fourteen minutes of reality in the seventies marriages. this is spot on having lived thru the lessons we all learned the hard way, repeatedly, with no words provided until we stumbled upon it after the last nasty lesson;
Sunday, May 3, 2026
this also reminds me of a mike douglas flick called: falling down, in which he had a similar experience at a fast food joint;
If you were around in the ’90s, you probably saw Demolition Man. It starred Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock and depicted a future in which – among other things – the most extravagant luxury was an evening out at Taco Bell.
Well, we experienced our own version of this extravagant luxury the other night. At Burger King.
It was late, we were tired and so – for the first time in years – we rolled up to the order window at a fast food drive-through. We ordered two “Whoppers” with (allegedly) cheese. I place the name of this hamburger in air fingers quotes because if it is a “Whopper,” then my understanding of this word requires correction. What came through the drive-through window was a bag containing two very modest-looking hamburgers; hardly “Whoppers.” The patty was a sad-looking disc maybe a fourth-of-an-inch thick, salted like beef jerky and almost as leathery. There was a piece of flaccid lettuce, a tasteless tomato and two little pickle slices about the size of a penny. The buns were the biggest component of the “Whopper.”
Maybe the word refers to the price............more..........
its well past time for some of these folk to realize this;
Our military establishment in America has been so mentally destroyed by the privilege of hegemony that they can’t even comprehend what defeat actually looks like.
A concise definition: Victory is when you impose your will on the enemy. A military advisor told this to Trump once because he used that exact phrasing when discussing the war with Iran early on.
Has the United States and/or Israel imposed their will on Iran? No, we failed to accomplish almost every objective we set forth to accomplish. I set this out at length earlier this week.
Have the Iranians imposed their will on us? Yes, absolutely. They drove the United States from the Persian Gulf, seized control of the Strait of Hormuz, deterred Israel from taking any action against them without full American backing that will not be forthcoming, and broke the US Navy’s blockade of their global commerce. That isn’t just victory, it’s an unqualified, decisive victory that is already reshaping the Middle East around Iran’s rising power.
The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem, and yet I see nothing but cope on this website and in the broader public sphere from the American camp. I had imagined that in any war with Iran we would see a similar dynamic as that playing out between Russia and Ukraine – one in which Iran would put up a stiff struggle but ultimately fall to superior force.
The notion that the United States would suffer a catastrophic failure of resolve, abandon the Persian Gulf without firing a shot, poke at the Iranians with standoff weapons until we ran out six weeks later and then sue for a ceasefire and prove to not even be able to enforce a blockade is a level of collapse that I actually find offensive as a veteran.
But this collapse is, however, the natural and inevitable result of the toxic morass of soft corruption, safe promotions, stupid politics, indiscipline, careerism, phoned-in planning, half-assed training, incuriosity and macho gym bro hubris that the US military has absolutely FOUNDERED in since the end of the Cold War. And the people in charge of said military – trust me, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth is very much a symptom and representative of a broader culture here – are currently being allowed to spin this debacle as a victory instead of being purged from the ranks en masse as they deserve and as they must should we wish to restore American power going forward..............https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/02/when-you-believe-your-own-bullshit/
when the revolution comes this state will certainly be classified with california and illinois;
Colorado is prohibited from taking enforcement actions on alleged violations of the law occurring up to 14 days after the court issues a ruling on the company xAI’s motion for a preliminary injunction, judge Cyrus Y. Chung ruled on April 27.
The Department of Justice had said the state law, which was set to go into effect on June 30, would have required AI developers and deployers to “discriminate based on race, sex, & religion—all in the name of DEI.”
DEI is an acronym for “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Brett Shumate, an assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Division, called the suspension a “huge win for the American people.”
“Colorado immediately caved and agreed not to enforce the law against ANY AI company,” Shumate wrote in a X post on May 1.
Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) signed into law the Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence in May 2024 and issued a statement sharing his reservations about how it could impact Colorado.
In the statement, he urged the General Assembly to revise and delay implementing it until January 2027.............more...........
senator kennedy is to be entered into the congressional hall of fame along side senator dirkson for command of the language;
Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana appeared on FOX News today and offered his take on Graham Platner, the far left radical that the Democrats are going to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Maine.
Kennedy addressed the issue with his usual humor, calling Platner part of the loon wing of the Democrat party.
It’s truly stunning to watch Democrats and liberals in the media defend this guy. They have spent the better part of ten years calling Trump ‘Hitler’ and Republicans ‘Nazis’ and now they are trying to defend a man who had an actual Nazi tattoo on his body for years.
You couldn’t make this up.
Transcript via Eric Daugherty:
MCENANY: Is Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) your kind of man?
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: I actually prefer women to men. But to each his own.
“They think that kids should be able to change genders at recess. A lot of the looners hyperventilate on their yoga mats if you use the wrong pronoun!”
“The faction in control of the Democrat Party is the LOON wing, the SOCIALIST wing. Its leaders are Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Mayor Mamdani, elder statesman Bernie Sanders. Mr. Platner is a member. They have deeply weird beliefs.”...........more............
more on the ongoing minnesota fraud game;
The FBI just raided more than 20 Minnesota child care centers in one of the biggest fraud busts this country has ever seen.
Now a state trooper is explaining why it took this long.
What Democrats did to stop him from catching these people years ago will make your blood boil.
Minnesota CCAP Fraud Was Rampant Before DHS Shut Down the Investigation
Jay Swanson spent 30 years as a Minnesota state trooper before DHS hired him in 2014 to lead a unit built specifically to investigate fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program.
What he walked into was staggering.
Centers billing $700,000 to more than $1 million a year with no children present.
Fire inspectors showing up to facilities that were completely empty.
Fraud suspects vacationing in Dubai while collecting public assistance – and texting friends about buying homes in Nairobi, Kenya on the side.............more..........
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