All Star Game? More like All Star LAME! OK, I didn’t watch it, but I looked at the score and just checked out before reading the story. College football can’t get here soon enough. So I’m moving on…
He had a good run. And yes, I feel shame for saying that. But it was gonna happen in the comments anyway.
She was a bad girl. Now she’s gonna be Thai-d up in court. Yes, I feel bad for saying that as well.
What “international health commitments?” So we’re not only the world’s policeman, we’re their emergency AIDS clinic and food pantry too?
They’re gonna get what they deserve. I just hope the feds won’t bail them out when it all collapses. But deep down I know it’s gonna happen.
These stories are getting ridiculous. America’s hat needs to relax and stop causing all this mistrust. Especially since they need us a hell of a lot more than we need them.
Better read the fine print. There’s a reason they’re priced on par with a 3BR/1BA in Detroit.
Condolences, The Yinzers lost. Y’all may as well just jump on board now before you look uncool.
I feel like something is missing from the headline. Oh, there it is about 3/4 of the way down: they’re rapists and murderers and their home country won’t take them back.
Of course they’re not saying why. This docket isn’t about cases, but motions. And it’s always been done this way, regardless what the complainers say.
Break out the fire hoses. Or better yet, the truncheons.
Oh, give me a break. They’ve built statues of George Floyd, for fuck’s sake.
Let’s rock. One of my favorites. Such great music. Enjoy it.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
“So we’re not only the world’s policeman, we’re their emergency AIDS clinic and food pantry too?”
You seem surprised.
We – the tax payers – were being robbed blind to finance the plans of the liberal world order, both in the US and globally…
Yes, because we’re the “rich” country so we can afford it. Except we’re $36T in debt.
That debt is also part of the plan. America, you know the land of the free and where you could chase the American dream, would be full of people that would fight those telling them they would have to take a hard hit and give up their standard of living, so the rest of the world could have theirs raised. So you solve that by destroying the US economy and the American dream. Desperate people will go for globalist marxist government in a flash when they get promised – falsely, obviously – that the communist ideology will make things better.
“falsely, obviously”
This is where the bait and switch comes in. “Look at those tech billionaires! They need to pay their share!” But the real problem is the legions of millionaires who made their fortunes from taxpayer money.
We’re also the worlds prison as the socialist nations dump their rapists, murderers, et al here.
Hang on. I know how we could remove the criminals and solve the affordable housing issue – and it will only cost 1 Euro per unit.
Less if you buy in bulk?
Yup, after 25+ years of doing this for the whole world (and for 50 years before that for half the world), it should be no surprise.
Obligatory, “…and doing what he loved”.
Not gonna lie, I saw he was 114 and died, but the cause of death was not what was expected.
Rich people have enough money to move. The working class, not so much.
This docket isn’t about cases, but motions.
Let us take time to litigate the issue and write a 50 page opinion on why a motion is granted or denied.
She was a bad girl. Now she’s gonna be Thai-d up in court.
We want to know if the juice is worth the squeeze!
https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/thai-woman-had-sex-with-buddhist-monks-and-blackmailed-them-for-millions-w0jjv7m82
The question isn’t whether men are slaves to their ding-dong, but, rather, how do monks have millions of dollars?
Monastaries are infamous for becoming massively rich. Officially it’s not the monks’ money.
You could always ask the Catholic Church, televangelists, faith healers, and progressive NGOs why religions always accumulate money and power?
They would claim it is God’s will.
Those charlatans never take credit for what they do, and take credit for what they don’t.
Millions? The Vatican laughs in billions. In short these aren’t the first clerics to have their hand in the collection box and definitely will not be the last.
how do monks have millions of dollars – past lives
See, Pie gets it. They just keep inheriting their own money!
“Oh, there it is about 3/4 of the way down: they’re rapists and murderers and their home country won’t take them back.”
They should anyway.
I don’t disagree. But we can’t force them to. And we can’t let these people go inside our borders. This looks like the only viable option barring illegally imprisoning them here or firing up the choppers.
Fly them as close to their home countries as we can, then drop them out of the aircraft before turning back.
Don’t provide parachutes.
Afaik, they can be imprisoned here if they are tried and convicted in criminal court.
I believe their sentences have been served, and they were held awaiting deportation. So that’s not an option. They either get let go inside the US or we deport them somewhere else, since their countries don’t want them because they’re violent criminals.
“I believe their sentences have been served, and they were held awaiting deportation.”
I haven’t read that anywhere. Anyway, I don’t see how this is fair to the third countries or the aliens.
Drop them off Israeli raid style; hard landing on a remote airfield, kick them off the plane, back in the air in minutes.
“You keep using that word…”
Common Tater:
What’s “fair”? Their home countries won’t take them, we don’t want them, so take them into international water and put them in a lifeboat?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/can-trump-deport-people-to-any-country-that-will-take-them
FTA: We know that these deportees to South Sudan had served time for crimes in American prison, but there’s nothing stopping the Administration from picking someone up who didn’t commit any crime in America other than crossing the border, and sending them to South Sudan, correct?
They wouldn’t be here but for a massive criminal facilitation by the very people complaining now that their criminal enterprise is being undone. They shouldn’t have been here in the first place, cant stay here now and their home countries dont want them because they are scum. They cant stay here. After they cross the border out I dont give a shit what happens to them. My complaint is that we cant send the people who brought them here with them.
“…didn’t commit any crime other than…”
That is pathetic. Didnt commit any crime other than the crimes they committed? So…criminals.
As long as we are rounding up and deporting criminals what about the ones who advocate for, enact and enforce 2nd Amendment infringements?
Frankly, I’m shocked that someone from the New Yorker is even admitting that crossing the border illegally is illegal.
“I don’t see how this is fair to the third countries or the aliens.”
I think our first priority should be “what is the best thing for US citizens”, not fairness to foreign countries or to convicted criminals who have no right to be here in the first place.
Give them Nansen passports and then force them to leave the country.
Or an international treaty requiring nations to repatriate citizens who served their sentence in a foreign country.
https://youtu.be/vHW9mocvSv4
Yeah, this is the part that needs to end.
I’m sure Trump can “deal” his way around that bullshit.
That’s what I’m thinking.
How do you propose we force those countries to take them? If they refuse to inprocess them, then what? Are you gonna have our agents who accompany them home shoot the customs agent who bars their entry?
If the U.S. State Department is good at anything, it’s bullying other countries.
Also, this seems like a suspiciously new problem. I don’t remember hearing about “third country” deportations in the past.
How do you propose we force those countries to take them?
Same as we do domestically? Cut off the funding if they don’t comply.
Common Tater:
Here’s a published paper about it from 2020, so it’s been going on for a while. What else are you going to do with people who have no state?
inorite?
I bet there’s a bit of “stick it to Trumphitler” going on.
Neph, didn’t virtually all of these fine folks cross into the U.S. from Mexico? Mexico can take them back, since they allowed entry into THEIR country (on the premise that they were just passing through to us).
JI:
I, personally, have no issue of dropping them off at their point of entry if their home countries won’t take them, with a threat of third party deportation if they return after that. To me, it’s the only way I can think of to deal with it in anything approaching a sane and humane manner.
“Sane and humane”
Wait, what? When was that added as a criteria?
“Here’s a published paper about it from 2020”
I’m not going to read that whole thing, since the abstract gets things wrong.
“deportations that occur in the shadows”
Totally fair and balanced, I’m sure.
I didn’t chose the piece for scholarly content, but if there’s papers being written and published five years back, it’s been going on for at least a full presidential term. The reason we weren’t hearing about it as much was the news wasn’t reporting on it. Same as the fact that Obama deported more people than Trump.
I bet you didn’t even read it. lol
But yeah, I love gussying up political opinion as scholarly academicking.
Immigration isn’t criminal law, it’s foreign policy. As lawful agents under the President, Border Patrol can take anyone who crosses the border and bring them back to the other side of that border regardless of that person’s nationality (which often can’t be proved anyway). There is no “judge” making a deportation order. That’s how Obama padded the numbers.
Bringing people back to the country where they quite recently were is way different than shipping them to Africa years later.
It’s also why Biden was completely full of shit that he couldn’t stop it without Congress.
It may be unfair to the deportee, but letting them stay here is unfair to those who are here legally, so let’s pick the ‘unfairness’ that protects those with a right to protection.
“Give them Nansen passports and then force them to leave the country.”
TIL.
Yeah, but without an agreement for someone to take them in they’d end up living in airports, perhaps escaping, and perhaps preying on innocent travelers.
“Or an international treaty requiring nations to repatriate citizens who served their sentence in a foreign country.”
Somehow I doubt that Cuba or Vietnam would sign such a treaty and we can’t force them.
You load them up on a C-130 and fly them to their home country. If the home country refuses to let you land, you return with a bomber escort and ask permission to land for a second and last time.
I wish this site would stop jumping around. It’s just annoying.
It’s like Camp Randall up in here!
Pack it up. Pack it in. Let me begin.
Is that where it loads at the top of the page and then scrolls scrolls scrolls down to your last comment? Yeah that drives me nuts.
It should just load straight at your last comment.
You could always delete the /#comment-%commentnumber% at the end of the URL, that’s what tells it to load the page and then go down to that comment.
Yeah but it sticks that at the end every time you post a comment.
““They have threatened and berated Trader Joe’s customers and Crew Members, physically engaged with Trader Joe’s customers, removed items from customers’ shopping baskets, and posed as authorized representatives of Trader Joe’s,” it says.”
Then why weren’t they arrested?
Because it’s the Bay Area and the government there simply doesn’t care.
Had they been wearing MAGA hats, they’d have been arrested for jaywalking, after stepping over human feces and a junkie with a needle in his arm, to cross the street.
I disagree. Government there, being they are criminals themselves, care, and care deeply about the criminals. They see the criminals as victims and the people providing services as nothing but criminal capitalists.
OK, it looks like a few of them were arrested.
They usually do get arrested when their nutbaggery impacts government entities (like showing up at some governor’s house to protest or burn it down). Was some government entity impacted here?
What Alex says.
They weren’t arrested because everything is going according to plan.
I dont know why everyone is so worried about the commie in NY. I see on the teevee Mamdani is swearing off ovens and zyklon b.
Islam considers it just find to tell lies when engaged in screwing over the infidel…
Someone here posted a Zohan clip on YouTube yesterday talking about socialism. One of the highest rated comments was a self-professed Jew who said he wasn’t going to let fear from the right intimidate him from voting for The Zohan. So I may be correct when I said his antisemitism isn’t going to set him back one bit last week when I jokingly said he was only going to get 70% of the Jewish vote.
Technically Zohan may be semitic if that makes the libel semitics feel better about doing something really stupid.
He won’t get many votes from the Hasidim, who are very numerous in NYC. They went something like 90% for Donald.
So he only wins 60/40?
Another good read on substack.
Also very good discussion about the difference between maritime order and continental anarchy and how each produces different kinds of ‘success’.
Good essay, with excellent historical comparisons. Also comes with some rabbit holes to venture down into. I like the map showing the overseas bases. Gives perspective on the extent of the US empire.
Also, world’s shelter for those who don’t feel like staying in their own country.
Newsom calls California exodus ‘complete bulls—t’ on podcast appearance
The exodus is Californians leaving and being replaced by immigrants, but you knew that.
Trading the middle class for the impoverished? WCPGW???
Bagdad Bob wipes away a tear
Of all those crossing the border, undocumented, how many are transients, destined for greener pastures?
You misspelled ‘illegals’.
You know, when a Democratic hatchet man is pushing a narrative, I get suspicious – not of the target but of the manipulation itself.
Maybe the problem all along is the desire to believe the worst.
I am gonna try to say this again. There are two sides to this Epstein shit. The first is the criminal side. There is a ton of that out there already even though people act as if that is not the case, but none of it will ever get anyone in court and then locked up (other than Epstein and Maxwell, which they needed to be silenced). That is simply because the other side of this thing, the intelligence side, would end up being demanded under discovery in a court, and our government has something to hide there that makes that a thing to avoid at all costs. Democrats would have immediately leaked anything on Trump if they had it to end his 2024 campaign, so that is not what it is. Maybe they are trying to protect allies involved for some reason.
But the most likely reason is that Epstein was a US intelligence asset (read that as deep state) and this shit was their game.
Dershowitz says (in WSJ today) that there is no intelligence angle. If there had been, he’d have gotten Epstein a better deal.
You see Alex, this too is the desire to believe the worst. I guess it is a sort of Calvinist thing – the depravity of humanity. The problem is that leads to witch hunts.
Both of these things can be true:
1. Epstein was a Mossad asset.
2. There is not enough evidence left to convict anyone.
Regardless, people are not happy with the situation, and the Trump administration should do something — release some sort of Phase Two.
During his first arrest in FL, the prosecutor said he was told to let him off because he was an intelligence asset. Epstein then went straight back to doing what he did that got him arrested in the first place. Almost like he knew he had protection.
It is a good question, though. If he was an asset, where was his protection the second time around?
Nothing about Epstein adds up, starting with where he got his money.
Oh I’m not discounting how badly the Trump administration has screwed up. First feeding the rumor mill and conspiracy mongering, particularly Bondi’s first proclamation about “on her desk”. And then expecting everyone to just buy off on the about-face.
Funny how this now becomes an Israeli intelligence op. I wonder if Mossad isn’t getting the old KGB treatment – they are so good that they can do anything!
Is Dershowitz saying it because its true (or he thinks its true) or because that is what he is being told to say?
“If he was an asset, where was his protection the second time around?”
He was no longer useful?
“this now becomes an Israeli intelligence op”
That’s been the story for a long time.
Alright, all ya’ll going on about the intel angle – WHO in this country said, yeah, we’ll let that slide?
FWIW, The Fifth Column posted the audio of Bondi’s “it’s on my desk” statement and it’s ambiguous – she’s talking about the Epstein files, Kennedy files and something else and said she’d gotten an order from the White House to release them – the “it’s on my desk”, from the context, sounds very much like “the order from the White House is on my desk”.
“Dershowitz says (in WSJ today) that there is no intelligence angle. If there had been, he’d have gotten Epstein a better deal.”
Yeah, you missed the point I made again. They didn’t need to divulge any intelligence to go after Epstein OR Maxwell. They will not be able to guarantee the silence of everyone else however, so that is why the intelligence angle is problematic.
And anyone that thinks that Epstein was not a deep state agent, and yes, OUR deep state, is ignoring that obvious point, by design.
“It is a good question, though. If he was an asset, where was his protection the second time around?”
The answer to this is actually quite simple. The agenda/priority of the deep state changed under Obama, and they went from using Epstein as an asset to control all sorts of people – but in this specific case, people whom happened to be mostly democrats, with Bill Clinton being the top guy – to needing to get rid of Epstein to protect these compromised democrats.
Epstein went from being a protected asset, to being someone they wanted to forever silence.
They
Who is they?
“Who is they?”
DUH!
The lizard people that run the world!
They is the intelligence apparatus.
intelligence apparatus
There are people there, no? Some real shitheads like Brennan and Clapper for sure. But who are these other people? More shadowy figures – maybe mostly imaginary?
“There are people there, no? Some real shitheads like Brennan and Clapper for sure. But who are these other people? More shadowy figures – maybe mostly imaginary?”
You already got it. Yes, the apparatus became Brennan and Clapper under Obama, and the people they brought in to replace whomever had been there since Reagan/Bush. It went from scary people that were very pro America to globalist marxist douchebags that hated America and wanted to fundamentally change it.
We can count on this: It is worse than think it is. It always is.
We aren’t talking about secrets of the universe here. All of the cloak and dagger soopersekret ‘deep state’ and international intrigues boil down to the bumblefuckery of midwits. We are talking about the schemes and machinations of weak, venal very flawed people. They are pathetic to the point of only feeling validated as a person if they can stomp their boot on people’s faces….adult versions of Jr. HS playground bullies.
It really is just what it looks like – your gut is right. Like everything evil it is both demonic and petty at the same time. Epstein was a honeytrap and he caught a lot of flies because they just cant help themselves.
It wont be revealed and no one will be prosecuted because a compromised pol is a valuable asset. Everyone involved is wishing like hell it would just go away.
An element seems to be missing. W here are the victims? Shouldn’t they be out shouting in the street demanding justice? We have a handful of names but shouldn’t there be many, many more? Where are the women saying “I was 14 when Congressman Boogereater raped me on Epstein island!”. Shouldn’t they be lined up around the block?
Compromised to whom Suthen? That’s the hitch. I agree with the bumblefuckery of midwits, and I think nearly all government secrecy is intended to shield the incompetent, not the culpable. Good god, let the people see what raging idiots we are? They’d throw us out for a whole new claque of morons!
JI, we must make way for the new, in order to keep things the same.
In reality, I think this is a case of too little information to be had, so people fill in the blanks. Israel/Jews are the heavies of the day, so they become the secret of first choice. The reality tends to be much more prosaic: Epstein was a rich guy who used girls to get richer. Nothing more, and nothing less. Nothing will come of this due to the supposed crimes being form 2010, way past any statute of limitation.
“Compromised to whom?”
Shadowy figures. It’s always the shadowy figures.
I suspect it is like an unofficial club. They are all compromised to each other because they have all stepped on their own dicks a few times and they all know each other. There is no central evil genius pulling the strings. Club…more like a gang and Epstein was the initiation.
As for the desire to believe the worst…that is born of experience. As someone here pointed out a few days ago kiddie diddling likely isn’t the worst of it.
Shadowy figures.
[Dana Carvey church lady] Could it be… SATAN???
Club…more like a gang
See, even both of those have some kind of leadership. Now if you said it was a committee, then we’d be getting somewhere in terms of unaccountability.
For good or bad, many people have learned from the COVID years that so-called “conspiracy theories” can be true, and often things are exactly as they appear, or even worse than you thought. In this case, the lack of openness is just inviting people to make assumptions. Having a bunch of sealed court documents isn’t helping either.
And the password is ORGY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKrN4vNsBzA
ZWAK:
I thought it was Fidelio! (NSFW)
COVID was about just how willing the masses are to go along with whatever stupidity leadership decides on. It wasn’t the masses that were resisting.
I get an all expense trip to Atlantic City next week.
Guess Ill find something to do while not working.
Its Jersey, what could go wrong
Are you putting your plate carrier in your carry on, or are you checking a bag?
https://bulletproofeveryone.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20288321004&gbraid=0AAAAAC7u0FodifF5RKBkddqXL7xTonHbC&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgKujltbBjgMVJQGtBh0LmStuEAAYASAAEgIL3PD_BwE
The mob could sucker you into massive gambling debts and pretty much own you at that point?
Luckily its more near the airport. Last time I went to the boardwalk, it was the most uneasy I have ever been in a city.
I loved the boardwalk when I was little but yeah the city is a toilet.
I considered visiting there when I was watching Boardwalk Empire, but it was a big ol’ NOPE when I looked up what it’s like today.
I recommend a long walk along the seashore
If I was a crueler man, I would try to hunt down the boardwalk scene from It’s Always Sunny.
RUM HAM
The city proper or the airport that is now no longer near the city?
I grew up there and can help you out for things to do. Especially if you have a rental car that gets you out of AC proper.
Act the peeping tom with Susan Sarandon?
Egg Harbor Township. Most likely just sticking to area.
Quickest non AC beaches would be Margate or Longport. I prefer Longport if you just want to enjoy the beach. Brigantine is an option if you want to go north of AC.
If you want a “fun” beach and boardwalk experience without the AC vibe I’d do Ocean City. However, that’s 50 minutes from the EHT Hampton Inn according to Google. Considering AC is 30 minutes or so from there I’d do OC.
There isn’t a lot out there to do. Only thing top of mind is:
https://storybookland.com/
I hear there is a guy named Mike there who makes pretty good sandwiches…
*squints suspiciously*
OFFS! I guess Rosie O’Donnell counts for multiple Americans.
High cost of living I can see. But wont trigger the algorithms if you dont spinkle in the bullshit
Have you seen the cost of living in European countries? I’ll stick with Ohio, thanks.
Oh I was thinking more like S. America or S. Asia…and ya, Ill stick with NKY too
If those folks think that the cost of living is high in the U.S., just wait until they get taxed on everything where they’re living, and still have the IRS take its share, since they’re still
subjectscitizens.No one is leaving. And of those who do they will be very surprised to discover those countries are all filled with Nazis who insist on immigration procedure that takes several years.
OFFS! I guess Rosie O’Donnell counts for multiple Americans.
Yes?
The New Hampshire bear scene is wild.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/polite-black-bear-stuns-new-hampshire-homeowners-after-ringing-doorbell-before-exploring-hot-tub-video/
“The slick Mamdani also distanced himself from his past use of the phrase “seizing the means of production,” a Marxist concept, but in a roundabout way, chalking it up to a rookie mistake, another business bigwig in attendance said.”
Yeah, sure.
“Sorry, I meant to say stealing the means of production”
Look a man with his business background understands the market. You need a businessman in charge times like this.
His business was graft and living off his parents. Like Marx, it makes him a prime candidate for this commie shit.
He is now claiming that he is no longer for “global intifada”. After claiming it doesn’t mean what everyone knows it means.
Dude may be “slick” but he’s a really dumb politician.
Dude may be “slick” but he’s a really dumb politician.
He doesn’t have to be smart. He just has to convince enough people that he will make their life better by fleecing a smaller group of people.
Which has been Team Blue’s entire philosophy for damn near a century.
Yeah, *wink wink* no more advocating ovens and group showers for him. No Sir.
The guy is a 2D comic book commie stereotype. Yet I saw him this morning surrounded by a sea of journalists literally falling over each other, flashbulbs like machine-guns, not being able to understand anything because everyone was clamoring at the same time….It was like a scene out of a movie. The only thing I could say was “You’ve gotta be kidding me”
Hasn’t he promised them food shortages, blackouts and skyrocketing homelessness? How can they say no to that?
Well, Bernie advocates for bread lines and he is still in office. What a bizarre world we live in.
He’s the male AOC.
The media swoons all over them for no reason that I can detect.
“The media swoons all over them for no reason that I can detect.”
Oh, the reason is obvious and simple: the media, the legacy media, that is, is replete with these people that went to college and got indoctrinated by marxists. They believe the world is unfair, and to fix it OTHER PEOPLE must be fleeced. They never believe or realize that they would be amongst the first to be put up against the wall themselves by those that end up running things after they help them bring in marxist utopia they have been stupid enough to come t believe in.
NEW: @MiamiHerald
/ @WLRN
investigation reveals 182 people have been struck and killed by Brightline trains. While key safety measures are delayed, Brightline remains the deadliest passenger train in U.S. We compared with other railroads to explain why.
https://x.com/aaron_leib/status/1945112835492602086
Americans just cant figure out trains
Stupid people can’t figure out trains..
This shit is just Darwinism in action…
Darwin and suicides.
But yes, in Eurotopia it’s rare to see trains crossing roads. I suspect that the one in Florida is loaded with road crossings.
There are only two intercity carriers in the United States – Amtrak and Brightline. Brightline operates one route along the east coast of Florida. Amtrak is a government agency operating everywhere else.
I only learned Brightline existed today. It is the Only private passenger rail between cities.
I wager it has a better record than Amtrak.
https://apnews.com/article/miami-us-news-ap-top-news-transportation-technology-florida-0973281682ed4cc9bbd33a5fd569d5d5
How many of those lines run long distances through empty country?
The thing about trains is that they are restricted to tracks. Train tracks are very conspicuous. Trains also are very conspicuous. This means that trains cant sneak up on you.
In the US train kills you saving the taxpayer on your trip to the camp.
““I had kind of outgrown what they represented,” Hatch, now 38, told The Post. “I got them to feel more confident, but some of that is shaped by cultural narratives and the male gaze. When I got implants, it was for me originally, but the size was not for me.””
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/lifestyle/gen-z-millennials-women-are-rejecting-implants-and-fillers/
Enough with this “male gaze” nonsense.
TIDDIES!!!
Paging Q..
implants are ugly, so I applaud any trend back to natural.
I stand by my friend UCS here. Implants are a huge turn off.
Lip filler is just gross.
The first time I took a figure drawing class, the teacher was this short old lady who cussed like a sailor. She couldn’t stand implants, she mentioned that one model had them and it looked like she had two oranges strapped to her chest.
“Patients today don’t want to look different, they just want to look better,” plastic surgeon Dr. David Hidalgo told The Post. “They’re just not into overdoing it anymore.”
“90s porn star tits just make me look trashy, which face it, I am, especially after I turn thirty.” — Fixed it for them
I want every story that mentions “male gaze” to automatically link to one of those “now that I’m over 50 I’m invisible to men” stories.
Heh.
If there is any aspiring magazine or newspaper writer out there, they could write the story that absolutely guaranteed no one has ever written. I get the correct amount of male attention.
Was there male gaze before she got the fakes? Or she wanted the gaze? Too much gaze now, doesn’t want it? Or she’s removing them to bring the gaze back? Very confusing.
Now to get to work on removing the tattoos.
This.
I am 60, the straitest straight guy on the planet and I love the sight, sound and company of women. Aren’t I supposed to be slobbering over 20 something pretty girls?
I see fake tits, tattoos, hog rings, purple hair and just hear the sad trombone. I dont feel lust, I feel pity.
Yes
Oooh, the ‘Male Gaze.’ Bro and SiL are still dead-eyed on it, with added hatred for The Patriarchy, which is responsible for everything negative at all times. I kept quiet until I heard two contradictory terms, and I purposefully only raised the nefarious purpose of amorphous language.
They said (Bad) Men felt ‘entitled’ and had all the ‘privilege’ possible. Fierce competition between the Gazers was mentioned, and I outloud wondered how people could be so entitled and have ‘deserved’ rewards for their Patriarchal roots, why would there be such fierce competition? If they already *have* it, then… what’s there to compete for? (Where are the hand maidens in Trump America? (Illegals! Tho I didn’t say it.))
Mom thought that was a good point, but the others didn’t comment. It was the only poke I felt comfortable with, then on holiday and sharing an AirBnB and further travel plans, but they did get into the trans debate. Mom and Dad said they didn’t understand it, but didn’t say why or that it was good/bad /whatever. I wisely kept out of that one, but saved for later.
Older Bro has repeatedly used “his Alliance” with women as a talking point, which very much strikes his younger sibling as ‘a way to sound good while meaning ill,’ though I don’t doubt his belief or actions therein. When shit sounds too good to be true, uh? We kinda have a time-honored phrase for that, as well.
Rhymes with ‘bullshit, hidden behind sound-goody platitudes.’
My mom and dad didn’t know about furries until about a year ago. They don’t get the trans thing either. We forget that the “news” that older people watch does a great job of insulating them from these things. It’s the reason my parents still think the Democrat party hasn’t changed at all in the last 40 years.
The blurting: https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2019/09/the-blurting.html
Lefties basically believe they can blurt about anything and not be challenged for it.
I read 95% of my news. Sometimes I get some snippets of teevee news when it is on in peoples’ homes that I work in. After just a few minutes of it I am so annoyed it takes all my willpower to not tell them to turn that damn noise off. TOK: That is exactly what it is, “old people news” designed purposefully to insulate and not inform.
All-star games are an outdated concept.
Like merit, decency and honor.
Wait, you don’t like Battle of the Network Stars?
“Space” is from French. You should call it “the Arkensea,” from Old English ercnan- ‘pure, holy, majestic’ + sǣ ‘sea’.
https://x.com/wylfcen/status/1945227904293429673
Have a conversation with William the Bastard.
I saw that guy play at Trees the other night. Awesome punk band.
Arkansas is the holy land!
I thought that was supposed to be Missouri?
Hell has a satellite location near Rolla, Missouri.
Arkansas invented the toothbrush. Had it been invented elsewhere, it would be known as a teethbrush.
Rat on a train.
Everyone knows, Hell is in Michigan.
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
Chinese Tech Support: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel.
Skills Gap: Digital escorts often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, leaving highly sensitive data vulnerable to hacking.
Ignored Warnings: Various people involved in the work told ProPublica that they warned Microsoft that the arrangement is inherently risky, but the company launched and expanded it anyway.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers
I mean what are they suppose to do? Americans can’t do the work
something something rope something hang ourselves
Description of people and the objects they deposited from a papyrus account of a Ptolemaic pawnbroker.
“The snub-nosed woman” deposited “a new piece of cloth.”
“The stranger” deposited a “sword.”
“The servant of the hunchback” deposited a “roll of papyrus” worth 160 drachmas.
“The huckster” deposited “a mattress” worth 8 drachmas
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1945199686920315073
I’m not sure I agree with this, but it does point out one interesting thing.
The idea that Trump backs down dates to April, when he announced steep “reciprocal” tariffs on almost everyone, and 145% on China. Markets cratered, and he walked the tariffs back.
But he never relinquished his 10% “baseline” tariff on almost all imports. When he first floated such a tariff on the campaign trail, it seemed like a worst-case scenario. Today, many trading partners now see that as a best-case scenario.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/forget-taco-trump-is-winning-his-trade-war-8af6f777?st=ttr4sQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
We are still a market that the majority of the world wants access to.
We need fewer imports and more stuff made here.
The fact that they came up with TACO tells me that they fundamentally dont understand Trump. That is why he wins so much. His best assets are his opponents.
When you understand they are all criminals and assholes, and their primary mode is to accuse others of being what they are, it makes sense. They want to make Trump out to be like they are, and for all his faults, he is never going to be a loser like they are.
From the “y’all” story. “Y’all means all” is incorrect. “Y’all” means “you”. “All y’all” means “all”. I call cultural misappropriation.
Why are you using an obvious plural for a singular purpose?
It’s typical English.
Why not? Double negatives are proper grammar in some languages.
Typical is:
You – Singular
Y’all – small group
All Y’all – large group
UCS, you are from well north of the Mason-Dixon line and therefore may not opine on colloquialisms from south of it.
JI, have you realized that it was not isolated to a regionalism?
Really? Who outside on NY/NJ says “youse”?
Scottish sheep fuckers?
We’re not talking about that abomination.
Who outside on NY/NJ says “youse”?
Is that a NY thing? I’ve only heard in in metro Philly and Southern NJ.
I’ve not heard it in my many years of living in the northern part of the state or NYC.
@Sensei – I have never heard it outside of television.
For a New Yorker you have an uncanny grasp of southern diction UnCivil.
This is not an exclusively southern vocabulary. It originated there but was too successfully spread to distant parts.
I love bringing ‘y’all’ back. Dad’s from rural VA, I never really lost it, but it’s found a lovely new niche.
Both avoid using any pronouns at all, AND play that politeness against the typical ‘y’all = racist hick’ trope against the Left!
‘Dude who doesn’t at all pass’ introduced itself as “Jenny, she/her pronouns.” The second I’ve worked with in Hamilton County. Dude was chill, certainly approachable in reporter-speak, and I’m sure we’d get along fine. The first was in a glorified after school daycare for elem kids. ‘She’ was also chill but very frank about the other mental issues she faces, particularly depression and anxiety. (Which… I’m not sure ya can trans ‘out’ of. Just the easiest, most current way to attract attention? (Did not look like any op had ever been done. Zero pass ability, other than long hair on both of ’em.)
I’d call anyone pushing for sexual reassignment on themselves is as loud a ‘Cry for help!’ than threatening suicide. But that’s me. I miss when Paris Hilton just had pointless accessory puppies in a purse. (Not a euphemism, here.) Now we have celebs adopting black orphans and trans-ing them? Uh. Huh. I think the Romans were right to judge prostitutes as morally superior beings to actors. The former is far more open about what lie you’re getting.
Y’all is the conversational or inquisitive form. “Y’all welcome” or “Y’all want some lunch?”
All Y’all is the imperative form. “All Y’all get your asses back in the damn house right now!”
JI: ‘youse’ was in use in Minnesota when I was there in the early ’70’s.
I imagine they are using ‘koox’ or some such now.
Yous is the plural of you just like Is is the plural of I.
As a native Texan, allow me to clarify:
“Y’all” means “you and some-to-all others associated with you in this matter”. “All y’all” technically means “you and all others associated with you in this matter”, but it’s basically a matter of emphasis, really.
Considering they used yinzer in the article, and didn’t describe the difference between y’all and all y’all says they’re just trying to fit in with the hicks.
You just keep pretending ‘yinzer’ is a word. Won’t make it so.
UCS:
Yinzer is a slur, not a word. It’s for a specific type of Pittsburghian.
I prefer ya’ll.
If you think about the contraction literally, that is the better version.
y’all is a contraction of “you” and “all”, the ‘ replaces the ou.
ya’ll is a contraction of “ya” and “all”, the ‘ replaces the second a.
It is more phonetically correct.
Y’all means you all or you, depending on context.
“Why not? Double negatives are proper grammar in some languages.”
That ain’t no lie, Ted.
Why don’t we deport them back where they came from – Mexico. Maybe Mexico will think twice about becoming a conduit in the future if we do that?
Because Mexico will just facilitate them crossing back into the US.
Yeah I would have no problem with that. La Presidentx will but whatevz.
“A California couple were taken into custody after investigators found they had 21 children from surrogate mothers as part of a suspected trafficking ring.
Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38, were arrested for felony child endangerment this week after cops descended on their $4.1 million home in Arcadia.
Inside, they found the couple’s huge brood of children which included 17 toddlers aged three or under. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14910787/California-surrogates-couple-arrested-21-nanny-abuse-Xuan-Zhang.html
WTF?
That sounds exactly like a livestock breeding operation.
Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38 —> First thoughts? Raise Chinese spy-orphans in California so they grow up as Americans, but have a ready-made Home Base where they are trained by Chinese intelligence. Perfectly pass as ‘Americans’ while the CCP gathers recon Intel and establishes inroads for future spycraft in schools, business and Washington.
I don’t believe I’m wrong thinking the Chinese and Soviets+ certainly did that in the past. Why would it stop now?
I don’t know about this specific case but the Chinese spy operations are probably epic. What intel we aren’t already willingly handing over to them in order to do business there is being collected by e.g. college students.
This fall on FX, Jimmy O. Yang and Jamie Chung are
“The Ahmellicans”
“Emoji Dick,”
Not the emoji you expect reading that.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/face-with-tears-of-joy-review-smartphone-hieroglyphics-843fcb8f?st=SQ6vmr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
+ 1 eggplant
Replacing English writing with emoji logographs to prepare for learning Chinese when they take over?
🤔
That sounds exactly like a livestock breeding operation.
Puppy mill.
Only one photo of this Wilawan Emsawat?
Still, I think “would”.
You need new glasses.
Don’t you judge me.
It’s just a headshot, and this is Thailand.
It’s just a headshot, and this is Thailand.
Upon reflection, I defer to your worldly experience and go with ‘would not (without further information)’
“Still, I think “would” “.
Tres….is that you?
Here is a picture of her in Mexican shorts:
https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2F667e3111-28a0-40cf-8103-ff2d6e9bf2b5.jpg
That’s no ladyboy.
See? That’s why I should defer to those of you with extensive overseas “experience”.
“Russian propaganda claims a French surgeon was murdered to silence him over alleged revelations about Brigitte Macron’s gender
CONCLUSION: The claim originated from a website created just five days before the story was published. It was subsequently amplified by pro-Russian online channels. The video consists of a mix of authentic and AI-generated content. The claim that Brigitte Macron, wife of the French President, was born male is a conspiracy theory that has been circulating for years.”
https://www.factchecker.gr/2025/07/04/russian-propaganda-claims-a-french-surgeon-was-murdered-to-silence-him-over-alleged-revelations-about-brigitte-macrons-gender-2/
See also Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama is Brigitte Macron!
Einhorn is Finkle! Finkle is Einhorn!
It’s much more likely Brigitte Macron is trans than Michelle Obama.
Russian propaganda sure does get around.
You guys seen the trailer for Big Mike?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Ucr5ROK6c
That’s a bit much. He isn’t that muscley.
Better than Michelle Obama as Magic Mike.
Help me! Which authority should be appealed to more, the ADL or the NEA?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/antisemitism-and-the-teachers-union-education-students-k-12-44cd1fa7?st=nahvHt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m not a fan of “gold standard” and “peer reviewed” things from third party special interests being shoved in to curricula regardless if I agree or not.
lol
It’s been happening for decades, since the ’50s at least.
It was OK when it was things we agreed with!
Apparently the Senate is SLASHING the federal budget.
Good for them.
[wait for it] ……………… People will die!!!!
I’ll believe it when I see year over year real reductions in outlay.
Who can tell? They are inflating the fuck out of the currency and reducing spending by slowing the increase…it is all a shell game but it always ends the same way – you have fewer options, they have more.
I should have said “…always ends the same: more slop in the trough”
The best analogy of where we are is the following.
The USS America was run into an ice berg – on purpose – by the bridge crew. As the ship is sinking, the bridge crew ordered the rest of the staff to distract the passengers with deck games away from the aft section of the ship. On the aft section the bridge crew is busy plundering and loading everything of value, including the crap that is bolted down into all the life rafts, which they intend to use to get away on while the rest of the crew and passengers all go down with the ship they wrecked on purpose.
I remind you that a very large number of people – those with a D next to their political loyalty and otherwise stupid as shit – were screaming bloody murder and ready to riot, all because people were exposing that our government spending had hundreds of billions of dollars being not just misspent, but funneled to entities where the cabal could just steal it and either line their pockets or finance anti-American causes.
We are doomed, because the entitled outnumber those of us that believe in personal responsibility and consequences to choices/actions.
Who said anything about adjusting for inflation.
If the number spent goes down, we will have seen a cut, finally.
It’s amazing how much debate is needed to cut just a little, but spending just sails right on through.
I think we should send our unclaimed deportees to Brussels. They will be welcomed with open arms.
That wouldn’t be halal.
I’m going to whine but do nothing
President Trump on Tuesday told reporters that Jerome Powell’s handling of a $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters “sort of is” a fireable offense, raising new questions about whether he may seek to oust the central bank boss.
Maybe he could suggest to Congress that a few cuts could be made. As we’ve hashed over before, $2.5B is the price for a modern sports stadium, not renovations to a D.C. office building.
If you believe the estimates, more than the proposed Browns stadium ($2.4 B).
Is it just me, or does this sort of thing depress the rest of you? After starting the business during the height of Bidenomics, things are tight. An extra $50k would be life changing. But we have a ruling class that throws around billions like it’s no big deal. I get why people turn to the politics of envy (aka socialism). But it makes more sense to me to cut off the spigot of taxpayer money.
It’s all Pentagon envy.
I reached upper “middle class” just to have inflation send me back down.
The aristocracy is entitled to a level of luxury.
I thought we came here to get away from hereditary nobility
Adelita Grijalva won the Democratic primary Tuesday for a southern Arizona U.S. House seat long held by her father, the late U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, one of the most senior and progressive power brokers on Capitol Hill.
——-
Adelita Grijalva dominated the field of Democratic hopefuls seeking the nomination. She said lowering the cost of living, standing up for immigrant rights, and protecting access to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security are among her top priorities. Grijalva also racked up a lengthy list of heavyweight endorsements — including Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and several state and local officials.
“This is a victory not for me, but for our community and the progressive movement my dad started in Southern Arizona more than 50 years ago,” Grijalva said in a statement.
Related Stories
I guess it was a choice between her and some tik tok tart.
dominated the field of Democratic hopefuls
Whip or paddle?
It has been crystal clear since her alcoholic rubber stamp of a father died that she would inherit his seat. She is the very model of a modern nepo baby, and is 100% guaranteed to never, ever, leave the plantation.
He main competition was some Xer chick whose campaign consisted mostly of “my mother was a welfare case and I was raised by Planned Parenthood, so I’m a fighter”, or something.
Sounds like another “Democratic Socialist”. 🙄
JFC they’re crawling out of the woodwork lately.
I’ve been through there a few times.
Population of 78
Not only does it not need a mayor it should be dissolved as a city.
What a dumb fuck.
While it’s not a P320, I wouldn’t trust something with the manufacturing quality of a Hi-Point to not go off when abused in such a manner. Would have served him right to shoot himself.
Jeez. That model does not have a firing pin block. He was really lucky if he had one in the chamber.
A man destined for higher office.
Everybody knows you can only pull that move off with a Colt 1851.
I’m struggling to visualize “never took it out of the holster” and “held it by the barrel” but whatever.
I guess it would depend on the design of the holster.
“Held it by the holster?”
That sounds like a hell of a euphemism.
“Grab ’em by the holster”???
This story is an example of fractal stupidity – that is, each arbitrarily small part of the story is just as stupid as the story as a whole.
Whoops.
Responded to wrong comment.
I’ve been through there a few times.
Population of 78
Not only does it not need a mayor it should be dissolved as a city
If Adelita Grijalva wins the general election, she would be the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress.
“In a district that is 60 percent Hispanic, it is critical that voters see themselves in their representatives, and Adelita is the fighter they need in Congress,” said Rep. Linda Sánchez, chair of BOLD PAC, the Hispanic Caucus’ campaign organization.
Oh, piss off.
It is always frustrating when my representative doesn’t have the same hairstyle as me. I need representation.
This is why you need that Vidal Sassoon/Cthulhu game.
There’s no “if” about it.
I heard this story on the radio. The school board of Country Club Hills, IL is under fire for charging over $200k in hotels and food, including trips to Vegas. Who the hell gives these people a credit card with no spending limit?
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/its-egregious-country-club-hills-school-district-160-under-fire-for-mismanagement-and-financial-missteps/
A place called Country Club Hills expected less?
In the last year a mayor in one of those towns was accused of the same thing, running up charges for vacations and expensive dinners. This is what happens when you trust those selfless public servants.
‘Financial Missteps’.
Is that what we are calling it these days?
My son-in-law arrived in Indiana last night. His luggage was misplaced in NJ but they should have it to him today. My daughter is ecstatic. Tough situation, but at least they’re together and he made it before his mom passed away. I’m not sure if they’ll be up here to see us this time.
A bright spot in a dark situation. I’m happy for your family.
We need to keep these losers safe!
When a public policy saves lives, is wildly cost-effective and enjoys bipartisan support, you might expect politicians to embrace it. Yet the Trump administration is proposing to slash a $56 million federal grant that helps first responders and communities access naloxone, the overdose-reversal medication credited with saving thousands of lives every year.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in states, including Idaho, have acted to restrict naloxone distribution to first responders only, ignoring evidence that laypeople, not paramedics or cops, are most likely to prevent a fatal opioid overdose.
These moves aren’t just cruel, they’re fiscally reckless.
We need these parasitic degenerates to keep the economy strong.
I’m not ordinarily a fan of puritannical judgementalism, but if these fucking junkies cannot be bothered to keep themselves breathing why should I?
We can’t have states and local governments pay for these thing!
Only taxpayer funds are effective. The higher the level of government the more effective.
Rat on a train:
As they’re touched by more government hands, they become more holy, that’s why the best funds are taken from individuals, go to the federal government, go to state government, who sends them to a county government, who sends them to a city government, who gives them to a connected friend. That’s the only way that money can be purified.
lol They actually believe this. Some idiot was complaining about Education Department cuts for this very reason.
the only way that money can be
purifiedlaundered.FTFY
Yup. They can either help themselves or we let them continue to degrade everything around them and steal from us to support their habit.
Same person probably supports “needle exchanges” which attract junkies like flies from miles around.
Narcan should be OTC.
Yes, it should be.
A lot of ODs are legit accidents. Restricting Narcan to ‘first responders’ is just asshole virtue signaling.
It is OTC in NJ. Somehow I shouldn’t be surprised this is state by state.
I believe it’s OTC here in Ohio as well. I know I get tons of browser ads telling me that I should be carrying it around.
There’s groups that I’ve seen at a couple of punk shows (I would believe similar would be in other subcultures such as EDM) that have full tackle boxes of items they distribute for free which includes items such as fentanyl test strips.
There’s a house in town with a conspicuous purple light bulb and a big sign saying “We have Narcan”.
I’m in favor or restricting narcan and making hydrocodone ect OTC.
Most rest areas in Ohio have it for free. I know the one on 71 N of Mansfield does and the one on 271 just south of 77 does too.
I guess OD’ing in a rest stop is the thing to do these days.
One more moment I’m glad to be in Idaho.
Haven’t had time to read through it yet, but I just unboxed my big “Sassoon Files 2nd edition” Call of Cthulhu RPG kickstarter box. Very chunky.
Still waiting on the Cthulhu Orient Express Board Game – but I think that should be shipping pretty soon too. I think a few other folks here were backing these last year.
Working on a new article – mostly pics- but you’re lucky I can fit anything into my current schedule.
I should have paid closer attention. The sudden proliferation of Cthulhu products has to have been spurred by “The Call of Cthulhu” undeniably falling into the public domain a few years back. (Used to be some debate as to whether it has done so already, but now it’s past the point of debate on the copyright)
Vidal Sassoon crossed with Cthulhu?
I’m not familiar with horror hairstyling games.
You never wanted a non-euclidian haircut?
Does no one know of the great warrior Conina the Hairdresser?
“Sassoon Files 2nd edition” Call of Cthulhu RPG kickstarter box
I received mine not too long ago.
I haven’t done much with it beyond flipping through the books. It looks pretty well put together.
I might look at it. I got the Lovecraft box set years ago and blasted through it in about a month. I still re-read them from time to time.
There’s some film version of “The Whisperer in Darkness” made by some indie studio in a black and white ’30s style. I pondered watching it, but I dunno. It’s rare that movies are as good as the book, and sometimes they downright detract from your enjoyment of it by erasing the images you conceived while reading it with the images on the screen… e.g. Now Henry Akeley will look like that actor, not like the version I imagined while reading the book.
But these programs don’t just save lives; they save money. Deaths from opioid overdoses cost the U.S. an estimated $685 billion in 2017 alone due to loss of life, lost productivity and increased health care and criminal justice costs. Consequently, preventing overdose deaths helps the economy, with up to $840,000 in savings for each death prevented, by some estimates. Naloxone is one of the most cost-efficient ways to prevent such deaths, with some researchers estimating that every dollar invested in naloxone distribution saves $2,742 in life-years (the economic value of years-of-life saved by averting overdose deaths).
“lost productivity”
*guffaws, slaps knee*
I had no idea there were so many engineers, bank presidents and microchip designers strung out of smack.
My Google-Fu finds zero support for that $840k cost as well. It’s only found in that article.
errr – savings not cost.
“I had no idea there were so many engineers, bank presidents and microchip designers strung out of smack.”
Fentanyl is in everything now.
I blame Canada!
“There are trace amounts on every dollar.”
You would be surprised. A lot of opiate users manage to keep it on the down-low, and hold down jobs and families at the same time that they have an active addiction. The strung-out homeless junkie stereotype does exist, but it’s not the only story.
On fentanyl: I’d like to know how people are getting high off it. Lacing shit with it? OK, that does make sense, but seems overly complicated. (Is fentanyl really easier to get than straight opioids?) Downers are Downers, but the real trick is dosage. With my Medical Grade Fentanyl, I was fucking OUT. (There’s nothing ‘conscious’ about “conscious sedation.”)
Regardless, I wish people’d recall the horrific days of 1900, with cocaine and heroin gangs fiendishly feuding over terf and customers, murdering thousands in broad daylight as the masses watched in horror. (I’ve used this in person and got blank looks.)
Oh. That was Coca-Cola and Bayer (Heroin’s such a good name!) and… yeah. None of that happened. A fucking tenth gram of cocaine in an ~8oz serving?! FUCK. YES. Duh, people felt great, and no cartels or violence to speak of! (Til Prohibition. Whoopsie!)
The War on Drugs is inarguably the most destructive domestic policy since slavery. In many ways, it just diverted the racism to new fronts. (See also: Jazz.) No lessons to be learned there, however, dear Citizen! (Just move along, won’tcha?)
Fear keeps the systems in line.
Can’t have people think they might LIVE if they OD! Best to just let them die! (Oh, but that’s one less voter!! Keep ’em alive, just a bit. Give ’em an I VOTED sticker. Makes ’em feel so special!)
“Senate Bill 549, introduced in late February, would allow the county to establish a Resilient Rebuilding Authority (RRA) that would be required to use at least 40 percent of its funding to build low-income housing.
The RRA for the Los Angeles wildfires would be allowed to “Issue, receive, and administer funds, including, but not limited to, tax-increment financing, federal loans and grants, state loans and grants, and philanthropic grants, to support recovery.”
Taxpayer funds would be used to oversee the construction process, and the RRA would be given the power to “purchase lots at a fair price for land banking,” “purchase critical construction materials in bulk,” and “support the reconstruction workforce by partnering with trades, facilitating training and workforce development, and creating temporary workforce housing.”
The hearing comes just over a week after Governor Gavin Newsom announced that $101 million in taxpayer funds had been allocated for the development of multifamily low-income housing in communities that had been destroyed by the wildfires. The funding provides up to $450,000 in loan funding per unit, and up to $90,000 in grants.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/la-county-would-buy-fire-ravaged-land-for-low-income-housing-projects-under-new-bill
Odds they never finish building anything?
The goal is to not build anything.
Then declare the open space a nature preserve!
California has already built bridges so mountain lions can cross highways. Priorities.
Then declare the open space a nature preserve!
Any information on the reason behind the animus towards the hardware store?
I bet it’s downright petty. Didn’t give someone’s aunt a refund on a product not purchased at one of their other stores sort of petty.
“The CEO of “Crowds on Demand” has said that he rejected an offer of $20 million to organize the “Good Trouble Lives On” protests taking place on July 17.
The CEO of Crowds on Demand Adam Stewart told reporters at News Nation, “We rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million … The value of the contract would have been worth around that amount nationwide to organize huge demonstrations around the country. But personally, I just don’t think it’s effective.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-ceo-of-activist-group-was-offered-20-million-contract-to-organize-anti-trump-protests
Totally grassroots.
Shit, I’m still waiting for my check from the Koch Brothers for those Tea Party protests they supposedly caused us to organize back in 2009.
My Google-Fu finds zero support for that $840k cost as well. It’s only found in that article.
Reading to the bottom of that article, we find the author is a resident scholar at the reason foundation.
If NPR’s budget is cut people in Flyoverstan will be reduced to using tin cans and string to get their news!
And that method will probably give a more accurate news report.
Those ignorant rednecks don’t know what is best for them.
He’s a regular guy like you me!
https://www.kcra.com/article/gavin-newsom-first-gun-shawn-ryan-podcast/65417617
You’re still gay if you only top*, and you’re still anti-gun if you’re, “…just for gun safety, common sense.”
* – yes, I’m fully aware that bisexual is a thing. Work with me here.
I’m going to have to argue the second half of your statement. It’s a matter of what you really mean by those words.
My idea of common sense gun safety is the rules of proper handling.
His is a desire to disarm the plebs.
We are not the same.
I 🤬 Hate the DBAs.
Take “Not my job”ism and dial it up to 11 with an obfuscated set of request names that make it impossible to get to the right subset of them, and you’re almost there.
That’s the whole purpose of a DBA!
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/what-is-dba-when-to-file-one-for-your-business
🤨
Meanwhile, the rest of us wear like 40 different hats.
“Yeah, man, I’m not anti-gun at all,” Newsom said
He just wants to make sure the filthy rabble can’t get their hands on them.
That guy is the best example of an unscrupulous and evil scumbag ever. You couldn’t create a caricature villain that is as evil and vile as he is.
He’s a garden variety politician, lefty sub species. You could name a hundred just as vile if you stopped and thought about it for half a second. This is just the flip side of the left declaring every Republican prospect “literally Hitler.”
Is Newsome worse than:
Obama
Clinton
Schumer
Whitmer
Klobuchar
Harris
Pelosi
Cortes
Omar
Tlaib
Hirono
Crockett
etc?
*Barack Obama grins and waves*
Hirono. My God. I forgot about that dullard.
I would say “Yes”, Jarflax. The others are scummy and evil, but you can clearly see it even when you are a lefty douche. Newsome on the other hand happens to also be slick and sadly, somewhat charismatic in the Clinton/Obama sense of the evil lowlife.
Barn Find of the day:
https://barnfinds.com/bf-auction-2001-jaguar-xkr-convertible/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
Quick, get it before some jackass shoves a SBC into it.
Does it come with a bunch of trannies in weird clothes?
Single Board Computer?
Small-Bore Carbine?
small block Chevy.
No, that’s not it.
Significant Border Collie.
Huh. I could’ve sworn it was Smarmy Black Comedian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSh0dAaqIA
Sexy butt cutout.
Southern Baptist Convention?
BY MAINTENANCE PERFORMED PROPERLY MEAN…
Spend $6,000 a year on maintenance.
That’s more than an LS swap.
Friendly reminder sour beers suck and you should not drink them
Pie, I appreciate you more and more all the time.
Right, send them to me for safe disposal.
Correct.
Quick, get it before some jackass shoves a SBC into it.
Atlas 4.2 and a Powerglide.
Muncie rock crusher and solid axle.
Last thing you want to deal with is a Jaguar independent rear end as they don’t have wide applications.
In case anyone is curious Naloxone 2pk is OTC at Walgreens for 35 bucks.
Load off me mind
Spend MY money to save someone’s life? No, no, no, I want you to spend your money so I can do that. It ain’t virtuous if I have to pay!
There’s non-profits (albeit probably getting funded by government grants) that give it out for free here.
“All Star Game? More like All Star LAME!”
I did notice the game was in Atlanta, so I guess Georgia’s election laws are no longer racist.
They mentioned the “4-year delay” repeatedly with no mention of why.
Well, the state elected Stacey Abrams, twice.
These things take time.
The employee has been paid at least $300,000 while on leave. Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm’s office won’t say why its investigation has taken so long.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/honolulu-worker-paid-not-to-work-for-nearly-five-years/
You. Don’t. Fucking. Say.
“Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon gave media training to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein back in 2019, according to Bannon, author Michael Wolff, and a new report in The New York Times.
While Bannon confirmed the sessions — where he said he recorded 15 hours of interviews with Epstein — he disputed some of the characterizations of their conversation in a forthcoming book by Wolff.
“Mr. Bannon, who has made 15 documentaries, said that he ‘never media-trained anyone’ and was recording the interview for a previously unannounced eight- to 10-hour documentary meant to illustrate how Mr. Epstein’s ‘perversions and depravity toward young women were part of a life that was systematically supported, encouraged and rewarded by a global establishment that dined off his money and his influence,'” media columnist Ben Smith writes in The Times.
In Wolff’s telling, Epstein was sitting down with Bannon to prep for an episode of “60 Minutes” that never ended up happening. Epstein was charged with sex trafficking of minors in 2019 and died in jail.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-got-media-training-from-steve-bannon-report-2021-9
Here is the NYT article: https://archive.is/6Umsk
Slackjawed imbeciles
There’s a new term circulating social media, and it’s dragging young people for their perceived lack of social skills. Dubbed “the Gen Z stare,” this blank-faced look is allegedly how many young people are engaging with the world around them — by, well, simply not.
While it isn’t something every member of this 13-to-28 age range generation does, the stereotype has struck a chord online, with many social media users joking that they’ve seen it themselves out in the wild — with a waiter, a customer in a shop or even students in a classroom.
In a recent video, TikToker Janaye explained the phenomenon: “The Gen Z stare is specifically when somebody does not respond or just doesn’t have any reaction in a situation where a response is either required or just reasonable,” she said. She recalled a situation on a recent flight in which she instructed a member of Gen Z to put a bag under her seat, only to be met with a stare instead of a response.
This is why masks are so important.
Here we go again. They act like they invented having a dumb look on your face and gave it a trendy name.
Whenever I get that slackjawed blank look*, I make a habit of snapping my fingers in their face to make sure that they’re conscious.
* – Someone once describes it as, ‘…looking like a dog that has just been asked a moderately difficult math problem.’
Anyone snapping fingers should have those fingers snapped.
What TOK says.
One of the things that struck me about visiting ancient sites in Europe was the graffiti. “Fuck you” “Susie loves Johnny forever – 1285” and other such scratched into wood and stone. You can see the exact same graffiti word for word on the walls of the bathrooms at a truck stop.
Once again we have a generation of humans saying “Those darned kids today”. They play their part, we play ours.
It’s hilarious how little humans have changed…
Some gems from Pompeii’s walls:
Glyko licks cunts for two asses.
Romula sucks her man here and everywhere.
[Quintius] has here penetrated waggling buttocks and seen the pain it causes.
It is much better to fuck a hairy cunt than a smooth one: it both retains the warmth and stimulates the organ.
The graffiti surprised
Me on my long ago Europe trip.
And the broken windows, garbage, piss smell in the streets.
The question of course is … why? It’s important to note that Gen Z is the most online generation — and they also came of age during a pandemic, where social distancing was encouraged and many schools and jobs went fully remote. The generation has less time to practice speaking to strangers, perhaps affecting their confidence when they are required to do so. In a video about the stare, TikToker Sassa called the look a “physical manifestation of what it looks like when you don’t grow up with enough human interaction.”
“Are you of the Body?”
You never know what a stranger might say or do. It’s best not to take chances.
Damn Mother Nature. Got my tests started early, the plant is doing well, hoping to be done after lunch and head east to HQ.
Then the SE side of Cleveland gets lightning…
🎶Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening…🎵