So this week was my fist taste of political power. I am now an officer of our little village with a seat on the planning board (think of the worst HOA ever). We’re looking at a whole pile of code revisions, and when I say “looking,” I mean at at atomic force microscope level. One big advantage of my new responsibility is being plugged more forcefully into village gossip and getting advance warning of soon-to-be-rolled-out changes, both legally and who’s going to be doing what with their properties. I should point out that, despite the deeply Progressive (with a capital P) politics here, the board is 100% white and has an average age of about 108.
But there was pizza, so not all was lost.
Birthdays today include an anti-vaxxer who had a close shave; a guy who was more archetype than stereotype; a guy who was brave and worldly; a woman who pre-dated Dick Martin; one of FDR’s useful idiots; the live action Betty Rubble; Don Imus’s spirit animal; my nemesis when I had a young child; my favorite pitcher to watch when I was a kid; a guy who made a stunning proportion of my favorite movies; a guy who, every time I hear him sing, makes me wonder, “Why, exactly, is he famous?”; one of my teenage celebrity crushes- intriguingly large mouth and stunning legs; a chick who, true to TMBG, wants a prosthetic forehead on her real head; and a guy most famous for not fucking Mena Suvari.
And now we shall not fuck the Links.
The shocking thing to me is that this lasted as long as it did.
I’m shocked that a hack lawyer is trying to sue.
There may be a critical mass of stereotypes here.
One must take The Resistance very seriously because these are very serious people.
One must take The Resistance very seriously because these are very serious people.
Another story where I hate everyone.
We be actual try to starving pepuls.
If you like looking at fat, ugly, and angry women, I have a deal for you!
Have any of the Glibs gone missing recently?
At some point, the grift ends. And here’s a non-paywalled version.
I posted this a couple years ago, but it seems like a good week to look again. This was Mangione before his success at Easy Listening. Some real jazz stellar played superbly. And without going over to YouTube, see if you can guess the bass player (it’s not Larry David, the drummer is not Epstein, and the sax player is not Bob Ross). The Old Guy enjoyed the entire hour.
Hmmm… I’m sensing minor league level Pelosi trading opportunities here… The trappings of power call out!
All grand corruption is built on a base of petty corruption?
The progressive activist base is either that, or college kids, and college kids aren’t applying to the planning board.
He’s in with the old school Progressives.
And here I thought she was just known for her sick burns….
So you found them unbearable, I take it?
To be fair, she certainly wasn’t OMWC’s hubris.
Pah! She’s just too concerned about the prophets to pay attention to anyone else’s dominions….
Now I won’t get that out of my head for the rest of the day. My fave of theirs.
She was into superstition, black cats, and voodoo dolls.
(Or is that a different Dick Martin?)
my favorite pitcher to watch when I was a kid
Happy birthday Rube Marquard!
HOF Robin Roberts. 14 victories short of 300. Would have easily surpassed that if he pitched for a better team than Phillies. Complete games in career was 305 which is unimaginable in today’s game.
I saw him pitch for the Orioles, a better team than the Phillies.
Happy birthday Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.?
Happy birthday Steven Spielberg?
You know we all thought it, Pat. 😀
Somebody has to go for the low hanging fruit
Damn your nimble fingers!
Happy birthday Charles Band?
Happy birthday Bob Dylan?
Happy birthday David Lee Roth?
Well, Jagger isn’t a singer so much as he is an entertainer.
DLR isn’t much of a singer but he is a great showman.
:blinks twice: Sometimes this place gets a little too metaphysical for me….
a guy who made a stunning proportion of my favorite movies
Happy birthday Richard Dreyfus!
(Although who the actual person is says a lot about you.)
a guy who made a stunning proportion of my favorite movies
Happy Birthday Ron Jeremy?
Well, I guffawed…
Love what you do and never work a day in your life!
I didn’t see that one coming.
one of my teenage celebrity crushes- intriguingly large mouth and stunning legs
The previous link fits here, too.
I love how RCP pairs up stories.
[WSJ] Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds
[The Hill] Democrats ramp up town hall offensive in GOP districts with focus on Epstein
Wait till the Dems figure out that their sudden infatuation with Epstein is not going to draw much attention away from Tulsi’s efforts to root out all the crooks they’re covering for. Not that I expect much to become of that but they are clearly shaking in their boots so who knows.
The anti-Russia gate thing is crickets on CNN, MSNBC, etc. So most of them probably don’t even know about it, or would care if they did.
Are you kidding, CNN ran John Brennan’s denial of all wrongdoing!
I don’t know why the Dems think packing town halls with activists and paid shills is going to move the needle for them.
The seriously think the Epstein kerfuffle is gonna take down Trump or something. That’s the best they’ve got. It’s unreal.
What’s even more fun (as I’ve trolled my lefty/TDS FB friends) is asking them – if Biden had this, why didn’t his admin release it?
Given the West Coast increasing insanity (even infected San Diego these days)… I’m starting to wonder if the Navy will be able to have any actual bases between the Canal and Hawaii (who at least from what I can tell is ultra-Proggie but knows who butters their bread, unlike SF, Portland, Seattle, etc.). Just depressing when you compare shipyards and shipping activity in the ’40s to now.
And yes… crazy cat lady should be laughed out of court — but given Seattle, probably won’t be.
She’s gonna win. 🤷🏼♀️😼
Almost certainly.
Hey China, our air defenses only cover Red areas, the Blue ones are all grounded due to feline nervousness.
I see a Class Action law suit and an opportunity for a law firm specialty.
“Has your cat or do you know of any cats that have been terrified by the loud noises from military activities? Your cat may be entitled to compensation.”
Call 1-800 My Pussy
“Oh, sorry, I guess we forgot to tell you: you were fired for being a fascist cunt. Thanks and have a nice day.”
Yeah, when the SC decides your interpretation of corporate law for criminal process was just a little too creative…
At some point, the grift ends. And here’s a non-paywalled version.
Because what was done to Trump was totally not lawfare, no sirree.
God, justice and the American way!
Today is also the 250th anniversary of the Postal Service.
They gave us breakfast and little ceramic tie racks yesterday.
Actually, the tie racks are metal, and they called them pins, not tie tacks.
Spell check needs to lay off a bit.
Will there be a parade?
Does Trump know about this?
Yes, but it will take 5-7 business days to arrive.
The cost of parades went up another 22 cents
Hey it gets costly in shoe leather when you are forever stamping.
She tried to direct-message the Blue Angels with a one-word response, “cowards,” on Aug. 5 last year, “which appeared to send but was never delivered due to the blocking,” according to the lawsuit penned by attorney Nacim Bouchtia, who is married to Lombardi and was listed as Layla’s human father in the feline’s obituary.
I’m tapping out of that article.
Signing up for Tea requires users to take selfies, which the app says are deleted after review, to prove they are women.
“Deleted after review” Suckers born everyday.
“Not everyone on the panel reviewed your picture yet!”
Since they allow men who claim to be women on the site, what purpose does the picture serve, exactly?
It helps the environment by saving a thousand words
I thought a “woman” was anyone who says they are a woman.
Current year is so confusing.
I want to make book on this. Will the first outraged lawsuit over exclusion be from the “call me ma’am” side or the masculine appearing TERF side?
I simply can’t suffer the fucking “Colbert was killed by an anti-Trump comment” nonsense. It’s so fucking stupid that flies in the face of reality specifically to serve a political purpose.
He was a hack who lowered himself on the alter of mainstream progressive politics which has just lost bigly in mainstream society. He wasn’t a comedian, at least not anymore, but a propagandist of the worst sort who was bleeding $40M(!!!!) a year in a market that is all but completely dead. He was only allowed to stay on air that long because of politics. If he were anything other than a progressive mouthpiece he’d have been canned long ago.
But no, it MUST be that Trump is a dictator.
This shit (the imperative nature of the left to politicize everything) to is beyond tiresome. Can we go back to them feeling defeated and have them shut the fuck up again?
The left is watching their total grip on power crack just a tiny bit and it’s driving them insane. Because they are wrong about literally everything, their lashing out is getting increasingly nonsensical and desperate. So no, they are not going to shut the fuck up any time soon.
I think I’m with you on this. No power over much of anything in the public sphere, and losing power, even if only a little) where, until now, it’s been unquestioned (academia, the media, etc) has driven them off the edge. I just wish they could let normies normy without constantly shouting at clouds like crazy people.
Let’s not forget the original outrage machine over Epstein was mostly in the MAGA ranks. I just marvel that the Democrats can now roll on about a pedophile when just a couple of years ago they were defending grooming.
Which lends even more credence to the fact that there is no there, there.
Dems have had the info for, what, 10 years now? And aren’t afraid of it, and didn’t turn it on Trump. Thus, zero net worth.
Remember when they were screaming “Faux News” at everything?
Hemorrhaging cash, and a political liability is no way to go through life.
As I said yesterday, these are the same people praising punk bands for pulling out of a festival because the organizer contributed to the Trump campaign.
The very definition of people shoving a stick into their tire spokes and then complaining of sabotage by Trump.
Per Grok (and elsewhere).
“However, for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, posts on X and web sources indicate a staff size of around 200 people, including approximately 15–20 writers.”
It took 15 to 20 people to script and 185 other staff to deliver 5 hours a week of predictable, tiresome drivel?
20 people to come up with variations on Trump Bad!
I wonder how many US Aid dollars were feeding that maw.
How else the fuck would CBS let that go on…?
The article about Colbert’s canning is a treasure. Cancelling the Late Show was totally because Colbert dared to criticize a $16 million settlement, not because he was causing CBS to hemorrhage 2.5 times that every year.
But talking shit about the people who pay your salary is stunning and brave.
They are just shocked that there could be penalties for calling your bosses a bunch of cowardly lickspittles!!
They act as if criticizing Trump isn’t the ONLY acceptable thing a broadcast network host can do.
How long ago would Colbert have been fired if he weren’t a naked partisan hack?
“Colbert’s caning”
Pay for view?
Paging Winston’s Mom…
Don’t you mean “Pegging Winston’s Mom”?
Winston’s Mom does the pegging.
Uh huh. Check’s in the mail; I won’t come in your mouth; we’re fully funded; etc etc.
“The check is in the mail” has been replaced by “2 weeks to flatten the curve”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/WPNJIxDUgG
Baby owls. ‘Nuff said.
Awwww!
Not a single brain cell shared between those seven…
Was expecting The View.
That is not the ozzyman version I feel cheated
https://youtube.com/shorts/SOUF1uaIHUs?si=_WDE9FwDQBOVUuPe
A notorious butt-sniffing freak was thrown behind bars again after he was allegedly caught putting his schnoz near the backside of an unsuspecting woman at a Nordstrom Rack in California.
Californians like to smell their own farts. They don’t share.
RoaT knows this from experience.
That guy’s ears could flap and fly him out of the hoosegow.
I thought Californians supported people who identify as dogs?
I was totally expecting to see a German Shepherd in this story.
it is stupid hot. Goddamnit.
Yes it is, and strangely enough the long-range forecast for August is that it will be more moderate.
110 F?
41C
“The Media Is Lying About Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8HYFOuJC6U
She says she’s planning to run for office in California, as a Republican?
No idea why anyone would Summer vacation in Las Vegas. Maybe Joey is finally going to make an honest trans woman out of her?
“I was supposed to be on vacation and now I have to come on here…”
Or else what, the attention whore police would have helicoptered in an Unwarranted Self Importance team?
To be fair, that’s her job.
I haven’t seen the Epstein victim interview yet.
“A Little League baseball team from Venezuela has been denied visas into the US, leaving them unable to play in the Senior League World Series in South Carolina, officials said Friday.
Little League International announced in a statement that the Cacique Mara team couldn’t “obtain the appropriate visas” to head the tournament after first traveling to Colombia two weeks ago.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/sports/venezuelan-little-league-team-denied-travel-visas-to-us-for-world-series/
I get it, but it’s not the kids fault.
“In a bid to hype up what he has, earlier this year Bannon was hawking the tapes as a documentary, saying he had hoped to get Netflix involved and call the show “The Monster”.
“[Epstein’s] a product of the elite,” he said on the Jimmy Dore show in February. “Everything that’s been put out about him is not exactly the truth. I hours of interviews that I think will be pretty shocking, about how this guy came from nowhere to go to the absolute highest levels of global elite and who he knew and who he financed.
“He was one of the leading underwriters of scientific experiments in the world, a lot of that is dealing with a thing called Transhumanism.””
https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/us-news/former-trump-advisor-made-15-hours-of-video-with-epstein/
News to me.
That would be interesting to watch.
I knew about the interview, but the transhumanism thing sounds a bit too InfoWars, but who knows?
“David Oscar Markus told reporters that his client, currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in Manhattan of federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges in December 2021, was “asked about every possible thing you could imagine – everything.”
“This was the first opportunity she’s ever been given to answer questions about what happened,” Markus added. “The truth will come out about what happened with Mr. Epstein and she’s the person who’s answering those questions.””
https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-gave-doj-info-about-100-different-people-linked-to-jeffrey-epstein-lawyer-says/
I won’t hold my breath.
Pretty sure Maxwell’s first opportunity to answer questions would have been at her trial.
She didn’t take the stand.
I know, but she had the opportunity to.
But then she wouldn’t have killed herself just like Jeffery
Always with the trans stuff…
Even as the battle continues, Media Matters stands as an example of how legal warfare waged by powerful ideological opponents can squelch influential voices and stifle political dissent. The group says it has dialed back its criticism of Mr. Musk and the Trump F.T.C. Media Matters has also been frozen out by some allies. And it has faced plummeting staff morale, rising infighting and security concerns.
All that has proved quite a change in fortune for the influential group.
Media Matters raised nearly $250 million in the two decades between its creation in 2003 and the end of 2023, establishing itself as a force in Democratic politics by effectively undermining major right-wing media figures and politicians.
The bleak outlook now facing the group underscores the serious harms that can be inflicted when the Trump administration and its allies train the vast resources of government or billionaire bank accounts on perceived enemies.
So now the boot is on the other neck.
Boo fucking hoo.
I loved that article so much I had to read it twice.
The lack of self awareness is remarkable – how dare they do to us what we did to them!
My three year old is absolutely obsessed with the Berenstain Bears.
There are over 300 products.
I counted once and we had 50 of the books…
“Read me my Bears Papa.”
Fantastic. Enjoy this stage of growth.
It’s a blast.
My seven year old reads most of them to her now.
I was a Berenstain Bears kid. And I still insist the book covers used to read Berenstein Bears *adjusts tin foil hat* We probably had in the range of 50 as well. Sold them to a nice lady in Australia who couldn’t find them locally.
Some manufacturing porn from one of the best in the business with a side of America Fuck Yah PR.
INSIDE Toyota Texas Plant: Raw Metal to Road-Ready in 2 Days, 1 Every 67sec | Capturing Car Culture
Reminds me of my wayward youth spent watching How It’s Made.
I had no idea Toyota had a plant in San Antonio.
It makes sense. Middle of the country for distribution and a large market for pickups itself. And I’m guessing with a high probability a right to work state.
Correct.
How It’s Made has always reminded me of the films/videos a teacher would leave for the substitute to show the class so said sub wouldn’t have to, you know, teach.
The story goes Texas landed the plant by taking a bunch of Toyota folk tailgating at a Cowboys game and then standing them on the bed of the pickup they were tailgating in and pointing out the ratio of pickups to cars in the parking lot and explaining they were in their market. The rest, as they say, is history.
I thought that was how they convinced Nissan execs to build the Titan truck.
Grumbletarian – they all look alike.
That’s a massive amount of investment in automation.
Wild.
About the Tea app hack, some outlets reporting 72,000, others 13,000.
I need more covefe.
“Approximately 72,000 images, including around 13,000 selfies and photo identification submitted by users during account verification, and around 59,000 images publicly viewable in the app from posts, comments and direct messages, were accessed.”
So you’re saying they spilled the tea?
Those need to be analyzed to see the ratio of normal to poison frog hair.
In May, the F.T.C. launched an investigation into whether Media Matters and roughly a dozen other watchdog and advertising groups illegally colluded to dissuade companies from buying ads on X and other platforms. The commission’s investigation echoed Mr. Musk’s claims and sought similar internal information about Media Matters, including communications with other watchdog groups that monitor social media and news outlets.
Good. Get ADL and SPLC under the microscope.
“New App Allows Women to DESTROY Men’s Reputations”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgVd1qh4xl4
Apparently, there was a male version to rate women that got taken down immediately.
Meh. This is just chick gossip at scale. The double standard is absurd though.
“A farmer’s coke involves pouring salty peanuts into an ice-cold bottle of Coca-Cola and crunching on the peanuts as you take a swig of the drink.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14940917/farmers-coke-peanuts-divided.html
No.
Do they mean South England? Because nobody I have ever met in the American South does that.
Maybe Suthen pranked some reporters.
I recall seeing that done in Texas when I was growing up up.
Effete urban journalists just assume everyone south of the Mason-Dixon is a peanut farmer like Jimmy Carter.
I thought farmer’s coke was when you gave your illegal migrant harvesting crew Bolivian marching powder at the start of the day.
Well played,
That goes way back.
Pepsi, Lavern and Shirley.
“A 45-year-old mother who is dating a man 20 years her junior got into an explosive row with her partner after revealing she’d converted to Mormonism in secret – meaning they could no longer have sex….
After a year apart, Shorna and Adnand were reunited as she flew out to Crete to see him – but she didn’t kiss him on arrival. Later, she explained to her partner, who is Muslim but not practising, that she now followed the Church of Latter Day Saints – which believes that sexual desires should only be fulfilled within heterosexual marriage.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14925891/mother-didnt-tell-boyfriend-mormon-age-gap.html
Not at all suspicious.
Nice
This is amusing. Nine volt flavored chips? How do you reproduce that sensation?
https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1948848279015379310
Drink a Jolt Cola with it.
Make sure you have A Salt to go with that Battery
I went to a Loire wine tasting and had a weird almost “orange” Chenin blanc, deep color and oxidative notes but still very good acidity though at 400 lei a bottle it is not for me. Domaine Des Roches Neuves-Terres Amphore Saumur Blanc 2020
this was good Domaine Des Roches Neuves-Les Memoires Saumur Champigny
curiouser and curiouser
A grenade is missing from the scene of an explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility that killed three members of its arson and explosives unit, authorities said Friday.
At the time of the July 18 blast, the veteran deputies were working on two “military-style” grenades that had been taken into custody by authorities. One of the grenades detonated, and the other is unaccounted for, Sheriff Robert Luna said, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The agency is investigating the explosion and is expected to publish a final report in 45 days.
Luna said authorities X-rayed special enforcement bureau vehicles, searched all around the blast area and examined office spaces and even the gym and haven’t found it.
“You get the drift. We have looked at everything out there that we possibly could,” he said, adding that no one from the public has had access to the area.
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Luna said that since the explosion, he has called for an independent review of the policies and practices of the arson and explosives team and has already changed how they handle these types of situations.
“All future explosive devices, inert or not, will be treated as if they are all live and will be disposed of accordingly,” he said.
Highly trained experts.
I’m the only one in this room, that I know of, professional enough to carry this Glock 40…
Never gets old.
“Let’s cut this in half!”
JFC how was that not the standard?
“GOP rep urges DOJ to investigate if Fire Aid benefit funds went to LA fire victims
Congressman Kevin Kiley wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday, requesting an inquiry into the $100 million raised at the celebrity “Fire Aid” concerts held in Los Angeles for wildfire victims. The funds were distributed to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rather than directly to disaster victims, according to recent reports.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/gop-rep-urges-doj-to-investigate-if-fire-aid-benefit-funds-went-to-la-fire-victims
At least it wasn’t tax money.
“442 child migrant “sponsors” have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse or other crimes after the Biden administration allowed 450,000 illegal migrant children into the US without adult supervision. This comes as the Trump administration has been able to locate 13,000 of the minors that were allowed into the country under the border policies of the previous administration.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/442-sponsors-for-illegal-immigrant-minors-arrested-on-suspicion-of-child-abuse-other-crimes-after-biden-allowed-450000-unaccompanied-kids-across-border
If he didn’t have presidential immunity, Biden should be charged with child sex trafficking.
Not mentally competent to stand trial.
Mayorkas, then.
Look American children just do not want to work the sex trade you need immigrants
Lofty rhetoric
Wisconsin Democratic Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez entered the battleground state’s open race for governor Friday by calling President Donald Trump a “maniac,” as she attempts to differentiate herself in what is expected to be a crowded primary.
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“We’ve got a maniac in the White House,” Rodriguez said in a campaign launch video. “His tariffs are killing our farmers and his policies are hurting our kids.”
As governor of Wisconsin, she will secede from the union and declare war.
it is very brave to criticize trumpy. very brave indeed
I’m considering running for local dog catcher on an anti-Trump platform.
do you have your own hat?
Cut off their booze supply, they’ll surrender inside a week.
Don’t they make their own beer?
lol Attempt harder.
A registered nurse, Rodriguez previously worked as a health care executive and an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has a master’s degree in public health.
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In her first run for office in 2020, when she was elected to the Legislature, Rodriguez said she was motivated to get into politics because of how Republicans handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
Never saw that coming.
“Everyone Hated Hulk Hogan
The most famous pro wrestler in history died as a villain who was all too real.”
https://slate.com/culture/2025/07/hulk-hogan-died-death-news-cause-trump.html
OFFS!
” In a career spanning half a century, the man developed a genuinely Jay Leno–like reputation for the viciousness in which he protected his top spot in World Wrestling Entertainment. His ego frequently degraded the product itself.”
WTF?
Wait… the smart set hates Leno now? Or was that always a thing.
News to me.
LOL