This has been making the rounds recently: since the implementation of mass deportations the freeways in Los Angeles have been remarkably clear. I am of course not in LA, but Phoenix has freeways and its fair share of illegal Mexicans and people pretending to be Mexican in order to blend in with the local Mexicans. Has there been a noticeable drop in traffic on the freeways recently? Yes. I say that with the caveat this is the middle of July, and the backups tend to occur here during the winter months when snowbirds are in town to escape the winter. They tend to return to their frozen shithole between April and September.
¡enlaces!
In news from prior to the SCOTUS ruling. They just can’t help themselves.
Mexico City residents complain about white Americans moving there, and driving up the cost of living. To add to the irony, El Presidente Mujer urges Mexicans not to be racist.
News from a better world.
The way he’s throwing tariffs around, sounds the same way an Islamist throws Jihad around. Yes, the Al Jazeera was intentional.
The feel good story of the day.
I woke up this morning and chose violence. Need proof?
Kidnapping & torture in a feel good story? Is it Wednesday already?
Apparently word hasn’t reached DFW. I was parked on I-35 for about 25 minutes when I drove over there to bother RJ a couple weeks ago.
On my way to work last week, I-84 was backed up over five miles because of a fender bender. Blech.
My travel for vacation at the NJ shore.
https://www.app.com/story/news/traffic/2025/07/06/garden-state-parkway-backed-up-7-miles-nj-jersey-shore-traffic/84484098007/
Nothing new for 40 years… That section of the GSP was always a problem Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon during the shore season. Before waze and the mapping apps you could bypass the worst by choosing Rt18 , Rt34 etc. These days I’m happy to fly over that sort of traffic. My friends in Wall are about 1 mile from the BLM airport
We have family house in LBI. We rent it on season, but our week is the week after July 4th.
The island is mobbed.
My dad and uncle grew up year round here.
I’m hip. The other day, I had to stop at the end of our side road so four cars could go by on the highway before I pulled out. Four! I mean, can you believe it? I might just as well live in a big city.
Bawitdaba is one of those songs that demands to be turned up to eleventy. And I’m not even a Kid Rock fan.
That’s a great song, but I only learned the title today.
Aloysious also chooses violence
Others:
VH’s “Mean Street”
Danzig’s “Mother”
Dio’s “Holy Diver”
And, of course, this.
Maybe SCOTUS needs their own SWAT team. So they can send them after twunts like U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss.
The solution to every problem is eliminating those who oppose you.
A final solution?
We need a Final Solution to immigration, the elderly, and seconders.
Even the final solution starts with the First!
*Conan the Barbarian nods in agreement.
This is problematic for us curmudgeons, because at some point everyone opposes us, often including ourselves. It’d be exhausting doing all that killing.
“Oh boy, here I go, killing again!”
“Gringo money spends the same as anybody else’s!”
In my limited experience south of the border, gringo money spent a lot better than anybody else’s.
Yes, and they are willing to haggle in order to get it.
Don’t you want to haggle?
“They pay their taxes too!”
Like most places, LA traffic is lighter in the summer. Get back to me in mid-September.
They tend to return to their frozen shithole between April and September.
Also, nobody wants to be in the hellish shithole from April to September.
Apropos
I’m fairly happy here.
Could be worse. There could be mosquitos.
Nicola Tesla dug ditches, and I can guarantee he was superior in every regard to every single on of these parasitic leeches, so don’t cry for me Argentina.
“forced”
I was going to bring up Luther Burbank….I mean, without government grants he would have….oh, wait. Never mind.
The Al Jazeera article is far more fair to Trump than any of the bullshit coming out of the West. Not a good look for the likes of CNN.
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Sounds like they really cut the mustard. Probably made up of former Krauts who really relish their job.
Those are some cold cuts, Shpip.
They just don’t like people loafing around and not spending any bread.
With BRICS, Trump is past the limits of his blustering. (Same with his Putin Ukraine negotiations). BRICS is too big now to be bullied.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/05/brics-expands-to-56-of-world-population-44-of-global-gdp-vietnam-joins-as-partner-country/
Mostly made up of the poors and smelly peoples?
Well, commies and former commies.
Sure, Jan.
Also, since when is China – who is really running this thing, we maybe some input from Russia – the “global south”?
Trump wants to punish with tariffs countries that undermine the dollar status as the world currency. That’s cute. I wonder who made it practically impossible for Russia to trade in dollars. And Trump hasn’t done anything to change that.
China still requires American consooooomers to keep its potemkin economy running, so we’re probably good for another 25 years or so until they stabilize enough to invade Taiwan without consequence.
Cool. So we dont have to give them money anymore. No more foreign aid needed.
That would be the BRICS that Putin and Xi can’t be bothered to attend?
These aren’t the kinds of melons I’m paying that kind of cash for.
Move Over, $100 Lobster Salad. In the Hamptons, These Melons Cost $400.
https://archive.fo/XgLyr
Bonus: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/nyregion/how-the-rich-go-grocery-shopping.html
https://archive.fo/2diTh
Jesus for those prices I’m not standing in that line.
Now we know how it is Denise Richards spends so much on groceries each month
“These Melons Cost $400.”
Is that for budget boob job, or the one-hour rental fee?
Disappointed that that was up for ten (edited – math is hard) minutes and the homo has to make the first joke.
Doing the jobs Q Continuum won’t do.
$400 for a boob job, or $100 for a tossed lobster salad.
Well, now we know who is in for the discount, eh, Tonio?
Musk melons? Huh. We have lots of genetic reverts growing around the edges of fields here where melons or cantaloupes used to be grown. I usually use them for target practice. Same thing? I dunno. We also sometimes call them stink melons. They are loaded with about 100x as many aldehydes as hybrid melons grown for consumption.
I dont see anything bad in that article…it’s their money but those prices do seem wildly overinflated.
They are one of the varieties that is grown in Japan. I’m assuming they originated in Asia, likely China, centuries ago.
They are essentially hand raised as expensive gifts in Japan. Things that can be consumed are popular gifts because of the lack of space compared to here.
Now this is some quality commenting. Well done, lads.
Musk melons are kinda like honeydew melons, if memory serves. Haven’t had one in ages.
I’m not clicking that link because I am choosing to believe Sensei is taking over for Q, although I suspect the Hamptons crowd pays a lot more than $400 for the melons I am thinking of.
They just can’t help themselves.
Annoying, but at least Judge Moss had the good sense to delay enforcement of his July 2 ruling for 14 days to allow for appeal.
Trump should just mail him a Xerox of his ass from the White House copier.
Fax that shit. I bet he still has a fax number though it may be virtual and route to his (secretary’s) uscourts dot gov email address.
“Mexico City residents complain about white Americans moving there.” There were a couple of those on a tour we took in Mexico City a couple years ago. They were so obnoxious I would have protested against them too. They would not stop talking loudly when the tour guide was doing his spiel in Spanish, because why would the Spanish speakers in the van want to hear what he’s saying? And they had fucking foul mouths. I finally had to tell them that they were being rude.
Speaking of traffic-
Going back to Indianapolis Sunday evening after the races at Road America and Milwaukee was a real treat. Starting a few miles north of the Illinois state line (Wisconsin Dells?) it was backed up. You probably could make better time to Chicago on a bicycle.
Same in the other direction. This is the time of year everyone is happy that hockey practice is only on Sundays at 6:15pm. Except for me, who has to deal with traffic coming from Michigan through Chicago, and my normal 1.25 hour trip turns to 2.5 hours. I think I went to one out of four so far.
Same with leaving Laguna Seca after the USGP.
I-70 says hi: https://www.vaildaily.com/news/colorado-holiday-traffic-travel-outlook/
Is the upper Midwest 20% or more illegals? If not, I wouldn’t expect self-deportation to make much of a dent on holiday traffic.
Which Glib is this doing the Diddy with Ronnie?
Police looking for McThieves after Ronald McDonald statue is swiped from Nesquehoning location
All of them?
Anyone else find it funny that the left suddenly cares about the whole Epstein thing now that they can tie it to Trump? At first, they dismissed people who cared about it as conspiracy theorists. Then it was just silence. Now they’re howling because they think Trump is on the list (so do I at this point, frankly).
I think we’ll never learn a thing because:
1. Powerful people are obviously more useful to the machine outside of prison.
2. Epstein was an intelligence asset – probably Israeli.
3. Trump may or may not be one of the names.
JOOOOOOOS!!!!!
You know, where there’s smoke there’s fire. Epstein had no business managing hundreds of millions of dollars for anyone, but the guy who just happened to give him control over that money has deep ties to Israel and Israeli intelligence.
He went from disgraced former school teacher who was canned for sleeping with his students to in control over a vast fortune literally overnight.
So yea, in this instance, the JEWS seem to have done it.
I do love the attempts to defend the honor of Israel. Like, I can sit here and talk shit about the US government and the shady shit they do all day long, but dare to suggest Israel’s government does awful shit? Well, prepared for people to insinuate or outright call you an anti-Semite.
JOOOOOOOS!!!!!
By way of explanation, the United States isn’t an ethno-state for a group of people whose near genocide is still within a few living memories, and its government doesn’t get fashionably scapegoated by racists as a pretext for hating the ethnicity composing it.
The guy was a front, a fiction. He didnt manage money for anyone and there is no record of him ever making a trade or managing any accounts. I dont know if he was an invention of Israel or the US IC, but likely both. Come to think of it any organization with enough resources and motive for sway in DC could be responsible. The BBB is as likely a suspect as anyone.
Has anyone taken a close look at Epstein’s money and traced every penny of it? No? I didnt think so.
Which doesn’t make them saints. Far from it. It tells me they are more likely to go to extremes in order to ensure their survival. The UK used young children as sexbait as late as the 1960’s (maybe 70’s?) in Ireland. That’s just one example of such an operation that is known. But people think Israel wouldn’t do it?
I have no problem with most of what Israel does to defend themselves. Don’t even have a problem on paper with them attacking Iran. I do have a problem with the oversized role they play in our own politics and the way they basically baited us into attacking Iran with them.
The Epstein list is a whole other thing and if the best Zwak can do is shout J000’s at me, he’s either ignorant of the actual details that show Epstein’s connections to Israel (including meeting a former PM dozens of times that we know about) or is just putting his head in the sand.
Which isn’t to say that criticism of Israel is beyond the pale, or even that criticism of Jews is beyond the pale, just that there’s a lot of overlap with “anti-Zionism” and legitimate Jew hatred.
Not the Jooos so much as Israeli intelligence, the CIA, and most likely British intelligence too. Criticism of the Israeli government and Jews in general shouldn’t be conflated.
Sure, reasonable criticism is fine. But constant and ridiculous accusations of “genocide” and “apartheid” coming from all the usual suspects are obvious attempts at deflection.
There are a gazillion reasons but they all boil down to he knew too much about too many *very* powerful people. Whether he killed himself or not doesn’t matter. Dead men tell no tales and that evidence is never going to come to light, at least not during my lifetime.
Yes. News of Harding’s affair were kept secret by a judge who said “there are enough juvenile delinquents as it is.”
https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/president-warren-hardings-love-letters/354922
The letters were finally unsealed by the Library of Congress in 2014, nearly 100 years after the affairs.
At this pooint, we’re all on Epstein’s list.
Brendan O’Neil is disappointingly credulous
I mean, it just makes me think Brendan O’Neil is bought and paid for. Operation Mockingbird was a real thing and probably still goes on today.
When it comes to DC reporters, they pretty much all get information spoonfed to them by high ranking bureaucrats and intelligence agents.
I am gonna second that Bro. That is the first thing that popped in my head. He just assumes the pillars have fallen because people who likely have something to lose announced ‘nothing to see here’ in contrast to their past statements.
O’Neill has always had a bit of proggie whiff about him in my view. He professes too much of the official narrative for my taste.
To be fair, he’s also UK based, so different cultural attitudes towards authority.
Has he been watching the DOJ and FBI for the last decade?! JFC nobody is that gullible.
I cant be sure but I dont think Trump is on the list. Back in the day when Epstein was first getting public attention and TDS had not gotten started I heard a woman talk about Epstein and what a creep he was. Her anecdotal tale was that he was acquainted with Trump and got invited to a party at Trumpalago. While he was there Epstein fondled or hit on or harassed one of the young girls working the party. The woman telling the story said she went to Trump and informed him. Trump immediately stopped his schmoozing and went strait to Epstein then very loudly and rudely threw Epstein out and banned him from ever coming back. At the time I saw that story I thought ‘huh, that Trump dude doesnt fuck around with short eyes’.
I got the notion he made a scene out of it to let everyone there know not to fool with little girls.
I dont think Trump is on the list.
That aside the whole narrative being pushed now is complete horseshit. There is a list. There are tapes and the tapes are very damning. When will the announcements about prosecutions begin?
I think there are so many people on those tapes and the content so egregious that if they became public DC would turn into a ghost town.
That is the self-serving story Trump’s campaign gave at first.
When later asked about why he stopped associating with Epstein directly, he demurred and said it didn’t really matter.
He once called Epstein a great guy. Trump is a known exaggerator and bullshitter, but I don’t buy for a second that he hung out with Epstein for as long as he did even tangentially and wasn’t aware of his proclivities.
I am not talking about the Trump campaign. I saw the story myself before Trump was running…I think it was just after the Epstein trial? Or during the trial.
It only popped back into my memory later when the TDS got started and people began alluding to Trump’s possible association with Epstein. My thought then was ‘Wait a minute…I already know about that.’
I dont hear anyone talking about Epstein’s association with Bill and Hillary. That is one hell of a cloud of smoke and the flames are visible through the windows.
I will add a disclaimer here.
That is my memory of it. My memory is….sometimes less than perfect.
I don’t think the Left cares about anything but wielding power. They will use Epstein as a club to try to hurt their enemies, and the instant it isn’t useful, they’ll drop it like it never existed. Then on to the next event, like Trumps budget cuts that haven’t happened yet causing the death of children in Texas.
Unless Trump is one of dozens of bigshot politicians on the list*, who are making damn sure it stays buried, I don’t see the swampers resisting the temptation to leak it.
Which is why I doubt he’s on the list.
*Yes, yes, I know Epstein didn’t create a document titled “Epstein Client List” with a bunch of names in alphabetical order. I am serenely confident that such a list has since been compiled from the copious data seized from him.
No one but the stupidest of the stupid thinks there was literally a list that old Jeffrey carried around with hit, the so called list was something to be pieced together by investigators and it almost certainly exists. The “Trust me bro” smarminess of the DOJ and the FBI doesn’t bolster their claims either.
As for Trump, he doesn’t need to be on the list to want to cover it up but it wouldn’t surprise me if he was either.
I mean, blackmail material is far more valuable as a threat than as a blunt object.
What is Trump really doing that the intelligence agencies don’t want? Not bending over backwards for Ukraine? He’s been all talk once again when it comes to draining the swamp. His flirtation with Elon is over. None of those cuts will stick or be enacted legislatively. On the contrary, he just threw wads of cash at the swamp and the military industrial complex with his piece of shit bill.
I doubt there is any Epstein whore book, I doubt he was working for any intelligence service, but I would bet that he had off shore parties where there were
youngpretty girls who, for lack of a better word, fucked. And getting invited to these off shore parties meant you were in the game, so to speak, and Epstein was too. So, you sent him a favor a la a good stock tip, and he did you a favor, introduced you to a bunch of girls.And until there is some sort of collaborating evidence provided that shows him working with ANY service in any capacity, Israel or otherwise, than there is nothing more to be said. It is Occam’s Razor.
Ocam’s Razor can’t explain – can’t even begin to explain – how this guy became massively wealthy. I don’t think you know even the flimsy details on his background that are available to us.
And the notion is so crazy that the federal prosecutor was actually told he was an intelligent asset and to back off the first go around back under Obama.
But I’m glad you decided to at least engage instead of just throwing around vague innuendo about my motives.
As for his “clients,” dude…he was hanging out with an insane number of politicians from across the globe.
What the fuck do you think they were doing hanging with Mr. Epstein?
Because no one has ever gotten wealthy before.
I cannot roll my eyes any harder, I might loose one of them.
How many school teachers fired for diddling their students fall ass backwards into managing the wealth of a guy with deep ties to Israel?
He didn’t become wealthy. He was handed the keys to someone else’s wealth. For no logical reason that anyone can identify like being good with money.
Do you even know who Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was? And his ties to Israeli intelligence?
Then there’s Leslie Wexner.
Then there’s his connections to Ehud Barak, both financial and personal.
But yea, there’s no smoke there at all.
Would it make you feel better if he had “jumped” out of a window?
On Monday morning, President Vladimir Putin sacked his transport minister, Roman Starovoit.
By the afternoon Starovoit was dead; his body was discovered in a park on the edge of Moscow with a gunshot wound to the head. A pistol, allegedly, beside the body.
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The Kremlin has said little about Starovoit’s death.
“How shocked were you that a federal minister was found dead just hours after being fired by the president?” I asked Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov on a Kremlin conference call.
“Normal people cannot but be shocked by this,” replied Peskov. “Of course, this shocked us, too.
KGB agents are not normal people, but they can still be shocked. Honest.
I have no trouble believing that a pistol with the dead man’s fingerprints were found beside the body.
That’s like Manufacturing Evidence 101.
But was he an advanced suicider who can shoot himself multiple times in the back of the head?
Must have caught himself by surprise
What did he have on the Clintons?
Pistol shot to the head? No way that is suicide! Inconvenient Russians commit suicide by injecting themselves with polonium pellets using the ferule of an umbrella.
Democracy
The court ruled that a Republican-controlled legislative committee’s rejection of a state agency rule that would ban the practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ people was unconstitutional. The decision, which has a broad impact far beyond the conversion therapy issue, takes power away from the Legislature to block the enactment of rules by the governor’s office that carry the force of law.
The 4-3 ruling from the liberal-controlled court comes amid the national battle over LGBTQ+ rights. It is also part of a broader effort by the Democratic governor, who has vetoed Republican bills targeting transgender high school athletes, to rein in the power of the GOP-controlled Legislature.
What is known as conversion therapy is the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to “convert” LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations.
I’m not sure trying to explain the long term effects and ramifications of “gender affirming medical treatments” really qualifies as conversion therapy. But what do i know?
Yeah, that would be cruel. The scientifically valid method is to mutilate their healthy body tissue through cosmetic surgery to align their gender expression and sexual attraction to traditional gender expectations.
This has nothing to do with the LIBGQZ gibberish. As I understand it the court is saying that the legislature has no power over the executive setting rules for its own agencies, that the executive may set its own agency rules as it sees fit. The problem of course is that the executive gets the money to run its agencies from the legislature, a legislature who is saying ‘our money, our rules’. This is exactly the kind of ‘let’s you and him fight’ that separation of powers was designed to promote so I am good with it. This is a state court.
What complicates things is that on the federal level, only while Trump is in power of course, the federal courts seem to be of the opposite opinion, that the executive does not have the power to set rules for its own agencies.
To my mind, injecting people with hormone suppressants and/or cross-sex hormones, engaging in genital mutilation, and putting them through a psychological program to reinforce the belief they are the other sex, all to turn them into a simulacrum of the other sex, qualifies as conversion therapy.
That’s transitioning, you fucking transphobe.
Totes diff than conversion.
This is another reason the T’s glommed on to the LG’s. Yes, conversion therapy for gays is generally discredited. “Conversion therapy” for T’s is simply treatment for gender dysphoria.
Advocates seeking to ban the practice want to forbid mental health professionals in the state from counseling clients with the goal of changing their sexual orientation or gender identity.
They have got to keep their numbers up. That’s what really matters.
As usual with them it is a one way street. It is fine to groom kids, tell kindergarteners all about ass fuckiing and cocksucking then convince them they are ‘trans’ using school resources and taxpayer money but conversion therapy (a very slightly less insidious practice) is not ok.
These are evil people.
The appeal of a sex scandal is that it’s easy to understand and hits all the right buttons. Bill Clinton got away with all kinds of shady business deals, and his foundation is a thinly veiled influence peddling and money laundering operation, but what do people get hot and bothered about? Adultery of the most ordinary kind.
Throw in the underage angle and all the “won’t somebody *please* think of the children?!” handwringers will swarm out of the woodwork.
I don’t recall Elvis ever getting criticized much for consorting with teenage girls. Same goes for many other rockstars. He ended up marrying a groupie he met when she was 14 and he was 24.
Also, given the way Gropey Joe treated women and girls on camera, it seems likely he routinely cheated on his wives. Not that anyone cares because we need to move on.
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Starting with our founding petition during the Clinton impeachment debate in 1998
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https://front.moveon.org/a-short-history/
It was veiled?
Maybe not technically pedophilia but it was taking advantage of young people who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground but think they do. Throw in the blackmail potential for a lot of powerful people and it’s a problem, it’s not just the sex.
It also feeds into class warfare: let the guy who works down at the quick shop ply a fifteen year old with booze/drugs/money and somehow get recorded plowing her and see where he ends up. Honeypots are a time-honored technique but it’s not something that we should be getting involved in.
The KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian president Sukarno by booking him on a flight to Moscow with a bunch whores disguised as flight attendants. He took the bait and his antics were filmed. When the KGB tried to blackmail him with the tape, he asked for a copy so he could show it to his wives and girlfriends. It was around this time that the KGB stopped using honeytrap schemes, which up to that point were a standard and successful tactic.