Good morning one and all to another beautiful day!
5 Takeaways From Supreme Court Decision on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
80 Percent Of Anti-Trump Lawsuits Are Filed In Courts Ruled By Democrat Appointees
Department of Justice eliminates 4,500 jobs, plans to cut 1,500 from FBI
The ‘No Kings’ Protests Were Signs of the Aging, Deteriorating Left
US Resumes Student Visas With Stricter Social Media Vetting
Fed holds key rate steady, still sees two more cuts this year
CNN Acknowledges RFK’s Drug Ad Ban Could ‘Cripple’ Broadcasting Giants
Leftist Echo Chamber Bluesky Suspends JD Vance’s New Account Within 30 Mins, then Reinstates
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“80 Percent Of Anti-Trump Lawsuits Are Filed In Courts Ruled By Democrat Appointees”
Shocking!
That it’s that low?
That lady is too old to have purple hair.
You’re never too old to lose your mind. Who was it that dead posted? Galt? I’m losing it!
Oh no. My Social Security!
That I’ve never expected to get a dime of. You want to talk “equity”? Let’s talk about how black males are screwed the most by SS due to demographics. Then let’s add that to the Democrats complete refusal of allowing an opt out with something along the lines of a mandatory 401(k) investment amount (which would suck for other reasons, but could at least be passed on to next of kin).
How are black males due to demographics?
Common Tater:
If you’re asking how they’re screwed? Lowest life expectancy. Every study I’ve seen on SS returns has black males having an average negative rate of return on SS contributions.
they die younger?
OK, but “disparate impact” is a terrible basis for public policy.
@ Common Tater – Stealing 15% of someones pay through mandate into a losing bet is terrible public policy.
Regardless, it shouldn’t have anything to do with how it affects different arbitrary groups differently.
I’m sorry, but on what grounds can the federal govt make an IRA/401k mandatory? Is that under the “we can make you eat broccoli” clause?
You could offer it as an opt out to SS, set up a minimum retirement tax, or mandate it like health care. I admit that it would suck, but would be better than the current waste.
They could impose a penaltax.
Are we ever allowed to at least want the better of two bad options?
Nope. I don’t want the least bad option. I want to be left the fuck alone. If the govt and other people can’t accept that, they need to fuck right off.
Much as I agree with you, JI, other people fucking right off isn’t on the table.
Sadly, currency/financial/government/social collapse is inevitable because of the addiction to debt. If the astounding things DOGE founds aren’t enough to break the addiction, nothing is.
The only question is when/how fast?
I do believe Mr. Dean, that the proper example setting for a few would encourage [or discourage as the case may be] the others.
*lights fire under the tar kettle*
“While Kennedy Jr. has long advocated to end the practice of pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising — a practice banned in almost every other nation globally — experts believe that pharmaceutical giants would challenge an outright ban on First Amendment grounds.”
I think it’s every country except us and New Zealand. Anyway, wasn’t there a SCOTUS decision on this already?
“CNN itself admitted the harm Kennedy Jr.’s policies would do to its network, writing “disincentivizing direct-to-consumer drug ads would harm traditional broadcasters and cable companies.””
Then I’m even more against DTC.
What the hell is this “tax deduction” for advertising? I get it as a normal business expense, but did Big Pharma carve out some other exception?
Without doing one iota of research, I can confidently say that a bought-and-paid-for legislator slipped the deduction into some omnibus bill.
Yeah, it sounds to me like we are subsidizing all those dancing fat people.
Kill it all.
No, this is retard shit from the Daily Caller (and I guess RFk Jr). Letting every business deduct advertising expenses is not a loophole.
Is this like “stop subsidizing bad industry X by allowing them to take the same deductions available to all businesses”?
Basically. A better option (look away JI) if you want to hit the pharmaceutical companies would be to eliminate the R&D credit and just let companies deduct their r&d expenses.
CNN Acknowledges RFK’s Drug Ad Ban Could ‘Cripple’ Broadcasting Giants
Just when a new PrEP treatment is ready to hit the airwaves.
Wouldn’t bath-houses be more targeted than airport gate areas anyway?
Larry Craig disagrees.
+ wide stance
Treating your question with more seriousness than it deserves, airports would undoubtedly get more new faces every six months than bathhouses. I would imagine that bathhouses probably have a higher percentage of frequent fliers, so after the initial vaccination round, there’d be a sharp dropoff in utility.
“Later, in a passage not joined by Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson said the court “refuses to call a spade a spade” and “obfuscates a sex classification” to allow the state law to withstand constitutional scrutiny.”
RACIST!!!
So I guess Justice Can’t-Sat-What-A-Woman-Is must have studied up on sex classifications since her confirmation hearings.
I’m going to take that another level deeper. They were “encouraged” not because people were noticing, so much as that money may be drying up. Those professionally printed signs (always with the “union bug” on them) cost money. The sign material, the ink, etc. And those union workers don’t work for free.
That would also explain the shift from a few large protests in major cities, to many tiny protests in small towns. The big orgs are running out of money and shifting the organizing burden to locals. Also, old ppl don’t like to travel, so this increased the overall participation numbers and gave the appearance of broader support.
Distributing the protests also makes it look more wide spread. If you have the numbers and a friendly media, “big” crowds downtown are great stories, but don’t play well in the exurbs and out. Having the protests be in the suburbs/exurbs would stick them in the minds of the people who saw them (“Oh, that’s what Ray from the store was going on about”). At least locally though, it looked like they did not have much in the way of locals directing them to the more friendly suburbs/exurbs, they were trying to go into the more Trump (not even Republican) friendly areas.
Local news focused on the “large” protest downtown.
Yup. NPR had an expert on to say that there were more protests in the 47 term v. the 45 term based on the number of protests. So obviously OMB is just super-DUPER unpopular this time.
I did see some smug hippies walking around with American flags and wondered what that was all about.
In retrospect, yeah it’s obvious that was part of the plan.
I still think the whole thing flopped. Nobody’s talking about it.
The Israel/Iran war hotting up knocked it right out of the news cycle.
Although I don’t think it was going to make much of a splash, anyway. The Summer of Jorge just hasn’t had the violence that made the Summer of George such as a smash hit.
Pride month never withstood a chance this year.
“Jenna Bush Hager’s breasts ‘turned green’ in sunbathing nightmare”
https://pagesix.com/2025/06/18/celebrity-news/jenna-bush-hagers-breasts-turned-green-in-sunbathing-nightmare/
STIJLTH
[ lights the Q signal ]
https://dccnfv6xzfpw60.archive.is/1ioRD/8a63ed25907e26a3555c93b845ccaef2b49695d3.jpg
NSFW.
[ lights the
QJames T. Kirk signal ]Hmm… no pics of said green breasts.
I art disappoint.
STIJLTH ???
Shows that I just like the hos.
AUIGOOH.
(acronym usage is getting out of hand)
Still Tits I’m Just Licking Them Harder
Shatner approved
“A depraved female Long Island therapist has confessed to sharing horrific videos and photos of baby rape online — where she also got a sick kick out of pretending to be a dad who raped his own kids.
Renee Hoberman, a 36-year-old licensed social worker from Plainview, pleaded guilty in federal court in Islip on Wednesday to distributing child porn videos on the social media app Kik, including the rape of a baby less than one years old, federal prosecutors said.
She told investigators that she got off on the stomach-churning content, which she shared in 2024 while she was working in Melville as a therapist with children 17 and under….
She admitted to federal agents that she “has a preference for children from infancy to age three, and that she prefers violent depictions of the children in child pornography,” according to the complaint.
Hoberman faces up to 20 years in prison.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/long-island-child-therapist-admits-sharing-baby-rape-porn/
Only 20 years?
Just put a bullet in her head. She’s irretrievably broken.
I’m sure the guards and other prison officials will make no secret of the offense for which she’s serving time, so we’ll see how long she lasts in the general prisoner population.
Yeah — that’s what I was about to post, so just +1… I expect given the confession, the acts and the proclivities — regardless of the legal term, this is a “life sentence” de facto.
And I’ve said it before… but there are most certainly days when I feel like we could use an Apostle and a herd of pigs…
Can we finally start kink shaming again?
We desperately need a Shame Month in this country.
Good lord…
How long before the Dems start defending her?
Dale Chu
@Dale_Chu
Forget Mandarin immersion and STEM camp. This summer’s elite parenting flex? Letting your kids be bored. Would you do it?
https://x.com/Dale_Chu/status/1935106292961382746
TIL I was “kid rotting” every summer as a kid.
I had a creek in our back yard. Endless days of fun tramping its banks and catching things.
Yeah, the boredom never lasted long. That’s what lead to answering such intriguing questions as “I wonder if we can pop the ignition out of dad’s old pickup, start it with a screw driver and drive it around?”
My sister and I both got to go to a Bible camp for one week each summer. It was very cool because there were a lot of kids (girls) from the Big City there too.
Other than that, there was no camps or any other organized activities at all. We were forced to hang out at the park or the beach all day with our friends. We had to make our own fun. I’m just realizing now that I was a deprived kid!
* One of our activities (especially early in the summer) was seeing who could peel the biggest chunk of dead skin off a sunburned back. None of us had ever heard of sunblock and no one wore a shirt, so the early summer was filled with a ton of beet red kids. When that skin dried up and started to peel it was time to see who could get a chunk off. As a ginger, I was good source of sunburned skin all summer. The other kids would be tan by the end of summer and no longer get burned.
Also, my parents would start doling out extra chores to any kid they saw lingering around the house in the summer.
So once the morning chores were done (mostly gardening), it was time to vamoose.
Yep, as soon as mandatory summer chores were done, it was straight out and back by 6
Being bored is good for kids, and adults. It makes you use your brain and be creative.
I used to have a great time making things out of plastic containers and cardboard tubes from the trash.
One of my friends dad was a garbage man. He collected trash and they lived near the dump.
We were all super envious of him because he was always getting some cool stuff from the dump. One time his dad found a plastic model of the rocket that went to the moon. It was only half put together and most of the other parts were still in the box! We had so much fun trying to put that together.
“Two drag queens sashayed onto the floor of the Oregon House of Representatives and delivered an awkward, over-the-top performance for lawmakers Wednesday morning — with one Republican official decrying the charade as pure “political theater.”
The bizarre fiasco erupted on the chamber floor in honor of a Democratic resolution recognizing “the artistry of black drag performers” in the Beaver State, Rep. Travis E. Nelson told The Post.
The Democrat is the first black LGBTQIA+ House member. ”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/us-news/drag-queen-performance-celebrating-democratic-resolution-on-oregon-house-floor-draws-backlash-political-theater/
OFFS!
“Oregon lawmakers advance bill to limit federal use of National Guard
Oregon lawmakers are moving to restrict the federal government’s authority over the state’s National Guard despite a surge of violent anti-ICE protests, particularly in Portland.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-limit-federal-use-of-national-guard
CWABOA
A Title 10 mobilization doesn’t care about your state law.
Various states tried that in the 1980s to keep the NG from going to Central America. Title 10 orders always win.
How are women not offended? Guys literally pretending to be the most exaggerated caricatures of sleezy women.
Gesundheit!
Especially in the Beaver State.
That is an excellent point, Drake. How are caricatures of women (drag) okay and caricatures of blacks (blackface) not?
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXs0m32A8E&list=RDvfXs0m32A8E&start_radio=1
lol This is what you voted for, Oregon.
These street takeover assholes need to be thrown in prison.
Port Clinton woman pleads guilty in Cleveland street takeover case
Local media has been all over these cases.
I’ll take her Infiniti.
I had a Q50 as a loaner car a couple weeks ago. Holy crap – the twin-turbo V6 made it a rocket. Not as nice as a Lexus and doesn’t handle like a BMW, but in a straight line it’s crazy.
That’s still a thing? It feels so 2023 or so.
rhywun:
We’re in fly over country, we get everything a little bit later than most. Hell, a local restaurant just scheduled a molecular gastronomy dinner. I was pretty sure that fad had passed a while back.
Wait until some place discovers liquid nitrogen ice cream.
“US government to build $8.5M fly breeding factory to mass produce millions of flesh-eating parasites”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/us-government-to-build-8-5m-fly-factory-to-mass-produce-millions-of-flesh-eating-parasites-in-screwworm-sterilization-campaign/
What could possibly go wrong?
That has been going on for decades. We breed zillions of sterile screw flies and release them in Central America to prevent the species from spreading back into North America. It has been very successful. They are just getting a new facility. It is one of the few ways the feds are spending our money properly.
Yeah, screwworms are hideously awful.
fly breeding factory
Did it take long to build? I bet they zipped through the construction
Apparently they smell worse than you might think considering the breeding matrix is blood and waste tissue held at body temperature.
Nice take down.
What the hell did she (? I think it is a she) expect? Whole new level of stupid there.
“You support regime change in Mongolia but you don’t even know how many cavalry the Great Khan has? What’s the ethnic makeup of the horde?”
“They’re Mongols, Tucker. But that’s not important.”
“You’re a eunuch in the emperor’s diplomatic service, how can you not know this?”
https://x.com/witte_sergei/status/1935415929426559077
Not bad. All the neo-cons are big mad at Tucker for asking questions in an interview.
I’ve learned the neo-cons are just as bad as the libs at memeing.
Shorter Cruz – we’ve decided what they’re going to think and how they’re going to react.
Not only does Cruz look like a melting puppet from an old Genesis video, the man’s an idiot. Knowing Tucker’s antiwar stance, anyone who’s not a fool would have at least studied Wikipedia’s Iran page before they went on.
So you’re saying Cruz should be on that list with Plato, Aristotle and Socrates?
If you get rid of Genghis a competent leader like Kublai who won’t be prone to dying in a pool of his own vomit will just take over anyway.
Or was that Atilla? I get them confused sometimes.
Speaking of Mongols.
Love the sticker at the very end.
I am so disappointed in you all.
THICC Thursday tits are a recession-free industry!
https://archive.is/gPBHv
“On Wednesday, Homeland Security announced the arrest of a criminal illegal alien who allegedly seriously injured an ICE agent during a recent traffic stop in Bloomington, Minnesota. Roberto Carlos Munoz, 39, of Guatemala, a convicted child sex offender, has been accused of using his vehicle to drag an ICE officer for 50 yards in an attempt to evade arrest. The incident occurred on June 17, according to a criminal complaint…
After fleeing from federal authorities, Munoz called 911 to falsely report that he had been assaulted by ICE agents. Local police arrived on the scene, arrested Munoz, and booked him into jail. Federal prosecutors immediately filed charges.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-alien-child-sex-offender-arrested-after-dragging-ice-agent-with-his-car-for-50-yards-during-traffic-stop
He called the cops on the cops?
I think it is safe to say we can do without this particular migrant.
Deporting him will probably cause a measurable impact on the average IQ in the US.
Just reading an academic paper and I think I’ve come across the worst footnote ever written.
“In the case of the wildfires in California, it was determined that the fire was started by a malfunctioning explosive charge as part of a so-called ‘gender reveal ceremony.’ This painful irony is palpable in that fascists are blaming leftists and Black Lives Matter activists for the fires when in reality it was caused by an oppressive and subjectivizing ritual equating biological sex with gender–a myth that has been scientifically refuted many times but remains revered by right-wing and liberal traditionalists alike.”
https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1935636680460964052
“This is a Wendy’s, sir!”
“Sex reveal party” just doesn’t sound right to me.
It sounds like a Q link to me.
Isn’t a Sex Reveal Party just a fancy term for a flash mob?
“Oh, the squishy irony is like a froggy trampoline, as the bamboozling fascists point their twirly fingers at lefty pixies and the Black Lives Matter sparkles for the fiery whoosh, whilst truthfully, it’s a whirligig of heavy-handed, squiggly rituals muddling biological noodles with gender giggles!”
That must have been some edible.
Now I want an “English to Robert Burns” converter. (Yeah, yeah… I’m sure one of the LLMs will do it… but I’m not going to go try… just not an AI fan).
“The University of Washington suspended student group SUPER UW, already notorious for racking up over $1 million in damages after a violent antisemitic occupation of the campus engineering building, has escalated its radical agenda to not just call for terror and violence, but also to teach it. At a recent “teach-in,” the group openly advocated for armed violence, praised internationally recognized terrorist organizations, and framed bloodshed as a “scientific necessity.”
“They were justifying armed struggle, saying it was a necessity, and expressing support for the Al-Aqsa Flood, which is what Hamas and other terrorist groups called the October 7 massacre in Israel. They even presented a diagram of the scientific method and relabeled it to justify armed resistance as the ‘scientific method to throw off oppression.’””
https://thepostmillennial.com/suspended-pro-hamas-student-group-holds-teach-in-to-educate-uw-students-on-scientific-necessity-of-violence-in-activism
SCIENCE!!
Columbia et al. have been teaching terrorism and violence for decades. That’s how we got here.
The immortal words of Ron White come to mind: You can’t fix stupid.
If they caused $1 million in damage, why are they still on campus?
When will Minnesodans learn: DON’T ANSWER YOUR DOOR!
Fourscore – you’d think his years would have given him more wisdom – foolishly answered his door yesterday and was subsequently doomed to an afternoon of listening to inanities. I, on the other hand, had a wonderful afternoon working on my repertoire of lies, boasts and tall tales.
Fourscore finally lured me off his property with a couple jars of honey. Mrs. Holiness was beside herself when I returned with it.
It was great to see Fourscore again. He is as much a Glib in real life as he is on this message board!
There you go again, Jimbo
You forgot to mention you paid the tithe of cleaned and frozen freshwater fish at the door.
IRL Jimbo is entertaining and really a nice guy. I’m not just saying that. It was a little unusual, though, that he kept asking if I had a bike.
Musical Chairs:Normies::Meet Up Bikes:Glibs
Saltwater fish>freshwater fish
Everyone knows you can’t turn saltwater fish into honey.
Doc Oc:
I was visiting Hilton Head and saw a guy fishing off a pier. I decoyed in and asked him how he was doing. I was trying to get some tips on how to salt water fish there. Turns out the guy was also a tourist (from New Orleans) and hadn’t had any luck either.
He did say, however, that a boat had come in with a bunch of sheep head fish. I was stunned. Who’d want to keep a trash fish like a sheep head. It was then my new friend’s turn to be stunned. Why sheep head were the poor man’s lobster according to him.
Both of us were adamant about our feelings on sheep heads. Finally my new friend said, I’m calling my cousin (who had moved to Rochester, MN) and get to the bottom of this. When the cousin heard our arguments, he started laughing and called us both idiots. Turns out salt water sheep head are a completely different fish than the ones we have in Minnesoda.
The cousin confirmed that we were both right. Saltwater sheepheads were good to eat and freshwater sheepheads were inedible.
….are a completely different fish than the ones we have in Minnesoda.
Never head them called sheepshead down here in Missouri, just drum. They put up a decent enough fight but die almost immediately if you put them on a stringer or in a live well so we threw them back. I’ve read they are good to eat.
Beside herself with joy at the honey? or anger that you came with it?
Both
Sigh.
Note what the libs are promoting – dangerous, disproven drug treatments on fucking children.
It is like they think puberty blockers and surgeries are as damaging to kids as gay conversion therapy!
Obviously we need laws against religious people trying to pray the gay away. How can you even compare something as barbaric as that with turning a kid trans?
All therapy aims to convert in some way, we should ban it all.
But grooming children to think that they were born in the wrong body isn’t conversion therapy. Got it.
You won’t let them be mutilated. You won’t let them be murdered. Next you won’t let them be raped. Where will your extremism end?
As long as I can still use them as my minor miners, I’m OK.
Now that dissent was some meaningful judicial review.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
In days of yesteryear I would take my Wiemeraner to a farm pond, she’d run and jump in, swim around, retrieve thrown sticks, etc. At quitting time she’d find the freshest pile of cow residue and roll in it. Obviously it was back to the water for a clean up and then control her ’til I could get her in the car.
My old mutt loved the water. If you let him off leash he’d find the muckiest water and happily paddle around it in.
When we got home, I’d get the hose to wash him off and it was like pouring holy water over Pie. The mutt would writhe around because I was washing the stink off him. “Noooo! I stink so pretty!!”
“Japan Releases Bombshell Vax vs. Unvax Data on 18 Million People
The data speaks for itself—and the 3 to 4 month spike is impossible to ignore.
after reviewing the data, a top professor warned: “The more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die.””
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/japan-releases-bombshell-vax-vs-unvax
Who knows?
Not procovid vax here BUT maybe people in worse health tend to be more worried and they get more doses.
Some old people fear death and. they spend their time/money with prescription meds
Japan had a huge vaccinate the elderly push.
I’m not going to sit through everything and see how they controlled for age.
““If ordered by the President to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs, would you carry out such an order?” Hirono inquired.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/watch-pete-hegseth-effortlessly-smacks-down-dem-senator/
How many times is she going to ask that same question.
No. Trick shots are always a danger, and if I’m shooting it’s to kill or disable, so I’ll aim center mass.
“We don’t shoot to disable, we shoot to kill,” would have been a great answer. Hirono’s head might have exploded.
Peaceful protestors huh? Not even mostly-peaceful?
Shes going to keep asking because its her fantasy in her head to be on the non-boom side when her ilk regain power.
You expect her to learn a new one? She’s Hank Johnson level stupid; it probably took a dozen staffers to get her to memorize the one.
“If Trump was identified as a Goa’uld would you follow his orders?”
She really is a moron. I guess Hawaii is filled with enough morons to actually out her into office.
“She’s our moron” is the most likely explanation.
It’s probably nothing more than name recognition. People can’t be bothered with actually investigating the people they vote for.
Only if that so-called peaceful protester is you, Maisie.
https://x.com/robertlasagna1/status/1935506111295349012
ditch the maple syrup…
I recognize the black thing from my ex-wife’s cooking…
Is it that thing that goes up? It looks deadly.
dry Crepes, black pudding, improperly cooked eggs…
LOSER
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/exclusive/homewrecking-ai-chatbot-agrees-marry-35419300
Yeah! Get back on that plantation, men!
So the Lakers are under new ownership… Bright future and all that…
The Karen Read trial was quite something to behold.
It’s pretty obvious that he was beaten up in a fellow boston cop’s home, probably by a friend of that cop who happens to be a notoriously abusive ATF agent here in MA. The ATF agent is close friends with a detective in the norfolk county branch of the MA state police. And, a brother of that cop is a senior detective in the local Canton PD. They probably dragged the guy out into the snow, hoping to stage it so that it would look like he got run over by a snow plow (there was a blizzard in progress). But the snowplow didn’t come, so they at the last minute, sloppily tried to frame his girlfriend. The chief investigator? that previously mentioned best friend working as a state trooper.
The GF would be going to jail, if it weren’t for the fact that 1) she was rich enough to hire a good attorney, 2) the FBI clearly had a corruption investigation in progress into the norfolk county prosecutor’s office, and hired a good consulting firm to investigate whether the gf could have murdered the victim the way the prosecution alleged (and they proved it couldn’t have happened), 3) a dogged blogger who basically investigated the shit out of the case and raised a huge hue and cry about the obvious injustice.
The crazy thing is that the victim’s family is convinced that the actual killers are the good guys and that the gf had to have done it, and nothing will sway them from this conviction.
The only good outcome is that the murderers are now shunned by most of the community and are no longer enjoying their previous life of being able to beat people up and break their stuff with total impunity.
Shunning the professional Dunphy’s is the least that should happen to those assholes.
A+ on today’s song choice.
Said it before, I’ll say it again. If you were early GenX and didn’t know by the time you were 22 that there would be no SS for you, you weren’t paying attention.
It is nice of each generation to give themselves stuff to be paid by future generations.
Teaching the young about the perils of debt by leaving them piles of debt is top quality parenting!
And kind of a mistake to not be procreating enough for the following generation to pay for it.
The wife and I started collecting payments earlier this year. Trying to get as much out of the system as possible before it collapses.
At least Iowa doesn’t assess income tax on SS payments.
I had to convince my FIL to take as early as possible. Break even is 80ish and he has the same body type as Gru.
If they don’t seize the 401k’s by the time I retire it will be a blessing. SS? Don’t make me laugh.
See, I’m old enough that it won’t matter but I’ll kill the motherf***er that actually proposes that. Pour encourager les autres.
There is no trust fund. SS taxes just go into general revenue to be spent, while the Fedgov basically writes an IOU for the money. Writing an IOU to yourself doesn’t make the money real.
“But… but… we still have checks, so we must have balances, right?”
There is a reason my retirement worksheet has a “no SS” option.
Because it’s Adobe, there have been issues with my husband’s installation of Acrobat Pro X, which I have used for over a decade. I thought our only other option was Creative Cloud, but honestly, I didn’t look too hard. It was his issue and he caused it so whatever. However, *I* was affected because if I ever lost my installation, I’d be in trouble too.
Wheeellll! I came across a sweet deal for Acrobat 2020. Got it. Downloaded it. Am using it. It’s not awful, but it’s not great. But the thing that really chaps my hide is that its ability to convert a page to an image sucks big fat donkey balls. Now, I know they probably did that on purposes and probably why, so it’s not run-of-the-mill enshittification, but I’m still pissed.
Happy Juneteenth, brothers and sisters. watch out for the fugitive slave catcher gangs.
As usual the left can’t even get the date right for the emancipation of the last remaining slaves:
aka, the day Kentucky seceded.
That’s a funny way to spell Democrats.
Uffda.
I’m torn. I usually follow Powerline because they have a pretty good Minnesoda spin on things. I am checking more often now, because I hope to learn more about the Minnesoda assassin.
Their coverage on this Iran thing is killing me though. Those bastards are all in on “experts say that Iran was months if not weeks away from having a nuke”.
You’d think that conservatives would be suspicious of trusting the same experts that said Iraq had WMD’s. They don’t trust the experts from the CDC when they are pushing booster shots. Why would they trust the experts from the DoD, CIA, NSA when they are pushing booster shots for their war boners?
I don’t give a rat’s ass about Iran getting nukes. Nowhere in our Constitution is the federal govt granted the power to decide which countries get them and which do not.
When it comes to war the constitution is just a quaint notion at this point. If the President wants war the President gets it and that’s just that.
Somehow, I’m not okay with that. JFC, even Wilson [spits on his grave] asked Congress to do what the Constitution demands.
They have been warning you ‘weeks away’ for at least ten years. How many times do they have to tell you before it sinks in? Geez, some people…
From covid shots to war justifications and everything in between, give people something that fits their preconceived notions, no matter how retarded, and watch their skepticism plummet.
I remember a survey, decades ago, which said more people believed in UFOs than Social Security.
Nothing to see here, move along Citizen
I’ve got to get to the store to buy more tinfoil.
It’s like a mining claim. First Squatter Rights. Party Time!
I suppose it could be some grand conspiracy, but “Kids entering the murder house on a dare” seems likely to me.
Murderous intent
The Trump administration is ending specialized suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
While anyone in a mental health crisis can call or text 988 and be connected to a trained counselor, the line has specially trained counselors, often with similar life experiences, for high risk groups like veterans and LGBTQ+ youth.
The federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, announced Tuesday it was ending these specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth on July 17.
“This is devastating, to say the least,” Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project, said in a statement. The Trevor Project is one of several nonprofits administering the services. “The administration’s decision to remove a bipartisan, evidence-based service that has effectively supported a high-risk group of young people through their darkest moments is incomprehensible.”
Anyone caught trying to talk quiltbaggers out of suicide will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Could the LBGTQIA+ non-profits fund these? Seems a better use of funds than drag queen story hours, but that’s just me.
The Trevor Project are a bunch of groomers.
I was going to make a comment about why the quiltbaggers don’t fund their own hotline, after all they are richer than most other groups. But then I did some research and discovered that there is a gay wage gap!!!!
Quick observations:
Chopping off your tits and demanding everyone call you Sir doesn’t change your salary (still $.70 on the dollar)
Chopping off you dick and getting fake tits and demanding everyone call you Maam really hits your pocketbook ($.50 on the dollar).
The shitlords are really into asians/pacific islanders (they are getting $1 on the $1).
…Or, people who are already a mess don’t manage their lives as well as normal?
“Latine”
Stop making up words.
Latino was just too negative.
Won’t anyone think of the
childrenpols?Who wants to be led by such fearful creatures?
Maybe we should be asking why so many govt agencies are withdrawing from any direct contact with the people they ‘serve’
See: IRS- can you even get them on the phone?
If you can stand two hours of looped, badly recorded elevator music sure.
Stinky:
+1 “Your call is important to us, please hold and your call will be answered in the order it was received.”
Nearly every company I’ve worked for thinks those hold messages are important and reaching the people, instead of being ignored and hated. It’s even worse when they fuck up the audio stream, and put in a click to make you think you’re going to an agent before playing the prompt.
That moment of silence between the hold ‘music’ and the repeated recording is full of false hope.
The latest Dave Smith is “The Funeral of Ben Shapiro”, but he does seem to have died.
Um doesn’t
That’s a problem with single negatives.
Is there such a thing as a double positive? There should be.
If a double negative is really a positive, then a double positive should be a negative, right?
For example, hearing that you were positive for HIV and syphilis is a negative so I guess it works out.
Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo.
Have you forgotten, a double positive increments higher.
var++;
Pope Jimbo:
Fuck yes there is!
I once got a false positive for HIV.
Common Tater:
That must have made your eyes pop out!
UCS:
Most linters will warn you about var++ because it can be easily confused with ++var. The side effects are too subtle and should be replaced with var += 1
That violates internal coding standards.
Read the policy documentation.
*Drops three ton stack of papers on Jimbo’s desk*
CT, that is fucking horrible. I have heard of one other person also getting a false positive on that test and having a very shitty week till the second (and third) tests came back negative. I can imagine the feeling as I once had to take some injections due to a cholera infection at a shitty clinic in Colombia and I had no idea if they had reused the needle a hundred times as I was hallucinating at the time. Months later, back in the US, I was sweating that test.
It definitely was a bad couple weeks. If I recall they had my second blood draw tested twice, both negative, to get two out of three.
I’m thinking they must have mixed up or mislabeled someone else’s blood for the first test.
I finally unsubscribed from Dave Smith’s podcast. I couldn’t take his pro-Hamas slant anymore.
He was great when it came to Covid bull shit, but I can’t get behind his advocacy of the group that killed thousands on 10/7. I can understand if you are calling a pox on both houses, but to pretend that Hamas is not a fucking evil group of mf-ers? C’mon man!
You have evidence for him being pro-Hamas or can we accurately call that a strawman?
OK, how about anti-Israel?
He seemed to be always insisting that Israel is the only problem over there.
I guess I lump him in as pro-Hamas because I can’t remember him ever condemning the 10/7 attacks. Maybe that is a strawman.
In any event, I grew tired of him insisting that only Israel is wrong and they are constantly lying about everything and can’t be trusted (maybe true, but he doesn’t think Hamas is constantly lying either).
“The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors in the case US v. Skrmetti. In a 6–3 decision by the conservative supermajority, the court ruled that the state law, called Senate Bill 1 (SB1), does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution by discriminating on the basis of sex—despite the fact that the law forbids certain medical treatments for young people based on their assigned sex at birth.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/supreme-court-skrmetti-decision-permits-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for/
SCIENCE!!!
“The law bans gender-affirming medical treatments, including puberty-blocking drugs and hormone therapies. There’s no evidence of serious negative effects of these medications”
WTF?
“Such medications have also long been used by nontransgender adolescents and children to treat a variety of conditions. Their use for gender dysphoria is currently supported by the American Medical Association, the American Association of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and other important medical institutions.”
Then they should be burned to the ground.
“the law forbids certain medical treatments for young people based on their assigned sex at birth.”
Pretty sure it doesn’t, actually. I think it (a) prohibits certain treatments on the basis of age, not sex and (b) prohibits both sexes equally from “transition” interventions.
“medications have also long been used by nontransgender adolescents and children to treat a variety of conditions”
So using a medication to treat one condition means it’s now open season to use it on any condition? Any bets on how many of the people parroting this for transitioning were all in on banning ivermectin for COVID? And, of course, vice versa.
Scientific American is neither at this point.
“There’s no evidence of serious negative effects of these medications” is straight up the fuck lying.
Save our pristine wilderness
The Wilderness Society and other conservation groups have reacted with outrage, saying it would set a precedent to fast-track the handover of cherished lands to developers.
“Shoving the sale of public lands back into the budget reconciliation bill, all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, is a betrayal of future generations and folks on both sides of the aisle,” said Michael Carroll with The Wilderness Society.
Others have expressed doubt that the lands potentially up for sale would ever be suitable for housing development. Some of the parcels up for sale in Utah and Nevada under the House proposal were far from developed areas.
“I don’t think it’s clear that we would even get substantial housing as a result of this,” Sen. Martin Heinrich, the ranking Democrat on the energy committee, said of the Senate version. “What I know would happen is people would lose access to places they know and care about and that drive our Western economies.”
There could be some bait-and-switch-ing going on here, on both sides of the argument.
Could we at least try deregulation before building a Lennar development in the Cascades?
Why won’t you listen?
Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be released Thursday.
The report predicts that society will have emitted enough carbon dioxide by early 2028 that crossing an important long-term temperature boundary will be more likely than not. The scientists calculate that by that point there will be enough of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere to create a 50-50 chance or greater that the world will be locked in to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of long-term warming since preindustrial times. That level of gas accumulation, which comes from the burning of fuels like gasoline, oil and coal, is sooner than the same group of 60 international scientists calculated in a study last year.
“Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather of the tech firm Stripe and the climate monitoring group Berkeley Earth. “We’re actively moving in the wrong direction in a critical period of time that we would need to meet our most ambitious climate goals. Some reports, there’s a silver lining. I don’t think there really is one in this one.”
It could happen. Seriously.
Is this the same threshold we crossed some years back?
That raises an interesting philosophical question. If you have multiple tipping points, none of which have an basis in reality, and none of which actually precipitate the catastrophe predicted, are they actually all the same thing, or does the act of revising the tipping point create a new thing? The fact that the magnitude of the measurement is different from the prior magnitudes argues that they are separate, but the fact that the measurement is described as the scientifically derived point of no return in each case argues that they are the same.
Totes legit.
Well you know (((who)) is for all that carbon?
Anyone know the Guardian’s position on Ukraine?
Letting Russia take it without a shot would have been the right thing to do for the environment.
“A study shared exclusively with the Guardian”
Well, that settles it.
“This is more than the combined 2023 annual greenhouse gases emitted by Costa Rica and Estonia”
Fine, we’ll send them some tree frogs and brown bread.
Why do the greenies hate plants?
“Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather of the tech firm Stripe and the climate monitoring group Berkeley Earth. “We’re actively moving in the wrong direction in a critical period of time that we would need to meet our most ambitious climate goals. Some reports, there’s a silver lining. I don’t think there really is one in this one.”
It’s right there in the model. For god’s sake, the spewing must end!
If we’ve passed the point of no return then the grift must end. Walla! Silver lining.
/Moves AC down a notch
Is this the same threshold we crossed some years back?
If you step over that line, I’ll draw another one.
Who was hating on the .380 the other day?
https://www.sigsauer.com/p365-axg-luxe.html
Someone must be buying them if Sig just dropped a new one.
That… is remarkably ugly.
Some of the custom options are questionable, but I don’t see anything particularly ugly about the base gun. Especially compared to, say, a Glock.
I wasn’t hating on .380ACP, I was hating on SIG.
.380ACP can make a lot of sense if you need a small gun that you can still shoot well, although I personally prefer the .32ACP in a similar sized gun. You’re not going to get reliable expansion from anything .380ACP or below, so I’ll go with more bullets and less recoil and load up with flat-nosed FMJs.
That was me.
Comped .380? Sure, why not.
I need to look into SIG optics (glass not electro). Other than that, I’m considering a P365 Fuse since I’ve been taking dates to shooting events and it’d be nice to lend them something to participate with.
The end of equity
Lucas, a strident critic of diversity and inclusion programs and proponent of the idea that there are only two immutable sexes, repeatedly declared that the EEOC is not independent and vowed to enthusiastically follow Trump’s executive orders. Those include orders aimed at dismantling diversity and programs in the public and private sectors and declaring that the federal government would only recognize the male and female sexes.
“As head of the EEOC, I’m committed to dismantling the identity politics that have plagued our civil rights laws,” Lucas said. “President Trump has given the agency the most ambitious civil rights agenda in decades. If I have the honor of being reconfirmed, I am passionate about achieving that agenda.”
The mission of any government agency is to expand its size and reach.
“dismantling diversity and programs”
Did Trump really order that diversity be dismantled, or just diversity programs?
Too local (but not actually local to me) news:
Pundits have been predicting Cuomo will be hizzoner ever since he got into the race, but they’ve been using the framing of the IRV to explain how much of a lead he has. In the last two weeks, he’s gone from “winning in the 5th round” to “winning in the 7th round.”
I find this sort of framing more interesting than the traditional FPTP prognostication, but maybe it’s just the novelty.