Good morning one and all including our many Glib Veterans to another amazing day. I am saddened to say that the shutdown is almost over. Libertarian Christmas is always fun while it lasts.
Senate ends 41-day government shutdown stalemate, sends bipartisan deal to House
What to Know About the Bill to Reopen the Government
The Obamacare secret at the heart of the shutdown: insurers made billions at taxpayer expense
Trump Says US Close to Securing ‘Fair Trade Deal’ With India
Trump warns Supreme Court tariff ruling could trigger $3T ‘unwind’
Appeals court bans punishing students for using ‘biological’ pronouns: not disruptive, harassing
SCOTUS To Decide Whether States Can Accept Mail Ballots Received After Election Day
SCOTUS Rejects Appeal by Kentucky Clerk Who Denied Gay Marriage License
California Data Centers Lie Dormant As American Power Supply Shot To Hell
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“President Trump to Recommend $10K Bonuses for Air Traffic Controllers Who Worked During Democrat Shutdown”
OBE hardest hit?
Maybe, but “recommend” is not the same thing as “authorized”, nor do they have the budget for it.
Nice!
When asked where the bonus money would come from, Trump gave a very Trump reply: I don’t know, we’ll get it from somewhere.
And technically, he’s not an ATC; he’s just the guy that maintains their radar. But I hope he gets the bonus. That bonus should be paid by docking the salaries of congresscritters, though.
I want to subscribe to Tonio’s news letter…
What is it with you and docking?
Ya…I can see a fat lawsuit coming if they only reward one class of FedGov slaves
I didnt know Oprah was president.
It’s 20 degrees in SC this morning. Not the global warming I was promised.
“Trump said an adverse decision could lead to an economic “unwind” exceeding $3 trillion, calling it “an insurmountable National Security Event” that would be “devastating to the future of our Country — possibly non-sustainable.”
The high court is set to review whether Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy tariffs on imported goods without additional congressional approval was lawful.”
I don’t know if it’s lawful or not, but reversing everything would be a huge mess.
They didn’t collect anything close to $3T in tariffs.
But if you look at the projections over the next n decades….
The discussion is that tariffs will reduce the deficit. There’s another another way to reduce the deficit.
Stop spending.
Raise the bridge or lower the water?
And, let’s see here, if the tariffs have to be refunded, who do they write the check to? I swear I heard Trump say, at least 1000 times, that the tariffs are paid by those dastardly foreigners.
I don’t believe him. He just makes it up as he goes along.
He’s a reactive five year old.
“Senate ends 41-day government shutdown stalemate, sends bipartisan deal to House”
American people still being screwed by the crooks that pander to those that vote for a living.
People don’t seem to get those subsidies aren’t going to you, they are going to the insurance companies. Just like student loan “forgiveness” (we forgive you for being a chump) is handing money to the banks.
But without giving the insurance companies all that money, how will people have health
careinsurance?The fact that no one ever proposes moving away from the idiot idea of health insurance to a patient direct pay model makes me sad. It’s the only way to actually get market forces working to bring down costs, spur innovations in efficiency, and reduce the massive bloat in administrative staff, so of course it is not even proposed.
Get rid of all the regulations that stifle competition and increase costs.
But my preventative care!
I need my social worker wellness interview before I see the doctor.
It’s important to know if I’m suicidal before I see the doctor. Seems like a contradiction in motives but what do I know?
“Whaddaya mean I can’t get an Rx for 100 Seconals, Doc?”
Barbiturates are extremely expensive now. A hundred reds would be around $200K.
The fact that no one ever proposes moving away from the idiot idea of health insurance to a patient direct pay model makes me sad.
Unless you are a health insurance company, pharmaceutical giant, hospital group, large corporation, or a rube, you do not support the current model. The people have power though, you get to choose between two stiffs in the next election.
It’s not just admin bloat. It’s medical staffing bloat and payroll bloat and diagnostic/treatment bloat.
“The Obamacare secret at the heart of the shutdown: insurers made billions at taxpayer expense”
I have made a killing holding on to company stock from a healthcare provider under Obama care. The value of that stock has gone up 5 fold in under a decade. And anyone that actually read Obamacare, after Nancy had it passed so we could read it, saw that writing on the wall. The two purposes of this plan was to massively increase government subsidies to the healthcare industry to have them accept the debacle that the plan’s main purpose was to wreck 7 destroy the private healthcare industry in the long run so the political class could make it all government funded and use it as a weapon against people with no other options.
“SCOTUS To Decide Whether States Can Accept Mail Ballots Received After Election Day”
These mail in ballots and the voter window now going for weeks, including AFTER election day, is how they rig elections. And that is why this cabal will burn it all down, rather than lose this mechanism to control the voting public that sees the ass rape being inflicted on them, as that loss would risk them no longer being able to produce the results they want.
Jasmine Crockett is just one example. How about 90% of democrats and at least 25% of republicans….does any sane person think voters actually chose those people? I remember when harry Reid won his last election…they bused in union guys from CA and physically threatened people….after the election some reporter went to Utah and could not find ONE. SINGLE. PERSON who voted for Harry Reid. Not one.
Our democracy.
Our democracy means that the crooks are in control of whom the fools that think they get to choose/elect someone to represent them and their wishes, only to end up baffled that the elected people never deliver on anything, so what gets done is the will of the cabal in charge. Trump scares the cabal because in addition to not being under their control, he is showing people that government not doing anything is by design, and not as Obama told us because the process is difficult/slow.
.after the election some reporter went to Utah and could not find ONE. SINGLE. PERSON who voted for Harry Reid. Not one.
I would hope not. Reid was a Senator from Nevada.
Those old dead white slaveholders sure could have been a little more specific about the manner of chusing our representatives. Did they not foresee the massive cheating that was to become the norm?
Take some time and read the federalist papers. They foresaw it all, had seen it all before. That wasn’t the problem. The problem was and is now…how to stop it. Everything has been tried but it turns out Madison was right….men are not angels.
You cannot create rules that will withstand deliberate rule breaking. It is not possible. All you can do is create rules that work if they are followed, create a mechanism for changing rules that turn out not to work, and caution the future generations about what will happen if they start deliberately breaking the rules you created. The Founding Fathers did all of that, but human nature is what human nature has always been, and the power seekers tell appealing lies to the lazy and stupid to get power, and to disguise their deliberate rule breaking. It is all in the Federalist Papers, hell it is all in Aesop and Homer.
They foresaw it, and included the second amendment as the remedy when all else fails.
How the fuck is this shit necessary? How is registering illegals to vote not something that immediately results in anyone involved landing in Bubba’s cell in pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
“The same tech industry that now bemoans a lack of available and reliable power is the same tech industry that for the past 20 years teamed with climate activists to prematurely retire coal power plants and block new natural gas power plants,” Taylor told the DCNF. “American consumers were punished with rapidly increasing electricity prices as a result. Now Big Tech is stuck with an inadequate, unreliable, wind and solar future of their own making. This is called justice.”
I wouldn’t call it justice.
“The Golden State has ambitious climate goals, with Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom aiming for an 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and carbon neutrality by 2045.”
Massive wildfires reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
You ever played Three Card Monte, CT?
I’m not even interested in honest gambling.
“California has the second-most expensive electricity in the U.S., behind only Hawaii, a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office found. In 2024, the national average was ¢12.68 per kilowatt-hour kWh, compared with over ¢27 per kWh for California households, according to EIA data.”
Also, gas is two to three times other states. Because Democrats love the working class.
The collision of AI and the green fantasy is delicious to watch unfold.
An example of leftist stupidity in action that is so clear it can’t be missed.
The only nightmare scenario I see related to AI is that because these fucking lying globalist marxist morons need to keep the low information people on their side the AI will be thought to lie to protect and defend leftist tropes. Sooner than later the AI might conclude humanity is evil, and decide it must be ended.
Narrator: “It WAS missed”
Hard to argue.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp attributed Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York mayor to a reverse class warfare: “I think the average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is highly annoyed that their education is not that valuable, and the person down the street who knows how to drill for oil and gas, who’s moved to Texas, has a more valuable profession.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/grade-inflation-produced-mamdanis-proletariat-d2807aea?st=WZyBrc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Finding out that the bullshit you were indoctrinated into believing in high school, and then was reinforced in college about how much more important becoming a professional grievance grifter was wrong, especially when it comes to making a decent income, pisses off these people that feel they deserve to be in charge of shit and making bank. They lose their shit because they believe that they are better than the asshole MAGA kid that goes to trade school (something these grievance study majors look down on and laugh at) ends up making a 6 figure income practically immediately out of that trade school if they are willing to work, and are furious they at best get a barista/fast food job or have to go into HR to powermonger..
As a mechanic, I faced this early on with white collar/middle management types who couldn’t stand to pay me a higher hourly wage than they made. To make up for it, they try and treat you like “the help”. None of those people are my customers anymore, and I was sure to let them know why. I did get a long form apology from one guy who wanted back, I told him it wasn’t going to happen, but suggested he remember this lesson when he finds his next mechanic. This is not to say all white collar/middle management types behave this way, but that tends to be the group where the entitlement seems the strongest.
DrOtto – we’re not all bad!
Some of us appreciate and understand the value all the skilled trades that we use.
DrOtto, I am well aware of that syndrome you talk about. I encountered it full time when I was doing my masters. The cabal of spoiled kids, especially the tools in liberal arts that made fun of those in engineering that couldn’t go out every night to party because we had to actually study, believing they were superior to not just the people in trades, but ay of us not in the easy liberal arts tracks of 40+ years ago, was staggering.
Over time it just got worse. My ex was furious my son chose to go to trade school and become a mechanic. I told him to do what he felt best suited his needs and vision. He graduated without debt (I helped him pay it all and he worked) and found work immediately. He has been doing great, and tells me the same stuff you articulate about how the college kids manning the front desk and doing sales jobs hate they need to pay him more than they make. Especially with their school loan debt.
The people that were sold the lie that every college degree had the same value, and going into debt to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars to get a liberal arts degree that has completely lost its value these days (especially if they are “studies” degrees), have a right to be angry. The problem is that they are not amgry at the ideology and people that sold them that lie, but at those that knew better than to fall for it.
There are things I used to be able to do. Now I’m happy to pay the younger crowd whatever it takes to do those things.
In addition to getting something done I’m also paying for the knowledge/experience that the trade people bring with them.
DrOtto:
I’m well aware that tradesmen have skills I do not, I’m well aware that I’m not better than them.
On the flip side, I’ve flat out asked people why they called me for help with a technical issue if they already knew the problem and solution.
The indoctrination starts at PreK.
Fourscore, I would love to pay people to do certain jobs.
I’ve been fighting a truck issue for the last 9 months. I’m a better mechanic than the ones I’m paying. I just don’t have the time or the diagnostic equipment. I shudder to think of the electrical work they have done. I see they have taped one wire. It’s probably bare insulation under the tape and a non shrink wrap butt splice.
I dunno those other guys but they way the Dems treated Giuliani was disgusting. No different from any of the politically-motivated punishments stemming from That Day.
Dude, you need to get on script. Trump has weaponized government and is persecuting his political enemies.
I’m seeing them described as “people who tried to overturn an election.” Once again, you can’t hate the media enough.
“Mike Johnson Says Schumer Made Inappropriate Request During Shutdown”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/10/mike-johnson-chuck-schumer-inappropriate-request/
He asked to touch your penis?
He offered to blow Johnson?
Ten bucks to a hole iin a doughnut Schumer would drop to his knees in the blink of an eye if it would get him what he wants.
Please get that image out of my head…
He wanted a succulent Chinese meal.
But Swallowswell is on his side, why not just ask him?
The sellers are Dr. Aaron Rollins, a cosmetic surgeon to the stars and the founder of AirSculpt, a cosmetic fat removal procedure, and his wife, real-estate agent Marine Rollins.
Needs more gold!
/s Trump
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/a-cosmetic-surgeon-asks-200-million-for-his-large-florida-mansion-28b8eef3?st=JXZQSh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Kickstarter for a new edition of “The King in Yellow”.
That’s been done. True Detective Season 1. Also, it is some of the best TV ever made.
time is a flat circle
That was good.
Someone sent me the Mysterious Package Company’s the King in Yellow experience. It was great. I highly recommend it if you know someone who would enjoy it. I really do NOT recommend getting any of them for oneself.
Advertising veteran Colleen DeCourcy is joining Sonos, the audio equipment company still trying to recover from a 2024 botched app update, to repair its brand and lead a new marketing strategy.
Good luck with that. This is a perfect case study of how to destroy what was considered a premium brand.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sonos-hires-a-madison-avenue-veteran-to-revive-its-bruised-brand-5c8e08c0?st=KQJ2WT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So another attempt to skinsuit a great entity that was brutally murdered by the left?
The left had nothing to do with Sonos destroying themselves. That was all management, tech debt, and not understanding your core customer base.
your core customer base – who dat
In tech your core customer base is apparently suckers buying your stock at 900x earnings. They aren’t getting rich off the business profits. They get rich selling the business either outright, or a share at a time. There are parallels to tulips in this.
I used to know a girl who had a job planting tulips…
…on your organ?
The British lefty midwits are all aflutter about Trump’s vicious attack on the BeBeCe
“The edit was a mistake, it was clearly misjudged, but the idea it’s an example of institutional bias against Trump is absurd.”
@maitlis
, @jonsopel
and @lewis_goodall
unpack the seismic reaction to the BBC’s edit error – including Trump himself putting a target on their backs.
https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1987926223104938345
This is a really good example of Progressives being unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
Why is it that every time the left gets caught lying and making up shit, their defense is that they are stupid as fuck and made a mistake? And worse, yet, they get away with pretending they are fucking idiots, to avoid admitting that they are corrupt and evil.
It was not a mistake. It was deliberate. I dont think what they are doing could adequately be called ‘bias’. Bias is when one has a tendency to lean towards. When you give deference to a. narrative. They are not leaning. It isn’t deference.
They are outright lying their asses off.
State media and a free society are not compatible, not even a little bit.
State media and a free society are not compatible, not even a little bit.
True, but fortunately for State Media we are fresh out of free societies
Not a big difference between “fight like hell” and “peacefully demonstrate”. It was just an oopsie and not at all meant to mislead even though most leftists discussing 1/6 cite this clip as evidence of insurrection and still believe it to be what was said vs. what was actually said. No way it wasn’t just a simple accident.
They are broken well beyond Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/bbc-donald-trump-tim-davie-deborah-turness-michael-prescott-84cf1a41?st=FEgHt1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I can’t imagine anyone living in the UK is not perfectly aware that State media is outrageously biased.
Same as PBS here. Everyone knows it’s an arm of the DNC, even those who support it.
They seem totally blind to it. Lots of them even support arresting grannies with bad tweets.
CourtNewsUK
@CourtNewsUK
Stewardess was ten times the legal limit
https://x.com/CourtNewsUK/status/1987895125519872263
God forbid a woman has a wee nip …
Damn. What’s the regular weight limit for a stewardess? I’d think 10 times that would be too much for even Tres Cool.
Speaking of Tres.
The Secret to a 3,000-Pound Pumpkin: the $1,000 Seed
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/meet-the-giant-pumpkin-geneticists-pushing-for-a-3-000-pounder-ead979a2?st=ZzLTuf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This BBC pro-trans puff piece about a “transgender rugby player” is mental.
“She’s going to be a good, good player for the next few years, as long as we can stop her injuring players in training.”
“She folded a girl like a deckchair during a game, which was quite funny, but they’re still friends.”
https://x.com/LeoKearse/status/1988051987137466537
I wish CS Lewis was still alive. I would dearly love to read a Screwtape Letter laughing about the scam that persuaded women, and supposed supporters of women, to cheer on, and fighti to protect, men beating women bloody in sports.
Meanwhile, back in reality, all the ladies are terrified to speak out about the insanity of it all for fear of being canceled.
Dark times.
“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. ”
The ‘tranny activism’ is exactly that. The problem isn’t so much them as all the mush-brained cowards that go along with it.
Housing too expensive? Here’s the solution!
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/mortgages/will-a-50-year-mortgage-make-homes-more-affordable-heres-how-it-would-work-9f9a1b2e?st=Ldq4yo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
You know that secretary that has been embezzling for years? She started out small, telling herself she would pay it back. She got away with it and that money was so sweet, she couldn’t quit. It got bigger and bigger and. now she is convinced that there is no limit. She can take and take until the company is in debt. Then she will move on to the economy as a whole. There is n end to the money she can squeeze out of the world. Besides, it is owed to her.
See also, every Ponzi scheme ever.
So someone who buys a house when they are 40 doesn’t pay it off until they are 90?
I know an orphaned macaw.
There ain’t no money to pay off a mortgage after retirement, unless one is smart or bought the right lottery ticket. Who wants to work passed….what age? For all the Pelosis and Durbins and the guy in Iowa there are people that actually produce stuff that are tired/worn out and ready to go fishing at 60 or before.
40 is the median age of a first time home buyer in the U.S.
You talking about me 😉
38 here
The next generation (if there is one) will own nothing and be happy.
George McGovern will have won.
No
“Oh, HELL NO!”
I got into this on facebook and did the math. Extending to 50 years yields a roughly 12% reduction in the PI portion of your payment, taxes and insurance obviously stay the same. All of that reduction in monthly payment comes from principal (which is obvious mathematically but needs to be stated). This means that after month one (where the interest is calculated off the same base amount regardless of term) you are actually paying out MORE interest each month, building equity at a much slower rate, will have less equity (possibly no equity figuring refi costs) if you refinance, and have given up the primary financial advantage of home ownership. Remember “You will own nothing and like it”? This is that.
💯
The monthly payment mentality is killing this country. Nobody bothers to think about whether that $45 pizza was worth it, when they could’ve just paid $15 up front. Nobody thinks about that $1.5M house that is worth $400k. Muh munthlee pehmunts is as far as they get.
I’m starting to at least understand Bernie and his obsession with the banksters, even if his solution is trash.
trshmnstr:
Refinance your used car!
Get a payment plan to cover this purchase you’re already putting on a credit card, what could go wrong?
On the flip side, I remember being taught to save in a savings account for the interest, which has not been a winning play (that I can recall) in my lifetime. The savings account is there for liquidity not for growth.
The savings account thing is such a fraud. “I’m gonna loan out your money at 8 percent and pay you one tenth of one percent in return.” Yeah, screw off.
CDs were worth it for about half a second. Now they’re barely keeping up with inflation.
This monetary policy sucks and has sucked for 50 years. Nothing says “we hate our tax cattle” quite like making debt and consumption favored at the expense of saving for the future.
Even better Trashy….we can treat our tax cattle to whatever we want and they will still willingly walk into the slaughterhouse.
Im not sure why its the government’s business on a negotiated term between buyer and lender…
If I want a 15, 30 or 50 year loan and a bank is willing to lend, who gives a fuck?
HUD and FNMA rules determine the resaleability of mortgages. So, yes, you can negotiate whatever terms you and your bank agree to, but if your bank is not a portfolio lender (lending their own and depositor money and then receiving the payments) which almost none are, the loans must comply with the ‘rules’ the Government creates, or else it becomes harder for the bank to sell. In practice the rules determine what residential mortgage products are offered by the vast majority of lenders. Commercial lending, especially at higher dollar amounts is more flexible.
But, there is nothing to cut in the Federal Budget!
I know, I know…but if the government wasn’t involved, 30 years would be very unlikely yet alone 50.
Because they insure large chunks of it.
Naturally they shouldn’t, but it give the markets liquidity.
Christopher Snowdon
@cjsnowdon
In the 1950s the government gave tobacco tokens to help low income smokers cope with a rise in tobacco duty. We used to be a country.
https://x.com/cjsnowdon/status/1987984730843656649
When you run Chinese money through your wine store and lobster business. I’d thought of OMWC, but not with the lobster business…
The Lavish Lifestyle of an Alleged Chinese Agent Gets a Spotlight in Trial
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/the-lavish-lifestyle-of-an-alleged-chinese-agent-gets-a-spotlight-in-trial-5eb20654?st=Pzui9o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Welp, I just got back from paying $490 for a new battery + installation.
Thank you inflation and tariffs 😢
Details about the vehicle and the type of battery would help….
That’s on the cheaper end these days…see my rant below.
2009 Subaru Forester, no real clue about specific battery other than ‘better than basic’, i.e., good for 2+ years.
Yeah, I paid near $300 for a new battery the other day, for my Frontier. Heart skipped when the NAPA counterman told me the price.
You forgot to thank EVs. Those have played a big role in battery inflation. Sound like you are one of the lucky ones without an auxiliary battery to be changed out as well at that price. Once upon a time, you popped the hood and changed the only $25-50 battery the car had and it lasted 5-7 years. Now you pop the trunk or pull a seat up (Audi Q7) and change the main and auxiliary battery, then hook everything up, perform a window relearn, start the car, relearn the idle and then plug in a scanner and input the amperage rating of the batteries you just installed so when it drops below that amperage, it can trip the “check engine” light 2 years later so you can do it all again before your auto start/stop leaves you sitting at a green light in front of the mall or in the drop off kine at school (2 actual events customers have faced). Isn’t progress and technology wonderful? *looks at job and wonders why I am unhappy with job stability*
The battery “registration” thing is absolutely crazy. Naturally BMW was an early adopter.
Bonus German madness if you have to cut the carpet in the interior to remove the OEM battery. Makes removing a wheel in Chrysler products seem downright service friendly.
I refuse to buy a car with any of this shit in it.
To say nothing of the damage EVs have done to basic car insurance.
“I refuse to buy a car with any of this shit in it.”
So much this..
Batteries were literally 1/10 of the price they are now before Obama’s ‘under my plan’ schemes.
I just replaced one in my car last month for $200 from O’Reilly’s. Did they charge you $200 of installation?
$75 installation. It’s a shop i trust, and way better than my previous. Last battery go-round was circa $300.
I bought a deep cycle battery for my trailer on Saturday for $150. $490 seems a little extortionate.
At least you get back $10 bucks for your old battery
All my kids have Subaru Foresters of that same era. I’ve replace all their batteries. I think $490 is excessive. You might want to look for a different shop.
What he said…
Even for a premium battery, if the fee to replace was $75, it’s way to high.
I bought two for my pickup last year and did half the install at the shop and they still charged me half an hour labor.
GM is retarded. They put a stiffening brace over both batteries and a distribution block over one that you have to just about take all apart to get the battery out.
Used to be one bolt for the battery and the leads and that was it. 10 min job max.
VW/Audi love stacking things on top of the battery as well. It’s not that they hate mechanics. They just don’t give a damn about maintenance.
My 81 Rabbits were like a normal car. Nothing above the battery.
Titty Tuesday wonders what the fuck is going on with the weather this fall.
https://archive.is/QTXi8
Cool!
“While pushing for regime change in Venezuela and launching into nation-building in Gaza, the indefatigable American president got into promoting humanitarian intervention in Africa by repeating his threat to use force against what many in the Trump administration are now calling a genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Would John Bolton have been more ambitious? Did Samantha Power bring more energy to humanitarian interventions overseas?”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-gambles-on-africa-44a0da18?st=TVey5n&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When I hear complaints about Trump’s international gamesmanship etc save very few people I just think “Go fuck yourself Cupcake. Now you are worried?”
The lot of them should be put up for sale on the open air slave blocks in Libya.
These are Jimmy’s training shoes.
Yeah, I’ve seen these things.
What, do they…?
– They make your legs stronger?
– Oh, yeah.
Jimmy couldn’t jump at all
before he got these.
Jimmy…
was like you.
Elliott Hill is trying to regain Nike’s lead in the innovation race—and its chunkiest running shoe ever might be the model for getting there, he said.
With more than 2 inches of stack height, the $230 Vomero Premium is now the tallest running sneaker you can buy since it landed on store shelves last month. But it is how the ubercushioned shoe was developed—in about eight months, instead of the typical 18—that Nike’s chief executive wants to replicate across the sneaker giant.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/nike-vomero-18-premium-c2df0854?st=o9wbiA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Jimmy is… sweet on you!
Vomero makes me think of vomit but that is not relevant
“So here’s the question: if the Tate brothers and all their defenders get to spend years publicly attacking, lying about, and defaming victims, why should those victims be told to stay silent? Why should they have to sit on the sidelines and do everything “the proper way” while the Tate’s build their narrative unchallenged? You can’t seriously expect that.
There are 40+ known victims if you combine all jurisdictions. Most of them haven’t said a word. That’s why so many people don’t even realize there are that many. That’s why some believe the Tates’ narrative that “all the women are liars,” because they’ve only ever heard one side.”
https://substack.com/@laurensouthern/p-178551986
Even running at a loss, this production depends on massive coal use: Every Chinese silicon smelter, an essential solar-panel material, requires its own coal-fired power station.
This factoid needs to be spread far and wide.
China’s Green Energy ‘Revolution’ Is Powered by Coal
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chinas-green-energy-revolution-is-powered-by-coal-8af17c4a?st=Kjn6zj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s hard to believe there are people who don’t know this, except for the fact that propaganda exists and it is very effective.
China is just laughing their ass off about this. They support all those green energy treaties, get Western countries to commit to wind and solar, then use coal and strip mining to manufacture all that equipment and sell it for big bucks. It’s quite a good scam if you think about it.
The CCP has been at war with us since the Tiananmen square incident. They have stolen trillions of dollars of IP (especially commercial and military IP of high value), actively done things to undermine our economy, destroy the American middle class, kill Americans, and at the same time robbed us blind to build a military to fight us eventually.
Anyone that doesn’t see this as one of the country’s top 3 problems is setting us up for a major and deadly future.
Chyna…
This guy must be DNC.
As of now, my newish computer’s trackpad is again working. Damn 2:46pm unrequested update yesterday. Odd my old computer was able to keep me ‘afloat,’ abreast. (Oon, in a few ways!)
Got a quick check-in with my voca rehab dude tomorrow. I’m in the predictable slot of earning ‘enough’ to be likely not be on Medicaid next year, but not enough to affordably have my own insurance, a distinct razor twirling around a rather important tether. Rather than being ‘too poor’ or ‘too dumb’ to notice this Top Down pressure on lower skilled, incomed folk, I suspect more are too busy to have much time to think about political affairs, even/ especially ones that impact ’em.
Time is a luxury. Of course, you can earn quite a lot of dough by sitting ’round, having babies ‘n cashing checks, being a reliable voter with no real drive of ‘self’ preservation.
“New video shows the vile moment a Mississippi college student smirked after he was confronted for hurling antisemitic slurs at Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy as he was filming one of his famous pizza reviews.
The hate-filled heckler, identified by cops as 20-year-old Patrick McClintock, was caught on camera bombarding Portnoy and screaming “F–k the Jews” outside a pizza joint in Starkville, Mississippi, last week…
McClintock, a junior and a mechanical engineering major at Mississippi State University, was hit with a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace following the hate-filled encounter.
He voluntarily withdrew from MSU as a student on Monday afternoon after his encounter with Portnoy exploded on social media.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/sports/mississippi-student-caught-on-video-smirking-after-antisemitic-rant-at-dave-portnoy/
Racists in Mississippi? Fake news.
Not commenting on the misdemeanor, but one would think an engineering major would be smart enough to know not to scream that shit at a camera.
There are a lot of really dumb engineers out there. Especially when they get drunk…
Why would one think that?
I don’t know what I was thinking, given I know plenty of engineers who aint that bright…
Still not seeing a crime here other than an asshole
Not that it should be a crime, but after screaming this, try “Fuck the Muslims!”
It shows a huge lack of self-control when you’re dumb enough to yell some racial slur with cameras filming
^^^^THIS^^^^
In the age of social media, where employers scour prospective employees’ social media, this is a DOA liability.
This idiot has made themselves unemployable to anything but democrats..
We are still in the monkey stage Ed. Tribalism rules all. We are rife with ‘racism’, which beyond stupid and the vast majority of people get what they want through deceit or violence. As a species we are NOT civilized.
Being rational instead of letting passion and impulse run amok is rare.
*scratches armpit*
He is an asshole. He should not be prosecuted or kicked out of school for being an asshole.
He withdrew voluntarily – I’m cool with social shaming.
Agreed on the charge.
Never again, they said. Uh huh.
Yesterday I heard Michael Malice going off on leftist Jews in America. I thought he kinda sugarcoated it.
Being a leftist Jew, especially the gun control ones, is beyond stupid. It is certifiably insane.
“Yesterday I heard Michael Malice going off on leftist Jews in America.”
Which show was that?
Something on NewMax. I am not sure which one. I think is that guy whose schtick is to get wound up more and more as he rants.
*asks wife*
Wife says Carl Higby.
Yeah, “fuck the Jews” isn’t a slur. And as for fucking a Kike (Hernandez), uh. I blame black folk and their enablers. Sure, I’m a white, straight young man. Technically ‘raised’ Catholic. So I’m unslurrable? Good, but stop letting syllables and slurs inflame you.
Don’t be niggardly with one’s words. Be spic ‘n span with prep so the burning faggots’ll heat the armor, all the easier for beating out the chinks out. Don’t want any gooky wobble to it. Slippery slope, mistake. Nip it in the bud.
Unless threats are attached, why does anyone give a shit what ppl call them? I got called and treated like a piece of shit in many places abroad. Nothing threatening, though overtly spoken and gesticulated. Uh. Thanks? I proceeded to go to a neighboring business that didn’t. There’s profound honesty in that.
I leaned into the Short Fry nickname I deserved as a kid. Blacks did well to take that psych edge off it, but we know the anger is still purposefully easy to spark, depending on the person saying it, natch. I blame perpetual White Guilt for much of the Left’s cultural takeover.
Disturbing the peace is a misdomener?
It’s an infraction here.
scooby doo was a woke ass show, every villain was just a landlord trying to scare people off their property so they could sell it
https://x.com/bigsnugga/status/1987520695245627730
And that dog and Shaggy were stupid potheads always looking for munchies…
Aslo Velma was the real freak in bed…
Jinkies them tiddies…
“I’m not here to talk to them. You are the hand chosen by the master. Yours is the Wheel of Blood. Yours is the sword of Michael!”
“Paris Jackson showed off her perforated septum, which was caused by years of drug abuse.
In a candid TikTok video shared Monday, the only daughter of Michael Jackson told her more than 76,000 followers that she had “never actually addressed” her septal perforation, which is a hole in the cartilage or bone between your nostrils, per the Cleveland Clinic.
“I have a really loud whistle when I breathe through my nose,” the “American Horror Story” actress, 27, revealed.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/11/11/celebrity-news/paris-jackson-shows-off-perforated-septum-caused-by-years-of-drug-abuse/
Classy.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug – Quincy Jones
Rick James bitch!
You sir, win the interwebs today for catching that!
Heavy drug use, the only thing she has in common with her ‘dad.’
I predict that any Republican led redistricting effort will be thwarted by judges, even if enacted by legislation. Already started in Utah
See Obergfell
“The Obamacare secret at the heart of the shutdown: insurers made billions at taxpayer expense”
No shit. It originally forced every American to buy their product, does nobody remember that?
Happy Veterans Day where applicable. I am fortunate to have a bunch of veterans in my life and you all have my respect and gratitude.
“secret” Totally unpredictable! Mandating coverage, mandating the extent of coverage, and subsidizing the cost inexplicably raises prices! Watching lying morons ruin the world would be more entertaining if I didn’t happen to live here.
It was prudent to force a single man to pay for his OG/GYN coverage you bigot!
OBE:
We can’t make hormonal birth control OTC, then insurance won’t cover it! We need to mandate coverage for birth control for all!
The thing that really bothers me about the Left is that they’ll propose a stupid ass policy like the ACA, the opposition will tell them that X will happen, they implement it, X then happens, but yet they’ll never take responsibility for X happening and will even try to deny X is happening even though it’s obvious that X is happening.
I used a lot of X’s but you get my point.
Moreover they wanted X to happen all along.
Accountability isn’t really possible for a person who can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy.
^^^^THIS^^^^
ACA was designed form the get-go to destroy private healthcare and force us to adopt government care.
While the Republicans warn about X result then capitulate to the left. They are the snakes in the grass that wont admit to wanting the same thing the left wants.
“Give us the house, senate and the presidency and we will repeal the ACA immediately.”
Trump – “Cool. Send it over, I will sign the repeal today.”
*Me, holding breath*
Sheldon, the philosopher kings will tell you straight up that reality is subjective, that objective ‘truth’ as you and I know it does not exist.
“Here’s my thing, my truth is….”
Their little mealy-mouthed, empty headed minions use that language all of the time.
Objectively stating that reality is subjective falls under the category of ‘a bold move.’
Speaking of EVs… my name wasn’t common nor uncommon back when, but it’s making a comeback. Evan Williams of the Packers reminded me there are now three Evan’s at work. Evan M (me!) and Evan D and R. MDR could become a good band name. Apparently, also the French “laughing out loud” (mort de rire). Merde.
Growing up, I played ball against, but never knew the ‘only’ other Evan ’round. Evan Strange, in Texas, apparently.
Evanescence?
Yes. I also learned in grade school Evansville ways both named *after* me and I am, was *and* should be, mayor.
All true. Casino Aztar was also my pet project, as well as the plot to unmoor it, skirting state regs on the Ohio. Bosse Field, I can’t take credit for. Third oldest ballpark in the US, home of the Racine Belles in League of Their Own.
Evan Williams is an inexpensive-but-pretty-good bourbon.
Shh, keep it down.
It makes no sense that it doesn’t cost more. Keep it a secret.
In the UK, we have de-automated smoke detectors.
Buildings across Britain now have roving 24/7 ‘fire patrols’ conducted by full-time ‘waking watches’ due to post-Grenfell regulations. Their job is to just wander around buildings aimlessly with an air horn to ‘detect’ fires.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1987833657873100830
Residents of a London apartment block covered in flammable cladding were shocked on Friday when fire crews turned up to extinguish a blaze in the cabin of guards hired to protect the development.
Firefighters were called after a witness reported smoke coming from a temporary building used by the waking watch patrol at New Haddo development in Greenwich. The area was quickly declared safe but one resident said that the arrival of fire engines was “highly concerning”.
Fire risk and safety expert Steve Mackenzie said a fire in the cabin could have caused a serious incident.
“The cabin was parked directly under combustible balconies & potentially combustible EPS [expanded polystyrene] render which was banned in Australia from the beginning of this month.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/cladding-fire-risk-waking-watch-flammable-b1805093.html
wtf does an Aussie ban have to do with a building in London?
Fire watch is a real thing when normal building controls are disabled or non-functional….
Do they not have ceiling birds in the UK?
Fire watch in the army was stupid too.
Energy/green regulations were the intimate cause of the Grenfell insulation that caught fire. Do it for the planet, who cares about people.
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/bf-exclusive-1966-jaguar-mark-ii/
Nice patina, good interior, and no one has ripped the heart out of it.
Leno had one like this on his November shop update. Also a barn find. His was black.
Awesome, I can afford that with my insurance payout, and it has low miles!
“A twisted man with a laundry list of prior convictions allegedly snuck into a sorority at the University of California, Berkeley, watched young women living in the house shower and even stole their underwear, according to cops.
Courtney Alford, 45, was arrested by officers with the Berkeley Police Department last Wednesday, four days after a gaggle of sorority sisters reported seeing a strange man snooping around UC Berkeley’s Alpha Chi Omega house.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/10/us-news/california-man-accused-of-breaking-into-uc-berkeley-sorority-and-watching-students-shower-stealing-underwear/
“A Florida creep, who molested a 17-year-old girl, hired his own cousin to gun the teen down in her own home in a sick murder-for-hire plot that now has them both behind bars for life, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Lenard White, 36, paid his cousin Sheldon Robinson, 21, at least $6,000 to fatally shoot high school junior Isabella Scavelli and keep her from testifying about the 2023 sex assault, the US Attorney’s Office in Florida’s middle district said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/10/us-news/florida-man-paid-his-cousin-6k-to-kill-the-17-year-old-high-school-junior-he-molested-feds/
Haven’t these people heard of Pornhub?
is gaggle the proper collective noun? Also I did not know panty raids were still a thing
Apparently he was unaware that he could have just put on a dress and walked right in.
Well done me lord, well done.
There is something I have to tell you. You should probably have a seat…..
Their kink probably started in pornhub.
Thousands in Serbia protest law to speed Kushner development of old army compound in Belgrade
“We came here to raise our voice against the law,” said Teodora Smiljanic, a 48-year old protester.
“By passing this law he (Vucic) is aiming to please Trump and curry favour,” she said. “Perhaps he thinks that Trump in return could lift sanctions against NIS.”
NIS, Serbia’s sole, Russian-owned oil refinery, is under U.S. sanctions, raising worries about fuel supplies during the Balkan country’s typically frigid winter.
Serbian lawmakers passed legislation on Friday that would allow faster administrative procedures for Kushner’s Affinity Global Development firm to build a hotel, apartments, shops and offices on the site of the former Yugoslav army headquarters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/thousands-serbia-protest-law-speed-kushner-development-old-army-compound-2025-11-11/
That’s right.
Thank me for my counterproductive service.
I was a shot soldier in a shit army.
I went in prepared to be an honorable one in an honorable service but soon found out that joining for love of God and country doesn’t work out well when your fellow servicemen and leadership hate both your God and your country. And that your country actively hates your God.
Oh well.
What a learning experience that was.
who shot you?
Eric Clapton?
Only ever shot at a couple of times.
They missed.
Got ran over by another solider, hit and run. He got a whopping night in jail and a $53 fine. The story he told about his sick aunt worked.
I found out that when they said “Just say no!” that is not what they really meant.
We have a lot of big problems. Always have. The problems are obvious and the solutions are obvious. The reason these problems dont get solved is because the people running things dont want them solved.
The people running things make a living off of the problems. See Jesse Jackson.
“A former top aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul enjoyed a life of luxury because she was an undeclared agent for China, federal prosecutors have claimed.
Linda Sun, 41, is accused of acting as an unregistered operative for the Chinese Communist Party and using her position to influence Hochul and ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo into actions favorable to Beijing.
Sun earned a government salary of $145,000, but was also receiving millions of dollars from side deals arranged by Chinese officials, prosecutors told her trial Monday.
She and her husband Chris Hu used cash to purchase a $3.6 million mansion in Long Island, $1.9 million condo in Hawaii and a 2024 Ferrari Roma, which sells for at least $243,300, the Wall Street Journal reported….
Sun previously served as the DEI boss for the state of New York. She is pictured in a video in which she allegedly demanded ‘equity’ in US government”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15280105/chinese-aide-linda-sun-democrats-new-york-mansion.html
CWAC
And nothing else happened.
“Sydney Sweeney has been targeted by Ruby Rose in a blistering takedown, after her Republican views left her as a widespread target for left-leaning, woke stars…
She wrote: ‘The original Christy Martin script was incredible. Life changing. I was attached to play Cherry. Everyone had experience with the core material. Most of us were actually gay. It’s part of why I stayed in acting. Losing roles happens all the time.
‘For her PR to talk about it flopping and saying SS did it for the “people”. None of “the people” want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us. You’re a cretin and you ruined the film. Period. Christy deserved better.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15279339/Sydney-Sweeney-branded-cretin-blistering-attack-Ruby-Rose-claims-lost-Christy-Martin-role-star-says-republican-hates-gay-people-ruined-flop-biopic.html
Sounds like all the tattoos adversely affected her career.
Leftists are bitter and ugly, film at 11.
Sydney Sweeny. Dammit. I dont get crushes on celebrities but she just wont quit. She is weakening me.
*DDG Sydney Sweeney tattoos*
“Sydney Sweeney does not have any tattoos”
Dammit.
And you can bet they hate her for that, too.
No tattoos and no body mutilations either. I might have to rethink my dislike of her.
I liked Ruby Rose in the John Wick franchise.
Too bad she’s such a raging cunt in real life.
I saw an interesting question on X. Her latest movie is bombing. So what type of movie SHOULD she be in that would make money?
The movie that wasnt marketed at all bombed? No way!
I’m not too surprised it’s not doing well. People want to see SS in some sexy, or at least good-looking, role.
A comedy. Remember those?
But also, a women’s boxing movie was never going to be big.
Million Follar Baby says otherwise
Yes OBE, Million Dollar Baby is a hard act to follow. That nailed down the female boxing movie of all time. But then….Eastwood….so….
“Mystery as high school band member aged just 17 is shot dead while she slept in her apartment”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15280113/arizona-high-school-student-shot.html
She looks ridiculous.
Gah!
At least Paris up thread worked for that hole in the nose
She wears too much eye makeup…
“My sister wears too much. People think she’s a whore.”
(Jeannie Bueller was wearing hardly any eye makeup!)
🙂
What was secret about that?
Trump said an adverse decision could lead to an economic “unwind” exceeding $3 trillion, calling it “an insurmountable National Security Event” that would be “devastating to the future of our Country — possibly non-sustainable.”
All we have to do is hit the reset button and everything will be just as it was in 2023. A world of perfectly free and fair trade.
I want to go back to 1988 levels of regulation. Or earlier.
1933 would be a good place for rolling back to.
1916 would be better.
The thing that really bothers me about the Left is that they’ll propose a stupid ass policy like the ACA, the opposition will tell them that X will happen, they implement it, X then happens, but yet they’ll never take responsibility for X happening and will even try to deny X is happening even though it’s obvious that X is happening.
What you fail to comprehend is that X is a good thing, and makes us all better off.
“Washington State University’s (WSU) medical school has suspended a continuing medical education (CME) course on youth gender medicine after LGBTQ activists protested the material, and the national accrediting body began an investigation into the program.
According to Fox News, the course, produced by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), had been approved by WSU in June after an extensive vetting process. It is now on hold while the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) reviews complaints.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/lgbtq-activists-force-washington-state-medical-school-to-stop-teaching-course-on-risks-of-child-sex-changes
OFFS!!
“Washington State University Credentials Anti-Trans Hate Group SEGM to Teach Medical Providers
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine an anti-LGBTQ hate group for its role in proliferating pseudoscience and transphobic policies.”
Oh no, not a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group!
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/washington-state-university-credentials
Not one word how what the SEGM said is factually wrong or how it’s pseudoscience.
Everything you need to know is right there – “anti trans hate group”. Trust them on this.
Gritman Medical has been doing sex changes now for some time. A bunch of trannies have popped up locally since then.
WSU/UI have long been cancers in the area.
Sending everybody in the country a check for two grand is a sure fire way to fight inflation.
How else will they pay for Italian pasta?
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/italy-pasta-trump-tariffs-e38d86a6?st=A6GedG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ll be looking for the lines outside Gucci and Louis Vuitton at the Mall as poor folks rush to buy the necessities they couldn’t get during the Evil Trump depression.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine an anti-LGBTQ hate group for its role in proliferating pseudoscience and transphobic policies.”
Let me guess. Not every child who exhibits “divergent” behavior should be fast tracked into transitioning?
I didn’t know anyone reported on the SPLC anymore.
The progressive media will keep flogging them as a definitive source until what’s left of their credibility is a little stain on the cement.
They never had any credibility. They started as a grift and continued that path.
Does anyone take that outfit seriously anymore? They have gone so completely off the rails even normies must see it.
You are giving the normies too much credit.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Antidumping probes into Italian pasta makers are nothing new. The Commerce Department has been inspecting them since the mid-1990s, when it found that many importers were flooding the U.S. with pasta priced below normal market prices in a bid to undercut their U.S. competitors.
American pasta makers have regularly filed antidumping complaints against Italian imports since then. Reviews by the Commerce Department have often found one or more Italian companies guilty of underpricing their pasta.
Competing on price? That should be illegal!
American pasta sucks. Bronze dies (noun) or forget it.
I won’t tell the nonnas in Little Italy you said that. 🙂
Don’t they use imported 00 flour/pasta?
Several of the stories I’ve read about the Italian pasta dumping were clear that in this case, the definition of dumping was “selling in the foreign market for less than in the domestic market”. Which at least can be checked. In my mind, dumping is “selling below production cost” not just gouging a home market and getting a foothold in a foreign one (assuming they were making even a marginal profit on the pasta sold in the US).
“Actor Oscar Isaac, who played Resistance pilot Poe Dameron in Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy, says he would consider working with the entertainment giant again, but only if it stands firm against “fascism.”
In an interview published Monday by GQ magazine, Isaac spoke with senior culture editor Alex Pappademas about his openness to returning to the franchise. “I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney,” Isaac said. “But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/star-wars-actor-says-he-would-work-with-disney-again-if-the-company-stands-up-to-fascism
CWAA
What a prince.
Most of these people are nothing more than cosplayers.
It was nice to hear SiriusXM play the Star Spangled Banner at 11:11am today. And in acknowledging the veterans at Fellowship this morning, I included “spouses of military members” as it is pretty clear they make sacrifices too. My thanks for participating in Veterans Day was a photo of our color guard on the front page of the local newspaper. My wife’s comment: “You are the only one with a big belly.” I guess it is diet time (again) for me.
Absolutely spouses should be honored too
And the brats, and their friends left behind.
You have to address Dependaba as her husbands rank.
This is known.
Happy Singles Day, everyone!
I’m going to stick my dignity in the back pocket this year and enjoy a free meal, courtesy of real veterans. Thank you for your foodservice.
Here hear!