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You gotta be a special kind of stupid to buy a Tesla.

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Thank you, Gavin Newsom.

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They wanted combustion engine cars out but forgot that these cars bring in billions in tax income. They wanted a fully electrified transport but forgot it wouldn’t bring in money unless they make it more expensive. They wanted a revolution but forgot rule #1 for revolutions: the successful ones never start from the top. They start from the bottom.

House of Eratosthenes.

Internet phenomena are rather like campfire fuel: Some are like wet logs, you can sit there until your butt gets tired trying magnifying glasses, matches, Bic lighters, whatever have you, putting unlimited effort into it — and some people do! Nothing happens. They end up embarrassing themselves and tiring out their butts. Other things are like gasoline, the white variety, burning so fast that there’s no time for the flame to take to the wood and the accelerant can’t do anything but forcefully explode.

Most are in between the two extremes. This dumb bear thing is more like the latter. Match, toss, kaboom. I think it can be truthfully said, in all my Internet years, I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

I wish that every female who would rather meet a bear than a man in the woods would to ahead and do that. Think of it as evolution in action.

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I like it that the girl in the picture is wearing a nose-ring, apparently signaling her willingness to be let around like livestock.

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Heavy equipment businesses have filed a suit against California over the state’s rule that truck and van fleets must electrify their vehicles—a mandate that will likely apply to almost as many out-of-state companies as in-state companies—alleging that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s protections for interstate commerce and other federal laws.

“The rule is extraterritorial, burdensome, and impractical. It is riddled with exemptions that allow [California’s air regulatory agency] to micro-manage fleets and play favorites, one vehicle at a time,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit, from Illinois-based trade association Associated Equipment Dealers and the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, a conservative group chaired by former Iowa governor Terry Branstad (R.), targets a state regulation stating that any company with 50 or more vehicles anywhere in the world, or $50 million in gross yearly revenues, must start replacing their vans, trucks, yard tractors, package delivery vehicles, and buses with electric models starting next year. Fleets must be fully electric within 10 to 18 years, depending on their category.

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This result shouldn’t surprise anyone. Inflation has driven up operational costs for businesses across the US and shrunk profit margins for major food chains in the past few years. This has led to higher menu prices (like the “$18 Big Mac”) and slowing sales for every major fast food company. Another anchor dragging on the restaurant business in many regions was at least two years of covid stimulus coupled with rent moratoriums, creating aggressive labor shortages and raising wages in upwards of $16 per hour for brand new no-skill employees.

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Mass layoffs are now a guarantee with many restaurants already firing thousands of workers as well as some chains closing multiple locations because the cost of operation will be higher than the benefits.

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The “digital options” that many fast food franchises are referring to are automated ordering systems as well as robot workers which are slowly but surely becoming more cost effective than human laborers. At least one fast food location in California is testing a fully robotic restaurant with no human workers.

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Paul Krugman is living proof that even a moron can win a Nobel prize.

Vanity Fair.

Why anyone would be interested in Monica Lewinsky’s opinion on anything under the sun is beyond me, other than the fact that Narrative media publications need eyeballs desperately and her name will inevitably attract them.

The article itself is merely a vapid regurgitation of every liberal talking point you’ve ever heard from a political class smarting from not being allowed to do what they want do, all within a Clever Plastic Disguise called ‘democracy’.

For all of her alleged vast ‘research’, it’s obvious that The Mouth That Roared learned absolutely nothing. The reason there aren’t any anti-insurrection provisions in the Constitution is because the Founders knew that people wouldn’t vote for a insurrectionist. The relevant provision in the 14th Amendment was put there because Congress realized that, in the South, that traditional logic would no longer apply, so it had to be stated. Everybody (except fever-dreamers for the Narrative media knows that the President can’t pardon himself, which is why no President has ever attempted to do so–and if he did his ass would be impeached so fast you’d think that the Concorde had come back from the dead.

I would encourage you to pinch your nose and read the article, just to see how stupid and venal our Narrative media can be. It is not a pretty sight.

Steve Sailer.

Science used to be about making more accurate predictions, but now it’s about affirming dogmas even at the cost of more dead bodies. As we all know, Race Does NOT Exist Biologically. It just doesn’t. So therefore, doctors will no longer be allowed to use race in an algorithm predicting risk of heart attack or stroke, even though including race makes more accurate predictions.

NewsMax.

A sheriff in Florida blasted beachgoers for ignoring deadly rip-current warnings and harassing first responders after nearly a dozen people, including former NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett, drowned in the past two weeks.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Time to cull the herd,.

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Lightfoot spent the end of her term managing the migrant crisis and criticizing Republicans who sent migrants to her city, which she advertised as a “sanctuary city.”

She also saw the homicide rate skyrocket nearly 40 percent since entering office in 2019, watchdog Wirepoints reported.

“I’ll share specifics about the way we managed the COVID-19 public health crisis,” Lightfoot said of her Harvard course. She faced immense criticism as mayor for her lockdowns and treatment of the pandemic.

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Minnesota Democrats are pressing on offense since Governor Walz won reelection and they took charge of the legislature last month. “Let’s go crazy” seems to be their motto.

Last month five contributors signed off on an op-ed column to the Star Tribune supporting their push for menstrual equity. Two of the five are DFL legislators — Senator Steve Cwodzinski and Rep. Sandra Feist. They were joined by “menstrual educator” Carolyn Handke, National Council of Jewish Women Minnesota executive director Erica Solomon, and Hopkins High School Student Elif Ozturk.

They support passage of the Menstrual Equity Bill (HF44/SF50). According to the column: “This bill will require all Minnesota district and charter schools to provide free menstrual products in all bathrooms, grades four through 12, ensuring access for all students who menstruate.” Their column concluded on this appropriately insane note: “In 2023 we must show our commitment to our women, girls and all menstruators in Minnesota schools….” All menstruators are created equal, or something.

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Oh, yeah,  the Russians will really be impressed by that.

Do ‘activists’ have any idea how much they are undercutting their own cause by acting like spoiled children in public, inconveniencing the people they ought to be trying to persuade, and just generally acting like assholes? I guess not.

The Other McCain has a Darwin Award nominee.

Say hello to Steven Joaquin “Zhoie” Perez (a/k/a “Furry Potato”), a transgender YouTuber who specializes in “First Amendment audits.”

You may not have heard of this phenomenon: People who record videos in public places — post offices, municipal buildings, etc. — in order to test {“audit,” as they say) the police response. These self-declared are deliberately non-cooperative when confronted by law enforcement, refusing to identify themselves and sometimes insulting the officers who usually show up in response to reports of “suspicious behavior.”

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This is really quite a remarkable video wherein Joe Scarborough says the Gospel of Jesus Christ is pro-abortion. How did we ever become this stupid? Mika looks on in awe thinking that Joe just destroyed the pro-life movement. It boggles the mind.

You want inflation? I got yer inflation, right here.

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A woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she’s allowed to drive there because her pronouns are “they” and “them.”

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Russians attempting to use Apple Pay and Google Pay found that their access had been blocked, causing chaos in the Moscow Metro system.

Oops.

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And why not? As long as people are willing to give him money, he’s got a profitable occupation, win or lose. And as long as you make the right Woke noises, there will be stupid people willing to give you money.

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I didn’t tell him that according to the latest data from the NHS in the UK, the percentage of those who die from the WuFlu after being “vaccinated” is roughly the same as it is for the unvaxed. And I especially didn’t tell what the experts say all those boosters will eventually do to him after he’s had enough of them. I don’t tell any of my vaxed friends about those things — since they can’t do anything about it once they’re vaxed, why would I want to ruin their day?

I refer to my friend’s syndrome as “Corona Psychosis”. It’s completely irrational, recognizes no evidence that might contradict it, and is clung to with a ferocity reminiscent of a religious mania.

It should have its own entry in the DSM-5.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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A Florida man who is accused of shooting down a federal drone that was being used to search for a burglar has been indicted on charges of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and destruction of aircraft.

Wendell Doyle Goney was formally charged after admitting to authorities that he had used a .22 caliber rifle to shoot down the Lake County Sheriff’s Office drone, which he said was “harassing” him, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

The incident took place on July 11. Deputies from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office were alerted to a burglary at a 10-acre business property. A law enforcement drone was deployed to assist with the outdoor search but it was soon shot down from the sky by Goney, who resides at a neighboring property, according to the release.

Boy, he sure showed them!

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A blonde lady Caltech forestry grad named Alexandra Souverneva, age 30 of Palo Alto, set the recent Fawn Fire that threatened to burn down the Northern California city of Redding because people told her to get off their land that she needed to walk across to get to Canada.

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of your average citizen more than those it’s likely to be Extinction Rebellion. Utter these words to your average working-class Londoner and don’t be surprised if they start grinding their teeth or begin to show signs of a florid complexion.

Since the group re-emerged after a long hiatus in the wilderness — probably busy making hair shirts or shouting at petrol — they have tried every means at their disposal to raise awareness that we are living in a supposed climate emergency. Their hapless Dad’s Army approach to environmental activism managed to enrage and frustrate just about every sector of British society. From a blockade that obstructed newspaper printing presses to disrupting the travel plans of millions of fed up commuters, the group managed to alienate just about anyone who may have been receptive to their cause. Hyperbolic statements didn’t help either. Founding member Roger Hallam claimed “billions” will die if we fail to take immediate action. Rather than bring people with them, these ridiculous stunts and statements have had the opposite effect.

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A Swedish family went on a vacation trip to Afghanistan just before the fall of Kabul, and now they are stuck there.

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Twenty-two of the Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C, to prevent a quorum in the state House have filed a lawsuit in federal court against Gov. Greg Abbott.

The lawsuit, which two of the twenty-two Democrats are disputing they signed onto, is embarrassingly bad.

The complaint does not include the usual section for “claims” or “causes of action,” so we have to sift through its pell-mell paragraphs to figure out just what the Texas Democrats are alleging.

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The Bison Bridge proposes to repurpose the old bridge, which is slated for demolition, and turn it into a wildlife crossing so herds can roam freely between Iowa and Illinois.

Why? Why do we need to spend taxpayers’ money in a state that has millions of dollars in public pension liabilities to help fucking bison cross a fucking river? What did they do back when they had to depend on the Indians?

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A 10-year-old boy’s father allegedly took him on a fake drive-by shooting using a paintball gun, and was shot by a real bullet when a homeowner returned fire, the Miami Herald reported.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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A father-to-be was killed in February after a gender reveal device exploded as he was assembling it. A “smoke generating pyrotechnic device” used for a gender reveal party in 2020 caused a wildfire in California.

‘What gender is your child’?

‘Orphan.’

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Think of it as evolution in action. Who doesn’t know not to stand under a tree during a storm?

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That really helped those employees, didn’t it? Well done, Democrats!

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The agency in a press release described the Quidel Quick-Vue At-Home COVID-19 Test, the fourth one it’s approved since last November, as “another antigen test where certain individuals can rapidly collect and test their sample at home, without needing to send a sample to a laboratory for analysis.”

Good news, right? Right? Uh, no.

The at-home test will require a prescription from a doctor, for individuals suspected of COVID-19, “within the first six days of symptom onset.”

A PRESCRIPTION? FOR A SIMPLE TEST? A TEST DESIGNED TO BE DONE AT HOME BY AN INDIVIDUAL?

Is that not the most stupid, brain-dead, government-bureaucrat BULLSHIT that you’ve ever heard of?

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That worked out pretty well, didn’t it? Perhaps the kid won’t inherit any of his defective genes.

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I’d refund their tuition and send them home. They obviously aren’t bright enough to attend college.

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In 2008, Mark Bauerlein wrote “The Dumbest Generation, How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.” Judging by events in the intervening dozen years (and especially in recent months), it appears that Bauerlein’s assessment was premature and perhaps even too kind.

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If you love doing something that could kill you, you’re a fool and deserve to be subtracted from the gene pool.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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The man, who appeared to be shirtless, is thought to be hanging by one of his feet from the top of a ladder attached to the 290ft Dixon’s Chimney in the centre of Carlisle, Cumbria.

I’d be inclined to leave him there as an example to others. “You got yourself into it, dude, you can get yourself out.” But that’s me.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

I think people ought to be encouraged to die on the slopes of Everest. It’s the closest to celebrity some will ever get, and it acts to cull the herd.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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A stowaway fell out of the bottom of a jet as it was approaching Heathrow airport to land on Sunday, according to NBC. The incident took place after a nine hour flight from Nairobi and the body wound up landing in a garden.

Metropolitan police said that the body was found in a garden in South London on Sunday and that it was believed to have fallen from a plane. The body has not been identified, nor has an official cause of death been determined.

We are not coroners, but we’re going to go out on a limb and say that if the authorities’ hypothesis is correct, the cause of death is likely going to be – wait for it – falling out of an airplane.

The poor guy was probably dead a corpse. Commercial flights typically travel at 30,000 feet, and there isn’t enough oxygen at that height to sustain life; Mt Everest climbers refer to altitudes above about 29,000 feet as ‘the death zone‘. Spend nine hours up there and you’re pretty much dead.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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Think of it as evolution in action.