ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ’S BRUTAL COWORKERS ARE QUITE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT ZARDOZ TRYING OUT A DRAG RACE. THEY HAVE PROMISED TO HELP ZARDOZ DEVISE A HELMET – AS BRUTAL RACING AUTHORITIES WILL NOT ALLOW RACING WITHOUT ONE. ZARDOZ THINKS THAT PERHAPS A SILO TOP CAN BE ADAPTED. LUCKILY, ZARDOZ’S GRAVITRONIC CONTROLS MEAN NO PARACHUTE NEEDED.
WHILE ZARDOZ PREPARES FOR RACE, HE LEAVES LINKS FOR HIS CHOSEN ONES TO ENJOY.
- ETERNALS IN PENIS-SHAPED STATE PULL “WASHINGTON MONUMENT STRATEGY”
- THE TABERNACLE ENRAGES ENTITLED BRUTALS
- ZARDOZ TEMPTED TO GO TO VEGAS, JUST TO GAMBLE, OF COURSE
- BRUTALS LIAR GRASPS OBVIOUS
- BRUTALS SHOW KIND SIDE, GET CAPTIVE OFF
That tweet made my day in so many ways
Tweet was good but the overreaction to it was better.
Fair point, it’s a holistic experience at this point
Yeah, considering these people have the most violent intentions…
James Clapper, former U.S. director of national intelligence for the Barack Obama administration, said North Korean denuclearization is no longer achievable and that Washington should focus on capping its nuclear and missile capabilities.
Alright, I know the source is what we’d call ‘unreliable’, but seriously man, they had tests (that suck of course) and long range models (that suck of course) since 2006.
And of course, because Russia isn’t the superpower with tons of influence of the Western political, financial and media class there’s no mention of how THIS IS ALL CHINA’S FAULT.
I understand that one thing preventing China from just going in there is “who’s going to feed these people?”
Really, though, maybe a Sino-US accord to get the leadership some small private islands and immunity from prosecution, in exchange they resign and a US/China occupation prepares a transition…heck, what am I saying, we’re fucked.
The other problem is that North Koreans are actually very hyped up to the concept of reunification with their southern brothers (they’ve been propaganized to that they’re a fractured country for generations) while the South Koreans have more or less accepted the circumstances to some degree and moved on, and sure as hell would take issue with the trillions it will take to fix them.
Get out your hankies for a Sunday sob story.
Remember the Somali men from Minnesoda who were trying to go fight for ISIS? Well it turns out that they may not be getting treatment in prison.
The story is chock full of prison officials warning that these men will come out worse unless a large program (with a suitable budget, I’m sure) is put in place.
I know it is crazy talk, but maybe a local imam who isn’t down with extremism could stop by and chat with the men for free? I mean if the good muslims are so appalled by the extremists maybe they’d like to demonstrate that.
Reminds me of this a little
http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/06/isis-fighters-returning-to-europe-complain-about-getting-job-rejections/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=alt&utm_source=disdainforplebs
Imam Farouk al-Rogers to the rescue
Send in Ayaan Hirsi Ali to rough ’em up a bit.
More SE Asia seas dick measuring
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40476521
If this ends up in a shooting war, it’s going to be one of the dumbest ever.
As an aside, the US should make clear to Japan that the US is not going to back the Japanese if they provoke China into military action.
I’m not even sure how a China vs. Japan war would happen. Japan can’t invade China, and China can’t invade Japan. The Japanese would shit on a Chinese fleet trying to actually make some kind of blue water battle happen. They would absolutely curb-stomp an attempt at commerce raiding.
There’s been some speculation that Japan will push hard on China over the islands assuming the US will back them if they push it to a shooting war.
Uh what claim does Japan have to the Paracel Islands?
None but they think they do.
the Paracels are in the South China Sea. China, Vietnam, and the Phillipines claim them, IIRC.
I’m reminded that IIRC
OntarioNunavut owns every speck of dirt that rises out of Hudson Bay and other waters that surround Ontario, Quebec, and so forth. Nunavut is the China of Canada.OK, I may be getting them confused with another group of islands.
Japan and China argue over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, IIRC.
Japan and S. Korea argue over Takashima/Dokdo, I believe.
Considering how much both nations rely on imports, whoever controls the sea (and the air) wins that war: no invasions necessary. But a war would probably entail an unfortunate exchange of missiles, which would have a more devastating effect than an invasion, anyway.
Just wrapped up a successful birthday party for RBSV. We rented a slip and slide bouncy house and broke every rule the company (and mom) gave us.
I expected you to make it to the end. I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
That was the first run. Once he figured out how to hold his head so my head would not knock his teeth out we killed it.
Is that a race where you have to carry a transvestite?
I think it involves running in high heels
And I thought it involved Ru Paul. The only helmet needed is a wig.
Sunday liquor sales start in Minnesoda, minorities and women hardest hit.
No I’m not being sarcastic.
OK, then, legalize sunday sales for whites only. /sarc
From the Mississippi Black Code, 1865
“Any freedman, free negro, or mulatto…vending spirituous or intoxicating liquors…shall, upon conviction thereof in the county court, be fined not less than ten dollars, and not more than one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned at the discretion of the court, not exceeding thirty days”
Oh, and the leeches are pouting too.
Imagine the horror of not being able to keep your own little con game going because the govt took away your monopoly and allowed other people to sell booze.
Is the Municipal Beverage Association the distributors?
No, it is the small liquor store owners. They don’t want to be forced to be open on Sunday. Right now, they get to be closed one day a week and don’t have to worry about their competitors being open and stealing sales from them.
Before the change they lobbied big time and defeated Sunday sales several times. Their downfall was that the internet allowed a ton of real grass roots organization of people who wanted to buy beer whenever they wanted.
The MBA wanted to keep the same old cozy rules in place. I’m sure they really would rather that the rules only allowed sales on Fri and Sat. Then they could really clean up.
In NY our arcane rules basically prohibit chains. And when they finally considered allowing 7-day sales the mom-n-pop liquor stores were trying to gin up support from the their customers to fight it. I am not confrontational but if I was I would have replied something along the lines of “Are you fucking kidding me?”
I got in trouble with the entire neighborhood (and Mr. Holiness) about 10 years ago because of a petition to get more funding for our local schools.
Basically, the school district threatened to close our neighborhood elementary school (where the little college of cardinals was attending) if we didn’t pass some bond issue. If our school closed our kids would have to attend the school that was newer and 50 yards closer to us. Yes, you read that right. We had two elementary schools that were so close they shared a playground.
So when the panicked neighborhood moms started a petition to Save Our School, they stopped by our house and I refused to sign and said that schools should learn how to budget. That we already pay too much and fine close the school.
Petitioner was not expecting any pushback and scuttled away. When my wife returned she had already heard about my perfidy. Not a pleasant day at our house.
* the bond issue failed and the school district backed down on closing the school.
Oh the horrors that would happen if some people could have a beer with their chicken.
Beer batter chicken…
Hrm…
Mmmmm, beer with chicken. Thank you Paul for a good dinner suggestion.
and they want to sell beer with the chicken
Wow. Is your Klan outfit in the car?
3.2%??? That’s basically water. How many of those would it take to get a buzz going? JTC. California does some stupid crap, but at least we’re inundated with 8%+ beer of all flavors, styles, creeds, and nationalities.
There’s a couple others. Colorado still has 3.2 beer in the grocery.
Hey, any port in a storm. There were all sorts of times you ran out of beer Saturday night and if you wanted to drink something it was 3.2 beer or nothing.
As a kid, I also remember a lot of 3.2 beer joints. It was pretty easy to get a liquor permit to sell 3.2 beer (as opposed to a full liquor license) so a lot of small joints would get one of those. They were cool because they were pretty lax on serving to underage kids.
The one we hung out at a lot in my senior year of high school was literally a bait shop with a pool table and two taps of 3.2 beer. (Old Milwaukee and Strohs). The owner must have been in big financial trouble because by the time I was leaving for college, any weekend night would see about 30 underage kids drinking there.
Yes, as Senor Lytton mentions above, CO still does 3.2 beer. For the national breweries, 3.2 is higher, and the 6.0 is lower. It all levels out at about 5.0. At least that is what I heard in the forced attendance drunk classes I was required to attend by court order. (version 1985) Someday we may get real beer in the grocery stores, but the liquor stores fight it every time it is proposed. Protectionism FTW.
When I see people coming down with a case of the vapors over higher concentrations of alcohol, I assume that once again, someone with zero personal experience with a thing is trying to regulate it.
They seem to think that liquor will allow you to reach a level of drunkenness that is impossible with beer. Sure, it’s easy to pound down a shot, but have they never seen people do a beer bong before? It’s just a continuation of this stupid old belief that low-ABV beer is a nutritious, wholesome drink while anything that came out of a still is “demon rum” that will make men cavort with prostitutes and beat their children.
How many of them are women who would only drink moscato or white zin?
“that will make men cavort with prostitutes and beat their children.”
Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
“All of a sudden they want to sell chardonnay with the Cheerios, and they want to sell beer with the chicken and then we have a problem.”
Well, you’ve got trouble, my friend. Right here, I say, trouble right here in Minnesota.
Because poor people are unable to be treated as adults and will buy whatever is presented to them?
As an ex-poor person, I’m offended.
So the minorities can’t handle the firewater on their own then? I dunno, seems pretty racist but then again I believe in individual agency
Crazy talk The Man made him purchase that beverage.
Think of the reaction if the guy who said it was white. Same words, but you know BLM would be rioting in the streets and the Strib writers would be having vapors that any shitlord would dare say that.
I can’t even unpack that. WTF?
You don’t unpack statements unless you’re doing something counterfactual like applying Intersectionality.
However it parses out to “Poor people (especially brown ones) are too stupid to run their own lives, so selling booze on sundays hurts them and is totes racist, mmkay”
I can see a white Top. Man. saying that, but a black businessowner? Fuck.
Sadly I find it all too believable.
Of course, we’re probably not getting any sort of “representative” view from that local rag.
There are two penis-shaped states in America. NY and Florida. New Jersey is shaped, at best, like an evolutionarily unimportant gland.
If you’re going to say that NY is penis shaped, then you really need to add Idaho to the list.
Would you rather have a dildo shaped like Long Island shoved up your ass, or a dildo shaped like the ragged panhandle of Idaho?
Shove it in all the way to Lewiston!
It’s shaped like the armpit it is.
If your armpit is shaped like New Jersey, see a doctor, you have a serious medical condition.
Ouchie
the law could open the door to further deregulation
The horror.
The HORROR.
I don’t even know what it is and I’m already for it.
Translated from progspeak
My dream is that the next step is that the distributors are cut out of their racket. We have the three tier system here. Maybe since we have so many craft breweries there will be a push to allow them to start selling directly to bars. I know it is crazy. Take away distriborships and we will lose the next John McCain.
That’s some fever dream. The distributor’s partner up with big beer to keep the distribution laws in place. There’s a couple states that have had laws proposed that allow direct sales, but the brewer’s still need to pay the distributors their cut.
I know. But a guy can dream can’t he?
My next dream would be that Minnesoda would stop the stupid beer licensing shit that goes on. Let New Glaraus from WI sell their beer here without needing to pay a shit ton of money to “license” their beer.
Honestly, I blame New Glarus for that. They have as part of their plan to not sell outside of Wisconsin. They can distribute if they want, but they’ve chosen to avoid that. It’s not as amusing as Short’s Brewing, which still has a tag on their sixers of Michigan forever while they distribute in Ohio.
The Vegas cannabis thing is a plot by libertarians to get little kids and their parents addicted to the devil’s weed. You see, when the entire family goes back to Topeka, hopelessly addicted to the devil’s weed, the orphan’s market shall expand. Bwahahhahaahhaaahaaa!
Does being stoned at a casino loosen up the gambling inhibitions like alcohol does? Serious question.
There’s no way I’d want to gamble at a casino stoned. All those blinking lights, ding-ding-ding sounds, crazy people, etc. That’s a panic attack just waiting to happen. Plus, there’s no way my math processors would be able to handle the craps table odds.
Same here…no way I’d smoke weed and be around all that activity. Also, I think my poker face goes away when I’m high.
SNP wants residuals for his laugh, mofo…
I’ve only had one beer and I don’t even know what you just said.
It was a bad joke on my part, especially since you did it different. “Residuals” are payments to writers when someone else uses their script. I didn’t look close and thought you were using a lower case “MWAHAHAHAHAHA” of SNP.
I got the joke. Hyperion is just sober, so he didn’t get it.
lol, you’re probably right, but I’m working on fixing that.
“Hyperion is just sober, so he didn’t get it.”
Then he didn’t DESERVE TO GET IT!
**rages incoherently, trips over couch**
OHHHH!!! Duh. Somehow when you said SNP, I read it as SP. That’s why I didn’t get it! And yeah, I been using the Bwahhaa… for years.
I grilled up
(Ugh..dumb tablet…)
…a fantastic tri tip today. Yay me!
Wtb an edit fairy. (Not an euphemism)
I did up a brisket flat, and half a rack of ribs. I overcooked my ribs, but the brisket is resting and should be good. I tried my hand at SP’s bourbon grilling sauce posted earlier It was not sweet enough for my taste, and next time I will leave out the black pepper. I added more vinegar and brown sugar. It should sauce up the ribs nicely with a reheat in spite of my smoker fail.
Fresh corn is here so did a shrimp boil with fresh biscuits, downed with Pimms & ginger ale. Desert was raspberries on leftover biscuits and whipped cream.
Nice. We are still weeks away from corn. I am looking forward to it.
How many biscuits did you make? That is a bunch of leftover biscuits.
About a half dozen.
And by fresh corn, I meant available in the store. Probably from California. Still just about as good right now as from the stalk.
You guys need to get over yourself and just admit you are California. You can pay off their budget shortfalls. Plus their corn is ready before yours.
Not to worry, California’s endless refugees are doing a good job of it and helping inflate state government so we have even more shortfalls of our own. Legislature is just wrapping up their session and putting the finishing touches on a bevy of tax increases. The Republicans are caving in, as usual, because it could have been worse.
I’d argue that. Fresh off the stalk is so much better then anything from a grocery store.
ETERNALS IN PENIS-SHAPED STATE PULL “WASHINGTON MONUMENT STRATEGY”
I wish, one day a government entity would say to the employees of said government,”The government was shut down. You are not getting paid for those days and they are being deducted from your vacation.”
Keep the casinos open but screw the beach goers? Penis state is right..
fuck………..tag fail. I blame booze.
Too bad it’s summer so they couldn’t close the schools too.
That is my pet peeve about any govt shutdown. At the end of the shut down, the govt always pays the workers for the time that they missed. Because it is only “fair”.
Good Lord, talk about tone deaf.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_pictured_at_island_beach_state_park_durin.html
Everybody in NJ hates me, and I’m a literal fat cat RINO with no political future anyways, so why not?
It’s good to be the King
Couldn’t Joisey the Hutt soak up an entire sun all by himself?
Down at the beach, I’m a lucky man. I’m the only one who gets a tan
+1 ham on whole wheat, all right.
Jesus.
I just went and bought fireworks from the stand by my house, which I came to refer to as the Trump Supporter Tent. It was run by a local church. The guy who was running it had a gun tucked right in his belt buckle, front and center. He also had an enormous chain hanging from his belt and a t-shirt that said “JESUS: PRINCE OF PEACE” on it. 10/10 would shop here again.
(P.S. This is life in Oregon outside the Portland metro area. It’s a totally different world.)
Sounds like an awesome church.
It reminded me of when my roommates and I first got cable back in the late nineties. We got super drunk and stoned and started flipping channels. The station we stopped on had a guy dressed in full combat fatigues preaching fire and brimstone at the top of his lungs. The stage set was a pulpit/altar kind of thing with a cross in the middle and sandbags and barbed wire flanking it. We were completely dumbfounded. At that moment I thought to myself that if I were ever to go totally lose-my-marbles bonkers crazy, that was the path I’d want to go down.
Goddamn is that funny.
I don’t need to buy fireworks. I have a clear view of everyone else’s fireworks since they always fire them off over the river.
Now if only the sound din’t keep waking me up in the wee hours of the morning…
I swear our neighbors are going semi-pro with their fireworks. They do a finale, for Pete’s sake.
You have to do a finale. Get with the program. I don’t enjoy the 4th now as much as I did when kids around my world where young. They are adults now. Now it is a non-event. I plan on cooking ribs.
The cost must be mindboggling. I walked into a big fireworks store a few years back, took one look at the prices and left. If I’m going to spend that much money on burning powder, I want to see some lead heading downrange.
lol
Same here. My living room window looks out over southern Brooklyn all the way to Coney Island. Bedroom view reaches to Manhattan and NJ. I’ll get like eight offical shows plus all the neighbors’.
Of course, you still had to wake up in “Noo Yuoark” this morning.
I’m going on the water to watch them as close as I can get to the barges they fire them off from in the East River.
Once upon a time in my mis-spent youth, I biked across the country, starting in Seaside, Oregon. Even for someone who’s aware of how much empty space there is out west, it was shocking how much empty space there was in Oregon. (Of course, that was only a warmup – one day in Wyoming the only signs of human existence I saw in 80 miles and five hours were the highway and a single car.)
That would be a cool trip. The other thing like that is to canoe the entire Mississippi.
It was a lot of fun. My one piece of advice for anyone contemplating it – pick where you go through the Rockies very carefully. I went through at Jackson Hole, and had only two partial days of really serious climbing (in the Rockies, anyhow – there was another day in Oregon and some minor stuff in the Appalachians.) The other potential routes are mostly much harder – you either face a fuck ton of climbing or traverse genuine no-kidding-around desert.
That is awesome. I would love to do it one day, it’ll have to wait a while as I have young kids.
The best part of pulling our ship into the Portland Rose Festival was all the out-of-towners from East Oregon. My sailors got free drinks in their whites all weekend…..some good stories too.
Guy who was supposed to be the Republican establishment’s savior during the election says that defending yourself is childish. Given that it was retweeted by Ben Shapiro, I can only assume he agrees with this view as well. Yup, take it up the ass and do nothing in return has been the Republican Party’s modus operandi for decades. Why exactly should Trump follow that failure of a “strategy” exactly?
Sheesh, these guys are as clueless as the Dems. Do you want 4 more years of Trump Mr. French? Because this is how you get 4 more years of Trump.
Who is he, McMullin’s benefactor or something?
He was the guy before McMuffin that was being touted as the traditional Republican choice to run against Trump.
He constantly gets thrown out as like he’s this great candidate when everyone completely ignores the whole ‘he’s a stuffy, inflexible man with a whiny voice’ thing. I mean, if you put Rand Paul in Shapiro’s body he’d come off way worse in comparison.
Bill Kristol put his name forward:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/05/31/breaking-bill-kristols-third-party-candidate-isconservative-writer-david-french-n2171656
Bill Kristol is a war mongering neocon asshat. That is all.
^this^ nothing else to say.
I disagree. Bill Kristol is a disingenuous war mongering neocon asshat.
That’s all I need to know to know he sucks more than a turbocharged Hoover.
Establishment are gonna establishment, I’m going to leave them alone. As far as Shapiro is concerned, he has all of the right ideas about domestic policy needing to be libertarian, but he has no clue about sociopolitical strategy. He thinks that presidents need to be as diplomatic as he dreams himself to be, which does not work with the radical left.
Shapiro had this whole NeverTrump thing during the election and after (he’s softened mildly of course, because TEAM) where he refused to support Trump in anyway because he loathes his character, can’t respect him, and saw him generally as a loud-mouthed buffoon. Shapiro’s a lot more into the Republican brand than the rest of us, and is a bit of a stick-in-the-mud type, so he’s probably thinks this is just turning ‘his party’ into a joke (i.e. the general NeverTrump MO). Credit where credit’s due it’s at least a principle thing (and often his principles are actually pretty good, for example on the Montana bodyslam or the Trump assassination play).
Shapiro has the Cruz problem, where he views politics as a high school debate team for him to win by points rather than asinine, insane bloodsport.
The thing is the GOP establishment stands for nothing really. Turning party into a joke is due to people like him…not trump
Ironically if anyone else had won GOP primary I think we get Hillary
I wouldn’t say it’s ‘people like him’, I could call Shapiro a lot of things but unprincipled is not one of them. No, Shapiro’s problem is that he drank the kool-aid and honestly thinks the Republicans are a consistent party of principled, small-government types (Shapiro, of course, has his own blindspots when it comes to ‘small government’, i.e. his views on American hegemony).
And “MUH ISRAEL!” Don’t forget that.
His DailyWire is pretty bad when it comes to being principled.
It reads like People! Magazine
Well, many of the writers are fresh out of college, so yes it ends up reading like red meat tabloid for conservatives. The podcasted shows are good, though, both Klavan and Shapiro, so those are the ones that I tend to go for.
What is he going to do when Trump double dog dares the GOP in Congress to simply repeal Obamacare and worry about replacing it later?
How will Shapiro tap dance around that? Will he be forced to agree with all of us who have called the GOP out in the past for passing a bazillion repeal votes in the past knowing that Obama would veto them, but now can’t muster the cajones to do it?
I am still not a fan of Trump, but if he boxes the GOP in on this, I will tip my cap to him.
Looking back, I think this is absolutely right. Every single one of the rest of them (including Rand Paul) would’ve been completely gutless during the campaign.
I think that if Trump has a good 8 year stretch, Rand Paul has way more of a shot at the presidency than in any other time in our history. Unlike the other nominees, Rand was smart enough to befriend Trump after he got the nomination, and it may be starting to pay off, first with cabinet appointees (not picking Bolton or Abrams), and now maybe with Trumpcare.
Yep
At this point, I think, and I was just telling my wife this, libertarians like Trump more than Republicans do. The GOP establishment just wants some spineless pussy who will take up the ass from the Democrats like they’ve been doing for decades.
Rand was smart enough to befriend Trump after he got the nomination
I’m not sure that’s a precise description of Paul’s strategy. It seems more of a focus on policy, rather than personality. And personality aside, I think you have to put Trump’s policy positions in the top third (least awful) in DC. That means there’s a lot for a guy like Rand to approve of.
I tend to agree. Any other Republican candidate would still be raked over the coals by the media, but they wouldn’t have fought back, and they would have never gotten the blue collar crossovers in the rust belt, and president Hillary here we come. Followed within months by boots on the ground in Syria, leading to an incident with Russia, leading to nuclear war and the end of all life on Earth.
Trump literally is the savior of all mankind.
Trump is showing the Art of War when it comes to the media
Totally agree with this. I also think he won the primary because voters looked at the candidates and decided he was the one guy who would tell Hilary straight to her face that she was a crook and should be in jail.
Fuck, every other GOP candidate would have hunkered down with their handlers and come up with the best way to handle Hilary without seeming to be mean and anti-woman.
Trump went out there and called her husband a sexual predator and how she enabled him. That is why people wanted him. Because he was the only guy who would call a spade a spade.
Spades
Fuck you, Lemmy lives!
I just don’t get it. I’ve heard plenty of Shapiro, you can tell he’s a very bright guy. So, why does he want to continue with this absolute failure of a strategy that has been rendering the Republican Party completely useless for so long? Fight back you morons!
He’s also a whiny, obnoxious twerp. Even when I agree with him, I can’t stand to listen to him.
Remember, they get their news from the same biased lefties that we all do. I think that they think that if the news portrays them as mean and unlikable, the rubes will believe it.
I think that it has a lot of do with Shapiro being part of the Ivy League law establishment. He thinks that the left is losing partly because they are undiplomatic, and that if the right starts duplicating their rhetoric and strategy that they will starting lose, too. He doesn’t understand how the left doesn’t need to have seats to have massive political sway.
Again, Cruz Effect. Shapiro is used to being the smartest guy in the room. He graduated from high school two years early, did well in university and law school. He’s used to being successful in environments with heavily structured systems and mechanics where high intelligence is largely the most important factor. In short, he’s a huge nerd who sees this as a competition with well defined rules rather than a popularity contest.
Cruz thought he could win the nomination because he could debate Trump with Princeton style rules and reality would conform to his wishes. Surprise, democracy doesn’t bloody work that way, but nerds assume it does.
You nailed it. In reality, the ideal candidate would be somebody that can be politically principled but is outspoken enough to be popular with the average joe. Unfortunately, though, popular will beat correct far more often.
Exactly why I’m not a populist.
How about a populist university administrator?
Exactly why I’m a God Emperorist.
Nope. Not even one of those.
Aww, thanks, I won’t give you the Thunder Warrior treatment when you stop being useful…
/God-Emperor of Mankind
Maybe you’re not a populist, but are you a populator?
I’ve contributed 1, that I know about.
My mom says I’m a catch.
da fuq did I just watch?
The Ultimate Populator
14? I have no comment.
My father-in-law was close. My wife has 11 siblings.
Let’s play a game of “virile or cuck?”
The one thing I’ll give Trump credit for: he gets the fact that there’s a huge % of the population that will never like you, no matter what. None of the establishment Repubs get this, apparently.
There’s no point in attempting to appease them. No point in attempting to make them happy. They hate you. They will always hate you. Fuck them, and work on making the people who voted for you happy. How this fact has escaped mainstream Reupbs for decades is a mystery to me.
There’s also, of course, the inverse of that too, which is don’t run out the gate demonizing half the population and pretend you don’t need their support at all. Romney’s comments may have been indirectly released, but Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ comment was hilariously tone-deaf. I can’t believe these people are incompetent enough to openly throw away half the vote.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, you notice who he avoided going after in the election race? Actual voters. He didn’t shit directly on Clinton voters, he shitted on Clinton and deemed that enough. Sure, he wasn’t going to get a lot of them on his side, but he didn’t completely obliterate his chances either.
Clinton’s just a godawful politician. Reading Shattered, which was written by two huge fans of hers, really brings that home. She’s just an utterly loathsome creature in all respects.
Decent point. Fight 1) policy and 2) the other guy (girl). Fighting voters or a voting base is moronic i the extreme.
As far as libertarians are concerned, there can be no truce with leftists, ever. They are our mortal enemies. Trump’s no libertarian, but at least he understands that you cannot have a truce with leftists.
Thank God. That brand is poison now.
Trump’s no libertarian,
I agree with that. Completely. But, where does he rank in terms of policy mix? I said top third. But, I could be wrong.
The only appropriate answer to anything David French or William Kristol have to say:
Makes me laugh every time.
That was pretty damn funny. It’s hilarious how Trump has been so successful by NOT doing it the way any other Republican would have, and clowns like this guy are saying “You need to stop doing that and start acting like a typical Republican in office damnit!”
Yea. See i am not really a Trump fan, but the logic of these pundits is mind boggling. Their way clearly doesn’t work
Trump is way more astute than the conservative intellectual establishment gives him credit for. Again, he’s not 4-D chess grandmaster smart, but he has really good political instincts for someone that’s a total novice. There absolutely is a method to his madness: he may complain about approval ratings, but he also is one of the few that also gets how you narrowcast and appeal to your base of support. The GOP base has never been this energized post-presidency, and it has almost entirely to do with Trump. Those are the people that are going to show up in the elections and primaries, both in the midterms and in 2020.
The dream of every single one of the politicians in the Republican Party is to one day give a poignant, statesmanlike, eloquent concession speech in a major election.
Ed Gillespie is already working on his. On Election Night 2017 he will go to the podium early, having lost all the swing counties in VA and coupled with the blowout in NoVA, the governor’s race. He will praise Ralph Northam’s character, his dignity, his hard work. Northam will thank Ed for his service to the Commonwealth, and speak pointedly of how Ed ran a clean campaign, and really that the Republicans as a whole should learn from his example. Ed will grin, sheepishly chuckle and say something about how he just tries to be the kind of man who can look his kids in the eye every night.
President Trump, watching this, will sneer, turn the television off, say good night to his political team. He will walk up to the residence wing, poke his head in Barron’s room, look him in the eye and tell him not to stay up too late playing video games, that there’s school tomorrow. Then he’ll walk down the hall, and fuck his smoking hot wife in the master bedroom of the White House.
At the first day of the Battle of Shiloh, the Yankees were pushed out of their camps and back to the river bank, almost driven completely into the river. They managed to cling to a small lodgement, while the Rebs slept in the Union tents, drinking their coffee while the rain poured out of the night. Sherman found Grant under a tree, smoking his cigar. Sherman said to him “Well Grant, we’ve had the Devil’s own day, haven’t we?” Grant stood there, the rain pouring off his old slouch hat. “Yep” he exhaled in a puff of smoke. “Lick ’em tomorrow though.” And they did.
Popular opinion believed the successful Confederate assault on April 6th had proven Grant’s unfitness for command. Politicians lobbied for his dismissal. One, an Alexander McClure of Pennsylvania, went to the White House to urge this course of action. Lincoln’s reply “I can’t spare this man, he fights.”
I like this analysis.
Interesting way to put it, particularly when you have the Devil’s own carpetbagger currently in the governor’s mansion. I’m afraid Virginia is done.
I would agree with Viking about Gillespie, but the thing about Virginia, especially the suburbs, is that it is filled to the brim with milquetoast, lifetime government worker types on both the GOP and Dem teams. It may be the one place in the country where playing the moderate, handshake with the fat cats game works for winning an election. Look at how Northam-Perriello turned out as proof of that.
Elections are about getting your base out. The Dems will vote in this election for sure, because it’s their chance to rebuke the Demon Drumpf. Northam is a solid candidate anyway, he says all the right “moderate on guns and taxes” bullshit to get elected.
Fuckhead Ed has been running for Governor since he lost his last race, and he barely pulled out a primary win against a county level official with no fundraising or establishment support. It’s Hillary over Bernie, VA GOP style. He looks like, talks like, and acts like a fucking loser, because he is one. I will be absolutely shocked if he beats Northam.
Even though I liked Stewart’s campaign, I feared that the VA primary was more like Fillon vs. Le Pen than Hillary vs. Bernie. Stewart had some very good ideas from a fiscal standpoint, but his play towards Confederate monuments probably made him too scary for that state’s electorate. Making the primary close, like what happened, was the best possible scenario: Gillespie now has no choice but to move more right than he anticipated.
Again, my analysis is specifically about Virginia, not any other state. Any other governor’s race I would want the kind of candidate that you are talking about, but NoVa “Republicans” are very much like the NE variety that vote Dem in the Presidential race but GOP in Governor’s races. It’s all about not scaring their feelz and not be threatening to their cocktail parties if they cast a vote for him.
The Republican base in VA isn’t excited about Smilin’ Ed. The first rule of any election is to get your base to turn out. If you turn out your base, get your base excited, that’s how you win, because the mushy moderate middle doesn’t give a fuck about the debates or policy positions. They vote on pocketbook issues, and they vote based on the zeitgeist and they listen to the people in their lives. You get the base excited so that people hear from their coworkers, their kid’s Tball coach, their pastor, their brother, their best buddy how excited they are to vote for the candidate. Grassroots, bottom up energy.
The whole theory of “don’t scare the RINOs” doesn’t work, because it assumes that running a moderate squish campaign will win over the RINOs and moderates without alienating your base. It’s bad politics. There’s always the risk of running too hard with your base and alienating the middle, but it’s impossible to win election without your base turning out.
Swing voters respect a candidate who has firm beliefs, and who doesn’t back down. No one trusts a guy who says whatever the person in front of him wants to hear.
Exactly. Hillary beat Trump easily in VA, after all. The exponential growth of NoVa has doomed us. Stewart scared the piss out of the suburban types.
There isn t enough of a Republican base in Virginia to carry anyone. Simple as that.
Again, you’re mostly right on point, not denying that, but I’m wondering if it’s like that Castle-O’Donnell race back in 2010 rather than any Hillary-Bernie equivalents. O’Donnell excited the base but frightened all of the moderates away. A similar thing could’ve happened if Stewart won the primary.
Chipwooder – It also helps that Hillary is beloved by the bureaucratic class in NoVa. Any GOPers that want to win statewide in VA will need the “Comstockers”: those Kristol-like, upper-class Republicans that will happily vote for Hillary if their cocktail buddies won’t bother them about voting for that “RACIST!”, “SEXIST!” Trump, but have voted R downballot and will vote for Gillespie if he’s boring enough for their lefty buddies to not hate them.
Trump got 1.7 million votes, that’s 750,000 more than Cuccinelli got, and 700,000 more than Scumbag Terry got. Now obviously, if everyone who vote Hillary! comes out and votes Northam then you still lose. But if you have an excited base of MAGA hats who want to vote for Stewart, and all the proggy types are pissed off that they have to vote for that myrmidon Keydet who voted for George W Bush twice, instead of their beloved tiny headed Tom Periello, then you win.
Elections are all about turning out the base, getting them to the polls. First and foremost, turn out your base. If you get every diehard of your party to come out and vote, that’s 40%, which is 80% minus 1 vote of the way to victory. The VA GOP is doing the exact same thing the DNC did in 2016: letting the establishment guy who’s been around for 2 decades have his turn, even though he sucks and is gonna get killed.
See also: Gary Johnson
If you fired 100,000 or so federal workers and made them go get a real job and move out of NoVA, it would be back to a swing state at least.
It sounds like one hell of a start to me.
Ah, David French. The guy who didn’t want his wife on Facebook, emailing men, or drinking while he was in Iraq.
I still don’t understand why they didn’t do the SNL “cowbell” sketch with this song. Same basic era, much better applicability.
I think it was the tone of the song. BOC was somber which makes Will Ferrell banging on the cow bell more funny.
That… actually makes some sense.
Many of these links were cold-rage inducing.
i was cool with the squid death-ejaculations (*who wouldn’t be?) … until i read the comments. then i wanted humanity to be torn apart by giant squids.
*except the guy who said, “I’ll be kraken a cold one for my homie”
The comment hoping the surfer guy loses his leg to a shark for hauling in an obviously dying squid was my favorite. YouTube comments are the absolute worst.
nothing says, “I am a moral being that feels deep compassion for all living things” ….
…..like lashing out and wishing the painful death of strangers for engaging in behavior you don’t understand because you’re completely ignorant of anything to do with coastal-wildlife management.
Should he have just let it wash up on the beach? Fuck that. Calamari for everyone!
AI will make forging anything entirely too easy.
Hehehe…The near future is going to be fun.
Check your link, broham. CYL.
It’s the damn AI enemies I’ve made over the years trying to stop me.
I’ll try this again.
If National Review had their way, Jeb! would be the nominee and Hillary would be POTUS. The NeverTrumpers would rather lose so they can feel good in their egos…or their brand. I didn’t vote for Trump but do acknowledge his win was good for like say the courts and the EPA.
The thing about NeverTrumpers i don’t get is they are worried about Trump diminishing the GOP brand. What brand is that again? Other than being a bunch of wusses and stupid?
NeverTrumpers have a bug up their ass about how the Republicans are the respectable, principled party in the same way Progressives have a bug up their ass about how the Democrats are the saviours of women and minorities and their defenders from evil.
Yea. The thing is Republicans are not principled….see their gung ho about repealing obamacare and then when Trump wins it is nowhere to be found
If the House could repeal legislation, it would already be gone. The House is full of people who came in 2010 running against Obamacare. The issue is unless you kill the filibuster you need 60 votes, and that involves getting worthless establishment fuckhead Republicans and RINOs to vote partyline, plus getting 6 Dems to switch sides.
The design of the American government works both ways: It is equally difficult to both enact and repeal terrible laws.
I thought i recall Obama vetoed something? Perhaps i am wrong and thanks for clarification
Somehow during the Obama admin they were perfectly able to pass repeal legislation so it could be vetoed by Obama. Now that they’re in charge of the executive branch, they can’t do it.
They used reconciliation to put it on Obama’s desk in February 2016. They could do it again to put it on Trump’s desk, in theory, but I think the old guard types would balk at using it to actually get something done. Not collegial.
They also lost one of the 52 Senators who voted for it last time.
As I understand it, everything being discussed right now is 100% by way of reconciliation, because they’ve barely got the votes for it.
The issue is unless you kill the filibuster you need 60 votes
Unless they don’t want to do that. Simple majority is ok when they want it to be. I am not a scholar on Senate rules, but I do despise them. Them meaning the Senate and their rules.
Trump approaching 400K on the likes for that WWE tweet lol
The best part is that when he won the election I made that exact joke, but said that Vince McMahon was Clinton instead of CNN.
Lol nice.
I saw a gif where he is Lucy and he pulls the Twitter bird football away from Charlie Brown who is CNN. I hope he puts that tomorrow
That whole match is fucking hilarious, the loser has to get his head shaved and McMahon hams it the fuck up.
This one never gets old:
Trumpinator
Obligatory
I’m out in a small Kansas town and have yet to hear a single firework. When I was a kid you couldn’t go 3 seconds without something exploding. What the hell happened to celebrating your nations independece by blowing up a small part of it?
Maybe they’re waiting for the 4th? And/or a lot of people have to work tomorrow.
For us growing up the fireworks started around the 1st and ended around the 5th
Yeah we had lots around here Fri and Sat night. Nothing tonight yet.
There are some folks of the south of the border persuasion a bit down the street from me and I’m almost certain they’re shooting guns in the air (the reports are way too sharp for fireworks). I commend them for their dangerously reckless patriotism.
Crap… Should I get kevlar spall-liners installed when I get a new roof put on in the next couple of years? How much would be enough to stop falling bullets?
So they’re more from the celebrate your Independence by taking another person’s.
All the time here in South Florida. Almost every year someone ends up either hurt or dead from some moron shooting in the air.
+1 Valu-mart
Whew!
So…not a hate crime?
It still seems pretty [bleep]ing awful.
Yes, one of the more shocking murders I’ve read about lately. But they have to fucking drag race into it, because.
An asshole with a bad temper and poor impulse control story.
Can’t somebody just take a match to those federal hate crime laws and burn it all down? They’re unnecessary and extraneous laws that do nothing but give the federal gov’t excuses to interfere with state crimes.
Don’t worry, the poor woman is gonna be a gun control propaganda pitch in about a day’s time.
Shooting outside French mosque but probably gang-related:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40476825
Slept in late, read a book, then had burgers and beers with a hot girl half my age. And I’m only on day 2 of my 4-day holiday weekend. Thank you, Thomas Jefferson!
I worked half the day on what’s probably going to turn out to be my zero day weekend.
Fuck you.
Sorry. I’ll drink my next beer in your honor.
That’s the price being part of the International Zionists Cabal man. The goyim at least get days off.
Seriously. Tuesday 4th rocks.
I’m loving it, wfh Monday, holiday Tuesday, wfh Wednesday, visit clients on Thursday, boo! But still 5 straight days of mostly chill.
Well, I hope you give her a sausage for free before the holiday is over, (;
Doubtful, but she’s a fun girl. She got me to install Snapchat and now I get cute selfies occasionally. I wouldn’t yell at her to get off my lawn.
That damn avatar has me hearing all of that in Abe Simpson’s voice.
Death!
“I wouldn’t yell at her to get off my lawn.”
Or throw her out of bed for eating crackers, amirite?
She could eat crackers, kale, and free-range tofu in bed.
Pix or you’re lying. Right?
Is that how we do this?
FUCKING FINALLY.
28 more days, 28 more days…
Whoo-hoo! Can’t wait!
I do have to admit, I appreciate the series main creator’s style in not giving a fuck.
HarmonQuest is also surprisingly good.
OMG how did I not know about HarmonQuest?! This is depressingly right up my alley. I am going to drink (a lot) more and binge this show.
Fucking surprise! Libertarian is rife with fuckin’ nerds. I appreciate HarmonQuest’s attempt to merge ourselves with the mainstream and also question our ability to influence it further.
One of my good friends was in a comedy troupe with Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab back in the day.
I did not believe Mr. Poopybutthole when he said Season 2 would be in a year and a half.. or longer.
I should have.
Can’t wait.
When Western animation says “we’re going to take a fuckin’ while” THEY MEAN IT.
In short, Western devs fuck around, Korean near-slaves eventually get around to animating it, everyone praises the cunt who make an internet concept.
Holy shit, I have to start watching Rick & Morty.
Back to Evergreen State College. Mao would be proud.
That college needs to implode and close as a model for what happens when you take SJW thinking to its fullest extent. Then maybe some other universities will nip it in the bud.
Dear Evergreen,
Whether it be due to environment or genetics, it has become clear that your student body contains a large segment of students who are two, possibly three standard deviations below the national average IQ. In order to stop the mass delusion enveloping your campus, I’m pulling all tax payer funding.
Yours truly,
Donald J. Trump
I like it a lot, but it’s too literate, thus unsuitable for Twitter. Plus, he needs to threaten to do it first to get the left all tizzied up.
I’m all ears. Spicer it up for me.
I’m not good at Trump-tweets, but when people ask me to do things on the internet, my rule is: Always Say Yes. Behold:
Fabulous! The absolute best! We LOVE it!
There was a local rep who was going to get it defunded in the state legislature. I wonder what – if anything -happened to that. But yes, federal funds should definitely be pulled.
That’s not how it works.
The vast majority of federal funding for 2 to 4 year colleges and universities is in the form of student loans and Pell grants. An institution’s eligibility to qualify for having prospective students qualify for funding under those programs is defined by Title IV of the Higher Education Act. The President cannot just change that by fiat.
What? Doesn’t trump have a pen and a phone?
Is there a kickstarter campaign I could contribute to in order to get him some?
Obama changed all sorts of shit by fiat and no one seemed to care. Why not Trump?
Good question. Trump hasn’t had too much success with his Executive Orders, and I’m glad. If we even have a 4, or even 8 year period where we pretend to follow the separation of powers again, I’ll be happy.
I was joking, but I agree that the worse thing that could happen is that everyone just shrugs and says “he’s got a point, the President can do anything now days and there is no way we can stop him. Precedent is on his side.”
One of the very good things that is happening is that Congress may find its balls and actually become the third branch again.
The bad thing is that as soon as a “traditional” president from one of the teams is elected it will go right back to where it is now.
I see your point. I’m just not sure. What the hell use is a four or eight year period of separation of powers if it just reverts as soon as the right TEAM gets in?
There are probably other monies for faculty projects, a grant for publishing the newspaper through some fucking DoEd department, or crap like that. There’s always something at a university that’s getting some kind of federal department money. Pretty sure at least some of that is discretionary for the department or entity and can be refused to be granted in future. Not funds already sent, no, but Trump can order, say, EPA to not send money there for some, I dunno, climate change effects on spotted toads, or whatever.
It would be some awesome trolling if Trump turned Title IX on its head and said that after reviewing the stats, it is clear that men have been the victims of disparate impact in college discipline hearings. Tell all the campus admins that if the numbers don’t change, they will lose their funding.
*head-desk*
The man in the canoe likes inequality.
Sorry, forgot there are laydees around these parts.
Damn, that came out wrong, too.
Narrows gaze but in *Clint* style.
Hag, nag, nag.
It really is amazing how there are no native american tribes that excelled in seamanship. The polynesians did fucking insane trips in their canoes, but you don’t see any tribe in NA do something similar. Shit you don’t even see them be like the Vikings and use their canoes to raid their neighbors along the coasts.
http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/haida/havwa01e.shtml
Something to keep in mind when talking about pre-Columbian American history is that we really don’t know all that much about most of them. Diseases killed off an insane percentage of the American Indian population. Something like 75% of Indians were killed by Europeans without ever meeting a white person. That doesn’t mean that guys Like Cortez weren’t assholes, because they totally were,
But when we’re talking about most recorded tribes, we’re basically talking about people who rebounded from a somewhat apocalyptic experience. So you kind of expect that to change the culture a bit.
I would blame animism as a religion for putting too much fear into societies, but that doesn’t explain the Pacific Islanders journeys.
God dammit, why not non-metaphorically build longhouse cities, organize a complex culture of based on hunting, trade and raiding and then go north to kick some Haida ass?
Seriously, Salish are cool.
I wonder why Zimmerman refused to name the faculty member throughout the entire article when everyone knows it’s Naima Lowe.
No shit.
Uffda. I’m not sure unruly is the word I’d use…
I don’t know. I saw the picture and unruly specter is exactly how I’m picturing things when she’s walking.
Burn it down and salt the earth.
Or at least fire that wet dishrag President of the university, Bridges. what an appalling excuse for a leader.
If he was fired, how would he earn the lunch money that the students steal from him every day. You are going to kill the golden goose with your ideas!
If Inslee had any balls, he’d shut the place down.
Having lived in Sweden for a couple years in the late 90s, it pains me to see articles like this one.
Swedish music festival is cancelled for 2018 after multiple sex attacks and a rape at this year’s event
And in case you are wondering, it wasn’t the Amish immigrants.
Out of curiousity, I went to a few Swedish language versions of the story, and there is no hint of national origin of the “alleged” attackers.
We need to translate this into Arabic, Dari, and Pashto.
If only it were that simple!
Unfortunately Sweden’s Top Men have decided to sweep the facts under the rug and pretend everything’s fine.
Stockholm police chief admits not telling the whole truth about migrants attacking Swedes.
That’s a hell of a quote.
Yep….so afraid of the “ultra right” Sweden Democrats (just like the “ultra right” PVV (Freedom Party, etc, etc)). Of course the absence of details/photos speaks far more – they’re not afraid to post details/pics of *white Swedish* criminals.
Everyone knows that crowd surfing girl of 15 is much too old for the prophet.
No mention if they were Amish in this helpful article from the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40477791/swedish-music-festival-is-cancelled-in-2018-after-rape-and-sexual-assault-claims
I keep telling you, the Mennonites are the real threat.
http://www.clickhole.com/article/back-drawing-board-dnc-scientists-just-carried-scr-6273
Nice!
That’s good.
Hot as ( ), today. At least it’s humid, too.
At least it’s humid???
Hot during summer? DAMN YOU GLOBAL WARMING!
WHERE THE HELL ARE THE MONDAY LINKS?! RIOT!!
I was wondering the same thing myself.
The site has only been up for,what, almost half a year now? And they’re already getting lazy with putting things up on time? You expect me to contribute money to this? #MakeGlibertariansGreatAgain!
#YoureNotTheBossOfMe
You know who else shouted “links”?
Alex Jones?
IT’S GOING TO MAKE THE FRIGGIN’ FROGS GAY!!
That Snausages dog?
Rhetts?
A German NASCAR driver?
Lollygaggers be lollygaggin’
12 greyhounds test positive for cocaine at Bestbet race track
Just once and we could blame it one the dog?
Don’t you dare post links until the morning links are up! Don’t do their job for them!
Emergent order. What kind of people have we become?
Ain’t no party like a greyhound party
To be fair to the dogs, one might get similar results testing Greyhound bus drivers.
Or the lazy hippy who hasn’t posted muh morning links.
Fun fact: The greyhound tracks in Florida don’t want to have greyhound racing anymore. They just want to be casinos now. But the legislature won’t let them.
I went to dog races in Wheeling, WV a month or two back and they were looking to get rid of their racing. Local hotel and restaurants not too happy since there’s not a lot of other reasons to go to Wheeling.
There is a good blues festival in august, but other than that yeah it’s a dump. I used to go to the dog track when I go but last year one of the dogs broke his leg right in front of us, ugh! don’t wanna see that again, the poor little fucker kept trying to get up a run.
I won a $100 on a $2 quinella on the 3rd or 4th race so couldn’t complain. I did find a couple bars there that were fun but it was a pretty depressing place overall. Particularly the casino.
They should add monkey jockeys.
THAT’S YOUR ANSWER TO EVERYTHING!
The dog didn’t signal.
Don’t do their job for them!
The correct term is “enact their labor” I believe.
You know who else shouted “links”?
Bob Evans?
Jimmy Dean?
The guy who invented that text-based web browser?
No, wait, that was Lynx. And damn I’m dating myself by having used Lynx.
I used punch cards.
And get off my lawn!
Meet Wrestling’s anti-Trump villain: The Progressive Liberal
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40472222/meet-wrestling-s-anti-trump-villain-the-progressive-liberal
TW: Auto-play video. Also, I don’t know how to do fancy link tags like you guys.
I pretty sure you can tag just by slapping your partner’s hand.
You’re not helpful!
Sorry. *Seriously though, there’s an add on in the help section.
Here.
I can’t install add ons on my work computer. They have this stuff locked down. 🙁
Try this.
Does it work?
Yay! Thanks SR!
Good. Now everybody knows I use an HP. Ah, well.
^Euphemism? You decide.
Y’all really need to include target=”_blank” to avoid navigating away from the page.
No, Number 6, you need to learn to tell links to open in a new tab/window all on your own.
(hint there’s a couple of ways to do it)
test
Jesus christ when is monocle getting an update?
Get your orphans on it.
Most US women won’t dine alone with opposite sex, survey suggests.
Dear Emily, if a dude wants to go out alone for drinks with you, he wants in your pants.
What if he wants to go bass fishing alone with me?
Definitely looking to score.
A guy doesn’t even have to like a girl that much to have a few drinks with her (that doesn’t mean he’s not looking to score). Taking a girl out fishing is much more of a commitment and probably means he really likes you to spend that kind of quality time with you (and therefore wants to hook up) or he’s a serial killer.
Are you any good at fishing? I’m awful, either that or I pick the worst lakes, because I’ve only ever caught one type of small yellow fish which I’ve never been able to identify. Bright yellow, diamons shaped, and never bigger than two or three inches across.
I suck at fishing, but it’s one of my favorite activities. It goes 1) Skiing [huge gap], 2) Fishing.
Caught this on some light line and no leader (also, cheating because we were using bait). No idea how I got it in the boat.
How is bait cheating? I thought bait was part of fishing.
Real bass fishermen would never, ever, ever, ever use bait. Ever.
Why not?
Or are they going to the fish farm and netting from the concrete ponds?
Real bass fisherman do use live bait. That is the best bait. Professionals are also lure salesman though as well. That’s how they get paid.
It’s not cheating if you eat the fish.
Twas delicious. I prefer perch, though.
I would be a bit nervous if you were my kid sister, because of the implications.
OMG, a large chunk of people have old fashioned, traditional views on interactions between the sexes? How unprogressive of them.
But 8 years of Obama assured me that progressive ideas had been adopted by the entire country.
But then the evil racist sexist whites decided to get off their asses and vote against the first woman president as a whitelash against the first black president! So, clearly we still have a lot of work to do in this country to stop whitey.
Dese words, tho. I have something in my eye…
Thse sound like fitin’ words…
Sounds like pillow talk to me.
Your bedmate wants you to stop telling them what to do?
That’s what I’m talking about.
What a patriarchal, cisnormative statement that destroys the rights of everyone but rich white men. Disgusting.
Thanks for sharing, KK, but that needs a nice little fix that’s more in line with what’s happening today. What you posted is, like, 100 years old or something. Here’s a better one:
Pretty quiet at work today. Lots of people off slacking.
I don’t think there are half a dozen people in the office.
You work for Glibertarians?
That’s not work
Nobody is worried yet?
It would seem that they think they don’t have to post links because 4th of July weekend. Hmph, I’m at work right now, ready to get started in half an hour. Lazy bums, thinking they get holidays off.
Clearly, given that we still have no morning links.
WHAR MUH LAINKS GAWN TEW??
Emma Watson, you mischievous little scamp you. The title of the video is a little misleading; she doesn’t hide “books”, she hides multiple copies of one book, Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou. (I was expecting Countdown To Mecca by Michael Savage) I can’t wait to see the surprise on people’s faces when they stumble upon Emma’s hidden gems!
*watches*
Goddammit, she’s not really even hiding the books! They’re just there! One of them is balanced above a doorway; what could go wrong?
My review: It’s only 1:39 – watch it. It’s a masterclass in prog signalling.
I hope every one of these books transmits a disease.
Still would.
Well, yeah.
Meh. That indignant smirk just screams “I’m better than everyone and I know it and want you to know it” doesn’t really get the blood going.
Still would.
“So cute!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-awm_wKNy8
Is this part of her HeForShe BS? Or just your standard prog social signaling? (At work, so not going to watch any YouTube videos)
No, it’s not part of HeForShe, sadly.
Giving away books doesn’t seem that progressive. The easter bunny promotes a christian agenda by hiding stuff. Although he’s way better at it, being 12 times her age.
IOW, would.
My predictions
– the ones on the street get thrown in the trash
– the ones on the subway get turned into the lost and found
– the ones placed outward at chest height wedged behind a pipe are clearly disguised IEDs and get the whole subway system shutdown and evacuated until bomb disposal can inspect the entire system
Yes, but the video will persist forever.
“‘People don’t want to work with me because my boobs are too big”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4660112/Emily-Ratajkowski-s-boobs-stop-people-working-her.html
And here I was expecting one of those people who’d stupidly had so much silicone put in that they were larger than their head.
Damnit, why do I have to be at work right now. I’ll have to wait for tonight to give this story the true attention it deserves.
All 37 seconds…amIright?… *zing*
“And they won’t take me bass fishing either!”
I’d let her troll my lure.
The farce continues…
Seems legit…
Erm…
Well, at least it sounds like there are some checks and balances still in place…
America sucks, ch 3,715
The most effective tools in the making of a non-patriot are time, honesty and a truthful self-education. Allow the boy, as he becomes an adult, to learn about the injustice and unfairness glossed over before. The process of increasing historical consciousness will make American exceptionalism untenable.
After extolling for years the genius of the United States Constitution, begin to point out the impediments to democratic government that it has imposed upon the American nation itself, and the other countries on whom we have forced it.
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The youthful patriot has been raised to admire the United States Senate as “the world’s greatest deliberative body” by watching “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939) or “Advise & Consent” (1962). By the turn of the 21st century he’ll realize that the Constitution condemned the nation to a Senate in which 10 percent of the population of his country controls 40 percent of seats. It’s an arrangement that does exactly what Madison designed the Senate to do: “protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”
The child may not notice that the Constitution explicitly made the equal representation of each state uniquely unamendable. He will, however, grow up to discover that, as its irremediable result, one citizen of Wyoming has about 65 times the representation in the Senate as every Californian.
America was not established as a democracy? Well, dog mah cats. Quelle surprise, as they say in gay Pareee.
What I find especially amusing about this “Boo hoo, Wyoming runs the country” idiocy is this: were America to suddenly be transformed into some sort of vote-by-phone American Idol style direct democracy in which the rabble voted in real time on every burning issue of the day, people like Professor Smartypants Egghead would be out in a field in Kansas weeding beets like his Chinese predecessors in the ’60s.
So the liberals don’t care about minorities?
Christ, what an asshole.
File this in, “read about history from Marxists, doesn’t get the Constitution, and wants his free stuff.”
Currently at work, shifting around my department from one section of the warehouse to another, but y’all let me know when links are up… in the interim
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40476821
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-40461636/girls-say-they-hate-their-vaginas
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/03/opinions/trump-g20-weak-position-opinion-zelizer/index.html
Like we’re going to trust CNN’s take on anything Trump.
CNN being fed by Trump.
“Girls as young as nine are seeking surgery on their vagina because they are distressed by its appearance”
WTF???
The breathless delivery should’ve given it away
Florida Man Shoots Penis
http://www.news4jax.com/news/florida-man-sits-on-gun-shoots-self-in-penis-police-say
Alternate headline “Florida Monday”
“Guns don’t kill pee-pees…”
Prediction: He didn’t sit on the gun. He sat down while appendix carrying.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
that was my guess. or pulled the trigger while holstering appendix carry.
More common with, ahem, Mexican carry.
Yup. I assumed no holster present.
True, I don’t think ANY kind of carry that’s pointing anywhere near your junk or femoral arteries are a good idea.
Well, it was Florida Man …
This is why we need common sense gun control.
Fun fact – my mom e-mailed me this story last night.
*Sees wide open lane for Mom joke. Let’s it pass.*
Some fruit hangs so low, it’s unsporting to take it.
Let us it pass? What kind of monster are you?
Just realized I’ve been replying to twelve-hour old comments. Hey, I got up and went to work, the least I expect is a plate of warm links when I get there.
We’re demonstrating spontaneous order by making our own links. RIOT!
*flips keyboard*
Who wants to enter the Bernie Sanders film festival!
(excellent response)
The accolades and awards shall be split evenly between all contestants, which incentivize all the filmmakers to make films that will be really really good.
hilarious.
also sad.
Contador continues to be snakebit in the TdF, with his main lieutenant, Valverde, crashing out in the opening time trial. Not that I care – can’t stand the guy.
American rookie Taylor Finney got into the breakaway on Sunday’s stage after a good TT performance.
Meanwhile, the NBC analysts look like they’ve been starved for a year. Either that, or they found magical cameras that subtract weight.
Giving me a hankering to watch “Breaking Away” again.
Delusional? Meeeee?
The Model 3 is a critical test for Mr. Musk and his ambitious plan to turn Tesla into a producer of mass-market electric cars.
Until now, the company has produced luxury cars in relatively small numbers, typically selling them for $90,000 or more. In 2016, it made about 85,000 vehicles. General Motors, by contrast, produced more than nine million cars and light trucks.
But the Model 3 will be priced around $35,000. Mr. Musk envisions the new car reaching a much wider range of customers and has said he expects it to push Tesla’s output to 500,000 cars a year in 2018.
A quick wiki says Ford sold 35,000 Tauruses last year. 168,000 focuses.
So, sure. Selling a half million Teslas seems completely doable.
He’s depending on loads of government subsidies for purchasers?
Nobody will be able to sell electric cars in massive numbers until just about every gas station also has just as many charging stations. I would drive an e-car (assuming I could afford it) if I weren’t so paranoid about running out of juice and having nowhere to charge it.
It’s easier to carry a gallon of gasoline up a few miles of highway than a charged battery. The gas is lighter.
I’m not sure it’s the number of charging stations that will be the problem, it’s whether or not those charging stations will come with your own hotel room since it takes like 5 fucking hours to charge the damn thing. It’s just not a practical mode of travel if one is driving outside of their liberal bubble.
Good point. They’ll have to come up with a way to quick-charge, too, to make it practical.
Even if it took 30 minutes to charge, nobody except truckers and hookers wants to sit and wait for that long at a truck stop.
You’re all looking at it the wrong way – the obvious answer is to have all these be cable cars, plus offer battery swap services of regulated format batteries.
Duh.
That’s probably the best idea, you go to a station and they swap the battery. This will require 3 things though:
– A standard battery for all vehicles. Which I will bet $100 right now will be picked by a bureaucrat in the DOE.
– A small team at a truck stop in Bumfuck, TX to take my car apart and reassemble it in a reasonable timeframe. No offense to anyone in Bumfuck, TX intended.
– The increase in electric infrastructure capacity to create a giant charging station that can handle a similar number of cars that can be filled up with gasoline.
Sounds like gassing your car in NJ.
So you turn up, and an efficient process is undertaken which requires two personnel at a facility which will need to be staffed 24/7, taking 3 minutes, in order to enable a further 400 miles of travel. Figure the costs for that, when with gas, you could do it yourself, in 2 minutes, at any time of day.
Ain’t gonna fly. The manpower cost alone will kill it unless it’s mandated by law (which of course, is quite plausible in states like NJ)
I was being sarcastic and insincere.
I don’t want someone else’s secondhand, wornout and abused battery. It would burn my car down.
3 minutes? This isn’t Formula 1.
I don’t even like people washing my windows, let alone removing and replacing a key component, likely weighing hundreds of pounds.
Robots, mexican. Clearly this isn’t a job for minimum wage workers.
I was being generous.
At least you can be busy during that 3 minutes, filling out some forms in triplicate that indicate that – to the best of your knowledge, the battery being exchanges is not damaged and hence an environmental hazard, that you accept that some of the power in the new battery may not be gluten free and might have been supplied by non-unicorn-fart-derived sources.
“Sorry man, you gotta wait three days”
“Three days? What for?”
“Till the truck from the factory gets here.”
“What about those batteries over there.”
“No can do. New regs say all batteries gotta go back to the factory to be recertified then recharged. We can’t recharge on site anymore.”
Clearly this isn’t a job for minimum wage workers. Where I come from, its a job for Mexicans.
I assumed you were being snarky, as was I, but I’m sure somebody right now is being paid by Elon Musk to cook up such a system.
We don’t have a surfeit of Mexicans where I am.
Yep. It already takes close to 4 hours to get to my brother’s place, and 9 to get to my parent’s house. I don’t want to wait even 30 minutes for a charge (although if the vehicle could do 500 miles on a charge, then I could do lunch during the charge if I drive during the day). Until it’s cheaper to operate it, and better charging, I’ll hold off. Especially if running A/C will cut my range in half still.
500 miles? My fucking gasoline powered car won’t do 500 miles on a tank. Are you high?
Mine does with a great deal of regularity.
What are you driving?
My Grand Cherokee can get that in a pinch, but I wouldn’t push it past 450 without filling up.
But you can refill a tank in five minutes. If I’m stuck for hours waiting for my car to trickle-charge, it had better have amazing range relative to gas-powered cars.
Neither will my particular car, but my brother’s (which we drive to my parents since he can overnight at my place then head down there with both of us to split the driving) easily gets 550 miles per tank if we keep it at 70 MPH.
I drive a WRX STi. Built for speed, not endurance.
Jokes incoming in 3….2….1….
My odometer doesn’t work. I usually refill every 5 hours.
the EJ25x subarus do get astonishingly bad mileage, I had a legacy GT for years that would struggle to get better than 17mpg, even with a catless DP and reflash
To my understanding, Subaru’s engines are pretty fuel efficient, but given what they are tasked to do with the AWD powertrain… Also, like BMWs, their owners are the type to have a lead foot.
I’d wait 30 minutes if it were significantly cheaper than gas.
Spoilers: It won’t be.
I like the assumption that 500k electric cars won’t cause any systemic infrastructure problems either – how will notoriously energy-insecure California cope with all that extra grid demand?
“oh I can’t come to work today because the brownout last night meant my tesla didn’t charge. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow too? great!”
That. When I last did a back-of-the-envelope WAG about how much electric power it’d take if you replaced half of Texas’s cars with electric, I came up with a power requirement that’d pretty much guarantee you’d crash the grid. I could have screwed up a decimal point, but I can’t see the country’s rickety power grid coping with a half million cars needing juice.
As to the charging time issue, why couldn’t the battery be treated like gas bottles for welding? IOW, you don’t own a particular bottle; you exchange empty bottles for full ones at your welding gas supply house.
Absolutely you could do it on an exchange basis, but the issue of charging them still arises.
What should be done? Convoys of semis loaded with discharged batteries, trucked out of state to be recharged in states who have a healthier power infrastructure that can handle the load? I hope all those semis are EVs.
TRAINZZ!!
Yes, the battery should be in the form of a cartridge which is just swapped out.
That, or the vehicle should be steam-powered, using a miniaturized nuclear reactor.
that was toyed around with by, iirc, Ford in the ’50s before people realized that hey maybe things that get crashed frequently shouldn’t have fissile material in them
Ford has some practical experience in that area.
I see that as an engineering problem, not a show-stopper. My question would be whether a reactor can be scaled down sufficiently.
Is there even a shielding material that would protect a driver without making the vehicle the size of the Ratte”?
Who doesn’t want to live the Reaver lifetyle?
If pur nuclear landcruiser could ford rivers and not get stuck in the mud, I’d gladly help crew it (assuming it isn’t leaking rads into the crew compartment. Atmosphere, okay, just not inside…)
You can get them pretty small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPAZ_nuclear_reactor
Also google RTG. Power outputs were on the average of 300-600 W electrical, and about 2-5 kW thermal. Though Russian units were larger and cruder.
+1 Corvega
“Noisy” Rhysling nods.
WAIT, Wait, I’ve got it.
The sharging stations are mobile. They are nuclear powered lancruisers that roll up and down the highways. When you need to charge your EV, you drive up one of the ramps and lock into a docking port. Then you go up to the observation deck and watch the countryside go by!
Genius!
you drive up one of the ramps…
I was sure your link was going to be this instead: https://youtu.be/h34MviiKXXc?t=49s
Button Gwinnett, Founding Father from Georgia
This is the longest book I could find about him – it’s 14 pages.
But he died in a duel.
Here’s another (link is to Amazon): http://tinyurl.com/v9xyyg6
There’s also one from 2015 written by Colin Gwinnett Sharp and published by Oxford UP’s self-publishing service.
I’m beginning to suspect this Blow character isn’t a fan of President Trump
Every now and then we are going to have to do this: Step back from the daily onslaughts of insanity emanating from Donald Trump’s parasitic presidency and remind ourselves of the obscenity of it all, registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth.
There is something insidious and corrosive about trying to evaluate the severity of every offense, trying to give each an individual grade on the scale of absurdity. Trump himself is the offense. Everything that springs from him, every person who supports him, every staffer who shields him, every legislator who defends him, is an offense. Every partisan who uses him — against all he or she has ever claimed to champion — to advance a political agenda and, in so doing, places party over country, is an offense.
We must remind ourselves that Trump’s very presence in the White House defiles it and the institution of the presidency. Rather than rising to the honor of the office, Trump has lowered the office with his whiny, fragile, vindictive pettiness.
The presidency has been hijacked.
Needz moar slobbery nostalgic Obama fellation.
And remember the Tea Party were the same as the KKK because they disagreed with a black guy about health care.
But “MUH IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY!!!!!!!”
I think what we are seeing is a kind of mass borderline personality disorder. That is textbook BPD behavior.
Trump gives reporter a compliment which clearly, makes him a sexist.
Stupid tags didn’t work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/us/trump-flirt-irish-reporter.html
This story for some reason was brought up by my wife when we went out on Friday, which oddly enough ruined our evening.
Well known appreciator of cute women, appreciates woman in verbal exchange. News at 11.
Maybe they need to put a sign outside the Oval Office just to remind them. They could dig out the one they had for when Joe Biden was officiating at a co-ed meeting.
That’s different. Joe is a pervert, not a sexist. Totally different.
“Oval Office” sounds sexist to me. Better change that, too.
That whole fucking article made me want to kill myself. Seriously, how can you write such worthless….. AAAAargh.
I have no links, no emails, no phone calls and no coworkers. Pretty soon I am going to take off my pants because its going to get pretty hot in my cubicle this afternoon and nobody is around to care…..
So I’m going to figure out how to post a hyperlink on this site and I don’t care what you all think.
I can totally solve this disputed islands thing! Secretly land a SEAL team on island, dig a small hole, fill the hole with a 10 Megaton warhead. Get the SEAL team out of dodge and blow up the island. Then Trump tweets that he booby trapped other islands with a nuke, or with Russian hookers.
Even if they wanted to, nobody is fighting over the Bikini Atoll after all.
mexican sharpshooter hard at work
That’s pretty accurate. All the other .gov workers are on vacation…somebody has to answer the phone.
Not sure why this particular Freedom of Navigation cruise (as rendered by Polandball: http://imgur.com/gallery/yXfqJda ) has people so flustered. The PRC has spent so much money building those overgrown reefs out of dredge spoils because there’s a Ghawar’s worth of natural gas in the area, they want the exclusive right to drain it, and they think making artificial islands bolsters their case to do so. If the Philippines or Japan have a problem with that, then they should go drill in their EEZ for that gas, park an FPSO over the hole, and see what China does.
But as it is, the USN and USAF do freedom of navigation overflights and cruises all of the time, and have been doing so since before the Cold War.
This is how China rolls.
I would have suggested putting so many people in the island that it tips over.
Florida judge returns burden of proof under Stand Your Ground law from prosecutor to defendant, insists the recent change should have been enacted judicially, not legislatively.
One person(s) expresses what many think.
If you haven’t reregistered your car in 4+ months, I’d say you’re a visitior, not a resident and you haven’t moved dick. Btw, California cops are much bigger assholes about enforcing reregistration (and tax payments) for long term visitors.
That is awesome.
Who knew portland didn’t like immigrants?
More debate news!
We have politicon 17 coming up, and the young turks are back.
Cenk Uygur will be debating Ben Shapiro, local “meh”.
if you missed my last one, Petersen and David friedman will be debating at the YAL conference at the end of the month. anarchism vs minarchism.
I watched the Friedman and Bob Murphy debate a few years ago. Friedman can be a passive aggressive little bitch, but he may actually be smarter than his dad.
I’m glad YAL is having a debate about it. I’m trying to find out if they will be streaming it live or if I’ll have to wait on a link. I’ll share once I have it.
Is this going to be a rerun of the Dinesh “debate” where Uygur makes some ad homs to play to the croud, crows about the “victory” and no points are actually discussed?
“Croud” sheesh I spel gud.
I thought Palin’s Buttplug was Weigel.
I can’t believe cenk wants more. I don’t know who will beat up on him more, Dinesh or Ben?
Ben will beat up on him more: some on this board may not like him, but he comes from that Andrew Breitbart wing that believes that politics is downstream from culture.
I want to see Cenk debate Crowder’s Cenk.
I’m sure that would be a REASONABLE DISCUSSION!
Great news for Austin Petersen’s 2018 Senate bid against McCaskill in MO (which he will make official tomorrow): milquetoast establishmentarian and former NeverTrumper Ann Wagner (who flipped because he won) decides not to run.
I think he could do it. I’d rather see more of us in the senate than having a cool speech lap every four years.
Made my morning.
Gov FaFu is the (gigantic) gift that keeps on giving.
Thanks for that rabbit hole, commodious. I’m at work and I clicked like six more of those.
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/881554391538343937
SMDH
HAH I knew CNN would have some fucking bullshit about it.
Just caught the end of a FNC host talking to someone from the NYT who is worried that video may support violence against journalists. Is cognitive dissonance now a job requirement for members of the media?
Remember last year, during the election cycle, when everything that Trump said was deemed a “dogwhistle” for conservatives (who would then enact violence against their leftist or democrat political opponents)? This is just a progression of that logic.
Howard Stern live on the air as 9/11 played out.
A couple years back I went and watched all the major news networks’ “as it happened” coverage, Howard Stern’s too. I had been watching NBC and ABC while it was going on. I didn’t have cable and CBS didn’t come in very well so those were my only options. I remember being frustrated by how stupid Katie Couric seemed to be at the time. I rewatched them all to compare reactions. I can say fairly confidently that CBS was the worst. Even after the second strike, Bryant Gumble was arguing with a guest, “Why do you say it’s deliberate, we don’t know that?” Fox was the most on the money. Surprisingly, it was the Fox and Friends morning crew, the two dudes who are still there and a different blonde. They always seemed like idiots to me, but they were on top of it that morning. Already doubting it was an accident with the first one, within seconds of the second one hitting, they were talking about Osama Bin Laden, etc… Howard Stern was a close second. CNN, ABC, BBC were all pretty neutral. NBC and CBS clueless. Those are my rankings anyway.
I thought ABC did the best, followed by NBC. I picked NBC because they had the most “on the ground” coverage. CNN did well, but they were showing local NY coverage when the second plane hit, and it took them minutes to figure out what happened, while all the other networks (except the BBC) got it right away.
I don’t think I’ve seen the national Fox coverage – the archive.org site has the local DC Fox broadcast, which didn’t go to national coverage until a long time after the attacks started.
What are the odds the sheriff’s office is found in contempt here? Zero? Less than zero?
tl;dr: Woman in custody of Broward Sheriff’s Office in critical condition, in ICU, going to die. Woman’s mother flies down to see her, allowed two very short visits, told by BSO that she won’t be allowed to see her daughter again. Woman: “WTF, she’s in ICU, she’s not going anywhere”. BSO: Too bad, so sad.
Woman goes to judge, gets order from judge requiring BSO to allow her to see her daughter. BSO: Nooope. Woman: But I have an order from a judge! BSO: Nooope.
Also, this from the second visit:
(look at the picture. The woman weighed 111 pounds before she got sick. She’s not fucking going anywhere. Seriously, is not having a soul or a conscience a requirement of being a cop, just like a low IQ?)
Procedures were followed. The courts don’t give a flying fuck about morality or humanity.
As to the charging time issue, why couldn’t the battery be treated like gas bottles for welding? IOW, you don’t own a particular bottle; you exchange empty bottles for full ones at your welding gas supply house.
This is not an unreasonable approach conceptually, but I suspect it would necessitate a complete redesign of the vehicles. I’m assuming getting to the battery pack on a current Tesla/Leaf/Prius plug-in is a major undertaking. Also, as suggested above, will the battery packs be standardized across manufacturers/models? Who writes those specs?
Who writes those specs?
Why, a friendly new government agency!
SAE, ISO, DIN, JSA
for safety envelope reasons, it’d most likely slot in behind the back seat and be top-entry. The standard pack architecture now is just like 1000 18650 cells ganged together. A borrowed pack model with the service stations owning the packs and maintaining them (usually failure isn’t systemic, it’s one bad-actor cell that drags the whole pack down or out of spec) is what I’d envision. A standardized form factor and lifting/connection architecture would make it possible, kinda like forklift batteries.
you’d pretty much wipe out SUVs and make everything sedans though… not sure that would fly with the buying public.
Maybe certain models would take 2 at a time?
So apparently the most reliable member of the libertarian cabal is a giant gun-vomiting flying stone head fresh out of rehab… that’s just about the libertarian thing ever, I think.
Swiss posted on Saturday that he would probably be away from wifi until Tuesday evening.
He didn’t have a subcutaneous bluetooth implanted by his employers? The Gnomes of Zurich are getting soft, I see… perhaps the time approaches for the House of Burgundy to wreak its terrible revenge upon the cuckoo-clock makers.
Crazy Russian Hacker unboxes Canadian MRE. I gotta say, this is the saddest one yet. WTF is that purple “raspberry jam” substance?
Email I just got in our company’s general inquiry inbox: “I just invested in your company. Can I have a free hat or t-shirt?”
You didn’t build that?
At least send him some stickers!
Well?
Yeah, he can buy one from our fucking online store.
I am sad now. I found out that Bearer Shares were once a thing and are now Illegal. “Dude left a strange tip – five percent of PepsiCo”
Straight outta Idiocracy.
Footage of the Glib HQ
That’s pretty good.
Dude’s wearing that hood wrong.
Happy 4th of July! *Sets off fireworks. Goes to bed.*
Don’t any of you sleep??
“I just invested in your company. Can I have a free hat or t-shirt?”
“Get one from your broker.”
I tried but they just sent me a TD Ameritrade shirt.
Mises Institute: “They Made Us Red to Fight the Reds
Interesting read.
I am impressed with the speed of selling stuff on backpage. I put a gun up on it last night and I have a buyer in under 12 hours.
So now what do I buy with the proceeds? MOAR GUNS!?
THIS IS WHY WE NEED UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS.
NO THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO DO AWAY WITH CIVILIAN OWNERSHIP OF GUNS. ONLY OUR BRAVE COPS AND SOLDIERS SHOULD HAVE GUNS.
Why do even those guys need guns once all laws are outlawed? What’s left to fear in a post-gun world?
HE’S GOT A KNIFE! BANGBANGBANGBANG
No, wait, it was a pen.
Ah well.
Well, the pen is mightier than…
And yet the book didn’t stop that bullet…
Well, if it’s Backpage, there’s always hookers …
Speaking of TdF, One Ball body language analysis. Plus, the chick has a sexy Kiwi voice.
(if you’re not familiar with this YTer’s channel, I think y’all might like her, politically-speaking)