Disgusting People
Whiny little Commie bitch TV interviewer: “So just bottom line, Mr. Secretary, do you acknowledge that these tariffs are a tax on American consumers?”
SecTreas Scott Bessent: “No, I don’t. You’re quoting Goldman Sachs… I made a good career of trading against Goldman Sachs.”
Quick recap of my laptop woes:
My options seem to be:
To say that I am angry does not begin to describe my mood right now.
And oh, by the way: if anyone out there is thinking of buying an ASUS machine in the near future; DON’T.
*New Wife has okayed this option, but it still sticks in my craw.
…devoutly wished:
Spanish officials have admitted that a relentless campaign of anti-tourist protests in Majorca is ‘scaring away visitors’ – with locals claiming some resorts are now ‘completely dead’.
With British holidaymakers seemingly among foreigners turning their backs on the island, its tourism industry is in panic mode as officials overseeing the nightlife sector and tour companies warn that guests no longer feel ‘welcomed’.
The restaurant association president, Juanmi Ferrer, gave a stark warning that the messaging of the protests is ‘scaring visitors away’.
Ya think? Then there’s this priceless bit of wisdom:
Miguel Pérez-Marsá, head of the nightlife association, told Majorca Daily Bulletin: ‘The tourists we’re interested in are being driven away; they don’t feel welcome and are going to other destinations.’
Well, yes; except that those tourists you’re interested in — the hard-drinking, hard-partying Brits and Germans — are the ones who sparked all the protests in the first place.
Rock, meet hard place.
Here’s the ironic part.
I don’t actually blame the locals for trying to end the seemingly-endless summer invasions of their home towns — it’s as true for Amsterdam as it is in Majorca — but if your sole income is pretty much derived from tourists (unlike Amsterdam, for whom tourism is important but not critical), then I guess the full-time residents of the party places just need to endure… or move.
Unsaid in all this is the fact that young people (the partiers and drinkers) are almost by definition going to be louts and sluts when far from home and full of cheap booze, and so of course you can’t expect them to behave themselves. While older tourists may be more desirable socially, the old ‘uns don’t spend anything like what the kids do — unless of course they’re buying themselves a holiday apartment, thus driving up the prices of local real estate and making the place unaffordable to the locals.
See where all this goes?
Equally ironic is the fact that a huge proportion of the local population are greatly dependent on those tourist dollars to stay alive, whether cab drivers, bartenders, waitresses, tour operators or restaurant owners. And they’d all be harmed financially — i.e. bankrupted — as well as the rest who reap the “soft” benefits of tourism such as lower taxes and civic improvements, all made possible by the dollars / pounds / euros of the hated turisti.
Like I said, about those rocks and hard places…
Okay, the bullshit is strong with this one [Brian Stelter alert] :
Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say
Of course, given that “rural areas” happen to be where conservative talk radio programs find their biggest audience, I think we may safely say that the disappearance of these pore rural NPR broadcasters will hardly be missed.
One could test this hypothesis, of course, simply by polling said audiences to make a simple choice between “NPR federal funding” and (say) “federal funding for rural road improvements”. My guess:
(sent to me by Reader Mike L., thankee; I would never have seen this, coming as it did from CNN)
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
It seems like the PjMedia Complex — Townhall, Twitchy, and PJM itself are increasingly turning their websites into PPV.
So a link from PJM’s Godfather — Insty — on a big story such as this:
…has the embedded link:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/06/17/fbi-hands-congress-documents-with-alarming-allegations-about-the-2020-election-n2658948
When you follow the link, of course it takes you to the Townhall page. However, if like me you hate being bombarded with fucking Facebook links masquerading as ads, or ads that lead you to click-bait sites, ads hawking the books penned by hem hem PJM writers, and (my favorite) pop-up auto-start ads or links) you will have installed an ad-blocker like Adblock or Badger.
So when you get to the Townhall site via that link from Insty, you get a grayed-out screen with this set of options:
Okay, here’s the deal. I can’t afford to be a “VIP” subscriber because quite frankly, my subscription budget is pretty much zero. There’s a plethora of choices for my subscription pennies (note: pennies, not dollars — this is important, as you’ll see later), and PJM VIP is not, shall we say, a premium choice.
Fine, say I, and so I resort to using archive sites like https://archive.is/ to bypass the paywall. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
So, because I want to read all about the Kash Patel / 2020 election thing, I go to DuckDuckGo and type in “kash patel 2020 election”, and get a series of choices. Skipping the left-wing media (NBC, Daily Beast, Newsweek etc.) I find a link to the Washington Examiner, which finally gives me free access to the story I want to read:
FBI Director Kash Patel has turned over a batch of internal documents to Congress detailing allegations that Chinese operatives sought to interfere in the 2020 election by mass-producing fake U.S. driver’s licenses to facilitate fraudulent mail-in voting.
The intelligence, which Patel said on Monday night he had recently declassified, has been sent to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who has led oversight efforts into foreign election interference and pressed the bureau to release details surrounding the alleged scheme.
And even worse:
“These include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public,” Patel said.
Let’s be honest, here: this is a really big fucking deal, and if it’s proven to be true, we have two major issues: 1) China was fucking with our election in 2020 — yeah, 81 million Biden votes, kiss my ass, and 2) the FBI knew about it and did sweet fuck-all about it. (And Just The News‘s followup article is even more damning.)
But back to my main point.
Everyone who works has to make a buck to keep the head above the water, individuals as much as organizations, and nothing comes free in this world. I know this, because I am one such person. So PJMedia has every right to require me to pay for their work, i.e. to read their articles.
My problem is that I can’t afford to pay their monthly sub fee because as I said, there are literally hundreds of such subs available. And to be brutally frank, while PJM’s content is quite good, it’s not that good (Stephen Green and only a couple of other writers excepted). Few of the conservative websites are that good, either.
Frankly, if I’m going to be brutally honest: if I can afford only one subscription, I think I may subscribe to the above-mentioned Just The News, because their coverage and editorial stance seems to be what I’m looking for. And the price seems to be about right, too:
OR: 
That’s about $0.12 (twelve cents) per day — about the cost of a newspaper print subscription back in 1960, which sounds about right, for digital content. (I recently got a small tax refund from the IRS, which funded this sub. [irony alert] )
Of course, I may be disappointed — one usually is, in matters of this nature, as I was with an earlier subscription to Epoch Times, quickly canceled — but what the hell, it’s only money and information, right?
So I’ll be linking to a lot of JTN articles in the future. Let me know if they start playing reindeer games with their pages (like PJM outlets do) and I’ll just post longer excerpts.
