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Podcast: Sefton and CBD bounce around from Maine and its pet Nazi, to the cracks in the Democrat messaging, to the failure of California and its effect on the 2028 election, sea drones rescuing Apache crews, and more!

Seattle mayor shrugs off millionaire-tax concerns as 44% of business leaders consider leaving
It happens in all the blue states, but WA and Seattle will be different! [CBD]

TJM definitively ranks the films of Alexander Mackendrick

VOTE JEFF CARTER FOR NV STATE TREASURER!
[CBD]

Mary Margaret Olohan
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NEW: Five FBI employees were fired today over the infamous Richmond Catholic memo on "radical traditionalist Catholics," FBI source confirms to @realDailyWire.

Oof. Reviewers do not like Scary Movie 6. The criticism I keep hearing is that the movie mistakes a reference for an actual joke. The movie (they say) keeps Key Jangling a reference to another movie (or some other pop culture ephemera) and you expect there to be a joke but nope, the Key Jangle was the joke. Other reviewers say that the promise that "no lines will be uncrossed" is a fake-out, and that the movie is bland and inoffensively corporate.

TJM introduces you to the movies of Alexander Mackendrick

Whoops! I posted about Dan Goldman losing the NY congressional primary. He might do that, but it won't be tonight -- the primary isn't held until June 23.

One race to keep an eye on: the Levi's heir nepo baby and egregious "Designated Liar" Dan Goldman -- one of the Democrats from a safe district Democrats send out to spread their most indefensible lies -- may actually lose his lower Manhattan/Brooklyn set due to, get this, antisemitism in the Democrat primary electorate.
Antisemitism? In the anti-Nazi Democrat Party? Sounds crazy, I know, but apparently the anti-Nazi Party wants to eliminate Jews.

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🚨EXCLUSIVE POLL:

Brad Lander is 34-pts ahead of Congressman Dan Goldman with #NY10 Democratic Primary voters. @ZohranKMamdani is backing the former Comptroller.

@bradlander: 57%

@danielsgoldman: 23%

Poll by @PIX11News & @EmersonPolling.

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Oh my Totenkopf Tattoo, that is a DRUBBING!
I'm usually very anti-antisemitism but if the Communist Antisemite Jihadists can pull this one off, Go Communist Antisemite Jihadists, Go!

Democrat Senator Rueben Gallego, who served his wife with divorce papers when she was nine months pregnant so that he could marry his side-piece, counsels us that we should not judge Graham Platner for his infidelity because these things are personal matters, Racists:

Sahil Kapur
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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on Platner: "We know that Graham has lived not your typical political experience. He's been very clear and open with his wife, and they worked through whatever they worked through. At the end of the day, this man has had 60 more town halls than Susan Collins has. He's winning the polls, he's willing to accept that he has grown as a person, and I think we should accept that."

Gallego says the drip-drip of revelations won't harm Platner's campaign.

"I think you guys are all in a bubble here right now. The drip, drip that's actually happening is Americans are really, really hurt the fact that gas is still high, food is still high, they can't buy a home, you can't afford rent. They're not going to care about text messages and everything else like that that happened years ago, especially when it was worked out between spouses."

I like that he says that it's okay that Graham Platner sexted 12 different women within months of marrying the woman to sponge off her because he wasn't then "living a political life" -- the clear meaning being, "We all cheat, we just don't cheat when we're running for office, and he didn't know he was running for office when he was sending dicpics to half the women he ran into."
Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign.
And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life:

Podcast: CBD goes solo in a short segment...talking about Iran, the nativist issues surrounding Reform and Restore in the UK, and the delicious pain of an imploding Democrat Party, courtesy of Talerico and Platner!

TJM ranks all of John Ford's films. All of them. TJM is very tired.

Funny -- if you don't mind clicking on TikTok. "Amy.Pranks.22" set up an AI scam-call screener which replies to a foreign scammer trying to get her bank information with Trumpian bluster. This might be fake because I don't see how a program can respond in real time, but it's funny.

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The ULA rocket just launched
Thanks to Joyenz
The rocket's enormous engines are fueled by "the volcanic heterosexual lust between James Talarico and his Neighbor With a Uterus 'girlfriend'"
I hope Amazon's rocket works better than the Amazon Prime app does as far as allowing people to watch the black and white version of "Spider-Noir"

From the CA Post:

Spencer Pratt is now Karen Bass' biggest headache.

A bombshell California Post poll conducted with McLaughlin & Associates shows the reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate has surged to a statistical tie with the incumbent mayor.

And voters blame homelessness, affordability and the direction of Los Angeles as the reason for turning on Bass.

Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week's primary.

Socialist councilwoman Nithya Raman sits in third place at 23.4%.

Thanks to beckster

Just like "Spartacus" Corey Booker, now that James Talarico is running for a higher office, he unveils his previously-unknown "girlfriend" and hooboy, it just so happens she used to work for him, and, get this, likes to "dance the night away" at gay bars
Gee I wonder where they might have met
Oh and she's a vegan
When Corey Booker needed a "girlfriend," he conjured up known LGBTQ activist Rosario Dawson. How convenient that when these guys need a girlfriend to show off to the normies that just happen to find an activist with a strong history of and interest in Supporting Gay Men
But seriously, this James Talarico romance with a Neighbor with a Uterus is a love story for the ages. The passion of their lovemaking is hotter than a blue star with a core of Primordial Sex Atoms created in the Big Bang

"Journalists" are all drunks, criminals, sex-pests, and liars, exhibit #25,239,331

And just like that, #PunchANazi became Punch a Ballot for a Nazi

Was the "transatlantic accent" favored by stage and screen actors of the 40s and 50s "fake"? This linguist says no, it was a real accent

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Winston Churchill anecdote. A man receives a telegram from the shipping line "regret to inform you your mother in law has passed away during voyage. please forward instructions".

His reply: "perform autopsy, cremate, spread remains at sea. take no chances"

Fat Kid and Ace,

When I lived in California, on the coast, there were times when a "rogue wave" would literally sweep someone off their feet and take them away to sea.

Just like that.

Gone.

...

One such very sad incident was a couple having their wedding photos taken on the rocks near the water. A rogue wave came over the couple and swept away the bride, drowning her.

Horrible.

Here is another such story. I recall hearing about this woman when I moved to California. Her gallery was near my office.

Jesus. I remember an entire family on vacation standing on the beach near Santa Cruz having their picture taken. One big wave hit them and they disappeared forever.

I've seen waves like this on video. I remember one wave breaking a 50 ft boat in half under the GG Bridge and everyone drowning.

Respect nature.

FatKid: sorry for your loss, but how was anyone to know of your connection to the story? The original post from Ace seems to be couched in a semi-humorous vein (sorry again if I misunderstood), which is what led me to comment on the ironic humor in the inappropriate nature of the Google ads associated with the article in the first place.

Let's say that I know somebody who knows somebody who does a lot of legal work for the cruise lines. And let's say that I am quite familiar with the Brilliance of the Seas' sister ship, the Radiance (the Brilliance is a Radiance Class ship, so they're basically the same design).

Frankly, I doubt that he just "fell off" the ship. That's just a very hard thing to do unless you do something incredibly stupid like walk the rail on the balcony of certain staterooms, and even then it's not a sure thing that you're going in the drink. The SOLAS regulations call for the construction of exterior railing systems that just make it very unlikely that some is going to just accidentally "fall off" the ship.

These sorts of incidents do occur, but they are usually (nearly always) suicides. There are some people who get very depressed on a holiday, usually because they have chronic depression and the holiday underscores some greater issue in their lives that hasn't been resolved.

It's possible that the guy got really drunk (hey, a liquor heir, right?), and did something incredibly stupid. But I somehow doubt it.

I have just returned from spending 12 days crusiing the Med on this ship,on Brilliance where this incident as well as the rape of a teen girl occured. .My cabin was less than 6 doors away... my uncles cabin was even closer. I witnessed his wife being taken off the ship by the Turkish authorities, his parents and the FBI were on the ship having boarded from our next port of call following Kusadasi. let me assure you all that there is way more to this story than has been released..and I intend to blog about it tonite..as well as another equally sad and disturbing event that happened resulting in the over 15 members of one family being escorted off the ship by police and FBI in Greece!

Honeymoon From Hell: Groom Falls Overboard From Cruise Ship