Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
- Trump Admin Threatens To Pull Critical Federal Funds Unless States Adopt Election Integrity Measures
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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STEVE SMITH PENIS FAUCI
That is a light sentence.. He needs to be trained by all the SMITHS!
OK, but the feds couldn’t pass the SAVE act.
The old republican party wants things to go back to normal once Trump is gone. They will just let the democrats wreck it all while pretending to play spoiler. Stopping the cheating would be the end of the uniparty and its agenda.
Dirty secret is Rinos like corrupt elections just as much.
RINOs or establishment Republicans?
Is there a difference JI?
Well, if there is no difference, then why the adjectives?
A far-left judge blathering about “privacy” is fucking rich.
Oh, it’s because there is a looming threat to her Party’s cheating.
Twist any reality to allow them to keep pursuing and abusing power.. Cause they fight for a bureaucratic and corrupt system they claim is a democracy.
Isn’t it funny how after Ohio and Florida changed their election laws they went from battleground states to Republican ones?
When cheating and proving the cheating becomes difficult, democrats no longer win elections.
They’ve always had contempt for ActBlue.
They have had contempt for the fact ActBlue was a crooked entity. when I reported they had used my name to filter close to $10k to team blue and I never had given a penny politically, the entry disappeared a few days later, and I got told there was no case to follow…. Every blue state government was in on it.
Given that impeachment has proven to not be a check on the abuse of power due to the culture developed among those expected to exercise the authority – what mechanism would be appropriate to replace it for the removal of rogue jurists?
Guillotine?
And that wouldn’t violate the lifetime appointment clause!
Government accountability necessarily must come from outside the government.
There are four boxes…
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/why-dont-british-men-do-something
Indeed, JI. Northern Ireland is uniquely positioned for “kinetic” resistance. Most of the rest of the world is not, including the US. By the time the vast, vast majority of people are prepared to take effective action, they will already be in the camps.
There won’t be camps. You’ll be locked into your own home, and the worst that will happen is your internet access removed.
To summarize: it’s way easier to reactivate dormant operational cells, versus building brand new ones.
Addenda to ES – operational cells that once operated with tacit government approval.
LOL bring it on
/every leftist state that does not give a shit about either of those things
You’re assuming those funds don’t already get diverted elsewhere.
Yeah, true.
You would think measures would be put in place to prevent… LOL almost got it out.
Europeans Visiting U.S. for World Cup Fall in Love with America: ‘The Most Wonderful People in the World’
Vox: “The World Cup is showing what Trump can’t destroy about America”
Yeah, it is showing the are libs refer to as “flyover America” and which they always talk about with disdain… Now they suddenly love it so they can use it to denigrate Trump. Man, I want to live rent free in the heads of morons like Trump does…
Buc-ee’s, Bass Pro Shops, Walmart, Waffle House, Chick-fil-A, BBQ, free refills and ice water … everything the left celebrates …
Flyover people are wonderful, but just ignorant and misguided.
If we just prog harder and explain they’ll jump right on transitioning preschoolers.
Fortunately Flyover Country is still alive and well here and that’s the way we like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
RoaT:
That’s the part that’s entertaining me the most. They’re loving our trash choices. Imagine if someone starts taking them to the local places instead of the chains.
I’ve seen videos of Euros going to diners and dives and loving it. I haven’t seen videos of Euros going to Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, or vegan restaurants.
All of Europe is basically “local places” and they love the consistency, generosity, and extravagance of the chains. It is something that really doesn’t exist over there.
Some Euro was showing off his new tat of the WalMart asterisk.
The Atlantic wrote that the “Euros loving the US” ticky-tocks are an astroturf campaign.
It is getting wall-to-wall news coverage. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s the only reasonable explanation. Everyone knows the US is inferior to Europe.
Unlike of course everything Soros has ever done!
Unfortunately, there are GOP political content creators latching onto the trend.
Keep your filthy corrupting politics away from Joy you satanic vermin!
Even they had to admit that some of the stories were true.
I can provide some anecdata – the Scots fookin loved Boston. That was in no way astroturfed. Looks like they’re having a ball in Miamai, too.
I saw the same behavior from Englishmen during a visit to Red Bull Arena.
Narrator: They were shit-faced to a person.
They were shit-faced because booze is so cheap over here. Many parts of Europe have incredibly high taxes on liquor, some as high as 100%, like Iceland.
Apparently Eurolandians don’t tailgate? I imagine providing several hours of pregaming helps boost their intoxication level too.
NA – Eurolanders tend not to have vehicles with tailgates, so how can they?
I think that their lack of stadium parking lots has more to do with it.
“Something Weird Keeps Happening Now That Trump Neutered USAID”
Interesting how the left’s massive funding advantage keeps shrinking every time some fraudulent government program, especially the social ones, get shut down, huh?
The left is not fighting Trump because he is a fascist and his followers nazis. No, they are fighting him stopping the massive grift of government that has straddled the country with $40 trillion of debt and has allowed people tat add absolutely no value at all to become rich fleecing the productive.
The left is nothing but a cabal of crime syndicates. And they want people to hate anyone that gets in the way of their criminal activities.
““USAID spent millions propping up the Marxist ideology of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion;’”
No idea how DEI is Marxist.
Class* identity >> Individual identity + government control of employment job/benefit allocation based on that class identity
*generic class, not economic class.
DEI may not be a ideology that lines up well with classical Marxism, but the Marxists themselves definitely developed and pushed it as the way to crack open American society, since (economic) class conflict wasn’t working. Race was the fault line they needed for that project.
This, pretty much. DEI is not a Marxist ideology, rather a group of Marxist intellectuals invented DEI as a means to bring about a communist takeover of western institutions.
It really isn’t even communism post-Frankfurt, it is better characterized as absolute nihilism.
ji:
Yup, class struggle with “race” replacing economic “class”.
^^^this
It might better be thought of as Modern Marxist (i.e. Frankfurt School), since dialectical materialism was dismissed by them as vulgar.
“No idea how DEI is Marxist.”
In a country where you have free upward mobility and class envy has not been enough, you shift the focus to race. DEI is simply a marxist move to race so they can foist the cultural marxist revolution based on that manufactured anger.
It is nothing but a game about power, and everything is a lie in the pursuit of power.
I see JI has read and believes Foucault.
I have repeatedly pointed out that marxism was an invented ideology that new feudal lords hoped to use to replace the current ones with themselves using the envy/jealousy of the masses. And since the new marxist feudal lords know how easy it is to use the masses to get rid of the old ones, they create a police state and line all the useful idiots that helped them take power up to make sure that play doesn’t get done to them.
Yes, it is about power, and using it to live large & in charge on the wealth created by your betters.
I see JI has read and believes Foucault.
Wrong and wronger. Though I do believe that is what the modern left is all about.
…by your betters.
Now that is an interesting choice of words.
“Now that is an interesting choice of words.”
There are producers and useless consumers…
You make of that what you want. Just cause it is not popular to say so, doesn’t make it not true…
Well, I’d certainly agree there are productive and parasites. The point of which is the better in relation to the other is all about social jockeying.
Oh look, another purity spiral about what is or isn’t Marxism.
*hastily scrolls past*
“FBI captures $1.2B Medicare fraud fugitive in Philippines, second arrest from Most Wanted Fraudsters list”
When are we going to start arresting the government employees that knew this was happening but turned a blind eye to it cause there were kickbakcs/benefits to the crooks that made a living fleecing the productive tax payers?
Alex doing stand up. I need a laugh in the morning
After Fauci is put in leg-irons?
I have a suggestion. Put him in the boats, and do it in the middle of the reflecting pool.
The boats.
I like it.
Question: how is domestic law enforcement agency operating overseas?
Because FYTW.
Interpol I would imagine. It isn’t like extradition is some new thing under the sun.
From Wikipedia: Kimble was arrested by the Fugitive Search Unit of the Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration at a casino in Pasig, Metro Manila. He was detained on June 11 and deported from the Philippines on June 18.
They all get promotions Alex.
That’s what pisses me off the most… They keep getting promoted based on their ineptitude and criminality…
General Atomics-made Reaper, the MQ-9B SkyGuardian, costs about $30 million.
Of course it does. JFC. There is no price given in the article on the expected unit cost of the pork filled stealth drone mentioned in the article. If we aren’t going to have a pilot we darn well are going to have cost the same!
Air Force Buys New Generation of Drones Made to Strike Deep Into Enemy Territory
Despite cheap drones having success in Ukraine, the military says the expensive new aircraft are necessary for wars of the future
https://www.wsj.com/articles/air-force-buys-new-generation-of-drones-made-to-strike-deep-into-enemy-territory-20fe3af8?st=vL9Bvk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Why do you fear the Reaper?
Because it needs more cowbell.
I swear, every time I read “General Atomics” I immediately think of Patrick Stewart yelling “Atomics!” in Dune.
And now I also miss Juleigh.
I think the name is awesome on so many levels. I just wish it didn’t owe its complete existence from theft of my labors.
Generals do not get their dicks polished on the cheap!
$20 million, same as downtown.
My current working thesis is that the dysfunctional government in this country cannot be solved by any kind of reform.
Change my mind.
The Feds will only be fixed by collapse. Debt line go up!
Some state governments might be salvageable.
That’s the time a break up could come.
Agreed. The patient is covered in tumors inside and out. It’s not something you can just cut out.
Change my mind.
Not even going to try.
When you have people on our side (bro overnight) arguing that the application of the law in the SNAP decision was the correct application of the law – a point I don’t at all concede since there are clearly things that are allowed on SNAP and things that are not, lists even. I’m pretty sure congress didn’t spell it out to the level the agency has implemented it, so there’s clearly agency discretion.
When there is a two tier justice system that only ever makes the ‘correct’ ruling in one direction, an asymmetry in the application of law, and the normally admirable quality of consistency and principle is turned into a weapon against freedom – and we can only tut-tut and rant when incorrect application of the law inevitably leads to less individual autonomy and more state power, looking at you Roberts penal-tax – you’re not going to reform anything. Too much vested interest in maintaining power, influence and financial gain and too much lack of will to say I’m not going to let my ‘principles’ be ‘corrupted’ by you to forge the very chains you want to wrap me in.
Hint – our ‘principles’ have already been corrupted by the very existence of SNAP, let alone its abuse and exploitation for political and financial gain. Your argument about the correct application of the law ensconced in a system that doesn’t give a rats patootie about the rule of the law, freedom, or justice doesn’t reflect any sort of principle, only a willingness to play a game that’s been totally rigged.
All welfare is repugnant to the constitution.
Change my mind.
I have no hope for a clean slate with the humanity that now inhabits this country (and the worst of that is probably native born).
Nothing will change your (and anyone here who is swallowing black pills by the container load) mind, but I do, and I believe we have already started on that road.
Look at the Soviet Union. No one thought that would change, and yet it happened, almost overnight. Now, they never had democracy, so it is natural that they went back to a strong man which, according to some is a natural Russian fall back, but, here in the states, we do have a strong tradition of democracy and we will level out and find our equilibrium, which will not be to the liking of many/most here at Glibs World Headquarters. But, that is democracy in a nutshell.
/signed White Pill
There is all the difference in the world between change and improve. No pills necessary, unless you simply want to snuff out your senses.
signed White Pill
Is that you Malice?
strong tradition of democracy … that’s democracy in a nutshell
It needn’t be said – but I’ll say it anyway – we are not a democracy and I don’t want a democracy. I want a republic with a representative democracy. A democracy leads to that asymmetric application of the rule of law when applied to a large, largely disconnected, society.
The Soviet Union fell because it was bankrupt and, not unimportantly, had an adversary advocating for, at least on the surface, a free nation of individual sovereigns. We have no such external beacon and have created such vast amounts of wealth that it will be some time before the bankruptcy progresses to the point the host collapses and the parasites slough off and die.
White pill on the timescale of decades? Century? Sure. On the time scale of my life or my (non-existent) children’s lives? Not so much. It’s a shame what several generations will likely have to live through to get to the re-birth/realization of the American ideal. An abstracted white pill is no substitute for an extant one I guess; depends on your time horizon.
The Soviet Union fell because it was bankrupt and, not unimportantly, had an adversary advocating for, at least on the surface, a free nation of individual sovereigns.
Where is this magical free nation of individual sovereigns (who all make and enforce their own law)?
Chile
Just kidding. It’s their close neighbor, Argentina, which in the span of just a few years has cut red tape and changed entrenched attitudes about the role of government.
The problem is that there is a world of difference between improveand change, the former is person specific, and we are a nation of 320million specifics. That will never work when either side of politics, progressive or reactionary, attempts it, and why it is failing now. And any attempts to put the cat back in the bag, a la abortion laws, gun laws, what have you, will fail, as time has moved on, and will always move on. The only strategy, and it is one we are seeing right now, is the people changing en masse, as seen in Trumps election, the fall of the academy, media’s death, and so on. The ancien regime is always dying.
PM- a republic is a form of democracy, and the US is a democratic republic. Hence I use the former term, as just saying republic can be misleading.
ZWAK, there is a difference too between culture and politics. The politics comes from the culture. This country started with a riven culture and a political dispute built into the Constitution. The resolution of that was bloody and had a nasty, long tail.
It is an irony of history that just as we were resolving the last strands of that, the cultural degradation of Frankfurt established its foothold here.
Chile
Ah, the one that routinely flips the presidency left then right, then left again.
USAID eventually ceased independent operations and was effectively absorbed under the State Department. Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the cancellation of approximately 83 percent of USAID programs, which were worth tens of billions of dollars.
So the State Department is using the remaining programs to influence elections in South America? Same as it ever was?
Of course the programs may have been canceled, but the money still got spent.
They wanted the Latin and South American states to fail so the people would become illegals in the U.S. and collapse us here.
Seriously, there is no economic “natural” alternative for brown coloring in food? That would not have been the color I picked.
Mars Is Spending Millions to Give M&M’s a MAHA Makeover
https://www.wsj.com/business/mars-is-spending-millions-to-give-m-ms-a-maha-makeover-2fa1bb88?st=rR9V3J&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
While a lot of things have a brown coloration they would also alter the flavor, and not bind as a colorant.
Right? I’d think you could get some brown coloration from chocolate at a minimum, and if it adds some flavor… is more chocolate flavor a problem?
You would change the composition of the outer shell, which is formed largely from solid sugar and likely leave stains on adjacent candies.
Food dyes are not as cut and dried as you are making them out to be.
UCS:
There’s always Sinamar.
Make M&Ms Tan Again
Actual WP Headline: A dead duck was seen in the Reflecting Pool. Then two more were found nearby.
Would that they had been Hate Birds®! Take that, Canada!
A dead duck was seen in the Reflecting Pool.
What! Now the losing candidates have their own wading pool? On the tax payer dime? My, my, what a wonderful country we live in.
Creatures tend to leave their corpses where they die. waterfowl are drawn to water. finding dead waterfowl near water means nothing until and unless a necropsy shows something unnatural about the circumstances of the death. I’d wager they found thousands of dead ducks around that pool since it opened.
Won’t be there very long. Scavengers of all sorts will be on them, they would be cleaned up naturally, if left alone.
The same is true of road kill, but we still send out crews to clean it up to reduce the smell.
Road crews where I’m at only remove the elk. They usually just drag anything deer sized and smaller to the ditch.
Tends to happen when you poison the water enough to cause paint to peel.
Pish tosh! Obviously any poison was put there by OMB in a vain attempt to hide his humiliation at making algae grow!
Make Algae Grow Again?
“Left-leaning website Wikipedia took the drastic action of blocking one of its founders from editing pages on Monday — after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair.
Last month, Larry Sanger launched WikiProject Intellectual Diversity (WID), a group designed to help reinforce the online encyclopedia’s “original, firm commitment to intellectual diversity,” by emphasizing neutrality and transparency.
However, Sanger — who coined the name “Wikipedia,” drafted the site’s foundational set of rules and guidelines, and launched the site alongside Jimmy Wales in 2001 — was indefinitely blocked from editing, the most drastic action the site can take against an editor.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/tech/left-leaning-wikipedia-blocked-founder-from-editing-site-after-he-campaigned-to-make-it-more-balanced/
CWABOA
“left-leaning”
LOL
Sign up under a different name.
That’ll show him that he was totally wrong about Wikipedia being biased and limiting viewpoints.
[Wiki editors with fingers in their ears]
Non-walled version of Interior Department Announces Sweeping New Rules for Federal Oil and Gas Leases
Hopefully it wrecks the over regulation that made this all impossible. DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!
What one administration can roll out, another can roll right back up.
I empathize with poster. What do you with your mother if she drives like this? She’s not of the age that you’d immediately think senile, but OTH she shouldn’t be allowed on the roads.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1uddqh8/not_driving_but_its_my_video_i_was_in_the_car/
I watched a move like that last fall. Older woman behind the wheel up to a light in the oncoming lane didn’t care.
Titty Tuesday is happy that the price of gas locally has gone below $4 again.
https://archive.is/oG7bF
Bought at $3.79 a gallon last Friday…
I’d been getting gas for $3.05 a gallon at the Wawa and BP, but when Iran decided the straight was not open anymore, it went back up to $3.44 and $3.51 respectively.
Iran was a hornets nest that he ought not have stuck his dick in.
Is it just me? Occasionally avatars don’t load. Often when I refresh the page, the avatar comes back.
It’s not just you – I’m getting that effect, and also with random site images as well.
I have been having the site drop periodically, even when I am not trying to reload it. Something is afoot. Or at hand.
I’m waiting for diesel/#2 fuel oil to come down under $5/gallon. I need fuel for my furnace. Winter’s coming!
For all of the dysfunction of MD politics, I can still cross the state line from PA and save $1/gal on diesel.
May as well pick up booze at the same time!
Sensei:
How shitty is MD alcohol laws that PENNSYLVANIA is considered better? I think PA is behind only Utah for shitty alcohol laws.
It’s the reverse he comes from PA to MD for diesel.
I suggested stocking up in MD.
Sensei:
That makes much more sense. During the lockdowns, the border cities here in Ohio were getting bought out of booze from people coming over from PA, to the point the state banned sales to PA residents.
May as well pick up booze at the same time!
Stop surveilling me!
$6 here.
Should have sold all my oil stocks and rebought.
Whoops.
I was expecting it to last longer.
“Lorna Hajdini’s lawyers walk out of 60 Centre St. in Manhattan.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/us-news/why-jp-morgan-lawyers-dont-want-chirayu-rana-to-drop-his-bombshell-sex-slave-lawsuit/
She needs five lawyers?
Four of them are her sex slaves.
How do you apply for that position? Or is it only H-1B?
Well, they are all chicks, who famously can’t even go to the bathroom by themselves, so . . . .
USA Today: Why women may bear the brunt if Social Security benefits get cut
…because they live longer?
And often haven’t paid as much into the fund.
As Betty White said, that’s cause pussies take a pounding?
“Beginning July 1, firearms dealers will also be required to complete comprehensive, state-approved training designed to help them identify customers who might pose a danger to themselves or others….
What actually constitutes suspicious behavior? Who decides the baseline for mental stability at a retail counter? What protections exist for ordinary individuals who are wrongly flagged based on an employee’s personal biases, political views or a simple misunderstanding?
Suddenly, a minimum-wage store clerk is acting as a state-mandated psychologist with the power to deny a constitutional right, transforming a retail transaction into an amateur interrogation.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/opinion/californias-glock-ban-sets-stage-for-nationwide-gun-control/
Some crazy leftist LGBTQQIAA2S+DKOF of color is going to sue an FFL on July 2.
state-approved training
No lefty is going to have a reason to sue.
To get rid of a gun shop?
“Beginning July 1, firearms dealers will also be required to complete comprehensive, state-approved training designed to help them identify customers who might pose a danger to themselves or others….
You mean libs?
It did say state-approved training, so no, those are the only sane people – according to the state.
“A hedge fund billionaire and his art groupie wife are pumping millions into socialist think tanks positioned to help New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani achieve his Democratic Socialists of America-backed “worker’s paradise.”
The pair are on a mission to punish landlords and railroad more New Yorkers into government housing, The Post has learned.
From their $20 million Upper East Side townhouse — and their 10-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 10,000-square-foot Hamptons McMansion — Bobby and Carola Jain write checks funding Mamdani-linked intelligentsia paid to create models of how far-left concepts like universal basic income (UBI) and a decommodification of the housing market would work.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/us-news/billionaire-power-couple-bobby-and-carola-jain-advocating-communism-for-landlords/
I’m warming up to RCD’s guillotine idea.
“Why have you brought me to this ditch full of dead bodies?”
Neal Asher warned us about the Jain.
Europeans Visiting U.S. for World Cup Fall in Love with America: ‘The Most Wonderful People in the World’
I CALL BULL
Oh, I didn’t know you were planning to stop by the dairy farms when in the state. Careful, there’s usually only one or a handful of bulls per property, and they’re territorial creatures.
When you show up, I’ll bring some local cheeses.
kraft singles? pass.
I don’t think I’d be interested in cheese from a bull…
Kraft singles are made in Missouri, which doesn’t count is “local” even in a country so gloriously large as the US.
Neph – now THAT is some sly kink shaming!
I CALL BULL
That’s for your Domme to decide – whether you are the bull, or the cuck.
I do not kink shame but you should consider keeping your fetish a bit more private.
Says the Romanian who can’t quit us.
I enjoy the circus on occasion.
And now for something completely different
$165 Million Oceanfront Home || 69 & 75 West End Road, East Hampton
Think of the cocktail parties you could organize there for all your Manhattan High Society friends.
Passed in an overwhelming 85-5 Senate vote, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act blocks wealthy corporate investors from outbidding everyday families and turning neighborhoods into permanent corporate rental investments.
OMB has said he will sign. I’m sure with this much agreement there could be no unintended consequences.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/senate-advances-bipartisan-housing-bill-affordability-corporate-landlord-restrictions
It should be a felony for a company to take possession of residential property. They can hold on to what they have or sell to individuals, but add more stock and a bunch of people in management and on the board go to prison.
I usually have this opinion after getting yet another unsolicited contact trying to buy my house,.
I get those frequently on local property that I have. Cash! Immediately!
About 40 % of retail. Surely no one takes those offers.
Meanwhile in NYC they are crafting legislation to allow wealthy government fiefdoms to outbid (i.e. steal from) everyday private landowners. Where is the national bill to prevent that?
Governments and NGOs should face the death penalties for buying property. death by torture for eminent domain seizures.
This will reduce housing starts. Just watch.
“Eventually, infant pressures were replaced by toddler demands; she still felt isolated and yearned for support even more. Before pregnancy and breastfeeding, Mitchem told me, she sometimes turned to weed to feel more balanced when she struggled with anxiety and ADHD. So by the time her kid was two and a half, she decided to resume her old morning ritual: She began to smoke daily—“gardening,” as she calls it. Parenting, she said, became less stressful. “Life is hard,” she said. “If you can have something that can take the edge off a little bit, why not?”
Mitchem, a 36-year-old based in Colorado, now calls herself a “garden momma.” She posts about her cannabis routine to more than 120,000 followers on TikTok, where more than 76,000 videos feature the “#gardenmom” label. “Coffee and coughy,” a morning ritual of smoking before the children wake up, is a common genre; other videos show moms using cannabis during nap time or before the dinner-bath-bedtime witching hour. For some, posting about the lifestyle has led to influencer status and brand partnerships; many garden moms use the same Millennial-chic glass gravity bongs, sharing discount codes and #ad hashtags. As these women frame it, cannabis is not escape but preparation, the “medicine” they need to take before their work as mothers begins.”
https://archive.is/0kp4X
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/06/gardening-moms-weed-parenting/687518/
Top-notch parenting.
Just a newer version of Mother’s Little Helper
Not Mommy’s Little Monster?
It’s not as if there were ever Valium Moms or ones who frequently hit their “nippy bottle” of high-test vanilla in the pantry.*
*H/T Erma Bombeck
I’m thinking if someone could drink enough vanilla extract to get drunk they would smell like vanilla for a month.
Homemade vanilla extract
Not enough to get drunk – just enough to take the edge off. After all, you still have to drive the little brats to soccer practice.
Much cheaper to buy a bottle of vodka and a vanilla bean to “make your own”.
As I was saying above – our government ever getting ‘fixed’ when these are part of The People?
Yes, JI, only the pure shall be our leaders!
I don’t leaders, I just want some competent administration of necessary public functions. But fuck me if most people don’t just want mommy or daddy in charge.
So, Top. Men.
Back to the receiving bay I go for three days after three days off. It is such a change of pace to have a hard-work, but absolutely zero stress gig. Pick things up and carry them someplace else, then play Tetris on the pallets as the day goes on. Not sure if the $x/hr FedEx “Systems Admin-1” gig will come to pass, though they called me to set something up. Will only be 30 hours, 3-9pm Mon-Fri and I’d be kicked off Medicaid, so a bit of a corkscrew in there.
It would be a great foot in the door for a big corporation, and work I could do and likely improve and hopefully graduate from. We’ll see how that develops, but for now, time for current work. Onward, glibberistas and glibberinis.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116797415517828450
megacorp’s firewall let’s X posts through, but block truth social.
interesting
how bout bluesky?
Hateful.
For anybody with an interest The Economist has super long read on the actual animation part of Japanese anime.
The strange disappearance of Japan’s animators – https://archive.fo/aPMAr#selection-1071.0-1071.46
None of it is new, but its interesting to read how the (classically liberal LOL) Economist writes it. TLDR – The industry is brutal, low pay and done mostly by contract work. It’s also being done offshore elsewhere in Asia. But there is generally a group of fans and young people that the studios know they can exploit to produce the art at very cheap rates.
It’s not a job you hope for your child.
If only all the little anime avatars on Twitter knew about the brutal working conditions that produced their favorite hentai. Surely they’d stop fapping long enough to do something.
Speaking of that same model…https://www.koreaboo.com/news/akb48-popular-girl-group-stars-secret-relationship-fan-exposed-company-terminates-contract/
An “historic first”. I guess this doesn’t count since she stayed in the band
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami_Minegishi
Current idol also shaved her head, supposedly on her own, shortly before being fired.
the left can’t meme
https://x.com/ATLCWorker/status/2069160463116427503
I love the “artificially increase demand” part. They really are economic illiterates.
Ha! Yes! WTF does that even mean?
“Advertising controls your mind” unless of course you have that sweet gnostic knowledge about the system!
R.J.:
Advertising. It brainwashes the masses, but not the smrt and leared progressives, who are immune to such propaganda.
“Brute Force Cybernetics – We create a need and then fill it!”/WEBN-FM back in the day
yes, and monopolies just spring out of nowhere!
Legit LOL at the office.
“You cannot make very complex policies and then say we’re going to simplify. It’s a lot better if you do the right policy in the first place,” Christophe Fouquet, CEO of Dutch chips giant ASML, told reporters in Brussels on Monday, echoing a message he gave in an exclusive interview with POLITICO last month.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-tech-ceos-want-direct-line-to-craft-eu-policy/
“Dutch chips”
Are they doused in mayo?
It’s like regular chips, but you’re expected to provide your own potatoes, salt, and fryer.
And in typical MSM fashion not really correct.
They make the industry leading machines for lithography for production of “chips”, but they don’t make chips directly.
ASML don’t make chips.
Great minds and all…
Our Fab in VT makes excellent chips in their cafeteria. Potato, not corn.
So, they don’t make good chips in the fab part of the facility?
I’ve never tried one of the fab-made ones. They sell everything they make, so somebody likes them.
So, you are saying that your chips aren’t fab?
/Cathy Young
If there was actual money on the line and definitions involved, I’d say they’re not a chips giant, but I would also suspect they’ve got a small-scale full-flow fab somewhere if for no other reason than to troubleshoot their litho gear.
You would think. Plus R&D uses.
Mrs. TOK is on a rant because she just found out a federal judge blocked Trump’s order to allow states to exclude junk food from food stamps. This is why we don’t let her watch the news.
I’ve haven’t read the details of the ruling. But I expect this is another case of Trump doing the right thing the wrong way and getting called out for it.
Congress defined food very broadly and explicitly outlined what can or cannot be banned (bans are very specific – like alcohol, also just a few things listed).
The judge made the correct ruling on the law regardless of whether she’s a garden variety prog who’d have rubber stamped the same thing from Obama or Biden.
thanks
Beans and rice.
That’s all they get.
Period.
https://www.kcci.com/article/federal-judge-blocks-snap-restrictions-sugar-iowa/71671706
I just read headlines. It’s 4 states. Plus come it includes Iowa – the corn syrup must flow!
It is a Dept of Agriculture program after all.
The department of agriculture should not exist.
Another reason Lincoln wasn’t such a great president.
I thought corn syrup was under USDOT?
Or, maybe CANDOT? You know, being syrup and all.
Threads about how AI will affect the economy now pepper r/electricians, a subreddit with around half a million monthly visitors. Some users wonder whether the work will eventually prompt widespread job losses. Others aren’t sure if their labor makes them complicit in the damage done to local communities or whether it’s unethical to take on data center work. For some, the answer is a firm no. Ultimately, they argue, work is work.
Yes, this is completely consistent with every electrician I’ve ever spoken with. They only undertake work based on how it will impact the planet and future employment prospects of the profession. Exactly what I expect from most people in skilled trades.
Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts
https://www.wired.com/story/data-center-buildout-electricians-selling-out/
I remember when Wired used to be both interesting and insightful.
That was a very long time ago.
30 years ago, the Stoned Age.
This is like the roofer scene from Clerks.
It’s been decades. I had to refresh my memory.
https://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html
Having been the grunt labor for two years of roofing I would wager that 99.9% of roofers would take the gangster contract full well knowing who he was.
OFFS 🙄
If they are anything like the locals here, they would rather get fat playing Xbox off my tax dollars than allow productive business to flourish and provide jobs.
Synod mine that lives in the Indy area has been running conduit and pulling fibre for data centers for two years now.
I would refuse to work on a roundabout project and quit a job over that if I worked in that part of road construction.
I have my limits.
Missouri Synod?
Behold, Lord of the Karens.
https://x.com/andrewlawrence/status/2069359690165739713
Is that the new guy? He even looks like Starmer. That must be the new hip lefty pansy look.
he is one step higher in the evolution of the leftist douche I believe
I wonder if he even has the same voice. That would be hilarious.
He is a place holder until the Brits get a chance to kick out Labour.
the Brits get a chance to kick out Labour – an optimist I see
Correction: aUnless he absolutely blows it he is there until 2029. That is the year elections must be held. U til then, Labour will not hold an election for his office (obviously, they would lose.)
Labour just got crushed in local elections. So yeah.
That is the year elections must be held. – an optimist I see
Cuck.
when a british guy working behind a counter calls you “mate” that is extremely powerful
that to me is possibly as powerful as when a black woman working at a southern diner calls you “baby”
https://x.com/micsolana/status/2069413517363659073
I’ll keep that in mind.
I don’t think it is, mate.
If you’re only getting ‘baby’, you done fucked up. ‘Honey’ is the goal.
If I’m demoted from the stand-off and formal “sir”, I stop going to an establishment.
I don’t like being recognized, it means I’ve been somewhere too frequently
I don’t like the police or Highway Patrol recognizing me and calling me by my first name.
” It’s Fourscore again, bring him in?”
Poking the rotten corpse of Brexit
A decade on, millions of voters have deserted the two big parties for alternatives including the left-leaning Green Party and the hard-right Reform UK led by Nigel Farage.
The Green Party, noted moderate liberals.
It was all a terrible terrible mistake.
So… opinions on the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade?
Basketball sucks?
Who?
Sounds like a lineman.
I would guess they couldn’t afford to keep him (with an expiring contract)?
Doesn’t Fauci have a blanket pardon for future crimes? Couldn’t he just ignore the subpoena?
I believe the pardon eliminates his ability to plead the 5th and refuse to testify. He can’t be prosecuted, so he can be forced to testify for as long as Rand wants him to sit there.
Yes, right. Thank you for reminding me.
But he’s still gonna lie, because FYTW.
The pardon is for past crimes. Pardons can be broad to include any crime in the past, known or not, but can’t pardon for future crimes.
I believe he could still be charged with contempt of congress or lying under oath, and he can no longer plead the 5th because you can’t incriminate yourself for things that are no longer crimes.
Any crime that occurs outside the dates covered by the pardon. Contempt of and lying to the current Congress aren’t covered.
Didn’t Hunter’s pardon cover a couple of days after it was signed?
Farage has arguably been the biggest political winner from Brexit. He campaigned for the divorce then complained it had been betrayed. His anti-immigration message has shifted from focusing on Polish plumbers to asylum seekers in dinghies. His party consistently leads opinion polls.
His party consistently leads opinion polls. Consistently? Inexplicably, you mean. How can those people not see what a fabulous well run paradise the EU is? How can they not understand how much better their lives would be if they begged Brussels to take them back?
when Polish plumbers were your biggest worry is what I would call the good times.
I thought the plumbers were Italians?
Ferrari Luce reveal
It’s even uglier in real life.
And dumber!
Yesterday in Montreal, an incel went and carried out a mass shooting at PornHub’s headquarters. He killed a Muslim cop. A female cop panicked and randomly killed a Jewish passerby. The shooting took place near Trans Island.
Nothing that I write is a joke.
https://x.com/ThePreacher313/status/2069337432227492301
pauvre type
@youpin922
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2h
Translated from French
The “incel” in question claimed to be primarily a communist, anti-capitalist, and antisemitic (he says so himself in his manifesto), but it’s just like wanting to distort history and the truth like that 🙂
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The Preacher
@ThePreacher313
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2h
Translated from French
I prefer to focus on the positive. Why speak ill of the dead?
The media will spin it and say the shooter was a Christian because of the location.
I knew the cop was a Muslim. Knew nothing of the bystander she double tapped.
Didn’t know what the location was.
I don’t know if I want to pile on the female cop here. She legitimately ran into gun fire to confront the threat. Saw her partner die and still kept engaging. It’s hard to tell who “the Jew” was from the video whether he was in the building or what. If he was a “passerby” then it makes me want to put more of the blame on his ass because gunfire isn’t exactly quiet.
I’ve seen too many cops who refuse to even engage in those situations to really trash one who was trying. They aren’t superheroes male or female. There’s plenty of bad tape put out by female cops in physical confrontations for that narrative to where I don’t really need to bash this one.
There is no point in bashing her. I have no idea what civil liability is like in Canuckistan.
However, making a fuckup that kills someone should be disqualifying from her strapping on a gun in an official capacity. Maybe there’s some unarmed police duty she could do.
People wandering obliviously through bullet-swapping contests is a thing that happens. Stupid, but people are generally pretty stupid and oblivious.
I’m not giving the lady cop a pass here. You are responsible for every bullet you fire, and where it ends up.
But it’s an understandable fuck-up. I’m told that Wild Bill Hickok, not exactly a virgin gunfighter, once shot and killed his own deputy, when the deputy ran up behind him in a dark alley where Wild Bill had just shot his way clear of a two-on-one ambush.
Lesson learned – if you see guns out, go in the other direction.
I’ll bash her. https://funker530.com/video/at-least-3-dead-in-montreal-shooting-caught-on-video
“Venezuelan Illegal Alien Former Illinois School Teacher Arrested by ICE After Driving Tren de Aragua Gangsters to Chicago House Party Massacre That Killed Three and Wounded Five”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/venezuelan-illegal-alien-former-illinois-school-teacher-arrested/
STIJLTH
So connected to a triple homicide and continued to teach in Chicago.
I mean, qualified candidates are hard to find in the “inner city.”
Also couldn’t work legally.
Can’t wait for Mayor Johnson’s statement of solidarity!
One more reason to privatize the schools.
I’ve never watched a lot of Matt Walsh. I saw one short of his on some platform and now I’m getting a constant stream of his videos.
It’s all about how black people ruin everything. Like every clip.
YouTube does that, we intentionally stay away from watching walks or their gay guy as YouTube will be wall to wall their content. Same with any Inside Edition videos.
“In yet another victory for left-wing domestic terrorists, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai has ordered the protective perimeter fencing torn down within 48 hours, despite months of violent Antifa attacks, shattered windows, a lobby breach, over $200,000 in damage, and an active FBI manhunt for the rioters.
The ruling, issued Monday, June 22, 2026, by Biden nominee Judge Kasubhai, claims the fencing violates the First Amendment by blocking access to the upper “Free Speech Plaza.”
The judge rejected the government’s offer of a permit system and alternative spaces, insisting the area must remain fully open for “spontaneous” demonstrations.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/biden-appointed-judge-orders-security-fence-removed-eugene/
CWAA
Eh. Let Oregon burn.
We used to be a proper country where attacking federal holdings in your lands was considered insurrection and sparked a Civil War.
We need another Tecumseh.
The window that was shattered from inside the building?
Also, my wife accidentally drove her car up that plaza, years ago.
Also, everyone’s a retard. Won’t be unhappy to see the hasty fence removed, but I bet they’ll only remove the section into the plaza. It’s a fucking eyesore.
But not as much of an eyesore as the new federal courthouse that replaced this one. Fuck Hogan and his shit taste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robert_Hogan
This anti-ICE fetish the Dems are obsessed with is so bizarre. At first I thought it was just TDS but no I think it’s an active campaign against the American people. Like what’s going on the UK. Nobody except overeducated elites wants this.
“You want it gone judge? We have left you some tools and a trash cart. Take it down when you have some free time.”
Racism racism racism
In other words, for almost 200 of the 250 years of U.S. independence, the promises of the Declaration were denied to Black Americans. And now, at the very moment we are celebrating the declaration that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” that hard-won progress is being reversed.
The Voting Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of legislation in our country’s history, has been dismantled by right-wing Supreme Court justices and Republican legislators, justified with the insulting fiction that racism is no longer a problem — precisely at a time when overt racism is flourishing.
Where did this horrifying resurgent race obsession originate?
precisely at a time when overt racism is flourishing
Just look at the SPLC, they’re finding TONS of racism!
Finding… funding… it’s a fine line.
People discovered they can acquire money and power by pushing a narrative.
Voting rights act was always blatantly unconstitutional and justified not with legal reasoning but special pleading. It was super duper important.
In a winner takes all system based on territorial representation it’s actually pretty unnatural that a small minority of 13% would actually have proportional representation in Congress. You had to carve out lines diagonally through a state that include rural and urban districts to create some portion of black voters that would tilt an election or give it to a black person. The assumption being that blacks from wildly different walks of life are still better off being represented by a black.
And the final aspect of this that’s probably the most insulting is that black people can only really be represented by people with their skin color to begin with.
But yea, it’s unnatural in our current system to have those electoral results and it violated the Constitution openly.
I’ll take a wild turn in another direction and talk about demographics and the Karmelo Anthony jury. 10% of that county is black. Slightly below the national average. A jury of 12 not having a black on it isn’t exactly some crazy statistical anomaly especially when you have black jurors outright saying they’d have trouble convicting a brother. Whether that’s just stupidity or an attempt to dodge being on a jury – especially that jury – who can say.
The left long ago stopped attempting to prove intent with anything. They skip a bunch of bases and just argue that disparate results are themselves racist. It’s a ridiculously flawed line of reasoning. Employers don’t hire people with black sounding names is like the go to they have to prove racism is a real thing. That’s how shoddy the research proving their entire worldview is.
Like 10% of black males read at grade level or at a level deemed proficient. Maybe there’s reasons why employers are skeptical and avoid it.
One aspect of segregation and blacks being featured so heavily in entertainment (and it’s not because they’re such great thespians) is that people generally don’t really grasp how small a percent of the country they are. Most people are only aware of the population numbers when it’s time to have arguments on crime stats online.
The author of that trash is the former mayor of my town. Just so you know how disgusting the politics are here. He quit before I arrived but I am pretty sure he resigned out of some scandal.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/army-develops-self-evacuation-exoskeleton-for-lower-leg-injuries-44829025
Titanium & carbon fiber. How expensive is that gonna be?
Just a weight relief brace? I was hoping for precursor components to power armor.
well you should have been an weapons manufacturer instead of a writer.
That’s not going to fit in the first aid pouch.
Would get left in some container in the rear.
They have to make it make sounds like a robot walking. Strike fear in the heart of every Haji terrorist around the world.
You thought you took him down, but then you hear that thing cranking up and he’s back in the fight and coming at you like the fucking terminator.
Truth, justice and the American way
Ultimately, the actions of Krasner’s office were so outrageous in this case that a panel of judges disbarred his supervisor for repeatedly lying in an effort to overturn the conviction. Krasner’s subordinate, Nancy Winkelman, was also barred from handling cases before the court for three years.
In response, Krasner did what he always does: He suggested that the criticism furthered racism and threatened democracy. He declared that the criticism of his office “undermines the value of a vote in Philadelphia” and defended his staff as merely furthering the work of racial justice: “On the eve of Juneteenth, we should all remember that reform is necessary in every era. And that those who bring needed reform sometimes are made to pay a price.”
This is vintage Krasner. His office was found to be both dishonest and negligent, but the district attorney cites his own misconduct as proof that his office is fighting hard for racial justice.
Makes you proud, don’t it?
Fuck him and his entire office. There are plenty of trees and piles of rope in his local area.
“Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico had once said that the “TransQueer, Latinx” activist theologian was a major source of inspiration for his political philosophy. In praising Roberto Che Espinoza, Talarico said “I told you I was a boring, straight, cis white man, and I added ‘Presbyterian’ to spice it up. My imagination is also just limited by my own background and identity.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/james-talarico-said-his-imagination-is-limited-by-his-white-maleness
OFFS!
The media’s obsession with the “likeable Texan leftist” is evergreen. From Beta to Abortion Barbie to this fruit, it is every election cycle that they’re pumping up some not-gonna-happen to “turn Texas blue”.
Texas will go blue at some point. That’s what the invading hordes are for.
And like that Nazi in Maine, they can’t even find one who is an even remotely acceptable simulacrum of a human being. These are the “best” they have to offer.