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“Number of Americans Who Consider Israel an Ally is Cratering”
Sad.
Indoctrination works.
CAIR has done its work.
Yes, and quite effectively.
Along with half the right-wing and most of the libertarian punditry. 1/3 of Dave Smith these days is about how terrible Israel is. Tom Woods ain’t far behind.
They really aren’t much of an ally, they are much more a client state.
I like the analogy of a friend from a bad neighborhood who pulls you into all of his fights.
Theyre a weird mix of client state, ally, motherland, and that one kid in the friend group who is always making us do stupid things, but we cant do anything about it because his dad is our dad’s boss.
For a client state they provide a surprising amount of useful intelligence and military innovation.
Sad that we don’t have a treaty of alliance with Israel?
Is Netanyahu still dead?
Yeah, they’d be better allies if we had a treaty, like with NATO…
if we had a treaty, like with NATO…
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
You have a strange sense of humor, JI.
“Yeah, they’d be better allies if we had a treaty, like with NATO…”
That left scars..
Ted – please find the comment.where I said for sure Netenyahu was dead (not just joking and questioning his AI appearances), so I can retract and apologize.
Eh. You really need to start pruning your information sources. Like the one who told you that the hotel shooter didn’t bring a shotgun, only a .380.
You need to stop being so credulous. Anything that fits your (and this is the Woke Right in general, not just you) world view, like hundreds of US troops getting killed storming the beaches of Yemen, immediately gets posted as gospel truth, while anything that doesn’t is either ignored or treated as “this can’t possibly be true”.
I remember the first time people suggested Russia had brought in North Korean troops to help fight in Ukraine, you had people arguing these could only be part of Russia’s ethnic Korean minority.
And when proven wrong, the response is, well, I was just asking questions….
This kind of intellectual dishonesty needs to be pointed out over and over, just like John Brennan and the Hunter Biden laptop.
I’ll wait.
Woke Right
😬🤣🤣
“Woke Right” may not be the best term, but there absolutely is a portion of the MAGA right that’s as obnoxious as the woke left in trying to enforce its orthodoxy.
Why else would such people suddenly turn on someone like Massie and primary him?
Who has Massie angered? The Epstein class and AIPAC. The people funding the despicable smears against him right now.
The Ace of Spades guy is Epstein class?
Why else would such people suddenly turn on someone like Massie and primary him?
Ok, I accept your definition of woke right as those opposing Massie. Go listen to the Tom Woods podcast on the topic of Massie’s primary challenge, or listen to Massie’s interview with Tucker from last week and let me know whether your definition of Woke Right ended up where you expected.
Scott Johnson at Power Line has been such a hectoring asshole about (((them))) being persecuted that it has made me much more ambivalent about Israel.
I wonder if others have changed their views for the same reason?
It would also be nice to see some (((young men))) sack up and fight with the pro-Palestine goons. Quit whining about being intimidated on campus and punch one of those assholes in the face.
It’s usually chicks, so punching them is bad form. Now if a dude rips a sign up, I think all bets should be off.
Treat men and women the same. Punch her lights out.
“On Wednesday, former Vice President Kamala Harris became the latest Democrat to seemingly advocate for “expanding” the high court’s number of justices as a means of toppling the court’s conservative majority. While speaking on a call with the group known as Win with Black Women, the California leftist suggested her party should hold a “no bad idea brainstorm” in which participants consider implementing radical proposals such as court-packing and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. once Democrats retake power.”
That’s much wrong in one paragraph.
Similar proposals from non-leftist politicians in other countries consistently give the Goodthinkful Class the vapors as undemocratic interference with the judiciary.
Team blue: “If we do not have power, we will burn it all down and rule over the ashes. To save democracy!! Voters beware…”
“Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.”
Why? Ruling in Hell sounds like an endless parade of headaches.
Not for the ones that do not want to be ruled..
Instead of adding states I’m all in favor of unfriending the loser states. CA/IL/MN/etc
If a business can’t make it it goes through bankruptcy and sells off the assets.
Careful 4×20, last I heard, we were going to trade MN and the Stanely Cup for Alberta and a conditional pick in next year’s draft.
Minnesota isn’t winning a Stanley Cup.
The failed 2024 Democrat presidential nominee is largely seen as the prospective frontrunner in the race, according to RealClearPolling.
(outright, prolonged laughter)
Latest? Are they retarded? She said court packing was on the agenda when she was rubbing as VP. This is nothing new.
She rubbed it out as VP?
I don’t want to know who or what Kamala was rubbing . . . .
Fuck it. If the Republicans win, expand the court to 11, and fill the extra seats with a random selection of commenters from here.
Do you have a newsletter?
I nominate Swiss, because I want him continuously glaring at everybody on that bench.
Yeah, I would do that.
“The multi-agency effort included the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, FBI Bomb Squad, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordinance Detail, ALEA Bomb Squad, and the Daphne Search and Rescue Team.”
Did you bring enough guys?
Hey Cletus, let’s go fishin’. I got us a grenade, you bring the net.
Crayfish or gator?
Naturally, nobody seems interested in the critical detail:
How big was it? Actual grenade size, in which case, who cares?
Hundreds of pounds of high explosive necessary for cracking a dam? Seems unlikely.
Exactly. I have had it up to here
*Points tentacle at green forehead
with cops exaggerating everything they find. When my friend PK died, the cops that went in the house reported that he had a “cache of weapons” to his brother. I went to look at it. It was a box of broken penknives he was restoring, and an old Red Ryder BB gun. This is a tempest in a teapot unless I see a man-sized grenade.
The thing that makes me most sad about dying, is that I won’t be able to read the police reports about my ‘arsenal’ or get to see the pictures of all the guns laid out on my bed…
“Did you bring enough guys?”
It was the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everyone had to get in on the act.
But I would like to know if the IED could have damaged the dam. And it does raise concerns about possible terrorist involvement.
I might be persuaded to go with JI’s take. A couple of rednecks got ahold of a grenade and decided to blow it off in the water, maybe get some fish. The one they got just didn’t go off.
Per walks? Long prison times? Until and unless I see consequences, I don’t believe it’s not just brushing it back under the rug.
I think the most important and immediate goal is to end the money flow. But I am with you that I want heads to roll for this shit.
Congress appropriated the funds. The Executive disbursed them in accordance with that. This is what makes government so beautiful – who are you going to hold accountable?
All of them.
Sure – you, an army and all of America’s voters.
One wonders. Especially if the money was, err, redirected, to purposes not explicitly stated by Congress.
Such as, you know, political contributions.
Even then Mr. Dean, it would be NGOs that violated their tax-free status, not the people in government that gave them money in the first place.
JFC, it’s not like I’m saying there is nothing wrong with what happened – just that we can’t fantasize about what it will take to fix it.
Not so fast there, JI.
If the people approving the payments had knowledge, or even reason to believe, that they would be spent on things not approved by Congress, well, you’ve got a running start on some federal felonies.
I can fantasize about anything I want.
Have you tried cutting spending?
This is clearly a case of insufficient taxation! /Dems everywhere
Democrats ALWAYS feel the problem is that they are not taxing the serfs enough. Talking about cutting spending hurts their pocketbooks. Spending, and especially idiotic nebulous social services spending, is needed to give them opportunities for graft. Cutting spending gives them a pay cut. So never gonna happen unless it is done to them. And then they will burn it down out of spite.
That’s the beauty of Modern Monetary Theory; the excuse to create as much money as you want and spend what you want without ever having to worry about paying it back.
In some fields the way you create a theory is by examining everything you already know and coming up with an explanation for it all that is falsifiable but not yet falsified. In politics adjacent fields the way you come up with a theory is to ask the people paying for it what they want it to say and then writing that. MMT is a perfect theory! It declares that runaway Government spending is good in and of itself no matter how corrupt and inefficient it is. The minor details that it contradicts every observation of real world effects ever made is something only a loser with no real understanding would find important.
“That’s the beauty of Modern Monetary Theory”
This MM theory shit was invented by government to give it power over those that actually generate wealth.
“There you go again”
Using logic is no way to run a state, there’s a lot of payoffs that require paying off and Newsome is just the guy to do it, on credit.
Also their most reliable voters are entirely dependent on pubsec spending. Advocating spending cuts is suicidal for them.
They’ve reached the point of running out of other people’s money.
The cuts will come even if they don’t want to, simply because the accounts are empty and there’s nothing to pay people with.
UnCiv, they are nowhere close to running out of other people’s money. That won’t happen until currency collapse.
The feds won’t run out of money until then, and in no universe do the feds not bail out the states and cities.
All they need is a Team Blue president and then it’s federal bailouts o’clock.
I’m not so sure a bailout is guaranteed.
Certainly not a “no strings attached” bailout.
At the very least “Cutting off the freebies for Illegals” is on the menu.
After exit taxes…
“It’s not fair that residents of other states aren’t paying their fair share to keep California running! It’s the biggest economy in the US after all!”
It’s the biggest
economysuck in the USI think it is a touch hyperbolic to call Harris, who has never won a single primary delegate, the front-runner for the ’28 Democratic nomination.
Also, not putting her name in the headline is clickbait nonsense.
In this day & age it is par for the course with the propagandists. Idiotic, but normalized.
Democrats love two time losers.
Good god, are they going to resurrect Nixon?
Biden certainly fits the bill. And how many times did William Jennings Bryan fail to be President.
But sometimes running again and again works. Bob Casey (Sr., not Jr.) became governor of PA on his fourth try.
“Democrats love two time losers.”
Based on their love with marxism, I say they love perpetual losers the most.
Then why do they hate Trump so much?
Trump only lost once. Nixon only lost once.
HRC lost twice, Kamala lost twice (once for pres., once in the primaries.
I was using ‘loser’ in the more colloquial sense. Trump failed at his first term, and he’s in the process of failing at his second. He should be a lefty hero.
A sure sign they literally have no one else.
They have Whitmer, and so help me dog if she presents well in the first debate, she will be very tough to beat.
Never won? She finished dead last, she wasn’t even a contender.
Maybe she is the frontrunner. She has the “Win with Black Women” group support. That’s a start.
Which kind of black women? The Crockett hoodrat hoes, or the other hoes?
“A promiscuous Daily Mail editor known to “disrespect women” was so hated among his female subordinates that he drove them to smear “poop onto the walls” of the newsroom’s restroom in protest, according to a shocking new lawsuit….
The veteran reporter sued the outlet for allegedly subjecting her to “relentless, severe, and pervasive gender discrimination” by editor Daniel Jones – a well-known problem in the office that higher-ups failed to do anything about, she alleged in the suit….
Women at the publication were so fed up with Jones’ behavior – and the tabloid’s inability to do anything about it – that they took to defecating on top of toilets and smearing feces on walls of the restroom in protest, the court doc alleges…
About a month into her position at the new job, Garvey alleged that Jones would frequently yell at her and order her to “stop talking.”
In one instance, “Jones jumped out of his chair, slammed his desk, and yelled at Plaintiff [Garvey] while only inches away from her face,” according to the suit.
The real estate reporter also said Jones would often complain about her choice of photos of realtors in her articles, persuading her to use photos of female realtors over male realtors and then to highlight “attractive” female realtors over male realtors.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/media/daily-mail-editor-known-to-disrespect-women-drove-subordinates-to-smear-poop-on-restroom-walls-in-protest-suit/
WTF??
How long did this supposedly go on without it becoming public?
The right response is to ask them if the guy yelled “THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY” while he was doing his evil shit..
No, the poop smearer had different mental issues, and was not driven to it by an abusive supervisor.
The article implies that there were multiple poop smearers. Sounds like a fun office. I bet arguments over the thermostat setting were equally reasonable and sane.
Worse, the thermostat is probably fake.
If the women hated him so much, who exactly was he “promiscuous” with?
Dudes.
The men’s room or the women’s room? It would be abysmally stupid to chimp out in their own powder room.
abysmally stupid
Female journalist.
Ha!
They are punishing the janitors and other little people who had to deal with it, of course. Just like good liberal white women always do.
Well, she clearly doesn’t listen.
As always, it seems, nobody ever asks the logical question:
Did she, in fact, need to shut the hell up and listen to what her boss has to say?
She was a female journalist, so I’d say it goes without saying that she was incapable of either shutting up or listening to instructions. Of course this raises the question of why someone overseeing female journalists would be so deluded as to believe instruction was possible, but then he was a male journalist and thus incapable of rational thought.
RC, I didn’t ask the question because I had assumed it was a given that she was an incurable yapper.
and smearing poop on the walls did precisely what to curb his evil? I’m leaning toward no amount of abuse is unjustified toward a person who thinks smearing feces on walls is a reasonable tactic in a dispute.
+1 Rachel Dolezal Shit Swastika.
When female employees are destroying the bathrooms, you fire THEM.
Does it really matter what the general voters think about Isreal? As long as AIPAC donations find a home, they’ll always have friends in congress.
Yep.
Also, as long as Israel keeps buying American weapons, American defense contractors will be their friends too.
-1 Thomas Massie, God forbid
On Wednesday, former Vice President Kamala Harris became the latest Democrat to seemingly advocate for “expanding” the high court’s number of justices as a means of toppling the court’s conservative majority.
Kamala Harris is a frontrunner for the Democrats for 2028 only in fever dreams. The power brokers know she is loser.
She’s there to make the eventual candidate appear more electable by comparison.
I’d almost be tempted to watch the
‘tard fightsdebates between Harris and AOC.Give them both canes?
Isn
Isn’t that was OMWC was worried about over the weekend?
NEW STAR! 🌟
9-year-old Wan Hei Chen is lighting up the Women’s World Championship!
Just wait for that brown at the end!
https://x.com/WeAreWST/status/2055206604841062659
did not know chicks play snooker
Chicks have been snookering dudes since Eve.
True. It is dirty pool.
And it often happens while they are working on top of a table…
Chicks can fondle the balls all they want and no one complains, but if a guy so much as touches a ball everyone freaks out. It ain’t fair!
“Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of an honorary degree as the fallout over her disputed Native American ancestry claims keeps growing….
The report cited a birth certificate showing Sainte-Marie was born in Massachusetts to Italian-American parents, contradicting decades of biographies and press coverage describing her as Algonquin, Mi’kmaw and later Cree….
The University of Toronto said only two honorary degrees have been revoked since the school created its recognition review committee in 2023. The other belonged to Duncan Campbell Scott.
Columbia University professor Audra Simpson, who is Kanien’kehá:ka from Kahnawà:ke, called the decision overdue.
“A just consequence for both him and for her, who have both acted on the imperatives of settler colonialism in different ways and in different time periods,” Simpson told CBC.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/05/15/celebrity-news/buffy-sainte-marie-stripped-of-university-of-toronto-honorary-degree-over-indigenous-claims/
acted on the imperatives of settler colonialism?
Why is this woman being punished while Lieawatha keeps making bank? Smoke em peace pipe already…
Iron Eyes Cody sheds an ironic tear.
“recognition review committee”
That’s an Orwellian group right there.
Maybe the constantly changing tribes should have been a clue?
citizen of the world. all tribes and nations.
“Folk 60s icon Sainte-Marie with a sitar, May 27, 1966.”
5 will get you 10 that Audra Simpson is not native either.
At least she has some genuine Rez experience. “Sainte-Marie also accused her estranged brother Alan — whose claims were featured in the investigation — of sexually abusing her.”
This is a great argument against the US being a racist country. Why would anyone go to great lengths to pretend to be a minority if it doesn’t give them some type of advantage?
Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers
https://x.com/grantjbailey/status/2054585124881154274
bunch o’ pussies. why in my day…
They are too busy doing what instead?
Reading social media.
probably reading marxist literature
heh a tad late 🙂
weed?
It’s not weed btw
https://x.com/grantjbailey/status/2054672749008748646
At least nobody has said “spanking the monkey to onlyfans or onlyfans selling their body” yet…
I don’t think they allow highschoolers on onlyfans
Highschoolers have a history of getting places they’re not allowed.
Surveys are bullshit.
Then how will we know where the property lines are?
Surveys are just keeping us in chains!
Not much. Over Mother’s Day, there was a discussion with the younger nephew with us old people about what we used to do when we were his age. My niece asked me what I was doing at his age with their mom sitting there. I pointed out that they probably didn’t want him following in my footsteps, while going over the… tamer… things that were done by teenagers back in the 90s.
I’m wondering if it’s true that social media is really so tied into the brain’s reward centers that it makes booze and sex less appealing.
The Championship play-off final may not go ahead on Saturday, 23 May as the English Football League (EFL) investigates the Spygate scandal surrounding finalists Southampton.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cyv2nl9vl72o
I blame Americans. Started with the damn Astros and trickled down to Old Blighty
After The Washington Free Beacon uncovered Duwaji’s old social media accounts in which she reposted content in support of Palestinian violence, users took to TikTok to defend her. An account named “bronxiemthope” posted a video telling viewers “There’s nothing you can tell us about her that’s going to make us dislike her.”
The wife of a mayor who preaches “the warmth of collectivism” seems less concerned with building a big tent.
I’ve recently found even more radical material on what appears to be Duwaji’s Spotify account, where two playlists dedicated to anti-Israel anthems were curated in the days after October 7. On Tuesday afternoon, I reached out to the mayor’s office for comment. They declined, but by Wednesday, the account had been made private.
The first playlist, titled “hungry but sexy for palestine,” features songs like “Amrikkka,” “Intifada,” and one called “Ana Bakrah Israel,” which translates into “I Hate Israel.” Another number titled “Rajaoui Filistini,” a 2019 song popularized by Moroccan soccer fans that has boomed in popularity the last few years, asks for God’s protection “from the darkness of betrayal/oppression, and from the Jews who are greedy for you.” The second playlist, called “p2p Palestine 2 Pree—DC protest trip,” appears to have been created as a soundtrack for the January 13, 2024, March on Washington for Gaza. One song, added on the day of the protest, is titled “FREE PALESTINE.” It is a short song that manages to pack multiple blood libels and death wishes to Israel in less than three minutes. The most repeated line is “Fuck Israel, Israel a bitch.” Other lyrics include:”
https://www.thefp.com/p/rama-duwaji-new-york-city-first-lady
CWAC
“After The Washington Free Beacon uncovered Duwaji’s old social media accounts in which she reposted content in support of Palestinian violence”
Someone not liking Israel doesn’t bother me. The call for it’s destruction and to kill Jews is the thing that does worry me. That is because the vast majority of people are not just saying they don’t like Israel: they are calling for it’s destruction and the extermination of Jews when they think they can say so without consequences.
“NYC construction worker and wife sue over claims his freak PORTA POTTY accident ruined their sex life”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15819277/NYC-construction-workers-PORTA-POTTY-sex-life.html
STIJLTH
Freak porta potty accident? I am afraid to ask…
He sat down in one.
Pshew.. I thought he was getting head and someone tipped it causing a biting accident..
This video popped up in my playlist this AM. At first I thought, “oh no, another hippy in front of a mixing console”.
It was a pleasant surprise. It is both well produced and informative. If you have the slightest interest in how modern mixing tools have gone from useful to abuse the section on “Tuning and Timing” is probably one of the best demonstrations of what happens to create the robot music of today I’ve seen.
The Reason Why Older Records Sound Better
Just the tuning and timing section
Older records sound better because people could play instruments.
Exactly. Because you couldn’t fix in post. You had to play it right and you also only had a finite number of tracks.
the era of cassettes was peak music
CD pre-loudness wars.
I recently rewatched the video on the making of 10CC’s “I’m Not in Love”.
Old school technology producing a one-of-a-kind track.
Michael 🇪🇺🌺
@Antikeburg
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We must see Europe as a mother and our nations as its children
Daniel Hannan
@DanielJHannan
Where have I seen something like this before?
https://x.com/DanielJHannan/status/2055195672362590366
First, No.
Second, it’s long past time for the children to leave the nest and put the mother in a home for dementia patients.
Those images are all nice.. They should have had a devil forking the fools in hell as that was a better illustration of what is happening…
Is the top image of the post card real?
I know the bottom is as I remember seeing it years ago.
I believe it is
No. No I don’t.
Happy Friday, all! I’ve got today and then my first actual weekend in idk how long. Perhaps I had one or two in Jan/Feb, but that was unemployment time, and those desperate days aren’t Days Off, as Pash KKatel reminded us yesterday. After today, I theoretically have eight days of this contract left, but we’ll see how that goes.
Onward, merry pranksters. Added art to a new piece to be submitted after work today, about my latest adventure in the Meijer ecosphere.
The Slackers – Everyday is Sunday (When You’re Unemployed).
Chinese diver Quan Hongchan, 17, barely splashed after her dive and the jump was rated as perfect.
https://x.com/Thebestfigen/status/2054975024923361630
Wow.
In the past these clips of Chinese swimmers always was about the bulges in their pants and the male physique they all had…
“police arrest man who is bleeding to death because the stabber claimed he was racist”
its literally impossible to satirize the UK anymore. even the most extreme, hamfisted memes are just real things that actually happen now
https://x.com/Slatzism/status/2054979063219941644
I like how the mom is also on trial for trying to hide the murderer’s “ceremonial blade”.
“Frankenstein is ‘super transphobic and problematic’, a non-binary director has claimed.
Jane Schoenbrun, an American filmmaker, said the classic gothic novel written over 200 years ago is ‘transphobic’ because it is about ‘a constructed body’, referring to the portrayal of Frankenstein’s Monster.
In an interview about their latest project, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a satirical romantic drama slasher, Schoenbrun said adaptations of Frankenstein are an example of how older horror films feature ‘trans monsters’.
They told the Hollywood Reporter: ‘This image of the trans monster kept coming up, whether that be Norman Bates or Buffalo Bill or Frankenstein as a constructed body, and there was this lineage of trans people having really complicated feelings about those movies.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15820167/Frankenstein-transphobic-non-binary-director-claims.html
CWAA
People with nothing better to do than to look for new ways to be offended are so tiresome.
No great work from western civilization will go without some freaks ruining them…
look at me look at me give me publicity cause I am shitty at what I do
Stop giving people who spout gibberish like this any attention, the media.
“Frankenstein is ‘super transphobic and problematic’, a non-binary director has claimed.
(outright, prolonged laughter)
“Despite Presidents historically avoiding domestic political hits while abroad, Trump also took time during the interview to slam Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden – and reveal the new nickname he had for their party.
‘I came up with a new name,’ Trump said, adding that he wasn’t sure if he should share it.
He then did.
‘Dumacrats,’ he said. ‘Because they’re dumb, they’re dumb. It’s d-u-m. I got rid of the B. So, you’re only changing one letter, right? E goes and the U comes.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15819893/donald-trump-xi-jinping-iran-nuclear-democrats.html
You can’t spell cum without the U son he’s right there.
What about governors who aspire to be king?
Still OK for them to go overseas and disparage America right?
I would like to make this dude an honorary Glib.
Love King Walz telling him that his security is about to cuff and stuff him if he keeps bugging him.
LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/2055081271080911291
You’ll have to take my tongs from my cold, dead hand.
They absolutely hate people just trying to live the American dream…
“Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman wanted to ban backyard barbecues for residents during certain high fire danger days across the city.
Raman introduced a motion Wednesday directing city officials to examine emergency restrictions on grilling during Red Flag Warning days, when high winds and dry conditions significantly increase wildfire danger across Los Angeles.
The proposal specifically asks officials to consider possible limits on backyard barbecues, fire pits and other open flames in residential neighborhoods during those high-risk weather events.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/us-news/la-mayoral-hopeful-nithya-raman-proposes-backyard-bbq-ban/
So not as retarded
Notice they do not want to actually do the work to clean up the material that can burn… No they want to inconvenience the regulars so they can keep pleasing the fucking environuts.
And these crooks still act as if the fires that wrecked the city happened because of climate shit instead of because of an arsonist leftist tool all crazy about environmentalism.
Still retarded.
How many fires have actually been started by people barbecuing or even using fire pits? Especially compared to fires started by homeless people and druggies?
It’s Nithya Raman. “Not at all retarded” would violate the laws of physics.
Retarded ideas feel like genius to retarded voters…
Cook up her sacred cows.
There was a six year local lawsuit about a back yard pizza oven.
Is this another example of Lenin’s claim the capitalists will sell the commies the rope to hang the capitalists with?
Seriously, it’s like we keep ignoring the lessons indicating we need to not only decouple from the CCP China, but start treating them like they are at war with us, because they have been at war with us since Tiananmen. Yes, we played the CCP spies and had them steal our F-35 stuff and piss away billions on the non stealth J-20 (and there are tons of such other stories), and China still can’t manufacture complex aircraft engines (especially the military use ones), so why do we keep helping them get there.
It’s possible it’s civilian aviation.
Our civilian aircraft engines are better than their most advanced military ones.
Yes. But it’s not like they can’t obtain them covertly.
Their super duper current generation fighter has engines that need frequent overhaul compared to the US. It doesn’t get much play in MSM of course.
Russians have the same issues and the Chinese designs are based on them. I assume they’ve both stolen the metallurgy at this point, but for whatever reason can’t duplicate it at scale.
Stealing low tech shit and replicating it is easy. Doing it with super high tech if you have not put in the effort to get there yourself, seems to so far have never panned out. That is why China cant do aircraft/rocket engines, radar, or military grade chips. Yes Taiwan is about Xi’s ego, but also cause they NEED that 3nm or less chip capability to really compete. I would not at all be surprised those extra “commercial” engines end up in military aircraft. They would be more reliable and perform better than the CCP’s best military home grown crap.
When I worked in China 20 years ago, we had to de-rate their A36 steel by 30% for engineering calculations. It was that bad.
Chinese Chip Maker SMIC’s Profit Misses Market Expectations
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/chinese-chip-maker-smics-profit-misses-market-expectations-38e19b7b?st=owNvnG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkhttps://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/chinese-chip-maker-smics-profit-misses-market-expectations-38e19b7b?st=owNvnG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There is a reason he brought dozens of plutocrats along for the ride.
Boing, loral.
Don’t give them access to anything.
“Feminist comic Margaret Cho says she turned down a plum part in HBO’s smash hit Heated Rivalry over fears she would be detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Cho, 57, made the claim on the I Never Liked You podcast last week, despite being born in San Francisco. She blamed her outspoken hatred for Donald Trump as to why she would ever be on the agency’s radar.”
She first explained how the show she received a script for was ‘shot in Canada’.
‘I was, like, so scared because I’m so vocal about hating ICE and hating this administration.
‘I was like, “I will get detained at the border and I will be put in ICE detention if I go.””
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15816881/margaret-cho-heated-rivalry-role-fears-ice.html
Perfectly reasonable.
LOOK AT ME!!!
No thanks. :-p
Why would anybody object to that?
‘Yimby’ Has Arrived in Illinois, and Some Cities Don’t Like It
I thought people were fleeing Illinois.
Only the bad people
Transferring control is not less control.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Friday Funbags capping off a ridiculously busy week before the next ridiculously busy week starts.
https://archive.is/ouGRZ
If there’s anything worth going into debt for, it’s this.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/sexy-girlfriend-rewards-threesomes-buy-37113557
We all pay for sex…
Regular Car Reviews on the 2008 Toyota Tacoma.
Don’t people like this eventually end up hooked on drugs or something?
https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/us-news/mississippi-teen-jimmy-chilimigras-becomes-youngest-law-degree-graduate-in-louisiana-state-history/
Seems like a lot of these prodigy stories end poorly.
Hopefully he didn’t get his JD here…..
Ate Twitter videos mute for anyone else but me?
Threedoor:
What browser?
In Chrome (Version 148.0.7778.97 on Windows 10), X videos default to muted, but I can unmute them and get audio.
They come up muted. You will need to stop the feed and verify the sound is on then press play again. I think that is how it works if you do not have an account with X.
“On Sunday, May 17, the White House will kick off the celebrations of the nation’s 250th anniversary with an alarming event: Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving, an all-day prayer festival featuring administration officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/15/the-christian-right-hijacks-americas-250th/
Alarming!
“It sends a message that the government that’s supposed to be of, by and for the people actually agrees with the speakers that huge swaths of Americans — including women, immigrants, LGBTQ people and advocates for racial equality — do not count as full citizens.”
Who pays attention to this shit anymore?
It is a known fact that Christians hate women, immigrants, LGBTQ people and advocates for racial equality.
I hate commies and grifters….
Well given that 60 percent of democrats are not proud/happy to be American, who the fuck is going to fill the void?
Which is a huge void in the 250th year of our country. I expected to see 250 stuff everywhere and people running around in American Flag apparel all the time.
Like the 200th which I barely sorta remember.
No, this time it will be antifa rioting in the streets and millions of illegals the Dems let in proclaiming their hatred for America.
I thought it was incredibly stupid for Texas to start this as anyone with half a brain could tell it was going to turn into an arms race. However, if it keeps the Commies out for another couple of years I guess I’m happy-ish with it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/15/democrats-losing-redistricting-wars-midterms-virginia-maryland-trump/90043007007/
However, there’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube now and I expect permanent out-of-cycle fuckery until the Republic collapses.
Texas didn’t start it, it has been going on for a while.
The People’s Republic of CT did this more than a decade ago. A state with 40+% non democrats have ZERO districts where they will not be trounced by democrats. By design. And practically the entire NE is like that…. But hey, republicans are bad for finally fighting back…
The claim is that mid-census redistricting is more badful wrongpolitk than rational, sensible, post-census gerrymandering.
Except, of course, when New York did it after 2022.
That wasn’t gerrymandering, that was strengthening voting rights protections!
I’m not arguing that the “old” system wasn’t fucked, only that this new incarnation is even more fucked. States will be redrawing lines every year to stay ahead of the House elections and there will be even more intrusive monitoring of race, spending habits, digital activity, etc. to try and get lines down to individual houses for maximum predictability. At least with the old system, it was only every 10 years.
It was inevitable because the Constitution left it wide open. The every 10 years thing was never more than a gentleman’s agreement – just like the number of SCOTUS judges.
I believe Texas stated that their redistricting was a direct result of Joe letting in millions of illegals in order to increase Dem representation so yeah, Texas didn’t start it.
I’m done listening to people who support states that have 100% D representation despite voting 40% R bitch about gerrymandering. They can fuck all the way off.
Why change peoples’ minds through policy and debate when you can create fiefdoms.
“Demi Moore’s Shocking Red Carpet Appearance Sums Up Hollywood’s Twisted Culture”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/13/demi-moore-cannes-red-carpet-celebrities-hollywood-aging/
“Demi Moore has a ‘greater appreciation’ for her body after subjecting it to ‘torture’ at start of career”
https://pagesix.com/2026/05/14/celebrity-news/demi-moore-has-greater-apprecation-for-her-body-after-early-career-pressures/
The duality of man.
Apparently we’ve moved from heroin chic to Holocaust chic.
😱
“Minnesota Tax Committee Chair Rep. Aisha Gomez Screams at GOP Rep. to “Go F*cking Shoot Yourself” During Gun Control Meltdown – GOP Leaders Demand She Be Stripped of Power
Multiple Democrat lawmakers in the Minnesota House of Representatives yelled “go f-cking shoot yourself” at Republican Rep. Elliott Engen as they staged a dramatic sit-in on the House floor to force a vote on one of the most aggressive gun control packages in the country.
The meltdown took place on Thursday, after the House deadlocked 67-67 along party lines on a procedural vote to bring the Senate-passed gun control omnibus bill, House File 5140, to the floor for debate.
Democrats responded by refusing to leave the chamber and staging a sit-in, demanding an immediate vote on the sweeping legislation that has been called the “most extreme gun-grabbing bill in the country.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-unhinged-minnesota-democrat-screams-go-f-cking/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/minnesota-tax-committee-chair-rep-aisha-gomez-screams/
She looks like a man.
Why do Minnesota Republicans hate utopia?
These days that probably means xe is one.
They GOP dude that they were screaming at prefers to ride dirty and drunk.
You ain’t wrong.
He’s such an optimist.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/13/why-california-elites-refuse-reality/
Dumbass humans doing dumbass human shit will always win out. Most of the world is a shithole and a good chunk of that is democratically elected. Californians (or Americans more generally) are not different or special; they’ll vote to make a place a shithole just like everyone else. His claim that “it can’t go on” is disproven every single day around the world.
“A special education instructor placed on paid leave for allegedly abusing an autistic third-grader was elected president of the Seattle teachers’ union on Friday.
Ibijoke Idowu-Holiday, a former Black Lives Matter organizer and special education teacher at Rising Star Elementary, won the election to lead the union representing 6,000 staffers in the Seattle Public Schools system….
In December 2025, Idowu was placed on leave following allegations that she abused an autistic child in her classroom. A complaint was filed with the district after the third-grader’s parents saw bruises the size of an adult’s fingertips in October and December….
“Alleged physical abuse of a third-grade student with autism, including leaving fingertip-sized bruises and throwing a marker at the student’s head, causing injury to face and glasses. Additional allegations include grabbing students by the arm, causing pain.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/us-news/teacher-suspended-for-allegedly-abusing-autistic-student-elected-seattle-teachers-union-president/
The important qualification is that she is a black woman leftist.
Just trying to hold a sister down. Still, not a good look but the people don’t care. They will piss and moan and still send their little rugrats to the schools with the most abusive class of people lording over their children.
If anybody was really serious about housing cost and supply they would start by getting rid of the “universal building code” or whatever it’s called. Allow innovation and flexibility.
Life in Hell begins on Monday.
Best news yet. I will be in the same open cluster as my new boss. What a great opportunity to shine.
Does your boss approve of the open office plan?
He finds it “energizing”.
You will get used to it.
Wait for your first conference call…
Ugh…find a quiet room for those. Nothing more annoying on a meeting than the one person where anytime they open their mic you hear the whole floor of people in the background.
We don’t have enough space. Headsets for everyone!
Furthermore, “Telling women to avoid vocal fry to protect their careers [and] social perception puts the burden on speakers rather than challenging listeners’ biases, and that framing does real harm.”
Sure.
TW – Ars
Men use “vocal fry” more than women, counter to stereotype
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/men-use-vocal-fry-more-than-women-counter-to-stereotype/
What populations were they observing? Or did they skip that part and ask AI to write them a paper?
My biases are the product of forty years of observation and analysis. They don’t need to be challenged, especially not by this class of morons.
Good.
I had a boss a couple of year ago that spoke in a monotone vocal fry no-stop. Drove me bonkers.
Spectacular!
“Because they forgot to stop recording the Teams meeting in which they were fired.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fired-hacker-twins-forget-to-end-teams-recording-capture-own-crimes/
Pound-them-in-the-ass prison for these idiots, please.
I don’t care what you think about CAIR, here in Minnesoda they are doing Allah’s work.
The head of CAIR here is so wonderful that he doesn’t even want to take credit for $110K worth of charity work he has done!
Uffda. She seems to not have a very good grasp on Minnesoda Nice