1. I cannot overstate how much I adore stuff like that BBLDrizzy breakdown. I wouldn't see that kind of thing otherwise and I find myself just as in awe of how it's working as you. Plus it lets me keep up with the kids these days. The other day I said, in a group of zoomers, that somebody was sweating like "Drake at a middle school!" and I thought they were going to die of laughter.
2. It's worthwhile to consider exactly how the Hunter Biden prosecution came to be. Initially there was an incredibly broad plea deal on the table that pretty much served to dispose of *any* criminal liability for Hunter dealing only the lightest possible smack on the wrist for things that would preclude any possible examination of the Biden family's finances. That became public and was blown up by the publicity. It was so obviously corrupt that the lightest amount of public scrutiny was fatal.
...but this poses problems. The government cannot just withdraw promises made because of bad PR. So deciding to junk the deal and prosecute Hunter is potentially disposable by appeal in the first place.
That being said, Hunter's legal problems were supposed to be wrapped up before the Trump trials began. When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea. When the optics shifted nailing Hunter on charges that have absolutely no tie to Biden family business became useful. It serves multiple interests, allowing a talking point that pretends we're not living in a two tiered system of justice where police and prosecutorial power is being weaponized against this administration's political enemies. At the same time it puts Hunter on a very short leash.
Hunter is getting scrutiny because of things he said in interviews and critical evidence he "accidentally" left laying around...at about the same time Ashley Biden's rehab diary was "stolen" and became public knowledge. I do not believe these two events are merely coincidental. I think it was an attempt by both to get out from under the thumb of their sociopath of a father. Well the DOJ and "intelligence community" closed ranks pretty hard and worked to cover all that up nicely, didn't they?
It's been rumored for a long time that if you are facing a federal case, the right check written to a Biden will result in The Big Guy making a call to DOJ HQ and the case disappears. In fact, it's even been rumored that a number of DOJ cases were begun precisely so that you would write that check.
The best way to understand Biden is as a mob boss or a small feudal king. His children are treated like instruments in his larger goals. Like LBJ, but not as smart. No less animal in his cunning or corruption, but not as smart at working it. People often act as if Biden's selection as VP was because Obama saw him as a bumbling idiot. It's much more likely that he was picked as VP specifically to assist in the conversion of the "counter-terrorism" infrastructure (that should have never been allowed in the first fucking place) to going after political enemies of the deep state. Having Biden's ties to DOJ and the intelligence community on board with the effort only helped Obama's efforts become more efficient. That expanded to the IRS, too.
That resulted in the IRS going after political groups that challenged Obama's power and it led to the Obama administration seizing the most intimate medical records of hundreds of thousands of important people. Most people were unaware this happened because naturally it doesn't serve The Narrative, but it did:
The medical records of judges, celebrities, athletes, politicians, and financial titans were all seized by the IRS under the guise of Obamacare in an effort so brazen and corrupt that I'm sure J Edgar would lift his dress and bend over so he could get fucked by it. This gave the Obama administration and the IRS the most intimate details of all those people's lives. What medications they were taking. What psychiatric conditions they were being treated for. What STD's they were being treated for. What they were addicted to. All that good stuff that the government isn't supposed to know about ANY OF US.
Biden was a key player in creating all of that. And he likes to brag about it, too. Like a mob boss. "Nobody fucks with a Biden!" ...remember that?
What I've heard about the defense in Hunter's trial is utterly laughable. Abbe Lowell is supposed to be one of the best defense attorneys in the nation and based on what I've heard I could have generated a more competent defense with ChatGPT than what was presented at trial. Either Lowell's reputation is completely fabricated...or *it wasn't supposed to be a well defended case.*
What does Biden have now? He gets to claim that others are weaponizing police powers against *him and his family* while he's busy doing exactly that to Trump and anyone who worked in the Trump administration. His functionaries get to go out and claim that the prosecution of Hunter justifies the prosecutions of Trump...even though Biden supposedly had nothing to do with any of that, but ignore that old talking point for the new one. And it keeps the kid who couldn't shut the fuck up and couldn't stop leaving damning evidence about Biden family business all over the place on a short leash. Hunter isn't doing interviews anymore. And he's not leaving laptops anywhere anymore. He's nicely under control.
And even if he has to sit in a cell for a little while, it's only until the election and we all know he'll get a pardon as soon as it's decided. Right along side the pardon Biden will cut for himself and all his little functionaries to guard against any accountability for their multiple violations of law in pursuing all this weaponization in the first place.
All of this is win/win for Biden.
Expect Hunter's defense against the tax charges to be much, much more competent. Because the fix will likely be in on that one, too.
People cheering for Hunter's conviction are damn fools who don't see what's actually going on. They just want some sort of retribution...not realizing that this isn't retribution, it serves Biden's interests beautifully. Lots of people have gone to jail on the charges that he faced for sure. He shouldn't just get a pass if none of those people did. But cheering for charges that keep as far away as possible from the real dirt that Hunter Biden has been involved in as bag man for his corrupt family for decades is not a fucking victory. Quite the opposite.
" When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea"
This very much echoes the Lewinsky case. IIRC Starr was begging to be allowed to pursue the poverty stricken/millionaire Bhuddist nuns' payments to Clinton bagman and future two time Virginia governor (in violation of the spirit if not letter of the law) McAullife. Reno said no, you can only pursue this <strike>perjury case</strike> private matter between a married couple.
Damn...This is all assuming Biden has a functioning brain and is smart enough to be machiavellian. Methinks not. I'd like to see who's pulling the strings though. Susan Rice? Obama 3rd term?
Let me ask you this: Do you think that seeing Biden as a complete puppet serves his interests or harms them?
I have no doubt Biden has some sort of serious mental issues with declining mental faculties. If you've ever dealt with someone like that, though, you will have seen that they do not live in a fog of complete unknowing. They have moments of perfect lucidity, too. Biden really is shitting his pants on a regular basis. There are even very unauthorized nicknames that have resulted from it.
But the dude who shits his pants and gets confused on camera sometimes when he needs more injections is the same vindictive, corrupt, and malicious character he's always been when he is perfectly lucid. And he's surrounded by people he has hand selected to facilitate his ability to keep the party going.
Biden has been a mastermind of political intrigue his entire career. He orchestrated the hit on Clarence Thomas, remember, only to have Thomas effectively counter it by calling it out for the high-tech lynching it was. By the way, anyone remember how hard in the paint the Biden functionaries went on Clarence Thomas' wife? Think that's mere fucking coincidence? Dude is literally still grinding an old grudge. Because nobody fucks with a Biden.
Biden is a corrupt criminal fighting the grim reaper and father time with all his might. The fact that they land blows on him that are evident doesn't change his fundamental nature. And the fight with them ain't over.
My dad went through something similar to what we are seeing with Biden in the last dozen or so years or his life. It amplified all the worst parts of his personality, so, if the same holds true with Biden, good lord.
That is the case with Alzheimers and other similar mental degradations. It amplifies the dominant parts of your previous personality. There are old clips of Biden out there from decades ago where his mean streak is on display. He’s always been a mean SOB.
There is speculation that he was medicated in an attempt to hide his cognitive decline. While there are anti-Alzheimer's medications, they probably added some amphetamines.
I have no idea about any of this, but if it looked like "old man on amphetamines," it might have been partly that.
Being a puppet only serves you for a short time. While he may have moments of lucidness, the person with dementia quickly reverts back to their state of unknowing or confusion. I also think he's always been too stupid to really succeed at anything and even Obama admitted it as much. I think he got away with it for so long because he was so useless and not powerful, that it didn't matter much. Or, others more powerful used him as the conduit. Clintons per se.
I’m curious but too lazy to track down the source of the 170 claim, but didn’t he have a fractured skull in the crash that killed Biden’s first wife? You’d think that some dain bamage would go along with that.
For those unfamiliar, the LSAT is scored from 120-180, much like the SAT/GREs are scored 200-800. But it's quite a bit harder. So getting a 170 is sorta like getting 700 on the GRE, but not the same. Having taken both (decades ago), I'd say the GRE was much easier.
A 170 puts you in the 98th percentile of *law school applicants* which is a self selecting group of high achievers -- and 170 is the very high end of these high achievers. A rough extrapolation to the general population, it's more like >99.75 percentile. Mad respect to anyone who can get there -- even Hunter.
For me, the difference is this: I think Hunter broke the law but I think the law is wrong and should be challenged, whereas in the case of Trump, I don't think he did anything wrong nor broke the law, even though a jury thought he did under poor instructions from a judge.
Many on the right are not cheering on Hunter's conviction because many actually disagree with the federal law. There are some on the left cheering because it's a way to push back on Trump's conviction.
Hunter most definitely broke the law as written on his gun purchase. But does that law even hold any power under the standard set in Bruen? Has yet to be decided. Plenty of people have been jailed on that law, but usually people who the government doesn't like. They rarely...and I mean RARELY...use it on actual violent criminals. Generally it gets whipped out when they can't get you on something else they'd like to have you on more.
So one can argue it's always been a primarily political charge, and one that with the various "legalization" efforts in the states (as it remains illegal at the federal level) that they can use against pretty much anyone anytime they like.
Usually when it serves their interests or prejudices...neither of which makes Hunter's prosecution on this look any more legit.
I'm sure the government will somehow try to convince a jury that a guy who smoked weed when he was 18 and bought a gun when he was 35 is somehow addicted to weed to a guy they don't like.
I'll go even further: Have you ever met an addict who admitted they were an addict...even to themselves? That usually doesn't happen until they've hit rock bottom. So if someone who doesn't think they are an addict answers a question about whether or not they are an addict negatively, how do you criminalize that? Oh, they should have known they were an addict based on objective measures from the outside that all the best evidence shows that they were literally unable to grapple with at the point where they said it?
This isn't to excuse Hunter because he knew he was lying his ass off, but at the same time the entire exercise gets really fucking sketchy as soon as we apply some scrutiny.
"Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences."
If there are no harmful consequences, you're not an addict! What harmful consequences has Hunter ever had? This countries views on addiction baffle my autistic personality. Addiction to caffeine? OK! Addiction to sugar and carbs? OK! Addiction to Nicotine? Bad (not smoking, nicotine). Addiction to prescription painkillers? OK! Addiction to non prescription pain killers? Bad! Addiction to Adderall? OK. Addiction to meth? Bad (ok, i agree with this one)
In addition to the 5th Amendment issues, I think we have a systemic issue with unnecessarily invasive government forms in general, with the BOI thing being a current flashpoint:
This belongs in a comment Hall of Fame. Nothing really more to add. I'm hopeful that Trump will be re-elected for a third term. I'm not really hopeful that anything will or can even change. I think we may be beyond the event horizon politically and culturally. There's no going back without something really bad happening.
On the contrary, I'm optimistic. The first step to fixing a problem is figuring out you have one. I'm watching people who told me the FBI is a bunch of heroes ten years ago tell me that the organization is to corrupt to allow to exist today. That's progress. All this excessive stuff is laying bare the realities of how the system has been weaponized against the common man, too. And people don't like it. You don't even have to like Trump. Anyone watching the Young Thug trial taking place in the same courthouse as Fanni Willis' RICO case against Trump is seeing just how corrupt that entire court system is. The judge jailed Young Thug's lawyer because that lawyer found out the judge had an illegal ex parte meeting with a witness and the prosecution.
When called out, he threw the lawyer in jail. This roused the entire criminal defense association in Georgia to come forward immediately to challenge it. When faced with that, the judge doubled down and is demanding everyone in that illegal meeting show cause why he shouldn't jail them for contempt, too.
It's a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional use of force by the Fulton County court and Fanni Willis' office...and it's made plenty of people go "Wait, this is the same people prosecuting Trump?"
People are finding out en masse that the system is rigged against them. Not just the other guy. And they don't like it.
We're not even sixty years out from normal political assassination's. These corrupt guys never think someone will take it into their own hands. A certain segment of the population fantasizes this will happen tomorrow. I don't think we're that close but I somewhat expect it in my lifetime and definitely in my childrens.
The sad thing is that the most prominent assassination was by the Deep State removing a popular President who cared about the good of the common citizen.
The opposite of "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants."
I want to be optimistic as well but they act with impunity. It's out in the open and people don't like it but short of a full on coup there is little recourse.
I respect your optimism but can’t share it. They’ve gutted all the military from the warrior class. They don’t want any multi-generational people from joining up. I could probably find the link. Did you seen the picture last year of the Marine recruits.
The purging in the FBI has been in the news the last week. I suspect the same for the rest of the justice department and likely the IRS as well in Treasury.
Congress has punted their responsibility for appropriations and passed omnibus spending bills for however many years. PS where did the announced $404 million to Hamas and the $360 million for the late pier come from? And thousand page bills they actually pass nobody reads and leaves it up an unelected bureaucracy to make up thousands of pages of regulations.
Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us.
"Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us."
Between that and blowing up the pipeline... history will judge him harshly for that.
History belongs to those who write it. And I doubt that today's current crop of history majors will ever write anything harsh about the Obama/Biden presidencies.
I try to share your optimism but I still fear Michelle will be brought out for the second or third ballot in Chicago. Kamala will be told to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. Democrat RFK Jr votes will immediately flip to her, Trump won't stand a chance and our "democracy" will be saved.
What you have to understand about the Obamas is that they are not masterminds of anything. Barack Obama was selected early on as a magnificent avatar for the deep state. He's not the idea guy. He's the salesman. Remember that before he was president even black "civil rights" leaders complained that he was never really "down with the struggle". He hooked up with leftist radicals who went from mailing bombs to eagerly participating in The Long March through the institutions after auditioning for the intelligence world in college. He was a perfect intelligence plant, too.
He's got multiple names, his father is a foreigner, he's a closeted bisexual, and boy howdy he just seemed to keep falling into exactly the right spot at exactly the right time didn't he?
Well he and Michelle have done their time. Now they're reaping their rewards.
Michelle Obama is an insufferable elitist. Dealing with we the proles literally makes her skin crawl. She's not about to give up her lifestyle of running around on yachts and private jets to small gatherings of ridiculous rich white women adoring her to actually get back in the mud and blood of real politics.
Especially not against a ruffian like Trump who will not care a tinker's cuss about her reputation and when called a big meanie by the press will be able to very rightly point out that not one of them ever pulled a punch on HIS first lady, so don't expect him to pull any with this one.
She doesn't want any part of that. And, frankly, her appeal would be significantly lower than what people fear. What you are seeing right now in the US and around the world is especially younger people coming to grips with the consequences of the Obama umbrella of policies. They don't like it. She can't run on how awesome the Obama era was because we're literally living with the consequences of Obama era policies. The economic nightmares, inflation, and immigration issues driving people to the polls isn't going to play now.
A lot of the millennials and zoomers never knew "republican" as anything but Bush. Well, Trump certainly isn't Bush. And their definition of "democrat" is a bunch of corrupt elitist pricks who rig everything and want to make it impossible for them to own anything.
Michelle would be an utter fucking disaster for them.
Believe it or not, Biden is the best shot they have simply because there are some ridiculous boomers in places like PA and Wisconsin who still spontaneously ejaculate complete hogwash like "Democrats are fur the workin' man!!!" because they had their brain replaced by a union sixty years ago. Michelle Obama isn't going to pull them to the polls.
You've perfectly described my 81 year old UAW Committeeman retiree father so I'll try to have faith in the rest. Shelly does continue to maintain, or has someone maintain, social media accounts for prole distribution so we'll see.
I'm completely with you on Barry's origins but 8 years as Puppet Leader can make a man and his wife think above their raisin'.
oh god i hate pailcarriers as my father refers to them
huge ndp voting block despite the fact that the ndp has changed so much over the last 30 years to where its now just liberal plus but hurr durr its for the working man
Democrat party rules say that if the candidate drops out _after_ the convention, then the party leaders can select a replacement nominee without a popular vote.
Biden will be nominated at the convention and accept. Soon after his handlers will suddenly "discover" that Joes health will not permit him to be president again and he will step down.
The party has someone already lined up. It won't be Schumer (too useful where he is), won't be Newsom (too toxic). It will be Gretchen Whitmer -- because she's a girl governor and somehow popular enough to win re-election in spite of her draconian Covid mandates.
Toxic doesn't bother them, and Newsome is popular among the AWFL cohort. Newsome/Whitmer could make it to bumper stickers on Priuses and Lesbarus nationwide.
Toxic may not bother *them* but the democrat party wants to make sure they win. And there are at least 40 states full of people that would say "God, I don't want the USA to end up like California" and vote accordingly. And I doubt the party feels confident that they can pull off election tampering in ALL the states.
Newsom is about as electable nationwide as Bernie Sanders.
I’m so old I can remember the argument from the MSM that blogs were inferior because the MSM had layers and layers of editors and fact checkers to keep from getting the story wrong and the facts right.
My favorite is everything search related has chat gpt generated responses now. They'll clearly contradict itself from one paragraph to another. I miss when the internet didn't suck
If the case of US v Biden unwinds one or more portions of the GCA69/the 4473 on appeal, so much the better. At that point the Bidens will have done more for gun rights than any republican president. “Never underestimate Joes ability to fuck things up” I believe was the quote.
Also, people do get strung up for 4473 victimless crimes. I can’t give you chapter and verse to another example but it does happen.
The case that was overturned in the 5th circuit, US. v. Daniels, had resulted in a 5 year sentence IIRC.
[did not read the entire article, nor do I intend to spark a debate on the editorial positions of the publication; it was just a fairly high link that contains the case citation]
In a motion to dismiss the gun charges, Biden's lawyers argued that Section 922(g)(3) is inconsistent with the Second Amendment. Last year in United States v. Daniels, they noted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned a marijuana user's conviction under that law,
The 5th circuit doesn't include Delaware so their decisions do not apply. Unless the 3rd circuit has something then Hunter's lawyers were just fishing.
Until either the Supreme Court hears an appeal of the Davis decision or another circuit (or more) comes to a different conclusion under similar circumstances (a Circuit split) and then the Supreme Court decides, one has to abide by their home circuit's decisions.
I understand that the 5th Circuit does not include Delaware. But it seems to me that a theory that has worked in the 5th might also work in the 3rd, and it is possible that this argument has not been tested in the 3rd Circuit post Bruen, which is less than two years old.
Hunter is actually guilty of a real felony that has been championed by his father. Oh the irony. Trump is guilty of a past-due misdemeanor that was somehow elevated to a felony, except we don’t know how because the jury could (individually) chose from a list of options. I’m not sorry for Hunter except that he was born a Biden.
The media handling of this is predictable. What kind of sucker do you have to be to believe the media if you have any understanding of both cases and see how the media handled both. Willful ignorance will be how Biden gets elected (if it happens).
The charges against Hunter are also a great example of the overcharging that prosecuting attorneys do that Jack mentioned in his article discussing the multitude of charges against Trump. For instance:
Lying on a 4473 — unconstitutional, but ok
Causing incorrect information to be recorded in the FFL’s bound book — where did the FFL get that info from? Oh right, the 4473. No non FFL can commit this crime without lying on the 4473 first as far as I’m aware.
Possession of a firearm by a “prohibited person”—well his status as such is the only reason his responses on the 4473 were “lies”
So if there’s any crime, it’s only one—he had a gun as a crackhead. Yet three charges.
It’s the result you get when you have prosecutors that treat real life like a law school “issue spotter” final.
Can't disagree with MOST of what you said, except to laugh at the McLaren reliability. Sherman can jerk off to the architect of the building they came from all he wants.
I don't get the dig at wet wipes.... just because people you make fun of use them?
The McLaren GT4 is an interesting car because it's deliberately crippled from the street version. The Mustang, by contrast, is hopped up. They cost about the same, which is amusing.
The wet-wipes phenomenon among straight men is repugnant. I understand why gay men do it, but if you're not planning on being railed in the ass any time soon it's an odd and prissy thing to do.
I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb.
Its a bit odd to say that superior personal hygiene should only be the purview of homosexuals, or ONLY in certain use cases. If you are going to get swamp ass and not be able to shower for a while, you'd be surprised at how good a job baby wipes do to get you through the next few hours. You can revel in having porta john quality toilet paper and shit residue mixed in with sweat on you, and adding to your musk, but maybe some people don't like it IF there is an alternative?
Jack Baruth: Cleaner is repugnant if you're straight!!!
P.S. I do not use 'man wipes'. I have kids and have been cleaning THEIR nether regions for the last 3 years. Judge me if you want.
'Man wipes' are just baby wipes that are scented differently and marketed to morons. Maybe make fun of them for falling for that marketing, but then it would in line with falling for Porsche's marketing as well....
Allow me instead to LEAN IN with a deranged theory that will have you shutting your laptop in disgust: the "DUDE WIPES", as they're marketed, is just part of an effort to sexualize men in a receptive sense.
As I noted below, the "Truckstop wipe" has been a thing forever. But the DUDE WIPE isn't about that. It's about keeping your asshole and nuts fresh and inviting so you're always ready for sex, even if you're not the receptive partner. In 2024, everything has to be either about the Omnicause or about having sex. It's critical that men be perpetually in a sex mindset, as opposed to the mindset where they are thinking about the Roman Empire, the XB-70, or homemade firearms manufacture. We used to force this always-be-ready-for-sex mindset on women; now we do it to men.
Reading your posts is so interesting because I'm nodding along like 90% of the time and then there's stuff like this where I'm like 'do we even live in the same world?'
Much like axe body spray, these are for teenaged boys with BO who don't have the "I don't give a fuck" benefits of old age to just use the kids baby wipes.
Not disagreeing with you but I did recently stumble across a twitter thread of many women complaining about their various ex husband's, boyfriend's, one night stand's skid marked underwear.
I keep generic Target baby wipes in all my cars, and it’s by far the most commonly used “emergency” gear I have. And I think only once it has been to wipe up from a shit, the rest of the time it’s been to clean up after ice cream, wipe down a spill, clean off a piece of equipment, etc etc. Don’t sleep on baby wipes, you learn how versatile they are as a new parent and then you never want to be without them again afterwards.
No idea about the dude wipe/buttfucker connection though.
"I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb."
Farley raced in the spec Mustang series at Mid-O and finished 11th overall.
I'm not defending his decisions, but he is a lot closer to the product than anyone at GM and Ford hasn't made the number of unforced errors the RenCen crew made.
I'm sorry what? Every single Ford launch is still trash.. every single Ford vehicle except for HD trucks is uncompetitive in their respective classes. They're losing money hand over fist on the quality problems on the F150s.
Also GM doesnt really do any work out of the ren center. All the real development happens in Warren, Pontiac and Milford.
Just because an exec touched a car doesn't make it competitive. He isnt going to be the person to figure out how to not trip up the torque limiting from the non contact sensors for BoP globally where the mustang is being sold and deployed as a turn key product to customers paying what Jack believes is the same money as a McLaren. That's a double insult cause half the time the McLaren finishes every time. This shouldn't be your f'ing benchmark.
He may be a real petrolhead, but he's a moron as far as running the auto business is concerned. I almost think furniture head did better when he had the reigns. Farley does not have a single hands down product success that he is responsible for during his whole tenure in any capacity at Ford.
Or while hiking through the desert on vacation and you realize that the lead singer of one of your favorite bands has a winery and restaurant on the way back to your hotel. So you stop at the Walmart for a fresh $12 dollar t-shirt and wet ones to have a "shower" in the parking lot to reduce, not eliminate, the red dirt that accumulated on your body before a late lunch...we tipped very well.
I think we just identified somebody who doesn't get his b-hole ate. That's apparently a thing, now, even in heterosexual relationships among zoomers. Or at least the dudes who are saying that are really, really stridently insisting they aren't gay.
“Fifteen years later, he sees 90 patients and performs 15 surgeries a week. His Instagram bio includes the words “vintage Porsche collector.” But in the early days, he worried about the viability of his business plan. Despite the fact that there were a lot of people in need of anal care and education, not many people were talking about it. “I did a study early on in my career,” he says, “and what I found was that even 92% of gay providers were not talking about gay sex with their patients.”
After reading the article linked here last week or so about the gentleman's travails spending years in all the best San Francisco bars I completely understand Doctors taking that up as a specialty. My only surprise is not seeing it yet as a listing on my insurance company's preferred providers chart.
We have a national religion: LGBT, and this is a manifestation of its highest values. And you are an unemployable bigot for questioning it. You might even get thrown off a roof.
I used to always have a container of wet wipes around to clean out the wrinkle around my pug's nose. Now that he's gone should I give the wipes to a gay friend?
No, DUDE WIPES are for dudes who are really, really hetero. I mean aggressively hetero. I mean like full sleeve tattoos and peptides and preworkout hetero. I mean, like sculpted beard and fade with an ear-ring hetero. Like, listens to a crypto podcast once a week and wears a gold chain and workout pants all the time hetero. I mean, like so next level hetero that it's totally not gay when they get pegged, hetero. Because there's nothing more hetero than getting your gym thirst trap chick WHO CAN BENCH MORE THAN YOU, BRO! thanks to the testosterone and anavar to hip-thrust a big black 8"-er through your back door. And you need to be clean and ready to go for that, so DUDE WIPES.
1. Wet wipes are useful when camping and not just for wiping one's tuchas. Also when traveling, they do a better job than the cheap toilet paper in state-operated highway rest stops.
2. It's handy to have a container of wet-wipes sitting on the toilet tank for when the roll of toilet paper runs out and a spare roll is not within reach.
3. Wet-wipes don't bother me nearly as much as the advertising from toilet paper companies.
Also, when did the juvenile "poo" replace perfectly good words like feces, stool, and crap? I'd rather have my 12 year old grandson say that he needs to take a shit than "I have to poo." It's much more mature.
One would think that news anchors and editors would be able to say something like "human waste", or "fecal material", or is that too much to ask from adults?
Note: My grandsons use the word "defecate" but then they are my grandsons.
So you think cleaning yourself with a baby wipe* is ok, whereas Jack thinks it’s beyond the pale, but … you draw the line at architecture?
Fellas, is it gay to admire a car manufacturer for designing and manufacturing in a facility of significant architectural repute rather than a shed in suburban Ontario or rural Kentucky?
*I am loathe to admit this, but I use Hermes shampoo… 🤐
No, you're confusing yourself, or others, perhaps unintentionally.
The SUBJECT with the cars is the cars, NOT architecture. If there was a post about architecture, I would stay out of it, since IDGAF.
When you make comments to the effect of "the cars deserve more respect because of the building they were made in" you're subverting the discussion with immaterial and inane topic changes.
It is absolutely NOT GAY (or whatever qualifier you want to use) to admire architecture. It has nothing to do with the output of a factory, nor the quality or longevity of the product made there.
35 years ago when i'd just moved into my house a delightful neighbor came over and brought coffee. i invited her over several days later and i provided the coffee. a week later she brought an outtatown gf over to meet me; while i was out of earshot--they thought--i heard her tell gf she loved it in the ass. we very occasionally had coffee after that. she was definitely lovely though.
"Educate me on why the Hermes shampoo is relevant."
Sherman must be contractually obligated to throw out some non sequitur, quirky addition to every response he makes. Or this is simple trolling for amusement by courting abuse.
See, no one was begging Sherman to admit he uses Hermes shampoo, so the whole "loathe to admit this" IS UNTRUE. It was a self-motivated admission. WE DID NOT WANT TO KNOW.
It’s a factual statement, but it was trolling / provocation.
I have never thought about the implications of owning or using Dude Wipes; I assumed they were intended for the Every Day Carry crowd, which I don’t really understand.
Hunter was the perfect sacrifice and he let too many in on the dirt going on behind the curtain.
If he had gotten off completely, trust in the system would erode even more quickly, and normie must be kept on the reservation for as long as possible. He'll get a wrist slap or if he sees the inside of a cell, get Epsteined, depending on how much he knows and if he was smart enough to plant deadman switches.
It's their aluminum framed rotating barrel design, formerly known as the Berretta Cougar. It was discontinued by Beretta and is now made by their Turkish subsidiary Stoeger. The pictures are so fuzzy it's impossible to tell if he bought a used Beretta or a new Stoeger. But either way it's widely acknowledged as one of the mistakes in Beretta's service pistol lineup and apparently performed poorly in the few departments that actually picked it up. Intended to be a .40 caliber option for police departments that had been convinced that they needed "more firepower" than the 9mm and were switching away from the Beretta 92FS because the 92 design did not play well with .40. The Cougar was even worse. Beretta did a lot better with the PX4 which is actually a very good pistol.
Whether it's the old Beretta version or the new Stoeger version, you'd have to be on crack to pick it out. Which, well...explains some things. You see it and think that the guy who owns it would fuck his sister-in-law on top of the coffin of his dead brother.
I've got the Stoeger version in 9mm. Never had any problems with it, but for me it is a range gun and I'm not relying on it to do anything where lives are in the balance. Very different criteria for service. For my use of "quirky range gun" it is excellent.
The Hunter thing is the result of a "modified limited hangout." Originally he was to plea to those charges, with an immunity deal so broad it would have indemnified him for *anything* else he may have done. That immunity clause was inserted into an addendum where it's normally not placed with the hope the judge wouldn't see it. She did, and the plea deal blew up on the launchpad. Since he was indicted for these they had to go to trial for them.
At least the DOJ can (they didn't want to if the extremely generous plea deal is any indication) still go after the tax evasion and anything else it might expose.
I think there's at least one that's still in the window. although DOJ did do their level best to let it lapse. It was a couple of whistleblowers at the IRS that raised a stink when they were told to drop it.
I think the judge noticing the immunity was an important point. It wasn't the media noticing and blowing it up first. The judge did her job and that's how it got brought up.
Willow springs is only 2.4 million, doesn't seem too bad if one gets enough partners. I've never driven there, but its historical value should be high enough to consider preserving it.
My favorite part of the Drake/Kendrick beef was Rick Ross' instagram stories shit talking Drake; absolutely hilarious.
Yeah, what an idiot; putting himself in such a lose-lose situation. You aren't a professional diver (or even in shape). What was the best thing that could have happened in front of all of those people?
When the In-N-Out opened in the Denver metro area a few years ago the lines were so long they had to hire off-duty cops to manage the traffic in the parking lots, it was causing serious congestion. My favorite reporting in the local papers was people getting fast food from other local places to eat while they waited two+ hours in line.
I think the more salient connection between CFA and IIB is manifested by the former's being closed Sunday and the latter's printing of Bible verses on the cups.
A few years ago, I was surprised to see a Chik-Fil-A employing orange-vested traffic controllers on a random weeknight. I mentioned it to some coworkers and asked if they knew about some sort of special event or promotion (I assumed maybe some sort of National Free Chicken Sandwich day or something), and one said "that's just Chik-Fil-A."
Putting my face up to the societal angle grinder... another big part of is is that both restaurants generally have cheerful white people under the age of 24 in most of the positions, as opposed to don't-give-a-shit Burger King where everybody in there has face tats and the unconcealed desire to do the ultraviolence.
I went to a McDonalds in the middle of nowhere MI and all the staff was white, the food was delicious, and the service was impeccable. I suspect this has more to do with the Age and life choices of the people instead of the color of their skin. Lifers vs itinerant McDonalds employees
Ironically, here in northern Williamson County (TN) - which the Nashville free rag has termed "the heart of white Christian Nationalism" - almost all of the fast food workers I've encountered in my admitted limited experience have been Hispanic. The couple of times I went to CFA the workers were mostly painfully cheerful white kids and a sprinkling of black kids. No Hispanics. The roller skating carhops at Sonic seem to be almost all white teen girls.
I assure you the crowd is more urban in certain markets, but the “front of house” staff greets customers, makes eye contact, and responds sensibly and articulately, all while delivering the correct order quickly.
Edit: At Chick fil A. Burger King is one of those businesses like Pepsi or The Gap that *exists*, but I don’t know anyone who shops there.
Interestingly, outside of Saturdays, our Chik-Fil-As are ran mostly by a bunch of white women over 60. I get the impression they don't put up with much when some of the younger folks are working with them.
In-N-Out is ok. When I've gone, they do an excellent job of managing the drive thru lines, even in a newly opened store. As a fat guy I prefer my chicken fried so Chik-Fil-A is not a regular stomping ground. But give me Whataburger any day. Can't wait til they show up farther north than Colorado Springs. I think the limited menus are just as big a help as the focus on customer service.
Anyhow, I was shocked by the service I received at the Mr. Burger in Guymon, OK. Everyone working was a high school aged Hispanic kid. They were laughing and joking around like kids do but everything was punctuated with a Sir and every one of them appeared attentive. The place was clean enough that I'd have been content to eat off the floor.
There's a Popeye's near my house and a Chik-Fil-A at the entrance of the shopping center with the Lowe's and Meijer stores that I use and both almost always have lines of cars. Can't say that about any other fast food places. From the appearances, Chik-Fil-A has the logistics of drive-thru fast food down.
wow, that ad is pretty overtly racial, and not just in a positive "We Welcome you!" sense, but by denigrating people of other races.
The urban legend that came to my mind was that Popeye's makes black men sterile...I think I actually read about that in a newspaper. Apparently it was about Church's chicken instead.
It's actually kind of plausible that food targeting one ethnicity could be used for nefarious purposes, as pointed out here:
I have been told for years by my Californian relatives that I MUST try In-N-Out and this year I managed it. The queue for the drive by takeout section in Costa Mesa was ridiculous, but those of us willing to park the car and stagger the marathon fifty yards on our actual feet were quickly served excellent and very reasonable food ($30 for three and one of those a 16 yo lad with hollow legs to fill). It was a genuine bargain, which in Orange County turned out to be doubly exceptional.
Maybe because I'm old(er) I fail to see any attraction in a drive-thru lane. Kids in the car? Sure. But if I a dollar for every time I went in somewhere and came out to see the same cars in line, I could buy a CFA franchise.
That formula is the opposite at Starbucks. I don’t usually go to Starbucks but was forced to use one on a recent road trip. I was the only walk-in customer and there was a line of cars in the drive-thru. I was totally ignored by the staff once I placed my order at the register. It took 15 minutes to get my simple iced coffee while they kept working on new drive-thru orders. It’s definitely their policy to favor the cars over walk-ins. Hopefully this was my last ever trip into a Starbucks. Their coffee sucks anyway.
We had a similar experience at a Thai restaurant in Chiswick (west London) last year. We were actual sit down, pay 3 x mark-up on the drinks and tip on the total customers in the room, yet we waited the best part of 30 minutes to get served while they dealt with take out orders for delivery by scooter. What’s with the “won’t step outside my house” crowd?
Well, Americans don’t value their time, and they want to expend the least amount of effort possible in any endeavor, which usually involves sitting as much as possible. This would be a much healthier country if people just parked at the far end of the parking lot and walked an extra 10 seconds into a store, but the average American never even considers anything that involves minimal effort.
Agree. Kids in car is only reason. I make an exception for dunkin coffee. I don't even do drive through much with the kids. Use the app and the order pickup spots. Faster and it saves you 20%
There's been a ton of trendy shit (Scheels, Buc-ees, Dave's Hot Chicken) built in Northern Colorado the last few years. When our In-N-Out opened earlier this year I was excited, but waited a few weeks to go because of the 5 hour wait times. I told the Mrs that I didn't care if Salma Hayek stepped put of a portal from 1996 (or current Salma, really) to serve burgers topless, I wouldn't wait in line that long for fast food. She immediately said "yes you would."
She was right, but when they're served by a bunch of high school dipshits in '50s cosplay? No thanks.
The only thing I cared about from the Hunter Biden trial was that he played Fleet Foxes while getting a lap dance:
"The next witness was Zoe Kestan, a former romantic partner of Biden. She testified that she met him on Dec. 17, 2017, when she worked at a strip club in midtown Manhattan and he booked her and another woman for a private dance. Biden played the music by the indie folk band Fleet Foxes on his phone -- and he smoked something she assumed was crack.
'I felt really safe around him,' she said."
What song do you think Hunter played? Personally I imagine Hunter playing the opening to Montezuma, briefly reflecting on how what he has failed to live up to, before shoving those thoughts aside with another bump:
"Helplessness Blues" is a perfect Hunter Biden album. Like it was written for him. If you pull "Grown Ocean" it could be the story of his life.
Personally, I resonate with most of "Crack-Up", although I always think of Brother Bark and his endless adventures when I dip back to "Blue Ridge Mountains".
Youtube's algorithm feeds me Japanese girls either playing heavy metal or singing covers of Vocaloid songs so I have no idea what this BBL Drizzy thing is and will likely never find out. Current favorite is Yoshino, but she hides behind an anime avatar so I have no idea what she actually looks like.
The Biden and Trump cases are both stupid. From where I sit, it appears that everyone does their absolute best to look at anything BUT Biden so far as investigation goes, while Trump gets more scrutiny than anyone else I've ever seen and all they can nail him for is something they made up and can't explain to anyone.
I usually root against Danny Ric every weekend because he strikes me as a bit frat boyish in a bad way, plus I once had dinner with my Australian coworker and the nice Malasian lady who replaced me at my teaching post in Japan and she spent the whole time swooning over his Australian sense of humor when all he was was loud and obnoxious and annoying. If he and Danny Ric are representative of all Aussies they rate only slightly better than the Swiss to me.
I don't know what a vtuber is, but it's entirely possible that's who I'm watching. Really just two of them, though. The others I've watched were annoying.
Blogpost warning: My second season in 206 kart racing started last weekend.
Of a 25 kart field I qualified and finished 11th. The front half of the field is super close now - at 11th I was just .3 off of P1 in qualifying.
So I spent enough time with the front pack to learn that the club’s “no bump drafting” rule in practice means “bump draft on starts, where you’re unlikely to be caught, and until you get warned.”
Unfortunately, losing the draft means you’ll never catch back up. I think I need another .1 or .2 per lap and I’ll be able to comfortably hang with them.
I’m convinced that racing is the best way to spend a weekend. If only there were more race weekends…
I am viewing the Hunter conviction in conjunction with the FinCen BOI requirements, which require any entity owner such as an LLC *EXCEPT LARGE OR REGULATED ONES*, to provide a RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS to the federal government AND PROMPTLY UPDATE IT. (There was an almost immediate injunction holding that this is very likely unconstitutional, but that means nothing in today's legal system.)
This is not only a dragnet, but essentially criminalizes people who are snowbirds, people who provide live-in care for divorced parents, traveling nurses / other professionals, and people who live in RV's. It also decreases safety and anonymity of domestic violence victims, etc.
A related facet is that many people in these situations find a way to get mail reliably from wherever they may be at the moment, but governments insist on a fixed residence address where mail may be stolen or not received in a timely manner. So the question is does the government want to be able to reliably contact the individual, or is it really interested in being able to fine, imprison, or SWAT-execute a growing portion of society at-will.
And there is a very dramatic increase in the times and places at all levels of government that demand TO KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE, which is sometimes highly fluid (almost as much as gender).
Every interaction with the government nowadays, whether it's taxes or passport registration, now begins with a comprehensive audit of your residency. It's despicable.
"now begins with a comprehensive audit of your residency"
Is this good or bad? The reason I ask is in most states, when it comes to voting, there is ZERO investigation where I live nor requirement to show proof of residency when registering to vote. Even if you show a license with an address on it, that address could be wrong. I saw reporters looking at voter rolls after the 2020 election and found many residences listed were empty lots or just non-existent in Las Vegas and Detroit. Even basic UPS shipping software determined that the addresses were non-existent, but registrars had no clue because they aren't even using that software or any residency validation.
So, should we require better residency audit?
On the flip side, most states require a current valid drivers license to buy a gun in that state and the residency must be in the state which the gun is being purchased. Yet, you can go through an FFL and buy a gun from another state. Why is this? Why does residency matter when buying a handgun?
When I went on vacation in Tennessee, I visited the actual buds gun shop. I, an Illinois resident, could buy a gun there subject to the three day wait period. The guy behind me, a WI resident, could walk out with one. This was a few years ago.
Oh I'm not talking about voting, which you can do in most states now with no ID or information besides whatever name you want to give. I'm talking about renewing tags or getting a hunting permit.
Our betters constantly told us to look to Western European nations to see how things were done right...except for voting. The Democrats resist every opportunity to strengthen controls while the Republicans are basically apathetic...beyond sternly worded letters at best.
As Jack said, I'm not talking about voting, which may indeed be too easy in many cases.
I'm talking about everything else, where 99% of the time your residence address is completely immaterial, invasive, burdensome to update, and leads to missing important mail (a former boss missed his court date to contest a traffic violation because he had bought two houses in short succession and the USPS forwarding took too long).
In other cases, they set up a Catch 22: some states require Real ID type proof every time you update your residence address, and yet also set a short deadline to do so. Serial offenders who are on Disability probably do get official mail almost every day, but for the rest of us, it can be challenging, especially if we are responsible and use a mailing address.
In a sense both the Biden and Trump convictions have a common thread:
1) A person needs to interact with government, e.g., to obtain a fishing license.
2) The government designs an unnecessarily invasive form, e.g.:
2.0) What is your mailing address?
2.1) Are you a resident of the state? If so, please provide proof.
2.2) Have you ever been convicted of an offense involving fish and/or game involving a fine of more than $500 or more than 24 hours imprisonment?
2.3) What is your residence address? (As a Fishing License Holder, you are required to update this address by providing at least 4 pieces of official government mail within 5 days of moving. Failing to abide by this provision is a felony punishable by fines up to $50,000 and / or imprisonment of up to 7 years)
2.4 a) Do you regularly have more than $1000 in cash or gold at this address?
2.4 b)If so, please describe the location of the cash/gold, including the safe combination, if any.
2.5a) Do you frequently travel and leave your wife home alone?
2.5b) If so, please list wife's approximate height and weight.
2.6) Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental disorder such as Depression, Dysthymia, Grief Disorder, Anxiety, OCD, ADHD, or Asperger's? If so, provide complete records from all mental health, therapy, counseling, or Employee Assistance Program contacts and an additional $5000 Psychological Records Evaluation Fee.
2.7 )How often do you masturbate?
3) Fail to disclose or to update anything 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, or 2.7 in order to protect your wife / property / privacy; now you are a felon who has "filed false documents."
The BOI rules are ridiculous and we're currently navigating that maze right now with out clients. As far as I understand, snow birds don't have to update their address every time they leave town. It's your "permanent address" I have one client without a permanent address. Fought with Illinois for 3 years over it. "Well since he doesn't have a permanent address, he is an Illinois resident still" He hasn't been in Illinois in 5 years! that was fun.
South Dakota, Texas, and Florida will give citizenship to people who only set foot in the state to get a new DL picture after meeting their initial residency requirements.
The Escapees RV club helps people who plan to full time in their RV change residency to a friendly domicile state.
A) It's actually a little bit easier to be an expat or fully nomadic than to be multi-homed. If you do split your time between Parent in State A, Parent in State B, and Job in State C, you would have to at least commit perjury to get a DL in one of the states that you mentioned. Again as relevant to the thread: it's true that you can pretty much get a DL overnight in any of those states, but for example SD now requires you to state, under penalty of perjury, that "I do not live, reside, or stay in any other state." That is not entirely true for someone who semi-regularly spends time with one or another parent.
The FinCen stuff is really bad here, because even if in 2024 you spend 7 days in each of the continental US , 7 days in DC, and 16 days overseas, if you spend, say 8 months of 2025 caring for a particular relative, you could be deemed to have changed residence without notifying FinCen, and the $500/day fine would cap at $10,000 after 20 days
B) Even if you are fully nomadic, you will potentially have issues such as:
0) If you spend significant time in another state, that state will require you to at least register your vehicle there. This is not entirely unreasonable except that they will also require you to TITLE your vehicle there, which means that it will no longer be titled in the former state...and many states also require you to have a license before you can register a vehicle there.
1) Vehicle insurance will usually require a residential address (there are certain brokers which specialize in full-timing policies
2) If you change all your banking addresses to a mail forwarding company, you will probably get a letter stating CONTACT OUR SECURITY DEPARTMENT WITHIN 7 DAYS OR ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS WILL BE CLOSED. This is in part due to Patriot Act requirements.
3) It is difficult / impossible to open a new bank account without a residence address, and (crucially) without multiple official proofs of that address.
4) Some states require a residential address to be on the front of the DL (SD and possibly FL, listed above, are exceptions0. This means that citations received out of state will may not be mailed to the mail forwarding service.
5) A DL with a non-residential address cannot be used for firearms purchase
6) The FinCen BOI rules require a residence address; not sure if they will even allow the input of a mail service address.
“So the question is does the government want to be able to reliably contact the individual, or is it really interested in being able to fine, imprison, or SWAT-execute a growing portion of society at-will.”
The latter. See what happened to that guy in Arkansas who was murdered by the ATF when they executed a search warrant on his house at 6am.
Wondering how they'll use this conviction to keep Hunter from going to trial on the tax evasion charges that could certainly involve testimony tying his money to Joey. I doubt the spit painting son is willing to do even easy time to save how history views the father who would shower with his daughter. I'd also love to know how our President had a gun control speech scheduled for a couple hours after the verdict. I try so hard to not see conspiracies all about but WTF.
bbl drizzy slaps so hard its hilarious that it was all fabricated by ai for the purpose of fucking with drake and i cant quit describe how glad i am to somehow see that it made it to acf
more importantly shout out to thaze and cool guy faisal for making it happen on track
Also, TIL the descendant of the original In 'n out guy is... uh... well. yeah "america's youngest female billionaire." Yikes.
Edit for full disclosure: Yes. Yes, I did go on opening night. Got there around 9:30P, ordered shortly after midnight, ate around 1:15A. It wasn't that cold and they had a lot of propane heaters out to keep the line warm. It was a festival atmosphere, like waiting in line to see your favorite band.
They call her the first 'self made' female billionaire, because her family's money, celebrity, and influence made her rich instead of inheriting their money directly. It's hilarious.
Soviets waited hours in line because they had to, Americans do because they want to. Soviet homes were furnished identically because that's all there was, Western homes are often nearly identical thanks to IKEA. Funny how similar outcomes are caused by wildly different forces.
There was an article, I think published in University of Michigan Law Review, that documents how the US "Family Court" system was lifted wholesale from the Soviets. Terms such as "custodial parent" were 100% Soviet Law.
1. I cannot overstate how much I adore stuff like that BBLDrizzy breakdown. I wouldn't see that kind of thing otherwise and I find myself just as in awe of how it's working as you. Plus it lets me keep up with the kids these days. The other day I said, in a group of zoomers, that somebody was sweating like "Drake at a middle school!" and I thought they were going to die of laughter.
2. It's worthwhile to consider exactly how the Hunter Biden prosecution came to be. Initially there was an incredibly broad plea deal on the table that pretty much served to dispose of *any* criminal liability for Hunter dealing only the lightest possible smack on the wrist for things that would preclude any possible examination of the Biden family's finances. That became public and was blown up by the publicity. It was so obviously corrupt that the lightest amount of public scrutiny was fatal.
...but this poses problems. The government cannot just withdraw promises made because of bad PR. So deciding to junk the deal and prosecute Hunter is potentially disposable by appeal in the first place.
That being said, Hunter's legal problems were supposed to be wrapped up before the Trump trials began. When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea. When the optics shifted nailing Hunter on charges that have absolutely no tie to Biden family business became useful. It serves multiple interests, allowing a talking point that pretends we're not living in a two tiered system of justice where police and prosecutorial power is being weaponized against this administration's political enemies. At the same time it puts Hunter on a very short leash.
Hunter is getting scrutiny because of things he said in interviews and critical evidence he "accidentally" left laying around...at about the same time Ashley Biden's rehab diary was "stolen" and became public knowledge. I do not believe these two events are merely coincidental. I think it was an attempt by both to get out from under the thumb of their sociopath of a father. Well the DOJ and "intelligence community" closed ranks pretty hard and worked to cover all that up nicely, didn't they?
It's been rumored for a long time that if you are facing a federal case, the right check written to a Biden will result in The Big Guy making a call to DOJ HQ and the case disappears. In fact, it's even been rumored that a number of DOJ cases were begun precisely so that you would write that check.
The best way to understand Biden is as a mob boss or a small feudal king. His children are treated like instruments in his larger goals. Like LBJ, but not as smart. No less animal in his cunning or corruption, but not as smart at working it. People often act as if Biden's selection as VP was because Obama saw him as a bumbling idiot. It's much more likely that he was picked as VP specifically to assist in the conversion of the "counter-terrorism" infrastructure (that should have never been allowed in the first fucking place) to going after political enemies of the deep state. Having Biden's ties to DOJ and the intelligence community on board with the effort only helped Obama's efforts become more efficient. That expanded to the IRS, too.
That resulted in the IRS going after political groups that challenged Obama's power and it led to the Obama administration seizing the most intimate medical records of hundreds of thousands of important people. Most people were unaware this happened because naturally it doesn't serve The Narrative, but it did:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/05/15/the-irs-raids-60-million-personal-medical-records/
The medical records of judges, celebrities, athletes, politicians, and financial titans were all seized by the IRS under the guise of Obamacare in an effort so brazen and corrupt that I'm sure J Edgar would lift his dress and bend over so he could get fucked by it. This gave the Obama administration and the IRS the most intimate details of all those people's lives. What medications they were taking. What psychiatric conditions they were being treated for. What STD's they were being treated for. What they were addicted to. All that good stuff that the government isn't supposed to know about ANY OF US.
Biden was a key player in creating all of that. And he likes to brag about it, too. Like a mob boss. "Nobody fucks with a Biden!" ...remember that?
What I've heard about the defense in Hunter's trial is utterly laughable. Abbe Lowell is supposed to be one of the best defense attorneys in the nation and based on what I've heard I could have generated a more competent defense with ChatGPT than what was presented at trial. Either Lowell's reputation is completely fabricated...or *it wasn't supposed to be a well defended case.*
What does Biden have now? He gets to claim that others are weaponizing police powers against *him and his family* while he's busy doing exactly that to Trump and anyone who worked in the Trump administration. His functionaries get to go out and claim that the prosecution of Hunter justifies the prosecutions of Trump...even though Biden supposedly had nothing to do with any of that, but ignore that old talking point for the new one. And it keeps the kid who couldn't shut the fuck up and couldn't stop leaving damning evidence about Biden family business all over the place on a short leash. Hunter isn't doing interviews anymore. And he's not leaving laptops anywhere anymore. He's nicely under control.
And even if he has to sit in a cell for a little while, it's only until the election and we all know he'll get a pardon as soon as it's decided. Right along side the pardon Biden will cut for himself and all his little functionaries to guard against any accountability for their multiple violations of law in pursuing all this weaponization in the first place.
All of this is win/win for Biden.
Expect Hunter's defense against the tax charges to be much, much more competent. Because the fix will likely be in on that one, too.
People cheering for Hunter's conviction are damn fools who don't see what's actually going on. They just want some sort of retribution...not realizing that this isn't retribution, it serves Biden's interests beautifully. Lots of people have gone to jail on the charges that he faced for sure. He shouldn't just get a pass if none of those people did. But cheering for charges that keep as far away as possible from the real dirt that Hunter Biden has been involved in as bag man for his corrupt family for decades is not a fucking victory. Quite the opposite.
Pinning this so it can be read by everyone. Thank you.
It's kind of a shame that we can't turn the comment section into a book.
Maybe we can!
" When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea"
This very much echoes the Lewinsky case. IIRC Starr was begging to be allowed to pursue the poverty stricken/millionaire Bhuddist nuns' payments to Clinton bagman and future two time Virginia governor (in violation of the spirit if not letter of the law) McAullife. Reno said no, you can only pursue this <strike>perjury case</strike> private matter between a married couple.
Damn...This is all assuming Biden has a functioning brain and is smart enough to be machiavellian. Methinks not. I'd like to see who's pulling the strings though. Susan Rice? Obama 3rd term?
Let me ask you this: Do you think that seeing Biden as a complete puppet serves his interests or harms them?
I have no doubt Biden has some sort of serious mental issues with declining mental faculties. If you've ever dealt with someone like that, though, you will have seen that they do not live in a fog of complete unknowing. They have moments of perfect lucidity, too. Biden really is shitting his pants on a regular basis. There are even very unauthorized nicknames that have resulted from it.
But the dude who shits his pants and gets confused on camera sometimes when he needs more injections is the same vindictive, corrupt, and malicious character he's always been when he is perfectly lucid. And he's surrounded by people he has hand selected to facilitate his ability to keep the party going.
Biden has been a mastermind of political intrigue his entire career. He orchestrated the hit on Clarence Thomas, remember, only to have Thomas effectively counter it by calling it out for the high-tech lynching it was. By the way, anyone remember how hard in the paint the Biden functionaries went on Clarence Thomas' wife? Think that's mere fucking coincidence? Dude is literally still grinding an old grudge. Because nobody fucks with a Biden.
Biden is a corrupt criminal fighting the grim reaper and father time with all his might. The fact that they land blows on him that are evident doesn't change his fundamental nature. And the fight with them ain't over.
My dad went through something similar to what we are seeing with Biden in the last dozen or so years or his life. It amplified all the worst parts of his personality, so, if the same holds true with Biden, good lord.
INDEED.
King Lear, but retarded.
The jet, or Jill? 🙄
That is the case with Alzheimers and other similar mental degradations. It amplifies the dominant parts of your previous personality. There are old clips of Biden out there from decades ago where his mean streak is on display. He’s always been a mean SOB.
Let’s not forget that Doctor Jill is around to carry on Joe’s crime boss vindictiveness when he’s not lucid. She married him in 1977 so she’s all in on carrying on the family business, and she obviously knows where all the bodies are buried. Also, quite curious that she was jetting back and forth from the trial to France. Just why did she need to be in the courtroom as an observer? https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/dnc-will-foot-the-bill-for-part-of-jill-bidens-pricey-back-and-forth-delaware-france-flights-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-the-rest/
What explains the state he was in at the SOTU Address?
BTW, this is Bereft Insane Osama’s third term.
Didn’t watch, don’t know.
There is speculation that he was medicated in an attempt to hide his cognitive decline. While there are anti-Alzheimer's medications, they probably added some amphetamines.
I have no idea about any of this, but if it looked like "old man on amphetamines," it might have been partly that.
Being a puppet only serves you for a short time. While he may have moments of lucidness, the person with dementia quickly reverts back to their state of unknowing or confusion. I also think he's always been too stupid to really succeed at anything and even Obama admitted it as much. I think he got away with it for so long because he was so useless and not powerful, that it didn't matter much. Or, others more powerful used him as the conduit. Clintons per se.
Hunter got a 170 on his lsat. That likely came from somewhere.
Kinda seems unlikely that someone with that score would drop off a laptop with that much incriminating evidence at a mom n pop repair shop.
You would be surprised how many smart people are stupid
it's unlikely that he could repeat his score now, after all the drugs
I didn’t think that dumbfuck could fog a mirror!
maybe he cheated?
I’m curious but too lazy to track down the source of the 170 claim, but didn’t he have a fractured skull in the crash that killed Biden’s first wife? You’d think that some dain bamage would go along with that.
For those unfamiliar, the LSAT is scored from 120-180, much like the SAT/GREs are scored 200-800. But it's quite a bit harder. So getting a 170 is sorta like getting 700 on the GRE, but not the same. Having taken both (decades ago), I'd say the GRE was much easier.
A 170 puts you in the 98th percentile of *law school applicants* which is a self selecting group of high achievers -- and 170 is the very high end of these high achievers. A rough extrapolation to the general population, it's more like >99.75 percentile. Mad respect to anyone who can get there -- even Hunter.
For me, the difference is this: I think Hunter broke the law but I think the law is wrong and should be challenged, whereas in the case of Trump, I don't think he did anything wrong nor broke the law, even though a jury thought he did under poor instructions from a judge.
Many on the right are not cheering on Hunter's conviction because many actually disagree with the federal law. There are some on the left cheering because it's a way to push back on Trump's conviction.
It's all maddening.
Hunter most definitely broke the law as written on his gun purchase. But does that law even hold any power under the standard set in Bruen? Has yet to be decided. Plenty of people have been jailed on that law, but usually people who the government doesn't like. They rarely...and I mean RARELY...use it on actual violent criminals. Generally it gets whipped out when they can't get you on something else they'd like to have you on more.
So one can argue it's always been a primarily political charge, and one that with the various "legalization" efforts in the states (as it remains illegal at the federal level) that they can use against pretty much anyone anytime they like.
Usually when it serves their interests or prejudices...neither of which makes Hunter's prosecution on this look any more legit.
I'm sure the government will somehow try to convince a jury that a guy who smoked weed when he was 18 and bought a gun when he was 35 is somehow addicted to weed to a guy they don't like.
I'll go even further: Have you ever met an addict who admitted they were an addict...even to themselves? That usually doesn't happen until they've hit rock bottom. So if someone who doesn't think they are an addict answers a question about whether or not they are an addict negatively, how do you criminalize that? Oh, they should have known they were an addict based on objective measures from the outside that all the best evidence shows that they were literally unable to grapple with at the point where they said it?
This isn't to excuse Hunter because he knew he was lying his ass off, but at the same time the entire exercise gets really fucking sketchy as soon as we apply some scrutiny.
"Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences."
If there are no harmful consequences, you're not an addict! What harmful consequences has Hunter ever had? This countries views on addiction baffle my autistic personality. Addiction to caffeine? OK! Addiction to sugar and carbs? OK! Addiction to Nicotine? Bad (not smoking, nicotine). Addiction to prescription painkillers? OK! Addiction to non prescription pain killers? Bad! Addiction to Adderall? OK. Addiction to meth? Bad (ok, i agree with this one)
In addition to the 5th Amendment issues, I think we have a systemic issue with unnecessarily invasive government forms in general, with the BOI thing being a current flashpoint:
https://www.avoidablecontact.com/p/wednesday-or-thread-d-rizzy-bbl-drizzy/comment/58924909
This belongs in a comment Hall of Fame. Nothing really more to add. I'm hopeful that Trump will be re-elected for a third term. I'm not really hopeful that anything will or can even change. I think we may be beyond the event horizon politically and culturally. There's no going back without something really bad happening.
On the contrary, I'm optimistic. The first step to fixing a problem is figuring out you have one. I'm watching people who told me the FBI is a bunch of heroes ten years ago tell me that the organization is to corrupt to allow to exist today. That's progress. All this excessive stuff is laying bare the realities of how the system has been weaponized against the common man, too. And people don't like it. You don't even have to like Trump. Anyone watching the Young Thug trial taking place in the same courthouse as Fanni Willis' RICO case against Trump is seeing just how corrupt that entire court system is. The judge jailed Young Thug's lawyer because that lawyer found out the judge had an illegal ex parte meeting with a witness and the prosecution.
When called out, he threw the lawyer in jail. This roused the entire criminal defense association in Georgia to come forward immediately to challenge it. When faced with that, the judge doubled down and is demanding everyone in that illegal meeting show cause why he shouldn't jail them for contempt, too.
It's a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional use of force by the Fulton County court and Fanni Willis' office...and it's made plenty of people go "Wait, this is the same people prosecuting Trump?"
People are finding out en masse that the system is rigged against them. Not just the other guy. And they don't like it.
That is progress.
That...is hope.
We're not even sixty years out from normal political assassination's. These corrupt guys never think someone will take it into their own hands. A certain segment of the population fantasizes this will happen tomorrow. I don't think we're that close but I somewhat expect it in my lifetime and definitely in my childrens.
The sad thing is that the most prominent assassination was by the Deep State removing a popular President who cared about the good of the common citizen.
The opposite of "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants."
I want to be optimistic as well but they act with impunity. It's out in the open and people don't like it but short of a full on coup there is little recourse.
I respect your optimism but can’t share it. They’ve gutted all the military from the warrior class. They don’t want any multi-generational people from joining up. I could probably find the link. Did you seen the picture last year of the Marine recruits.
The purging in the FBI has been in the news the last week. I suspect the same for the rest of the justice department and likely the IRS as well in Treasury.
Congress has punted their responsibility for appropriations and passed omnibus spending bills for however many years. PS where did the announced $404 million to Hamas and the $360 million for the late pier come from? And thousand page bills they actually pass nobody reads and leaves it up an unelected bureaucracy to make up thousands of pages of regulations.
Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us.
"Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us."
Between that and blowing up the pipeline... history will judge him harshly for that.
History belongs to those who write it. And I doubt that today's current crop of history majors will ever write anything harsh about the Obama/Biden presidencies.
Oh, they're not going to live long enough to write the books, I don't think.
They're purging the FBI and military because they'd rather have agents and soldiers who will swear an oath to protect their dental plan.
I try to share your optimism but I still fear Michelle will be brought out for the second or third ballot in Chicago. Kamala will be told to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. Democrat RFK Jr votes will immediately flip to her, Trump won't stand a chance and our "democracy" will be saved.
What you have to understand about the Obamas is that they are not masterminds of anything. Barack Obama was selected early on as a magnificent avatar for the deep state. He's not the idea guy. He's the salesman. Remember that before he was president even black "civil rights" leaders complained that he was never really "down with the struggle". He hooked up with leftist radicals who went from mailing bombs to eagerly participating in The Long March through the institutions after auditioning for the intelligence world in college. He was a perfect intelligence plant, too.
He's got multiple names, his father is a foreigner, he's a closeted bisexual, and boy howdy he just seemed to keep falling into exactly the right spot at exactly the right time didn't he?
Well he and Michelle have done their time. Now they're reaping their rewards.
Michelle Obama is an insufferable elitist. Dealing with we the proles literally makes her skin crawl. She's not about to give up her lifestyle of running around on yachts and private jets to small gatherings of ridiculous rich white women adoring her to actually get back in the mud and blood of real politics.
Especially not against a ruffian like Trump who will not care a tinker's cuss about her reputation and when called a big meanie by the press will be able to very rightly point out that not one of them ever pulled a punch on HIS first lady, so don't expect him to pull any with this one.
She doesn't want any part of that. And, frankly, her appeal would be significantly lower than what people fear. What you are seeing right now in the US and around the world is especially younger people coming to grips with the consequences of the Obama umbrella of policies. They don't like it. She can't run on how awesome the Obama era was because we're literally living with the consequences of Obama era policies. The economic nightmares, inflation, and immigration issues driving people to the polls isn't going to play now.
A lot of the millennials and zoomers never knew "republican" as anything but Bush. Well, Trump certainly isn't Bush. And their definition of "democrat" is a bunch of corrupt elitist pricks who rig everything and want to make it impossible for them to own anything.
Michelle would be an utter fucking disaster for them.
Believe it or not, Biden is the best shot they have simply because there are some ridiculous boomers in places like PA and Wisconsin who still spontaneously ejaculate complete hogwash like "Democrats are fur the workin' man!!!" because they had their brain replaced by a union sixty years ago. Michelle Obama isn't going to pull them to the polls.
You've perfectly described my 81 year old UAW Committeeman retiree father so I'll try to have faith in the rest. Shelly does continue to maintain, or has someone maintain, social media accounts for prole distribution so we'll see.
I'm completely with you on Barry's origins but 8 years as Puppet Leader can make a man and his wife think above their raisin'.
oh god i hate pailcarriers as my father refers to them
huge ndp voting block despite the fact that the ndp has changed so much over the last 30 years to where its now just liberal plus but hurr durr its for the working man
Democrat party rules say that if the candidate drops out _after_ the convention, then the party leaders can select a replacement nominee without a popular vote.
Biden will be nominated at the convention and accept. Soon after his handlers will suddenly "discover" that Joes health will not permit him to be president again and he will step down.
The party has someone already lined up. It won't be Schumer (too useful where he is), won't be Newsom (too toxic). It will be Gretchen Whitmer -- because she's a girl governor and somehow popular enough to win re-election in spite of her draconian Covid mandates.
Toxic doesn't bother them, and Newsome is popular among the AWFL cohort. Newsome/Whitmer could make it to bumper stickers on Priuses and Lesbarus nationwide.
Toxic may not bother *them* but the democrat party wants to make sure they win. And there are at least 40 states full of people that would say "God, I don't want the USA to end up like California" and vote accordingly. And I doubt the party feels confident that they can pull off election tampering in ALL the states.
Newsom is about as electable nationwide as Bernie Sanders.
honestly why would i bother with news when based takes like this are available
another banger comment tim
I’m so old I can remember the argument from the MSM that blogs were inferior because the MSM had layers and layers of editors and fact checkers to keep from getting the story wrong and the facts right.
now they hire people to get the story right and the facts wrong
that narrative wont push itself
Naturally. The media is now, and has always been, propaganda. But they really despise competition.
My favorite is everything search related has chat gpt generated responses now. They'll clearly contradict itself from one paragraph to another. I miss when the internet didn't suck
me too buddy
me too
can we get a weekly Tim post?
man i hope so
One of my favorite enlightening articles on the Biden family
https://archive.is/7OJR6
If the case of US v Biden unwinds one or more portions of the GCA69/the 4473 on appeal, so much the better. At that point the Bidens will have done more for gun rights than any republican president. “Never underestimate Joes ability to fuck things up” I believe was the quote.
Also, people do get strung up for 4473 victimless crimes. I can’t give you chapter and verse to another example but it does happen.
Edit, the Abramski decision form 2014. Absolute miscarriage of justice.
The case that was overturned in the 5th circuit, US. v. Daniels, had resulted in a 5 year sentence IIRC.
[did not read the entire article, nor do I intend to spark a debate on the editorial positions of the publication; it was just a fairly high link that contains the case citation]
https://reason.com/2024/06/11/hunter-bidens-gun-conviction-does-not-resolve-a-constitutional-dispute-that-pits-him-against-his-father/
In a motion to dismiss the gun charges, Biden's lawyers argued that Section 922(g)(3) is inconsistent with the Second Amendment. Last year in United States v. Daniels, they noted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned a marijuana user's conviction under that law,
Here’s another example from the same judge over the Hunter Biden case: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13490177/judge-hunter-biden-gun-trial-doubled-sentence-recommended.html
No way she was going to find for Hunter on constitutional grounds.
The 5th circuit doesn't include Delaware so their decisions do not apply. Unless the 3rd circuit has something then Hunter's lawyers were just fishing.
Until either the Supreme Court hears an appeal of the Davis decision or another circuit (or more) comes to a different conclusion under similar circumstances (a Circuit split) and then the Supreme Court decides, one has to abide by their home circuit's decisions.
I understand that the 5th Circuit does not include Delaware. But it seems to me that a theory that has worked in the 5th might also work in the 3rd, and it is possible that this argument has not been tested in the 3rd Circuit post Bruen, which is less than two years old.
Hunter is actually guilty of a real felony that has been championed by his father. Oh the irony. Trump is guilty of a past-due misdemeanor that was somehow elevated to a felony, except we don’t know how because the jury could (individually) chose from a list of options. I’m not sorry for Hunter except that he was born a Biden.
The media handling of this is predictable. What kind of sucker do you have to be to believe the media if you have any understanding of both cases and see how the media handled both. Willful ignorance will be how Biden gets elected (if it happens).
The charges against Hunter are also a great example of the overcharging that prosecuting attorneys do that Jack mentioned in his article discussing the multitude of charges against Trump. For instance:
Lying on a 4473 — unconstitutional, but ok
Causing incorrect information to be recorded in the FFL’s bound book — where did the FFL get that info from? Oh right, the 4473. No non FFL can commit this crime without lying on the 4473 first as far as I’m aware.
Possession of a firearm by a “prohibited person”—well his status as such is the only reason his responses on the 4473 were “lies”
So if there’s any crime, it’s only one—he had a gun as a crackhead. Yet three charges.
It’s the result you get when you have prosecutors that treat real life like a law school “issue spotter” final.
Can't disagree with MOST of what you said, except to laugh at the McLaren reliability. Sherman can jerk off to the architect of the building they came from all he wants.
I don't get the dig at wet wipes.... just because people you make fun of use them?
The McLaren GT4 is an interesting car because it's deliberately crippled from the street version. The Mustang, by contrast, is hopped up. They cost about the same, which is amusing.
The wet-wipes phenomenon among straight men is repugnant. I understand why gay men do it, but if you're not planning on being railed in the ass any time soon it's an odd and prissy thing to do.
I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb.
Its a bit odd to say that superior personal hygiene should only be the purview of homosexuals, or ONLY in certain use cases. If you are going to get swamp ass and not be able to shower for a while, you'd be surprised at how good a job baby wipes do to get you through the next few hours. You can revel in having porta john quality toilet paper and shit residue mixed in with sweat on you, and adding to your musk, but maybe some people don't like it IF there is an alternative?
Jack Baruth: Cleaner is repugnant if you're straight!!!
P.S. I do not use 'man wipes'. I have kids and have been cleaning THEIR nether regions for the last 3 years. Judge me if you want.
I'm not going to judge you for cleaning your children, for God's sake. I just dipped my son in rubbing alcohol.
'Man wipes' are just baby wipes that are scented differently and marketed to morons. Maybe make fun of them for falling for that marketing, but then it would in line with falling for Porsche's marketing as well....
See, I gave you an out..
Allow me instead to LEAN IN with a deranged theory that will have you shutting your laptop in disgust: the "DUDE WIPES", as they're marketed, is just part of an effort to sexualize men in a receptive sense.
As I noted below, the "Truckstop wipe" has been a thing forever. But the DUDE WIPE isn't about that. It's about keeping your asshole and nuts fresh and inviting so you're always ready for sex, even if you're not the receptive partner. In 2024, everything has to be either about the Omnicause or about having sex. It's critical that men be perpetually in a sex mindset, as opposed to the mindset where they are thinking about the Roman Empire, the XB-70, or homemade firearms manufacture. We used to force this always-be-ready-for-sex mindset on women; now we do it to men.
Reading your posts is so interesting because I'm nodding along like 90% of the time and then there's stuff like this where I'm like 'do we even live in the same world?'
bro what
Much like axe body spray, these are for teenaged boys with BO who don't have the "I don't give a fuck" benefits of old age to just use the kids baby wipes.
Look at the reviews
https://www.amazon.com/Dude-Products-Wipes-Flushable-Dispenser/product-reviews/B00L1GHHV2/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews
Jack that is wacky even from you. I am not saying your ideas have no merit but do you think most men care if their bungholio got the TP or the wipes.
Not disagreeing with you but I did recently stumble across a twitter thread of many women complaining about their various ex husband's, boyfriend's, one night stand's skid marked underwear.
I walk 10 miles a day so I just wear black.
I think your conclusion is just on the wrong side of exaggeration. I agree with the sentiment though.
Everclear works just as well as rubbing alcohol and if you're in a pinch...
I keep generic Target baby wipes in all my cars, and it’s by far the most commonly used “emergency” gear I have. And I think only once it has been to wipe up from a shit, the rest of the time it’s been to clean up after ice cream, wipe down a spill, clean off a piece of equipment, etc etc. Don’t sleep on baby wipes, you learn how versatile they are as a new parent and then you never want to be without them again afterwards.
No idea about the dude wipe/buttfucker connection though.
Baby wipes: useful, unscented, cheap
Rebranded and scented “masculine” wipes: overpriced, niche, possibly exclusively used for horny motives
I think this is the argument
"I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb."
Farley raced in the spec Mustang series at Mid-O and finished 11th overall.
Him driving the car is different from his headcount reduction process and cost savings imposed on different parts of the company?
I'm not defending his decisions, but he is a lot closer to the product than anyone at GM and Ford hasn't made the number of unforced errors the RenCen crew made.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GeneralMotors/comments/1d8nqvn/is_mary_wrong_about_evs_avs_carplay_android_auto/
I'm sorry what? Every single Ford launch is still trash.. every single Ford vehicle except for HD trucks is uncompetitive in their respective classes. They're losing money hand over fist on the quality problems on the F150s.
Also GM doesnt really do any work out of the ren center. All the real development happens in Warren, Pontiac and Milford.
Just because an exec touched a car doesn't make it competitive. He isnt going to be the person to figure out how to not trip up the torque limiting from the non contact sensors for BoP globally where the mustang is being sold and deployed as a turn key product to customers paying what Jack believes is the same money as a McLaren. That's a double insult cause half the time the McLaren finishes every time. This shouldn't be your f'ing benchmark.
He may be a real petrolhead, but he's a moron as far as running the auto business is concerned. I almost think furniture head did better when he had the reigns. Farley does not have a single hands down product success that he is responsible for during his whole tenure in any capacity at Ford.
the wet wipes thing is how deployed dudes way in field do it or so ive heard
Also how truckers do it. But it's meant to be a last resort, not a freshen-up between meetings in the cube farm.
thats true
aint nobody freeballin it outisde the wire at hewlett packard
Absolute hack in the Navy when you're 6 on/6 off in the engine plant and/or 18 hours+ working the flight deck.
I hear it's the USMC standard shower. Add deodorant and it's a night on the town.
Or while hiking through the desert on vacation and you realize that the lead singer of one of your favorite bands has a winery and restaurant on the way back to your hotel. So you stop at the Walmart for a fresh $12 dollar t-shirt and wet ones to have a "shower" in the parking lot to reduce, not eliminate, the red dirt that accumulated on your body before a late lunch...we tipped very well.
Tool?
Yep
How’s his wine?
HEY
WE HAVE A POLICY ABOUT INSULTING FELLOW READERS
It's all fun and games until Maynard pulls a gun on you.
I think we just identified somebody who doesn't get his b-hole ate. That's apparently a thing, now, even in heterosexual relationships among zoomers. Or at least the dudes who are saying that are really, really stridently insisting they aren't gay.
ew
i poop from there
I absolutely, 110% understand the appeal of eating a woman's ass, as long as she is skinny enough for it not to be a lat spread exercise on my part.
Eating MY ass? Last Saturday I had a 14-ounce filet and four dinner rolls. It would be safer to jump the Snake River on a Honda Grom.
acf - a family site
https://youtu.be/rMitjMTi__4?si=sc51wxfb9kyIIfMd&t=136
With apologies to Dobie Grey and, um, everyone
https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/avnoob/gimme_them_cheeks_girl_and_free_my_soul/
I needed these comments today! ACF delivers again.
Read this… I haven’t laughed this much in a month!
Timely article for you, sir:
https://www.gq.com/story/evan-goldstein-bespoke-surgical-bottoming-surgery
“Fifteen years later, he sees 90 patients and performs 15 surgeries a week. His Instagram bio includes the words “vintage Porsche collector.” But in the early days, he worried about the viability of his business plan. Despite the fact that there were a lot of people in need of anal care and education, not many people were talking about it. “I did a study early on in my career,” he says, “and what I found was that even 92% of gay providers were not talking about gay sex with their patients.”
After reading the article linked here last week or so about the gentleman's travails spending years in all the best San Francisco bars I completely understand Doctors taking that up as a specialty. My only surprise is not seeing it yet as a listing on my insurance company's preferred providers chart.
thanks i hate everything about this
"gay sex with their patients"
Isn't that an ethical issue?
We have a national religion: LGBT, and this is a manifestation of its highest values. And you are an unemployable bigot for questioning it. You might even get thrown off a roof.
Is the appeal picking out second hand corn from your teeth?
Exit only!
You haven't seen the "I Eat Ass" bumper stickers?
Disgusting and unhygenic in both directions, really, and another manifestation of unwanted LGBT behavior from last thread.
How can you kiss a woman who has done that? But maybe I just haven't been warped by enough porn.
What weird things I learn around here.
I used to always have a container of wet wipes around to clean out the wrinkle around my pug's nose. Now that he's gone should I give the wipes to a gay friend?
Not unless they are
DUDE WIPES(tm)
No, DUDE WIPES are for dudes who are really, really hetero. I mean aggressively hetero. I mean like full sleeve tattoos and peptides and preworkout hetero. I mean, like sculpted beard and fade with an ear-ring hetero. Like, listens to a crypto podcast once a week and wears a gold chain and workout pants all the time hetero. I mean, like so next level hetero that it's totally not gay when they get pegged, hetero. Because there's nothing more hetero than getting your gym thirst trap chick WHO CAN BENCH MORE THAN YOU, BRO! thanks to the testosterone and anavar to hip-thrust a big black 8"-er through your back door. And you need to be clean and ready to go for that, so DUDE WIPES.
It's not 9am and I'm already done with the internet!
This is called being an ALPHA a la Jack Murphy or Pericles 'Perry' Abbasi.
Twitter dot com tells me so
sounds pretty gay
1. Wet wipes are useful when camping and not just for wiping one's tuchas. Also when traveling, they do a better job than the cheap toilet paper in state-operated highway rest stops.
2. It's handy to have a container of wet-wipes sitting on the toilet tank for when the roll of toilet paper runs out and a spare roll is not within reach.
3. Wet-wipes don't bother me nearly as much as the advertising from toilet paper companies.
We’ve gone from Mr Whipple to cartoon bears leaving skid marks.
Also, when did the juvenile "poo" replace perfectly good words like feces, stool, and crap? I'd rather have my 12 year old grandson say that he needs to take a shit than "I have to poo." It's much more mature.
One would think that news anchors and editors would be able to say something like "human waste", or "fecal material", or is that too much to ask from adults?
Note: My grandsons use the word "defecate" but then they are my grandsons.
Time to drop the kids off at the pool
honk out a dirt snake
MY GOD MAN, THINK OF THE PLUMBING!
I don't think these are meant to be flushed..
And yet they frequently are, and form the structural matrix of huge fatbergs in the sewers.
they're flushable wipes!
As someone with old plumbing, zero wipes are flushable.
My cousins, who are plumbers, tell me that the flushable thing is a lie.
Of course it is. I should flush one then sue them for the $400 a year i give my plumber
They're "flushable" in the same sense that Pop-Tarts are part of a "balanced breakfast"
I can see a lost <i>Seinfeld</i> episode coming out of this one!
So you think cleaning yourself with a baby wipe* is ok, whereas Jack thinks it’s beyond the pale, but … you draw the line at architecture?
Fellas, is it gay to admire a car manufacturer for designing and manufacturing in a facility of significant architectural repute rather than a shed in suburban Ontario or rural Kentucky?
*I am loathe to admit this, but I use Hermes shampoo… 🤐
No, you're confusing yourself, or others, perhaps unintentionally.
The SUBJECT with the cars is the cars, NOT architecture. If there was a post about architecture, I would stay out of it, since IDGAF.
When you make comments to the effect of "the cars deserve more respect because of the building they were made in" you're subverting the discussion with immaterial and inane topic changes.
It is absolutely NOT GAY (or whatever qualifier you want to use) to admire architecture. It has nothing to do with the output of a factory, nor the quality or longevity of the product made there.
Educate me on why the Hermes shampoo is relevant.
If you’re not using Head and Shoulders Bourbon Scented you probably like to have your asshole eaten something something
Lmao, since I assume you're trying your best Baruthian extrapolation..
Imagine how I felt, being halfway through typing the same thing when the new comment appeared!
35 years ago when i'd just moved into my house a delightful neighbor came over and brought coffee. i invited her over several days later and i provided the coffee. a week later she brought an outtatown gf over to meet me; while i was out of earshot--they thought--i heard her tell gf she loved it in the ass. we very occasionally had coffee after that. she was definitely lovely though.
I like to think Trump did nail Stormy because I want to think he uses Pert and Old Spice.
"Educate me on why the Hermes shampoo is relevant."
Sherman must be contractually obligated to throw out some non sequitur, quirky addition to every response he makes. Or this is simple trolling for amusement by courting abuse.
See, no one was begging Sherman to admit he uses Hermes shampoo, so the whole "loathe to admit this" IS UNTRUE. It was a self-motivated admission. WE DID NOT WANT TO KNOW.
Or do we?
It’s a factual statement, but it was trolling / provocation.
I have never thought about the implications of owning or using Dude Wipes; I assumed they were intended for the Every Day Carry crowd, which I don’t really understand.
Now i have to carry a gun and dude wipes?
This kind of shit - https://everydaycarry.com/category/pocket-dumps/
Phone, wallet, keys, AirPods (or similar) should be enough imo
Hunter was the perfect sacrifice and he let too many in on the dirt going on behind the curtain.
If he had gotten off completely, trust in the system would erode even more quickly, and normie must be kept on the reservation for as long as possible. He'll get a wrist slap or if he sees the inside of a cell, get Epsteined, depending on how much he knows and if he was smart enough to plant deadman switches.
Is that a Walther?
After looking at that photo as much as I can stand, I think it's a short-barrel Beretta.
It's their aluminum framed rotating barrel design, formerly known as the Berretta Cougar. It was discontinued by Beretta and is now made by their Turkish subsidiary Stoeger. The pictures are so fuzzy it's impossible to tell if he bought a used Beretta or a new Stoeger. But either way it's widely acknowledged as one of the mistakes in Beretta's service pistol lineup and apparently performed poorly in the few departments that actually picked it up. Intended to be a .40 caliber option for police departments that had been convinced that they needed "more firepower" than the 9mm and were switching away from the Beretta 92FS because the 92 design did not play well with .40. The Cougar was even worse. Beretta did a lot better with the PX4 which is actually a very good pistol.
Whether it's the old Beretta version or the new Stoeger version, you'd have to be on crack to pick it out. Which, well...explains some things. You see it and think that the guy who owns it would fuck his sister-in-law on top of the coffin of his dead brother.
Or something.
Oh shit, I remember those HORRIBLE guns. When it was time for me to jump on the .40 train, I got a USP...
...which is a very long story, but the gun definitely worked as designed.
If I had Hunter Biden money and his general sense of privilege, I'd be carrying something absolutely bizarre like a gold-plated ac44 Walter.
they guy smokes crack
we cant reasonably expect him to have good taste in firearms
I've got the Stoeger version in 9mm. Never had any problems with it, but for me it is a range gun and I'm not relying on it to do anything where lives are in the balance. Very different criteria for service. For my use of "quirky range gun" it is excellent.
Did Walther make revolvers? I thought they just made weapons in 1901-style.
The Hunter thing is the result of a "modified limited hangout." Originally he was to plea to those charges, with an immunity deal so broad it would have indemnified him for *anything* else he may have done. That immunity clause was inserted into an addendum where it's normally not placed with the hope the judge wouldn't see it. She did, and the plea deal blew up on the launchpad. Since he was indicted for these they had to go to trial for them.
At least the DOJ can (they didn't want to if the extremely generous plea deal is any indication) still go after the tax evasion and anything else it might expose.
I've read that the tax evasion (on the ill-gotten gains, lol) is past the statute of limitations, but I can't advise if that's correct or not.
Does the FedGov only have 5 years to prosecute tax evasion?
I think there's at least one that's still in the window. although DOJ did do their level best to let it lapse. It was a couple of whistleblowers at the IRS that raised a stink when they were told to drop it.
There is no statue of limitations for fraud in taxes. Maybe this is just the non-criminal side but I highly doubt it.
I think the judge noticing the immunity was an important point. It wasn't the media noticing and blowing it up first. The judge did her job and that's how it got brought up.
Absolutely. Media had no interest other than to get past.
Willow springs is only 2.4 million, doesn't seem too bad if one gets enough partners. I've never driven there, but its historical value should be high enough to consider preserving it.
My favorite part of the Drake/Kendrick beef was Rick Ross' instagram stories shit talking Drake; absolutely hilarious.
I like Rick Ross’ updates on doing yard work and poking fun at crypto bros. Truly a man of the people.
Fuck Officer Ricky, he was a CO.
He has turned out some great tracks however.
Did you see his knees buckle when he was trying to do the Anchorman party cannonball? THAT was hilarious!
Noooooooo
Here's the clip:
https://www.tiktok.com/@mello1k/video/7251651761922952491
I now consider myself to be in considerably better shape, just by contrast, THANK YOU.
Egad, that was like watching a Faces of Death vignette.
Yeah, what an idiot; putting himself in such a lose-lose situation. You aren't a professional diver (or even in shape). What was the best thing that could have happened in front of all of those people?
When the In-N-Out opened in the Denver metro area a few years ago the lines were so long they had to hire off-duty cops to manage the traffic in the parking lots, it was causing serious congestion. My favorite reporting in the local papers was people getting fast food from other local places to eat while they waited two+ hours in line.
That and Chik-Fil-A conclusively prove that quality and service matter in fast food.
I think the more salient connection between CFA and IIB is manifested by the former's being closed Sunday and the latter's printing of Bible verses on the cups.
A few years ago, I was surprised to see a Chik-Fil-A employing orange-vested traffic controllers on a random weeknight. I mentioned it to some coworkers and asked if they knew about some sort of special event or promotion (I assumed maybe some sort of National Free Chicken Sandwich day or something), and one said "that's just Chik-Fil-A."
Putting my face up to the societal angle grinder... another big part of is is that both restaurants generally have cheerful white people under the age of 24 in most of the positions, as opposed to don't-give-a-shit Burger King where everybody in there has face tats and the unconcealed desire to do the ultraviolence.
I went to a McDonalds in the middle of nowhere MI and all the staff was white, the food was delicious, and the service was impeccable. I suspect this has more to do with the Age and life choices of the people instead of the color of their skin. Lifers vs itinerant McDonalds employees
Yes most FF places in rural WI have all white teen staffs and the service is usually very good.
Also true here in the township, where it's basically impossible to get a bad or incorrectly meal from anyone at any price.
Ironically, here in northern Williamson County (TN) - which the Nashville free rag has termed "the heart of white Christian Nationalism" - almost all of the fast food workers I've encountered in my admitted limited experience have been Hispanic. The couple of times I went to CFA the workers were mostly painfully cheerful white kids and a sprinkling of black kids. No Hispanics. The roller skating carhops at Sonic seem to be almost all white teen girls.
The lack of Hispanics tells me that CFA may actually care about not hiring illegals and uses e-Verify.
I assure you the crowd is more urban in certain markets, but the “front of house” staff greets customers, makes eye contact, and responds sensibly and articulately, all while delivering the correct order quickly.
Edit: At Chick fil A. Burger King is one of those businesses like Pepsi or The Gap that *exists*, but I don’t know anyone who shops there.
Interestingly, outside of Saturdays, our Chik-Fil-As are ran mostly by a bunch of white women over 60. I get the impression they don't put up with much when some of the younger folks are working with them.
and why should they!
In-N-Out is ok. When I've gone, they do an excellent job of managing the drive thru lines, even in a newly opened store. As a fat guy I prefer my chicken fried so Chik-Fil-A is not a regular stomping ground. But give me Whataburger any day. Can't wait til they show up farther north than Colorado Springs. I think the limited menus are just as big a help as the focus on customer service.
Anyhow, I was shocked by the service I received at the Mr. Burger in Guymon, OK. Everyone working was a high school aged Hispanic kid. They were laughing and joking around like kids do but everything was punctuated with a Sir and every one of them appeared attentive. The place was clean enough that I'd have been content to eat off the floor.
There's a Popeye's near my house and a Chik-Fil-A at the entrance of the shopping center with the Lowe's and Meijer stores that I use and both almost always have lines of cars. Can't say that about any other fast food places. From the appearances, Chik-Fil-A has the logistics of drive-thru fast food down.
Odd: I can't recall ever seeing a busy Popeye's.
Popeye’s actively *markets to the Black community, and that store is the closest Popeye’s to northwest Detroit.
*I’m convinced that Popeye’s promotion of their “bonafide” Chicken is a reference to the urban legend of “KFC’s mutant chickens”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aTxPVi9ARc
wow, that ad is pretty overtly racial, and not just in a positive "We Welcome you!" sense, but by denigrating people of other races.
The urban legend that came to my mind was that Popeye's makes black men sterile...I think I actually read about that in a newspaper. Apparently it was about Church's chicken instead.
It's actually kind of plausible that food targeting one ethnicity could be used for nefarious purposes, as pointed out here:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tropical-storm/
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writes itself
I have been told for years by my Californian relatives that I MUST try In-N-Out and this year I managed it. The queue for the drive by takeout section in Costa Mesa was ridiculous, but those of us willing to park the car and stagger the marathon fifty yards on our actual feet were quickly served excellent and very reasonable food ($30 for three and one of those a 16 yo lad with hollow legs to fill). It was a genuine bargain, which in Orange County turned out to be doubly exceptional.
Maybe because I'm old(er) I fail to see any attraction in a drive-thru lane. Kids in the car? Sure. But if I a dollar for every time I went in somewhere and came out to see the same cars in line, I could buy a CFA franchise.
That formula is the opposite at Starbucks. I don’t usually go to Starbucks but was forced to use one on a recent road trip. I was the only walk-in customer and there was a line of cars in the drive-thru. I was totally ignored by the staff once I placed my order at the register. It took 15 minutes to get my simple iced coffee while they kept working on new drive-thru orders. It’s definitely their policy to favor the cars over walk-ins. Hopefully this was my last ever trip into a Starbucks. Their coffee sucks anyway.
Char-bucks.
That’s perfect!
We had a similar experience at a Thai restaurant in Chiswick (west London) last year. We were actual sit down, pay 3 x mark-up on the drinks and tip on the total customers in the room, yet we waited the best part of 30 minutes to get served while they dealt with take out orders for delivery by scooter. What’s with the “won’t step outside my house” crowd?
Well, Americans don’t value their time, and they want to expend the least amount of effort possible in any endeavor, which usually involves sitting as much as possible. This would be a much healthier country if people just parked at the far end of the parking lot and walked an extra 10 seconds into a store, but the average American never even considers anything that involves minimal effort.
Agree. Kids in car is only reason. I make an exception for dunkin coffee. I don't even do drive through much with the kids. Use the app and the order pickup spots. Faster and it saves you 20%
I usually care too much about my cars to eat in them...I usually wash before and after I eat to avoid bringing food grease into the car.
Same thing happened when the White Castle in Scottsdale.
The heart wants what the heart wants!
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/dining/2019/10/24/arizona-scottsdale-white-castle-open-24-hours-menu/4084097002/
There's been a ton of trendy shit (Scheels, Buc-ees, Dave's Hot Chicken) built in Northern Colorado the last few years. When our In-N-Out opened earlier this year I was excited, but waited a few weeks to go because of the 5 hour wait times. I told the Mrs that I didn't care if Salma Hayek stepped put of a portal from 1996 (or current Salma, really) to serve burgers topless, I wouldn't wait in line that long for fast food. She immediately said "yes you would."
She was right, but when they're served by a bunch of high school dipshits in '50s cosplay? No thanks.
Turn #2 is moderately entertaining at Big Willow. But yeah, not a Drivers Track.
The only thing I cared about from the Hunter Biden trial was that he played Fleet Foxes while getting a lap dance:
"The next witness was Zoe Kestan, a former romantic partner of Biden. She testified that she met him on Dec. 17, 2017, when she worked at a strip club in midtown Manhattan and he booked her and another woman for a private dance. Biden played the music by the indie folk band Fleet Foxes on his phone -- and he smoked something she assumed was crack.
'I felt really safe around him,' she said."
What song do you think Hunter played? Personally I imagine Hunter playing the opening to Montezuma, briefly reflecting on how what he has failed to live up to, before shoving those thoughts aside with another bump:
"So now I am older
Than my mother and father
When they had their daughter
Now what does that say about me?"
https://www.stereogum.com/2266940/fleet-foxes-hunter-biden-lap-dance/news/
Nah, he's a basic bitch so he played "White Winter Hymnal."
SIR
NO MURDERS ON THE DANCE FLOOR
"Helplessness Blues" is a perfect Hunter Biden album. Like it was written for him. If you pull "Grown Ocean" it could be the story of his life.
Personally, I resonate with most of "Crack-Up", although I always think of Brother Bark and his endless adventures when I dip back to "Blue Ridge Mountains".
Youtube's algorithm feeds me Japanese girls either playing heavy metal or singing covers of Vocaloid songs so I have no idea what this BBL Drizzy thing is and will likely never find out. Current favorite is Yoshino, but she hides behind an anime avatar so I have no idea what she actually looks like.
The Biden and Trump cases are both stupid. From where I sit, it appears that everyone does their absolute best to look at anything BUT Biden so far as investigation goes, while Trump gets more scrutiny than anyone else I've ever seen and all they can nail him for is something they made up and can't explain to anyone.
I usually root against Danny Ric every weekend because he strikes me as a bit frat boyish in a bad way, plus I once had dinner with my Australian coworker and the nice Malasian lady who replaced me at my teaching post in Japan and she spent the whole time swooning over his Australian sense of humor when all he was was loud and obnoxious and annoying. If he and Danny Ric are representative of all Aussies they rate only slightly better than the Swiss to me.
wait are you watching vtubers
those things are everywhere
I don't know what a vtuber is, but it's entirely possible that's who I'm watching. Really just two of them, though. The others I've watched were annoying.
Blogpost warning: My second season in 206 kart racing started last weekend.
Of a 25 kart field I qualified and finished 11th. The front half of the field is super close now - at 11th I was just .3 off of P1 in qualifying.
So I spent enough time with the front pack to learn that the club’s “no bump drafting” rule in practice means “bump draft on starts, where you’re unlikely to be caught, and until you get warned.”
Unfortunately, losing the draft means you’ll never catch back up. I think I need another .1 or .2 per lap and I’ll be able to comfortably hang with them.
I’m convinced that racing is the best way to spend a weekend. If only there were more race weekends…
"Unfortunately, losing the draft means you’ll never catch back up"
This was what I absolutely despised during my short stint in LO206. Especially since I was 245 pounds running in Senior
I'm too cheap to race real cars and I'm too big to race go karts.
WELCOME TO GRIDLYFE
If I got down to 10-15% body fat, I'd still be 200lbs. It's hopeless! Oh, why did God curse me with 6'2" height and good looks! Woe is me!
Just chip tune your S4 and street race like everybody else, FFS.
Can I do that without voiding my warranty?
I am viewing the Hunter conviction in conjunction with the FinCen BOI requirements, which require any entity owner such as an LLC *EXCEPT LARGE OR REGULATED ONES*, to provide a RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS to the federal government AND PROMPTLY UPDATE IT. (There was an almost immediate injunction holding that this is very likely unconstitutional, but that means nothing in today's legal system.)
This is not only a dragnet, but essentially criminalizes people who are snowbirds, people who provide live-in care for divorced parents, traveling nurses / other professionals, and people who live in RV's. It also decreases safety and anonymity of domestic violence victims, etc.
A related facet is that many people in these situations find a way to get mail reliably from wherever they may be at the moment, but governments insist on a fixed residence address where mail may be stolen or not received in a timely manner. So the question is does the government want to be able to reliably contact the individual, or is it really interested in being able to fine, imprison, or SWAT-execute a growing portion of society at-will.
And there is a very dramatic increase in the times and places at all levels of government that demand TO KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE, which is sometimes highly fluid (almost as much as gender).
Every interaction with the government nowadays, whether it's taxes or passport registration, now begins with a comprehensive audit of your residency. It's despicable.
"now begins with a comprehensive audit of your residency"
Is this good or bad? The reason I ask is in most states, when it comes to voting, there is ZERO investigation where I live nor requirement to show proof of residency when registering to vote. Even if you show a license with an address on it, that address could be wrong. I saw reporters looking at voter rolls after the 2020 election and found many residences listed were empty lots or just non-existent in Las Vegas and Detroit. Even basic UPS shipping software determined that the addresses were non-existent, but registrars had no clue because they aren't even using that software or any residency validation.
So, should we require better residency audit?
On the flip side, most states require a current valid drivers license to buy a gun in that state and the residency must be in the state which the gun is being purchased. Yet, you can go through an FFL and buy a gun from another state. Why is this? Why does residency matter when buying a handgun?
When I went on vacation in Tennessee, I visited the actual buds gun shop. I, an Illinois resident, could buy a gun there subject to the three day wait period. The guy behind me, a WI resident, could walk out with one. This was a few years ago.
Oh I'm not talking about voting, which you can do in most states now with no ID or information besides whatever name you want to give. I'm talking about renewing tags or getting a hunting permit.
Our betters constantly told us to look to Western European nations to see how things were done right...except for voting. The Democrats resist every opportunity to strengthen controls while the Republicans are basically apathetic...beyond sternly worded letters at best.
As Jack said, I'm not talking about voting, which may indeed be too easy in many cases.
I'm talking about everything else, where 99% of the time your residence address is completely immaterial, invasive, burdensome to update, and leads to missing important mail (a former boss missed his court date to contest a traffic violation because he had bought two houses in short succession and the USPS forwarding took too long).
In other cases, they set up a Catch 22: some states require Real ID type proof every time you update your residence address, and yet also set a short deadline to do so. Serial offenders who are on Disability probably do get official mail almost every day, but for the rest of us, it can be challenging, especially if we are responsible and use a mailing address.
In a sense both the Biden and Trump convictions have a common thread:
1) A person needs to interact with government, e.g., to obtain a fishing license.
2) The government designs an unnecessarily invasive form, e.g.:
2.0) What is your mailing address?
2.1) Are you a resident of the state? If so, please provide proof.
2.2) Have you ever been convicted of an offense involving fish and/or game involving a fine of more than $500 or more than 24 hours imprisonment?
2.3) What is your residence address? (As a Fishing License Holder, you are required to update this address by providing at least 4 pieces of official government mail within 5 days of moving. Failing to abide by this provision is a felony punishable by fines up to $50,000 and / or imprisonment of up to 7 years)
2.4 a) Do you regularly have more than $1000 in cash or gold at this address?
2.4 b)If so, please describe the location of the cash/gold, including the safe combination, if any.
2.5a) Do you frequently travel and leave your wife home alone?
2.5b) If so, please list wife's approximate height and weight.
2.6) Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental disorder such as Depression, Dysthymia, Grief Disorder, Anxiety, OCD, ADHD, or Asperger's? If so, provide complete records from all mental health, therapy, counseling, or Employee Assistance Program contacts and an additional $5000 Psychological Records Evaluation Fee.
2.7 )How often do you masturbate?
3) Fail to disclose or to update anything 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, or 2.7 in order to protect your wife / property / privacy; now you are a felon who has "filed false documents."
"The truth is that everyone is under arrest. Or soon will be. They don't have to restrict your movements. They just have to know where you are.
It sounds like paranoia to me.
It is paranoia.
The waiter brought their drinks. Kline raised his glass. Cheers, he said."
The Passenger-Cormac McCarthy
The BOI rules are ridiculous and we're currently navigating that maze right now with out clients. As far as I understand, snow birds don't have to update their address every time they leave town. It's your "permanent address" I have one client without a permanent address. Fought with Illinois for 3 years over it. "Well since he doesn't have a permanent address, he is an Illinois resident still" He hasn't been in Illinois in 5 years! that was fun.
South Dakota, Texas, and Florida will give citizenship to people who only set foot in the state to get a new DL picture after meeting their initial residency requirements.
The Escapees RV club helps people who plan to full time in their RV change residency to a friendly domicile state.
Yeah, my client should’ve done that first. We did fix it but it was a pain
Unfortunately it's not that easy.
A) It's actually a little bit easier to be an expat or fully nomadic than to be multi-homed. If you do split your time between Parent in State A, Parent in State B, and Job in State C, you would have to at least commit perjury to get a DL in one of the states that you mentioned. Again as relevant to the thread: it's true that you can pretty much get a DL overnight in any of those states, but for example SD now requires you to state, under penalty of perjury, that "I do not live, reside, or stay in any other state." That is not entirely true for someone who semi-regularly spends time with one or another parent.
The FinCen stuff is really bad here, because even if in 2024 you spend 7 days in each of the continental US , 7 days in DC, and 16 days overseas, if you spend, say 8 months of 2025 caring for a particular relative, you could be deemed to have changed residence without notifying FinCen, and the $500/day fine would cap at $10,000 after 20 days
B) Even if you are fully nomadic, you will potentially have issues such as:
0) If you spend significant time in another state, that state will require you to at least register your vehicle there. This is not entirely unreasonable except that they will also require you to TITLE your vehicle there, which means that it will no longer be titled in the former state...and many states also require you to have a license before you can register a vehicle there.
1) Vehicle insurance will usually require a residential address (there are certain brokers which specialize in full-timing policies
2) If you change all your banking addresses to a mail forwarding company, you will probably get a letter stating CONTACT OUR SECURITY DEPARTMENT WITHIN 7 DAYS OR ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS WILL BE CLOSED. This is in part due to Patriot Act requirements.
3) It is difficult / impossible to open a new bank account without a residence address, and (crucially) without multiple official proofs of that address.
4) Some states require a residential address to be on the front of the DL (SD and possibly FL, listed above, are exceptions0. This means that citations received out of state will may not be mailed to the mail forwarding service.
5) A DL with a non-residential address cannot be used for firearms purchase
6) The FinCen BOI rules require a residence address; not sure if they will even allow the input of a mail service address.
“So the question is does the government want to be able to reliably contact the individual, or is it really interested in being able to fine, imprison, or SWAT-execute a growing portion of society at-will.”
The latter. See what happened to that guy in Arkansas who was murdered by the ATF when they executed a search warrant on his house at 6am.
Wondering how they'll use this conviction to keep Hunter from going to trial on the tax evasion charges that could certainly involve testimony tying his money to Joey. I doubt the spit painting son is willing to do even easy time to save how history views the father who would shower with his daughter. I'd also love to know how our President had a gun control speech scheduled for a couple hours after the verdict. I try so hard to not see conspiracies all about but WTF.
bbl drizzy slaps so hard its hilarious that it was all fabricated by ai for the purpose of fucking with drake and i cant quit describe how glad i am to somehow see that it made it to acf
more importantly shout out to thaze and cool guy faisal for making it happen on track
hope nothing but success comes their way
Excuse me, the OC Register is encouraging them to move here: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/12/18/what-opening-day-was-like-at-in-n-outs-first-idaho-restaurant/
Also, TIL the descendant of the original In 'n out guy is... uh... well. yeah "america's youngest female billionaire." Yikes.
Edit for full disclosure: Yes. Yes, I did go on opening night. Got there around 9:30P, ordered shortly after midnight, ate around 1:15A. It wasn't that cold and they had a lot of propane heaters out to keep the line warm. It was a festival atmosphere, like waiting in line to see your favorite band.
Wait, I thought that was Kylie Jenner! They've been lying to me all along!
They call her the first 'self made' female billionaire, because her family's money, celebrity, and influence made her rich instead of inheriting their money directly. It's hilarious.
Soviets waited hours in line because they had to, Americans do because they want to. Soviet homes were furnished identically because that's all there was, Western homes are often nearly identical thanks to IKEA. Funny how similar outcomes are caused by wildly different forces.
That is so frighteningly accurate I think I'm going to cry. Don't make it worse by making some observation about how similarly elections turn out...
There was an article, I think published in University of Michigan Law Review, that documents how the US "Family Court" system was lifted wholesale from the Soviets. Terms such as "custodial parent" were 100% Soviet Law.