The Morning Rant: When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail

The Soviet Union had a captive audience...nobody could leave with their money or their infrastructure unless the party allowed it. Communist China is the same way, as is Cuba, and North Korea, and Venezuela, and...

And leaving Krasnoyarsk for Tomsk, in the hope of more opportunity didn't work either...the laws under which the subjects of a socialist country operate made that change a triviality, even if one could get a permit to move.

But in free market economies, capital is mobile! And even more important; people are mobile. No permits required! No permission from the local People's Committee is needed...just a moving company and a funds transfer to the new city. So if you want to move your widget company to another city, have at it! And if you can convince your employees to go with you? All the better!

Why is this important? Because in the United States Of America, the deeply deluded flirtation with the out-and-proud socialism of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has exploded in the last few years. Whether it is organic growth of socialist principles, or a careful manipulation of the news cycle combined with excellent grassroots planning remains to be seen.

But one thing is certain; socialism has arrived in a few of our cities, including the biggest one! NYC is firmly in the grip of a socialist/Islamist mayor, and he is gleefully implementing public programs, increasing the tax rates wherever possible. and in all other respects bringing the soul-crushing policies of socialism to the people and businesses of New York City.

But this ain't the Soviet Union, and people and companies are leaving. And that is a very big problem for a city that has as its tax base a large number of highly paid people in finance and the employees in corporate offices whose presence in NYC is a business imperative...or at least it used to be!

And how do they do it? It's easy! Just leave. Our Constitutional Republic is specifically designed to give the states broad discretion over their governance, and that includes the business climate. So the draw of Texas and Tennessee and Florida -- all states with no income tax and a business friendly regulatory structure -- is easy to understand.

JP Morgan Chase has reduced head count by 6,000 people, and has expanded operations in Florida and Texas. Goldman Sachs has unveiled an explicit program (Project Voyage) of relocation to Dallas and Salt Lake City. Citadel's global headquarters is now in Miami. Apollo Global Management is expanding in Austin. Blackstone is expanding in Dallas, and Miami. AllianceBernstein is moving several thousand employees to Nashville. And these are peole whose salaries are not $50k/year for clerical work or running a cash register. These are in many cases highly compensated employees who make $250k...or many multiples of that. The decrease in tax revenue from just a few of these people leaving is substantial, and it is not going to end anytime soon. The top 1% of earners in NYC pays 40% of the personal income tax! That is huge and unsustainable.

And that's just finance. Other large corporations whose executives can see the never-ending increases in corporate and personal taxes, coupled with the vast improvement in data movement no longer have to be in NYC. The internet may very well be the death knell of NYC! Walmart, Amazon, even tiny little Foot Locker are relocating employees or flat out getting the hell out of NYC.

And lest one assume that the state of NY is more sane... it isn't. New York State taxes are among the highest in the country, and the state is losing corporations and highly compensated people at an outrageous rate too!

And all of this is because of the wisdom and genius of the founders of our great country. Each state is largely free to experiment. And the flow of capital from the socialist experiment in New York City to the free states is huge, and growing. California and Illinois and Minnesota and New Jersey are also suffering from the same disease, and the low tax states are very happy to cultivate an atmosphere of freedom from regulation and taxation that makes them an attractive alternative to the sclerotic blue states.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 11:01 AM (O5BzH)

2 Rookie mistake... again. Off to get the others.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (VkY89)

3 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:02 AM (N1tpc)

4 When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail

Sounds like a recipe for WAR? no?
There is Profit, yes, but only at a distance.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:03 AM (Ooz63)

5 This is exactly why socialists in socialist states are seeking to bring the red states under their thumb.

The send out locusts to colonize the urban centers of other states who then capture the levers of government and create another hellhole on earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:03 AM (FZ29D)

6 I nood'd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (O5BzH)

7 5 This is exactly why socialists in socialist states are seeking to bring the red states under their thumb.

The send out locusts to colonize the urban centers of other states who then capture the levers of government and create another hellhole on earth.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Misery likes company.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)

8 The attempt will be made to Nationalize Socialism.

Eh. Last time that was tried, millions and millions died.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (u82oZ)

9 "In headlines, Mayor Mamdani announces the building of a wall around the city of New York to protect the citizens from the capitalist threat outside the borders."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (jjoN6)

10 Corgi summoned.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (VkY89)

11 Misery likes company.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)
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I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (FZ29D)

12 And leaving Krasnoyarsk for Tomsk, in the hope of more opportunity didn't work either...the laws under which the subjects of a socialist country operate made that change a triviality, even if one could get a permit to move.
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So much dignity under Marxism!

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (XMAAx)

13 There is a massive opportunity for some other cities to improve from New York's foolish choices.

For example, Detroit has LOTS of empty buildings. If its leaders were smart, they'd be reaching out to NY businesses and its Jewish community to take advantage of cheap rent, less insane policies and an existing Jewish community.

I'm going to bet that Detroit doesn't have leaders smart enough for that. Like most other big cities in the US.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (N1tpc)

14 I've been learning all about Thanksgiving! It turns out the white people were socialists and the Indians saved their sorry asses! So, not colonialist! And the white people were idiots. All good.

Except they didn't do socialism right.

Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (3ZBdr)

15 The USSR had internal passports as well, so people could not travel from city to city in Russia without written authorization. I can see the socialists here embracing that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (ddn0m)

16 "In headlines, Mayor Mamdani announces the building of a wall around the city of New York to protect the citizens from the capitalist threat outside the borders."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:05 AM (jjoN6)
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Go for it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

17 The attempt will be made to Nationalize Socialism.

Eh. Last time that was tried, millions and millions died.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (u82oZ)
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Wrong. The vast majority of European countries are basically national-socialist.

It works reasonably well, until it doesn't.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (XMAAx)

18 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

Other blue states are contemplating similar.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (2Cry5)

19 The USSR had internal passports as well, so people could not travel from city to city in Russia without written authorization. I can see the socialists here embracing that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

This happens in many countries.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (O5BzH)

20 15 I've been learning all about Thanksgiving! It turns out the white people were socialists and the Indians saved their sorry asses! So, not colonialist! And the white people were idiots. All good.

Except they didn't do socialism right.

NOW WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO SOCIALISM RIGHT.

Posted by: COLOSSUS at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (sGtp+)

21 Someone once described wealth as the power to control your future. The thing about power is that people who have it are more than willing to use some of it to maintain it.

So, the people with lots of wealth are certainly going to react to attempts to take some if it by using some of it to keep the rest.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (S6tOh)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (2YhKe)

23 I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Socialism is nothing more than institutionalized envy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:07 AM (ddn0m)

24 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (ctP9t)

25 For example, Detroit has LOTS of empty buildings. If its leaders were smart, they'd be reaching out to NY businesses and its Jewish community to take advantage of cheap rent, less insane policies and an existing Jewish community.

I'm going to bet that Detroit doesn't have leaders smart enough for that. Like most other big cities in the US.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (N1tpc)
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Uh, doesn't Detroit have a large Muslim population?

I can't see them being on board with this at all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (FZ29D)

26 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (2YhKe)

27 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

There's an old joke that the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (jjoN6)

28 Communist China is the same way, as is Cuba, and North Korea, and Venezuela, and...

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... Califzuela is not far behind, comrades!

Posted by: ShainS at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (ASeFW)

29 Wall Street will move to friendlier environs, leaving only the Bull and the annoying Little Girl.

Posted by: Statues of Limitations at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (JM9I6)

30 5 This is exactly why socialists in socialist states are seeking to bring the red states under their thumb.

The send out locusts to colonize the urban centers of other states who then capture the levers of government and create another hellhole on earth.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Actually, it is the Brennen Undead who do this, who pit Man against other men until we exist no more, because it makes 'their' job easier
-- people professing their inner secrets to their sponsored/AI
-- Orwell's panopticon isn't on the wall, it is in your and and pocket more addicitve than heroin, and more valuable to them than your own existance

LET's GO BRANDON!
TAKE A CHANCE FREE THE WORLD.
INDICT/EXPOSE BRENNAN and let his compromatee's pay for the canoe.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (bfddz)

31 Misery likes company.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv)

Joanie Loves Chachi.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:09 AM (2YhKe)

32 Yep. Freedom of movement. "No papers, state to state."

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 13, 2026 11:09 AM (aJQbY)

33 Fascism wasn't defeated in WWII. It went underground while it's popularity grew and grew. It became the government of almost every country, and as much of the United States as the progressives could muster.

Fascism is the system in which the government makes all decisions it cares to make. If the government cares to make the decision of what you can say on line, it does.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:09 AM (XMAAx)

34 21 15 I've been learning all about Thanksgiving! It turns out the white people were socialists and the Indians saved their sorry asses! So, not colonialist! And the white people were idiots. All good.

Except they didn't do socialism right.

NOW WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO SOCIALISM RIGHT.
Posted by: COLOSSUS

DSA: Build Borg Better.
One Mind. One Purpose. One Goal.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (bfddz)

35 Go for it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

Agree heartily!

Posted by: Snake Plissken at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (1z8ji)

36 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

Has anyone tested that in court? I assume that the courts would permit it since it's blue areas doing it but it sure seems sus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (ExV1e)

37 There is some support for much of "downstate" Illinois joining either Missouri or Indiana, to escape the wrath of the Chicago Outfit.

Not sure if there is any real chance of that, but I'd favor it. My little farm is not mobile, so that would be the only way for me to escape Illinois. (unless I decided to cash out with prices high, and buy a few acres in Eastern Tennessee hills ... milder winter weather, but still not beastly hot in summer.)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (vbXSk)

38 Rochelle, Rochelle had no problem in travelling from Milan to Minsk, I remember.

Posted by: Papieren, Bitte! at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (JM9I6)

39 Mamdani's already said he's more than willing to impose "exit taxes" on corporations or people leaving.

Other blue states are contemplating similar.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I would love to see a futures market calculating pricing on what is the appropriate cost to escape certain regions.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (ddn0m)

40 Joanie Loves Chachi.
Posted by: Sponge

Erin Moran's dimples. Damn. They did things to young Bulg.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

41 Watch Maxinomics on YouTube. Crisp, insightful and no BS on a wide variety of economics and history topics, including this.

You will be smarter for watching.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (bX16E)

42 So, about the Ellisons getting mad at our little lawsuit and Paramount moving to Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, or Florida...

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (nECtM)

43 I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Germans have a term for it, schadenfreude. Ahem, "the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another."

Miserable people want others to be as miserable as they are because they suck. Not exclusively leftist but all ideological leftists (other than the psychopathic leftist leaders) are miserable because they have substituted government for Christ.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:11 AM (E4rtv)

44 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (2YhKe)

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Of course that's rhetorical.

Oppressor vs. Oppressed ... with Government The Ultimate Oppressor!

Posted by: ShainS at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (ASeFW)

45 "When Capital Is Mobile, Socialism Will Fail"

Which is why we have to impose it everywhere, MAGAts!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (AdHga)

46 Comes from the same motivation that Stan uses when he breaks his tools. He hates them too and wants them as damned as he is.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv)

47 The number of billionaires living in NYC is increasing
Don't want to pay it? Move to Jersey orOklahoma.

Posted by: Paul at August 13, 2026 11:10 AM (Vy4tY)

Both states have an income tax. The number of billionaires leaving NYC for no income tax states, like Florida and Texas are increasing, bigly.

You're f*cking stupid. Stop swallowing jizz, fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (2YhKe)

48 Ah but as I bring up often, Chinese in the 70s, 80s seem to be trapped and not allowed to leave. How then in 2000s they can leave by the millions. Many women pregnant get to leave, come here have a baby then leave to go back?
Students come by the hundreds of thousands. The Chinese all of a sudden in last 20 years feel bad and let there citizens out?
Something doesn't add up.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:12 AM (ctP9t)

49 Uh, doesn't Detroit have a large Muslim population?

I can't see them being on board with this at all.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (FZ29D)

Detroit doesn't. Surrounding communities, yes.

Interestingly, Detroit imported a LOT of Iraqi Arabs in the 70s. Mostly Christians who live in the northern suburbs. The Muslim Arabs came more recently and took over Dearborn which is one of the southern suburbs.

The northern, Christian, Arabs are on good terms with the local Jewish community, which is also in the northern suburbs.

There's a lot of people in the area who've already escaped musselmen occupation and won't be too pleased to live under it again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:14 AM (N1tpc)

50 A lot of foreign sports stars became citizens of Monaco .

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:14 AM (KC5Lt)

51 But in free market economies, capital is mobile!
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In free markets, you *have* property. Property implies control.

Thus decision-making is distributed. The more you allow a private individual to control--as long as it doesn't adversely affect other self-determination, the more distributed decision-making is outside the government.

This is why free economies should not die.

Marx supposedly wanted to restore to man his "dignity", but as long as there is a state, they decide what is enough "dignity" for you.

Cliff notes: This is NOT dignity.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (XMAAx)

52 46 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?

Posted by: Sponge
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Three men who died recently are brought before the throne of God and told that they may each have one wish.

The Briton asks for an end to war.

The American asks for an end to hunger.

The Russian smiles slyly and says, “In my village, I have a neighbor who has a cow. I do not have a cow. I wish that my neighbor’s cow shall sicken and die.”

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (E4rtv)

53 There's also a term for when normal, well-adjusted, happy people take delight in bad things happening to liberals.

Posted by: schadenboner at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (J4Dwc)

54 Why is it that liberal cities chase off the rich by increasing taxes to pay for entitlements, but never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 13, 2026 11:08 AM (2YhKe)
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Witness Cleveland chasing John D. Rockefeller out. Dumb ass local politicos thought themselves so clever passing a "millionaire tax", aimed at him, and he left.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (nECtM)

55 Columbus, Ohio was a very pleasant medium-sized city in the early 1980s. Forced bussing after 1979 was ruining the public schools and bringing crime and decay to many places, but there were good parochial schools as well as close-in suburbs. Hilliard was tiny - we called it "hillbilliard". Now it is overflowing and a plurality of households with children in the Hilliard public school system speak Arabic as their first language. Nearby Tuttle Mall, which is "credited" with destroying the downtown City Center mall, looks like a middle eastern bazaar now. It's so awful that I prefer Cleveland now.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 13, 2026 11:15 AM (2ap+5)

56 I am happy to see all these capitalists and their running dog lackeys leaving the great workers city of New York. Now we can truly build a socialist paradise based on love, trust and harmony. No more 2026, it is now Year Zero!

(excuse me Sir, here is your Starbucks Venti Mocha Frappuccino)

Onward for the revolution!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani, Idiot Mayor at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (e2lsi)

57 Erin Moran's dimples. Damn. They did things to young Bulg.
Posted by: Bulg

May I suggest a 1979 made for TV movie "Twirl". Stars Erin and Lisa Whelchel and yes, it's about twirlers. It's much better than it sounds. I was surprised. On Youtube last I looked.

Posted by: Wielding My Baton at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (JM9I6)

58 I'd love to see a movement, a law, something that emphasizes that if a local or state government goes bankrupt, they will NEVER be bailed out.

Let's see how NYC funds their dream utopia then.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (Sco7b)

59 The NY diaspora ruins whereever they land. They ruined California in the 1970s!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (bX16E)

60 24 I don't think misery likes anything.

It *hates* happiness and prosperity. It's fueled by envy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Socialism is nothing more than institutionalized envy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

LIBS hate the man who has a dollar more than them, because they believe that dollar belongs to them.

The reality is, they are nothing more than the deluded fools and useful idiots of the Esptein class who fund their follies, and the counter-activists, because it is entertaining; they laugh behind closed doors, up down left right, all are their playthings.

What could possibly go wrong?
What FOOLS these Mortals Be?
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-irlTheBRENNANcameo

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (eU+M+)

61 Paul clearly has earned an advanced degree in weed.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2026 11:17 AM (udaaY)

62 Liberal Cities ... never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Liberals want slaves.

Joke's on them. Slaves worked.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:17 AM (u82oZ)

63
The USSR had internal passports as well, so people could not travel from city to city in Russia without written authorization. I can see the socialists here embracing that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Social credit scores and new vaccination cards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (Cqx++)

64 Marx supposedly wanted to restore to man his "dignity", but as long as there is a state, they decide what is enough "dignity" for you.

Cliff notes: This is NOT dignity.
Posted by: Axeman

Marx being the degenerate he was failed to reckon Locke's property included the person's life. As did Rousseau, thus they are free to murder enemies of state (taking the most valuable property of all--a life).

Protection of property is designed to protect someone's life as even depriving someone of the wherewithal to sustain their own life is no less than killing them.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (E4rtv)

65 Liberal Cities ... never decrease taxes to end entitlements to keep the rich around and chase off the poor?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Liberals want slaves.

Joke's on them. Slaves worked.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:17 AM (u82oZ)

Most of the liberals don't realize that THEY will be the slaves.

The commies knew them to be "useful idiots".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (N1tpc)

66 So to the user ... (Never know how to pronounce that): My wife sent me the link about the pesto rolls.

Go to King Arthur Baking and look for Pesto Swirls. That's where she got the recipe from.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (jjoN6)

67 Delrahim also became the first Paramount Skydance official to publicly state the company may quit California, following reports attributed to CEO David Ellison earlier in the week. There is "a point at which where you have a duty, a fiduciary duty to your shareholders, and those are the factors you consider," Delrahim declared. "If I was governor, I wouldn't want to lose Hollywood from the state. I wouldn't want to lose a major company like Paramount to another state. It isn't a blackmail attempt. You go where you're wanted."
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Imagine that, going where you're wanted. Take note Madmani.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:19 AM (UpmsQ)

68 The Left unknowingly follow 1984 almost as an instruction book .

This taxing the rich is more Animal Farm.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:19 AM (KC5Lt)

69 So to the user ... (Never know how to pronounce that): My wife sent me the link about the pesto rolls.

Go to King Arthur Baking and look for Pesto Swirls. That's where she got the recipe from.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (jjoN6)

(I think it's "ellipsis")

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 13, 2026 11:19 AM (N1tpc)

70 54 There's also a term for when normal, well-adjusted, happy people take delight in bad things happening to liberals.
Posted by: schadenboner
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As I said, it is not exclusive to the left but all ideological leftists not on the top of the slippery mountain peak of power are in fact miserable because like Stan, they rejected the true Lord and substituted a man made fake god of government (and idiocies derived from that like The People).

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:20 AM (E4rtv)

71 (I think it's "ellipsis")

I said that a while back but my accent was a bit off.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:21 AM (jjoN6)

72 Take note Madmani.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

"Madmani?" I am so stealing that.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

73 Real National Socialism has never been tried.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (iABCo)

74 If NYC real estate prices are indeed going up, as the idiot posits, how does that square with Madmani's promises of more affordable housing?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)

75 Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:18 AM (jjoN6)

Thank you!!! And to her as well.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (iABCo)

76 73 Real National Socialism has never been tried.
Posted by: ...

It will work THIS time because we're the ones the world is waiting for!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (jjoN6)

77 I'd love to see a movement, a law, something that emphasizes that if a local or state government goes bankrupt, they will NEVER be bailed out.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:16 AM (Sco7b)
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States can't go bankrupt under present law. Kind of wild to imagine what will happen to state taxes when it's time to pay the piper in New York and all the rich people have bailed, and no longer paying personal income taxes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (UpmsQ)

78 Liberals want slaves.

Joke's on them. Slaves worked.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Eh, Elois and Morlocks. Bye the Bye, ye shall have pie in the sky.

Utopians have a religious belief in "Progress" instead of Providence.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)

79 75 Thank you!!! And to her as well.
Posted by: ...

You're very welcome. Let me know how they turn out.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (jjoN6)

80 Columbus, Ohio was a very pleasant medium-sized city in the early 1980s. Forced bussing after 1979 was ruining the public schools and bringing crime and decay to many places, but there were good parochial schools as well as close-in suburbs. Hilliard was tiny - we called it "hillbilliard". Now it is overflowing and a plurality of households with children in the Hilliard public school system speak Arabic as their first language. Nearby Tuttle Mall, which is "credited" with destroying the downtown City Center mall, looks like a middle eastern bazaar now.
Posted by: Oglebay

Westerville (and the school system) also went to hell after the Somalis invaded. Dear Wife was Executive Director in the system and spent all her time trying to unfuck the situation. As you know, there are 'disturbances' at Polaris Mall and Easton Mall routinely which, for the uninitiated, were the upscale shopping centers (read this as - not in the shithole part of town).

We got the hell out.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (udaaY)

81 And she does a bread loaf with a pesto center as well. purrpurrpurr

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (jjoN6)

82 LIBS hate the man who has a dollar more than them,
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And a dollar less. And any dollar. And no dollar.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (iABCo)

83 Mamdani wants your money but doesn't care if you leave. That will give him less people to worry about toppling him. Remember the line from Milton: "Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven". That is the thinking of every dictator. Think of Cuba, N Korea, Venezuela etc etc

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (k/3Bw)

84 There's also a term for when normal, well-adjusted, happy people take delight in bad things happening to liberals.
Posted by: schadenboner
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The difference is that's a counter punch. Otherwise if they didn't try to force crap down our mouth the Right is mostly live and let be.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:23 AM (KC5Lt)

85 States can't go bankrupt under present law. Kind of wild to imagine what will happen to state taxes when it's time to pay the piper in New York and all the rich people have bailed, and no longer paying personal income taxes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Illinois went through this--they issue script to vendors of the state that are simply IOUs.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)

86 If NYC real estate prices are indeed going up, as the idiot posits, how does that square with Madmani's promises of more affordable housing?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (1z8ji)
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Especially since the city council members require personal payoffs before allowing developers to build new apartments.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (UpmsQ)

87 I've mentioned it before, but we have translations of Sumerian tablets from 4,000 year ago that fully describe a market (incorrectly derided as capitalism) system.

Included investments, business partnerships, contracts, and even international trading.

Even a black market to avoid the taxes and tolls of government.

No one "invented" capitalism--it's always been the default of mankind.
What was invented--and will always fail--is the bastard children of marxism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (3cUTc)

88 Social credit scores and new vaccination cards.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I am already for have dot on forehead with imbedded QR code which I am for updating on the daily

Further requirement is for only bigotry

Posted by: H1b Miklos Patel at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (XOG/m)

89
Money goes where money is well treated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (O0L8i)

90 82 And a dollar less. And any dollar. And no dollar.
Posted by: ...

"You have a dollar. This person does not. THAT'S NOT FAIR so we're going to take it away from you and give it to him."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (jjoN6)

91 I do not like the terms "capitalist" or 'Capitalism".

Those were created by Karl Marx.

Market is better

Posted by: Miklos, actual Karl Marx University alumnus at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (XOG/m)

92 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part. Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (jjoN6)

93 The commies knew them to be "useful idiots".
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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The lure of free shit is how people sell themselves into slavery. At least the Roman law was honest about it.

TANSTAAFL should be tattoed on every school kid's arms. There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch--R. Heinlein.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)

94
Imagine that, going where you're wanted.

White flight.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (Cqx++)

95 Illinois went through this--they issue script to vendors of the state that are simply IOUs.
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)
====================
A finger in the dyke, temporarily holding off the flood waters. But then vendors stop playing along, and slowly then suddenly, the flailing would begin.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (UpmsQ)

96 Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?
Posted by: NR Pax

Oh, I think we know how...

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

97 Looks like Musk is going to build his chip plant close to me ( actually on the bordering county) . I think part of his choice was the proximity of Texas A&M.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:27 AM (KC5Lt)

98 👍
My concern is movement through the states like locusts. I *itch all the time about the NY mass movement to PA during C19. Well, it continues & grows. (There is NO street or parking lot without an abundance of NY license plates.) And now, after Wolf, Gov. Shapiro.

Old, I remember some of the Vietnam War. The idea that communism grows and must be stopped in Southeast Asia was known as the domino theory, the belief a primary reason the United States entered the Vietnam War. But while neighboring nations, Laos and Cambodia, also fell to communist governments, the wider global domino effect did not happen as predicted.

However, Vietnam did not abandon socialism because capitalism became mobile; rather, in 1986, the ruling Communist Party deliberately introduced market reforms known Renewal to rescue a collapsing command economy.

Rather than failing, the state retained a monopoly on political power and control over key economic sectors, creating a "socialist-oriented market economy" that, reportedly, dramatically reduced poverty.

If true, it's that brand of socialism I fear might consume the US, especially to support greed & the influx of undocumented since +/-2006.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (NFX2v)

99 Ok, I can't even read the comments due to the pop up appearing every 5 seconds.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (ddn0m)

100 Why does Central Planning sound so good to people? Mostly because they must believe in some inherent goodness of mankind. Not just that they know better, but that they will summon their benevolence and follow their heart into a beautiful new dawn.

Man is partly good (conscience), but we are inherently corrupt. Begging to be ruled by the corrupt is exactly as it sounds.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (iABCo)

101 Marxism is half based on Envy, what you have and I don't has to be equal

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (ctP9t)

102 States can't go bankrupt under present law. Kind of wild to imagine what will happen to state taxes when it's time to pay the piper in New York and all the rich people have bailed, and no longer paying personal income taxes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 11:22 AM (UpmsQ)

Good to know. I had to do research.

States just default on bonds but it hasn't happened since Arkansas in 1933. But still, I think bondholders will just expect some sort of bailout.

If it's made clear that the US government will NEVER bail them out, then maybe funding would dry up.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (Sco7b)

103 Which is to say, it's embarrassing that anyone is stupid enough to think that some smelly, unwashed, lay-about, less than 200 years ago, stumbled upon a workable plan to defeat thousands of years of human nature.

And not just a bunch of stupid words to justify his avarice and sloth.

But then avarice and sloth are human nature.

And very enticing to the college educated with no further marketable skills.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (3cUTc)

104
I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part. Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?
Posted by: NR Pax

Don't they have "elections" in North Korea?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (Cqx++)

105 Illinois went through this--they issue script to vendors of the state that are simply IOUs.
Posted by: whig

Cali tried that too, but it was shot down by the Comptroller of the Currency as being an effective issuance of currency, because they were tradeable.

Posted by: Miklos recalls that at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (XOG/m)

106 White flight.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

White people move out: White flight.
White people move in: Gentrification.

They will never be happy until all white people are dead and even then, that happiness will last about three seconds and they'll find a new group to attack.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (jjoN6)

107 Earthquake! I'm guessing a 4.0. Definitely felt it.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:30 AM (DZ9Lv)

108 Don't they have "elections" in North Korea?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Not only that but they cured obesity in 99.8% of the population.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:30 AM (jjoN6)

109 99 Ok, I can't even read the comments due to the pop up appearing every 5 seconds.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 13, 2026 11:28 AM (ddn0m)

YEP YEP YEP

Posted by: POP UPS at August 13, 2026 11:31 AM (mxGIP)

110 Why does Central Planning sound so good to people? Mostly because they must believe in some inherent goodness of mankind. Not just that they know better, but that they will summon their benevolence and follow their heart into a beautiful new dawn.

Man is partly good (conscience), but we are inherently corrupt. Begging to be ruled by the corrupt is exactly as it sounds.
Posted by: ...

I think it was Robert Conquest who said "Every advocate of central planning sees himself as the central planner."

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

111 92 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part. Is it rude of me to speculate how she got passing grades at her alma mater?
Posted by: NR Pax
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All just restatements of the Levelers, the radical city Anabaptists in Germany in the Reformation, and demented musing of Rousseau and Marx.

Democracy is to them another name for Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Soviet Union had elections too for the Supreme Soviet, which in turn ratified everything that the Politburo wanted. Courts as well with a generous bill of rights, which were in turn whatever 'justice' corresponded with what the Politburo wanted in a particular case.

So in their case, "Democracy" is a euphemism of an oligarchic state run by insiders like her with the sole purpose of the electorate ratifying the decisions of the oligarchy. And in fact misapplied to the US and its Founding. It is a republic (as was the Soviet Union in theory) and voters cannot ratify decisions of insiders to violate the very Constitution that their power is based upon.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

112 Posted by: Miklos, actual Karl Marx University alumnus at August 13, 2026 11:26 AM (XOG/m)

I like stealing their terms and making it our own.

Americans do that best. Yankee Doodle Dandy was supposed to insult tus. It became a beloved song. Redneck is a proud moniker. Gringo is a name of an American Mexican restaurant chain. Etc etc .

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (KC5Lt)

113 Safari? Ad Block Plus.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (u82oZ)

114 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part.
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So the difference is a word.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (iABCo)

115 Yep, nailed it. 4.0

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (DZ9Lv)

116 Earthquake! I'm guessing a 4.0. Definitely felt it.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

Where? Where are you?

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

117 Go on and take the money and run.

Posted by: little people at August 13, 2026 11:32 AM (ehY6c)

118 109 99 Ok, I can't even read the comments due to the pop up appearing every 5 seconds.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Go to browser security settings and shut off webscripts aka Javascript, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)

119 107 Earthquake! I'm guessing a 4.0. Definitely felt it.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:30 AM

USGS agrees with you that it's a 4.0

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 13, 2026 11:33 AM (S6tOh)

120 80 Columbus, Ohio was a very pleasant medium-sized city in the early 1980s. Forced bussing after 1979 was ruining the public schools and bringing crime and decay to many places, but there were good parochial schools as well as close-in suburbs. Hilliard was tiny - we called it "hillbilliard". Now it is overflowing and a plurality of households with children in the Hilliard public school system speak Arabic as their first language. Nearby Tuttle Mall, which is "credited" with destroying the downtown City Center mall, looks like a middle eastern bazaar now.
Posted by: Oglebay

I was there until 2008. The hilltop area was getting pretty scary. I remember going to one nearly abandoned mall there at the time. I was worried about my car the entire time.

I was close to Hilliard. The Meijer's and Big Bear stores were really nice. It was a nice area back then.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:34 AM (Sco7b)

121 The difference between "cream" and "ice cream" is the ice!

Posted by: AOC, America's Orifice at August 13, 2026 11:34 AM (qUkBO)

122 Also, the Vietnamese central planners decided to produce lots of coffee. Vietnam has become the world's second largest producer of coffee. It is almost all B-grade, but there is plenty and it is cheap. This makes the lives of small producers of better coffee elsewhere impossible.

Why does Starbucks over-roast it's coffee?

Now you know.....the rest of the story

Posted by: Miklos in best Paul Harvey voice at August 13, 2026 11:35 AM (XOG/m)

123 >>Americans do that best. Yankee Doodle Dandy was supposed to insult tus. It became a beloved song. Redneck is a proud moniker. Gringo is a name of an American Mexican restaurant chain. Etc etc .

For some, that doesn't always work out so well

Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees at August 13, 2026 11:35 AM (J4Dwc)

124 Sure, Democracy is the difference, yet they want vote fraud to be the top

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2026 11:36 AM (ctP9t)

125 States just default on bonds but it hasn't happened since Arkansas in 1933. But still, I think bondholders will just expect some sort of bailout.

If it's made clear that the US government will NEVER bail them out, then maybe funding would dry up.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 13, 2026 11:29 AM (Sco7b)

Easy solution for bond defaults: bondholders get paid off by being given title to State land and/or buildings, at prevailing market rates.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:36 AM (1z8ji)

126 Where? Where are you?
Posted by: Bulg

In my house. ;->
San Francisco

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (DZ9Lv)

127 For some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.

Posted by: Uncle Ben at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (JM9I6)

128 Cali tried that too, but it was shot down by the Comptroller of the Currency as being an effective issuance of currency, because they were tradeable.
Posted by: Miklos
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I don't think Illinois made theirs tradeable to others. Eventually Illinois borrowed enough and increased taxes enough to drop the practice for now.

Cut enough federal fraud though, I suspect a number of blue states are going to go into a fiscal death spiral. They have been using fraud in Medicaid and other fed programs to pay the "Pauls" in their states by robbing 'Peter'--the federal government. They can do this in Medicaid from putting up illusory 'matches' by taxing medical procedures then billing the fedgov for their share of the match. Other fiscal tricks on grants, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (E4rtv)

129 I think it was Robert Conquest who said "Every advocate of central planning sees himself as the central planner."
Posted by: Bulg

who plans whom

Posted by: Miklos paraphrases Lenin at August 13, 2026 11:38 AM (XOG/m)

130 In my house. ;->
San Francisco
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

Ah, I imagine San Franciscans (and Californians in general) are very adept at gauging the magnitude of earthquakes.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

131 Democratic Socialism is when the Socialists use Democracy to institute Socialism and get rid of Democracy.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:39 AM (iABCo)

132 or some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben at August 13, 2026 11:37 AM (JM9I6)

Uh I don't think those were intentionally trying to insult Americans and..... ah screw it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:39 AM (KC5Lt)

133 Blue states are looking into other ways to make it expensive, or legally a hassle to leave.

Renting a U-Haul in CA to bug out is expensive, but it's because of demand, mostly. But the state could implement legal hurdles too, if it wanted. Or tack on a disconnect fee for utilities that's unreasonable. Stop refunding deposits or money spent on something that you no longer need in the state you're moving to.

There's no end to lengths they'll go to make it hard for you to bug out.

A year after transferring a vehicle from CA to WV I was still getting nasty letters telling me my registration was expired and they were going to repossess the truck. It was paid for. And in another state. Registered and titled there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (2Cry5)

134 The NY diaspora ruins whereever they land. They ruined California in the 1970s!

There is a point at which we leave each field to find a new one. That point never changes.

Posted by: Locusts at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (TmQh+)

135 Cont'd

During the initial rollout of Renewal in the late 1980s and 1990s, the immediate casualties of dismantling the old socialist safety net were the working class and rural poor.
(The wealth had quickly concentrated in industrial hubs like Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.)

Under strict socialism, the state provided basic healthcare, education, and food rations.

To transition to a market economy, the government instituted user fees for hospitals & schools. Poor families suddenly could not afford medical treatments, whereas the emerging elite could buy high-quality private care.

The rising middle class bears the heaviest structural tax burden; the ultra-wealthy found loopholes to retain their capital, and the poor initially bore the brunt of slashed state services before broader growth lifted them up.

Who still paid/pays the financial burden? Middle class. Who paid the initial systemic price? Poor.

SSDD

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (NFX2v)

136
Why does Starbucks over-roast it's coffee?

Now you know.....the rest of the story
Posted by: Miklos in best Paul Harvey voice

__________

All I want is some ordinary joe. SBUX is not only awful but hideously overpriced.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (O0L8i)

137 Trump is letting this latest op play out a bit. Gonna be fascinating to watch how he handles this attempted lurch to the Left. How far does he let them go before he makes a move?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (iABCo)

138 Also, the Vietnamese central planners decided to produce lots of coffee. Vietnam has become the world's second largest producer of coffee. It is almost all B-grade, but there is plenty and it is cheap. This makes the lives of small producers of better coffee elsewhere impossible.

Why does Starbucks over-roast it's coffee?

Now you know.....the rest of the story
Posted by: Miklos in best Paul Harvey voice at August 13, 2026 11:35 AM (XOG/m)

I was given a big sack of Vietnamese coffee by the Vietnamese wife of a long-time friend. It was excellent coffee. She brought back something like 50 kilos of it on her last visit to VN.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:40 AM (1z8ji)

139 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben

I done got retired myself, you handsome man

txt me

Posted by: Aunt Jemima at August 13, 2026 11:41 AM (XOG/m)

140 124 Sure, Democracy is the difference, yet they want vote fraud to be the top
Posted by: Skip

Democrats have no interest in a 'democracy' but instead use 'votes' as ratifying what Democrats have done and will do. The actual existence of a voter is irrelevant just like it was in Venezuela. What matters is the veneer of approval just like the Supreme Soviet voting to approve whatever the Politburo did.

And that is how you get a communistic dictatorship of the proletariat disguised which is simply a rehash of a warped aristocracy that treated peasants as property of the lords over them. To do with as they wished. Kings were actually brought about being given 'divine right to rule' in order to crush the rapacious nobility that had every interest in keeping their form of forced labor. And Kings in turn became decadent and evil because absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:42 AM (E4rtv)

141 'A note on how the economy is doing, from the view of a small fabrication shop.'
youtube.com/watch?v=iW3VtonN7W4

Posted by: gp at August 13, 2026 11:42 AM (Jr5Lq)

142 Wait until 15 years from now when black children are taught that beloved black icons were removed from shelves systematically by racist Republicans.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (iABCo)

143 For some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
------

Join the club fellows.

Posted by: Aunt Jemima at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (XeU6L)

144 Ah, I imagine San Franciscans (and Californians in general) are very adept at gauging the magnitude of earthquakes.
Posted by: Bulg

Once you're in a significant quake (5.7 in '87 and 6.9 in '89), anything above a 4 is a rush because you know what to anticipate. For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (DZ9Lv)

145
Hey, I'm still around!

Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy at August 13, 2026 11:44 AM (O0L8i)

146 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben

I done got retired myself, you handsome man

txt me
Posted by: Aunt Jemima

Call me.

Posted by: Land O' Lakes Chick at August 13, 2026 11:44 AM (lrRtF)

147 For some, that doesn't always work out so well
Posted by: former Sambo restaurant franchisees

Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
------

Join the club fellows.
Posted by: Aunt Jemima
------
[weeps softly]

Posted by: Land O'Lakes Indian Maiden at August 13, 2026 11:44 AM (XeU6L)

148 I was given a big sack of Vietnamese coffee by the Vietnamese wife of a long-time friend. It was excellent coffee. She brought back something like 50 kilos of it on her last visit to VN.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The quality stuff is maybe 5%. So good for you! If she is getting it on the private, there you go.

The 95% is a combination of climate, microclimates, soil, altitude, and communism.

Posted by: Mornin' Miklos at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (XOG/m)

149 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
------

Join the club fellows.
Posted by: Aunt Jemima

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Land O'Lakes Indian Girl at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

150 The Heritage Foundation, 2020, 'America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy'

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

151 Vietnam is benefiting greatly from foreign capitalism and investment and freedom of movement. It props up the communist government until it doesn't.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (KC5Lt)

152 For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM

When we were stationed on Adak island in Alaska earth quakes were a weekly and sometimes a daily occurrence. I do remember one that sounded as if a train was going right by our front door. It was loud.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 13, 2026 11:45 AM (cpFbA)

153 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.
Posted by: Uncle Ben
------

Join the club fellows.
Posted by: Aunt Jemima

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Land O'Lakes Indian Girl

This place. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (lrRtF)

154
This is only a test.

If this was a real comment, your bank accounts would be engorged with wealth.

But this is only a test.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (O0L8i)

155 151. 👍

And the U.S.?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (NFX2v)

156 145
Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy

I passed away decades ago.

Posted by: Mama Celeste at August 13, 2026 11:47 AM (JM9I6)

157 Easy solution for bond defaults: bondholders get paid off by being given title to State land and/or buildings, at prevailing market rates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Bond holders get nothing. They were happy enough to give out loans to deadbeats and in return get sweet higher than average interest payments until they stopped. Same reason why I had no sympathy for those that kept buying Argentinian bonds for decades at nosebleed interest rates which inevitably resulted in default. Instead, the bondholders should be able to pursue the wealth of all the politicians and their corrupt cronies that issued the debt in lawsuits. That way the real culprits are punished.

You want to break the cycle, then the incentive for bondholders is not to lend to deadbeats--if they do, they will have to take the high interest they demand as sufficient return. The incentive for the deadbeat is they don't get any money except at nosebleed interest which takes away their cash to operate to buy votes and steal wealth for themselves. The incentive for the politicians is to avoid themselves losing their generational wealth from a state going insolvent.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (E4rtv)

158 And the U.S.?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 11:46 AM (NFX2v)

We have 50 experiments going on right now. Benefits of a Republic instead of a Democracy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (KC5Lt)

159 Thx CBD.
My NYS county has asked the state legislature to allow it to apply a high earner surcharge. I wouldn't be surprised to see the next legislature allow it. There are some wealthy people in this county , one of the Facebook founders and his husband live north of Woodstock. Buffett's kid lives here as do various celebs. They are all leftists, the Facebook hubby was a Dem congressional candidate a few years back, so this is a target rich environment. It won't stop at the rich however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (WOnE5)

160 Call me.
Posted by: Land O' Lakes Chick

That chick and a stick or two of butter

We could have a Fine Time

Posted by: Miklos wanna get all Indigenous on that girl at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (XOG/m)

161 Lived in Mountain View when the Loma Prieta quake struck in '89. Several smaller quakes before that.

The Loma Prieta quake collapsed the upper deck of I-880 onto the lower deck. Afterwards, locals started referring to that stretch of interstate as I-440.

Dark humor...

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (J4Dwc)

162 Don't forget us:

Rastus (Cream of Wheat)
Frito Bandito
Eskimo Pie

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (XvL8K)

163 OT Well, apparently they have another D. nutcase running in Maine for Senate . I guess Susan Collins' staff campaign staff is good at ferreting this stuff out:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8umxfc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (xPsv8)

164 I passed away decades ago.
Posted by: Mama Celeste

You were the village bicycle.

Posted by: Chef Boyardee at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (O5BzH)

165 I read an article about AOC claiming that the difference between socialism and democratic socialism is the democracy part.

Dems would like you to think that 'Democratic' and 'democratic' are the same thing. They are not. As newly-single AOC knows- it's all about the "D".

Posted by: t-bird at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (04KGT)

166 Off sock.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

167 From the last thread:

I asked Gemini to give me a list of the most remote Swiss villages by distance to the nearest Swiss city, while still having high-speed internet, supermarkets, schools, and restaurants. It spit out the three most remote, which are all out in the Alps near Chur.

The distances from each village to Chur are:
Andeer: 37 kilometers (approx. 30 minutes driving or 43 minutes via direct bus)
Splügen: 51 kilometers (approx. 39 minutes driving or 58 minutes via hourly bus)
Scuol: 118 kilometers (approx. 1 hour and 45 minutes driving or 2 hours via regional train)

Yeah I was right, that redditor from the last thread lives in a suburb of some Swiss city and he acts like he's out in the hollers of West Virginia. These people are wildly delusional, lol.

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 11:49 AM (oqH4h)

168 137 Trump is letting this latest op play out a bit. Gonna be fascinating to watch how he handles this attempted lurch to the Left. How far does he let them go before he makes a move?
Posted by: ...
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Fresh evidence of Democrat (and perhaps GOPe) voter fraud is always useful so it disarms the argument that 2020 was so long ago.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)

169 I'm still around. Make me yodel, Big Boy!

Posted by: Swiss Miss at August 13, 2026 11:51 AM (JM9I6)

170 Bond holders get nothing. They were happy enough to give out loans to deadbeats and in return get sweet higher than average interest payments

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Municipal bonds pay low interest, because income is tax free.

The Federal Income Tax rules effectively subsidize spendthrift cities.

Posted by: Miklos is neither a deadbeat lender nor borrower at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (XOG/m)

171
We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (O0L8i)

172 Sure, big companies can vote with their feet. But red jurisdictions didn't exactly wow us with their commitment to freedom during Coof Madness. And you only have to lose one national election to have 25,000 Haitians dumped into a town of 50,000. The average person is less able to vote with their feet than ever before with the tendrils of the federal government grasping at everything and your average Republican being less than conservative.

Posted by: Hotel California at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (hqQIL)

173 Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy

I passed away decades ago.
Posted by: Mama Celeste
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I managed to hold on until 2020.

Posted by: Cream of Wheat Chef at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (XeU6L)

174 Once you're in a significant quake (5.7 in '87 and 6.9 in '89), anything above a 4 is a rush because you know what to anticipate. For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

I was on a bus when Loma Prieta hit. The bus suddenly pulled to the side and I looked around.

Thought one as I looked at a car bouncing up and down: "Damn. They're going at it pretty hard.

Thought two as I looked around: "If they're going at it hard enough to shake the neighborhood, does she have a sister? Oh right. Earthquake.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2026 11:53 AM (jjoN6)

175 Easy solution for bond defaults: bondholders get paid off by being given title to State land and/or buildings, at prevailing market rates.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2026 11:36 AM (1z8ji)

Bondholders get paid off by being given title to the elected officials who caused the problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

176 Yeah, I'm unemployed too.

I'm on that farm upstate with rover.

Posted by: kitty queen at August 13, 2026 11:53 AM (eMUgY)

177
I'm still around. Make me yodel, Big Boy!
Posted by: Swiss Miss at August 13, 2026 11:51 AM (JM9I6)

________

Hussy!

Posted by: St. Pauli Girl at August 13, 2026 11:54 AM (O0L8i)

178 Don't forget us:

Rastus (Cream of Wheat)
Frito Bandito
Eskimo Pie
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 11:48 AM (XvL8K)
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That last guy was delicious.

Posted by: Klondike Bar Polar Bear at August 13, 2026 11:54 AM (amcLV)

179 Once you're in a significant quake (5.7 in '87 and 6.9 in '89), anything above a 4 is a rush because you know what to anticipate. For an instant, you wonder.... Quakes can be surprisingly loud.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 13, 2026 11:43 AM (DZ9Lv)

Loud? No shit! Especially if one works at a factory that manufactures Christmas bells.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 13, 2026 11:54 AM (g8Ew8)

180 171
We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (O0L8i)
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lolz

Posted by: ballistic at August 13, 2026 11:55 AM (oqH4h)

181 Municipal bonds pay low interest, because income is tax free.

The Federal Income Tax rules effectively subsidize spendthrift cities.
Posted by: Miklos
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Blame Scotus--see McCulloch v. Maryland 1816. Marshall's opinion rested in part on the power to tax is the power to destroy. If you did in fact have federalism, then the states could not tax the federal government or its 'corporations' lest that meant that the states could destroy the federal government that way. But the converse was true too, the federal government could not tax the states and their policy instruments lest they be able to destroy the other sovereign governments of the states.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:55 AM (E4rtv)

182 Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy

It's been a while for me.

Posted by: The Original Allstate "Mayhem" Guy at August 13, 2026 11:55 AM (04KGT)

183 My first quake while living in CA, I was in a chase lounge by the apartment complex swimming pool reading a book when I noticed the water in the pool sloshing back-and-forth and spilling out over the sides.

That was wild.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (J4Dwc)

184 I was on a bus when Loma Prieta hit. The bus suddenly pulled to the side and I looked around.

I was in an office building in Sunnyvale. A co-worker and I moved to the doorway and watched a 300 pound printer walk itself halfway across the room.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (vTZFs)

185 The Federal Income Tax rules effectively subsidize spendthrift cities.

Posted by: Miklos is neither a deadbeat lender nor borrower at August 13, 2026 11:52 AM (XOG/m)

Excellent point, but I am going to take advantage of it for as long as I can!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (l4RKn)

186 The Loma Prieta quake hit exactly one week before I was to head off to boot camp in San Diego. Made me wonder if I really wanted to go to California.

But after boot camp it was off to Monterey, and I fell in love with California.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

187 Bondholders get paid off by being given title to the elected officials who caused the problem.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Heh. I like that even better than my paltry suggestion. Bondholders would be left with owning a bunch of untalented and ugly assholes as a booby prize for stupid lending.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

188 @171 Hadrian, I believe the wonderful Pete Buttgiggle solved all broadband issues

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (WOnE5)

189 Hey, I'm still around!
Posted by: The Quaker Oats Guy

I passed away decades ago.
Posted by: Mama Celeste
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I managed to hold on until 2020.
Posted by: Cream of Wheat Chef

You all laughed at me. Laughed!

But I have my revenge

I'm still here, you fucking bastards

Posted by: Little Debbie at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (XOG/m)

190 We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?
Posted by: Hadrian
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I believe that BPL (Broadband over Power line) has been a predictable failure. After ~$60 Billion in grants.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 11:57 AM (XeU6L)

191 one hour sober

I was on a ship offshore of San Francisco during the Loma Prieta quake.

We saw all the TV coverage. The Nimitz Freeway got a 5 second clip. Knew there were a lot of dead there. Came in thinking about what to do for martial law. Using the 30 power big eyes, evidence of damage was light.

My car on the pier was halfway between the Nimitz Freeway and the failed part of the Bay Bridge. Cracks in the pier pavement.

Got a story about the fires if wanted.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:58 AM (u82oZ)

192 But after boot camp it was off to Monterey, and I fell in love with California.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
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Ft. Ord?

Posted by: Klondike Bar Polar Bear at August 13, 2026 11:58 AM (amcLV)

193 I believe that BPL (Broadband over Power line) has been a predictable failure. After ~$60 Billion in grants.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Not sure that those who got the money think of it as a failure. That is one of the problems with federal spending.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

194 But after boot camp it was off to Monterey, and I fell in love with California.

I still love California, I just hate Californians.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)

195
I'm still here, you fucking bastards
Posted by: Little Debbie at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (XOG/m

Yes and in every ride on cart customers basket in Walmart !

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vQrSy)

196 Gah!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (amcLV)

197
I'm still here, you fucking bastards
Posted by: Little Debbie at August 13, 2026 11:56 AM (XOG/m)

__________

And we love you.

Posted by: Pedo Democrats at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (O0L8i)

198 I'm still here, you fucking bastards
Posted by: Little Debbie
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Hmm. 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest' just came to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (XeU6L)

199 The richer you are the easier it is to move.

So the states going more and more socialist will see their richer people move

The one exception to this are those who are politically connected where paying 10% in taxes might not matter because most of their income comes from laundered tax payer money anyway - so sure they lose 10% off the top but they make way more since government will give them more.

Amusingly in this regard they are more like the dependent class then the wealthy members of the productive class

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm)

200 one hour sober

One thing. For the next two days, everyone was a polite driver. It did take a month for the "Did the Earth move for you" tales to go away.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (u82oZ)

201 Ft. Ord?
Posted by: Klondike
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Not Ft. Bragg?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 12:01 PM (XeU6L)

202
Her Majesty spends an inordinate amount of time leaving on a trip. Not taking a trip, just leaving.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2026 12:01 PM (O0L8i)

203 I still love California, I just hate Californians.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)

Yup. Most beautiful state in the country...populated by 40,000,000 retards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (l4RKn)

204 Mike Hammer

My broadband is increasingly unreliable. I have a tower 10 miles away.

Looking at StarLink.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (u82oZ)

205 I believe that BPL (Broadband over Power line) has been a predictable failure. After ~$60 Billion in grants.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I can waste money for less

Posted by: Aspiring federal Grantee and rapper Miklos, turnin' his income around at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (XOG/m)

206 I'm still around. Make me yodel, Big Boy!
Posted by: Swiss Miss at August 13, 2026 11:51 AM (JM9I6)

I'll bring the meat.
-- Big Boy, Burger Guy

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

207 Yup. Most beautiful state in the country...populated by 40,000,000 retards.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (l4RKn)

Ahem...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:03 PM (vQrSy)

208 Ft. Ord?
Posted by: Klondike Bar Polar Bear

Defense Language Institute

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

209 Defense Language Institute
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
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What language did they learn you?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (amcLV)

210 {{{It's me donna}}}

There must be 15 million exceptions to CBD's comment. You are one of those exceptional people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (u82oZ)

211 What language did they learn you?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

russkiy yazik

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

212 So Wendy's should change their mascot for somehow demeaning gingers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (XvL8K)

213 There must be 15 million exceptions to CBD's comment. You are one of those exceptional people.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (u82oZ)

There are a few of us...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (vQrSy)

214 I can waste money for less
Posted by: Aspiring federal Grantee and rapper Miklos
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I can write the grant applications, it will require a modest commission.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

215 russkiy yazik
Posted by: Bulg

ochen harasho

Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (XOG/m)

216 So Wendy's should change their mascot for somehow demeaning gingers.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (XvL8K)

What does Wendy Thomas think of that suggestion?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

217 Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (vQrSy)

Head on a swivel....

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iABCo)

218 217 Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:05 PM (vQrSy)

Head on a swivel....
Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iABCo)

Always.....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 13, 2026 12:07 PM (vQrSy)

219 I can write the grant applications, it will require a modest commission.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

Not in the budget this cycle

Posted by: Bean Counters of Wasted days and wasted nights (Freddy Fender) at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (XOG/m)

220 There must be 15 million exceptions to CBD's comment. You are one of those exceptional people.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2026 12:04 PM (u82oZ)

Cathy Ireland, too.

Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

221 Head on a swivel....
Posted by: ... at August 13, 2026 12:06 PM (iABCo)

I had more success in life using a reciprocating saw. -- Kamala

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (ExV1e)

222 Irony is dead,

Today's headline at GWP,

"Frank Luntz Calls for ‘Total and Complete Shutdown of Primary Polling’ After Polls Got Michigan and Wisconsin So Wrong"

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:09 PM (E4rtv)

223 Cathy Ireland, too.
Posted by: Bulg at August 13, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

She related to Kathy Ireland?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

224 In practice, what is the difference between head on a swivel and head on a rotating pike?

Posted by: Miklos requires clarification before the Zoom meeting in 5 minutes about this at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (XOG/m)

225 Cathy Ireland, too.
Posted by: Bulg

Cathy Ireland > Ireland.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)

226 So can anyone predict what will happen next?
--> Sure ya can! Dem-ruled shitholes will pass LAWS demanding that if you want to move your business out of their shithole you must pay an "exit tax" equal to three times your business's last state tax bill.
Most businesses will ditch plans to flee, hoping the situation will improve. A tiny few will leave without paying--and the host state will sue. And leftist judges (which rule every lower court) will rule in favor of the Dem shithole states.
So in a matter of months, the notion that you can move businesses and capital to more welcoming states--though *technically true,* will be effectively nullified by leftist judges under the "full faith and credit" clause.

Posted by: sf at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (dK6Bp)

227 We don't hear about rural connectivity any more. Was it solved by the government or Elon Musk?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Elon.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2026 12:10 PM (lrRtF)

228 "Frank Luntz Calls for ‘Total and Complete Shutdown of Primary Polling’ After Polls Got Michigan and Wisconsin So Wrong"
Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:09 PM (E4rtv)

Jim Cramer looks around nervously.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

229 She related to Kathy Ireland?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Twins. Made it easier for the mother to use the correct name when facing identical twins.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (E4rtv)

230 Stationed at Moffett Field, I made the drive from the South Bay to Ft. Ord several times to play the Bayonet golf course on the base.

Very difficult course, for sure.

Some PGA Tour pros arriving on the peninsula for the annual stop at Pebble Beach would play practice rounds at Bayonet to sharpen their game ahead of the tournament.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (J4Dwc)

231 Jim Cramer looks around nervously.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Heh.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)

232 Wholesale price inflation report is out, and the word is "unexpectedly". Imagine that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 13, 2026 12:12 PM (cTuVd)

233 Some PGA Tour pros arriving on the peninsula for the annual stop at Pebble Beach would play practice rounds at Bayonet to sharpen their game ahead of the tournament.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 13, 2026 12:11 PM (J4Dwc)

Would they shave a couple points off their score?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 13, 2026 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

234 I'm not waiting on a lahdee, I'm just waitin on an Ace.

Posted by: Jick Magger of the Stones Rolling at August 13, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)

235 232 Wholesale price inflation report is out, and the word is "unexpectedly". Imagine that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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News media getting whacked up the head repeatedly by reality is an evergreen story.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)

236 203 I still love California, I just hate Californians.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 13, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)

Yup. Most beautiful state in the country...populated by 40,000,000 retards.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2026 12:02 PM (l4RKn)

Don Henley can be an idiot, but he get's some things right.

"They call it Paradise, I don't know why.
Call someplace Paradise, kiss it goodbye!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2026 12:14 PM (edUvp)

237 158. We have 50 experiments going on right now. Benefits of a Republic instead of a Democracy.
Posted by: polynikes

👏🏻 excellent.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 13, 2026 12:15 PM (NFX2v)

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