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“US Carries Out Defensive Strikes in Iran, Strait of Hormuz”
defensive?
They lob drones. US hits the C&C location they’ve identified for the drones.
It’s semantics of course.
…wat?
Someone smack the social media interns.
Trump saw it on the gorilla channel.
Just seems bananas to me, but I suppose they’ll keep aping it up.
Lol, that’s a golden throwback to his first admin.
Let ’em troll.
We had tits out for trannys at the White House under Biden. No reason not to have socks out for Harambe under Trump.
Where’s the Peanut statue? Peanut’s demise helped Trump get elected.
https://x.com/oldeworldorder/status/2059782796747423940
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin?
“The Dollar Tree first announced plans in 2024 to close nearly 1,000 underperforming Family Dollar stores as inflation and reduced government assistance programs continued squeezing lower-income shoppers.”
What reduced government assistance?
More like reduced customers. They got deported.
There haven’t been enough deportations.
I was going to guess changing culture.
Bean counters, this store is “underperforming” so we’re going to close it. Lego corps do dumb stuff, even if a location makes a profit they will close one because it dosent make ‘enough.’ They fail to understand that the presence of the store is competitive and is advertising for the brand. Pull a location out of an area and the public will no longer see the sign, they won’t think of you at all.
I’m guessing not being able to use SNAP for candy/soda is the government assistance angle.
Interesting thought.
Has that actually happened?
I think it’s a state by state decision, but Texas has restricted it.
And TX has the highest number of store closures per the article.
The problem with the Dollar stores is that everything is more than a dollar now.
Dollar General seems to do well around here in out of the way places. A general store when not worth driving all the way to a supermarket or Walmart.
Jill Biden Thought Husband Was Having Stroke During Disastrous 2024 Debate
Waffle House will cure strokes.
So naturally she called 911, right?
I’d pay money to watch that.
Of course she did. She:s a Doctor isn’t she?
“Jill Biden said, “I wasn’t horrified, I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never.”
Everyone else did.
I was scared because the cat was now out of the bag and I was about to lose my position as puppet handler.
For two decades at least.
Old people are tuned in to the symptoms. We carefully pay attention to our fewer and fewer friend circle. Even today I was thinking of 2 old buddies from years gone by, we’ve been in contact (a lot) over the years but most recently the emails have trailed off. They won’t initiate any, will respond but minimally. I know why.
The head and the fingers don’t coordinate so well any more.
Now I have to go to work.
“The First Amendment is pretty important, that’s why we listed it as the First Amendment”
——–
Thank you Rand Paul, this simple point isn’t mentioned enough and can never be mentioned too often.
The second amendment is also important, which is why it is listed right after the first.
Oh no. It’s second because it’s a second class right.
The First Amendment was the third of twelve proposed in the Bill of Rights. The first proposed was never ratified. The second was ratified as the 27th Amendment.
To Save Liberals’ Favorite Censorship Agency
Damn that Thomas Massie for not playing nice with Trump and the House leadership!!!
“Carroll accused Trump in a civil case of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in 1996 and later defaming her by dismissing her claims as a “hoax.” A jury sided with Carroll in 2023, awarding her $5 million.”
I don’t think she could say what year.
Anyway, that you can sue someone for denying an accusation is bullshit.
Kafka trap?
She couldn’t say what year, that’s correct. The reason she likely wouldn’t name a date is because Trump’s comings and goings are meticulously tracked being who he is, and if she named a date the Trump organization might have been able to show Trump wasn’t even in town at that time.
You must believe all women. Calling her a liar is a crime. How hard is that to understand?
🥴
Unless you were molested by Biden at a DNC conference and immediately reported the incident.
White House Honors ‘Legend’ Harambe the Gorilla: ‘True Patriot’
I don’t care who you are this is funny right here. DICKS OUT FOR HARAMBE
You are trying to see Trump’s dick?
We have to to prove Jean Carrol lied.
He just misses Nixon. He’s tricky that way.
I don’t even remember WTF that was all about.
“Dramatic video shows a garbage truck driver going off on anti-ICE protesters outside Newark’s Delaney Hall immigration center after they blocked him from carrying out his work — as Antifa thugs battled agents on yet another night of chaos.
“If I hit one of y’all, I go to jail,” the infuriated driver yelled at the demonstrators Wednesday night in the video from Freedom News.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/28/us-news/truck-driver-goes-off-on-delaney-hall-anti-ice-protesters-after-they-block-him-from-doing-his-job-as-antifa-thugs-battle-agents/
Rerun was pissed.
He’s driving a garbage truck. He was equipped to take out that trash.
He didn’t want to go to jail.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Profa ganged up on him in jail to try to harm him.
Three hots, a cot and all the sex you could ever want. Prison sounds great.
LOL – now the music is running through my head
The governor is of course encouraging the Islamist/commie rabble in their “resist” cosplay.
Big Studios Are Ditching Hollywood for New Jersey’s Lavish Tax Breaks
As film and TV production plummets elsewhere, the Garden State is rolling out the red carpet for companies like Netflix
How come other employers in NJ don’t get to enjoy the same “tax breaks”. What makes Big Studios special? (Rhetorical question.)
Anybody who has experienced a film or TV shoot knows what an absolute PITA they are. They’ve shot in my town and the next town over as well as by my offices in NYC. They are **** ing awful. They block whole streets with production vehicles and the crews cars block more streets in the suburbs.
And let’s not forget the catering, dressing and toilets. For a union gig the lasts all of 30 seconds on screen you are going to get all three of those trucks on site. You can’t say a line without a catering truck!
However, to anybody that hasn’t experienced this its seems so cool! There will be stars! Wow!
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/new-jersey-film-location-ef282a06?st=878fPn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There are plenty of people that won’t mind the inconvenience because there are CELEBRITIES present!!! They might even get to SEE one!!!
Me being made late for class; never even saw any celebrities.
Various TV shows used to film on my street all the time in Bay Ridge. I’ve seen exactly what you describe.
When the Sopranos was current I saw Federico Castellucio (Furio) on my sidewalk because they were filming on my street that day.
But how else will I see Cleveland destroyed on the big screen?
Have you seen the “viral” video of Cleveland being destroyed on the small screen? Whee!
rhywun:
I had not. But looking at where it is, it’s not surprising. It’s between Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland. Heights has been in a slow decline for decades, East Cleveland is… well… East Cleveland.
My thoughts went here first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtEpqlrwX5c&list=RDNtEpqlrwX5c&start_radio=1
The defenders, who are wrong, but believe it is a good thing would say:
1) increases tourism by raising awareness of the locale in the public consciousness
2) provides jobs, many of which are union, and helps local business/hotels/restaurants while the clown show is in town.
3) subsidies partially offset by sales and income taxes paid by cast and crew while in town.
4) If you subsidize enough, you can become like Georgia and actual post production and editing, as well as indoor film studios will be relocated to your state.
All are BS and easily disproved.
Interestingly – in the article it shows the decline in GA productions.
“Texas news anchor under fire for bizarre ‘Death to America’ joke over BTS-themed Oreos on live TV”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/28/media/texas-news-anchor-james-eppler-under-fire-for-bizarre-death-to-america-joke-over-bts-themed-oreos-on-live-tv/
STIJLTH
BTS is the more offensive part of that.
Someone posted something about that product yesterday, I thought it read “BITS”. Now I know it’s even stupider than I could have possibly guessed.
Sorry… that was me. Popped up in my Asian news feed.
Decades of studies on publication bias, replication failures and political bias in the social sciences have shown that peer-reviewed papers are often less reliable than the public assumes. John Ioannidis’s famous 2005 paper, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,” remains disturbing because its basic insight about the fallibility of medical research remains true. In fields that rely heavily on narrative or qualitative methods, or that touch on politicized topics (as much social science does), ideology influences which questions are asked and which conclusions are professionally acceptable.
Did you know that water is wet?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-way-to-challenge-the-groupthink-of-scholarly-journals-8e59b215?st=UQHb7e&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My favorite paper.
Did you know that water is wet?
There are papers that claim otherwise.
This $1.995M Texas Ranch Has a Private 10-Acre Lake
Property highlights:
• 72± acres in Bosque County, Texas
• Private 10± acre lake
• Excellent wildlife habitat
• Great fishing and waterfowl potential
• Ranch house and improvements
• Convenient access near Hico, Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTfnnT-Nw_Y
one the one hand it does have a lake. on the other it has gooses which I understand are a negative
It’s geese you silly European.
I saw swans in Germany. Do you have geese there? I’m assuming they are a northern hemisphere thing and not just North America.
yes we have gooses. and ducks and swans. and too many fucking coots and cormorants.
I’ve never eaten goose.
I imagine they taste like grass.
it is leaner and slightly tougher than duck but tasty. you need to cook it a bit less though. I go med rare on duck breast but more rare-ish on goose.
both roast goose and roast duck are great over cabbage.
Duck is rich. Nice flavor.
I’ll have to kill and eat a Canadian now.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PuUsTKUr8y4HXBPa6
Duck *is* rich….
*domestic goose tbh
Gooses! Geeses!
I want a bean feast!
My childhood hero Ted.
I once collected a gallon of pennies and spread them about. 231 cubic inches is about $65. Not enough to even get your toes wet though.
[ gooses Pie? ]
goose pie is not a thing in Romania. We roast goose over cabbage.
What about a pie with 24 blackbirds?
that will be 5 pounds
That’s pretty cool, and in a rational price range. Looks like the lake is a retired quarry/man made but who cares it’s cool. You could absolutely lease out camping spots on the peninsulas that go into the lake.
Cute yard, adult trees, looks like the house dosent need much.
Nice.
“A Canadian doctor euthanized a 45-year-old patient suffering from inflammatory bowel disease and depression after a quick assessment outside a Tim Hortons, according to officials.
Dr. James MacLean, from London, Ontario, was investigated following allegations he improperly administered Canada’s controversial Medical Assistance in Dying to Thomas Dillon, the National Post reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/world-news/canada-doctor-euthanizes-man-after-evaluation-at-tim-hortons/
WTF, Canada?
and depression
No Timbits it would seem.
I understand the doctor got reprimanded via a verbal warning not to do it again so it is ok.
Look, we need you to seek out and off the expensive medical cases but be a little more discrete will ya?
Soon MAID will be conveniently offered at more businesses.
How sad that Canadian doctors can’t afford offices and have to practice in parking lots.
Hell, who says that the Tim Hortons even had a parking lot? He may have offed the guy behind the Drive-Thru menu.
Some doctors like to watch people die.
We joke, but just like giving people a badge, gun, and qualified immunity can attract a certain element to law enforcement, giving a license to kill with little oversight to the medical profession may also start to attract a certain element.
Kevorkian always creeped me the fuck out.
Building Rube Goldberg suicide machines isn’t normal?
Why Almost Nobody Lives in Southern Illinois Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLPsBltilpY
Fuck Southern Illinois. All my homies hate Southern Illinois.
Salukis have a sad….
Chicago taxes and gun laws in a rural setting. No thanks.
According to an estimate from 2025, the U.S. has the capacity to build up to 100,000 drones a year. Ukraine, as one counterpoint, built about four million last year. The drone industry has persistently blamed the Defense Department for not buying enough drones to fund future production.
Making drones is less profitable and fun compared to nuclear battleships that can go way overbudget and fail to fulfill fantasies.
Exhibit A – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship
The Trump Administration Is in Talks to Fund U.S. Drone Companies
Neros and Donald Trump Jr.-linked Unusual Machines are among companies in deal talks
Naturally!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-us-drone-company-funding-cadef1f7?st=qG9D44&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
How many of them did we pay for?
And how many times did we pay for the same ones over and over?
“The Dark World Of Celebrity Trans Kids”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4gFONy6uok
Apparently, it’s progressive to kidnap African boys and make them wear dresses.
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15854367/Jennifer-Lopez-emotional-twins-moving-away-college.html
No mention of the trans thing.
This is a one way ticket to Valhalla
https://x.com/valkmommy_brynn/status/2059706337928585595
Thicc?
Not really, just big in all directions.
NEW: Italy’s Supreme Court has ruled that a five-star hotel in the Dolomites acted within the law when it refused to serve free tap water to a tourist
The woman unsuccessfully argued that “water is a natural resource and a universal human right” after a waiter offered her €7 (£6) bottled mineral water instead of tap water
https://x.com/PolitlcsGlobal/status/2059587019060179113
To be fair free tap water is a weird american thing the European mind cannot comprehend
Europeans also don’t comprehend putting ice in a glass of water.
why would you do that?
to make the water cold.
I’d do the wine for €6.
I don’t drink tap water either.
I prefer Mexican sparkling water. Although I will accept Italian sparking water if that’s all that’s available.
We all know what bottled water means.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E63uhIAYY2g&ra=m
I’ll drink water if they provide it but I would never ask for it myself. I think I have heard that after the vid destroyed the restaurant industry and the level of service has collapsed, a lot of them aren’t even offering it anymore.
Here in America, we do this thing called water purification. It means the water that comes out of the tap is both potable, and generally exceptionally clean to drink. This may not hold true in Democrat controlled cities.
+1 Flint
I’ll say one thing… the water in NYC was a lot cleaner than the water here in Ithaca. Anything I rinse out and air dry has spots on it.
hard water isn’t unclean water.
Sounds like the water was softer in NYC, not necessarily “cleaner”. Hard water generally comes from wells, soft water from reservoirs.
rhwun/R C Dean:
Yeah, we’ve got hard water here in Cleveland. Spots and scaling are expected.
Fine. I still don’t drink it.
Nobody is stopping her from drinking out of any naturally occurring body of water. Knock yourself out, sweetie.
Yep.
They cry “Water is a human right” because they’re too stupid to separate water itself from the means to move it where it needs to go and make sure it’s drinkable.
THICC Thursday rolls on!
https://archive.is/1pbPq
“Jimmy Kimmel puts politics aside to honor longtime friend Adam Carolla at Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15854053/Jimmy-Kimmel-Adam-Carolla-Hollywood-Walk-Fame-star.html
Adam Carolla gets a star but the article is about Jimmy Kimmel?
Congratulations, Adam
Adam says icky things but we have a quota and have to keep Hollywood relevant – so toss in someone we like to frame the article.
I probably got about 85% of that right
The “star” thing is a bit of a scam – you or someone else pays for it and they let you get one.
“A Florida police officer issued a ticket to an amputee for apparently holding her phone in a hand she does not have.
Kathleen Thomas, 36, was pulled over on a highway and accused of having driven ‘holding the phone with your right hand, manipulating that phone,’ according to bodycam footage.
But as soon as the county sheriff said that, Thomas held up her right arm, showing a stump where her limb would be and laughing hysterically.
‘Obviously not,’ she said, still cracking up. ‘So you want to just call this a day or?’
However, the officer did not budge while Thomas insisted that he could not have seen her holding a phone in her right hand.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15854365/woman-ticket-texting-driving-one-hand-video.html
CWAA
Some people will take extreme measures to get out of a ticket …
The ticket would cost her an arm *and* a leg.
Republicans Shill for Solar Subsidies
Tim Pawlenty was against them in 2012. Now he’ll head the industry association.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/republicans-shill-for-solar-subsidies-84622475?st=Lk1EAF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Hey, $20 is still $20!
Bu will it put the trades on the credit card?
Robinhood Markets is launching a new feature that lets customers hand their trading and credit-card purchasing decisions to their favorite artificial-intelligence tools.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/robinhood-lets-customers-use-ai-to-trade-stocks-make-credit-card-purchases-f28467ed?st=oPQkws&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No
Hey ChatGPT, who’s going to win the Superbowl this year?
/places bet
/sues ChatGPT when the Browns lose
“What weekend cocaine is really doing to your gut: Truth about ‘high-functioning’ users, risks of casual use and why they hit women hardest”
https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-15850805/weekend-cocaine-gut-risks-nutritionist-Faye-James.html
https://archive.fo/flOr5
No mention of how it effects men or how it hits women hardest.
I don’t snort coke so it isn’t doing anything to my gut.
Freebasing might do the same thing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3dLazmxZw
So today’s my first day in “Receiving” at Meijer. Should be interesting. I’m guessing a day of shadowing and disappointment our lunch is only 30min. Took care of mandatory bs stuff online yesterday, so it should be, hopefully, a pretty seamless day.
I hope they don’t have work for me and put me back on Returns, shimmying shit back to its rightful spot in the store. The shuffle continues. This evening, the 5yo will be back in all his hilarity, and with my next (unscheduled?) shift popped in next Thurs, I should have a few days to relax and reorganize my thoughts.
Happy hunting, y’all. Ducks, bees, pheasants, ice cream, whatever.
“Antisemitism has been an essential ideological component behind white supremacist attacks at mosques, retail establishments frequented by African Americans and Latinos, gay bars and schools.”
What?
The projection is strong here.
Naturally, they provide a list of these attacks, yes?
Who has an Xbox?
Trying to log in and all I get is a spinning wheel.
I had to update the console and now I can’t get online.
It made me sign in using my phone as I couldn’t remember my password so I don’t know if that’s the problem. I’ve only ever had it online two or three times.
I do. No problems with it at all.
I had to google how to reset my password on my phone. Start the process. It told me I couldn’t use an old password so I tried it on the Xbox and it worked.
Like turning it off and turning it back on again.
We get our internet through the telegraph wires.
Some times the injuns cut it. Last time they did that it killed my well controller and cost me $1300.
I only have an Xbox controller. No issues with it.
My son went thru this yesterday. It eventually worked.
I have the previous generation that I don’t use much and nothing recent will run on it anyway. I only keep it around because some of my bluray discs won’t play on my all-region player but will play on the Xbox.
We have two of those.
Now that they are no longer supported I’m kicking myself for not geting them online and updating them.
My annoying commie take is that “late stage capitalism” is meaningless theory slop that doesn’t actually describe a qualitatively new stage of capitalism and tries to replace the use of “monopoly-capitalism” because the latter has actual explanatory power.
https://x.com/chimeraxmachina/status/2059835117510578425
question: is there such as thing as non-annoying commie take?
Dead commies aren’t annoying….
Correct assessment and no. There is not.
The only good thing that commies have done is kill 100,000,000 other commies.
Why does Sting look like the head of a planetary council in a science fiction film
https://x.com/hering_david/status/2059894985512595811
I mean, he was a Na-Baron.
Because he is?
Because he is.
Well, I have a meeting over the lunch hour. So, I’ll be in and out of the comments when my post lands at 11 am CDT.
11 am CDT – stop talking gibberish
Sorry, I struggle with the conversion to Vampire Standard Time.
It’s 7am.
Must control my blood pressure…. Would you like 10,000 words on farm welfare queen Beth Ford’s rise to Land O’Lakes and the plight of the farmer?
Beth Ford Wants You to Know That American Farmers Are in Crisis
From food insecurity to severe labor shortages, the agricultural sector is reeling. Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford says it’s time for America to wake up and take action.
I managed the first 25% of the article.
https://www.wsj.com/business/beth-ford-wants-you-to-know-that-american-farmers-are-in-crisis-1385c66f?st=ovqSUr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Must control my blood pressure – try one bottle of red wine.
But the headache…
Farms should have no debt.
They are almost all multigenerational enterprises that get fantastic tax breaks.
Stop buying stupid shit, looking at you F450 king ranch.
Oh goddammit.
Yesterday I had all sorts of shit to deal with, and I made the fatal mistake of trusting my coworkers’ troubleshooting. I packaged up the files they had generated while I was out experiencing the joie de BLAM! and forwarded them onto the tool make in Germany. Overnight I got a response of basically “WTF? This is a sensor error, why did you showed us pictures of a valve? So now I look like an incompetent. I went into the lab, actually looked at the tool and after literally 15 seconds of observation and pushing an optical fiber back in place, problem solved! But… now management is being all pissy about why I didn’t do this yesterday.
The moral of the story: never trust anyone.
“What was I doing yesterday? Working on what you told me was the high priority, that’s what.”
Never trust lock out tags.
““Citizens United said, ‘Hey, if you’re a corporation that is empowered to spend in politics, your right to spend independently in politics can’t be infringed,’” Moore said. “Fine. What this [Hawaiian law] does is say, ‘You know, we’re not going to create that kind of corporation anymore. We’re going to create the kind of corporation that doesn’t have any political spending powers.’ Citizens United and all the other campaign finance cases that the courts have ever decided do not speak to that.””
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/28/a-battle-over-dark-money-is-brewing-in-hawaii-and-montana/
Good luck with that.
Not having read the law, it sounds like Hawaii is saying that the corporations it charters will not be allowed to spend on politics. Which, who knows, may work.
What Hawaii can’t do is tell corporations chartered in other states that they can’t spend money on politics. Which makes this yet another exercise in pointless political virtue signalling.
It’s also bullshit. So the pineapple company has deep pockets and provides a lot of jobs, Hawaii politicians propose a law that will royally fuck over the pineapple company and lead to layoffs, and the pineapple company can’t explain their opposition to said law because it is “political speech”.
The pineapple company has already largely abandoned Hawaii.
But yeah, the law is bullshit.
Government can go F itself.
Seeing how Zverev screws this one up is going to be epic.
Who?
Ask Rhywun.
Tennis.
Just heard Sinner (#1 mens player) got heat-stroke or something and crashed out.
“Climate change!!!”
It’s like you’re reading every commentator’s mind.
“A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh nicknamed “Donald Trump” for its distinctive blond tuft has been spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice after a last-minute government intervention, according to a home ministry official.
The nearly 700kg (1,543lb) animal had already been sold for ritual slaughter when authorities stepped in, citing security concerns after a surge of public interest before Thursday’s festival.
The minister of home affairs, Salahuddin Ahmed, ordered the buffalo be spared, the buyer refunded, and the animal moved to the national zoo in Dhaka. “At the last moment, the decision was taken to spare the buffalo from sacrifice due to security concerns and the unusual level of public interest,” a ministry official said.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/blond-bangladeshi-buffalo-nicknamed-donald-trump-saved-from-eid-sacrifice
A big beautiful buffalo, sixteen hundred pounds, I say it’s even bigger, over a ton, the biggest and best buffalo ever, many people are saying this.
Why is it some countries seem to really get how, let’s say, get along with Trump and others are too stupid to do so?
Breitbart headline: “Another attempt by Muslims to Kill Donald Trump!”
“Last week we had an omen…”
Great White Buffalo – Ted Nugent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZwS0ZonEU
Yet another reason not to have JavaScript on as a default.
Unlike previous contention side-channel attacks on SSDs, FROST runs exclusively in the browser. It uses JavaScript that interacts with the OPFS (origin private file system), an allocated storage space that’s reserved for a specific site to run code needed to complete a given task. Websites can create one with no interaction required by the visitor.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/
“The strange surveilled life of Piper Rockelle: why did a former child influencer decide to go on OnlyFans?”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/28/piper-rockelle-former-child-influencer-onlyfans
Money.
“She doesn’t want to have pictures taken at her real home, elsewhere in the city, because she has four dogs and about 100 rescue cats and this morning the house is being cleaned. But she does want to tell me about Luna, the horse she has just adopted.”
That’s too many fucking cats.
That’s some serious psychological issues.
Who touched her
Yes, and I love cats.
We had 5 at one time and that was too many.
Rockelle always feels like somebody’s watching her?
And paying for it.
Perfectly played, Ted. I LOLed as I heard your post in Michael’s voice.
Who?
Dicks out for Harambe.
“Rechalking beloved Cerne Giant is a sticky process – and climate crisis is making it worse”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/28/rechalking-cerne-giant-dorset-national-trust-climate-emergency
Of course it is.
But new research from the Brookings Institution released Wednesday describes affordability by comparing the rising costs of essentials against family incomes. By that measure, the report found, in 2024 45.5% of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities.
45.5% – not 45% and not 46%. Obviously almost 50% of the US lacks “necessities”. If you can’t trust Brookings and Brooking’s results as framed by NPR, who can you trust?
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5836525/affordability-report-brookings-inflation-wages
My step is to find out what both Brookings and NPR were doing during the time the Biden administration was sending as much cash as possible out the door and raising inflation at crazy rates.
Door Dash and Netflix are essentials?
Snark aside, shit has got much more expensive. Many supermarket items have tripled in price over the last 6 years.
I was pressed for time when running an errand a week ago. So I hit McD’s drive thru. One breakfast sandwich and one small soda — $7.50. I couldn’t believe it.
Real inflation over 18% for two years back to back sucks.
It’s probably clocking along at 8% now.
Weatherby ammo has gotten ridiculous.
$105 for a box of 20.
Hank Jr says “A country boy can survive” but it’s not easy as the glasses get thicker.
Reading about Mandami’s attempted at seizing private property from landlords and giving it to his pals in the NGO’s and Wilson’s fuckery in Seattle, I’m starting to think Pinochet had it right when dealing with commies.
He was correct.
But his scale was wrong.
Hear me out, C130s and C17s.
The amazing thing is they are all openly and violently communist now and it doesn’t matter because they know the voters are gonna vote so-called “Democrat” regardless.
I wonder if the Harambe thing is in response to this:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jacob-frey-criticized-remembering-george-floyd-memorial-day-six-years-death-sparked-riots
Maryland bans Glock pistols.
Why not? it’s not like they’ll suffer any consequences for violating peoples’ rights.
How many crimes have been committed by Glocks converted to full auto?
Not enough.
All of them, since new automatic weapons cannot be legally created without a type 07 FFL and a Class 2 SOT
Spray and pray.
Also FRT. I’m sure the feds will eventually ban those.
Except for law enforcement?
Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford says it’s time for America to wake up and take action.
Golly, what ever could it be? Stalinist streamlining of the agricultural sector?
NPR wants you to know
While waiving gas taxes may save drivers a bit at the pump, it means less money for keeping roads safe.
Revenue from the federal gas tax goes into the Highway Trust Fund, which is used to pay for interstate construction and repair, as well as to invest in mass transit. Revenue from state gas taxes is often used for local road repairs.
The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimated that when Georgia paused its tax for two months, this cost the state about $361 million.
“Now we’re talking real money,” Smetters said.
Cutting taxes is suicide!
Stop raiding it for public transit and bike lanes.
Don’t forget the requirement for ‘art’ on federal projects and Davis Bacon scale.
The federal gas tax and the federal DOT should not exist.
Let states compete for fuel tax dollars and stop stealing from states to fund stupid transit projects in big cities.
The bigger problem: The gas tax is broken
Here’s even more bad news: The federal gas tax hasn’t collected enough money to fully fund highway construction and repairs for years. And that fundamental problem is only getting worse.
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But the last time the gas tax was raised was in 1993. It was 18.4 cents a gallon then; it’s 18.4 cents a gallon now.
Yet since 1993, the cost of road repairs and construction has risen — and the price of gasoline has tripled.
“It’s a weird tax,” says Smetters, because it’s not pegged to the price of gasoline, so it doesn’t rise with inflation.
Meanwhile, new vehicles have gotten more fuel efficient, and per capita miles driven per year peaked 20 years ago. That means the government collects less and less with the gas tax.
We should raise the gas tax to 100% or more, like in Eurotopia.
And build a bunch of trains so the tourists can oh and ah at them!
“The bans on auto sears are a response to a sharp nationwide increase in the number of modified firearms being recovered at crime scenes.
In 2023, law enforcement agencies recovered 4,530 machine gun conversion devices, or auto sears, at crime scenes across the country, according to the latest annual data from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, commonly known as the ATF.”
https://stateline.org/2025/04/23/states-move-to-outlaw-popular-glock-switches-that-make-some-guns-fully-automatic/
I suspect almost all of them were one warehouse in North Dakota.
“We have tried to do an exhaustive search on cases where a Glock-style gun with a switch was used to murder people, but it is quite possible that we have missed some cases. The total that we have so far found is 40 murders from 17 attacks where someone was murdered, so slightly more than two people murdered per case. Part of the reason for their infrequent use is the danger that these devices pose to those who are using them. California and now Maryland have passed bans on Glocks or Glock-style guns that use cruciform trigger bars. New Jersey is in the process of putting a registry together on people who have bought those guns since the beginning of 2016. The NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation have brought lawsuits against these gun bans.”
https://crimeresearch.org/2026/05/how-many-people-have-been-murdered-with-glock-style-guns-using-glock-switches-about-40-total-over-five-years/
None in Maryland or California.
Sounds like they are in common use to me.
I suspect they actually are pretty widespread. You used to be able to buy them off of TEMU.
Probably next to a 3D printer on the Rez.
Why is Doktor Jill suddenly all over the news with her concerns about Joe?
Weekend at Bernie’s party at the Biden’s!
Protecting her own reputation.
I assume that joe is in decline and will shuffle off the planet in short order.
Jill still needs to pay the bills afterwards.
New book title
“My Life as the President. oops, with the President”
Make your own…
Hard on the heels of a certain lawsuit?
Taking a stand
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, is looking to thwart Donald Trump’s $1.776bn “anti-weaponization fund” by imposing a 100% tax on any payout received by state residents.
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Critics, including Newsom, have slammed the fund as a “boondoggle” designed to divert money to Trump’s allies. Speculation has swirled that its benefactors could include the individuals who were arrested in the 6 January 2021 siege of the US Capitol. The Trump administration has described the rioters as patriots and pardoned many who were charged in relation to the attack.
“People who assault cops and overthrow democracy don’t deserve a taxpayer-funded payday,” Newsom wrote in a Wednesday post to X, after announcing his plan at a news conference.
Gavin will do whatever it takes to thwart Mad King Donald. After he’s established his power to unilaterally invent taxes on people and income sources he disapproves of, he can go after the bad kind of oligarchs and courtiers.
Now do the much more numerous and more violent and more destructive Summer of Love rioters who almost all went entirely scot free instead of spending months or years as political prisoners.
Three hours at one location vs. months at multiple locations.
Or do the same for the taxpayer funded settlement pot of money Congress has created to pay out to victims of congresscritters for wandering hands or pudenda.
No tax cattle you can’t see which members of Congress actions resulted in payouts. Privacy, don’t cha know.
SIEGE!
So I assume you’re going to pull every rioter that gets violent at anti-ice protest from SNAP benefits!