Good morning one and all to another fantastic day!
Trump, Rubio cutting G7 trip short, returning to DC as chatter indicates Iranians fleeing Tehran
Trump pushes back on Macron’s claim about him leaving G7 for Israel-Iran ceasefire: ‘Wrong!’
U.S. and UK announce a trade deal, but steel imports unresolved
Trump Reverses Mass Migration: More People Leaving U.S. Than Arriving for First Time in 50 Years
FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020
Share of U.S. Homes Selling Above Asking Price Declines to 2020 Level
Members of Transnational Crime Syndicate Sentenced for Defrauding Elderly
California Demands Federal Tax Dollars For High-Speed Rail Boondoggle
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I got nothing new. My comments are all repeats of old comments on the same subjects.
I feel like an NPC.
yeah, but we like you!
So what quest do we need to advance to unlock the next set of dialog?
Well, Cav has just accepted all of them.
*begins clicking through UnCivil’s dialogue tree over and over, looking for the conversation that gains the most XP*
I’ll just fail all the charisma checks, dammit. Knew I shouldn’t have used that as a dump stat.
SDF-7:
You fool! In computer RPGs you always fluff the social stats to get free XP from conversations. That is, unless you’re playing one of the few games that rewards the dumb play through.
Better to gain XP than Bob or 11.
Look for the choices with crafting icons next to them. UCS is the go to NPC for hobby stuff. Also gloves and detailed itineraries.
The opposite of Main Character Syndrome? Yeah, I get that… and yeah, there are definitely times when I feel like I’m just saying the same things and y’all all know it… so what’s the point.
The downside of “History doesn’t repeat… it rhymes.” We’ve seen the dance before even if we’re wallflowers… we don’t need to clap in time to the beat at this point.
But dude — you’ve at least got creativity in spades (the messing with hardware, the writing, the painting). You (to steal from the giants) do contain multitudes, you’re not just here… you have made an impact, you are seen. It may not always feel like enough — but I think that’s really all we can attain in the long run. So have a good day and be glad you’re you even if the world is doing the same crappy polka and you don’t feel like doing the steps.
And good morning to the rest of y’all.
Good morning to you as well.
*You gained 900 XP
you need to train a LLM model to answer for you. get with the times.
This should be the music, sorry, it just is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzBgeI5dpc&list=RDaUzBgeI5dpc&start_radio=1
Hmm, I think this is more appropriate to that project.
I would have also accepted this, but I’m just fond of that album.
Given Unciv’s Groundhog Day feeling “eve of destruction”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I&pp=ygUSZXZlIG9mIGRlc3RydWN0aW9u
“More people leaving U.S….”
It’s the celebrities, right?
Exactly!
So the people we would cheer for, for leaving?
Who is Rosie O’Donnell?
Yeah doesn’t have the same oumph of John Galt.
It does if she runs into you.
And one professor!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/why-a-professor-of-fascism-left-the-us-the-lesson-of-1933-is-you-get-out
Good riddance
So she left for Canada? A country with no free speech protections and cut off banking to protesters. Well bye, as she doesn’t seem to understand what fascism truly is.
she doesn’t seem to understand what fascism truly is.
I expect she knows very well what fascism is, consciously or not. She’s just upset that she’s not in charge anymore; Or her ideas of how society should be organized are not at the forefront.
Perhaps more likely, she’s just completely internalized the idea that fascism means people advocating for things she doesn’t like, even if those things actually reduce the scope of the state and increase individual autonomy. Another word destroyed and bereft of meaning.
ISTR she got a new job she applied for a while ago, which is the actual reason they’re moving.
No shit?
They forgot to edit out all the weird porn tabs from the screenshot
Yeah — it wouldn’t surprise me at all given what China got out of the PPP Admin (and what a Second Coming of the Orange Man would have meant instead for them)… but as with all news that sounds like what I expect/what to hear… just a “there were rumors that might have been true, but the IC was told to sit on it before any real investigation” is really weak beer.
For some, reason, drizzling a stolen election story with foreign interference sauce doesn’t really do much for me. I don’t think Biden owes his “win” to the ChiComs, I think the Dems stole it the way they have any number of state and local races.
I think his win was mostly due to organized ballot harvesting via lax mail in rules, with a sprinkling of actual fraud, and a solid side of Covid fatigue. There’s a lot of selective memory about Covid on both sides. Trump wasn’t exactly a champion of sanity in that mess.
Ballot harvesting is illegal most places, because it is an open door to fraud. Any ballot that has been handled during the chain of custody by a partisan operative can be presumed fraudulent, in my book.
There were a number of different ways fraud was committed – harvesting, mail ballots, good old fashioned ballot manufacturing. The 2020 election had more red flags than a ChiCom parade in Tiananmen Square.
“Members of transnational crime syndicate sentenced for defrauding elderly.”
Trump abolished the Social Security Administration?
Thank goodness I refreshed the page before getting another cup of coffee…. Well played… I chortled.
I thought that was the democrat party?
The entire rail system was originally projected to be completed by 2020 for $33 billion
By any terms, this is a failure. Anyone who can’t acknowledge that can’t be trusted for anything.
It’s the most expensive way I can think of to make bike trails.
Next up on Confessions of a Middle Age Man in Lycra: The Merced to Bakersfield Rail Trail. It was flat and boring. The end.
Not a failure for all the environmental studies law firms (and I suspect to those they
gave kickbacks todonated to). That’s the real priorities in SacTown, after all.Not a single one of these big boondoggle projects in blue states is about anything but creating opportunity for massive graft and criminal activity.
Here in the People’s Republic of CT, where I will admit it is not yet as bad as CA, HI, IL, MA, or NY, they passed a new gas tax a few years ago to use to fix infrastructure. They needed that because the old one, which they passed to fix roads years before, was reappropriated and moved to the general fund so team blue could buy more votes, steal more money, and rig more elections. That second tax met the same fate as the first. Now they want to bring back toll booths and more infrastructure taxes, and THIS TIME they will use the money to fix the infrastructure for real. Promise! And idiots will vote to approve that shit.
In the mean time, the money keeps disappearing, and they tell us they need to tax us more to give illegals free shit.
You don’t have to be in a blue State for that. Ohio is fairly red, but Cincinnati, now has two viaducts crumbling and dropping concrete onto the active Interstate below, and a $400,000,000 street car/light rail boondoggle no one uses.
Almost seems like it was designed by airlines and car manufacturers to intentionally sabotage rail competition. I’ll still go with government incompetence though.
An attractive theory, CPA….but the people running airlines and building cars don’t strike me as having the ability to pull off a nefarious plan, much less stumble along in their daily business.
About a decade ago, there was an econtalk podcast on “Megaprojects”. As defined by the guest, it is a project costing $1B of more.
1 in 10 is completed on time.
1 in 10 is completed on budget.
1 in 10 delivers promised results.
Those 3 measures were lightly correlated, could be treated as independent. Only 1 in 1000 megaprojects hits all 3 measures. There was little difference between public and private megaprojects, although the sample size is much larger on the former.
California high speed rail is in the 72.9% (9^3/10^3) that misses on all 3.
Things go really well at work, right up to the point where I need other people, at which point things grind to a freaking halt.
I’ve also had two vendors pull a bait and switch in the same week.
Vendor one — I find out a motor is out of production, I get a quote for three of the remaining inventory. Prices has gone up by $1000since the last time I need one. I submit the quote the same day, PO gets cut after two more days. Vendor refuses the PO becasue the price has nbow gone up by another $500 each.
Vendor two – this is the vendor that set my tool on fire by setting a PLC to supply quintuple the rated current. PO was accepted months ago. Now vendor says “Whoopsie! That quote was for the German and Taiwanese portion of the install. The unnecessary* junior tech we sent was form the US part of the company and adds another 50% to the cost!”
*I won’t say he was useless, since I did let him to the annoying fiddly bits (the tool was manufactured in a way to be unpleasant to service) but he did nothing I wasn’t capable of and certainly not worth $275/hr.
“Things go really well at work, right up to the point where I need other people, at which point things grind to a freaking halt.”
Nods..
It is rare that anything I need to do gets better or easier when I need others involved.
😣
What is the old saying? oh yeah, “Hell is other people.”
Government imposed wage increases don’t cause inflation only market increases can do that.
Will the net taxpayer myth ever die?
As long as our education system produces dumb drones that believe government solves or should solve all their problems, we will never get over this sort of stupid shit.
Learn to pick strawberries/hotel maid/wash dishes etc.
If there are fewer people buying less stuff, wouldn’t that cause deflation?
No, because shut up.
Prices going up because of demand outstripping supply is not inflation.
Prices going down because of weak demand is not deflation.
Both words have been bowdlerized to cover up the ongoing debasement of currency by pretending prices just go up. Law of nature. Or something.
No chance of those headlines being related, right? After all… 4 years of open borders with government subsidized housing couldn’t possibly have screwed with the markets… nope, nosiree…
(And love the eternal whining in the first article of ‘labor shortages’… oh noes… we might actually have to adapt to market wages instead of exploiting those we can hold ICE over like a cudgel! Whatever shall we do, you Chamber of Commerce exploitive assholes… [and the LA woman who bewailed all her cheap servants not showing up… she should have just dressed in full antebellum getup while she was at it…])
The fact they expect that fact to be seen as a negative should tell you all you need to know about the propagandists..
After a decade of breathless predictions of doom because of soaring housing prices complaints about the market slowing down are a bit rich. Hey journalitards, this is how houses get more affordable. You can’t have it both ways.
Like Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average; of course we expect to have it both ways: housing affordable for all, and houses appreciating and making money for the owners.
Any development can only be framed as bad news.
Housing price go up – affordability crisis!
Housing prices go down – housing market collapse!
Tiresome, it is!
Paying illegal aliens low wages is good. Paying Americans less than $50/hour is slavery.
It also could renew the type of labor shortages the country experienced during the pandemic. Longer term, it could even have implications for fiscal policy, with fewer immigrants paying taxes and supporting entitlement programs such as Social Security, said one of the economists, Wendy Edelberg.
Emphasis on “could” mine, because whenever you read “could” in a sentence like that, you should read “could or could not, we can’t tell.”
Which is still a lie by omission, since in this case “could” means “may, but likely not” when it comes to the net cost of illegals repatriating themselves. Sure, they’re not paying sales tax on the goods that they consume while they’re here, but that’s more than offset by the taxpayers not having to pick up the tab for schooling and medical care for their kids and themselves, etc.
Happiness is a Guatemalan heading south with a Haitian under each arm.
Unskilled illegals are a net drag on the economy and not just by a little bit. The claims that they are net contributors is a calculated lie.
The left wants them for votes preferring cultures that lean towards collectivism and authoritarianism. It is not complicated.
The article is combining legal immigration via H-1B and H-2A and the loosening of rules for green cards for refugees.
Theses are two very different populations that contribute vastly different levels of benefits to the USA.
H-1B and H-2A visas are a tough to get and are limited in scope. Both need to have a sponsor company, a clearly defined need, and extensive levels of scrutiny. The people are highly educated, driven, and usually risk takers looking to make a better life for themselves. They help to drive and support high tech businesses and make kids that end up being similar in intelligence and focused on education.
The other group were granted refugee status, were formerly illegal, or were grated green cards by fiat in much less time than the group above. They work entry level or low skilled jobs, or are just a drain on the states they live in.
We need to make it easier for the 1st group to come here and contribute and or go to college. Make anyone with a US degree get fast tracked for green cards and try to keep them here. The other group should be granted work visas for migrant or other temporary work and be able to return home once that work is done. They should also be monitored to ensure they don’t just skip out. If they want to stay they need a sponsoring family and or a potential employer. Then they can apply for a green card.
Someone pointed this out during the election. All the left has is “could” and “might” and “experts predict”. “Trump could be come a dictator.” “The economy could crash.” etc.
The one thing you have to love about the Trump administration – the consistency!
I’d look at it another way. They are changing course because they’re getting bad feedback. I’m fine with that.
Same.
Trump’s fickleness doesn’t appeal to me. Make a fucking decision and stick with it.
The consistency of gruel?
Do stoners actually read? This made me LOL this AM.
New Owner Gives High Times a Fresh Spark
The founder of a rolling-paper company is bringing back the stoner magazine’s print edition and website
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/new-owner-gives-high-times-a-fresh-spark-77c4797f?st=4ZmEnT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Do they include page or two that is made of perforated rolling paper?
I bet the magazine pages will be on material that can be used to roll up joints..
I had initially thought of going with that joke, but began second guessing the Ink.
Your first instinct was accurate. These sort of people, like those that buy nuddie mags, are not buying the magazine for the articles.
You guys haven’t met the Hemp enthusiast stoner I take it? They absolutely read the articles. They read them with the passion of a weeaboo who gets to attend AnimeJapan. They will explain strains, medical claims, alternative uses for, mystical theories about, and more until your eyes look as glazed as theirs.
“They absolutely read the articles.”
I call bullshit. The stoners I know can’t read the back of a cereal box without passing out.
I’m a stoner and can read, your comments usually do put me to sleep though. Alex you can suck a mooseknuckle. ;p
I imagine it’s like the homebrewers, there’s a small subgroup that is really, really into the science side of it.
The website I get. It’s the magazine I’m much less sure about.
Most specialty magazines just reprint the same articles over and over and over because, after all…how much can you actually say about hunting, gardening, crochet, etc.
I cant think of a subject more limited in things to discuss than smoking dope. Good grief, they have a whole periodical magazine? I knew about High Times but I didnt know they were still around and never actually looked at one in my life.
I’d assume they will cater to home growers and cultivators.
I just assumed like the Bearing Arms section of the Townhall/Red State group, most of the articles were about legality and advocacy in your given area… maybe potency of particular strains and warnings if lacing with harmful additives were going on.
Never being a drug aficionado… that was just my best guess.
Maybe it’s different for hobbies that have just started hitting the mainstream in the past 50 years or so, but the homebrewing magazines (and even the craft beer ones) generally had quite a bit of solid content. Discussions of different brewing styles, different approaches to efficiency, new discoveries at the home brew scale level, new gear/kit that was developed for homebrewers, and recipes.
He probably needed to patch Bibi through to Macron.
If you were wondering why the usual cabal of idiots tried to lay blame for the very riots they paid for at Trump’s feet, wonder no more….
Here is a hint to these crooks: fuck off.
Link fail: https://x.com/AmericaPapaBear/status/1934708569439
I get a “This page does not exist” message.
Apparently something went wrong. I have to try reloading.
Sounds like you’re out of ammo.
I’m still wondering, it seems….
Let’s try this again: https://x.com/AmericaPapaBear/status/1934708569439654348
I absolutely will not link “Look What You Made Me Do” (or whatever the title was…) regardless of how much they try to use that as their argument.
Nothing makes me laugh more than the hagiography of Fortune 500 CEOs in puff pieces.
“She can walk around the store and pick an apple and tell you how long that apple has been there,” Vivek Sankaran, Albertsons’s chief executive at the time, told a Portland, Ore., federal courtroom last year as the supermarket giants defended their merger plan.
I’m sure she can recount how the red delicious variety came to dominate fruit and produce stands. JFC.
The Aisle-Prowling Albertsons CEO Taking On Kroger
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/the-aisle-prowling-albertsons-ceo-taking-on-kroger-ca731c1f?st=z9Nm9x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
*Looks at pro photo in article* Huh.
I once asked the cashier at a Burger King if the sandwiches they serve look just like the ones in the photos on the menu. She gave me a dull, blank bovine stare but the girl behind her manning the French fry machine burst out laughing.
Having been a produce clerk in past life – look at the photo of the produce section. Every item is full and the shelf full blocked.
That lasts all of 10 minutes on a store with any traffic.
Suthenboy in a couple of weeks. 🙂
“That’s because she has an embedded nano-robot reader to query the tracking drones embedded in Corporate Grocery Fruit maaaan!”
Tonio’s morning
Must be Irish coffee?
Adorable — but I’d be hesitant to do it because:
a) Didn’t see Mama Bear… and always worry about what she might think is “messing with her cubs”
b) Even if the bears are all down with it for now… do you really want Teenage Angst Bear swinging by a year from now and tearing up the place if you don’t supply him with munchies?
I think I have seen that guy’s other videos. If it is him mama bear grew up sipping out of his coffee cup as well so after she grew up and had cubs she just kept coming by regularly only now she brings the cubs. What will be interesting is when the old guy kicks off. mama bear, cubs and new residents of the house are in for an interesting time.
Am I the only guy who noticed that Swiss’s afternoon article title link from the front page yesterday had 2 different embedded links?
No one reads the links.
You know that gives TPTB a major sad
It’s joke. 😉
db:
But it also means that we can reuse links, I mean, did you notice that I’ve included the same link in every Friday afternoon post I’ve done?
It’s been said before, but imagine Trump had won in 2020. All the wind would have been out of his sails. We’d be living in a hugely different world.
NYT – “A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.”
You won’t believe number 17!
Only fans AI?
So I was doing some serious thinking about this whole Israel vs. Iran thing, and suddenly realized neither nation eats bacon. Why do I need to side with either again?
Are they allowed turkey bacon? Everyone knows that’s the best bacon (if you’re insane that is).
Ok, first semen honey, now turkey bacon. Too far Stinky!
There is no such thing as turkey bacon.
I like turkey bacon.
You are all on notice. (wishes for Bacon narrowed gaze)
I never thought of it that way. That changes everything.
DEI end goals…
tar and feathers
“not a crime”
Maybe not quite to the level of crime but it sort of is isn’t it?
I do like his suit, though. Not everyone can wear a double-breasted jacket, and that one looks very well tailored to boot.
I doubt it was this guy however.
https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/tailor-evangelical-pastor-trump-maga-republicans-4da3c26b?st=JCDNLE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They are never going to quit. Meet their demands, they have more demands. Meet those…you will be presented with more. It never stops.
I would also like to talk to all of the people that get these ‘grants’ to see how much they got and what relationship they have with the good mayor.
Slave owners were investing in blacks too.
LOL – “Ah yes, the NEX. Where it pays to look for (temporarily) single moms.”
Navy Exchange (NEX) sells Nvidia GPUs for MSRP.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1lbv2wo/navy_exchange_nex_sells_nvidia_gpus_for_msrp/
All right. The WP has settled the narrative. Far right it is!
Minnesota shooting suspect went from youthful evangelizer to far-right zealot
Yeah, as Mike Meyer’s bad guys says: “HOW ABOUT, NO!!”
“As Republicans have pushed for mask bans to crack down on shadowy protesters and criminals, a pair of Democratic lawmakers in California want to prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings following the federal crackdown on Los Angeles anti-ICE protests.
State Sens. Scott Wiener and Jesse Arreguin, who represent San Francisco and Oakland, respectively, announced on social media that they would be introducing the “No Secret Police Act” to ban most law enforcement members from covering their faces when interacting with the public.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/us-news/california-dems-propose-legislation-to-ban-face-masks-for-law-enforcement-officers-and-not-protesters-or-criminals/
California Democrats are a nearly perfect negative barometer.
I see no problem with this.
People were trying to dox ICE agents and go after their families.
Tater let them, and let them die doing so. Perfectly reasonable self defense case.
Risks of the game. The police deserve no more legal protection than you or I.
It’s seems mostly protective gear.
Masked protesting makes no sense though.
Risks of the game. The police deserve no more legal protection than you or I.
That would be a valid point if an organized Democrat mob was also using your identity to target your family for violence.
Stopped clock correctness. No fucking masks for cops.
“Deputies raided an Iowa church and removed 88 children participating in a Bible study camp as part of a sweeping human trafficking investigation, police said Monday.
The youngsters are now in protective custody of local agencies after they were taken from the Shekinah Glory Camp run by Kingdom Ministry of Rehab and Recreation, according to police and local reports.
Deputies executing search warrants removed the children over the weekend and took them to nearby Wapello Methodist Church to meet with child protection workers, deputies told KWQC.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/16/us-news/cops-remove-88-children-from-a-bible-study-camp-in-iowa-as-part-of-a-human-trafficking-investigation-officials/
It’s not Shekinah Glory Hole Camp
Not sure exactly what’s going on there.
Me neither.
88 children, 88… Clearly nazis
“Dramatic footage shows the chaotic moment a frustrated driver ran over the leg of a “No Kings” protester who was trying to block the vehicle’s path in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
The woman confronts a burgundy sedan with what appears to be California plates at an intersection, and first stands in front of the car and puts her hands on the hood, according to video circulating on X….
Police are investigating the incident, which occurred at 5th and Hills streets, as a hit-and-run, according to KTLA.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/16/us-news/chaotic-video-captures-moment-fed-up-driver-runs-over-no-kings-protester-in-los-angeles/
They should arrest the woman instead.
Most people learn not to play in traffic.
Most people learn not to play in traffic as children.
Interesting that they know the driver did it because she was “frustrated”. Apparently they have grounds for ruling out the alternative explanation – that she was afraid of being assaulted by the mob forming around her car.
The question becomes did they immediately go to the police and report the crowd assault, or did they just blow it off?
Don’t block traffic. Don’t confront drivers.
FAFO.
Allah Akbar!… Oh shit
My youngest is not taking last night’s events well. She’s hiding out in her room and doesn’t want to talk. Hope she’s ok.
What happened last night?
Trump left the G7 meeting to fly back to DC because of developments with Iran. Meanwhile the carrier my son-in-law is on has been officially deployed to the ME. Her husband is about to get a pay raise for being in an active war zone.
Likewise.
I see.
It doesn’t help that she has people texting her saying they heard this and that.
Typical Trump chaos. The correct decision, but only after chaos.
DHS reverses course, allowing immigration raids to resume at farms, hotels, restaurants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/homeland-security-immigration-raids-resume
Only source is WaPo, so who knows?
My instant response to everything WaPo is “Oh, FFS.”
“Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including its Homeland Security Investigations division, told agency leaders in a call Monday that agents must continue conducting immigration raids at agricultural businesses, hotels and restaurants, according to two people familiar with the call. The new instructions were shared in an 11 a.m. call to representatives from 30 field offices across the country.”
https://archive.is/Zuplk
I hope it’s true. “Deport them all, except for most of them” strikes me as pretty incoherent.
Of course, we have anonymous sourcing at an unreliable outlet, so who knows?
Decider
Judging by his statements and actions over the past 48 hours, Trump is also trying to demonstrate that any deal is seen to be on his terms, and that he is sole decision-maker. It is an attempted display of raw power not just to Iran, but to Europe.
In a move designed to underline Europe’s irrelevance and indeed his contempt for the multilateralism symbolised by the G7, Trump abandoned the Canadian summit a day early. He has left such G7s early before, but never quite so dramatically.
One senior diplomat, asked if Trump had flown to Washington essentially on a diplomatic mission to secure peace or to join the war against Iran, replied frankly: “We don’t know!”
I can’t help thinking Europe really is irrelevant.
I have a strong dislike for “diplomacy” as a formalized activity and especially as an occupation.
I understand that there needs to be a way for Important Person in Country A to coordinate with xer counterpart in Country B, and although I don’t have a great alternative system in mind, using the descendants of stripey-pantsed royal courtiers does not seem to be a good way either.
Ah yes, European multi-lateralism – like in 1914?
The four European leaders left abandoned high in the Rocky Mountains with the Japanese prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, and other international leaders invited by their host now have to reassemble for the second day of the summit without the US. Spare a thought for the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, with whom Trump had meetings scheduled at the G7 on Tuesday.
It looks once again as though Europe has been left as the bystander to history, adept at drafting consensual communiques and declarations while the decisions are made by unilateralists prepared to use destructive force. Rarely has the sword been so much mightier than the pen. Russia happily crowed it had always seen the G7, a club from which it was excluded for invading Crimea, as “pretty useless”.
If you want something done…
” left abandoned high in the Rocky Mountain”
The media just can’t help itself. They’ve been “abandoned” at a ritzy resort in the Rockies where the cheap rooms are about $300/night.
Any of you looking for a new job?
I hear the benefits & pay are great. But the duration might not be so assured..
No thanks, the commute is murder.
Iran it by my wife, but she didn’t want me to take hijab.
I gots to mullah it over.
The only sensible policy position
If elected, Spanberger tells the crowd, she’ll sign bills banning high-capacity magazines and ghost guns and preventing people with domestic violence convictions from purchasing firearms — all legislation passed in recent years by a Democratic majority in the Virginia General Assembly but vetoed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican. She has also supported banning assault-style weapons.
Those promises are hardly unexpected for a Democratic politician. What’s unique is the framing Spanberger offers for them: her experience carrying guns herself as a federal agent and former CIA officer. Gun restrictions, she argues, are pro-law enforcement.
“If we are serious about stopping violent criminals, we must prevent them from manufacturing and distributing illegal, untraceable firearms,” she said.
Two local sheriffs are endorsing her candidacy.
The Virginia election is a referendum on Trump. Those deep state functionaries in the suburbs will tell us everything we need to know.
VA needs to emulate MD! [Which is usually a losing proposition in VA.]
Not gonna lie, I’m quite worried about Spanberger becoming governor. She’s a highly dedicated agent of the permanent bureaucracy, but is also quite a bit more intelligent and less insane than the progressive class. She’ll be able to do a huge amount of damage from the governors office.
Also, she’s either lying about carrying a weapon as a CIA officer, or else she was carrying one illegally. Every since the Church and Pike hearings in 1973 and 1974, for a CIA employee to carry a weapon in a foreign country requires an individually signed presidential finding. Fewer than ten of these findings have ever been issued.
Only the elite class shall be able to protect themselves. Yeah, totally unique. 🙄
Letting the unwashed masses have the means to fight back is a risk to the elite and their agendas, dontcha know?
Love the headline: “Virginia’s governor’s race could be a barometer for how voters feel about Trump.”
Translation: if the progressive wins, it’s a barometer on Trump; if the progressive loses, it’s not about Trump.
Again? “I am a gun owner but even I think…”
Tiresome bullshit.
I agree that a violent conviction should strip one of the right to own a gun. The constitution allows for that. What the gun grabbers always do is use that as a camel’s nose. Anything outside of that is an infringment specifically forbidden by the supreme law of the land. The people doing it are criminals.
That is just a sample of what Ds will push through.
“Virginia’s governor’s race could be a barometer for how voters feel about Trump”
Well that’s interesting, because we just had a fucking general election that sort of acted as a barometer for how voters feel about Trump.
The voters had the wrong feeling; we’ll keep polling until they get it right.
Yeah, the election was less than a year ago, and his approval ratings have only gone up since, but their rhetoric is still as if the election never happened, and that whatever shit they have planned is a better/more valid barometer for democracy than a nationwide election won in a landslide.
“My husband got pregnant by another man… ”
https://archive.is/nkpX7
STIJLTH
I think I see the problem…
Your husband, well that was a bitch that cut off her tits and glued pubes on their chin..
Because of course. And then “he” went and got pregnant anyway?
The poor kid.
You are assuming someone stupid enough to believe that if you cut off your tits and take a bunch of hormones, suddenly that someone can be a husband, would actually have the mental acuity to see there are some serious problems with the fact your “husband” has a womb and still likes dick?
“‘I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying, let him go get a television network and say it so the people listen,’ Trump said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14820815/donald-trump-tulsi-gabbard-tucker-carlson-steve-bannon.html
Pretty sure Tucker has a bigger audience than most television networks.
Good luck explaining this shit show in 2028 JD.
Murder, plain and simple
The proposed Medicaid cuts in the House Republicans’ sprawling domestic policy bill could cause an estimated 7.6 million Americans to lose health insurance, leading to thousands of preventable deaths, according to an analysis published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study estimated the cuts could cause nearly 2 million people to lose their primary doctor, 1.3 million people to not fill medications they need and 380,270 women to skip a mammogram. More than 16,600 people could die as a result of losing access to or forgoing care, the researchers estimated.
“Patients who go without care because they cannot afford it often get sicker and sicker, until they end up with chronic illness,” said lead study author Dr. Adam Gaffney, a critical care physician and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
Doctors will starve!
It’s bullshit. They are just adding a requirement (that many states already have) that able people under 55 have to either be in school or work 20 hours a month.
Well, if they do, and keep the income restrictions that may in fact make people ineligible.
Looking at a few states, the income restriction is around $2,500/month, so that would be $125/hr.
$2500/mo would be almost 60% of median wage income, and IIRC the limit under Medicaid is 150% of the poverty level. I don’t think those numbers overlap.
could cause an estimated 7.6 million Americans to lose health insurance, leading to thousands of preventable deaths, according to an analysis published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Being on Medicaid is not the same as actually getting healthcare, as has been thoroughly demonstrated. There was even a study that found little correlation difference in health outcomes between those with Medicaid and those with no insurance at all.
Also, I’ve observed a ton of people who HAVE Medicaid or health insurance and just don’t take care of their health. Never exercise, eat garbage, and ignore any health problems. Sometime it’s not a systemic/economic/political problem.
.380 fans, SGammo has some good clearance pricing right now.
https://sgammo.com/newsletter/ammo-inc-380-auto-closeout-specials-more-sgammo/
Can’t call myself a fan. I rented one once, but I don’t think I’m going to buy.
Not sure why anyone would buy a 380 now that they make such small 9mm pistols.
Took my daughter to the range and tried multiple pistols in 9mm and .380. She was more comfortable with and more accurate with .380.
Not too surprising for a 5 ft 2 in female with ordinary grip strength.
My wife, on the other hand, shoots 9mm without difficulty.
.380ACP recoils a lot less than 9mm, in pistols of equivalent size and design. 9mm Luger has unquestionably better terminal ballistics, but terminal ballistics are of little importance compared to ease of shooting.
You can still go smaller in a .380 package.
Pocket carry is still a thing, or so I’m told.
My wife and I have Sig p938 with extended grip:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P938#/media/File:SIG_Sauer_P938.jpg
Reasonably comfortable to shoot in 9mm.
I also have the Springfield 911 in 9mm. That actually hurts to shoot.
I bought my daughter the Springfield 911 in .380. This is way more comfortable to shoot.
Love the headline: “Virginia’s governor’s race could be a barometer for how voters feel about Trump.”
Translation: if the progressive wins, it’s a barometer on Trump; if the progressive loses, it’s not about Trump.
Mclean Virginia is a perfect microcosm of America.
*college girlfriend was from Mclean; her father was a federal bureaucrat of some sort
I let my wife shoot a Sig P238 (.380) and a Sig P938 (9mm) and she chose the P238. I’ve found some good ammo for it, it’ll do.
Also tested were various revolvers in .38 sp, Walther PPK, Kimber Micro Carry, and S&W Bodyguard. She liked the Sig, so I had her try the 938 vs 238 and she liked the .380.
That should have been under Tater’s comment.
Weird
Presidents often reach out to other elected officials, including governors and mayors, at times of tragedy, such as after mass killings or natural disasters, to offer condolences and, if needed, federal assistance.
On the plane, Trump sounded uninterested in reaching out to Walz, who was the vice presidential running mate for 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump. During the campaign, Walz often branded Trump and other Republican politicians as “just weird.”
He should offer to send in the National Guard to restore order.
Well, it would be a waste of time. The DOJ has indicted the guy, so he’s off the streets and being prosecuted by the feds. What is there to talk about?
Trump needs to apologize to Walz and beg his forgiveness for being such a terrible person, of course.
There are no federal grounds for charges, it is strictly a state matter.
“During the campaign, Walz often branded Trump and other Republican politicians as “just weird.””
Remember that time the Dems tried to paper over their policies that were well outside the mainstream by claiming that their opposition is “weird,” and they trotted out Walz to deliver that message?
(To be fair, Trump is pretty damn weird, but come on…. Walz?)
In an interview Monday with Minnesota Public Radio, Walz said he wasn’t surprised by the lack of outreach from Trump, saying, “I think I understand where that’s at.”
Sore winner.
Horrific
“Is this how your team measures success? Using the office of US Senator to post not just one but a series of jokes about an assassination—is that a successful day of work on Team Lee?” Ed Shelleby, Smith’s deputy chief of staff, wrote in the email, which the senator’s office shared with NBC News.
Shelleby went onto recap Saturday’s events, accusing Lee and his office of having “exploited the murder of a lifetime public servant and her husband to post some sick burns about Democrats.”
Where is your melodramatic show of grief? Why do you not weep and wail?
Surely you don’t want people to think they had it coming. That means we all have it coming.
Several Democratic members of Congress have said their names were on the list.
Cue the Bee and another AOC claim of death.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-2026-audi-q3-reinvents-windshield-wiper-and-turn-signal-stalks
LAME.
That does not look usable.
“We’re told every day by the left and their media lapdogs that illegals only take the jobs (entitled) Americans refuse to do. It’s one of the biggest lies in American politics, cooked up in the backrooms of some smoky DNC office to sell this illegal invasion as some kind of favor to the rest of us.
But a funny thing happened in Nebraska this week that blew that tired, dusty old myth to bits. ICE raided Glenn Valley Foods, pulling off the largest worksite immigration raid in state history. Dozens of illegal workers were removed and deported on the spot.
And what happened next? Well, something the media and the left don’t want you to know…
The waiting room was jam-packed with American citizens lined up, applications in hand, eager to work. The very jobs we’re told no Americans want suddenly became hot commodities the moment the illegals were shown the door.”
https://revolver.news/2025/06/a-funny-thing-happened-after-ice-raided-a-meatpacking-plant/
There should also be an inquiry into the records of Glenn Valley Foods – since there must be documentation attached to all of those illegal hires, SSNs, etc.
“I-9?”
“Bingo!”