Good morning one and all to another exciting day!
Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone
House Budget Committee Advances Reconciliation Bill
Tariffs Will Likely Lead To Price Increases, Top Trump Official Says
FBI Director Patel says unreleased Russia probe documents will soon be made public
Bongino: Epstein ‘Killed Himself’ — ‘I Have Seen the Whole File’
Key group in government censorship project boasted of suppressing Trump message, defunding newsrooms
Report: Fertility Clinic Bomber Had ’Anti-Natalist Ideology’
Federal Officials Start Investigation Into Mexican Tall Ship That Hit Brooklyn Bridge
Philly DA’s 2-tier justice system demands federal scrutiny
SCOTUS Oral Argument In Nationwide Injunction Case Illustrates Courts’ Coup Against Trump
That’s all I for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Am I the only one who reacts to the Biden cancer news with “Not my business”? He’s no longer in a position to cause more damage, so I really no longer care.
My initial reaction is to wait for the op/ed telling us this is why he should have stayed on the ballot and gotten elected.
He was surrounded by doctors more than any other president. What does that tell you about their competence?
Governmental medical care at its best?
You are supposed to feel so much sympathy that you forget all the bad things he’s done.
I carefully ration my measure of sympathy.
I thought his dark overlord is now done with him and letting his worthless husk wither.
You mean Obama?
The Biden nonsense was another attempt to force progressive shit on us al. They knew the guy was brain dead. They lied to us because the plan was to carry his sorry ass over the finish line, and then give the presidency to Harris, which we all saw was unelectable, even with massive cheating.
What I want is an admission that Biden was never in charge and that it was Obama and his people setting the progressive globalist marxist agenda into overdrive to ruin this country.
Sure Obama just MANUFACTURED the South Carolina primary victory. All hail and fear the one Dark Lord!
I think you mean they “fortified” it.
Democrats rallied around Biden in ’20 after South Carolina because they had one true rallying purpose – Trump. They couldn’t have the clown show continue as it had started (and that so resembled the Republican primary in ’16).
Biden was the only one on that stage that didn’t come off as a communist. Everyone else was talking Green New Deal and $100 minimum wage. The DNC woke up and decided they needed someone that could at least pass as a normie.
I dont give a fuck one way or the other about Biden’s cancer. That doesnt matter. What I want to know is who was acting in his stead while he was in office and how can anything done in his name possibly be legal? In other words, nice try on the distraction but fuck Biden and his cancer. Who’s heads are going to roll?
I find it admirable when someone has cancer and doesn’t tell everyone else to burden them with the news. When you are the President and at one point running for reelection though?
In my book hiding advanced dementia makes hiding advanced cancer kind of irrelevant. Cancer raises the possibility that the candidate will at some point become unfit to serve; dementia is actual current incapacity.
This. I have zero interest in the guy’s prostate. You either die OF it or WITH it, so this is a normal male health progression.
Dementia, not so much, and has far more bearing on the country than prostate cancer.
In other news, Donald will be out tomorrow talking about how his prostate is the smoothest, most beautiful prostate. Just a small smooth gland, smooth as silk. Doctors wanted to take pictures to put in medical textbooks.
Milania says it’s the best she’s ever milked.
Jaimie channeling SugarFree today.
I didn’t need that mental image. Guess I’ll skip lunch.
The Last American Hero:
Great… now I’m working to prevent my brain from mashing up Trump with Lana from Skytanic.
“smooth as a veal cutlet”
*shudder*
Interesting about Epstein and Bongino/Patel. Do you continue to believe the NARRATIVE that you prefer, or can you accept that he actually killed himself (as dubious as that seems)?
What would be the point of “accepting” the “fact?”
The truth or falsity of information can be useful, or it can be useless for anything outside of entertainment purposes. “Believing” that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son is all sorts of entertaining, and the downsides for “believing” it are arbitrarily close to zero AFAICT.
Don’t get me started on how delusional our species tends to be. A good story beats a thousand “facts”.
Be that as it may, what’s wrong with that?
Humans rationalize; we seldom reason. It is good to remember that because it is true of all of us and remembering it is a necessary precondition for occasionally managing to reason.
Maybe nothing is wrong, it is just what we are. That just makes me feel old and curmudgeonly.
I would have thought your experiences with Burning Man would have made the coexistence of “real, with consequences” and “silly, but brings happiness” as part of a thriving human obvious. Maybe it’s the time/place/manner you object to?
Oh no, Burning Man has proven the opposite. It has been seized by the worst of woke progressivism, which wouldn’t have been possible without the preceding bureaucratization. It may well be in early death throes. But even one of my earliest experiences there told me all I needed to know about the people (or at least some of them) that go.
While I never thought someone went hands on to do it, it took a lot of looking the other way and probable encouragement to get the deed done.
I want you to imagine Mr. Epstein, your future, with hundreds upon hundreds of STEVE SMITHs in the most secure federal facilities.
Well, I’m certainly not going to change my opinion because Bongino tells me he has seen the whole file. Which means he now has the whole file, and still hasn’t released it. If all the information is available to people who I trust and they say “yeah, disregard all those suspicious circumstances, he offed himself”, then we can talk.
#metoo
Bongino and Patel saying Epstein committed suicide is meaningless to me. I don’t trust either.
By “the whole file”, they mean the one that says Epstein Suicide on the outside and has incriminating photos of Dan on the inside.
That Epstein killed himself and all of the reported circumstances happened they way they were reported is about as likely as winning the powerball, yet someone always wins the powerball.
Take that for what it is worth.
I always found it plausible that he was the one who officially took his own life, but that still doesn’t answer why he was allowed to do it and why it still seems like he was assisted.
Is it better if he killed himself? Considering he was being “watched” to avoid that exact thing happening?
“Epstein killed himself. The case files say so. You know, the case files assembled by people who needed the narrative to be that Epstein killed himself. I wonder why the opposite narrative is the one that gained traction.”
So the fact that skeptical people have seen the evidence that YOU HAVE NOT, and concluded what you DON’T WANT TO BELIEVE just flows off your back like water off a duck?
You ain’t the boss o’ me.
How do I know these people are Skeptical?
I don’t know them. I have not vetted them. They are randos.
If there was anyone who could make me change my mind, it’s Patel and Bongino.
I had never heard of one before his appointment, and the other was just a name floating about in the soupy swamp. I don’t know them.
Both were instrumental in exposing the Russian collusion hoax. There’s a reason why Trump put them in positions of power.
I’m with Banjos on this one.
“If there was anyone who could make me change my mind, it’s Patel and Bongino.,/em>”
I am not ignoring the possibility that both Dan & Kash were gaslighted, either with false evidence or by withholding of key evidence, by this criminal cabal. There is nothing the evil fucks that run the intel apparatus have not or would not do to protect their patrons.
Hell, I was on board with Epstein’s death was just tooooooo convenient to too many powerful people to be a simple suicide. But I don’t have facts either way, and if two people who have some credibility for being against the swamp come to the conclusion that Occam’s razor applies, I have to be a real zealot to ignore that. Funny how we can all be so human, isn’t it?
There is nothing the evil fucks that run the intel apparatus have not or would not do to protect their patrons.
They are so powerful they can fool people I would be inclined to trust, but THEY CAN’T FOOL ME!!! bwahahahahahaha
Apparently the criminal canal of unelected and unaccountable globalist marxist corruptocrats doesn’t know how to close tags.
JI – I would instead argue that over the course of years, inconvenient evidence can be made to disappear and not be in whatever files are left to be examined later.
No, I don’t know what happened in that cell. Maybe he did string himself up, but the jailers certainly made it really easy to not be discovered alive.
No clue about criminal canals, and as someone that has been on the inside of the intel machine, I can tell you that you have no idea.
Criminals prefer tunnels to canals.
No, I don’t know what happened in that cell. Maybe he did string himself up, but the jailers certainly made it really easy to not be discovered alive.
I agree – the circumstances lend themselves to suspicion. Strongly even. But if you never trust anyone’s take after they have seen all the extant evidence, then you aren’t being grounded in any reality. Just like proggies!
Too much secrecy for too many years makes it difficult to believe that was is left reflects what was there.
I am not invested in the Epstein didn’t kill himself narrative. It was perfectly reasonable for him to have killed himself, and it was also perfectly reasonable for him to have been murdered. He was facing hell as a high profile, rich Jewish kiddy diddler in prison. He also obviously knew things that were dangerous to some powerful people.
I don’t trust people. I trust evidence. Until I see the evidence, truth/falsity is in an indeterminate state.
Seeing evidence I have not, and keeping that evidence secret, are two different things.
I’m pretty sure I’m with Eric Weinstein on this. Whatever it is we want to believe Epstein was, he wasn’t.
He was a construct, not a person.
“So, are we getting Epstein’s list?”
“No. Here are some Russia! Russia! Russia! documents as a consolation prize.”
The Russia, Russia, Russia docs are more important to me. Our FBI attempted a coup against a President.
It was not just the FBI: it was the CIA and under direction of the Obama admin, with a signoff by Obama himself. Hilary, Barack, John Brenan, Jake Clapper, and Valerie Jarret – the top players behind this coup attempt – all, at a minimum, need to be behind bars.
Banjos is absolutely right here. The Epstein files was always a red herring, Russia, etc. was always much more important.
Anyone that still believes there is any real evidence that would divulge Epstein’s connections/handlers, his clients, and his crimes, is being naive. That evidence was absolutely destroyed, under orders from the top, to make sure it could never get out. And once they killed Epstein, there was nobody able or willing to tell us any details we might be able to verify.
Let that go. Focus on the criminal shit we still have like the Russia collusion coup attempt and the last 4 years of Obama 3.0.
There was never a list, that’s what has been conjured up. There were flight logs which is similar, but different. This is how we create myths.
If he was in fact honey-potting VIPs, and he likely was as you don’t run that operation with that clientel for that long without some level of protection, there was a list.
You’re right. There’s probably no list. It’s probably an Excel spreadsheet.
honey-potting VIPs
Or simply entertaining people with perverse desires, thus making rich/powerful friends?
It was a table of clients, not a list.
Where the white womenz at?
Trying to get two stubborn kids out of bed.
That’s one thing I never needed doing. I bet it is not easy..
If taking away the blanket did not work, the splash of water got us moving.
UCS:
The cruelest method to wake up deep sleepers that I ever heard of was to take a cup of ball bearings and put them in the freezer. When the person doesn’t get up, dump them into the bed. The cold, and the fact they’ll roll under the sleeper and be uncomfortable as hell combine to get them up.
I am not responsible for any bodily injury that comes from doing this.
Like when the suddenly awaker goes on a rampage?
I like how Neph leaves out who is going to get bodily injured in said scenario.
Huh. Youtube has been filling my recommendations with reaction videos of people watching that scene for some reason. I’m guessing someone’s SEO company earned their pay.
In local news the election saga is over… And life goes on.
As corrupt and foreign controlled as ever, it sounds like.
You’re almost American.
as I said “independence” is not an option.
The wrong person won; therefore the election cannot be legitimate!
— One side last fall; the other side this spring
The EU from what I understand is hard at work repeating this pattern in Poland now too, right?
The globalists will not accept the fact the serfs they want to exterminate and control have had enough.
Tell me, Ted how else does one react to “We don’t like those results so we’ve banned your candidate and are going to start over”?
the serfs have no idea what they are doing except what tiktok manages to keep their attention for more than 30 seconds.
I still believe, as I did in November, that the “sovereignist” nutjob would have lost those elections as well.
Poland only had the first round that was not that relevant in their case.
How do we know that tactical voting in the second round last fall if it had taken place wouldn’t have been enough to overcome Georgescu’s first-round advantage?
Ted, the only way to know would have been to hold the election without any fraud or shenanigans.
UCS, when the contention is that whoever won did not win legitimately, there is never an election without fraud or shenanigans.
You’re almost there JI.
epiphany is within your grasp.
UCS, I’ll go one better – no election is any basis for governance. Even the cleanest. Because it is still just a majority of fucking stupid people.
JI gets it.
There is no good basis for governance, at least that we have found so far. They all produce one or more of corruption, ineptitude, and tyranny, usually all three.
Years ago I read Dirty Little Secrets: the persistence of corruption in American politics by Larry Sabato and Glenn R Simpson (who seems to be left off as coauthor of the book when searching for it now). Opened my eyes to how it’s been corrupt all along and wasn’t some aberration. Simpson, ironically or not, later founded Fusion GPS and was a proponent of the Russian hoax.
Apparently I can get even more erect.
Not mentioned – the 9.5K agents left in the DC area, and the 38K agents overall left unfired and unprosecuted.
As VDH points out, the biggest problems always came from the small slice in the Hoover building. Sure, I’d be happy to see federal jurisdiction diminished, but that’s going to take a considerable amount of Congressional action. So this may only be a baby step, it is at least in the right direction.
Oh and presumably this kills the project to build them a new bigger-than-the-Pentagon HQ.
As VDH points out the problem really is academia. all these progressive marxist cuntes come from academia where they can entertain the most ludicrously dumb ideas and never have to accept the consequences.
I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions on that front.
Getting permanant cuts done has not been on the table so far.
Fair point UCS, but it should be the easiest spending cut in the entire history of spending cuts.
Oh and presumably this kills the project to build them a new bigger-than-the-Pentagon HQ.
I’ll believe that gets killed when I see it.
Now those agents have a broader group of Congressional protectors whose districts include their new offices. Trying to downsize the FBI will now draw opposition on the same model as closing military bases.
This is also why I no longer support moving federal agencies out of DC and into “the hinterlands”.
Depends on how ‘hinter’, I think we could get some voluntary RIF effects if we reopened Adak Island as home to the agencies.
/patiently waits for the injunction explaining why this is an illegal abuse of power
Well, this was meant as a reply to juris imprudent above…
Yeah, and if that happens then open warfare really is on the horizon, as there is no reasoning, no compromise with that kind of thinking.
It’s an evergreen reply.
“My client will be irreparably harmed by having to move from DC to Tulsa. I mean, there aren’t even any cocktail parties there worth going to.
Having been to the Petroleum Club and the Tulsa Club, I call bullshit.
It’s not exactly Jimbo’s Daily Ray of Sunshine, but Here’s some fun cat news.
“The team raised over 10 million yen, or about 68,500 dollars, for the project through crowdfunding. The donations doubled the target amount.”
Fake news. We all know scientific research can only be done with at least $3 million in government grants.
How can you trust any research if they went into it without knowing exactly what the govt wanted to hear?
The way real SCIENCE works is you first write a grant application that promises to deliver the results that The Man wants to hear. Then the govt gives out $$ to the applicants it thinks can reliably produce the “facts” to support what they want to do. Finally a few nerds in the lab get those results and publish.
Three centuries ago China tweaked a single rule in its imperial exams—and gave us a natural experiment on affirmative action that still echoes today.
Early-1700s: top degrees from the imperial exams were captured by a few rich coastal provinces. Scholars from poorer or frontier regions almost never made the final list.
1712 reform: at the last stage only each province had to show the same success rate among its own finalists. Coastal strongholds hit a ceiling; Guizhou, Yunnan & friends suddenly had a real shot.
6/ A new inequality
The reform shrank gaps between provinces, but inside the winners the best-prepared prefectures captured most of the new slots—so a fresh divide emerged within those provinces.
9/ Take-aways
1️⃣ Shifting only the last gate can widen representation without blunting effort.
2️⃣ Quality loss isn’t automatic; where a quota sits matters.
3️⃣ Temporary fixes cast long shadows—good and bad.
4️⃣ Redistribution often reshapes, rather than erases, inequality.
https://x.com/Melanie_Xue/status/1921945128974819768
Human nature is to take & hoard, and then build barriers to prevent others from doing it to you.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
On the English country parson –
https://x.com/nic_lucc/status/1923827042535018955
UBI works! (at least in a few cases where you had preselected for intellectual interests, dedication to other than purely financial goals, and ability to complete a somewhat difficult education and moral vetting process, but hey I am sure it would produce the same results across the board (sarc))
I’m not really sure what a parson is, but it sounds awesome. Sign me up.
It’s a priest at a rural parish.
Apparently, they had a lot of free time on their hands.
a priest that had a living in general so they did not have to work other than priesting which apparently is not all that time consuming
It reminded me of this
https://unherd.com/2024/01/confessions-of-a-country-parson/
Hobbies aside, the country parson had a job, and that was watching over the spiritual lives of the parish. Easy or hard, this was what he was doing.
The vicar is the more commonly encountered cleric. Though some parsons might have been devoted to their flock, the church on the whole had a reputation for idleness. Sincere faith was not a necessary quality for ordination as a minister of the Church of England. With enough money and connections a man might be ordained and installed in a desirable living.
A living, (a parish church), was typically set up so that a rector or a vicar presided. In the Regency period, once installed in a living, a man was there for life. No one less than the bishop could remove him for cause. An income and home for life would certainly be appealing; however, the if the holder of the living wished to retire he had to employ a curate to take charge of a parish.
Whether or not a vicar had the resources for hiring a curate depended on the parish itself. His portion would be the lesser tithes, 10% of the parish’s produce and livestock. In some vicarages this might be as little as £50 a year. (For reference, this is roughly the equivalent of a minimum wage job.) In other parishes, the lesser tithes could amount to a considerable sum. Some hints in Pride and Prejudice suggest the Kympton living might have amounted to £500 -£600 a year.
A vicar could resign his duties to a curate once he obtained the permission of his bishop. Many hired a curate, who would be paid out of the vicar’s own pocket, from the beginning of their incumbency. Others only did so when they had to retire. A vicar did not have to give up the parsonage house to the curate. He might continue to live in it himself and leave the curate to find his own living quarters somewhere within an easy distance of the church.
Approximately 11,500 benefices or livings existed in England and Wales at the end of the 18th century. This sounds like a sufficient number; however, over half the ordained clergy never received a living. Patrons owned livings. Oxford and Cambridge colleges controlled around 5%, giving them as gifts to fellows and masters who wished to marry and leave academic pursuits. Another 10% or so belonged to the Crown and were presented to government supporters. Bishops and cathedral chapters possessed about 20%. The gentry and aristocracy held the largest share, on the order of 60%. Most great families had at least one or two livings at their disposal.
How much income did a living provide?
The majority of England’s parishes were small. An 1802 figure suggests a third of the benefices brought in less than £150 a year and some 1,000 of those less than £100. (Remember, about £50 a year was more or less equivalent to our minimum wage.) A clergyman needed a living of £300-400 per annum to be on the level with the lesser gentry. Incomes might be increased by serving more than one parish, but this seldom resulted in real wealth. Only a third of all clergy acquired more than one living. Slightly more than one in twenty held more than two benefices and of these few had as many as four or five.
Additional income might also be found through teaching or cultivating gardens and the glebe (acreage provided by the parish.) The amount of land varied by parish, some only had a field in others, fifty acres or more. The incumbent either chose to farm it himself or rented it out to a tenant farmer.
https://randombitsoffascination.com/portfolio/vicars-curates-and-church-livings/
In other words, it was like any other profession during the 19th century, an era when people purchased their commissions in the military.
Is there anything Christians can do to annoy the hippies any more?
A Christian College Wanted to Be Great at Ultimate Frisbee—and Made Everyone Mad
https://www.wsj.com/sports/oklahoma-christian-university-ultimate-frisbee-a2d12ea4?st=i3Rttw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What did they do? Sanitize the frisbees so the hippies got burned by cleanliness?
Or was it the overuse of miracles?
Darnit, now I’m thinking of kitbashing Battle Sisters models to make a Blood Bowl team…
Small college pays kids to play frisbee as a marketing and financial aid boon. Everybody mad because frisbee is a poor person sport?
“Krasner’s policies reflect a larger movement bankrolled by billionaire George Soros, who has poured millions into electing progressive prosecutors across the country. In 2017, Soros funneled nearly $1.7 million through the Philadelphia Justice and Public Safety PAC to help Krasner win the Democratic primary.”
This shit needs to stop.
Progs don’t argue against dark money anymore because they are better at it than conservatives ever were.
See Act Blue, USAID, and so on.. If it is an NGO, it is getting dark money. And yes, even the Ukraine war was about dark money for democrats.
“Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone”
I just hope there isn’t some huge spectacle like when John McCain died.
Joe Bidens prostate cancer saved as many lives as McCains brain tumor.
By not having any impact at all on him becoming President, or being forced out of the race after having a full on sundowning during the debate?
I have already seen the usual suspects in the propaganda apparatus which had been working hand in hand with the Obama 3.0 apparatus to keep us in the dark about who was running the country over the last 4 years, now claiming they should – out of difference for Biden – back off and not be so hard on the guy. Don’t fall for this shit. They got polls that told them not enough people were buying into their latest attempt to pretend they were not complicit on this crime on America and Americans, and are looking for a reset.
These are the loser high school drama kids doing their loser shit.
Cancer could have spread to his brain?
So, R’s use their SOP to see to it that reforms fail and we are back to business as usual. SOP also means the dems using a flurry of nationwide injunctions in the courts to ‘stop Trump’, if upheld by SCOTUS will NOT be turned around by the R’s when a Dem gets back in the Oval Office.
This is nothing new and I do blame the R’s for us being where we are today.
I still want my Obamacare repeal.
Never gonna happen. It makes connected people way too much money and allows government to intrude into our lives on a level they would absolutely never be willing to accept losing if Obamacare goes away.
Blame John McStain.
And every current Republican who doesn’t want to bring it up because it’s settled.
now Bucharest needs a new mayor… yet another election
I hear there are some populist candidates available.
the do not get any traction in Bucharest.
I’m not convinced that the electorate’s opinion matters in such matters.
Can’t you just use a cat or something?
a NIMBY cat could be found
I might be overthinking this Biden thing, but a simple PSA test that every man should get every year should have pickup up that cancer long before it was this bad, right? Did he not get annual exams? Did he have this while he was President? Or was he just the really unlucky one where it hit him really fast? Or, is his family lying about this, so when he’s gone they can blame cancer and continue to deny there was anything wrong with his brain?
If you believe that they didn’t know Biden had this before the election, you are not firing on all cylinders. The plan was to fool us, fortify the election to get Biden over the finish line, then give it to Harris so the left could get their first woman of color president to have a woke freak off about. It didn’t happen. So now they are all trying to convince us they didn’t know. Don’t be fooled.
Yep, sounds like it. Lately things are turning out to be exactly as they look.
This is the Democrats, and the Bidens in particular, so there is a zero percent chance they are telling the whole truth.
So you are saying that’s….bullshit you smell? You might be on to something there.
Biden was not running the country. Harris was not going to be running it either. All we would get is the woke left preening about their DEI shit. Obama and his people would still be running the country into the ground so Americans would no longer have any option but accept the loss of their rights and way of life to the globalist movement/agenda.
He was certainly given PSA tests and the docs, his family, and select others most certainly knew he has cancer. The actual coverup of his initial diagnosis likely happened years ago.
I did a quick lookup, and even the most aggressive type is “months to years”. I’m sure he was monitored, and I’m sure they knew about this way earlier.
I thought the PSA test was generally a bad idea. Too many false positives, which have serious negative repercussions.
This has been discussed on Econtalk a number of times.
Other tests that may be a bad idea, unless you have a reason to get specifically checked. Colonoscopy and Breast Cancer screening. Those are less clear cut than the PSA.
PSA saved my life.
I had been getting the test every year with my checkup and it had been running 2-3. One year it jumped to 5 and my Dr. did a retest. When the new results came back as 6 he sent me to a urologist who did a biopsy. That came out positive so my cancer-laden prostate was removed. Cancer-free now for 3 years and counting and I piss like an 18 year-old.
I look at the stories this morning and some others we have covered here and I have to consider this as a very real possibility:
This government is so wildly corrupt and incompetent at every level, from the very highest to the very lowest offices, so thoroughly rigged against the American people that if it were fully exposed it would collapse in fire and blood. At the very least the people who are running things believe that to be true.
It would explain a lot.
Our government was weaponized to care more about itself and it’s agendas. It is not an accident that they see the American people as enemies to them and started importing a new dependent and thus subservient electorate.
Governments are a necessary evil. To be kept small and nearly impotent. The moment people decide government should protect them from their own bad choices and mistakes is when the road to hell goes 8 lane.
“Sean “Diddy” Combs’ twin daughters, Jessie and D’Lila Combs, attended their high school prom amid the disgraced music mogul’s sex-trafficking trial.
Photos obtained by Page Six showed the 18-year-olds arriving with their dates at Harbor House in downtown Los Angeles Saturday night.
Jessie and D’Lila matched in sparkly red off-the-shoulder gowns as they posed for smiley pictures together.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/05/18/parents/sean-diddy-combs-twin-daughters-attend-prom-amid-rappers-sex-trafficking-trial/
They are still dressing alike.
prom/porn same diff.
It is kind of weird how the outfits for both have become indistinguishable.
All I get out of that Federalist thing is that Supreme Court justices are gibbering imbeciles who are incapable of forming a coherent question.
why do you hate justice?
Because it’s Too close to Chicago
“Aston Mack, a 35-year-old Black Lives Matter activist known for his role in protests in Florida, was arrested on May 13, 2025. He allegedly sent explicit messages to an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl on the platform «Skip The Games» and arranged a meeting for sex. When confronted by police and reporter Chris Hansen, Mack allegedly attempted to flee. He faces charges of soliciting a minor and traveling to meet a child. He is currently in custody on $250,000 bail.”
https://gatewayhispanic.com/video/blm-activist-aston-mack-busted-during-a-child-sex-sting-operation/
What TCAP?
white people just don’t understand how Black people do activism. leave the man alone
Wait, Chris Hansen is still doing that?
Joe Biden doesn’t HAVE a cancer. Joe Biden IS a cancer.
““This very blatant effort to basically send a message most exemplified by Vance and Musk, and others, that, you know, what we really need from you women are more children. And what that really means is you should go back to doing what you were born to do, which is to produce more children,” Clinton said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/hillary-clinton-criticizes-pro-birth-policies-says-immigrants-are-key-to-us-growth
Women having children? That’s crazy!
I had a chat with one of these marxist lesbian feminists this weekend and told her she should be real weary that her side wins and gets their way to dismantle things, because when they do, society will collapse and go back to being the rule of the strongest. When that happens women, and especially lesbians like her, will find that they have no rights and the strong will use her and people like her as they please. Not my opinion. That is human history for as long as we have had it written.
She was furious and literally told me this time it wouldn’t play out that way. Because magic, I guess.
In a “state of nature”, the destiny of women was to either marry a man and rely on him as a protector-provider, or perhaps remain attached to the family as a sort of eternal child (lesbians may have had to just marry and do their marital duties whether they preferred it or not).
It requires an advanced economy and institutions before women can really be anything close to independent. And even then, they’re just relying on men in indirect ways.
The Marxist lesbian feminist should be glad she lives in this era and as you said, really think twice about dismantling capitalism.
Having one child and a philandering husband while you desperately seek power is what you were born to do.
The main far-right Polish political alliance is called “Confederation for Liberty and Independence”, often shortened to just “Confederation”. The main component of “Confederation” is a party called “New Hope” but “New Hope” used to be called “Confederation for the Renewal of the Republic of Liberty and Hope”, this long awkward name was chosen in order to get the acronym “KORWIN”, after their then leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Eventually Korwin-Mikke was kicked out of the party for being a libertarian sperg so they renamed it so they were no longer named after him and Korwin-Mikke formed a new party which kept the acronym “KORWIN”, although I can’t find a source for what it’s supposed to stand for now. Additionally, the “Confederation” coalition also once included a small TradCath party called “Confederation of the Polish Crown”. So all in all, there have been 3 (or possibly 4) different political entities called “Confederation” in Poland: 1) The main political coalition. 2) The main component of that political coalition which is now called “New Hope”. 3) Another smaller component of the main coalition which is no longer a member of the coalition. Bonus) Possibly the new micro-party led by Korwin-Mikke (who previously led 1 and 2), if he bothered to come up with a backronym”
https://x.com/MainstreamViews/status/1924161025596625103
They should form a confederation of confederations.
Uffda. Can the Minneapolis School Board be a bigger parody of themselves?
This is a big story about budget cuts to the school district’s Office of Latine Student Achievement and Office of Black Student Achievement. The gist of the story is that the school board is meddling in the way departments are run. The department heads say the school board should just give them the money and shut up. The crazy school board thinks they should have some say in what things the department does. The story outlines what sorts of classes and things will be cut.
In a sane world, the school board and the department heads wouldn’t dare complain or bring to light the shit that they are spending money on. They’d fear for their jobs if the tax rubes caught wind of what their money is being used for.
In a sane world, these racist departments are dissolved, the organizers billed for past expenses to the district, and then blacklisted from any employment in education at any level in any capacity.
Can the Minneapolis School Board be a bigger parody of themselves? – I have every confidence they can! just you wait
“Office of Latine Student Achievement and Office of Black Student Achievement”
These things should not exist.
They exist because of a marxist agenda…
Is Latine Litinx rebranded? It sounds like an obscure Catholic order.
Yep. I was hoping that before they settled on latinx they would have gone with latin@.
I’d kind of like to see the whole idiot concept go away. It’s an imbecilic pseudo-racial grouping that includes people of every race, social class, and dozens of national origins, who share nothing except speaking one of two languages (out of the five major languages derived from Latin). A Portuguese speaking person of pure African ancestry living in a Rio slum is in the same group as a Spanish speaking person of pure European ancestry living on an ancestral estate in Castile? Identity politics without a single area of identity.
It’s no worse than any other racial grouping. Which are all stupid.
Like “Asian and Pacific Islander”. Because apparently, there’s some commonality between a Mongolian herdsman and a Samoan fisherman other than being homo sapiens.
The smoking gun. They got tons of “free” money and decided that that was how things should be from now on. Who cares if the funding source went away? Fuck you, pay me!
In nearly every Minneapolis high school, OBSA holds credit-bearing elective classes, divided by gender — Kings and Queens — to help students celebrate Black culture, joy, and history.
Kangs!
Seriously, people?
Maybe skip the grandiosity.
IKR? The Office of White Student Achievement only has imperial wizards.
Scott Adams just announced he also has advanced prostate cancer. The Biden story was an opportunity to make his announcement. He doesn’t think he’ll make it through the summer. Damn.
I like not this news, bring me different news.
Yikes!
That is terrible news.
I don’t look forward to the proggies dancing on his grave because he wasn’t part of The Tribe. The obits won’t give him his due as a fantastic cartoonist.
Just wait until someone gets the rights to Dilbert and releases their reboot.
Dilbert: The Complete Collection coming from Fantagraphics when?
I still listen to him at least a few times a week. I found his podcast during the COVID times and he’s been the voice of reason during some really crazy times. A lot of us will miss him.
Fuck.
Greg Ellifritz, one of the smartest and most insightful people in the self-defense training field, has been nailed with the same Stage IV prostate cancer. If you’re not regularly checking out https://activeresponsetraining.net, you really should be.
In the meantime, I think I’ll make an appointment to be anally violated by my doctor (as opposed to all the similar but more recreational appointments…)
I got the full roto-rooter treatment last year – wasn’t really too bad (clean as a whistle, “we’ll see you in 10 years”). As I said to the nurse, the prep was no worse than what I’ve done to myself being an adventurous eater (my wife and I can now laugh about the time we had bad mussels… now that time has passed).
I did get advice from them – shoot for first thing in the morning (even though that means you have to get up in the middle of the night for part 2 of your prep); they were up-front that they, statistically, make more mistakes and miss things in the afternoon.
They were also happy to have an otherwise healthy dude to start the day, which I can understand.
Fuck.
“Biden’s cancer: what you need to know”
I don’t need to know a goddam thing about Joe or his asshole.
REVIEWING EUROPEAN CITIES – BELGRADE 🇷🇸
Impressions from recent visit to Belgrade and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1924108815215014161
The boat factory was fun to visit. I got the job, but no start date yet. Boats are a step up from golf carts.
Back to one of those assembly line jobs. They can’t outsource all the manufacturing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY
How are you at replacing tallship masts? I hear there’s work in that area.
Too soon.
I once had a project with Mercury and got to visit their boat yard in Oshkosh several times.
I was like a kid in a candy store looking at all the boats they had to test their engines out on. I never went out on any of them though. The safety regulations (forced wearing of both flotation pants and jacket) were so silly that I passed. The local guys there laughed and said that 90% of the time, the visiting VIP’s were just ferried a few hundred yards down the Fox river to one of nearby saloons on river.
Good luck on your new job. Let us know if you get any Friends & Family discounts.
You just wanted to get out of Wisconsin as quick as possible.
Minnesota Nice, my ass. :-p
You cannot blame anyone for wanting to get out of Wisconsin as fast as they can.
Those trips to Fon Du Lac, Oshkosh and Appleton to visit various Mercury people sucked. It was faster to drive than fly and I hate driving.
We stayed in Southwest Harbor, Maine, a few years back and the Hinckley boatyard was right across the street; piles of Hinckley’s moored off the beach at the inn.
Drool-worthy.
The last time I was in Wisconsin I got stuck in almost stationary traffic from the Dells to Chicago. That was 6 hours of desperately wishing to be out of Wisconsin, and the last time I ever take the Northern route back from out west.
slumbrew:
Hinckley has a different association here (which leads to this association).
The last time I was in Wisconsin, I was in Oh Clair! and it was just another college town, which I have seen hundreds of at this point.
And I had the most boring breakfast the next day. I mean, come on, no hot sauce? Just pepper? Not even the child stuff like Louisiana? But there was American cheese on the eggs…
Probably not the same, but we have a friend who works on wooden boats in Michigan. He had to go to a special school. The boats he works on are natural wood and they are beautiful. I hope you found something you enjoy.
There are a couple wooden boat schools around the country, and yes, the work all of them put out is beautiful. There is a big Wooden Boat Festival in Seattle every year, which is pretty cool too.
Bite sized chunks?
Senate Republicans say the House-drafted bill to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda has “problems” and are taking a second look at breaking it up into smaller pieces in hopes of getting the president’s less controversial priorities enacted into law before the fall.
Even if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) manages to squeak Trump’s agenda through the House, it faces major obstacles in the Senate, where moderate Republicans say they oppose proposed cuts to Medicaid and fiscal conservatives say it doesn’t go nearly far enough in cutting the deficit.
“There are still a lot of problems,” said one Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss internal Senate GOP discussions on the budget reconciliation bill.
We wouldn’t want people to know what’s in it until it’s too late.
Heaven forbid you do something crazy like break it up into smaller bills that are small enough to be read before being voted on.
But then you wouldn’t have that “Big Beautiful Bill” headline that just rolls off the tongue.
“Extreme weather worsened by climate change and insurance market gaps together create systemic jeopardy for mortgage providers, the risk modeling group First Street finds. ”
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/climate-change-mortgage-markets-risk
Anyone remember that list things blamed on global warning?
Jeez. In no way are insurance gaps caused by commies who artificially keep insurance rates low for customers living in high risk areas, which then makes more people move into high risk areas, until even people living in safe places have massive rate increases. Nope. That ever happens.
I am tired of ranting about it so I will stop now.
Something I was not expecting to see locally: A new Charger in General Lee livery, complete with racist rooftop.
Wow. At this point it had to be an electric one too. Electrified racism!
“New” being relative.
Part of why I bought my Challenger is that it is the same color as the General Lee. And yes, I know the General Lee was a Charger.
Dem Dodge Bros are at it again.
I have a dilemma for all you autist OCD music glibbies. I did google how people do this and got some clarity, but now I’m refining further.
I don’t know how to name and tag my classical music files for an easy, quick sort. If the album is the complete work, it’s easy. This is the system I’ve come up with, using Carmina Burana as an example, something I have FIVE performances of:
Track Title: O Fortuna [1]* [Carmina Burana]
Artist: Orff, Leonard Slatkin,** St Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Album Artist: [Carmina Burana]*** Leonard Slatkin
Album: Carmina Burana [Slatkin, St Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus]
Genre: Carmina Burana 1****
File name: D:\music\!library\classical\Carmina Burana 1 Slatkin\[Carmina Burana 1] (Carl Orff) [Slatkin] 01 O Fortuna.mp3
* There are two; one’s a reprise, but it doesn’t say that.
** Director
*** So it’ll sort as its own thing
**** Again, sorting as its own thing, not mixing with other modernist classical or other performances of Carmina Burana.
=====
What I’m having a problem with is when a singular movement, say, is included on a compilation album of “The Greatest Opera Ever!” (kidding; I don’t do opera)
Track Title: O Mio Babbino Caro [Gianni Schicchi]
Artist: Puccini, Giacomo*
Album Artist: ???**
Album: [classical compilation]***
Genre: classical – romantic****
File name: E:\Lizzie ARCHIVE\music\!not in library\classical\opera\(Puccini) O Mio Babbino Caro [Gianni Schicchi].mp3
*I don’t know the director’s name/performance, but that’s my fault because I just wiped all that info out when I thought it was superfluous.
**Again, no director, no orchestra
***I don’t want to clutter up my player with “greatest hits” bullshit. For popular music, I track down the original release date and original album, but can’t do that here.
****I know it’s opera, but I don’t know if I want to actually label it that way.
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What I’m going for is some kind of cohesion among disparate classical tracks so I can sort quickly in my phone player at a stop light or something.
I don’t even know what question I’m asking, except how would YOU do this?
My copy of that piece has a filename of “Orff – O Fortuna.mp3” and lives in an unsorted folder called “Music – Unified” with scads of unrelated works. I don’t track the other data you have.
I don’t care about the data other than for quick sorting purposes at stop lights.
Something I was not expecting to see locally: A new Charger in General Lee livery, complete with racist rooftop.
Does the horn play “Dixie”?
No idea, it was parked.
I don’t even know what question I’m asking, except how would YOU do this?
I wouldn’t.
hth
Silly Brooksie.
Does anyone remember Biden doing some speech where he claimed he had cancer a year or two ago? The WH went into massive defense mode, and the media covered things up by immediately saying Biden was talking about some skin cancer from his past. I am going to bet that slipup happened because Joe was diagnosed with this prostate cancer a long time ago, but the agenda was to keep this crypt keeper around until they could swap out winebox Harris AFTER the election. They couldn’t swap Harris earlier for fear she would lose and because they wanted to fortify 2 elections after the fact to keep her there.
Yes, some news sites already found that speech. I agree. It was totally covered up. The democrats’ secrecy and cover up becomes more psychotic by the minute.
The oil cancer claim..
In the same speech he also said Delaware has the highest cancer rate in the country, which is false and surely is in the Wapo database of Biden’s lies. I wouldn’t put too much weight into what he said in that speech since it was likely all made up.
Eye dilation lasts too long.
Well. Indianapolis Five Fucking Hunnert field is set. The new rule changes certainly made things more exciting. The hybrid system and associated weight at the rear of the car, in particular. They wrote off a half dozen cars or so in practice and qualifying. And there is a rookie on the pole. Should be interesting.
Tragic
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission and replacing it with one focused on enforcing the president’s executive orders.
Some 250 attorneys — or around 70% of the division’s lawyers — have left or will have left the department in the time between President Trump’s inauguration and the end of May, according to current and former officials.
It marks a dramatic turn for the storied division, which was created during the civil rights movement and the push to end racial segregation. For almost 70 years, it has sought to combat discrimination and to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans in everything from voting and housing to employment, education and policing.
Just be sure to tag and neuter them before releasing them into the wild.
Good riddance..
No fucking way – an Army investigation in excessive profanity.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-unit-extreme-profanity-bad-175354798.html
Fifty seven Chevy and a tank full of gas…
“That sort of language belongs in the Navy, soldier!”
🙂
2 thumbs up.
Five current or former department officials, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the division and its traditional mission.
“The Civil Rights Division exists to enforce civil rights laws that protect all Americans,” said Stacey Young, a former division attorney who left the department in late January. “It’s not an arm of the White House. It doesn’t exist to enact the president’s own agenda. That’s a perversion of the separation of powers and the role of an independent Justice Department.”
It’s still 1949 at the Civil Rights division. If we could just somehow get the lynchings down to single digits on a weekly basis we could feel like we’re making progress.
That’s a perversion of the separation of powers and the role of an independent Justice Department.
The Justice Department is part of the Executive, sweetie. The separation of powers applies between branches.
But what do I know, I’m not some galaxy-brain government attorney.
What are the odds Brigitte Macron has prostate cancer?
Young said the changes amount to the destruction of the division and its traditional work.
“The division right now is being decimated,” said Young, who now runs Justice Connection, a group of department alumni that provides support to DOJ employees. “The head of the division and the Justice Department have decided that the division is going to enforce laws only with respect to favored communities of people.”
Listen to yourself, Margaret.
Justice League was already taken.
“It completely goes against the tradition we built up of enforcing laws against disfavored communities.”
Worse for farmers than Stalin
The U.S. government spent decades building overseas markets for crops like soybeans and wheat. But now all those agreements are in limbo.
In Washington state, Jim Moyer says wheat farmers are still recovering from the trade war in Trump’s first term when the popular Trans-Pacific Partnership was torn up. He’s worried that irreparable damage has already been done with trade deals that took decades to build.
Yes, that incredibly popular Pacific Rim free trade agreement.
Did we get giant fighting robots out of it, at least?
Fake Journalist who doesn’t even have a degree from Columbia sez real journalists (some of whom might even be able to change a tire) were/are lying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bRl5SJtYk4
Well that sucks about Scott Adams. He infuriated me sometimes with his hot takes but he was usually on the ball and his show was entertaining. Damn shame really…
Copycat
Trump’s latest online statement, however, gives away the game: He apparently now realizes, at least on some level, that his tariffs are responsible for pushing Walmart’s costs higher, and the retailer now intends to push its prices higher as a result.
The president wants Walmart to simply “eat the tariffs” — meaning, Trump wants the company to profit less in order to accommodate the tariff-related costs. Time will tell whether Walmart follows the White House’s lead.
That’s not fair only Democrats are allowed to accuse businesses of being greedy parasites.
The Dems raise hell about price gouging every chance they get. Good thing they’ve gotten in line with the free market and all it took was Trump to do it.
First comment is great.
These gender reveals are getting out of hand
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ko8z5p/oc_driving_on_the_highway_and_this_guy_decides_to/