Babylon Bee takes Hollywood
Now those crazy, irrepressible rascals have gone into the movie business.
Certainly makes ya think, don’t it?
Let it burn!
Now those crazy, irrepressible rascals have gone into the movie business.
Certainly makes ya think, don’t it?
Another rockin’ good headline from those wild, whacky NYP kids.
The article itself is kinda meh, just more of the usual self-consciously “edgy” obnoxiousness from a standard-issue, Mark-1 Mod-0 NYC “artist” type, whereas the breathless “cache of illegal guns” hubba-hubba refers to about as scrawny and undernourished a so-called arsenal as you’re ever likely to point and laugh at—except for the Mossberg, a scattershot collection of cheap junk none but a hoplophobic denizen of the Big Rotten Apple would think frightening: a Mossberg 12 ga pump; a KelTec .22; a Seecamp .32; a goofy fixed-blade “fighting knife” likely purchased at a boondocks truck stop for less than a double-saw, made of steel so buttery-soft merely sheathing the stupid, gaudy thing would be more than enough to dull whatever notional edge it may (or may not) have ever had; random boxes of ammo, probably all in 5.56, 9mm, .45ACP, and/or other mismatched calibers; one of those useless kit-stilettos you gotta assemble yourself, a practical joke from the bottom end of the otherwise generally half-decent Boker product line so flippity, flappity, and all-round raggedy-assed you couldn’t pop a soap bubble with it (ask me how I know, I dares ya).
If you find that sort of horsepuckey intriguing, feel perfectly free to click on through and read the whole thing. For my money, the headline pretty much says it all.
HOW I KNOW: Okay, okay, here’s the skinny. Many moons ago, long before the Innarnuts was even a twinkle in Albert “Arnold the Pig” AlGore’s eye (in days of old/when knights were bold/and Amazon not invented), I mail-ordered two (2) assembly-required stiletto kits from Boker. I affixed the plastic decorative handles to the pot-metal frame with model-airplane cement (not included), attached the blade-actuator button in its slot according to the minimal instructions, and was appalled to learn that, when the button was pushed to bring the blade (NOTE: not even the vaguest hint of an edge on the sorry thing, and I do mean none) zipping out of the opening, the internal spring was too wimpy to eject the blade with sufficient force to click it into the “open, locked” position. Imagine my chagrin as I stood there slack-jawed, brand-new knife in hand, the stabby part (HA!) of which lolled weakly in and out of its frame, of no more use to me than a 2-pound bag of ice is to your average Eskimo…a great deal less than, actually.
Upon further experimentation, it developed that now and again I could make the blade lock into place with a few sharp, vigorous flicks of my wrist, which felt every bit as foolish to me then as it sounds today. Regardless of all the jiggery, pokery, and Afro-engineering trickery I attempted, though, the button steadfastly refused to get with the program; after several years occasionally endeavoring such bootless meat-beatery, I finally gave up and tossed the Boker into the broken and/or non-useful tool drawer in my rollaway at the H-D shop. Once my youthful innocence had been forever lost, the trusty old Gerber Gator resumed its established role as my EDC shank, and the Boker pieces o’ shite eventually wound up in the rubbish bin where they rightfully belonged. THE MORAL OF THE STORY: As personal defense weapons, the Boker switchers make perfectly adequate paperweights, doorstops, and/or letter openers.
I can think of but one proper way to do this, and that’s to jack Irish’s whole post lock, stock, and barrel.
This guy thinks he’s so smart but guess what he isn’t at all! I love this young lady that puts fact out and makes common sense! This is honestly pure gold! 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/NCOPO6hGCf
— Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@KathleenWinche3)
Shitlib dude is too damned stupid—from here on out let’s just call such exceptional, special-case moronitude not merely “stupid,” but LIBERAL Stupid©, shall we?—to even know he just had his head handed to him.
Gee, Willie Brown’s dick, her own foot, gallons of cheap vodka daily—as my Grandma used to pointedly inquire whenever she heard somebody cuss (besides herself, natch): you kiss your Mama with that mouth, Kumala?
As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times. It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation.
It is not a place for politics.
And yet, as was reported this week, Donald Trump’s team chose to film a video there, resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff. Let me be clear: the former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt.
This is nothing new from Donald Trump. This is a man who has called our fallen service members “suckers” and “losers” and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients.
A man who, during a previous visit to the cemetery, reportedly said of fallen service members, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
This is a man who is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself.
If there is one thing on which we as Americans can all agree, it is that our veterans, military families, and service members should be honored, never disparaged, and treated with nothing less than our highest respect and gratitude.
And it is my belief that someone who cannot meet this simple, sacred duty should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States of America.
I will always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America’s fallen heroes, who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our beloved nation and our cherished freedoms. I mourn them and salute them. And I will never politicize them.
That’s the entirety of Kumala’s ill-advised “Show more” Tweet, to which the response has been…erm, unfortunate, for her at any rate. For starters:
If the position being taken is that former Presidents can’t tape a video at Arlington, here’s the “Celebrating America” TV special for the Biden-Harris inauguration taped at Arlington and co-produced by the same person who produced the DNC. https://t.co/BmmwYwKS7e pic.twitter.com/l3GZUfRhtu
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini)
OW, that smarts! And then there’s this:
Oh, Kamala, what have you done? In a move that was scummy even for her, Kamala Harris had the audacity to attack Donald Trump for appearing at the memorial for service members who died at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. And, by extension, she attacked the Gold Star families who invited him to be there.
Keep in mind the only reason they’re Gold Star families is because Kamala Harris and Joe Biden botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan and got their loved ones killed.
Now those families are responding:
And how. Follows, scads upon scads of stinging video denunciation from said families, which is a joy and a wonder to behold. For us, that is, not for her; not a-tall, in fact. No wonder the stupid, drunk-ass ho’ is so reluctant to be interviewed, debate the opposition candidate (or anybody else) honestly and fairly, or otherwise speak in public any more than she absolutely, positively must. My God, the woman makes even Dotard Jaux Bribem look like a gentleman and a scholar, which is really saying something.
One last excellent riposte I almost forgot to include:
Harris will send your kid to war ignore it if they get killed then whine about someone else laying the wreath to remember them.
— Doug Bright (@DougBright1)
I repeat: OW! Also: YIKES!!
Update! Senator Tom Cotton gets the last truly epic word.
You might think that would be the end of the story. After all, how do you keep pushing a false story that has even been rebuked by the very families involved who lost their loved ones due to Harris’ incompetence? The press took that as a challenge, though, and when Welker faced off against Cotton on Sunday morning, she told an inexcusable lie as she desperately tried to defend the vice president.
WELKER: The bottom line, I guess, though, senator, is it ever appropriate to make campaign content at military grave sites?
COTTON: He didn’t take campaign photos there. These families, Gold Star families, whose children died due to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s incompetence, invited him to the cemetery, and they asked him to take those photos because as they told me yesterday when I spoke to Kelly Barnett and Darren Hoover, the parents of Taylor Hoover, who has Arkansas ties, they don’t get to go to the beach on Labor Day. They don’t get to have BBQs. This is their one chance to have a memory of their children to commemorate their service and to honor their sacrifice. They wanted President Trump there, they wanted to take those photos.
You know who those families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, DC. She was four miles away. Ten minutes. She could’ve gone to the cemetery and honor the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn’t. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them.
WELKER: Well, they did meet with them during the dignified transfer. They were with them during the dignified transfer.
COTTON: It is because of her and Joe Biden’s incompetence that those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan.
Cotton’s takedown of Welker’s talking points is perfect, not because of some impressive political prowess, but because it’s the truth. The claim that Trump made “campaign content” at Arlington National Cemetery is simply false. None of the pictures with the family have been used in ads or placed in a political context by the Trump campaign. He was there at the behest of the Gold Star families. Given their children died defending this country, I think they have a right to snap a few pictures if they’d like.
This game has long been played (by the) left and the federal bureaucracy. When John McCain took some video of him walking among the gravestones, the press attacked him for it. When Barack Obama and Joe Biden did the same thing (including Biden being pictured in Section 60), no one said a word. No (D)NC official came running out telling them to put the cameras away while accusing them of breaking the rules. Let a Republican show up to honor the fallen though, and suddenly it’s a scandal. The entire thing is so transparent.
What Welker did at the end of that exchange is just inexcusable, though. Cotton specifically said Harris has never spoken to or met with the Abbey Gate Gold Star families, and the anchor jumps in to insist “they” (as in both Biden and Harris) were at the dignified transfer. Kamala Harris was not there, and every attempt by the families to connect with her since has been rebuffed. Biden was there, but he infamously checked his watch multiple times.
The rush by these hack journalists to defend Harris has them now telling outright lies on national television.
Ummm…now, Bonch? Been a good bit longer than that, I’m afraid.
Well, for one thing, by his own choice he went from being a true iconoclast to being a straight-up lunatic.
If money’s your metric, then Howard Stern is the most successful radio personality in American media history. If you consider radio a creative art, then he’s the world’s wealthiest artist. He’s been compensated more money than anyone else in his medium — and by a VERY wide margin.
He makes $130 million annually from Sirius and has a net worth of $900 million. He owns a pair of apartment buildings in New York, 32 villas and properties in Minnesota, Texas, and Virginia, 16 mansions in Florida and California, and over 5,000 acres of real estate. His enormous mega-mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., is estimated to be worth $300 million. (A nearby property in Palm Beach — Mar-a-Lago — was appraised by New York Attorney General Leita James to be worth just $75 million.)
Stern has made more than Rush Limbaugh. More than Hannity, Beck, Imus, and Schlessinger combined. No radio talent has ever matched his checkbook.
For a time, he was so omnipresent in popular culture, that an article like this would never see the light of day. First of all, the premise alone would be preposterous — how the hell is Howard Stern irrelevant?! He’s everywhere! And second, journalists were terrified of Stern. If he turned his spotlight on you, it was brutal: His insanely loyal fans would terrorize you in public. Go ask Kathie Lee Gifford how fun it was to be caught in Stern’s crosshairs.
And really, that was the secret to his success: More than anything else, it was the connection Stern forged with his audience that made him so special. If he had an autograph signing or an appearance somewhere, thousands of his fans would huddle together in the pouring rain — waiting for hours — just to get a glimpse of their radio deity. His book “Private Parts” became the biggest literary smash-hit Simon & Schuster had ever published. His audience hung on to his every word. The emotional bond between him and his audience was unbreakable.
Or so we thought.
Then something strange happened: Howard Stern became the world’s first celebrity to go behind a paywall.
It was a clever move by Sirius: For satellite radio to succeed, they needed to figure out a way to convince audiences to pay for something that they’re accustomed to getting for free. So, if you’re Sirius, what’s the fastest, most efficient way to build a paying audience?
Answer: Find the biggest name in the talk-radio universe with the most loyal audience — fans so faithful, they’ll follow him anywhere — and sign him to an exclusive contract.
And that’s exactly what Sirius did. Stern left terrestrial radio and jumped to satellite in 2006.
Originally, this was pitched to his fans as an amazing new development for creative content: Before, Stern was limited by the FCC. Now, he’s finally free to do the show he’s always wanted to do — it’ll be wilder, crazier, and waaaay more explicit! Oh, can you imagine the antics Stern might pull without any risk of censorship?!
In his first few years at Sirius, Stern was hitting on every cylinder. Those shows were some of the finest of his career: Artie Lange, Eric the Actor (“Ack, ack”), Beetlejuice, Riley Martin, and their merry gang of goofy Wack Packers were skewering sacred cows and delighting millions of ultra-dedicated fans. Back then, when you walked around an office building, you’d usually find multiple people tuning to Stern over the Internet while wearing headphones (or hiding in the parking lot, listening to their Sirius radio), giggling and laughing.
And now?
Nobody under 40 listens to Stern. Nobody under 30 knows could even identify him in a lineup. But whereas older Americans — Gen X-ers and up — still remember Stern as a pioneering shock jock, younger Americans don’t remember him at all.
It’s like he never existed.
Might as well not have, in effect. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer asshole if you ask me, but YMMV. Oh, and: “terrestrial radio”? As I understand the thing, it’s more atmospheric than terrestrial, but maybe I’m just picking nits on that one.
Successfully spite own faces.
San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of Elon Musk’s X headquarters: ‘Good riddance’
X owner Elon Musk’s plan to move the social media platform’s headquarters out of San Francisco has some city officials eager to bid farewell to the billionaire’s business.“I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance,” city attorney David Chiu told The New York Times.
The outlet noted that San Francisco Mayor London Breed said she had met with Musk “several months ago” but that she didn’t extend offers aimed at keeping X in the city, saying, “I’m not going to beg anybody.”
The report comes after Musk announced last month that he will move the company’s headquarters to Texas in response to a new law enacted by the state of California that prohibits schools from notifying parents if their children want to change their gender identity.
Musk said at the time that X’s headquarters would move to Austin, Texas, while he also announced that SpaceX would relocate its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.
He cited the gender identity law as being “the final straw” and attributed the move to “this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies.”
Shortly after Musk announced in July that X would move out of San Francisco, he mentioned issues with the “crazy gross receipts city tax” making it “impossible for financial companies to operate in San Francisco.”
“That’s why Stripe, Block (CashApp), VISA and many others were forced out of San Francisco, as ‘gross receipts’ came to be defined as all transactions processed by a company, even if NOT revenue. That meant companies processing payments either had to leave SF or die,” Musk said last month. “Even if the severe crime problem in SF were to be solved tomorrow, X could not remain in SF and launch payments, as it would immediately fail.”
Will the last sane person to flee what was once one of the most lovely, eminently livable cities in all the world please turn off the lights? Thank you.
JD Vance puts it to the nasty ho’ straight.
JD Vance tells Kamala Harris to ‘go to hell’ after her campaign takes aim at Trump over Arlington incident
ERIE, Pa. — Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) told Vice President Kamala Harris she “can go to hell” Wednesday if she wanted to criticize former President Donald Trump for attending a ceremony honoring the fallen 13 servicemembers who died during the Afghanistan withdrawal.Vance’s swipe came after the Trump campaign reportedly got into an altercation with a cemetery official at Arlington National Cemetery, who tried to stop them from filming and photographing in Section 60, the burial site for military personnel killed while fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The VP pick was asked to comment on the incident at a campaign event in Erie, Pa. when he became visibly frustrated and sniped that the Democratic presidential nominee “can go to hell” if her team wanted to use it as an opportunity to attack Trump.
He then hit back at Harris for not firing anyone responsible for the withdrawal that happened under her watch.
“The other thing that our veterans care more about is that three years ago, 13 brave innocent Americans died. And they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job and there hasn’t been a single investigation or a single firing,” he said.
“Kamala Harris is disgraceful. We want to talk about a story out of those 13 brave innocent Americans who lost their lives? It’s that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won’t even do an investigation into what happened. And she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up?”
She “can go to hell” he scoffed.
So now even Arlington has been politicized by these wretched scumfucks? No big surprise, I suppose—what hallowed American institution, tradition, or historical/cultural artifact HAVEN’T they weaponized and used for partisan political purposes at this point?—but I do find it pretty sad just the same.
It’s already been noted by Barry and Kenny in the comments, and happily, it appears to be the genuine article.
Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck makes Harley-Davidson do a U-turn on woke policies
Conservative boycotts evidently work wonders.Conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck announced on X Monday that under threat of boycott and amidst a concerted pressure campaign, the 121-year-old motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson has scrapped various leftist initiatives.
“We did it again,” wrote Starbuck. “3 for 3. The left fears what I’m doing because it’s effective. The attacks will increase with the plan we have but we have a plan and it accounts for the arrows that will be fired at us. We won’t slow down for anyone.”
Blaze News previously reported that Starbuck and others blasted Tractor Supply, a company established in 1938, for mandating that its employees undergo “LGBTQIA+ training,” for funding sex-change mutilations through its health plan, and for sponsoring so-called family-friendly transvestite performances, as well as for other leftist initiatives.
The exposure was evidently too much to handle, as Tractor Supply announced on June 27 that it had taken the “feedback to heart” and would no longer volunteer data to the powerful LGBT activist group that calls itself the Human Rights Campaign; would ditch “DEI roles and retire [its] current DEI goals”; and would jettison its carbon emission goals.
When similarly targeted for liberation, John Deere similarly traded the LGBT colors back for the red, white, and blue, indicating it would “no longer participate in or support external social or cultural awareness parades, festivals, or events” and would be taking additional steps to shore up customer trust.
Last month, Starbuck launched his latest campaign: a boycott of Harley-Davidson, a once-beloved motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903.
In a series of social media posts and videos, he provided fuel for a Bud Light-style boycott, alleging that the company:
- supports legislation that would enable men to enter “girl’s bathrooms, sports and locker-rooms”;
- required thousands of employees to undertake training on “how to become LGBTQ+ allies”;
- was a founding member of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce — a group that opposed a law that would have saved children from sex-change mutilations;
- celebrated two additional “Months of Inclusion” beside so-called Pride Month;
- worked on having “less White suppliers, dealers and employees”;
- partnered yearly with “Pride Ride”; and
- partnered with the Human Rights Campaign on non-straight activism, ultimately securing a 90/100 rating on the HRC’s CEI index.
Starbuck also highlighted some statements made and actions taken by the company’s German-born CEO, Jochen Zeitz, that might prickle customers, including:
- his boast that his corporate activism had at least one peer calling him the “sustainable Taliban”;
- signing of a joint letter to the COP28 presidency demanding an end to fossil fuels;
- criticism of President Donald Trump for leaving the Paris Agreement;
- committal of Harley-Davidson to the UN Global Compact; and
- advocacy for DEI.
“I don’t think the values at corporate reflect the values of nearly any Harley Davidson bikers,” wrote Starbuck. “Do Harley riders want the money they spend at Harley to be used later by corporate to push an ideology that’s diametrically opposed to their own values?”
Whatever pressure Americans helped apply in concert with the conservative filmmaker appears to have been enough.
At noon on Monday, Harley-Davidson stated on X, “We are saddened by the negativity on social media over the last few weeks, designed to divide the Harley-Davidson community. As a Company, we take this issue very seriously, and it is our responsibility to respond with clarity, action and facts.”
Harley-Davidson claimed that pursuant to an internal stakeholder review initiated earlier this year, the company has kicked its supplier diversity spend goals to the curb and does not have hiring quotas. It noted further that its “DEI function” has been dead since April 2024 and the company does “not have a DEI function today.”
More yet at the link, all of it heady, enheartening stuff. Sincerest kudos and a hearty Yo Ho Ho for swashbuckling “Normalcy Advocate” Robbie Starbuck, who says he very much digs his new title, as well he might. I know plenty of CF Lifers don’t much care one way or the other about Harley-Davidson, which is their good right. Ultimately, though, the Motor Company being hauled off into Wokester oblivion would have been another resounding victory for the Goosesteppin’ Left—something we can ill-afford more of, greasy, grubby bikers and cage-driving squarejohns alike. So good on ya, Mr Starbuck sir, keep up the fine work.
WELL. Well, well, well, well, well, well, WELL!
RFK Jr. considering dropping out to ‘join forces’ with Trump, Nicole Shanahan says
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering dropping out of the 2024 race to “join forces” with former President Donald Trump, his running mate revealed Tuesday.“There’s two options that we’re looking at, and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and [Tim] Walz presidency because we draw votes from Trump,” Nicole Shanahan, the independent candidate’s vice presidential pick, said during an appearance on the “Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu” podcast.
The other option?
“We walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump…and we explain to our base why we’re making this decision,” Shanahan said.
“Not an easy decision,” the 38-year-old independent VP candidate added.
Shanahan indicated that she would be more comfortable with Trump and his vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), running the country than with Harris and Walz.
Trump, 78, reportedly met with Kennedy in Milwaukee last month, on the first day of the Republican National Convention, in an effort to gain his endorsement.
During those talks, the two men discussed the possibility that Trump could give Kennedy a cabinet or lower-level position in his administration, the Washington Post reported.
What the hell, why not. Now admittedly, RFKJr is something of a flake, particularly as regards the phonus-balonus Climate Change (formerly Global Warming, formerly Global Cooling, formerly The Weather)™ scam. That said, though, he’s the only D卐M☭CRAT currently extant who even comes close to making any sense at all, on most any other policy, political/ideological principle, or topic you’d care to name. I wouldn’t at all mind seeing him “join forces” with Team Trump, if only for the delightful paroxysms of hysteria, heartburn, and angst such a nose-tweaking would bring about for shitlibs.
Oh, and my post title? It’s from a moldy-goldie-oldie you greybeards will surely recall.
What can one say but: Heh. Indeed.
Joy juice, more like.
Newsweek Says Republicans Are Spreading Rumors About Kamala Harris’ ‘Drinking Problem’
Forget all the rumors you’ve heard about Nancy Pelosi having a drinking problem — now Republicans are spreading rumors about Kamala Harris and her supposed drinking problem. We’ll have to read the piece to find just how widespread this is. We’ve heard rumors about Harris’ intelligence; Donald Trump has said she’s not a very smart person.How would such a rumor get started, anyway? It’s not like Harris serves up word salad for every meal and cackles at her own jokes.
Frankly, it would explain a lot if Harris had a drinking problem. If this is her sober…
Of course, there IS one other possibility here.
Well, is she a drunk or just stupid?
— PunishedNixon🐊🇺🇸 (@NixonPunished)
Hey, you pays your money and you takes your choice, D卐M☭CRATs.
Best case: She’s drunk.
Worst case: She’s sober.— Useless Tree (@_Useless_Tree_)
We can but hope.
Cops Are Reportedly Calling in Sick: Will DNC Violence Be Worse Than 1968?
The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago on Monday, and the city has been bracing for violence and riots. Businesses started boarding up their windows and doors last week due to the many thousands of antisemitic, pro-Palestinian protesters expected to descend on the area organized by more than 200 different groups. Some are saying it could be reminiscent of the violence that plagued the 1968 DNC, which was also in Chicago.Chicago law enforcement dismisses that idea.
“Chicago 2024 won’t be like Chicago 1968. That is the promise of law-enforcement officials and protest organizers alike as the curtain prepares to lift on this year’s Democratic National Convention,” the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend. “Each side says it aims to maintain the peace even as thousands are expected to demonstrate against the war in Gaza, abortion restrictions and on other hotly contested issues.”
That may just be wishful thinking. According to some reports on social media, more than 1,000 officers are calling in sick.
While we cannot independently verify this, it makes perfect sense. In light of recent history, who in the police department wants to put their lives on the line for these people?
Meanwhile, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) says that 150 members of the Illinois National Guard are “on standby” for the DNC.
Obviously, we hope that there won’t be violence and no one gets hurt, but the signs of pending chaos have been there for months. If more than a thousand police officers have called in sick, they’re going to be severely outmanned, and that’s a recipe for disaster.
Sorry, Matt, you know I love ya and all, but speak for yourself on that one. Me, I’m rooting for mass casualties, as many as possible—the vast majority of them DRTs, hopefully. If the Dims and their freaks, pAntiFa geeks, Jew-obssessed psychos, and sundry professional-victim-class losers burn Chicago to the fucking ground and leave a smoking ruin in their wake, hey, I’m fine with it.
Update! WINDY CITY FORECAST: Unseasonably high rhetorical temperatures, with widely scattered rioting and severe lawlessness likely over the next several days; chance of bodies stacked in windrows exceeding 90%.
Crime-filled Chicago displays all that’s wrong with Democrats in one failing city
If the message of this week’s Democratic National Convention is “We’re going to make America more like Chicago” then run for the hills.Chicago is the murder capital of America — with someone shot every two hours and someone killed every 17 hours. So far this year, 353 victims, most of them black, have been murdered in Chicago. The homicide rate is five times higher than New York’s.
“Democrats wanted to hold the convention somewhere safer, but Beirut wasn’t available,” quipped one wag.
Chicagoans thought Lightfoot was bad, but Johnson’s embrace of Chicago’s sanctuary-city status and exploitation of racial grievances has taken crime and disorder to a new level, with an influx of illegal migrants threatening to bankrupt the collapsing city budget and angering black Chicagoans.
Last week, a black pastor warned Democrats that many black Chicagoans are so fed up they are considering deserting the party.
“Black people have been with the Democratic Party for over 60 years and we have nothing,” Pastor David Lowery Jr. told reporters. “We don’t own anything in our community…All we have is crime and problems.”
Sorry dipshit, but seeing as how we both know you’ll be voting en masse for Kumala this fall no matter what, my sympathy for you, your congregants, and your nightmarish urban hellscape is, shall we say, limited to nonexistent.
JD Vance, who I really do like and consider an excellent VP pick (for whatever that’s worth)—because fuck you, that’s why—sits down for a chat with the good ol’ NYP.
JD Vance reveals Trump campaign’s plans for him, his strategy against Walz in exclusive interview
Okay, minor quibble: Tampon Tim AWOLz is such a complete trainwreck of a dumpster-fire of a total loss of a disaster, the living embodiment of one of my all-time favorite insults—“the guy’s an empty suit”—does any serious person really think he’s even worth bothering with formulating any kind of “strategy” for dealing with? Just sit back and let the flabby Commie dolt augur in on his own hook; t’is enough, t’will suffice, seems to me. Which notion, as we descry in the next excerpt, Vance seems to be cognizant of his own self.
On Wednesday, Vance sat down with The Post aboard the newly-redecorated “Trump Force Two” airplane and spoke about his future in the campaign and his efforts to focus on showing the critical salt-of-the-earth voters in middle-American swing states how Trump’s economic and other domestic policies are constructed with the middle class in mind.
“The campaign obviously wants me to spend a lot of time in the Industrial Midwest,” Vance said, noting he will do more rallies and press conferences in the critical swing state region. “The disproportionate amount of my time is going to be in these three states.”
Trump’s advisers told reporters last week in West Palm Beach that they see Vance as another voice to spread Trump’s messaging.
He was chosen from a list of other potential VP candidates partly due to Donald Trump Jr., his friend, vouching for him as a loyal member of the MAGA movement. The younger Trump said in an Axios interview at the Republican National Convention that he thinks Vance has a “very high chance” of being elected as president in 2028, extending the Trump legacy movement.
Vance seemed genuinely surprised when The Post brought up the Trump Jr. prediction for 2028.
He said a presidential run has not been a conversation within the Trump team and that “we have to win first.”
But the 40-year-old did indicate some openness to running for the presidency, depending on what happens.
“I’m very focused on winning this race and I think if, you know – we’ll see where things go, but let’s win this race first,” Vance said.
Like Trump, Vance has been especially hammering Harris during the past week, and has been focusing less on her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – despite the Harris VP pick directly attacking him by making reference to a fake and lewd Democrat meme.
In light of the Walz attacks, Vance said he will not “fight fire with fire.”
“I don’t expect to personally go after him. I think everything that I’ve said about him, that I will say about him, I’ve already said and I’ll just keep repeating it,” Vance said told The Post.
He will continue making reference to Walz mischaracterizing his military record, because the “stolen valor” “bothers” him, Vance said.
As well it might, and damned well ought to do, not just for Vance but all red-blooded Americans. Plenty more good, bracing stuff at the link, of which you should read the etc.
SIDE NOTE #UN: Expect to see more from the NY Post around this hogwallow in days to come; after attempting for months to sign up and getting the “Sorry, something went wrong, try again later” error message again and again, I finally figgered out a workaround and got myself enrolled on the Post’s email list, which I’m glad of. Next I need to unsubscribe from several others I never signed up for in the first place, namely several iterations of the Epoch Times (ET Health, ET Science, &c), the Spectator, and a handful of others.
Not that I have anything in particular against the aforementioned outlets, mind. It’s just that their articles are all paywalled, which to my way of thinking renders several-times-per-day emails from them the moral equivalent of spam. I stopped even scanning the headlines in those emails long ago, actually; now, I just dump ‘em in the trash as and when they come over the transom of my various email accounts. Time to do a little Thunderbird inbox-decluttering, methinks.
Such email lists are a heck of a handy-dandy resource for any Pyrsyns Of Blogge, provided you have the patience, discipline, and iron-willed perseverance to wade through the dross, dreck, and drivel to get to the useful stuff. Since I’ve been a fan of the Post going all the way back to my NYC days (when dinosaurs ruled the Earth), I’m betting this will be one sub I’ll get lots of inspirational mileage out of.
Although I gotta say, I dislike how the Post’s list breaks things down into separate emails for each individual article: one headline, a short excerpt, and link per email. None of the other lists I’m on go about it this way, which I think makes way more sense for all concerned. The Post’s convoluted, byzantine arrangement results in a veritable tsunami of emails throughout the course of the day, which is a bit of a nuisance. To wit: after signing up this mid-morning, I’ve so far received more than a dozen missives from the NYP. Seems to me that a single all-inclusive daily mailing would fit the bill quite nicely, be more efficient for whichever wage-slave(s) at the Post is/are charged with this task, and would certainly be less hassle for moi. But hey, what the hell do I know, right?
SIDE NOTE #DEUX: As I hunt ’n’ pecked out that last sentence, three (3) more Post emails came in. *Le sigh*
If anybody’s earned the next new spot, I’d say he has.
How Much Is Elon Musk Willing to Lose to Protect Free Speech?
Elon Musk is clearly a different breed of cat, but not enough people appreciate how utterly preposterous his life actually is. He’s not just marching to the beat of a different drummer; he’s breakdancing to the beat of his own turntable.Imagine Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg moonlighting as the CEO of General Motors, while also running Boeing. Impossible, right? It’s beyond mindboggling! But via running Twitter (X), Tesla, and SpaceX — multibillion-dollar corporate conglomerates each — that’s essentially what Musk is doing. (And when he wasn’t doing that, a few years earlier he cofounded OpenAI, the world’s most influential artificial intelligence company.)
If Elon Musk didn’t exist and a writer invented him for a screenplay, the audience would reject it: Too farfetched. Would never happen in real life.
And by the way, among the (many) things I’ve overlooked — i.e. developing Neuralink, launching global Internet access with Starlink, revolutionizing digital sales with X.com/PayPal, the Boring Company — each would easily qualify as a career-defining magnum opus for anyone else. But with Musk, they’re kind of superfluous.
When you’re the man who invented today’s electrical car industry AND privatized space travel, it makes the impossible look mundane.
But his riskiest business endeavor is the one he’s taking now: Elon Musk, champion of free speech.
Risking billions to protect an audience that isn’t his.
It wasn’t always like this: Until relatively recently, Musk was beloved by the left. He guest-starred on “The Simpsons” (collaborating with Homer), he mingled with Tony Stark in “Iron Man 2,” and he was the Patron Saint of environmentalists everywhere.
Then he started talking about social issues and tweeting about politics. Shortly thereafter, he bought Twitter for $44 billion.
Before Musk bought Twitter, 47 percent of Democrats believed Twitter was good for American democracy. Afterwards, that number dropped to 24 percent. (Wonder why?) The number of Democrats who complained about Twitter containing inaccurate or misleading information jumped from 54 percent to 68 percent. Whereas just 29 percent of Republicans said harassment and abuse was a “major problem” on Twitter, a whopping 65 percent of Democrats now disagree with them.
New polling hasn’t been recorded since Musk endorsed Donald Trump and hosted a “conversation” with him on Twitter, but it’s safe to assume that it probably didn’t increase his fandom on the left.
In all probability, his numbers have plunged significantly further. I’m talking subterranean.
At first blush, Musk seems to be an odd candidate for the Democrats’ vitriol: In addition to his environmental bona fides, he’s never once claimed to be a conservative! He describes himself as “politically moderate,” and he voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020. That’s not exactly Pat Buchanan 2: The Electric Boogaloo.
But right now, Elon Musk is up there with Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Jordan Peterson: They’re the current Mount Rushmore of Men who Terrify the Crap Out of (the ) Left.
Yet these are the same people that Musk needs to buy electric cars.
It’s easy to be jaded and cynical. We’re so used to being disappointed by our heroes, cynicism has almost become our default-setting. But what Elon Musk is doing today is truly the most astonishing “Profiles in Courage” in American business history: The world’s richest man is jeopardizing the source of his wealth to protect the free speech of an audience that despises him.
It used to be known colloquially as “putting your money where your mouth is,” although it’s vanishingly rare to see it put into practice nowadays. Which just makes Elon’s rock-ribbed free speech absolutism all the more admirable, if you ask me.
Not just appropriately—PERFECTLY, in actual fact.
To be honest, I really wanted to respond with this Tropic Thunder meme, but I would NEVER do something so rude & irresponsible! https://t.co/jL0GDW5QUx pic.twitter.com/XhUxCSGFNP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Up your ass with jagged glass, EU fascists. The more Elon shows us of his, erm, feistier side, the more I have to like the guy.
(Via Eeyore)
King Leonidas tells it like it really is, and straight to hell with Ms King/Queen Xerxes.
Welcome to my biology class. Today, you will learn about common sense. pic.twitter.com/Tnuzz0ngtZ
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Via Phil.
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