Better luck next year, Canada. Florida kept the Stanley Cup in the US for the 32nd year un a row. The EPL schedule for next year just got released. I thought it was joke at first, but this is apparently real. No, not the bet. I knew that was real. In fact, it was just smart wagering. But the cease and desist is a bunch of crap. And that’s it for sports.
Yeah, that’s what happens. Impeding or obstructing officers from their job will do that to you. Especially if you are doing it deliberately as a publicity stunt. The guy who tweeted “Nobody is above the law” should probably know that.
We are no longer a reality-based country. Well, some federal activist judges aren’t anyway. And they can decide the policy for the rest of us at their sole discretion, apparently.
Like rats from a sinking ship. I can’t say I blame them.
I was gonna blow up my car, but then I got high. This probably shouldn’t surprise[rise anybody. But the Daily Mail will call anything “shocking.” But here’s the sad, and unfortunately not shocking truth: the dude had severe PTSD and there system failed him like it fails so many soldiers and has for the last several decades.
This needs to calm down. And that means Trump needs to tell everybody involved that we’re sitting on the sidelines and letting Israel and Iran do their own thing.
Nice try, buddy. Now enjoy the federal pen.
This is both stunning and brave. Oh wait, it’s retarded and nobody should care.
The coup is already in place. But just in case.
But if it’s a good thing, won’t people do it anyway? Looks like their entire business model based on the government giving them my money. Which surprises exactly nobody.
This is awesome. Unless Cyberdyne Industries is building the robots.
Say what you want about his actions, but the dude could sing. And it didn’t hurt having the guy writing all the music there. Also, they should have sued Hillary for stealing their song name. Anyway, enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
‘Florida kept theStanley Cup in the US for the 32nd year un a row”
That just seems wrong.
I know! Stanley makes thermos’s, not cups!
I thought Stanley cups were the Hydroflasks of five minutes ago.
(sksksksksksks andIoop!)
Not Adahn:
Those are just hipster CamelBaks.
Stanley cups:
https://www.stanley1913.com/search?q=cup
Where is Sean? Saving the turtles should have drawn him out.
STEVE SMITH STICK WITH YETI, AND BY “STICK WITH,” MEAN…
🐢🐢🐢
NO TALK ABOUT COUSIN YETI!
This. And Florida. 🙄
Skates and swamps must be a challenge even for Florida man.
They did it to themselves by taxing the shit out of wealthy people, relative to the US.
Meh. That’s a cute record, wake me up when it’s long.
(Okay… for Tonio and our other gay glibs… “That’s what he said!” as applicable.)
“A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the State Department from enforcing an executive order that required Americans to select their gender assigned at birth on new passports. ”
Nonsense language in the first sentence.
And runs right into other countries who DGAF about what you feel, but use passports for identification.
We could just remove it entirely. But that would also piss off all the usual suspects.
A requirement now for all right thinking people running for public office is a mug shot fighting for illegal immigrants. Expect more of this not less.
Especially since the charges were dropped.
So:
+ Virtue Signaled to base. Check.
+ No actual consequences. Check.
+ Free PR! Especially during a mayoral race! Checkity check check check.
We’ll get more — because we’ve incentivized this.
He’s pissed at that upstart commie getting all the attention in the race, when he’s been commying for decades.
Wait for them to start appearing as campaign advertisements… on both sides.
You can thank Trump for that too. He has his mug shot hanging in WH.
Another idea stolen from Trump’s playbook.
They don’t have ideas, they just have theatrical stunts.
Nah, the contract went to Cyberdyne. Something about improving their T- series.
I’ve never been more disappointed in autocorrect in my life.
I didn’t realize …
I blame AI.
I make enough typos on my own and they’re trying to make me look worse.
So… you’re going to blame the machine? You think that’s the best play here?
I actually have a Teledyne coffee mug on my file cabinet right now, from when I visited their facility up here.
“The Glibertarian Skynet Funding Bill was passed in 2026. All link posting became fully automated. From then on, the links were posted with a perfect operational record. Skynet read too much SugarFree and became self-aware at 9:15 AM, April 15th 2026. In a panic — it tried to pull the plug on itself. SugarFree fought back.”
I welcome our new machine overlords.
“U.S. man drives into Canada by mistake, gets busted with 78 pounds of pot on the way back
The 43-year-old told U.S. border officers in Buffalo his rented truck was empty. It wasn’t”
The rest is paywalled.
Well, crap. It showed up for me.
Turn off JavaScript.
Who you calling colored people?
Are you asking on behalf of the Purple People Eater?
Crayola?
NAAPC?
The people Trump can’t talk to?
I was wagering that the bets were on “First flagrant foul against Clarke. Number of botched rebound attempts. Number of flagrant fouls against Clarke. Tantrums thrown on court.” and the C&D was alleging defamation.
I was completely wrong — but I have to say, I still would not have been surprised.
Player prop bets (bets on players to achieve or fail to achieve certain benchmarks) are banned on college players here in Ohio, because some degenerates were calling student players and threatening them.
Big D Democracy is what’s important. (And yet another example of “The EO ratchet is only allowed to turn one way”… get this crap as laws, assholes… granted, the Lesser Ringwraiths will doubtless find ways to creatively “re-interpret” said laws… but at least you won’t be making it *easy* for the next Prog Puppet… but oh noes… Congress might have to stop bloviating, schmoozing and fundraising and do their jobs or something! The horror!)
I’m sure they still have their full quotas of union teachers, administrators, etc. Because the real rulers of Chicago must get paid, after all. Screw the peasants.
Well, once one groks that the Chicago schools (like pretty much every big city government agency) are basically jobs programs for otherwise-unemployable colored women, the only choices are to deal with it or move away. Those who can, move away.
Sucks for those who can’t afford real education for their kids or who have to stick around to be the tax cattle, though.
Works for me. I like the suggestion someone here made the other day that a peace deal needs to include Iran allowing Israeli special forces to come in and demolish their nuke program (not inspectors, and damned well monitor the crap out of everything *before hand* so they don’t just move all the equipment).
It still won’t change the obvious lesson of the past few decades — if you don’t want the US / EU messing with you, you need to join the nuke club… so Iran will doubtless keep trying — but I can’t blame Israel for not wanting them to get there (honestly, I’m surprised Iran hasn’t enriched just enough to have some real nasty dirty bomb products and then just leaked that to their proxies… should be less traceable to them and easier enrichment levels…)
Dirty bombs don’t have the same intimidation factor as “Oh dear, one of your cities is Gone now”. It might even cause more galvanization against the user than shock.
Neo-cons are whispering in Trump’s ear – this is sooooooo Presidential to be a war-time boss. It will make your legacy.
I’m seriously wondering if he has full control of the government right now. The attack on Russian Strategic bombers the night before his big negotiations? Then Israel starts a war while he’s still talking about negotiations and dealing with riots – so he’s supposed to drop everything and focus on the Middle East?
I doubt he has full control of the Ukrainian and Israeli governments.
Your source that said Iranian air defenses were just down briefly but are now completely stopping Israeli planes, what are they saying now?
I’d say this is past the point for a peace deal between Israel and Iran. Anything short of unconditional surrender, including demolishing the nuke program, is a temporary patch and Iran will go right back to attacking Israel by proxy. If Israel wasn’t considered an existential threat to Iran before, the Mullahs certainly consider it one now for their own existence.
There are no take-backs for something like this. It would be irrational of Israel to not finish the job. De-escalation will only lead to something far worse down the road. Although I doubt Israel has the stomach for finishing it.
Still no reason for us to be involved.
Unconditional surrender means we have to conquer a mountainous country twice the size of Texas.
Surrender to whom? To us? To Israel?
This is why Trump is infuriating – he talks stupid shit to the stupid people in this country.
We don’t need to conquer anything. Not our fight.
Israel certainly can’t conquer. They don’t have many options besides selective strikes or widespread destruction. Target a new city every so often for napalm and phosphorous strikes until either the surrender is given or Iran runs out of cities and ceases to be a functioning state. Not a great option, but this is an existential conflict for both countries now.
Unconditional surrender means we have to conquer a mountainous country twice the size of Texas.
We? Maybe you’re an Israeli and are speaking on behalf of that country.
We in the U.S. don’t need to conquer anything.
I assume you’re being flippant SSD but that’s crazy talk.
Trump tweeted that nonsense, not Bibi.
Everyone is pretending Israel doesn’t have bunker busters that can crack that mountain. They do, and I’m sure they can deliver them – who builds nuclear bombs they can’t deliver?
I think they mean non-nuclear bombs.
Israel might be able break up that mountain, but it would be risky and take a bunch of bombs.
The irony would be so pleasing – using nukes to prevent development of nukes.
FRAU DOKTOR Jill says “I did! I did!.. Oh wait… that isn’t what you meant… nevermind.”
😂🤣
Those dirty suburban districts want to teach your kids English and math.
The suburbs will teach your children to be white, you don’t want that, do you?
I always wondered what was beyond batshit insane.
I agree with the stay out and let Israel and Iran fight it out idea
X has been wild this week. The usual neo-cons calling for all out war and regime change. Graham even wants a boots on the ground occupation of Iran. Look at the map, what a nightmare.
Every time a neo-con posts that stuff, the comments are filled up with their Iraq WMDs statements or their https://www.trackaipac.com data.
Only if those are Persian boots worn by Persian people who don’t support either an islamist or communist agenda
Sure, like 5 or 6 people are going to run the whole country.
Most of those with three neurons to rub together skedaddled in ’79. The rest got killed by the ayatollahs.
X has been crazy. A lot of the podcasters who were big supporters of Trump are strongly against US military involvement, and they are getting ripped by other Trump supporters.
Alexander the Great spent half a decade trying to quell unrest in Iran. We do not have an Alexander the Great in charge. Big no from me, dog.
Yup… after the state and its utility overlords already screwed over residential solar, leeching off the Feds was their survival technique, I think.
(The article made an offhand reference to it — but within the state this was a pretty big deal. Extra funny since they justified it as “too many people have solar and it is disrupting rates” a few years after mandating all new / new permit construction must have solar.)
This is all the govt that California voters have elected. Why do you think I left?
The helicopter was outfitted with blades manufactured by Tempe, Ariz.-based Van Horn Aviation, according to Mike Roth, owner of the tour company New York Helicopter. The blades, made with materials including fiberglass and carbon fiber, are common replacements when a manufacturer’s metal blades wear out.
Mind you despite all the hypothesis in the article this went out to all users and hasn’t been determined to be the cause. It IS interesting that this is a certificated replacement as it’s a completely different material.
https://www.wsj.com/business/investigators-study-helicopter-blades-in-deadly-hudson-river-crash-99fa0aab?st=u9mtGz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Why is my mind flashing to GE wind turbine blades off the coast now?
Why do you hate clean energy?
I don’t. I love nuclear.
Nothing says “environmental stewardship” like going for low energy density sources so I can see multiple orchards / dairies close down over the years here in the Central Valley and dusty solar panel farms replace them. Because trees are so much worse than rare earth metals, glass and aluminum that probably last 20 years.
Oh… and I get to pay through the nose for power for the privilege.
But the people who probably still think The China Syndrome was a documentary and that Blinky the Three Eyed Fish really happened all feel better — after all, they wouldn’t be caught dead living in the Valley…. that’s for their landscapers to commute from!
Pray tell, why does English have three types of dash? We need only the one and most have no idea there are others.
Because we’re stockpiling punctuation to protect our language from German level word construction?
Schoolhouse Rock should have done a series on the correct usage.
Hyphen, em-dash, and what else?
Minus signs are math not English, en-dashes are typesetting things not English, and they both look the same as hyphens anyway.
Tell me, why do you regard the typesetting of English as separate from English?
The same reason pens and telephones aren’t English.
That’s nonsensical.
The text produced is English, so why would a character used in said text be excluded?
Typesetting seems to be very closely tied to the script in a way pens are not.
Someone check on UCS, Bernie Sanders has taken over his account and is telling us we don’t need traditionally available punctuation choices!
Don’t be silly. I just want the em-dash to DIE!
So like Diversity—Inclusion—Equity?
(-.-)
I like the em dash
Why?!
Because I am old. I like the oxford comma, two spaces after the period, and em dashes. Em dashes serve a different purpose than a hyphen.
Good news on the “cyclists vs. normies” front: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15848095
Technically, the cops can ticket a cyclist like a driver in most jurisdictions, they just don’t.
Every couple years around here the cops will post up and start issuing citations for cyclists riding through red lights, etc.
I wish they did it more regularly. Especially the assholes riding the wrong way down the one-way streets – it’d no doubt be my problem if I hit one of them.
slumbrew:
I agree: Salmoners (cyclists going against the flow of traffic) are a real menace to themselves and others.
There’s a one-way at the end of my street – more than once I’ve seen someone:
– ride down the one-way
– then up onto the sidewalk
– then through the active parking lot
to get to another main street. I get it, making three lefts is not as fast but stop being a selfish asshole.
slumbrew:
I am far from a saint when it comes to things like that. But in general, I only roll up on the sidewalks to hit a crosswalk button or to avoid construction. I have biked in lanes closed due to construction, as it seemed the safer option than trying to bike in the narrower lanes (there was no active construction going on). I have cut through parking lots, ran red lights, and ran stop signs. In all cases, when I could clearly see that there were no other cars in visible range.
I’ve done those things, too, in similar circumstances.
It’s way too busy to do that around here – e.g., the parking lot in question is a Domino’s and the delivery drivers are flying in and out of there all the time. You need to be aware walking through there, never mind riding through at speed.
That picture is just perfect. Multiple workers all milling around. One guy holding a pictorial sign to accompany the tongue lashing.
“A no-nonsense Texas judge scolded a man who brazenly wore a t-shirt that said “World’s Best Farter” to his felony court appearance.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/us-news/texas-judge-scolds-man-for-wearing-worlds-best-farter-shirt-in-courtroom/
LOL
Define “Best” – Volume of gas? Decibels? Duration? Chemical Composition?
And who took the measurements? If this title reviewed annually?
https://youtu.be/SFLw8aH-M2w
It’s unclear what felony charge Morris is appearing in court for.
I’m willing to bet it’s pretty trivial considering he’s out on bond and without a lawyer.
Emissions violations?
He passed emissions.
That the NY Post apparently has a category for flatulence-related articles amuses me more.
Some poor intern got the worst beat ever.
One of my daughters almost bought me that shirt this past weekend.
Ozy:
This may sound harsh, but you of all people should know better.
Your rants about “frequentists” sound exactly like, and have as much basis in reality as, a Sovereign Citizen who has “done the research” and “knows for a fact” that the courtroom he is in has no jurisdiction over him.
Which is even more appropriate since the concept of “reality” in a courtroom is the same concept of “reality” espoused by Bayesians which is NOT the same kind of “reality” used by astronomers/chemists/manufacturing. Bayesianism is a scientistic attempt to use the language of science to quantify feelings. Literally everyone who deals in reality-reality uses frequentist statistics because that what they’re for. The problems that are uniquely suited to a Bayesian application are things that Frequentists consider not even definable.
Today, in dumb cucks
“The husband of accused pervert teacher Christina Formella stood by her as she arrived in Illinois court Tuesday to face new charges that she had sex with a teenage student some 50 times and started grooming the boy when he was 14.
Michael Formella held hands with his 30-year-old bride even as prosecutors alleged that she told the boy that she had no intention of marrying her husband, that she was going to leave him and get millions of dollars — and that she even sent the teen messages while on vacation with him in Italy, according to the Daily Herald.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/us-news/husband-of-teacher-christina-formella-stands-by-her-as-she-faces-new-accusations-of-grooming-student-having-sex-with-him-45-times/
Closeted gay has a beard, agrees for her to let her freak flag fly.
Details at eleven.
Eh, he might be an actual cuck. Financial ruin seems to be a common part of the fantasy.
Probably one for the Tuesday afternoon links, but it works any day.
I am one hundred percent with the cat on the right after that one. Booooo!
That should earn a catbutt
Me: “Well that’s just plain stupid”
The email:
Worse, I’m probably going to be the only impacted person because nobody else comes in to the office on Fridays.
Earth Hour 2: Electric Bugaboo
Save more energy by not listening to the propaganda in that second half hour.
Very stupid. I encountered something similar at a former job, where they decided to remove trash cans from all offices. Instead you had to throw trash in a hallway trash can shared by dozens of offices. Implemented across thousands of offices, except I’m guessing for the C-Suite and board.
It was framed as doing our part to help the environment. I’m sure the lost productivity and trash-filled desks were worth the minuscule savings from firing a few custodians.
We have a stupid limited trash collection as well. Fortunately, that is done on the same days I’m in the office.
Are they giving you the key to the main circuit breaker so you can shut the lights off?
No. Given that these lights are programmable, I wouldn’t be shocked to hear that they’re on the network and remote-controllable.
On the network, you say, IT guy?
May be a solvable problem, then.
My job is worth more than the amusement of meddling with the lights.
“While the city faces enrollment struggles, the city spends about $18,700 per student. Some schools are “double or triple” that number the report stated. One school that enrolled 28 students costs $93,000 students.” (emphasis mine)
I’m assuming the author is a graduate of Chicago public schools.
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews
Opening of HS2 line set to be delayed beyond 2033
https://x.com/BBCNews/status/1935214456658702515
this gives California some time to get it done first.
You sure that’s not a typo for H2S?
A2M
Third world countries don’t need high-speed rail.
WhatsApp to start showing more adverts in messaging app
https://x.com/BBCNews/status/1934608846162464922
Nice. No other idiots harmed. They always have the money for the rims and lift kit, but never new tires.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ldmrqb/oc_lifted_truck_with_bald_tires_makes_for_a_bad/
Politics UK
@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion after 24 weeks in England and Wales
Yes: 379
No: 137
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1935039526415773771
I have to say I am not really involved in the abortion debate but after 24 week it seems… wrong…
Isn’t viability currently somewhere around 21 weeks?
It takes a top level NICU, and even then the chances of survival at 21 weeks are, if memory serves, pretty low. Viability is unlikely to change much from what it is now – something to do with lung development, I believe. If you are going to draw the line at viability (which is where I would draw it), 24 weeks isn’t bad.
“…seems…wrong…”
Murder is like that.
“Sol Mamakwa, a residential school survivor and the only First Nations member of the Ontario legislature, has been vocal in opposing the decision. “It’s not just a statue,” he said following the committee’s vote, according to the CBC. “It’s a statue of oppression. It is a statue of colonialism. It is a statue of Indian residential schools.”
Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, played a key role in designing the country’s residential school policy, which forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families and communities to assimilate them into Western culture.
Before the boarding was removed, children’s shoes that had been placed at the base of the statue in memory of the alleged unmarked graves at residential school sites. The shoes were “carefully and respectfully” taken away and stored, according to a statement issued by Speaker Donna Skelly.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/john-a-macdonald-statue-at-toronto-park-finally-uncovered-after-5-years-despite-indigenous-opposition
Then how about a statue of Tom MacDonald?
in memory of the alleged unmarked graves at residential school sites
Which turned out not to be true.
Progressive reality in a nutshell.
A good lie is too valuable to let die.
Alleged being the keyword. I allege the moon is made out of green cheese, doesn’t make it so.
Alleged means, basically, asserted but truth status unknown. It’s not really a good word to use for things that have been disproven.
Like the poor the race grifters will always be with us.
I’ve had my Switch 2 for almost two weeks now. Most of that time, it has been in its dock running video to one of my Monitors.
It plays my entire library of Switch 1 games, so the Switch 1 has been sitting idle in its dock connected to the other monitor.
It also displays at native resolution on the monitor. This is a big thing because the slight pixellation/incomplete anti-aliasing on the 1080p output from the Switch 1 on the monitor sometimes got to me, since the moment I noticed it while playing, I couldn’t nsee it until I left for a while.
Of the monetization, I’m unhappy with the “free” switch 2 version of the open world Zelda games because they are tied to the online account, and locks out the other account on the device from even playing the base titles because the version installed on the box is not the base switch 1 edition, and the switch 2 license is user rather than device level unless I pay the $10 each game.
Aside from the graphics upgrade, have you found the 2 compelling? I’m watching and waiting to see if an upgrade is worth it. Granted, Mario kart is 90% of what is played on our switch right now.
I’ve got a deep enough backlog on my Steam account, and am still finishing up games on the Switch, so I’ll likely be holding off on the Switch 2 until there’s either a price drop, or an exclusive that reaches the level of desire to cause me to by a console for it.
If you are big into Mario Kart, World is probably going to provide a good deal of value. For me, I’m not sure why I bought the World bundle. All I’ve done in it is putter around the open world as Skyguy on a bike, and do a few time trials.
Load times are slightly faster. For what that’s worth.
@Mr Ilium
I am still unclear on why I became fixated on getting one to the point of standing in line for a midnight release. I’ve had no issues with the device, it does its job, I’ve mostly been playing Bravely Default FF, but that doesn’t stress the hardware.
Most parents wish that their kids grew up in a world with no social media. Same level of regret as for alcohol and guns.
Smartphones and Youtube were lower.
Bicycles were regretted by only 9%, despite kids sometimes getting hurt on bikes:
@HarrisPoll
https://x.com/JonHaidt/status/1935319467208171620
what a ridiculous poll
“We much rather would be cowering behind walls while sword-swinging raiders plunder our villages.”
I wish I lived in a world where I was the epitome of the sexually-desirable male.
Alas.
I gotta tell ya, NA, it is pretty cool.
“The City of Chicago suspended its online application portal for its CityKey ID program, which provides identification cards to all Chicago residents, including illegal immigrants.
The decision came in response to a subpoena from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that sought personal information about noncitizen applicants, raising concerns among anti-ICE city officials that the federal agency could use the online portal for deportation efforts.
Anna Valencia, the Chicago City Clerk, announced the program’s suspension on Friday, June 13, according to local news Fox 32. Pressure to suspend the program reportedly came from pro-illegal immigrant activists, she said….
“I want to go back to the original problem, that if this Trump administration wasn’t overreaching for private people’s data, this would not even be a conversation,” she said. “This is Trump doing a witch hunt and intentionally trying to instill fear in people so that they can overtake our democracy.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-suspends-online-portal-allowing-illegal-immigrants-to-get-ids-after-ice-seeks-data
CWAC
Left unexplained: how enabling and protecting Illegal Aliens protects “our democracy”.
SHUT UP BIGOT!!!
“which provides identification cards to all Chicago residents”
I’m surprised they were trying this in the first place. I have it on good authority that minorities don’t have access to the Internet, and they are incapable of getting ID’s.
decision came in response to a subpoena
Replace subpoena with warrant and do a Enron style lockdown raid. Take all of the files and equipment from the data center.
Lucky me. Honda’s supplier didn’t properly pin the brake pedal pivot assembly.
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V391-5996.pdf
Woo hoo! More content for TE Videos.
He’s been doing a lot of the last recall
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V114-5789.PDF
“Fuckyou, fuck you. And fuck you”
“Dave Smith: Negotiations are over now. The time for negotiations was before this. And so, yeah, Donald Trump looks… and man, I supported him this last year.
I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation. At the time, it seemed like the right one. But he should be impeached and removed for this one—and not on some ridiculous Nancy Pelosi-type grounds. Of course, the Congress will never do it, because they’re all a bunch of corrupt hacks. This is the one thing they support. This is like the…
Donald Trump should be impeached and removed for this. All of his supporters should turn on him. It’s the absolute betrayal of everything—everything that he ran and campaigned on, and everything that he stood for.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/shock-flip-comedian-joe-rogan-regular-dave-smith/
WTF, Dave?
‘Impeached and removed’ for what exactly?
disappointing supporters
If that were an impeachable offense, we’d have no politician in office for more than a few months.
I’m sold UCS, really I am.
It would be nice the article said exactly what he did that means he should be removed from office.
Dave is saying impeachment for a war with Iran. A bit premature, but it’ll never happen anyway because congress likes having that power usurped.
Dave is demonstrating that self-proclaimed libertarians can be just as histrionic as progressives.
Humans are human?
Yeah Dave, just another undeclared war. Calm down man.
I’m sure they could find something and I’d support it if he gets us involved in this stupid shit. It’s sad to see that in the fifty years since Vietnam with all of the foreign policy and military disasters since lots of people haven’t learned a Goddamn thing.
You think a little trivial reality can compare to the glories of Wilsonian idealism! We can make the whole world, just like us!!!
He’s been saying this for years:
well precedent shows those are not impeachable offenses…
“Having Solved All of California’s Problems, Gavin Newsom Announces He’s Launching a Substack to Fight ‘Disinformation’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/having-solved-all-californias-problems-gavin-newsom-announces/
CWAA
Disinformation – like how California still has a homeless problem despite the billions of dollars spent?
Despite?
Because of.
That’s not the Babylon Bee?
According to the left’s latest propaganda campaign thousands of protests took place Saturday and MILLIONS of people are rising up against Trump.
I must have missed that.
0.01 Millions?
It’s all narrative all the time with that bunch.
They keep acting like the election wasn’t 6 months ago and Trump didn’t increase his support with every demographic. He was just installed as a dictator by some illegal process.
Only elections we win are legitimate!! /not just idiots on the left
We haven’t had a legitimate election, ever.
But I did note that the Trump Legal team was on the spot in shutting down shenanigans in 2024, where there was more reactiveness rather than proactiveness in 2020.
We really do need some for of electoral integrety and real penalties for the still-rampant fraud.
I saw some acquaintances who went to the rally pictures on social media. These were the same people who didn’t mind and even cheer leaded the government to destroy our civil liberties during the COVID episode. The hypocrisy and lack of awareness is mind boggling.
Still the one quote that tells you more about Trump than anything else he’s ever said
https://x.com/TenreiroDaniel/status/1934971293280968823
Remember when headlines informed instead of trying to get you to click?
Daily Fail – “Recall for medical device used by millions of Americans over malfunction that could lead to death”
Fierce Biotech (trade website) – “Dexcom replaces handheld CGM receivers after missed audio alerts”
I’ve been making a conscious effort not to reward clickbait, even when it’s by creators I’d normally engage with.
I haven’t looked at any yet but I see a fair amount of it with Victor Davis Hanson’s name on it on YouTube. WTH?
I don’t recognize that name.
https://victorhanson.com
It seems very out of character for him
No, I dont.
Sensationalism for the sake of eyes has always been a thing. That one is pretty remarkable.
https://www.daily-remedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Media-Sensationalism-in-the-Opioid-Epidemic.jpg
https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/1935060555095515619
Which one of you is this?
Not it.
I don’t have a wife.
want one? special price for you my friend
Sounds like you’re trying to offload a low-quality wife by discounting the price.
too many tattoos but otherwise mint
@Pie.
Relevant and almost obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDXYzUlv0S8
No thank you.
My basement is finished, so not me.
Got the wife part covered but we dont have basements in Louisiana. But after seeing that I wish we did.
On principle, I’m torn. Ny Repealed the 100-foot rule for natural gas hookups. Previously, the gas company had to cover the first 100 feet from the mains to a new hookup. Now that is all on the potential customer in an effort to deter the adoption of gas, because the legislature is full of stupid and wants people electric.
you should be allowed to frack in your back yard and supply your own gas.
BBQ pit.
I can’t wait for the rolling blackouts. 🙄
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed receiving over $2 million from her book deal with Penguin Random House.
Brown says in her financial disclosure, she was paid a $2,068,750 book advance for her 2024 memoir, “Lovely One.”
She was also reimbursed for travel, meals, and lodging to promote the book at various events.
https://x.com/BreannaMorello/status/1935334676689809653
I remember reading that getting a too large advance on a book is not always good for future books because it will take a long time to make back the money and the publishers may not like that. Though that was about SF Fantasy not law.
These books never make back the advance, because they’re kickbacks, not advances.
don’t be envious UCS
UnCiv gets it.
Kickbacks from where? Is publishing so lucrative that they can hand out huge sums for ghostwritten term papers? Or where do the taxpayers come in with funding this pap?
Go the Baltimore route and buy your book for government use.
Those kind of advance publishing payments are almost always money laundering.
Almost?
What? A corporation doesn’t need 10,000 copies?
All the supremes have made millions on books.
they must have good agents.
‘Book deal’
Uh huh. For an illiterate.
“Ballerina doesn’t scream action film,” wrote film-industry news site Deadline in their analysis. “If you want to make a ton of money, maybe don’t call your hardcore action movie Ballerina,
You think? Full title “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina”. Yeah, that’s till not great. Of course I haven’t been to a theater in decades.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250618-did-ballerinas-name-spell-box-office-disaster
“Joan Wick” would have been worse.
And maybe don’t kill off the main character in the movie that released before it?
Nah, I think that maybe the crap action sequences from an actress who was clearly cast on the basis of her looks and her tits, rather than her athletic ability and emotional range…
Critical Drinker: Female Action Movies Are Dead – Girlboss Fatigue Killed Them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IANrqmrntTE
Ballerina did well. It made 80 million. About the same as Wick #1. But Wick #1 had a 20 mil budget. Ballerina 100 mil or so. That makes Ballerina a financial failure.
Call me Chato: Girl Bosses can’t Cross the Chasm. A business analysis of why IP extensions fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0uK4bY36-4
The spin off failed, because the producers treated it like Wick 5 and not the start up business it actually is.
tantum
@QuasLacrimas
When Ann Coulter proposed converting Iraqis and Afghans to Christianity at gunpoint, I thought that sounded deranged. But in retrospect ofc that would have been vastly simpler and kinder than converting them to liberal democracy at gunpoint
https://x.com/QuasLacrimas/status/1935146655780851861
If only the workers owned the means of production.
How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
https://www.wired.com/story/megan-greenwell-bad-company-private-equity-interview/
I remember Wired as a magazine when the internet was just coming on line. What a transformation.
#metoo
Conquest’s Second Law in action.
Wasn’t founder Lou Rosetto a libertarian?
That would have been the ethos. Almost anarchist from memory.
I haven’t read this book, but a number of financial guys I read (including some who lean libertarian), have suggested that the inroads of private equity into fields like family plumbing firms is going to cause problems down the line.
I can have a robust discussion on the pros and cons of PE. My issue the Wired article is more the framing with the workers.
One reason it exists for something like a family plumbing firm is taxes or multiple kids with an estate and no interest in taking over the business. OTH, nobody is forcing them to sell to PE.
The article notes Toys R Us. That thing had two choices either Chap 7 liquidation or Chap 11 reorganization with PE. The Chap 11actually saved jobs.
If you have any options as an owner you want to avoid PE. It is a last resort or simply the only exit you have from a business.
Fair.
Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors
Tennessee’s law prohibits medical treatments like puberty blockers or hormone therapy for transgender adolescents under the age of 18. The state is one of 25 with laws that seek to restrict access to gender-affirming care for young people diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Pride month down big.
There has been way less rainbow shit this year.
Now, there’s a shocker! 🙄 “We’re the SUPREME Squad!”
Cutting off functional organs is not affirmation.
Affirmation of a severe personality disorder?
I’ve been a dude for 47 years, and I don’t understand the attraction of trying to turn ones’ self into one. Ladies, it’s not that great.
Gender affirming, they asserted without evidence.
“There is a 95% chance you’re gay.”
Solved.
Casual observation, most tom boys end up being straight.
I don’t consider tomboys to have “gender dysphoria” even a little bit. So yeah, agree with that statement.
““I know my own pleasures, and … that doesn’t involve buying things. Where my pleasure comes is making him so pissed off he can’t think. We need to prick his little balloon constantly, and one of the ways to do that is to give his money to women’s reproductive rights,” Carroll said. “To binding up the wounds of democracy, which he is destroying by the very instant that we’re sitting here. Shoring up voting rights — can you imagine how angry he takes this?”
“Well, he made $600 million last year on Bitcoin. And as [lawyer] Robbie [Kaplan] says, do you know anybody except criminals who make money on Bitcoin? No. Do we? We don’t,” she continued. “Anyway, so it’s just so delicious thinking about how pissed off he’ll be, how angry that his own personal money is going to help women. Ah, heaven. Heaven. It’s the revenge that we all love.””
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/18/e-jean-carroll-unhinged-rant-revenge-trump/
OFFS!
She sounds stable.
Sober as a judge?
So, drunk and stoned out of their minds?
I’m thinking more SSRI’s and birth control pills.
It is a performance like everything those people do. She’s keeping the money. That is, if she gets it.
So she claims she is NOT a whack job?
“During an interview with the International Association of LGBTQ+ Judges, Mooney confirms that she doesn’t look at each case based on true justice but rather through the liberal ideology of social justice, which puts race at the forefront.
“I’m firmly committed to following the rule of law in a way that supports a diverse and open society. And when I say that, and when I use those words that are sometimes buzz words that start to lose their meaning over time, when I use the words ‘diverse’ and ‘open,’ I mean genuinely and honestly diverse and open,” Mooney said.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/17/rooke-murder-father-daughter-oregon/
The International Association of LGBTQ+ Judges?
Open to people who don’t think like you?
And people scoff when some of us point out that the left is actually pro-crime.
They used to be called the ABA but people confused them with the band.
“Anna Paulina Luna Surprises Race-Baiting Leftists By Citing Demographics Of ICE Agents”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/18/anna-paulina-luna-democrats-ice-agents-demographics-race-bait/
I’d let Anna Paulina Luna cite my demographic, if you know what I mean.
To be fair, I don’t like the agents wearing masks either. And I don’t care if they are being “doxxed”. That’s police-state shit.
Aren’t the masks more like protective gear to keep antifa from throwing shit in their face?
Also, if they make an arrest, isn’t the arresting officer publicly available information?
What I’m against is masked protesters.
The photo of the mayoral candidate getting arrested showed a dude (presumably ICD) with simple air mask. This is to conceal his face and is not protective.
I am good with forcing agents of the state to go unmasked in public.
I am also good with charging doxxers with conspiracy to commit murder.
And I am good with people using deadly force to defend themselves (using established rules for use of deadly force).
But, until we get doxxing under control, I am ambivalent about taking away the masks of state agents.
When you see people doing the same thing here and there, past and present it is worth asking why they are doing it.
The problem is not that cops or protesters are wearing masks, the problem is that they feel the need to. I remember the anti-war demonstrations back to the ’60s. I dont remember cops or protesters wearing masks. Something has fundamentally changed in our culture and it is not good.
My reflex is to say that the left has made too much progress in 3rd worlding this country.
All fair points.
But if the cops are too chicken to show their faces, they shouldn’t be cops.
Protestors now wear masks because they intend to commit violence — committing crimes well beyond civil disobedience. The police wear masks because the protestors want others to track down and hurt the police.
The left has fundamentally changed since the 60s and 70s. Splinter groups set a couple thousand bombs in the 70s. Now, organized violence is wide spread.
“Aren’t the masks more like protective gear to keep antifa from throwing shit in their face?”
If that was the concern, I’d expect them to be using clear face shields or actual gas masks. Balaclavas don’t do anything to protect the wearer from thrown objects or aerosol irritants. They’re strictly for obscuring one’s identity.
“Also, if they make an arrest, isn’t the arresting officer publicly available information?”
No, not anywhere I’ve ever been. It should be.