Tomlin is out in Pittsburgh. And now we all just wait for the playoff games this weekend because there’s nothing else going on until then. So moving on…
Time for the grift to end. Sorry, but two and a half years was long enough for the state to get their shit together and get the places rebuilt. It’s not an endless pile of free money while the state does nothing.
OK. That’s fine. Because they can just hire new ones.
Time to send out the US Marshals. If it was good enough for Steve Bannon, it’s good enough for these two.
This person might want to lawyer up. Also, I wish it was O’Keefe who got him personally. I’d have liked to see him in another one of his disguises.
Trump is making a big mistake here. The plan is not only unconstitutional, it’s gonna end up resulting in a lot fewer people having access to credit cards. Banks will simply cut availability rather than take the risk on people with lower credit.
Hooray!!! We need to keep it up for a decade or so.
The last five words of this lede are the key. If the protesters leave them alone and act peaceably, they are at no risk whatsoever.
This is one hell of a dilemma. It’s apparent the UN isn’t gonna do anything while the regime just kills people indiscriminately. And neither will anybody else but us. But I don’t want to see us dragged into this mess even though it’s probably the moral thing to do.
Damn, dude. Take it easy. Who do you think you are, Alec Baldwin?
Why was this never reported before? We’re nearing a billion in cash taken to one country in the last few years alone. Sounds like ending TPS for those people is the right thing to do. Their nation should be flush about now.
This is underrated. As is much of their catalog. They were always solid. Even into the 80s. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
“The US Secret Service has also issued an order for all personnel to retake the agency’s required anti-espionage training in order to ensure employees are aware of the threats posed by individuals aiming to exploit agency employees for information about our protective operations.
I’m sure similar to all mandatory web based training that will stop the problem immediately.
click next, next, next, next, …, I agree
Training is done.
Hey! Stop looking over my shoulder when I do those!
I’m not good at these so I need to cheat.
I assume it’s like corporate training – it’s a checkmark so you can’t claim ignorance when you’re caught.
The worst part is how there is a whole industry that creates the content. They are constructed so that if you mandate X hours of ethics the programs runs X hours.
Best part is how all the coworkers explain the quickest way to complete the training. This one offers 4X speed for example.
Our new Oracle based learning is brutal; no speed up, no transcript and it doesn’t count if it plays in the background.
I at least figured out it can run on my secondary screen, muted and still thinks it has focus, so it “counts”.
That may be the best part of retirement – freedom from that stupidity.
I at least figured out it can run on my secondary screen, muted and still thinks it has focus, so it “counts”.
I figured out the same for something similar. Needed a new browser and ran it on a second screen.
It finally dawned on me I could turn off the audio and complete them in like a quarter of the time.
Ugh I have a “self-evaluation” due next week.
What is most often learned from those video training sessions is how best to get around them.
Speaking of espionage, I can’t believe this isn’t getting more attention.
I thought treason got the death penalty?
(Just double-checked… “punishable by death or a minimum of five years in prison”. OK, then. 🥴)
$12k. Not a good risk / return tradeoff.
Treason is basically impossible to prosecute absent an actual declared war. That’s a good thing.
Especially with businessman-type assets, you get better results if you combine the carrot and the stick. $12k is fine and dandy, but $12k, plus your family back in China gets to not have their Social Credit score zero’d out, is much better.
And it sounded like he wanted a cushy job back in the Motherland.
You’re out on a date with a new guy. He is very interested in your job and asks you if you have any secret or classified info you can give him. Do you:
A) Give him all the information he asks for.
B) Give him some information, promising more information later
C) Tell him you only reveal classified information on the second date
D) Get the fuck out of there immediately because he’s James O’Keefe, you stupid motherfucker.
🤔
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
It’s not a bad thing if it’s part of the bank’s business plan. And it’s not a bad thing to extend more credit at higher rates if that’s the bank’s plan to increase cash flow.
The government being involved is a bad thing.
It isn’t a good thing when most of our economy is still consumption driven *and* personal debt is high *and* you want a good economy going into the midterms to hopefully not have 2 years of stupid impeachment circus (again). Crash the credit card market and you’re going to be putting a few torpedoes deep in the hull of the consumer spending, I expect.
May be a good idea long term and needed — would really, really suck for the GOP when it kicks in. Real politik and all.
If banks are unwilling to issue credit cards to those in need, the government will do it just like with college loans …
What’s a few trillion dollars more in unsustainable debt?
It is generally a bad idea to borrow high interest money, especially for consumption. It is even more generally a bad idea for politicians, or really anyone other than the actual parties, to dictate contract terms in private agreements.
Can’t wait for the lefties to demand universal credit just like universal healthcare.
CREDIT IS A HUMAN RIGHT!
I don’t see a need to defend a business plan that is “if you can’t pay then we will charge you even more.”
My beef is that a 10% max surcharge is LOWER than the sales tax rates in some municipalities. If you really want to go after usurers, start with those governments.
There is something unethical about putting sales taxes on credit cards and then paying interest on those sales taxes. It would be nice if sales taxes had to be paid in cash or if sales taxes were itemized on credit card statements along with the accrued interest on those taxes. But nobody in the whole sordid business wants that kind of transparency.
If you borrow the money to pay taxes, I see no reason not to pay interest on it.
You missed the point.
Do i have the option to not put the sales tax on the card? No.
Do i get the sales taxes itemized on my bill like every other transaction? No.
And apparently it will be a dangerous use of microplastics if one cuts up (and eats) the no longer valid credit card.
California: “Right… that’s for bullet trains, right?
…
Right?” (feel free to mentally put this over the Anakin / Padme meme picture since that’s what I had in my head).
No! It’s for Learing Centers!
What about Leering Centers?
ROAT:
Swiss was forced by his HR to attend one of those. His narrowed gaze was a bit too close to leering and creeping out his Swiss Miss colleagues.
Mrs. Holiness and I were just there in Maui and stayed near Lahaina. If you looked reeeeeal hard you could tell that there had been a big fire there.
I was surprised that there were still a bunch of trees growing there. I would have thought that they would have burned along with the houses.
Space lasers don’t target trees.
For the federal prosecutors that are quitting, are those the same ones that should have been going after the fraud in the state? If so, good riddance.
Agreed. I see no problems here.
Better ones! With blackjack…. and hookers!
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The depressing thing is — being FedGov, that’s probably accurate.
Why are so many people volunteering to go on the Secret Service advance detail?
I don’t know, man…. people that go after Bannon don’t have a history of winding up dead. Not really wishing ill on the poor Marshals here. “They were going to serve the warrant on the Clintons then ended up in a rice paddy off of I-40 after shooting themselves in the back of the head….”
We all know prominent Democrats are immune from consequences.
What consequences from showing up and shutting up? Don’t wonder how people have TDS when you are suffering from CDS.
They didn’t show up, they ignored the subpoena, for which Trump’s people got actual jail time. If they had showed up and pled the 5th they would have been fine. So fuck off with your CDS bullshit when you can’t even be honest about what the actual issue is.
The didn’t show up and shut up. They ignored the subpoenas. And yes, Trump people
Got locked up for that very same thing.
But I bet you already knew that.
His point was that if they had shown up they would have just said nothing. It’s all a silly sideshow. I know there’s this lust to see the Clintons get their comeuppance but nothing is going to come of this except distraction. They are not going to jail.
So abuse for one is abuse for all. No, Trump’s out of government people shouldn’t have been prosecuted – that was nothing but vindictive bullshit. As is this.
Then they can show up and refuse to answer questions. Pretty simple.
The point is that people have been thrown in prison for refusing to show up. There’s no reason they should be above the law in that respect.
They refuse to do that because they know the first question will be “did you fly with Jeffrey Epstein to his private island on multiple occasions?” And pleading the fifth to that question alone will be the story.
So abuse for one is abuse for all.
The days of letting team blue get away with everything should have ended long ago. Using their standard playbook against them is long overdue and is the only way they’ll stop.
Sorry, but they set the rules by which the game will be played. It’s politically foolish to not hold them to the same standard they’ve held other to forever. Especially since the overwhelming majority of the media apparatus in this country is in their pocket. This is one of the few ways the right has of eliminating that control of the narrative. And it’s high time they make full use of the tools that have been used against them for some time now.
Using their standard playbook against them is long overdue and is the only way they’ll stop.
Ah, the venerable race to the bottom. Tit for tat, eye for eye, and when all is said done, what do you have left? Ruins – you will rule over the ashes.
You’re right. The right should just preen about having the high ground while the left uses the full force of the state against them and the media clap like seals. They should never, ever use the same perfectly legal methods the left is so happy to wield in an effort to consolidate power. Doing so would be bad.
That’s naive, at best. Politics isn’t the playground. And sometimes you have to show your immoral opponent that you’ll use the same tools they’ve used over and over again to political end. Perhaps it will make them think twice the next time they want to grandstand and throw somebody in prison for not complying with a stupid subpoena from a completely partisan committee.
This committee, by the way, voted unanimously to issue the Clinton subpoenas. And it’s comprised of members from both parties who were selected by their own party leadership, which makes it nothing at all like the J6 Kangaroo Committee. In that respect, it’s not similar at all.
So JI if someone smacks you in the mouth you going to defend yourself? Or would that be “Tit for tat, eye for eye, race to the bottom”?
You allow others to constantly transgress against you with impunity, it will just continue to escalate until you have nothing left, and they own you.
I don’t know why an intelligent guy like you can’t seem to grasp this simple truth about human nature.
Well, when one player is willing to “race to the bottom” all by themselves, what does game theory tell us about the ultimate outcome?
The Iron Law applies here: You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish. If one player can go after their enemies using the legal system, without “payback”, they aren’t being punished. To the extent they are successful, they are being rewarded. Until everyone agrees that “this is a bad idea”, it will continue if not accelerate. You want it to stop? I can’t think of any other way than tit-for-tat.
The personal isn’t the political, it’s a big fucking difference. You treat the two as equivalent and you’re going to be fucked over by everyone with a “Hey Buddy”.
After all nothing proves your assertion that the State is the source of our problems like USING the State to further the problem.
game theory
That’s the problem right there. That theory about games. Wrong model to operate from.
This committee, by the way, voted unanimously to issue the Clinton subpoenas.
First off, the committee should be investigating the DoJ permanent bureaucracy, and those who were in charge during all of the bungling, not anyone else. That’s a fucking sideshow for the retards who still think people are going to be held accountable for what they imagined happened.
The Democrats on that committee are going along because they don’t give a shit about the Clintons, and they’re all about figuring out how to subvert Trump and restore normalcy.
If you want to know why the DOJ failed to carry out their duties, I’m struggling to think of better witnesses than a previous president and SOS who appeared to be quite chummy with the person a the center of the controversy. Perhaps they could establish a link between the suspect and the head of the executive branch and a cabinet secretary and the department’s unwillingness to pursue the matter with vigor.
One might even be led to believe that a president, while in office and after he left, could have exerted pressure, real or implied, to not investigate the matter as it would also embroil him in controversy. Ditto for his wife who was SOS after he left office but remained in close contact with the suspect.
They’re perfect witnesses to get to the bottom of the DOJ failures. And their unwillingness to comply with the completely bipartisan subpoena speaks volumes.
Try them and throw them in prison if they are found guilty. Of course they probably won’t be since there is no chance for justice in DC. But at least go through the motions of adhering to the rule of law in an equal and unbiased manner, even though your opponents abandoned that years before.
JI, I wish there was a societal consensus that targeting political enemies with criminal charges and civil actions was unacceptable, but it has become quite apparent that it is not. If the Dem base had revolted against the J6 prosecutions, the raid on Mar a Lago, the Trump cases, the Giuliani cases, etc. etc. over the last several years, that would be one thing (and a better thing). They did not. In fact they rewarded those who did these things (politicians ran on “getting Republicans by any means necessary”, and got elected).
Given that, I see no other way to bring this to heel than to make it universally applicable. I don’t like it, either. But what option is there at this point?
better witnesses
People with something to actually lose. People that can implicate others. There are loads of better witnesses, but the witless want their pound of flesh, their entertainment.
Even if Bill had something to say, he wouldn’t say it, and you’re nuts if you think otherwise.
juris:
If politics isn’t a game, than why are there teams?
But what option is there at this point?
I’m not sure, but there has to be something better than childish behavior, and devolving from say 10 year olds to 3 year olds as a path forward.
neph, may I quote WOPPR – strange game, the only winning move is to not play.
juris:
The problem is one team already decided to play, so the other team can either be destroyed, or fight back.
the only winning move is to not play.
That only works if the game ends by one player no longer playing. There’s no evidence Team Blue will quit, ever, until they are taken to task by the people they are playing it against on a persistent and grand scale.
neph and sloopy, while it is true that politics ain’t beanbag, it also is less than civil war. I hate proggies no less than you do, but I won’t emulate them – not for any reason.
I hate proggies no less than you do, but I won’t emulate them – not for any reason.
It’s not emulating them. It’s playing by the rules they’ve established.
If someone said to you “we are going to have a gunfight,” establishing the rules of combat, would you show up bare-handed and wonder why they shot you? Or would you show up armed with a gun after you implored them to fight with fists but they refused?
JI’s take on this is why strict libertarianism is a dead end. There is no recognition that others acting against you exist or that their actions will manifest your reality.
I don’t know how many hitmen have faith that these geriatrics have the influence to make it all go away anymore.
another suicide-murder
Some days I really feel like the Russian middle class boyars… holding to an ethical standard that obviously our “elites” gave up long ago… I mean — does everyone in positions of power in DC (and probably the rest of the country) just spend all their nights trying to get laid by blabbing all about their jobs and/or the stupid/unethical shit they do? It shouldn’t be this easy for the O’Keefe group.
Yeah, you would think that the agents would be trained to look out for the good old honeypot operation.
It is part of their mandatory web-based training.
Is this a perennial or annual?
Yes. That’s exactly what they do.
I too read the Washingtonienne back in the day.
If I go to the airport with just $10,000, some fucker would pull me to the side and confiscate it claiming that it was drug money. How the fuck does this happen?
Are you a white male?
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Green. I get treated the same way though.
Years of articles on people having life savings confiscated by cops at TOS. Do they have any comments in this?
You are not a member of the protected class. Rather, we are members of the “chump” class.
From what I’ve seen, they’re declaring the money and security is just waving them through. The problem people have is when they don’t declare the money and it’s discovered.
I could’ve sworn there was a limit to the amount of US currency you could take overseas, declared or not.
Wrong. You just fill out FinCEN Form 105 and you can take any amount.
So presumably there are Feds that review those forms, and should be asking questions. Someone needs to take a blowtorch into that bureaucracy.
Eliminate all those rules, especially FATCA. The idea that the government has a right to control, or even know, where you put your money is Monarchist bullshit.
“Who’s image is this?”
Look, the money is going to Somalia. It’s not like that country is a known haven of terrorists and pirates or anything….
Look at me! I am the Treasury Secretary now!
Racism.
It’s always racism.
The Zohran has a plan for that.
Narrator: You’re not going to like it.
Can’t find it now but saw something about he plans to strong-arm the banks into giving risky loans to his base, and how that can leak into national banking practices due to so much money being parked there.
So, like Clinton and home loans then?
And he wonders why housing is so fucked up…
Sounds like Pritzker’s bank.
em>Emmy winning actor Kiefer Sutherland was arrested early Monday morning after an altercation with a ride-share driver in the Hollywood area, the LAPD told NBC4 Investigates exclusively.
Q: Do you know who I am?
A: No, get the hell out of the car…
Do you know who I am?
If you don’t know you better have some ID on you.
I can argue with absolutely none of that and wish he’d stop trying to play Sole Overlord of the Economy already. Really bright when your opponents are calling you a fascist, too…. because pulling arbitrary powers over random companies out of your asscheeks certainly doesn’t look like government control of the economy or anything…. Still better than Word Salad Kamala… but damn man… stop embarrassing your supporters with this stupid shit.
Technically unconstitutional, but the ridiculously expansive reinterpretation of the commerce clause has made that a moot point.
It is bad enough as it is, there is no need to make it worse.
Here’s the laundry list of presidential diktats.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/in-pivot-on-affordability-trump-unveils-barrage-of-proposals-to-address-costs-961e4343?st=g9F8uQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe…. but since I don’t really want us to be the sole arbiter of who is morally worth killing / regime changing / whatnot — and since there are plenty of regimes we don’t fuck with that are more evil (*cough* CCP *cough*), I’ll stick to “Stay out of it, we shouldn’t be world police” as my default position. Sucks sometimes, I grant.
It does suck. Lots of good people are being murdered right now. Strategy wise I have wanted to see that evil fucker strung up for years. I know, not very libertarian of me. But I do.
I’m with you on this one. Let the Iranians deal with it. Or let the EU flex those muscles they have been bragging about lately.
In fact, if I were Trump, I’d publicly ask the Europeans to deal with it. Couch it as a way for them to show Russia they’re formidable. Basically the geopolitical equivalent of a double dog dare. If they’re too chicken to take the Iranian regime on, they look cowardly and we can just keep them in vassal status. If they try and fail, stay in vassal status and all their bluster ends. And if they actually pull it off, then maybe they’ll get some pride back and start actually defending themselves.
I disagree. There is nothing moral about a Lindsey Graham war boner.
Our CIA (and probably Mossad & MI6) turned the Iranian economic protests violent. Same methods they used in Ukraine in 2014. So now we need to bomb them after throwing the country into chaos?
“It’s my nature”.
With all sincerity:
How?
And how could you possibly know this?
Why would you assume otherwise? How many times have we done this shit?
Bibbi meets with Trump. A day later their currency tanks and violent riots break out across Iran. Now the neo-cons can talk of nothing except bombing them.
I would assume otherwise because I’ve worked for the CIA, and I come from a family of intelligence officers. I know firsthand how hamstrung the Agency is, politically and bureaucratically.
Knowing that, claims like ‘the CIA is behind the Iranian revolution’ need some evidence beyond, ‘the CIA is all-powerful and evil’.
I’d assume nothing, but I would notice that violent uprisings have been going on for a long time before the CIA was ever formed. I mean, you’re not claiming that the CIA put Khomeni in power, are you? Why would you think Iranians are less violent today than they were when you were a kid?
What’s funny to me ES is how the belief in the all powerful CIA matches up to the belief in the all powerful KGB back in the day (particularly wrt Bezmenov). All that is missing is the supernatural part.
A lot of what we thought we knew about Soviet intel services was badly wrong. They were both more and less competent and more and less ruthless than we thought.
An OTC example – it was generally believed (by the west) that western intel services were far, far ahead of the Soviets in the field of technical collections. We know now that the KGB had extremely high level technical capabilities, a product of being able to glean the absolute cream of the crop from Russian science and engineering colleges. The problem the KGB had was getting access to deploy those kind of collections. A good example would be the story of The Thing.
So the CIA wasn’t stirring up shit in Ukraine or infiltrating US presidential campaigns and trying to tip the outcome?
Some CIA employees were involved in trying to tip the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election. I doubt it was an actual CIA policy.
The Ukraine – eh. Maybe. It could have been some Operations guys feathering their nests, much like the whole ‘flying cocaine into Maxwell-Gunter AFB in the 80s and 90s.’
Isn’t that why we had USAID – to cover any CIA culpability?
…even though it’s probably the moral thing to do.
Really, why is there a moral obligation here that there wasn’t in Rwanda? You’re getting close to the Responsibility to Protect, and that is the hubris of those who think when they are in charge of govt, they are gods.
I never said it was a moral obligation. I just said that killing the heads of an evil regime who kills anybody who dissents is probably the moral thing to do.
Well, not as a Judeo-Christian value, but I get it. I think karma applies better.
What we did in Libya wasn’t moral. We tossed a relatively prosperous and stable country into chaos and civil war by eliminating the “head of an evil regime”.
Neo-cons are like bad criminals. They never ask “then what?”. They just do crazy shit then are surprised at the consequences.
Neo-cons are like
bad criminalsThe Joker“Do I look like a guy with a plan?”
And fuck the Congressional Republicans that want to put on a show trial with the Clintons. That ain’t even red meat, it’s rancid meat, for the base [in both senses].
Maybe it will distract them from extending the ACA subsidies?
I had a discussion with a lefty friend about that and his take was basically amusement that the right thinks anyone on the left actually cares about Bill Clinton at this point. What’s next? Dig up Jimmy and try his corpse over Iran or Panama? It’s government as infotainment.
The Clintons have outlived their usefulness to the cause. It took longer than Biden.
Oh the left would love if Bill and Hillary showed up and threw Trump under the Epstein bus.
Assuming it’s just the usual remittances? Their entire point of being here (and it’s not just Somalis but a lot of let’s say 3rd world guests) is to extract as much money as they can from the rest of us and ship it “home”.
Tip of the iceberg, indeed. Look at other countries, too, guys.
Most of those third world remittances are made at the local Western Union in small amounts. And while I agree that we should be looking at those, this is millions of dollars in suitcases being flown out of the country at one time. It hits a bit different, especially when people from that country have a stranglehold on child care, health care, and elder care operations that are being paid for with tax-funded programs.
I have no issue with the Mexican guy I pay to blacktop my driveway sending $1000 home to his relatives in Mexico. It’s his money and despite the economic illiteracy that has somehow sprung up on the right, dollars going to Mexico do not harm our economy. I have a massive issue with everything in the Somali story, they don’t belong here, they are not producing the money they are stealing it, and it is going to fund some really awful things and people. Leave Jose’s few dollars to his abuella alone, and shut down the actual problem by kicking the Somalis (and anyone else funding Islamic causes) the hell out.
Western Union gets pretty expensive at the huge amounts they’re shipping over. I have no doubt they’re saving money this way.
I thought the new rule was supposed to be “If you’re on welfare, you can’t send money home”. I would hope the Mexican guy laying asphalt isn’t cashing welfare checks, too, but if he is, I got no problem with telling him his abuela is on her own.
I’m amazed that they don’t just FedEx the cash. Or buy gold, and FedEx the gold.
Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, since it is contrary to everything involved in being a lawyer, but I am absolutely sick of the convoluted argument that the fix for one ridiculous, evil and destructive economic manipulation by the government is another ridiculous, evil and destructive manipulation. The solution to the government transfer payment issues, fraud, loose standards, or just the existence of welfare at all is to stop the transfer payments, not add regulations on where and when you can send money.
I get it but the reason we’re nibbling around the edges is because the root problems are not politically possible to fix.
This will last until the next visit to Yasukuni Shrine or somebody puts up another “comfort woman” statue.
The U.S.’s Two Foremost Asian Allies Are on Good Terms—an Irritant for China
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/the-u-s-s-two-foremost-asian-allies-are-on-good-termsan-irritant-for-china-71c7854e?st=1YHkCe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I wish the western press discussed more just how much the various Asian countries hate each other.
Why, nothing is more important in the world than us. You hate America, don’t you? Asking for unAmerican shit like nuance and perspective.
That’s literally a western outlet talking about it.
But yes, the US media focusing most of their energy on domestic issues sure is a head-scratcher. Although if you went overseas you’d find that their media largely focuses on their own internal issues as well. And when they’re not, they’re also focusing on…the US.
We’re the main player character, after all. There’s only so many stories you can write about NPCs and keep the interest of the reader.
I am talking about exactly that self-absorption and the average American’s ignorance and indifference to the rest of the world. The media just generally caters to that – because it is profitable to do so.
I am talking about exactly that self-absorption and the average American’s ignorance and indifference to the rest of the world.
Rolls eyes so hard it actually causes physical pain. God forbid people in a country should focus on what is actually impacting their daily lives rather than get all cultured about all the other countries in the world. “But Americans are dumb and unsophisticated, unlike other countries!” Nonsense. Spend some time actually living in another country and you’ll find that the average people from other countries and cultures are just as ignorant, if not more so, about goings on and cultures outside of their own. This old non-sense about Americans being uniquely ignorant and indifferent is just that – non-sense, no matter what sense of sophistication it brings to those who nonchalantly profess it.
PM straighten out your eyes before they get stuck like that! Maybe if America wasn’t asserting itself as World Police and all nations must bow to our will, then maybe it’s perfectly okay to ignore the rest of the world. It isn’t when we keep sticking our dick in every place that looks like a hornet’s nest.
My issue is Europe gets more US press even before the Russian war compared to Asia. Not so much events, but analysis.
It isn’t when we keep sticking our dick in every place that looks like a hornet’s nest.
Which has nothing to do with
I am talking about exactly that self-absorption and the average American’s ignorance and indifference to the rest of the world.
Unless the postulate is that, since our government – or “we” if you subscribe to the theory that government is the things we do together – does the first, we have a responsibility or duty as average Americans not to behave like every other people and culture in human history up through all the current peoples and cultures in the world vis-a-vis our self-absorption and indifference. Good luck with that.
Sorry, but it came across more as the usual elitist sneer of how unsophisticated the average American is. Which is fine as far as it goes, but the usual implication when singling out Americans is that this is not a universal trait and is used as a social signal of the speakers elite status.
It doesn’t take a ton of foreign travel to discover that the typical ‘ugly American’ stereotype is mostly bullshit.
EvilSheldon:
In the long ago, back before a passport was needed for Canada, a group of us use to go up about every 6 months (several of us were in that sweet 19-21 age group). We eventually got tipped off to the local bars and the like to avoid the tourists (in Toronto mainly). One of the times we were there, chatting up some ladies, and one of them said to me, “You can’t be American, you’re far to polite.”
I responded, “Socialized medicine is a terrible idea.”
She laughed and said, “Never mind, you’re an American.”
PM, it is our govt after all, so we own what it does. We could be happily ignorant about the rest of the world if we [that big collective we called Uncle Sam] would mind our own fucking business.
JI – With all due respect – the idea that any individual US citizen has an ownership or control stake in the US government is so mind-bogglingly stupid that I refuse to accept that you really believe it.
ES if I had said any specific individual you’d be absolutely right. Not sure how you could interpret it in that way though. Shall we blame God instead – it’s His creation and we’re just a bunch of ants.
Why blame God*, when it’s the government that’s culpable?
The point was, the government is separate and distinct from the people, individually and collectively. The government is its own organism.
* – I don’t believe in God, but that’s not really relevant.
Ha, yup
Everyone hates China and I bet a lot of them hate Japan too.
But they will all cheerfully buddy up with China to stick it to Japan.
Japan is basically the odd country out because of their imperialism in the first half of the 20th century.
+1 East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (minus Japan, plus China)
Belt-and-Road has the same essential goals as the Co-Prosperity sphere, just different tactics.
Either a culture is growing or dying. If it is growing, it is expanding. If it is dying, it will become a colony for someone else.
lol “Invisible Touch” is terrible but yes, there are many great greatest hits before that album.
You never listen to me.
Oops. I crossed into the other track with that one.
And a quality track it is!
“Big changes are coming to the snacks aisle. Companies from Campbell’s to PepsiCo are launching or expanding potato-chip lines made with avocado oil or olive oil instead of seed and corn oils.”
Wow. Deep fried high in fat chips, but with “healthy” oil! We are all going to be thin again!
How Grocery Aisles Are Changing in the Age of MAHA and Ozempic
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/how-grocery-aisles-are-changing-in-the-age-of-maha-and-ozempic-f1363374?st=TXx7FP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And coincidentally a big money-maker for them.
I can confirm with absolute certainty that this is absolutely NOT a money-maker – more a last-ditch effort.
Huh. Last-ditch effort to what? Is MAHA threatening some sort of bullshit authoritarianism?
Snack sales are in the toilet – this is an extremely expensive move to bolster.
I don’t get why they’d waste money like that. I still think they will charge a fat markup to make a profit.
But I don’t make the big-buck decisions so what do I know.
“the Secret Service agent repeatedly shared details with someone he believed was a casual romantic interest.”
The power of pussy.
The vaginal wrench can break free the rustiest of nuts.
Ouch!
Yeah, baby, that ain’t a torque wrench!
Ass Wednesday is up and running!
https://archive.is/S7Rx3
U.S. Evacuates Some Personnel From Qatar Air Base as Trump Weighs Iran Strike
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-evacuates-some-personnel-from-qatar-air-base-as-trump-weighs-iran-strike-662b1e8e?st=gX2WLi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh, good.
In the past Iran has declined military aid and alliance talks with China and Russia. That was dumb.
But it worked so well in Venezuela.
Geography is a thing. China and Russia can’t project power into the Caribbean. They certainly can across the Caspian Sea.
You really think Russia and/or China would try to intervene against US forces to try to save the mullahs?
I have doubts. Especially considering the ineffectiveness of their air defense systems.
If there was an alliance, yes.
You really think we could get a meaningful victory against Iran with China and Russia actively intervening?
The air defense story is nonsense.
I know the story we get here is that Iranian police killed a bunch of protesters for no reason. The reporting there is that 42 security personnel were killed by rioters. The truth – who knows?
But they will be operating off a very different set of “facts” than the western media propaganda watchers.
https://www.rt.com/news/630820-iran-mourning-deaths-riots-us-israel/
“NYC heiress’ cheating ex-hubby asked her to make a sandwich immediately after telling kids about divorce”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/nyc-heiress-cheating-ex-hubby-asked-her-to-make-a-sandwich-immediately-after-telling-kids-about-divorce-im-starving/
STIJLTH
Did he get the sandwich? Was it good? Don’t leave us hanging.
I read it. Sadly, no. Guy seems like a peach!
He probably got an arsenic sandwich.
“That was delicious dear, what did you call it?”
“A Sunny von Bulow, enjoy your nap”
“OnlyFans models arrested, kicked off American Airlines flight as they put on viral spectacle at Florida airport
“I’m getting kicked out because I did not sit in the right f–king seat,” yelled Blanchard, who was wearing a red track suit with the word “PSYCHO” written on the chest and back of her pants, according to video shared by Lantry and OnlyinDade.
Lantry, who wore a gray sweatshirt and black leggings, dropped to the floor to do a split, angering the officers who detained her.
“Sorry, I just had to do a little, a little yoga,” she giggled as she was picked off the floor.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/onlyfans-models-sania-blanchard-and-jordan-lantry-kicked-off-american-airlines-flight-at-miami-airport/
Deport them to Uganda.
Well, maybe you should have sat in the right fucking seat, dumbass.
To misquote Chris Rock…I don’t condone police brutality, but I do understand it.
Sitting in the right seat doesn’t generate clicks.
Both women returned to the airport the next day and boarded another American Airlines flight.
“@AmericanAir forgave us because we’re hot and know how to do the splits,” Lantry wrote on social media, according to the Toronto Sun.
AA, update your policies.
If the protesters leave them alone and act peaceably, they are at no risk whatsoever.
Other than unwarranted and unpunished assaults by the same FedGov that was at Jan 6 and everything else.
THAT WAS DIFFERENT!!!11!!!%#!!!
BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel
Oh, do I have questions.
Will the turn signals be subscription? Will it weigh less than 6,000 lbs? How big will the grill be? Will it have obligatory blue LED lighting everywhere so people will know you are being green? And how many screens? That’s the most important thing! Screen after screen after screen.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/bmws-first-electric-m-car-is-coming-in-2027-with-one-motor-per-wheel/
Will it cost less than $100k?
No
I blame the government.
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN
“Actress Sydney Sweeney beamed as she met with freed Israeli hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or after their release from Hamas captivity in Gaza.
The “Euphoria” star was pictured smiling, with her arms around Argamani and Or, who were both kidnapped by the terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, after the bloodthirsty militants stormed the Nova music festival they had been attending.
A heartwarming picture of the three together was shared by the nonprofit pro-Israel advocacy organization StandWithUs, with many taking to social media to applaud Sweeney and thank her.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/world-news/sydney-sweeney-beams-as-she-meets-oct-7-survivors-noa-argamani-and-avinatan-or/
Worst nazi ever.
Zionists are the semitic faces of Nazisim, or something.
Saw that and wondered how that came about.
But she does seem to be turning into “America’s sweetheart” or something. A refreshing change from the trashy ladies that have been pushed in the media the last couple decades.
“FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/woman-seen-on-video-allegedly-blocking-minnesota-ice-operation-with-car-as-agitators-surround-agents/
LOLOL
Well, impeding federal agents with a vehicle is a federal felony. It may be arguable whether it should be, but the officers are coloring well within the lines to drag people out of their cars and arrest them.
For that matter, all those people surrounding the ICE agents could be arrested as well, although I think it would be for a misdemeanor (as long as they were keeping their hands to themselves).
As someone who is essentially a minarchist, I think enforcing immigration laws is within the legitimate scope of government, and I think interfering with government agents acting within their legitimate scope should be illegal. Can those agents fuck up in a tense and, err, kinetic situation? You bet. Can the people taking issue with them also fuck up in a tense and kinetic situation? Yes, indeed they can. Consequences all around for those who do seems reasonable.
Guess we should be reminding these folks of which side of the Whiskey Rebellion they are on.
Trump is the first president to say in effect, “I’m sick of your shit.”
Any previous president would have given up and left sanctuary cities to continue ignoring federal law by now.
One of the problems, for the protesters, is that if the gov’t agent fucks up in a, as you put it, kinetic action, they are still dead.
Physics, the true law of the land.
A lefty friend of mine on FB posted something about “When the ice melts the truth will finally be revealed”. These people live in a fantasy world.
“Top OnlyFans stars are moaning over a Florida gubernatorial candidate’s vow to slap their earnings with a whopping 50% “Sin Tax” in an effort to “disincentivize and deter” the porn biz.
Republican hopeful James Fishback’s eyebrow-raising proposal is targeted at both the OnlyFans creators and the “sick men online” who buy their shapely wares, he told NXR Studios Monday.
“I don’t want young women who could otherwise be mothers raising families, rearing children – I don’t want them to be selling their bodies to sick men online. And I don’t want young, impressionable men who are straight from Christ…to be told and drawn into lust, and have their entire brain rewired,” said Fishback, 31, a political newcomer and investment company CEO who previously hosted free-speech debate tournaments in Florida.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/onlyfans-stars-moan-about-proposed-50-florida-sin-tax/
Socons gonna socon.
In PA news, Doug Mastriano, decided against running for
governorpreacher.He’ll probably try to take on Fetterman for Senator. And will lose badly.
I would vote for Fetterman over Mastriano. They have to have someone else.
“If the protesters leave them alone and act peaceably, they are at no risk whatsoever.”
I’ve mentioned my friend in Border Patrol. He recently had knee surgery, and just tweaked that knee again. He’s mostly disappointed that he had a chance to go to Minnesota or Chicago to work with ICE and he couldn’t. So if anyone tells you there is a morale issue, there’s not.
“This is one hell of a dilemma.”
I doubt they’d do anything without a carrier group. There hasn’t been one in the area since Nimitz left months ago. But USS Abraham Lincoln is in the South China Sea, and I would not be surprised if it was already on the way.
“Why was this never reported before?”
How do they know how much money it was? Some people get their cash confiscated, and others just get their money counted and then they’re waved through? WTF?
“This is underrated.”
I don’t think I’ve owned a Genesis or Phil Collins album. But there’s a Phil Collins station on Pandora and I love it.
The rule may be “if you declare it, you’re cool”, but why that doesn’t trigger the same scrutiny of cash activities that is applied otherwise remains a mystery.
For a second there I thought you were talking about liking Phil Collins…
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-kills-the-hornet-its-second-best-selling-vehicle-but-its-ok-because-you-forgot-dodge-still-made-a-hornet/
The Hornet is dead.
Stellantis has quite a hole to pull itself out of.
I have no idea how well their European brands are doing, but my WAG is – not well.
Banking on $102k pick ups seems like a bad idea.
That being said, I’m still an advocate of the current gen Compass.
Fiat is doing terrible. Stellantis killed it.
Sean – let’s not forget special edition Wranglers in Skittle colors.
RJ – I meant more on the European and global side.
That’s what I answered you. Fiat is doing terrible globally.
And Acura is —-ed too!
Luxury CUV is a sweet spot. They claim it’s supplier caused.
The Acura RDX Is Pausing Production With a Next-Gen Hybrid Years Away
https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-acura-rdx-is-pausing-production-with-a-next-gen-hybrid-years-away
Nah… CV-12 is still worth a visit.
Good morning everyone.
I’ve decided that the most annoying thing in the world, is the habit of ‘pretending not to understand something because you don’t want to deal with it.’
I may be more annoyed than usual. Or maybe it’s the fasting.
Sorry…. I don’t really understand what you mean by that ES…
/waits 7 days
/sends an e-mail Friday afternoon asking for all the details that were already in the ticket
/closes ticket Monday morning for a lack of response
Neph has gotten ahold of our IT department’s training manuals apparently…
Perhaps twenty years of having to explain things in a professional capacity is starting to wear on my soul. If I had a soul.
our IT department
Industry standard.
What’s a woman?
A social leppo?
I’m sure I’m a horrible person for saying this, but yeah. I see this trait almost exclusively among women.
EvilSheldon:
In my experience, I see it with H1-B workers as well. The difference is the H1-B workers will argue even after you explain it three times.
Neph – I wonder if that’s not more real failure to understand (caused by lack of prerequisite knowledge and a history of cheating)?
ES:
Oh, I fully believe they fail to understand. As many who have worked in IT for a long time, I have opinions that are not safe for sharing in public around it.
ES: Lack of English?
Speaking English would absolutely be a prerequisite knowledge, just like it is for piloting a commercial airliner.
A. I’ve always hated Phil Collins’s voice, but it’s not as intolerable to me now as it used to be. After watching a bunch of Rick Beato et al vids, and after trying to find good new music, I can better appreciate Genesis.
B. Karen Carpenter’s is still the most perfect voice that ever was and ever will be.
C. That guy who came after me unprovoked on Twitter called me a libtard (and then followed me, like, whu?). I said if I’m a libtard, he just shoved the Overton window so far right it needs to be called the Goldwater window.
D. So, an interesting thing happened here. In one of those mini McMansion neighborhoods, a dude killed his across-the-street neighbor during an argument. WELL. Turns out this dude has been terrorizing the neighborhood for 30 years. There’ve been numerous calls about him. The victim’s family had a restraining order on him since NOVEMBER. The particular complaint this time was that the neighbor was throwing shit on the victim’s lawn, got called on it, and got decked, then started shooting. Eight shots, most after he was already dead on the ground. Now, it’s not QUITE what I predicted, but neighbors can be long-term pests in other ways, too. It’s like, why could nothing be done about this guy before he decided it was time to start shooting? Because he hadn’t done much truly actionable. Everybody knows it’s coming, like a storm front, but nobody can do anything about it until after it blows the town off the map.
“Court docs said Wells’ wife had a no-contact order for King that had originated from past incidents. Galetti said he had noticed the confrontations between the two men.”
Wife only from my skim. I was going to make the usual joke about how effective restraining orders usually are.
Yeah, I know it was only the wife, but she lives in the same house as the husband, so it covers him as long as he’s where she is.
But yes, Earl walked right through that restraining order, and we know what happened to him.
“Protective order issued by Smith & Wesson.”
D.) Was the shooter the one who had been terrorizing the neighborhood? Or the shoot-ee?
Shooter was the one who was terrorizing the neighborhood.
Situations where everyone could see it coming (in hindsight) stink. The obverse, though, is worse.
Being able to lock up people for things they haven’t done yet is very not good. And I’d guess it would be far more frequently abused than the current scenario where you have to wait for them to do something first.
Agree, which is where I think the neighborhood could have been more proactive in saying, “Look, pal, much more of this and you’re going to be on the receiving end of a little extrajudicial voodoo.”
Not death, but make his life miserable.
Mo,
I’d also suspect that an old time small town cop would have been a good thing. They’d have been able to stop by and explain to the asshole that he is tired of getting calls about him.
One of the few times that body cams footage should be deleted.
Annie Haslam begs to differ.
The Legendary Pâté of Milan’s Oldest Gastronomic Shop | Peck 1883
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFV_Vviuck
“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s campaign to punish Sen. Mark Kelly—a retired Navy captain—for urging members of the armed forces to disobey unlawful orders, is even more outlandish, and legally baseless, than it seems at first glance.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/pete-hegseth-mark-kelly-military-law-court-martial.html
Mark Kelly looks like Jim Norton worked for the government.
Yeah, for some reason guys (and gals) advocating for weaker civilian control of the military are heroes to those who want to “defend our democracy” and “support the Constitution.”
In honor of Scott Adams, I’m starting my own podcast, Kevin’s Koffee Korner. The first episode will address the accusations of Scott being racist.
I started reading “God’s Debris.” It’s a thought experiment, which I like. Alas, my attention span is shit.
Looks like my joke fell flat.
I’ve read How to Fail at Everything, Loserthink, and Reframe Your Brain. I want to get the rest of them. I thought he mentioned a biography, so I’d expect that to be announced soon.
I was actually kinda hoping that you were starting a podcast…
Are they any good? I’d thought of Reframe Your Brain.
I had thought about a podcast, but a) what would I talk about all that time, b) what would set me apart from the thousands of others out there, and c) who would want to listen to me?
Loserthink was just ok, but the other two were really good. My wife read How to Fail at Everything and she loved it.
Joke?
What a tease.
TOK,
I am picking up what you’re laying down.
My old, fat guy’s basketball league is called the VBA (Van Cleve Basketball Association)* because we started playing at the gym in Van Cleve park. We moved to a different gym in Logan park years ago and I threatened to change our name to LGBA (Logan’s Gentlemen’s Basketball Association).
The troglodytes I played with were not amused at the proposal.
* A daughter of one of the players thought VBA = Very Bad Athletes and that has become the new meaning of the acronym because of its truthfulness.
In San Diego there is the Old Mission Bay Athletic Club, OMBAC, which for the Over The Line event is usually rendered as Old Men Behaving As Children.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Whoops!
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-gelsenkirchen-bank-thieves-used-manipulated-door/a-75489784
Wow
“n the early days of the first Trump administration, the “resistance” took on feminine identity that, as the years went by, became seen as increasingly uncool and embarrassing. The one thing that centrists, MAGA types and wannabe hipster leftists could agree on was that they hated the middle-aged wine moms in pink knitted pussy hats, with their earnest fears about the collapse of democracy, who watched MSNBC. This loathing of normie liberals was always rooted in misogyny, even when coming from other women, who were usually pulling a “I’m sexy and cool, not like those cat sweater ladies” move, but making it political. And it came at the high cost of signaling to ordinary people that they’re being “hysterical” if they think either that Trump is a serious threat or that it’s important to put up a real resistance to Trumpism.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/14/resistance-moms-will-save-us/
There are no women on the right.
Much as there are no pro-life women, all women march in lock-step for choice. Talk about erasure.
That’s so funny. Yesterday I listened to an interview with Adam Corolla, He was talking about why NOTHING has been rebuilt in California after last year’s fire. He blamed women/moms being in power, who tend to have the mindset of “safety above everything”. That’s why there are so many onerous regulations and delays. Same think with COVID, it was “moms” leading the charge to shut down society.
middle-aged wine moms in pink knitted pussy hats, with their earnest fears about the collapse of democracy, who watched MSNBC. This loathing of normie liberals
It’s not normal to wear a vagina hat.
Or to block ICE agents, or scream at people, or make unhinged TikTok videos.
Remember this is Amanda’s definition of normal, not normal normal.
People are realizing that the only heroes coming to save us are us: regular folks in their leggings and puffer jackets, armed only with iPhones and understanding that we are Americans, and we do not put up with this.
My eyes have never rolled harder.
What are the odds that 2 days ago King Walz would have lauded Joe Thompson?
Before you calculate them, remember that King Walz was calling for Thompson’s head just a week ago.
And nobody in state’s MSM will bring this up, right?
I know how it works in NJ…
We have always been at war with East Asia!
The first episode will address the accusations of Scott being racist.
Catbert was Hitler. Everybody knows that.
Well yeah, that’s the head of HR’s role, isn’t it?
That the CCP is letting this happen again is a bit interesting.
China’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ Thinks Time Is on His Side
He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for researchers who push boundaries.
https://archive.fo/iWlQz
I guess Yao Ming was the outlier and the rest of that series didn’t work?
Yao stretched the gene editing as far as it could go. I doubt the researchers will ever attain such great heights.
Hey! I read that series!
And honestly, I liked it a lot more than the Speaker for the Dead series.
The root cause of the ICE shooting of the Minnesoda Mom has been discovered!
Poor MN Poet probably thought she was being robbed when she floored her Honda pilot because the ICE jackboot didn’t have the proper lights on their vehicle.
Climate change?
“Democratic representative Robin Kelly on Wednesday plans to formally introduce articles of impeachment against Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, following the fatal shooting of a US citizen by an immigration agent in Minneapolis last week….
Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, will be joined by Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Maxine Dexter of Oregon – progressive representatives from states where federal agents have shot residents in recent days – in filing three articles of impeachment against Noem.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/kristi-noem-articles-of-impeachment
Why hasn’t anything happened to Omar regarding marrying her brother and immigration fraud?
I’d speculate that they have a dog’s chance of getting Noem fired.
I was just trying to explain to Mrs. Holiness why Ilhan will never face justice for all the crooked shit she has done yesterday. I don’t think I succeeded in explaining that Omar is bulletproof and any attempt to prosecute her just makes her more invulnerable.
Mrs. Holiness sniffed and said that in Korea she’d be getting the death penalty like their corrupt presidents.
No wonder you love that woman – she has quite the sense of justice.
I learned something new the other day. The reason all this is happening in blue states and cities is that the local police and courts aren’t cooperating with ICE. It’s much safter to have the local PD call ICE when they pick up an illegal, or let ICE arrest someone in a courthouse. Like they’ve been doing for DECADES. But since those are being blocked, they have to resort to raids. Maybe this was obvious to the rest of you, but I hadn’t thought of it that way.
This is the core of the issue. Blue states/cities are purposefully withholding illegals from being taken in jail where it’s safer for literally everyone, so the feds have to resort to street raids.
I’ve got it. If Greenland is ours, the entire Artic and North Atlantic are U S territorial waters, and we can kick the Chinese and the Russians out.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
Genius – With Greenland ours, Trump renames the North Atlantic as the Trump Sea and NATO is thereby dissolved!
North American Trump Organization
Still works, so no reason to get out.
He faced an immediate backlash, with polls suggesting support for digital ID plummeted after Starmer backed the idea.
I can’t understand why.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-digital-id-cards-retreat-starmer-immigration-6fad47dc1e4e0de79606e6ac4c73046e
I had thought about a podcast, but a) what would I talk about all that time, b) what would set me apart from the thousands of others out there, and c) who would want to listen to me?
You invite women onto your podcast. Get them talking about themselves. As they talk, you paint their portrait, naked (them, not you). It’ll be a hit.
You never see the real woman, the camera is pointed at the canvas over my shoulder. Since it’s art, it shouldn’t violate any terms of use. This is the most brilliant idea since Naked News.
TOK is a day late and a dollar short with that idea
Check back with us after you discuss it with your wife!
New York Times:
‘We’re Not Stupid’: Greenlanders Fear What a U.S. Takeover Would Mean
What lurid fantasies lie within?
If they’re not stupid, why are they living on a glacier eating fermented shark?
And we’re done here.
You down with I.U.D.? (Yeah, you know me)
Who’s down with I.U.D.? (Every last homie)
You down with I.U.D.? (Yeah, you know me)
Who’s down with I.U.D.? (All the homies)
It would mean big, overengineered and over-regulated cars for one. They might be dealing with that already though.
Maybe they don’t want to become a target for a Russian nuclear missile sub?
Such heroic
Tens of thousands of dollars have been raised for an autoworker at a Ford plant in Michigan who was suspended without pay after heckling Donald Trump.
TJ Sabula is said to have called the president a “pedophile protector” as he toured the automotive giant’s River Rouge complex on Tuesday.
Trump then appeared to give Sabula the middle finger, according to a video published by celebrity news and gossip site TMZ, which claimed that Trump also yelled obscenities prior to making the gesture.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Sabula said “as far as calling him out” he had “definitely no regrets whatsoever”. But he said he was concerned about his job security after the incident, claiming he had been “targeted for political retribution” and for “embarrassing Trump in front of his friends”.
Trump should have grabbed a pistol from one of his Secret Service guys and shot him in the face, like a real despotic dictator.
He should have worn a Trump mask like a rodeo clown would.
Trump should have invited him to come to D.C. and pour through the 5 million documents, challenging him to find something damaging that the Biden DOJ never found.
Surely you know subpoenaing such people is totally evil.
Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson would have just beat the dude with his cane.
A GoFundMe was created on his behalf to help cover lost income from the suspension. As of Wednesday morning, it had raised more than $70,000, with purported donors including the band the Dropkick Murphys.
“TJ is a father of two young children, husband, and is a proud United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 600 line worker. Funds donated will support TJ and his family to cover expenses during this time of uncertainty,” the GoFundMe campaign states.
Put him in a suit and run him for Senator.
*Dropkick Murphys *spits* what a bunch of pussies
The Dropkicks have been drifting more and more left wing, and further away from their working class roots for years now.
They still probably believe that the Democrats are the party of the working class.
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2011103313299980307
Trump ending Temporary Protested Status for all Somalis as of March.
So now they’re permanently protested?
Shit.
The White House communications director, Steven Cheung, didn’t confirm whether Trump flashed his middle finger, but argued in a statement to the Guardian that the president had given an “appropriate and unambiguous response” when “a lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage”.
At least Trump didn’t pretend not to hear and skulk off.
Maybe they don’t want to become a target for a Russian nuclear missile sub?
Maybe Russian submariners are good tippers when they’re on shore leave.
Just the tippers?