Our Gulchers held a meeting this week of the “downtown” business owners to discuss a variety of issues, mostly about “what can the village/town/county/state do for us?” a fair and useful question. For once, I was not the only one in the room who thought, “Hey, how about getting off our backs?” People who are normally lunatics about economics were griping about the need for less regulation. The fun thing was the visuals: our downtown merchants are… eclectic, in a “what was edgy 6 years ago in NYC?” sort of mode. Looking up and down the long table, I couldn’t help but think of the bar-room scene in Star Wars.
I’m also thinking that two more of these meetings and I can ask the big question: “What benefit do you get from being in this incorporated village? Is it worth asking if the village should be dissolved?” I know the answer that most people here would give and it’s cray-cray. Wait, Prime often gently pushes me to be more kind in my language, so not “cray-cray,” but rather, “…seeming at its surface to have their decisions based on emotional aspects rather than coldly rational ones.”
Speaking of emotional, today is the birthday of a guy for rent; an actually interesting lawyer; a guy who we could judge; one of many strong arguments for term limits; a guy who was almost a parody of Ivy League political “scientists”; yet another actor who thinks his political opinions matter; a Canadian dude with undersized kids; and some dude with a big head.
Links will make any big head smaller.
Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour.
“It didn’t work out with Trump, but maybe it will with President AOC.”
I disagree with much of this, but it’s fundamentally correct that the Swamp is everlasting.
Thirty years and a bad boob job too late…
The perpetually outraged are outraged. Send them some blankets to cry in.
Local news and a preview of why WebDom, 10b0t, and I have been stocking up on corn dogs.
Yet more of the Old Guy’s guilty pleasure: bluegrass and country genre-bending covers. And The Cleverlys are pretty much the best at it.
lol That is exactly what growing up in Rochester was like.
Weird times. Trump says crazy stuff, which might just be market manipulation. Then we have to wait for Iran to tell us if he’s bullshitting.
It’s simple if you think about it – there is no unitary authority that is “Iran” anymore. That got blown up. There are multiple factions each peddling what flavor of lies they think will serve their own interests the most.
Which one is sending him 10 oil tankers?
Bullshit artist bullshits.
More at 11.
Bullshit artist bullshits.
Trump? The Iranians? Embrace the power of “and”?
There never was a unitary authority in Iran. Unless you were foolish enough to believe what was peddled on CiaNN, MiSixNBC, etc.
The factions are the same, only the narrative has changed.
I don’t know that I would take a random Iranian regime survivor’s word as the benchmark for what’s really going on.
I kinda like the theory that Trump posts this stuff to get them to turn on each other.
The President is alive and the Speaker of the Parliament met with Vance.
Neither the president of Iran, nor its legislature ever held any power. They were figureheads.
You’d have to be nuts to expect the truth to come out of a contest between two liars.
Yes. I’d love to know what’s really going on. Is peace breaking out? Are we starting WWIII?
No, and No.
It’s an analog setting.
Fighting will continue until the IRGC is annihilated, because they know they will lose any peace, and have no reason to stop killing.
On the other end, there’s no reason for additional powers to join the IRGC side, so the maximum escalation is limited to Persia.
JI and Drake, I detect insufficient levels of plantrustmaxxing. Report for reeducation.
plantrustmaxxing
Sorry DEG I don’t speak retard.
Sorry DEG I don’t speak retard.
Definitely needs reeducation. Watch that one.
whaddup doh’
L’chaim !
Silly old Man, there is no such thing as unincorporated land in New York. The metastization is complete.
Yeah, it’ll become part of the surrounding town.
I don’t know the legal difference between what towns do and what villages do in New York.
I think the main difference is the cops would be townies going forward. Maybe some infrastructure would be the responsibility of the town.
I had heard that about Massachusetts years ago, but it’s certainly a bigger “accomplishment” in NY, given the comparatively vast expanse.
I don’t suppose one could convince the local leaders that unincorporation would be edgy? Somehow invoke “corporate greed”?
Villages dissolve fairly often here. Especially with large-scale depopulation going on upstate. There are one or two former villages in my county.
Sorry I’m not going to be around much in this thread.
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2045479695685157331
::resists urge to link “Climb Every Mountain”::
Save your breath for the climb.
Looks fun!
I need to get myself out on the trails again.
We have a number of those for rent in Washington. It’s a great little way to spend an evening or two if you can procure a reservation.
Anyone who dislikes the Redskins logo should offer to buy the franchise and change it.
“Progress Pride”…? OK then.
Holy shit that tranny flag is ridiculous – I had not seen what they are actually doing at that shop. That is like Dear Leader levels of creepy obeisance. Guess we know who holds all the power there.
The flag in the picture is the “Progress Pride” flag. If I remember, that added trans (even though a regular rainbow flag was LGBT) and black and brown because BLM, around 2019? Now there is an “Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag” which is even worse.
‘Progressive Pride’.
Is that the one with a circle in the triangle on the left?
I wonder if any of these narcissists asked any actual intersex people if they wanted to be lumped in with trannies and all the other letters of the alphabet due to their completely unrelated condition.
I’m sure they never asked any actual intersex people anything, because they are so vanishingly rare they probably couldn’t find any. If they even bothered to look.
Yes, the “Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag” is the one with the circle.
I don’t wonder. No one asked Hispanics about Latinx, Natives about the Washington Redskins, or actual transsexuals about kids.
Around 1 in 5,000 are intersex, which is more common than transgender was before the political push.
Intersex is closer to 1:250,000 live births.
Anyway that business owner fucked himself by allowing/encouraging that shit in the first place. He could have anticipated that painfully woke displays of fealty to a small slice of humanity are maybe not the best idea in the long run, but no.
No sympathy from me.
Note where Emeryville is. So of course you know who holds the power, Comrade.
I love how Yahoo! couldn’t even summon the courage to furnish the bad old name. I was left to guess that the previous name might have been Spearchuckers?
Of course, the spear used in the logo is more advanced than anything used by the Native Americans.
Look, the Point is, Native Americans got the Shaft.
Hush yo mouth!
Well that is not very inclusive of them. What do they have against Alfred’s trans kids??
“I disagree with much of this, but it’s fundamentally correct that the Swamp is everlasting.”
I agreed with most of it, although the situation is way more complicated than even the length of a Tablet article can cover.
Damn, now that’s a knife in the back of the Obama legacy.
“I’ve spent my entire career working in Hollywood, where other people controlled the narrative and the outcome of my career. This new chapter is about changing that, showing off a more sexy side no one has seen, and being closer to my fans,” Elizabeth tells PEOPLE on why she decided to join the provocative social media platform.
That’s a lot of words to say, “I want attention.”
It is a lot of words to say “things didn’t work out like I planned.”
“Scott Wiener, a state senator, whose district includes San Francisco, had also slammed the decision on social media”
If Scott Weiner is for it, I’m against it.
“Me me me!”
My god, I can’t imagine the hellscape of living in a fascist city that does not constantly celebrate me everywhere I go.
Sorry, rhy, your gayness is cancelled out by your white-male-ness.
We are to be vilified, never celebrated.
a fascist city that does not constantly celebrate me
That ass ain’t gonna kiss itself!
G has already been bumped out of first place by L. And in Canada it’s even further behind with the introduction of MM. Maybe the letters need to be rotated on a set schedule for equity’s sake.
That’s an excellent rule of thumb.
“Emma wasn’t.”
That’s no Lobster Girl!
“The crustacean was taken from the fishmonger that supplies Catch at the Old Fish Market, where it was housed in a tank used to educate visiting children, by Emma Smart, a marine biologist.”
That’s some blatant incompetence.
““I don’t know enough about animals, but the other crayfish died relatively soon after — I don’t know if the loss of its mate had an impact on that,” he added.”
Sad.
To me this village is absolutely worth keeping. I have met many friends here, and may meet many more in the future.
I’d out more of my heart and soul into it if I had the time.
So pretend that the village is still standing (we’re not expelled nor are the buildings razed), but your properly taxes are now $4000 lower. Still against dissolving it?
I do not believe your taxes will go down, whichever group takes over will demand the same payments.
UCS:
I bet the new warlord of the joint would be the bakery. They’d take over and start collecting the taxes.
And once you pay the Danish geld …
I am deeply familiar with the numbers. Our taxes in the (former) village would immensely decrease. Now the taxes on the rest of the town will increase, but it’s amortized over a larger population and land base (e.g., the Village has 92% of the land tax-exempt, this translates to about 10% tax exempt over the town).
If it ends up saving money and eliminating government employees and their fiefdom I’m always for it.
And since it’s still part of the county you’re still paying for the sheriffs department and they’ll show up to issue your divorce papers.
Trump’s war/peace stories are getting tiresome. Wishes and bullshit make for a helluva foreign policy. Pro wrestling is more believable.
At least Gov Walz has gone undercover and became invisible. Minnesoda is nicer again.
Pro wrestling is more believable.
It’s all part of the plan. He learned how to play the game in pro-wrestling and with all his real estate deals. He’s the master!
Oh fuck. I can’t keep playing the part of a plan-trusting Trump supporter anymore.
“Ultra-woke New York University students stripped to their skivvies and protested their own school’s over-priced merch in a bizarre bid to call attention to worker’s rights….
Bearing signs reading “STOP SECRET SWEATSHOPS” and “DISCLOSE THE CLOTHES,” members of the group Students of International Labor Solidarity were trying to combat what they claimed were inhumane working conditions supported by the university.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/ultra-woke-nyu-students-strip-to-their-skivvies-to-protest-school-merch-they-claim-is-made-with-sweatshop-labor/
Retarded but not entirely unattractive.
“Retarded but not entirely unattractive”
That’s what she said. At least the first part.
Yeesh. Talk about your low-T soy-boys.
Look, practicing international communism doesn’t leave a lot of time for squats.
My incomplete understanding of Vietnams economic growth over the last thirty years or so is that they are one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
Millions of Vietnamese lifted out of grinding poverty.
And these wokies are protesting? They can all fuck right off.
This. Are they still officially commie??
Last I read, yes. They have embraced the capitalisms, which is why they have become more prosperous, but commies still run the gov’t.
Commies run our government too.
Vietnam is more free than we are.
Capitalism won the Vietnam war and the U.S. lost it.
This looks promising:
Godzilla Minus Zero Teaser
It does! I really enjoyed the first one.
I loved the first movie.
The number of successful sequels is vanishingly small.
I hope the follow up is good, but who knows.
Meanwhile, the Street Fighter trailer is more animated than the animated version of the movie they released. It would be an awesome game trailer, too bad it’s for a movie.
When do we get sequels in the complex number space?
So last night I had zero audio on links to X videos.
This video linked from here to YouTube also has no audio.
What the heck?
“Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla, which set sail from Barcelona Sunday for another anti-Israel voyage to Gaza, has been rocked by scandal after one of its woke leaders was accused of “sexual misconduct” with at least three volunteers.
“A senior leader within the flotilla — a member of the steering committee, the highest governing body of the organization — engaged in sexual relations with multiple activists while on the boat heading to Gaza. Not one person. Not two. Three different individuals,” claimed Palestinian group Heart of Falastin in a social media post earlier this week.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/world-news/greta-thunbergs-freedom-flotilla-rocked-by-sexual-misconduct-allegations/
The Love Boat promises something for everyone.
“That tumultuous trip also saw her vessel’s radio hacked to pump songs from the Swedish pop group ABBA on full blast in a clear troll at Thunberg.”
LOLOLOLOLOL
Between the ABBA soundtrack, the Mediterranean setting, and the love quadrangles, maybe they’re just cosplaying Mama Mia.
engaged in sexual relations
Holy non-monogamy!!! This isn’t even a complaint about abuse, but just general sluttiness?
I cannot wait to hear that Greta is a sex freak.
R.J.:
I don’t want to yuck your yum… but I’ll leave that for you and the Old Man.
Don’t leave SugarFree out of this!
I shudder to think at what’s on offer there. 🤢
Nothing I want.
If the proggies keep calling proggie dudes out for banging proggie chicks they are going to find themselves lacking dudes rapidly.
Cesar Chavez is disappointed by the low numbers.
Isn’t that why one gets involved in these protests to begin with? Access to easy chicks.
” Access to easy chicks”
Damn, big disappointment after I joined 4H.
“Artificial intelligence has officially infiltrated the battlefield – and it’s getting weird, wild and petty.
Welcome to the era of ‘slopaganda’ – a cheeky blending of ‘sloppy’ and ‘propaganda’ – where hyper-realistic AI content is deployed as a weapon of mass digital distraction.
Amid exploding tensions and a raging conflict in the Middle East, Iran has shockingly out-maneuvered America on the digital front lines, unleashing a barrage of highly-produced, satirical AI images and videos explicitly targeting President Donald Trump.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15742469/Irans-wild-meme-war-envy-US-influencers.html
meh
Speaking of memes.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/04/the-week-in-pictures-swalwell-meets-the-pope-edition.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-16-at-7.30.55-PM.png
Who is woman in pink jacket?
Error 1011
We’ll never know.
loads for me
Erika Kirk? Dunno, I don’t keep up with the various Tard Wars.
May the farce be with you?
Copy/paste the link into the browser and it works OK.
Hotlinking from the page fails.
Something powerline tries to discourage I think.
I agree with Slumbrew. I think it is Erica Kirk.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/s/ve7XGeswGz
TIL about corn smut.
From the archive of one of my favorite sites:
https://thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it-vol-7/#title
I’m pretty sure I’ve had huitlacoche at least once.
Misthread, aimed at Sean.
Out and about… apparently today one of the Progressive High Holy Days is being celebrated. 🌍🌲🌱
I thought that was 4/20.
Monday all the celebrants will be nursing hangovers in class.
Record Store Day?
Rudy’s Strudel Day?
I was strong and walked away with only a half strip of strudel (they aren’t my favorite, and don’t even do cheese and fruit strudels), a babka, a loaf of bread, and a pepperoni roll.
Did they have the chocolate babka?
Or did you get the cinnamon?
ZWAK:
The chocolate babka of course!
“Her experience is far from unusual among female politicians. The feminist collective Pollicy documents threats, intimidation and harassment against female candidates in the runup to Kenya’s 2022 elections. On Facebook, it found, 56% of female candidates experienced some form of online violence, compared with 35% of male candidates.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/18/online-abuse-women-democracy-laws
WTF is online violence?
Disagreeing with them.
“According to a study by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, 38% of women globally have reported experiencing technology-facilitated gender-based violence, or TFGBV, while 85% have experienced or witnessed it.”
What about TFGBV+?
Tankie Females Get Bad Vag (with extras)?
technology-facilitated gender-based violence
Unsolicited dick pic?
Same thing as “hate speech”
It does not exist.
Not cray-cray. Retarded.
Just like Dachau
The number of immigrants who have died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached an all-time high this fiscal year.
Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government’s fiscal year, already surpassing 2004’s toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data.
Wholesale slaughter of innocents.
“Fiscal year” is a tell.
Tell me more, NPR!
Oh wait a minute… fuck off.
Holy non-monogamy!!! This isn’t even a complaint about abuse, but just general sluttiness?
Everybody knows those women are incapable of consent. All heterosexual sex is rape.
TW:TOS
“”In 1553, the Venetian rector Cattarino Zen observed that in Gardone (among other places) ‘everyone carries an arquebus and…they’re not content with one, but even the women carry two, one in their hand and the other in their belt, both wheellocks, and they’re a bad breed, untameable overbearing Lutherans.””
https://reason.com/2026/04/17/the-gun-debate-hasnt-changed-in-500-years/
LOL
For medicinal purposes only
Trump officials said the medical research into ibogaine is in an early phase, but the administration wants to help determine whether it’s “snake oil” or a legitimate treatment, one official said.
As a Schedule I substance, ibogaine is currently grouped by the Drug Enforcement Administration alongside heroin, ecstasy and other drugs that have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”
It was unclear how the federal government would help facilitate further research — strategies were still being hammered out in internal discussions this week.
First they have to figure out a way for Pfizer to patent it.
Calling all Glib gamers. I need playtesters, critics and genuine feedback. Hit me up at username @ evil corp.com to help out
Oh its an exe but trust me, im not passin viruses around.
Try harder, Fed.
😎
“An undercover investigation has uncovered a network of legal advisers and middlemen charging illegal migrants thousands of pounds to fabricate claims of being gay in order to secure asylum in the UK.
The BBC investigation found migrants whose visas were due to expire were being coached to invent stories, gather fake evidence and pose as members of the LGBT community to avoid deportation.
Advisers offered “packages” including staged photographs, fabricated letters and even fake medical reports to strengthen claims….
At a meeting of an LGBT asylum support group in east London, attendees openly admitted many claims were fraudulent.
“Most of the people here are not gays,” one man said.
Another added: “Nobody is a gay here. Not even 1% are gay. Not even 0.01% are gay.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/bbc-investigation-exposes-muslim-migrants-britain-coached-fake/
So even less gay than average?
Deeply hilarious.
Why are you gay?
They should have to prove it to some BBC executives.
I forgot who linked to Angine de Poitrine on here (thanks, I like them), but their commie fans are sure annoying.
Story about UBI that includes AdP as an example (except they didn’t get UBI. Don’t ask, it doesn’t make sense to me either). Commie writer assures us that UBI will pay for itself several times over.
Except every example the writer uses does not include UBI. Really is a tour de force in nonsensical writing.
Forgot the quote:
essentially a mathematical proof
Without looking, I’m going to say it is no way a mathematical proof.
get a shot at mastery that their talent deserves
Oh fuck right off with that. Deserves ain’t got nuthin’ to do with it. Especially lumping in Einstein with some artists.
That’s some high brow bullshit.
Slumsy:
It was a simulation (not a model)
As with all of this, some actual work needs to get done in order to feed everyone. Who decides who gets to sit around a coffee shop mastering their talents and who has to clean the bathrooms at the coffee shop?
It is ironic that this economic voodoo bullshit appeals most to the baristas who are working at the coffee shop because their worthless degrees didn’t prepare them for any other job. They lap this shit up because they think they will get to sit around mastering their talents while some other icky person has to make the coffee.
Envy is an ugly way to life.
Fuck the bathroom. The collective and assign turns on that.
Now, as to ANY of the occupations covered by Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs….only the market or the threat of the Gulag will get people to take those tasks.
AP fun: “Trump’s dyslexia barbs stir anguish and anger, perpetuating a myth about the learning disability”
How about lying about having it to explain how and why he’s as dumb as his black audience? I’m sure that didn’t anger anyone. Fuck off.
“Prosecutors say makeup, wigs helped former Alabama tackle impersonate NFL players in $20M fraud” Um. Well, they won’t hurt when your marks are as this fucking dumb:
“In early 2024, a former defensive tackle at the University of Alabama put on makeup and a wig and got on a video call from a swanky suburban Atlanta hotel to finalize a $4 million loan… Federal prosecutors say Davis would go on to don disguises — a wig once, and a do-rag-style head covering another time — again in March and July to impersonate two other NFL players on video calls and bilk millions more in loans. The complaint does not say exactly how the wigs and do-rag helped Davis assume the three different players’ identities.
It also only identifies the NFL players by their initials.” HAHA! Oh, dear, my-est oh mes.
The complaint does not say exactly how the wigs and do-rag helped Davis assume the three different players’ identities.
You know there were some people on the call muttering to each other, “that’s the same guy, right?” “You can’t say that! ‘We all look alike to you, huh?!’. You’ll get crucified. “
I can’t believe Ilhan didn’t release this on April 15th and try to portray herself a victim of the IRS.
Will anyone ask her what she actually reported to the IRS?
Accountants are famous for being sloppy with numbers.
$29M is just a rounding error.
From a different story on this subject:
Typical Omar. Too trusting when it comes to her husband(s).
“Her lawyer”
I make good money and know I can’t afford a lawyer.
Lawyer: No, you see she is worth $100k. Now Ohan Holdings, Inc. is worth $30 mm.
Democracy
The EU Chief has reportedly already given Magyar a list of 27 demands he must meet before she will turn the spigot back on. She did not try to hide the agenda, announcing that the EU needed to “use the momentum now” to consolidate its power.
With Hungary out of the way, Von der Leyen is calling for the EU to finally do away with the last vestige of national sovereignty: the veto exercised by its member states.
Under the plan, member states would lose control of their policy and could be forced to adhere to the priorities and values of the EU majority.
The EU Chief celebrated the new day of global governance in the making: “Moving to qualified majority voting in foreign policy is an important way to avoid systemic blockages, as we have seen in the past.”
Things would go more smoothly if we didn’t have to pretend to care what those far right nationalist footdraggers want.
“Mamdani’s NYC refuses to turn illegal alien charged with killing 4 in arson attack over to ICE: DHS
“This was an act of mass murder. As alleged, Roman Amatitla deliberately set a fire in an occupied building and killed four people, including a 3-year-old girl.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/mamdanis-nyc-refuses-to-turn-illegal-alien-charged-with-killing-4-in-arson-attack-over-to-ice-dhs
CWAA
I find Washington Commanders a far more offensive term than Washington Redskins ever were. Maybe Washington Parasites.
I’m off with the whole family to see “Clue” as a play. The 1985 film is my favorite movie, after giving my ranking thorough (re)consideration. I don’t know if they’re doing it based on the film, which was not written as a play, or if it’s its own thing. Regardless, I hope it’s a fun production, whatever it is.
The 5yo + Confusion is hysterical. Remarkably verbal, that one.
Do you have to go see the play 2 more times at different theaters to get all the endings?
Of course
Late but still current
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1554b5ba-85e2-4711-8c59-5ddb777a1703.html
Today just keeps getting worse.
And now that stupid fucking ice cream truck is circling around again. Everyone who owns or operates an ice cream truck and anyone who plays or sings “do your ears hang low” should be flayed alive and their skins made into banners warning against making noise.
I have somehow managed to destroy my silverware. I have somehow managed to break the leg on my chair. I have nearly been run over, crashed into, and otherwise mangled automotively, and I’m not even one of those driving a suicide machine around. My eyes hurt from the sunlight, and I can’t seem to do anything right today. Even the checkout at Lowes thought I was trying to shoplift my own wallet. I bought the right tools for the wrong job. I can’t focus, and I can’t unwind.
And I know All I’m achieving is annoying you, so I’ll wander away now.
I *enjoy* your curmudgeonliness. (Not that I want you to have such serious mishaps, of course.)