I hate it when nouns are turned into verbs (i.e. “verbing”).
I hate it just as much when verbs are turned into nouns. In the above case, the correct expression would be:
“Netflix Set to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees…”.
Said employees would therefore be victims of a layoff.
I had to laugh at this one. Porsche is one of the chief sinners in the “Technik Uber Alles” trend among car manufacturers, the trend whereby letting the engineers loose on car design is seen as more important than giving the customers what they want, at a decent (not insulting) price. We’ll talk about Ferrari later.
But in their drive to make their cars super-whizzbang-wonderful in terms of technical gadgetry (PSM, PDT, PDK whatever), Porsche seems to have missed one of the basic tenets of car design — a feature that has been critical since the first cars were ever built:
The wheels have to stay on the car.
Except for Porsche, it seems:
There are few scenarios more frightening than pushing a 640-horsepower sports car to its limits and having one of its wheels detach, but that’s the risk facing owners of several Porsche sports cars. The German automaker has issued a new recall for multiple 718 and 911 models equipped with centerlock wheels, and the risk is so serious that a Do Not Drive Warning has been put into place until these vehicles can be inspected.
Ironic, really, for a company which prides itself on its faultless engineering.
Here’s the thing. Centerlock wheels have been around since the beginning of time, going back to oxcarts, even. I still recall that mallets were a vital piece of a car’s toolkit right into the 1960s, e.g. for the E-type:
(pretty, innit?)
Then, of course, the trend changed, and wheel nuts became a thing: five, six or more bolts anchoring the wheel to the chassis. The great thing about this was that there was safety in numbers (not to mention in its simplicity): one or two wheel nuts could be “loose” (i.e. finger-tight) without too much consequence.
The problem was that while this was perfectly fine for the consumer market, it was far from ideal in a racing environment, where the time penalty for changing several nuts on a fresh set of tires was burdensome. So back to centerlock we went, not just in racing but in the consumer products — and as an added bonus, car manufacturers began to mess with the design of the tightening process, creating their own customized wrenches so that changing a tire was not something that could be done by the owner on the side of the road, but required a (towed) trip to the dealer.
And now we have this situation, where whatever Porsche has done in this regard is flawed, so that hapless Porsche owners are indeed faced with the prospect of watching themselves being overtaken: not by other cars, but by their own wheels as they detach themselves and go spinning off on their merry way.
On a car that costs anywhere from $100,000 (718) to $300,000 (911).
Kurt Schlichter does a number on the RINO and GOPe supporters, as well as those idiots who think that $4/gallon gas is a bigger problem for the U.S. than the Communists and locally-bred jihadists taking over the levers of power again.
One by one, he picks the fruits of Donald Trump’s foreign policy:
Kurt forgot to mention:
I’m going to sum this up, because Kurt didn’t.
All the above actions — every single one — can and will be overturned and reversed if the Communist/jihadist alliance of Obama/Biden is returned to power following this November’s elections.
And the only way these assholes can win is if we American conservatives don’t show up to vote or (perish the thought) vote for the assholes “in protest” because we don’t agree with every single thing the Trump administration has done, or feel aggrieved for the things it hasn’t done (e.g. closing the Dept. of Education and removal of the ATF).
And let’s not forget the expensive fuel ($4/gal compared to $6 under Biden, and the Obama crowd’s stated desire to make gasoline as expensive as it is in Europe). Yeah, that’s a really good reason to bring the Communists back into power.
Look: we’ve seen what happened in the U.K.when the populace, tired of the pathetic Conservative Party, voted Labour (or just didn’t vote at all). Anyone want to live in today’s Britain? No? Then why the hell would we indulge in the same idiocy Over Here?
I don’t know if I can put it any plainer than that.
Keep the Communists, jihadists and loonies away from government.
Get out and vote Republican next month (and every month thereafter).
One has to wonder how this tool thought it might end:
A former CIA officer admitted in a plea deal Tuesday that he disclosed details about a secret U.S. intelligence source to a foreign official and embezzled nearly $200 million from the federal government.
David Rush pleaded guilty in Virginia federal court to one count of wire fraud after an FBI raid on his home in May uncovered 298 gold bars worth $46 million, $2.1 million in cash and dozens of luxury items.
Justice Department officials said Rush embezzled $194 million from the federal government, using his position at the intelligence agency to create an elaborate scheme designed to facilitate his “maximum self-enrichment at the expense of the United States.”
At some point, you have to wonder how this traitorous asshole thought he was going to spend all that moolah without someone eventually saying, “How did he get to buy all that shit, on a government salary?”
Well, obviously he couldn’t, so all he could do was sit on his pile of gold and look at his Rolex collection or whatever.
Pathetic.
If you’re going to do this embezzlement thing on a large scale, or get paid large sums by a foreign government, the least you could do is insist on being paid with bearer bonds; because the nice thing about bearer bonds is that they don’t weigh anything (relative to gold, for sure), and you can fold them up, travel to — I don’t know, Liechtenstein or Monaco, for example — and use that money to fund a vacation of your dreams.
Live for today, in other words, because at some point, you are going to be discovered and have the dogs sicc’d onto you, and instead of memories of having hot and cold running women catering to your every perverted need in a 5-star hotel room, all you’ll have left is the memory of a pile of gold ingots.
As you’re walking up the steps to the gallows.
(In any just world, that is. What’s really going to happen is that he’ll go to jail for a few years, then get an early release — because that’s what happens nowadays — and make a fortune by writing a book and getting a job as a “security consultant” on one of the Commie TV networks.)
Don’t get me started.
Sorry, this post should have appeared earlier, but I messed up the time stamp.
After fucking around with all the Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© nonsense, some sanity may be peeking its little head out of Britishland’s economic foreskin:
Britain’s biggest environmental quangos could be scrapped as part of a new Tory war on red tape designed to boost growth.
Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith will unveil plans to ‘abolish’ the Environment Agency and Natural England to help streamline regulations that are ‘acting as a drag anchor on our economy’.
Mr Griffith will argue that ‘the biggest deregulation project in a generation’ could help kick start the sluggish economy, drive investment and cut prices.
He will claim that cutting red tape and Net Zero rules driving up construction costs could slash the price of a new house by up to £50,000 and boost supply.
Yeah, I hate to pee into the Soup of Goodness™ here, but let me remind y’all that this is the Conservative Party we’re hearing from — and it’s because they always reneged on their promises in the past that they got tossed out during the previous election, ushering the Commies into power.
So let’s not get all excited just yet.
(I’d suggest that the Conservatives ask ArgyPres Milei for tips on how to do all the above, but they’re on the no-speaks with him because he wants to take over the Falkland Islands or something.)
Whenever some socialist asswipe attempts to use statistics to prove something, they inevitably end up looking like either a fool or else totally dishonest (mostly, both).
Here’s one example: Hair Gel Boy spouting some anti-Trump nonsense.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) reposted a chart on X Tuesday claiming housing prices are “the most unaffordable in history,” and that it was Trump’s fault.
The chart Newsom shared showed that the housing affordability gap actually widened during Joe Biden’s presidency, and X users noticed almost instantly, flooding his replies with screenshots of the very data he’d just posted as though it helped his argument. It didn’t take long for the pile-on to turn Newsom’s own post into a meme about his reading comprehension.
I’d like to ascribe this to (innumerate) reading comprehension, but if one heeds the old saying that a lie will make its way around the world before the truth gets out of bed, it’s clear that such a tactic was his intention. (With X, of course, the effect is somewhat ameliorated because of Community Notes — thanks again, Elon — but still. Now the lie only makes it a quarter of the way around the world before the truth comes out swinging a sledgehammer.)
Newsom’s not, of course, the only one:
In July 2025, the Democratic National Committee posted a chart that they thought proved grocery prices were spiraling out of control in Trump’s second term.
The chart told a different story. It showed a huge spike under Biden. The DNC had unwittingly undermined its own attack on Trump. Social media users mocked the party within hours, dissecting the chart line by line, forcing the DNC to quietly delete the post… not that that stopped us from making fun of them anyway.
I’d like to substitute “public flogging” for “making fun of”, but that’s just me.
We see this stuff time and time again, especially with the old Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© nonsense, where its adherents choose a point in time that oh-so conveniently “proves” their point about the above upward movement.
It’s one of the reasons why I’ve always preferred a “moving average” type of trend graph, because that smooths out one-time or extraordinary data points — which is why the alarmists and mountebanks (like Newsom) hate using them — if indeed they know what a “moving average” even is.
Ignoramus or outright liar? I report, you decide.