Day 2: The government remains shut down. Other than the absence of Sloopy and Banjos, there has been no difference in my life. Where is the anarchy I was promised?
Another 80/20 issue the media will make Trump/Vance look like heroes on.
This is the Central Florida I expect. Sheriff runs gambling ring.
I’ll bet she was fire in bed before she set his house on fire.
Today you get excellent music and AI slop.
Now I gotta go make lunches and do school shit. What kind of moron has four kids?
Newsom’s attempts to play the AI games are hilariously bad.
…and his attempts to play tufgai come across as ineffectual and peevish, almost like he’s performatively saying what an AWFL would say. At least to me. And certainly in comparison to Trump’s NY bluster.
Newsome is so roundly hated outside of Dem circles that he has zero chance of winning any office that they don’t already control.
He is truly the Harris of future politics.
I think it’s because he has a beta intern run that account. There’s a photo of him floating around and he looks exactly how you would expect.
He comes across as a sleazy but high end used car salesman who had too much blow on his lunchbreak.
He’s a sleazy car salesman by day, and a sleazy mega-church televangelist by weekend, preaching the word of the holy government. Offering to fix the problems of the shitty car he sold you through government intervention. “The power of government compels you!”
AWFLs are his base.
I don’t want AI slop, take it back and shoot the Chef,
ABC needed to put “AI GENERATED IMAGE” over it, as if people would think it’s real? Also, I’m not sure it is AI. It just looks like bad photoshop.
Deepfake. TMITE keeps using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Oh, they know what it means, and they are deliberately using the term to fear-monger. Because “obviously photoshopped” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
My elderly aunt once became a dancing elf right before Christmas. What do you mean it was obviously photoshopped?
I dunno, using an obvious photoshop to disguise a lizard person disguised as a black man, doesn’t reduce the depth of the fakery.
Teach the kids to make their own sandwiches.
“This is the Central Florida I expect. Sheriff runs gambling ring. ”
Don’t post (or click) google search links.
I tell them and tell them, but do they listen?
A woman once set my couch on fire.
A room mate set my house on fire, does that count?
Depends what are you counting?
From what I read, some car companies are setting their cars on fire, intentionally or not.
A møøse once bit my sister.
Speaking of arson, crazy ex/would be naked housekeeper asked me if I’d me interested in having her as a tenant.
It’s a trap!
What could possibly go wrong?
I’ve never known her to sustain full-time employment for more than three weeks.
I have given advice before that I thought was not only very sound but painfully obvious. It was never taken. I have learned my lesson. You know what I would say if I were giving advice. She is an Ex, right? Now it is your turn to find out if you have learned your lesson.
I don’t know why you people think I’m reporting this for any other reason than doing my part to entertain you.
I am very fond of my stuff unbroken, unpawned and/or unincinerated. Especially Lily.
‘would be naked housekeeper’
Go on. …
Hot sex?
“This is the Central Florida I expect. Sheriff runs gambling ring.”
Look, it’s Florida. Nothing unexpected. However, it appears to be spreading to Georgia if this blurry video is to be believed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1nqo23h/what_the_hell_is_going_on_oh_oc/
That video for Iron Maiden is the definition of AI video slop.
100%
Yeah, J.D. better apologize quick, or else next the donks are going to put out some mocking pics or vids of him!
JD Vance has posted the most JD Vance Memes of anyobody.
Yep, poor target selection
Why aren’t you raging at our memes?
Am I missing anything with the couch story? There’s no backstory to it. Vance doesn’t secretly hate the word couch, he wasn’t weird about freshman move-in day in college, he didn’t get drunk and make out with a futon, etc. It was just made up by an unclever shitposter?
That’s my understanding.
Peak comedy according to the left.
🙁
Since my face hurts I fiugred I’d order breakfast. I got a bagel sandwich. Normally the place I got it from doesn’t toast it unless I say “toast it”. For whatever reason they decided to toast it today. Since it gets cold long before it reaches me, the bagel was harder than croutons.
My face hurts worse from chewing through that 🙁
Why does your face hurt?
He smiled.
I have a head cold. Lost of congestion and pressure.
A neti pot is good for congestion. Hope you are feeling better soon.
Thanks.
Hope you get better soon. I’m on the tail end of something similar. Sinus pressure, tired, a little feverish. This is day 10. Still lingering, but much better than it was last week.
And yes, use a neti pot 3x a day, take vitamin C and D, and Flonase is pretty good. I can’t take pseudoephedrine because I’m on blood pressure meds, but that stuff is great.
Thank you.
Ideally I would prefer it not to run as long as yours has.
Jeez, sounds like you need a new bagel place. Room-temperature bagels are an abomination against all that is right and good…
You’re already wrong. It just need to not be toasted.
Only a fool toasts a bagel. Or someone who likes the taste of their own blood as it tears through their jaw.
What you should have said was “You need to find a place that still sells salt bagels.”
I miss salt bagels.
The toasting is necessary to keep the cream cheese, lox, onions, and capers from turning the bagel into a soggy mess. You don’t need to go overboard.
First off, if you’re heaping that stuff, you don’t need the bagel.
Second this was a SANDWICH. It was Ham, lettuce, and Tomato.
Thirdly, you apply the cream cheese yourself just before eating, there’s never time to soak.
Who buys a bagel sandwich if their face is hurting? bagel shop errors aside, you played yourself.
Nobody else is open.
Well, crap places, but they don’t count.
Heresy.
Traif, not heresy.
I’m not one of the Tribe (although I do like their food.) It’s just heresy to me.
Salt bagels are just (((pretzels))) with a hormone issue.
No. That is the only way to eat bagels.
Toasting anything is stupid.
Toasting rejuvenates bread products. They otherwise have an optimal lifetime measured in hours.
Toassting destroys bread products, rendering them less edible.
You need to stop after the Maillard reaction begins but before you get carbonizaiton.
Already ruined.
I’m sure Triangle will provide you with raw toast if you ask.
my face hurts
I can sympathize. Your face hurts me too.
(Only works if you can see the subject.)
“Hillary Clinton has been rapped as tone-deaf after she recently suggested that white men of a “certain religion” were partly to blame for causing “such damage” to the United States…
“The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let’s say it: white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, it’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for,” Clinton said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/us-news/hillary-clinton-ripped-for-tone-deaf-remarks-about-white-men-of-a-certain-religion/
CWAC
Hillary Clinton has information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.
Mormons?
I shudder to think what that hateful, racist bitch thinks we should be “aiming for”.
Obedience to die Führerin. That is what.
The projection and lack of self-awareness is breath taking. That that person ever had the slimmest chance of being president says a lot about the state of politics here. Wow.
In case you didn’t despise health insurers enough.
“Health insurers, long concerned a spike in insurance premiums triggered by the subsidies’ expiration will drive away millions of customers, is seizing the moment as their best shot at heightening public attention to their message.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insurers-spend-big-save-obamacare-203703534.html
They are correct that premiums will go up. That is a no-brainer. The way to reduce premiums is not to keep pushing big government. When the Big Insurance companies killed off the competition as part of a deal for ObamaCare, they shot themselves in the foot. Repeal all of it. Repeal every federal insurance mandate, and allow free competition. If I want a catastrophic care policy with no pregnancy coverage (because I am 59, not going to happen in my family again) I should be allowed to get if for less than $100 a month. Nothing should be mandatory, nothing should be federally regulated.
You can’t get “full time” catastrophic care anymore. Only short term.
100% agree your available coverages shouldn’t be mandated.
If you like your plan, you can keep it.
Yeah. I remember that. Whoever shouted he was a liar during his speech should get a medal.
Day Two:
Well the reports that the long walk down brutilist hallways to our demise have been exaggerated.
The council of 9 demanded pooling of resources and disseminated food bank locations.
Still, work continues, but for how long. For what purpose.
Still faithfully your public servant, OBE, Oct 2, 2025
The DMV area commute should be lighter.
It’s not.
Department Motor Vehicles?
DC, MD, VA = Washington metropolitan area
Chin up dude! Team Red will cave on the ACA funding with a greater than 50% chance.
58 more days and they can actually fire people for real.
Go Dems! Block that MF’ing CR!
Gavin should be thankful we at @TheBabylonBee sued the state of California and got the law he signed to stop people from parodying politicians using A.I. overturned
Vance is the worst taget they could after cause he’s on record for laughing at them openly. See all attempted memes and South Park.
The sombreros are funnier. Do better Gavin!
The Left can’t meme. This Is Known.
They’d have to have a sense of humor first.
“Randi Weingarten has taken to wearing a paper clip on her lapel as a bizarre symbol of her crusade against “fascism,” aka Donald Trump.
The president of the American Federation of Teachers is on tour to peddle her new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers” — yet another example of prioritizing poisonous politics over education from this Marxist fossil. Not to mention fattening her own wallet.
The paper clip, she likes to explain to anyone who will listen — mostly on MSNBC — symbolizes a Norwegian protest against Adolf Hitler in World War II.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/opinion/randi-weingarten-prioritizes-far-left-politics-over-students-tests-scores/
So don’t lower the temperature, let’s round the American Federation of Teachers into camps instead.
Fascism is when union leaders are also party leaders.
“It looks like you’re trying to launder tens of millions of dollars for Democrats. Would you like help with that?”
LOL
Someone should tell her that Trump uses a paperclip to hold his red tie in place…
Her wearing a paperclip is like Disney putting in o scure dice from the Falcon in the new movies and act like it was always a thing that everyone knows
Wait, didn’t they try this with safety pins last go round?
Nobody is going to read that fucking book. People will buy it to virtue signal, but if on page 137 they wrote the location of a buried treasure, it would stay buried for eternity.
Josh Gates could find it.
Now, I like Josh Gates and SOME of his shows (I can do without the monster/ghost hunting,) but seriously, what’s his actual track record for finding the stuff he goes looking for?
The money is in turning the search into content. Finding it is immaterial.
If you met baby Hitler, would you put a paper clip on your lapel?
Meanwhile, not a single child was found to be proficient in math and reading in 55 public schools in Chicago, according to 2024 state tests.
I made the mistake of playing world cup with my middle school soccer team at practice a few weeks ago. Without describing the entire drill/game, you play in pairs and each pair represents a country. So many of the kids failed to name a country that they would represent.
Give me an unlabelled world map, I could probably correctly name 70% of the countries. My weakest areas will be subsaharan africa, the -stans, and which baltic was latvia versus estonia. I’ll also get the island countries with populations smaller than a minor city wrong.
The Baltics are alphabetical north to south. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
Kazakhstan is the really big one. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan. Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are a toss up.
Those tiny little slivers of countries in West Africa would be a problem for me.
The west coast North to south goes – Morocco, Spanish Sahara (Occupied by Morocco), Mauritania (had to look that one up). Senegal wraps around the Gambia, You’ve got several Guineas, Sierra Leone (terrible place to visit), Liberia (home to the first Black American Persident (who won by more votes than there were voters), Ivory Coast and some more slivers I’d screw up 100%, my next one I’d get is Nigeria. Then it’s a 🤷♂️ until I hit the Congos.
I just wanted to hear any country, and not Ohio or South America.
@UCS:
I got obsessed with mastering one of those “name every country” quizzes a while ago. I can list all of them but perhaps locate about your same percentage on a blank map.
The only ones where I have no clue are the Polynesian/Melanesian and Caribbean islands. I can name them, but all I know beyond that is “they’re out there somewhere”.
Houses are temporary memories of great sex are forever
“Harvard University hired a drag performer as a new professor — who is expected to teach a class on TV show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in the spring semester, the Ivy League school announced over the summer.
The institution welcomed Kareem Khubchandani in a July message to the college community and revealed that the visiting professor from Tufts University will teach in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality program thanks to the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus.
Khubchandani is perhaps better known by his stage name, “LaWhore Vagistani” — a persona that the academic has made an integral part of their pedagogy.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/harvard-hires-drag-queen-named-lawhore-vagistan-as-visiting-professor/
Serious education.
$60k a year to be lectured by LaWhore Vagistani… Yeah, that’s the way to convince me to forgive your loans.
I don’t care what you say, ‘LaWhore Vagistani’ is a hilarious name.
Sounds Islamophobic.
Why is it so hard for people in universities to just tell lunatics no? If someone came to me with a proposal for a course like that I’d fire them on the spot.
Because the best cocktail parties are only for those with the correct thoughts.
I have had fun lost in the woods. I have had fun getting chased by an angry security guard. I have had fun sitting home alone with no power. I have never had fun at a cocktail party.
I have had fun at cocktail parties.
If by cocktail party you mean getting smashed at a dive bar, shooting pool with either Bloods or Hell’s Angels…
Because they’re sticking it to Trump, man.
Stunning and brave.
That’s going to give students the skills they need to land a good job. As a college professor. The circle jerk continues.
Manchester synagogue latest: Two killed in attack on Yom Kippur – as first picture emerges of ‘suspect’
https://news.sky.com/story/synagogue-stabbing-latest-police-at-scene-of-reported-attack-in-manchester-13442674
AP News
FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to ‘illegal immigrants’
2 days ago
By Melissa Goldin
The White House (.gov)
FACT: Democrats Shut Down Government Over Free Healthcare for Illegals
17 hours ago
FACT: the government isn’t really shut down.
Just the nonessential stuff which begs the question why are they doing it and just between you and me that’s not all shut down either.
“Democrats don’t support healthcare for illegals.”
* links video from Democratic primary debate where candidates state they do *
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMSmoNOZJ9Y&t=19s&pp=2AETkAIB
It’s sort of a little semantic game they’re playing that the million illegal immigrants that Biden gave parole amnesty to (that Republicans are fighting the legal status of) are “legally present”.
But would their position be popular if we called them “legal”?
Still no.
That’s why Democrat states cannot simply pass a bill raising taxes for this and paying for it. It would never fly.
That’s also why they are going to lose this fight.
Germany is a land of palaces, castles, and cathedrals.
Here are 10 of the most beautiful buildings in Germany 🇩🇪⬇️
A thread 🧵
https://x.com/CharmOfCulture/status/1973442613551440173
An’ how’d you get that, eh? By exploitin’ the workers — by ‘angin’ on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an’ social differences in our society! If there’s ever going to be any progress–
Bloody peasant
The Munich Residenz is a big sprawling complex. Not all of it looks as good as the pictures.
The view from the top of the tower climb of Cologne Cathedral is good if you happen to be there on a rare day with good weather.
“Trump threatens to slash ‘Democrat Agencies’ ahead of meeting with hatchet man”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15155809/Government-shutdown-live-updates-Trump-says-Democrats-giving-away-healthcare-money-illegal-aliens.html
Insane Clown Party?
If Trump (or Vance) came out as a secret juggalo…my life would be complete.
The existence of ‘Democrat Agencies’ is an abomination; fire them all, sell the buildings and publish all the internal memoranda of corruption.
https://x.com/LeighStewy/status/1973511333539881273
We need better CDL enforcement.
If we can’t live in a world where semis are allowed to make three point turns on train tracks then I want off.
Obviously the train was at fault there. The truck was barely moving and clearly was turning around.
Fun fact, trains always have right of way.
Trucks, School Busses, Pedestrians – Physics doesn’t care.
Physics is clearly racist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitchImATrain
Mr NO NAME GIVEN?
Note the star in the upper right. That means that it is a REAL ID.
Ponder that on the Tree of Woe.
Actually, that’s perfect. REAL ID has always been bullshit and this puts it out there as plain as can be.
In August, three Americans were killed when an illegal immigrant semi-truck driver attempted an illegal U-turn on a Florida turnpike and caused a minivan to violently crash into the truck’s trailer.
Flag on the play: the three killed were Haitians who were also in the country illegally.
WTF is the voive over selling?
In news of interest to probably nobody, Beretta has purchased 7% of Ruger.
I’m not sure what to think about this. Cheap quality micro-nines with rotating barrels? A new economy shotgun line? Handfit engraved 10/22s with luxury walnut for $20k?
7% is only a tiebreaker stake. Ruger won’t change for that.
I’m assuming it’s to pave the way for some kind of joint venture/project along the lines of the RXM.
I would be interested to see the Ruger version of the PX4.
Interesting.
I wonder if Beretta wants access to Ruger’s foundry operations?
Coming soon, the Falconero
Why would a great firearms company buy a crap firearms company?
Ruger is not exactly a crap firearms company. In fact, Ruger is probably responsible for more genuine innovation in the firearms industry than any other company in the past twenty years.
I love my 6.5 Creedmoor RPR…
What do you classify as “Innovation” in that time frame?
*puts Zwak’s name on the shit list*
*runs out of chat room crying*
Pretty much everything about the RPR – an inexpensive chassis-based precision rifle with sub-1MOA accuracy out of the box, user-changeable barrel and headspace, 70° 3-lug bolt, and fully adjustable stock and foreend.
The RXM collab with Magpul is pretty interesting too, with the serialized chassis and universal direct optics mount.
I am personally intrigued by their passive red dot, though it serves no purpose for me.
My Ruger GP100 works like a Swiss watch – love that thing. I have heard that the Mini-14 is about as accurate as a sawed-off shotgun though. Maybe some products are better than others?
“Truly, this is one of the greatest celebrity animosities of this century. The earliest extant Blanchett-rant on the subject is a W Magazine interview, way back in 2007, when she ambiguously characterised leaf blowers – a lot of fence-sitting here – as “everything that is wrong with the human race”.
In the 18 years since, the two-time Oscar winner has ranted about leaf blowers: while munching her way through chicken wings on Hot Ones (“Gardeners, their faces … they know what they’re doing is stupid”); on Subway Takes (“Leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth”); during the press tour for her film Black Bag (“If you see someone with a leaf blower, doesn’t your blood pressure go up?”); and even on the red carpet at the world premiere for Where’d You Go, Bernadette (for the avoidance of doubt: “I hate them so much”). She even shoehorned them into a press conference at Cannes for a film very much not about leaf blowers (the film’s director: “This again?”).”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/02/everything-that-is-wrong-with-the-human-race-inside-hollywoods-bizarre-war-on-the-leaf-blower
Doing god’s work.
I don’t get it.
And you never will.
Dirty proles should pick up the leaves individually by hand so as not to subject important people to noise.
Their lazy asses are sleeping off nights of drinking and carousing until noon. People that work for a living start working when the sun comes up. The leaf blowers wake them up.
They dont start until 8, and must quit by 5, its called work ya dipshit,
Maybe she’s a season change denier.
So she’s a rake apologist.
A rakist.
And probably an Anti-Dentite.
Big Rake is behind this!
Fuck off, cunt.
Years ago on what I believe is now a defunct writers’ website, I read a poem called “The Blower Man Must Die.” I believe it may be the greatest poem ever written.* To my everlasting sorrow, I failed to print it out, and while I found a reference to it with a link, the poem itself has apparently been removed from the Internet. I wonder why the author did that… 🤔
*Disclaimer: my opinion may be a trifle subjective, having lived directly across the street from an obsessive Blower Man. I, myself, have used a leaf blower, and Blower Man yelled at me for blowing our leaves too far out into the street.
That Blower Man is now dead. I have an alibi
1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday’s Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6V1yHvJyo
What was it like to be a teenager in the Victorian era? Two women, now in their 90’s, talk about their younger days in the 1890s. Frances ‘Effy’ Jones – one of the first women to be trained to use a typewriter, and to take up cycling as a hobby – recalls the life of a young working woman in London. Berta Ruck, a romantic novelist, remembers her formative years at art school, and the culture shock she experienced after moving from her secluded home in rural Wales to the muddy hustle and bustle in the heart of Victorian London.
the left can’t meme
https://x.com/OOCcommunism/status/1973317981489996095
Without even clicking I knew it had too many words.
Hahaha OMG.
Even their meme of the meme is terrible
What’s sad is that they probably deluded themselves into believing that.
Why are the commies representing themselves with an image of an obvious corporate business pig?
Projection. There is nothing there that is not wrong.
On LaWhore Vagistani teaching gender gibberish at Harvard:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
“I rule, you obey. ”
This is the reason for the rank hypocrisy on display constantly. Gavin Newsome eats at The French Laundry with his whole family, unmasked, during the lockdown/mask mandate while turning off other people’s power and light for having family gatherings. ‘Climate activists’ fly private jets all over the world to climate conferences to tell you to use less energy. When challenged about his private armed security while advocating for disarming the public Barney Frank replies “That’s different”.
This freak show at Harvard is exactly the same – a huge middle finger to you and a declaration “We rule, you obey”. That is what they are teaching the kids. They aren’t teaching the kids gender gibberish. They are teaching “You rule, they obey”.
The London Stock Exchange is dying.
We have dropped out of the top 20 IPO markets, falling behind Mexico.
In 2006 London raised $51bn, this year it was $248m.
A 99% decrease.
Some thoughts on why this matters and how we change course
https://x.com/jamesd_graham/status/1973056833536311730
If you IPO in Britain, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) will subject you to DEI.
To IPO you must commit to 40% women on your board, a woman in a top job and an ethnic minority director.
For founders focused on growth, this is an anti-meritocratic imposition that must go.
James Graham
@jamesd_graham
·
Sep 30
The London Stock Exchange is dying.
We have dropped out of the top 20 IPO markets, falling behind Mexico.
In 2006 London raised $51bn, this year it was $248m.
A 99% decrease.
Some thoughts on why this matters and how we change course
🧵
Two bar charts displaying financial data. The top chart shows annual fundraising amounts in dollars from 2006 to 2025, with bars peaking at $51B in 2006 and dropping to $248M in 2025, labeled as IPO volumes. The bottom chart tracks deal counts from 2005 to 2025, showing a declining trend. Text overlays include “London IPO Volumes Dwindle,” “New listings dry up as new global listing hotspots emerge,” and source attribution to Bloomberg.
James Graham
@jamesd_graham
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Sep 30
Public markets need new listings to inject liquidity (available cash for investment), to signal to founders that they can scale, give investors optionality and boost competition and growth.
The average IPO increases employment by 17-32% in year one, and more after that 👇
A line graph titled “Class of 2016”: cumulative % change in employee numbers. The y-axis ranges from 0% to 120%, and the x-axis shows % change 1Y, 2Y, 3Y, and 4Y after listing. A blue line rises from approximately 20% at 1Y to over 100% at 4Y. Text below the graph reads “Source: London Stock Exchange, Refinitiv, Hardman & Co.”.
James Graham
@jamesd_graham
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Sep 30
IPOs provide an exit for large companies held by private investors.
This allows retail investors to benefit from that company’s growth. It also frees up capital for those private investors to reinvest further down the start-up ecosystem.
When IPOs fall, all investment falls.
Two bar charts. The top chart shows annual fundraising amounts in dollars from 2006 to 2025, with peaks at $51.2B in 2006 and $24.8M in 2025, marked in orange bars. The bottom chart displays deal counts from 2005 to 2025, depicted as a black line graph declining over time. Text overlays include “London IPO Volumes Dwindle,” “New listings dry up as new global listing hotspots emerge,” and “Source: Bloomberg.”
James Graham
@jamesd_graham
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Sep 30
Why is this happening?
Part of the reason is that British stocks are so undervalued.
When a founder floats their company, they want to make money and sell at a premium.
In Britain, it is likely they will have to accept a discounted price – a loss.
Few would accept this.
A line graph showing the forward P/E ratio of UK stocks relative to the MSCI World Index from 2006 to 2025. The y-axis ranges from 0.60 to 1.00, with a horizontal line at 0.80 labeled “Average discount.” A red box highlights a recent dip below 0.70. The x-axis lists years, and the graph includes Bloomberg watermark.
James Graham
@jamesd_graham
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Sep 30
Given the current weakness of the London Stock Exchange and drought of IPOs, they should make it as easy as possible for companies to IPO.
By removing disincentives and smoothing the listing process, paired with tax treatment changes – liquidity could slowly be reinjected.
James Graham
@jamesd_graham
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Sep 30
If you IPO in Britain, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) will subject you to DEI.
To IPO you must commit to 40% women on your board, a woman in a top job and an ethnic minority director.
For founders focused on growth, this is an anti-meritocratic imposition that must go.
Text stating the Board supports and seeks to adhere to the Financial Conduct Authority\’s current targets on Board diversity, which build on the recommendations of the FTSE Women Leaders Review on female representation and the Parker Review on ethnic diversity. The text specifies the Board aims to maintain a minimum of 40% female representation on the Board, to have a woman in at least one of the roles of Chair, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, or Senior Independent Director, and at least one Director from an ethnic minority background.
James Graham
Environmentalism also undermines British IPOs.
In Britain all public companies (that have IPOed) are must publish and track their emissions.
This cost is difficult to quantify.
Britain has amongst the highest stamp duty tax on its shares.
Individuals are less likely to trade shares as when they do so they lose money.
A new IPO is less likely to raise money as investors have to accept a 0.5% loss off the bat.
There is no stamp duty in the USA.
GODDAMN stupid copy paste error what the hell happened i blame I dunno just not me
I blame Pie.
Can someone with edit privileges delete it from@jamesd_graham down?
I wanted to add that this is bad for the yookay as they wanted the financial markets to support their socialism
It was easy enough to understand – the UK is dying.
“..they wanted the financial markets to support their socialism”
Money is a very shy, cowardly animal. Any hint of danger and it runs like hell.
I see stock exchanges are opening in two states, Florida and..Oklahoma? Texas?
Glad to hear, that long winded even for your typical rants
Suthen:
Texas: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/texas-stock-exchange-could-start-listing-shares-next-year-d0e20382
And on purpose.
Sadly, the US is in grave danger of following them off the cliff.
I think there is one in Miami too.
So, market says there will be a set of “professional manager” women in England, along with similar minority “professionals”.
We have and are seeing this in Sweden, which has the same rule about women on the boards of corporations. Congratulations, you have done nothing except kill innovation and finance.
Sorta but not really related – I always thought that Native Americans trying to use casinos to support their tribe was a bad idea. A good idea would have been to set up “offshore captives” similar to those in the Caribbean, and get into banking and tax shelters. Added bonus, the tribal land is super close to nontribal land, so you can actually meet with your banker who is a short drive away.
Not sure the banking cartel would be too thrilled with the competition.
Governments and economies are products of culture. There is not one minute of any day that a people do not have an opportunity to become prosperous beyond their wildest dreams. Not one minute when liberty is beyond their grasp. The only thing holding them back is culture. There is no magic dirt. There is no outside oppressor to blame. There is only themselves blocking the path to success and prosperity.
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/sitting-30-years-1955-ford-f-100/
I would drop in Fords 300 I6, with a granny four speed, and tow the world.
Both of those iconic front fenders are scrap. You would need to drive it with mechanical mods and rust preservation only. It would think repro fenders might be the only way to fix that problem.
I can’t prove that the presenter in this “Ehtics” “training” isn’t an AI. She is sooo bloody monotonous. Why is it the people least capable of presenting always work as presenters?
Jeffries called the video “racist” while he and fellow Democrats held a rally on the House steps on Tuesday.
“Hakeem” doesn’t sound very Mexican.
I’d call it unfunny, but not racist.
I don’t know, it made me laugh.
🤨
It’s hilarious.
You guys have a strange sense of humor.
I’m with you UCS, it just isn’t very funny. Lots of Trumpisms are, but this ain’t it.
The Trump smirk, mariachi outfit while playing the Speedy Gonzales theme is not funny. It’s fucking hilarious.
There is not a single human being on the planet, including Trump and co. , that did not know they would knee jerk ‘racist’ at that…or anything else anyone might make fun of them with.
So. What.
If somebody did a rendition of Jeffries with a bone in his nose, wearing a top hat and holding a spear, that would probably be racist.
Na, too Bond
I would drop in Fords 300 I6, with a granny four speed, and tow the world.
nice patina. I have always liked those trucks ,but you’d definitely need overdrive.
In case you haven’t seen this.
https://youtu.be/Xzr5YQjllQY?si=6H3uEP-vN7RPNmWT
You have to respect this. This gentleman took his freshly restored Bugatti and drove it from coast to coast to show it at Pebble Beach. There were a bunch of youtube shorts and this is the consolidated video. His message is that you need to drive, enjoy and share your cars.
“Across the Atlantic, Wikipedia has contemplated going dark in the U.K. rather than comply with the Online Safety Act, which could force it to strip the anonymity underlying its volunteer model for creating and editing entries.
On this side of the pond, the 24-year-old crowd-sourced encyclopedia is facing a Reformation-style campaign by its disillusioned cofounder Larry Sanger to strip the anonymity of only its most powerful editors and break their grip on narrative control.
The crown jewel of the Wikimedia Foundation is losing its sheen in the face of Sanger’s “nine theses,” promoted by nascent Wikipedia competitors including X owner Elon Musk, and the stories of dissenting editors and article subjects who claim Wikipedia’s elite suppressed their work and locked or scrubbed articles to prevent challenges to its orthodoxy.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/wikipedia-cofounder-seeks-unmask-its-deep-state-strip-legal-immunity-if-it
“Wikipedia now represents the “GASP point of view” of globalists, academics, secularists and progressives and shuts out others, Sanger told Just the News, No Noise this week, a change to the neutrality Sanger gave the platform when pitching it to cofounder Jimmy Wales as a replacement for their prototype Nupedia.
But after its traffic took off and content started showing up at the top of Google search results, “elements of the left descended” on Wikipedia in line with its “traditional walks through the institutions,” said Sanger, who has dinged the platform as a socialism fanboy.”
GASP?
Sounds better than SPAG or GAPS.
Skin-suiters.
Gay Autistic Sexual Predators?
Gondola’s Actually Shipping Produce?
Generative Ai Posts Shit.
Man. Wikipedia vs the UK? Can they both lose?
The civil society mavens come unglued over the equivalent of Bugs Bunny drawing a mustache on a wanted poster. This culture is doomed.
“Gavin Newsom posts AI video mocking Vance despite passing law protecting Kamala from AI generated memes
Newsom previously said “manipulating a voice in an ‘ad'” should “be illegal.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/gavin-newsom-posts-ai-video-mocking-vance-despite-passing-law-protecting-kamala-from-ai-generated-memes
CWAA
Above someone called Newsome the Kamala of the future or something to that effect. I think they are right. He is too transparently exactly what he looks like – a slick-shit fast talking, two bit grifter. The used car salesman stereotype. He needs to pick up the verbal tic “Yeah, that’s the ticket!” after all of his assertions.
Come watch another aspie?
“Pope Leo XIV blessed a block of ice at a climate change event on Wednesday, part of his ongoing efforts to highlight environmental concerns and criticize those who “ridicule those who speak of global warming.”
The event marked the 10th anniversary of the late Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, which calls on Catholics to care for the environment and address climate change. During the ceremony, Leo placed his hand on a block of ice in front of a crowd and blessed the water dripping from it, saying, “Lord of Life, bless this water, may it awaken our hearts, cleanse our indifference, soothe our grief, and renew our hope, through Christ our Lord.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/pope-leo-blesses-block-of-ice-for-climate-justice
OFFS!!
Was this block of ice from a Greenland glacier, cut and shipped to the location by cruise ship at the cost of a half million gallons of oil?
See my comment above on hypocrisy.
The comments at Ars do not disappoint!
FCC chairman leads “cruel” vote to take Wi-Fi access away from school kids
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/fcc-chairman-leads-cruel-vote-to-take-wi-fi-access-away-from-school-kids/
This is popular in the comments, “As has been said, cruelty is the point, but so is government-imposed ignorance. Gotta keep poors nice and dumb—that’s how they make future MAGA voters.”
Wut?
I mean K-12 school IS designed to keep them dumb and dependent; they’re not wrong about that part. The goal is probably to keep them voting center-left and center-right establishment, though, not MAGA.
I’ve come to believe that more technology in schools is not automatically a good thing. The laptops end up being used to watch stupid shit on YouTube in class, and WiFi gets used to watch TikToks. Kids are ChatGPCheating the whole way, and school admins just don’t care because they get paid either way (and probably just cry for “more funding” if test scores plummet).
If I were running a private school, there would be zero phone access during class, and a computer lab to go to for computer projects where there would be a strict whitelist of informational/research sites.
His message is that you need to drive, enjoy and share your cars.
Hadn’t seen it. When I lived in Ketchum some decades ago there was a guy who had a black Ferrari Daytona Spider, which he would drive now and then in the summer. There are some fantastic drives over there. I got into a discussion with a friend of a friend who was aghast at the thought of subjecting the car to the risks of the road. He wouldn’t believe me when I said Enzo fucking despised people who bought his cars and never drove them.
It doesn’t make sense to me to have a purely art or investment car. If I can’t afford to drive it, I can’t afford it.
Exactly right.
Go buy a Corvette and drive it like crazy.
Tell me this is parody
Asked for comment the boards of Bud Light, Cracker Barrel and Target said “Go for it!”.
The long march through the institutions includes private institutions as well as public ones – these efforts are calculated to destroy those companies. It does not work as well with institutions where accountability comes into play.
Has to be.
It is not.
https://news.kraftheinzcompany.com/press-releases-details/2025/For-the-First-Time-in-133-Years-Maxwell-House-Rebrands-as-Maxwell-Apartment/default.aspx
Why not “Ghislaine Maxwell’s Cell”?
They use barely ripe coffee beans.
They are condos and not apartments!
https://www.tollbrotherscityliving.com/building?#1000MaxwellPlace
Located at the intersection of Frank Sinatra Drive and Hudson and 11th Streets, 1000 Maxwell is the fourth and final building in the prestigious Maxwell Place community. Named for the shuttered Maxwell House Coffee Plant that once stood on the land, the property was acquired by Toll Brothers in 2003 and has become one of the most sought-after condo communities in Hoboken.
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Dood, Yo La Tengo!
I can’t even with this.
It’s a limited time rebrand for an Amazon promotion.
Still fucking retarded
I’m with OBE.
Embrace the power of and.
Well it’s dated October 2nd. If it was dated October 1st, I’d hypothesize that it was some kind of “April Fool’s day half-year recognition”, though I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Maxwell House is being rebranded to “Maxwell Apartment,” to reflect the changes in home ownership in America. I know, you can’t make it up; the woke fools at Kraft Heinz already did.
Why not “Hobo Jungle Java”?
Maxwell Tent
Maxwell Mobile home
I’m switching to Folgers Country Shack(tm)
Folgers coffin apartment
“To be clear: Portland is a big city with big-city problems. It’s a blue city in a blue state that often feels extremely red. The state itself was founded by white people, for white people and only white people. So, besides having the same problems as many other American cities — affordable housing, not enough jobs, car-sized potholes — this one also harbors more than 150 years’ worth of white supremacy’s impacts. Many people who move here don’t know Oregon’s history, and most of the people posting memes about the kombucha and emotional-support llamas made Portland look idyllic. It is not. That doesn’t mean there was any justification for Donald Trump to bring martial law here.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/01/a-war-ravaged-portland-could-be-a-reality-under-trump-but-its-not-terrible-now/
Everything is about race with these assholes.
“There have been protests at the ICE facility in South Portland for about 115 days, ever since the president announced his plans to crack down on illegal immigration. For the most part, the protests have been relatively low-key, their tactics geared toward making ICE officers’ lives more difficult: barricading the entry gate; blocking vehicles from leaving the facility, attempting to remove electronic key-card readers, and disrupting internet service. There have been fewer than 30 arrests made at these protests, a handful of attacks involving sticks and rocks, and a dwindling number of protesters at the facility itself since the largest of the recent protests, in June.”
All those things are illegal.
Martial Law? What time is the curfew? What streets are being patrolled by soldiers?
I have been in a city under martial law. These people have no idea what that is like.
There is no martial law. You wont do your fucking job fixing the problems you created so Trump is doing it for you. Cry all you want, the illegals are going. With any luck you are going as well.
Salon types want the chaos and violence. That is what commie are all about.
I don’t know who they’re fooling.
You asked for it
President Donald Trump on Thursday said Democrats have given him an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash federal agencies, signaling plans to harm his political opponents during the two-day-old government shutdown while blaming them for causing it.
Trump’s warning came a day after his administration froze about $18 billion for two major infrastructure projects in New York City and canceled roughly $8 billion more for climate-related projects in Democratic-leaning states.
Both of the funding halts were first announced by Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, not by the departments that have oversight over the projects.
Trump said he will soon meet with Vought “to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut.”
It’s like a thumb in the eye. Next he’ll hit them with the folding chair.
“Sen. Dan Sullivan said Wednesday he’s a member of a closely guarded group of Senate Republicans working to craft a conservative proposal for extending the expiring Obamacare subsidies.”
Please explain the “conservative” case for extending COVID subsidies.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/01/congress/republican-senator-outlines-working-groups-ideas-for-extending-obamacare-subsidies-00590734
Well, we’ve been doing it a while, so we can’t stop?
Please explain the “conservative” case for extending COVID subsidies.
You know who signed the CARES act?
Obamacare subsidies are popular and people have become dependent on them and the politician’s main goal is getting reelected?
Yeah. See my previous statement. Delete all mandates and Obamacare in general and let people buy what they want. And add their own family members onto a single policy again.
To add to that, finally pass that transparency in billing act.
oh sorry. That’s just the case for passing them. Not a “conservative” case.
“On Oct. 7, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case brought by a Colorado-based counselor, Kaley Chiles, who argues that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, a widely discredited practice, is unconstitutional.
Chiles’ case is challenging a 2019 law that prohibits licensed health care providers from practicing conversion therapy with patients under 18 years old.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/02/anti-trans-activists-pray-scotus-upholds-conversion-therapy/
Completely dishonest horseshit. The law means doctors have to confirm a child’s gender identity. Which often is “conversion therapy” from people being gay. “You’re not a lesbian, you’re a boy.”
I was hoping the case was being brought by Jackie Chiles.
Unhinged
Schumer and Jeffries, who met with Trump on Monday in the hopes of coming to an agreement to avert a shutdown, pointed to Trump’s recent social media posts mocking the Democratic leaders, which were generated using AI.
“Over the last few days, President Trump’s behavior has become more erratic and unhinged. Instead of negotiating a bipartisan agreement in good faith, he is obsessively posting crazed deepfake videos,” the duo wrote.
“The country is in desperate need of an intervention to get out of another Trump shutdown,” the lawmakers added.
25th Amendment is our only hope.
Please explain the “conservative” case for extending COVID subsidies.
It polls well among NPR listeners.
WTF?
FBI Director Kash Patel has ended a training and intelligence-sharing partnership with the Anti-Defamation League, accusing the organization of spying on conservative groups.
Patel announced the decision in a social media post Wednesday, criticizing a partnership celebrated under former FBI Director James Comey — a political adversary of President Donald Trump who was charged last week in an indictment sought by the Justice Department.
He singled out past speeches by Comey that the former director said amounted to “love letters” to the ADL, which has provided hundreds of tips about extremist activity per year to law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
And people bitch about Trump wanting to police thought.