The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/3/23

Good morning, kids. Hope your holiday weekend has been restful and enjoyable. The fallout over the long overdue ditching of mirror universe Jim Crow, a.k.a. "affirmative action," something that never should have seen the light of day in this country (or at least what this country used to be before its demise) continues. Of course the incoherent, inchoate and rabid protestations from the usual quarters are in direct proportion to the absolute sound Constitutional grounds and righteous justice in the case against it.

In any event, logic, reason and morality long ago dictated that this debasement of the foundational American concept of equal opportunity as stated should never have seen the light of day. Again, read Clarence Thomas' concurrence, which was delivered as a rare, and stinging upbraiding of the angry piffle from the mind (if you could call it that) of this Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson in her dissent. It didn't even rise to the level of piffle. It was piffle light, although it was crammed to the gills with bromides, falsehoods, distortions and outright lies about this nation and our society. The one thing that it lacked was any reference to the United States Constitution in general nor the horribly bastardized and abused 14th Amendment.

Two reactions worth noting, first from hack Crayola Crayon scribe and racialist shit-whore Jemelle Hill:

Asian Wave Alliance President Yiatin Chu took to Twitter to praise the decision.
“I told my daughter that today is a big day. They’ve ended affirmative action. ‘Isn’t it what you’re been fighting for?’ she asked. I said yes,” Chu tweeted.
Leftists, like Hill, however, saw the joy felt by Asian Americans as bolstering a racist plot to keep blacks out of universities.
“Can’t wait until she reads that you gladly carried the water for white supremacy and stabbed the folks in the back whose people fought diligently for Asian American rights in America,” Hill wrote.
Hill’s characterization of Chu’s happiness with the ruling as stabbing in the back those who “fought diligently for Asian American rights” is troubling on multiple levels. If she’s referencing pioneer-level civil rights activists of the 1960s, then there could be some justification for the comment in the sense that those activists succeeded in opening up many public and private institutions that had hitherto been inaccessible to non-whites.
However, the civil rights activists who wanted to be judged not by the “color of their skin” but by the “content of their character” are clearly not the activists running the modern civil rights movement. The modern civil rights movement -led mainly by those who agree with Jemele Hill – views race as a political and economic calculation.

From the tragic we go to the hilarious:

Left-wing MSNBC anchor Joy Reid admitted Sunday she only got accepted into Harvard University because of race-based affirmative action.
“I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.

You can turn off your sets there. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we in the trade refer to as "The Clincher." I won't burden you with the rest of the article but Reid claims that Clarence Thomas supposedly benefited from affirmative action as well. I have found nothing in my research to bear that claim out whatsoever. But let's assume for a moment that that's true. I would very much like to do a side by side comparison of Reid's and Thomas' transcripts in terms of grades and the courses that each took. Beyond that, look at the accomplishments of both as well as their scholarly work and attitudes towards this nation, its people and heritage. Like Justice Brown 25, who got a seat on SCOTUS the same way Reid got into Harvard, Joy Reid is an amoeba compared to Clarence Thomas in every metric possible.

Here's a bonus link from another pinhead, the stacked, stupid but dangerous Evita-ta-tas. After one tantrum in which she complains that Thomas' brilliant dismantling of Brown-25's nonsense dissent was both insulting to her, Brown-25, as well as to say that blacks aren't victims, she went off on the Court itself:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested over the weekend that there are no checks on the U.S. Supreme Court and that there was nothing balancing out their power, despite the fact that those things exist. . .
“The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court, which is what we are seeing now, from the overturning of abortion rights, to the ruling that discrimination and, frankly, stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States,” she claimed.
“These are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power in the court,” she claimed. “In fact, we have members of the court themselves, with Justice Elena Kagan, saying that the court is beginning to assume the power of a legislature.”

That last paragraph: R-O-F-L-M-F-A-O!!!! Honestly, I can't necessarily fault her for not knowing about the concept of co-equal branches, checks and balances, etc. Aside from her getting an advanced degree from Boston University in economics (don't laugh, it's totally deserved!), she's ignorant of those facts and the fact that we haven't really operated the way the founders intended for decades.

The court has acted not so much as a super-legislature but as a rubber stamp of anything and everything anti-Constitutional that either managed to be passed into law by corrupt Congresscritters or mostly as a result of lawsuits brought against the real lawmaking power in this country, the Bureaucracy. What Colada-Tits here is really pissed at is that the power of the Court which she and her ilk have been under the assumption belonged solely to the Left has been used against them!

You can thank Donald Trump for that and in a strange way Ruth Bader-Meinhoff for refusing to give up her seat despite age and cancer when Obama could have easily replaced her with an affirmative action hire or someone as anti-Constitutional as Meinhoff herself. But no. Hillary Clinton wanted to make sure that after her victory in 2016, she would have the propaganda victory of appointing Meinhof's successor. How'd that work out for you, Titty-Caca? Leftists? Bueller?

Psaki-Psircling back to her vomitus, in a strange way she's actually right. Every June, as Mark Levin would tell us, America sits on pins and needles waiting to hear the decisions from 9 very flawed human beings that will have consequences for their fellow 330 million citizens that will be carved into granite, seemingly forever. If she really was serious about "the centralization of power in the court," she should lead the charge to overturn Marbury v. Madison. Of course, what she and her ilk fear is the loss of that power, since as is painfully obvious to all but the demented and the Fetterman, that is what they have wielded against us for so long via a, if not the primary weapon in their arsenal: a corrupt judiciary. Of course, even Trump appointees to the court have gotten it wrong as we saw last week with the gerrymandering case.

But everything is so corrupted that even when court decisions do go our way, the Left and their allies in and out of government will disregard them and figure ways around them, as is already the case with universities that are going to merely use other criteria beyond grades to fill their lecture halls with the unprepared and the undeserving.

Most dangerous of all, are the words and attitudes of the Jemelle Hills of this nation, which merely fuel the fires of hatred and dissolution.

Speaking of which, and after a longer than anticipated disquisition on this issue, we take you to France where almost 80 years later, Schickelgruber gets his way:

While the Leftist-Islamic alliance is cracking elsewhere due to the Left’s determination to normalize gender delusions and fantasies and sexualize children, in France, it has the whole country aflame, and could conceivably bring about the end of the Republic. What is happening now in France was entirely foreseeable, but few dared foresee it, for fear of being called “racist,” “Islamophobic,” and “far right.” Once again those who have been smeared with such terms turn out to have been right all along.
The now-nationwide riots started as video spread of an incident that look place last Tuesday, when a 17-year-old Muslim, who has been identified only as Nahel M., was shot by police. . .
. . . And so the George Floyd riots have come to France, featuring the same dubiously-based righteous rage cloaking organized and clearly planned operations designed to destabilize the state. As in the George Floyd riots, Leftists are out in force, as journalist Andy Ngo described in one of several videos of the riots that he tweeted: “In scenes reminiscent of the 2020 American BLM-Antifa insurrection where police stations were attacked, officers witnessed black bloc militants carrying out a coordinated assault on the Fresnes Prison near Paris during the ongoing race riots.”
Antifa black bloc militants, however, were by no means the only forces taking advantage of the situation. Another demonstrator shouted: “Allahu akbar, we are Muslims, if the police kill us we have the right to kill, it’s written in the Qur’an!” Many, if not most, of the rioters and looters are Muslim migrants. France is around ten percent Muslim, and that population is significantly more youthful, and growing more quickly, than the non-Muslim population. . .
. . . When France embarked upon its policy of admitting Muslims into the country in massive numbers, there were many who predicted that a significant percentage of those Muslims would refuse all efforts to assimilate them into French society and culture, out of the belief that French culture was the product of the “most vile of created beings,” as the Qur’an calls non-Muslims (98:6), while Muslims were “the best of people” (Qur’an 3:110). The French government did little or nothing to stymie the growth of Sharia enclaves all over France, as these enclaves were the natural product of the ethos of multiculturalism; anyone who noted how inhospitable they had become to non-Muslims was shouted down as “Islamophobic.”
. . . Will the French government be toppled? Macron is ostentatiously unworried, even to the Marie-Antoinettish extent of attending an Elton John concert as his nation burned. But his position is more precarious than he is letting on, as the riots are ubiquitous and so far uncontrollable. Will an Islamic state be imposed in France? Almost certainly not, or at least not yet. Given demographic trends, one may be inevitable, but there will likely be a few intermediate steps first. Since the rioters are both Leftists and Muslims, the first government after the fall of the republic could be an authoritarian Marxist one. But for the Left’s allies in France, that will not do in the long run.

As the estimable Robert Spencer warns the Left, your allies today will be your executioners tomorrow. And you'll be the first to go. While there are differences, there are some striking and alarming similarities to the events that touched this off in France and to the racial/political/societal tinderbox that is this nation and what it has rapidly devolved into since 2009.

We'll see if this is the Jemelle Hill to die on.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Clarice Feldman: "I think it’s safe to say as opposition to the big idea plans of a net-zero world grows, the green agenda only grows more ridiculous and its credibility further diminishes."
Fink Blinks, Pizza Suffers, Whales Die
"If Americans cannot trust uniformed police officers to be honest, then it likely follows that Americans cannot trust secret police officers, the FBI’s undercover operations, the intelligence community, and other government employees to be honest."
Secret Police in America

SCOTUS ABOLISHES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Clarice Feldman: "Donald Trump's steadfastness regarding Supreme Court appointments has accomplished more in one week that movement conservatives did in fifty years."
Trump’s Greatest Triumph: A Court That Follows the Constitution
"Thomas wrote a nearly 60-page concurrence to express his horror at institutionalized racial discrimination in 21st-century America." (I saw Zingers, Maxims, and Mic-Drops open for Emerson, Lake and Palmer at the Big O in '76 - jjs)
The 15 Best Zingers, Maxims, and Mic-Drops From Clarence Thomas’ Harvard Concurrence
As Thomas, a black man who grew up dirt-poor in the Jim Crow South, concluded in his SFFA concurrence: “While I am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which have befallen my race and all who suffer discrimination, I hold out enduring hope that this country will live up to its principles so clearly enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: that all men are created equal, are equal citizens, and must be treated equally before the law.”
Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America
“The goal of elite higher education is not simply to produce individual elites.”
Diversity Won’t Save Our Ruling Class
“Most white Americans believe that people of all racial backgrounds have a fair chance to get into the college of their choice,” the Ipsos page revealing the results said. “Compare that to Black Americans, most of whom believe that Black people have an unfair disadvantage. Similarly, a significant minority of Latino Americans believes people of their ethnic group have an unfair disadvantage.”
Most Americans Support Supreme Court Decision On Affirmative Action: Poll
“I think it’s profoundly insulting. And I think that he really demonstrated his character, frankly, and his worldview in that critique himself,” she added. (Bingo, colada-tits! He demonstrated brilliance and the apex of western civilizational development! - jjs)
Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez: It Is ‘Profoundly Disrespectful’ for Clarence Thomas to Say Blacks are Not ‘Victims’
Here's an idea, colada-tits. Let's overturn Marbury v. Madison.
Titty Caca AOC Suggests She Does Not Know of Any Checks on the Supreme Court

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“As a reminder, BU also offers a number of wellness resources that are willing and able to help students navigate these times.”
Boston University School of Law Offers Students Therapy Over Recent SCOTUS Rulings
". . . because Ginsburg had become such a totem to the left, she saw herself as irreplaceable. She allowed her hubris to take control, and, to borrow a phrase the left loves to use so much, 'nevertheless, she persisted.' She wanted to hold on until Hillary Clinton could replace her, but we all know that never came to fruition."
Who Deserves the Credit (and the Blame) for Conservative Supreme Court Victories?
"Clarence Thomas's concurrences and Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent, which offer point and counterpoint in Student for Fair Admissions, provide the yin and yang of judicial activism and its opposite."
Justices Thomas And Jackson Help Us Understand Judicial Activism
"Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent is an extension of all the other nonsensical, offensive arguments made by the left."
Affirmative Action is Another Nonsense Leftist Position We’ve Been Conditioned to Take Seriously
Blood meet libel.
Hack Crayon-Scribbler Jemele Hill Accuses Asians of ‘Carrying the Water’ for White Supremacy by Backing SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision
This, ladies in gentlemen, is what is referred to in the trade as "the clincher." - jjs
Joy Reid: "I Got Into Harvard Because of Affirmative Action," Surprising No One
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine: "With Hunter Biden’s former 'best friend in business' Devon Archer slated to testify this month before he goes to jail with nothing much left to lose, and other as yet unidentified whistleblowers emerging with more explosive evidence in coming weeks, a Houdini act for the Biden gang seems unlikely, even with the power of the White House, a complicit media and the best lawyers money can buy."
Blowing the Lid Off the Coverup of Hunter Biden's Cushy Plea Deal
"This revelation sparked considerable outrage online, with conservatives claiming that the president abandoned his granddaughter for political purposes. The New York Times even went as far as to acknowledge that the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] treatment of Navy Joan could potentially cost him votes in 2024."
Report: Biden Aides Told to Ignore Hunter’s Estranged Daughter in Grandchildren Count
Roger Kimball: "Had I not been disappointed so often before when presented with cases of patent corruption, I’d say the results would include fresh indictments for Hunter and impeachment for Joe Biden. Yes, I know that conclusion is utopian, but the fact that it is only further fires my sense of outrage. It is some consolation to know that I am not alone."
Biden Bribery Wheeze is like the Russia Collusion Delusion
"Someone is lying."
The Case Against Merrick Garland is Very Simple
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"District Attorney Fani Willis' obsession to convict Donald Trump for some crime could be the turning point in the Left's perpetual assault on the former President."
In Defense of Donald Trump
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"It is essential to understand the nature of those actively dismantling our nation the next time they emerge."
Cleanup in Kenosha, Aisle 4
"Layoffs come as George Soros prepares to hand power to his playboy son, Alex."
Nazi Collaborator Soros Charity to Slash Workforce By 40 Percent
"The real story of America is one in which tyranny is repudiated and unjust governments are unwelcome."
Sorry, DC — Too Many Americans Remember\
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"In France, a storm is brewing (again), and French President Emmanuel Macron appears to have figured it all out – it’s social media and video games that are to blame for the ongoing riots in France!"
Macron Wants Platforms To Delete Riot Content, Blames Social Media and Video Games For Riot Spread
"If we’re now seeing examples of media control of reality, just wait for the presidential campaign to really get going. Then 'fake news' will be drowning us every time we turn on the boob tube or open up the Washington Post."
MSM Has Convinced Even Republicans to Believe Hunter’s Business is No Big Deal
Blue Peter – named for its original maritime “adventure” theming – is the world’s longest-running children’s TV show, dating back to the 1950s. The daily show has typically taught kids about food, arts and crafts, sports, and even traditional gender roles. “Leila played with dolls; Chris played with trains,” historian Asa Briggs wrote of the program.
BBC’s Historic ‘Traditional Gender Roles’ Kids Show Now Pushes Pride, Drag Queens
"Courtney Subramanian of the Los Angeles Times will hold this board position for the next three years, meaning she will be the lead print correspondent for the rest of President Joe Biden’s first term."
White House Journo Who Fed Her Question To Joe Biden Elected To WHCA Board Seat
Christian Toto: "Head-in-sand reporters ignore half the country's views on woke blockbusters."
Media Deny Critical Reasons for Dial of Destiny’s Failure
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"It’s working all right, assuming that Biden’s plan was to destroy America."
The 4 Big Lies (And 1 Terrible Truth) In Biden’s ‘Bidenomics Is Working’ Speech
"While everyone’s focus has been on the administration’s outrageous cancellation stunt, the DOE has been working tirelessly to accomplish an even more disastrous policy: a new Income-Driven Repayment rule."
Student Loan Forgiveness is Dead But Biden's Got an even WORSE Plan
“This new path is legally sound,” [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden said in a Friday press conference. “It’s going to take longer, but in my view it’s the best path that remains for providing for as many borrowers as possible.”
Biden Junta's New Student Loan Plan Will Involve Zero-Dollar Payments For Millions, No Penalties for a Year
"The Democrats’ ‘reparative’ policies have become an omnipresent part of the U.S. economy and only continue to grow in prevalence and scope."
House GOP Rejects Socialist Mortgage Rule, But That Won’t Stop Biden From Taking Your Money For ‘Equity’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Meanwhile, offshore wind farms are facing a rising tide of mechanical breakdown issues and a solar farm in Nebraska was taken out by a hail storm."
Another ‘Green Energy’ Domino Falls: Shell Refocusing on Gas and Oil
". . . in an attempt to 'quickly cool the planet.'“
Biden White House Publishes Plans to Block the Sun. Seriously
"Of the many odious Left-wing protest groups the West tolerates for some reason, Just Stop Oil (JSO) may be the most reviled in all of England. . . "
Mad Lads Hijack 'Just Stop Oil' Protest, Take Their Banner on Stag Party Trip to Ibiza
"It is disappointing that so many Americans believe to some degree in the climate hoax after all these years. But it is encouraging that Americans are not falling hook, line, and sinker for some of the lies around electric vehicles and fossil fuels."
Majority of Americans Believe ‘Climate Change’ Hoax but Oppose Ending Fossil Fuels
"Give another reliability point to traditional energy sources like oil, natural gas, coal, and even nuclear. Those tend not to be utterly destroyed by entirely predictable weather events."
Mother Nature Strikes Back
"Many companies have grown cautious, moderated their positions, stopped extolling their activism, or left 'socially responsible' alliances altogether."
Are We Finally Heading Toward ESG Sanity?
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"In Fiscal Year 2022, illegal aliens with more than 17,500 drunk driving convictions were arrested by ICE agents. Illegal aliens with more than 8,700 drunk driving charges against them were also arrested by ICE agents within the same time period."
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to Give Standard Driver’s Licenses to over 300,000 Illegal Aliens
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Josue Manuel Arita, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was charged in 2019 by the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office with two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child."
Illegal Alien Has Convictions for Sexually Abusing Two Kids Overturned
“The fact that these horrific shootings continue to take place is abominable,” Moore said. “We as a state will continue to do everything we can to prevent senseless acts of violence like the one we saw last night.”
Police Report At Least Two Dead, 28 Injured In Baltimore Shooting
When asked if social media companies were cooperating with federal law enforcement in trying to fix the problem, Milgram said, “We have not, until recently, gotten nearly as much cooperation as we need.”
DEA Junta Apparatchik Blames Social Media Companies For Fentanyl Crisis Infecting U.S.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Lloyd Billingsley: "Children and pregnant women are suitable subjects for experiments with toxic drugs."
Fauci Family Values
"A new group is getting the word out about the deadly [Chinese] COVID hospital protocol."
Exposing the Chinese COVID Hospital Protocol
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Since its origin, liberals, both White and Black, have actively denigrated African American students."
The Real Status of Black Students
"Affirmative action is dead, but the fight for equal educational opportunity persists."
The End of the Beginning
"Until teachers are treated as individual professionals instead of interchangeable union members, millions of children will suffer."
U.S. School Deterioration: Poorest Performing Teachers Should Be First to Go
ABORTION
The application is touted by CBP as a “safe, orderly, and humane” process for migrants to access ports of entry, providing CBP officers with advance information for screening and vetting to determine admissibility on a case-by-case basis. The use of the application for this purpose is facing criticism by some members of Congress who believe the admission of migrants through ports of entry is merely an attempt to hide the crisis at the southwest border from the public.
Migrant Asylum Entries Increased by 50 Percent Under Biden’s Phone App
"How many thousands of migrants are being released into our communities who should have been stopped at the border? The Biden [junta], as usual, is putting Americans at risk through its woke policies."
Thousands of Inadmissible Migrants Enter U.S. Through Biden Program
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Democrats thought they would pick up a seat in Alabama, but they may lose the one Alabama seat they currently have."
Democrats’ Voting Rights Act ‘Win’ In Alabama May Backfire, Set Up Republican Congressional Sweep
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The Supreme Court lost an opportunity to uphold religious liberty."
A Necessary — But Troubling — Win for Free Speech in 303 Creative v. Elenis
"Writing for the majority, Neil Gorsuch left little doubt the current Supreme Court has a vested interest in defending Americans’ First Amendment rights."
8 Straight-Fire Quotes from Neil Gorsuch’s Defense of Free Speech in 303 Creative
"Christians must be ready with an unwavering answer when a lost world asks something of us we know we cannot do — no matter how big or small — and then be prepared to carry that cross."
Courage is a Christian’s Only Path Forward From the Legal Hell the ‘Winsome’ Gospel Wrought
"The breathing room afforded by the Court should not give Christians a false sense of security."
To Fight Another Day
“Don’t stand in front like you treated someone that’s on the plantation that you own.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Doubles Down on Calling Elderly White Critic and Holocaust Survivor a "Plantation Owner"
Robert Zimmerman: "The leftist members of the Supreme Court did something it has been rare for them to do in recent years, rule on the side of a Christian."
A blacklisted American wins in court
Daniel Greenfield: "Lipstadt condemned three countries. One of them was Israel."
Biden’s Anti-Semitism Czar Condemns Israel, Not Anti-Semites
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] leaned on Ivy League connections to get his subpar student granddaughter into college."
Joe Biden Says He Wants To Crack Down on 'Privilege' in Education. He Once Called UPenn's President To Get His Granddaughter In.
"Based on newly revealed evidence, Republicans are now questioning the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DOD OIG) April 2020 finding that a former senior defense official — Sally Donnelly — did not engage in ethical misconduct by allegedly trying to steer a massive government contract to Amazon." (wrist meet slap, if that - jjs)
Republicans Demand Answers on DOD Clearing Former Official of Alleged Misconduct on Amazon JEDI Bid
POLITICS
"President Donald J. Trump is speaking to thousands of attendees at the Pickens, South Carolina ‘Save America Rally’ on Saturday, July 1st as part of the July 4th celebrations around the United States."
WATCH: Trump Speaks to Thousands in Pickens, South Carolina
"The Republican Party is far from perfect, but the Democrat Party is plain evil."
Democrats Baseless Lies Are Responsible For Today’s Divisiveness
"DeSantis’ sheer hubris jeopardizes his record and legacy in his home state. If DeSantis had waited patiently and continued emulating Trump in word and deed, he may have organically emerged as a logical standard-bearer of the MAGA movement worthy of consideration as a potential Republican presidential nominee in 2028. But DeSantis’ blind ambition has effected an ill-advised 2024 presidential run that will doom his national ambitions in the election cycles to come, as his populism reveals itself to be a carefully orchestrated façade by spin doctors and Washington lobbyists."
Republican Voters Won't Settle for a Pale Imitation of Donald Trump
"Brown took office in 2007, when Ohio had a Democratic governor and an 11-7 congressional delegation split in favor of the GOP. The state currently has a Republican governor and a 10-5 delegation split in favor of Republicans. GOP Gov. Mike DeWine won reelection in 2022 by 25 points, while state Attorney General Dave Yost and LaRose both won by 20 points."
OH Sen. Sherrod Brown Note Could Lose His Seat, First Polls Show
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Regardless of which faction will come out on top, destabilization of the largest nuclear power on the planet is a precarious proposition."
The Mystery of Prigozhin’s Mutiny
"The Prigozhin-Wagner episode has revealed many fault lines in the current power structure in Russia."
Prigozhin's 'Non-Insurrection' Insurrection
"Is Germany resuming its historical role as Russia’s counterbalance on the continent?"
The Iron Cross Returns to the East
Burns – who continues to display strong ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a relationship which continued even after [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden picked him to be America’s top spy – highlighted the recent Wagner revolt as a challenge to President Vladimir Putin and argued that it demonstrated the “corrosive effect” of the war on Russian society.
Russia ‘Coup’ Provides CIA Recruitment Opportunities, Says Director
"And I thought being a Nazi was supposed to be a bad thing."
Western Leaders Have Effectively Embraced Ukrainian Nazism
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Thierry Mariani, an MEP with Marine Le Pen's National Rally, told The Telegraph that Macron's decision to attend the singer's concert while rioters torched buildings and looted businesses was "totally irresponsible."
Macron Parties with Elton John as France Burns, Then Cancels Visit to Germany as Race Riots Rage On
"Muslim violence in France – and everywhere."
France on Fire
SkyNews UK: “Burning car used in ram-raid attack on mayor’s home in ‘assassination attempt.’”
“Intifada in Heart of France” – Mobs Torch Cities, Desecrate Holocaust and WWII Memorial
Vincent Jeanburn, Mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses – a small town five miles outside Paris – had a car rammed into his house before rioters set the home ablaze as his wife and children slept. He described the attack as “an assassination attempt,” with his wife and one of his children sustaining injuries. “Last night, a milestone was reached in terms of horror and ignominy,” said Jeanbrun in an announcement on Twitter.
French Rioters Are Now Attempting to Assassinate Politicians
"The woman's request came as police officers were being attacked by race rioters with mortar-style fireworks while responding to fires set to buildings and vehicles in Lyon, according to the video."
WATCH: Woman BEGS Police Not to Arrest Race Rioters as France Continues to Burn
Robert Spencer: "An entirely foreseeable crisis."
The Leftist-Islamic Alliance Makes its Move in France

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"Fighting the wrong war at the wrong time may end up costing Xi’s control of power rather than achieving historic glory for himself and China."
Why Russia’s Instability Could Throw Off Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Invasion Timeline
Lloyd Billingsley: For a statement calculated to anger a Communist dictator, recall President Reagan challenging Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” An equivalent with Communist China would be “Free Tibet,” or “democracy for Hong Kong,” and “freedom for Taiwan.” Nothing like that from the Biden Junta.
Under Biden, Fake News Soars to Whole New Level
"Meanwhile, members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party request that Biden not renew a U.S.-China science and technology cooperation agreement."
U.S. Now Considering New AI Chip Export Restrictions To China
"Bizarre and without foundation." (isn't this the story of everything Leftist? - jjs)
Sadiq Khan Claims London ‘Was Built By Migrants’
"A terror cult in dire financial straits." (Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants will never allow them to go under - jjs)
Palestinian Authority May Declare Bankruptcy
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
"To put it simply, Biden’s lack of planning ‘had serious consequences for the viability of the Afghan government and its security.’"
State Department Finally Admits In Heavily Redacted Report That Biden Botched The Afghanistan Withdrawal
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
And at the end of Pride Month! Oh the humanity!
Air Travel Chaos Leaves Hundreds More Flights Cancelled Nationwide as Travelers Take Aim at Mayor Buttocks
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The Netherlands continues to shine as an example of a country….that I would not want ours to emulate."
Research Shows Netherlands is Euthanizing Healthy People with Autism and Intellectual Handicaps
"Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus said as patients enter the discontinuation phase of Xanax, Valium, and Klonopin, they face significant withdrawal symptoms."
Study Finds Xanax, Valium Associated With Brain Injury, Suicide
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Using the Webb Space Telescope, scientists on June 25, 2023 took the wonderful false color infrared (heat) image of Saturn above, cropped to post here, as part of a research project [pdf] to take a number of long exposures of the ringed planet in order to test Webb’s ability to see its small moons."
Webb takes infrared (heat) image of Saturn
"While it is certainly true that this agency, once fully staffed, could advocate for Africa’s interests on the world stage, don’t expect that from it. Instead, it is simply a place where African leaders — many of whom are very corrupt — can return favors to friends by giving them a cushy job."
Africa’s space agency wants to build an empire
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"I felt like just a rented uterus."
Surrogate Mom Speaks Out After Homo Dads Refuse t Accept Premie Baby Delivered Early to Facilitate Cancer Treatment
Heather Mac Donald: "In the face of the Left’s hyper-aggressive transgender ideology, conservatives must reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms."
A Battle for Cultural Survival
Daniel Greenfield: "The transgender movement is just completing feminism’s work."
Feminists Were Against Single Sex Spaces, Before They Were For Them
"Heading towards a trans-communist future."
Transgenderism Lunacy: Keeping Parents in the Dark About Their Children
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Feels like something my uncle told me when I was 9.”
Outrage as Planned Parenthood Declares VIRGINITY “A Social Construct”
Sadly, a necessary evil. This is a war and in wars innocent people are victims, but there is no option except absolute victory.
Glass Bottling Company Lays Off Hundreds After Bud Light Implosion
"‘Inclusion’ means Marxism, and it is replacing traditional American values."
Religious Leaders Shouldn’t Be ‘Inclusive’
"And guess how the crowd of Church leaders responded?"
When a German Lutheran Pastor Preaches that ‘God is Queer’
"Making Jesus in their own image."
Left-Wing Groups are Using AI to Rewrite the Bible and Talk to 'God'
"Question: What’s the closest thing to Hell freezing over? Answer: a black pastor praising western civilization for “bringing Africa out of the darkness” in front of a Catholic congregation in Berkeley, California."
A Black Pastor Speaks Truth to Power in Berkeley
Thad McCotter: "If sovereign citizens devolve into serfs, passively immersed in virtual reality’s incessant stream of emotionally sterile, ideologically dictated, often prurient AI generated 'art' products provided, among other things, by an omnipotent tyranny, America will die. It will be a damn hard way to realize art is essential to the health of our republic. Not that anyone will be interested in such insights anymore."
A Trilogy of Meditations on AI and Art (Part Three)
"Mrs. Davis is a television show for our cultural moment with its odd alliances."
Strange Bedfellows
HITHER & YON
"Populated with invisible sufferers, Alfred Hayes’s fiction retains contemporary relevance."
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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

2 Are rioting today in the banlieus?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 03, 2023 07:48 AM (e0dtN)

3 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 07:49 AM (ZVVGW)

4 Happy Monday, all. Have to work today but at least I'm off tomorrow.

The knives are out again for Clarence Brown. The screeching is how he benefitted from affirmative action and now he took it away. This is going to be fun to watch.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2023 07:50 AM (4olE8)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 03, 2023 07:50 AM (ENBF0)

6 Happy Monday!

When can we expect Yale and UVA Law graduate Sheila Jackson Lee to weigh in on the issue of affirmative action in college admissions?!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 07:51 AM (avru5)

7 Still no suspects in the Baltimore shooting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 03, 2023 07:51 AM (1n+EO)

8 Jemelle Hill seems to think white supremacy was at issue in the SCOTUS affirmative action case. Because she is so supremely ideological she ignores all actual facts, or because she can't read? Maybe #and#.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 03, 2023 07:52 AM (e0dtN)

9 In "Walls are closing in" news, David Weiss confirms Garland lied to Congress when he claimed to have given Weiss authority to charge Hunter Biden as he sees fit. Jim Jordan will probably send a very strong letter on this one. Strong. Letter.
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U.S. Attorney Weiss’s letter confirms exactly what Gary Shapley told Congress: Weiss did not have “full authority” to bring charges, but had to “partner” with relevant U.S. Attorney. Says he’s “been assured” he could get Special Attorney status in future—but hasn’t had it yet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 03, 2023 07:52 AM (e0dtN)

10 Again, read Clarence Thomas' concurrence, which was delivered as a rare, and stinging upbraiding of the angry piffle from the mind (if you could call it that) of this Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson in her dissent. It didn't even rise to the level of piffle.

It was piffle light, although it was crammed to the gills with bromides, falsehoods, distortions and outright lies about this nation and our society.

Kentanji Brown Jackson's dissent was a Waffle House 1.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 07:53 AM (ZVVGW)

11 4 Happy Monday, all. Have to work today but at least I'm off tomorrow.

The knives are out again for Clarence Brown. The screeching is how he benefitted from affirmative action and now he took it away. This is going to be fun to watch.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2023 07:50 AM (4olE

Clarence Williams III > Clarence the Crosseyed Lion > Clarence Brown.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 03, 2023 07:53 AM (x0n13)

12 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2023 07:54 AM (T4tVD)

13 >>“The Bible has long been used to justify all forms of oppression, so we’ve used ChatGPT to make it clear that a loving God would never endorse exploitation of or cruelty to animals,” Newkirk said in the press release. “It took God only six days to create the entire world, but we realized it would take us years to rewrite the whole Bible, which is why we’ve started with just the first book.”

Rewriting God's word?
Oh honey, no, that's not how this works. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 07:54 AM (avru5)

14 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2023 07:55 AM (xhxe8)

15 Left-wing MSNBC anchor Joy Reid admitted Sunday she only got accepted into Harvard University because of race-based affirmative action.

“I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.

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Spoiler alert:

People everywhere have thought that about every incompetent or even average black employee for the last 30 years or more.

Worse? That's what you've thought about yourself, and your community. Based on nothing more than skin color.

THAT is what you wrought with your "affirmative" action.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 07:55 AM (33ek6)

16 Justice Thomas' little writing exercise is hated by the Left because it rips the shower curtain away to brutally expose the vile suppurating racism that is the heart and soul of 'Affirmative Action.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 07:55 AM (B30BH)

17 Are rioting today in the banlieus?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Whar in da HAIL Izzat ?

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2023 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

18 Did you see that ridiculous idea that Jumnji Action Brown wrote that black babies die half as much with black doctors vs. white doctors?

How fucking stupid??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

19 >>Clarence Williams III > Clarence the Crosseyed Lion > Clarence Brown.

*GROWLS*
"Heh heh heh"
-- Clancy Brown in Highlander

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 07:56 AM (avru5)

20 No one mentions how affirmative action basically treated colored folks like lab rats being used in a social exspearment by the criminal democrats for their own amusement, gain and votes.

Let's see what wonderful program they come up with next. Quadroons, Octoroons and Quintroons need not apply.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 03, 2023 07:57 AM (XqIlw)

21 So a Muslim George Floyd is the new Bastille Moment?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 07:57 AM (B30BH)

22 >>Did you see that ridiculous idea that Jumnji Action Brown wrote that black babies die half as much with black doctors vs. white doctors?

How fucking stupid??

I know, right?

Posted by: Dr. Gosnell and Planned Parenthood at July 03, 2023 07:57 AM (avru5)

23 The Bible has long been used to justify all forms of oppression, so we’ve used ChatGPT to make it clear that a loving God would never endorse exploitation of or cruelty to animals,” Newkirk said in the press release.

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The neat part is how they don't know or understand what they did.

There was no sin before man (well, woman) decided he could be as smart as God. There was no exploitation of animals. I don't know how it worked, but the lion wasn't eating the lamb. There was no death, and there was nothing but harmony.

Man brought that when he decided to be as smart as God.

And now they're rewriting the Bible because they're smart like God.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 07:58 AM (33ek6)

24 Rewriting God's word?
Oh honey, no, that's not how this works. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 07:54 AM (avru5)
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Should be interesting when they get to the Ten Commandments and have to re-write the First Commandment...

God doesn't like competition.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 03, 2023 07:58 AM (BpYfr)

25 In the AA cases, SCOTUS is 20 years late. Sandra Day's 2003 opinion essentially said that colleges using race as an admission criteria was legally unconstiutional and morally wrong, but let's keep it going for another 25 years ... because good intentions. The SCOTUS ruling is only optics as to college admissions.

But possibly important optics elsewhere. The divide between Thomas' POV and KBJ's shows the chasm over how differently we think about race.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 07:58 AM (RqMSv)

26 Parts of the White House briefly evacuated after an unknown object was found on the grounds.

It turns out the unknown object was a brain but SS ascertained that it was a calf's brain and not human so there was no danger of Biden or his staff getting a brain.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 07:59 AM (Vwz3I)

27
Banlieue vs. Ted Lieu. Steel cage match.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 03, 2023 07:59 AM (x0n13)

28 The idea of packing the Court got very positive press from the Germans and Italians in the late 1930s!

Posted by: Isophorone at July 03, 2023 07:59 AM (Nsydb)

29
The Flatterer, Op. 50 by Cécile Chaminade, performed by Eric Parkin.

https://youtu.be/xSxhIKw-wLs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2023 07:59 AM (MoZTd)

30 It saves the lives of family members, too!

“[The] ruling acknowledges the dangerous implications of this law and protects the freedom to access vital, life-saving healthcare for trans youth and their families while our challenge proceeds,” said Lucas Cameron-Vaughn, ACLU of Tennessee staff attorney.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 03, 2023 07:59 AM (Ss3pk)

31 "The screeching is how he benefitted from affirmative action and now he took it away."

Was it affirmative action that protected Clarance Thomas from the attacks by then Senator Joe Biden?

Man....that dude Hated him some Clarance Thomas.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 03, 2023 08:00 AM (1n+EO)

32 With the Planned Parenthood stats on dead mothers in their 'clinics,' Kentanji Brown should be telling everyone to stay away.

But she don't care about the omelettes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:00 AM (B30BH)

33 “I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.

Can't help but wonder which deserving [white male] DIDN'T get in to Harvard because of her.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 03, 2023 08:00 AM (Rbu5d)

34 I really don't understand why the left is being so pissy about the SCOTUS decision striking down AA, they are going to keep doing it anyway. So what's the difference?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 03, 2023 08:00 AM (ncXxy)

35 What Colada-Tits here is really pissed at is that the power of the Court which she and her ilk have been under the assumption belonged solely to the Left has been used against them!
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Deciding cases according to the law and the meaning of the Constitution defies the wishes of AOC and her fascist friends on the left, who want all government and press cadres in perfect harmony promoting tyranny, and this temporary dissonance is annoying to them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 03, 2023 08:00 AM (g4dyq)

36 We have giants like Clarence Thomas on our side while the left has intellectual midgets like Ketanji Brown and AOC. And yet, despite occasional setbacks, the overall momentum is on the side of the crazies. This leaves me scratching me head as to why. The answer I think is that leftists are much more willing to use whatever power they have. The GOP is the only power base we have and it’s full of weaklings and cowards who only wanna get along…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 03, 2023 08:01 AM (xT8gx)

37 Did you see that ridiculous idea that Jumnji Action Brown wrote that black babies die half as much with black doctors vs. white doctors?

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That would be an interesting conversation.

"Doctor" is a big pool of individuals. Are the black doctors general practitioners that see the kid once a year? Are there more white pediatric surgeons acting to save the lives of children?

I bet I know the answer.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:01 AM (33ek6)

38 Hi

Posted by: Ciampino - smoking kills you; mtcmtmail= at July 03, 2023 08:01 AM (qfLjt)

39 Elite colleges now serve as the gatekeepers for admission into The Borg -- the unholy incestuous alliance of BigGov, Deep State, Media, Academia and co-opted companies.

They've already been moving to subjective admission standards so they can pick only the pure to join their clerisy. Let a hundred flowers bloom, as long as they all lean left.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 08:02 AM (RqMSv)

40 So when do the NFL and NBA lawsuits to promote racial ratios representative of our nation begin?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:02 AM (33ek6)

41 Israel buying 25 F-35 from the U.S., expanding its arsenal by 50%.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:03 AM (Vwz3I)

42 they are going to keep doing it anyway. So what's the difference?

Because it gave them the fig-leaf of being Legal. Not moral or good, just legal.

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44 "Did you see that ridiculous idea that Jumnji Action Brown wrote that black babies die half as much with black doctors vs. white doctors? "

I can not begin to know the number of black children who's lives were saved by Dr Ben Carson.

You know....the black guy whom the Left hates.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 03, 2023 08:03 AM (1n+EO)

45 So does Macron resemble the piss boy?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:04 AM (B30BH)

46 On a rare 4 days off

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2023 08:04 AM (xhxe8)

47 37 Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:01 AM (33ek6)

A while ago, there was an outstanding comparison of the career paths of both Bakke and the black guy who took his place at the medical school.

Upshot is Bakke went on to become a very successful MD and the black guy, to be charitable, did not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 03, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)

48 45 So does Macron resemble the piss boy?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:04 AM (B30BH)

Minus "boy."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 03, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)

49 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !!!

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2023 08:05 AM (T4tVD)

50
"Doctor" is a big pool of individuals. Are the black doctors general practitioners that see the kid once a year? Are there more white pediatric surgeons acting to save the lives of children?

I bet I know the answer.
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:01 AM (33ek6)

It was a study about newborns. It was a dumb study and never mentioned, 1. 3x low weight black babes. 3. 3x black maternal deaths (dead moms usually equal dead babies. and 3. 97% of all neonatal specialist are white.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

51 Protest held in Karachi condemning the burning of the Quran during a protest in Sweden last week.

Why do the Venezuelans care about an Iraqi refugee burning and kicking a Quran in Sweden??

Posted by: AOC at July 03, 2023 08:06 AM (Vwz3I)

52 24 Rewriting God's word?
Oh honey, no, that's not how this works. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 07:54 AM (avru5)

"I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."

Posted by: The Book, pre-ChatGPF at July 03, 2023 08:07 AM (PiwSw)

53 Newkirk wants her Tower of Babel I guess.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:07 AM (B30BH)

54 It's a shame Camp of the Saints didn't aim at the bigger threat, Islam instead of what we have migrating extreme poor

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2023 08:08 AM (xhxe8)

55 Today is American Redneck Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 03, 2023 08:08 AM (NpAcC)

56 I bet I know the answer.
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It was a study about newborns. It was a dumb study and never mentioned, 1. 3x low weight black babes. 3. 3x black maternal deaths (dead moms usually equal dead babies. and 3. 97% of all neonatal specialist are white.

Posted by: rhennigantx

--

ha

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:08 AM (33ek6)

57 “Can’t wait until she reads that you gladly carried the water for white supremacy and stabbed the folks in the back whose people fought diligently for Asian American rights in America,” Hill wrote.
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When was American affirmative action *ever* about anyone who was not black? This is a genuine question. I know that to maintain a veneer of legality it had to be for "minorities" but it was never to my knowledge ever about anyone other than blacks in practice or in motivation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:08 AM (t0OGg)

58 MFM here showing AOC attacking the ruling and Pence pretending to give a shit about it being the right decision.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:09 AM (Vwz3I)

59 Meanwhile, PDJT, the guy who appointed the justices that made these decisions possible, drew 50,000-55,000 (according to the local sheriff) people to his Saturday rally in Pickens, SC… population 3,400. Do SC residents Nikki Haley and Tim Scott draw such crowds in their home state (of course not)? It’s clear to me at least that Trump is running away with the GOP nom; it’s not even close.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 03, 2023 08:09 AM (xT8gx)

60 @18

>>How fucking stupid??

This is woman who could not define a women during her confirmation hearing because she's not a biologist, but she presumes to be able to opine and make multi-generational, life altering decisions for 350 million people.

She deserves to be nowhere near the levers of power and yet she sits at the table of 9.

The mind boggles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 08:09 AM (up/3i)

61 A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want". The result of a higher education.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at July 03, 2023 08:10 AM (iayUP)

62 “I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.
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Honestly, until just this moment, I had forgotten that Reid is black. In my mind, she's just "one of those dumb bints on The View."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

63 “The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court, which is what we are seeing now,

I agree with the fool. Broken Clock.

The courts have delegitimized themselves for generations. Rulings are Magic Eight Ball events. There are a lot of 5-4 and 6-3 rulings which remind us that the courts don't use the Constitution as any sort of measure rather ideology, threats, vanity and all other cursed things.

Mark Levin has often whined about the Supreme Court, wrote books on how corrupt and out of control they are.

The Magic Eight Ball court just happened to randomly turn up a result that the Left doesn't like. I personally hold the court system in utter contempt regardless of the last few decisions, because I know that another random turn on yet another decision will be anti-Constitution and anti-Freedom.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:10 AM (p8A+W)

64 Honestly, until just this moment, I had forgotten that Reid is black.

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That is how it's supposed to be.

That is how it can never be allowed to be.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:11 AM (33ek6)

65 As for Eric Adams.

Dude stop impersonating Cartmann. No one respects you or your 'authoritay!'

Especially after calling out a Holocaust survivor for daring to question your Socialist jacking up of the rent.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:11 AM (B30BH)

66 “The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court, which is what we are seeing now, from the overturning of abortion rights, to the ruling that discrimination and, frankly, stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States,” she claimed.
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Huh. Odd that they don't complain about this any time the Court legislates from the bench for some prog crap - which happens so frequently that it's far easier to enumerate the number of times it *doesn't* ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

67 @59

>>it’s not even close.

As has been noted, there is no rationale for any candidate to run in 24 except Trump, nobody is going to get close to him and they know it, this isn't about running against Trump, this is about doing the bidding of their paymasters.

I mean Nikki Haley Really? Asa Hutchinson Really? Ron DeSantis Really?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 08:12 AM (up/3i)

68 I saw an interesting Joe Rogan interview with a former SEAL. He said respect their service, but don't put them on pedestals. SEAL duty is training-driven and mechanical. He says monkeys could do it.

And he made the point that if you ever hire one, once in, don't give them special treatment. Bad for everyone.

And there's a lesson for AA. Give someone you think deserving an opportunity, but then hold them to the same standards.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 08:12 AM (RqMSv)

69 "Do SC residents Nikki Haley and Tim Scott draw such crowds in their home state (of course not)?"

I used to be open minded to a Nikki Haley run.

Then, back during the 'tear down the flag' movement, she caved.

And while Tim Scott sounds good, I just don't feel he's the right fit for Pennsylvania Ave.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 03, 2023 08:12 AM (1n+EO)

70 What ever happened to Anita Hill of "Long Dong Silver" infamy?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:12 AM (B30BH)

71 It is not even theoretically possible to “help” a certain racial group without causing harm to members of other racial groups.
The zero-sum nature of college admissions — where students compete for a finite number of seats in each school’s entering class — aptly demonstrates the point.

Which leaves us only merit. Grades and Test Score.
But alas, the switch will be to the ESSAY. There will be agreed upon code words and phrases.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

72 As the estimable Robert Spencer warns the Left, your allies today will be your executioners tomorrow. And you'll be the first to go. While there are differences, there are some striking and alarming similarities to the events that touched this off in France and to the racial/political/societal tinderbox that is this nation and what it has rapidly devolved into since 2009.
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The progs are foolish and arrogant. They have, as Bert Kreischer put it in his stand-up, "that liberal arts confidence."

They think any ally in their war against all western tradition and structure is a good ally, because that ally will fall into line behind their prog vision or be subsequently ground down by the power of that prog vision.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (t0OGg)

73 Gah. Clarence Thomas. My fault.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (4olE8)

74 “I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.

With more and more confessions similar to Reid's as to the integrity of a Harvard education, how long will it be before a Harvard degree just means politically connected and confers no statement of qualifications or ability?

Over the past few decades Ivy league brands are getting a Dollar Tree quality reputation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (p8A+W)

75 @65

>>As for Eric Adams. Dude stop impersonating Cartmann. No one respects you or your 'authoritay!'

If elections are an actual thing, then NYC simply replaced a White Racist Buffoon for a Black Racist Bufoon and they deserve what they are getting good and hard.

I bet dollars to donuts that that woman he slagged off voted for him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (up/3i)

76 It's also,
National Fried Clam Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

77 70 What ever happened to Anita Hill of "Long Dong Silver" infamy?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:12 AM (B30BH)

I think she and Ballsey Ford have a cruise with some of the NR gang later this summer.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (BRHaw)

78
Which leaves us only merit. Grades and Test Score.
But alas, the switch will be to the ESSAY. There will be agreed upon code words and phrases.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

"ChatGPT, write me a black female essay."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (MoZTd)

79 Over the past few decades Ivy league brands are getting a Dollar Tree quality reputation.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (p8A+W)

How dare you!

Posted by: David Hogg at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (PiwSw)

80 “Last night, a milestone was reached in terms of horror and ignominy,” said Jeanbrun in an announcement on Twitter."

Shouldn't that be a "meterstone"?

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a guillotine at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (iayUP)

81 “The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court, which is what we are seeing now, from the overturning of abortion rights, to the ruling that discrimination and, frankly, stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States,” she claimed.

--

Hey, remember that time everyone everywhere had rejected gays getting married but the federal courts made Gay Married law of the land and the federal courts immediately and relentlessly persecuted that poor local clerk in Nowhere, Kentucky who recognized that her elected office didn't have the authority to change the language on the forms?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:16 AM (33ek6)

82 78 "ChatGPT, write me a black female essay."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (MoZTd)

I get the joke but am pretty sure that this will happen at least once. Harvard will fight back by demanding a Zoom call to confirm what someone looks like.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2023 08:17 AM (4olE8)

83
It's also,
National Fried Clam Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

It'll be impossible to avoid the usual Horde jokes, but I remember Friday all-you-can-eat fried clams at Howard Johnson's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2023 08:17 AM (MoZTd)

84 The Supreme Court takes down racial quoting in universities, now take down racial quoting in the Supreme Court

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2023 08:17 AM (xhxe8)

85 Garland lied, and former ally Weiss now stands as his primary accuser. The sunk cost if their unholy deal is more pressure to fix the problem, meaning the judge should set aside the fake plea agreement and Garland should be impeached.

The most serious charges in the Hunter Biden case were dead in the water because Weiss did not have the authority to charge them. Let alone "ultimate authority."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 03, 2023 08:18 AM (ymlGZ)

86 Reid's "father was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[4] and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from Guyana."

Every Spring the NY Post runs a story about how a Black kid got into all eight Ivies and Stanford. (It's never MIT). When you read the story the kid's parents are always immigrants from Africa or the Carribean.

Now look at Obama, Kamala, Susan Rice.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 08:18 AM (RqMSv)

87 I don't think I've ever watched Joy Reid's show. If I did , it would probably cause a severe headache for me.

Posted by: dantesed at July 03, 2023 08:18 AM (88xKn)

88 Boston University School of Law Offers Students Therapy Over Recent SCOTUS Rulings

Is it too much to hope that wall-to-wall counseling is not what is being discussed?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2023 08:18 AM (4olE8)

89 “I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.

With more and more confessions similar to Reid's as to the integrity of a Harvard education, how long will it be before a Harvard degree just means politically connected and confers no statement of qualifications or ability?

-

You'll need a time machine set for 20-30 years ago.

Remember, the Ivies don't fail *anyone.* Everyone is an A student. They pretend it's because everyone is so smart, but if that's the case it's because the curriculum is the same as University of East Southwest Carolina Tech.

It's been pretend for a long, long time.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:19 AM (33ek6)

90 Perhaps whites could be sought out by the NBA as minorities.

In order to make the NBA look more like America.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 03, 2023 08:19 AM (1n+EO)

91 Mornin’, All.

JJ, the two articles in the abortion section do not seem to be about abortion, but illegal immigration.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 08:19 AM (xTRSc)

92 I used to be open minded to a Nikki Haley run.

Then, back during the 'tear down the flag' movement, she caved.

And while Tim Scott sounds good, I just don't feel he's the right fit for Pennsylvania Ave.

The reason I originally voted for Trump was because, as one who used to be a former mega donor, he sat on the other side of the donor/politician table and I thought he would have a Rolodex filled with people who are not Babylonians.

What is in your Rolodex?

Then I find out its the same garbage as the McGOP tired, worthless bench of grifters, neocons and petty tyrants.

I don't care who is running, I want to know who is in their Rolodex for running the true government: The Fourth Branch (Regulatory).

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:19 AM (p8A+W)

93 "how long will it be before a Harvard degree just means politically connected and confers no statement of qualifications or ability"

It's been like that for some time now. A Harvard education is a reliable indicator that the graduate is a lefty nitwit.

Posted by: fd at July 03, 2023 08:19 AM (iayUP)

94 Over the past few decades Ivy league brands are getting a Dollar Tree quality reputation.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

It's a Family Dollar 3.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 08:19 AM (ZVVGW)

95
Boston University School of Law Offers Students Therapy Over Recent SCOTUS Rulings

Wait until they graduate and start working as associates for the Toxic Asshole Partner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2023 08:20 AM (MoZTd)

96 They know full well Affirmative Action is a scam, but it's *their* scam and it works for *them*, and is therefore sacrosanct.

Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2023 08:20 AM (SYTee)

97 What ever happened to Anita Hill of "Long Dong Silver" infamy?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:12 AM (B30BH)

Her claims were as fake as the prosthetic appendage Mr. Silver was sporting. San Fernando Valley (Hollywood) magic pre-CGI.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 08:21 AM (4I/2K)

98 Boston University School of Law Offers Students Therapy Over Recent SCOTUS Rulings

College is becoming one giant daycare.

The future does not look bright.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 03, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

99
"National Fried Clam Day"

When is National Steamed Clam Day?

Posted by: Gwenyth Paltrow at July 03, 2023 08:21 AM (iayUP)

100 Trump wins the primaries. Trump loses the general, with enthusiastic resistance from the mainline GOP, up to and including more election rigging if necessary. The GOP claims final victory over Trumpism, and foist more cucks on the base. This finishes their slide into total irrelevance, as even the most stubborn, willfully blind, hopium addicted voters come to accept what that Party has become. The farce of electoral politics then reaches its final form, as a mere formality that everyone understands is just a pro forma confirmation of Party picks.

This is my basic prediction for how this plays out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2023 08:22 AM (oINRc)

101 "Muslim violence in France – and everywhere."

Well, IF Macron was smart - and he's not - he'd give the national order to "shoot to kill" to the police/gendarmerie or whomever. Announce it on national television, and then say: "It's on your heads, now. You have one hour to stop the uprising, and 10 days to leave France. The hour starts: NOW."

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 03, 2023 08:22 AM (Rbu5d)

102 I get the joke but am pretty sure that this will happen at least once. Harvard will fight back by demanding a Zoom call to confirm what someone looks like.

Zoom has these filters now where you can appear as a cat.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:22 AM (p8A+W)

103 It isn't whitey's fault that Jemelle Hill is so stupid.

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 03, 2023 08:22 AM (i7Q7S)

104 >>how long will it be before a Harvard degree just means politically connected and confers no statement of qualifications or ability?

Over the past few decades Ivy league brands are getting a Dollar Tree quality reputation.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (p8A+W)

I’m in STEM; the “big name” STEM universities (Ivy equivalents) are MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech and a few others. I’ve worked with plenty of folks from those big names over the past 29 years…. Most (but definitely not all) were smart; the thing is, I’ve seen just as many outstanding engineers who graduated from state university. So I never really understood the Ivy mystique

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 03, 2023 08:22 AM (xT8gx)

105 What if the applicant claims to be African-American?

What will the Ivies do then?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:23 AM (B30BH)

106 The BBC’s popular children’s television show – Blue Peter – aired an episode showing kids discussing sexuality alongside drag queens, and featured an ‘LGBTQ+ inclusive community choir’ singing ‘Born This Way’ by Lady Gaga.

Hey Momma, why does Miss Daisy have a big blue peter?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:23 AM (BRHaw)

107 “I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.

--

If we had any smart politicians they'd be tying these statements by folks like this, the Obamas, etc. directly to academic entry requirements and performance of HBCUs.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:23 AM (33ek6)

108 This finishes their slide into total irrelevance, as even the most stubborn, willfully blind, hopium addicted voters come to accept what that Party has become

I have already become black-pilled. Enjoy your elections, its just another ~~day~~ season for me.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:24 AM (p8A+W)

109 No one wants to see your steamed clam Gwen.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:24 AM (B30BH)

110 Joe Biden said recently, "No one fucks with a Biden". While PDJT is persecuted for made-up process crimes, actual Biden corruption and treason goes unchallenged.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 03, 2023 08:24 AM (1rgUE)

111 and featured an ‘LGBTQ+ inclusive community choir’ singing ‘Born This Way’ by Lady Gaga.

--

The whole gay p3d0 groomer push has laid bare the "born this way" lie.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:24 AM (33ek6)

112
Re: France

The chickens come home to roost. After forty years ago the French named a street after point blank range cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal (Wesley Cook). I've hated them ever since.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 03, 2023 08:25 AM (enJYY)

113 "National Fried Clam Day"

When is National Steamed Clam Day?
Posted by: Gwenyth Paltrow at July 03, 2023 08:21 AM (iayUP)

Perfect sock

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

114 What if the applicant claims to be African-American?

What will the Ivies do then?
Posted by: Anna Puma

If one can "identify" as female, I identify as a PauPauan New Guinea headhunter.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (ZVVGW)

115 @92

>>I don't care who is running, I want to know who is in their Rolodex for running the true government: The Fourth Branch (Regulatory).

Those people largely don't exist or if they exist, they will not be allowed near the levers of power.

I mean everyone gets on Trump for hiring Wray, but who else was he going to pick?

He's a real estate developer he does not have a rolodex of potential FBI directors.

We're in a tough spot because the maniacs that run the world have largely corrupted everything and everyone that is even remotely close to the rings of power.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (up/3i)

116 So which square of the bingo card will Joey Bidet land on today?

Falling up stairs, yelling at reporters, or just simply wandering away like a senile old man?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (B30BH)

117 How fucking stupid??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

The math was incorrect, and the study she cited didn't correct for the health issues of the babies, so it was arrant nonsense.

So...pretty much par for the course for our affirmative action justice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (PHmov)

118 I’ve seen just as many outstanding engineers who graduated from state university. So I never really understood the Ivy mystique

The best software engineers I have hired were without letters.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (p8A+W)

119 16 Justice Thomas' little writing exercise is hated by the Left because it rips the shower curtain away to brutally expose the vile suppurating racism that is the heart and soul of 'Affirmative Action.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 07:55 AM (B30BH)

SURPRISE! Lizzo's in the shower.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (Rbu5d)

120 76 It's also,
National Fried Clam Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 03, 2023 08:15 AM (NpAcC)
----
Wait, does this mean it's also National Fried Fartclam Day?

Posted by: Ciampino - BAD Cop! No Donut! at July 03, 2023 08:27 AM (qfLjt)

121 @100 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2023 08:22 AM (oINRc)
=====================
That might be the most likely scenario, but no one can be certain. America can surprise us all, and still save itself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 03, 2023 08:27 AM (1rgUE)

122 So which square of the bingo card will Joey Bidet land on today?

Falling up stairs, yelling at reporters, or just simply wandering away like a senile old man?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (B30BH)

A trifecta, perhaps?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 08:27 AM (4I/2K)

123 SURPRISE! Lizzo's in the shower.

Excuse me...

*runs for the bathroom*

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:27 AM (B30BH)

124 The HQ loves predictions… we do… after next years elections, what will be the regime’s next big move???

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2023 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

125 Today is American Redneck Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Want some Spam ?

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2023 08:28 AM (T4tVD)

126 Morning Horde , thank you JJ. Happy 4th weekend.
Just heard that Janet Yelling is going to China to try and iron out our differences. Cue Hudson from Aliens "I feel safer already". Yelling will come waddling back into US with Chinese demands stuffed up her butt for safe keeping

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 03, 2023 08:28 AM (PVx3i)

127 A Biden White House report released late Friday appears to show the U.S. government toying with the idea of blocking the sun’s rays in an attempt to “quickly cool the planet“.

Wait till the moon falls apart in 2037.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:28 AM (BRHaw)

128 I’ve seen just as many outstanding engineers who graduated from state university. So I never really understood the Ivy mystique

The best software engineers I have hired were without letters.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (p8A+W)

I've seen similar in Accounting.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 08:28 AM (4I/2K)

129 The math was incorrect, and the study she cited didn't correct for the health issues of the babies, so it was arrant nonsense.

So...pretty much par for the course for our affirmative action justice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 08:26 AM (PHmov)

I have never figured out are they just lying to themselves or to everyone else?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:30 AM (BRHaw)

130 A Biden White House report released late Friday appears to show the U.S. government toying with the idea of blocking the sun’s rays in an attempt to “quickly cool the planet“.

What are they going to do? Build a giant umbrella??

Posted by: dantesed at July 03, 2023 08:31 AM (88xKn)

131 The HQ loves predictions… we do… after next years elections, what will be the regime’s next big move???

HAH! Trick question!

Their won't be a country because Biden and the neocons will have false flagged nuked a major red state city provoking a nuclear exchange with Russia.

We will then discover the only working nuke in the American arsenal was dropped on Dallas.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:31 AM (p8A+W)

132 Checking in on Bud Light:

"Bud Light sales drop, forces glass plant to cut production. The plant’s owner, the Ardagh group, announced it would be shutting down the factory in Mid-July, laying off close to 400 employees"

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 03, 2023 08:31 AM (i7Q7S)

133 36...The answer I think is that leftists are much more willing to use whatever power they have. The GOP is the only power base we have and it’s full of weaklings and cowards who only wanna get along…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 03, 2023 08:01 AM (xT8gx)

^^^^^
Plus, the GOP is 'in' on most of it.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 03, 2023 08:31 AM (Rbu5d)

134 "Today is American Redneck Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Now that's a day I can get behind.

Posted by: Some guy on the river missing a few teeth at July 03, 2023 08:32 AM (iayUP)

135 MSM Has Convinced Even Republicans to Believe Hunter’s Business is No Big Deal
_________

That headline is misleading. That's not quite what Gottfried says (which is bad enough). I've noticed that too often; the titles just don't match the content.

But it's not new. Chesterton complained about it.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 03, 2023 08:32 AM (brAQZ)

136 Today is American Redneck Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Every day is Redneck Day at my house!

Posted by: Cletus Delroy Spuckler at July 03, 2023 08:32 AM (PiwSw)

137 I have never figured out are they just lying to themselves or to everyone else?
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:30 AM (BRHaw)

The stupidest, most pliable and easily controlled ones (namely, Congress and media/pop culture figures) believe it fervently.

The Inner Party believes in absolutely nothing whatsoever beyond the acquisition of power.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2023 08:32 AM (oINRc)

138 I have never figured out are they just lying to themselves or to everyone else?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:30 AM (BRHaw)

Well...they are quite stunningly stupid.

That study is a perfect example of the misuse of science and statistics. Whether they lied or just didn't understand is less important than the manipulation of the facts.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 08:33 AM (PHmov)

139 Checking in on Bud Light:
"Bud Light sales drop, forces glass plant to cut production. The plant’s owner, the Ardagh group, announced it would be shutting down the factory in Mid-July, laying off close to 400 employees"
LOL
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 03, 2023 08:31 AM (i7Q7S)

Good. I want them all working at Arby's for minimum wage.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 03, 2023 08:33 AM (XqIlw)

140 The HQ loves predictions… we do… after next years elections, what will be the regime’s next big move???
Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2023 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

After/if they consolidate power, the next move is usually to cull the useful idiots. In the dem coalition that might well be AA hires like Joy Reid….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 03, 2023 08:33 AM (xT8gx)

141 Good morning horde!

From this morning's Lauds:
Lord, open my lips.
— And my mouth will proclaim your praise.

Come, let us worship the Lord, the King of apostles.

https://youtu.be/Me-B21A2lmU

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 03, 2023 08:33 AM (vHIgi)

142 Over the past few decades Ivy league brands are getting a Dollar Tree quality reputation.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:14 AM (p8A+W)
++++
Yes, except for three areas: engineering/computer/data science, law, medicine.

But that won't last much longer. They don't have - and have never had - a lock on engineering and private industry has leapfrogged them now in compsci and data science and AI. I'd rather hire a 30-something engineering/research team lead from Google than an equivalent associate dean from MIT.

The COVID experience and the recent trans blowups have shown the value and objectivity of Ivy-league medicine.

Top-reputation law schools offering "safe spaces" for law students, allowing law students to opt out of rape law, the total consumption of the programs by Critical Theory, etc. is starting to pay quality dividends.

The Ivies will have little left before too much longer. They won't vanish, of course - they're too rich and their names are too powerful - but those in the know will know and those sheepskins will mean no more than anyone else's sheepskins.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:33 AM (t0OGg)

143 Today is American Redneck Day.

--

I'M BUILDING A SUB!

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:34 AM (33ek6)

144 Explosion at a building in downtown Tokyo injures four people.

||An explosion at a building in Tokyo’s Shimbashi commercial district on Monday shattered windows and spewed smoke, injuring four people, department officials said.

Tokyo Fire Department said the explosion occurred at an eatery on the second floor of an eight-story building, injuring two people inside and two pedestrians who were hit by shards of glass.

Fire department officials said the four injured were all conscious but further details were unknown. NHK national television said three of them were seriously injured.

An owner of the eatery who was among the injured told police that he noticed a smell of gas or sewage when he entered a smoking room, and the explosion occurred when he flicked his lighter, NHK said.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:34 AM (Vwz3I)

145 source current power summer power total wind
Wind 3,308 MW(6.7%) 10,427 MW 38,695 MW

So today the Texas wind power is deliver about 8% of the total investment.

Try going to your boss or investors and saying we need a million bucks to buy a computer that is right 1 out of 12 times.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:34 AM (BRHaw)

146 Start your day with a chuckle.
MorningJoe:
"Chris Christie is a political athlete"
--William Windom looking quizzically at ad copy in PT&A opening scene

Posted by: micky at July 03, 2023 08:35 AM (3byMq)

147 He's a real estate developer he does not have a rolodex of potential FBI directors.

I beg to differ, as a New York real estate developer who had to deal routinely with the Mafia and unions, he certainly knows the most qualified of all to be a FBI director.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:35 AM (p8A+W)

148 Leftists trying to spin the bag of cocaine left on the sidewalk in front of the WH yesterday as nasal anesthetic used for nasal surgery. Well ok, which ENT left his bag of snow on the walk when he departed the WH? These people are unbelievable.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 03, 2023 08:35 AM (Y03JK)

149 "Bud Light sales drop, forces glass plant to cut production. The plant’s owner, the Ardagh group, announced it would be shutting down the factory in Mid-July, laying off close to 400 employees"

LOL
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 03, 2023 08:31 AM (i7Q7S)
++++
Bummer for those guys who did nothing wrong.

It's really too bad for them that the people in charge of their fates - the executives running their biggest customer and their own executives - pursued market-destroying fuckery in the former case and failed to avoid dependency on a mega-client in the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

150 Today is American Redneck Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Hey toots grab me a beer while u make me a sammich!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (BRHaw)

151 He smelled gas but still flicked his Bic

Failed Darwin Award.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (B30BH)

152 Checking in on the seat of America's "government"

"Explosive devices and Molotov cocktails were used to target multiple District businesses early Sunday morning, according to authorities.

The Metropolitan Police Department told The Washington Times that three businesses in Northeast — a Truist bank, a Nike store and a Safeway — were hit by the combustible weapons between 4:30 and 4:45 a.m.

Police said that the suspects first set off an explosive device around 4:30 a.m. next to a sidewalk-facing ATM attached to the Truist Bank in the 2300 block of Washington Place NE"

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (i7Q7S)

153 Leftists trying to spin the bag of cocaine left on the sidewalk in front of the WH yesterday

-------

LOL, Hunty's at it again, eh?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (oINRc)

154 An owner of the eatery who was among the injured told police that he noticed a smell of gas or sewage when he entered a smoking room, and the explosion occurred when he flicked his lighter, NHK said.||
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:34 AM (Vwz3I)
++++
This is why we need to ban natural gas for the good of human life!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

155
An owner of the eatery who was among the injured told police that he noticed a smell of gas or sewage when he entered a smoking room, and the explosion occurred when he flicked his lighter, NHK said.

He who smelt it dealt it?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (enJYY)

156 Given a choice between being a redneck or a lefty metrosexual ponce, I'll take redneck any day. Rednecks know how to have fun, leftys just suck all the fun out of everything.

Posted by: fd at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (iayUP)

157 An owner of the eatery who was among the injured told police that he noticed a smell of gas or sewage when he entered a smoking room, and the explosion occurred when he flicked his lighter, NHK said.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:34 AM (Vwz3I)

Super Genius, like me.

Posted by: Wile E. Coyote at July 03, 2023 08:36 AM (4I/2K)

158 France's invaders more than likely welcome open warfare

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2023 08:37 AM (xhxe8)

159 Just heard that Janet Yelling is going to China to try and iron out our differences.
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U.S. government advises against China travel due to the chance of arbitrary arrest.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:37 AM (Vwz3I)

160 "I have never figured out are they just lying to themselves or to everyone else?
Posted by: rhennigantx "

============
Yes.

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 03, 2023 08:37 AM (i7Q7S)

161 The US will get back a Chinese spy in a Janet Yellen suit...

Or did that already happen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:38 AM (B30BH)

162 Just heard that Janet Yelling is going to China to try and iron out our differences.
-----------
U.S. government advises against China travel due to the chance of arbitrary arrest.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:37 AM (Vwz3I)
---
If China starts throwing our Cabinet Secretaries in prison, that would save us a lot of trouble...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 03, 2023 08:39 AM (BpYfr)

163 With the downward slide in quality of an Ivy League degree, the prerequisite of an Ivy League degree in order to be hired has itself become Affirmative Action.

Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2023 08:39 AM (SYTee)

164 So today the Texas wind power is deliver about 8% of the total investment.

Try going to your boss or investors and saying we need a million bucks to buy a computer that is right 1 out of 12 times.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Are you even in ERCOT? I got the hell out of that failed RTO and got into SPP where they still use coal.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:39 AM (p8A+W)

165 Today is American Redneck Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Want some Spam ?
Posted by: JT

How's about some Vi-enner Wieners?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 08:40 AM (ZVVGW)

166 re: Titan

"Non-destructive testing was critical to detect such potentially existing flaws in order to ensure a solid and safe product for the safety of the passengers and crew," Lochridge's lawsuit said.

However, the submarine pilot said OceanGate told him that the Titan's hull was too thick to scan for weak spots and adhesion issues.

Stockton Rush got four people killed because of "sheer fvcking hubris."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:41 AM (B30BH)

167 Yellen sounds like Lionel Barrymore in drag. "I'll get you, Underdog!"

Posted by: fd at July 03, 2023 08:41 AM (iayUP)

168 Thanks for working on the holiday weekend, JJ. I noticed the news from both Saturn and the African Space Program. Very nice, but still no report from Uranus.

Posted by: Mayor Buttplug at July 03, 2023 08:41 AM (T0tUU)

169 An owner of the eatery who was among the injured told police that he noticed a smell of gas or sewage when he entered a smoking room, and the explosion occurred when he flicked his lighter, NHK said.

--

I sort of remember a heritage America where kids were taught about stuff like this by parents, teachers, people they worked with, etc.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM (33ek6)

170 Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to Give Standard Driver’s Licenses to over 300,000 Illegal Aliens

This is a violation of DHS laws and AAMVA agreements.

States must mark Real ID-compliant licenses with a star at the top of the card, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security cautions against assuming that someone with a license that does not comply with Real ID is in the country illegally (no Star means illegal).

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM (BRHaw)

171 AOC does not have an "advanced degree." It's a plain-jane regular old degree, with a sort of honorary second major. An advanced degree is a master's degree. She did not go there.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM (4PZHB)

172 So today the Texas wind power is deliver about 8% of the total investment.

Try going to your boss or investors and saying we need a million bucks to buy a computer that is right 1 out of 12 times.

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Is the case black?
- Your Boss or Investors

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM (33ek6)

173 Apparently Miss Lindsey got mercilessly booed and heckled when he was trying to speak at the Trump rally Saturday…. Hahahahaha!! Trump supporters can see through that fake (I suspect Trump does as well, but puts up with him for political expediency reasons).

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM (xT8gx)

174 Bummer for those guys who did nothing wrong.
[

Perhaps, but bonus for those who make bottles for BL's competitors.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM (p8A+W)

175 Nazi put stars on people.
DHS puts stars on REAL US CITIZENS.

just thinking out loud here Boss

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:43 AM (BRHaw)

176 170 Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to Give Standard Driver’s Licenses to over 300,000 Illegal Aliens

This is a violation of DHS laws and AAMVA agreements.

States must mark Real ID-compliant licenses with a star at the top of the card, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security cautions against assuming that someone with a license that does not comply with Real ID is in the country illegally (no Star means illegal).
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM (BRHaw)

Jacob Pritzker IS the Law in Illinois.

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2023 08:43 AM (PCK5/)

177 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 03, 2023 08:44 AM (DhOHl)

178 I don't know if this will affect your PNW but 7,400 port workers in British Columbia have gone on strike.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:44 AM (Vwz3I)

179 AOC has a BU degree in International Marxist Economics and Mixology.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 08:44 AM (RqMSv)

180 Left-Wing Groups are Using AI to Rewrite the Bible and Talk to 'God'
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If God's a vegan, why did he prefer Abel's offering?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 03, 2023 08:44 AM (brAQZ)

181 AB should have been concerned about their employees continued employment before deciding to wave their freak flag and call it advertising.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:44 AM (B30BH)

182 #178 Addendum: Issues are contracting out; port automation; and cost of living.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:45 AM (Vwz3I)

183 AOC has a big juicy booty. And boobs.

Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2023 08:45 AM (SYTee)

184 That shalt do it if it feels good.

Posted by: AI God at July 03, 2023 08:45 AM (iayUP)

185 States must mark Real ID-compliant licenses with a star at the top of the card, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security cautions against assuming that someone with a license that does not comply with Real ID is in the country illegally (no Star means illegal).

I can imagine the criminals running IL into the ground would order the illegal alien licenses to have a orangish-yellow star placed at the top of the card. Just enough color difference to not be in violation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:45 AM (p8A+W)

186 Left-Wing Groups are Using AI to Rewrite the Bible and Talk to 'God'
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If God's a vegan, why did he prefer Abel's offering?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 03, 2023 08:44 AM (brAQZ)
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They are going to rewrite that part to make Cain the hero, slaying his own brother to save the animals.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 03, 2023 08:46 AM (BpYfr)

187 Jacob Pritzker IS the Law in Illinois.

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You'll never guess who is behind the coordinated push to encourage and codify mental illness/trannies in medical offices, corporations, government, schools, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/29g39qxv

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 08:46 AM (33ek6)

188 That shalt do it if it feels good. - AI God

"Stop stealing my lines!" - Alistair Crowley.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:46 AM (B30BH)

189 AOC has a big juicy booty...

Why do I instinctively assume "anal leakage" when someone's arse is described as "juicy"?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:46 AM (p8A+W)

190
I sort of remember a heritage America where kids were taught about stuff like this by parents, teachers, people they worked with, etc.
Posted by: The recovered remains
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Home economics >> Sensitivity

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2023 08:47 AM (Jh1DM)

191
Hahahahaha!! Trump supporters can see through that fake (I suspect Trump does as well, but puts up with him for political expediency reasons).

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 03, 2023 08:42 AM

I heard parts of the Trump rally. Don was giving a shout out to all the folks he knew in the SC crowd like the Governor. When he got to Senator Lindsey he said something like 'I have to think about this one a little'. He did go on to mention that Lindsey was an early supporter.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 03, 2023 08:47 AM (enJYY)

192 Since the rioters are both Leftists and Muslims, the first government after the fall of the republic could be an authoritarian Marxist one.

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Hits close to home.

The West has a fevah, and the only solution is MOAR third world barbarian illegal aliens! It's almost like history rhymes, Roman ...

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 08:47 AM (+z+6a)

193 Daily Mail-
Why electric cars are NOT green machines: The environmental benefit of EVs may never be felt as their production creates up to 70% more emissions than petrol equivalents

https://tinyurl.com/2dhcajdy

Posted by: redridinghood at July 03, 2023 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

194
I was a STEM graduate student. I found that among my fellow students, the ones who went to small colleges did well while those from Ivies flunked out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2023 08:49 AM (MoZTd)

195 Left-Wing Groups are Using AI to Rewrite the Bible and Talk to 'God'

As they stand before the Great White Throne of Judgement and this blasphemous tome is presented before them and the LORD asks for their account, these fools are probably convinced that they will get a waiver because they didn't actually do it, but a computer algorithm.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 08:49 AM (p8A+W)

196 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

In use.

Can't ya hear the splashing ?

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2023 08:50 AM (T4tVD)

197 >>"Did you see that ridiculous idea that Jumnji Action Brown wrote that black babies die half as much with black doctors vs. white doctors? "

The same people who want abortion on demand up to and during delivery, and to let a newborn die should it survive an abortion, now claim to care about babies for racial grievance points is . . . quite jarring.

If you really want to have more babies survive set your sights on Planned Parenthood, not college admissions, lady.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 08:50 AM (avru5)

198 National Fried Clam Day.

Memories of Howard Johnson Restaurant and Motor Lodge make me weepy for what once was.

Posted by: Look For the Orange Roofeses at July 03, 2023 08:51 AM (T0tUU)

199
My wife and I had to jump through hoops to get real ID licenses. Even her official marriage license was not good enough. Had to get a duplicate from some state agency.

I doubt that illegals are gonna get real ID licenses anytime soon. But under Biden who the hell can say?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 03, 2023 08:51 AM (enJYY)

200 " He did go on to mention that Lindsey was an early supporter.
Posted by: Divide by Zero"

Lindsey is a political gigolo. He will bend over at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: fd at July 03, 2023 08:51 AM (iayUP)

201 Stockton Rush got four people killed because of "sheer fvcking hubris."
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2023 08:41 AM (B30BH)
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It troubles me. It probably shouldn't - I don't know the people involved, I was not involved myself and I would never be in a position to be involved - but it does.

I can understand high-risk adventurism. I can understand design experimentation. I can understand jumping in with both feet and risking one's life to find out if it works.

What I have much more trouble understanding is the reckless contempt for risk that would lead someone not only to disregard things like ongoing materials testing when brand-new materials are in use for something, but to sell tickets as if you *know* - when you only vaguely and arrogantly assume - that the extremely dangerous thing actually works.

And there was no point to any of it. Titan wasn't doing research or learning new things. It was visiting shipwrecks that have already been exhaustively studied and fully mapped. There was no discovery. It was vanity. I get vanity. It was adventurism, and I get that, too. I just don't get the recklessness and contempt for survivability.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:51 AM (t0OGg)

202 JJ,

Thanks for the link to the City Journal piece on Alfred Hayes. Read his work a while back, but really need to revisit those books.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (a/4+U)

203 Boker Tov Patriots

89 days to go

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (pmmLi)

204 I have relatives in Illinois… their fear of the STATE is very real… its’ power is complete and unchallengeable there…

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (PCK5/)

205 Glass Bottling Company Lays Off Hundreds After Bud Light Implosion
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Why not make bottles for beer, instead of Bud Light?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (brAQZ)

206 Israel is fighting islamic terrorism for the entire western world right now in Jenin

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (pmmLi)

207 Clarice Feldman: "Donald Trump's steadfastness regarding Supreme Court appointments has accomplished more in one week that movement conservatives did in fifty years."

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#NeverTrump grifters hardest hit.

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (+z+6a)

208 "Memories of Howard Johnson Restaurant and Motor Lodge make me weepy for what once was.
Posted by: Look For the Orange Roofeses"

Word!

*hacks up a boulder*

Posted by: Billy the Mountain at July 03, 2023 08:53 AM (iayUP)

209 Hiya Cap'n !

Posted by: JT at July 03, 2023 08:53 AM (T4tVD)

210 National Fart Clam Day? At HoJo? What?

Posted by: So confused at July 03, 2023 08:54 AM (DhOHl)

211 Why not make bottles for beer, instead of Bud Light?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (brAQZ)
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They certainly could, but they have to have customers. The other brewers probably have other suppliers that already had enough capacity slack to deal with larger orders.

I strongly suspect that the bottle manufacturer has few customers and only one huge customer. That is a nerve-wracking way to be in business because if something happens to that huge customer, you're screwed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:54 AM (t0OGg)

212 And there was no point to any of it. Titan wasn't doing research or learning new things. It was visiting shipwrecks that have already been exhaustively studied and fully mapped. There was no discovery. It was vanity. I get vanity. It was adventurism, and I get that, too. I just don't get the recklessness and contempt for survivability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:51 AM (t0OGg)
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Hence, this resulting in a textbook case of hubris...Ancient Greeks would look at this and nod their heads, "Yep. Saw that coming."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 03, 2023 08:56 AM (BpYfr)

213 Stockton Rush got four people killed because of "sheer fvcking hubris."
Posted by: Anna Puma

It troubles me. It probably shouldn't - I don't know the people involved, I was not involved myself and I would never be in a position to be involved - but it does.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I laugh. Simply because, as another esteemed poster put it,
"Let some redneck glue some RV parts together to make a sub and drown in the local river and not only would not a penny be spent trying to save him, but everyone would laugh at him dying that way.

Let a billionaire do the same thing, though?"

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 08:57 AM (ZVVGW)

214 "Donald Trump's steadfastness regarding Supreme Court appointments has accomplished more in one week that movement conservatives did in fifty years."

Likewise, Libs of TikTok did more to advance the cause of school choice than forty years of position papers at the Heritage Foundation.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 03, 2023 08:57 AM (9yUzE)

215 @147

>>I beg to differ, as a New York real estate developer who had to deal routinely with the Mafia and unions, he certainly knows the most qualified of all to be a FBI director.

Just look at the murderes row of former FBI directors..

Comey
Mueller
Freeh
Sessions

These are all BushWorld/ClintonWorld/Obama World Goombahs.

They aren't going to let anyone into their little club.

It's like Gina Haspel, Gina Haspel was essentially selected by Obama and got the blessing of Brennan.

None of this is by accident.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 08:57 AM (up/3i)

216 "Hence, this resulting in a textbook case of hubris...Ancient Greeks would look at this and nod their heads, "Yep. Saw that coming."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel "

Pfft.

Posted by: The Experts that want to blot out the Sun at July 03, 2023 08:57 AM (iayUP)

217 Juamnji Hill, the worst tranny on TV.

Posted by: sven at July 03, 2023 08:58 AM (X0I7i)

218 Pfft.
Posted by: The Experts that want to blot out the Sun at July 03, 2023 08:57 AM (iayUP)
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Yup.

We appear to be living in the age of hubris.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

219 I’ve been writing about the Hospital Death Protocol for some time, explaining how the federal government paid big bonuses to hospitals if they treated patients with the lethal drug Remdesivir, then ventilated and killed them.

Do not let you older parent or go into ER or Hosp by themselves.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:58 AM (BRHaw)

220 >>Since the rioters are both Leftists and Muslims, the first government after the fall of the republic could be an authoritarian Marxist one.

The MSM framing of this in BLM terms is interesting.
These sorts of police skirmishes w/an immigrant followed by rioting has been going on for a few decades. The immigrants also have a tradition of rioting, burning sh#t down every New Years eve. It's more complex than the simplistic BLM narrative of "cop kill brown people more that whites." In France there are "no-go" zones where immigrants have taken over a neighborhood and operate separately. Hell, there's been a couple of French movies that imagine where this leads: No-go zones that are cordoned off from the rest of the city run by warring foreigner warlords (District B13).

But naturally, our press is only capable of using foreign events to further their domestic agenda.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 08:59 AM (avru5)

221 First super moon of 2023 will rise in the sky tonight at 7:10 tonight, called the Buck Moon after the season when male deer grow out their antlers.

Three more to come -- the Sturgeon Moon on August 1; the Blue Moon on August 30; and the Harvest Moon on September 29.

No date given for the total eclipse of the moon this year, called the Abrams Moon.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 08:59 AM (Vwz3I)

222 I just don't get the recklessness and contempt for survivability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Woke means the rules don't apply to you because you don't think they are more important than your feelz.

The CEO also stated they only hire "diverse" engineers because "50 year old white guys aren't inspirational".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 08:59 AM (ZVVGW)

223 206 Israel is fighting islamic terrorism for the entire western world right now in Jenin
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 03, 2023 08:52 AM (pmmLi)

Now do Paris Police.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 08:59 AM (BRHaw)

224 218 Pfft.
Posted by: The Experts that want to blot out the Sun at July 03, 2023 08:57 AM (iayUP)
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Yup.

We appear to be living in the age of hubris.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

Likely a by-product of Godlessness, which seems to be a “ thing” these days… trending on Twitter…

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2023 08:59 AM (PCK5/)

225 When do we get the Kate Upton moon?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (xTRSc)

226 @201

>>And there was no point to any of it. Titan wasn't doing research or learning new things.

People still climb and die on Everest every year.

There is literally no point to climbing Everest except to say you have climbed Everest.

You push the envelope, sometimes the envelope pushes back at mach 2 in a millisecond.

The only person I truly feel sorry for is the kid, apparently he didn't want to go but his father badgered him into it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (up/3i)

227 Fwance is being punished by Foggy Bottom for backing BRICS.

On the one hand, fuck Fwance is seldom since the Revolution a bad gambit.

On the other hand, they are being fucked by the people who have made this nation a cosmic punchline.

May both groups lose.

Posted by: sven at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (X0I7i)

228 [From the top linked piece:]

"I don't use the word ESG any more, because it's been entirely weaponised... by the far left and weaponised by the far right," Fink said. But he said dropping references to ESG would not change BlackRock's stance. The firm would continue to ~~talk to companies it has stakes in about decarbonization, corporate governance and social issues to be addressed~~ weaponize the ESG policies under some other guise, he added.

FIFY, Fink. BWAHAHAHAHAHA. The lack of self-awareness and idiotic cognitive dissonance & delusion among these Death Gult Ghouls is of course worse than insulting -- it's suicidal, and unfortunately for all of us.

[I saw Death Cult Ghouls open for ...]

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (+z+6a)

229 Hence, this resulting in a textbook case of hubris...Ancient Greeks would look at this and nod their heads, "Yep. Saw that coming."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel "

Pfft.

Posted by: The Experts that want to blot out the Sun
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Maybe I missed it.

But when has trying to play God ever worked out?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (dr4Q1)

230 #NeverTrump grifters hardest hit.
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They're claiming Mitch is the one who should be praised and the Federalist Society because PDT "just" randomly picked names from their list. [See Insty's for corroboration.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 09:02 AM (Vwz3I)

231 This France kill whitey thing is just another op delivered by Globo Homo. The Left is in full enfuego.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 03, 2023 09:02 AM (/UtnQ)

232 The Rabbit Hole
@TheRabbitHole84

Affirmative Action doctors - what could go wrong?

https://tinyurl.com/yvk7twk8

Posted by: redridinghood at July 03, 2023 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

233 226 Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (up/3i)

Stockton Rush CEOd a design for a wonderful Great Lakes disposable submersible.

That is not what he sold it as.

Posted by: sven at July 03, 2023 09:02 AM (X0I7i)

234 how long will it be before a Harvard degree just means politically connected?

I don't think you understand. Political connection is why you bring on a Harvard man. If you don't need political connections, you're wasting your money. In business, it has never been otherwise.

Doesn't seem to have cut back any on their marketability, either. And that says something -- not so much about them, but about the rest of us.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 09:03 AM (4PZHB)

235 When do we get the Kate Upton moon?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (xTRSc)

Follows the Demi Rose moon

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

236 Why not make bottles for beer, instead of Bud Light?

Make bottles on spec?

I'm pretty sure majors don't just mosey on down to the local bottle maker and order up a few thousand pallets of whatever bottles are available when the occasion falls.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 03, 2023 09:03 AM (p8A+W)

237 Poor France. They stopped reproducing and let the barbarians in through the gates.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 03, 2023 09:04 AM (eCZpk)

238 Hence, this resulting in a textbook case of hubris...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 03, 2023 08:56 AM (BpYfr)

Dude!

Posted by: Nemesis at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (PHmov)

239 Maybe I missed it.

But when has trying to play God ever worked out?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (dr4Q1)
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Spoiler: It doesn't

Posted by: Raistlin Majere at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (BpYfr)

240 There is literally no point to climbing Everest except to say you have climbed Everest.

You push the envelope, sometimes the envelope pushes back at mach 2 in a millisecond.

The only person I truly feel sorry for is the kid, apparently he didn't want to go but his father badgered him into it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (up/3i)
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The people who climb Everest know how damned dangerous it is and that there is a strong chance that they will die. They do it anyway. Adventurism and bragging rights. I get it. I don't want to do it, but I understand it.

The people who bought the tickets that Rush sold probably didn't understand that. Rush told everyone how safe and amazing his product was and liked to gloat about how safe submersibles are (and that is not a lie - good ones *are* extremely safe). But Rush lied about his sub. He didn't *know* that it was dangerous, but he couldn't be bothered to find out. He assumed he was right, assumed it was awesome, talked up its safety and then sold tickets based on nothing but the assumptions of his own ego.

It's despicable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

241 Only someone as dumb as AOC could say what she did. In her longer comments she complained that the SCotUS was a sign of authoritarianism..... and then in the next breath claimed those she doesn't like in the SCotUS need to be forcefully removed.

I'm sure her pea brain doesn't pick up on the irony.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (Szrzx)

242 @233

>>That is not what he sold it as.

Indeed, he sold it to a bunch of naïve people.

But naïve people go on dangerous expeditions all the time.

And the dude is dead, so I don't really see the point in slagging the guy, he's not around to care one bit about what is said about him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (up/3i)

243 237 Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 03, 2023 09:04 AM (eCZpk)

My great grandfather had a diddy he brought back from the Great War about France...

"The French they are a funny race, they fight with their feet and f*ck with their face and it will sure be fun until Johnny comes marching home."

Grandpa used to hum it when it was his turn to go to Fwance to save them.

Posted by: sven at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (X0I7i)

244 Motor Lodge and Tourist Camp were two terms for what came to be known as Motels. Any others?

Posted by: The Patel Family at July 03, 2023 09:06 AM (T0tUU)

245 "50 year old white guys aren't inspirational".

You just can't get the joke. That was said by a 50-year-old white guy. The only one in the organization. See?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 09:06 AM (4PZHB)

246 >>Let a billionaire do the same thing, though?"

This totally reminds me of the fated Mt Everest climb described in "Into Thin Air." Rich people wanted to add "Climbed tallest mountain" to their list of accomplishments, so they trained some and hired guides to make it happen. Problem was they weren't good enough, experienced enough to do it, plus the guides made the poor decision to attempt it in deteriorating weather because it was a job (gotta get paid) vs. a personal pursuit.

Ah, arrogant humans!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 09:06 AM (avru5)

247 Why not make bottles for beer, instead of Bud Light?

Make bottles on spec?

I'm pretty sure majors don't just mosey on down to the local bottle maker and order up a few thousand pallets of whatever bottles are available when the occasion falls.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

I think I'm gonna go pick up a 12 pack of Shiner Bock for tomorrow.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:06 AM (ZVVGW)

248 But when has trying to play God ever worked out?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 03, 2023 09:01 AM (dr4Q1)

By God's holy trousers it was fun for a bit. But, yeah.

Posted by: Daniel Dravot at July 03, 2023 09:06 AM (4I/2K)

249 In the early days of June, Deborah Lipstadt, Biden’s antisemitism czar, flew to the United Arab Emirates and condemned Israel’s government while claiming that she worries that the Netanyahu government’s defense of Jews against Islamic terrorism might worsen antisemitism.

Do do short skirts and rape rape.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 09:07 AM (BRHaw)

250 Fancy degrees are like Oscars

to legitimize the illegitimate

Posted by: REDACTED at July 03, 2023 09:08 AM (us2H3)

251 He assumed he was right, assumed it was awesome, talked up its safety and then sold tickets based on nothing but the assumptions of his own ego.

It's despicable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

What a crushing blow to his ego! I hope he knew what was happening (although I doubt he did).

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 09:08 AM (PHmov)

252 Nice photo up top ,JJ.

Posted by: dantesed at July 03, 2023 09:09 AM (88xKn)

253 Blot out the sun, produce global crop failures… winning!!!

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (PCK5/)

254 France has let barbarians in for centuries.

France has not changed. Islam changed.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (4PZHB)

255 >>I'm sure her pea brain doesn't pick up on the irony.

AOC only cares about one thing: power.
She doesn't care about logic, consistency, Constitutionality - any of it. She has been fanning the anger of the activists to take out conservative justices since the abortion decision. She has a lot of idiots who take her and her words seriously. She is dangerous, not silly.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (avru5)

256 He assumed he was right, assumed it was awesome, talked up its safety and then sold tickets based on nothing but the assumptions of his own ego.

It's despicable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

What a crushing blow to his ego! I hope he knew what was happening (although I doubt he did).
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

His ego sunk to new depths.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (ZVVGW)

257
France doesn't deserve anyone's sympathy for their predicament, any more than we do when it happens here. You pay your nickel, and you take your ride.

Individual Frenchmen or Americans who didn't ask for this? Sure. I feel for those guys. I'm one of 'em. But by and large, these Western countries eagerly paid for this ride, and the ride is "violent destabilization of your nation-state by international socialists."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (oINRc)

258 Who’s the woman in today’s picture?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (xTRSc)

259 Thank goodness the French have the right to bear arms....oh wait, that's us. Though I'm pretty sure the Founders weren't expecting barbarians at the gate.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (oWBc3)

260 What a crushing blow to his ego! I hope he knew what was happening (although I doubt he did).
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 09:08 AM (PHmov)

ISWYDT. It was over in 0.04 seconds.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 09:11 AM (4I/2K)

261 France has not changed. Islam changed.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (4PZHB)

Nonsense. Islam has not changed. The only difference is that the population of young men has increased to the point that they can challenge the state.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 09:11 AM (PHmov)

262 Nice photo up top ,JJ.

Posted by: dantesed at July 03, 2023 09:09 AM (88xKn)

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+1 and "WHY IS TOILET PAPER ALWAYS DEPICTED AS WHITE, H8RS?!?!?!?!"

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:11 AM (+z+6a)

263 My submariner son (retired) said that when there's a breach in the hull, you're dead before you know what hit you.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 03, 2023 09:11 AM (eCZpk)

264 Stockton Rush got four people killed because of "sheer fvcking hubris."
Posted by: Anna Puma

Con men have preyed upon gullible and greedy people for a looooog time, likely beginning way before writing and precious metal coins for money.

I am saddened the con man and the four passengers lost their lives. This always applies, however: Caveat Emptor.

Posted by: Gref at July 03, 2023 09:11 AM (AMIL/)

265 Nice photo up top ,JJ.
Posted by: dantesed

Picture is incorrect. Too many "R's" in Havad.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:11 AM (ZVVGW)

266 People! We need to suck it up and stop disappointing Ace.

It won't take much more for the decision to be made to replace the Commenters with AI!

Posted by: Cassandra at July 03, 2023 09:12 AM (a3Q+t)

267 Max Blumenthal addresses UN Security Council on Ukraine.

Reveals US repayment of Ukrainian sovereign debt and pretty much lays things out exactly as they are in all of their horrific glory.

https://tinyurl.com/9x85zs5s

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2023 09:12 AM (5UFbS)

268 @240

>>It's despicable.

Everyone who got on board that vessel signed a waiver, the waiver in numerous places said the potentiality for death was present and real.

And lets not gloss over the fact on who was on that ship.

You had the designer of the craft, you had the pre-eminent Titanic Researcher who has made numerous other dives to Titanic, the Billionaire dude was a an adventurer in his own right, you had a guy who had been on other deep see dives as well, in fact, I believe he dived to the Marianas Trench.

So these people were not Joe blow randos who had no idea what they were getting themselves into, except for the kid.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (up/3i)

269 As con men go, Stockton Rush was no Music Man.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (4I/2K)

270 From Quora...

Rob Lion
engineer in glass recycling for 5 years
Author has 2.6K answers and 9.5M answer views7y

They probably source bottles from multiple vendors around the country, local to their breweries/bottling plants, but Anheuser-Busch does own Longhorn Glass Corp. in Jacinto City, Texas, which can apparently produce nearly 900 million bottles a year:

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (Vwz3I)

271 Living in the new world it’s always slave rebellions and Indian attacks. Seems there’s not much difference in the old world, either.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (/UtnQ)

272 258 Who’s the woman in today’s picture?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:10 AM (xTRSc)

Joy Reid.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (x0n13)

273 He didn't *know* that it was dangerous, but he couldn't be bothered to find out. He assumed he was right, assumed it was awesome, talked up its safety and then sold tickets based on nothing but the assumptions of his own ego.

It's despicable.

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Pride Month goeth before the Fall. It looks like were' gonna need a Hubris Month as well ...

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (+z+6a)

274 ISWYDT. It was over in 0.04 seconds.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 09:11 AM (4I/2K)
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What isn't known is whether they had any warning. Did the structure creak? A normal sub would creak but nobody knows if carbon fiber would. Did those sensor he boasted about provide enough warning for them to know what was about to happen?

If the gap between "warning that something is wrong" and "implosion" was zero (or rounds comfortable to zero), then yeah. Nobody knew anything. Here one moment, gone the next. If that gap was meaningful - a couple of seconds or longer - that's enough time for horror.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:14 AM (t0OGg)

275 Referring to the ONT, does anyone else appreciate the absurdity that people are upset about showing an ID at Costco to checkout and not concerned about not having to show ID to vote on their future? The relative value of a three pack of mustard versus Biden conundrum.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 03, 2023 09:14 AM (oWBc3)

276 I can make the case either way but ...

Does the end of Affirmative Action make the case for reparations stronger or weaker ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:14 AM (RovqD)

277
It all depends on which foreigners you allow in.

I once read a German historian or polemicist say "Out of guilt for murdering six million of Europe's most productive citizens, we allowed in twenty five million illiterate barbarians."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2023 09:15 AM (oINRc)

278 I hope Ace never sells tickets to one of his shelving-installation sessions.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:15 AM (xTRSc)

279 So far, the Fourth of July celebration seems subdued compared to the recent unbridled joy of Juneteenth.

Posted by: I Drink to Anything at July 03, 2023 09:15 AM (T0tUU)

280 @261 Yes. Islam changed. You need to yell louder.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 09:15 AM (4PZHB)

281 well the largest influx came after degaulle surrendered in algeria, with the harkis, which were the sone of the fighters who aided the french, partially out of guilt, but also as a source of cheap labor, they tried to deport some back in the 90s, but it went pearshaped,

Posted by: no 6 at July 03, 2023 09:15 AM (PXvVL)

282 So these people were not Joe blow randos who had no idea what they were getting themselves into, except for the kid.

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Except if maintenance wasn't being done and literal waste material from airplanes used in low-pressure environments was being used they sorta did, though.

"OceanGate CEO once said Titan sub's hull was made with carbon fiber from Boeing that was past its airplane shelf life"

https://tinyurl.com/2ehu4uvc

It's similar to us nobodies riding a tilt-a-whirl at the fair that's being operated by a NO REGERTS face tattoo guy, except at a higher level.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 09:16 AM (33ek6)

283 Living in the new world it’s always slave rebellions and Indian attacks. Seems there’s not much difference in the old world, either.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (/UtnQ)

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Make Raiders and Pirates Great Again!

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:16 AM (+z+6a)

284 A Kim Kardashian moon actually would blot out the sun.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:17 AM (xTRSc)

285 So these people were not Joe blow randos who had no idea what they were getting themselves into, except for the kid.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (up/3i)
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A lot of his passengers essentially were. Yes, they signed the waivers. Yes, they knew there were dangers. They were also sold a product that the salesman told them - at length - was safe.

But yes, they bought their tickets and took their ride. My trouble with it is that it was all pointless and would have not happened if Rush was less arrogant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:17 AM (t0OGg)

286 Does the end of Affirmative Action make the case for reparations stronger or weaker ?

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It means white men have overpaid by around $35T and seven to twelve generations* of free stuff.

* see what I did there?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 03, 2023 09:17 AM (33ek6)

287 Krispy thinks Trump identifies as a Cinnabon and therefore is afraid of him

Posted by: REDACTED at July 03, 2023 09:17 AM (us2H3)

288 This jamelle hill's 'folks' fought for asian rights involves stabbing old ladies in the back or shoving them in front of subway trains?

Posted by: Eromero at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (Uv0D2)

289 Islam hasn't changed and will drag France back to 800AD

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (xhxe8)

290 What isn't known is whether they had any warning. Did the structure creak? A normal sub would creak but nobody knows if carbon fiber would. Did those sensor he boasted about provide enough warning for them to know what was about to happen?

If the gap between "warning that something is wrong" and "implosion" was zero (or rounds comfortable to zero), then yeah. Nobody knew anything. Here one moment, gone the next. If that gap was meaningful - a couple of seconds or longer - that's enough time for horror.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Complete implosion was 1 millisecond.

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense/reason/act) is at best 150 milliseconds.
The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors. When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (ZVVGW)

291 Pride Month goeth before the Fall. It looks like were' gonna need a Hubris Month as well ...
Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:13 AM (+z+6a)
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Every month is Hubris Month. Always has been.

The real trouble comes during Nemesis Month.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (t0OGg)

292 A Kim Kardashian moon actually would blot out the sun.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:17 AM (xTRSc)

That's no moon.

Posted by: Obi-wan Kenobi at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (4I/2K)

293 Does the end of Affirmative Action make the case for reparations stronger or weaker ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:14 AM (RovqD)

The rational case? It is weaker. But the clown world case? Who knows...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (PHmov)

294 There will never be a Brie Larson Super Moon.

Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2023 09:19 AM (SYTee)

295 Ya know, beer tastes better in a bottle-it's uncanny!

Posted by: Your Local Silica Mine at July 03, 2023 09:19 AM (T0tUU)

296 I hope the submersible company keeps on giving rides to more stupid and bored rich folks who have nothing better to do.

Welcome Aboard!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 03, 2023 09:19 AM (XqIlw)

297 He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

Just a timely meditation on the "barbarians at the gates" line of argument. 'We' fought to let them in.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 09:19 AM (4PZHB)

298 Joy Reid with the Own Goal

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 03, 2023 09:20 AM (sJHOI)

299 Complete implosion was 1 millisecond.

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense/reason/act) is at best 150 milliseconds.
The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors. When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (ZVVGW)
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Yes indeed. But *prior* to the implosion, it is unknown - and will probably never be known - if the vessel gave any warnings that something was wrong. In traditional big submarines, there tend to be lots of warnings (steel creaks, pipes burst, etc.).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:20 AM (t0OGg)

300 The climb from the Nepal side of Everest isn't technically hard if you're a mountaineer. It's the thin air and weather that make it dangerous.

Everest has a short climbing season, so imagine the joy of being at the back of a slow moving line of 50 or more rich assholes in front of you getting their asses carried by Sherpas, while the window to make it to the top is closing, and you can see bad weather coming on.

I'd pay good money for that.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 09:20 AM (RqMSv)

301 The Muslim invasion of Europe is already more pervasive and damaging than the initial one centuries ago - and there is base for a crusade to be launched from anymore. And as we are out of the business of saving their asses without a grift motive, they are hosed.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 03, 2023 09:21 AM (oWBc3)

302 I can make the case either way but ...

Does the end of Affirmative Action make the case for reparations stronger or weaker ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:14 AM (RovqD)

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They'll fight under the new "Affirmative Reparations" banner.

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:21 AM (+z+6a)

303 The climb from the Nepal side of Everest isn't technically hard if you're a mountaineer. It's the thin air and weather that make it dangerous.

Everest has a short climbing season, so imagine the joy of being at the back of a slow moving line of 50 or more rich assholes in front of you getting their asses carried by Sherpas, while the window to make it to the top is closing, and you can see bad weather coming on.

I'd pay good money for that.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 09:20 AM (RqMSv)

Nepal could put in a FastPass system with dynamic pricing. Cha-ching!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 09:22 AM (4I/2K)

304 @285

>>But yes, they bought their tickets and took their ride. My trouble with it is that it was all pointless and would have not happened if Rush was less arrogant.

There were a number of interviews that James Cameron did regarding the Titan that were very illuminating.

This community is exceptionally small, everyone knows everyone, and everyone was familiar with what Rush was doing and knew he was pushing out on the edge.

And he was pushing out on the edge because making a submersible to go to these depths is fantastically expensive and time consuming.

So at the end of the day, the people who would be going down on his vessel would largely be from the adventuring community, I don't think it was ever going to be offered as a general ticket to the public.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:22 AM (up/3i)

305 "In traditional big submarines, there tend to be lots of warnings (steel creaks, pipes burst, etc.)."

Das Boot!

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 09:23 AM (RqMSv)

306 Tesla Soars After Record Deliveries Beat Estimates, Shrugs Off Goldman 'Downgrade'

Tesla also beat expectations on production, producing 479,700 vehicles in the quarter, exceeding estimates of 456,617.

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:23 AM (RovqD)

307 >>"I don't use the word ESG any more, because it's been entirely weaponised.

And really, isn't this the story of Obama?
Whenever one of his policies/pursuits failed he would announce that it failed because he did not explain it well (implying we were too dumb to understand it), so he would change his word choice/framing and continue his reckless, failed policy.

Blackrock guy is doing the same thing: Your bad reaction to my policy means I have to change my words, not my policy. You're just too dumb to get it!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2023 09:23 AM (avru5)

308 Research Shows Netherlands is Euthanizing Healthy People with Autism and Intellectual Handicaps

Well there are populations that we don’t want to have too many of

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at July 03, 2023 09:24 AM (BRHaw)

309 Joy-Ann Lomena Reid - Wikipedia, in part: Her father was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[4] and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from Guyana.[4] Her parents met in graduate school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.[7] Her father was an engineer who was mostly absent from the family; her parents eventually divorced and her father returned to the Congo.[7] She was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado, until the age of 17, when her mother died of breast cancer[4] and she moved to Flatbush, Brooklyn, to live with an aunt.[7] Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a concentration in film studies.[8][9] She had to learn to live with roommates and people who were not her family. She paid her own bills and tuition while at Harvard and said it was a good learning and growing experience overall.[10]

Like the stories of Harris, Holder, Obama, AOC & so very many more - born to well educated parents, new immigrants or 1st generation, had some means (sometimes substantial means) ergo weren't picking shit with the chickens to survive in the USA. Their kids, "special,' perhaps as they considered themselves 1st through color.

To Power!

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect & speeds the security clearance process at July 03, 2023 09:24 AM (GshMh)

310 Democrats are seeing Muslims and Asians peeling off from the coalition.

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:24 AM (RovqD)

311 Nepal could put in a FastPass system with dynamic pricing. Cha-ching!!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2023 09:22 AM (4I/2K)
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LOL. Disney could expand Genie+ to include non-Disney events and venues. Call it "Genie Global" and sell it as a SaaS platform. For people who use expedited queuing in non-Disney venues but *also* want to use it at Disney venues, they can sell "Genie Global+" with a combination discount.

It's brilliant! Disney can do for software what they've done for movies!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:24 AM (t0OGg)

312 Bomb the Muzzie demonstrators with pork, booze, Star of David medallions, and Cross medallions.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:25 AM (xTRSc)

313 Yes indeed. But *prior* to the implosion, it is unknown - and will probably never be known - if the vessel gave any warnings that something was wrong. In traditional big submarines, there tend to be lots of warnings (steel creaks, pipes burst, etc.).
Posted by: Joe Mannix

You're correct. We will never know. But, knowing the properties of the parts, there was probably no warning. The mating of the carbon fiber with the titanium rings, and the view port that was only rated to 1300 meters instead of 3000, tends to say no. No warning.

It wasn't as big as a nuke sub with water tight bulkheads. Once it started, it was over.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:25 AM (ZVVGW)

314 298 Joy Reid with the Own Goal
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 03, 2023 09:20 AM (sJHOI)

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GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL

Posted by: Mexican Soccer Announcer at July 03, 2023 09:25 AM (BRHaw)

315 The Muslim invasion of Europe is already more pervasive and damaging than the initial one centuries ago - and there is base for a crusade to be launched from anymore. And as we are out of the business of saving their asses without a grift motive, they are hosed.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 03, 2023 09:21 AM (oWBc3)

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My understanding is that Christianity is growing fastest in sub-Saharan Africa. Wouldn't it be ironic if that became the base for launching a future Crusade?

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:26 AM (+z+6a)

316 Good Morning Horde and happy Day before Independence Day!

I'm at work today. I'm like the only one in the building. Wow. quiet.

Posted by: Archer at July 03, 2023 09:27 AM (gmo/4)

317 Certainly someone aboard must have strung a clothesline like Harry Dean Stanton did in Down Periscope, or at least smashed an egg or crushed a tin can. You can't have a bad U-boat movie without it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 03, 2023 09:27 AM (4PZHB)

318 So at the end of the day, the people who would be going down on his vessel would largely be from the adventuring community, I don't think it was ever going to be offered as a general ticket to the public.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The Titanic trip was designed to be a yearly expedition, allowing tourists to pay $250,000 for an eight-day excursion to see the wreck.

https://tinyurl.com/4rakfea7

Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:27 AM (ZVVGW)

319 and the view port that was only rated to 1300 meters instead of 3000
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Holy crap.

He really was just a dumbass redneck building a sub with scrap from the bottom pasture.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 03, 2023 09:28 AM (7bQJB)

320 Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:28 AM (RovqD)

321
My understanding is that Christianity is growing fastest in sub-Saharan Africa. Wouldn't it be ironic if that became the base for launching a future Crusade?
Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:26 AM (+z+6a)

My basic prediction for the next century or so is as follows: The big civilizations in the Northern Hemisphere collapse largely of their own accord, but with help from Islam, which replaces them as the dominant civilization.

From there, they either take the globe, or meet meaningful resistance from the Christians of the South, and that is the next clash of civilizations.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2023 09:28 AM (oINRc)

322 well, last week I injured my self, again

last time it was pulling on a chain saw and fucked my shoulder up

but I don't know what I did this time

strained a muscle that went from the top of my scalp, around my ear, through my jaw and down my neck to my shoulder

doesn't hurt so much in an upright position but when you lay down, it hurts like hell

so, basically couldn't sleep for 3 days

getting old sucks

wouldn't wish on any of any of my friends

Posted by: REDACTED at July 03, 2023 09:28 AM (us2H3)

323 Lefties and Islam get along so well, because they both hate Western Civilization, and revel in death and destruction.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:28 AM (xTRSc)

324 "The Titanic trip was designed to be a yearly expedition, allowing tourists to pay $250,000 for an eight-day excursion to see the wreck."

And Jack's corpse.

Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2023 09:29 AM (SYTee)

325 After Hillary climbed Everest you would think she could win an election without fucking up.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 03, 2023 09:29 AM (/UtnQ)

326 Thankfully understanding pressure in deep water being a scuba diver, knowledge of metallurgy and the effects of pressure on metal, non-destructive testing, experience with carbon fiber sailing masts and bicycle parts(wheels, frames, handlebars and seat posts), I wouldn't have gotten on that POS submersible.

When you crash hard on a carbon fiber bike, you do not repair the parts, you throw them away.
Titan had already been to deep enough depths to cause stress on the carbon fiber. Not knowing how many "dive cycles" the sub hull could take was insane.
The record holding deepest diving submersible was carbon fiber, but it was a use once and retire specifically because there is no NDT to test its structural integrity after dives. It only had to survive the depths it went to once.
Stockton Rush was arrogant and stupid.

Posted by: JROD at July 03, 2023 09:29 AM (IlL6s)

327 'Mad' Mike Hughes dies after crash-landing homemade rocket

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 09:29 AM (BRHaw)

328 Valve won't publish Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming that the company will not allow any AI-generated content

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:29 AM (RovqD)

329 You're correct. We will never know. But, knowing the properties of the parts, there was probably no warning. The mating of the carbon fiber with the titanium rings, and the view port that was only rated to 1300 meters instead of 3000, tends to say no. No warning.

It wasn't as big as a nuke sub with water tight bulkheads. Once it started, it was over.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2023 09:25 AM (ZVVGW)
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That's my guess, yeah. There was a very interesting paper I read last week about implosion testing. A group wanted to find out if sub implosion was actually possible. They built part of an existing design (a Polish military sub) to test it. What they found is that implosion is technically possible but extraordinarily unlikely because too much other shit breaks first and the thing floods (pressure equalizes). The things that tend to break are mating surfaces (hatches and the like), pipes, check valves, etc. This results either in flooding or loss avoidance because the crew can (try) to deal with the problem or surface.

But none of that applies to Titan. It had no pipes, valves, movable hatches, etc. Nothing to break but the pressure hull itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 03, 2023 09:29 AM (t0OGg)

330 Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

If you are still around: https://is.gd/du06mF

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2023 09:30 AM (PHmov)

331 @313

>>It wasn't as big as a nuke sub with water tight bulkheads. Once it started, it was over.

Once the pressure vessel was compromised, the volume of air would have compressed in infinite direction at speeds in excess of Mach 2 in a millisecond of time, it would have them ignited the compressed volume of air/human slurry mixture and flashed to about 10k degrees for a second before exploding outward.

Not the way one draws up going out, but such is life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2023 09:30 AM (up/3i)

332 'Welcome to France, turn around now.'
-C. Martel

Posted by: Eromero at July 03, 2023 09:30 AM (Uv0D2)

333
A R T

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 03, 2023 09:31 AM (BRHaw)

334 well, last week I injured my self, again

last time it was pulling on a chain saw and fucked my shoulder up

but I don't know what I did this time

strained a muscle that went from the top of my scalp, around my ear, through my jaw and down my neck to my shoulder

doesn't hurt so much in an upright position but when you lay down, it hurts like hell

so, basically couldn't sleep for 3 days

getting old sucks

wouldn't wish on any of any of my friends
Posted by: REDACTED at July 03, 2023 09:28 AM (us2H3)

go to a dr. Don't beg for pain meds, that makes 'em suspicious. Describe the pain in detail. Cry if you must

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 03, 2023 09:31 AM (sJHOI)

335 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2023 09:31 AM (xTRSc)

336 Democrats are seeing Muslims and Asians peeling off from the coalition.

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:24 AM (RovqD)

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But they'll always have most of the white women, homos, and rapidly-exploding trannies ... so they've got that going for them.

/I saw Rapidly-Exploding Trannies open for REO Speedwagon at the Ozarks Amphitheater in 2020.

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 03, 2023 09:32 AM (+z+6a)

337 There's probably no quicker way to die, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 03, 2023 09:32 AM (RqMSv)

338 Meet Charlie Pearce, a 33-year-old builder and landscaper from Surrey, England, who is getting married in September. Ahead of the big day, he and 13 bros planned a stag party on the Spanish Island of Ibiza. They set out on Friday, dressed for adventure and towing their wheelie suitcases behind them as they walked to London’s Waterloo Station. Suddenly, they came face to face with an obnoxious JSO protest. The climate freaks were engaging in a “slow march” — an un-permitted pop-up protest designed to block traffic and infuriate as many people as possible.

Already in high spirits and dressed head-to-toe in pink and a tutu, Pearce joined right in. He stepped into the front rank of protestors, marching along behind their banner. “We love you oil, we do!” chanted Pearce, pumping a fist as his buddies joined in. The JSO marchers remained silent and plodded forward like good little brain-dead automatons. Then the groom-to-be grabbed the banner in both hands and ran off with it.

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:32 AM (RovqD)

339 I'm fine with some affirmative action, as long as I'm told beforehand. So if I go to a hospital I should be asked "would you like a doctor who got into his/her program because of their intelligence or their skin color?" (In an emergency situation the default will always be intelligence)

On the otherhand lefties shouldn't be allowed that choice, they shall always be given the person admitted on skin color. (Since we know if given the choice they'd choose intelligence too, since lefties never practice what they preach)

Affirmative action would be ended in days if this was implemented.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 03, 2023 09:32 AM (Szrzx)

340 288 This jamelle hill's 'folks' fought for asian rights involves stabbing old ladies in the back or shoving them in front of subway trains?

Posted by: Eromero at July 03, 2023 09:18 AM (Uv0D2)

The Leftists use the term People of Color a lot. But when it gets down to cases, they only mention blacks, or blacks and browns. Yellow? Nope. Red? Nope. This tells you everything you need to know about Leftists. Every single thing they say or do is based on cynical political power calculations.

PS: A majority of Leftists are white supremacists behind closed doors.

Posted by: Gref at July 03, 2023 09:32 AM (AMIL/)

341 I used to live in a very liberal NE state and owned a white T-shirt with a big red cross on it. From afar, it looked like I might be a lifeguard. When you got closer, it had "Got Crusades?" Printed on it. I enjoyed all the dirty looks I received from the liberals.

Posted by: Archer at July 03, 2023 09:33 AM (gmo/4)

342 My basic prediction for the next century or so is as follows: The big civilizations in the Northern Hemisphere collapse largely of their own accord, but with help from Islam, which replaces them as the dominant civilization.

There really is nothing "Islamic" about the European invaders.

These are not fundamentalist Muslims in a cultural clash. They are NGO-imported blacks intent on living off of European welfare.

And they are really no different then the inner city American blacks that wreak havoc upon American cities in all reality.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 03, 2023 09:34 AM (5UFbS)

343 my older sis was valedictorian at a very large HS in the mid 60's

she got into Rice but only after some deliberation on the school's part but no scholarship

now, she would be recruited, full board, by the Ivy schools

Posted by: REDACTED at July 03, 2023 09:34 AM (us2H3)

344 I wonder if anybody noticed that there is virtually nothing that can now disqualify you from the draft, should it ever be reinstituted

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:35 AM (RovqD)

345 Leftists use the term POC, People of Color
Rightist use the term AOC. A of Color

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:36 AM (RovqD)

346 speeds in excess of Mach 2
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Thus the ease of getting burned.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 03, 2023 09:37 AM (Vwz3I)

347 A little more than half of Americans — 52% — approve of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions, while 32% disapprove and 16% saying they don’t know [anything].

Posted by: SMOD at July 03, 2023 09:38 AM (RovqD)

348 Just be careful not to think that all these rioters in France are of the Muslim sort. Many appear to be AntiFa sorts, bringing their brand of "Burn it all down" to the game.

This is a lot bigger than the problem of Islam in Europe.
(Though, it IS a primarily religious issue - all against Christianity.)

Posted by: GWB at July 03, 2023 09:45 AM (vQrdQ)

349 And good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested over the weekend that there are no checks on the U.S. Supreme Court and that there was nothing balancing out their power, despite the fact that those things exist. . .

Insider, June 22nd: Obama privately met with AOC and other Democrats during a series of reported intimate chats with House Democrats.

UK Guardian, 6/30/23, Interview by Joan E. Greve. ‘Attack on modern life’: US Congress member Ro Khanna on the supreme court rulings. The progressive House representative from California is at the helm of a campaign to set term limits for supreme court justices.

Quid Pro Quo. Watch.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect & speeds the security clearance process at July 03, 2023 09:47 AM (GshMh)

350 Bonjour.

Posted by: Eric Zemmour at July 03, 2023 09:48 AM (lf83v)

351 337 There's probably no quicker way to die, no?
Posted by: Ignoramus
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Uhh. . .

Posted by: Wearing a MAGA hat in Harlem at July 03, 2023 09:50 AM (lf83v)

352 Good morning dear morons and thank you JJ

I know I'm supposed to care about France, but I don't. Not at all.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 03, 2023 09:51 AM (RIvkX)

353 And...willowed.

Nood art

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 03, 2023 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

354 AOC is the congressional equivalent of the discolored milk at the bottom of a bowl of Kaboom.

Posted by: Ron at July 03, 2023 10:21 AM (AtKtr)

355 "It is disappointing that so many Americans believe to some degree in the climate hoax after all these years. But it is encouraging that Americans are not falling hook, line, and sinker for some of the lies around electric vehicles and fossil fuels."

Majority of Americans Believe ‘Climate Change’ Hoax but Oppose Ending Fossil Fuels

This is not "disappointing", it is downright depressing. And it means that the majority of Americans may oppose ending fossil fuels *now*, but since they believe the foundation of the hoax, they are open to agreeing to end fossil fuels *eventually*. After the Marxist Left just finds the right propaganda and lies to convince them of the "righteousness" of it.

Decades of lies and false "predictions" and absolutely no science behind it and yet the majority of Americans still believe the hoax. Utterly freaking depressing.

Not that Americans believing in any of it even matters. What matters is that the people in control of every institution and corporation in the country believe in it and have been forcing the policies on us and will continue to do so. Because we no longer have a means to stop them (rigged elections).

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 03, 2023 10:22 AM (60h0q)

356 “I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action,” Reid’s personal “ReidOut Blog” began.

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Joy, Say it ain't so! Joy. Joy?

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at July 03, 2023 11:03 AM (FXBfX)

357 Re: "The 15 Best Zingers, Maxims, and Mic-Drops From Clarence Thomas’ Harvard Concurrence"

That Thomas dude is pretty damn smart! I'm going to print those out for my family, those that can read that is, and ask them which points they disagree with!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 03, 2023 11:06 AM (OqSlY)

358 Oh look! AOC, now crazy Harris...O's got them all out there carrying on over the Supreme Court.

NPR - VP Kamala Harris says the Supreme Court took rights from the people of America, July 3, 2023, Heard on Morning Edition

A long article, in part, "...Essence festival in New Orleans, La., where Vice President Kamala Harris headlined panel conversations about economic opportunity and maternal health and reproductive rights. On both days she spoke, the U.S. Supreme Court issued monumental decisions..."

"This is a serious moment and fundamental issues are at stake," Vice President Harris told NPR's Michel Martin... "And I do believe that there is a national movement afoot to attack hard won and hard fought freedoms."

If it's not Trump, it's courts.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect & speeds the security clearance process at July 03, 2023 11:06 AM (GshMh)

359 Great sound off to start my morning as always, JJ. I hope their meltdown over the SCOTUS continues. It's sweet music to hear and makes me smile.

In parting, everyone try to have a good Monday and Joe Cunningham at RedState.com is a fat, stupid, anti-Trump asshole who has a lot of nerve criticizing other people's egos. Just saying. He and Ana Navarro need to eat a salad.

Posted by: Tracy at July 03, 2023 11:14 AM (ZfVVq)

360 Liberal Dilemma: "Just Stop Oil" Climate Protestors Disrupt Gay Pride March
https://is.gd/5hpCSg
h/t Sarah Hoyt posting at Insty, laughing at the idiots

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2023 12:02 PM (llON8)

361 Everybody jumps on Ketanji Brown Jackson for that
"What's a woman? Unh, gee I'm no biologist!!" response.

The one that *really* bothered me was when she was asked if she believed in Natural Rights (the notion of God-given rights, like Life, Liberty, etc). She would not answer. AS A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, YOU TAKE AN OATH TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THOSE NATURAL RIGHTS. If she doesn't believe in them, WHAT is she doing in those robes and in that chair? (And furthermore, as a Black Agitator, where does she think those allegedly-trampled "Rights" of Black citizens come from?) She's got the reasoning capacity of a cup of yogurt.

The pandering idiots who confirmed her appointment should all be sent out to that proverbial cornfield.

Posted by: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah at July 03, 2023 01:27 PM (97cnI)

362 Another excellent piece, Mr. Sefton.

Posted by: Bach in Black at July 03, 2023 03:09 PM (dBoDT)

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