Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
- Trump looking ‘very strongly’ at Australia-style retirement system: ‘Taking that, making it sharper’
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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“Trump fan or not, economists say Trump accounts are a good deal”
I still don’t like all the gimmicks.
The gimmicks are for the low information rubes. and to piss off the commie libs. Don’t be a commie lib.
The gimmicks are “commie lib”.
Funny how low information and commie overlap.
Trump has about as much chance of passing a retirement plan like that as I do of being third. Not even second, but third! Could you even imagine?
But yea it’s not happening. He’s about to be a lame duck who can only make headlines for angry tweets and bombing third world shitholes. He’s not going to pass anything else of substance after the midterms.
Hell, he’s having trouble getting anything off the drawing board as it is now.
Is it him or the opposition. And yes, that includes the RINOS…
Absolutely the RINOs.
No one here really expected to see what we want did they?
If it replaced social security fine.
In addition.
No fn way.
“NATO Allies Seek to Win Over Trump After Iran Ire”
You can have a welfare state, or you can have defense. Doing both bankrupts you (see even the US). The Euro elite need the welfare state to control the rubes, so defense spending at the level they would need would wreck the globalist agenda.
National Guard shot a “youth” in Memphis. Democrats pounce!
Some Nasty Girls are going to have bragging rights with a clean confirmed kill like this. That was rare in my time in.
Youth was a “father” and a “student.” I’m sure he was getting straight A’s.
Tim Walz shot a youth?
From his history he was into young boys..
Probably needs more detail but I’m not seeing this yet as a candidate for pushing the Narrative that the one-Party pols are trying to do.
“He was turning his life around!” – his mother
So what was he doing at 4 in the morning?
Going to his paper route?
He hadn’t quite reached the turn.
+ 1 aspiring rapper
It was Memphis.
Nothing of value was lost.
Spare a thought for Don Escaped Another Handle Change.
Trump fan or not, economists say Trump accounts are a good deal
“In an interview with Just the News, Michael Busler, an economist and public policy analyst and Professor of Finance at Stockton University, called the Trump Accounts “absolutely marvelous” as it would not cost taxpayers “anything” due to investments by Michael Dell and others.”
Stockton used to be a state college. It’s located in the middle of the southern NJ in the Pine Barrens. They must have really been trying to find somebody that would provide right media with a quote.
https://www.stockton.edu/employee-directory/busler-michael.html
Not even so much as CV on this page.
Here is a more nuanced take.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-trouble-with-the-trump-accounts-ce177418?st=LaGu93&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I suspect that democrats (and to be honest the anti Trump RINOS as well) will destroy these the moment they can. If these things stay around and people in a decade realize they were robbed by social security and the people that prevent any actions that would have made it use the private market for growth, there might be hell to pay. and the establishment doesn’t need that flak. After all, the collapse of SS is part of the effort to get Americans to accept marxist globaliism.
The average American believes in Soc Sec, and God. They can’t imagine either of those failing them.
Here is a more nuanced take.
I mean, yeah, don’t put non-tax advantaged dollars into front-end tax advantaged accounts. The $1k and the pre-tax employer contributions are where this account adds value. With my soon to be 3 kids, I can adjust my taxable income by $7500 annually in a way that I couldn’t do with 529 plans.
The benefits for these Trump accounts are tepid, but I think they’re better than 529s, especially in a world where college is becoming optional, not mandatory.
Dumb me I started 529s for the kids this year.
With the plan of having them do the Roth IRA rollover of $35,000.
The boy is on his way to being financially savvy.
“Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs While Continuing to Hire H-1B Migrants”
This shit needs to be stopped. The quality of what these people produce is in general crap. But they are willing to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, for half the pay an American gets.
“We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us”?
The quality of what these people produce is in general crap. But they are willing to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, for half the pay an American gets.
Would your opinion change if they were bringing in higher quality candidates and paying them market rates?
It wouldn’t change my opinion. Importing labor to reduce domestic employment and suppress domestic wages is the kind of behavior that should be punished to the extreme. It’s subversive behavior.
It wouldn’t change my opinion either.
We can’t properly educate the masses we already have so we pay them to keep them fat and happy and compliant and the answer to throwing all of that money out the window is to brain drain the third world? Yeah, no thanks.
Bringing in exceptional people makes sense, presuming they want to become citizens and assimilate into the culture. People aren’t fungible, no amount of education is going to turn a moron into a scientist. But this presumes an actual desire to assimilate rather than loot, and an exceptional candidate, which qualifications between them eliminate the vast majority of the people we have been importing. So in theory I think there is a place for this type of visa, but in practice I wholly agree with you both, since the numbers my qualifications would allow in are probably a few hundred a year, and they can be handled under other programs.
To your point, Jarflax, I’m not for a 100% elimination of immigration or even a 100% elimination of economic immigration.
99.95%? Yeah. Economic immigration should be negligible and exceptional in a society with a labor force participation rate in the low 60s (most which isn’t because of women raising kids and old people retiring).
Today is Robert Heinlein’s birthday.
+1 TANSTAAFL
Also my twins birthday
Happy birthday!
Happy B-day Bob!. Wish the fucking evil people didn’t use your work as “How to” manuals…
+Mycroft
RH should always have Friday as a b-day.
My wife found a first edition Starman Jones at a thrift store for $7 the other day.
Good morning!
Apparently my copy of Arcane S1 that I ordered yesterday was delivered at 4:19 this morning. There was an explosion of barking overnight but it was the same frustration barking that she uses when the chipmunks taunt her through the window.
I hope it’s still there when I get home — it wasn’t in my line of sight when I puled out of my garage this morning to go to work.
Don’t cry about it…
I puled out
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin?
I read that she said she didn’t want to rat him out because she likes his politics. WTF is wrong with these leftist women? “Oh, sure, he raped me, but he’s a good leftist, so I’ll give him a pass.” Seriously?
That also tells me this was orchestrated by the Dems to try to force him out.
100%. It’s the final week before the deadline to drop out. That’s not a coincidence and god knows what’s been happening behind closed doors.
They were hoping the process would take care of itself and they could remove him from the race naturally or through other low level smears.
Those stupid voters, voting
bluecommie no matter who!They are fartmanning him (Eric Swalwell’s legacy speaks!).
He would still be there if he polled higher than his opponent.
Some lefty woman wrote an editorial about how she was grateful of her rape by an immigrant because that
had always been a fantasygave her a glimpse of the suffering that immigrants go through every day.Mental fucking disorder. This shit should disqualify these idiots from have a vote on anything but what color the padded room they are locked in will have as it’s decor.
Cult indoctrination. They start by getting you to pretend to believe one tiny impossible thing, than another one, then another, and then pretty soon you’re getting spitroasted by the cult leader and his buddies in order to bring about the inter-dimensional alien singularity…
I read something similar by an aid worker in Haiti, and how he must have needed her body more than she valued it or somesuch BS.
Jesus. So either it’s good politics or it’s permanent trauma – which is it, ladies?
It’s Schrodinger’s trauma.
When you open that box, STEVE SMITH jumps out.
STEVE SMITH LIKE BOXES, GO BACK IN NOW
Bitches for the ditches!
If only comrade Stalin knew I was in Siberia…
I’m not a history teller person but it seems impossible to me to not bring some ideology along.
That said, how is the leftist ideology at the Smithsonian at all controversial?! Even the left admits it finally and “it’s a good thing”.
“it” being the takeover of everything not necessarily the Smithsonian
Because TDS. That is all that is motivating the left anymore.
Don’t forget about looting the corpse as well.
I recall much bluster about cutting way back on H1-B visas. Was that just more meaningless blather? The usual “We’re gonna do Good Thing X” rather than “We did Good Thing X” that this administration seems to specialize in?
Short answer. Yes. As usual the well connected mega corps got a free pass.
They did up the fees for the H1-B applications, but I think the courts put a hold on that.
To emphasize, applications not renewals. So if you already have a H1B, there is no change in the fees.
Yes, A Federal court struck down the application fee increase.
So I saw the latest chick talking about Platner, and while she could have had a close encounter with the fugly stick recently and had once been a catch, I am left wondering if Platner’s choices are not just naziesquely stupid, but the guy picks women he can abuse by default. And it seems he liked to rape people, just like he said he would anyone that broke into his house, but of course, not in a gay way….
I mean, if your penis enters another man for any reason, it’s pretty gay to me. I’ll let a gay Glib have the final judgement on this one.
There’s brooms and other phallic like objects I suppose. I’d probably settle for putting a bullet in them, but to teach their own.
In his video he said this was always consensual, so it can’t be rape. Maybe he thought he was playing pretend rape, but the ladies didn’t or decided now they didn’t? As for the dude rape thing, I hear from people that is just prison talk or something. Another reason I guess I should be thankful I have avoided prison.
No prison exception?
“What’s in your wallet?”
Maybe he is like Ray
Woo hoo! I got a CRO slot at Nats!
*victory dance*
One of the names on my RO crew is familiar, but I can’t actually remember him. The other CROs in my zone are actually very good so barring prop failures it ought to run well. The stage has 8 IPSC targets and six mini poppers, the furthest one looks like it’ll be ~18 yards to walk out to it to reset. 30k steps a day, here we go!
Six of those eight targets have potential for wall hits, and it’s got a freestanding steel no-shoot interfering with another 15 yard shot. People are going to have a bad day on this stage.
Congrats!
Congratulations on your Croatia slot!
Excellent, sounds like fun!
CRO gig is the most fun IMO. RM is actually pretty easy, but also boring and political.
Also, USPSA is gradually becoming a serious organization. Usually I’ll get my assignment like two weeks before the match and only get to see my stage when the match book hits Practiscore.
Congrats!
I have no idea what any of that means but congrats…
I’mma be in charge of one of the stages at nationals. There will be about 500 shooters go through that stage Every time one of them shoots the stage someone will need to walk out ~30 steps to one of the six steel targets, lift it back up, paint it and walk back, assuming that’s their only responsibility (it will not be their only responsibility).
Then there are a number of situations where the crew will need to be watching for bullet hits in real time in order to correctly score the stage and not cause a bottleneck-inducing reshoot. It’s going to be a very active, non-chill stage, with a lot of chances for amped up gunslingers to make mistakes.
I’mma be in charge of one of the stages at nationals – on purpose?
It’s going to be a very active, non-chill stage, with a lot of chances for amped up gunslingers to make mistakes. – sounds dangerous.
When you put it that way, it does sound dangerous.
But in general, USPSA Nats staff mostly have to worry about dehydration and sunburn (and alcohol poisoning, after the shooting is over…)
Yes on purpose. I hate taking orders from people who aren’t actually better at something than I am.
We keep the gun pointed away from us to mitigate the danger. It is going to be extremely dangerous for anything downrange though.
The premature death rate of paint cans is way too high at these events.
At the moment I’m planning on just assigning a guy to keep the paint with him, since there’s no safe and convenient place to stow it according to the diagram.
are you gonna taunt the ones that shoot poorly?
I expect to finish in the bottom 10% of shooters, so 90% of them will be shooting better than I can. So no.
I might give some of my fellow officials shit if I beat them however. Although not all the staff are as terrible as I am — Frank Pahxia is always near the top of the Senior category.
Then again, as I’ll be shooting L10, I might finish in the top 50!
wait to both shoot and officiate? Isn’t that a conflict of interest?
Yes, but:
1. Nobody on staff is going to be a serious contender for the top overall spots partially because
1a. The staff shoots in an abbreviated amount of time prior to the main match. instead of shooting 6-7 stages/day we’ll shoot 10-11. Mental fatigue is a serious problem.
2. Cheating is a serious offense and nobody gets to work Nats that’s done that. I’m not even sure if you can be readmitted into USPSA if you get punted for cheating.
3. There will be another ten hypercompetitive hyperpedantic rules lawyers shooting with me.
4. Working a match is a lot of fun, but I wouldn’t do it if they didn’t also let me shoot it, and that holds true for most of the officials. Unless it became a paid gig of course.
Does shooting a stage make it better for you to score it later?
Very much so. It also exposes problems. However, if we DO find a problem, it needs to be fixed and everyone who shot it in its previous, unfixed configuration has to reshoot it. Which adds to the already long days.
“An Indiana substitute teacher accused of sending nude images of herself to a 14-year-old middle school student was sentenced to two years in jail.
A judge handed down the sentence to Cassidy Carter after she pleaded guilty to one count of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury and one count of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, WXIX-TV reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/07/us-news/indiana-substitute-teacher-cassidy-carter-pleads-guilty-to-sending-student-nudes/
battery resulting in moderate bodily injury?
School student? Is it a male? Or are we dealing with one of the lady lovers?
The kid got carpel tunnel jerking it to the pics?
I donno DrOtto… She might be scary to see nekked from the one pic they had..
Mug shots aren’t glamour shots, she looks like she probably would have cleaned up nice enough for a young MrOtto to get the deed done.
So she’s not officially a sex offender. Good work by her lawyer.
I still can’t figure out why “one count of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury and one count of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury” isn’t two counts of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury.
You have met lawyers and reporters right? Neither math, nor clarity of thought and speech were common in my experience.
How is it battery resulting in moderate bodily injury?
I can already hear show tune music beginning in the background as I read some of these sentences. “Battery resulting in moderate bodily injury” in particular has a nice little ring to it.
“A separate $750,000 will be allocated to launch a first-of-its-kind pilot pet-food pantry, the council’s animal welfare caucus said in a social media post last week.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/07/us-news/nyc-budget-provides-1-5m-in-freebies-for-furry-friends-including-new-pet-food-pantry/
Fatten them up before they have to eat them?
+ one or more grifts
I’ll just leave this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19fcN3VaXs4
The Canooks giving you a hard time?
what?
Which one of you Glibronis is running the Mitch McConnel deadpool? I got s $5 I want to bet….
I hear the Turtle’s wife is already in China warning the CCP they are about to lose ne of their biggest assets.
Notable crazyperson Laura Loomer is claiming he daid.
Daid, or brain daid?
Apparently DOGE is officially done as of now.
A trillion dollars worth of fraud found, and not a single nickel cut.
I continue to believe that there is a SMOD (Sweet Meteor of Debt) in our future and that when it hits, much of what seems so important now will look pretty trivial in hindsight.
Debt, Democratic Socialists, or Demographics, it’s a 3D disaster scenario.
All of the above Jar
The last time I looked at the FY2026 projections in the monthly Treasury statement, there was a $2 trillion annual deficit projected. FY2025 had a $1.8 trillion annual deficit.
Debt line go up!
We’ll have the biggest, best debt ever!
The Trump legacy – he can bankrupt anything!
“And all it takes for disaster to occur is for the toys to be heated, frozen or microwaved, whether as part of a viral social media challenge or totally by accident.
NeeDoh toys are typically filled with a gooey material that can transform into a thick, glue-like substance when exposed to heat. A popular model, the Nice Cube, contains a natural sugar-based filling that expands rapidly when heated, increasing internal pressure and, in some cases, causing the toy to burst.
Despite clear manufacturer warnings that read “Do NOT heat, freeze, or microwave, may cause personal injury,” doctors say children are being exposed to increasingly dangerous online trends encouraging exactly that.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/07/health/doctor-warns-viral-needoh-toy-trend-is-hospitalizing-children-with-severe-burns/
Ban Tik Tok.
Isn’t a thick glue-like substance already a gooey material?
Another “We’re gonna do Good Thing X” from the administration.
Ban stupid.
There wouldn’t need to be a ban on stupid, if we would just quit protecting stupid people from themselves.
Of course, one could make an argument that the entire purpose of civilization is to mitigate the risks of being stupid…so maybe there’s a line that needs to be drawn.
Ban warning labels. It’ll sort itself out over a couple of generations.
“There wouldn’t need to be a ban on stupid, if we would just quit protecting stupid people from themselves.”
This is our biggest problem. Shielding idiots from consequences.
Encourage evolution.
Australia’s retirement system is built around “superannuation,” a mandatory savings program that requires employers to contribute 12% of a worker’s ordinary earnings into tax-favored retirement accounts managed largely by private funds, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Rent seeking by fund managers.
I expect this will end up no different than Social Security.
How about letting employees decide on their own retirement?
“It’s my money and I want it now”
I’m saving my kids’ allowances for their retirement
How about letting employees decide on their own retirement?
You’re talkin’ crazy.
the eternal youth pill will be invented and we will all work forever no more retirement.
SOILENT GREEN!
That money will disappear the same as the SS cash.
I know, we’ll give the people a savings bond (with their money) payable at retirement. What could be better? Government will invest it in the mean time.
I am surprised the democrats have not yet told people they will raid every 401K or other form of private retirement vehicle cause it is not fair some people saved on their own and got around the government wrecking SS, yet…
Worse. Imagine that bullshit ESG on steroids.
Why do you hate socially just investing JI? Without it how can we end the curse of caucacity deeply embedded in stale concepts like individualism, honesty, diligence, and blind justice, and bring the jubilee?
mandatory…requires…
How ’bout you stop confiscating my money in the first place? I can invest it myself.
Many years ago I computed at some interest point, 6%/10%, I forget but anyway I estimated a self account would have been around 600K with the money stolen at retirement time. That was before the last 30 years of inflation.
DOGE website deactivates after reaching self-termination deadline: ‘Come to an end’
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program.*
*unless that program’s purpose is to reduce government spending. [insert Ron Swanson “slash it” meme here]
“Under Maine law, the statute of limitations on rape is 20 years.”
That’s insane.
My question would be has it always been 20 years or did it recently get changed to 20 years, because #metoo?
“This bill amends the Maine Criminal Code to extend from 8 years to 20 years the
statute of limitations applicable to prosecutions for a Class A, Class B or Class C crime
involving unlawful sexual contact or gross sexual assault. These changes apply only to
those Class A, Class B and Class C crimes of unlawful sexual contact or gross sexual
assault committed on or after the effective date of this legislation or for which the
prosecution has not yet been barred by the statute of limitations in force immediately
prior to the effective date of this legislation.”
— January 15, 2019
Extension probably had something to do with Catholic priests and reluctance for alleged victims to come forward promptly in order to bankrupt the parishes.
Either way, it’s impossible to prove anything one way or the other after 20 years.
He said she said is forever.
Arkansas Worker
@ArkansasWorker
https://x.com/ArkansasWorker/status/2074171767212372252
Arkansas is full of commies it seems. Must be the weather.
Paging Lachowsky to the whit courtesy phone!
Could it be that just social media is full of commies (and other degenerates?)
Social media never bans the commies and deviants.
Dear Mao Zedong:
Go fuck yourself.
xthxbai
The south of full of multigenerational welfare and military beneficiaries.
Not all military beneficiaries are Southern
/Hides driver’s license
For those that missed last night, got a job offer, “escrow processor” starting next week. Didn’t have to negotiate for highest pay rate.
Big Big game changer. Rather fortunate timing. Feels like a bigger venue swap than Korea was back when, oddly, but equally Big Things.
My onward /upward journey continues. Hope yours is, too. Gotta see what loose ends I can tie before the 13th. A supply run to Michigan is likely. Relaxing, remarkably fun day trip.
Good luck, EV!
Good for you!
thumbs up emoji
Go you!
Gratsand success!
Nice going and good luck. Work your ass off for the first 90 days and impress the hell out of your bosses – that way lies raises and promotions and not “I’m afraid it just isn’t working out….”
Congrats Evan, I hope it works out fantastically for you. I’m pondering my own transition, it’s nice to see some success out there.
TOK! Phrasing!
In other news, TOK is transitioning!
They’ll vote for a nazi and a racist, but they draw the line at rape. Take that all you people who say the democratic party has no morals!
No lines have been drawn. His polling numbers are bad, so this is a convenient way to get rid of him. None of them really care about his past crimes.
It worked for Bill Clinton, so rape isn’t a deal breaker.
Ditto Biden.
There were previous rape accusations, but this one is in Politico so they have to pretend to care.
Huh. Apparently this same person told her story to the NYT who chose not to run it.
OFFS.
Yup, the calculus has changed – they’re pushing him out for some unknown reason.
He gives the Republicans ad material in other races with the Nazi memes, and it’s not like Collins votes against them more than once in a blue moon.
Nigel Farage MP
@Nigel_Farage
I will make a statement on my future in public life at 2pm.
https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/2074448628714717435
Oh my.
Something about a large sum of money he got from somewhere, he’s just rambling on. Is he in or out?
someone got to him.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/07/nigel-farage-statement-on-his-future-reform-leader/
Such a ramble. Still can’t figure out if he is staying or going.
Farage says he “will resign as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a by-election.”
“I’ve decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions,” he says.
“And that is why I will be putting my name forward to stand in this by-election. I will fight to win,” he says.
seems if the people re-elect him means he dun nothin wrong
Reform has always been controlled opposition – now we get to see how the control works.
I have no idea what “he will trigger a by-election by formally resigning as an MP” means.
Strange politics they have over there.
he resigns his seat is vacant so an election is held to fill it. seems straightforward
rhywun:
From faded memory from reading a book about the return of King Arthur to modern day England, which was my full education about the UK parliamentary system, the Prime Minister officially being a first among equals means he has to win a local election to be a member of Parliament. So this is him forcing a local election in his district as a way of getting a poll on his support, with the local office being a safe seat for his party. From the little understanding, it would stay a local election, and if he wins, there doesn’t need to be any other changes. If he loses, then the Parliament would need to select a new Prime Minister from the current members, or decide to do a full national election.
then the Parliament would need to select a new Prime Minister – ehm no as Farage is not PM.
This will happen when Burnham challenges Starmer for the premiership. Farage is 3 year away at least.
Chucky Three should dissolve parliment.
I mean, he doesn’t technically have to have them in session.
Yeah, not actually voting for PM is the weird part to me.
Rhy – You’re thinking like a republic.
The Parlimentary system was built from the Crown down. The Prime Minister was an aide to the King, not the chief executive of the people.
not actually voting for PM – is there any country that votes for PM? I mean most assume the leader of the wining party becomes PM but no one votes specifically for the position of PM.
That is why the system stinks.
Chucky Three should dissolve parliment.
He can but not unilaterally. Since 2022, the law requires the PM’s “advice or request” for the monarch to dissolve Parliament.
No parliment since 1199 has been valid, so that can be ignored.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/george-cottrell-allegations-wont-bring-down-nigel-farage/?edition=us
Seems to be a “grab them by the pussy” moment, in that Labor is all in titter, but Reform supporters don’t care.
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the sort of buildings I see there is not what i associate with estate really…
Also while a pond can be nice that one looks like it has little use but for the insects.
It is secluded / private though and seems quite off grid.
Offered at $2,500,000 does not scream in high demand…
The Platners are selling out?
The barn is a TARDIS?
LOL
Solar powered in ME huh? I presume it’s got wood heat?
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I thought Oregon was all rainy and stuff did not know it had a desert, high or otherwise. You Americans seem to have a bit too much desert (and dessert).
No, I’m not looking for an Oregon ranch. Sorry, Oreglibs.
And yes, SE Oregon is fairly arid.
The rainy part of Oregon is the part Gustov and I live in. Most of the rest is dry.
is Gustov some sort of rain god or something?
Nope. I’m actually in a slight rain shadow thanks to the hills. Our primary weather is coastal flow west to east so the moisture mostly dumps before it crosses the Cascades. Eastern part of the state is drier with SE geographically part of the Great Basin.
2/3 of Oregon is like that.
Titty Tuesday was harassed by Platner.
https://archive.is/hlc0t
“A former CIA official has revealed the one body language mistake that can instantly give away Americans overseas.
According to one of the agency’s top former spies, the seemingly harmless habit of propping yourself against a wall, railing or doorway is such a telltale sign of being American that intelligence officers were trained to avoid it while on undercover missions abroad….
Mendez explained that Americans are often perceived as more relaxed and informal than people in other countries, with their casual posture and tendency to lean making them stand out in a crowd. A habit that has been coined the ‘American lean.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15957441/cia-body-language-american-habit.html
doubt
Hey, don’t be a doubter. There are lean Americans
Don’t doubt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbyjaUJWWmk
“Eye-popping number of Democrats back probe of Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer ahead of 2028 presidential race”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/us-politics/article-15942629/Democrats-Gavin-Newsom-probe-2028-election.html
In a row?
Maybe he sees the writing on the wall that it’s… checks notes… Kamala’s turn? 🤣😂
Back probed by Willie Brown.
“Hillary Clinton has once again renewed her long-running attack on the Electoral College, nearly a decade after her defeat to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, saying it was designed for ‘slave-owning states.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15948229/Hillary-Clinton-demands-America-scrap-slave-owning-ended-career.html
OFFS!
She was railing against EC as far back as 2000 when Gore lost and she was a senator from NY. Her best shot will come when SCOTUS is expanded to 13 and the majority rules EC is unconstitutional because FYTW.
I got the job at the brick place. Hallelujah! 50 hours a week, $15 hour to start. Not sure when my first day is. Plus they’ll teach me to drive a forklift, thus allowing me to become like one of my fictional alter egos:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/01/letter-from-desert-nomad.html
They said their biggest problem is people not showing up. And people not knowing how to read or do arithmetic. I think I’ll do just fine.
Time to embrace redneck mediocrity. 3-mile commute, regular overtime. Those are practically lyrics to a country song.
honest work. break a nail! or wait is that..
I guess you should try to show up, and remember how to do readin’ ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmatic.
Forklift is just like a car but you can pick things up. I quite enjoyed the summer I drove the forklift.
I learned with 1 trip around the lumberyard. After a few days the owner would take a day off and I was the main man. Small town lumber yard.
The forklift safety videos here at work are hilarious.
Bring the forklift driver Klaus video. I’m sure they’ve never seen it.
Also, maybe they’ll give you an employee discount and you can build a BBQ pit for cheap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja7ap6AEuYU
Related is “Shake Hands with Danger”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26fTGBEi9E
We got another one! Congrats. Sounds like you’re already picking up a good skill.
Hallelujah, indeed! Well done. Good Glib day for new work!
I also strongly encourage the forklift learnin’. Seems much up your alley, alter ego aside. Also: higher pay and a skill that is transferable to dozens of other places. A very good skill and Big Machinery Conquered box to add to the resume.
In the Ev-Derp sitcom running through my head, now, we are far more formidable . You lay out all the work, forklift those abandoned cars, and I’ll clean the money by… uh, washing it in the machine! Good money in brick deposits, eh?! (I’m technically working real-estate now, so, I’m learning on the fly.)
Forklift certified!!
I thought only Trump mixed politics and the World Cup. MS, if you’re reading, feel free to use this in the PM Links.
https://www.newsweek.com/paraguayan-senator-apology-kylian-mbappe-racism-dispute-12164454
Tard fight.
How about nut up, Mmm-bop, instead of being a giant pussy?
Oh and I see Belgium is staying classy. Not even linking to the juvenile taunts. Not worth the effort.
Let the Belgians enjoy their little soccer victory. Sure none of the people playing on it are actually from Belgium or maybe there’s like one token on there, but let them have it. They aren’t going to win anything else as a nation.
My favorite take on this was from some standard issue left leaning football reporter (Mike Florio). He used to have a site that dealt with NFL rumors and gossip until NBC bought him out and then he became a news aggregator with the occasional hot take on the business side of things. No rumors to be found for like two decades now.
Regardless he argued that Trump weighing in killed the mood/vibe of the underdog American soccer team and motivated the Belgians. America lost because TRUMP. Not because their imported soccer players were more talented than America’s imported soccer players.
Romelo Lukaku is totally Belgian.
Yeah FIFA, the Olympics, et al never mix sports and politics. Unless, you know, we want to ban a particular country from competing in our tournaments (not excusing the behavior of particular countries, but you can’t see we don’t mix sports and politics when we do).
One of the podcasts in my queue is The Price of Football. It’s pretty interesting most of the time and the two co-hosts work well together and are often hilarious. But one of them, on a recent podcast observed that he would never want Nigel Farage involved in his club but he’d be happy to Xi Jinping involved.
The Blurting again.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2019/09/the-blurting.html
Certain people — and it almost always comes from one direction — think they can insert their political views in all sorts of incongruous places, and how could anyone possibly so gauche as to disagree with them?
“and it almost always comes from one direction”
Yeah, it’s hilarious – and tedious. Their were serious suggestions that the US should not be allowed to host the WC because of “political” reasons. The other bid for the 2026 WC was Morocco which, you know, has a stellar human rights record (although it has improved since the 1990s).
I used to enjoy that pair of British clowns on Fox Soccer before they went premium pay or pod or whatnot. Other than that I don’t care for sports jabber.
@Rhywun: POF self-describes as “the money behind the beautiful game” so they look at a bunch of stuff like sponsorship deals, transfer fees, clubs going into administration (they did a lot on Sheffield Wednesday). It’s not for everyone, but it is a different perspective. Both the hosts are lefties but they usually keep that out of things (although, to TedS’s point, they do tend to blurt snide comments at times). One of them is a Crystal Palace supporter and the other a Brighton supporter, which adds a little spice since those two teams share the M23 rivalry.
“‘It affected my confidence in my pussy’: gen X punk legends rage at menopause festival
The music festival Menopunkapalooza began with the ceremonial application of an estrogen patch to the backside of Built to Spill and Prism Bitch drummer Teresa Esguerra. It ended with riot grrrl pioneers Calamity Jane tearing the roof off Portland’s Crystal Ballroom as they performed for the first time in 35 years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/07/menopunkapalooza-menopause-festival
“We demand to be taken seriously”
That’s as ridiculous as starting a Green Day concert with prostate exams for the band.
Fugly old hags mad men want what womenz. preferably womenz without penises.
Built to Spill is good live.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ulmuzo/3rd_mailbox_taken_out_since_ive_been_in_this/
I’d be investing in a steel pole for good measure. And probably some nice decorative rocks. It’s still going down, but it will do more damage that way.
From the comments there is curve and hill before the mailbox.
Bonus – “non-conforming catalyst system”. Saving the planet – one donorcycle at time!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1uoxqrx/oc_doing_a_high_speed_wheelie_on_100_metres_on_a/
Wasn’t that in Cannonball Run?
I’d be investing in a steel pole for good measure. And probably some nice decorative rocks.
Not allowed The city/county owns the street and a bit more (the actual right of way usually extends into the yards). Mine is 50 feet from the center of the road (20ish feet into my grass).
You are not allowed to put permanent structures in the right of way. The city/county graciously allows you to put your mailbox in their right of way.
Depends on the jurisdiction I believe.
Probably.
Place one of the jersey barrier end pieces before it so it makes a nice launch ramp.
It looks like he went airborne.
It would be pretty funny if Trump kidnapped Castro’s grandson.
“Red scare revived as Trump leads push to attack Democrats as ‘communists’
In wake of primary wins by leftwing candidates in New York and elsewhere, president has resorted to well-worn tactic
In the wake of primary election wins by democratic socialists and their close progressive allies in New York and elsewhere, Trump and his Republican allies are leading a broad push to brand Democrats as communists, using John Birch Society language that has grown dusty with disuse.
While Trump often conflates democratic socialism with communism – a well-worn Republican tactic that aims to weaponize voters’ fears of Marxism against liberal policies – he has increasingly made the accusation distinct and clear.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/trump-democrats-communists
Of course, none of these shills can explain the difference.
Red scare revived – Anna Khachiyan apears on my X feed on occasion
“Trump resurrects oldest GOP scare tactic over democratic socialist wins
Recent wins by democratic socialists have Trump reviving Cold War-era fears
It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump went full Joe McCarthy.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/07/trump-resurrects-oldest-gop-scare-tactic-over-democratic-socialist-wins/
“But the fault line on this isn’t democratic socialism. The policies proposed by these candidates are pretty standard issue Bernie Sanders-style progressivism, and they are quite popular among younger voters and even among some of the more populist MAGA types. It certainly isn’t communism, which sounds as anachronistic as it is, and it doesn’t have nearly the pull these Republicans think it has.
The fault line is America’s relationship with Israel and the genocide in Gaza, and it’s bipartisan. There is a sizable faction of the MAGA base, led by people such as commentator Tucker Carlson, former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and podcaster Megyn Kelly, who are opposed to government policy toward Israel on “America First” grounds. It’s fair to say that some leaders of both parties are either purposefully obfuscating the real issue at play, or are willfully misunderstanding it.
Since Trump has started ranting about communism, the press seems to have quieted down a bit. It’s so over-the-top that they can’t grant it any validity”
But of course calling TEAM RED Nazis and a threat to democracy isn’t a scare tactic at all.
Don’t you dare fear monger over socialism when we are electing people who outwardly call themselves socialist and Bernie Sanders isn’t just a garden variety progressive too!
Mother fucker vacationed in the Soviet Union on a propaganda tour of the place.
As the kids say, we have the receipts.
The internet is forever and all of them have endorsed communist policies whether they tried to hide it by deleting their tweets or not.
The difference is that you get to vote for these commies until enough are elected and then we get a dictatorship of the proletariat and elections are no longer needed.
My head hurts. 🤕
Working out the logic for this work request just has me going in circles.
why do you need to work out the logic?
as was a motto in Romania during the miner revolt, “Noi muncim, nu gândim!”
Because computers don’t run on vibes. Especially not SQL Queries.
It’s government
Yours is not to reason why..
Untrue. My job is to shoot trouble.
Err… Troubleshoot.
Bond Girl: Just what is your job?
James Bond: Sort of a licensed troubleshooter.
It wasn’t the greatest James Bond movie, but it had one of the best lines:
Asking why James Bond has a gun
James Bond: In my business you prepare for the unexpected.
Franz Sanchez: And what business is that?
James Bond: I help people with problems.
Franz Sanchez: A problem solver?
James Bond: More of a problem eliminator.
I remember when the NYT’s and other lefties started pushing Dean Withers sorry little ass as some kind of answer to the right wing control over the podcast space.
I kept thinking the little twat can’t have an audience that actually likes him outside a few crazed cat ladies and blue hairs. But I keep seeing him clipped and there are people who defend him.
“Hostin, however, went further. “There are times,” she said, “when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe.” The audience delivered a spattering of applause.
“There’s a section of this country that has coopted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. And that should never be the symbol of white supremacy but they have weaponized—””
https://thepostmillennial.com/the-views-sunny-hostin-claims-american-flags-make-her-feel-unsafe
CWAC
Imagine the reaction if someone said they felt unsafe in an area with a bunch of Black Lives Matter flags.
Forget the American bullshit for a moment. There is a direct correlation between areas flying the American flag and low crime. I can’t prove that statistically, but it’s 100% true. A black wandering into that area is far safer even if there’s a Confederate flag on every block than they would be if they were in the ghetto located in the state capital that votes blue.
“There are times,” she said, “when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe.”
Sounds like a “you” problem. Get a better therapist.
Same shit with the English flag. It seems these types have a need to stamp out any pride of place before moving on to smash the system.
She’d drop dead from cardiac arrest if she went to Arlington on Memorial Day.
Well. I have another glibflick nominee. Civil War.
Crikey what an incoherent mess. Random spasms of unexplained violence interspersed with interludes of driving around. War weary noble journalists who for some completely unknowable reason aren’t long dead from stupidity.
And the big shootout inside the White House.
A masterpiece.
Nice. This week I did find a copy of Team America streaming so I did that as an easy button.
Silly question: Does that idiot Platner have any meaningful understanding of what a Senator actually is supposed to do?
what a Senator actually is supposed to do – tow the party lion?
No. So at least he’d fit right in with his colleagues. Come to think of it, given his apparent personal proclivities, he’d also fit right in. Seems he’s eminently qualified for the job!
I’ll be honest. I wish more of them just spent their time raping random women as opposed to bending the entire electorate over every day at work.
Even one women a day for a lifetime is a fraction of the total electorate being raped.
Maybe slightly more than McConnell does right now.
Hopefully he understands that a Senator is supposed to limit himself to raping Congressional pages…
Bonus points if they’re boys, right?
Too many granite counter tops?
A full evacuation has been ordered at a building in Midtown Manhattan that is undergoing conversion from office space to luxury apartments, after signs of structural weakness prompted fears of a building collapse.
A New York City Fire Department official told Realtor.com that the department responded to reports of falling bricks at 235 East 42nd Street at around 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
Officials say construction workers on the 21st floor of the building saw the columns beginning to collapse. Sagging floors were observed between the 21st and 26th floors.
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Department of Building engineers are on the scene and are using FDNY drone footage to examine the building, official said.
The 38-story building was formerly home to Pfizer’s global headquarters. It is currently being converted into a 1,500-unit luxury rental complex.
This never would have happened in an affordable housing project.
Steel beams don’t melt in 100F.
Construction by Mugatu Enterprises.
The 38-story building was formerly home to Pfizer’s global headquarters.
Safe and effective
The Viagra wearing off?
“There are times,” she said, “when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe.”
Seek professional help.
Or move.
I suspect that the ‘professional help’ is part of her problem.
She should try just not being an asshole. For most people it’s pretty easy.
It is? Have you seen most people?
The maple syrup must flow
Canada on Monday named Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred supplier for up to 12 submarines in what Prime Minister Mark Carney called the country’s largest-ever military procurement.
The decision came before Carney headed to this week’s NATO summit, where allies face pressure to back higher defense spending with concrete plans.
Carney said the procurement will be “the largest in Canadian history” and that the TKMS platform is optimal for Arctic waters and for NATO.
When the time comes, they’ll be ready.