Good morning one and all to another fantastic day!
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election post-mortem confirms plan to smear Trump with Russia, like intel
Jack Smith Under Investigation For Alleged Illegal Political Activity
Federal Judges Keep Defying Supreme Court Orders Against Trump Admin
Trump Says Americans Could Get Dividends From Tariff Revenues
Trump calls fired BLS commissioner’s job numbers the ‘biggest miscalculations in over 50 years’
Texas House Dems Flee State in Order to Block GOP Redistricting Plan…
Colleges try new way to meet declining enrollment, revenue, partnering with senior-living providers
Doomed Marvel Hit with ‘Devastating’ Box Office Collapse of ‘Fantastic Four’…
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Just cut spending for real already.
Pay off the freaking debt.
Stop accruing more first.
Yes.
Also, whatever the results, I think Trump is being haphazard with tariffs, declaring national emergencies to enact bog standard policy goals that aren’t emergencies at all. I think much of this tariff business should be going through Congress. But tariff by executive fiat because of bogus natsec excuses are bullshit.
All the while doing a shit job of selling it to the public.
“Trump Says Americans Could Get Dividends From Tariff Revenues”
He needs to knock it off with all the gimmicks. Just lower taxes, not this no tax on tips $1000 per baby nonsense.
The taxes where lowered. He made his cuts permanent. Pay off that debt while telling the crooks in congress to lower spending.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
GM 🙂
I think people are tired of Pedro Pascal.
I think they were tired of him a few years ago.
I was tired of him since I saw him in Equalizer 2 and he was a terrible bad guy.
Never heard of him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Loni Anderson Dead at 79”
RIP
Now those were BOOBS that Sydney Sweeny could only dream of.
Sydney’s look bigger.
https://the70s.fourthave.net/loni-anderson-looks-sexy-in-red/
Eh, maybe it’s just my youthful memories.
A thirteen year old Necron felt weird and dirty due to Jennifer Marlowe appearance on WKRP.
“But, as current CIA director John Ratcliffe pointed out, “The statute of limitations doesn’t start to run until the last act in the furtherance of that conspiracy,” and the two Russia hoaxers just restarted the clock on July 30, when they decided to pen an op-ed in The New York Times filled with even more lies in an apparent cover-up.”
Is that how the law works? If lying in the NYT were a crime, we’d need to build more prisons.
“Except that is not true. Sure, they testified as much under oath. In 2017, Brennan testified that the dossier was “not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment.””
What’s the statute of limitations for lying to Congress?
CIA Director is not an arbiter of law. Hell, I wouldn’t even trust the AG’s assessment of that legal theory.
CIA Director isn’t the last word on law, but this sounds right. Brennen et al keep doing things that stretch this out, which is part of the whole thing. It isn’t that they lied to the NYT, in itself not a crime, but that they did it in service of a conspiracy that is the issue.
““So, for example, you were talking about the burn bags that were discovered incriminating documents hidden at the FBI, as well as other records, hard drives squirreled away under lock and key by Comey recently found,” Jarrett added. “So attempting to conceal or destroy evidence relevant to investigations, that’s obstruction. The last overt act in a conspiracy starts the clock anew. So that’s the value of bringing a conspiracy case that includes obstruction.””
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/03/gregg-jarrett-clock-ticking-doj-obama-intelligence-officials-russia-hoax/
Conspiracy to do what exactly? Hamstring a president? OK – what is the law against that?
Nixon got run out of office for something that now seems trivial compared to this shit. And I stand by my call this was a soft coup and sedition.
Oh goodie, the 1918 Sedition act again. Fuck anyone who ever invokes that.
I would much rather fuck the people that do that evil shit.
Cause if your point is there is no law against running a soft coup, then I think Trump should lock up every fucking democrat and not bother with too much court time in doing so. Lets ignore all laws if we can’t hold government crooks acountable.
Criminal prosecution is one form of accountability – for violating actual laws. The real problem we have is the same problem the federal government had during Prohibition with Al Capone, he was doing what the people wanted. To put it another way, you can’t fight corruption when corruption is what the people want. And you want it too – just in a different package.
“,Criminal prosecution is one form of accountability – for violating actual laws.”
So you saying Trump and his people can now do the same criminal shit Obama and his did and get away with it? Or do you think democrats will drag them into court with made up charges like they have been doing for the last 17 plus years?
Criminal conspiracy to obstruct the office of the president, and subvert the lawful running of the country. Yes, sedition, and treason.
As much as you may not like it, JI, both are crimes.
I actually think the insurrection statute may be the more effective/applicable one. Treason requires collusion with a foreign government. Sedition requires force. It’s hard to see these very bureaucratic activities as crossing those lines (although as the inner workings are declassified, who knows?).
Insurrection requires neither. And you also have all kinds of incidental crimes along the way – perjury, obstruction, etc. With ample evidence of coordination, so conspiracy to do the former. Let’s face it: if crimes weren’t committed here, then it is entirely possible to run an actual coup in this country, perfectly legally.
Actual convictions will require three things:
(1) A venue not captured by leftists/Democrats.
(2) A prosecutor with the will to go after it, and a judge with the stomach for it.
(3) Evidence of the elements of the crimes alleged.
It’s possible, I think.
So you saying Trump and his people can now do the same criminal shit Obama and his did and get away with it?
No, that’s what you want.
I want to end the descent into corruption. You don’t fight corruption by being as, or more, corrupt than the last guy.
Thank you Mr. Dean for providing a possible legal avenue – though one obviously non-trivial as suggested by your caveats.
“I want to end the descent into corruption.”
I laughed. Not because I don’t agree with you and also want that, but because it is pretty obvious democrats will not ever give up the cheating. Ever.
So, I see that the only option we have is either we keep pretending if we play by the rules it will shame them to finally stop, or we can basically do to them what they have done to their enemies, and hope this eventually cows them into stopping cause their casualty count is higher.
We lose with the first option. We have a chance with the second.
That the dems are fighting like a drowning cat over the immigration issue tells me that the illegal invasion is the lynchpin of their plan for total power forever.
Good morning all.
Just for fun here is a Mandami campaign ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nyT3wPWffA
Mamdani? Mandami? I can never keep it straight. The comic book commie nepo.
“That the dems are fighting like a drowning cat over the immigration issue tells me that the illegal invasion is the lynchpin of their plan for total power forever.”
They knew what they wanted was impossible to legally get because half of this country would know better no matter how much control they had to lie to them. So they decided to first rig the census, then elections, and finally drown out enough of the voters that knew the democrat end goal and didn’t want it, out.
They are truly evil fuckers.
“U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of the Biden administration, blocked the Trump administration on Friday from using a process known as “expedited removal” to quickly remove illegal migrants from the country, according to court documents. The order could, at least for the time being, dramatically curtail the White House’s ability to carry out its deportation agenda.”
Foreign policy is under the executive branch.
“However, the Biden-appointed judge decided that his order remained in effect, citing a dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The Trump administration referred to Murphy’s action as “unprecedented defiance” of the Supreme Court’s authority, according to court documents.”
WTF?
Can the Supreme Court issue a bench warrant?
This is an area that the Trump admin should keep going with, while issuing a public statement to effect “this has been sorted out by SCOTUS, and unless and until that changes, we will keep with this program.”
Citing a dissent as justification for an action that’s on-its-face bullshit is hilarious. Sweet Jesus, the hubris.
Yup, just ignore the petty tyrants. That’s the only way it ends.
That’s fantastic, that means Kelo is overturned by dissent, correct? The only rulings that carry weight are unanimous decisions. We are living in a clown world.
So that means that Thomas’ dissent in Kelo can be used to reject any such takings. And his dissents in abortion cases and gun cases.
This is gonna be lit!
*fist-bumps DrOtto*
Above Uncivil says the CIA director is not an arbiter of law. He is correct. So I ask who is? Dont say ‘A judge’. The used to be, They appear to have abdicated by shitting all over their credibility.
Someone named Dredd?
If they dont cut this shit out that is where we are headed.
I used to think fictional stories like that exaggerated for effect so suspension of disbelief was easy. It isn’t easy anymore because they dont go far enough.
Juris, I agree. I’ve been watching bad cop videos, followed up by cops finding dead kids in the trunk and such.
The latter should be able to grease those monsters on sight, no punishment.
Threedoor, that was me being a tad sarcastic.
This is the third attempt at a Fantastic Four movie, all of which have tanked at the box office. Just accept the franchise is cursed and give up.
The Critical Drinker even declared it “not terrible.”
I have an idea. They should make another comic book movie. No, a remake of a sequel to a comic book movie. ‘ Thing Transes’. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Spiderman comes out, shocked he is the last one to find out he is gay!
Aren’t superhero movies in general pretty much dead? Maybe the age of making big bucks on movies about superhumans running around in tights is over.
I think the superhero movies were big because they were totally woke, and preachily so. Making movies about actual historical heroes risked cancellation. Now that there’s a sea change we may see more traditional heroes. The Sidney Sweeney moment was the dam breaking.
Imagine the terror of having to come up with something original.
Frankly, I think the cinema is dying out period. At least the big-budget blockbuster side of it.
The big studios are running up against a number of interlinked problems. First among them is the fact that in the mid-2010s most of them fired all their (old, white, male) writing staff, and replaced them with woke 20-something English-school dimwits. Even if the cultural climate is shifting away from woke status signaling as entertainment, the people actually responsible for creating the content can’t make that pivot because they don’t know anything else. Also, they’re generally not very bright.
Same thing happened to television.
It just ran its course. The first Marvel series was well thought out and planned way in advance, and people really anticipated each of the movies to see what would happen. There isn’t that sort of congruence to any of the movies out now, and they all seem like just one more of the same thing.
They were big because international audiences – you don’t have to understand cultural references when it’s guy in cape smashing giant monster in big city. The spectacle sells.
They are now failing because of oversaturation.
Oh, and Deadpool grossed a billion dollars even though that is a very very unique set of circumstances.
Deadpool is a shock comedy not a superhero franchise. Super hero movies were big because they were the only movies showing heroism against evil, when they started navel gazing and wokifying they stopped having the aspect that people wanted.
Hollywood movies, and TV, are both dead men walking. Why? You tube. I can find unlimited hours of entertainment watching things that actually interest me, and not men in tights or poorly written series that go on far too long.
Or is it the fourth?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IPG5tNLSaEo
“The project works like this: Residents pay a “buy-in” fee, ranging from $378,500 for a one-bedroom unit to $810,200 for a two-bedroom penthouse. When they die, 85 percent of that fee is refunded to their heirs. In addition, residents pay a monthly fee, ranging from $4,195 for a single person in a one-bedroom unit to $5,570 for a couple in a penthouse suite. That fee covers dining, housekeeping, utilities, shuttle service, activities and other amenities.
A few units are set aside for people who want to skip the refund plan, and those apartments range from about $297,500 to $499,000, with lower monthly fees.”
Most seniors can’t afford that.
That is one way to recoup the often excessively high salaries of professors.
I mean, who else wants to live on campus for the rest of their lives?
You could just start culling the most tenured faculty. Anyone who publishes papers more often than they grade them.
Oh, and get rid of 90% of the administrative staff. Retain the janitorial and maintenance people – if those roles were not already outsourced. Get rid of the office drones.
“Oh, and get rid of 90% of the administrative staff. ”
That right there…
The whole thing went off the rails when they chose to have a ratio of admin people that was 1 admin person to one student (or even higher in favor of admin people) at these entities.
Trimming the football staff would probably yield better results.
The football program is a money-maker.
“The football program is a money-maker.”
At a few schools, yeah, sure. At most, probably not.
And the accounting is crookeder than a Hollywood bomb. So we’ll never know, but I would take the under, myself.
Even if some schools are making money on football, they aint passing that money back to the education side except in a very tiny number of cases.
“Trimming the football staff…”
Can’t do that.
Double and triple
Down.
https://dailyevergreen.com/168036/sports/a-decade-of-debt-threatens-wsu-athletics/
Others tout the opportunity for seniors to be involved in a vibrant campus
They can bring the booze to frat parties.
There’s an Old School-style comedy romp somewhere in this.
If I am going to pay a billiondy dollars for housing I want to see snow capped mountains or the ocean.
There is a reason the enrollment is down. Perhaps they should address that.
The ritzy old-folks home around here is exactly like that (I looked into it out of curiosity).
The joke goes something like “Kendal has the best physics department of any retirement community” because of all the retired professors.
I hope when my time comes I’m not stuck in one of the dumpier couple ones I’ve seen around here.
I plan to stay in my own house until I physically cannot, then take the stoic option.
It depends how your raise your ki…oh, nevermind.
Yesterday my 9-year-old told us that she is sticking us in a home when we get old. I told her she wont have an inheritance if she does that.
#metoo
As far as I’m concerned, being put into an old folks home is a death sentence.
Iceberg?
Living in a van down by the river?
My folks are kind of odd about this – they’ve both stated that at age xx, they’re moving to the old-folks home voluntarily. Both of them have had to deal with parents who refused to go into assisted living, and rotted away miserable in homes they couldn’t maintain any longer, which probably colors their decision making a bit.
ES is right. I have been in far too many homes of old people that they couldn’t maintain, couldn’t clean, and have no family around to help. Old folks home is set up with nurses on staff, cleaning people, and you get to actually talk to people your own age.
Plus, that is were all the single ladies are!
Zwak – agreed. I don’t have anyone to take care of me so I’m not gonna wallow in filth if and hopefully when I can pay someone else to clean it up.
” I have been in far too many homes of old people that they couldn’t maintain, couldn’t clean, and have no family around to help”
Welcome to the Fourscores.
We ain’t buyin’ no one way ticket to be around no old folks. Sure, we’re messy, sure our standards are not what they used to. OTOH no one gives us orders, makes us get up/go to bed on their schedule.
Just as hoarders don’t see the mess I don’t see the weeds in my garden. (Actually I do) But I don’t care and not much I can do about it.
Life goes on…
My mom needs some assistance, probably just a day a week.
She worked in a series of crap nursing homes for the last ten years of her nursing career. No way she’ll go to one, and no way she’ll ever admit she needs help.
Everytime I take the kids over I’m afraid that I’ll find her dead under a pile of crap or at the bottom of the stairs.
“As far as I’m concerned, being put into an old folks home is a death sentence.”
As always, it depends on the home. Bottom-tier, SocSec plus Medicaid, can be pretty grim. If you’ve got money, though, they can be pretty nice.
https://www.watermarkcommunities.com/our-communities/arizona/tucson/the-hacienda-at-the-canyon/
I have friends in an assisted living apartments. Very nice, staff is competent, cheerful, friendly. I arrange visits and try to get other classmates to join me so it’s like old times. We talk about those gone, the things we did or knew about, classrooms antics. Try to undo the loneliness of friends that are pretty much prisoners of their environment.
We had a meet up last Friday, 5 Class of ’55ers. The other four were widows/widowers, I was the only one still with a significant other.
In other news of radical chic.
Another excellent piece from Mr. Bray.
ha I stayed at a similar hotel for several weeks when I moved to NYC in the late 90s – only it really WAS starving artists and such. It was affordable to a jobless bum like me without (quite) being at the falling apart stage. The themes in the various rooms were more “artsy” than “graffiti”, thank goodness.
Another condo tower is going up there now, so maybe it did fall apart.
So, wokeness is the social equivalent of an animal spraying shit to avoid being eaten. Sounds about right.
*remembers Steven King giving a ‘tax the rich’ speech*
It’s owned by Hilton.
“British mother, 52, ‘is sexually assaulted in the air by parasail instructor’ during holiday in Tunisia”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14968043/British-mother-52-sexually-assaulted-air-parasail-instructor-holiday-Tunisia.html
AIR SMITH?
Stratosphere Smith.
Maybe, maybe but maybe the guy was having some issue with the parasail? Don’t you have to move around and shift your weight to steer those things? Maybe it’s just a misunderstanding.
She gets her 15 mins of fame by claiming this happened..
I am wiling to bet money we will find out it was all in her head.
Yeah, actually groping someone in a tandem rig would be pretty difficult. The pilot’s hands are gonna be on the steering toggles most of the time.
Of course, maybe he wasn’t groping Ms. Tourist with his hands…
“Here, put on this jump suit so we can make sure the zipper is in the right place. No, you can’t wear underwear, it will interfere with the aerodynamics. “
When I say “You cant leave them alone with a woman for five minutes. Rape is normal in their culture. If you do that it is a certainty she will be raped.”
the rose colored glasses crowd gets outraged and accuses me of being overly cynical.
I find that my cynicism serves me well.
Does the company provide instruction on descending upon EDM festivals?
“Sydney Sweeney caught up with her Euphoria costars in Los Angeles on Saturday night, even as fans were in shock over revelations about her political party affiliation.
Sydney was spotted out with fellow actresses Hunter Schafer, 26, and Maude Apatow, 27.
The trio took the stage at The GasLite in Santa Monica, where they performed a karaoke cover of the 1993 song What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14967655/Sydney-Sweeney-reunites-Euphoria-costars-karaoke-political-party-revealed-republican.html
Karaoke with a “new-half”? Sydney Sweeney avoids being canceled by identifying as a drunk Japanese businessman.
I think they’re just GasLiting us.
Shocking. They were in shock.
I’m sure one or two were “in shock” and that makes it newsworthy.
The Donald tweeted out that his grandson was quite fond of Ms. Sweeney, and that grandpa approves of his taste.
If the lower level judges can shrug off Supreme Court rulings maybe the executive branch should shrug off the lower court rulings. One would hope the Supremes would get pissed and issue some kind of sanction but that won’t happen with Roberts the eunuch in charge.
OMB asking “How many divisions does the Fed Judge in Hawaii have?” seems like where we are heading. “Thanks” Roberts, you cunte.
““This truancy ends now,” Abbott wrote in a letter sent to each absent lawmaker. He cited a 2021 opinion from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which said courts could determine whether lawmakers forfeited their offices by fleeing the state to obstruct legislative duties. If a court rules that the seats are vacant, Abbott would be authorized to appoint replacements.
Abbott also raised the possibility of felony charges against lawmakers who are fundraising to pay the $500 daily fines incurred for missing the special session. He alleged that soliciting donations to avoid penalties could constitute bribery and warned that donors might also face legal exposure.”
So by the time a court decides the special session is over and it’s rendered moot?
I just hope this kills enough time to skip the THC ban bill.
Fuck the TX GOP with a rusty chainsaw for this starting this.
Not just Texas but we as a nation are where we are because of the Republican Party.
Pretty sure the GOP didn’t start this gerrymandering shit. Just look at California, Washington, New York, etc. In Cali alone the GOP gets 40% of the votes but only something like 3% of congressional representation. It sucks, but I see no other way than to make the Dems live by their own rules.
WTF, consider the irony that CA has an “independent” redistricting commission to take the gerrymandering out of the Legislature’s hands. That any one state gerrymanders (once every 10 years) is no justification for another state to gerrymander in the middle of the decennial cycle. I hate Democrats as much as anyone, but not enough to excuse inexcusable bullshit from Republicans.
So, the NYS gerrymandering is still going on. There was a nominally “independent” commission (though they had meetings with only one of the political parties) but that was insufficiently gerrymandered, so the legislature overrode it. That got struck down by the courts but is still under appeal IIRC. The legislative override was seen as an unfortunate necessity to offset Republican gerrymandering because the purpose of representatives is to provide votes for the (D) party. Why sold they represent the voters? Those tax cattle are too dumb to know what they want. If they were capable of determining their representatives, then they’d be voting (D) anyway, so what’s the big deal?
JI: For some values of independent. NY Dems figured out a way to get the commission to deadlock, putting things back in the hands of the legislature.
There is nothing quite so partisan as an “Independant” commission.
Maybe the problem will solve itself if more and more historic Dem constituents continue to leave the plantation, given that racial gerrymandering was really always about nothing more than electing Dems.
Jesus guys, I used the scare quotes, and I would’ve used the sarcasm-font (if I had ever gotten around to inventing it). But stop pretending that it is only Democrats that do it, and that it is not a time-honored American political tradition.
NA: The egregious gerrymandering attempt was for the 2022 election. Courts struck that down and a special master drew up districts.
After 2022, the Dems came back and tweaked Team Red districts to make a few just blue enough to vote out two or three Republicans. Their justification was that the special master’s plan was only ever supposed to be used for 2022, so they were required to gerrymander the districts.
You’re making assertions without evidence.
The stated preference around here seems to be for an algorthmic districting method without the ability for human input to gerrymander – from any party.
Why is redistricting mid-cycle so taboo to your mind JI? I agree that it is a purely political move, but redistricting is always a purely political move and there is nothing illegal about it. Giving up weapons as ungentlemanly, when your enemy is willing to use them, is kind of stupid.
/In WA it isn’t gerrymandering. It’s that the population lives in the big blue cities on the west side of the state. So even if metro-Seattle is 60/40 Dem, that means no seats for Team Red, even though almost half your neighbors aren’t on board with this socialist nonsense. And the cities are deep fucking commie blue, not “well I’m a union guy who works for Boeing and my dad was a democrat” blue. Finally, Team Red runs asshats for Statewide office and couldn’t out-fundraise a church bake sale.
No matter how you do it, drawing political boundaries is going to be political, whether someone decides that it needs to follow this river or county line, or if it has to follow that arbitrarily decided population group. Someone has to do it, and they have politics.
If seats were proportional to votes, then Cali would have about 10 more Republican congresscritters.
TLAH
In WA it’s the west side, motor voter, and top two instead of having closed primaries.
drawing political boundaries is going to be political
Thank you ZWAK.
“The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) recently published a panel discussion from its annual Socialism Conference that featured open calls for the abolition of the nuclear family and traditional family structure in the US.
The panel, titled “The Left and the Family: A Roundtable,” took place on July 4 and was part of the Socialism Conference in Chicago. The video was uploaded to YouTube on Friday, and DSA wrote in the caption that the nuclear family is “an inherently repressive, racist, and hetero-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/democratic-socialists-of-america-holds-panel-calling-for-dismantling-of-inherently-repressive-and-racist-nuclear-family
These assholes are wearing masks.
“Abdelhadi briefly commented about Islam in America and refuted the argument that Muslim beliefs contradict DSA’s worldview. Abdelhadi claimed the community is largely “progressive and permissive” on issues like “queer rights and trans rights,” but is overshadowed by a “loud minority.””
That there is one high level of delusion..
But we are talking about commies, and it is all delusion with that crowd.
That’s wild. The level of delusion to believe that queer rights and trans rights are okayed in the Muslim world is unbelievable. But then again most Democratic Socialists are not serious people.
Yet another with the “why did you bring me to this ditch” mentality.
Islam let’s gay children fly free from any earthly bonds! briefly
Quite the contrary – Islam wants to cultivate plenty of gay children, as catamites. It’s the gay adults that they seem to object to…
“refuted the argument”
On my long list of pet peeves about the devolution of language is the misuse of “refuted”. It doesn’t mean “disagreed with”, it means “proved wrong”.
I still see the occasional idiot riding in a car by themselves wearing a mask. Some people are simply incapable of learning.
That’s my neighbor in her Prius. And yes, dyed hair and overweight and late 30s/early 40s and still living with parents. And yes, there is Harris/Walz sticker on the Prius, why do you ask?
Damn Doc. That’s just so on the nose.
It is always fugly hairy land whale women, and dudes that think if they act stupid they can land them one of them heifers that are there doing that commie shit. These people all believe that communism will let them stay at home eating chips and drinking high calorie soda, instead of driving them into the fields during the hottest days – at gun point – until they die from starvation.
I will be a socialist poet writing blank verse homage to the glorious leader and celebrated as a True Communist hero! Capitalism has prevented the world from seeing my true brilliance!
(((Jarflax has it! This is the legacy of Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism – aesthetic socialism.
They look exactly like I expected them to look.
Wonderful, more of this please. The more people see these people for what they really are, the better. As opposed to the “moderate” fakery they play for media cameras during election season.
Former WaPo reporter goes on PBS to denounce being required to be positive and patriotic. He certainly chose an appropriate venue!
WaPo reporter dislikes personal liberty and free markets? I’m terribly surprised…
I don’t buy that for a second.
They were told that they couldn’t write any more articles titled Why America is Irredeemably Racist, and how Exterminating White Men is the Only Solution. That’s literally being ordered to be unapologetically patriotic!
The leftist propaganda outfits are dying off….it is overdue. They should have known that if they did not succeed in ushering in their communist utopia people would get sick f their shit.
Grrrr.
So I finally got ahold of someone at the SIIG “Flagship Store” to tell me that the gun I bought wasn’t actually in stock. Honestly, I still would have made the purchase if they had told me that, but it’s irritating as fuck that they didn’t. Plus I wouldn’t have bothered following up to find out why it hadn’t shipped yet.
I’ve already converting the mag pouches to left-handed single stack, got the optic in, got the mags in an. labeled, and am ready to put the belt rig together. I will probably wind up readjusting the Guga Ribas one that’s currently set for my 97B, but I do have a CR Speed one that might work, though it’s not designed to be universal.
😡
“You didn’t think that was important to mention when I was making the purchase?”
What are you going to be running this weekend?
I signed up under Optics on Practiscore, so probably the Shadow 2 again
Did you try one of the aftermarket grips yet?
Not yet. I’ve had a busy July.
As someone who hated the factory grips, I’d say wither choice would be better.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/entertainment/katy-perry-fan-collapses-on-stage-during-lifetimes-tour-show-in-detroit/
Those outfits are ridiculous. At least Sabrina Carpenter has the decency to sing in her underwear.
She’s the one palling around with Castreau, right?
Allegedly.
It’s the difference between a performer and a singer, on display.
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On the radical hotel and woke signaling: I keep trying to forget we are still in the monkey stage but the other monkeys wont let me.
I like your optimism with the ‘still’ but precisely what makes you think we are evolving into something better? Evolution has no direction, it is randomness with selection by failure to reproduce, and it isn’t the smartest people reproducing.
I spoke with my son yesterday. He is invested in AI and has already made a ton of money. I told him I think in ten years (fuck I am getting dyslexic – I originally typed yen tears – though that kinda works doesnt it)…in ten years AI will have us all out of work. He reports that the AI experts stopped making predictions past two weeks because it is advancing so quickly and no, it wont be ten years. It will probably be closer to 5. We will see.
I think AI will be smarter than we are but smart and wise are two different things. I predict that the problems that arise wont be solved Terminator style, I predict that we will emerge with them to some degree….we get smart, they get wise.
Do not call the guys with the white van and butterfly nets….just remember I said that.
So the AI will take over your Tree Farming Gig?
Also, you are correct. Evolution is the elimination of what doesnt work. It has no ‘direction’ except to follow the ever changing environment.
Uncivil: Yes.
It has already begun. Some industrial farms are being tended by partially autonomous machines monitored from remote offices. In fact I predict farming will be one of the first industries to become people-less.
I see how that might make our lives easier, but our lives becoming easier does not lead to an improvement in our natures usually
Suthen, farming was the first to adopt self driving vehicles.
I’m hoping that the laser seeder outfit goes public, I want to invest in that.
I know you keep saying that, but monkeys do what makes sense. We’re the only species with the luxury of insanity.
And now one where our own species is parasitical upon us.
We have no country….
Yeah the real coup that happened in 2020 is what they should be focusing on more, not the attempted coup in 2016.
I’m not sure you can draw a bright line between what started in 2016 with Hillary’s email scandal/coverup and what ended in 2024 when the criminal prosecutions of Trump were dropped.
HUGE….and then nothing else happened.
Biden was never president.
Just popped in my head for no reason: I remember 3rd or 4th grade we talked about Beowulf. I was fascinated so I went to the library to look up other Scandinavian history. I remember reading about some Prince Flooki Wulfsnort dude (true story, fictional name cuz I cant remember) who went to pick up a sword he had the smith make for him. He liked it. On his way back home he randomly chose some peasant guy and whacked his head off in order to test the new blade. Peasants were forbidden to be armed.
Think about that every time you hear a gun grabber or hoplophobe open their fucking mouth.
that sounds like a tall tale
I dont think his height was mentioned.
Seriously though, I dont think that kind of thing is uncommon in human history. It has probably happened thousands of times over the millennia in every culture that disarmed its peasants
“President Donald Trump is directing the Department of Homeland Security to develop policies to block male international athletes from competing against women in the United States, The Daily Wire can exclusively report.
On Monday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will issue guidance building off Trump’s Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports executive order, ensuring that certain athlete-related petitions and applications will be available only to women.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-admin-updates-visa-categories-to-block-men-from-womens-sports
Assholes from other countries is a very small, if any, part of the problem.
I don’t know how small it is but it makes sense and it’s consistent.
The fact we need to state such things explicitly at all is ridiculous.
That’s true.
*looks at olympic women’s boxing champion, raises eyebrows*
That wasn’t in the U.S.
Culture war, my friend. The high profile examples are a big part of it.
In other film news, I saw the new Naked Gun movie. Hard to imagine someone pulling of Leslie Nielsen’s schtick, but Liam does a very good job, and I thought it was very solid.
Box office will probably suck since there were a total of 7 people in the theater.
My wife and I re-watched the original this weekend.
Still funny even when I almost know it by heart.
“Bingo!” still gets me rolling.
Seth Macfarlane being involved worries me, I don’t think he is half as funny or smart as he does.
I will probably wait for the new one to be available at home before I watch it.
“The clip demonstrates just how well she can handle a gun; her choice being a semi-automatic Glock pistol, designed and manufactured by the Austrian company Glock GmbH.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14969011/Sydney-Sweeneys-secret-MAGA-moment-rockets-Trump-world-jaw-dropping-throwback.html
Who knew Glock made Glock’s?
“In this old video of Sweeney shooting a gun, it’s clear she is comfortable with the assault weapon as she is quick to load, aim and fire, even doing impressive ‘double taps'”
It’s also an assault weapon.
Wheil looking at potential carry guns I saw a couple of Glock clones.
Oh, if you ever see a Glock clone from a company called “Zev” know that it has the single Worst trigger safety I’ve seen or heard of. When I was TRYING to pull the trigger, it wouldn’t budge in 3/4 or 4/5 attempts. (I forget exactly how many tries, but I think I got it to go Once)
Zev stuff has a longstanding rep for breaking and causing malfunctions. You’re right to avoid it.
“For now, Sweeney is happy to share snuggles and go on outdoor activities with her dogs Sully Bear and Tank, work on restoring vintage cars, and create a real estate empire.
She already owns multi-million dollar homes in Los Angeles, South Florida and the Pacific Northwest.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14967391/Sydney-Sweeney-bombarded-private-messages-string-Premier-League-footballers-split-fianc-Jonathan-Davino.html
That doesn’t look like a German Shepherd.
Restoring vintage cars? Can this woman do no wrong?
Smart Sweeney publicist: “Hmmm…. That denim ad seems to have calved off all of the metrosexuals and malcontents, and has tapped into the vast dudebro audience. Don’t we have film footage around here somewhere of her messing with guns, vintage cars, and badass dogs?”
It’s a German Shepherd puppy.
look not everyone knows guns okay
NAZI!!!!! confirmed.
I certainly enjoy hearing about how good-looking celebs like guns and shooting, but for Enkidu’s sake, could we ease up on the nut-hanging a bit? Sidney is clearly competent with her gun handling, but 17 rounds in nine seconds into an 8-yard 18×24″ target is not going to win any awards.
Although, if Ms. Sweeney is interested, I’m always available for private firearms instruction…
you sound like you know all about not winning awards 🙂
I haven’t won many shooting awards (I have won a few, when the competition was weak.)
Most of my awards have been for lovemaking.
first to finish every time?
ZING!
Hey, first place is first place…
You’ll have to see how she handles a long gun, IYKWIMAITTYD.
first to finish every time?
Ringing the Brochettaward bell?
Anybody can point a gun downrange and pull the trigger fast (although she seemed to be reasonably on-target.
What caught my eye was the mag swap, and the way she holstered it when she was done. Those both show training and practice.
She’s not expecting it to be that high
https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1952212465783099480
getting hi, hi, hi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeEwPoDGnw
Well, hello there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDg_UwfSios
OUCH
I couldn’t afford a single thing in that clip.
Guys…?
https://x.com/OneToothTeXan/status/1952053824690262225
beer gets warm, take them out of the fridge one at a time
‘Texas cold’ is a real thing. Unfortunately.
I’m not impressed until it incorporates automatic top-popping.
With an elastic band, you could probably get them to reload automatically.
A top-popper might be more of a challenge.
He’s off to a good start, though.
What is with all the moaning about Trump firing the BLS head? It seems BLS made some huge errors in the May and June jobs reports. The incorrect reports may have caused the Fed to not lower interest rates. Whether or not this was a deliberate error, a new BLS director is called for if the statistical gathering and compilation is so flawed it cannot be trusted.
Is that the same person who constantly revised the job reports during Biden?
Government economic numbers are all political bullshit. The only thing Trump did wrong was not firing all of those people.
It’s not the results but the effort that matters. – lefty school district
Don’t like the message? Fire the messenger
“Boss, I’ve got some bad news…”
What difference, at this point, does it make?
its the principle of the thing
I saw the news about Loni Anderson, and read her Wikipedia page to see if she’d done anything besides WKRAP (surprisingly, yes). This stuck out:
Anderson was married four times. Her first three husbands were real estate developer Bruce Hasselberg (1964–1966), actor Ross Bickell (1974–1981), and actor Burt Reynolds (1988–1994). On May 17, 2008, she married musician Bob Flick, one of the founding members of the folk band The Brothers Four. They originally met at a movie premiere in Minneapolis in 1963. She had an acknowledged affair with her co-star Gary Sandy near the end of her marriage with Bickell.
I told my wife, “Well, they’re finally together again.”
Her: “Loni and Burt?”
Me: “No… Loni’s legs.”
I watched that SS(!) range video the other day. At the end, she hops into what appears to be a 1968 Shelby GT500.
Caramba!
Look, y’all quit that shit. I have a strict policy of not developing crushes on celebrities. Just stop it.
I saw a short X post from Sweeney one time explaining her plans to be successful in the acting business. Option one included taking lessons, getting a manager, and working her way up through small roles. Option two was showing her boobs.
She actually seems to be a well-ground individual.
All the “well, she’s really just a 4” blather is overlooking a main component of beauty/attractiveness – the personality behind the meat. She does seem to be a pretty non-crazy person who might just be fun to spend time with.
I think it was Naked Gun:
“Any last words?”
“Don’ shoot.”