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SpaceX's IPO sets the stage for the colonization of the solar system -- by private enterprise [CBD]

Teen Driver Tayvin Galanakis Wins Jury Trial Against Officers Who Charged Him With DUI Even After He Blew 0.0 on A Breathalyzer And Passed Sobriety Tests. One Officer Accounted For 72% of All DUI Arrests For That PD [dri]

Days before the woman was stabbed in the neck by a taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer, in the same general area, another taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer attacked a boy and bloodied his head with a brick.
What is the UK Regime's plan for protecting the citizens from the savage criminals they've foisted on the populace? They offer NONE. They do, however, have a plan for protecting the savage criminals from the citizens: The citizens must STAY CALM and not get angry and not share videos of citizens being attacked by savage criminals.
The public keeps saying "protect us from the foreign savages you have imported against our wishes and over our objections" and the UK branch of The Regime keeps proposing plans to protect the foreign savages from the public. Soclose to what the public is demanding, just, you know, the complete opposite.
Just a thought: Maybe you wouldn't have to worry about the public attacking the savage criminals if you actually introduced a plan to protect the public from the savage criminals. Maybe they wouldn't feel as if it was necessary for them to protect the public through self-help.

Courtney Subramiam, one of the "journalists" who "previewed" her questions for the decrepit and demented Biden so that he could "answer" it with a pre-scripted response, rewarded by promotion to president of the White House Press Corps

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate

hahahahaha

This is the lady who gave her question to Biden beforehand, and he had it written verbatim in his notes with her picture.

You know what's really terrible? There are Daily Signal reporters in the press room. That's the Real Scandal Here!

English racist garbage-person who's on the wrong side of history warns the corrupt Regime that the people cannot take much more of this -- and won't take much more of this
The English have rebelled before.

All of the various Bob Dylans
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TJM gets lost in the worlds of David Lynch

You might think that movie critics by nature are effeminate and bitchy, but, did you know that grass is green and red peppers are red?

"We have black ghetto fatigue"

Odd 90s-Retro Susan Collins ad against the Nazi Hotchkiss "hobby farmer"
I like the throwback AOL style of the ad.

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
@MaryMargOlohan

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.

Henry Rosoff
@HenryRosoff

🚨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%

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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
@sahilkapur

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:

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Exxonmobil in the 3rd quarter reported pre-tax profits of $9.92 billion on revenue of $100.72 billion.

9.9% is hardly an obscene profit. I only cite the results of one company, but they are the biggest and certainly representative of the industry.

Democrats don't give a shit about oil prices. They don't care about economics.

They care about profits, whatever the source. They want that money for themselves. They want that as much money as possible to flow into their pockets.

This goes for everyone, not just oil companies. It's just that oil companies (a) have deep pockets, and (b) sell a product that no one really enjoys buying so it makes them an easy target for demonizing.

They'd go after pro sports profits if they could, but the fan base would go nuts over it.

Dave is totally correct. And as I have pointed out many times, with the oil business it is feast or famine. When you are making money it seems grand, but the famine has outweighed the feast in the last 20 yrs or so.

I just couldn't BELIEVE that congress bought in the CEO's of oil companies to ask about their profits!!!! That was insane! This is a profit making business after all you know.

The Democrats say we need to rely less on foreign oil, but want to restrict drilling because they don't know damn thing about the oil business.

Everytime you come in from freezing sleet and warm your tootsies in you home you can thank an oil company. Everytime you come in from 102 heat to a cool airconditioned house, you can thank a oil company. Everytime you drive to work you can thank a dang oil company!!!

I about sick to death of this "evil" thing the Democrats spread around about this industry. Let's shut it down for a month and see who howls.

Idiots.

Every time you drive to the club and the hairdressers, you use gasoline. Every time Yolita lights the chafing dishes, she's using petroleum products. When you step into your indoor heated pool, remember it's heated with natural gas. And without jet fuel, your Lear would plummet from the sky, making that run up to Aspen problematic.

All hail petroleum profits. Er... make that "products".

Over the last five years, the American Petroleum Institute points out, the oil and natural gas industry netted 5.7 cents on every dollar of sales, compared to 5.5 cents for all U.S. companies.

And how many cents per dollar of sales goes to the federal government and state governments? Who are the real profiteers? At least the oil companies provide a product for their 5.7 cents of profit. Let's have congressional hearings and get some testimony from these greedy, profiteering governments. here are the tax rates on gasoline. Here is my state of Washington gasoline taxes. Washington 23 23 41.4 (Read state/combined state (no excise is Wash) and total to include federal taxes. So who's gouging?

Simple economics. Supply and demand. Increase supply (open up refining to new venture capitalists) and the price goes down. Get the fucking Government out of managing the petroleum economy and let it shake out where it will.

I agree with the main point here, but be careful about arguing from profit ratios based on sales. Profits divided by invested capital are far more revealing. For example, a typical supermarket only makes a penny and a half on every dollar of sales -- but because it turns its inventory over so rapidly, it makes many times that amount on invested capital. A supermarket that makes 1.5 cents per dollar of sales but turns over its inventory 20 times per year -- a conservative figure -- is making 30 cents per dollar of invested capital.

The Truth About Oil Companies