30 years old.
Influencers are just the new pitchmen. Remember Slap-Chop?
Same thing.
Wasn’t that guy arrested for biting a hooker’s face?
He looked as if he’d bitten his own face, or at least a wasp.
She didn’t love his nuts, I guess.
Influenzas.
Well, I buy beer, but I don’t pay rent. So… I guess rent money is less in that case!
I can’t afford to buy beer so I rent.
No one truly owns beer, it longs to be free!
There is no such thing as free beer.
Hope you enjoy your new life in the Royal Navy.
I am sure he is impressed by your wit.
For our retirees with paid off mortgages… I sure hope it is. But still made me laugh, Brett.
Hey. You’re not Sloopy or Banjo!
Also. Canada still isn’t a 51st state. I’m not impressed with you Yanks and Confederates. Now we watch the country slowly disintegrate.
You’ll be lucky if it’s “slowly”.
Sorry.
We’ve changed our mind. Canada will be a territory instead of a state.
We sure don’t want them voting here.
It’s not like I crossed the border and voted to destroy canada.
You get be like most of the left here and blame your election results on Trump too!
Ain’t that something?
“Everything in the Trump, nothing outside the Trump, nothing against the Trump.’
Canadians are hands down the easiest people to mislead and propagandize. Extremely passive aggressive and thin skinned. One too many elbows to the head.
I’m just entertained that the Canadian battle cry sounds like a line from a 90’s ska song.
“We’ll show Trump! We’ll *checks wristband* vote to go full commie!”
Now, now, it won’t be full commie. It will be Islamic Socialism. It’s like full commie, but with mandatory prayer, and extra helpings of rape.
I hope the real Canadians stocked up on lube for the continuing “fundamental transformation” of their country. Demographics is destiny. The WEF won in Canada, and its open borders and colonization by/assimilation into shitholeistan will continue.
I thought for sure they would vote to join China just to poke the US in the eye.
Well, how bout some sportz linx since Sloopy ain’t available?
over/under on broken hips?
I’m practicing..at night….several times…
among C-tier celebrities, budding criminals, and Ubisoft
legit LOL
Texas politicians do a lot of retarded shit, but this really takes the cake today:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-house-approves-former-speaker-dade-phelans-meme-regulation-bill/
Good to know the ill-side of John Adam’s spirit is alive and well.
Gotta love legislation that can be read as ‘technically applies’
So uh…everything. I am sure the State will find that “well that computer you utilized is more than $100”
*clears throat* SUCK MY BALLS, MR. PHELAN
SUCK MY BALLS, MR. PHELAN shall now go on the bottom of every meme.
Preferably in his voice using AI-generated voice cloning.
Does it prohibit out-of-state memes?
Well, nothing is prohibited per se…
It’s part of the TX Constitution’s Commerce clause.
“Ultimately, the legislation was approved in a 102-40 vote.”
That’s a high percentage of retards.
Texas has always had high rankings when it comes to stupid and/or corrupt legislators.
Somebody needs to tell the Texas house that you never go full retard.
I’ll see your “Phelans” and raise you a “Walz”
These people make meme artists’ lives a lot easier
And as far as Dade Phelan goes, I would respect anyone who took the position “I will oppose anything that Phelan proposes or supports”.
So, Texas is going to outlaw politicians criticizing each other in political campaigns? Oh, wait. They mean your speech, not theirs. I get it.
No no no Suthen, you just have to disclose it. Publius be damned.
Speaking of retards…
“You could just homeschool your kids if you don’t like it, scoffed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was reduced to insisting that the instructional authority of a teacher-read book is no different than the burden on religious people of seeing ads they dislike on a public bus.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/dont-force-sex-and-gender-ideology-on-little-kids/
We already knew she was unfit for office (any office) from her confirmation hearing.
Ketanji is the Sam Briton/Rachel Levine of the SCOTUS. All of Biden’s /Obama’s picks were in-your-face fuck you’s to the american people. She should be on the court the way I should be piloting the space shuttle.
Is it a badge of honor if I’ve been on the wrong end of a KBJ decision when she was a district court judge?
Did you get it overturned on appeal?
Ozy – Absolutely!
I expect the denunciation any day now of Ketanji by the teachers’ unions for equating their members with a poster stuck to a wall.
I expect the poster hangers to complain at the unfair comparison to teachers, as they do less harm.
You could just homeschool your kids if you don’t like it
Of course you’ll still be paying taxes to pay for the schools you can’t morally countenance.
It look’s like Tesla’s BoD finally grew a pair.
Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-musk-ceo-search-board-0ce61af9?st=1tAVR1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Are we supposed to stop burning Teslas?
Of course you are, you have any idea how much toxic shit is released into the environment when you burn one of those things?
Just in time for the EV market crash to catch up to them. Just handing Musk another win “The company did great until they kicked me out”
True enough, although he still has significant wealth tied up there.
Or not…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/extremely-bad-breach-ethics-elon-musk-blasts-wall-street-journals-ceo-search
I can almost guarantee that several board members had “informal” or hypothetical discussions with some search firms and one or more of the firms leaked it to the WSJ.
The result is this tempest in a teapot.
Given the flag’s shape and ornamentation does it feel like the Navy is overcompensating?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gop-congress-defense-budget-boost-roger-wicker-donald-trump-republicans-a4a905d3?st=Z5S7vF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
TW: Warmongering WSJ editorial.
That submarine just screams bad porno “America’s dick is coming for you!”
Reminds me of Team America.
John Warner was always a huge cock.
GOP gonna GOP. Apparently my surprised face is still at the dry cleaner’s.
Waiting on one more of our boys to fly out today. He is nervous, always a nervous flyer. I think first time navigating an airport alone too. Meh, I took the train from San Fran to LA by myself with connecting bus rides when I was 12. I am sure he can figure this out.
Which airport matters. Navigating Long Beach Airport (especially before the expansion) is much easier than LAX.
Oh agreed. Vegas. Its straightforward, doesn’t need to take tram or anything, just a straight walk to the gate and he knows who to talk to for help and who not to talk to for help *looks at TSA*
During my travels, the people at Narita were the most helpful. Dulles were the least.
Watched a security guard pull a line cutter out at Dulles. That was a breath of fresh air. Other than that, Dulles felt like a Greyhound depot.
It will be fine. My youngest always relied on me to take care of things for her, but since she got married and moved she’s been thrown in the deep end of being an adult. That includes driving to the airport, parking, and flying by herself. She still overshares on our group chat when she’s traveling (“I’m parking now”, “Walking to the terminal”, “Boarding the plane”) but she has surprised me with how well she’s doing. She has a good friend that lives by her, but with her husband out to sea most of the time she’s had to do a lot on her own.
His words “oh this was easy”
Ya bud, its pretty paint by numbers
A large percentage of our society are idiots, and if they can navigate an airport, smart and capable people like our kids should be fine. It’s just scary when you do something like that on your own the first time.
Personally, I have flow by myself a time or two, and it’s just really nice to not have to worry about another person. Especially if you only have a carry-on and can bypass the luggage claim.
Once again, bike riders end up being their own worse enemy.
A local story about a feud between mountain bike riders, e-bike riders and “e-moto” riders on local park trails. This story is filled with catty quotes from the various bike riders about how e-moto riders are dangerous and need to be arrested. However, there doesn’t seem to be any facts supporting that.
* e-moto are souped up e-bikes that have a throttle and can go real fast. Go figure the journalo didn’t do a great job defining them.
All wheeled conveyances should be banned from the trails for the sake of protecting the trails from erosion.
The mountain bikers are the ones who put the trails in here and help maintain them.
How dare they! That space should be weedily overgrown!
E-bikes with the governors removed in NYC are an absolute menace. They go faster than the cars do because of traffic and they ride in the bike lanes and the road.
Differences in speeds and someone going much faster than expected can cause problems on trails, especially with limited visibility, sharp turns, and trail conditions (ruts, roots, holes, gravel, etc.). I don’t ride my road bike on mixed use trails (unless someone’s borrowing my hybrid and I’m letting them set the pace) for just that reason.
True on roads, too.
EvilSheldon:
Yep. Scariest time I was ever biking was when I was going along a new route and found myself on a two lane road with a 50 MPH speed limit and rolling hills. While technically, I was well within my legal rights to be there, and getting hit would likely have been the driver of the car at fault, I would much rather be alive instead of my heirs having a big payout.
E-bikes are just electric motorcycles. If you think of them in any capacity as that, any regulations make much more sense.
“Sheryl Crow has revealed that an armed man had “barged onto her property” after she posted a now-viral video of her selling her Tesla in protest of Elon Musk.
The “If It Makes You Happy” hitmaker, 63, shared a clip on social media in which she happily waved goodbye to her electric car in February as it was towed away from her Nashville, Tenn., home.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/01/us-news/sheryl-crow-says-armed-man-broke-into-her-property-after-sold-her-tesla-in-protest-of-elon-musk/
You reported this armed man to the cops? Also, that doesn’t look like February.
Celebrities are well past their BB date.
I don’t know. I was never one for celebrity culture and always saw them as over grown sixth graders but now they’re just sad. The gloss is now mat. It’s something to see. I like it.
I lay odds that it was someone being neighborly who didn’t realize she was insanely hoplophobic and just carried like normal.
It wouldn’t surprise me. After reading the article it seems she really is a narcissistic idiot.
Her and my grandpa had the same ideas on toilet paper. He was frugal, she is an environmentalist.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/sheryl-crow-takes-a-swipe-at-toilet-paper-use-1.662204
The left’s turn-on-a-dime from hero to zero regarding Elon Hitler is sure something to behold.
It’s almost like some people just don’t have any principles at all.
“Dem congressman calling for Trump’s impeachment once accused of indescribable act involving 118 beagles in his pharmaceutical lab”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/01/us-news/dem-congressman-calling-for-trumps-impeachment-once-accused-of-indescribable-act-involving-118-beagles-in-his-pharmaceutical-lab/
Sometimes I just like the headline.
Purportedly, when his lab ran out of money, he locked the doors and left the animals to starve.
Today I learned that they did not all die.
I am somewhat consoled.
Sounds like a hell of an orgy from the headlines.
The bitches were kind of ruff.
I think I remember a huge publicity effort to adopt out those beagles and it was largely successful.
His excuse is utter bullshit, of course:
“It was the bank’s job to take care of the dogs once we filed bankruptcy.”
That’s not even on the same planet as how bankruptcy actually works.
What a piece of shit.
In something near and dear to you I’m picturing a hospital system filing a bankruptcy petition and leaving the patients with no care because it’s now the responsibility of the credit committee.
Let’s see how that plays with public.
What do you expect from someone with no understanding of the concept of personal responsibility?
Even in his failure, he expects someone else to take care of his issues
In other words, a perfect politician.
“The alleged impeachable actions include the deportation of alleged gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as well as “unlawful” cuts carried out by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.”
Yeah, okay.
“Looking back, I think this contributed to my (liber)contrarian attitude.”
I really like Megadeth some times and other times Dave makes me laugh when he does his serious or “tough” voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnKCcjP8Qs
“Surprisingly, cooked rice can harbor a toxin-producing bacterium called Bacillus cereus.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/lifestyle/dangerous-takeout-mistakes-new-yorkers-make/
You cannot B. serious.
They’re super cereus.
The world and everything in it will kill you /News at 11
*narrows gaze*
Eir Aoi「Sirius (シリウス)」
https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=XY3RhMPMWAk
Anyone have experience growing radishes in containers? With my pepper plant almost big enough to move into its permanant home, I thought about what else I could grow in the limited space I had. Radishes came to mind as small enough.
I believe they grow well in containers.
😃👍🌱
You never know until you try.
Anyone have experience growing radishes in containers?
Beets me.
You aren’t even going to try to find the root of the issue?
Cherry tomatoes?
My tomato intake isn’t that high these days, and I can pickle the radishes to spread out their consumption.
Uffda. I don’t get it. Why do the journalos insist on writing columns that they think will roast Trump and the MAGA folx, when all it does is pretty much prove that Trump is right about govt fraud and waste?
Minnesoda’s local columnist who covers the “Rubes in the Sticks” beat has the latest example. She uses a lot of quotes from well known intellectual John Oliver in her column, but also lists these things that will no longer be paid for.
One of the main points the journalo made was that the cuts would destroy a team of Minnesoda health experts that tracked outbreaks of diarrhea due to food contamination.
I would suggest that if you have to “look it up” that the threat isn’t that great. I live in Sunny Minnesoda and have never heard of Brainerd diarrhea. Not sure I’m all that worried that a group of govt drones aren’t still gainfully employed compiling a spreadsheet that no one reads about people getting the runs.
” I live in Sunny Minnesoda and have never heard of Brainerd diarrhea”
Other than the local politicians, I’m totally unfamiliar with the expression
Somewhat related:
Democrats Sound an Urgent Warning: Trump Is Behaving Responsibly
Jobs Minnies are unwilling to do.
Is this the new very fine people hoax?
Honestly I’ve never cared to research this. Was the picture actually doctored or are we just disputing if the actual tattoo is MS-13?
Naturally regardless Trump and the press are going double down regardless of the actual truth. With MSM the last thing they want is people focusing on just how bad the guy is.
In one picture they photoshopped in the letters and numerals above the symbols standing for those letters and numerals in the actual tattoo.
So like “subtitles” (although in this case they were above his fingers) or did they try to overlay them on top his tattoo?
They were on the fingers, above the symbols
Basically the argument from the left isn’t whether or not the symbols represent MS-13 (with some I cannot even tell if they concede the symbols are actually tattooed), but instead they think the relevant argument is that Trump believes this guy had the symbols + MS-13 explicitly tattooed on his hand. Trump seems to understand the dishonesty and has leaned into the troll.
I’m pretty sure his knuckles are actually tattooed. Whether the tats are really MS-13 (I don’t think they spell out “MS-13”), I couldn’t say.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that two separate judges, after two separate hearings, determined, yeah, he’s cartel. The only issue is that the withhold order saying “He’s cartel, so don’t send him to El Salvador” wasn’t lifted before he was sent to El Salvador. Essentially, the pro-cartelists are demanding that he come back to the US so we can lift the order and send him back to El Salvador. I don’t even know if the “due process” for lifting the order requires that he be here in person.
Thanks!
The problem is, even if the order is lifted, he is a Salvadorian citizen, we can’t force El Salvador to send him here outside of extradition treaties for criminal prosecutions. And if he is a criminal being prosecuted, there isn’t really a ground for lifting the removal order.
What if we had a Trump appointed US immigration judge meet him and the El Salvadoran law enforcement escort at Gitmo, hold a 5 minute hearing, and signing the paperwork?
I don’t know if the tattoos mean MS13. They are a bit like a Rorschach test. It’s plausible, but you could probably show any kind of tattoo and create a link to MS13. Show me the tattoo and I’ll show you the gang. That said, there is plenty of other evidence that the guy is MS13.
Regardless, bad tattoos are grounds for deportation.
Everyone knows Richard Hanania is retarded right?
I never heard of that person, so I was unaware of that detail/
He had a brief period as some right wing thinker but I’ve never been able to figure when exactly he ever had anything interesting to say.
Yes, we know, hence the additional descriptor step.
Wot?
Parents / Step-Parents. See, we have two different designations because we acknowledge that they are different things.
Yes, Richard Hanania is retarded.
Yeah but sometimes step-parents TRANSform into just parents.
*boom goes the dynamite*
At a slightly more abstract level, Dick (can I call you Dick), “woman” describes the person herself, the biological entity, if you will. “Parent” and “step-parent” describe a person’s relationship to someone else. Relationships are more mutable and varied than biological entities are.
They are also entirely gender neutral terms. He’s not saying fathers and stepmothers are considered the same.
Dick left out Godparents? That seems a much easier one to hammer on.
Of course, he probably doesn’t believe in Godparents.
I might be interested, I love those cars.
My email is ronhatsu at yahoo.
I like it! It works neatly in Katakana.
ロンハツ
Married to a woman named Di?
For our language pedant – “dai”. Reads in English like the name “Di”, however.
?qué?
Ron – I’m assuming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu
Sensei is right.
My wife made this email for me when I was in Afghanistan and her name is Hatsumi.
Email sent.
I really like that one.
It is 8 hours away from me and I have things planned for the next 3 weekends.
I will text him and let him know if it’s still available on the 24th I might come up.
Thanks.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
YouTube Short? Bad Jimbo! Bad! No sunshine for you.
Granted it was a twist from the usual format.
YouTube Shorts are everything bad about TikTok grafted on to everything bad about YouTube. They are unwatchable.
Hilariously cruel to mom
“Weldekeal-Araya’s attorney, Bristol Myers, initially filed a motion demanding his client’s immediate release or a drastic bond reduction to just $7—one dollar per charge, CBS Austin reported.
Myers claims there’s no longer probable cause to justify the charges, pointing to newly submitted lab results that allegedly show no traces of drugs or alcohol in Weldekeal-Araya’s system.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/outrage-travis-county-judge-slashes-bond-1-2/
Bristol Myers?
What were her(?) parents thinking?
She really needs to meet and marry a guy with the last name of Squibb.
She was just a Squibb when they named her.
He wanted to go to Hogwarts, but he didn’t have enough magic.
“Canadian “Non-Binary Diaper Fetishist” Wins Case To Have Taxpayers Fund Experimental Surgery That Would Leave Him With A Penis AND “Vagina””
https://reduxx.info/canadian-non-binary-diaper-fetishist-wins-case-to-have-taxpayers-fund-experimental-surgery-that-would-leave-him-with-a-penis-and-vagina/
WTF, Canada?
Canada has been successfully skinsuited by the WEFfers. The recent elections were merely the final confirmation.
That’ll show Trump!
He can go fuck himself.
The ultimate in “Have your cock and eat it too”?
All I can manage is a confused expression.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-futures-surge-blowout-tech-earnings-erasing-aprils-losses
I was told the market was in freefall and we are now all broke and/or dead.
My God, man. Don’t you realize that the GDP shrunk by $23BB last quarter? Another quarter like that, and its cannibal rape gangs roaming the streets!
Gangs that rape cannibals?
On further reading something like negative 5% of of the measure was net imports. Lots of companies buying before they came into effect.
So one interesting thing to see is how much that slows imports in Q2 and boosts GDP. That would make Q3 more interesting in my book as we can see closer to what a steady state looks like if OMB ever settles down and creates an actual tariff framework.
If that’s your fetish, sure, why not?
cannibal rape gangs
What’s the order of operations there?
Simultaneous. You get the Marv Albert treatment
Like “extra large pants” (a term I am sure many of us are familiar with), both the adjectives jointly describe the noun.
It’s the futures. S&P is up 1% after being down something like 1.5% yesterday. Futures are a weathervane at best.
We were told worst quarter since the Great Depression. Then virtually all of it bounced back, with no fanfare.
Over the long haul the market will give accurate information about values and hence economic growth by averaging out countless individual whims into a trendline that reflects the whole. So of course, everyone carefully focuses on every split second up or down tick to support their chosen political position.
Jarflax – you need to focus on the Fibonacci levels!
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fibonacciretracement.asp
(Technical analysis that has never been proven to be predicative despite many studies.)
I am assured by my day trading acquaintances and many many emails trying to sell me trading software that if you follow their program you can make 75% a month! Now, this has always raised the question in my mind, Why, if you are making 75% a month, are you spending your time hawking $1,500-$50,000 ‘programs’ to me via spam email? Cause if I was making 75% a month, I would probably not be working as a huckster.
Sensei:
Restate my assumptions…
Damn your nimble fingers, Neph!
Although I was leaning towards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1IzNKIHhp0
They’re just givers, Jarflax. They care about you.
They have to charge that much to keep out the crazies, you see.
The issue is because traders use this (and other tools) they become a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. However, only in the short term.
So if you find yourself some hot stock the day traders are all over you can apply these and actually see buys and sells based on them.
I have made money by fiddling with options as a stock bounced between ‘support’ and ‘resistance’. I have also lost money doing it, because stocks break out of trading ranges. Overall, totaled up, I have made more than I have lost doing this, but less, significantly less, than the returns on the bulk of my portfolio which I leave the hell alone, and even that has a lower return than the part just sitting parked in SPY.
I am serene every since I accepted John Bogle into my life.
Amen.
Based on that WSJ editorial, it sounds like Albania could walk all over us.
In honor of the date:
First of May – Jonathan Coulton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZaJDg6E0A
*lyrics NSFW
If someone didn’t do it today, it was going to be in the afternoon links tomorrow.
She told us so
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, in her first major public remarks since leaving the White House, criticized President Trump’s tariff policies as “reckless,” saying they pose the risk of taking the country into recession.
“Some people are describing what’s been happening in recent months as absolute chaos. And of course I understand why. It’s certainly true of those tariffs. Tariffs that — as I predicted — are clearly inviting a recession,” Harris said.
She called it the “greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history” and applauded Americans who are rallying against the tariffs, saying they will increase everyday costs and impact retirement accounts and small businesses.
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Harris had made her closing argument in the 2024 campaign about the danger of returning Trump to office. On Wednesday, she criticized her formal rival for more than his economic policy, describing his agenda as “a narrow, self-serving vision of America where they punish truth-tellers, favor loyalists, cash in on their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.”
She warned that if the system of checks and balances in the government falls apart, the country would face a constitutional crisis.
“That is a crisis that will eventually impact everyone, because it would mean that the rules that protect our fundamental rights and freedoms, that ensure each of us has a say about how our government works, will no longer matter,” Harris said.
America is lost. Flee to Canada.
The NYT article on her speech really struggled to present her as offering anything other than the standard Team Blue talking points.
When I need an expert analysis of economic issues, Kamala Harris is the first person who comes to mind.
Trump is not spending enough!
The more the government spends, the higher the GDP goes. It’s simple math. You don’t want the GDP to shrink, do you?
Have you seen this? I’m not sure what to believe.
Fact Check: ICE detained Canadian ‘American Pie’ actor Jasmine Mooney for 12 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-ice-detained-canadian-211100441.html
The “forced to sleep on the concrete floor bit” seems suspect. But hey, they wanted to go “elbows out”, so you can expect some retaliation from our enforcers eh?
Snopes says it’s true, so it probably isn’t.
When your claim to fame is a minor role in a direct to video film.
“Confused as to why she was detained….” supposedly for not having her travel documents.
Now, papers please is not the world I want to live in, but you’re crossing the border lady…
I would wager….did on purpose
Without bothering to read the story, I’m going to assume at some point she asked, “Don’t you know who I am?”
The border of any given country is the one spot I would expect to need to show papers.
Yeah that was what my “but” was for…a valid one that shows there are exceptions.
Punk Rock Bowling had to change up their lineup as some of the bands were unwilling (or unable) to enter the US now.
My wife’s in charge of planning her team’s games, and one roller derby team from Canada declined an invitation due to “the current political climate”.
BTW, she wasn’t able to schedule a game in Ohio this season.
TOK:
Too bad. Hope she was able to put together a good schedule regardless. The girlfriend has made some noise about a trip to Chicago at some point.
Because….?
Oh. visa revoked, denied entry, tried to get in from Mexico with a consulting visa application, whatever that is, and got detained.
See Nephs remarks…shes famous so why does she have to follow the rules
*famous is doing heavy lifting here…she is marginally known for nothinv
Where are the sob stories about all the US fishermen who have been denied entry to Canada because they have a DUI conviction on their record?
I’ve heard all sorts of stories about guys showing up to go fishing and getting turned away because they had a DUI (sometimes as far back as the ’70s). Who fights for them?
Absolutely true. I know of one who can no longer go to Canada.
I thought it was ten years, evidently incorrectly. Lifetime ban seems harsh.
Toxeth,
I don’t know anything for sure. I’m just repeating some stories I’ve heard from buddies who have had this happen to them. Most of them are fairly trustworthy despite being fishermen.
Seems to be a lot of discretion available to the Canadian border patrol.
Toxteth:
It depends on if the DUI is in a database the Canadian border agents have access to. Not sure about the veracity, but this looks to be legit enough for entertainment purposes. I know when I was going up last time (~15 years ago) I drove separately in case I got stopped at the border. I have an OVI (Ohio DUI) on my record from my misspent youth.
Ending her remarks, Harris left the crowd with a warning: “things are probably going to get worse before they get better.”
Unwinding the mess you and Joe left won’t be easy.
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A Times investigation: LAFD union head made $540,000 in a year, with huge overtime payouts
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-30/lafd-union-head-massive-amounts-of-overtime
I’m a little confused.
He earned a (presumably full-time) base salary from LA with 30 hours of overtime a week – that sounds like 70 hours right there.
He also reported 48 hours a week of union and related duties. How does that not add up to 118 hours a week?
I’m guessing similar to some auto unions he gets paid 40 hours by the city to work on union stuff that runs concurrent with what he gets paid by the union.
Pure guess…
Hey, if a private business wants to massively overpay someone while he double-dips on them, that’s their business.
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Wait, what’s that, you say?
Heartless monster
— President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
The Republican president has tried to reassure a nervous country that his tariffs will not provoke a recession, after a new government report showed the U.S. economy shrank during the first three months of the year.
Trump was quick to blame his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, for any setbacks while telling his Cabinet that his tariffs meant China was “having tremendous difficulty because their factories are not doing business,” adding that the U.S. did not really need imports from the world’s dominant manufacturer.
“You know, somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are going to be open,’” Trump continued, offering a hypothetical. “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”
Depraved indifference to the suffering of little children. How have we as a culture sunk so low?
As Suthen reminded us yesterday, this is the party of “Lower your expectations”.
Nobody needs 23 dolls.
That would actually be a great retort from Trump
THEY’RE ACTION FIGURES!
I rule this insufficiently nerdy. They are important culturally significant collectibles!
Mint, in box!
No, Jar, even that is Insufficiently Nerdy.
🙂
Nobody needs 23 kinds of dolls.
Virtuous when it comes from Bernie Sanders; wicked when it comes from Donald Trump.
Was gonna say that.
When Trump first entered, I was annoyed at how exactly similar his economic ideas were to left wing populist Bernie Sanders. But he largely avoided implementing them in term one.
That quote is a straight up mirror image of Bernie Sanders.
Apologies for the long link, but I thought this was interesting. Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank fame has done business in China, and thinks we should have 400% tariffs. He does make good points.
https://www.thefp.com/p/kevin-oleary-tariffs-on-chinese-goods?taid=681381e80a593f00019915c7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=twitter
I think that’s too low.
I know China plays dirty and cheats at everything involving trade, environmental treaties, etc. but he lists things out nicely.
Let me give you a good example: steel dumping. The Chinese government intentionally subsidizes the overproduction of steel, flooding global markets with exports that China sells for below the cost of production.
There are some good points here. Open question, what’s a libertarian response to steel dumping by China? Is there a less harmful approach than tariffs to counter this?
The classic argument would be take all the subsidized steel you can.
This pays no mind to when you stop producing steel domestically because it isn’t economic you can’t spin up a foundry and a mill overnight for a material critical to your nation.
And I meant to add what happens when for whatever reason they won’t send you steel or charge your crazy prices.
Open question, what’s a libertarian response to steel dumping by China?
The theory is what Sensei said.
The reality is to answer the question, “Why is it so expensive to make steel in America?” and fix that.
DEG – the issue with something like steel is that even with the same labor cost if you don’t care about pollution you can make it cheaper in a developing nation.
I’m sick of the how white is white enough argument for US pollution, but OTH, I don’t want to see us creating steel with the same lack of pollution standards as India and China.
I guess incentivizing the shutdown of domestic steel production leads to the question about why China would be driving this? If it’s part of a long-term strategy to harm other countries, then sounds like an aggressive act.
Deg, it sounds like China is intentionally subsidizing the price below the cost to produce (not a free market scenario). If so, America could scrap every regulation to lower the cost and it still couldn’t compete.
One way to look at it is that Japan sends us subsidized cars in return it gets subsidized agricultural products from the US. Both distort domestic production, but in the aggregate the relationship is mutually beneficial because of specialization and geography.
With China all bets are off.
Deg, it sounds like China is intentionally subsidizing the price below the cost to produce (not a free market scenario). If so, America could scrap every regulation to lower the cost and it still couldn’t compete.
So let them fuck over their citizenry. “What is seen and not seen”.
Sensei – Early in my career I worked at an industrial automation company, and we did a little work for a steel plant in South Korea. The guy that we sent reported that the workers were walking around in sandals and straw hats. I’m sure China is worse. As much as regulations in the US add to cost, I don’t think we want get rid of safety equipment or allow plants to dump their waste into the Great Lakes.
In the glass plant I was building the welders wore flip-flops and used piece of tinted glass to shield their eyes from the arc. The didn’t have a welder, they just jammed their welding leads straight into the socket.
When a customer requested Chinese steel be used, we had to de-rate it/add in a safety factor of 30%.
As a side note, in general, everything after the ? in the URL can be cut off:
https://www.thefp.com/p/kevin-oleary-tariffs-on-chinese-goods
Which will lead to the main page (which is paywalled), so an archive gets past that.
Yet Democrats are quick to say that Trump inherited an economy on a steady course of low unemployment and declining inflation that his tariff plans have almost immediately disrupted.
“In just 100 days, President Trump has taken the U.S. economy from strong, stable growth to negative GDP,” said Heather Boushey, a former member of Biden’s White House Council of Economic Advisers. “This astonishing turn of fortune is directly due to the incoherence of his economic policy and his mismanagement of federal policy more generally.”
Everything was perfect when we left, and the place is in shambles now.
This is the ‘shut up, you dont know how good you have it’ party, right?
I would suggest that hiring people for bullshit govt jobs is the same as those people being on welfare.
Maybe even worse. If they were simply on welfare they wouldn’t be actively interfering with the private sector.
“Speaking live on air to reporters on News Nation’s program Wednesday, RFK Jr was asked to clarify what he meant when he said the MMR contains “a lot of aborted fetus debris.”
“There are populations in our country like the Mennonites in Texas, were most afflicted, and they have religious objections to the vaccination” he began, adding “because the MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles. So they don’t want to take it.””
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-mmr-vaccine-fetus-b2742886.html
????
One of the problems we have in this country is the notion that people have to justify their desires and preferences. Why isn’t it enough to say “I don’t want to take that vaccine” or “I don’t want my kid to see those books”? Period, end of discussion?
This (apparent) demand that somebody has to have a reason acceptable to some third party in order to do (or not do) what they want is freakin’ toxic. And it appears to be completely normalized.
“Because” is a great answer to so many things. “Just Because” is even better.
True, although I’m wondering about the aborted fetus debris.
There are a bunch of articles attacking RFK Jr. saying it’s false.
I found this: https://ethicalresearch.net/products-that-use-aborted-fetuses/ but seems a biased source.
“It is scientifically impossible to get an infection with a vaccine,” the former chief medical officer for New York City, Dr. Tyler Evans, told The Independent in a recent interview.
Oh, really???
But in their announcement – which is all we have to go off, at present – the companies also claim the new material will be “engineered using T. rex DNA”, which scientists have yet to extract from any dinosaur fossil.
Even within the most well-preserved specimens, DNA doesn’t seem to survive much more than a million years or so before it becomes too fragmented and degraded to be sequenced.
The oldest DNA fragments on record, extracted from Siberian mammoth molars, are around 1.6 million years old. T. rex went extinct 66 million years ago, so there’s no hope of ever recovering its DNA.
What the team will actually refer to as a blueprint for this lab-grown leather is fossilized T. rex collagen, and even that has a questionable grounding.
Ahh. I thought I smelled bullshit as soon as I started reading the story.
Commie tantrum Day
May Day, celebrated by workers across the globe as International Labor Day, occurs on May 1 each year. This year, activists in the U.S. aim to build on the momentum of recent widespread grassroots protests against policies implemented by the Trump administration.
Anti-Trump protesters have expressed a range of concerns regarding the administration’s recent actions, including the elimination of thousands of federal jobs, immigration raids, and billionaire Elon Musk’s involvement in downsizing the U.S. government.
Throw off your chains.
Two million protesters? I doubt that. I didn’t see jack here on local or network news indicating crowds anywhere near that.
“This is a war on working people,” organizers said on the May Day Strong events web page.
“They’re defunding our schools, privatizing public services, attacking unions, and targeting immigrant families with fear and violence,” they added. “We are reclaiming our power from corporate elites, and we will not be intimidated by Trump, Musk, or their billionaire backers. They’ve ruled for too long.”
The White House did not immediately respond to NPR’s request for comment.
The U.S. does not officially observe the labor holiday, due to what historians say is an enduring resistance to working-class unity. Despite that resistance, America’s working class has found ways to commemorate May Day since the 19th century.
American workers are so oppressed we have to build walls to keep people from leaving for greener pastures.
BY WORKING-CLASS UNITY MEAN…
Communism.
“Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the United States.”
The tradition of celebrating labor day in September pre-dates commie labor day.
No Pie today?
He must be too drunk to login after celebrating the T-Woofs sending LeBron and Luka home for the offseason!!!!!
Syntactically, I understand that sentence but I just don’t understand any of it.
This is the difference between “understand” and “comprehend”.
Apparently some clan raiders have destroyed the legacy of LeBron. I’m pretty sure nothing of value was lost.
need moar caffeine – didn’t even catch I used ‘understand’ twice.
Seriously they can retrofit an existing aircraft in under a year to be capable of flying the POTUS, but Boeing’s current debacle can’t be completed in any reasonable time for any reasonable amount of taxpayer money.
Trump Wants a New Air Force One So Badly He’s Refurbishing a Qatari Plane
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/air-force-one-trump-qatari-jet-l3harris-fc903838?st=kWUEcb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey
Countless people have left authoritarian countries for the promise of freedom and safety in the United States. NPR reached out to Koranyi and a dozen others to get their impressions of the Trump administration’s first several months in power. Most — but not all — said some of the administration’s tactics reminded them of those used by the regimes they fled.
In fact, a survey in February found that hundreds of U.S.-based scholars think the United States is moving swiftly from a liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.
“This is an elected government, obviously, but it is behaving as an authoritarian one, ” says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and co-author of How Democracies Die. “It is engaging in a rapid and systematic weaponization of the machinery of government and its deployment to punish rivals, to protect allies and to bully elements of the media.”
Those scholars and civil society advocates were all out in the streets protesting the lockdowns and forcible medical experiments five years ago, right?
RIGHT?
How about all those people saying the Biden censorship regime reminded them of their totalitarian home countries?
That was for you own good so it was Different.
Not mentioned: the insane lawfare against Trump and his advisors during the Biden years.
Move over Gulf of America!
Can the Only U.S. Highway Measured in Kilometers Survive ‘America First’?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/america-first-trump-metric-highway-tucker-carlson-827758e6?st=4CTK4s&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Why are any roads measured in metric units in this country?
(WSJ does not load for me under any conditions today)
“The U.S. Metric Board—which was put in place to help Americans make the switch—used I-19, which was being built at the time, as a test case for the measuring system on signs.
However, when President Ronald Reagan took office he disbanded the metric board and the U.S. never switched over. The signs remain.”
All the exits are labeled at the kilometer. So taking Exit 63 to get Town A would change to Exit 39. As somebody that uses the NJ GSP with the same mileage exits and remembering where all the towns are by exit number I can see that being a real PITA.
You see that exit number this is where the nonsense is.
I live in a state where we just number the exits. Exits 9 and 10 do not need to be one mile apart.
Pay no mind to the recently introduced Exits 9A, 9B, and 9D. Exit 9C under construction or closed to make way the later and greater 9D.
And?
You write that in a tone as though this were in any way a problem.
“You know what they told me in seventh grade science class? ‘You better learn metric, because it’s gonna change really soon’ and that was in 1972,” said Janice Ranck, 63, a real-estate agent working in Tubac who drives the road every day.
I like this lady:
‘You better learn metric, because it’s gonna change really soon’
1mm ~ .040″
1 liter ~ 60 cubic inches
1 kilometer ~ .6 mile
1 kilogram ~ 2.2 pounds