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Delivery bicyclists (probably most of them ILLEGAL aliens) have been a MENACE to New Yorkers since de Blasio, and now even worse with e-bikes. But the only time I ever saw a bicyclist get a ticket, the recpient was a middle-aged upper-middle-class white woman.

How do we know that Epstein is really dead? Did anyone see the body?

@bluecatmooncat Your lucky you have the privilege of being Catholic. If a Jew wears a Jewish star necklace and visits a Moslem physical therapist, he might have his neck broken.

She's a fundie Christian so there's always a low key proselytizing vibe in the air. She acts like my Padre Pio medal on my necklace is a concerning sin (fundies eschew saints as idolatry). She "moves it out of the way" with a stern and saddened demeanor when working on my neck.

@Starkian7789 Looks like it was pulled of with AI.

Hard to pull off somewhere expensive or high density.

@bluecatmooncat @dpheneghan1 Staten Island, perhaps, has the worst accent of the entire NYC metropolitan area.

@dpheneghan1 @LionBlogosphere I once had an Italian guy say "Eyain spookinyih." What? What? Eventually I realized he was saying "I ain't spooking you." Which I still couldn't understand. Turns out it means "I'm not kidding you." They also pronounce foreigner foe-runnah (I get asked a lot if I'm a foe runnah.)

When you hear someone speaking with a strong New York City accent, it's almost always an older person and not a teenager. At least that's true for white people. Black people in NYC continue to speak with a NYC Ebonics dialect that doesn't sound anything like normal white English.

@DanFriedman81 @0xUnihax0r With the money he saved from not buying expensive furniture and not going to the dentist?

@0xUnihax0r I don’t understand it. How does the guy with the bad teeth in the room with the bare mattress and 200 Pepsi cans have $10,000 to give to Clavicular?

This scene is perfect. The two screen split in the middle gives the impression of a mirror. Modern Narcissus meeting his greatest fear. Everything is here. The awkward gestures. The flood of Pepsi revealing the character’s obsessive traits. The inability to form a word. Narcissus contemplates in awe what he could have been in a parallel reality, if not for the genetic lottery of life. It’s the moment he realised that this is the energy he feeds off.

@DFinehart I don’t see how it’s possible for Iran to be in a stronger strategic position with all their strategic deterrence destroyed.

@LionBlogosphere The same can be asked of the pro-war faction. If regime change doesn’t happen and the war results in Iran being in a stronger strategic position along with causing political damage in the US to both Republicans and Israel will they admit to being wrong about everything.

If regime change happens, will fakestream media like The NY Times apologize for being wrong about everything ?

@RichardHanania If you’re nice, he’ll get you a good deal on car insurance.

Caught an alligator lizard in my house today. I’m feeling really masculine, like a member of the “manosphere.”

@Degen_CPA Yeah I’d rather talk to AI.

i dont see how people with high IQs fit in with society. The game youre playing is dumbed down to talk about sports ball with your fat co-workers, there is no substance, no depth. the truly smart among us would want no part of this

@DavidM72520403 @davidharsanyi Actually, Al Jazeera turned against Iran because Qatar is pissed at being bombed.

@davidharsanyi Yes they do ABC, NBC, CNN,MSNBC,PBS,NPR,Aljazzera, Times, Washington Post, they have lots of friends and I'm sure I missed some

Can someone explain to me how we could be entering World War 3 when Iran doesn't have a single ally?

@davidharsanyi Indeed, even Qatar is pissed off at Iran.

@avidseries Hegseth has more charisma than JD.

Disappointed that this isn't a Hegseth landslide.

Which of these Republicans do you like the least?

@bluecatmooncat I never understood why this particular variety of tomato is sold with vines attached, but not any others.

Absolutely gorgeous tomatoes on vine from Lidl, $1.49/lb through this Tuesday. This is what pristine hydroponics can create!

@DmitriThaSheep Laughing about rape is no laughing matter.

@LionBlogosphere How does that help the left though? Cesar Chavez is guilty of being anti illegal immigration.

Can we go after Martin Luther King next? I hear that he watched while his friend raped a woman at a sex orgy, and he laughed about it.

@wyqtor You're right, that would have been even more undiplomatic. I stand corrected.

@LionBlogosphere He could have mentioned the two nukes...

I can't think of anything more undiplomatic that Trump could have said. Trump is a lot better at dealing with crappy third-world countries like Iran, but he is ruining our relationships with our allies and trading partners.,

@SidPolitics @michaeldweiss Trump has a consistent pattern for dealing with crappy third-world countries that works a lot better than the more elite policies of people like Obama, so I give him credit for that.

@michaeldweiss Trump does what he wants. Sometimes the results are debatably good, but whatever he does is entirely self-serving and aggrandizing. There's no philosophy or ideology that fits what he does into a pattern. Again, if you voted for him to do what you wanted done, you're a tool.

Christopher Caldwell's more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger essay in the Spectator on the "end of Trumpism" assumes there is such a thing as Trumpism that could be said to have had a beginning, much less an end. A collection raw impulses and grievances cocooned in a personality cult was evidently an ethos. I suppose it's easy for MAGA intellectuals to blame the "deep state" or a hyperactive foreign country or even a certain domestic ethnic group for this war, but this war is exactly the kind of thing Trump enjoys and (in the case of Iran) has been openly talking about for decades. Here is Caldwell: "The attack on Iran is so wildly inconsistent with the wishes of his own base..." What turning? What base? What consistency? The base is whatever Trump says it is, as Trump himself has pointed out, with polling to back him up on this question. MAGA’s approval of this war as of two days ago: "CNN’s Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten shared recent polling on MAGA’s approval of military action in Iran on Tuesday. An average of 89 percent approve of the war, while just 9 percent disapprove." The rest is podcast noise. The irony of the MAGA intellectuals professing that their movement has been hornswoggled and now lies in pieces on the floor is they were never truly part of any movement to begin with. They projected and fantasized, hoping to see coherence where there was none. And they only served the same function of those conniving Beltway swamp creatures they claimed to detest and whose comeuppance at the hands of an insurgent populist they saw as the principal reason for backing Trump in the first place. They articulated ideas and policies and actually believed these had any meaning for the mad king who thinks he brought peace to Albania and Azerbaijan, who is now negotiating with hardline communists in the Western Hemisphere as viable alternatives to democratic dissidents, and who just told a journalist, regarding Ireland's female president, "he's lucky to have me." Caldwell, Vance and the rest were indeed duped, but not by Trump. By their own blinkered sense of self-importance. #selection-1871.105-1871.182" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archive.ph/ghNS2#selectio…