Remember this?
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday the state can count mailed ballots that arrive without a postmark up to three days after Election Day on Nov. 5.
…and no checks on the validity of said ballots, either.
…and similar measures.
Author: Kim du Toit
Imbalance
Ooooh I love this one:
White children playing Monopoly should be given more money and less jail time to teach them about racial privilege
Dumb fucks. If they really wanted to teach White kids about some inherent racial privilege, the White kids should be forced to play the game with Black kids, only with half the money.
That’s assuming such an imbalance exists, of course (it doesn’t).
Or they could just play Black Monopoly:
Anyway…
Back when I was a student in the early 1970s, we played “Poor Man’s Monopoly” which featured all the things of regular Monopoly, only you started the game with no money at all, and collected only $20 each time you passed GO. There was considerable hilarity, such as when it was your birthday and you had to collect $10 from each player (and were pummeled after forcing one or more players into insolvency). Of course, you couldn’t borrow money from the bank (because what bank is going to lend you money when you have none to start off with, duh). Obviously, there was no income tax ever paid, and some of the Chance and Community Chest cards were taken out because of irrelevancy.
The winner was the first player who could actually buy any piece of property — and believe me, those ugly brown cheap-ass suckers placed right after GO became a lot more desirable.
…or in British: 
Yeah, let kids play that game instead of that artificial racial inequity bullshit, and let them see what life is truly about — for both Black and White.
Toothsome Twosome
Okay, there was some stupid awards show or other in NYfC (I know, who cares?) but what made it noteworthy is that my two favorite Taco Totties arrived hand-in-hand:
Yup, that’s Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek. There were some other wimmyns there, but none so fetching.
Okay, you may now carry on with what you were doing before.
Human Interest
When people so often ask me why I read the horrible Daily Mail newspaper, I can point to stories like this one, which somehow always escape being covered by U.S. newspapers:
A grandmother and son embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip in a vintage Caddy.
Annie Koehler, 79, and Jamie Hutchins, 60, completed the cross-country excursion last month – traveling 4,200 miles in nine days with the windows down.
The duo traveled across the US — from Illinois to Santa Monica- – in a Cadillac he custom-made.
Despite dating back to 1957, the De Ville made it an astounding 4,200 miles in nine days, Koehler said in an interview – noting how the trip was all done with ‘the windows down.’
The retired trucker also said she needs a new set of tires – after making the journey at 90 mph and winning a couple ‘burnout’ competitions on the way.
Wait… she’s the “retired trucker”? Could I love her any more?
Lemme tell ya: among my several posts about doing a long-distance trip in an old car, I’d never have thought about having someone like her as a companion; but I would now, in a heartbeat. (But is there anyone “like her”? I doubt it.)
And by the way: 4,200 miles in nine days, with a couple lengthy stops for the “burnout” competitions… you work out their average speed — in a rebuilt ’57 Caddy.
Fantastic stuff. Thanks, DM — you made my day.
“Dear Jeff”
I note that Washington Post boss Jeff Bezos has indicated that he wants “more conservative writers” at his birdcage-liner publication. Hell, I could do with a job, so here goes:
“Dear Jeff:
“If you’re serious about hiring more conservative writers at the Post, then please allow me to submit my application for just such a position.
“Now I will say at the outset that I have no actual journalistic experience, but I feel that this shouldn’t count against me for two reasons: firstly, as far as I can tell, the Post hasn’t had any actual journalists on the payroll for about twenty years, and the ones who claim to be journalists are anything but that. Secondly, if you really want more conservative writers, I can think of few better than I to fill such a position in that I have consistently voiced conservative opinions in an online format for well over twenty years — and by “conservative”, I mean in support of such issues as Constitutional rights support, and vitriolic hatred of Socialism/Communism/Leftism/Jacobism whatever you want to call the foul, slimy denizens of that edge of the political spectrum.
“Speaking of said vitriol, I will make a considerable concession to you in that I will refrain from referring to said denizens as “cocksuckers” (even when, as in the case of Kamala Harris, they are actual suckers of the male appendage). And in similar vein, I will refrain from using the seven forbidden words of George Carlin as much as I am able, but I will rely on the layers and layers of editorial staff to be my backup should I fail. (You may stop laughing now.)
“Now, my naysayers (and there may be some) will say that my arrival at the Post will cause a stir among the existing staff and your regular readers, resulting in mass resignations among the former and still more subscription cancellations from the latter. In the case of the existing staff, “mass resignations” can only be seen as A Good Thing because they are largely responsible for your current problems, in that the general public views the Post as being unworthy even to line birdcages.
“As far as cancellations of existing subscriptions are concerned, I am pretty sure that these will be far outweighed by the new subscriptions you will get from others — even if they are only interested “to see what that fascist asshole has said today”. In the immortal words of Roger Ailes to Rupert Murdoch, there’s half of America to be had, and while I can’t guarantee the whole half, I can assure you that there will be a goodly portion thereof that might consider a Post subscription to be worth their while, with me on your staff.
“And just from a marketing perspective, I’m pretty sure that in hiring me, you will also siphon more than a few eyeballs from Breitbart News, if this is important to you.
“Also, I will not confine my writing to politics. My own website (once you’ve got past the strong language) also contains material such as movie reviews, thoughts on literature, clothing, architecture and the Fine Arts. I will also write a weekly feature on guns — one of my strong suits, if I may be so bold — which will contain honest appraisals of guns because unlike reviewers at gun magazines, I am not beholden to gun manufacturers for advertising support. And, I suspect, they aren’t interested in buying advertising space at the Post right now, so you’re not going to lose anything. But there are hundreds of millions of gun owners — potential readers, if you will — who might think of reading such honest reviews at the Post instead of being confronted with your newspaper’s existing anti-gun stance on a daily basis.
“Speaking of weekly features, you may want to consider including my ‘Dear Dr. Kim’ articles, which dispense common-sense advice to the needy in a largely jocular and satirical manner.
“From a financial perspective, my salary demands would be modest — certainly compared to overpaid morons like Jennifer Rubin — but we can discuss that privately. Oh, and sorry, but I absolutely refuse to move to Washington D.C. lest I get infected by the Beltway Disease and be subjected to their disgusting regulations on firearms ownership. Conservative opinion is best nurtured in Middle America — okay, northern Texas, in my case — but even that is a positive thing in that I will require no office space in your building.
“Lastly (and this is no small thing), you may rely on me to use proper grammar and syntax in my writings — again, something which has not been much in evidence at the Post for the past several decades.
“And oh, by the way, if the DEI thing is still important to you: like Elon Musk, I am a proud African-American.”
Sincerely,
That FDR Bullshit
One of the most stupid media tropes (among oh so many) is that incoming U.S. presidents should have a “100-day” report card on their performance. It’s another hangover (among oh so many) from the detestable Franklin Roosevelt which should be taken out and shot in the back of the head.
Why one hundred? Well, like any arbitrary number, it’s conveniently round but sheesh, it has no bearing in reality.
Some policies can be enacted immediately (e.g. re-opening the Keystone XL pipeline, mobilizing the Corps of Engineers to continue building the southern border wall) — which can safely be called a one-day report card; others may require a little longer, in that the job cannot be done immediately, but can be safely implemented within a month or so (e.g. putting a budget proposal together, firing a large number of federal bureaucrats); while still others may take several months, probably because they require the assistance of the tortoises in Congress (tax cuts, balancing the budget, cutting spending — as opposed to just cutting the growth of spending, which is what those assholes “call cutting”).
Of the immediate- to short-term initiatives, let’s just hope that Trump follows up on his promise to enlist the support of Elon Musk — especially when it comes to trimming the headcounts in various federal departments — to get things moving, in the manner of trailblazing ArgyPres Javier Milei.
And we don’t need any stupid polls like this one to tell Trump what to do about illegal immigration either. As Commander-In-Chief, he can tell the military to start gassing up the C-130s on Day One, to be ready for takeoff by Day Seven. (Why seven? Because it should only take a week to start emptying out the existing detention centers and jails prior to transporting the illegals and criminals out of the country.)
Whatever these initiatives may entail, let’s please ignore the stupid “100-day” report card because like so many artificial deadlines, it’s totally meaningless.