Good morning one and all to another awesome day!
Federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship ban for all infants, testing lower court powers
Trump Says US Has Struck Deal With NATO to Supply Weapons to Ukraine
Trump Says Canada Will Face A 35% Tariff on Goods
SEN. RAND PAUL: Republicans Fail AGAIN To Repeal Obamacare
State Department Says Reorganization Plan to Move Ahead Quickly After Supreme Court Ruling
HHS bans illegal immigrants from accessing benefits
EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Officials Admit They’re Pissed At How The Epstein Story Was Handled
Dershowitz claims he’s seen Epstein files, docs suppressed to protect elites
ICE: MS-13 Kingpin on El Salvador’s ‘Top 100 Most Wanted’ List Found Hiding in Nebraska
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
What part of Nebraska? On my brief visit some parts were nice… some parts seemed a bit empty.
I assumed he went to Nebraska because nobody would look there.
Omaha. I assume El Salvador has some kind of a beef with him.
He was hiding out in the Wild Kingdom?
It must have been quite the steakout.
Maybe he just wanted to have access to the phone hubs?
The feeling is Mutual.
Buffet digs bad boys?
Uh-oh. Someone’s majorly pissed.
Pepperidge Farm remembers when American criminals hid out in Central America, not vice versa.
South American criminal masterminds used to follow Americans to the Northern Territory.
Problem was the snakes, spiders, drop bears, sharks, crocs, and of course Donks.
To be fair, Nebraska is Central America.
He was easy to find, the bald head and white suit gave him away.
whaddup doh’
Hey Banjos- how YOU doin’
So, Republicans failed to do what they campaigned on for several cycles —
repeal any aspect of Obamacare.cut or even slow down the rate of increase of any federal program, or merely revert to funding levels from before the last “crisis” (COVID, the 2008 financial crisis, whatever).So, Republicans failed.
Coulda just stopped right there
I wouldn’t be opposed to adding an “again” at the end.
People keep forgetting that republicans had to be dragged away from just being democrat light by Trump to make them less fucked up… Most of them would still love to go back to just being the minority party and robbing us blind without the headache of having to deliver on promises made while campaigning.
And speaking about Obamacare. After they punished us all with that shit – by punishing anyone without insurance with a penal tax and driving cost up for everyone – these fuckers in the Obama 3.0 admin went and imported some 12 to 20 million people in 4 years and gave them not just healthcare, but living expenses, for free. All so they can replace the current crop of angry voters with enough simps to claim they have legal elections that while fortified, they win…
Trump is still a 90s Democrat, despite the Republican label.
What 90s democrats believed makes them now worse than Hitler..
Every emergency spending increase sets a new untouchable baseline. Their hands are tied! We are at a point where even massively cutting discretionary spending won’t balance the budget, and accelerating.
The response to the USAID situation and responses to probationary employees being let go was telling. Nothing can be cut, NOTHING! Because otherwise… PEOPLE. WILL. DIE!!1ONEone!11
My response to half of the complaints about cuts were, “Why the fuck is this being paid for by the Federal government instead of the state, county, city, or private organization?”
If we just cut the interest payments on debt, we’d be home free.
My version.
Gustave, that’s my favorite.
“Powell should cut rates because it will save us so much on interest on the debt! Never mind the spending driving all that debt, what this country needs is a new bandaid on that sucking economic chest wound!”
I believe the technical term is controlled flight into terrain.
Yes, cut the rates, add new spending “paid for” by the savings on interest, and never ever pay the debt down by a dime! I want to scream every time I hear someone talk about cutting rates, or ‘growing’ our way out of the debt. The debt has been growing faster than the economy for a long time. And growing your way out of a debt hole requires not freaking raising spending every time you look like you might be growing your way out of debt!
Luckily we have plenty of checks.
If people were really concerned about the debt they could just get a second job and pay more taxes.
Keep showing weapons across the region – that’ll help.
JFC this is infuriating. 😡
or “showering”, even
shoveling?
Poor Donny. Heads of sovereign non-allied countries won’t flatter and kowtow to him.
The folks over on AboveTopSecret are absolutely going nuts between Epstien and now cemtrails
Next up, FedGov should fire up HAARP talks again.
Yeah, you lose me when you start talking about stupid shit like that..
UnCiv: If you can show up this evening to help set up, it will ingratiate yourself with TPTB. I may be moving out of those circles starting next year if I have to keep USPSA at SaraSpa alive.
I was going to show up regardless.
We’ve got thunderstorms on the forecast – who makes the call on whether the match is delayed/cancelled, and when?
Rich. Nola will be constantly harping on it. In the past we’ve just pushed back the start time rather than cancel.
I’ll keep an eye on my email.
I hate SIG so goddamn much right now.
Not only did they completely fuck up the hotel situation such that I had to resort to AirBnB (which will NOT be reimbursed) they cancelled my stage. I’m at the point where I’m not going to make use of the employee discount because I don’t want to have to spend any more money on this turkey of a match.
The only good thing is that now I don’t have any responsibility to make sure the stage is correct which is good because SIG is doing absolute ass at communicating and/or giving access to the resources needed to make that happen.
Seems you are in the middle of a hot Swiss Miss, NA.
Wrong time of year for that.
I swear, right now the only thing I’m looking forward to at the moment ius seeing some friends from Hampden ME again and the executive-quality catering.
Also, there is a nearby pub with Old Speckled Hen on tap that is delish.
It’s never the wrong time of year for a hot Swiss Miss.
https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/9946618/576full-monika-heidel.jpg
SIG is a garbage company and it has been for a while now – my own distaste for them started way back in 2008, when they canned their entire factory team with no notice, after getting several years of uncompensated market research out of them. Two good friends were among the team.
I’m genuinely sorry that you’re having to go through all this bullshit.
…
In somewhat better gun game news, I just got approved to shoot the PCSL 2-Gun National Championship in December, out at Southern Utah Practical Shooters in St. George! So after the Area 8 is put to bed, it’s gonna be a month at least of hardcore rifle practice. I can’t wait!
I assume you’re shooting tomorrow and Saturday? Burn it down!
According to AD7, they fired their events/match organizing staff and gave that job to normie office workers.
How many governing bodies are there, each with its own set of national championships?
The two biggest ones in Practical Shooting are United States Practical Shooting Assocation* and the International Defensive Pistol Association. Practical Competitive Shooting League is a new org (2 years old?) There are also quite a few smaller/older/occupation specific ones.
You’ll note that he specified “2-Gun National” because these different orgs also have different formats/equipment divisions that may get split up into different events. This year USPSA* is having three Nationals – Factory gun, Race Gun, and Multigun.
*USPSA is technically a region of the International Practical Shooting Confederation but has had enough rules drift that there will also be a US IPSC nationals (run by USPSA people). IPSC has a lot of cultural differences mainly due to the fact there are a LOT of countries where only rich people own guns so things like shooters helping out or serving themselves which is a foundational concept in USPSA simply Is Not Done in IPSC.
Saturday PM and Sunday PM. I’ll try!
What Not Adhan said.
PCSL has been around for three years now, and it’s the first set of 2-Gun (that’s pistol and carbine/rifle) rules that really seems to have national legs. It’s probably not to early to say that PCSL Nats is the most prestigious 2-gun competition in the world.
Plus, shooting in the middle of the week means that I can spend a few extra days hiking in Zion NP…
FYI: SUPS will be hosting Factory Gun Nats next year, Race gun will be at Cardinal.
As far as I am concerned Dershowitz is doing a McCarthy. Senator, that is. Accusations without substance. IMO he has really has something he should name names and damn confidentiality agreements. Yes, they could ruin him or thrown him in prison or kill him. But at his age how much life left does he have to loose. Besides, the Left already hates him.
Yes, he has family. But he has to weigh the risk against the few who are precious to him against the benefit to the many (his countrymen). Put up or shut up.
But wasn’t McCarthy right about Communists being in Hollywood and the government?
All 57 of them!
He was right, but he didn’t have the information about it he claimed to have.
Sadly, Hollywood and governments at every level are still infested with communists even if they aren’t reporting back to the KGB anymore.
I’ve always wondered if McCarthy was a plant. Deliberately sacrificing a few agents for a short time to discredit anyone serious who came along and tried to reveal how thoroughly our society was being infiltrated by the Soviets. His obnoxious schtick, never actually presenting any of the evidence, and turning the investigation into a witch hunt, ended up destroying the chance to actually expose what was happening.
Soviet super-brilliance is such bullshit. They couldn’t even keep their own country afloat.
Never mind that we were already two GENERATIONS deep into Progressive derp that absolutely no COMINTERN infiltration.
Which is why the Soviet effort was successful, it had allies in place who could pre-recruit, guide and cover the efforts.
Marxists and marxist agitators/troops are incredibly competent at subversion and destruction, but absolutely lack any skill to build anything past that. That is why they are great at infiltrating and taking down governments and other entities, but then produce nothing but failure. You can clearly see this in anything the left is involved with. They are real good at undermining, rioting & looting, and general disruption an destruction, but can’t govern their way out of a paper bag without having control of the false narrative to hide their incompetence and resorting to boots on necks to get anything done.
Ya’ll remember that bit about how hard men create good times, etc.? Ya’ll notice that Marxism plays no fucking part in that?
Marxism is just another expression of the envy driven impulse in human affairs. It’s not the only source of evil in the world, just another unpleasant aspect of human nature dressed up in pseudo-science and cherry picked historical analysis.
Post Frankfurt School, Marxism is nothing but a joke.
Plato, Rousseau, Marx, or Marcuse, my point is that it’s all part of the same strain of human nature, and it isn’t going away.
I was watching WarGames last night and that exact thought came to mind. We all spent the 80s afraid of those guys, not knowing it would all come crashing down in a few short years.
Quite the contrary. It’s well-documented that Progressivism started out as a Soviet ideological warfare project, deployed through assorted Marxist intellectuals starting in the 20’s. The declassified Verona intercepts are quite clear on this.
The fact that organized Marxism is a joke today, doesn’t mean that their memes don’t have legs.
Soviet super intelligence is BS, but Russia has always had one of the top spy programs. From the Tsarist Okhrana, to the current MVD, they have always been one of the best.
The Progressive movement traces back to the Abolitionists, and was explicitly Progressive in name and form by the end of the 19th century. It intertwined with Marxism in the 20s, and there was cross pollination much earlier, but it did not start with the Soviets.
Maybe ‘started’ was the wrong word – yes, progressive thought existed before then, but it was the post-WWI Soviets who codified it for use as an ideological weapon.
Very true, even in the area of technical collections, which is something the US has always had a sense of unearned superiority about.
It looks like they are dancing to different songs.
Dershowitz claims he’s seen Epstein files, docs suppressed to protect elites
“I’m not only a psychic, I’m also a client!”
Trump is the greatest prime minister in Canada’s history.
The federal judge needs to go Straight to Jail. No Trial. Jail. Right Away.
Do not Pass ‘Go’. Do not collect $200. ?
Until there are consequences to illegal shit like this, you are going to see more illegal shit like this from the criminal left’s pretend judges.
Along with all the commie ratfuckers attacking ICE agents doing their fucking jobs.
“A third source familiar with the situation told the Caller that a very few people actually knew about the final memo being published.”
Am I reading Wapo? None of these people have names?
That’s cause they are all made up, is my bet.
Oops!
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/air-india-crash-probe-fuel-cut-3a711f39?st=uFouVK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They forgot to do the feed full?
I just cant get behind reporting like this though…
Let the report actually come out. Ive already seen about 2-3 ‘leaked’ reports that will just muddy the waters
Things I know –
1: Video shows that the RAT deployed during takeoff, indicating loss of power from both engines.
2: The plane then made an unscheduled landing in an apartment building.
Given the low probability of simulteneous bilateral engine failure due to mechanical fault unless it is a shared component, “Pilot Error” is high on my list of suspects still.
Or authorities could actually release preliminary stuff and stop leaking.
Broad bunch of issues. Market related with parties involved and regulatory.
Generally this forces government to be more transparent in my opinion, but it’s not ideal.
Oh I agree that its going to be pilot error at this point.
Fuel contamination could still be an issue, but it would be near perfect conditions for both engines to experience at same time.
One thing we might see is loss of one engine on roll out at or near V1 resulting in an engine out takeoff and then the other spoolong down after Vr or V2.
It will be determined when they see when the RAT deployed.
pilot error at this point
I’ll wait for the report, but if *BOTH* fuel switches were in the off position, I’d say more likely pilot malfeasance. Disclaimer, following gleaned from several different active Boeing pilots and manuals, not personal experience, so “void PureSpeculation()”
The fuel cutoff switches are on the central console below the thrust levers. They are guarded on the side by ‘wings’ and require a positive pull to switch – e.g. they must be pulled up to release and then down to switch off. The cannot be inadvertently switched off.
There are, I believe, only two scenarios that call for switching the fuel off in flight. One is fire indication in the engine. Even there, this is only called for after reaching minimum safe altitude
(800-1000 feet AGL I seem to recall?). So in this scenario, you would require simultaneous fire in both engines (not observed) and violation of procedures to cut off fuel at an unsafe altitude. All seem unlikely even for pilot error since you’d need to have indications of fire in both engines and a pilot actively turning fuel off to both engines at an unsafe altitude, effectively destroying the aircraft – there’s no recovery at that point and the pilot would have to know that. I don’t see a pilot mistakenly shutting off fuel on both engines at that altitude given that it requires a deliberate, conscious action, and would doom the plane.
The only other scenario for turning off both fuel switches is in a dual engine failure and that procedure calls for off and immediately on as a sort of attempt to ‘jump’ start fuel supply. You would not just turn them both off. And this scenario would only be applied in a dual engine failure, so we’re back to the very unlikely scenario of simultaneous dual engine failure.
Shorter – pilot error resulting in both fuel switches off seems extremely unlikely. If both were indeed switched off, that sounds a lot more like malfeasance.
So I’ll wait for the actual report.
🤔
We had a Kia Telluride that we really liked. It just hit 60k miles and warranty expired.
Between 61 and 63k, everything has broken. We replaced the starter at 61k, but gave up and traded it in earlier this week before sinking any more money into it.
Still time for that Telsa tax credit…
I was wondering how you could get a dual engine failure. Normally these things don’t go at the same time.
So California is going to defend the weed farm (cotton farm) that employs illegal aliens (*slaves) and on top of all that….child labor?
We really are stepping backward a a 150 years arent we?
*I know, not slaves but those that want this mass illegal immigrants to be here sure do talk and treat them like it.
It’s fascinating watching California political types simultaneously insist that the minimum wage needs to be high enough to support a family of 4 in middle class comfort, and that the economy will collapse if we deport the people working under the table for sub minimum wages…
There is no such thing as cognitive dissonance. If there was, those heads would be exploding (which would be spectacular).
juris imprudent:
Pictured.
Democrats just being Democrats.
None of it makes any sense. Just “oppose Trump” no matter what he’s doing.
It makes sense if you see it as taking away their servant class
There is that but also a lot Antifa-style “break shit”. They have taken over the party and they’re really just about causing chaos. It doesn’t have to make sense. They hope to destroy the foundations and then rule over the trashheap that is left.
None of it makes any sense.
Principals over principles.
Illegals good, trump bad. Thats all the sense it has to make.
Not so much slaves as indentured servants from good old Ireland, err, Mexico. Not surprised that they embrace the idea of a permanent underclass though.
The left is still pissed Lincoln got rid of their beloved original slavery, and want it back.
“Slave” is well on its way to becoming “the S-word.”* Talking heads on the History Channel and event a recent popular history book I’m reading are oh so careful to say “enslaved people.” 🙄
*Is the pen mightier than the S-word?
Maybe it really should be people experiencing slavery.
When you hate everything and everyone in a story.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-conservative-scholarship-center-trump-attacks-a187242a?st=8y8q1N&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“A Detroit man’s dying wish to have thousands of dollars fall from the sky by helicopter as his “last blessing” to his community was honored by his family last month.
Darrell “Plant” Thomas, a 58-year-old car wash owner in East Detroit known for his generosity, died after a battle with Alzheimer’s on June 15, and wanted to have a dramatic send–off.
At his funeral on June 27, his sons organized a helicopter to drop $5,000 and rose petals on unsuspecting mourners as they honored their father at the event held on Gratiot Avenue and Connor Street….
The Detroit Police Department briefly closed off traffic to allow the crowd to enjoy Thomas’s final send-off safely. They were aware of the rose petals — but said they were surprised by the money.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/us-news/detroit-fathers-dying-wish-to-have-helicopter-drops-money-and-rose-petals-from-the-sky-granted-by-sons/
No shooting reported.
So he made it rain?
Died at 58 from Alzheimers? That really sucks.
58 and Alzheimer’s?!
5-10% of cases are early-onset, i.e. diagnosed at under sixty-five years of age. Rare, but not unheard of.
“The farm is now under investigation for child labor violations, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott announced late Thursday night after 10 juveniles — “all illegal aliens” — were found at the facility, including eight without an adult, he said.”
Top-notch parenting.
I’m no fan of those laws.
“Legendary California seafood restaurant clashes with ‘glamorous’ influencer who ignited backlash over Trump hat”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/us-news/california-food-blogger-kat-ensign-calls-out-san-francisco-swan-oyster-for-trump-hat/
STIJLTH
google got nothing for that initialism
Tater made it up. I think he’s just blowing hot air.
Sara Thinks Irene Just Loves To Ho.
Epstein, spending, debt, weapons to Ukraine…meet the new douchebag, same as the old douchebag.
Trump is a fucking loser and the TACO meme is right.
You do realize that he is only the President?
And yet he sics the MAGA mob on Thomas Massie’s for pointing out TEAM RED’s capitulation.
Epstein – Trump’s people
Debt – Trump is pressuring for a rate cut
Weapons to Ukraine – Trump’s call
OBBB increases spending – Trump’s agenda
That seems incredibly naive.
He’s not wrong.
I think the reason for the anger is clear. Trump 2.0 started out with a string of pleasant surprises that lead to a false hopefulness about actually righting our ship. Then the OBBB became the focus, and very little of the good stuff was in it. There are only token cuts in spending, they are offset by some raises in spending (although as I dig into it a lot of the ‘spending increase’ is actually OMB’s odd math where making the current tax rates permanent counts as spending by hypothetically eliminating the revenue from future year tax increases). regardless the bill doesn’t eliminate agencies, doesn’t claw back the graft DOGE exposed, and continues business as usual. It feels like another bait and switch, and Elon going off in a snit sure reinforces that idea.
I think the half-Jew has it about right.
I’m writing a book about a near dystopian future. I have the ending, just need to write the rest of it. Here’s the ending “Trump finally loved the deep state.”
I think that is the ending SF is aiming for so you need to out-write him.
Quality is Job 1!
Ford Breaks Annual Record for Safety Recalls Within First Six Months of Year
Read that as quality is job 11. Sounds about right.
There was another article about that recently.
Ford Debuts World’s First Autonomous Car To Leave Factory And Drive Straight To Shop For Repairs
https://babylonbee.com/news/ford-debuts-worlds-first-autonomous-car-to-leave-factory-and-drive-straight-to-shop-for-repairs
Spectacular. Long time Ford owner that will never buy another one.
So far I’ve owned three cars.
Honda Civic : Always stalled trying to shift from 1st to 2nd. Stalled when braking. Burned out two starters. Could not pass inspection.
2006 Ford Focus : Stock sound system failed. Coller on shifter which allows for key removal cracked, requising manual intervention on parking. (Just had to pull it up) Cam would stick in very cold weather, preventing door closure unless manually rotating cam into correct position. No powertrain problems.
2016 Ford C-Max : Stock sound system failed. Can stop without using mechanical brakes, so autolubrication doesn’t get operated enough, can lead to rusting (common Hybrid/EV problem). No other character developed yet. No powertrain problems.
I’m currently looking at the Maverick, but since there’s nothing wrong with my C-Max I’m reminding myself there’s no reason to spend that much money.
I have had one car and never had an issue with it… then again I drome 70000 kilometers in 17 years.
I think I’ve owned nine?
I only have 111,000 miles on my C-Max. I had less on the Focus when the Buick parked in its wheel well.
I think I’ve owned 15-20 cars in my life, from 1940s to current time.
No one needs more than 10 cars
I own 10 at the moment with every intention of adding to that. I have owned well over 40 vehicles in my lifetime.
I was looking at the Maverick too UCS but Ford went to most controls, including heat and air, through the damn touchscreen with the model update. No thank you.
😨😱😭
I have only owned… five (?!) cars because I run them into the ground. Two of them were still running when they were totalled by not-me.
Young days:
1980 Datsun 200SX – Windshield wiper controls had to be replaced when it got tangled in Kat’s bra strap on Halloween 1989.
1991 Geo Prizm: Conceived my son in that one.
*quantum leap in quality*
1998 BMW Z3. Crushed by UT student. Still sad about that.
2009 BMW 328xi – Got when I moved to a place with snow. Only car I’ve driven that I didn’t have sex in.
2018 Subaru WRX STI – Soooo much better than the bimmers.
PIE, at one time?
Technically I’ve only ever owned five cars, only had title to one of the four. Everything else I’ve owned has been light trucks or larger.
I’ll have to count on fingers and toes how many I have now.
18 if I counted correctly.
10 cars max lifetime thems the rules
Meanwhile at VW a crazy expensive EV with short range wasn’t the halo car they expected.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/volkswagen-electric-bus-flop-9d56e77f?st=4nnBvK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yeah. Long form article that points to government BS as a part of VW’s failures. That is part of it, clearly, but you just cannot overlook $72K for a car with motorcycle range and spaceship complexity. Years from now it will be pointed to as a historic high-water mark in electric car hubris.
The original VW bus was underpowered and dorky, but inexpensive, which endeared it to a generation.
Who the hell is the target market for this other than well heeled middle aged hipsters or aging boomer with money to blow on a nostalgia car?
Make the thing half the price and you could possibly sell a few.
So, the Pontiac Aztec of Euro trash cars?
If you aren’t doing highway and have a charge location it would make a good contractor van if available at half the cost.
Operating costs are lower.
Me: Healthcare? In 2024 health care was 27% of federal spending and defense was 21% of federal spending.
My friend from college: lol, not anymore.. thanks trump
*sigh*
Want a real laugh – do that comparison for 1964.
Interest payments were 13% last year and on pace for 16% this year, so don’t worry, both healthcare and defense percentages will be going down over time
Good.
American doctors are overpaid
“Courtney also claims she suppressed memories of the abuse for years as a survival tactic, and that she only began recalling them after a visit to a doctor for genital pain….
She described those alleged memories in detail on the podcast “We’re All Insane” in April, claiming that generations of her father’s “bloodline” had been in a satanic cult alongside numerous neighbors in their North Jersey town — and that they ritualistically raped her and her siblings, and even allegedly trafficked children and burned them alive in their local woods.
Courtney claimed on the podcast that the neighborhood cultists had “tunnels” they would use to covertly operate their rituals, which allegedly included “taking kids’ blood,” “drum circles” and “burnings” that would last all night.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/daughter-of-nj-police-chief-accuses-him-others-of-ritualistic-abuse-years-of-sexual-assault-court-docs/
Didn’t we already do this 40 years ago?
SRA, the next generation!
Shouldn’t that be National Enquirer and not NY Post?
Sounds like another person ruined by a bad psychologist and a misapplication of the idea of repressed memories and recovery attempts of same.
I believe repressed memories are a thing. I’ve recently read that people with eating disorders almost always have some past trauma they haven’t dealt with, and I strongly suspect that’s happening with my oldest. Even at 6 years old she was really good at diverting therapists away from talking about anything important.
But grand conspiracies about cults and rituals involving dozens of people? Nope.
Repressed memories probably are a real thing, but implanted memories definitely are, and the memory recovery psychologists have a history of claiming to recover repressed memories while actually implanting false memories, frequently of ritualized sexual abuse. We’ve thrown people in prison for crimes that were demonstrated at trial to be factually impossible for them to have committed over this.
I concur. One of my cousins family was basically destroyed by implanted memories of sexual abuse.
May Scott Harshbarger and Martha Coakley burn in hell.
It says nothing good about our political system aren’t treated like the pariah they should be and laughed off the stage every time they speak.
“Largest US teachers union mocked for misspelling ‘fascism’ in anti-Trump agenda item: ‘Too rich to parody’”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/largest-us-teachers-union-mocked-for-misspelling-fascism-in-anti-trump-agenda-item/
“The horrible reasons the teachers union just endorsed Zohran Mamdani”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/opinion/the-horrible-reasons-the-teachers-union-just-endorsed-zohran-mamdani/
Teachers unions suck ass.
Teachers unions suck ass. – and cock but just for a few lucky students.
Well, that and the Islamism.
Joyce Carol Oates
@JoyceCarolOates
most universities & colleges surely have faculty members who are contrarians? liberals & progressives are always quarreling with one another; “the left eats its own”; hiring conservatives per se will result in very lop-sided resumés especially in the sciences. really, research universities should hire physicists who disbelieve in modern physics? anthropologists who believe that “Aryans” are the master race? poets who believe in Rhyming? philosophers who are staunch Thomists, or believe in the Creation? historians who don’t acknowledge slavery in the US?
https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1943285761098268815
She really got the right wingers dead to rights (I am not sure this is an actual idiom but I remember hearing it )
Are you sure that isn’t parody? I’ve seen fake Joyce Carol Oates stuff before.
I dunno seems legit
Can you translate that to non-gibberish? What is a lop-sided resume in science?
Wingnuts don’t believe in science hurr-durr.
Conservative = anti-science.
Setting aside the fact that my father, a rock ribbed Republican his whole life, was a professor with a doctorate in genetics. And Oates’s is in, what, creative writing, if she even has one?
Fuck that cunt.
There is no greater group of reprobates than the cabal of university credentialed morons in the humanities which believes they are smarter than everyone else, come up with some of the most destructive and stupid ideas, but never have to bear the consequences of that evil. And they will accuse anyone of pointing that out of being the dumb ones and in the wrong.
“China creates remote-controlled cyborg BEES that could be used for secret spy missions”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14896909/China-remote-controlled-cyborg-BEES-spy.html
Yet they can’t build a decent car.
I suspect that China is just as much a house of cards as the CCCP was. The collapse will probably be a lot bloodier, though.
In the cycle of Chinese history, there is a pattern where you have – fragmented period of warlords – brutal dynasty that restores order but runs short – slightly less brutal dynasty that lasts a few centuries before decadence and rot causes fragmentation into warlordism – repeat. The CCP falls on the “Brutal Dynasty that restores order” stage. I expect them to collapse and another ‘Dynasty’ to take over. What form that will take is unclear.
Four of the ten bloodiest wars in history are Chinese civil wars, and the eleventh (that being the Mao v Chiang version) as well.
there’s no way they are actually this stupid?
https://x.com/justalexoki/status/1943313001878045100
Forget it Jake , It’s Minnesota
Yes, yes they are that stupid.
“Why did you walk me to this ditch full of dead bodies?”
That’s amazing. Scott Adams likes to say “Democrats don’t know how anything works”, and this is a fine example.
Whoever foresaw that boomeranging on them other than everyone with a triple digit IQ? Zero pity from me.
lol Voting to “block Pride flags” is just their opening salvo.
I would consider exiting the region, ma’am.
She shouldn’t be allowed to. Politicians should be forced to live with what they created.
Amir
@amirism_
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how are there still “unsolved problems”? we’ve had so much time!
Hal Medi
@halmedihalmedi
counter theory: some problems just have to keep being solved because they aren’t logical/material, they’re metaphysical/immaterial. you cannot solve the problem of the imperfect collective memory. some battles must be fought on repeat by necessity.
https://x.com/halmedihalmedi/status/1943642514465955896
is this philosophical or just gibberish?
Yes.
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass downplayed the anti-ICE riots that took place in Los Angeles earlier in June, saying that how they were reported in the news “never happened.”
When asked a question by a reporter about the riots as well as increased violence against ICE agents, Bass responded, “Well let me just say the ‘riots’ that were reported never happened.”
“We did have a couple of incidents of vandalism and looting, but the way it was portrayed nationally was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992. It was completely 100 percent inappropriate,” Bass added.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/karen-bass-says-anti-ice-riots-never-happened-as-reported
CWAC
but the way it was portrayed nationally was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992. It was completely 100 percent inappropriate
True! For example Pacific Palisades had nothing to burn during the riots!
So a little riot/small scale looting is okay in her book.
What a fucking clown.
OBE:
If there’s only a little protest or riot, than the city is “mostly peaceful”!
1992 was mostly peaceful protests.
Even in ’92 most of the city wasn’t being destroyed. The violence was actually confined to a relatively small area – just one you would avoid at all costs (even when there wasn’t a riot).
She is a “democratic socialist” and therefore perfectly happy with looting and rioting at any scale as long as it is the correct people doing the looting and rioting.
Aren’t Bass & Newsom telling all the people that lost their homes in the fires, that government intends to take their property and build low income rental properties instead, cause they need more of that?
Speaking of buying cars
Unicus
@UnicusResearch
🚩 Auto loans just passed $1.63T, more than student debt.
– 22.4% of new loans now stretch past 84 months
– Texas delinquency: 7.92%
– Dealers: frozen inventory, failed trade-ins (per our sources)
– ABS losses are building quietly
What we’re hearing on the ground matches the data.
https://x.com/UnicusResearch/status/1943013576614011182
Hat tip to RJ for this bit of unnecessary expense.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a65353056/am-radio-to-be-required-in-cars/
emergency broadcasts – I somehow managed to turn of the emergency broadcast thing on my phone and glad I did cause I was in a coffee shop and all phones except mine starting blaring this stupid emergency noise and not all at once. Some stopped others started. Bloody annoying.
I’ve got mine locked down to everything but nuclear war level.
KYAG Alert?
Fucking Amber Alerts… Don’t drag me into your custody dispute.
Let’s not forget Silver Alerts.
“Excuse me random old person, are you lost?”
They do emergency broadcasts on FM, also port them to your phone, etc…
Totally stupid take by government. I almost expect the next plea to be “Think of the children! They need AM radio or they will all DIE!”
The important thing is to have a loud siren coming from your phone to distract while driving in the storm you already knew about.
So true.
My 60 Suburban was ordered radio delete.
Rather the radio was a probably a $20 option.
I’ve seen billboards around offering to refinance your car loan. REFINANCE A CAR LOAN! Chebus tap dancing Christos.
On one hand, refinancing at least shows they’re making at least a token effort to pay their bills.
My wife had to refinance a car loan before we got married. I convinced her she really needed to sell the car and buy a cash car she could afford. She was/is not good with money. Fortunately, we are both acutely aware of this and she is willing to take directions on the matter.
she is willing to take directions on the matter.
PATRIARCHY!
My wife is more thrifty, but my handmaid is the same way.
“Left wing nutcase and supposed ‘comedian’ Kathy Griffin suggested that Trump did not win the 2024 election fair and square, during an appearance on E. Jean Carroll’s podcast this week.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/liberal-wingnut-kathy-griffin-once-again-suggests-trump/
That should be outlawed, like waterboarding.
If faced with the choice of being waterboarded or having to watch E. Jean Carroll talk to Kathy Griffin I’m learning what it feels like to drown repeatedly.
I disagree, at least with the podcast I can actually kill myself to make it stop.
I would guess that about 70% of Democrats agree with her.
And JUST LIKE THAT it was great again to claim an election was stollen…
Democrats….
Re: Epstein — The Dershowitz revelation is huge. Dershowitz is too credible to be ignored. It appears that the unfortunate Ms. Guiffre may have inadvertently done everyone (except Dershowitz) a favor with her (unproven, later retracted) allegation since that is what caused Dershowitz to see the list.
I agree with Megyn Kelly that AG Pam Bondi’s days in office are numbered. You can’t claim “the list is on my desk” and the next week claim “there is no list” and further insult the public by re-releasing trivial information which was already out there.
After Dershowitz’s revelation it will no longer be enough to just fire Bondi and allow her to claim that she was lying the first time (“the list is on my desk”). Now they will not only have to fire Bondi, they will have to respond somehow. We will never see client lists, flight logs, or anything else definitive. Their least-bad option is to claim it’s a national security matter which will rightly enrage people but will be less damaging to the deep state than revealing what was going on.
For anyone who missed it Wednesday morning, I’m relinking to this piece shared by TOK:
https://x.com/amuse/status/1942692058357027258
This is a solid take. Bondi is way in over her head. At best she does not grasp the importance of keeping her trap shut and using precise language when in her position of power. Everything you say will be dissected. “what I meant to say was” does not cut it at that level. Incredibly sloppy for a lawyer let alone an AG.
I second Banjos, good take.
I have also heard that there are many people on “the list” who might have gone to a party or flown on a plane, but didn’t partake in anything illegal, and they would get caught up in the frenzy if “the list” is made public. (I think Dershowitz mentioned that). That being the case, fine, take the time to figure it out and then release a list.
OK, lets say they did that, and only listed people who did something illegal, then what? That’s a recipe for chaos.
Officials misspeak all the time. I also doubt she will be fired for doing what she told.
Bondi, Bongino, and Patel, are guilty of being bad liars. They should have something more like “the evidence doesn’t warrant further prosecutions” and “national security yada yada”. There was no way they were come out and say that there was a U.S.-Israeli blackmailing scheme.
1. Trump on the list?
2. Trump using the list for his own purposes? (I doubt it given his erratic behavior lately)
3. Evidence is so radioactive it would bring down government?
4 ?
https://x.com/skscartoon/status/1942588856433533032
If #1 were true it would have already been used against Trump.
4. It would just make trouble for his administration.
Again, what good would come from releasing the list?
Hoping for #3, in kind of a desultory way…
Protecting the innocent is a part of it, but I’m almost certain #3 is the big story. They don’t want us to know how bad our government, or other governments, have been behaving. Plus it seems some high ranking people were involved.
If you are going that route, it is less likely they are trying to protect reputations and more likely to want to maintain their leverage.
Or maybe the people with the tapes have something else on Trump? Or just straight-up threatened to JFK him and his family.
Dershowitz is too credible to be ignored.
Sadly, he’s battered his credibility on his own, more than once. Though in this case, his credibility towers over Bondi’s.
I think I see the problem
Dick Eastland warned for decades about the hidden dangers of the beautiful but volatile Guadalupe River, a peril he saw firsthand while running his family’s youth camp alongside its banks.
Eastland saw floods damage Camp Mystic again and again – and his pregnant wife was even airlifted to a hospital while the camp in central Texas was cut off by floodwaters.
Am I supposed to weep for him? Am I supposed to be outraged by his “misfortune”?
I’m not.
So then they didn’t need federal griftbux to tell them the place was prone to flash floods and dangerous.
I could not give a fuck less about Epstein or the performative outrage surrounding him.
Really, he’s nothing himself in comparison to say Comey and Brennan (and Clapper, who seems to be escaping the justice he is due).
Other than his brother no one gives a fuck about him. It’s more about what the case represents. If they can tell you to eat a dick on this one and cover it up they can cover up anything.
Who was in charge of the Presidency for the past four years?
That’s a much bigger deal to me than what celebrity/politician/scumbags did on a private island.
“Who was in charge of the Presidency for the past four years?</strong”
SO FREAKING MUCH THIS…
I am with you Late P. Brooks. At this point I see this entire Epstein thing as a massive distraction kept around to prevent us from focusing on the real criminal shit like who ran the country the last 4 years, that Obama and his national security team literally used a fake document created by the DNC and the Clinton campaign to concoct a massive lie to undermine and coup the duly elected president of the US, and that they rigged the 2020 election.
Yes, the fact is powerful people were blackmailed by Epstein whom was most likely working for multiple Intel agencies (ours for sure, and even other countries). That evidence will not be shared, because those people that have the data are still using that to blackmail/control the Epstein targets. In the mean time they have us all chasing this Epstein stuff they will never share, while other shit we should be acting on, goes unaddressed.
OTH why do women expect equal prize money for three sets?
Bill Ackman’s Pro-Tennis Debut Lasted 67 Minutes
https://www.wsj.com/sports/tennis/bill-ackmans-pro-tennis-debut-lasted-67-minutes-c12bd8e8?st=12AgJT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That prick? That speaks volumes.
But yeah, most every event allows them to invite “wild cards” i.e. anyone they want.
At Camp Mystic, meanwhile, several of the cabins that were hit hardest in the flooding were in an area identified by the federal government as the highest-risk location for inundations from the Guadalupe. Even as the camp built new cabins in a less-risky flood zone elsewhere on its property, nothing was done to relocate the buildings in the most danger.
“Camp officials might have not been aware of flood risk when they first built the cabins,” before the county even had flood maps, said Anna Serra-Llobet, a University of California-Berkeley researcher who studies flood risk. But after the recent construction, she said, officials should have realized they were in an area of “severe hazard.”
Cut it the fuck out. Nobody even knew what a flood was before the government started mapping flood plains.
I haven’t seen anything about it, and I won’t bestir myself to look, but development of areas like that increases the severity of floods by reducing the land’s ability to absorb the water, as well as disrupting drainage.
There have been major, death-causing, flash-floods on that river for decades. Who could possibly predict there would be another?
Wanton destruction
Rubio has defended the move as essential to speeding up internal processes, citing the layers of bureaucracy that slow decision-making. “There were 40 boxes on this piece of paper,” he told senators in May. “That means 40 people had to check off ‘yes’ before it even got to me. That’s ridiculous. And if any one of those boxes didn’t get checked, the memo didn’t move. That can’t continue.”
Ranking Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued a statement condemning the cuts, saying “If this administration is serious about putting ‘America First,’ it must invest in our diplomatic corps and national security experts — not erode the institutions that protect our interests, promote U.S. values, and keep Americans safe abroad.”
Former diplomats are also sounding the alarm. The American Academy of Diplomacy, which represents former ambassadors, who advocate for U.S. diplomacy, accused Rubio of gutting the department’s institutional knowledge and called the move “an act of vandalism.”
What any of those people do in actual fact is irrelevant. We must maintain the trappings of our grandiose facade of good intentions.
You lot are Former Diplomats – you no longer have any bearing on foreign relations. Shut the fuck up.
“This isn’t just about trimming fat,” said Thomas Shannon, a former undersecretary of state in the previous Trump administration. “We’re removing a significant chunk of our civil service and foreign service employees and restructuring in ways that reflect a diminished global agenda.”
Shannon warns the shake-up could have long-term consequences — especially as the U.S. scales back on human rights and democracy promotion. He also pointed to the closure of USAID and the loss of experts with critical language and cultural skills as blows to U.S. influence abroad.
Ambassadors from the Land of Make Believe. We can’t fire them. They’ll never survive in the real world.
I will take the ambassador position to Atropia.
Save the bureaucrats
“The best thing that she can do now is … sponsor my bill, get FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] out of Homeland. Get it away from her, OK, so that we can start reforming and rebuilding the agency,” added Moskowitz, who previously served as director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management under Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Moskowitz introduced a bill in late March that would remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security and elevate it to a Cabinet-level agency reporting directly to the president.
“I mean, this is an agency that’s literally responsible, right, for the contingency plans for a government. God forbid, we had a major disaster, a war, some, some sort of, you know, you know, unbelievable event. OK?” the Florida Democrat continued. “And she’s breaking it to the point where it can’t function.”
FEMA was perfect until Trump and Noem came along. A marvel of government efficiency and good works.