Thursday Morning Links

by | Apr 16, 2026 | Daily Links | 235 comments

Is it time to push the panic button in Boston? It certainly is in Houston. The Astros suck. Looks like LIV Golf will limp along for a while longer. I can’t see it lasting more than a couple more months. And across the pond, the UCL semifinals are set after an amazing match in Munich and a complete snoozer in London. Arsenal will play Atletico and Bayern will play PSG. I assume the viewership for the latter will be much higher than of the former. And that’s about it for sports.

I’m now certain this woman is a moron. Does she not think the SC is doing their job in making these rulings just as they’ve done for centuries? Or does she just not like their decisions? Either way, she’s way out of line and if Roberts had a spine he’d call her on the carpet and explain things to her in a way that is publicly embarrassing.

She can say whatever she wants. That doesn’t necessarily make it so. She has constant access to all kinds of attorneys. And yet she never sought to get her status changed? This sob story stinks like yesterday’s garbage.

Why doesn’t he just sell some paintings? Oh, that’s right. They’re no longer needed as a money laundering technique.

As a bald, straight American man I find this hurtful. As a taxpayer, I find it absolutely disgusting.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! I approve of this.

This is shameful. A lawyer vigorously working in his client’s interests is a job requirement, not something that should be punished.

Europoors will not understand this. They think everything should be free all the time. Also, they have no idea what “free” means.

Well…BYE! Maybe next time try just educating kids rather than indoctrinating them. They can get both those things at a bunch of other schools.

This is interesting. Did they sign an agreement in 1950 or just make a statement? Because one os binding and the other one isn’t.

Their assessment appears to be accurate. Fortunately he will get the help he needs in prison.

These guys were so fun. Bubble gum punk kings. They had some great ones. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.

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235 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “Is it time to push the panic button in Boston?”

    Do you mean chalk the mayor?

      • (((Jarflax

        With a guillotine.

      • Threedoor

        To get the prices on a guillotine down you have to use is several times.

  2. Common Tater

    “It defines the family unit as comprising ‘one husband, one wife and any biological, adopted or fostered children’ and describes the nuclear family as ‘God’s design for familial structure’ and ‘God’s perfect design for humanity.'”

    Only one wife? Haram!

    • Common Tater

      “It goes on to cite claims about fatherless households, including links to higher rates of poverty, substance abuse, incarceration and school shootings, to argue for the superiority of the traditional family.”

      RACIST!!!!

  3. Common Tater

    “The cost of parking at stadiums is also very high, with a space at the MetLife costing $225 (£166). Foxborough is priced at $175 (£129) for one car.”

    !!!!!!

    • UnCivilServant

      I find it strange that people willingly pay these amounts in order to suffer through watching sportsball from an uncomfortable seat with a poor vantage point.

      • Threedoor

        “Suffer through watching sportsball” would have been sufficient.

    • sloopyinca

      I wonder if they cherry-picked the lots right next to the stadium or of those are at the lots a bit further away. I know baseball is different but i can park 3 blocks from the stadium in Houston for $25.

    • Drake

      I liked the old Foxboro stadium so much better. In the 70s, my Dad would pay $10 to park on the front lawn of some working guy’s house along Route 1.

      • slumbrew

        I liked the old Foxboro stadium so much better

        That’s some “Times Square was so much better before they cleaned it up” bullshit. Old Foxboro was a falling-down piece of shit.

        Those aluminum bench seats sucked – the coldest I have ever been may have been a MNF game there, with those seats utterly sucking any trace of warmth out of you.

      • Drake

        Sure – but for a 10-year-old kid that was the fun. Parking in some dude’s yard, getting frisked at the gate (for booze, not weapons). There was a river of booze flowing out of the dumpster the guards were tossing confiscated bottles. The fans bitching about the team, the stadium, the cold… in the most hilarious ways possible. It was awesome.

    • Ted S.

      Surge pricing is wicked when Uber does it but virtuous when the state does it.

      • Nephilium

        Well, one is an evil corporation, the other a benevolent ruler.

      • DrOtto

        I have to wonder if the train fare still covers the actual costs. Should probably be these prices all the time to cover operating costs.

      • Threedoor

        Any public transit that covers costs is a rare creature.

      • rhywun

        Asian agencies generally cover costs because they treat it like a business instead of welfare as is done in the US.

  4. rhywun

    This sob story stinks like yesterday’s garbage.

    Trump’s cruelty cannot be overstated enough – it is the media’s responsibility to ensure the public doesn’t forget.

    • Threedoor

      Need to deport her anchor babies too.

  5. Common Tater

    “Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion decided in 2022 that it would wind down its Cincinnati rabbinical school program by the end of the 2025–26 academic year.”

    I thought they would annex Good Samaritan Hospital?

  6. Rat on a train

    “Moreover, Fifa has worked for years with host cities on their transportation and mobility plans, including advocating for millions of dollars in federal funding to support host cities for transportation.
    Pay your own way.

  7. rhywun

    However, studies have shown that once factors such as income and household stability are accounted for, the independent effects of father absence are significantly smaller.

    Take that, socons!

    Ladies, you don’t need no man.

    • (((Jarflax

      Translation from Idiot: Once you remove these other two things, that strongly corelate with father absence, and that also have a negative impact, the negative impact of father absence is smaller, but still significant. Or in other words having a present father is a necessary but not sufficient factor in successful child rearing.

    • R C Dean

      Once you subtract out what men bring to a household, it turns out there’s not much advantage to it.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This is the message I took. Discount what fathers bring to a home, and suddenly fathers aren’t all that necessary.

    • Threedoor

      Ladies, the state will be your man.

  8. R C Dean

    “Our son Daniel is a loving person”

    Well, except for the arson and death threats, anyway.

    • Rat on a train

      That’s how he expresses love.

      • Ted S.

        Can’t he just do it by humping his parents’ legs like a dog would?

  9. Tonio

    [I]f Roberts had a spine he’d call her on the carpet and explain things to her in a way that is publicly embarrassing.

    That’s not how the judiciary does things. Judges are reprimanded privately.

    • Not Adahn

      Cancel her janitorial services. Make her make her clerks empty her trash (and then in a decade write a scathing tell-all about how she mistreated her clerks). Don’t they already have a rule about the junior justice bringing the donuts or something?

    • R C Dean

      She apparently feels free to criticize the Court publicly, so I don’t see how she could complain about the Chief Justice criticizing her publicly.

    • invisible finger

      Maybe at the next recess she can be given a vacation to the next area we plan on bombing.

    • Nephilium

      See, here’s the part that chaps me. I’m sick of these customs being respected to “honor the position”.

      Fuck that. You work for us. The only privileges you should enjoy are those directly related to doing the job we asked you to do. Beyond that, expect nothing more, not even respect.

      • juris imprudent

        It is pretty traditional that respect goes with the role, of course with an expectation of decorum on the part of the role-holder. It’s a bad tradition though – respect should always be earned, never given.

      • Beau Knott

        100% agreement with Neph on this.
        We need to start emphasizing the ‘servant’ part of ‘public servant’.

      • trshmnstr

        It’s a bad tradition though – respect should always be earned, never given.

        In theory, somebody who made it into that role has shown themselves to be worthy of the respect by earning it in some way (usually via lower court jurisprudence). Whether that ever existed in reality, i dont know. Its certainly not real now.

      • UnCivilServant

        If the officholder does not treat the office with respect, the officeholder forfeits any respect due the office being applied to themselves. Their comportment and performance are part of that.

    • EvilSheldon

      I had a friend who clerked for Justice Kennedy back in the day. His stories about the USSC were horrifying in their grade-school immaturity.

  10. Translucent Chum

    First gun update. Thanks for the suggestions last week. Tried out a handful and went with an Echelon 4.0c. Ordered in a gear pack so it’s coming with bag, 4 magazines, and a viridian dot sight. Out the door for $588.

    Any suggestions for getting deals on range ammo?

    • Not Adahn

      targetsportsusa.com

      • Sean

        SGammo.com is also top tier. Sign up for their emails.

      • EvilSheldon

        Target Sports USA has gotten a lot better.

        SGAmmo is also good, but if you sign up for their email alerts prepare yourself for a lot of apocalyptic “PRICES ARE GOING UP NEXT MONTH!!!” whagarble.

    • Not Adahn

      4 mags is nice. That’s enough to take up practical shooting!

      • Translucent Chum

        Yeah 🤣. I’m happy with the deal. Need lots of practice before I can do anything practical with it.

      • R C Dean

        Training. You also need training.

      • Translucent Chum

        Yep. Had 3 range hours with instructor over weekend and a two day coming in May.

      • EvilSheldon

        Jump in the deep end. Rip the Band-Aid off. Go sign up for your first local match and do it. I promise that as long as you can handle your pistol safely, no one will laugh at you.

    • R C Dean

      I use ammoseek.com to shop for deals. It bots up some pretty sketchy sellers, though, so be careful.

      • DEG

        I second ammoseek and checking on the seller before giving out credit card information.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I like Graf and Son, as they have a flat shipping fee of $12.

    • Sean

      Awesome. Congrats!

      It is a good deal.

    • Not Adahn

      Would drink.

      Café sua da (sp?) is already candy.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’ve tried it, and it’s really good. Not something I’m gonna drink every day though.

    • Threedoor

      A dirty egg nog?

      Gross.

  11. Rat on a train

    Pilots’ animal noises in the cockpit have FAA listening

    A viral audio clip circulating on social media appears to capture two pilots making dog and cat noises while communicating with one another over an air traffic control frequency Sunday near Reagan National Airport.

    Federal aviation officials say the FAA is aware of the audio and is reviewing the incident. If potential violations are identified, a formal investigation could follow.

    Dogs and cats flying together. Mass hysteria.

    • Not Adahn

      By law the cat and dog noises have to be in English, so “miaow” or “nyan” would be a violation.

      • kinnath

        English is required for controller/pilot communications for international flights. The local language may be spoken for domestic flights. So English is not always required in the flight deck.

    • Ted S.

      I can only imagine the animal noises coming from the people who maintain the ATC equipment….

      • Not Adahn

        Squeal like a piggie?

      • Pope Jimbo

        When I was in the Marines, one of the pieces of navigational gear we were trained on had two handsets wired to it. One handset went to the local repair van, the other to the tower.

        If you lifted a handset, it run the other one. The quirk was if you lifted the one in the tower first, everything would be transmitted out as a radio signal by the gear. If you lifted the one in the van it was just a local call between the two and private (or it was the other way around, it was a long time ago).

        When we were being trained, the instructors stressed that quirk and told us that a couple young lance coolies had been fucking around on it and accidentally picked up the wrong side first and transmitted themselves farting into the handset and calling each other creative names. According to the story, the FAA was not amused and opened an investigation into what happened. They avoided any criminal charges from the FAA, but did lose a stripe because they embarrassed the Corps.

      • UnCivilServant

        How can you embarass the corps? It’s full of marines. All I’ve ever heard of them is them doing dumb shit like that. So that’s on par with the corps’ reputation.

    • Gdragon

      I’d bet that they were secretly communicating, somebody call in Dr. Dolittle.

      • Rat on a train

        Furry convention in town?

    • tripacer

      Guard cats have been a thing for quite a while. Looks like the media finally found discovered it. Those pilots definitely broke protocol. Meowing is supposed to be done on the guard frequency, and done enroute because one is bored, not in a terminal area.

    • Dr Mossy Lawn

      This is a normal problem on the emergency frequency. Airlines (and it is also recommended for standard pilots) tune one radio to 121.5 the emergency channel.

      I will do this if I am around a Flight restriction, but you won’t go an hour without some funny guy (always seems to be male) that goes “meow” on frequency. If it happens more than once I will just turn off that radio.

      This is not new:

      https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/87942/why-and-when-did-people-start-meowing-on-guard-frequency

      • kinnath

        I learned something new today.

  12. rhywun

    Europoors will not understand this.

    I’m not understanding the economics behind septupling the usual train fare. Seems like actual “gouging” to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    NY Transit

    lol It’s NJ Transit, BBC. Do better.

    • Ted S.

      As I said above, price gouging suddenly, magically becomes virtuous when the proceeds go to the state.

      • rhywun

        Except the governess is bitching about it here.

    • Rat on a train

      Gouging or removing the normal subsidies? The local VRE targets 50% fare recovery of operation costs but usually falls short.

      • rhywun

        True. But 7x? I think the normal fare recovery is likely better than 1/7.

      • slumbrew

        Pats train is $20, FIFA will be $80. OTOH, they’re running 14 trains for the FIFA matches, which is way more than they do for the Pats (I think it’s just one train before and one after the game), so I could see more overhead adding to the cost.

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        I want nothing to do with that shitshow, regardless. The France/Brazil friendly was a traffic nightmare and the real games will be no better.

        https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/fifa-world-cup-traffic-bathroom-foxboro-yards-fans/

      • Rat on a train

        Yikes There are some extremely low recovery rates. It looks like the VRE is at ~22%

      • rhywun

        extremely low recovery rates

        Yeah, especially in the US because it’s seen as a poor-people thing so it’s NOT FAIR to charge anything close to the real cost.

        Also it’s not fair to prosecute fare theft because racist.

      • Threedoor

        Public transit is a huge subsidized mess.

        Busses are the closest to break even and even they are several times the per passenger mile cost of owning a car.

        Trains are one of the worst.

  13. Common Tater

    “It wasn’t immediately clear how much taxpayer funds Wu’s administration has set aside for the program.”

    Of course not.

  14. UnCivilServant

    Off the wall zero stakes question.

    XCOM2 – Some enemies can mind control your dudes. When mind-controlled, you can target them like any other enemy unit. If you take out the controlling unit, you get your dude back.

    Since XCOM2 has permadeath and even injury has negative consequences, in what situation would it be beneficial to shoot your own mind-controlled dude?

    • Nephilium

      A pistol will do little damage, and snap the mind controlled person out of it. It would depend on the turn order and layout when it’s beneficial to do that instead of going after the controlling unit, which can (and will) retreat back into shadows.

      • UnCivilServant

        My sharpshooters are actually specced to put a lot of hurt out with pistols.

        But it’s good to know that damage would end the effect. I’ve just wrecked the controller so far, since they haven’t yet managed to pull it off and run away.

    • Threedoor

      You have one bullet left and there is a grizzly bear attacking you.

      • UnCivilServant

        Way to avoid the question.

        And you’re not bringing enough ammo if you can’t convince the grizzy to go somewhere else with n-1 bullets.

    • EvilSheldon

      Can you stun them?

      The only XCOM2 I’ve played is the classic one. Xenonauts is a good indie remake, although it’s hard as fuck.

  15. rhywun

    Maybe next time try just educating kids rather than indoctrinating them. They can get both those things at a bunch of other schools.

    But where else can Guardian readers find a progressive education?! Especially under Trump’s reign of fascist terror?

    • Threedoor

      I hope Evergreen goes the same way.

      • The Last American Hero

        Evergreen is state funded, so it’s going nowhere.

      • Threedoor

        At least WA is headed to insolvency so there is that.

  16. Rat on a train

    Will Maryland’s favorite beach town have enough international student workers this summer?

    Every summer Ocean City, Maryland, depends on college students from other countries to fill seasonal jobs through the State Department’s Summer Work Travel program.

    According to the State Department, Ocean City’s 3,635 participants in the SWT program last year were more than any other destination in the country.

    Jobs Americans won’t do.

    • The Other Kevin

      Send in the AI robots.

    • Threedoor

      Several years ago we went to Seaside OR and so many of the restaurant staff were foreign, mostly some form of euro.

      It was weird. They were largely rude and poor servers on top of how odd it was.

      • Threedoor

        Not just rude.
        Most were entitled assholes.

  17. Common Tater

    ““Hunger Games” star Elizabeth Banks was left dumbfounded that 53 percent of white women voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, while hoping more would become “revolutionaries” mimicking her dystopian character.

    The 52-year-old actress invoked her glammed-up on-screen role of “Effie Trinket” as the ideal persona for fighting fascism, while comparing Trump to the child-murdering totalitarian regime from the novels and movie franchise.

    “Effie is the model, guys. I don’t understand the 53% of white ladies that didn’t vote for Kamala. What were you thinking?” Banks said on Bustle’s “One Nightstand⁠” podcast.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/media/elizabeth-banks-says-she-cant-wrap-her-head-around-white-women-who-voted-for-trump-over-kamala-harris/

    She was probably this stupid when she was young, but no one cared.

    • Common Tater

      Speaking of looks, this guy seems mid.

      “Chris Elliott, a horticulturist at the New York Botanical Garden, is in full bloom as throngs of “thirsty” phytophiles — plant lovers — are unashamedly salivating over his hotness.

      But some argue that the hunk-worship is actually crossing socially acceptable lines and causing social media mania. ”

      https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/lifestyle/hot-new-york-botanical-garden-employee-causes-online-craze/

      • Ted S.

        If people were posting this way about a female worker, people would be shrieking “Muh patriarchy!”

      • rhywun

        I’d hit it.

        But I’m not disgusting loser posting that opinion to X (formerly Twitter).

      • Gdragon

        He seems like that girl in the Seinfeld episode who had a big gap between her best look and her worst look.

        But the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is way cooler anyway.

      • rhywun

        lol Two-Face?

        I’ve never been to either. There is a cool “Asian” one in Staten Island I’ve visited.

      • Gdragon

        I guess that Chris Elliott was finally able to “Get A Life”

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, you’re a disgusting loser posting it to Glibs.

        I kid, I kid!

      • rhywun

        Heh that guy was (is?) very funny.

      • EvilSheldon

        He’s pretty cute if your tastes run that way. I guess you never can tell what’s gonna go viral.

      • Threedoor

        Average guy is average.

      • R.J.

        He’s asking for it with that outfit.

        There. Amazed no one else said that.

    • Gdragon

      “I was trying to tell you what to do and you didn’t listen to me! There is obviously something wrong with you!”

      I leave the room every time she appears on a horse racing broadcast. Elizabeth Banks can really annoy you if you give her even the slightest opportunity.

    • rhywun

      She probably doesn’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.

    • Threedoor

      Banks should be surprised that that many voted for the drunk.

  18. rhywun

    Fortunately he will get the help he needs in prison.

    I wonder where he picked up the urge to travel halfway across the country to murder an AI bro.

    That’s a pretty specific result of his supposed “mental illness”.

  19. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Hey, transexual immigrants need haircuts too you h8ters. $500 though? That’s the crazier part.

    • rhywun

      Girl haircuts cost more.

    • Ted S.

      Unfortunately, “Tranny immigrants need cuts, too” dorsnt quite scan like the old Samantha Fox song.

  20. Common Tater

    ““The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed on Wednesday that she was privately disturbed by allegedly seeing California Rep. Eric Swalwell “overserved” with alcohol at an event….

    “I do think the rumors matter, because, to be honest, I had heard and even experienced — nothing wrong or criminal — but I’ve been with Eric Swalwell when he seemed overserved,” she said, “I’m not saying something that I wouldn’t have said to his face, and I filed it away. Just as a woman, you pay attention when you’re like, ‘This is a business setting. This is something I’m not super comfortable with.’”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/media/the-view-co-host-claims-she-was-uncomfortable-after-witnessing-swalwell-being-overserved-alcohol-at-event/

    What?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Guy gets buzzed, woman breaks out the fainting couch. Can’t stand Swalwell but put a sock in it lady.

      • Not Adahn

        Meh. Dude with poor self-control and/or social awareness is a red flag for all sorts of things, including rape.

      • Common Tater

        Not saying he’s innocent, and definitely not saying he isn’t an asshole, but not being a good drinker isn’t a red flag for rape.

      • Not Adahn

        not being a good drinker isn’t a red flag for rape.

        Disagree. Not interested in playing duelling anecdotes though.

      • Common Tater

        Bad drinkers are common. Rapists are rare.

      • Not Adahn

        Which is why “red flag” is an indication to suspect things you wouldn’t otherwise be on the alert for.

        Other than the tiny fraction of booga-booga rapists who are getting off on the sadism, most rape/sexual assault is from dudes not controlling themselves and or misreading social cues.

  21. Common Tater

    “The high-powered attorney representing one of the women accusing Eric Swalwell of sex crimes has fired back at his lawyer for claiming “regret is not rape.”

    Lisa Bloom torched the former congressman and his legal advisor Sara Azari after she cast doubt over the five women who made sexual assault allegations against him.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/us-news/lisa-bloom-fires-back-at-eric-swalwell-attorneys-regret-is-not-rape-claim/

    She’s lying if Lisa Bloom is her attorney.

    • Threedoor

      Regret is not rape.

      Tell that to the Idaho state rep in prison for a jilted lover claiming rape, charged on the last day the state could charge him, hidden accuser.

      If they want to railroad you they will.

  22. The Other Kevin

    I’m now certain this woman is a moron.

    She’s the poster child for leftist thinking. No reasoning, no logic, just “the feelz”.

    • DrOtto

      She’s also the poster child for DEI hires. She managed to get through law school and pass the bar and still not be able to make a cohesive legal argument beyond kicking and screaming. Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg was at least able to twist the law to her liking with an element of legalese to fit her desired outcome.

    • Common Tater

      *Jennifer Newsome enters the chat*

      • The Other Kevin

        That goes with it. It’s so obvious that their view is correct, and it’s frustrating that those MAGA idiots refuse to admit it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Not the Idiot You Think She Is

      I thought this was an interesting take on KBJ. It at least tries to argue that there may be an explanation other than ignorance behind her rulings.

      There are a million examples, but getting back to KBJ not being an idiot, or at least the fact that she says patently absurd things, does not provide evidence that she is.
       
      Critical Legal Theory is essentially the toolkit used by Marxists to shape the law to say whatever they want. You and I keep looking for words and references to say something about what is real, but reality is what critical theorists say it is, and they say it is whatever they need it to say.
       
      We are looking for “epistemic adequacy,” or correlation with reality. Or in her case, correlation with the Constitution and established law. She sees that as an oppressive assertion of power by the dominant hierarchy to impose injustice. So she simply defines those away.

      • rhywun

        Fine. She is evil, then.

        I usually default to evil over stupid anyway. But I swear she often says stupid things.

      • Ted S.

        She’s an eve bigger idiot than I thought she was?

      • kinnath

        Jackson is one of the most damaging things done to the country by the puppeteers that driving the biden meat puppet.

  23. Common Tater

    “A Texas mom of three who pleaded her innocence when her hubby was arrested for allegedly running a prostitution ring frequented by local cops is now accused of coaching women to sell their bodies out of the couple’s home.

    Ashley Ketcherside was arrested on Wednesday on racketeering charges after her alleged involvement in her husband’s purported prostitution enterprise was originally overlooked when he was arrested on April 8, Fox 4 reported.

    But a wide-ranging investigation revealed she has two prior prostitution convictions herself and allegedly offered her X-rated services for $1,000 an hour, according to police.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/us-news/texas-mom-of-3-accused-of-helping-hubby-run-prostitution-ring-catering-to-cops-out-of-family-home/

    Inflation is real.

    • juris imprudent

      Wait a minute – weren’t we supposed to be more concerned with busting the johns now instead of the ol’ take it out on the sex worker?

    • The Other Kevin

      Yet another instance of the patriarchy trying to keep women at home. Men are clearly intimidated by women who make money.

    • Nephilium

      I’m increasingly getting to the point that I believe that prostitution for males is the equivalent of therapy for females.

      • Gdragon

        ” I believe that prostitution for males is the equivalent of therapy for females.”
        ——-

        Like that movie “The Best Of Times” where Robin Williams wants to talk about the pass that he dropped in the big game back in high school

    • Gdragon

      Ketcherside? It sounds like they caught all of her…

    • Threedoor

      It took an in depth investigation to find her arrests?

      Cops are idiots.

      • Rat on a train

        Like Congress, he exempts himself.

    • rhywun

      In a veiled dig at Trump’s administration, he said: ‘Woe to those who manipulate religion ⁠and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

      OFFS – that behavior is hardly unique to Donald. They all pull that.

      • Rat on a train

        Popejection?

      • Threedoor

        I had hopes that this pope would be a Catholic

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Even catholic-adjacent would be more interesting than a pope who slobbers Islam cock.

  24. EvilSheldon

    Regarding ‘Nuclear Family Pride Month’:

    However, studies have shown that once factors such as income and household stability are accounted for, the independent effects of father absence are significantly smaller.

    This is the exact opposite of what the studies show. The truth is that social and cultural dysfunction scales almost perfectly with father absence, regardless of demographics or income.

    It’s amazing how much lying one can get away with, when the audience doesn’t have the data.

    • rhywun

      And it’s blindingly obvious to anyone who has been paying attention in the US for the last sixty to seventy years and is not lying to themselves or others.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “The reason for their split was not immediately clear.”
      Right…Imma go with anger issues, a pretty safe bet.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Well damn, misthread.

    • The Last American Hero

      So if it’s not absentee fathers, what is the problem with certain, um, urban communities that are plagued with generational poverty and crime while other poor urban communities comprised of recent immigrants with a poor command of the language have much lower crime and seem to climb the economic latter within a generation?

      • Ted S.

        RAAAAAYCISM!, you dumb fuck.

    • EvilSheldon

      Relevant here because Fairfax was the Virginia LtGov. under Ralph Northam, 2018-2022.

      I love how the newsies are referring to him as an ‘ex-democrat’, as if he switched parties.

      • Rat on a train

        Only Republicans switch parties when they die.

      • R.J.

        *Golf clap

    • Threedoor

      These assholes always teke other people out when 99% of the time it’s they who are the problem alone.

      Go find a parking lot where it’s easy to wash you off of it and take care of business alone.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’ve always said that if I ever feel a pressing need to snuff it*, I’d just hike up to Tinker Cliffs and watch the sun rise one more time, then blow my brains out (or take a bunch of sleeping pills, or whatever.) I know that some people might be disturbed by the idea of their mortal remains being eaten by coyotes, but it’s never bothered me. And the cleanup would be non-existent.

        * – Which I don’t, thank you very much, so please keep your Red Flag ERPOs to yourself.

      • Threedoor

        A buddies brother did that. Type one diabetic in his mid 30s.

        Sick of the lifestyle and the dialysis.

        He rode his mountain bike about 30 miles from is apartment to his favorite trail, likely did some trail riding, sat and watched the sunset and pulled the trigger.

        It took his brothers a day to realize he was gone, another friend of mine worked with him and knew something was amis, and reached out to his brothers. Took another day or two to find him after they found one of his bikes was gone.

    • Ted S.

      Not controversial. Just lefties who feel the need to destroy anything the Icky Class likes.

    • Common Tater

      “Megyn Kelly lashed out at Sydney Sweeney while discussing a controversial clip of her Euphoria character dressed as a baby while filming OnlyFans content.

      The first episode of the show’s third season dropped on Sunday and fans have criticized the hyper sexual depictions of its female characters.

      A trailer for the entire season depicts Sweeney’s character, Cassie Howard, dressed as a baby in a compromising sexual position. Kelly claimed this was ‘sexualizing infancy.’…

      ‘The truth is – this is sexualizing infancy. That’s what this is,’ Kelly said to her cohosts while showing an image of Sweeney ‘spread eagle’ on a couch in a baby costume.”

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15736137/megyn-kelly-sydney-sweeney-euphoria-baby-scene.html

      OFFS, Megyn, it’s Euphoria, not Full House.

      • Aloysious

        Hey, meGYN, it’s not like she has blood gushing out of her wherever.

        I wouldn’t like Euphoria so I just won’t watch it, meGYN.

        Best thing about Sydney Sweeney is that she isn’t a journalist.

  25. Not Adahn

    It’s a sign of something, not sure what…

    One of the links served an ad of TuCa speaking (muted, no idea what he was saying) that also had a Black Rifle Coffee banner on it.

    Grifters of a feather flock together?

    • Threedoor

      Who is TuCA?

      We all know Ernie Haffer is gay.

      • Common Tater

        Tucker Carlson

      • Threedoor

        Everytime I see a BRC promotion by someone I roll my eyes.

  26. Common Tater

    “A Chicago criminal notorious for livestreaming the racist torture of a disabled white teenager has been arrested again after allegedly robbing a white cyclist.

    Tesfaye Cooper, 30, who served a seven-year prison sentence for the 2017 on-camera torture incident, was arrested on April 8 after allegedly chasing down and mugging the cyclist near a Chicago train station.

    He was taken into custody alongside Mazi Pearson, 33, who also had active warrants for failing to appear in court on four pending felony court cases, reports CWB Chicago.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15738601/Chicago-criminal-torture-white-disabled-Tesfaye-Cooper-cyclist.html

    I know that it’s against the First, but having a face tattoo should be an enhancement.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Criminals with uncoverable tattoos are especially stupid.

      • R.J.

        At this point throw away the key.

      • Common Tater

        Stealing a bicycle? Doubt he even does time.

    • rhywun

      When Cooper was sentenced, the victim’s family said they went out of their way to ensure he would receive support services when he was freed from prison.

      Are we still pretending that there is such a thing as “rehabilitation”?

      The best “support service” would be for their inevitable future victims and by, yes, throwing away the key.

      • Threedoor

        Prison is for punishment.

        Period.

      • rhywun

        I think it’s more for keeping criminals away from the rest of us.

        But yeah punishment is a worthy aim too.

      • Threedoor

        Executions are for keeping criminals away from the normies.

        And they need to be done about 1000x more than they are.

    • EvilSheldon

      Kidnapping, assault with GBH, hate crime enhancements (LOL!), and this subhuman piece of garbage is only off the streets for 7 years?

      • rhywun

        hate crime enhancements

        Yeah that got a double-take from me

      • Common Tater

        “equity justice”

      • Threedoor

        The people that passed ‘hate crime’ laws should all be drawn and quartered.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I know that it’s against the First

      No, no, no. That isn’t how it works!

      OMWC is the bike thief, not Brochetta.

  27. Sensei

    Wilson redefined “liberty” not as a natural right antecedent to the government, but as “the right of those who are governed to adjust government to their own needs and interests.” In other words, liberty no longer preceded the government as a gift from God, but was to be enjoyed at the grace of the government.

    This is an excerpt of remarks Justice Clarence Thomas delivered Wednesday at the University of Texas, Austin, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/justice-thomas-progressives-vs-the-declaration-50d5aea4?st=ym54t7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    Compare that to anything out of Brown’s mouth.

    • EvilSheldon

      Even if you disagree with him, and I often do, I don’t think that anyone can say that Clarence Thomas is not a very, very smart cookie.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Agree that he is the curliest pube on a Coke can

    • Threedoor

      And here we were all lead to believe he dosent speak.

  28. Sean

    #board8 2/5
    ⭐⭐
    🪄 77 points
    🔥 streak: 3
    puzzlist.com/lettergrams

    It’s either rather difficult, or I suck at it.

    • Common Tater

      That’s me with golf.

  29. Common Tater

    Does anyone know more about this?

    “The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a visionary, multinational infrastructure project that aims to revolutionize global trade and connectivity. Officially announced on September 9, 2023, during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, IMEC links India, the Middle East, and Europe through an integrated rail and shipping corridor. It is set to become a vital artery of global commerce in the 21st century.”

    https://www.imec.international/

    Jillian Micheals just did a video about this, suggesting it was a reason for the war with Iran.

    • Threedoor

      Jillian Micheals talks about more than bad diet and eating out?

      • PutridMeat

        eating out

        Squints suspiciously. Do we need to get Swiss up in here?

      • Common Tater

        Yes, and she does very good interviews.

      • Threedoor

        I read that as squirts suspiciously.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    The orders suffer from an additional problem, she said, a failure to acknowledge that real people are involved, making them “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.”

    She also pushed back on the court’s assessment that preventing the president from putting his policy in place also is a harm that often outweighs what the challengers to a policy might face.

    Did she push her lower lip out and bang her spoon on her high chair as she said that?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    “There is value in avoiding having the court continually touching the third rail of every divisive policy issue in American life,” Jackson said.

    ?

    • PutridMeat

      “Unless they touch it the right way”, she continued.

    • Ed Wuncler

      Not once did she ever mention if she determines her decisions on the whether it’s constitutional or not. Increasing freedom and liberty are probably the last things on her mind but then again, she represents the current Left’s way of thinking.

    • rhywun

      My god she is an idiot.

      Has she considered why every policy issue in American life these days is “divisive”? Maybe the decades of radical, unconstitutional law? That it is your job to rectify??

      • dbleagle

        Or consider that the Nazgul’s job is to render judgments on divisive issues?

        I am sure there already is somewhere in the US gov an administrative judge spouting off on the great legal question of our time- “Are puppies and kittens cute?”

  32. Sensei

    The hazard lights allow you not to secure the load.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1sgy9f1/oc_the_quickest_nope_i_ever_said_in_my_life/

    Meanwhile I can’t seem to explain to my wife in a situation like this you don’t:

    1 Pull behind the truck.
    2 Determine that your desired speed is greater than the truck’s speed.
    3 Match speeds with the truck.
    4 Finally begin the process of checking if you may safely pass.
    5 Pass the truck.

    • Sean

      I bet they didn’t even smack it after getting the straps on.

      Heh.

      • PutridMeat

        In the documentaries I’ve seen, they always smack it after you get the strap on on.

      • Pope Jimbo

        after you get the strap on on

        I bet his speedometer was pegged.

      • EvilSheldon

        LOL. Take a bow, Jimbo.

    • DEG

      What could possibly go wrong?

      Watching that video I was reminded of the day I watched a guy towing a car drive past the my older brother’s friend’s shop. The guy was using bungee cords as tow straps. The group of us standing in front of the shop just shook our heads.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Twice in my life, I’ve felt guilty after selling some crap on Craig’s List because I was pretty sure the buyers were going to kill people on the way home.

        Once was a server rack and a bunch of old servers. The kid and his mom showed up in a sedan with no straps. They were just going to tie the server rack to the roof with some old rope. I did make them go to a nearby hardware store to buy some racheting straps, but I was still pretty sure that they were going to kill someone on the way home.

        The other time was when a couple old hippies bought a bunch of the wood from my old deck and kept piling it on top of their Scooby Doo van. They at least had decent straps, but it was so much that I was pretty sure it would be spilled at some point on the way home. They at least asked me for some recommendations of back roads to Minneapolis.

    • Threedoor

      Better than the several
      Times I have seen kids on mattraces on tops of cars when I lived in the south.

      • Ted S.

        They were obviously matt racing.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    The hazard lights allow you not to secure the load.

    I just like how the truck accelerates when the big air brake is removed.

    • Threedoor

      Closing the tailgate would have made all the difference here.

  34. Pope Jimbo

    It defines the family unit as comprising ‘one husband, one wife and any biological, adopted or fostered children’ and describes the nuclear family as ‘God’s design for familial structure’ and ‘God’s perfect design for humanity.’

    This is perfect GOP stunt. I 100% agree with the proposition that kids need intact families and that the nuclear family is a good thing. But they just had to stick that God bs into their PR didn’t they?

    I’m not a Christian. I’m not an Atheist (they have to many purity tests for my taste).

    Since I’ve been a kid (Reagan era), the GOP has always managed to muddy the waters by insisting on adding God talk to their appeals. I’m very sympathetic to most conservative issues, but man is it alienating to always be told that those issues are inspired by God.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, perfect “a pox on both of them”.

      They couldn’t just stop the Pride nonsense. They had to shove this in people’s faces.

      Watch Fox News for more than 20 minutes or so and you get the same. They are going all-in with the faith beat.

    • Threedoor

      The GOP has done that since its inception.

      The first to party planks were against the twin evils of slavery and polygamy.

      • Common Tater

        Thomas Jefferson hardest hit.

    • EvilSheldon

      Very much this.

      Even people who are seriously religious, likely find it disconcerting when politicians start talking about what God favors, and for good reason.

      As an aside – although I’m an atheist, that term carries so much baggage nowadays that I’ve started using ‘nonbeliever’ instead.

      • Pope Jimbo

        lol.

        I also call myself a nonbeliever.

        Like I said above, Atheists have too many purity tests for my taste. They are the OG “Follow the SCIENCE!” fanatics.

    • Common Tater

      “I’m not a Christian.”

      Isn’t that a job requirement?

      • Threedoor

        The feds can’t require it.
        The states can.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Bipartisan compromise

    Now, the two Democrats have reached a mutually beneficial compromise through a pied-à-terre tax proposal aimed at ultrawealthy second-home owners. The mayor, a democratic socialist, can claim a political victory of having moved the needle on a wealth tax, while the governor, a moderate who has opposed taxing the rich, can seek to end a contentious budget battle during a re-election year.

    The deal appears to have cooled rising tensions between two elected officials who need one another.

    “From her standpoint, she has stayed firm to what she has said,” said Jay Jacobs, the state Democratic Party chair. “The mayor, for his part, needs more money to fill his budget gap. This provides a good amount. Everybody ought to end up happy on this.”

    Everybody but the people having their pockets picked, and who gives a shit hat they think?

    • Not Adahn

      She’s also pushing a NYS version of the FACE act. I guess the antisemitism is getting to bre too much for some of her donors.

    • rhywun

      Fuck you, cut spending.

      This gets him 1/10 of the way to covering the current year’s budget deficit. Where is the other 4.5 billion going to come from, geniuses?

      • rhywun

        By the standards of current-year Democrats and especially New York State Democrats, yes.

        She has been hesitant to allow raising NYC taxes for Zoh, for example.

      • dbleagle

        That statement got a “WTF?” out of me as well.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    The mayor and his allies were quick to take a victory lap on Wednesday, but Mamdani also credited Hochul.

    “Thanks to the support of Governor Hochul, we are one step closer to balancing our budget by taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites with a pied-à-terre tax — the first of its kind in our state,” Mamdani said in a statement. “Alongside the governor, our administration is fighting every day to make sure we address this fiscal deficit fairly, where the wealthy contribute what they owe and our budget reflects our commitment to the working New Yorkers being priced out of our city.”

    Fuck you. Cut spending.

    • Common Tater

      pied-à-terre? Is that French for sodomy?

  37. The Late P Brooks

    But how far the deal goes in satisfying the left may depend on other unresolved issues in the budget negotiations. Progressives have objected to Hochul’s proposal to delay implementing a landmark climate law and are urging her and the Legislature to provide more funding for affordable housing and pass legislation that provides greater protections for undocumented immigrants.

    “If you look at the breadth of reactions, I don’t think this stops anyone from demanding higher taxes on the rich,” said Jasmine Gripper, director of the Working Families Party. “No one is like ‘Thank you, you can stop now.’ Everyone is looking to push for more.”

    Eat the rich.

    • rhywun

      Or burn them for fuel. Soylent green new deal.

    • Grumbletarian

      And when all the rich people move to TN or TX, then what?

      • slumbrew

        Federal bailout!

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