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Where the white women at?
Avoiding Alex like the plague.
Bastage!
Sweltering because their masters stole all the AC
They always want the thermostat turned up anyway.
“Republicans Spar Amid Latest SAVE Push”
The only reason this has not been done yet is that it will hurt the deep state’s ability to make sure the people can never again pick a candidate they don’t want…
The reason it, and other obviously necessary things have not been done is because we haven’t decorated lamp posts. You cannot threaten the people who control the media, police and courts with exposure. It doesn’t work
Paywall.
I assume the “Repubs” are saying that garsh, they just love the bill, but under current procedural rules, their hands are tied?
Open link, ctrl-a, ctrl-c to copy entire page before paywall blocks you, the ctrl-v into a rich text editor to read. Worth the effort? Up to you.
Squish R’s don’t want to vote on a “contentious issue” right before the election, say Ds will just filibuster anyway, R leadership won’t take steps to make it harder for Ds to filibuster.
Or just disable JavaScript.
“Sen. Chuck Schumer mercilessly booed at NYC Pride Parade”
Not commie enough for that crowd?
Not Jew-hating enough.
So the gays have gone all Islam?
Gives a new meaning to “It’s Raining Men”.
Bravo, UnCiv.
Nah, it’s just more evidence that “Pride” and by extension all the “activist” groups got hijacked by the radical left (that started several decades ago). The radical left is once again all in on hating Jews so here we are.
UCS with the off the top ropes takedown!
Apparently the guy who started harassing Scott Wiener and got the mob rolling to chase him out of the Trans Parade this weekend isn’t gay or trans. He’s a straight male who identifies as “culturally queer”.
Not antisemitic enough.
PS. that too
They were yelling “Mooooooooooobs”, not Booooooo.
“Joe Biden barely manages to find his way offstage at Dem gala after seeking directions”
Sad.
Not sad when you realize we were that close to them rigging another election to keep this tool in office….
It would be sad if that were a real person.
It’s a politician, so it’s funny.
Yup. No sympathy for Biden or his family. They deserve worse, yes, including Joe.
MOAR!
Doesn’t surprise me when gay politicians are being booed.
Is there a non-lying source explaining exactly what is in the “SAVE” act?
I recall a BS unrelated provision that I found objectionable.
Either way RINO’s will ensure it will never get passed. I think maybe the Stupids need to give up on it and just start cheating like the Dems.
That all the Dems are against it is more telling.
The version that initially passed the House
The House amended a Senate bill on veterans and sent it back to the Senate with some SAVE Act stuff.
Short answer: When you register to vote for Federal elections (I don’t see how this affects state elections, and in fact in a few parts the law specifically states it only applies to elections for Federal officials), you can use REAL ID to prove you are a citizen or a passport or a whole bunch of other documents. State election officials are supposed to monitor on a continuous basis to ensure that only US citizens are registered to vote for Federal officials which they can meet by plugging their state voter registration databases into Federal databases. DHS has expanded powers to help enforce that only US citizens are on the rolls. DHS has the duty to report naturalizations to state election officials so that state election officials know who is now a citizen. Paperwork Reduction Act doesn’t apply to anything the SAVE Act touches.
I should have specified “summary” LOL
I can’t read that stuff at work without want to blow my brains out.
OK thank you
I don’t see the unrelated provision – I think it was something about males in girl sports. Which I am strongly against but it has nothing to do with voting.
Wait one minute – what does a SocSec number have to do with health insurance? Medicare, sure, I get that – but private health insurance? Do we love us some intrusive big government now?
I thought these were subsidized Obamacare plans.
I thought the subsidies were killed?
The subsidies expired after those meanie Republicans and Trump failed to extend subsidies.
They hate Trump and Republicans because they failed to extend subsidies. I hate Republicans and Trump because they won’t repeal Obamacare. We are not the same.
Those were “temporary” subsidies. The regular subsidies contiunue.
The regular subsidies continue.
I am shocked that the temporary were not permanent; what kind of world do we live in?
repeal Obamacare
Insurance is no longer mandatory, that was the core piece. Now, if you really want to reduce the federal footprint in healthcare, you better be calling for ending Medicare/Medicaid and not get your panties bunched up about Obamacare.
Insurance is no longer mandatory, that was the core piece. Now, if you really want to reduce the federal footprint in healthcare, you better be calling for ending Medicare/Medicaid and not get your panties bunched up about Obamacare.
There is way more in Obamacare than mandatory insurance.
And if you think I don’t want Medicare/Medicaid gone, you are stupid. Getting rid of Obamacare is a first step that Republicans have made noise about and not delivered for a while.
Juris: Obamacare severely distorted the insurance market by eliminating pre-ex, compressing age bands for Actuarial and adding additional service mandates. It blew up the price controls on insurance. It needs to all go so you can buy insurance that meets your needs (single male? You don’t need maternity coverage, for example).
The second part of Obamacare was to be that doctors posted their rates for common services. That was to replace the price controls Obamacare removed. It never happened, never will, and it would not have brought down the severe price inflation brought on by Obama. Obamacare needs to go, so we can all buy catastrophic health insurance coverage again, if that is all we want.
Why do you let them steal the base by assuming insurance is a desirable health care model? Insurance is only of use in catastrophic situations, ordinary predictable expenses are best paid directly. The insurance model is how this whole Government intrusion and wild increase in costs got started.
It’s not insurance. It is a subscription.
“Why do you let them steal the base by assuming insurance is a desirable health care model? Insurance is only of use in catastrophic situations, ordinary predictable expenses are best paid directly. The insurance model is how this whole Government intrusion and wild increase in costs got started.”
Healthcare could be fixed in a flash if we limited the government programs to catastrophic events only, and made everyone else pay for their own care. The medical field would have to be come competitive, innovate, and not rely on regulation and making people sick and hook them on treatments instead of cures. But this removes government power, and more importantly, the ability to do massive grifting for the people involved, and THAT is why they have no reason to ever fix the system.
3.5% federal medical decide tax as well.
If you make the temporary subsidies permanent, then you can’t yell at your opponents a few years later for murdering children by not extending the subsidies.
Republicans have made noise
And you were under the impression they meant to DO something?
The fedgov is paying 100% of the cost of that coverage. It is a federal benefit. No SocSec means not eligible.
We can cry all we want about how SocSec wasn’t supposed to be a national ID, but that ship sailed decades ago, hit the reef, caught fire, and sank.
What was all the Democrat wailing and gnashing of teeth over the subsidies about? Was that for the middle class and this is still paying for the poors?
Weren’t there extra subsidies from the morally wicked lockdown era?
The first decade was federal subsidies used to sell the bill which have sunsetted.
Much like Medicaid expansion had been.
Good morning all!
Weekend responses: To Mexi, I did encourage you (or anyone else who visits Cooperstown) to visit the Ommegang brewery. They’re my favorite US brewer ever since I was introduced to them at the beginning of my “there is beer other than Budweiser” phase. I like big beers. Sam Smith and St. Peter’s out of Britain, Trappists, etc.
At the brewery there are often limited/experimental runs that rarely make it onto the market. My all-time favorite one was the Abbey Ale recipe without any adjuncts. I honestly don’t know why that’s not a regular offering. The Demonico’s in Albany has Abbey Alee on tap, and with steak it’s a transcendent experience.
I don’t know about France but it has been reported that in Germany hospitals are not allowed to install air conditioning. The green madness in Europe is literally killing thousands every year. It’s fucking sick.
(Someone posted a Telegraph link but it’s paywalled now.)
Hospital, death camp, same thing.
This has been making the rounds of late.
Relevant and funny.
Warning to all shooters:
My Shadow 2 OR has had literally zero stoppages for the last several thousand rounds. Then I tried the zinc-plated steel cased Magtech, and had THREE failures to extract. I can only assume the plating fills up the groove such that the extractor can’t get a decent lock on the rim. 98% success rate with this ammo is simply unacceptable, so I’ll use it at meaningless matches. There’s a Steel Challenge match so that will be a good way of burning through a few hundred.
😱
That is an atrocious failure rate.
My 1960-something Mark I with cheapo .22LR has only a 1% failure rate.
Malfunction training!
Yup.
Fails to go into battery, slide jammed. Press mag release, rip out magazine. Slide closes on empty case. Reinsert magazine, rack round. Cascade targets have all fallen by this time, -60 down.
Good to know. The price on that is tempting, but not if it’s gonna fuck me in a match.
One comment – The extractor on the -75 is a wear item, so it’s possible that the gun is telling you that it’s time for a new one.
Huh. Did not know that. I was going to de-gunkify it before this weekend in any case though the OR has fewer than half the rounds through it as the original model and that one is still on its first extractor.
I’m assuming if there’s any tin built up it on the extractor tip it can be removed with a dental pick.
I replaced the extractors on my Shadow 2s every 10k rounds or so. If yours is getting close to that, I’d go ahead and swap in a new one. They’re cheap and generally don’t require fitting.
Even if it’s not due for replacement, the extractor on the -75 does tend to accumulate crud. Cleaning the extractor claw (and the groove in the slide) with a q-tip and some solvent is a good idea.
I have a browning leaver action I got for my 18th birthday.
Close to a 25-30% extraction failure rate. Had the damn thing for thirty years now. I should have traded it for something reliable decades ago.
Nope. You need a gunsmith.
Don’t get rid of something like that.
My last canoe gun was my great grandfather’s Winchester model 1894, built in 1901. Until the day my dad died, when the rifle became mine, I believed what my dad had told me that it had a broken firing pin. Was actually a missing screw that holds one of the lifting mechanism pins.
When you combine that with the story from the weekend links that Canada denied most third-worlders from entering for the World Cup, and you start to think that maybe America’s Hat isn’t quite as cucked as you think they are.
“First we get the drugs into Canada. Then we move them to…”
How does that work?
Chinese gangs and ‘first peoples.’
“Cape Verde’s soccer team captain accused of raping translator before star World Cup run”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/28/sports/cape-verdes-soccer-team-captain-accused-of-raping-translator-before-star-world-cup-run/
He just couldn’t understand her.
Oh, this is from back in March, and now that there is fame and maybe some fortune involved it is time to make accusations.
Nope.
The alleged sex assault was reported by New Zealand media last month, but the name of the player was not revealed — only that he was on Cape Verde’s team.
The incident happened in March and it is only now that New Zealand LE is on the case?
No; the media reported on it last month. (It doesn’t say when in May.) The article doesn’t say anything about when the police started to investigate, but the article includes this bit:
She shared pictures of injuries to her mouth, neck, leg, and side, which were handed to the police.
That implies there was a good deal going on beforehand.
now means no …
Not a big fan in general of the ADL but this is really beyond the pale, if accurate.
I will think of this the next time the nu-Democrats try to deny the obvious – and I will continue to wonder why in the hell this issue is motivating the base in local elections so much.
As soon as the ADL sees the light and starts calling out Democrats writ-large, I’ll rethink my position on their skin-suited uselessness. I’m not holding my breath.
They were leftists first, Jews second from their founding, as were most of the civil rights groups, NAACP, ACLU etc. The stated cause was never the real cause. They were not skin suited; they were the skin suiters.
“Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19, and Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, were taken into custody by officers in Del Rio, a small city near the Mexican border, just hours after cops say they repeatedly stabbed 32-year-old Caroline “Caro” Peña in broad daylight.
Footage taken outside the siblings’ home showed a barefoot Kitty — wearing tight black shorts and a halter top with an illustration of white hands cupping her breasts — grinning briefly at the ground as two officers escorted her into a patrol car around 4 p.m. Thursday.
Her similarly scantily clad younger sister appeared to put on a show for the camera, brazenly flashing her pearly whites and giggling after sarcastically yelling at the man behind the camera, “Stop recording!”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/28/us-news/sickening-footage-shows-texas-sisters-cookie-and-kitty-grin-as-theyre-busted-for-hacking-young-mom-of-5-to-death/
No idea how their clothes are indicative of anything given the weather there.
I saw this a few times with young offenders. If they had ever been locked up before, it was for a week or three, and they got to hang out with their friends from the ‘hood the whole time. And then….
It’ll be the same with this one. She’ll be all smiles and games, and next month she’ll realize that she’s not going home anytime soon, since the trial won’t be for a year or more.
Then the reality that “not soon” means “several decades from now, if ever” hits, and you’ll see a different attitude in court.
One of the reasons that I would replace the prison system with public flogging.
Prison should be solitary confinement. Dark, inhumane cubes where the mind breaks.
If somebody offered me a dark cube where nobody ever talked to me, I’d be ecstatic.
That’s the penitentiary system, first established by the Quakers in the late 18th – early 19th centuries.
It didn’t work, and was pretty much abandoned a century ago.
The penitentiary system didn’t wrok because the people running it expected repentance from inveterate recidivists.
Prison is for punishment and deterrance.
You say that now, and I certainly understand it. I’m extremely introverted myself.
But with absolutely zero social interaction, you’ll go insane within weeks.
Flogging the hide off someone is ironically, less cruel.
@Sheldon – This is exactly what happened to me during the lockdowns. I ended up doing things like driving to New Hampshire ostensibly to buy groceries just to get out.
I know it’s cruel. I know it causes insanity. The real irony is not that it is more cruel but that it is easier for the public to pretend it’s not happening. Criminal scum out of sight and out of mind – no problem. Bloody floggings where the medical aftermath is all over social media in 5 seconds will have people doing comparisons to other times it was used for punishment and all of a sudden more criminals go free than even now with the mad judges who need to go in the dark cubes too.
Hoo boy.
Q approves of Cookie.
Yes. Yes I do.
She stabby
Their clothes are indicative of a lot more than the weather. Dressing like a whore generally flags a number of other issues.
Cookie’s clothes look fairly typical.
True enough, but let’s not forget that many girls/women of her age cohort suffer from mental illness to some degree.
As do throat tattoos.
Hanlon’s Razor aside, that would be a pretty good way to reduce headcount at the IRS. Maybe someone can find a way to disable the A/C for the next three months?
And call it a hunch, but I don’t think the story that IRS toads are working in mild discomfort is going to spill much beer at the American Legion Hall, no matter how much it worries the hand-wringing simps at the New York Times.
The conditions sound much like those in the NYC public housing that the Dems want to replicate everywhere.
Pikers. It is rapidly approaching $100BB in NYC.
The barracks I lived in which were less than three years old at the time had an ac system which did not drain property, one wing would flood from the condensation.
That being said government jobs should be miserable. They should have lower pay and benefits than the equivalent private sector jobs and the workplaces should not be comfortable.
“Texas dad crushed to death by ‘rotting’ pecan tree while eating at BBQ joint”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15937343/Texas-dad-crushed-death-tree.html
These things happen.
Was it a pe-CAN tree or a pe-KHAAAAAAAN! tree?
Peck-Anne
Pee-cun.
Sometimes it Payk’n.
Okay, coming up, my first business casual interview and love-tap on the door of professional -level employment.
I’m more confident than usual and am rather proud of the way I kinda made this happen. This should be interesting.
Good luck. Remember to look for signs that this might be a telephony slavery job.
It’s a hot one today. 38C with 33% humidity. 1006.3 mb pressure.
🥵
They canceled the high school baccalaureate exam planned for tomorrow.
“It’s a dry heat.”
In my neck of the woods that kind of heat almost always comes with 80+% humidity.
Forcasting similar later this week.
Is there a universally acknowledged range which counts as dry heat?
That’s a 66F dew point.
Definitely want a dew point below 60. But it’s not uncommon for dew points to get above 70.
Local weather app is predicting dew points close to 75 on Wednesday.
Phoenix AZ
100+ degrees (F)
Dew point in single digits (F)
Relative humidity == what humidity?
The current dew point in Phoenix is 43F.
Which is when Phoenix is no longer a “dry heat”. I spent a mere 7 years in Phoenix. But I remember the monsoon season as being pure misery.
Yeah… AC is a miracle but me, there is no way I’m living anywhere with weather that stays uggo for months at a time.
The northeast and especially the coast is bad enough but that’s generally only a few weeks at most.
It’s been 81 F (30C) in the mornings with 80% humidity for a few weeks here. By afternoon it will be 38-40C. Since this is Texas, life goes on.
You could fit at least 6 green politicians in the box that houses my two air conditioners.
How many if they are fully disassembled?
Probably more. I was just thinking that. It is multiple boxes, not just one.
That’s pretty warm.
Low 30s here with 80% humidity, getting into the mid 30s (hopefully with some relief from the humidity) by mid-week. The hot part of the season usually starts in 3 weeks or so.
It’s going to hit the upper 80s Fahrenheit here in southern NH. Tomorrow we’re supposed to break 90, with 101 for Thursday and Friday.
I’m going to mow the lawn now.
That’s my job tonight. It will be around 100F when I do.
Yikes!
Sounds perfect.
Low humidity.
Five people were killed in a shooting at a youth welfare facility in the northern German town of Stade, police said on Monday.
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Published on 29/06/2026 – 14:05 GMT+2•Updated 15:13
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Five people were killed in a shooting at a youth welfare facility in the northern German town of Stade, police said on Monday.
Two people were arrested, including the suspected shooter.
There were also injuries, police said, but they did not give a figure.
Police said the shooting took place in the facility on Dankersstrasse, a street south of the town centre.
Two suspects were arrested, one of whom is believed to have fired the shots. Police said they were working to establish the background to the shooting and what exactly happened.
Germany’s gun laws are more restrictive than those in the United States and mass shootings are rare but not unheard of.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/29/at-least-five-people-killed-in-shooting-in-northern-germany-police-say
I read Germany has the most school shootings per capita.
OTOH, stabbings are on the rise. Especially from vibrant newcomers.
BEARDIE!!!
Is “piker” some kind of naughty word? Whenever anyone says Hassan Piker in a YouTube video, the word “piker” is deleted from the subtitles.
Also, it doesn’t make a sense to censor subtitles. Are deaf people more offended by profanity?
The whole thing is retarded. In Shoe0nHead’s latest video, she blanks the word “murder” while talking about a murder.
you mean an unaliving?
The etymology of piker generally traces back to the 14th-century Middle English verb piken (to pick or pilfer), but it branched into several distinct slang meanings, including a small-time gambler, a cautious person, a vagrant, and an inactive video game player.
It’s people wanting to be safe rather than sorry when it comes to demonetization. Since YouTube’s AI is incapable of understanding context, it just keys on “dirty words” and automatically demonetizes if it picks one up. Of course they can appeal, but that’s a pain in the ass and takes time so it’s easier to just bow to their censorship.
That’s where Orwell was wrong; Big Brother didn’t need to resort to massive control and compulsion because we’d mostly go along with it voluntarily.
I understand that, but why “piker”?
That is weird. That is not “bad” word in any way.
maybe to similar to pikey which is a slur for gypsy which is itself a slur these days.
“maybe to similar to pikey which is a slur for gypsy which is itself a slur these days”
I thought of that but similar gets silly fast — bigger, speck, kink, etc.
“Similar to” the hexgrammaton has resulted in a LOT of words being added to the forbidden words pile.
Supergirl has underperformed at the box office on its opening weekend — even falling behind one of Marvel’s most infamous comic book adaptations.
Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ latest superhero movie, which revolves around Superman’s female cousin, debuted to a disappointing $38 million domestically and $68 million globally at the box office, falling well short of its targeted $55 million in North American ticket sales in its first weekend.
The Superman spin-off, starring House of the Dragon breakout Milly Alcock in the titular role, still has a way to go to earn back its $170 million budget, which does not include marketing costs.
Its opening numbers are even lower than those of 2022’s Jared Leto-starring superhero movie Morbius, which pulled in $39.1 million in North American theaters despite terrible reviews and a plot that left audiences baffled.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/supergirl-dc-opening-weekend-box-office-b3004693.html
if it is 200 mil with marketing and rule of thumb you need to at least double that to break even, that is 400 mil. With 68 world wide first weekend… good luck with that.
It’s almost as if intentionally not giving the audiences what they want leads to losing money.
SHUT UP AND EAT THE ROTTEN PORRIDGE AND SAY YOU LOV IT!!
/leftard brainwashers
It might have had a chance if the lead actress kept her mouth shut. I can’t believe any actor/actress in Hollywood now is not signed to a gag order to shut up prior to a film release.
The actors and actresses that gag never get cast.
*Golf clap
I don’t think it was gonna do well anyway.
I think the actress spouting off is almost a defense mechanism now when the movie’s gonna underperform. Actually, I don’t remember what she said even that was that offensive and don’t care.
Hollywood is very risk averse yet keeps messing this one up. 60% of the people who see FEMALE-CENTERED superhero movies are still male. That’s the demographic.
While dudes are not always averse to awesome female characters, the girl-boss one is not a big seller for them. This cost Marvel too.
Yes, tere is a market for girl-boss writing. Try Rom-Coms.
It’s totally possible to have a badass female lead, (especially in animation) just look at ElenRiupley and Sarah Connor.
I mention animation because I’m almost through with Arcane, and while it’s still (very) good, the near-lack of male heroes has gotten distracting. I just got to the lesbian prison makeup sex scene.
It’s not the bad-ass female that makes male comic book fans disinterested.
Let me take the one w/ Brie Larson that bombed as an example:
We get her backstory and despite her being the most literally most badass superhero in the universe we get her mopey backstory about she is initially wasn’t allowed to play baseball as a little girl.
Assuming you’re a dude, I don’t have to explain to you why this doesn’t resonate with comic dudes. Or why much of the other writing in this story doesn’t .
I wonder if the “movie blockbuster” is dead.
With a zillion other options and no effective “popular” culture anymore, who is going to see that tired nonsense.
I think there is at least some comicbook superhero movie fatigue.
and it is possible people had enough of the James Gunn style which is funny the first couple of times but get old.
Top Gun: Maverick
Budget $170–177 million
Box office $1.503 billion
But it was an outlier. And not at all woke. Funny that.
Now I understand the rush is to recreate backrooms and obsession
Backrooms budget $10 million. box office $330 million.
Obsession, directed by Curry Barker and produced by Blumhouse Productions, was produced on a production budget of approximately $750,000 to $1 million. It grossed over $370 million worldwide,
There’s definitely some superhero fatigue, but I don’t think that’s a complete explanation.
I think there’s a great deal of fatigue from shitty, Netflix/James Gunn-style writing, where every character is nothing but a demographic tag bundle, and midwit sarcasm substitutes for actual dialogue.
Yup, and it was everywhere.
Never heard of it. The reviews look good but a blockbuster it ain’t.
Would you then define your criteria for what counts?
Good question on what counts as a blockbuster. If more than $300MM in box office doesn’t count, then it must be something like “Hollywood production that cost more than $XMM” or summat.
Ah… I dunno. Just being subjective. To me a blockbuster needs to be “everywhere”. All of the media, in particular.
I am not as plugged in to that stuff anymore but if I’ve never even heard of something, I don’t consider it a blockbuster.
“I wonder if the “movie blockbuster” is dead.”
Stop preaching the leftist tropes, and you do fine. Look at Maverick: Top Gun as an example. People want a good movie. They just do not need the leftist preaching shit.
People will tolerate “messaging” as long as the movie is actually good. There have been lots of excellent “message” movies in the past.
Modern movie makers just assume that the message is all they need and the audience will lap it up.
Top Gun: Maverick was a blockbuster, but it’s not what the private equity firms that control movie production desire. They don’t want a one-time payoff from a high-talent, high-effort production. What they want is an income stream with little or no work required. They get that through producing low-cost Netflix slop on a continuing basis.
Maverick had female Hispanic pilot and token black guy. They didn’t rub it in your face but it was there.
Proof of the point – as long as at least the main characters are written as something other than a bunch of tags, having some demographic diversity in the cast isn’t going to turn anyone off.
All the main characters in Maverick (and there are an unusually large number of them) have a clearly definable arc that’s resolved by the time the credits roll. That’s become so rare in the movie biz that people will respond to it alone.
Sounds like a CW show adapted to the big screen. Hard pass.
Movie theaters are becoming a hangout for movie geeks. The normies pop in once in a blue moon to take their kids to whatever kids slop came out that month, but otherwise the average person finds better things to do with their time. That’s what happens when you pump out dreck consistently for decades.
And there is so much more of that than ever before.
The original 1984 Supergirl made $14M at a cost of $35M.
Who could have seen this coming?
Schrodinger’s Mammary Monday: simultaneously on and off topic.
https://archive.is/KPYVW
Is there anything OMB can’t be blamed for?
Trump Opened the Window for the DSA
Democrats’ hatred for him led them to tolerate radical, vicious ideas that are colonizing their party.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-opened-the-window-for-the-dsa-0459c607?st=RnGKhj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
OFFS bullshit.
The commie wing realized that only radicals vote in primaries so they took advantage of that. In the general, Dems will all vote Dem regardless of the trash they nominate.
Donald has nothing whatsoever to do with any of that.
Once a society is split it reorganizes toward the extremes, or more accurately toward the perceived center points of the two or more new societies that have formed. The people in the old center, who really do not want to pick either side remain, but in a degree of denial about the new state of affairs. Interesting times have arrived.
Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
Funny, true, and sad all at once.
And for the rest of the western hemisphere, it’s the US.
First thought: This is an unusually retarded and mockable Political Compass test. I should post it to laugh at it.
Second thought: Actually, it’s an insight into what qualities are seen as relevant to identity at this current time, and from there trends in such thing might be observed.
Third thought: nah, it’s just retarded.
https://britmonkey.com/2020s-political-compass/
Well, it’s mainly way too fucking long.
I tapped out about 10 questions in, at this:
“My country requires a mass deportation of most, if not all, immigrants.”
That’s… not specific enough.
Agreed, the questions are stupid.
I like it because it thinks Giorgia Meloni (apropos) is closest to me.
Like all of these tests it assumes binary paired opposites. I end up picking no opinion a lot, not because I am neutral on the question but because the question incorporates assumptions I do not share. I have an opinion about the issues but it is off in a direction the question assumes is impossible.
I also got Meloni.
Did Georgia Meloni write this thing?
If you answer everything with the middle option, you get Meloni. So, apparently she’s the default human?
I answered a lot on the ends, and still ended up with Meloni.
Ditto
Silly at best though.
https://ibb.co/1YBnWrkq
“I think ‘alternative’ girls are…”
What does that even mean?
modern day goths.
Are those rent boys pretending to be girls?
Ur old.
Lots of tats
Bad piercings
Easy
Probably a hair stylist or a college student.
Did you just do a written version of the IQ bell curve meme?
Sometimes I mistakenly doubt myself.
It said my closest match was with Georgia Meloni (current prime minister of Italy) so…I’m going with retarded as well.
FYI, if you mark the middle or neutral on every single question, you’ll get Meloni.
Mark all of the far right side options, you’ll get Macron. Mark all of the far left side option, you’ll get Andrew Tate.
The left still can;t meme but at least it is 10 words or fewer.
https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/2071425939049791759
and in anti-commie memes
https://x.com/Szabadsag1956/status/2071227660970144164
To be fair, GDP is a bullshit metric that counts government spending as though it were a benefit to the economy.
Flag salad at the top = instant ignore.
One State Solution (Magyaromanianism) From the [Danube] River to the [Black] Sea!
well that is certainly a political position.
https://x.com/Szabadsag1956/status/1719900395915423941
The Germans almost had that Pie.
Next stop, “real socialism has not been tried”.
A German Shepherd was rejected as a service dog because he refused to let go of his stuffed elephant
https://x.com/AcervoCharts/status/2071368050725552178
It was his comfort animal.
It’s gimps all the way down.
“According to Campus Reform, “The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is offering students a $7,000 stipend through its “Dream Summer” fellowship, a summer program that trains participants in immigrant rights advocacy and social justice activism.”…
“The university describes the fellowship as a program that “positions immigrant youth as agents of change within the immigrant rights movement” and “empowers immigrant youth to become the next generation of social justice leaders.”…
”We strongly encourage and prioritize applications from undocumented applicants who identify as LGBTQIA+, Black, API, and/or Indigenous, as well as other individuals directly impacted by the immigration system,” the fellowship website states….
”Over the summer, fellows engage in and lead social justice efforts by aligning the call for immigrant rights alongside the unique challenges of queer and transgender communities, Asian and Pacific Islander communities, and Black immigrant communities,” the fellowship website states.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/illegal-university-california-los-angeles-prioritizes-illegal-aliens/
OFFS!
🤣😂
Antifa 101
Their faith that they can collapse a bunch of Venn diagram circles that don’t overlap into a single circle of Marxist idiocy is touching.
New Soviet Retard
Why are buildings far uglier today than in times past?
Part of the reason is that regulations punish builders who use materials deemed to be high carbon.
What materials does the government deem to be high carbon? Bricks.
Yes, bricks.
Mad regulations suggest bricks wear out and have to be replaced after just 60 years, which will come as a surprise to anyone, like me, who lives in a victorian house.
In fact, @createstreets
has estimated that nearly half the country’s homes are made out of bricks that are more than 60 years old.
These regulations have undoubtedly played a part in helping to shut down our brick factories. Production has collapsed from two billion bricks in 2022 to 1.3 billion bricks in 2024.
We’ve accidentally created a de facto ban on one of the most sustainable building materials we have. Thick as a brick.
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/2071533003537371273
my building is brick and 80 years old. I hope it goes another 80.
I don’t know if bricks are banned in my town but everything new is universally ugly. Cheap-looking panels and little square windows. Here is a hilarious example. (The depicted building is the one they stuffed with a bunch of street people. I would highly advise against “applying” there.) There is a lot of building going on and all of them look exactly like this.
Bricks are costly from a building perspective. They are individually cheap, but heavy, costing more to ship, and have to be laid individually by people you have to pay. You can throw up a cheap ugly building faster with the big crappy panel method.
They make great weapons, though.
costing more to ship – true the cargo of bricks for the grand City Hall in New York needed a ship with twenty seven masts.
OKC and Tulsa had mostly brick construction — central OK had lots of mud, few trees.
And the mud there is clay. I don’t think it would be possible to make bricks with the soil up here.
Bricks are labor intensive.
Concrete is co2 intensive if you care about that.
“During her terms in office, Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer offered billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies to select companies. Overall, she authorized $6.9 billion in subsidies during her tenure. Of that, $2.7 billion was offered to just eight major projects. Of the $1.8 billion of that figure that has been spent so far, there have only been 602 jobs created, breaking down to about $3 million spent per job, according to a new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-spent-1-8-billion-to-create-20595-jobs-only-produced-602-report
Your tax dollars at work.
Redwater Ranch spans 905.6± acres just north of Spearfish, South Dakota, with nearly 1.5 miles of Redwater River frontage, productive hay ground, native pasture, pine-covered ridges, and towering red bluffs. The ranch supports excellent populations of elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, turkey, and trout fishing while offering grazing potential, multiple build sites, and direct access to the recreation and beauty of the Black Hills region.
Redwater Ranch captures the character of a larger western ranch while remaining within minutes of Spearfish and the northern Black Hills. The landscape transitions from productive riverbottom ground and rolling native grass valleys into timbered draws, rugged breaks, and elevated ridgelines overlooking the surrounding countryside.
Nearly 1.5 miles of Redwater River winds through the ranch, providing year-round live water, productive habitat, and quality trout fishing directly on the property. The diversity of terrain creates both visual appeal and functionality, offering strong grazing ground, excellent wildlife cover, and multiple elevated homesites with commanding views.
The ranch carries the scale and privacy expected of a premier western holding, yet remains highly accessible and usable across a wide range of recreational and agricultural pursuits. *Potential conservation easement opportunities may exist, offering future owners the ability to preserve the ranch’s natural character, wildlife habitat, and open space for generations to come.*
Redwater River serves as a defining feature of the property, offering quality trout fishing alongside the broader hunting and recreational opportunities that make this area of western South Dakota so highly regarded.
Redwater Ranch offers strong functionality for a cow/calf operation with a balanced combination of productive bottom ground, native pasture, and usable range. The ranch consists of approximately 124± FSA cropland and hay acres, 480± acres of open pasture and grazeable native range, and an estimated 300± acres of timbered draws, pine ridges, river corridor, and rugged recreational terrain.
The hay ground provides the opportunity to raise feed, produce winter hay, or transition portions into corn or additional forage production if desired. Combined with extensive grazing acreage and reliable live water, the ranch offers practical agricultural utility without sacrificing recreational quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uRkLuiYfdQ
7.24 mil
Not high per acre compared to where I’m at but who knows.
No partisans allowed
UC Berkeley officials and Pelosi said the institute will seek to shape debates over democratic governance, with faculty members and students researching and proposing ideas to improve democratic governance. The institute’s mission will also include a focus on protecting civil rights and promoting diversity in political leadership.
“We intend to do more than simply study democracy; we are building this institute to strengthen it,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said in a statement.
Pelosi’s office said the institute will be strictly nonpartisan, but its focus reflects her concern about the state of democracy in America. Pelosi has, in recent years, often spoken about the threat she argues President Donald Trump poses to democracy and the separation of powers.
Is it partisan to want to save America from right wing white power extremism?
*spits coffee*
WERWULF – Official Trailer [HD] – Only In Theaters Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjpadVj-Vk
I went to the theatre to see nosfaratu. My wife walked out. It was pretty weak but unpaid for it and drove 50 miles to see it so I stayed.
I’ll stay home for this one.
*disregards logic*
How old are you?
“American climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on Tuesday announced that she would no longer maintain her influential blog, “Climate Etc.”
“It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on,” said in her final post. The reelection of President Donald Trump came with an overall shift in the political landscape regarding climate and energy issues. Since then, major media outlets shut down their climate desks, corporations are easing back on emission-reduction targets, and polls consistently show the public rates climate change low on their list of priorities.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/climate-researcher-judith-curry-says-era-climate-stupidity-done-and-declares
Not so fast.
That’s way too optimistic – I won’t believe it’s dead-dead anytime soon.
Not to mention, reality is biting back.
The mail-in ballot thing looks like it goes against conservatives.
I’m in honest, this may not be the wrong ruling although I was kinda hoping to stop the mail-in ballot horseshit.
By my quick glance, that wasn’t the case to do it. It was a very narrow ruling on whether federal voting laws strictly forbade counting mail-in ballots after the Election Day, which obviously it wouldn’t.
Fixing mail in ballots will take a new law. The court isn’t going to fix it for us.
Pelosi will co-teach a course with professor Eric Schickler, a scholar on Congress, that Berkeley said will offer students “unprecedented access to an unequaled source of insight about the mechanics and nuances” of government.
Hold your nose.
Hungary, Romania & Transylvania 1939 | German Travel Group Captures a Lost World on Color Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzYvRhClfTE
Not what I expected for German travel group in 1939.
Yes, I recall that German tourist groups in 1939 had a real hankering to see Poland.
Asking $7.25MM, I believe. That really is an exceptional property. You don’t see that kind of access to over a mile of river, also with the uplands to the north.
yes forgot the price
Price $7,240,000
Acres 905.60
The bleeding edge of affordable housing innovation.
$500,000 (plus delivery)
You’ll be the hit of the trailer park, what with all those windows.
Elon musk bought a Boxabl which is some sort of prefab house.
The one in the video does not look that bad.
The Boxabl looks like it would leak like crazy. Especially around the base.
That would be half the price if it didn’t have to meet CA regulations. Even less than that if inflation waws under control.
Few of y’all will care, but:
Wimbledon men’s number one seed Jannik Sinner is in the fight of his life in the first round against fiftieth-ranked Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia.
Kecmonovic is up two sets to one. The match is currently playing on ESPN.
I must say, the tournament is played on grass, and Kecmonovic has an excellent Serb-and-volley game.
boooooo
lol
No way Sinner loses this match. And with Alcatraz out the tournament is his unless there is another heat wave.
Wimbledon is in England not in San Francisco Bay
The one in the video does not look that bad.
I’d live in it, but not for $500k. Get it to me for 1/4 of that, no teak required.
It were the demographics wot dunnit
Ten years ago, a record 17.6 million cars, trucks and SUVs were sold in the U.S. Some forecasts say the country might not come close to that number again.
Analysts at consulting firm Bain & Company said several signs indicate the market is about to shrink even more. Falling birth rates, behavioral changes, high car prices and a growing array of alternatives could drive sales down by more than 2 million units by 2040, according to their analysis.
These indications point to a future where automakers fiercely compete for a shrinking number of customers, said Mark Gottfredson, a partner at Bain & Company.
Fierce competition, you say? Does that include providing an alternative to mammoth overpriced overcomplicated tech-laden monstrosities ith a designed in lifespan of five years?
Haha, he said sold. How many changed hands? That’s a way different number.
No.
You get more small guage frail wiring, more canbus computers and more screens.
Fewer buttons
Mamoth A pillars that block your view of potential hazards.
Yup, this.
It comes down to one thing. You’re not owed my business. Make good product at a reasonable price or pound sand.
Three young Tom turkeys (2 inch beard) just showed up, pecking hard on the window. Begging for food, c’mon man, its summer, the turkey families aren’t having any problems.
They readily learn the welfare tricks. Easy to domesticate. Sorry, no free bennies ’til the snow falls.
Virginia sherrifs and prosecutors.
What blows my mind is that Virginia has 95 counties.
That needs to be cut in half at least. Good night the amount of bloat there would make a NJ school superintendent blush.
Georgia (159 counties) chortles at your “bloat.”
Good night.
That’s insane.
No wonder the stories about the corrupt southern sherrif and his buddies at the county courthouse running the place.
Of course with counties that small you could but an entire one and dissolve the county government if you were moderately wealthy.
I remember looking at a TN county map and found a couple under 1000 acres. One family could easily buy the majority of a county that small and dissolve the government by running for sherrif and commissioner positions.
The liberty movement should concentrate on the small counties in the backwoods of the south.
Maybe the map had population and not size.
I’m not sure now.
County map of the US https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/general_ref/us_base/stco2003/stco2003.pdf
County designation on license plates to me is crazy. Not the plate number itself as in ID but stamping the county name on the plate.
Don’t would be too small to read when following.
Idaho does a letter and number designation for county. Since we have 44 counties it’s simple.
However, auto forecasters say that with vehicle prices as high as they are, the industry will have to find a way to keep cars in service.
“Today’s vehicles can’t have a limitation of five to 10 years,” Fiorani said. “It’s not practical for a person who’s spending $50,000 or $100,000 that it’s going to be junk in less than a decade.”
Scrapped before the original loan is paid off. Now that’s a sustainable business model.
It’s great for the financing companies. Constant stream of income, unassailable vendor lockin, and you usually get the car back within 3-5 years to resell and double dip at a lower socioeconomic level.
They need to make simple cars legal.
Think of the children!!!
Also don’t put height adjustable seatbelts in the rear so that parents are forced by the state to buy booster seats.
Elon musk bought a Boxabl which is some sort of prefab house.
In his case it’s an excellent alternative to staying in a hotel or buying a “real house” to stay in when he flits in and out of Space Base or whatever they call it. Living in one of those tiny modules full time would suck.