California Defaults on Federal Covid Loan to Pay for Illegals;<br>State Shellacks Business Owners With 50% Increase in Payroll Taxes (for Years and Years) To Pay the Loan Back<br>Plus: The Rise of the ASE (Anti-Search Engine)

California Defaults on Federal Covid Loan to Pay for Illegals;
State Shellacks Business Owners With 50% Increase in Payroll Taxes (for Years and Years) To Pay the Loan Back
Plus: The Rise of the ASE (Anti-Search Engine)

Unrelated: The sentencing hearing in the Alvin Bragg persecution has been cancelled, and the judge has given leave for Trump to file a motion to dismiss charges. They can't jail a man that the public has chosen to be their president -- it's a rule.

I don't know if dismissing charges is the right move. If they're dismissed with prejudice, that means they're dismissed forever. If they're dismissed without prejudice, that allows Bragg to re-file, that means Bragg (if he doesn't get booted out of office) can re-file them when Trump is out of office.

Obviously the corrupt regime operative Merchan will attempt to dismiss without prejudice.

I want them to appeal and have the court obliterate the charges. Maybe Trump can still do that if the charges are dismissed with leave to re-file.

I dunno -- lawyers, once a verdict is reached, if the charges are dismissed without prejudice, can you still appeal the charges? Or will an appeals court say the appeal is moot?

Or does double jeopardy attach after any dismissal? I'm out of my depth!

Back to the actual headline story:

Kicking out the illegals will destroy our economy.

Who will pick our crops?

Now they're jacking up payroll taxes on businesses by 50%, next year it will be 100%, the year after that, 150%. And on and on, until the loan is repaid.

Chef Andrew Gruel
@ChefGruel
We just ran payroll. The payroll taxes were 2K higher than calculated. We called the payroll company. They explained (in summary) that California has a budget shortfall, and the federal government wants money back that it lent California for UI that it "lost." They are making up for it by having business owners pay it. Keep in mind that it was around 10% of our total payroll. When people say, "Why isn't California business-friendly?" remember this.

Everything for illegal aliens, nothing for citizens except burdens and victimization.

The Hoover Institute wrote about this last year -- but it's only this year that business owners are getting hit with the shock of tens of thousands of additional taxes owed.

Little did California businesses know that they were cosigners on the state's nearly $20 billion loan from the federal government that was used to cover California's unemployment fund shortfall during the COVID pandemic. This ugly truth became apparent when the state recently decided to stop making payments on this loan. When a state defaults on its federal unemployment insurance loan, federal law requires that the state's businesses repay the loan.
What makes this default even more egregious is that the stone-age-era IT system of the state's Employment and Development Department (EDD) opened the floodgates to bad actors, permitting more than $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic. Those receiving fraudulent payments include incarcerated felons, a person impersonating a one-year-old, and a person impersonating Senator Dianne Feinstein. A single residential address received checks for around 60 separate individuals filing from that address.
This could have been avoided with a competent EDD. But this department's performance has been deficient for decades, and California businesses, many of which are struggling, are left paying for blatant and costly mistakes that should and could have been solved years ago.
With an unpaid federal unemployment insurance loan, the federal government raises the unemployment insurance tax immediately by 0.3 percent on each business within the state, and an additional 0.3 percent each year after that until the loan is fully repaid. The normal federal unemployment insurance tax rate is 0.6 percent per year, which means that California businesses will be paying several multiples of the normal federal tax rate before the loan is retired.
The state's Legislative Analyst Office predicts that repaying the loan through higher taxes on businesses is not expected until 2029 or 2030 and note that retiring the debt could take longer, depending on the state's economic performance. A recession would almost certainly delay repayment, and the odds of a recession in the next seven years are significant.
The state's decision to default is inexcusable. California recorded a nearly $100 billion state budget surplus last year, thanks to the state's top earners, that could have been used to repay the debt. The state received $27 billion in federal COVID aid it could have used to repay the debt. The state's record $300 billion--plus 2022--23 budget could have retired the debt. Even after defaulting, the state could have resumed its payments this year and offset the tax burden on businesses, as it planned to do in its 2023--24 budget. But as the state's finances continue to decline, the state has walked back making payments or offsetting higher business federal unemployment insurance taxes.
Twenty-two states received federal unemployment loans during the pandemic, and California is just one of four states that have not yet repaid the debt. As of the end of last year, California owed nearly two-thirds of the outstanding $27.5 billion federal unemployment insurance debt among these four states. The other states with remaining unpaid debt are New York, Illinois, and Connecticut, all of which are high-tax and high-spending states that are all losing population to other states. I will let you draw your own inferences about why people are leaving California and these other three states and moving to states with lower taxes, fewer regulations, more economic freedom, and lower living costs.

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How did state government respond to this fiasco? In July 2020, Governor Newsom appointed a "strike force" to evaluate the EDD. By September 2020, Beverly Hills police arrested individuals who were buying expensive clothing, jewelry, and cars using EDD debit cards, which electronically provide unemployment benefits. Those arrested showed the police how easy it was to obtain these cards. Rapper Nuke Bizzle penned a song about the ease of committing EDD fraud that goes like this: "I done got rich off EDD. . . . I just might swipe me a lump sum. I'm in Dior havin' money fun. . . . Ten cards, I'm swiping 10K a day. Counting up bills like a CPA."
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Even after all this, the EDD can't identify all the fraud that occurred. The EDD estimated about $20 billion in fraud, but Lexis-Nexis, an independent data and analytics firm, reports the fraud is approximately $32.6 billion.

In addition to just giving away billions in fraudulent payments -- which California doesn't seem to mind, because the state is pro-criminal -- they also spent huge sums on paying for free health care for illegal aliens.

For some definitions of "free." Business owners do not consider this "free."

More than 700,000 immigrants living illegally in California will gain access to free health care starting Monday under one of the state's most ambitious coverage expansions in a decade.
It's an effort that will eventually cost the state about $3.1 billion per year and inches California closer to Democrats' goal of providing universal health care to its roughly 39 million residents.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers agreed in 2022 to provide health care access to all low-income adults regardless of their immigration status through the state's Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal.
California is the most populous state to guarantee such coverage, though Oregon began doing so in July.

Newsom looked at the huge federal loan intended to help citizens of California stay alive while in forced unemployment due to state-mandated lockdowns, and said, say, I'll just embezzle this money for my illegal alien voter friends!

Gov. Gavin Newsom said today the state is partnering with philanthropic groups to provide disaster relief to undocumented immigrants affected by the coronavirus who have been left out of other pandemic assistance programs.
Ten percent of California's workforce is undocumented, Newsom said, and they are not eligible for unemployment insurance or aid through the federal stimulus package. The new $125 million Disaster Relief Fund will include $75 million in taxpayer funds and $50 million in philanthropic contributions to help undocumented workers affected by coronavirus secure a one-time payment of up to $500 per person or $1,000 per household.
"We feel a deep sense of gratitude for people who are in fear of deportation but are still addressing the essential needs of tens of millions of Californians," Newsom said, pointing out that many work in essential sectors like health care, agriculture, food, manufacturing and construction.
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The state also recently allowed for "presumptive eligibility" in its Medi-Cal program, allowing anyone who is uninsured, including undocumented people, to be tested and treated for COVID-19. The eligibility also means they can be treated in a health center or community clinic instead of a hospital emergency room, Newsom said.

A friend summarizes:

Instead of using the Fed loan for what it was for (unemployment benefits during COVID), Newsom instead misappropriated it to cover fully cover illegal immigrant health care. And now that they have to pay it back, California is bilking business owners with massive increases in payroll taxes

BTW, it's hard to google this connection, because the Google algorithm hides every article talking about the expenses caused by illegal immigration, and instead spams dozens of propaganda articles posted by the state of California telling you how much money illegal aliens pay in taxes. Try it yourself. Google has decided you're not allowed to know about the costs of illegal immigration, only the sweet, sweet benefits. We're all living on easy street now, cuz!

I had to ask my friend to check his X account to find this article, because Google is now an Anti-Search Engine. It blocks you from seeing the articles you want, and instead pushes articles Google demands you accept as "truth."

Posted by: Ace at 02:10 PM

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 22, 2024 02:10 PM (rbKZ6)

2 Afternoon.
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Gotta say I'm disappointed in ace. He mentions Megyn Kelly but doesn't include the viral clip of her going around on twitter.
Posted by: Buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:09 PM (rHANr)

Is she topless?

Tell me she's topless.

Lie to me if you have to!

Posted by: Robert at November 22, 2024 02:11 PM (VhJAm)

3 people, people, no need to worry about the state of Cali or its business owners, haven't you heard??

Gavin Newsome loves ALL the people

"whether yellow black or white they are precious in his sight
Newsome loves the little children of the world"

Posted by: kallisto heard he even loves him some Trumpsters at November 22, 2024 02:12 PM (dCxaZ)

4 Ladies of the View… doing stoop labor… works for me.

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:12 PM (PCK5/)

5 California is such a beautiful state. Too bad it's full of Californians.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:12 PM (v6JzV)

6 California screwing over productive citizens to pay for non-productive residents. How shocking.

Posted by: huerfano at November 22, 2024 02:13 PM (DKIGo)

7 yeah, that's going to get ugly when pdjt takes their highway funding as payment for the defaulted loans...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 22, 2024 02:13 PM (v6XNT)

8 2 Afternoon.
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Gotta say I'm disappointed in ace. He mentions Megyn Kelly but doesn't include the viral clip of her going around on twitter.
Posted by: Buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:09 PM (rHANr)

Is she topless?

Tell me she's topless.

Lie to me if you have to!
Posted by: Robert at November 22, 2024 02:11 PM (VhJAm)

Hmmm… now my interest is slightly piqued.

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:13 PM (PCK5/)

9 I had to ask my friend to check his X account to find this article, because Google is now an Anti-Search Engine.

I've been bitching about this in comments since Covid. You'd read an article with something that had obvious counter-narrative implications, and before long it would be struck from the record. The Internet is now virtually all pr0n and propaganda.

Totally useless for normal, well adjusted people.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 22, 2024 02:13 PM (xzkgE)

10 "the federal government wants money back that it lent California for UI that it "lost." They are making up for it by having business owners pay it."

When I first saw this story, I figured it for a hoax.
This is outright THEFT by govt.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at November 22, 2024 02:13 PM (5G6LU)

11 Go long on UHaul.

Posted by: Duke Lowell, MAGA Viking and Dragon Believer at November 22, 2024 02:14 PM (2UnvF)

12 They are making up for it by having business owners pay it.

which of course gets passed on to the consumer

Posted by: kallisto reminding you that it's not the money, it's the Gavin Newsome Love Bomb that counts at November 22, 2024 02:14 PM (dCxaZ)

13 The last time I was in Cali was 10 or so years ago… not a pleasant experience then, can’t imagine what it must be like now…

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:14 PM (PCK5/)

14 Unpossible!!!

I have been assured that the "blue" states are subsidizing the "red" states.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (KcwUg)

15
The Southern US Border wall needs to be put just north of Sacramento.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (+oR7L)

16 Apparently this is a federal law. If a state doesn't pay this particular type of loan back, the feds can go after the state's businesses to collect the debt.

Not to say Newsom isn't at fault. He is. He probably thinks this is a nifty workaround to his funding problem.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (Odg76)

17 Google and Bing are now Hide Engines (tm)

If you use the AI option they become a Confabulation Engine (patent pending)

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (D7oie)

18 Megyn reproduced the Mika pose on Joe's desk they did in one of their ads.

Posted by: steevy at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (YbbtK)

19 I had to ask my friend to check his X account to find this article, because Google is now an Anti-Search Engine.

I've been bitching about this in comments since Covid. You'd read an article with something that had obvious counter-narrative implications, and before long it would be struck from the record. The Internet is now virtually all pr0n and propaganda.

Totally useless for normal, well adjusted people.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

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Even normal non-tech people have begun to figure out that you have to add "reddit" to the end of your query in google in an attempt to find people actually discussing what you're trying to search for.

Try it. The top, or almost top, autofill will have reddit at the end.

That's from normal people.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (U0Dlz)

20 Megan Kelly is riffing on a glamour pose done by Mika a few years ago, and sorry to say, she's wearing sweatpants. But it's hilarious to listen to her call Mika a stupid piece of shit while she's doing it! (and that's exactly what she says)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:16 PM (wyMQY)

21 >>>When I first saw this story, I figured it for a hoax.
This is outright THEFT by govt.

Wait until you hear about property taxes and home equity theft!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:16 PM (FC8SQ)

22 I am starting to begin to entertain and contemplate that just possibly Megyn has become an asset and not merely an opportunist…

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:17 PM (PCK5/)

23 The case is mooted when dismissed without prejudice. The issues are no longer judiciable. I am 99 percent certain here although there might be some weird state quirk.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at November 22, 2024 02:17 PM (CaELB)

24 The biggest problem with lawfare is that you have to follow their rules, if you want to fight lawfare.

I would guess most of the people who voted AGAINST Trump had forgotten about that silly conviction, and if you asked them what should happen, they would have assumed winning the election automatically made all of that go away.

But we're going to drag this out. Because we let lawyers rule us.

Shakespeare was right.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2024 02:18 PM (dGCAG)

25 12 They are making up for it by having business owners pay it.

which of course gets passed on to the consumer
Posted by: kallisto reminding you that it's not the money

And / or results in layoffs to reduce payroll expenses.

Posted by: Piper at November 22, 2024 02:18 PM (p4NUW)

26 the difference between the Federal Republic of Germany and the state of California:

When asked to approve of embezzlement of Covid funds, the German Minister of finance refused, and withdrew from the ruling coalition, causing the government to fall.

In CA Newsome just got a "sure boss"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2024 02:18 PM (D7oie)

27 > Even normal non-tech people have begun to figure out that you have to add "reddit" to the end of your query in google in an attempt to find people actually discussing what you're trying to search for.

Which is remarkable because Reddit is full of bot posts and insane leftist mods who remove any posts that don't fit their politics. Yet they're STILL one of the better places to find information.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 22, 2024 02:18 PM (Odg76)

28
And we know what happens when a business' expenses go up. They raise prices because otherwise they go broke.

But only people who buy things from a business in California are affected.

Posted by: comradearthur at November 22, 2024 02:18 PM (ePC6P)

29 Not Barry Manilow! He... he wrote the songs that made the whole world sing!

Actually on reflection that makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Fun fact!!! That song was a big hit for Manilow but he didn't write it! It was written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys.
Rumor has it Manilow was involved in the creation of a few commercial jingles, possibly the McDonald's You Deserve a Break today. Which the world was singing for years.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 22, 2024 02:18 PM (4XwPj)

30 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (lbAks)

31 Just think, Gavin can do for you what he has done for California!

*slicks back hair like a douchebag*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (RIvkX)

32 I think Trump's charges should be vacated with prejudice, but I don't think it matters. Once the Presidential Immunity issue is clear, I don't think there's any way some prosecutor could or would try those ridiculous charges over again in 2029.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (wyMQY)

33 There was a rumor once when Manilow was a thing that he was gay….

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (PCK5/)

34 Kicking out the illegals will destroy our economy.

Who will pick our crops?

Americans on the dole.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (ATiYV)

35 DuckDuckGo, Qwant, and Startpage all provide valid results on California's situation with COVID fraud and healthcare payments to illegals.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (onR1R)

36 When a state defaults on its federal unemployment insurance loan, federal law requires that the state's businesses repay the loan.
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Nice scam that the feds are running there.

Posted by: Methos at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (Dnobf)

37 Re thread downstairs: Scott Presler is a beast!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:20 PM (RIvkX)

38
Cenk Uygur
@cenkuygur

Allan Lichtman was comically wrong about Biden and Kamala. And most importantly, his so-called keys are heavily weighted toward picking an establishment Democrat. So, MSM will use him next time to push their corporate candidate. But for now, it's time to let it go with Lichtman.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 22, 2024 02:20 PM (TGPs7)

39 Rumor has it Manilow was involved in the creation of a few commercial jingles, possibly the McDonald's You Deserve a Break today. Which the world was singing for years.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

I thought he did "Hold the pickles/hold the lettuce."

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:20 PM (v6JzV)

40 "Who will pick our crops?"

Robots. More every year.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (5G6LU)

41 It's a write off, Jerry. They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (Aqu9a)

42 My first post after graduate school was testing a new state IT system that was being developed in Sacramento.

Yeah, it didn't work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (RIvkX)

43 >>> 30 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (lbAks)

Some other Morons have suggested that maybe it's a good sign in that the leftards who would otherwise have tried to fck up normies' Thanksgiving will now gather with each other and have to eat their own cooking.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (KcwUg)

44 38
Cenk Uygur
@cenkuygur

Allan Lichtman was comically wrong about Biden and Kamala. And most importantly, his so-called keys are heavily weighted toward picking an establishment Democrat. So, MSM will use him next time to push their corporate candidate. But for now, it's time to let it go with Lichtman.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 22, 2024 02:20 PM (TGPs7)

The X vie of Lichtman losing his shit with Uygur is priceless, worth a watch..

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (PCK5/)

45 Google and Bing are now Hide Engines (tm)

If you use the AI option they become a Confabulation Engine (patent pending)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (D7oie)

There image searches kind of work, if you look for certain things - like outlines of Labrador retrievers to use when making gifts.

Is there a quality replacement for their web maps? I'm mostly looking for road and satellite views. I used to use Rand McNally and DeLorme products, on CD/DVD, but I don't see them updated much anymore.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 22, 2024 02:22 PM (VNX3d)

46 34 Kicking out the illegals will destroy our economy.

Who will pick our crops?

Americans on the dole.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (ATiYV)

Who picked our crops before 2020? If they can get rid of the arrivals over the last 4 years, I'll be extremely happy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:22 PM (wyMQY)

47 Does anyone know how to do math anymore?

We are paying 20 million Americans to watch television or play video games, while at the same time paying for airfare to bring in millions of illegals. We provide taxpayer paid housing for the illegals, taxpayer paid health care at emergency rooms for illegals, and $2,000 per month per illegal in food stamps, so they can work for sub-minimum wages.

And somehow, this is cheaper than putting the Americans to work. And... somehow, nobody can figure out why inflation is so high, crime is so high, and housing has skyrocketed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 02:22 PM (lTGtQ)

48 Why is anyone still in California? Nice weather isn't everything. People should just write off what they have to lose. No chance for many years for sanity to be restored.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 22, 2024 02:22 PM (1bNHn)

49 1987.
That's when we figured out CA was screwed and left.
1987 was a very good year.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 22, 2024 02:23 PM (BKgM5)

50 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (KcwUg)

Some other morons are smart fellers

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:23 PM (lbAks)

51 Even normal non-tech people have begun to figure out that you have to add "reddit" to the end of your query in google in an attempt to find people actually discussing what you're trying to search for.

Try it. The top, or almost top, autofill will have reddit at the end.

That's from normal people.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (U0Dlz)
*****************************************

This merely indicates that many people attempting to search for results on Reddit don't understand how to use the modifier site:reddit.com in their search prompts.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at November 22, 2024 02:23 PM (onR1R)

52 The Southern US Border wall needs to be put just north of Sacramento.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 22, 2024 02:15 PM (+oR7L)

Then where do we put the western wall? I'm tempted to put Phoenix and Tucson and Vegas on THAT side of the wall, but then I want to keep Death Valley and Yosemite on this side.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

53 Hard to believe that California gave us Reagan.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:23 PM (v6JzV)

54 Rather than dismissal, i hope they pursue finalizing the verdict without sentence in order to appeal based on Hick testimony. Trump will win that and the convictions can be vacated or overturned. It would end this nonsense forever.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (7PziG)

55
Howie Carr
@HowieCarrShow
Need some help on my Sun. column.

Pre-Thanksgiving, I want to thank Trump for what he's done for all of us. I'm soliciting suggestions, either below,or by texting the show (text HOWIE to 617-213-1066) or by calling into show during 4 o'clock hour (844-500-4242).

A few of my first thoughts:

Thank you, Mr. President, for restoring the rule of law, as opposed to lawfare.

Thanks for decimating state-run media.

Thanks, in advance, for ending the EV mandates.

Thanks for turning the hunters into the hunted at the DOJ.

Thanks for putting "Investigation" back into the FBI & getting rid of "Intimidation."

Thanks, in advance, for defunding all "public" broadcasting.

And so on.... All nominations appreciated. Talk to you at 3.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (TGPs7)

56 Somehow I suspect the millions of illegals from 2020 on are not picking our crops.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (lbAks)

57 "Hard to believe that California gave us Reagan."

He's from IL.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (5G6LU)

58 I use Quant and it seems to not censor or hide search results to any degree… not US based.

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (PCK5/)

59 Rumor has it Manilow was involved in the creation of a few commercial jingles, possibly the McDonald's You Deserve a Break today. Which the world was singing for years.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

Yes, it is true. He told the story at a concert. (it was a date, not my choice).

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (lTGtQ)

60 Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:12 PM (v6JzV)

I hope you had a good birthday. You and JJ.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (RIvkX)

61 "Hard to believe that California gave us Reagan."

He's from IL.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

He was born in IL, but elected pres. from California.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (v6JzV)

62 >The X vie of Lichtman losing his shit with Uygur is priceless, worth a watch..
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (PCK5/)

It's difficult to believe Chunk is the making the sane argument. It's even more difficult agreeing with him.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (Qwzry)

63 Lichtman did a great big flounce off of the X platform, stayed away one day, found out Bluesky is a pathetic mess, and came back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (wyMQY)

64 If they're dismissed without prejudice, that allows Bragg to re-file, that means Bragg (if he doesn't get booted out of office) can re-file them when Trump is out of office.

---------------

What happens if Fat "Twinkies" Alvin happens to be busy being alternately waterboarded and imprisoned in solitary hell within the bowels of the Garland Archipelago in 2029?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (kEjR6)

65 Yes, it is true. He told the story at a concert. (it was a date, not my choice).
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (lTGtQ)

Did you at least score.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:26 PM (lbAks)

66 "I want them to appeal and have the court obliterate the charges. Maybe Trump can still do that if the charges are dismissed with leave to re-file."

Sorry, but no. Trump should take the dismissal however he can. Obviously with prejudice is better, but if not then take the win and move on. It's highly unlikely the charges will ever be refiled, especially if Bragg (or whoever) has to wait four years.

Lawyers will always take a dismissal if they can. Always. It's always better to grab the bird in the hand. Forcing an appeal is always risky. Trump could actually lose with the wrong appellate judges. If he takes the dismissal, he gets an immediate win, and freedom from this persecution for at least four years. Take it and run. He can always appeal later on if they refile.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 22, 2024 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

67 62 >The X vie of Lichtman losing his shit with Uygur is priceless, worth a watch..
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (PCK5/)

It's difficult to believe Chunk is the making the sane argument. It's even more difficult agreeing with him.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (Qwzry)

Same here! And today, Cenk is right again - Lichtman is too pathetic and too minor a character to waste any more time on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:26 PM (wyMQY)

68 I hope you had a good birthday. You and JJ.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Thank you. I did. I usually take a day trip to a historical site on my birthday, so this year I went to Charles Town, West Virginia, and saw the courtroom where the trial of John Brown took place, and also saw the place where he was hanged.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (v6JzV)

69 Did you at least score.

Posted by: ...

When they have to wake you up at the end of the concert, it doesn't make you more appealing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (lTGtQ)

70 I use Quant and it seems to not censor or hide search results to any degree… not US based.
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (PCK5/)

Qwant if anyone is trying to find it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (ExV1e)

71 Don Jr let Elon know MSNBC is up for sale. Elon's response echoes what he said before buying Twitter.

http://tiny.cc/wbrwzz

Posted by: bonhomme at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (Odg76)

72 >63 Lichtman did a great big flounce off of the X platform, stayed away one day, found out Bluesky is a pathetic mess, and came back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (wyMQY)

Bluesky is full of trannies and pedos...but I repeat myself.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (Qwzry)

73 30 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM

LOL! I was just having lunch with my sister-in-law and she mentioned that my nephew is going to a Friendsgiving dinner. But it seems to be the same thing that we used to call an Orphan Thanksgiving when I was younger and living in DC. All the people who couldn't go home for the holiday would get together for a potluck celebration. In that context, I don't take offense to the term.

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (rbKZ6)

74 When Lichtnan left X , he has since returned, someone responded "don't go , people will stop making fun of you in a year or so"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (kx/V9)

75 "Hard to believe that California gave us Reagan."
*
He's from IL.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape
*
He was born in IL, but elected pres. from California.
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024

***

And he was governor of CA before that . . a long time ago in a wormhole far, far away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (J2vNu)

76 I don't think there's any way some prosecutor could or would try those ridiculous charges over again in 2029.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (wyMQY)

I think you underestimate what they're capable of.

Trump better hope they keep the Congress in '26. and then JD or DeSanctimonious or somebody else who isn't a Gope or a D wins the White House in '28.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (dGCAG)

77 Chunk is a disingenuous cocksucker but any one of us could probably have a decent beer conversation with him (if so inclined) about the Establishment.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (lbAks)

78 Speaking of government employees . . .

CBS News@CBSNews
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed new protections for giraffes, saying their populations are threatened by poaching, habitat loss and climate change.

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This is ridiculous! There are more giraffes in America today than there were when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (L/fGl)

79 >>The X vie of Lichtman losing his shit with Uygur is priceless, worth a watch..
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (PCK5/)
===

Chunk telling Lichtman "you deserve a tall glass of Shut Up juice!" had me on the floor.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (eb5mD)

80 70 I use Quant and it seems to not censor or hide search results to any degree… not US based.
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:24 PM (PCK5/)

Qwant if anyone is trying to find it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (ExV1e)

Thanks… I do that every single time..

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (PCK5/)

81 He told the story at a concert. (it was a date, not my choice).
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I've heard that Manilow is actually great in concert.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (v6JzV)

82 Usual rule on dismissal with prejudice is if the charges went to the jury for consideration.

In some states, double jeopardy applies even charges dropped and then reinstated. See Smollett and Cosby cases but that is IL and PA (Cosby's agreement with the DA was in play in PA).

New York also has apparently a prohibition on prosecuting under State law after the matter is resolved under Federal law but also has this to say in Section 40.30
"3. Despite the occurrence of proceedings specified in subdivision one, if such proceedings are subsequently nullified by a court order which restores the action to its pre-pleading status or which directs a new trial of the same accusatory instrument, the nullified proceedings do not bar further prosecution of such offense under the same accusatory instrument.
4. Despite the occurrence of proceedings specified in subdivision one, if such proceedings are subsequently nullified by a court order which dismisses the accusatory instrument but authorizes the people to obtain a new accusatory instrument charging the same offense or an offense based upon the same conduct, the nullified proceedings do not bar further prosecution of such"

Posted by: whig at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

83 Kicking out the illegals will destroy our economy.

Who will pick our crops?

--------------

And who will do the murdering, raping, thieving, eating of dogs & cats, and parasitical-benefits sucking that Americans won't do?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (wnG0i)

84 Lawyers will always take a dismissal if they can. Always. It's always better to grab the bird in the hand. Forcing an appeal is always risky. Trump could actually lose with the wrong appellate judges. If he takes the dismissal, he gets an immediate win, and freedom from this persecution for at least four years. Take it and run. He can always appeal later on if they refile.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 22, 2024 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

And the best part about a dismissal - all 34 of those convictions that the left has been crowing about are immediately vacated. Legally, they never happened.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (wyMQY)

85 It can be lunch time, then again I am home so it will be at least something hot

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (fwDg9)

86 A young kid at work mentioned a friendsgiving and I asked if they would be waiting for the Great Pumpkin.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (lTGtQ)

87 and instead spams dozens of propaganda articles posted by the state of California telling you how much money illegal aliens pay in taxes

A few years ago, the Usual Advocates in Oregon did an "analysis" of how much illegals paid in taxes, to show what wonderful economic contributors they were.

Even if you accepted all their numbers, the average illegal paid a third the taxes that the average Oregonian did.

Think that the average illegal uses a third the governmental services of the average Oregonian?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (uxCna)

88 And let's not forget that the Federal Government loan was a massive catalyst for prolonging (and increasing) inflation. California, being the largest recipient would be the the ground zero of inflation in that regard.

One wonders how things would progress with a President Harris, Dem House and Dem Senate. Would they have been so brazen as to forgive the loan to the four states still outstanding on payback just like their fast and loose application of Student Loan forgiveness. Incidentally, California was the biggest benefactor of that unconstitutional behavior as well.

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (dIske)

89 62 >The X vie of Lichtman losing his shit with Uygur is priceless, worth a watch..
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:21 PM (PCK5/)

It's difficult to believe Chunk is the making the sane argument. It's even more difficult agreeing with him.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 22, 2024 02:25 PM (Qwzry)

Chunk Hunger's "IS EVERYONE BUT ME TAKING CRAZY PILLS?!?" world tour is one of the funniest things going on in politics right now.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (xzkgE)

90 I had to ask my friend to check his X account to find this article, because Google is now an Anti-Search Engine.

--

Just call it a Content Curation Company

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (WbaIk)

91 You mean articles like this?

https://tinyurl.com/5pszknyf

Try ecosia.com

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (gfViB)

92 BRING BACK JEEVES

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 22, 2024 02:29 PM (WbaIk)

93 Or Alta Vista

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (WbaIk)

94 The left plays this game with illegals...

First they are refugees and how dare you stop the equivalent of Jews fleeing Germany coming here! And then you point out all those Latin American nations have friendly relations with the US and most get money from us. So who the hell are they fleeing?

Then "who will clean our toilets!" because you see AWFLs can pay these people less and therefore afford to live like the upper class with servants. But while they make a lower hourly rate the government has gifted the illegals with cash handouts, free healthcare, and every other goodie you can imagine. All coming out of your taxes and/or inflationary spending

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (oZhjI)

95 Love Chef Andrew Gruel. He was on Gutfeld the other night.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (2RVbp)

96 Posted by: Moonbeam at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (rbKZ6)

I think it's fine but locally they're advertising for it now and have signs up where the Thanksgiving signs used to be. I do live in a very stupid place.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (lbAks)

97 >>> 30 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (lbAks)

They want to stick it to MAGA uncle Jim and their grandma that is confused about pronouns by canceling them, and instead eating with the besties that enable and reinforce all their feelings. This is not a healthy way to live life. But at least uncle Jim and grandma will get some peace this year.

But I also know people that are MAGA, who are doing Friendsgiving because they are single and can't travel to see family this year. You could just call it "thanksgiving", but then you wouldn't have the cutesy name. (These friends also like pumpkin spice everything, and start watching Hallmark Christmas romances the day after Halloween.)

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)

98 Thatcher: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

Newsom: "Hold my beer."

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (pMi6S)

99 30 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...
Posted by: ...

Festivus has a longer pedigree as does Kwanza.

Posted by: whig at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (ctrM5)

100 I remember Netscape…

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (PCK5/)

101 When Lichtnan left X , he has since returned, someone responded "don't go , people will stop making fun of you in a year or so"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (kx/V9)

If I had an account on X I would make myself a repeating calendar entry to go and mock him until one of us died. I'm petty that way.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (ExV1e)

102 >>>…maybe it's a good sign in that the leftards who would otherwise have tried to fck up normies' Thanksgiving will now gather with each other and have to eat their own cooking.

“Who brought the Tofurky!? You KNOW I have a gluten allergy!”

“Are these cruelty-free boiled parsnips?”

“I know it’s organic and locally-sourced, but this kale comes from a farmer who didn’t have up a Kamala sign. This is fascist kale. This is transphobic kale!”

Posted by: Liberal Friendsgiving Descends Into Lord of the Flies at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (FC8SQ)

103 Brave search on "California defaults on federal loan" gets a page of relevant results with twitchy at the top. And you can select one of two goggles, "news from the left" or "news from the right" and it will get more tailored results.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (Y6IkP)

104 Think that the average illegal uses a third the governmental services of the average Oregonian?

Posted by: The ARC of History!

It is almost impossible for an American to use an emergency room in any state in this country.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (lTGtQ)

105 OK, Brag case has already had an appeals court hearing, what did they rule? That was like 2 months ago?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (QAkQ3)

106 Oh, and another fun thing about Charles Town, West Virginia -- it was founded by Charles Washington, brother of George.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV)

107 And Chunk seems to have stood by Kasparian which at least has given him a notch or two above the usual sludge in my estimation.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (lbAks)

108 Google is now an Anti-Search Engine. It blocks you from seeing the articles you want, and instead pushes articles Google demands you accept as "truth."

As with YouTube. Thus, I ask again:
Does anyone have a link to the AI Kamala drinking driving, Trump with a blunt video?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (QWhkt)

109 Bing gives valid results...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (QAkQ3)

110 (These friends also like pumpkin spice everything, and start watching Hallmark Christmas romances the day after Halloween.)
Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)

I'm sorry but your friends will have to be sent to the camps.

Posted by: Robert at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (B3C+b)

111 Used Lycos back in the day for search engine.

Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (2bFN5)

112 Friendsgiving?

A lame-ass cope for libtards who can't act normal for a few hours with their families so they slum with the blue-haired, angry, unbathed coterie of retards they call friends and eat out of date Kroger potato salad.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (eDfFs)

113 >>> 83 Kicking out the illegals will destroy our economy.

Who will pick our crops?

--------------

And who will do the murdering, raping, thieving, eating of dogs & cats, and parasitical-benefits sucking that Americans won't do?
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (wnG0i)

You forgot "taking over apartments (but only a few)".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (KcwUg)

114 Fun fact!!! That song was a big hit for Manilow but he didn't write it! It was written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys.
Rumor has it Manilow was involved in the creation of a few commercial jingles, possibly the McDonald's You Deserve a Break today. Which the world was singing for years.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 22, 2024 02:18 PM (4XwPj)

Manitowoc claims the Allstate jingle is his best known song.

Like a good neighbor.....

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (qhsZq)

115 I think the "Friendsgiving" thing is just something people do with their friends so that they can spend actual Thanksgiving with their families.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (v6JzV)

116 98 Thatcher: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

Newsom: "Hold my beer."
Posted by: zombie

But seriously, this entire state is a pyramid scheme. Eventually it simply MUST collapse -- and when it does, being the 6th-largest economy in the WORLD (not just the US -- the world) it will take the global economy down with it, causing a major depression. I see no way to avoid this, in the long run.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (pMi6S)

117 CBS News@CBSNews
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed new protections for giraffes, saying their populations are threatened by poaching, habitat loss and climate change.

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This is ridiculous! There are more giraffes in America today than there were when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (L/fGl)

Hopefully they'll get around to saving penguins and koalas next.

It's so sad.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (dGCAG)

118 Is AOL still a thing, or dead??

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:33 PM (PCK5/)

119 They kept posting things on X about jobs that they think only illegals can do. They mainly were jobs I've personally done, like working at an egg ranch or in the packing sheds. My favorite was when they showed Mexicans working really fast sorting crops. I've packed pears at piece rate and I was that fast too. It's all BS.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2024 02:33 PM (gfViB)

120 Manilow!! Damn autocucumber.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at November 22, 2024 02:33 PM (qhsZq)

121 I thought he did "Hold the pickles/hold the lettuce."
Posted by: Bulg
If so... Well the whole world sang that too!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 22, 2024 02:33 PM (4XwPj)

122 When a state defaults on its federal unemployment insurance loan, federal law requires that the state's businesses repay the loan.
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Nice scam that the feds are running there.
Posted by: Methos

Should be, when a state defaults, they revert to territorial status for five years.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (ATiYV)

123 they also spent huge sums on paying for free health care for illegal aliens.

CA voting against that but overturned by Hawaii style judge.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (QWhkt)

124 Newscum is like Chicago Jesus: both have the unique reverse-Midas touch.
.
Guessing Newscum's 'achievements' move him to the head of the 2028 DemCommie POTUS primary list.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (U0QIq)

125 Trump better hope they keep the Congress in '26. and then JD or DeSanctimonious or somebody else who isn't a Gope or a D wins the White House in '28.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2024 02:28 PM (dGCAG)

Dems are already waking up to the fact that they got a real thin bench in '28. But as always, what will determine things (as the well known saying goes) will be "Events, my dear boy. Events!"

"Common Knowledge" was that Milei wouldn't last long in Argentina. But Milei is now turning into the greatest President that Argentina has ever had, and is likely to be around for quite some time to come. By the way - he's been tearing down Kirchner's statues and having them melted down for the bronze in them. heh. Likewise, Bukele tore down some big monument to the guerrillas that some previous El Salvadorean govm't had put up and had it turned in to manhole covers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (wyMQY)

126 118 Is AOL still a thing, or dead??
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:33 PM (PCK5/)

Her brain is dead

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (IyPmt)

127 Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (oZhjI)

The Left: These poor people, we must help them!!!

Also the Left: Hello Refugee, here is a pittance to wipe up my diarrhea splatter.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (lbAks)

128 Oh, and another fun thing about Charles Town, West Virginia -- it was founded by Charles Washington, brother of George.
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV)
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I suppose he was the father or grandfather of the fellow Brown's raiders took hostage.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (z0QHk)

129 Hopefully they'll get around to saving penguins and koalas next.

It's so sad.
Posted by: BurtTC

We don't need saving. We take care of our own.

Posted by: Big Penguin at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (v6JzV)

130 108 Google is now an Anti-Search Engine. It blocks you from seeing the articles you want, and instead pushes articles Google demands you accept as "truth."

As with YouTube. Thus, I ask again:
Does anyone have a link to the AI Kamala drinking driving, Trump with a blunt video?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (QWhkt)

______________________________

They have been doing this for at least 7 years. Because, 7 years ago I Googled "Constitutionalist". You'd think it would return millions of results...and today it does. Seven years ago it returned nary a one. Not a single result. I'm pretty sure the term existed 7 years ago.

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (dIske)

131 There are good jobs illegals do as well that Americans could do

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2024 02:35 PM (fwDg9)

132 They kept posting things on X about jobs that they think only illegals can do.

Remember, they are the party of slavery, so...

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:35 PM (ATiYV)

133 I don't call it Califzuela for nothin'!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (wmsyX)

134 Without giraffes, how will we measure asteroids?

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (lbAks)

135 But seriously, this entire state is a pyramid scheme. Eventually it simply MUST collapse -- and when it does, being the 6th-largest economy in the WORLD (not just the US -- the world) it will take the global economy down with it, causing a major depression. I see no way to avoid this, in the long run.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (pMi6S)
**********************************************

Federal receivership

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (onR1R)

136 They kept posting things on X about jobs that they think only illegals can do.

Remember, they are the party of slavery, so...
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

That's one thing they have in common with Muslims.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (VNX3d)

137 Tanned, rested, and ready!

Posted by: Prodigy at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (Aqu9a)

138 .
Guessing Newscum's 'achievements' move him to the head of the 2028 DemCommie POTUS primary list.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (U0QIq)

His problem - nobody likes California Democrats outside the left coast, not even other Democrats. Kamala was California's shot at the brass ring, and she's poisoned the well for a long time to come. Besides, Newscum is white - no way will the Dems nominate any white man.

My early guess would be Wes Moore out of Maryland, even though no one knows who he is yet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (wyMQY)

139 OK, Brag case has already had an appeals court hearing, what did they rule? That was like 2 months ago?
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (QAkQ3)

It's funny how everyone acts like they care about things they absolutely don't give a damn about.

Glowball warmening, Social Security solvency, the national debt in general, the threat of nukular war... We all talk like it's a threat, and then there's that criminal Trump. Not only are we letting him walk the streets (with 34 felony convictions!), but we are putting him in one of our nicer houses.

Nobody really cares, but we're sure as hell not going to just let it all go away, while there's still power and political capital to be milked from it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2024 02:37 PM (dGCAG)

140 If we abolish slavery, who will pick our crops?

Posted by: 1850's Democrats! at November 22, 2024 02:37 PM (uxCna)

141 Sort of related. The amount of fraud in CA's worker disability/injury program is so huge that a few years ago the state paid for billboards (!) with messages begging people to report it. A lifelong friend with legit work-related disability problems casually described the (taxpayers') nightmare once. He said at every turn in his journey, he was pushed to consume more "care", and stuff, by every actor in the program, from docs to state officials. Most of which he clearly didn't need, didn't want, and turned down.

Seem to recall that a serious guesstimate of fraud in the program was in the *billions* - years ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:37 PM (1m82a)

142 Well dodging payroll taxes and benefits payments for illegals is what CA businesses are all about.
So fukemalljake!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 22, 2024 02:37 PM (wBaIH)

143 Tanned, rested, and ready!
Posted by: Prodigy at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (Aqu9a)

Don't forget me! - CompuServe

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 22, 2024 02:37 PM (VNX3d)

144 I usually take a day trip to a historical site on my birthday, so this year I went to Charles Town, West Virginia, and saw the courtroom where the trial of John Brown took place, and also saw the place where he was hanged.
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:27 PM (v6JzV)
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That sounds very cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:37 PM (RIvkX)

145 Oh and when your lefty LIV friends complain about having to wait forever to see doctors remind them that as priveledged (probably white) Americans they are just sharing the bounty of our healthcare system with our less fortunate undocumented immigrants.

Don't worry Karen, I'm sure Pablo needed that slot at the ER more then you did because his alcohol induced Cirrhosis isn't going to fix itself. Meanwhile, sit next to Maria who almost certainly has COVID. Or worse. And will cough on you for all 4 hours you are going to wait in the ER waiting room.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:37 PM (oZhjI)

146 Having escaped Califzuela a dozen years ago, and now with Trump's victory, is it possible to have Dueling Schadenboners simultaneously?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (wmsyX)

147 Should be, when a state defaults, they revert to territorial status for five years.
Posted by: rickb223
=====
Some interesting caselaw about that during Reconstruction as Southern states were not treated as territories under law but rather conquered and subject to military rule.

Posted by: whig at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

148 We did not vote for this crap and I'm old enough to remember when almost 60 percent of my state voted to not allow illegals free sh*t. Prop 187 and some judge overturned the will of the people. Now look at us.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (dlOqM)

149 Sorry, but no. Trump should take the dismissal however he can. Obviously with prejudice is better, but if not then take the win and move on. It's highly unlikely the charges will ever be refiled, especially if Bragg (or whoever) has to wait four years.

Lawyers will always take a dismissal if they can. Always. It's always better to grab the bird in the hand. Forcing an appeal is always risky. Trump could actually lose with the wrong appellate judges. If he takes the dismissal, he gets an immediate win, and freedom from this persecution for at least four years. Take it and run. He can always appeal later on if they refile.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 22, 2024 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

***

These cases are bigger than Trump, though. If they could do this to him, they could do this to anybody. (And sometimes they do.)

I’d prefer he fight rather than letting the Dems say “Well, due to a stolen election we have to let the convicted felon go free.”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (FC8SQ)

150 I think nothing will get tangibly better until this country returns to a sane, cogent and firm definition of the words 'citizen' and 'border'. It has to start there.

Posted by: muldoon at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (991eG)

151 Without giraffes, how will we measure asteroids?
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:36 PM (lbAks)

By how many suppositories it takes to make them feel better.

Duh.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (dGCAG)

152 Sort of related. The amount of fraud in CA's worker disability/injury program is so huge

When the illegals "took the jobs Americans won't do" they took a bunch of jobs from Americans...who were doing them. And those people didn't disappear. Mostly they went on some form of disability.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (oZhjI)

153 Ace,

expenses caused by illegal immigration

I googled that exact phrase and got some reasonable hits...Heritage Foundation, FAIR, Texas Attorney General, etc.

I'll bet you will do better if you use a VPN.

Or just don't use Google!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (d9fT1)

154 My favorite was when they showed Mexicans working really fast sorting crops. I've packed pears at piece rate and I was that fast too. It's all BS.

They also ignore that half of farmworkers are US citizens.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (uxCna)

155 Barry Manilow's live show is fan f'ing tastic, that man works.

Posted by: sharksauce at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (TCJDT)

156 135 But seriously, this entire state is a pyramid scheme. Eventually it simply MUST collapse -- and when it does, being the 6th-largest economy in the WORLD (not just the US -- the world) it will take the global economy down with it, causing a major depression. I see no way to avoid this, in the long run.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (pMi6S)

California's loss is gonna be Texas' gain. Already lots of Tech companies are moving here; with Elon moving his center of operations to Bastrop, many more will follow. Texas is gonna have all the cheap energy they need to operate, and all the open land they need to build.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (wyMQY)

157 Oh, and another fun thing about Charles Town, West Virginia -- it was founded by Charles Washington, brother of George.
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV)

--------------------

Who own da Chiefs?

Posted by: The Goalie at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (2UnvF)

158 is it possible to have Dueling Schadenboners simultaneously?
Posted by: ShainS

I saw Dueling Schadenboners open for Whitesnake at the Forum in '83.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (pMi6S)

159 115 I think the "Friendsgiving" thing is just something people do with their friends so that they can spend actual Thanksgiving with their families.
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (v6JzV)

My family generally doesn't do Thanksgiving because they're all grumpy people who don't like to be around other human beings.

Posted by: XTC at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

160 97 ...

But I also know people that are MAGA, who are doing Friendsgiving because they are single and can't travel to see family this year. You could just call it "thanksgiving", but then you wouldn't have the cutesy name. (These friends also like pumpkin spice everything, and start watching Hallmark Christmas romances the day after Halloween.)
Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)
______
So they're girls? All of them?

We used to have bachelor friends over for holidays, if we weren't going to see family. But we called them "Thanksgiving" and "Christmas", because that's what they were.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (1bNHn)

161 We did not vote for this crap and I'm old enough to remember when almost 60 percent of my state voted to not allow illegals free sh*t. Prop 187 and some judge overturned the will of the people. /i]

Looking back on it that was one of those key moments where a governor that told the judge she didn't have the authority to overturn a state prop would have completely changed the direction of the country.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:40 PM (oZhjI)

162 You kids and your fancy search engines. Back in the day if we wanted to find something on the internet we had to go through every single document until the we found the one we were looking for.

America is getting soft.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (LkLld)

163 Hmmmm.

Matt Gaetz said Friday he will not return to Congress after withdrawing his name from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general.

In an interview with conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on “Real America’s Voice,” Gaetz said he is “still going to be in the fight but it’s going to be from a new perch.”

“I do not intend to join the 119th Congress,” he said. “There are a number of fantastic Floridians who’ve stepped up to run for my seat, people who have inspired with their heroism, with their public service. And I’m actually excited to see northwest Florida go to new heights and have great representation."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (L/fGl)

164 I’d prefer he fight rather than letting the Dems say “Well, due to a stolen election we have to let the convicted felon go free.”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (FC8SQ)

That's the great part about a dismissal - he's not a convicted felon anymore. The convictions are erased automatically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (wyMQY)

165 is it possible to have Dueling Schadenboners simultaneously?
Posted by: ShainS

Ah, so you're the Scotsman who impregnated two ladies simultaneously, as related on this morning's Art thread.

Posted by: Big Penguin at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (v6JzV)

166
Ian Jaeger
@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: Allan Lichtman is back on X less than a day after deactivating his account and saying he was leaving.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (TGPs7)

167 >>> 156 135 But seriously, this entire state is a pyramid scheme. Eventually it simply MUST collapse -- and when it does, being the 6th-largest economy in the WORLD (not just the US -- the world) it will take the global economy down with it, causing a major depression. I see no way to avoid this, in the long run.

Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (pMi6S)

California's loss is gonna be Texas' gain. Already lots of Tech companies are moving here; with Elon moving his center of operations to Bastrop, many more will follow. Texas is gonna have all the cheap energy they need to operate, and all the open land they need to build.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (wyMQY)

We should have that NOW but feralgov just *had* to have a bunch of coal plants dismantled. Fcking anti-civ, anti-life fcksticks... I really hope between Elon and RFK Jr and whoever that there is a push for "nucular" power plants.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 22, 2024 02:42 PM (KcwUg)

168 But seriously, this entire state is a pyramid scheme. Eventually it simply MUST collapse -- and when it does, being the 6th-largest economy in the WORLD (not just the US -- the world) it will take the global economy down with it, causing a major depression. I see no way to avoid this, in the long run.
Posted by: zombie at November 22, 2024 02:32 PM (pMi6S)
====

The endless rain is bumming me out too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:42 PM (RIvkX)

169 You kids and your fancy search engines. Back in the day if we wanted to find something on the internet we had to go through every single document until the we found the one we were looking for.

America is getting soft.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (LkLld)

I had one up on you. I had a Yellow Pages of the Internet, to help find sites. Nice big book on yellow paper, with small print, just like a phone book. Yuge book!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 22, 2024 02:43 PM (VNX3d)

170 Not really a pyramid scheme, more of a looting fest, like the country generally. CA has long relied on a tiny number of businesses and wealthy households for its state finances. I recall waaaay back in about 2007 or so, when there was a deficit crisis (before the state just started effectively violating the constitution by financing operating costs with debt), the state equivalent of the CBO estimated that *half* of the state's yuuuuge pending deficit was caused by the departure of 5K households from CA.

Five thousand tax returns provided that much of the state's revenue. Obviously an absurd and unsustainable approach to public finance.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:43 PM (1m82a)

171 Welcome to the People's Republic...

Bostonians Against Mayor Wu
@AntiWuCoalition

Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

The man told reporters that he is devastated and that “it’s like losing a child”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 22, 2024 02:43 PM (TGPs7)

172 Yes, Eeyore, all girls. I think it's the branding of the name "Friendsgiving" that peope have latched onto. Also that Covid broke old patterns, and people realized they could have turkey at their friends house instead of having to get on a crappy cramped plane and schlep it out to see family they are now disconnected to, for many reasons.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (wcIbG)

173 As an alternative I sometimes use the Russian search engine Yandex. Its not necessarily better but it gives very different results on most topics than the other western ones. Only caveats, it gives a lot of Russian language results (obviously) and it doesn't have a family friendly filter so...

California Defaults on Federal Covid Loan to Pay for Illegals

This is my shocked face

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (RsS92)

174 I think nothing will get tangibly better until this country returns to a sane, cogent and firm definition of the words 'citizen' and 'border'. It has to start there.
Posted by: muldoon at November 22, 2024 02:38 PM (991eG)

There once was a citizen with a border
Without it, he didn't have order
But then a hot woman he found
Yet he only frowned
Because he couldn't afford her

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (lbAks)

175 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...

My understanding is it's not a replacement for giving thanks, it's just Thanksgiving with your friends rather than your family so you don't have the travel every year or whatever.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

176 I saw a hypnotist show years ago. He had a woman on stage and hypnotized her to think he was naked AND that he had two schnlongs.

And then he pretend to put one on her shoulder and she freaked out. It was hilarious.

I thought the whole thing was fake, but at the end he told the people he'd hypnotized to go give the person they loved in the audience a big kiss and then wake up.

One guy, who I vaguely knew, went back to his seat but then literally jumped over a row to a kiss a girl that was NOT his girlfriend.

Things that make you go hmmmm

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (oZhjI)

177 When I was young my brother would come back home and visit from college. He'd often borrow $20 and tell me "Dad will pay you back."

Gavin Newsome must've learned this move from my brother.

Posted by: 496 at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (ECVYk)

178 171 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

The man told reporters that he is devastated and that “it’s like losing a child”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 22, 2024 02:43 PM (TGPs7)

Bullshit. Huskies look nothing like coyotes, ever.

The "officer" just wanted to kill something to feed his ego.

Posted by: XTC at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (UnA8+)

179 Franpsycho, your area's beautiful and has much to offer, but weather's not one of them. At least compared to down here. But the climate here is unusually good, and not really a reasonable basis for comparison.

Of course all of it compares favorably to International Falls, MN, or such like.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:45 PM (1m82a)

180 Do huskies kill giraffes?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 02:45 PM (L/fGl)

181 These friends also like pumpkin spice everything, and start watching Hallmark Christmas romances the day after Halloween.

Let me guess they have a coat, a pair of leggings, and ugg boots on?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:45 PM (RsS92)

182 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

So the National Socialists in NYS are down with killing pets, and now the ones in MA as well.

Who is next...CO?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:46 PM (oZhjI)

183 They also ignore that half of farmworkers are US citizens.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 22, 2024 02:39 PM (uxCna)

Cesar Chavez DESPISED illegals.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 22, 2024 02:46 PM (d9fT1)

184 I am the index of all knowledge!

Posted by: Library Card Catalog at November 22, 2024 02:46 PM (Aqu9a)

185 Coal needs to be produced and used again… but of course that will never happen… the propaganda and conditioning have been far too successful. There is enough coal reserves to comfortably carry us into the next millenium without using any other power resource. But, coal is evil.

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:46 PM (PCK5/)

186 Sock on,
Sock off,
Sock on, sock off,
The socker.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:46 PM (v6JzV)

187 That’s not hair gel. It’s the slime that oozes from his skin.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at November 22, 2024 02:46 PM (mnYJJ)

188 Blah Blah and I enjoy our little brown brothers from South Of The Border to pick our crops, clean our three homes, wash our 4 vehicles including our RV and just generally being there for us when we need a warm body to do the physical stuff we are too tired to do with our active, retired lifestyle.

Who is Blah Blah going to boss around while I am getting schtupped in the guest bedroom by Pedro if Trump sends them all back?!

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (R/m4+)

189 I am the index of all knowledge!
Posted by: Library Card Catalog

Boy, I miss those things.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (v6JzV)

190 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

Was he also retarded? They look nothing alike

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (RsS92)

191 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (lbAks)

Selfsgiving

youtu.be/k111xowLzIQ

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (D7oie)

192 You kids and your fancy search engines. Back in the day if we wanted to find something on the internet we had to go through every single document until the we found the one we were looking for.

America is getting soft.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (LkLld)

I had one up on you. I had a Yellow Pages of the Internet, to help find sites. Nice big book on yellow paper, with small print, just like a phone book. Yuge book!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Pffft. When we wanted to find something, we went to the library and looked thru a card file. Then we had to find the book on the shelf. (Preferably one Ace didn't build) Then we had to take the book to a table, find what we were looking for in the book, and then copy it down on paper. With a pencil.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (ATiYV)

193 "Her brain is dead." I hear she's "Occassional Cortex". So a weak brain pulse.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 22, 2024 02:48 PM (Gqoy+)

194 OMG noooooooChris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT
Don’t celebrate that Matt Gaetz is gone. Keep your eye on the ball. Pan Bondi will serve the exact same role - turning the Department of Justice into a political arm of the White House with a mission to punish political dissent.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 02:48 PM (L/fGl)

195 America has enough coal to power its electric grid way into the future. Our goal should be to do so until something more advanced comes along.

Hell, imagine Trump spending federal "infrastructure" dollars building a thousand plants across the country. He'd be creating a demographic incentivized to vote against global warming crap and helping the country as a whole

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:48 PM (oZhjI)

196 And the left has convinced a lot of LIVs that we are good people if we tolerate this mistreatment.

Posted by: Emmie at November 22, 2024 02:48 PM (ZNSbE)

197 Five thousand tax returns provided that much of the state's revenue. Obviously an absurd and unsustainable approach to public finance.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:43 PM (1m82a)
====

We'll get 'em with our new Retroactive Exit Tax!
-Gavin

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:48 PM (RIvkX)

198 That's the great part about a dismissal - he's not a convicted felon anymore. The convictions are erased automatically.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:41 PM (wyMQY)

That won’t stop the talking point, though, which is why the case was fabricated to begin with.

Anyway, the process is the punishment and Trump has been thoroughly raked over the coals of our broken legal system. It would be nice to fix that.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (FC8SQ)

199 Pffft. When we wanted to find something, we went to the library and looked thru a card file. Then we had to find the book on the shelf. (Preferably one Ace didn't build) Then we had to take the book to a table, find what we were looking for in the book, and then copy it down on paper. With a pencil.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (ATiYV)

Microfiche... High School Libary.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (QAkQ3)

200 179 Franpsycho, your area's beautiful and has much to offer, but weather's not one of them. At least compared to down here. But the climate here is unusually good, and not really a reasonable basis for comparison.

Of course all of it compares favorably to International Falls, MN, or such like.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:45 PM (1m82a)

You have the best weather of the whole state.
I do have to say that growing up close to the beach in the 70s and 80s was the best.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (dlOqM)

201 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

Was he also retarded? They look nothing alike
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Why the fuck was animal control carrying firearms?
Helm, even here in gun friendly Texas, we don't let the fog catcher carry a gun.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (ATiYV)

202 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

Was he also retarded? They look nothing alike
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Plus, the puppy had no Acme products in the general vicinity.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (v6JzV)

203 About the Cenk transformation... this clip of the best of the Young Turks meltdowns has an amazing monologue rant by Cenk at the end. Except for calling Trump a clown, I agree with everything he's saying. Maybe between Ana getting redpill curious and the second Trump win, his brain is breaking in a good way.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=losA8Yc0ZeY&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

The coolest thing is that he has these ideas of how to fix it, and the dems refuse to listen. Elon is. It is blowing his mind that the man the media has painted as Trump's darth Cheney meets Tony Stark actually is willing to have a convo. His own party isn't.

I hope the dems keep not listening. It's so weird to have Cenk so close to the truth. As Henry Higgins says to a transformed, now fiesty Eliza Doolittle: I like you this way!

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (wcIbG)

204 I had one up on you. I had a Yellow Pages of the Internet, to help find sites. Nice big book on yellow paper, with small print, just like a phone book. Yuge book!

We had that. I tossed it out a while ago on the principal that nobody would take it, even used book stores. Someday it will be so vintage and ironic people might like it though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (RsS92)

205 Years ago I accidentally ended up on a "working moms" mailing list somehow. It was a bunch of AWFLs.

And the most common topic of conversation was how to pay Maria, and it was always Maria, without paying SS taxes because she was "undocumented" and more importantly because they were already paying her "too much" and "couldn't afford the taxes"...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (oZhjI)

206 The last time I was in Cali was 10 or so years ago… not a pleasant experience then, can’t imagine what it must be like now…
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:14 PM (PCK5/)

California businesses should just declare a general strike, and close their doors for a day. All businesses, big and small. Hire "enforcers" to ensure compliance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (+8Ln3)

207 Default on that loan? All other fed dollars cut till it's paid off

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (/6GbT)

208 What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—

Posted by: MORNING JOE at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (wDLi3)

209 "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
-- Mark Twain.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (v6JzV)

210 tubal, I'll let you know when CA becomes impossible to live in (for me, everyone's circumstances and preferences vary), but meanwhile let me endorse your coal evangelism.

There's a (probably unfixable) near-obsession among many of the more thoughtful about "all of the above" or particularly nuclear, when it comes to energy. But it's misguided, and ignores realities (technical and economic).

Coal, for electricity production is easily and by far the best solution for most of the US (not all), and it's not even close. But the insane, destructive, prosperity-destroying war on coal has been allowed to proceed without opposition - even from coal-producing states and their senators (an amazing and possibly unique thing in our history). So now, like "climate change", it's simply part of the (brainwashed, lazy) mental landscape for most.

Sad!

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (1m82a)

211 America has enough coal to power its electric grid way into the future. Our goal should be to do so until something more advanced comes along.

Nuclear.
Sad that Fwance is that far ahead of us.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (ATiYV)

212 Why the fuck was animal control carrying firearms?

Snakes and such.

Plus, the puppy had no Acme products in the general vicinity.

Tha's a pretty big tell, even a retard should have caught on

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (RsS92)

213 185 Coal needs to be produced and used again… but of course that will never happen… the propaganda and conditioning have been far too successful. There is enough coal reserves to comfortably carry us into the next millenium without using any other power resource. But, coal is evil.
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:46 PM (PCK5/)

__________________

I'm kind of curious about Small Modular Reactors (SMR's). Who doesn't want a nuclear powered motor vehicle? And, let's face it...I think the public is careful, intelligent and knowledgeable enough to be able to handle this new power safely. (you can't see me, but I can't stop laughing at what I just typed).

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (dIske)

214 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

-
Understandable mistake. I once shot Whoopsie because I thought she was a brontosaurus.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (L/fGl)

215 208 What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—
Posted by: MORNING JOE at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (wDLi3)

Strawberries need pickin’ Joe…

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (PCK5/)

216 203 About the Cenk transformation... this clip of the best of the Young Turks meltdowns has an amazing monologue rant by Cenk at the end. Except for calling Trump a clown, I agree with everything he's saying. Maybe between Ana getting redpill curious and the second Trump win, his brain is breaking in a good way.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=losA8Yc0ZeY&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

The coolest thing is that he has these ideas of how to fix it, and the dems refuse to listen. Elon is. It is blowing his mind that the man the media has painted as Trump's darth Cheney meets Tony Stark actually is willing to have a convo. His own party isn't.

I hope the dems keep not listening. It's so weird to have Cenk so close to the truth. As Henry Higgins says to a transformed, now fiesty Eliza Doolittle: I like you this way!
Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (wcIbG)

He probably still wants to get fucked by a horse.

Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (aRLgQ)

217 >>>America has enough coal to power its electric grid way into the future. Our goal should be to do so until something more advanced comes along.

Nuclear is more advanced. I’d rather build more nuclear than coal.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (FC8SQ)

218 my BIL retired from a successful Hollywood career in tv promotion (having eventually recognized that as a straight white cis male he was NEVER going to write the next "MASH" and retire at 30, even though he said, did, championed, preached, and lived ALL the things of the moment), he and his wife moved to Florida (amidst the lamentations of his friends, who were VERY VERY afraid for him! while charging them to turn that horrible place blue)
To keep peace, I have never asked him why, if CA is the embodiment of all we should emulate, if we just weren't so backward, why did he leave?

Posted by: barbarausa at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (enw9G)

219 Afternoon.
====================
Gotta say I'm disappointed in ace. He mentions Megyn Kelly but doesn't include the viral clip of her going around on twitter.
Posted by: Buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:09 PM (rHANr)

Is she topless?

Tell me she's topless.

Lie to me if you have to!
Posted by: Robert at November 22, 2024 02:11 PM (VhJAm)

Its legs. Leeeeggggsss

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (n7h9X)

220 Franpsycho, your area's beautiful and has much to offer, but weather's not one of them. At least compared to down here. But the climate here is unusually good, and not really a reasonable basis for comparison.

Of course all of it compares favorably to International Falls, MN, or such like.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:45 PM (1m82a)
====

Mrs. F. and my kids and her family all think perpetual cold, wind, and fog is just swell. They like it that way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (RIvkX)

221 I can tell you what was really going on: CA expected Joey Shitbrains and then Kumswala to win the election and forgive the loan. Trump obviously won't do that. I'm not sure what if anything Shitbrains can do in the two months he has left.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

222 possible to have Dueling Schadenboners simultaneously?

That's the Large Hardon Collider.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (QWhkt)

223 Nuclear.
Sad that Fwance is that far ahead of us.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

But we're ahead of them in nukyular.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

224 217 >>>America has enough coal to power its electric grid way into the future. Our goal should be to do so until something more advanced comes along.

Nuclear is more advanced. I’d rather build more nuclear than coal.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (FC8SQ)

Less radiation released with nuke plants too.

Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (aRLgQ)

225 Years ago I accidentally ended up on a "working moms" mailing list somehow. It was a bunch of AWFLs.

And the most common topic of conversation was how to pay Maria, and it was always Maria, without paying SS taxes because she was "undocumented" and more importantly because they were already paying her "too much" and "couldn't afford the taxes"...
Posted by: 18-1

If Maria were smart, Maria would get injured on the job and call Saul Goodman.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (ATiYV)

226 I have believed since the beginning that the Gaetz appointment was a deal from the beginning, and that Bondi was always the intended appointee. If this is true, part of the deal will be some future spot for Gaetz, something not requiring confirmation. Gaetz clearly wanted out of the House, as he made obvious today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (wyMQY)

227 The CA thing can't be passed on to consumers. It's a retroactive theft and comes out of whatever profit the companies thought they had.

CA pursues people and companies for current taxes who have tried everything to flee.

Not a place to start a business. Over time, the businesses that get started elsewhere that would have been in CA is the real killer. No coming back

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (Gqoy+)

228 Gotta say I'm disappointed in ace. He mentions Megyn Kelly but doesn't include the viral clip of her going around on twitter.
Posted by: Buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:09 PM (rHANr)

Is she topless?

Tell me she's topless.

Lie to me if you have to!
Posted by: Robert at November 22, 2024 02:11 PM (VhJAm)

Its legs. Leeeeggggsss
Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (n7h9X)
__________

[Perks up]

-- ZZ Top

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

229 219 Afternoon.
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Gotta say I'm disappointed in ace. He mentions Megyn Kelly but doesn't include the viral clip of her going around on twitter.
Posted by: Buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:09 PM (rHANr)

Is she topless?

Tell me she's topless.

Lie to me if you have to!
Posted by: Robert at November 22, 2024 02:11 PM (VhJAm)

Its legs. Leeeeggggsss
Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (n7h9X)

Not topless but a fairly formfitting shirt with a nice side view.

Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (aRLgQ)

230 He probably still wants to get fucked by a horse.
Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (aRLgQ)

Why'd ya have to drag me into this?

Posted by: Mr. Ed at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (Aqu9a)

231 >>>America has enough coal to power its electric grid way into the future. Our goal should be to do so until something more advanced comes along.

Nuclear is more advanced. I’d rather build more nuclear than coal.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (FC8SQ)

You can make very advanced and efficient coal plants and clean. I wrote about it in the 80s for a school paper.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (n7h9X)

232
The man told reporters that he is devastated and that “it’s like losing a child”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 22, 2024 02:43 PM (TGPs7)

Bullshit. Huskies look nothing like coyotes, ever.

The "officer" just wanted to kill something to feed his ego.
Posted by: XTC at November 22, 2024 02:44 PM (UnA8+)

Here's a pic of a coyote I got off my trail camera, looks nothing like a husky.

https://tinypic.host/
image/IMG-235856E93644-1.2nryU1

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (dlOqM)

233 The covid vaccine is good. It has always been good.

Posted by: Dr. Mehmet Oz at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (/U5Yz)

234 Form the start I called the Gaetz appointment a pawn sacrifice.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (Gqoy+)

235 possible to have Dueling Schadenboners simultaneously?

That's the Large Hardon Collider.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism

That sounds bathhouse gay.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (ATiYV)

236 224 217 >>>America has enough coal to power its electric grid way into the future. Our goal should be to do so until something more advanced comes along.

Nuclear is more advanced. I’d rather build more nuclear than coal.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (FC8SQ)

Less radiation released with nuke plants too.
Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (aRLgQ)

I think a pitfall here is the “ either-or” mindset…

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (PCK5/)

237 Mrs. F. and my kids and her family all think perpetual cold, wind, and fog is just swell. They like it that way.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Ah, people after my own heart. I loved the fog in Monterey.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (v6JzV)

238 If confirmed, Bondi's department's first three acts will be all I need to see from her.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (lbAks)

239 Yup, need to pitch an ad campaign

You can have Electric Cars, with Nuclear Power.
Otherwise... we have to stay on Internal Combustion.

Greens? Yer choice.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (QAkQ3)

240 Not topless but a fairly formfitting shirt with a nice side view.
Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (aRLgQ)

Saying this and not providing a link is pretty cruel, even for a dead guy.

Posted by: spindrift at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (OguvZ)

241 This merely indicates that many people attempting to search for results on Reddit don't understand how to use the modifier site:reddit.com in their search prompts.
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at November 22, 2024 02:23 PM (onR1R)

Used to be, you could use Boolean modifiers when searching, to eliminate most of the irrelevant shit they found.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (+8Ln3)

242 What makes this default even more egregious is that the stone-age-era IT system of the state's Employment and Development Department (EDD) opened the floodgates to bad actors, permitting more than $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic. Those receiving fraudulent payments include incarcerated felons, a person impersonating a one-year-old, and a person impersonating Senator Dianne Feinstein. A single residential address received checks for around 60 separate individuals filing from that address.

---------------

All of this was under the administration of Gruesome Newscum and commie (likely Soros- and ChiComm-funded) bitch hack Julie Su, the head of California’s labor agency and F. Joe Mugabe's 2023 nominee for U.S. Secretary of Labor (thankfully never confirmed -- finally withdrawn IIRC).

She was all-in on criminalizing independent contracting in Califzuela -- and the Junta sought to do that nationwide, which would have put tens of millions like me out of business -- as a sop to Big Oligarch and The Unions.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (4N2M3)

243 While Alvin Bragg was busy trying to find 12 jurors to find Trump guilty, 76,000,000 said definitely not guilty, go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 22, 2024 02:55 PM (KJ3hR)

244 Form the start I called the Gaetz appointment a pawn sacrifice.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Closer to a Bishop or Rook sacrifice. Now the dems are emboldened and smell blood in the water.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:55 PM (ATiYV)

245 California. A real big guy just towed off the car, the finance company wants the furniture, and the phone is ringing off the hook. Luckily, the phone company just disconnected so everything is OK.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2024 02:55 PM (gm9Sb)

246 Nuclear.
Sad that Fwance is that far ahead of us.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

But we're ahead of them in nukyular.
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

France just lost control of their Nuke fuel in Niger. Idiots were paying pennies for it, now will have to pay full market price if they get any at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 02:55 PM (n7h9X)

247 Oh, the Cenk monologue rant is about 28-29 minutes in the youtube vid. He just goes OFF. It's a thing of beauty to hear him rant on all the stuff we already know.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:55 PM (Eng1Z)

248 I could be annoyed by Doc Oz's appointment, but it's an administrative post of no great significance so meh. A nice plum for a loyal supporter, nothing more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2024 02:56 PM (wyMQY)

249 Its legs. Leeeeggggsss

Women's tennis match sponsor Leggs had the Women's Leggs Open.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 02:56 PM (QWhkt)

250 Megyn got up on her desk and did the Mika Vanity Fair cover pose

grrr baby
very grrr

Posted by: Don Black at November 22, 2024 02:56 PM (/7KEl)

251 Closer to a Bishop or Rook sacrifice. Now the dems are emboldened and smell blood in the water.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

I'm thinking a Queen sacrifice. A stupid and weak move.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 22, 2024 02:56 PM (/U5Yz)

252 Here's a pic of a coyote I got off my trail camera, looks nothing like a husky.

https://tinypic.host/
image/IMG-235856E93644-1.2nryU1

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 22, 2024 02:53 PM (dlOqM)

Where are his Acme Rocket-Powered Rollerskates?

Posted by: spindrift at November 22, 2024 02:56 PM (OguvZ)

253 >>>Coal, for electricity production is easily and by far the best solution for most of the US (not all), and it's not even close.

Coal is a mess. There’s actual interest in building more nuclear. Nobody’s going to be building more coal. It’s dying off, thankfully.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:56 PM (FC8SQ)

254 >>In addition to just giving away billions in fraudulent payments -- which California doesn't seem to mind, because the state is pro-criminal -- they also spent huge sums on paying for free health care for illegal aliens.

Don't worry, the voters love Gavin Newsome, he's so dreamy, they elected him in three separate landslides.

They will gladly pay whatever it takes to make him happy.

They won't move out in droves and infect other states.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2024 02:57 PM (XV/Pl)

255 About the Cenk transformation... this clip of the best of the Young Turks meltdowns has an amazing monologue rant by Cenk at the end.

Chunk Wheezer is trying to transform himself in to Bill Maher, the "centrist who represents low info Americans" and its hilarious to watch. Especially since all his demennted, spittle-flecked rants as recent as like two weeks ago are all online to link.

Its like Chris Cuomo trying to convince everyone he's always been all in on Ivermectin and being utterly dragged and ... well I'd say humiliated, but he's not capable of shame.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:57 PM (RsS92)

256 Is AOL still a thing, or dead??
Posted by: tubal
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I know people who still have AOL email addresses, also Prodigy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2024 02:57 PM (XeU6L)

257 Georgetown Law has told a pregnant student whose baby is due during exams that she must take the test a few days postpartum, with baby in tow.

No early or remote exam since “it would be inequitable to all the other non-birthing students in her class.”

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 22, 2024 02:58 PM (uxCna)

258 We should not hobble ourselves by limiting energy production to one source. Nuclear? Sure. Gas? Of course. Coal? Why the hell not. Solar? Let’s not get ridiculous now…

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:58 PM (PCK5/)

259 Nicholas Fondacaro@NickFondacaro
Sunny Hostin sighs as she's forced to, for the third time this week, read a legal note about The View's claims against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.
Joy Behar then baselessly accuses Hegseth of witness tampering. No legal note was provided for that false claim.

-
If they changed their format to just apologizing for their lies, they'd have guaranteed lifetime employment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 02:58 PM (L/fGl)

260 I hope Pam picks up Matt for a position in the AG.

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (fwDg9)

261 Coal is a mess. There’s actual interest in building more nuclear. Nobody’s going to be building more coal. It’s dying off, thankfully.

Except for the one or two coal plants a week China is building, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (uxCna)

262 The other states with remaining unpaid debt are New York, Illinois, and Connecticut,

________

Surprise!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (dxSpM)

263 Coal is a mess. There’s actual interest in building more nuclear. Nobody’s going to be building more coal. It’s dying off, thankfully.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Bonus: It has produced a whole new generation of coders.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (XeU6L)

264 There are many vast flea markets in CA where you can get just about anything you want. Pay cash, no sale tax, no payroll tax.
No tax anywhere at all.
It helps to know some Spanish.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (MeG8a)

265 Coal is great. The clean burning technology has been around for decades.

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (PCK5/)

266 No early or remote exam since “it would be inequitable to all the other non-birthing students in her class.”

Bets that some lesbian in HR wrote this?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 22, 2024 03:00 PM (uxCna)

267 I'm thinking a Queen sacrifice. A stupid and weak move.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Yeah. Because they have now set their sights on Hegseth.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 03:00 PM (ATiYV)

268 Don't worry, the voters love Gavin Newsome, he's so dreamy, they elected him in three separate landslides.

They will gladly pay whatever it takes to make him happy.

They won't move out in droves and infect other states.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2024 02:57 PM (XV/Pl)
====

His signature public safety policy was overturned by 70% of the voters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 03:00 PM (RIvkX)

269 California businesses should just declare a general strike, and close their doors for a day. All businesses, big and small. Hire "enforcers" to ensure compliance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (+8Ln3)

Heh, or a debt strike: no one pays any credit card for a month, and everyone takes out $100/day from their bank accounts until the banks do something about the governor and legislature.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2024 03:00 PM (D7oie)

270 Well I've never been to Oklahoma, but I've been to Spain. In Spain, not California. What does it matter? What does it matter?

Posted by: Eva L. at November 22, 2024 03:00 PM (z+ik4)

271 Women's tennis match sponsor Leggs had the Women's Leggs Open.

Do those still sell in the egg-shaped containers? Mom used to get those when I was young, we'd play with the plastic eggshells.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 03:00 PM (RsS92)

272 I had to ask my friend to check his X account to find this article, because Google is now an Anti-Search Engine. It blocks you from seeing the articles you want, and instead pushes articles Google demands you accept as "truth."

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Google has always been an ad server, not a search engine. The fact that they have lied to the world for the last 20 years should get them investigated for fraud.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 22, 2024 03:00 PM (KJ3hR)

273 There are many vast flea markets in CA where you can get just about anything you want. Pay cash, no sale tax, no payroll tax.
No tax anywhere at all.
It helps to know some Spanish.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (MeG8a)
====
16th and Mission

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2024 03:01 PM (RIvkX)

274 Megyn Kelly clip. You're welcome.

https://tinyurl.com/2vm87s3r

Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 03:01 PM (aRLgQ)

275 I think some people are missing the point in the Trump trial ... it was always a political trial to get him to not run/win again in 2024. The dismissal is the way out for New York. It will not be refiled as Trump is not running again.

Posted by: Ann at November 22, 2024 03:01 PM (4neFu)

276 Here's Megyn's table dance

https://youtu.be/jSfw0z3V3Rc?t=315

Posted by: Don Black at November 22, 2024 03:01 PM (/7KEl)

277 can't be passed on to consumers.

CA: hold my beer.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 03:01 PM (QWhkt)

278 Sunny Hostin sighs as she's forced to, for the third time this week, read a legal note about The View's claims against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.

Its like trying to train a cat not to barf on the carpet. No matter what you do, they do not associate the punishment with the crime, they just think you're being a jerk.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (RsS92)

279 Megyn Kelly clip. You're welcome.

https://tinyurl.com/2vm87s3r
Posted by: buzzion

Mmmmm. Very nice. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (v6JzV)

280
Good luck storming the castles, 'Fornians!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (nf3W5)

281 217 >>>America has enough coal to power its electric grid way into the future. Our goal should be to do so until something more advanced comes along.

Nuclear is more advanced. I’d rather build more nuclear than coal.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 02:51 PM (FC8SQ)

————

We have enough natural gas in this country to power it for 100 years.

Ultimately you don’t have to do the advanced stuff to get what you need. I dare say the focus on nuclear is completely unfounded as an economic decision.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (mdi0h)

282 Now they're jacking up payroll taxes on businesses by 50%, next year it will be 100%, the year after that, 150%. And on and on, until the loan is repaid.
_________________

Actually repaying a loan? What strange new hell is this?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (YqDXo)

283 274 Megyn Kelly clip. You're welcome.

https://tinyurl.com/2vm87s3r
Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 03:01 PM (aRLgQ)

Giddyup!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (LxER7)

284 Should be, when a state defaults, they revert to territorial status for five years.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 02:34 PM (ATiYV)

And all the legislators of the majority party put through a wood chipper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 03:03 PM (+8Ln3)

285 @268

>>His signature public safety policy was overturned by 70% of the voters.

And yet they voted for him in three separate landslides and one of the elections was after he had locked down the state, sending jack boots after Kayakers in the middle of the Ocean while at the same time breaking quarantine and curfew to eat at The French Laundry.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2024 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)

286 Used to be, you could use Boolean modifiers when searching, to eliminate most of the irrelevant shit they found.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 02:54 PM (+8Ln3)

These days, Google ignores double quotes on a whim. The results suck so much. Looking for technical data that I know exists involves all sorts of fiddling with synonyms and search modifiers.

I’ve seen more “Sorry no results” pages on Google in the last year than in all years prior combined. For terms where I know there are thousands of hits.

Heck, Google mostly just steers you to Reddit or Facebook or eBay these days. A big change from their original goal of making all information discoverable.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 03:03 PM (FC8SQ)

287 That's the Large Hardon Collider.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (QWhkt)

The start of that damn thing changed the course of history...starting with Obama

Posted by: browndog running, butt down at November 22, 2024 03:04 PM (TTAGa)

288 Sunny Hostin sighs as she's forced to, for the third time this week, read a legal note about The View's claims against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.

Its like trying to train a cat not to barf on the carpet. No matter what you do, they do not associate the punishment with the crime, they just think you're being a jerk.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Whack her on the nose with a rolled up newspaper

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (ATiYV)

289 265 Coal is great. The clean burning technology has been around for decades.
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (PCK5/)

You can transport it by rail and not have to evacuate towns when it spills.

Posted by: Roy at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (z+ik4)

290 Used to be, you could use Boolean modifiers when searching, to eliminate most of the irrelevant shit they found.

Yeah that stopped working years ago, I have no idea why they even pretend you can tailor your search. You get what they want rammed down your throat no matter what you enter. You can't even use the - to exclude stuff any longer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (RsS92)

291 I hope the dems keep not listening. It's so weird to have Cenk so close to the truth. As Henry Higgins says to a transformed, now fiesty Eliza Doolittle: I like you this way!
Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 02:49 PM (wcIbG)

Cenk used to be against the Dems, attacking from the left. He was allied with the group that toppled some #3 most powerful Dem and got AOC in.

Sometime after that they got some big money from a donor and they neutered the show. Guys like Dave Rubin and Jimmy Doore went on their own.

So going for Dems isn't as alien to Cenk as all that.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (n7h9X)

292 Google has always been an ad server, not a search engine.
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Not 'always'. 25 years ago, it started as an honest search engine effort. It just fell victim (perhaps willingly) to Progressiveism.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (XeU6L)

293 >>> Chunk Wheezer is trying to transform himself in to Bill Maher, the "centrist who represents low info Americans" and its hilarious to watch. Especially since all his demennted, spittle-flecked rants as recent as like two weeks ago are all online to link.

The bigger question, CRT, is what will happen to the show if he keeps going this route. They built up an audience of highly rabid leftists by spouting all the right things. But Ana is going off the plantation, and a lot of their audience thinks she's a sellout like Dave Rubin, shilling for that sweet conservative graft. Now Cenk feels a disturbance in the force. Will their audience stay loyal while they both go on this journey into the political wilderness?

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (Eng1Z)

294 America is completely energy self- sufficent, and could be making serious bank on energy exports.. except for a bunch of backward thinking cultists on the Left. Perhaps Trump can start reversing this lunacy.

Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (PCK5/)

295 16th and Mission is really dangerous. Last time I went thru there a knife fight was in progress. And that was years ago. There used to be a healthy business in counterfeit IDs. But then CA got into the counterfeit ID business since it hates competition.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 22, 2024 03:06 PM (MeG8a)

296 285 @268

>>His signature public safety policy was overturned by 70% of the voters.

And yet they voted for him in three separate landslides and one of the elections was after he had locked down the state, sending jack boots after Kayakers in the middle of the Ocean while at the same time breaking quarantine and curfew to eat at The French Laundry.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2024 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)

Let's get Voter ID here and see just how many people actually voted for this crap.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 22, 2024 03:06 PM (dlOqM)

297 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 22, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

298 Who is the last major Democrat nominee for something that was scuppered by Republicans

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 03:07 PM (lbAks)

299 The sad thing is everyone outside of CA can see what it used to be compared to the human toilet is now.. Sure yeah give us more candidates from a state that shits itself by every metric available.
A land of plentiful once golden is now nothing but a tangible example of leftist destruction

What a sad reality

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at November 22, 2024 03:07 PM (61TgR)

300
Trump to CA: "Tell you what, I'll send a boy around in five minutes. You better have the money or it'll be all around the US that you welshed."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2024 03:07 PM (dxSpM)

301 Any search engine but google.

Stop using it. It won't die, but you can do your part to shrink it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 22, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

302 Will their audience stay loyal while they both go on this journey into the political wilderness?

I have a suspicion, maybe just wishcasting, that these political opinion shows are on the decline and are not long for this world. Maybe there will always be a market for them, but people just don't watch TV much any more. Heck I even watch streaming on my laptop or PC most of the time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (RsS92)

303 30 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (lbAks)

"Friendsgiving" takes care of the pesky question of to Whom are we giving thanks.

Posted by: Emmie at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (ZNSbE)

304 to find something on the internet we had to go through every single document

We used to dream of hexadecimal.

Posted by: WhistlingBaudot at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (FhXTo)

305 Ace, you still use Google???

*scratches head and various other places*

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (F3SmE)

306 @296

>>Let's get Voter ID here and see just how many people actually voted for this crap.

Ayy, there's the rub. You got a chicken and egg problem in Cali.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (XV/Pl)

307 @268

>>His signature public safety policy was overturned by 70% of the voters.

And yet they voted for him in three separate landslides and one of the elections was after he had locked down the state, sending jack boots after Kayakers in the middle of the Ocean while at the same time breaking quarantine and curfew to eat at The French Laundry.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2024 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)

One of those was a Recall Election. Well fortified with fake votes to generate/enhance the result. But having a recall is not considered a sign of popularity.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (n7h9X)

308 Won't somebody think about the multimillionaire athletes?

The Associated Press@AP
Athletes see climate change as threatening their sports and their health. Some are spea⁰king up

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 03:09 PM (L/fGl)

309 298 Who is the last major Democrat nominee for something that was scuppered by Republicans
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 03:07 PM (lbAks)

Merrick Garland? And I fully believe McConnell would have approved him without complaint had Trump lost in 2016.

Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2024 03:09 PM (aRLgQ)

310 >>> Sunny Hostin sighs as she's forced to, for the third time this week, read a legal note about The View's claims against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.

Its like trying to train a cat not to barf on the carpet. No matter what you do, they do not associate the punishment with the crime, they just think you're being a jerk.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (RsS92)

Not so nice is it Sunny, getting fact checked live? Silly woman!

Posted by: Trump on the debate stage at November 22, 2024 03:09 PM (Eng1Z)

311 Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 22, 2024 03:09 PM (JQfE3)

312 except for a bunch of backward thinking cultists on the Left. Perhaps Trump can start reversing this lunacy.

He did last time, and I think he'll get more of it done this time. I remember back when Bush the younger was in office and he signed an order to convert several older decommissioned military bases to nuclear power plants.

Nothing came of that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 03:09 PM (RsS92)

313 A stupid and weak move.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 22, 2024 02:56 PM (/U5Yz)

Never trust people with no shame. They are the most dangerous people in the world, they lie to your face for no reason other than to cause pain, and act offended when it hurts you.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2024 03:09 PM (D7oie)

314
Not 'always'. 25 years ago, it started as an honest search engine effort. It just fell victim (perhaps willingly) to Progressiveism.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (XeU6L)

The CO's have always been liberal douchetards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 22, 2024 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

315 Who is the last major Democrat nominee for something that was scuppered by Republicans

Posted by: ...

1993

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 03:10 PM (lTGtQ)

316 I'm really pushing stupid shit today, moreso than usual sorry, but has anyone noticed that this year above all they seem to be pushing "Friendsgiving" (which was kind of a substitute Thanksgiving) to replace the real deal? It just seems to be creeping in everywhere. I guess giving thanks is offensive...
Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 02:19 PM (lbAks)

"Friendsgiving" takes care of the pesky question of to Whom are we giving thanks.
Posted by: Emmie at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (ZNSbE)

Or if we have families to go to. Not sure which it is.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 03:10 PM (n7h9X)

317 Lani Guiner

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 03:10 PM (lTGtQ)

318 @307

>>One of those was a Recall Election. Well fortified with fake votes to generate/enhance the result. But having a recall is not considered a sign of popularity.

At the end of the day, he's running the state and there's nothing anyone can do about, not even the voters, apparently.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2024 03:11 PM (XV/Pl)

319 You can transport it by rail and not have to evacuate towns when it spills.
Posted by: Roy at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (z+ik4)

You can store it like gravel, and you can use it in vented oil barrel

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2024 03:11 PM (D7oie)

320 We have enough natural gas in this country to power it for 100 years.

Ultimately you don’t have to do the advanced stuff to get what you need. I dare say the focus on nuclear is completely unfounded as an economic decision.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 22, 2024 03:02 PM (mdi0h)

Natgas is abundant, and I agree we should use it, but nuclear is safer, cheaper and more reliable for base load. Natgas can be used for fueling vehicles, too.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 22, 2024 03:11 PM (FC8SQ)

321 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

Was he also retarded? They look nothing alike
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (RsS92)

It would be interesting to see a photo of this "animal control officer".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 03:11 PM (+8Ln3)

322 "Friendsgiving" takes care of the pesky question of to Whom are we giving thanks.
Posted by: Emmie at November 22, 2024 03:08 PM (ZNSbE)

And I daresay there are many who don't believe anyone is owed any thanks but them - and this is their time to shine.

Posted by: ... at November 22, 2024 03:12 PM (lbAks)

323 Nood illegals

Posted by: Scarymary at November 22, 2024 03:12 PM (t8a1K)

324 It would be interesting to see a photo of this "animal control officer".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Could be a Religion of Peacenik. They hate dogs.

Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2024 03:12 PM (v6JzV)

325 Northbridge man had his 11 month old husky puppy shot by an animal control officer who thought it was a coyote.

Was he also retarded? They look nothing alike
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 02:47 PM (RsS92)

Do unto other's pets as you'd have other pet owners do unto you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 22, 2024 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

326 Coal is great. The clean burning technology has been around for decades.
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (PCK5/)

You can transport it by rail and not have to evacuate towns when it spills.
Posted by: Roy
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I agree that a low-cost energy source should not be ignored. But, we would have been even more f*cked here in NC if our local Duke Power plant was still coal, rather than having been converted to natural gas. Why? Because rail beds (N and S) were undercut by the flooding. I don't know that they are repaired yet, almost two months after the storm. There would have been no coal supply.

'Trucks', you say. Sorry, both I-26 and I-40 blocked by landslides. I think one lane of I-26 is now open, but I'm uncertain that trucks are allowed passage. They're hoping that I-40 will be open by January.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2024 03:12 PM (XeU6L)

327 Nood

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 22, 2024 03:12 PM (R82aP)

328 to Whom are we giving thanks.

To God; also the neighbor lady who will send some of her homemade goodies again!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 22, 2024 03:13 PM (QWhkt)

329 Christopher Leggs eggs were great to have at Easter

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2024 03:13 PM (fwDg9)

330 16th and Mission is really dangerous. Last time I went thru there a knife fight was in progress. And that was years ago. There used to be a healthy business in counterfeit IDs. But then CA got into the counterfeit ID business since it hates competition.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 22, 2024 03:06 PM (MeG8a)

Same thing with Pot sales. The legalized pot supposedly to save money being used to fight drug trade. Once they put tax stamps they fight untaxed drugs just as hard as ever.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 03:13 PM (n7h9X)

331 I was curious how Massachusetts managed to pay back the Federal Loan. They aren't exactly known for their financial adeptness. It turns out (drum roll) they started charging tax on the PPP forgiven loan to businesses. Then, they started withholding income on out of state residents that worked in Mass. (sort of like what NYC used to do, illegally).

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2024 03:13 PM (dIske)

332 Also, you can't tell me there's no way to break open the corruption of Pelosi and governor haircut..
That REEKS of scandal

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at November 22, 2024 03:13 PM (61TgR)

333 Natgas can be used for fueling vehicles, too.

Yeah the busses around here run on natural gas, they sound odd but work perfectly fine. Its a valid alternative not being looked into very much, for some reason.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 22, 2024 03:13 PM (RsS92)

334 Christopher Leggs eggs were great to have at Easter
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2024 03:13 PM (fwDg9)

I have one that someone dressed into a Humpy Dumpty figurine.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 03:14 PM (n7h9X)

335 My favorite Star Trek episode was The Boolean Modifier.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 22, 2024 03:14 PM (L/fGl)

336 The google demon is the Ministry of Truth.

Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2024 03:15 PM (jgmnb)

337 Natgas is abundant, and I agree we should use it, but nuclear is safer, cheaper and more reliable for base load. Natgas can be used for fueling vehicles, too.

Nuclear should be the baseload. It is extraordinarily cheap, but must be ramped slowly. Natural gas is an ideal peak fuel, it is also cheap and can ramp quickly. Electricity MUST match output with demand, and quickly.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 03:15 PM (lTGtQ)

338 Coal, for electricity production is easily and by far the best solution for most of the US (not all), and it's not even close. But the insane, destructive, prosperity-destroying war on coal has been allowed to proceed without opposition - even from coal-producing states and their senators (an amazing and possibly unique thing in our history). So now, like "climate change", it's simply part of the (brainwashed, lazy) mental landscape for most.

Sad!
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2024 02:50 PM (1m82a)

Somebody needs to make a video of King Coal rogering Gaia, doggystyle. In her hand, she clutches some flowers and shrubs, and with each stroke they grow and become greener, as she shouts, "harder, harder, harder."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 03:15 PM (+8Ln3)

339 Yeah the busses around here run on natural gas, they sound odd but work perfectly fine. Its a valid alternative not being looked into very much, for some reason.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

They are ok if the climate isn't too hot. They won't work in Arizona, for example. They will melt the pistons.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 22, 2024 03:16 PM (lTGtQ)

340 I can tell you what was really going on: CA expected Joey Shitbrains and then Kumswala to win the election and forgive the loan. Trump obviously won't do that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 22, 2024 02:52 PM (iFTx/)
______________

This. It was going to be "student loan forgiveness 2.0," until the election results rolled in.

Then it was panic time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2024 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

341 France just lost control of their Nuke fuel in Niger. Idiots were paying pennies for it, now will have to pay full market price if they get any at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 02:55 PM (n7h9X)

Cost of fuel is a very small part of the cost of nuke power.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 03:19 PM (+8Ln3)

342 Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11

Unbelievable. Over the past eight years, the federal government has funneled more than a quarter-billion dollars to study "misinformation" and censor Americans more effectively.

In 2016, the regime blamed "misinformation" and "fake news" for Hillary Clinton losing. In 2020, they blamed it for the public's opposition to tyrannical lockdowns, forced injections, and mask mandates. The regime has spent huge amounts trying to figure out how to make censorship "better" so that public dissent is impossible.

The Trump administration must abolish all of these grants, and fire the people who made them.

DOGE is coming.

https://tinyurl.com/y4sx9n2b

Posted by: redridinghood at November 22, 2024 03:20 PM (NpAcC)

343 The bigger question, CRT, is what will happen to the show if he keeps going this route. They built up an audience of highly rabid leftists by spouting all the right things. But Ana is going off the plantation, and a lot of their audience thinks she's a sellout like Dave Rubin, shilling for that sweet conservative graft. Now Cenk feels a disturbance in the force. Will their audience stay loyal while they both go on this journey into the political wilderness?
Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (Eng1Z)

They might not, but Jimmy Dore and Dave Rubin have found that there are a lot more old time liberals who aren't rabid leftists they can pick up. And as he found with his speaking to Musk versus DNC, Musk and Conservatives will listen, then reject or not reject your idea on its merits while with leftists deviation is heresy.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 03:22 PM (n7h9X)

344 Coal is great. The clean burning technology has been around for decades.
Posted by: tubal at November 22, 2024 02:59 PM (PCK5/)

You can transport it by rail and not have to evacuate towns when it spills.
Posted by: Roy at November 22, 2024 03:05 PM (z+ik4)

And you can put the generator right beside the mine, and transmit the electricity, and not the coal. Which is how its done, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 03:24 PM (+8Ln3)

345 It's for the Children of Color in Californica !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 22, 2024 03:24 PM (+Mo1I)

346 France just lost control of their Nuke fuel in Niger. Idiots were paying pennies for it, now will have to pay full market price if they get any at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 02:55 PM (n7h9X)

Cost of fuel is a very small part of the cost of nuke power.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2024 03:19 PM (+8Ln3)

Then it was pretty stupid of them to skin Niger alive for 60 years, especially when they were planning to route a gas pipeline from Nigeria to North Africa through it too...which is now blocked.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 22, 2024 03:25 PM (n7h9X)

347 Those federal loans may not be coming to California at all in the future, so they won't have to worry about repaying them. Problem solved for the state. Not so much for the idiots who still live there.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 22, 2024 03:53 PM (MZ+PY)

348 FWIW, in my jurisdiction, in a jury trial, jeopardy attaches when the jury is sworn. This prevents someone from having a bad day and dismissing without prejudice..

Posted by: RS at November 22, 2024 04:14 PM (E7m29)

349 Gooder and harder, Californians.

Posted by: Bud Norton at November 22, 2024 04:15 PM (/8Jbh)

350 Counties around Washington are raising property taxes by about 12%, two weeks after the election (King and Whatcom that I am aware of so far. People are pissed but nothing they can do now. I point out that there's a reason they didn't do it two weeks before the election if I hear them talking.

Posted by: Heresolong at November 22, 2024 04:52 PM (FSbq+)

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California Defaults on Federal Covid Loan to Pay for Illegals;
State Shellacks Business Owners With 50% Increase in Payroll Taxes (for Years and Years) To Pay the Loan Back
Plus: The Rise of the ASE (Anti-Search Engine)