Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
Trump Shakes Up Bloated Agriculture Department, Relocates Bureaucrats Out Of Beltway
Trump signs order to aid states, cities in efforts to take homeless people off the streets
Harmeet Dillon’s Special Message for DEI
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gave Tax $$$ to Soros-Backed Censorship Giant
Macron Says France Will Recognize Palestinian State in September
Australia Lifts Import Ban on US Beef
Biggest Trans Mutilation ‘Clinic’ Shuts Its Doors Thanks To Trump’s Common-Sense Executive Order
Appeals court blocks gender identity mandates in adoption
Appeals Court Upholds Block on California’s Background Check to Buy Ammunition
Guy In Chuck E Cheese Suit Reportedly Pinched For Credit Card Fraud
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos
Are you going to say good morning to all the other musical instruments?
*Taps foot
When they start commenting, maybe.
*goes off to create “Theramin” and “Sackbutt” accounts*
You people are mean… 🙂
Mornin’
The DC office of any agency should be no more than 3 people – and only if there is a real requirement for in-person meetings with the executive at any hour of the day. If there is not, then one person, max. They should be housed in a single open plan office with poor AC.
Ban AC in all government offices
😱
I cannot get behind that initiative.
🥵
That would be one hell of an incentive to end year-round government operations in DC.
Yes.
I read a serious article a few years ago that talked about the invention of AC as being the end of limited government at the federal level. Everyone left DC during the summer months.
Installing AC at the capital allowed year-round meeting and the role of fedgov increased dramatically.
Why the fuck do we need an agriculture department? Are farmers to dumb to plant stuff? Or is this more shit for government to just fuck over farmers and people buying food?
No, it’s a means to launder taxpayer money to farm states.
So you saying all government does is rob the productive to then use the money to buy votes instead of serving those they are robbing?
Dang….
/playing dumb
That’s a great point rhy, all of the urbanized states should be bitching about their money subsidizing the fly-over states. They should be supporting cutting that back.
🥳
I saw this and immediately asked when we can get the precedent applied to New York.
Do we have a 2nd Circuit decision saying it’s not a violation yet?
…I don’t know…
I believe the California case was already in the courts when Bruen came down, and got bounced back to the district court for review in light of. If I recall, weren’t the NY ammo background checks a CCIA clause?
It will be called ‘Jordan’ and be on the East Bank of the River Jordan, and have this weird zig-zag on its desert border.
Go back to Transjordan and pick up the idiot children who don’t know better.
Queers for Palestine will have a home finally!
If only Macron was smart enough to do that.
“Macron Says France Will Recognize Palestinian State in September”
Will he recognize his wife’s dick? Because I believe in that more than Palestine. Unless you mean Jordan, because that’s already recognized.
Morning, Tater.
Holy Shit! A giant ball of fire just rose in the East! What’s going on?
Apocalypse.
Happens every morning when the uncontrolled fusion reactor burns away the night.
Trump finally started WWIII?
Why are you going and making things political? This is a discussion on natural philosophy.
Conflict in philosophy naturally leads to conflict with arms.
Don’t conflate natural philosophy with philosophy
Don’t artificially separate the study of natures from the study of nature!
It’s naturally separated between the sophists trying to avoid reality, and those who study reality. Nothing artifical about it.
That is a commentary on sophistry not philosophy, it would be equally true to dismiss natural philosophy based on the existence of phrenology.
Philosophy is sophistry at best.
The scientific method is a product of philosophy. The two are intertwined.
But is that falsifiable, (((Jarflax?
It’s his last-ditch effort to sway voters and stay relevant. I don’t think it will work.
Yeah and considering the residents of those regions don’t believe in a “Palestinian state” either. Not unless it included the territory of Israel.
It is funny that less than a century ago, these people now called Palestinians were known as disgruntled Jordanians and Egyptians….
Yasser Arafat waves from his grave.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat…
The funny, not very thought out part of that is that if you recognize the State of Palestine, you recognize it as it is now. IE with Israel right along side it.
Which is why that recognition has never happened.
And never will.
The only conclusion I can come up with is that Macron and the like are not serious and have no intention of “solving” anything.
France is occupied and already lost, and the elite that did that are just playing to their base. Their new bomb and sword wielding base…
“In response to the emerging data, European nations have begun to implement bans, but major American medical boards have determined to stay the course.”
I think that’s because medicine is more of a for profit business in the U.S.
I’m open to theories; that seems like a good one.
Because it baffles me that this is one of the few issues where America is more batshit insane than Europe.
See also, abortion laws and alcohol laws.
I don’t think that is the reason, but, rather, that they believe that sex/gender/whatever-the-term-du-jour is, is mutable.
In other words, like DEI, they really believe this, which is why they hide it rather than stop it.
I honestly think only a fraction of them actually believe it.
We know that Dems don’t believe half the shit they claim to.
As long as they can get insurance companies to cover this shit at ridiculous costs out of fear of coming under attack by the woke mob, they will not give this lucrative racket up.
My smoke alarms went off at 2:45 this morning. Lily did NOT appreciate that.
Was anything burning? What set them off?
I think low batteries in one unit. There is now a nest of ceiling birds. I changed the batteries in a couple of units, but they continue to chirp.
Just so you know, apparently local building codes require smoke/CO detectors to be networked so if one goes off they all do.
That’s just fucking stupid.
Thankfully, I have older models where each only cares if it’s own battery is old, so I can identify where the problem is and not have to keep guessing.
I have networked detectors. Any chirps are only from the low unit.
I don’t know if I need to hit “test” to reset the chirper. I effing hope not, because that sets off all alarms at full volume (which is how I know that they’re CO detectors also).
There are some epic steel cage matches going on in some afterlife. Hulkster, Ander the Giant, Roddy Piper, Iron Sheik, Macho Man…
How is the Ozzy-Mangione tour going?
Everyone’s been waiting for Ozzy and Randi Rhodes to get back together!
I would buy tickets to that show.
The opener is Golding Earring.
Yes, but would you go to hell for that show?
(Honestly…maybe?)
LOL I think you mean “Randy Rhoads”.
“Dude, what year is it?!”
/Randy, upon seeing Ozzy walk in.
I was just discovering heavy metal the year after Rhoads died.
Ozzy with him was so much better than anything with Jake E. Lee or Zakk Wylde.
To me, starting with No More Tears Ozzy became borderline unlistenable.
I think you mean Andre!
Hopefully Owen Hart doesn’t try to come in from the top rope.
I just imagine those guys all sitting around in a heavenly version of Piper’s Pit and then the stunned look on their faces when first few chords of Real American start up.
whaddup doh’
“The Bress opinion recounts its distinctives, referring to children by the LGBTQ variant “LGBTQI2-S,” which is common in Canada and whose last abbreviation means “two-spirit,” a modern indigenous term of disputed authenticity.
RAFT claims “an infinite number of pronouns” exist and that prospective parents must always ask for them first. Regardless of whether their children identify as LGBTQ, parents should display “symbols indicating an LGBTQ-affirming environment” and provide books and media that celebrate LGBTQ people such as “transgender women in history.””
WTF?
“You must abide by the tenets of our evil, child-destroying ideology, and destroy the children.”
Can we but aside the Texas v Memphis v Carolina discussion and just agree that El Gibeticue is the worst barbecue variant
Niiiice.
Totally not a religion.
Free money! Much winning! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Is that how they intend to lure them to the looney bin and the Soilent Green factories? Cause seriously, at this point I would be cool with all of that. Fucking homeless people are worse than rabid racoons.
I watched a gaggle of cops
And emts working on some homeless guy in Spokane yesterday on a street corner.
Let them lie.
“The Trouble With Wanting Men
Women are so fed up with dating men that the phenomenon even has a name: heterofatalism. So what do we do with our desire?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/magazine/men-heterofatalism-dating-relationships.html
Fuck the NYT for making me solve a puzzle just to tell me it’s paywalled.
https://archive.is/9g6IQ
tl;dr Insane woman blames men for her terrible choices by justifying it with feminist gibberish.
That woman’s problem is drugs fell out of her ass.
It did look familiar. Was it posted already?
I think OMWC did on the weekend.
Too many women want to whore in their teens & twenties, then have some male with a huge bank account accept them as their new boss in their thirties, and cater to all their needs and to treat them like they are a precious jewel instead of a overused cow. And they expect to not have to reciprocate at all. They are all spoiled because the old order that controlled the dating pool and the marriage pool has been wrecked in a brutally negative way. Enjoy your cats/small dogs, ladies.
Um…how would exporting more beef stop us from needing to import beef?
I do not understand this either.
Two beef exporting nations should not be importing each other’s beef. It’s just pointless and wasteful.
If it produces a loss it won’t keep happening. If it produces a profit it isn’t wasteful.
You still carry delusions of a free market, don’t you?
They are less delusional than the delusion that one can avoid waste by central planning, so yes.
Americans like breasts more than legs, so we export the chicken parts we can’t sell domestically for as much.
Now you’re jumping to conclusions and accusing people of positions not postulated.
The question I want answered is what is incentivizing domestic producers to not take over these other market niches where the lower transportation costs of domestic supply should make them able to compete on price against foreign overseas imports.
Like wine, it’s a combination of different breeds, geography, methods, and marketing terms.
You realize that your objections come in the context of the LIFTING of an existing ban, not the imposition of an incentive or subsidy right? So it’s not really a stretch to interpret that as support of central planning.
The US and Scotland both export whisk(e)y.
No, Jar, I’m not objecting to Australia lifting a ban, I’m wondering why we’re not successfully displacing the imports from there, since we produce so much and clearly have the capacity for opportunistic producers to exploit the same niches.
UCS – for the reasons listed above. You’re making a lot of economic assumptions in the assertion that two beef producing nations are both exporters of beef, including to each other. Cows raised in different parts of the world taste different – shocker, I know. (I do not want to spring this on you, but fish we get here are also different than… other fish from NOT around here.
We live in such a time of plenty that people in Australia can – and will – pay good $$ to buy “exotic” beef from the US (and Japan, and Brazil, etc.) and people in the US will pay good $$for that shitty Australian beef that I gnawed on in China for almost two years at the “Outback” in the mall that was one of only a few places close enough for me to eat something where I didn’t have to look into the lifeless eyes of my dinner.
Fun fact – a shocking amount of fish sold in the United States is mislabeled with regard to species. It’s not malicious, they just get misidentified at point of capture, and once processed on the factory ship, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell without DNA testing.
Dolphin free tuna!
exporting more beef would make room for importing kangaroo
Supposedly the best whips are kangaroo leather. All mine are, but I haven’t done extensive testing to confirm.
If you haven’t used a sjambok made from hippo leather, you haven’t really whipped.
I find the rhinoceros hide sjamboks a little too stiff, but that’s really a matter of personal preference.
There you go again. Wanting to make sense of government work
It’s different beef. The Australian imported beef is fancy vacuum-packed grassfed stuff. The South American beef we import is shit to make fast food. The beef we export is mostly uniquely American. Just like Japan imports cheap beef and exports kobe.
None of those are so special that we couldn’t cover domestic demand.
It’s like wine.
Oh, no, they’re nothing alike. Beef is edible, wine is a waste of grape.
“None of those are so special that we couldn’t cover domestic demand.”
Nobody needs 43 kinds of deodorant
wine is a waste of grape
Wine grapes aren’t fit table fare, so the only waste would be to not use them for the gods’ intended purpose.
If you took the wine and distilled it to ~95% ABV, you’d have something.
yes, eau de vie.
No one is in business to supply beef or make sense. People go into business to make money.
So translating idioms to other languages is not always useful because the context may or may be lost. There is a Romanian idiom that translates as ” it is hard going uphill with small oxen” and while it originates from back in the day when oxcarts were used for transportation, it is still somewhat in use today. What context would an English speaker think this idiom is used in?
Being literal-minded I’d think “Transportation”.
Get a bigger engine.
To me, it sounds like an “old world” saying that would be deployed when you’re using an undersized tool/person to attempt to do something (like a child trying to haul in a bag of groceries by dragging it along the ground) or attempting something you’re underprepared for. It really doesn’t matter, as we’ve got expressions that people don’t know the origin of, such as hoist by their own petard and going off like a damp squib.
Don’t make fun of the workplace hazards of being a petardier’s assistant in trying to blow open the gates of an enemy fortification.
Oddly that makes me think of hoists.
One Hoist by their own petard was killed when the petard they were carrying exploded prematurely. The pedtard being a bell-shaped bomb meant to destroy the beans barring the enemy gate because the base of the bell was covered with wood instead of iron so the gunpowder blast was directed in the manner of a modern shaped charge. Because they were unreliable and the petardier’s assistant was usually being shot at by the fort’s defenders, it was fairly common to meet a bad end.
I wonder if the blast commonly tossed the poor guy into the air, and thus ‘hoist’ them.
🤔
“I think we are going to need a bigger boat!”
That is our version.
^^^THIS^^^
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.
Honey can you pick up a couple of things for me on the way home?
Saw a bit of Dave Smith before last night’s movie. He showed a clip of a CNN poll that Trump’s approval is down 37 points on the Epstein thing. I don’t believe CNN either. Regardless, I don’t know what Trump can do at this point. I severely doubt the Russiagate thing is going to end up with Obama in handcuffs.
My read is this – The question asked is “Do you approve of the handling of the Epstein files situation?” and they are trying to play it off as a change in the “do you approve of the president?”
The numbers on these two questions are very different.
So you are saying CNN is being deceptive? I am shocked you would say such a thing.
I figured there was no question just a ‘Choose one of the following’ with your choices being A) Trump is evil, B) Trump is bad, C) Trump is stupid
Trump’s numbers are down, but not by the ridiculous amount the shit pollsters are projecting. But by maybe a -1 to -3. Mostly driven by indies. Political sentiment does not swing to that degree. Anyone who has a poll that swings to that extreme, either sucks as a pollster or is politically pushing a push poll.
The ones that suck and not politically driven are not accounting for response bias. There’s probably a ton more anti-Trump people responding to polls than supporters. The same thing happens when a bunch of positive news comes out for Trump and it dramatically swings the opposite direction. Trump supporters are more likely to respond to a poll while his detractors go silent.
I agree the quantification is inaccurate to being pointless. Still, based on everything I’ve heard there is a significant disappointment among both Trump’s base and independents in how he handled the Epstein thing, even among those who aren’t that political.
I agree it won’t end with O’Bama in handcuffs, but could smear his legacy (also doubtful, he is a messiah to a lot of his cult) but watching that smarmy fucker Comey get raked over the coals will be worth the price of admission.
The Steve Harvey morning radio show calls him “Our forever President Barack Obama”.
I always want to ask them, “You know he’s a politician, right?”
Merely smearing Obama’s legacy among people who already don’t like him isn’t enough red meat.
Watching black people worship Obama intensifies my hatred for our media propagandists. The crime rates that have risen dramatically over the last 17 years are almost entirely in predominantly black neighborhoods in cities, and the blame lies squarely on Obama’s DOJ making local police departments terrified to take any action in those neighborhoods, and encouraging local prosecutors to release criminals pretrial, and reduce sentences post conviction. Obama has more dead black men to his credit than all the klansmen in history combined.
AS UCS points out, without seeing a poll question, the return date before they “massage” it, and the distribution of those they got to ask (age, political affiliation, demographics), assume the poll is bullshit specifically put together to get a specific result.
See above.
I severely doubt the Russiagate thing is going to end up with Obama in handcuffs.
Anyone believing it will is too stupid to vote.
Barry
@BarryOnHere
The proudest ratio of my life.
https://x.com/BarryOnHere/status/1948481254904791420
Yeah, erm… whatever?
A 5’3 man next to 6’11 Anna Smrek
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gwsb-67XYAAHhw4?format=jpg&name=small
Mmmmm….
Gee your hair smells terrific.
Spinner.
That could very easily lead to “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.”
They should play some based yodeling music in a porn where this little fella climbs that mountain…
The perspective looks off. Her legs are 4′, leaving the rest of her body 3′? Doesn’t look like it in the picture.
Unfortunately, she’s one of those “7-7-7” chicks on the internet.
That’s a long way to climb, but the view is worth it? ::shrugs::
COVID, Russian Collusion, Joe Biden being senile, all of these make me feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
It was obvious at the time we were being lied to, the corporate media would double down on the lies, while ignoring, censoring, or belittling anyone pointing out the OBVIOUS facts.
Now they act surprised Biden was senile,”We didn’t know.” “We were lied to!”
COVID , “We didn’t know.” “We were all just doing the best we could with incomplete information.”
Now with Russia Collusion, I guess they are hoping if they don’t talk about it, it never happened.
I just went to CNN’s homepage and there is not a single mention of it.
The media is the enemy of the people.
You see, when it became obvious these people were lying, you should have started ignoring them.
I did, and I’ve not suffered any ill effects.
I haven’t watched the news since sometime during Obama’s presidency.
If it wasn’t for this place, I would have no clue about many things.
They had CNN on at the gym the other day, and did a solid 30 minutes on Israel genociding Palestinians. Now, I’m not one to just blindly support Israel, but CNN”s sole fucking source was the Gaza Health Ministry. 30 minutes uncritically parroting what Hamas is telling them to report.
That’s not just journalistic malpractice, it’s straight up evil.
“30 minutes uncritically parroting what Hamas is telling them to report.”
Isn’t that their working model for all news?
We get 24/7 coverage of how bad Trump-Hitler-Putin, or your average rising other republican, is with a pile of analysis and dedicated resource looking to create a narrative, but they have zero effort or time to look into democrats no matter how obvious the story is… Why expect it to be different on the proggie marxist shit related to Israel?
It makes me reevaluate my ranking of evil doers in the Third Reich. It’s easy to put Hitler and Himmler at the top of the list, but I think Goebbels belongs up at the peak. The deliberate destruction of people’s ability to trust any source of information isn’t just an evil act it is a direct attack on the ability of the people to even tell what is moral.
Don’t sell short the even more fundamental problem of Ein volk rejoicing in being Ein Volk! When you have a crowd that is receptive, you can feed them pretty much anything you want.
“It was obvious at the time we were being lied to, the corporate media would double down on the lies, while ignoring, censoring, or belittling anyone pointing out the OBVIOUS facts.”
In the days of the USSR it was a common understanding that the sane people KNEW they were being lied to, that the people telling the lie KNEW the sane people knew they were being lied to, and that the liars did it specifically to make a point that the opinion of the serfs was immaterial. Basically it was a “I am pissing on your leg and won’t even bother to tell you it is warm rain, bitch, so whatchagonnado about it?”
Demoralizing as fuck…
And that was the agenda of the progressive movement.
So…flying to climate conferences in a private jumbo jet….having your whole family eating out maskless during lockdowns….
Calling them out on their hypocrisy is a waste of time. The hypocrisy is deliberate.
The Dems are also the enemy of the people.
They all just literally turned on a dime and said, “We know all this already. Get over it.”
Gustave Doré – Cherub with a gun on a pile of skulls, c.1870
https://x.com/dreamerbook/status/1947844242648211755
Making people unable to defend themselves has been a thing since the beginning of time. As pointed out a few days ago the possession or no possession of a weapon in most cultures is a sign of who the rulers are and who the ruled are.
Look at Dore’s gun control propaganda and look at Ron’s crazy pills comment. Humans appear to me to be a bunch of monkeys using their fists and lies to decide who is going to wear the yoke. We, as a species, are not civilized.
“Making people unable to defend themselves has been a thing since the beginning of time.”
Every single feudal system across the globe had the death penalty for any commoner having a weapon. And that applied even to those that might have used their farming implements as weapons.
Think about that…
And that is why disarming the public is essential to socialism/marxism: the serfs need to be kept unable to fight back.
Robert P. Murphy
@BobMurphyEcon
As a Christian, but also just as a person who can see basic patterns, I totally get Morgan’s reaction.
On the other hand, a big part of the libertarian literature on a how a “free society” could work, relies on voluntary reputational mechanisms.
Discuss.
https://x.com/BobMurphyEcon/status/1948548166535586064
You’re not the boss of me.
My wife said I’m too busy to answer.
You’re not my supervisor!
This is the kind of stuff that makes me so happy that I’m married and don’t have to navigate this horrid dating world. That Tea app is going to get hit with a lawsuit so fast if some woman shits on the wrong dude.
So…how to break the bad news? Um…just…Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Trailer (2025) is a thing…
Out of all of the trailers in front of Superman, there was not a single one that inspired interest in the movie it was pitching (yes, I’m including the Fantastic Four trailer in that). There was a pre-trailer commercial for a movie about dinosaurs in Vietnam that at least looked like a fun B movie to watch at home.
Cambodia and Thailand appear to be going to war over a border dispute.
https://x.com/VerminusM/status/1948464655560835526
Who had 2 Buddhist countries fighting over a Hindu temple on your 2025 bingo card?
The linked twit contained no background information. As I lack any context, do you have any you might share?
They don’t like the arbitrary borders the French drew way back when.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/24/why-thailand-cambodia-border-clash-conflict
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/what-is-driving-the-thai-cambodia-border-clashes-9bbcfdfe?st=bawx6g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I see, thank you
I thought those Buddhists were just supposed to roll with the flow of things and not get all worked up about such earthly matters.
when the flow is attacking you roll with the flow and do not care about such earthly matters as the ones getting obliterated by bombs.
They’ve learned all the right lessons.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-autopsy-flop-politics-policy-elections-dee41920?st=gP15pf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I thought that real men for Kamala ad was genius…for the republicans.
What, you don’t eat carburetors for breakfast?
Look, you don’t want that many carbs in your diet.
Has the WSJ printed a picture of that alleged Trump to Epstein letter?
Yes! https://i.redd.it/a9btzv3t6hja1.jpg
I ordered Gideon’s DPP footprint optic, and it was delivered two days later. Good job Gideon!
SIG hasn’t even shipped my guns yet. They must have transferred their shipping department to PR crisis management.
The Krydex mag pouches were next-day arrival, but those were via amazon, so that’s not too unsusal.
Magazines have also not yet been shipped.
Tell me how you like the Gideon – their product manager is a friend, and he always likes feedback.
I will. I’m a tad concerned about longevity on a standard-weight .45. Especially if like the 320s there are no mounting bosses.
It’s the same size (ok, 1mm narrower) as the Vortex Defender XL, at half the price.
Getting online as to how to swap the mag release for us sinister type is a bit discouraging.
Why Josh Shapiro wasn’t Harris’ VP candidate
When Harris interviewed Shapiro at her residence on August 3, things went south quickly. According to the book, “He came across as overly ambitious, pushing Harris to define what his role would be … [and] conceded it would not be natural for him to serve as someone’s number two, leaving Harris with a bad impression.” Pennsylvania residents should take heart, because that’s not ambition talking. That’s a politician with enough self-awareness to know his own worth and enough spine to ask reasonable questions about a job that would define his political future.
Later in the article:
Contrary to the progressive narrative that tried to paint Shapiro as too pro-Israel for the ticket, the book’s authors make clear this wasn’t the decisive factor. While the progressive wing of the party opposed Shapiro, his positions actually aligned with the Biden administration and other VP contenders. The real issue was simpler: Shapiro wouldn’t be anybody’s lapdog. When he called Harris’s team after the interview to express “further reservations” about leaving his job as Pennsylvania governor, it wasn’t cold feet. It was a man who understood that being second fiddle on a doomed campaign was a terrible career move.
So Walz is a loser oblivious to joining a loser ticket?
Am I supposed to try to change your mind?
Either that, or he was seeking affirmation.
I don’t know.
That’s the context I’m getting from how brainy Shapiro was to turn down Kamala.
Obama: I need a VP dumber than me.
Picks Biden.
Biden: I need a VP dumber than me.
Picks Harris.
Harris: I need a VP dumber than me.
Picks Walz.
Political meritocracy in action.
Walz says a lot about Minnesoda.
Hate to think about his successor but OTOH I probably won’t have to worry.
The progressive movement is evil and manned by stupid. Do not allow them to have any kind of power.
That is all you need to know.
That is a work of fiction. Kamala didnt choose anyone. Her running mate was anointed just like she was. Shapiro didnt make the cut because he is a Jew and the party is anti-semitic as hell.
Remember, things are almost always just what they appear to be.
Remember, things are almost always just what they appear to be.
Like, you can’t upstage the first woman president which is exactly what Shapiro would do.
Well, Walz wouldn’t/couldn’t.
Pennsylvanians can attest that Shapiro is ambitious. I don’t doubt for a minute that he strategically sabotaged being picked for Harris’ running mate. Being Jewish doesn’t hurt him with Dems or voters in Penna. (Milton Shapp, Ed Rendell having both served two terms as Governor) but it remains to be seen how it goes over with the national party.
This is prep work for Shapiro prior to the next presidential run. Separate himself from the failures and any association with the Harris campaign. Start to discuss and build appeal to independents and moderate democrats. Eventually, closer to the primary election, throw a bone to the nutty left and then distance yourself from that message prior to the general.
He is being groomed harder than an sheep dog in the running for best in show.
I don’t have much good to say about Democrats in general, but Shapiro is an improvement over the last asshole governor (Wolf).
Low bar, JI.
Shapiro is an improvement over the last asshole governor (Wolf).
I suspect his support of school vouchers is a backdoor way of having teachers’ unions control the program.
Yvette d’Entremont (@thescibabe.bsky.social)
@TheSciBabe
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So Hulk Hogan died.
As a former Gawker writer (as are all Gawker writers thanks to Hulk Hogan), I won’t be the first or the last to say ‘fuck that guy.’
Dance on any grave you want to, but this one’s mine.
Jonofarcadia
@jonofarcadia
Making every Gawker writer a former Gawker writer was perhaps his greatest achievement. If he had done nothing else, his life was worthwhile.
https://x.com/jonofarcadia/status/1948462815930401225
Bitch, go make your own porn..
Harris Faulkner is 59?
And still hawt?
Taibbi’s public accounting…
The subscriber version goes deeper.
Anyone that says that Putin wanted Trump instead of that compromised criminal bitch Shillary, or that Xi wanted Trump instead of Obama 3.0, is a lying fuck. Leaders of countries with negative agendas towards the US always want democrats in charge, because democrats sell Americans out and do more damage to the US than any foreign entity could short of using nukes.
I can’t imagine what “derogatory information” there would be about Hillary Clinton, the most respected woman and well traveled diplomat of our age (even surpassing Eleanor Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Why just look at all the awards she’s been given for her work for Freedom, and the love that overflows when speaking honorarium amounts are offered to her (which, I’m sure, she takes very reluctantly.) If she were Roman Catholic, she would be on the fast road to sainthood once she passes.
“President Donald Trump on Friday noted he has the power to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell but then revealed he hasn’t thought about the matter.
His comment came as Maxwell, the only person currently behind bars for Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, is having a second day of meetings with the Justice Department.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche flew down to Florida for an in-person sit-down as Trump’s MAGA base demands answers on her knowledge of Epstein’s crimes amid claims of a ‘cover-up.’
There have been questions if Trump would use his presidential power to pardon her or commute her sentence.
But when asked about the matter, Trump responded: ‘I haven’t thought about.’
‘I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about,’ he added.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14940633/trump-pardon-ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein.html
No idea why he would.
“Girl, 17, shot dead by strangers while driving to home of groomer who was sexually abusing her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14940177/Girl-shot-dead-strangers-groomer-abuse-Utah.html
That’s a lot of wrong in one headline.
TALOWIOH?
SIJLTA*?
*Sometimes I just like the acronyms
I mean ” groomer who was sexually abusing her” is a taad harsh and I am not sure the death is the guys fault… I know age of consent is a touchy subject but it did not seem like that much abuse.
also since when do you shoot blindly because you assume stalking?
You saw the photos, right?
That poor girl had a lot of crazy people in her life, Jesus.
“Psychopaths Chase and Kill Girl”
Is the real story here.
Interesting reminder of something rather unprecedented.
Remember when President Biden ended his (political) life via a post on X? And then didn’t let anyone see him for days because Covid, or something?
And then the legacy media claimed that all of this was normal and that anyone who questioned it was a conspiracy theorist?
That was a year ago. Not a generation, or even a decade. 365 days. Is it any wonder so many people believe the worst about the Jeffrey Epstein files?
“Four North Korean youths could face a year in brutal forced labour camps after reportedly being arrested for ‘talking like South Koreans’.
The group, all in their twenties, were arrested in Chongjin, the country’s third largest city, after being reported for mimicking lines from South Korean films.
State security authorities were tipped off by a local residents who had overheard the four.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14940233/North-Korean-Kim-Jong-South-Korea.html
Hold up – How did you know what South Koren Film lines sounded like? Were you watching capitalist filth? To Gulag-equivalent with you too!
CWABOA
“State security authorities were tipped off by a local residents who had overheard the four.”
It’s wild how willingly people would inform on their neighbors if given a chance to do so.
Those are the people who followed the rules all through school, even when the rules were obviously stupid and/or evil.
The tattletales identified themselves by grade school. They don’t need to be a large percentage of the population to stifle the whole population.
I read somewhere that the Gestapo never had more than 50,000 agents for Germany and all the Nazi conquered territory. They depended on snitches to denounce neighbors, friends, and anyone else you were angry with.
After Covid I am under no illusions that we here in the States are all that much different than 1930’s Germans. If the state tells people to do something, however wrong morally or however nonsensical, there are large groups that will cheerfully go right along with it.
Our victory is nearly complete
https://x.com/ScubaMySteve/status/1946364078542237816
Both my father and grandfather told me that local accents and colloquialisms were more numerous and markedly different in pre-television days. The significance of that should be self-evident and why media lackeys are so important in marketing and politics.
“At least ten children, from ages 2 to 15, were locked in an Alabama storm bunker and sexually tortured and trafficked by their parents for three years.
The adults used animal shock collars in their torture of the children. The children were drugged and tortured. Investigators believe there are more victims and perpetrators tied to the horrendous crime.
Alabama police arrested seven suspects in the trafficking ring. More arrests are expected.
According to WJTV – The Bibbs County Sheriff’s Office said some of the suspects are related, but other suspects are acquaintances or people who paid to victimize children.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/least-10-children-ages-2-15-rescued-after/
A good argument against anarchy.
i mean not particularly. It did happen in non anarchy, it may or may not happen more in anarchy.
The McMartins are out of prison?
There was an article someone linked here a week or so ago about another memory recovery inspired accusation of satanic ritual abuse, also set in secret tunnels with animal sacrifice. So the McMartin lesson didn’t stick. Time to throw some other unfortunate innocent in prison for the children.
Hmm, arrests started in April and this is “news” in July?
Hey, cut the reporters some slack. They were busy writing important stories reporting on someone sending a tweet. You can’t expect them to monitor the police reports and spend all day watching for the next tweet by a celebrity!
If Epstein was a pedophile, isn’t it a really big deal that pedophilia is legal among our European allies? Why is this never a foreign policy priority?
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1948006195622797766
When I see a kid…and to me that means anyone under 30….I think “protect, help, advise”
What kind of evil fuck over 30 sees a kid and thinks “sex”?
Again…monkeys.
What kind of evil fuck over 30 sees a kid and thinks “sex”? -probably most men in most countries over most of history.
I would agree with under 20… but under 30… Few men would see a hot 25 year old and not think sex
You aren’t as old as I am Pie. They have to be older than 30 for me or I just assume the role of ‘Dad’.
Their bodies may be at prime breeding age but if you talk to them a little bit it becomes obvious that they are still children.
Epstein wasn’t a pedophile. He liked teenage girls, some that may even have been of the age of consent in some states.
Careful, daring to question the witch hunt is proof you are a witch.
I’ve known a few lovely witches, but I’ve never seen a good witch hunt.
Yeah, I’m getting a little tired of seeing “pedo” do so much heavy lifting.
It’s because they dont know the word ‘ephobophile’.
It’s a motte and bailey set up. Pretty much everyone agrees that those who prey on children are the worst criminals, so you just glide right past the elements that make them so unbelievably vile and use the word to refer to any age gap relationship. I think there was maybe one girl in the Epstein case who was under 16, which is the most common age of consent. You can certainly disapprove of adults having sex with teens, there’s plenty of reason to do that, but it isn’t pedophilia. Conflating things like some actor dating 20 year olds with the vileness of someone raping prepubescents is a joke, and in the territory between those extremes it is dishonest to pretend the distinctions don’t matter.
I don’t think anyone knows how young all of them were.
CT, if there were younger ones, then I’m coming down even harder on the fathers of those girls. It is one thing for a 15-17yo girl to be running in those circles, that is still a parental failure. But you talk even younger, then that failure escalates up.
14 is crazy low.
15 no.
18 too high.
Mad skills
https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1948421835424432245
That’s quite a pussy.
“Uber announced the launch of a new service called “Women Preferences” that will allow women passengers to select women drivers, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. The new feature also extends to biological men who identify as transgender or nonbinary.
A pilot program will begin in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Detroit in the next few weeks. The new features, designed to give women riders a greater sense of security, come after several women filed lawsuits against Uber over allegations of sexual assault and harassment by male drivers, Forbes reported.
However, Uber said that the company “cannot guarantee that all users you are matched with while using this feature will be women, or appear in a way that would identify as a woman.”
“Please be mindful that the Uber community is remarkably diverse, including people of all gender identities and expressions. Some women Users may not express their gender or appear in a way that matches your perception of ‘femininity'” the rideshare company states.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/uber-to-launch-feature-allowing-female-passengers-to-select-women-drivers
Just make them fail a parallel parking test.
Saudi Arabia was right after all.
They should all get on Tea to gossip.
also
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
when the Republicans ban abortion, women have to turn to unsafe methods to terminate their pregnancies such as unsafe surgery or getting into a car driven by a female
thank you Uber for supporting a woman’s right to choose
https://x.com/michaelmalice/status/1948069027194007785
Michael Malice can’t drive.
true but he has manly men to drive him around
Start with what might be a good idea-Women getting rides from only women.
Inject modern idiocy into it to defeat the purpose-The new feature also extends to biological men who identify as transgender or nonbinary.
Yep, everything is still stupid.
With the current stupid, an actual solution is literally impossible. They would have to admit what a woman is and you can’t do that anymore.
“….extends to biological men who identify as transgender…” thus wildly upping the chances of sexual assault.
JFC.
Is going super-woke really worth opening up that stupid can of worms?
Economic coercion is bad
Another widely discussed option is the EU’s so-called anti-coercion instrument, which has been referred to as a “trade bazooka.”
The measure is designed to be a deterrent, with the European Commission saying it would “be most successful if there is no need to use it.” But if a third country does engage in coercion, “the instrument allows the Union to formally identify instances of economic coercion and to respond.”
The bloc views economic coercion as interference from non-EU countries in the region’s policies by threatening or imposing measures that impact trade and investment.
Good thing the EU never does anything like that.
Isn’t economic coercion the number one tool in the woke globalist marxist toolbox?
“…the instrument allows the Union to formally identify instances of economic coercion and to respond.”
This changes things….how?
I wonder what would happen if you told Uber you wanted a ride, but they better not send an Indian driver.
Oh No…. Anyways…
Over a million queer women rely on Medicaid. What happens if they lose it?
Wait…
That’s generally not how it works.
more likely to be parents
Lesbians more likely to get pregnant is an intriguing take.
Very much so.
– a lot of gold stars
No line they wont cross, no lie they will not tell. Dismiss them out of hand every time they open their mouths.
I was expecting Slate or The Guardian. I haven’t heard of this lot before.
19thnews.org- We’re an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Independent my ass. USAID? Soros? That Jobs lady? Ten bucks says it is our tax money laundered in some way or other.
Sure, Jan.
Stench
To former aides who worked in Barack Obama’s White House, the Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.
Still, they’re grappling with how to contain the unprecedented accusations National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has leveled, even as they dismiss them as asinine, interviews with more than half a dozen people who worked in Obama’s White House or on his campaigns reveal.
These people say the events of the last week have turned into a messaging balancing act between unnecessarily giving oxygen to the claims that Obama ordered a false intelligence analysis to show Russia had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election and leaving the potential for unchecked accusations to balloon. Many of those who talked to NBC News were not authorized to speak publicly about strategy.
Best smartest President ever. just ask him.
lol Yeah all the Dems have suddenly latched on to Epstein – an issue they wanted to go away last week.
Why anyone takes anything they have to say at face value is a complete fucking mystery to me.
Projection, as usual.
I suppose they are building a temple to his presidency and not a library.
“The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official said. That person said it was important to reach “mainstream Republicans,” who would listen to editorial boards and those in Congress who deemed the allegations against Obama as “beyond the pale.”
It’s all about managing the narrative. nobody gives a shit about the truth.
Judges from Guinness World Records (GWR) have fast-tracked the process to get an artichoke measured after concerns the towering plant might not last the wait.
Nathan Garnett, 49, says his 3.22 metre-tall (10.56 ft) sensation has turned the heads of many who pass his home in Rayleigh, Essex, but he had initially joined a three-month queue for an official adjudicator visit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q8j7npj1no
“There is no factual basis for the allegations that Tulsi Gabbard is making. She’s cherry-picking things from various documents that are out of context and mischaracterized,” Brennan said.
“To me, it’s clear either she has not read the intelligence community assessment or she is purposely, willfully lying about the contents,” he added.
Obama allies also say the timing of the allegations is suspect. They emerged as Trump has struggled to contend with his own base after his administration announced it would not release more documents tied to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who faced a litany of allegations of abuse of underage women before he died by suicide.
Cherrypicked allusion and innuendo? When as the government ever stooped to that before? Or the press, for that matter?
It’s nice to see NBC helpfully adding context. Some people might not think Trump had a close relationship with the well known pedophile sex deviant Epstein.
It’s too bad Stormy Daniels wasn’t eight years old. People could really get their rocks off fantasizing about Trump’s sex life.
Brennan said.
Well, when a true liar speaks.
Is Brennan still a card-carrying commie? Or did he give that up to further his career?
Idiot relative tells me she thinks ‘democratic socialism’ sounds like a good thing. Yes, she really is an idiot.
“Democratic socialism, National Socialism, Soviet socialism…all those ‘isms’ are just slightly different flavors of the same shit.”
Her: “I know the Russians are bad but what is wrong with National Socialism?”
There has to be a better way of deciding who is allowed to vote. Surely there is. My God.
Surely there is.
I’m with you.
Sadly my best take turned out smelling a lot like Georgism. Not completely, but somewhat.
Back to the drawing board.
The truth is I am not the first or only one to think this and every conceivable method has been tried before. They all suck.
Maybe have some document that spells out exactly what the government is allowed to do.
Oh.
You see, Suthen, the problem is that all of these systems contain one phenominally flawed component – humans. Until you can devise a system that gets around this faulty element, you’re going to run into one of many past problems.
LOL
I saw a short video this morning of a young woman at a tire store giddy with excitement while she explained “I just found out that the air doesnt go into the rubber. The air goes between the rubber and the steel. See, here in this space *points finger into the interior of a tire with no rim*. The air goes in here, I always thought the air went into the rubber.”
I have no idea what ‘air goes into the rubber’ means but I do know she was a public school graduate of voting age.
There has to be a better way.
There are an astounding number of people with no concept of how things work and no curiosity to learn.
She must have thought the tires were something like open pore foam on the inside.
No. I’m
Giving her too much credit.
Must own real property free and clear before being allowed to vote.
Check her closet for Hugo Boss.
We in flyover country do not want the USDA or any other federal agency to be spread out over the nation.
We want those beaurocrats to stay in the east coast and not to meddle with us locally.
Better yet end their agencies altogether and bar the former employees from having public sector jobs.