Thursday Morning Links

by | Sep 4, 2025 | Daily Links | 295 comments

The NFL is back! The NFL is back! But it won’t be as fun as college Saturdays, IMO. Sinner cruised into the semis. And will probably cruise into the finals. The other semifinal is what I can’t wait for tomorrow. The Astros managed to come back and win, after almost blowing it (again). Thank God Seattle chose the same time to play like shit. And I guess that’s it for sports.

Oh, for the love of God. These dumb bastards never give up.

It’s pretty clear they need to change the venue. It’s been impossible to find an unbiased jury there for close to a decade. Maybe longer.

This is a hill I can’t see him climbing. The legislature is gonna have to actually do their job if they’re gonna stay.

This makes a lot of sense. No, wait. It’s retarded as shit.

What a mess. I wonder what the actual truth is.

This little piggy went to market. All of the little piggies should have stayed home.

What an odd series of coincidences. Because I’m sure that’s all they are.

Do it! Let’s see them maintain their welfare state without daddy sugar taking care of this.

This is ridiculous. If you’re wondering which part I’m referring to, it’s all of it.

Apparently people will live in the pod. Not sure if they’re eating the bugs yet though.

One of my favorites. Not that it’s a secret here. I hope enough of you like them. If so, enjoy!

And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.

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295 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Flying meat?

    • UnCivilServant

      You know, pheasant, quail, etc.

    • Nephilium

      We already discussed ballistic piggies this week.

      • Ted S.

        We discussed the AFD politicians too. Eugyppius debunked the idea of it being a conspiracy, but people still want to believe it.

      • Nephilium

        Sensei:

        Careful… or I’ll do a Friday afternoon links post with nothing but Kelce stories. 🙂

        On the other hand, I remember Garage beer being launched before the Kelces were involved. IIRC, it was originally a recipe done by another Ohio brewery as a way to reach the light lager drinkers. The overall brewery didn’t make it, but they were able to spin off Garage beer. Or I may be conflating it with a couple of the other regional light lagers. Most of the regional/state wide breweries have released a take on a beer flavored beer as well.

      • WTF

        Eugyppius debunked the idea of it being a conspiracy, but people still want to believe it.

        Did he factually debunk it, or did he just deny it based on various opinions? Because a lot of people confuse “debunk” and “deny” these days.

      • Nephilium

        WTF:

        Pointing out that there are over 3,000 candidates, and 4 (maybe 5) of the 6 (now 7) deaths were very likely natural causes.

      • WTF

        Neph – Thanks, that makes sense.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Durational, an owner of Bojangles, the fast-food fried-chicken chain, was attracted to Garage Beer because of its innovation in the beer sector, said a partner, Patrick Khayat.

        A 95 calorie light beer is innovative?

      • Threedoor

        Least organic looking garage ever.

    • sloopyinca

      I still don’t understand how he was charged and his plane stolen by the state before he even took off.

      Anticipated crimes aren’t crimes.

      • Common Tater

        I don’t understand how beer can be illegal.

      • sloopyinca

        I don’t understand how beer can be illegal.

        Because a majority of people in one place can be retarded.

      • juris imprudent

        Sloopy, some of those same villages in Alaska don’t allow their LEOs to be armed. They aren’t entirely retarded, they understand that their community can’t handle alcohol well.

      • Ozymandias

        Had a client in Okinawa. Great Marine, a grunt – A BIG INJUN. And I mean, even with the high and tight, you looked at this dude and thought, “Oh, fuck. Can you imagine this mofo charging you on horseback with a hatchet in his hand?!?” But he had an even BIGGER problem with the fire water – get past a certain number of drinks and My Man had a bad habit of busting up bars and people in sufficient dollar amounts to land him in the brig and Level III alcohol rehab. One of the nicest, most respectful, kindest (and biggest) clients I ever had – but add alcohol and that dude broke out in felonies.
        He knew it – and felt bad about it when he came to from the blackout – but there was nowhere to hide from it. Cost him a career.

        I could easily see a small village of people – ahem of a certain demographic – with enough self-realization to treat booze like the Chinese govt does opium. It’s not an insane policy for a tribal – or even a national govt – to adopt. Our ancestors were not stupid, and although Prohibition looks like a disaster to us now from the Libertarian Arc of History, just imagine how bad men drank back then that it drove their women to that level of political activism…?

      • Nephilium

        Ozymandius:

        It’s quite surprising how much more people were drinking back in the day.

        When Rorabaugh writes “three and a half gallons of alcohol,” he’s talking about 3.5 gallons of pure ethanol, rather than gallons of a specific spirit. To convert that into a more graspable figure, that’s 8.75 gallons of standard, 80-proof liquor per year for the average person by the time of the American revolution. That’s already 45 percent higher than current consumption levels, but hold onto your seats, because the number gets much higher by the 1800s.

        By 1830, alcohol consumption reached its peak at a truly outlandish 7 gallons of ethanol a year per capita.

      • juris imprudent

        just imagine how bad men drank back then that it drove their women to that level of political activism…?

        Don’t forget that Prohibition fit so nicely with the Progressive ambition to improve people and that was the peak era for proggies.

      • R C Dean

        By my math, thats just under 6 ounces per day. Of course, by the time you back out people who weren’t drinking, the average per drinker goes up. So, yeah, that’s a lot of booze.

      • Common Tater

        I did the math. 7 gallons of ethanol is less 1.5L (two fifths) of 80 proof per week. Unless I need more coffee.

      • Nephilium

        R C Dean:

        They’re also including children in that calculation. Of course, the children were also drinking.

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s a lot, but if you spend 12 hours a day chopping down trees or plowing a field with a mule, it’s maybe not so bad.

        Of course given that the water wasn’t clean in some places, a splash of alcohol was needed even in drinking water.

        Yes, probably still drinking a bit much back then.

      • Bobarian LMD

        How would someone know how much actual ethanol was consumed in 1830, considering that distillation/brewing is currently an imperfect art and would have been much more haphazard back then. Proof is now legislated and regulated.

        The 7 gallon number is, at best, a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess).

      • Ozymandias

        Yeah, but the thing about averages is that you have to drink that average EVERY. SINGLE. DAY and that’s about impossible.

        It’s like when I do those pushup or squat or rowing challenges of X reps/m per day to get to 1M meters in a year (or some equivalent).
        You miss a couple of days or don’t get your necessary average? Welp, now you’re behind and it is FUCKING HARD to catch up, stay up, or importantly for success – actually get ahead of the average – so you have some days off.

        And since these guys were drinking without regard to any goal, that means they were consuming vast amounts more than the average, and then having a day or two off, then consuming 2-3x more than average, then a day or two off, etc.

        Just food for thought.

      • ron73440

        Had a client in Okinawa. Great Marine, a grunt – A BIG INJUN. And I mean, even with the high and tight, you looked at this dude and thought, “Oh, fuck. Can you imagine this mofo charging you on horseback with a hatchet in his hand?!?” But he had an even BIGGER problem with the fire water – get past a certain number of drinks and My Man had a bad habit of busting up bars and people in sufficient dollar amounts to land him in the brig and Level III alcohol rehab. One of the nicest, most respectful, kindest (and biggest) clients I ever had – but add alcohol and that dude broke out in felonies.

        I had a friend like that in 29 Palms, not a grunt, but a fellow cannon-cocker 0811.

        When he was sober you couldn’t find a nicer dude.

        He started drinking and there was no telling where he would end up.

        He ended up getting kicked out, bums me out remembering, he had so much potential.

    • Rat on a train

      nickname in school?

  2. UnCivilServant

    This little piggy went to market.

    Doesn’t sending the piggie to the market mean they got butchered and sold as bacon, ham, and chop?

    • sloopyinca

      You come up with a clever way to present that story.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t even want to think about that story.

    • Nephilium

      Like all of those delicious products come from one animal…

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, I forgot lard, pork rinds, sausages of all stripes…

      • Common Tater

        Lard.

        Not important today, but it was a big deal back then.

      • bacon-magic

        Ahem…it’s magic.

  3. R.J.

    “ Startup behind $700-a-month bed ‘pods’ wants to put 10,000 more in San Francisco”

    I can smell it from here.

      • sloopyinca

        Also, there’s a difference in a hotel and a residence. I could probably live like that for a few days while I travel lightly for business or pleasure. It would be impossible to live like that for more than a handful of days.

      • Nephilium

        Well, that’s because being quiet is white supremacy.

      • R.J.

        That article on silence as white privilege is awesomely stupid.

        About the San Fran article: those shelters have curtains, not actual doors so you could expect to be robbed blind and assaulted all hours. To Sensei’s point, this ain’t Japan.

      • rhywun

        There better be a beefy-looking bouncer at the entrance.

        But yeah, this is never going to fly in a far-left jurisdiction whose goal is to make shelter as expensive as possible and where people who can’t afford that are expected to turn to the government for a handout.

      • EvilSheldon

        That was a direct hit, if there ever was one.

      • rhywun

        the noise of poverty is the woman next door screaming while she’s getting beaten up by her drunk boyfriend, a schizo man shouting obscenities outside of your apartment window, and the blaring siren of ambulances coming to collect yet another overdose

        Not just “poverty” – that is the sound of a city run by Democrats.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sloopy:

        See my long description of my experience staying at a capsule hotel in Tokyo below.

        For the most part, I agree with you that this is a short stay solution only. Most of the residents were drunk salarymen who missed the last train out of Tokyo and had to sleep it off.

        I stayed there for several months, but I had to find some work arounds to make things bearable. For example, I got all my laundry done at a nearby full service hotel. I bribed the concierge to let me keep my work clothes there. Each day, I’d stop buy to drop off dirty clothes and pick up tomorrow’s duds.

        I also had to work with a minimal toilet kit (comb, razor, fangbrush).

      • Pope Jimbo

        If this is like a Japanese capsule hotel, you immediately go into a locker room where you change from your street clothes into a robe and slippers. All your personal stuff stays in the locker until you leave.

        The common bath area and the common lounges can be a bit noisy as the drunks settle down, but once you go up to the floors where the pods are, it is very quiet.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I stayed in one somewhere in Japan. It was nice for travel when you only need to crash.

      I like being tiny. (5’7″, ~135) So snug! The cultural demands of Asian cultures absolutely is what makes them work.

  4. Common Tater

    “A Florida man was arrested after a meetup with a woman he met on a dating app turned violent when he allegedly ran over her after she refused to allow him to smell her feet, police say….

    The woman, who spoke to Local 10 News but asked not to be identified, said she had agreed to meet Sercle to sell him a pair of used shoes, but quickly became uncomfortable when the conversation shifted….

    The woman told police that she told Sercle it would cost him $1,000 because she’s a foot model and that’s her going rate, according to the affidavit. ”

    Expensive piggies.

    • juris imprudent

      So is that the same as downtown?

      • DrOtto

        That’s Uptown prices.

    • (((Jarflax

      So she didn’t refuse, he just got sticker shock.

  5. Chipping Pioneer

    The climate cult is in its death spiral. It’s happening much sooner than I imagined.

    • sloopyinca

      They’re one election cycle away from coming back with a vengeance. Don’t sleep on those dumbasses.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep. Let’s roll back those harmful Trump policies, get back in line with Europe, and pass Green New Deal 2. Boom.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Impossible

        CNN is now on the train of cancelled elections starting next year

      • juris imprudent

        We’re going to need to preserve all of those predictions of cancelled elections for next November, so that we can remind them that they don’t get to vote for being that stupid.

      • db

        I know what you’re saying

    • rhywun

      I hope so. It does seem that reality is crashing the party. But man… people really don’t like when you challenge their religion. They will not give up without a fight.

    • (((Jarflax

      It’s a phoenix. It always rises again.

    • The Last American Hero

      Why can’t Team Dumbass capitalize on this shit? All they have to do is advertise that their opponent favors banning meat, gas stoves, and dogs, and that while you care about the environment, your opponent is nuts. Do it while standing on a nature trail or in a kayak with your dog.

      Fucking make them eat this shit sandwich and choke on it.

      Oh, that’s right. Team Dumbass.

      • juris imprudent

        Team Dumbass — if we win the election we have to actually govern.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Is it? It seems like everyone I know is fully on board with it. They’re not spouting off the crazier ideas like banning dogs and children and air travel and stuff, but I definitely see lots of hand-wringing when the topic comes up and a general consensus that climate change is Real and A Major Problem, along with mockery of skeptics as science-hating morons.

  6. Rat on a train

    Public schools should just be numbered. Their mascots should be letters.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Like Sesame Street episodes.

      • Rat on a train

        too advanced for Baltimore schools

      • Ted S.

        Especially UMBC.

    • SDF-7

      The cheerleaders for HS FU2 will be popular at away games.

    • Ted S.

      Couldn’t make it through the article with Briggs’ obnoxious jargon and willful ignorance of the number of candidates.

      • Raven Nation

        Just skimmed the eugyppius piece. I would add my assumption that newbies campaigning for political office probably add some stress to their lives. If they already have health problems, that’s not going to help.

    • Not Adahn

      I particularly love his Bayseian calculations where he keeps readjusting probabilities because the results aren’t what he likes.

      • Ted S.

        It seemed to me he had no clue how many AfD candidates are running. As best I could tell he was conflating the number of municipalities with the number of AfD candidates.

    • The Last American Hero

      Which 6 should make a difference. They aren’t blades of grass on a golf course (of course given that players are trying to hit the ball to certain locations not all blades of grass have equal chances of being hit, but since he’s never played, watched or been to a golf course who cares).

      If three GOP candidates turned up dead in fall of 2028 and they are Vance, Rubio, and Hesgeth, that’s a bit different than a couple of 80 year olds, that morbidly obese freshman congressman from East Bumfuck, and the dude that was killed by the drunk driver on Labor Day weekend prior to the election.

      • Ozymandias

        Bingo.

  7. Ted S.

    Oh, for the love of God. These dumb bastards never give up

    Not dumb; evil.

  8. juris imprudent

    Oh, for the love of God.

    Study finds people don’t accurately assess non-existent risk!

    • Rat on a train

      I produce well under a Gore of CO2 so I’m good.

      • R C Dean

        I approve of using Gore as a measurement of individual CO2 production.

    • sloopyinca

      Read the study. The title and first sentence of the abstract tell you all you need to know about it.

      These are activists using, I would assume, government money to push their talking points. It’s junk science, at best. Paid propaganda, at worst.

      The title: Climate action literacy interventions increase commitments to more effective mitigation behaviors

      First sentence of abstract: Reducing lifestyle carbon emissions is a critical component of decarbonizing society.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh so it wasn’t just lousy journalism? Hang on, I’m sure my shocked face is around here somewhere.

      • rhywun

        It is their religion, and it is winning out over some of the more established religions.

      • juris imprudent

        Religion and the human need for it – damn. It is as bad as government.

      • Suthenboy

        They misspelled ‘impoverishing’.

  9. juris imprudent

    I hope this guy keeps talking on the periphery of the party, god forbid they should pay attention to him.

    So does that mean Democrats shouldn’t worry at all about redistricting shenanigans? No, but it does mean they shouldn’t hit the panic button about it. Their problems lie far deeper than that and go way beyond the marginal House seat in the 2026 election. Indeed the garment-rending about the GOP’s redistricting efforts misses the harm done to Democrats by the continuing concentration of their partisans in ever-less competitive districts, under the press of both redistricting and population sorting.

  10. slumbrew

    People often miscalculate climate choices, a study says. One surprise is owning a dog

    Come for people’s dogs and you’ll see some “carbon sequestration” in action.

    • sloopyinca

      These joyless people want you to have no joy either.

      • Fourscore

        “Ho, ho, the wolves got to go”

    • Ownbestenemy

      They have been hammering this narrative now for almost a year.

      Its as if they are just trying to torpedo their own religion

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      Owning a down is proof of Islamophobia.

      • R C Dean

        So, dogs are anti-Islam and anti-climate?

        Geez, I already have two (and one is punching way above her weight on methane output). I don’t really want any more, but if it’s a public service . . . .

    • Suthenboy

      They convinced people to neuter and mutilate their own children. Going after dogs should be easy=peasy.

      • Threedoor

        People will slaughter their own children en mass and fall over themselves over an injured dog.

        Take a look at go fund me for sick dog vs kid with cancer.

      • Mad Scientist

        That’s me right there. If I see an article about a school bus driver who has a heart attack and drives his bus off a bridge, killing 30 little kids, I’ll think “someone’s going to get sued,” and turn the page. Next story is about a dog who has a splinter in his paw. Where can I send money to help that poor dog!?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Most animals eat meat, so…what are we saying here.

    • The Other Kevin

      They just can’t figure out why, after all the propaganda and dishonest reporting, most people don’t give two shits about this.

    • The Last American Hero

      Slumbrew as asleep in 2020-2022. They will come, and your Karen neighbors will be leading the charge. And the only resistance will be that one guy with 30 guns and a dozen dogs.

  11. Rat on a train

    “Chief among the reasons for this greater urgency are Russia’s military threat and uncertainty over the United States’ commitment to defending European allies,” it says.
    Europe hasn’t been interested in defending Europe so why should the US.

    • juris imprudent

      For three decades, I have worked at the intersection of public health, science and technology innovation—always challenging the status quo and welcoming discovery and change.

      “You are everything we’ve come to expect from years of government trainingservice”.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So many good lines from that movie

  12. Common Tater

    “The first trailer for Emerald Fennell’s racy adaptation of Wuthering Heights has sparked a social media frenzy, with fans branding the film ‘erotic softcore porn.’
    ….
    This was echoed after test screenings last month, with some attendees appalled by the film’s jaw-dropping opening scene, which features a public hanging that sees the condemned man ‘ejaculate mid-execution’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15064577/Wuthering-Heights-raunchy-trailer-erotic-softcore-porn.html

    ?????

    • R.J.

      I will find this when it goes free streaming and we shall all watch this.

      • Ted S.

        The early 80s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is on free streaming last I checked.

    • sloopyinca

      David Carradine’s estate ought to sue for likeness rights.

      • DrOtto

        +1 Michael Hutchence

    • R.J.

      Because magazine writers suck, I had to go out and find the trailer in my own. If you are going to ramble on about it for ten paragraphs you best link to it in the article somewhere.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O50Wyuxu7IE

    • Sensei

      Wiki says Bob Guccione died in 2010. I’m confused…

    • Tonio

      No, just no. My hatred for the Bronte sisters is infinite, having suffered through their twaddle in more than one lit class. I don’t care how much they action it up, it’s still crap.

      IIRC from some other work of fiction ejaculation (etc) while hanging is an actual thing so they can claim it’s just realistic.

      • EvilSheldon

        It does happen. It’s not nearly as common as the hanged man pissing and shitting himself, but I doubt we’ll be seeing that in Wuthering Heights

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        -1 internet photo of Michael Hutchence

      • R.J.

        The trailer has jarring music and juxtaposition. I hate that. It almost made the trailer into an unintentional comedy.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      …sees the condemned man ‘ejaculate mid-execution’.

      He went out doing what he loved?

      La petite mort followed by la grande mort?

    • (((Jarflax

      Isn’t this basically the same reception as the book got when it was published?

  13. Common Tater

    I don’t think a few ships and 4,000 marines can take over Venezuela.

    • UnCivilServant

      You don’t need to take over venezuela, just kill a few thousand Maduro supporters and bounce.

      • R.J.

        It’s a pestering force not an invasion force. Let the enemy waste his time and treasure responding.

        It’s the Harpo Marx of tactical moves.

      • Tonio

        ^This.

        And it’s exactly what you don’t expect from a superpower. Heh.

        Trump has been very precise, so far, in his use of the military in foreign countries.

      • Drake

        We could do just that. Then Venezuela goes the way of Iraq and Libya and becomes even more of a festering mess in our backyard.

      • juris imprudent

        festering mess

        Or they could follow the example of El Salvador.

    • WTF

      “You’d be surprised what a motivated Marine and his rifle can do.”
      – Sgt. Hartmann, probably

      • Threedoor

        Everything is a dildo if you are brave enough.

    • UnCivilServant

      why are you unleashing a flurry of spittle at the end of your comment?

      • Threedoor

        I want to know what it is too.

    • Rat on a train

      Practicing for the Olympics?

  14. Common Tater

    “Kamala Harris’ new security detail is made up of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers, who have been reassigned to guard the former vice president after President Trump withdrew her Secret Service protection, according to a report.

    As many as 14 of LAPD’s elite Metro Division officers have been “pulled from working cases” and “crime suppression efforts” to provide security for Harris, local outlet FOX 11 reported on Wednesday. ”

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/03/us-news/los-angeles-police-officers-pulled-from-working-cases-to-provide-security-for-kamala-harris/

    Who is paying for them?

    • juris imprudent

      Given that there must be federal grants involved, not just LA taxpayers.

    • UnCivilServant

      Who has tried to kill her? She’s irrelevant now.

    • Grumbletarian

      Is Kamala Harris really in need of protection from anything other than getting too close to an open mic?

      • SDF-7

        Cirrhosis?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Eh, Trump should have just assigned her all the Secret Service diversity hires that were “protecting” him.

  15. rhywun

    It’s been impossible to find an unbiased jury there for close to a decade. Maybe longer.

    In DC? I would guess more like a century.

    • Sensei

      It abides by its own set of Ten Commandments, according to its website, the first of which is, “do not go public.”

      Having worked in public markets for the vast amount of my career I’ve frequently said that.

      Most of the C-suite here will have more money than they can spend – you don’t need the crazy level of wealth that Fortune 100 executives get because it comes with Fortune 100 level of scrutiny.

    • Suthenboy

      Medical records….one of the largest privately held companies…..billions in cash flow….
      Tell me again how AI is not going to put everyone out of work….
      In a few years that campus will be abandoned and the company will consist of an AI, a couple of live people and a coffee machine.

    • Threedoor

      I
      Wonder if these are the guys that lose my medical records every five years or so.

    • (((Jarflax

      AEO is up 31% today.

  16. rhywun

    It’s retarded as shit.

    I was unaware that “Thunderbird” is a verboten word. Are you listening, Mozilla? Do better, please.

    Also, the town name “Connetquot” looks pretty suspicious too. Better change it to something less hurtful.

    • WTF

      Yes, yes, we must honor the Indians Native Americans by erasing everything that references them from polite society.

    • Tonio

      Use their words, mythology, etc, you’re appropriating their culture; ignore them and you’re erasing them. Classic sticky-trap grift.

    • slumbrew

      If we have to start changing things on Long Island named after Indians, we’re going to be awfully busy.

      • Common Tater

        Massapequa is now Penis-McPenisface.

      • slumbrew

        “Just wait until you see what we call Hauppauge now!”

    • Nephilium

      What’s the Word?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Whats the word you say? Have you not heard?

      • SDF-7

        Are you expecting folks to flip you the bird, Neph?

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        What’s the Word?

        Legs
        .
        .
        .
        Spread the word.

      • kinnath

        Spread the word.

        . . . flash backs to being 13 years old . . .

      • Nephilium

        How’s it Sold?

    • Rat on a train

      Change to Corvettes.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Winos hardest hit.

  17. Sensei

    TurbineOne’s software runs on soldiers’ laptops, smartphones and drones, eliminating the need for a steady cloud connection. The AI application equips individual soldiers with the ability to quickly identify enemy threats, such as a drone-launch site or concealed troop position, and the context needed to decide how to respond without relying on analysts sitting miles away.

    Is that a grenade in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? I’m sure no vast amount of money will be spent by the DoD on this AI boondoggle.

    https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/us-military-ai-contract-turbineone-c2a146b1?st=fvZG7E&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • UnCivilServant

      This is a stupid idea and will be a catastrope.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m sure it will go just as well as IVAS has. Pentagon Wars 3.0?

    • Threedoor

      Just like Blue Force Tracker, a total waste of time and money.

  18. Common Tater

    “Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison announced Tuesday that she has filed a civil lawsuit in King County Superior Court against gun manufacturer Glock, Inc., its Austrian parent company Glock GES.m.b.H., and three local retailers authorized to sell Glock firearms.

    The complaint names Pantel Tactical, Bull’s Eye Indoor Range, LLC, and Rainier Arms, LLC, alleging that the companies knowingly sell handguns that can be illegally modified into fully automatic weapons with the addition of a device known as a “Glock switch.”

    In 2023, Davison filed a lawsuit in federal court against Kia and Hyundai, two of the most stolen car brands in the United States. Davison argued that their failure to install anti-theft technology in certain models contributed to an “exponential increase” in auto thefts across Seattle. This followed rising car thefts that were fueled in part by state-imposed restrictions on police, including limits on vehicle pursuits.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-city-attorney-sues-glock-over-converted-handguns

    CWAC

    • UnCivilServant

      So when is Ann Davison being thrown in prison for wasting government funds on frivolous lawsuits?

    • rhywun

      Anything to absolve actual criminals of any responsibility for their actions. Because an honest discussion about crime is absolutely out of the question.

    • R C Dean

      Next up:

      Suing Remington and gun dealers for knowingly selling shotguns that can be illegally modified by sawing off their barrels.

    • The Last American Hero

      And Stanley tools for selling saw blades!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Skipping that single flight saves about as much carbon as swearing off eating all types of meat a year, or living without a car for more than three months, according to U.N. estimates.

    Whoa. That’s heavy, man. But here’s the thing. That plane spews those poisons whether I’m on it or not. So unless I shoot the plane down…

    What a steaming batch of dishonest blather.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and
      they won’t take him.

      And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.

      And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization.

      And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and
      walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I was on a recent flight with a college volleyball team. It was absurd to think that they were flying around to play a sport that no one really cares about. We should put a stop to that, for the climate of course.

      • (((Jarflax

        Men’s or women’s? This has a significant bearing on my opinion in this case.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah…jarflax has a point

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Women’s, but also they are wearing sweats on a flight and are annoying to listen to.

      • (((Jarflax

        They are not for listening to. That is not the sense they appeal to.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        In any case, as much as you guys like women’s volleyball players I assume you are not the one footing the expense for them to fly to matches.

      • The Last American Hero

        I’ve tried to rub that in the climate worshippers faces. How dare you get on a plane for something as frivolous as a vacation, a meeting that could be done over the internet, or really anything not involving life or death situations.

      • Threedoor

        I’d be happy if vollyball didn’t interrupt talk radio.

        Baseball too.

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s a progressive thing isn’t it? We can’t let people know about Group X’s bad behavior, because then people would think Group X engages in bad behavior.

    • rhywun

      “transgender 13-year-old”

      Stop. It.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Experts say the best way to combat the human tendency to miscalculate climate-related decisions is with more readily available information. Zhao said that people are already more accurate in their estimations than they would have been 10 or 20 years ago because it’s easier to learn.

    The study backs up that hypothesis. After participants finished ranking actions, the researchers corrected their mistakes, and they changed which actions they said they’d take to help the planet.

    “People do learn from these interventions,” Vlasceanu said. “After learning, they are more willing to commit to actually more impactful actions.”

    People are stupid, and given the opportunity they will always choose wrongly. That is why we must eliminate all choices we disapprove of.

    • (((Jarflax

      What I learn from these interventions is hatred, and I am still sufficiently a product of my upbringing to find that uncomfortable.

  21. slumbrew

    Ozymandius, if you’re still around, I was near your old stomping grounds a couple weeks back:

    https://ibb.co/whFzS0Fz

    Drove right by it on the way.

    • Ozymandias

      Was gone but popped back in.
      Where is that sign – west of Havelock? Or down by New River?

      • SDF-7

        Shaka… when the walls fell!

  22. Not Adahn

    Watched the new episode of “Terminal List: Dark Wolf.” Still well-done operator porn. Chekov’s gun avoided. I imagine an entirely new audience will be driven to it by the reveal of (((treachery))).

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Because a lot of people confuse “debunk” and “deny” these days.

    A+

  24. Common Tater

    “A disabled former Walmart employee has filed a lawsuit against the retail giant in federal court, alleging he was wrongfully terminated from his position after reporting that he was being sexually harassed by a transgender coworker in the men’s restroom. That coworker is a female who identifies as a man….

    After Allen reported the sexual harassment complaint, he alleged in the suit that Charlotte, as well as another transgender female employee, Michelle, who goes by the name “Mike,” and a third colleague began harassing him during work hours. Allegations include invading his personal space by using motorized shopping carts to drive by the aisles he was working at. Allen said he did not engage with his colleagues and reported the harassment incidents to the store, but no action was taken.

    In December 2023, Allen claimed that Charlotte stared at his groin as he was using the urinal in the men’s restroom for a second time. He reported the incident to management. However, the two transgender employees, Charlotte and Michelle, “filed a false harassment” complaint against Allen, which resulted in his termination.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/walmart-wrongfully-terminated-disabled-christian-vet-after-he-reported-sexual-harassment-from-trans-colleague-in-mens-restroom-lawsuit

    Two FTM working in the same store?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      In Colorado? Not surprising.

    • The Other Kevin

      The new season of SuperStore sounds crazy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        America Ferrara comes back trans? I can actually see it written.

    • Suthenboy

      This is like the illegal kids business. We spent a lot of time and trouble chasing around in circles a problem that should not exist in the first place.
      The kids are illegally here. Get them out.
      Women dont have peckers. If you dont have a pecker use the women’s room. If you do, use the mens.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m impressed that “she” was standing at a urinal to stare at his junk.

      • Common Tater

        I doubt a FTM was using the urinal.

      • juris imprudent

        Which is a double-foul for any man.

      • Not Adahn

        There are at least a few FTMs who love dick. Like love it like a gay dude loves it, which might be why they transed. Their phallophilia was too intense to be properly ladylike, but just fine for a bathhouse regular.

    • Threedoor

      Walmart is like the local McDonald’s where I’m at. They hire and create the freaks.

  25. Common Tater

    ‘California State University professor Jonathan Caravello has been indicted by a federal grand jury for throwing a tear gas canister at federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation at a marijuana farm earlier this year. The violence broke out at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California, one of the largest weed farms in the state.

    US Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, made the announcement on Wednesday in an X post, saying, Caravello, 37, of Ventura “faces up to 20 years in prison” if convicted on charges. The action was caught on camera and shared on social media.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-cal-state-professor-indicted-for-throwing-tear-gas-canister-at-ice-agents-during-weed-farm-raid

    He looks like an asshole.

    • SDF-7

      I assume his defense will be that he was intoxicated on pot and hence not responsible for his actions, but I don’t think it will work.

      After all — all those in Glass Houses shouldn’t throw stoned.

    • juris imprudent

      Is that the one where the MJ farm was employing [illegal] [im]migrant youth?

      • Common Tater

        Yes

  26. The Other Kevin

    This morning before we got out of bed Mrs. TOK told me about someone’s neighbor dying. He was 93, and his caretaker was trying to help him put his pajamas on, and he leaned back on the bed and died almost instantly. I told her that was ALMOST perfect. Living to be 93, dying very suddenly and painlessly, but you want it to happen while a woman is pulling your pants off, not putting them on.

    That earned me a slap.

    • (((Jarflax

      I disagree, better to die as she helps you get dressed AFTER she has taken care of you

      • juris imprudent

        Talk about “don’t you die on me yet”.

      • SDF-7

        Talk about a “Come to Jesus” moment…

    • Ownbestenemy

      #2 is the reason MacArthur promised to return.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Stop tempting me in my car…

  27. The Late P Brooks

    The company said it is also getting a boost from a separate collaboration with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, announced shortly after he and pop star Taylor Swift made headlines late last month with their engagement.

    Is he coming out with a line of slinky dresses?

  28. Common Tater

    “Activist groups that are indifferent or openly hostile to pro-life pregnancy centers are supporting their cause against a crusading Democratic attorney general at the Supreme Court, warning in friend-of-the-court briefs that civil rights beyond religious conservatives are at stake.

    The ACLU, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Animal Activist Legal Defense Project and NetChoice joined conservative, religious freedom and pro-life groups, the Justice Department and more than 30 Republican members of Congress, in support of New Jersey’s First Choice Women’s Resource Centers against New Jersey AG Matthew Platkin….

    First Amendment issues often create odd ideological bedfellows, with the liberal ACLU and Council on American-Islamic Relations supporting Christian evangelists against campus censorship. The evangelists got an $800,000 settlement after their SCOTUS victory.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/liberal-groups-back-pro-life-pregnancy-centers-against-democratic-attorney

    Curious.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Just a day or two ago, I was asking myself, “What ever happened to Sydney Sweeney? I miss her.”

  30. Evan from Evansville

    Day’s half-done! Wendy’s was out of bacon, so finishing a sausage burrito.

    It’s ok. I’m displeased. I’m also upset about getting a ‘new’ car.

    Test drove a Mitsubishi Mirage, as our desires Corolla for got bought. Goddamn piece of shit car. 1.2L on these cylinders. D
    Fucker struggled mightily at 40.

    We shall see.

  31. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    “It is not difficult to imagine 12 D.C. jurors concluding that throwing a sandwich at a federal officer — while clearly objectionable and potentially unlawful — does not amount to felony assault,” Salgado said. “At its core, the federal grand jury functions as a vital constitutional safeguard and a critical check on prosecutorial discretion, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.”

    I think they’re right about this actually. Even the threat to ‘kill Trump’, I dunno man. Sounds like juvenile bluster to me.

    • rhywun

      +1 woodchipper

    • juris imprudent

      juvenile bluster

      Boy there’s another one we haven’t seen in a long time.

    • Ownbestenemy

      prosecutorial discretion, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment

      Due Process is not prosecutorial discretion…

  32. Mad Scientist

    “People do learn from these interventions,” Vlasceanu said. “After learning, they are more willing to commit to actually more impactful actions.”

    “Now go forth, my minions, and Karen your friends and co-workers!”

    • Nephilium

      If you don’t! We’ll do another intervention on you again!

      • (((Jarflax

        Ok, so which one of you reprobates is Jessica Chastain?

  33. Not Adahn

    Re: sinking a drug boat, my BIL accidentally did that once.

    He was in his frigate (reflagged as USCG) and he gave the command for warning shots. The tracers ignited the external fuel tanks being dumped and kerblooie. I don’t know if he got a medal for that or what. He didn’t get kicked out or demoted AFAIK.

      • (((Jarflax

        Man those Coastie commanders don’t mess around with discipline!

      • Not Adahn

        I assume even if your boat is officially USCG that the personnel are still sailors. Or would that mean they served in both branches? (This was back before the armed forces reshuffle) Would they be eligible for two pensions if he was assigned to that duty long enough?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Rhetorical excess

    Call it The Chicken Little Defense: If the courts do not sign off on the administration’s tariffs, it “would be a total disaster for the Country” and “would literally destroy the United States of America,” Trump said on Friday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the bulk of the president’s tariffs are illegal. He doubled down on those claims on Tuesday while tacking on the transparently ridiculous assertion that the U.S. is “taking in $17 trillion … because of tariffs.”

    In the petition to the Supreme Court filed on Wednesday night, the administration continued in this vein, saying that “the tariffs are promoting peace and unprecedented economic prosperity” and “pulling America back from the precipice of disaster, restoring its respect and standing in the world.”

    He’s an authoritarian monster who wants to trample the Constitution and turn the country into a vast open air prison. Don’t listen to him.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Karen power fantasy:

    Holy shit, is that real?

    Parody doesn’t have a prayer.

  36. Q Continuum

    Can someone please explain to me why this is a bad thing?

    https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-us-population-could-shrink-in

    It’s not like the people we’re losing are thoracic surgeons. We’re losing low/no skill illiterate peasants who simultaneously suckle the welfare teat, drive up housing costs, drive inflation and erode American culture. The only people who seem to give a shit about shrinking human population are Biblical literalists and shitlib econ douches fretting about their pyramid scheme social programs collapsing.

    • Rat on a train

      Do we have enough native peasants to do my domestic chores inexpensively?

      • juris imprudent

        What are your orphans doing?

      • Rat on a train

        The government put my unaccompanied minors in cages.

    • Sensei

      Economists generally ignore “quality” of population as you note.

      1. If you don’t keep increasing workers the Ponzi scheme of various social programs will come crashing down.
      2. Caring for your elderly population.

      Japan has avoided point #1 and I’m not sure how markets continue to let it borrow the way it does. Point #2 is an increasing concern and problem. Hence all the robot interest there.

      • (((Jarflax

        Japan has avoided number 1, but in the process has seen GDP actually decline for more than a generation now. Failure to reproduce is bad news, and the ‘replacement’ schemes run into the quality/cultural distortion issues mentioned. As a childless lifelong bachelor I am part of the problem in this. Hopefully it self corrects.

    • SDF-7

      I always assume econ douches beyond the social ponzi schemes… just the ones that assume all businesses can grow in perpetuity — and need to grow the consumer base for those perpetual profit growth numbers.

      I’m not a huge fan of depop (and really not a fan of being way behind 3rd world countries that expressly want to kill us and all…) — but I really don’t care if we go steady state or have a minor dip. If humanity can bounce back with only 10000 folks… the human race will likely survive (because only those with the tendency to breed will be left in the end). Civilization… well, that may take one hell of a hit, granted. 10000 years from now, they’ll be talking about the Lost City of Atlanta…

      • Nephilium

        Lost City of Atlanta

        No! Ancient Atlanta was more than just a Delta hub! It was a vibrant metropolis, the equal of Paris or New York!

      • (((Jarflax

        The people of ancient Atlanta were the last surviving offshoot of ancient Britain’s druidic religion. They had evolved the focus from the mighty, masculine Oak to the fecund, feminine Peach Tree, and their fait was so devout that they named all the throughfares of the religious capital after the arboreal divinity!

      • SDF-7

        There a rumors that being a Delta Hub caused the Lost Atlantans to turn to dark religious rituals.

        Travelers had to pass through a Field of Hearts, after all.

        But the druidic religion shown through — most of the money lenders worked in a section of the city warded by the Buck’s Head.

        Some heretic money lenders thought Ancient Atlanta was just a Mid Town all the same.

      • Gender Traitor

        What will the archeologists make of it after Underground Atlanta goes the way of Plummet Mall?

        The last ad announced that the cold wave had caused “a radical expansion and contraction effect beneath the Earth’s surface” and Plummet Mall was now located “somewhere between Greater Cincinnati and Lincoln, Nebraska.”

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Lol, I mean there are concerns with population decline. However, his charts showing how insane the growth was in 2022-2024 are hilarious.

    • Threedoor

      It’s the low income low intelligence people that are breeding.

      • Nephilium

        Go way! ‘batin!

  37. The Late P Brooks

    It’s not like the people we’re losing are thoracic surgeons.

    Scientists are fleeing the country in droves!

  38. The Late P Brooks

    The only people who seem to give a shit about shrinking human population are Biblical literalists and shitlib econ douches fretting about their pyramid scheme social programs collapsing.

    Schrodinger’s Malthusians.

    • Not Adahn

      American made Canadian whiskey?

      • Nephilium

        Most Canadian whisk(e)y can’t be made anywhere else. There’s a reason it’s not well regarded in the cocktail world.

      • (((Jarflax

        Because it is sugar water pretending to be whiskey

      • Not Adahn

        So how would this product be labeled? “Crown Royal…”

    • Nephilium

      Not Adahn:

      Looks like they’re just moving the bottling, not the production and aging.

      Production has remained in Canada for decades, but last week, Diageo said it would shift its bottling operations to the US in February. The move will cost 200 jobs but has taken on outsized political importance amid the backdrop of trade war between Canada and the US.

      [emphasis added]

      • Not Adahn

        Huh. And that lets them dodge tariffs? I would not have expected that. Unless this has fuckall to do with tariffs and was something that’s been in the works for years.

      • R.J.

        I guarantee it was already in the works. Canada taxes and regulates the Hell out of everything. It probably saved a ton of money even before tariffs came into play.

        Politicians don’t like it? Fuck you, cut taxes!

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Crisis

    In rare interviews with NBC News, a dozen federal judges — appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, including Trump, and serving around the country — pointed to a pattern they say has recently emerged:

    Lower court judges are handed contentious cases involving the Trump administration. They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings. When they go against Trump, administration officials and allies criticize the judges in harsh terms. The government appeals to the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.

    And then the Supreme Court, in emergency rulings, swiftly rejects the judges’ decisions with little to no explanation.

    Waaaaah! Not fair!

    • Rat on a train

      We forum shopped fair and square. How dare SCOTUS overrule us.

      • Rat on a train

        On the serious side. SCOTUS is ruling on motions not merits. It is common for rulings to be unsigned and short.

    • rhywun

      They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings.

      😂🤣

      • Rat on a train

        The put a lot of effort twisting the law to work back from their desired outcome.

    • WTF

      They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings.

      Well there’s an assertion without evidence. Unless he means to find a rationalization to back into their pre-determined conclusion.

    • Suthenboy

      “They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings. ”

      Honest injun’.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    As a childless lifelong bachelor I am part of the problem in this.

    #METOO

  41. The Late P Brooks

    When judges issue rulings the Trump administration does not like, they are frequently targeted by influential figures in MAGA world and sometimes Trump himself, who called for a judge who ruled against him in a high-profile immigration case to be impeached. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has said the administration is the victim of a “judicial coup.”

    The judge who said the Supreme Court justices are behaving inexcusably has received threats of violence and is now fearful when someone knocks on the door at home.

    If major efforts are not made to address the situation, the judge said, “somebody is going to die.”

    Right wing terror is destroying civil society.

  42. Threedoor

    Oh for the love of god

    “ Recycling is an almost daily action, ”

    No it’s not.
    Unless it’s metal or clean fibre, throw it out. Plastic and glass should be thrown in the garbage. They cost more to transport and clean than to make new.

    I personally don’t like dogs. That’s beside the point. Their intent is not to save the environment it is to make you as miserable as they are. Dogs bring some people joy. That joy must be stomped out.

    Fast cars bring joy.
    Airplanes and travel bring joy.
    Boats bring joy.
    Green grass which requires fertilizer made from natural gas, brings joy…
    Fatty red meat creates the right hormonal balance to form regular erections, which bring joy.

    These monsters are anti human.

    • rhywun

      And on top of all that, nothing they promote actually accomplishes anything beyond impoverishing us.

      It is a religion. If you don’t believe, just tell them to shut the fuck up and leave us alone.

  43. Pope Jimbo

    In defense of the pod hotel….

    In ’98 I worked for 5 months or so in Tokyo. Mrs. Holiness and the Altar Girl and Boy lived with her family in Kobe and I commuted on the weekends via the shinkansen (bullet train).

    My company was happy to put me up in the New Otani hotel, but even though it was a very fancy hotel it sucked. The problem was that once you were done with work and had supper, you would just sit alone in your hotel. Lonely and boring. I was not financially wealthy enough at that time to be able to drink in bars (especially the New Otani’s bar).

    One week, I couldn’t get a room at the regular hotels, so I ended up at a local capsule hotel (aka pod). IT WAS GREAT! You don’t just get a capsule to sleep in. After you check in there is a floor where you can take a shower and then sit in a sauna or one of several hot whirlpools. There was also another floor where they have vending machines that sell snacks and beer (no whiskey or panties). That floor also had small lounges where you could sit in a chair and watch sports. Then I could argue with the other drunk salarymen there about the game. Helped a lot with my conversational Japanese.

    After you were ready to go to sleep, you’d go up to one of the floors with the capsules. If you have any sorts of claustrophobia, the capsules aren’t a great place to sleep. But each of them had a tiny TV in it. I never watched TV there and I never had a problem with neighbors being noisy.

    The only catch I ever saw with the capsule hotel was that you couldn’t go in if you had a tattoo of any sort. On my last trip, that taboo seems to have mostly gone away.

    I ended up always going to the capsule hotel for the rest of my working days there. My coworkers thought I was nuts because most of the other people were drunk guys who missed the last train out of Dodge and had to stay somewhere.

    I went from spending $300-$400/night at the New Otani to $50/night at the capsule hotel. What reward did I get from my employers? A full audit of of all my early expense reports, that’s what. They figured I must have been cheating them early on. So I had to produce all my physical receipts and send them in. I also sent them the email where they told me to stay at the New Otani. Uffda that was a dumb company.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The New Otani in Tokyo. It doesn’t look that expensive now that the dollar is so strong against the yen.

      I recommend it if you are traveling with someone. They had a fantastic complimentary breakfast every morning. When Mrs. Holiness visited Tokyo with me, we stayed there and had a blast.

      • Not Adahn

        Rice, miso and natto?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sensei:

        Yeah, it was a crazy place with silly stuff like that. Gorgeous property though.

        My company was too incompetent to get work visas for everyone working in Asia, so when your tourist visa window was expiring you would just go to another country for a certain amount of time. So we’d get guys from the Australia and Taiwan offices showing up. We’d always hit up the steak joint in the New Otani and it would be like $500 for a meal there.

        The other story I tell about that time was that one of the guys from Australia figured out that no one who ever reviewed his time sheets could read the kanji/hiragana receipts. So he’d just expense in all his trips to the strip clubs. He tried to talk me into going with him, but I told him that while the company might not be able to read the receipts, Mrs. Holiness could read mine.

    • Sensei

      Yeah, I can see staying at a higher end “capsule” that was in the middle of an area you wanted to hang out in.

      You really don’t want to hang out in your room if you are by yourself in Japan. It’s not like you are watching TV.

    • creech

      Sounds way better than the sleeping cars on Amtrak. And you know just where you are when you awake.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Amtrak sleeping cars are like a time capsule. Everything in there is analog (thermometer, clock, etc). No wireless connection available.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    The Supreme Court has an obligation to explain rulings in a way the public can understand, a third judge said, adding that when the court so frequently rules for the administration in emergency cases without fully telling people why, it sends a signal. The court has had strong left-leaning majorities in the past, but what is different now is the role emergency cases are playing in public discourse.

    The Supreme Court, that judge said, is effectively endorsing Miller’s claims that the judiciary is trying to subvert the presidency.

    “It’s almost like the Supreme Court is saying it is a ‘judicial coup,’” the judge said.

    The Supreme Court is shirking its duty to engage in responsible partisan obstructionism. That’s sad.

    • creech

      Thank you, RBG.

    • (((Jarflax

      We should all go back to the Rift Valley and return the rest of the planet to its native species!

    • Rat on a train

      Thank the Hungarians you aren’t surrounded.

    • creech

      Reparations for the Neanderthals!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Fuck that! Pro-Cro(magnon) and proud!

        The original White Supremecists.

    • Not Adahn

      This is why I hate most people.

    • Rat on a train

      I don’t have my intersectional score card to know how to react.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Unprecedented

    New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani called reporting Wednesday that the White House is considering administration jobs for Mayor Eric Adams and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa an “affront to our democracy.”

    The New York Times reported Wednesday that advisers to President Donald Trump have discussed giving incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent, a position in the administration to clear the field and set up a head-to-head race between Mamdani and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary to Mamdani and is now running as an independent. The talks have also involved Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, the Times reported.

    ——-

    This is, however, about an affront to our democracy, an affront to what makes so many of us proud to be Americans, that we choose our own leaders, not that they get to pick themselves, not that they get to be picked by the president of the United States, the same president who detained a 6-year-old girl from a New York City public school system and took her hundreds of miles away, the same president that cut SNAP benefits from the hungry across these five boroughs … the same president who will throw millions of New Yorkers off their health insurance, is now seeking to undermine the very fabric of this city.”

    Never before has a President made his preference known, nor has he offered assistance to that preferred candidate.

    Impeach now.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why? Because consolidating the anti-commie vote behind Granny-Killer Andy means the Ugandan Jihadi doesn’t win? All those people don’t want a commie Jihadi in office, and it’s more than those who do.

      Quite frankly, elected office should require a minimul of 2/3rds of the eligable voters in favor for someone to win.

      • (((Jarflax

        This idea sounds appealing but I wonder if it mightn’t have some unintended consequences. Vacating all the seats not won by that margin might flip congress and would definitely vacate the White House. I’m picturing the squad running the government.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s why you need strict quorum rules and any empty seat votes no on any legislation or appropriation put before it.

      • juris imprudent

        Set better standards to be an “eligible” voter.

      • UnCivilServant

        Combined with automatic sunsetting, it should flush out a lot of cruft.

      • UnCivilServant

        JI my standards for who should be eligable are all ideological, and thus probably wouldn’t fly with you.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My eligibility requirement: Are you a net taxpayer? If yes, you can vote. If not, then you can’t.

      • (((Jarflax

        That’s why you need strict quorum rules and any empty seat votes no on any legislation or appropriation put before it.

        It would take them about 5 seconds to figure out how to word bills to get around this. You can’t solve the problem with rules, no matter how finely you draft them. The problem is with human nature.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Aren’t all the hungry and sick who are about to lose their bennies illegal aliens?

      As far as I know bennies for actual citizens won’t be affected at all. OK, maybe young and healthy people will actually have to look for a job to get the bennies, but they won’t be cut.