Daily Tech News 29 June 2024

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Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators. (Tech Crunch)

There has been plenty of coverage of what the reversal of the 1984 Chevron decision means - the emasculation of the administrative state - so I'll just examine the tech industry impact of this, via the same liberal fascist wailing that we see everywhere else.

Net neutrality:
The entire concept of net neutrality is perched atop the FCC's interpretation of whether broadband data is an "information service" or a "communications service," the terms written in the act empowering that agency.
Wrong right out of the gate. Net neutrality is a universal concept. The FCC is trying to arrogate the power to enforce net neutrality by twisting the definitions in its charter until they squeak, but that is a different question.
If the FCC is not empowered to settle this ambiguity in a very old law that was written well before today's broadband and mobile networks
It is not so empowered and never has been.
who is?
Congress.
Whatever court takes the case brought by the telecommunications industry, which hates net neutrality and would prefer an interpretation where the FCC doesn't regulate them at all.
No, Congress.
And if the industry doesn't like that court's interpretation, it gets a few more shots as the case rises towards - oh, the Supreme Court.
And Congress.
Why is this so consequential for tech? Because the tech industry has been facing down a wave of regulatory activity led by these agencies, operating in the vacuum of Congressional action. Due to a lack of effective federal laws in tech, agencies have had to step up and offer updated interpretations of the laws on the books.
Which was never within their authority.

I support net neutrality. ISPs and cable companies amply demonstrated themselves to be hideously untrustworthy.

It's just that the FCC has no authority to make such a regulation.

AI:
Let us be optimistic for once and imagine that Congress passes a big law on AI, protecting certain information, requiring certain disclosures, and so on. It's impossible that such a law would contain no ambiguities or purposeful vagueness to allow for the law to apply to as-yet-unknown situations or applications. Thanks to the Supreme Court, those ambiguities will no longer be resolved by experts.
The experts can resolve the issues when the laws are enforced. There is no problem with that.

The only change here is that the courts are not required to defer to experts within the regulatory agencies on their interpretations of the laws.
(As an example of how this will play out, in the very decision issued today, Justice Gorsuch repeatedly referred to nitrogen oxide, a pollutant at issue, as nitrous oxide, laughing gas. This is the level of expertise we may expect.)
Face first on a rake.

There are at least a dozen compounds under the generic label "nitrogen oxide", and it is not the proper name for any of them.

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The Verge also joins in with a long and detailed article lamenting the demise of regulatory fascism vis-à-vis the tech industry. (The Verge)
This decision is arguably the largest single deregulatory action that could be taken, and as we have all observed, without regulation, tech - like any other big industry - will consolidate and exploit. The next few years, even under a pro-regulatory Democratic administration, will be a free-for-all. There is no barrier, and probably no downside, to industry lawyers challenging every single regulatory decision in court and arguing for a more favorable interpretation of the law.
Write better laws.
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has made no secret of her ambitions to use the agency's authority to take bold action to restore competition to digital markets and protect consumers. But with Chevron being overturned amid a broader movement undermining agency authority without clear direction from Congress, Schettenhelm said, "it's about the worst possible time for the FTC to be claiming novel rulemaking power to address unfair competition issues in a way that it never has before."
As with the previous article, the writers of this piece freely admit that the regulatory agencies are engaged in an unbridled and unconstitutional power grab; they just believe this is a good thing.

The article notes that the FTC's recent ruling against noncompete clauses is likely in trouble because - once again - the FTC never had the authority to make such a ruling in the first place.
To be clear, none of these are necessarily bad outcomes - and as Lemley notes, most people "have bigger fish to fry." No one is going to think, Well, on the one hand climate change will kill us all, but on the other hand, I have my Apple Watch.
I'm not sure where they were going there.
Beyond that, the disempowering of federal agencies means the empowerment of another entity
Congress.
and in this case, it is the increasingly conservative judiciary.
Sounds lovely, but no.
A lawsuit claims that Microsoft tracked sex toy shoppers in real time. (404 Media)

What a depressingly stupid article.

The websites Good Vibrations and Babeland installed online tracking software called Microsoft Clarity on their websites.

It's like complaining that someone wrote down your name - and then prominently mentioning the name of the ink manufacturer every time you discussed the case.
NASA wants to stress that the two astronauts who travelled to the ISS on the Boeing Starliner, Butch and Sundance Suni, are not stranded. (Ars Technica)

The agency just doesn't know when or if they will be able to return home.
Mustafa Suleyman, a less-successful clone of OpenAI's Sam Altman, has confirmed that Microsoft is taking all your data to train its AI and they don't give a shit what you think about it. (The Register)
That's the future Suleyman anticipates. "The economics of information are about to radically change because we can reduce the cost of production of knowledge to zero marginal cost," he said.
Looks like it's take off and nuke the entire site from orbit o'clock.

Not Tech News

Watched the latest Ghostbusters movie - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - last night. It's not bad. The 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a loving return to the original, introducing a new generation of characters (two new generations in fact) nearly forty years later. Like Ghostbusters II, though, Frozen Empire runs into the problem that once you've gotten your group of misfits together and saved the world, what do you do next?

Well, you save the world again, of course, but it's never the same the second time around.

Still pretty good.

We don't mention the 2016 abomination.
A-chan is leaving Hololive after seven years. (Dexerto)

She had taken a leave of absence due to an illness in the family, but was unable to return to work as originally planned.

Hololive was originally a tech company selling a new face-tracking phone app for vtubers - originally this required much more complicated and expensive equipment - until two girls fresh out of high school approached them at a trade show and suggested that what the company needed was its own vtuber to show off the software's capabilities.

One of the pair is now Tokino Sora, the first member of Hololive, with nearly 1.2 million YouTube subscribers. The other is known simply as A-chan, and is one of Hololive's most senior managers. And even as a manager she has 900,000 subscribers of her own.

Disclaimer: It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)

2 {Tears off aluminum foil sheet. Folds carefully into a hat. Places hat on head.}

I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that Fauxchi worked with China to release COVID-1984 to stop Trump. The whole Dempanic was an anti-Trump op. That was the 2020 way to stop Trump, to tank the economy. Wondering what the new 2024 version will be as the persecution trials are falling apart.

Fauxchi should be not just in prison, but on death row.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 04:16 AM (gKDq2)

3 Morning early risers if there are any other than myself.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 04:17 AM (oaGWv)

4 Morning early risers if there are any other than myself.
Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 04:17 AM (oaGWv)

Early risers? More like overnight insomniacs.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 04:18 AM (gKDq2)

5 Early risers? More like overnight insomniacs.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 04:18 AM (gKDq2)

This.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 29, 2024 04:23 AM (i24o9)

6 5 Early risers? More like overnight insomniacs.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 04:18 AM (gKDq2)

This.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 29, 2024 04:23 AM (i24o9)

Im just chillin at work...waiting till time to bolt for the exit

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 29, 2024 04:27 AM (+I6Y/)

7 Early risers? More like overnight insomniacs.
Posted by: RickZ

I stand corrected.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 04:29 AM (oaGWv)

8 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 29, 2024 04:39 AM (ejWln)

9 And overnight insomniacs.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 29, 2024 04:39 AM (ejWln)

10 Morning all!

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2024 04:40 AM (XhcFx)

11 It is not so empowered and never has been.
who is?
Congress.

Maybe time for Congress to do Congressing stuff instead of writing omnibus bills that contain so many gotchas and carveouts that everything eventually gets determined by the SC.

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2024 04:42 AM (XhcFx)

12 Heat advisory today from noon to 7p for So Il, W Ky, and SE Mo. Heat index 105-109.

May be too hot to go out on lake.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 29, 2024 04:44 AM (ejWln)

13 Early risers? More like overnight insomniacs.
Posted by: RickZ
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I stand corrected.
Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 04:29 AM (oaGWv)

You stand when you comment? Must have one of those new-fangled stand-up work stations. I sit and comment -- pantless. I'm old school that way.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 04:53 AM (gKDq2)

14 I do have blueberries and sausages

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 04:55 AM (fwDg9)

15 Mornin'

I'm at work. Shift change countdown commences!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 29, 2024 05:03 AM (jrKun)

16 Conservative law pundits are doing yeoman work on the Chevron decision. It's a beautiful thing.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:07 AM (NHMTR)

17 @charlescwcooke retweeted
Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis
17h
The Chevron doctrine distorted the constitutional separation of powers and helped create the unaccountable, bloated administrative state.

This decision is a necessary corrective to decades of wayward constitutional jurisprudence but is, by itself, not enough to restore the proper roles of the federal government’s three branches, which will require Congress to take its obligations under Article I of the Constitution more seriously by using its law-making and spending authority to rein in the federal bureaucracy.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:08 AM (NHMTR)

18 I have a dumb question about X.

When I see others' posts, they have the email without '@xxx.com' displayed. When I look at a test post, I see my email name with 'xxx.com' displayed on my profile and on the post. I can't find out if that is displayed for all to see (which I don't want), or if I only see that and others do not.

Does this make sense?

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:20 AM (gKDq2)

19 The Verge also joins in with a long and detailed article lamenting the demise of regulatory fascism vis-à-vis the tech industry. (The Verge)
This decision is arguably the largest single deregulatory action that could be taken, and as we have all observed, without regulation, tech - like any other big industry - will consolidate and exploit. The next few years, even under a pro-regulatory Democratic administration, will be a free-for-all.

Pixy: Write better laws.

Exactly. They don't see that this is a problem:

The next few years,***even under a pro-regulatory Democratic administration,*** will be a free-for-all.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:23 AM (NHMTR)

20 Early risers? More like overnight insomniacs.
Posted by: RickZ

***
Evening and morning, all your early risers, late toilers, and insomaniacals! There, RickZ, I've covered all my usual bases.

'Tis Saturday, lovely Saturday morning here. Damp and hot, of course, with a good chance of some rain, but at least it's Saturday. I'm up about an hour before the alarm. Coffee, a pipe, and plans for the morning.

Yesterday was quite a day for us all. I was actually feeling pretty good and was tempted to spend some money online, but held off. That may not last.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 05:25 AM (omVj0)

21 11 It is not so empowered and never has been.
who is?
Congress.

Maybe time for Congress to do Congressing stuff instead of writing omnibus bills that contain so many gotchas and carveouts that everything eventually gets determined by the SC.
Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2024 04:42 AM (XhcFx)

How to make that happen, though?

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:27 AM (NHMTR)

22 6am is sprint race in Austia for F-1

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 05:29 AM (fwDg9)

23
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 29, 2024 05:30 AM (tljrc)

24 2 {Tears off aluminum foil sheet. Folds carefully into a hat. Places hat on head.}

I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that Fauxchi worked with China to release COVID-1984 to stop Trump. The whole Dempanic was an anti-Trump op. That was the 2020 way to stop Trump, to tank the economy. Wondering what the new 2024 version will be as the persecution trials are falling apart.

Fauxchi should be not just in prison, but on death row.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 04:16 AM (gKDq2)

Whether your details are right or not--which we might never know--the NIH, FDA, and CDC have EARNED that distrust.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:31 AM (NHMTR)

25 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 05:32 AM (a1415)

26
How to make that happen, though?
Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:27 AM (NHMTR)

___________

And if it's too much for them, maybe, just maybe, they could devolve some of that work to lower levels of government. We will call these lower levels, for purposes of illustration only, as "states".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2024 05:34 AM (1Nxff)

27 Maybe time for Congress to do Congressing stuff instead of writing omnibus bills that contain so many gotchas and carveouts that everything eventually gets determined by the SC.
Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2024 04:42 AM (XhcFx)

Maybe doing Congressy stuff instead of running to the media and complaining about, well, everything. IMAO, the whole problem with not making laws anymore but rather relying on the bureaucratic state is the reason we no longer have a functioning Congress. Committees no longer have to sit down and hammer out the fine details of a law but rather just pass general framework/'wish it so' laws that the three letter agencies then interpret without true oversight.

Getting elected to Congress has to be the best paid do-nothing job around.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:35 AM (gKDq2)

28 "Getting elected to Congress has to be the best paid do-nothing job around."

Second best.

Posted by: Kamala at June 29, 2024 05:39 AM (a1415)

29 Whether your details are right or not--which we might never know--the NIH, FDA, and CDC have EARNED that distrust.
Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:31 AM (NHMTR)

There's more than those three letter agencies that have earned our distrust. All of them have earned our distrust, which is why the Country is in such shit.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:39 AM (gKDq2)

30 29 Whether your details are right or not--which we might never know--the NIH, FDA, and CDC have EARNED that distrust.
Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:31 AM (NHMTR)

There's more than those three letter agencies that have earned our distrust. All of them have earned our distrust, which is why the Country is in such shit.
Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:39 AM (gKDq2)

Yep, those three were just off the top of my head.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:40 AM (NHMTR)

31 The Killer Kittens From Outer Space, Dagny and Stirling, are eyeing me with that "Well, hooman? Where is food?" look. Stirling in fact contributed to my early rising by bolting around the bedroom and leaping over me as if I were a hurdle on an Olympic track. So, here I am.

Breakfast, shave and shower; wash and gas up car; bank, pharmacy, and Miss Linda wants to go to World Market. I have a couple of things to buy there as well.

I'm off next Wed. and Fri. as well as for 7/4. I'm thinking about a trip to one or more of the gun stores and ranges in the area: rent a revolver, say, of the kind I think I'd like, and blow the hell out of some paper targets. Much as I would love to have a Single Action Army clone in .45 LC, I'm thinking a .38/.357 double action would be a much better overall idea. It's been years since I fired a gun, so I need to get back in shape for it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 05:41 AM (omVj0)

32 LOL ace from a post yesterday:

>>>Macron is a fine example of a leftwing technocratic shitlib.

Poetry.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:41 AM (NHMTR)

33 While it is probably not a huge number, there have got to be some folks who now have a slight suspicion that our media betters just may not have been honest with us concerning Biden's cognitive abilities up till now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 05:41 AM (a1415)

34 "Getting elected to Congress has to be the best paid do-nothing job around."

Second best.
Posted by: Kamala at June 29, 2024 05:39 AM (a1415)

Kamalalaladingdong did do something. She was just a bit too early to have an OnlyFans account.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:41 AM (gKDq2)

35 Bless these litigants who brought the Chevron case to the Supreme Court:

Roman Martinez, representing one group of fishing vessels, and Paul Clement, representing a second group, both argued that the Chevron deference was “not consistent with the rule of law.”

https://tinyurl.com/42534aaw

(RedState)

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:46 AM (NHMTR)

36 I support net neutrality. ISPs and cable companies amply demonstrated themselves to be hideously untrustworthy.

Net neutrality has always been a very thinly disguised stalking horse for “the DNC gains the force of law to determine who’s allowed to publish on the Internet”. Most US tech commies will openly admit it if you ask. It has nothing to do with ISP behavior in actual intended practice.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 05:50 AM (FD5dr)

37 So Eric Swan has slipped his mortal coil.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 05:50 AM (a1415)

38 As to the debate commentariat: I am sickened by the likening of the debate to a sporting event, with all the buzz words that go with that. Very few have taken, IMO, the correct tone which is this is damn frightening and not a laughing matter. We literally do not know who is running the Country, and I don't think Dr. Dr. Jill is pulling an Edith Wilson. If the shit were suddenly to hit the fans and N.K./Iran/China/Russia decided to launch a few nukes in our direction, who will be making the call with regard to the nuclear launch codes?

I'm also of the opinion that every Cabinet Secretary should be impeached for dereliction of Constitutional duties. They have an obligation to put Country over party when it comes to an incapacitated president, and they've known for years that Pedo Joe is on the fast track to dementia. But they won't do that because they are looking for their next sweet government gig and invoking the 25th Amendment guarantees they will never work in D.C. again.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:51 AM (gKDq2)

39 Gavin Newsom is the Pierre Trudeau of California: Same shitty, stupid grin, same condescending tone, same tyrannical policies.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:54 AM (gKDq2)

40 We literally do not know who is running the Country, and I don't think Dr. Dr. Jill is pulling an Edith Wilson.

It’s the same person or people that were pulling Obama’s strings, and W’s, and Clinton’s, and GHWB’s. The “intelligence community” as a conduit from WEF.

Only the profoundly dishonest are just now realizing this because of Biden’s debate performance. The Horde Mind has known since at least 2010.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 05:56 AM (FD5dr)

41 Is it true that Cabinet Secretaries have "Constitutional" duties? I thought the Cabinet was an invention of G. Washington, a group of advisors, and that a cabinet of any kind is not even mentioned in the Constitution.

Of course they have duties to the country, and they've been ignoring, shirking, or subverting those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)

42 I do not watch talking head shows, nor any late night shows.
And while I recognize the name Greg Gutfeld, to the best of my memory, I have never watched his show.

So it was interesting that this clip popped up on Youtube.

Get past the dumb opening jokes, and he starts to say exactly what we are saying about the media and the Left.

https://tinyurl.com/3ut4x3kj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:04 AM (a1415)

43 Also, with respect to who’s running the country, the clip from “Network” that circulated on one of the threads last night explains it alarmingly well. And that was back in the 70s.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 06:05 AM (FD5dr)

44 Good morning to one and all. Just for giggles I went back and looked at some other clips of the Bribe'em family. jillz care and concern for the husk is a well played farce. Out of sight she dumps him on the detail.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2024 06:05 AM (uRE6U)

45 Mrs VIA was telling me after work yesterday that the topic of the debates are up there with both staff and customers.

Culminating with about seven folks standing in a group, some of them strangers....

And praying for our nation.

Small town America....it's real.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:08 AM (a1415)

46 I am finding it funny a week ago Raggity Karine told us the freeze videos of Sundowner were fake and now everyone knows they are real and there is a serious problem

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 06:09 AM (fwDg9)

47 Nad a pt who bragged that his son is the CFO of a big media company

Turns out that big media company specifically caters to brown people. All of its content is sans white people.

CFO is white.

Their corporate leadership page has all of the company leaders. Only those who are brown. The white CFO is not even mentioned.

How much of a cuck do you have to be to out up with that shit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 29, 2024 06:10 AM (rsqyi)

48 VIA, indeed it is. Hope you and the lovely Mrs. VIA are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2024 06:10 AM (uRE6U)

49 Small town America....it's real.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024

***
I hope to join the club of small town -- or at least, smallER town -- dwellers soon!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 06:10 AM (omVj0)

50 Wolfus Aurelius,

Invoking the 25th Amendment doesn't start with Congress. It stars with the V.P. and a majority of the Cabinet who then refer the matter to Congress for a final vote. There's more with regard to a President fighting it, but that's the gist. The 25th Amendment starts with the Executive Branch.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:10 AM (gKDq2)

51 A Christian man from India reflects upon God's grace:

https://tinyurl.com/3tuavmbw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 06:12 AM (3iPt7)

52 Ben Had!

Yes, other than trying to avoid the hottest parts of the day we are doing well.

Lots on our plate in Sept-Oct, but still desiring to come out your way again if possible.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:13 AM (a1415)

53 But bits are not equal.

If I buy a phone for police and emergency I expect those bits to get priority over youtube and porn.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:13 AM (ENQN6)

54 I still have the blank thread up from yesterday, probably should ditch it before it gets me in trouble

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 06:14 AM (fwDg9)

55 25th

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:15 AM (ENQN6)

56 46 I am finding it funny a week ago Raggity Karine told us the freeze videos of Sundowner were fake and now everyone knows they are real and there is a serious problem
Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 06:09 AM (fwDg9)

Be sure your sins will find you out.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:16 AM (ENQN6)

57 75 degrees in the back yard.

Dew point is 74.7 degrees with 99% Relative Humidity.

That's moist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:16 AM (a1415)

58 Jocelyn Nungaray’s mom ‘shocked’ by call from Trump minutes before he took debate stage:

‘Thinking about her’

I hope an Aryan Brotherhood dude decide he needs to add 2 teardrops to his face.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:18 AM (ENQN6)

59 Their corporate leadership page has all of the company leaders. Only those who are brown. The white CFO is not even mentioned.

How much of a cuck do you have to be to out up with that shit.

Part of the loss of real religion in the West has been its replacement with the state religion where brown people, white women, and alphabet people are all gods who walk among us. It’s telling that cuckery itself is race neutral but the documentaries about it (IYKWIMAITYD) all fit a specific racial template and were reported to be highly popular in DC and northern VA by Pronhub.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 06:19 AM (FD5dr)

60 Cow wants a hug and gets one:

https://tinyurl.com/2fdwedze

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 06:20 AM (3iPt7)

61 Still trying to figure out exactly what lies Trump told at the debate.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:20 AM (a1415)

62 I don't blame the palace guard for pretending their puppet is better than it is.

I blame the credulous idiots who not only genuinely believed such nonsense, but gleefully harangued any one else who didn't, all in the name of their little fascist death cult.

It's one thing to be like "yeah, yeah, i know, he's a spud, but there's other things to consider. He's not Trump, he's not really in charge, etc etc". It's quite another to say "he is a paragon of fitness and acuity and anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2024 06:21 AM (rT03i)

63 Martin Mull RIP

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:22 AM (ENQN6)

64 If I buy a phone for police and emergency I expect those bits to get priority over youtube and porn.

The beauty of packet switching (the fundamental basis of the Internet, as opposed to the old AT&T model where you switch a dedicated circuit to complete a phone call) is that given enough capacity you don’t need priority or dedicated circuits, everything always goes through anyway. And that’s even actually how things normally work now.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 06:23 AM (FD5dr)

65 "The 25th Amendment starts with the Executive Branch."

So...sort of like law-making?

: Dumb shit that progressives say.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:23 AM (a1415)

66 Invoking the 25th Amendment doesn't start with Congress. It stars with the V.P. and a majority of the Cabinet who then refer the matter to Congress for a final vote. There's more with regard to a President fighting it, but that's the gist. The 25th Amendment starts with the Executive Branch.
Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024

***
So the 25th specifically refers to the Cabinet?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 06:23 AM (omVj0)

67 Single woman who fostered 40 children during her life retires;

https://tinyurl.com/5n8pdjea

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 06:23 AM (3iPt7)

68 Out of sight she dumps him on the detail.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2024 06:05 AM (uRE6U)

Heh. Hilarious.

Is she dumping him on them, or are they shoving her out so they don't have to be the ones seen doing it?

Either way, what a palaver.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2024 06:24 AM (rT03i)

69 A Haitian migrant accused of raping a 15-year-old at a Massachusetts shelter has been released on bail — despite a request from federal immigration officials to keep him in jail.

Cory Alvarez, who had been held without bail since his March arrest, was freed on a measly $500 bail on Tuesday after the Plymouth County Superior Court ignored a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep the suspect in custody, the Boston Herald reported.

EVIL

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:24 AM (ENQN6)

70 55>> the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments

The WH website lists 15 executive departments: the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General.

The probability that 8 of those and Heels up Harris would get together to consider, let alone put forward a petition to Schumer and Johnson that the Rezident Retard is unfit to discharge anything other than a bowel movement is fairly low.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 29, 2024 06:24 AM (YRsIm)

71 Looking like a GOP admin on the horizon so the Uniparty had to neuter the exec powers to keep Trump from being the Orange Dictator Hitler. Stupid of course. I WISH Trump had the knowledge and wherewithall to push the limits of his power, like every dem prez has done since FDR, but we'll need to wait on that is history is our guide.

Posted by: Son of Dad at June 29, 2024 06:26 AM (8JB5s)

72 "Is she dumping him on them, or are they shoving her out so they don't have to be the ones seen doing it? "

Somewhere, there is a person receiving a government paycheck for maintaining Joe Biden's personal hygiene...down there.

And it goes far beyond s big ole goop of Lume.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:26 AM (a1415)

73 . . . majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024

***
Okay, so the Cabinet is not referred to by that name, but as "principal officers of the executive departments." Same thing, though. I just didn't think the term "Cabinet" is used in the Constitution.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 06:29 AM (omVj0)

74 53 But bits are not equal.

If I buy a phone for police and emergency I expect those bits to get priority over youtube and porn.

Posted by: rhennigantx

That used to be the case; an emergency call from a cell phone would go through even if the network was full. Some unfortunate person would get dropped.

I'm not sure if it still works that way. Given the increase in network speeds it probably doesn't need to.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 29, 2024 06:29 AM (BLOW1)

75 Morning peeps

Muggy here in Bourbon Country this morning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 29, 2024 06:30 AM (Q4IgG)

76 "The 25th Amendment starts with the Executive Branch."

So...sort of like law-making?

: Dumb shit that progressives say.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:23 AM (a1415)

Well, the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch. Congress, the Legislative Branch, has no say in passing laws. By Congress not voting on laws, they can never be held to account by their constituents and their votes. That's how we end up with Congresscritters serving multiple decades in Congress, sometimes dying in office.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:30 AM (gKDq2)

77 Weather says getting more humid today here

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 06:32 AM (fwDg9)

78 It has been an immense temptation to Congress to delegate their law making authority to the bureaucracies, because then they don't have to have any real record on anything.

It is good to strip that away, if only a little.

Posted by: Voyager at June 29, 2024 06:32 AM (nmL8W)

79 {60} Cow wants a hug and gets one:

https://tinyurl.com/2fdwedze

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 06:20 AM (3iPt7)

Couldn't get a video to play at that site, so I went looking on YouTube and found these two for fellow Morons to enjoy:

https://youtu.be/_Vi_Wv62uik
and
https://youtu.be/YW4RqGhmaXg

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 29, 2024 06:36 AM (O7YUW)

80
Martin Mull RIP

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:22 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 29, 2024 06:37 AM (tljrc)

81 It has been an immense temptation to Congress to delegate their law making authority to the bureaucracies, because then they don't have to have any real record on anything.

It is good to strip that away, if only a little.
Posted by: Voyager at June 29, 2024 06:32 AM (nmL8W)

Our delicately balanced as-written Constitution has been out of whack since the 17th Amendment was passed.

But, like you say, overturning Chevron is a small step in the right direction.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:37 AM (gKDq2)

82 Boeing space capsule - when DEI could really mean DIE.

Feel sorry for the two-legged guinea pigs stranded in orbit. Has NASA's boffins calculated what the two marooned people are costing the ISS in supplies?

"Houston to Stony, we need you thin your oxygen supply."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2024 06:38 AM (1ANV/)

83 "Martin Mull RIP

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:22 AM "

Am I the only one who remembers Eric Swan?

You guys really are only 29 years old, aren't you?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:38 AM (a1415)

84 "and in this case, it is the increasingly conservative judiciary.
Sounds lovely, but no."

I've watched Senate hearings for Biden's nominations for Federal judges. Activists, left-wingers, incompetents given LIFETIME appointments as Federal judges.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 29, 2024 06:38 AM (60qwA)

85 What a morning, started with spilled coffee.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 06:40 AM (o2ZRX)

86 What a morning, started with spilled coffee.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 06:40 AM (o2ZRX)

That's gotta be worth at least a couple of Hail Marys and at least one Novena in contrition.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:42 AM (gKDq2)

87 I watched about hour and half of debate, should go finish it.
I am sure early Sundowner had written papers he was shuffling through, don't think seen Trump touch one. Read someone suspects he had notes on questions at hand

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 06:43 AM (fwDg9)

88 "Martin Mull RIP

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:22 AM "

Am I the only one who remembers Eric Swan?

You guys really are only 29 years old, aren't you?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024

***
I remember Martin Mull from the Mary Hartman parody soap opera back in the '70s, and his turn as Charlie's drug-addled pharmacist in Two and a Half Men.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 06:43 AM (omVj0)

89 62 I don't blame the palace guard for pretending their puppet is better than it is.

I blame the credulous idiots who not only genuinely believed such nonsense, but gleefully harangued any one else who didn't, all in the name of their little fascist death cult.

It's one thing to be like "yeah, yeah, i know, he's a spud, but there's other things to consider. He's not Trump, he's not really in charge, etc etc". It's quite another to say "he is a paragon of fitness and acuity and anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2024 06:21 AM (rT03i)

That's rant-worthy, Warai-otoko! Kudos.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 06:44 AM (NHMTR)

90 Getting light out there. Time for me to venture out into the nasty wet heat, wash the car, and gas up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2024 06:44 AM (omVj0)

91 I never understood the 'lifetime' appointment of SCOTUS judges. Where does that stem from?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 29, 2024 06:45 AM (YRsIm)

92 But the reason for net neutrality was that Comcast wanted to prioritize their streaming service over Netflix. Netflix doesn't do infrastructure. They ride on everyone elses.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2024 06:46 AM (xjTDL)

93 I've watched Senate hearings for Biden's nominations for Federal judges. Activists, left-wingers, incompetents given LIFETIME appointments as Federal judges.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 29, 2024 06:38 AM (60qwA)

Watching some of those confirmation hearings on Forbes' YouTube channel (no commercials) can be so infuriating. The candidates lie to the Senate, get confirmed, then throw us in jail for lying in their courts.

Double standards are just so much fun to navigate, like snorkeling through white water rapids.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:46 AM (gKDq2)

94
Fauxchi should be not just in prison, but on death row.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 04:16 AM (gKDq2)

I figure that the Left has had so much practical in election "fortification" in 2020 and 2022 that this year is not in doubt.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 29, 2024 06:46 AM (pCAai)

95 "Where does that stem from?"

A time when life expectancy was much shorter.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

96 @2

>>I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that Fauxchi worked with China to release COVID-1984 to stop Trump.

This was apparent by... ohhh.. February of 2020.

So let me get this straight, after weathering the Russia Hoax, Mueller Investigation and Impeachment and what looked like smooth sailing to re-election, a once in a 150 year global pandemic is loosed upon the world and somehow Donald Trump is cast as the main bad actor in this global psychodrama.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2024 06:47 AM (XV/Pl)

97 Good morning morons

Local TV news is all about the Ninth Circuit reversal on homelessness. The City has been deflecting blame for homelessness on to the courts for years. Now they do not have that fig leaf to hide behind.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2024 06:47 AM (RIvkX)

98 97 Good morning morons

Local TV news is all about the Ninth Circuit reversal on homelessness. The City has been deflecting blame for homelessness on to the courts for years. Now they do not have that fig leaf to hide behind.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2024 06:47 AM (RIvkX)

Yay!

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 06:49 AM (NHMTR)

99 Our legislative branch has pretty much off-loaded their basic functions to unelected staffers and lobbyists. More often than not, when asked about a specific piece of legislation even the alleged sponsor(s) can't articulate what's in it or what it's supposed to do.

And a lot of the legislation today is rehashing something that already exists. Because congress has to be seen as "doing something."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 29, 2024 06:50 AM (Q4IgG)

100 Garland

The vast majority of the more than 1,400 defendants charged for their illegal actions on January 6 will not be affected by this decision. There are no cases in which the Department charged a January 6 defendant only with the offense at issue in Fischer. For the cases affected by today’s decision, the Department will take appropriate steps to comply with the Court’s ruling.

Now do the St George Riots.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:50 AM (ENQN6)

101 62:It's one thing to be like "yeah, yeah, i know, he's a spud, but there's other things to consider. He's not Trump, he's not really in charge, etc etc". It's quite another to say "he is a paragon of fitness and acuity and anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist".
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Don't forget Biden "is a fundamentally decent man". I've actually heard this. It's amazing. I should ask for evidence, but I'd probably be burned at the stake for heresy.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2024 06:51 AM (sAmhv)

102 Everyone who ever said shit to anyone complaining of the Deep State can shove this decision right round them.

"There's no deep state, magat! This is just a hypothetical ruling! Also we're all gonna die now because of this ruling. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2024 06:51 AM (rT03i)

103 Philip Hamburger should be on the Supreme Court, but he is not.

So, instead, he brought the case that finally overruled Chevron and now he is forming a group to enforce the new ruling. He anticipates years of litigation against the swamp, who will be determined to ignore the new rule.

https://shorturl.at/vemIT

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2024 06:52 AM (r1mKA)

104 86 What a morning, started with spilled coffee.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 06:40 AM (o2ZRX)

That's gotta be worth at least a couple of Hail Marys and at least one Novena in contrition.
Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:42 AM (gKDq2
I said…….words…….words I regret. The coffee cup leaked out and soaked all my work stuff, in my backpack, nothing irreplaceable fortunately., nothing carried on my person.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 06:52 AM (h2Vvx)

105 Don't forget Biden "is a fundamentally decent man". I've actually heard this. It's amazing. I should ask for evidence, but I'd probably be burned at the stake for heresy.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2024 06:51 AM (sAmhv)

Maybe they were saying "fundiment" and not "fundament"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2024 06:52 AM (rT03i)

106 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

Heh! Never mind. I found it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 29, 2024 06:53 AM (YRsIm)

107 But the reason for net neutrality was that Comcast wanted to prioritize their streaming service over Netflix. Netflix doesn't do infrastructure. They ride on everyone elses.

Not exactly. Comcast wanted Netflix to pay for their outsized impact on Comcast's networking infrastructure, which is shortsighted but fairly defensible if you know how American MBAs think.

In the presence of actual competition for ISPs (which exists everywhere that the government hasn't prevented it) nobody would subscribe to an ISP that didn't give you reliable Netflix and the problem solves itself.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 06:53 AM (3ha+O)

108
Fauxchi should be not just in prison, but on death row.

Getting a daily injection of his vaccine until his heart stops or the turbo cancer kicks in.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 06:54 AM (RKVpM)

109 Getting a daily injection of his vaccine until his heart stops or the turbo cancer kicks in.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 06:54 AM (RKVpM)

One word:

Sand fleas.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2024 06:54 AM (rT03i)

110 @101

>>Don't forget Biden "is a fundamentally decent man". I've actually heard this. It's amazing. I should ask for evidence, but I'd probably be burned at the stake for heresy.

Again, there is tape going back to his first run for the Senate in of him being a jerkwad to a constituent asking him a question.

There are volumes of him bloviating and being an unconscionable prick.

Couple that with his fake hair, fake teeth and POS shit dysfunctional family, he's was and always been a vicious animal and cretin.

Remember, Sally Yates said it was The Meat Puppets recommendation that they use the Logan Act to go after General Flynn.

He's an asshole, I hope he suffers and continues to suffer all of the embarrassments and travails that he deserves and lives long enough to watch, G-d Willing, Donald Trump become President again, and have to concede the election to him, and I hope Trump tells him to go f**k himself.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2024 06:56 AM (XV/Pl)

111 https://tinyurl.com/yvdkt36v
Powerlineblog.com week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 06:56 AM (fwDg9)

112 I said…….words…….words I regret. The coffee cup leaked out and soaked all my work stuff, in my backpack, nothing irreplaceable fortunately., nothing carried on my person.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 06:52 AM (h2Vvx)

Now yer gettin' into Stations of the Cross territory. Maybe even a beejer for the Bishop.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:56 AM (gKDq2)

113 My iPad 8 appears to be prejudiced against ace dot mu dot nu, because ace’s web address keeps disappearing from the “frequently visited sites” default display.

Posted by: Fenderbender at June 29, 2024 06:56 AM (ZzuGJ)

114 LGBTQ and HIV advocate for the Maryland Democrat Party busted in a sting by Rosen trying to solicit illegal acts with a supposed 14 year old via text messages.

Nuke from orbit, only way to be sure.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2024 06:57 AM (1ANV/)

115 PDT needs to change his tune.

(D) is the issue, not Uncle Joe.

Every (D) will have the same fatal policies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:58 AM (ENQN6)

116 Fauci bound, gagged, and with vocal cords cut being eaten alive by millions of sand fleas.

For the puppies sake, I spit at thee Fauci.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2024 06:59 AM (1ANV/)

117 113 My iPad 8 appears to be prejudiced against ace dot mu dot nu, because ace’s web address keeps disappearing from the “frequently visited sites” default display.
Posted by: Fenderbender at June 29, 2024 06:56 AM (ZzuGJ)

my win 10 and chrome does not remember citizensfreepress

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 06:59 AM (ENQN6)

118 Nuke from orbit, only way to be sure.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2024 06:57 AM (1NV/)

Elect him to Congress first, then nuke from orbit. This is the time collateral damage.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 07:00 AM (gKDq2)

119
Sand fleas.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2024 06:54 AM

That too. That summabitch knew that only an evil islamic country would be willing to torture dogs. He probably also knew that only the Chinese would be willing to Frankenstein a relatively benign virus from the year 2002 and turn it into a planet wide killer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:00 AM (RKVpM)

120
One federal law makes it a crime “to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law [or] . . . any law or regulation of any State or in violation of any foreign law."

That's crazy law, that you can be convicted for violating foreign laws.

-- from "You Have the Right to Remain Innocent", by law professor James Duane

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 29, 2024 07:00 AM (pCAai)

121 That used to be the case; an emergency call from a cell phone would go through even if the network was full. Some unfortunate person would get dropped.

I'm not sure if it still works that way. Given the increase in network speeds it probably doesn't need to.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 29, 2024 06:29 AM (BLOW1)

The last time emergency calls didn't go through that I remember was 9/11. And that was a combination of the local Baby Bell running out of circuits to switch and limitations on cell tower capacity in the 1G/2G era. (Also there was a major telecom hub in WTC 7, which is a large part of why it's attractive to conspiracy theorists).

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 07:02 AM (3ha+O)

122 I like Dog after eating my philosophy book

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:03 AM (fwDg9)

123 That's crazy law, that you can be convicted for violating foreign laws.

-- from "You Have the Right to Remain Innocent", by law professor James Duane
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 29, 2024 07:00 AM (pCAai)

And you can be convicted in The States for not violating foreign laws, like having sex with under aged (1

kids. England's age of consent is 16, e.g.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 07:04 AM (gKDq2)

124 tinyurl.com/9t7nyen2
20 Tweets from Bad Blue was also good

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:06 AM (fwDg9)

125 WISCONSIN — It's already too late to remove Joe Biden from the ballot.

NEVADA—After tonight, the fourth Friday in June, it will be too late to remove Joe Biden.

GEORGIA—Only a few weeks remain before it will be too late to remove Biden from the ballot.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 07:06 AM (ENQN6)

126 39 Gavin Newsom is the Pierre Trudeau of California: Same shitty, stupid grin, same condescending tone, same tyrannical policies.
Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 05:54 AM (gKDq2)

Human whale. Gov. Pritzker of Illinois, is doing his best to imitate Newsom, by rapidly raising taxes and driving people to leave the state. Like Newsom, he wants the chance to do it to all fifty states at once.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 29, 2024 07:07 AM (MIKbs)

127 Now yer gettin' into Stations of the Cross territory. Maybe even a beejer for the Bishop.
Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:56 AM (gKDq2
RickZ, I’m a Presbyterian, we don’t do those things. But…..the guys at the other place do, well maybe not the beejer. Maybe that’s one of the reasons Strickland got canned? He won’t down with the frankie games

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 07:07 AM (o2ZRX)

128 The "Network" quote explaining who's actually running things is this: https://tinyurl.com/5dw7y2wp

Strongly recommended reading, because that's almost certainly exactly how the globalists think. Not bad for a nearly 50 year old movie.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 07:07 AM (3ha+O)

129 mornin yall. Joe's most egregious lie was that no servicemen had died since he became president. How can you forget something like that?

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

130 WISCONSIN — It's already too late to remove Joe Biden from the ballot.

NEVADA—After tonight, the fourth Friday in June, it will be too late to remove Joe Biden.

GEORGIA—Only a few weeks remain before it will be too late to remove Biden from the ballot.Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 07:06 AM (ENQN6)

So they'd have to do a write-in campaign. So sad. I hope spelling counts when it comes to write-in ballots.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 07:10 AM (gKDq2)

131 "Died in action", I mean. Anyway, lefty chaos is good for the country. I'll take it.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

132 Maybe that’s one of the reasons Strickland got canned? He won’t down with the frankie games
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 07:07 AM (o2ZRX)

Same with Cardinal Vigano. He hates the Lavender Mafia in the seminaries.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 07:13 AM (gKDq2)

133 128 The "Network" quote explaining who's actually running things is this: https://tinyurl.com/5dw7y2wp

Strongly recommended reading, because that's almost certainly exactly how the globalists think. Not bad for a nearly 50 year old movie.
Posted by: Ian S

I posted that yesterday on a thread. Some of the players are different now but everything else is frighteningly spot on.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2024 07:14 AM (sAmhv)

134 "How can you forget something like that?"

Something like what?

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 29, 2024 07:15 AM (a1415)

135 @129

>>mornin yall. Joe's most egregious lie was that no servicemen had died since he became president. How can you forget something like that?

The RNC needs to run a commercial of him at the return ceremony of 13 Marines he got killed and him checking his watch.

I f**king hate that motherf**ker with the heat of a thousand suns, he is manifestly unfit to be President and he is an evil and vicious animal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2024 07:15 AM (XV/Pl)

136 mornin yall. Joe's most egregious lie was that no servicemen had died since he became president. How can you forget something like that?
Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

Joe doesn't remember what he said at the debate on Thursday. And you want him to remember something from years ago? What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 07:15 AM (gKDq2)

137 Don't forget Biden "is a fundamentally decent man". I've actually heard this. It's amazing. I should ask for evidence, but I'd probably be burned at the stake for heresy.

That's like the common assertion that Biden is a "foreign policy genius" in spite of 50 years of proof to the contrary. Ask someone asserting it for a cite and they'll brain-lock like Joe at a debate.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 07:17 AM (3ha+O)

138 "Network" Paddy Chayefski. Great screenwriter.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 07:18 AM (VuZH8)

139 Saw at Federalist lies Sundowner told at debate, ghink he used everyone of his often used lies like Truml said good Nazis, and Beau died in Iraq

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:18 AM (fwDg9)

140 The (R)s could have a field day come November but alas I think many are really not a for something but against something.

I find it strange that is is not a major party today that is for Americans as a whole. At least a third of (R) is for CoC and globalism. Another third are just anti-(D) and not really for anyone. So that leave about a third that really want the average Joe or Jose to have a better life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 07:20 AM (ENQN6)

141 That's like the common assertion that Biden is a "foreign policy genius" in spite of 50 years of proof to the contrary. Ask someone asserting it for a cite and they'll brain-lock like Joe at a debate.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 07:17 AM (3ha+O)

No, no, no. They'll scream and call you a MAGAT, yell 'Fuck You!', then storm off.

It's in Roberts' Rules of Order for Debates.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 07:20 AM (gKDq2)

142 The way that Joe was going on about it, you would be led to believe that Joe Biden would be firmly against politicians committing felonies.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:22 AM (a1415)

143 Joe has told his Big Lies so many times he believes them. It's his reality. In the world he lives in, he is the greatest president ever. He will go to the grave thinking that. Whatever. The sooner the better.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

144 Joe has told his Big Lies so many times he believes them. It's his reality. In the world he lives in, he is the greatest president ever. He will go to the grave thinking that. Whatever. The sooner the better.
Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

Wonder how long it'd take the grieving widow to hook up with Hunter?

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 07:25 AM (gKDq2)

145 "Wonder how long it'd take the grieving widow to hook up with Hunter?"

Again?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:26 AM (a1415)

146 Wonder how long it'd take the grieving widow to hook up with Hunter?

Why assume she hasn't yet?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 07:26 AM (3ha+O)

147 Elton John looks like an old dyke. He should be on The View.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

148
"He answered all the questions!" Jill explained as she wiped the drool from his face and swatted flies away from his open mouth.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:27 AM (RKVpM)

149 Small town America....it's real.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 06:08 AM (a1415)

You’re in Summerville, right?
Not trying to be pedantic here, but is a population of 50,000 really a small town?
That’s not even counting the unincorporated areas around the town, the Samgaree-Nexton area across I-26 would add another 35,000 people, at least.

I would have called Summerville a small town in the 80s, when I grew up there, and the population was barely hitting 20,000 but now, no.

Flowerrtown in the Pines still has a small town “feel” until you try to drive on 17-A during the day, at which point the traffic reminds you that this place is packed to the rim.

Living over on Goose Creek now, which ain’t much different.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2024 07:28 AM (6ydKt)

150 ""He answered all the questions!" Jill explained as she wiped the drool from his face and swatted flies away from his open mouth."

Can somebody produce an image of Joe Biden wearing an 'I Pooped Today!' tee-shirt?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:29 AM (a1415)

151 Also took note pack of bacon was all but $10

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:29 AM (fwDg9)

152 Elton John looks like an old dyke. He should be on The View.

Hence the descriptor "looks like an old English lesbian", which applies to pretty near every over-60 UK-born male. The major exception I can think of is Ringo.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 07:29 AM (3ha+O)

153 143 Joe has told his Big Lies so many times he believes them. It's his reality. In the world he lives in, he is the greatest president ever. He will go to the grave thinking that. Whatever. The sooner the better.
Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

From what I saw the other night, joe will go to his grave thinking, "Mulberries! Underpants! You don't have to tell me, Jack! I was on that commando raid to take out Captain Stubing."

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 29, 2024 07:30 AM (pIfcn)

154 And please excuse the spelling errors and typos.
Typing on an iPad is the worst.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2024 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

155 Today's stupid letter to the editor in the "NY Post":

Despite a disappointing debate performance, accentuated by a pronounced feeble manner and weak voice, Biden still demonstrated experience, integrity and a grasp of issues that affect all Americans.

Donald Trump was undeniably more vigorous, but vitality alone is no reassurance when it comes to protecting the sovereignty of our nation.

Trump’s widely known character flaws usually detract attention from his ignorance about matters crucial to effective governance.

Not this time.

His nescience was on full display.

Voters must decide if they want an ill-informed president who favors dismantling the Constitution or one hell-bent on doing whatever is necessary to protect it.

Jim Paladino

Tampa, Fla.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 07:31 AM (oUxZc)

156 I mentioned this previously, but it occurs to me that the movers and shakers behind *biden have invested a lot of time, energy and money in propping him up. It's allowed them to shape government to their whims. Which was probably the plan anyway, if you subscribe to the notion there are "other forces" at work to transform America.

You don't give that up without a fight.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 29, 2024 07:32 AM (Q4IgG)

157 And what the heck is "Nescience"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 07:32 AM (oUxZc)

158 Jim Paladino of Tampa Florida, You Big Dummy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2024 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

159 Yes; Whenever I think of Joe Biden I think of someone who is "hell bent" on protecting the Constitution/ s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 07:34 AM (oUxZc)

160 what the ever loving hell is he doing?

https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/
1806737770070626640

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 07:34 AM (ENQN6)

161
Also took note pack of bacon was all but $10

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:29 AM

Get thee to Aldi's and start saving some serious coin. I've heard rumor one is coming to Phoenixville near where Tarrytown used to be.

We shop at the one near the turnpike off ramps in Devault area. Two full shopping carts for two hundred bucks. Wife shops the inner aisles, I shop the outside of the store.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM (RKVpM)

162 Disclaimer: It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM
--
The only problem with nuking (Earth) from orbit is that you have nowhere to go after that!

Posted by: Ciampino - Lost religion - REM at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM (qfLjt)

163 November could be American Civil War II.
I actually think this awakening Sundowner is done mentally will help the true vote. So the fraud will be epic

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM (fwDg9)

164 155: You will see this exact letter, in newspapers, throughout the country, till November. The 'letter writer' will be different, but the letter the same.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM (sAmhv)

165 "You’re in Summerville, right?
Not trying to be pedantic here, but is a population of 50,000 really a small town?"

If your town square has a band stand, and a freight train that goes right behind it, it's a small town.

Although my memory is distorted by the Summerville Speedway, Dorchester Drag Strip, being a junior Sailor in the 79's-80's where those old guys in their thirties lived in Summerville with their wives and kids, and a time before Nexton.

Yeh, the town is blowing out at the seams, but the downtown area still has that small town feel.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM (a1415)

166 Voters must decide if they want an ill-informed president who favors dismantling the Constitution or one hell-bent on doing whatever is necessary to protect it.
---------

I actually agree with the lower-case moron on this but I think we have different ideas on who's who.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2024 07:37 AM (bS+DD)

167 @163

>>So the fraud will be epic

Put it this way, if they are able to push that demented retard over the finish line, then the country is finished, and it's breaking apart will begin on or about January 20th 2025.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2024 07:38 AM (XV/Pl)

168 Life Long Republican Jim Paladino from Tampa, Fla?

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

169
You will see this exact letter, in newspapers, throughout the country, till November. The 'letter writer' will be different, but the letter the same.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM

Yup. Sometimes they use the same name again and again, but with different locations.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:39 AM (RKVpM)

170 Didn't we at one time have a President who felt that the Constitution frustratingly constrained his ability to act and lead?

Trying to remember who that was.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:39 AM (a1415)

171
nescience /nĕsh′əns, nĕsh′ē-əns, nēsh′-, nĕs′ē-əns, nē′sē-/
noun

Absence of knowledge or awareness; ignorance. Agnosticism. Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:40 AM (RKVpM)

172 > what the ever loving hell is he doing?
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Watching the president campaign?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 29, 2024 07:40 AM (Q4IgG)

173 Write better laws.

Only after an imperial fuckton of laws are revoked first. Streamline this and move on with life.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 29, 2024 07:40 AM (BS0fy)

174 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM (sAmhv)

I wouldn't be surprised.

There is one guy (not this one) who is a leftist from PA who writes regularly to the Post and has for about 30 years and I goggled, and found that the letters do get sent to other papers in the country.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 07:40 AM (oUxZc)

175 Net neutrality is just a dumb idea,

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 29, 2024 07:41 AM (8sMut)

176 If your town square has a band stand, and a freight train that goes right behind it, it's a small town.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:35 AM (a1415)
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That describes my town perfectly. About 20K full-time residents (plus a transient college student population).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 29, 2024 07:41 AM (BpYfr)

177 The Dems abortion commercials are really offensive. The one I keep seeing is a young woman who breaks down crying and the overlay is "Trump Did This".

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

178
@109, I suggest the traditional "healing power of and". just sayin ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 07:42 AM (tQtDb)

179 Later daywalkers

Off to bed I go.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2024 07:44 AM (sAmhv)

180 However, the rest of the letters which I read (Haven't finished yet because I gave the paper to spouse) were all words to the effect, "Yikes; Joe is a disaster!" I did find it interesting that the "NY Post headline for today had a picture of eyes popping Joe Biden and about Democrats being panicked, while the "NY Daily News" (more liberal paper) had Joe in what was his most recent campaign stop and the headline "Smiling through the pain." To use an old expression, "Gag me with a spoon!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 07:44 AM (oUxZc)

181 "I actually agree with the lower-case moron on this but I think we have different ideas on who's who.
Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2024 07:37 AM (bS+DD)"

I had the same thought reading an obama quote on the main-page's sidebar, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 07:45 AM (tQtDb)

182 "That describes my town perfectly. About 20K full-time residents (plus a transient college student population)."

To be fair, SpeakingOf is correct about just how large and overgrown the area has become.

I was shocked by how the entire area had exploded in size during the years we were gone from here.

Progress has not been kind to the Tri-County area.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:46 AM (a1415)

183 Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:40 AM (RKVpM)

Thanks. I have a pretty good vocabulary, but didn't know that word. It sounds kind of pretentious, but then the guy may believe that Trump told people to ingest bleach as a remedy for Covid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 07:47 AM (oUxZc)

184
181 UNBAN REDACTED

Posted by: REDACTED at June 29, 2024 07:45 AM (us2H3)

Was there, now gone. Maybe get a new IP address or put some web address in the "URL:" field.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:48 AM (RKVpM)

185 I had the same thought reading an obama quote on the main-page's sidebar, lol
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 07:45 AM (tQtDb)
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So did I! I even commented on it yesterday. We're two Morons sharing one brain, lol.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2024 07:48 AM (bS+DD)

186 Oh, and g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 07:48 AM (tQtDb)

187 Oh gosh, was REDACTED banned? I wondered why I haven't seen him.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2024 07:49 AM (bS+DD)

188 *fistbump!*
*high five!*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 07:51 AM (tQtDb)

189 Didn't we have a President that decided to Jedi Mind Trick away billions of dollars in student loan debt?

And then the Supreme Court ruled that what he was doing was not supported by the Constitution.

And he did it anyway?

Anyone remember who that was?

Anyone...

Bueller?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:51 AM (a1415)

190 I’d say the perfect feel of smallness anywhere in the Charleston area vanished around the early 2000s. Before then traffic was tolerable everywhere until rush hour.

Now the entire Tri-County is filled to capacity from Hollywood/Ravenel to Daniel Island/Cainhoy & Awendaw up to Moncks Corner, to Jedburg and back over past Summerville to Knightsville and back down to the HWY 61 area they’ve been building like crazy in.

Notice I didn’t even have to mention Mt. Pleasant, which has grown so out of control with transplanted Yankees that the people there are begging the town to just stop issuing building permits until the infrastructure can catch up to the population influx.

Maybe it’s just me, but until you head out 40 miles in any direction from Charleston you’re in the city.

Summerville had that small feel until the late-90s. Then they started turning farmers fields into shopping centers along 17-A and suddenly you’re a prettier, newer, version of North Charleston.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2024 07:52 AM (6ydKt)

191 Article II Section 2 refers to some of the President's duties, and alludes to what we now call the Cabinet

he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices,

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2024 07:53 AM (/7KEl)

192 32 LOL ace from a post yesterday:

>>>Macron is a fine example of a leftwing technocratic shitlib.

Poetry.

Posted by: m at June 29, 2024 05:41 AM (NHMTR)
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Now imagine marrying those fine words with the other fine descriptors for Fani and her boyfriend - what a sentence!

Posted by: Ciampino - Bananas and coffee at June 29, 2024 07:53 AM (qfLjt)

193
Didn't we have a President that decided to Jedi Mind Trick away billions of dollars in student loan debt?

One of Obama's first acts in office was putting the student loan program under the government control, setting up the ability at a later date to 'forgive' the loans to buy votes.

I've also read that in the last days of Obama's term he permitted gain-of-function research in this country. Setting up the events of 2020 which set up the ballot stuffing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 07:56 AM (RKVpM)

194 Joe Biden is trying to reassure Democrats who are starting to think he is too old and incompetent.

"My word as a Biden I can still do this job."

Stirring.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2024 07:56 AM (/kB4N)

195 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 29, 2024 07:56 AM (dg+HA)

196 Small towns...

Mine has about 7K. No traffic lights. Train tracks go through downtown. Out in front of city hall is a gazebo for events and an awning for the farmer's market.

I'm technically "county" but use the town as part of our address.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 29, 2024 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

197 Cruel ace is best ace.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 07:59 AM (o2ZRX)

198 "Maybe it’s just me, but until you head out 40 miles in any direction from Charleston you’re in the city. "

When it was time to finally come back, I explained to our Relatives Estate Agent my theory on location.

Imagine if you would a ring worm infection.
Inside the ring is the scarred tissue changed permanently by the infection.
The ring is where the infection is actively changing the tissue permanently.

Outside the ring is the unscarred skin tissue, but the infection area is actively expanding toward it.

He scratched his head, thought about it and finally said....'you're not wrong'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 07:59 AM (a1415)

199 Life Long Republican Jim Paladino from Tampa, Fla?
Posted by: fd

"Hello Rush. Life long conservative and long time listener here but........"

What did Rush used to call them? Slips my mind right now.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:00 AM (oaGWv)

200 Relatives=Real

F'n auto-cucumber...
it mocks me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:01 AM (a1415)

201 Long time commentor...
First time reader..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:02 AM (a1415)

202 50 Wolfus Aurelius,

Invoking the 25th Amendment doesn't start with Congress. It stars with the V.P. and a majority of the Cabinet who then refer the matter to Congress for a final vote. There's more with regard to a President fighting it, but that's the gist. The 25th Amendment starts with the Executive Branch.

Posted by: RickZ at June 29, 2024 06:10 AM (gKDq2)
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But the Cabinet is not in the Constitution?
Was it created prior to the 25 Am?

Posted by: Ciampino - Bananas & coffee at June 29, 2024 08:02 AM (qfLjt)

203 What did Rush used to call them? Slips my mind right now.

Seminar callers.

Because liberal organizations had actual seminars training people how to Moby conservative talk radio.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 29, 2024 08:02 AM (3ha+O)

204 Seminar callers.

Because liberal organizations had actual seminars training people how to Moby conservative talk radio.
Posted by: Ian S.

Yep. That's it. Thanks.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:03 AM (oaGWv)

205 Article at American Thinker saying Bsrky and couple other power brokers agave met with or soon will Sundowner to talk him into pulling out

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 08:03 AM (fwDg9)

206
Pull the string
and I'll wink at you
I'm your puppet

I'll do funny things
if you want me to
I'm your puppet

Posted by: Joe Biteum at June 29, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

207 Our town is a very very very weird town
with pride freaks in the square,
with blue and pink hairsytyles
why can’t we get them all a date for trial?

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 08:04 AM (o2ZRX)

208
I'm your walking, talking, living, loving puppet
I'm hanging on a string I'll do anything
Love you and kiss ya and love ya
Pick you up and put you down

Posted by: Joe Biteum at June 29, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

209 My small town has about 3300 people. We do have a couple of traffic lights though.

After 6 months living here, I can't stand getting on the interstate or even heading into/through the nearby college town, which has transmogrified almost beyond recognition since I was an undergrad there *mumble* years ago.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 29, 2024 08:05 AM (iZbyp)

210 yeah autocorrect is cruel

it will give you a word, but not always the word you want

you must proofread

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2024 08:05 AM (/7KEl)

211 "Article at American Thinker saying Bsrky and couple other power brokers agave met with or soon will Sundowner to talk him into pulling out"

Nope.

Obama has circled the wagons around his puppet.

Word has already gone out.

These aren't the Droids you're looking for.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:06 AM (a1415)

212 it will give you a word, but not always the word you want

you must proofread
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Dear Autocucumber,
It's not "duck." It's *never* "duck."
Sincerely,
SiD

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 29, 2024 08:07 AM (iZbyp)

213 I think it is now very apparent Obamaworld has been calling the shots, if he says "Go" Joe will go.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2024 08:07 AM (RIvkX)

214 "you must proofread"

That might be an 'Old dog, new trick' kind of thing with me.

But, you're not wrong.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:08 AM (a1415)

215 Zero is trying to hold on to his fourth term to continue with the fundamental transformation of America. The fatal flaw in his plan seems to be JRB.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

216 196 Small towns...

Mine has about 7K. No traffic lights. Train tracks go through downtown. Out in front of city hall is a gazebo for events and an awning for the farmer's market.

I'm technically "county" but use the town as part of our address.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 29, 2024 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)
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I was in Nashville IL (it's on I-64 going west) and was asking for directions to Sparta. I was told to take a right at the traffic light so I asked which one and the answer "There's only one" was amusing. Love those really small towns.

Posted by: Ciampino - City has a different meaning her vs Europe at June 29, 2024 08:08 AM (qfLjt)

217 213 I think it is now very apparent Obamaworld has been calling the shots, if he says "Go" Joe will go.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Poor Dr. Jill. Maybe she'll have to change Pres. Poopy Pants' diapers herself now.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:09 AM (oaGWv)

218 on debate night, a lot of people 'just found out' that Joe is kind of f***ed up

now those same people will 'find out' that obama has been the man behind the curtain all along

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2024 08:09 AM (/7KEl)

219 Obama could tolerate Bidens massive corruption, could tolerate his perversity, could tolerate his dementia, but cannot tolerate his inability to get re-elected and keep power.

Thats how the left rolls.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 29, 2024 08:10 AM (c7eMl)

220 Doctor John Campbell on Dementia. Very good video. Link goes to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/yy3h9t8j

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 29, 2024 08:10 AM (iODuv)

221 He scratched his head, thought about it and finally said....'you're not wrong'.

-VIA

You’re not.
Summerville is right on that edge now.
If you want any peace and quiet in the future you’re gonna have to move out past Ridgeville or Holly Hill, and even that’s not a guarantee now that they’ve built the Volvo plant so far up I-26.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2024 08:11 AM (6ydKt)

222
The post-debate party for Joe someone said 'was like a birthday party for a retard'.

All it needed was a cake with the candles that always re-ignite.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 08:13 AM (RKVpM)

223
Crop report: First ear of corn has appeared. Plenty of cucumbers and zucchini on the way. First tomato has appeared, and all tomato plants have flowers. Lima beans looking good. Second crop of lettuce and spinach under way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 08:15 AM (RKVpM)

224 Of course, I'm just a simple librarian and know nothing of such things, but I don't think FJB is going anywhere. If they can't pull off another steal (convincingly or otherwise), the Deep State and BLM/Antifa and the millions of illegals welcomed in the last 3.5 years are ready to resist OrangeManBad and cause mayhem. Plus, they can blame all the shit that's about to hit the fan on him.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 29, 2024 08:16 AM (iZbyp)

225 "If you want any peace and quiet in the future you’re gonna have to move out past Ridgeville or Holly Hill,"

We just ate in Ridgeville the other night, and came back via 27 over to Dorchester Rd.

The new developments are everywhere.

But....the area become Home in my heart over 40 years ago. So, here we are.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:20 AM (a1415)

226 > Poor Dr. Jill. Maybe she'll have to change Pres. Poopy Pants' diapers herself now.
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In recent videos, right after the "debate" she appears to be campaigning for (either) him or herself. I think she fears giving up the trappings of power. They have more than enough money and staff even if they're ousted from the White House to take care of the dementia patient.

But she's not willing to give that up... the power. I bet she's behind a lot of the turmoil at 1600 Penn Ave.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 29, 2024 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

227 Lots of green peppers, no cucumbers but have 1 tomato starting.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 08:21 AM (fwDg9)

228 1100 people here. It's not a small town like Waldo, which has 30 people. It's nust big enough to support stores and the small clinic/hospital. And there's a law office so I don't have to drive to the "big city" that I hate

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2024 08:22 AM (xjTDL)

229 "First tomato has appeared, and all tomato plants have flowers."

Our first round of tomato plants have already given up their bounty, and died.

And for the first time, I am going to try for a second crop in the same year.

Back in the day, the islands were known for some of the best tomatoes anywhere. Now there are townhomes and House-Farms on the land.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:22 AM (a1415)

230 > 1100 people here. It's not a small town like Waldo, which has 30 people.
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where's Waldo?

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2024 08:25 AM (/7KEl)

231
And for the first time, I am going to try for a second crop in the same year.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:22 AM

Hell yeah, I'd go for it. I get tomatoes into early November here in the SE corner of PA. Almost five more months.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 08:28 AM (RKVpM)

232 I only eat tomatoes when we are in Sonoma and buy them from the farmer

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2024 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

233 where's Waldo?
Posted by: Don Black
+++
Out near Carmen San Diego.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 29, 2024 08:30 AM (Lo97M)

234 "Hell yeah, I'd go for it. "

If anything, I'm worried about the heat this time of year. We'll see what happens. I might have to put up some partial shading to keep the direct noon sun from beating them into the ground.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:31 AM (a1415)

235 211 "Article at American Thinker saying Bsrky and couple other power brokers agave met with or soon will Sundowner to talk him into pulling out"

Nope.

Obama has circled the wagons around his puppet.

This was on X yesterday morning, which was when the meeting between Joe and Jill Biden, and Obama, and Ron Klain was held to discusss "Biden's future." Right at the start, Jill Biden (who is the only one making decisions for Joe) said he would never drop out of the race, and then it was reported that Kamala was also pitching a fit at anyone suggesting that she not be the nominee if Joe dropped out.

a few hours later the announcement came from Obama that there was to be No More Talk among the Party Faithful about replacing Joe. I believe they ran into the buzz saw of harsh reality - first, there's no way to get Joe to drop out or do anything unless Jill says he can; also, there's no way to get Kamala out of the way (in spite of all of the online fantasies about doing so). And if they're gonna have to run Kamala, they might as well run Joe, same chances.

Hence the order to the party - forget what you saw and heard the other night, and never mention it again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:32 AM (S6gqv)

236
I told my wife one of her cucumber plants had a cuke ready for picking. She picked it, made a salad and ate the whole thing. We grow the ugliest cukes from 'heritage' seeds. Dark green and brown, like a bad bruise. But she claims they're the best she's ever had.

Cukes make me burp. I don't like to burp.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 29, 2024 08:33 AM (RKVpM)

237 It's a Tech Thread

It's a Food Thread

It's a Gardening Thread.

All we need now is some maple syrup for on the French Toast.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:33 AM (a1415)

238 Hence the order to the party - forget what you saw and heard the other night, and never mention it again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:32 AM (S6gqv)
====

"We have always been at war with Eurasia!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2024 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

239 "Hence the order to the party - forget what you saw and heard the other night, and never mention it again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:32 AM (S6gqv)
====

"We have always been at war with Eurasia!"

Hump?

What hump?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:35 AM (a1415)

240 I believe the Democrat Party leadership has just collectively made a decision to give this campaign a Thelma and Louise ending, with Joe and Kamala in the car laughing and cackling as it shoots off the clifff at 90 mph. Nobody is going to try and stop it anymore.

and this is incredibly dangerous - it means now they all know that their only chance of staying in power is to carry out some assassinations, or start a major war which they can use to cancel elections and declare martial law and emergency government. Probably all of the above.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:36 AM (S6gqv)

241 Good morning everyone.

BOOBS!!!

And now a boob thread also.

My community has one traffic light. I have become so traffic jam adverse that I will drive around it so that I don't have to wait for the two cars ahead of me to pass through.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2024 08:37 AM (WXNFJ)

242 88
Martin Mull was Colonel Mustard in "Clue".

Posted by: Ciampino - City has a different meaning her vs Europe! at June 29, 2024 08:38 AM (qfLjt)

243 Coffee's on!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2024 08:40 AM (WXNFJ)

244 Waldo Kansas. Just up the road apiece.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2024 08:42 AM (xjTDL)

245
coffee

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2024 08:42 AM (ENQN6)

246 I always liked the movie FM, even if the only really good thing about it was the soundtrack.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:43 AM (S6gqv)

247 239 "Hence the order to the party - forget what you saw and heard the other night, and never mention it again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:32 AM (S6gqv)
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"We have always been at war with Eurasia!"

Hump?

What hump?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2024 08:35 AM (a1415
It’s not my minkey.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 08:44 AM (o2ZRX)

248 246 I always liked the movie FM, even if the only really good thing about it was the soundtrack.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:43 AM (S6gqv
Turn that jungle music down, just until we’re out of town.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 08:45 AM (o2ZRX)

249 82 Boeing space capsule - when DEI could really mean DIE.

Feel sorry for the two-legged guinea pigs stranded in orbit. Has NASA's boffins calculated what the two marooned people are costing the ISS in supplies?

"Houston to Stony, we need you thin your oxygen supply."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2024 06:38 AM (1ANV/)
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".... and no sex!"
In the previous thread Publius mentioned 20 seconds sex in the vomit comet -- plenty of time for most guys right?
(runs and hides).

Posted by: Ciampino - who sneezed? at June 29, 2024 08:46 AM (qfLjt)

250 Youre a fucking moron. Youre like a little girl that showed a tiny interest in Tech and your parents forced you into it. Now you call yourself an expert while you screaming about 4 keyboard keys. Idiots like you are the problem with Tech and offer no solutions to fix it. Net Neutrality is one of the dumbest ideas ever invented by the Socialist Left. Of course you indoctrinated millennials are all for it, lol.

Posted by: Fisht at June 29, 2024 09:39 AM (BHEHK)

251
Net neutrality: provider sells me X mb/s of networking for a agreeable price, and then leaves me to use that as I see fit minus certain naughtiness as outlined in the terms of service.

FCC: as if we'll let that stand.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at June 29, 2024 10:32 AM (LdpYW)

252 "The agency just doesn't know when or if they will be able to return home."

Oh, they'll be returning home all right. After all, the ISS is scheduled to de-orbit in a few years. Whether they can be returned home *safely*, of course, is another matter. Personally, I think that Elon eventually will send up a Dragon to retrieve them - the value of the publicity alone would pay for the trip.

Posted by: Nemo at June 29, 2024 11:36 AM (S6ArX)

253 Big Big so many implications.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at June 29, 2024 11:37 AM (ytSiK)

254 WTF - It's Saturday and the world is STILL on Fire.

Posted by: Ray Mota at June 29, 2024 11:55 AM (5wLuE)

255 BUH BYE CHEVRON DOCTRINE.
I love the leftists' freakout over this decision. They are crying, in essence, that taking back the $5 that someone stole from you is .... wait for it... stealing. Can't make this shit up.

Vox crying:
https://tinyurl.com/mueccf7m

Posted by: Poster at June 29, 2024 02:57 PM (KotAR)

256 Net neutrality under any federal regulation will always end up with central control of access, and likely subject to a social credit score.

The only thing the feds should be doing is promiting competition and limiting monopolies.

Posted by: jj at June 29, 2024 09:13 PM (CsZgs)

257 >The 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife was

...The Force Awakens of the Ghostbusters franchise. A bunch of scenes from the previous films poured into a blender, loaded into a shotgun and fired at the screen, with a side of pandering to an audience completely at odds with the original (kids who grew up on the cartoon and their mothers). Nobody wanted to watch trendy-autistic teen girl save the day. Nobody wanted to watch Paul Rudd get sidelined into the Louis Tully role. Nobody wanted to watch a heroic single mom (paging Bill Burr) fuss about how hard it is raising her kids.

It wasn't good, and the fact that the bar is now "not *completely* shit" is one of the reasons franchises are failing.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at June 30, 2024 02:20 AM (0Go0g)

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