The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 2/13 /25

Good morning kids. As from a scan of the links will indicate, the winning continues as President Trump sets the DOGEs loose on the beast that is the Leviathan, and for sure that has caused typical reactions from the latter.

So in that light, for dramatic effect and to underscore the points well as to not turn your stomachs from the get-go, let's put a big old smile on your face:

President Donald Trump expressed that he wants the Department of Education to be “closed immediately,” describing it as a “big con job.” When asked by a reporter how soon Trump wanted the Department of Education to be closed, Trump criticized how the United States education system was ranked 40th compared to other countries but ranked number one in terms of “costs per pupil.”... Trump has previously stated he wants to close the Department of Education and move education back into the hands of the states.

There are many states, and of course cities where students are about as proficient in the 3 R's as a used toothbrush. Which makes for the most loyal of leftist voters, growing into useless individuals dependent upon the government for their sustenance. Considering the awakening of local parents to wokeism and the brainwashing of their children into perversion and self-loathing as was amply demonstrated with the election of Glenn Youngkin a few years back and thank goodness seems to be trending nationally. To underscore that statement as well as President Trump's call to abolish the DoE, get set to grab your barf bags, And if this s happening where you live, your pitchforks and torches (metaphorically speaking of course *wink*wink).

On Tuesday evening, school board members representing Penfield Central School District in Rochester, New York, walked out on a packed house of parents who were upset about an inappropriate book on display at the elementary school library called “The Rainbow Parade,” authored by Emily Neilson. The book in question is about a young girl attending a pride parade with her lesbian parents. The illustrations show men in sexual BDSM gear holding hands, drag queens, and naked people. Instead of taking on comments from concerned parents, the board’s president called a motion to adjourn and ended the meeting abruptly. Kimberly DeRosa, who attended the meeting, told The Daily Wire that it ended after “more than an hour of presentations celebrating Black History Month and the superintendent detailing the process of submitting objections to books in the school. As noted by DeRosa, the board told parents that they should submit their complaints, which apparently negated their right to speak out at the meeting.
“We are here at our board meeting, conducting our business,” one board member told parents, who began booing. One parent responded, “It’s our board meeting,” and others yelled, “cowards!””

Only a scant four years or so ago, Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants sicked his DoJ goons on the parents and had them officially designated as potential if not actual terrorists for objecting to the mind-rape if not physical rape of their children via transexual madness of boys in girls rooms and showers. Insert (bad word!)Ashely Biden reference here.

Beyond the bureaucracies, both Federal and State, the Teachers' Unions which are nothing but money-laundering operations for Democrat political campaigns must be abolished and more than that, the curricula must be scrupulously purged of the poisonous rot such as outlined above and anyone who pushes it openly or otherwise must not be allowed within a thousand light years of any school. God bless Trump but it is up to all of us to be on the school boards, or if we are or wish to be teachers must resist this with every ounce of our strength. This stops when future generations are properly taught and the brainwashing machinery is smashed to bits.

And speaking oof public sector unions,

US District Judge George A. O’Toole ruled that the union groups suing to block the so-called “Deferred Resignation” program lacked standing and that his Massachusetts-based court lacked the jurisdiction to proceed with the lawsuit. O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management from moving ahead with the program earlier this week, after unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers charged that that the buyout offers were unlawful.

Trump should take an axe to government employee unions. Even FDR recognized the conflict of interest they presented. Trump can call it the Franklin Roosevelt Freedom Act! That should make Lefty heads explode.

Elsewhere, Pam Bondi and Discipline! wasted no time in cracking the whip against Hochul and Letitia James for their over abrogation of their oaths for refusal to uphold immigration laws in the (evil-)Empire state of New York. Of course the usual suspects will howl that Trump is using this as retribution against James for her leading the kangaroo court prosecutions against him, which is of course groundless since the charges against these two filthy trots are well founded. And here's hoping she and Homan go after every other Democrat Pol who flaunts our laws and openly harbors illegals and interferes with ICE's duty to round up the invaders and ship them the hell out. I'd say prosecute the hell out of them but considering the corruption that is the judiciary (which is why a Clinton-appointed judge ruled in favor of Trump's employee buyouts is rather surprising) I fully expect Hochul and James to have charges dismissed or else found not guilty.

At the risk of reepeating myself, how in hell can Trump rely on the courts to uphold the COnstitution when for so long they have been a part of the problem - the abrogation/negation/destruction of that document.

Can Trump as I have asked just tell the Courts to go to Hell and what risk does that pose down the road if inevitably we wind up with another Bush in the White House - and I mean a CORI BUSH, Dear God forbid. And in the near term rioting in the streets.

And the notion of impeaching obdurate tyrannical judges may be a nonstarter given the resistance from Dems and RINOs.

At the very least, I think the political winds are at Trump's back especially as he, Musk and team expose the breadth and depth of the waste and cancerous poison if not death that tax dollars have bought is exposed. And USAID is just the tippy tip tip of the iceberg.

People shouldn’t just be enraged by USAID’s wasteful spending. They should also focus on what that spending supported—particularly when it promoted terror or aligned with Hamas’s interests.
Rather than being used to provide humanitarian aid and stabilize conflict-ridden regions—in accordance with USAID’s stated goal—American funds have often been funneled into corrupt, Hamas-tied institutions, with minimal oversight. A new multiyear study of USAID by the Middle East Forum identified $164 million in grants to radical organizations, including $122 million to those “aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.” The MEF also found that “millions of federal dollars have been handed by USAID to organizations directly in Gaza controlled by Hamas, with government officials even visiting Gaza terror proxies’ offices and launching joint programs.”
The money has kept flowing, as the U.S. has distributed $2.1 billion in Gaza since Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages on October 7, 2023. But the warning signs predate October 7. The USAID’s Inspector General—now raising the alarm about Trump’s shutdown of the agency—has consistently voiced concern over lax vetting mechanisms and inadvertent terror funding in the region.
The watchdog community has echoed these concerns. In December 2024, the group NGO Monitor highlighted USAID’s lack of transparency, reporting that it allocated $200 million to “miscellaneous foreign awardees” operating in the West Bank and Gaza. USAID identified neither the recipients of these funds nor their local partners. In 2021, NGO Monitor warned that alterations to USAID’s anti-terror vetting practices made the group “vulnerable to engagement with grantees and/or partners linked to terrorist organizations, or with groups that support, glorify, or excuse violence.”

And lookie-here what Daniel Greenfield is reporting:

In 2022, the DA Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of “humanitarian aid” amounting to over $100 million.
DAB, Afghanistan’s central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a “specially designated terrorist” who had been named as the “financier of bomb-making”, including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal. Despite that someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to the Taliban’s terror bank.
While no international organization was willing to admit to the cash-smuggling operation, the ultimate responsibility lay with USAID. The $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan. . .
. . . When the State Department and USAID claimed that they “do not provide assistance to or through the Taliban” but work “with trusted international partners with extensive experience working in challenging environments like Afghanistan”, it was a half-truth at best. The “trusted international partners” included the UN. USAID funded the UN which used an intermediary to purchase the hundred dollar bills from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Afghanistan’s wealth, claimed by the Taliban, was being held, then contracted with a company, quite possiblyOsama bin Laden’s old airline, to fly it to Afghanistan, deposit it in banks, allocate it to NGOs and then use DAB to convert the dollars into local Afghan currency.

LEst we forget the I don't know how many billions in greenbacks the Jug-eared dog-eating purple-lipped Commie literal-bastard Obama palletized and flew over to Iran without even the fig leaf of USAID such as it is/was.

JUST The TIP, my friends. Not enough pitchforks, torches and rope/lampposts, metaphorically speaking again *wink*wink.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Mark J. F. Schroeder, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), has also been charged. The charges center on the Democrats’ alleged failure to enforce immigration laws in the state, resulting in American citizens being victimized by illegal aliens.
AG Bondi Files Charges Against New York Gov Hochul, New York AG James.
The Trump administration's counterrevolution against the “treason of the agency clerks.”
The Spawn of Leviathan
describing it as a “big con job.”
Trump Calls for Department of Education to Be ‘Closed Immediately’

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

Victor Davis Hanson: Musk's role in DOGE is misunderstood: he's an appointed auditor with legal authority to find waste, not cut programs, and foreign aid isn't ending, though USAID's inefficiencies may be restructured. (Hopefully like a loanshark restructures a deadbeat's face - jjs)
Mythologies About Musk
DC’s foxes have run the taxpayers’ henhouse for too long; it’s time to let the DOGE off its chain and chase them back into the dark woods of error they came from.
Unleash the DOGE
...their racket at the U.S. Agency for International Aid has been exposed, and they fear it’s just the first of many similar duplicitous schemes throughout the government that will be uncovered. They’ve even been able to convince their core voters that Musk and his team, merely doing the job they were asked to do by the duly elected president, are pure evil that must be stopped.
The Democrats Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks
Established in 1983 during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the NED is a supposedly independent nonprofit that claims to be dedicated to bolstering democratic institutions worldwide. It allocates over 2,000 grants annually for nongovernmental group initiatives across more than 100 countries, primarily funded by U.S. government allocations through Congress.Many allege it squanders funds on undermining conservative governments in allied nations such as Hungary while boosting leftist media and politicians. Similar allegations have been leveled against the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with President Trump moving to essentially abolish the agency last week.
Neocons Clutch Pearls as DOGE Sets Sights on Globalist National Endowment for Democracy.
District Court Judge John McConnell Jr., issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump from pausing federal spending. Trump issued a spending freeze on Jan. 27 in order to assess the mass waste and abuse of taxpayer funds before the Office of Management and Budget rescinded the pause following a flurry of left-led challenges. Now, McConnell has claimed Trump defied his order.
Judge Blocking Trump Spending Freeze Likened Trump To A ‘Tyrant’ In Unearthed Video
O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management from moving ahead with the program earlier this week, after unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers charged that that the buyout offers were unlawful. (Abolish all government employee unions. "Call it the FDR Act!!! - jjs)
Federal judge allows Trump to push forward with buyouts for government workers after 75K accept offers

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When one gets into the details of this wondrous “delayed” idea, it’s easy to get the impression that Newsom and the AP blame the homeowners for the devastation, when, in the recent history of the state, the bulk of the wildfire devastation has arisen from mismanaged government land and the state power monopoly, Paific Gas and Electric (PG&E). "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," the Wizard of Oz said as he pulled levers and performs his illusions.
Newsom Pushes Costly New 'Fire-Resistance' Mandates on People Trying to Rebuild Their Homes
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Rep. Brandon Gill opined, ‘America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia.’ The left is going apoplectic.
abro-Fo Omar Is A Walking Case For Higher U.S. Citizenship Standards (120th Trimester abortion -jjs)
Mexico is making further overtures to avert President Donald J. Trump’s imposition of tariffs on exports to America. In their latest move, at President Claudia Sheibaum’s urging, the Mexican Senate approved on Tuesday the entry of a U.S. Special Forces group into the country, ostensibly to train Mexico’s marines as part of the “Strengthening the Capacity of the Special Operations Forces of the Navy” program.The training arrangement—which was approved by a unanimous vote—will see a contingent of U.S. military personnel serving as advisors and trainers for Mexico’s marine forces, with a special focus on combating the country’s drug cartels. A similar agreement was approved during the six-year term of Mexican President López Obrador, which saw 11 U.S. military personnel enter Mexico to oversee marine training.
Mexico Authorizes Entry of U.S. Special Forces.
Top Democrat officials of 22 states, with D.C. and San Francisco, signed a pact to resist limitations on birthright citizenship.
Watchdog: 22 Blue States Joined Secret Anti-Trump Resistance Pact
As of Jan. 29, ICE has made a minimum of 4,829 arrests since President Donald Trump was inaugurated and the widespread raids began, according to NBC News. In the last week of January, the Trump administration was averaging 753 arrests per day. Though the number of total arrests Monday is so far unclear, ICE arrested several big criminals, including an MS-13 gang member, the Daily Caller has learned.
EXCLUSIVE: Meet The Worst Criminals ICE Arrested This Week … So Far

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Government dollars flowed to the infamous terror group, watchdogs found.
How USAID Funded Hamas
“That’s so beautiful. It’s music to my ears,” Trump said in response to Abdullah’s commitment.
Jordanian king agrees to take in 2,000 sick children grom Gaza, vows to meet with Arab heads on 'Palestinian' relocation
Why the plan is good for Israel - and for Gazans as well. (You can relocate people, can you relocate Islam? - jjs)
80% of Israeli Jews Support Trump’s Proposal to Relocate 80% of Gazans
Iran repeatedly tried to assassinate Trump over the last year.
Israel Reportedly Planning To Launch ‘Significant Strikes’ Against Iran Nuclear Sites This Year

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UC Berkeley’s Department of Gender and Women’s Studies hosted the speakers who defended terrorists during a public virtual panel titled, “Feminist and Queer Solidarities for Palestine.” The Department of Education (ED) is currently investigating UC Berkeley over alleged antisemitism, though the school professes a “commitment to” Jewish students’ dignity.
University Hosts Speakers Denying Hamas Rapes, Praising Terrorism While Under Antisemitism Probe
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Or jihad between Muslims?
Rhode Island: ‘Islamophobic Mosque Shooting’?
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Trump’s early actions reaffirm his support for Israel and the Jewish people, making a strong case for Jews to leave the Democrat Party for good.
Jews and Israel Supporters Have a Natural Home in the GOP and True Friend in Trump
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Robert Spencer: Leftist leaders love to call for violence - and then blame patriots when that violence comes.
Yet Another House Dem Calls for ‘Street Fight’ Against Trump Policies
For years, Dems and their allies pushed the absurd claim that democracy was about to die if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris was not elected president. The public wasn’t buying it. In 2024, Donald Trump won a majority of the voters as well as control of both houses of Congress.
Jonathan Turley Op-Ed: Dems exhaust the last of their credibility with a false Trump ‘constitutional crisis’
“My view right now is the courts are where we are hanging on to our constitutional structure”
Elizabeth Warren and Dems Suddenly Believe in the Legitimacy of Court Rulings Again Because Trump
When Joe Biden was president (puppet though he was), he openly defied Supreme Court rulings — and bragged about doing so. Despite the court repeatedly telling him he had no authority to forgive student loans, he kept doing it. “The Supreme Court blocked it,” he said, “but that didn’t stop me.” No complaints from the left.
Ann Coulter: If It Please the Court, Who the Hell Asked You?
Since his confirmation hearing, Thomas has endured constant attacks from Democrats, including the frequent demands he recuse himself from cases and even resign from the bench simply because he’s a conservative. However, the left isn’t angry this time about his judicial opinion. Instead, they are upset over … *squinting to make sure I’m reading this right* … him doing the job Supreme Court justices have done for decades: swear cabinet members into office.
The Left’s Latest Attacks On Clarence Thomas May Be Their Most Absurd Yet
Judges are taking anecdotal claims from activists, and they're using them to throw up roadblocks in the way of the new administration
Tyrannical, Power Hungry Judges Attempt To Seize Total Control Of The Government
The American Marxists have long been confident that a substantial majority of Americans of European descent are easily gulled, susceptible to guilt and shame, and are, thus, willing to stand aside as they transform the nation.
Fascism, Racism, and Donald Trump

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Independent reports that Google has infuriated leftists by its decision to remove cultural observances from its Google Calendar platform. Previously, the calendar marked the start of Black History Month in February, Women’s History Month in March, Pride Month in June, and Indigenous Peoples Month in November, among other events. However, these observances no longer appear for the year 2025.
Google Removes Black History Month and Pride Month from Calendar App
“Look, I believe Anderson Cooper is the best in the business. And when he surrenders to this ugliness, you know things are out of hand. He knows why said it,” Cuomo said. (What business, glory hole attendant? - jjs)
Chris Cuomo calls out ex-colleague Anderson Cooper as a ‘fool’ after CNN anchor told ex-NH gov ‘Don’t be a d–k’ (Vanderbilt Poofter proves why allowing Kathy Griffin within 5,00o light years of your crotch is a bad idea - jjs)
“I have a very hard time seeing how a business is going to get FCC approval while maintaining invidious forms of discrimination.”
FCC Chair Launches Probe Into Comcast’s DEI Policies
A judge has paused litigation against the former Biden junta. If the case is dismissed, it could enable future censorship.
Judge’s Pause Of Murthy V. Missouri Threatens Effort To Dismantle Government-Censorship Complex
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Republican-led states have benefited massively in an era of one-party domination of local government.
Red-Hot Economies
“The AI arms race isn’t about technological progress.”
Capitalism vs. the AI Revolution
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Wednesday that U.S. inflation increased to three percent year-over-year in January, during the final month of former President Joe Biden‘s term in office. Month-to-month inflation is up from 2.9 percent in December. Meanwhile, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.5 percent from December, marking the most rapid monthly rise since August 2023.The inflation data likely means the Federal Reserve will continue its pause on any additional interest rate cuts after initially enacting a series of rate reductions late last year. Notably, the core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.4 percent from December and 3.3 percent on a year-over-year basis, surpassing economists’ forecasts. The monthly core price increase was the largest since April 2023.
Inflation Surged During Biden’s Last Month in Office.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The EPA administrator and former New York Republican congressman said the massive pot of money was “awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out” the funds to non-governmental organizations “at their discretion.”
Lee Zeldin demands return of $20B ‘parked’ at a financial institution by ‘Biden EPA’ to dole out to climate groups
And user-friendly toilets, dishwashers, and showers are coming back soon, too!
World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban
Jigar Shah ushered through a $1.6 billion loan to Plug Power, a company he invested in shortly before joining the Biden junta
Biden Energy Official Who Gave $1.6 Billion To Company He Invested In Says He Has No Regrets
Lithium batteries are crucial to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to transition California away from fossil fuels
Residents Say They Witnessed Anomalies Ahead of California’s Lithium Battery Fire

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The book shows men in BDSM gear holding hands, drag queens, and naked people
School Board Walks Out On Parents Angry Over ‘Rainbow Parade’ Book For Kindergarteners
How will the children learn now? (Candlelight, in the shower with Joe Biden! - jjs)
School Where 1 in 5 Students Can Read Complaints Trump Took Away Their Electric Buses
In other words, the department fired its only white professor in order to replace him with a minority.
Modern academia: “We aren’t going to hire another white guy, are we?”
... ist of non-profit legal firms available to file lawsuits against this kind of bigotry and racial discrimination:
Where to get legal help if you have been illegally blacklisted
While they are all still with us, there is growing resistance.
The Latest in DEI, CRT, and Gender Issues
A "diversity" tab with links to DEI resources was removed from the homepage. Pages with "DEI" in the title were renamed and purged of the offending adjective, according to web archives reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, while the main page for the school’s diversity office—which stated, "We are not excellent if we do not reflect diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our community"—was taken down entirely.
Exclusive: At the University of Michigan, DEI Now Hides in Office of ‘Community Culture’
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
If the words on the receipt reflect the wrong choices, how does a voter know their vote is being counted correctly? Just read the barcode.
Pennsylvania’s Message To Voters After Ballot Receipts Flipped Candidates: Learn To Read Barcodes
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The case against Madigan, dubbed the “Velvet Hammer” for his influential yet low-key leadership style, relied heavily on secret recordings by a former Chicago alderman turned Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant. In a surprising move, Madigan took the stand, denying all allegations.
Veteran Democrat Leader Convicted in Corruption Trial.
‘They show up late. They drink too much,’ Blake Gendebien said of local workers
Democrat Running for Stefanik’s House Seat Pushed Library of Congress To Take Down Interview Bashing Local Workers
MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING MADNESS
McConnell’s vote underscores his repeated opposition to President Donald Trump and his America First policies. He previously voted against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation in January.
Mitch Mc-CHiCOm-McConnell Votes with Democrats Against Tulsi Gabbard’s DNI Confirmation
The past few weeks have seen some of the most contentious showdowns over President Trump’s cabinet picks.
RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard: The Latest Pariahs of Leftism
POLITICS
The Dems are out of ideas - and on the verge of collapse.
Dead Party Shrieking
Mark your calendar: November 3, 2026. Republicans are preparing to turn Congress increasingly red.
2026 Midterms: Trump Is Just Warming Up
Klein also offers advice, riffing on Ruy Texeira, that the Democrats can get back in the game if they stop name-calling, go moderate on immigration, team up with Trump to abandon identity politics, and “embrace energy abundance” (whatever that means). Of course, today’s Democrats aren’t likely to take any of that advice.
The Democrats' Downfall Is a Sight to Behold
House Democrats aired grievances about a constellation of resistance 2.0 groups directing their members to flood Democrat lawmakers’ offices with calls during a Monday meeting, according to an Axios report. Democratic lawmakers argue that due to being the minority party in both chambers, their powers are limited to oppose actions the Trump administration is taking.
Democrats Spiral Into Civil War Over How To Resist Trump, Lashing Out At Their Own Voters
Rising Democrat Star Unseats AOC As Leader Of The Imbecile Caucus
Breaking: Crockett the Rocket, a meteoric rising star in the Democratic Party, has just unseated AOC as the leader of the Imbecile Caucus.
In campaign launch statement, GOP businesswoman says she 'will not rest until our border is secure and Arizona families are safe'
Karrin Taylor Robson Enters Governor's Race on the Back of Trump Endorsement
Their radicalism put them out of step with American voters.
Why Immigration Cost Democrats the Election
President Trump is the master of spotting hidden value, whether in a piece of property or our nation’s sometimes hidden strengths.
Finding value that others ignore is Donald Trump’s superpower
Thankfully for all of us, Trump is Making Kids Great Again.
Miranda Devine: Trump administration is showing itself as child-friendly and fully invested in the next generation
This is not your father’s Republican Party. It has become more libertarian and practical in its approach. It is the hip bad boys, not the mindless, conformist lemmings the Democrats have become. There is nothing edgy or smart about the Democrats being in favor of endless wars, Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, unionized education, a weaponized DOJ and FBI, and various Deep State apparatuses that spy on citizens.
DC Ongoing Super Bowl — Patriots Versus Stealers
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Trump assigned VP JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lead the negotiating delegation.
Trump Speaks to Putin, Zelensky to Start Negotiations to End War
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Bolivia is home to some of the world’s largest lithium reserves, an indispensable material for the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles and a wide range of devices such as smartphones and laptop computers. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Bolivia boasts 23 million tons of lithium. The country, however, has almost no industrial production or commercially viable reserves of lithium.
Bolivia Erupts in Protest over Chinese and Russian Companies Taking over Lithium Supply
Eco-activists protests are nearly non-existent. Meanwhile, Romanians may be getting the president they wanted after their country’s USAID-funded NGOs were gutted.
El Salvador’s President Notices Anti-Mining Protest Efforts Shrink after USAID Funding Cut
"It’s a promising start."
Syria says Trump could 'play a big role in achieving global peace'
BIDEN/HARRIS AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
Daniel Greenfield: Bags of hundred dollar bills traded through a terrorist bank.
USAID’s Taliban Money Laundering Scheme
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“…the United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.”
Hegseth at NATO: No U.S. Troops in Ukraine, America Prioritizing Our Border Security
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Though the commission was given $350 million to help industry, in truth the legislature allocated $200 million of that money to build a new “research and training facility” at Texas A&M. While this might help encourage engineering students to come to Texas and thus settle there within the industry, to me it looks like the commission was mostly created to distribute a very large chunk of cash to this one university.
Firefly wins $8.2 million grant from Texas Space Commission
Originally Orbex was going to do its launches from the United Kingdom’s other proposed spaceport in Sutherland on the northern coast of Scotland. It had obtained a 50-year-lease to build its own dedicated launch facility, had built its rocket manufacturing facility nearby, and had originally hoped to do the first test orbital launch of its Prime rocket in 2022.
Orbex scouts Saxaford in advance of first launch
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The town of Worcester, Massachusetts, voted to become a “sanctuary city” for transgender and “gender diverse people” this week after several self-proclaimed LGBTQ+ members asserted they are under attack in President Trump’s America, with one warning that transgender individuals would make the city a “very unsafe space” if it does not bend to their will.
Massachusetts Town Votes to Become Sanctuary City for Transgender and ‘Gender-Diverse People’(Bellevue without the electroshock or psychotherapy? - jjs)
Will they continue to push radical gender ideology, or will they chill the hell out?
The Left must realize that history is turning against the 'trans' craze
For years, we’ve had to endure this delusion that men can be women and vice versa. They can’t. Never have. Never will. We were called bigots, we were “cancelled,” we were banned on social media platforms and we were vilified by the establishment propaganda media for not placating these people.
Because, Of Course: Tranny Calls for 'Revolution' by Singing Civil Rights-Era Gospel Song

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Dana Carvey, David Spade shred missing U.S. billions under Biden junta
Old-School ‘SNL’ Alums Show New Crew How It’s Done

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1 G'morning J.J. Hope you remain healthy and hale!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 13, 2025 07:36 AM (O7YUW)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

3
ESPONJA!!!11!!!11!

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 13, 2025 07:36 AM (tljrc)

4 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 13, 2025 07:38 AM (K/k7R)

5 Trump Calls for Department of Education to Be ‘Closed Immediately’

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hahahaha

Boy, I bet that $5B wall and an honest 2020 election sure is looking pretty great right about now.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 07:39 AM (sG4Li)

6 * shrieks *

* cries *

* turns to Communist Manifesto for comfort *

Posted by: hysterical Austin hipster at February 13, 2025 07:40 AM (K/k7R)

7 It's 6:42, and another day closer to victory

What amazing things will POTUS do today?

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 13, 2025 07:42 AM (K/k7R)

8 Massachusetts Town Votes to Become Sanctuary City for Transgender and ‘Gender-Diverse People’

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I'm 100% completely fine with this BTW.

But you have to do it without any federal tax dollars. Schools, roads, SS, Medicare/Medicaid, etc.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 07:42 AM (sG4Li)

9 6 * shrieks *

* cries *

* turns to Communist Manifesto for comfort *
Posted by: hysterical Austin hipster at February 13, 2025 07:40 AM (K/k7R)

Oh Hipster, you'll weep into your PLO terror towel when you learn a Jew, apostate though he was, wrote it!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2025 07:43 AM (x0n13)

10 Happy Thursday, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 07:44 AM (BpO1e)

11 Also I like that the video has the tranny clowns (literally, they look like clowns, look at the eyebrows drawn onto the first patient) saying that they'll begin murdering people if they don't get their way.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 07:44 AM (sG4Li)

12
Boy, I bet that $5B wall and an honest 2020 election sure is looking pretty great right about now.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Right.

They'd be rid of him forever. But...they couldn't act like normal humans. Still can't.

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 07:46 AM (1ml9d)

13 8 Massachusetts Town Votes to Become Sanctuary City for Transgender and ‘Gender-Diverse People’
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I'm 100% completely fine with this BTW.

Likewise. Enjoy your descent into feculence. Just don't expect to be bailed out (which of course they will).

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2025 07:46 AM (ZlOcj)

14 Can Trump as I have asked just tell the Courts to go to Hell and what risk does that pose down the road if inevitably we wind up with another Bush in the White House - and I mean a CORI BUSH, Dear God forbid. And in the near term rioting in the streets.

That one is easy.

"How many divisions does the Judge have?"

The court can only have any real teeth when the court is respected. At this point Judge Judy has more force than some Obama appointee because people respect Judy and not these political hacks LARPing as judges.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2025 07:46 AM (a4flb)

15
You mean I gotta read content?

*sighs loudly*
*trudges off*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2025 07:47 AM (dxSpM)

16 And user-friendly toilets, dishwashers, and showers are coming back soon, too!

It was done by EO. This needs to be written into law so it doesn't get repealed the next time we have a Democrat President.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 07:48 AM (BpO1e)

17 I don't know about you guys but here in Cowtown, I am looking forward to the howls and rending of garments by the FWISD upon the announcement of closure of the DoE. Let the games begin!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 13, 2025 07:48 AM (luW68)

18 morning horde. switched it up today, already done the covfefe & content, so now it's on to the comments...

and happy birfday jj

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 13, 2025 07:49 AM (nXhwP)

19 Massachusetts Town Votes to Become Sanctuary City for Transgender and ‘Gender-Diverse People’

Don' t insurance companies (both medical and property) often look at ZIP codes when establishing individual rates?

Those towns that are voting for the Normalization and Celebration of severe mental health issues, with their corresponding life-long dependency on fairly expensive medications, over time, is going to have an effect on the actuarial tables.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 13, 2025 07:49 AM (a4flb)

20 BREAKING: Hamas will resume hostage trades Saturday.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2025 07:51 AM (exHjb)

21 I am happy to see governor newcastle forcing those rich homeowners to fire resistance any McMansions they wish to rebuild in our beautiful state. Instead they should build Starbucks and have Vape shops where people like me can go and enjoy ourselves since I don't have to work. Glad to see my votes for the democrats have results and punishes those who abuse the system. Let them move to Venice Beach.

Posted by: California Moocher Voter, Dumb As Dirt at February 13, 2025 07:51 AM (y7KuV)

22 I hope we get annual updates on disease rates of that Massachusetts town.

That would be an interesting chart to watch.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 07:52 AM (sG4Li)

23 Boy, I bet that $5B wall and an honest 2020 election sure is looking pretty great right about now.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

yeah, seems like they never learn

and dear lord in heaven, i pray they never do.

and that PDJT continues his godzilla like rampage through the bureaucracy...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 13, 2025 07:52 AM (nXhwP)

24 The Department of Education is just as much a grift machine as USAID with the added "benefit" of jerking around local school systems to the detriment of children's education.

Every time a new administration comes in they have some plan to "save education" which then requires every public school system in the USA to start implementing. The plans are just completely untested ideas with not verified effectiveness.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2025 07:53 AM (Vh9CX)

25 14 Can Trump as I have asked just tell the Courts to go to Hell and what risk does that pose down the road if inevitably we wind up with another Bush in the White House - and I mean a CORI BUSH, Dear God forbid. And in the near term rioting in the streets.
***

He won't have to tell them to go to hell if the following article holds true. He's out-maneuvering them, and they never saw it coming.

https://tinyurl.com/4xz45tm9

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2025 07:53 AM (ZlOcj)

26
Imagine the "brain"storming meetings these idiots have.

Hey, I know! Let's announce, for the tenth time, we're drafting a bill for "reparations!" That'll fix the Democrat party, for sure! Boy, those Republicans won't know what hit 'em!

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 07:53 AM (1ml9d)

27 Trump wants to return education to the several States. Are the states ready to have that responsibility handed back to them?

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 07:56 AM (AOsQT)

28 Can Trump as I have asked just tell the Courts to go to Hell
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Irish Democracy.
I think that's what he's doing; not saying he's defying, just ... not complying.

Is the tranny site back up?
Are the fired workers back in the building?
Are the DOGE boys sidelined?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 07:57 AM (uyRWq)

29 What is it with these progressive school boards that insist on sexualing kids and refusing to hear objections?? Or the authors of these “kids books”?? Wood chippers… feet first…. Some assembly required

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 13, 2025 07:59 AM (i5Vkf)

30 So who at the FBI is leaking ICE info?

Posted by: Vivi at February 13, 2025 08:00 AM (Egz6Y)

31 He won't have to tell them to go to hell if the following article holds true. He's out-maneuvering them, and they never saw it coming.

https://tinyurl.com/4xz45tm9
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2025 07:53 AM (ZlOcj)

So, an omnibus reconciliation (b/c you only get 1-2 majority only needed votes for budgets each year) with specific limits or eliminations of certain funding by department. All based on the current DOGE info for this year...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2025 08:00 AM (exHjb)

32 “Filing charges” is very misleading. Hochul and James will not be found Not Guilty because Bondi’s case against them is civil and not criminal.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 13, 2025 08:01 AM (dQfJF)

33 Mr. Homan,
The Roosevelt Hotel appears to be a target rich environment.

Posted by: MAGA at February 13, 2025 08:02 AM (qoB0Q)

34 >>>>Trump wants to return education to the several States. Are the states ready to have that responsibility handed back to them?
Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 07:56 AM (AOsQT)
******
Look at your property tax bill. They damn well shy be.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 13, 2025 08:02 AM (opJSc)

35 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 13, 2025 08:03 AM (53oGX)

36 Yonder Horde

I think it'll be difficult to rid us of the Dept. of Ed. For one, it's probably "the" centralized indoctrination entity for the state followed secondly by the amount of grift it generates. A "two fer" if you will.

Plus it serves as a massive jobs farm for otherwise unemployable idiots. Oh... and it has a pretty beefy paramilitary wing too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 08:03 AM (Q4IgG)

37 All opinions of inferior courts are powerless against the Executive branch while appeals are being heard. "TRO? LOL"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:04 AM (ZmEVT)

38 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 08:04 AM (fwDg9)

39 The argument I have been hearing justifying the DOE's existence is that a lot of federal money go towards the states for special needs children.

Admirable idea. Why can't the states just keep the money?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:04 AM (BpO1e)

40 So... ask yourselves dis - How would Tony Soprano handle dose walkout school board members.

Posted by: About 2 Feet of 3/0 Cable at February 13, 2025 08:05 AM (dAYXg)

41 I've worked in politics for a long time. And this defeat and panic of the Left was what I always wanted. Christmas and Chanukkah came early this year, people!

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 13, 2025 08:06 AM (K/k7R)

42 I want Pam to go through government like a Hell Cat

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 08:07 AM (fwDg9)

43 39 The argument I have been hearing justifying the DOE's existence is that a lot of federal money go towards the states for special needs children.
***

The country, with its unsustainable debt driven by grotesque criminal fraud, is the real "special needs" child we currently need to be concerned about.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2025 08:08 AM (ZlOcj)

44 39 The argument I have been hearing justifying the DOE's existence is that a lot of federal money go towards the states for special needs children.

Admirable idea. Why can't the states just keep the money?
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:04 AM (BpO1e)

It does...but it tends to then be funneled to those who least need it vs those that most need it...better to just have it follow the child than let the fed or state manage a program...let the free market offer aid...it will be better...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2025 08:08 AM (exHjb)

45 "Trump wants to return education to the several States. Are the states ready to have that responsibility handed back to them?"

why am I supposed to care? we been paying them all these years, now they want to tell us they are not competent in their job?

o o ookay then.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 13, 2025 08:08 AM (KaBJL)

46 Somehow think the fraud and abuse at the DOE will be incredible. Please also look into Randi and her team to see how earning x salary translated in gajillions.
Happy Thursday and still not tired of the winning!

Posted by: Paisley at February 13, 2025 08:08 AM (xs9E7)

47 Top Democrat officials of 22 states, with D.C. and San Francisco, signed a pact to resist limitations on birthright citizenship.

--

Me no understand how this would work. These states can't just deem some anchor baby an American. It's a federal issue. Hopefully, (but doubtfully) birthright citizenship will be nulled by SCOTUS. These 22 states can't hand out American citizenship status just because they banded together and signed...a pact.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

48 I need to read more on that story of Biden stashing away $20 billion in EPA money in an external slush fund.

It's not just millions that the Democrats have been embezzling, this suggests it's billions.

Just what is the actual budget for non-fraud items?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 08:09 AM (uyRWq)

49 JJ is truly our host while we eat our toast. Information, comment, and snark all rolled into one. We are blessed.

Posted by: Sam Drucker, Editor, Hooterville World Guardian at February 13, 2025 08:09 AM (G5+As)

50 let the free market offer aid...it will be better.

THAT SOUNDS LIKE HITLER!!! REEEEEEE!

I'm sure that someone is going to look at it that way.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:09 AM (BpO1e)

51 A link was posted a day or two ago about the DOE COVID "relief" money. $200B IIRC, spread across the states.

Only 20% was required to be spent on the students.

Let that type of info start making the rounds after the massive fraud and money laundering by specific government individuals and govt-adjacent individuals (like that teachers union lady that went to Ukraine) is made public, and it probably won't be hard to make a big change.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:10 AM (sG4Li)

52 30 Who is leaking information at Eff Bee Eye

Assume everyone and you're close to the answer

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 08:11 AM (fwDg9)

53 Massachusetts Town Votes to Become Sanctuary City for Transgender and ‘Gender-Diverse People

Good job, Worcester. Making Boston look slightly less ridiculous.

*puts paper bag over head*

*continues scrolling through NH real estate listings*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 08:11 AM (+QlJh)

54 44 Nova Local agree with your comments on money following the child.
What have we got to lose we are 40th nothing to crow about.

Posted by: Paisley at February 13, 2025 08:12 AM (xs9E7)

55 "Trump wants to return education to the several States. Are the states ready to have that responsibility handed back to them?"

why am I supposed to care? we been paying them all these years, now they want to tell us they are not competent in their job?

-

Once each parent has $15K or whatever per child to spend on a school that they can choose?

I bet quality will improve almost overnight.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:12 AM (sG4Li)

56 Alinsky you magnificent bastard! I read your book!
D. Trump, Community Organizer

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 13, 2025 08:12 AM (Gqoy+)

57 >Top Democrat officials of 22 states, with D.C. and San Francisco, signed a pact to resist limitations on birthright citizenship.
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the Constitution prohibits states from entering into pacts with other states
Art I Sec 9

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 08:13 AM (AOsQT)

58 I've worked in politics for a long time. And this defeat and panic of the Left was what I always wanted. Christmas and Chanukkah came early this year, people!

--

I will not be happy until Maxine Waters is so defeated, her ugly fake-as-heck wig hits the floor.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

59 Today is National Cheddar Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

60 I am heartened by the fact that our President is only against the Bloatocracy and it's supporters this time - unlike the last time around wherein some of his appointees fought him or drug their feet from the get go.

The Man is a force of nature. When does he sleep?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2025 08:16 AM (WXNFJ)

61 Some DoE folks received an email containing this: “The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:17 AM (ZmEVT)

62 Oh - good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2025 08:17 AM (WXNFJ)

63 I've worked in politics for a long time. And this defeat and panic of the Left was what I always wanted. Christmas and Chanukkah came early this year, people!

--

I will not be happy until Maxine Waters is so defeated, her ugly fake-as-heck wig hits the floor.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
----
If someone tossed a bucket of water on her, you just might get your wish...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2025 08:17 AM (7fElN)

64 I don't think even we can imagine the level of fraud and outright theft of tax dollars. We haven't even gotten data on the large departments.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 08:17 AM (lTGtQ)

65 You know, I bet L'Shanequa homeschooling her four kids to keep the $60K probably wouldn't show much of a noticeable difference in overall academic results, but they might be able to get out of a terrible neighborhood and into a place where people didn't put up with crap and that would improve their lives and family outcome overall.

That would be an interesting scientific endeavor.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:18 AM (sG4Li)

66 Some DoE folks received an email containing this: “The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”

-

BUT I'VE GOTTEN THE 7% "MEETS EXPECTATIONS" RAISE FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:19 AM (sG4Li)

67 It's also...
International Condom Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

68 The justification about the waste being "a small amount" needs to be mocked openly. I want people like that to tell me how much fraud is acceptable.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:19 AM (BpO1e)

69 47 Top Democrat officials of 22 states, with D.C. and San Francisco, signed a pact to resist limitations on birthright citizenship.

--

Me no understand how this would work. These states can't just deem some anchor baby an American. It's a federal issue. Hopefully, (but doubtfully) birthright citizenship will be nulled by SCOTUS. These 22 states can't hand out American citizenship status just because they banded together and signed...a pact.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

It's probably only being done for purposes of supreme court briefing, amici or otherwise. Because the court sometimes engages in dumb nose counting exercises in opinions to claim something is or isn't well accepted or established.

And that's assuming it's meant for the courts at all, rather than just politics.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 08:20 AM (NehaE)

70 Morning Horde , thank you JJ for the morning report.
It's going to be interesting to watch the stock market reaction, specifically pharmaceutical stocks, to RFK Jr being confirmed. Apparently he has the votes .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 08:20 AM (KXtU1)

71 $15k would have covered all our homeschool expenses for two kids for about 10 years.

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2025 08:21 AM (vFG9F)

72 A link was posted a day or two ago about the DOE COVID "relief" money. $200B IIRC, spread across the states.
---
FEMA still has Covid payments scheduled through 2026 to blue cities.

They sent $1200 to select individuals and sent billions to their blue cities and states.

We're no where near understanding how many billions the Democrats have embezzled since Obama.

Turns out, "The Emerging Democrat Majority" was just "we're stealing billions now so we don't need voters anymore."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 08:21 AM (uyRWq)

73 Israel Reportedly Planning To Launch ‘Significant Strikes’ Against Iran Nuclear Sites This Year

Why would you announce that?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

74 If someone tossed a bucket of water on her, you just might get your wish...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2025 08:17 AM (7fElN)

I laughed out loud. She is hideous… I got reminded again (unfortunately) by that video of her harassing that guy outside a federal building (DoE?)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 13, 2025 08:21 AM (i5Vkf)

75 It's also...
International Condom Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

How is TNT like a condom?

All hell breaks loose if they go off prematurely!

Posted by: The Entire Joke at February 13, 2025 08:21 AM (WXNFJ)

76 Trump should take an axe to government employee unions. Even FDR recognized the conflict of interest they presented. Trump can call it the Franklin Roosevelt Freedom Act!

This is actually a great idea, JJ.
I hope somebody from the West Wing reads your morning report and passes this up to the boss.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2025 08:22 AM (6ydKt)

77 "It's also...
International Condom Day.
Posted by: redridinghood "

Wrap it up, we are done here.

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

78 The Trump/Musk alliance is the most intelligent, dynamic and determined patriotic political force in modern American history.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2025 08:24 AM (ZlOcj)

79 California's homeowners insurance of last resort the Fair Plan is broke.

They are demanding the insurers bail THEM out.
State Farm has spent its entire $1billion reserve and has asked for a 22% hike for renewals....at the same time it's canceling renewals!

Remember billions upon billions went to illegals and enemy foreign nations. They're robbing us.

Posted by: torabora at February 13, 2025 08:24 AM (0Gnoc)

80 65 You know, I bet L'Shanequa homeschooling her four kids to keep the $60K probably wouldn't show much of a noticeable difference in overall academic results, but they might be able to get out of a terrible neighborhood and into a place where people didn't put up with crap and that would improve their lives and family outcome overall.

That would be an interesting scientific endeavor.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:18 AM (sG4Li

"Bring the inner city to the suburbs!" is probably not the educational reform many are hoping for.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 08:25 AM (NehaE)

81 58 Oh, we're not done stacking wins, Lady in Black. Enemies will be crushed, we'll see them driven before us, and hear the lamentation of their women.

* offers silent prayer of gratitude for John Milius *

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 13, 2025 08:25 AM (K/k7R)

82 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: A driver plowed into a crowd in Munich, Germany—at least 20 injured.

The suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker, is in custody - AP

https://tinyurl.com/32yzva96

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

83 *meanders in with a thermos of black coffee*
*slumps down in chair*

Good morning, everyone - and thanks, JJ!

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:26 AM (36rZ7)

84 Why is Trump talking about immigration with Modi? How to end chain migration?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 13, 2025 08:26 AM (895ss)

85 Art I Sec 8 says Congress shall have power 'To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization' which I take to mean, Congress says who is a citizen and who isn't

I don't know how this clause has been interpreted or perverted by the courts in the years since

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 08:27 AM (AOsQT)

86 It's also...
International Condom Day.
Posted by: redridinghood "

Wrap it up, we are done here.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)
****
That's a good reason for us to send a few billion $ worth of condoms overseas!

Posted by: USAID at February 13, 2025 08:27 AM (0Gnoc)

87 Say what you will about the DoE...

But what it has done is create several generations of docile, dependent and easily manipulated public drones. Just the sort of population you'd want, assuming you had a certain "plan" for society down the road.

That is not going to be given up without a major fight.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)

88 BUT I'VE GOTTEN THE 7% "MEETS EXPECTATIONS" RAISE FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS!!!
---
I'm still kinda chuckling at the one lady that was fired and her citation for why she shouldn't have been was "16 years without any disciplinary action."

You mean, doing the bare minimum, not f'ing up so bad that you have to get written up, is what you think is Grade A work?

And the federal government is packed to the brim with these self-evaluated "Grade A" employees.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 08:28 AM (uyRWq)

89 Doof at February 13, 2025 08:26 AM (36rZ7)

You have coffee and a chair??

Luxury!

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2025 08:28 AM (Oy/m2)

90 Israel Reportedly Planning To Launch ‘Significant Strikes’ Against Iran Nuclear Sites This Year

Why would you announce that?
---
Easier to find what you're really looking for when you spook them into "moving the body"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 08:29 AM (uyRWq)

91 The problem with a promise to not bring Ukraine into the NATO fold is that a future Democrat White House will break that promise.

Posted by: torabora at February 13, 2025 08:30 AM (0Gnoc)

92 One way to curb these rogue judges is for some enterprising congressman to introduce a bill to eliminate all federal courts except the Supreme. Won't pass, but might result in a court packing results like by FR.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 13, 2025 08:30 AM (0eaVi)

93 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: A driver plowed into a crowd in Munich, Germany—at least 20 injured.

The suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker, is in custody - AP

https://tinyurl.com/32yzva96
Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:26 AM (NpAcC)
----
Sounds like Germany needs an auto ban.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2025 08:31 AM (7fElN)

94 It's also...
International Condom Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:19 AM

Wait, what?

Posted by: Hamas at February 13, 2025 08:31 AM (+QlJh)

95 Good morning, Doof. Always great to see you, man.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 13, 2025 08:31 AM (K/k7R)

96 Don' t insurance companies (both medical and property) often look at ZIP codes when establishing individual rates?

They did. It was banned because it was ~~accurate~~ racist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

97 43 39 The argument I have been hearing justifying the DOE's existence is that a lot of federal money go towards the states for special needs children.
***

The country, with its unsustainable debt driven by grotesque criminal fraud, is the real "special needs" child we currently need to be concerned about.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2025 08:08 AM (ZlOcj)

Spending billions to educate retards.

I'm sure it's heartless of me to say it that bluntly. I'd like to see the intellectually disabled treated humanely. But educating the ineducable at steep cost is really pointless. More pointless than usual for our bullshit education industrial complex.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 08:32 AM (NehaE)

98 BREAKING: Hamas will resume hostage trades Saturday.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2025 07:51 AM (exHjb)

Didn't Trump say all - by Saturday?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

99 You have coffee and a chair??

Luxury!
Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2025 08:28 AM (Oy/m2)

Some days, that's all I need!

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:32 AM (36rZ7)

100 Wrap it up, we are done here.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

Well, that is the idea, isn't it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (0eaVi)

101 "Bring the inner city to the suburbs!" is probably not the educational reform many are hoping for.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

-

Let's be realistic, there isn't going to be enough for that after the new cars and such.

But now that I think about it that student income going directly to the parents would end Section 8 and food stamps. This might need to be examined further.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (sG4Li)

102 Good morning, Doof. Always great to see you, man.
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 13, 2025 08:31 AM (K/k7R)

Thanks, Double C -- good to see you too.

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (36rZ7)

103 I am still somewhat amazed that the SCOTUS does not fire/remove rogue judges. C'mon man. They are the head of the Judicial Branch.

The Senate is too busy to do that administrative work.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (ZmEVT)

104 Every time a new administration comes in they have some plan to "save education" which then requires every public school system in the USA to start implementing. The plans are just completely untested ideas with not verified effectiveness.

Fund the student, not the building.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

105 57 >Top Democrat officials of 22 states, with D.C. and San Francisco, signed a pact to resist limitations on birthright citizenship.
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the Constitution prohibits states from entering into pacts with other states
Art I Sec 9
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Since DC is not a state I guess they both can pose as a pact with no harm or foul found by the Courts. AmIrite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (Wg6v7)

106 Some days, that's all I need!
Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:32 AM

*fistbump*

*raises mug*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 08:34 AM (+QlJh)

107 Don' t insurance companies (both medical and property) often look at ZIP codes when establishing individual rates?

They did. It was banned because it was accurate racist.

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Ha. There was very, very briefly a mapping app on Android phones that would direct users around dangerous areas based on crime rates. You know. Exactly what modern technology SHOULD be used for.

It was immediately removed because racist.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:34 AM (sG4Li)

108 the Constitution prohibits states from entering into pacts with other states
Art I Sec 9

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You mean like C.A.R.B.?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:35 AM (sG4Li)

109 Kshama Serwant is a communist former Seattle councilwoman. She has been denied a visa three times by India . She says she wants to visit her elderly sick mother. She says she has not been given a reason she's on the "reject list".
Lady it's because you're an obnoxious communist and the Indian government is saying "no backsies"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 08:35 AM (KXtU1)

110 Spending billions to educate retards

Autistic kids along with other mental issues. It would still be a better approach to let the states keep the money and they can handle this.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:36 AM (BpO1e)

111 Trump wants to return education to the several States. Are the states ready to have that responsibility handed back to them?
Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 07:56 AM (AOsQT)

I believe that every state has a department of education. And, frequently, local school boards. And, if they're unprepared, they can get prepared. One size doesn't fit all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

112 Watched Mike Benz on Rogan last night.
There is no doubt in my mind he has laid the groundwork for Trumps attack.

The man is a brilliant genius, clearly blessed with instant recall and a photographic memory.

For three hours he never took a breath or a drink of water , and still could barely get all the information out of his head. It's just circles and circles of corruption beyond the imagination, with consequences spanning the globe. The time frame is multiple decades and the damage is catastrophic.

The mind f*ck this government has perpetrated demands nothing less than the death penalty for those involved. And a massive wealth claw back from said.

Perhaps that's what will fund Trumps new sovereign wealth fund. I can only hope.

The American people should never have to pay a federal tax again. Ever.

Posted by: Derak at February 13, 2025 08:36 AM (NaPmB)

113 Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:34 AM (sG4Li)

I don't need an app to tell me what parts of town to avoid. I can see with my own eyes.

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2025 08:38 AM (Oy/m2)

114 93
Sounds like Germany needs an auto ban.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2025 08:31 AM (7fElN)
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V good Perfessor.

Posted by: Ciampino - You are dropping Hs at February 13, 2025 08:38 AM (KjLnc)

115 It does...but it tends to then be funneled to those who least need it vs those that most need it...better to just have it follow the child than let the fed or state manage a program...let the free market offer aid...it will be better...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2025 08:08 AM (exHjb)

And you won't be faced with the issue that the price keeps going up while the student count goes down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

116 It's generally understood (IMO) that what the Constitution says, and what happens in real life, are two different things

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 08:40 AM (AOsQT)

117 Watched Mike Benz on Rogan last night. There is no doubt in my mind he has laid the groundwork for Trumps attack.

The man is a brilliant genius, clearly blessed with instant recall and a photographic memory.
Posted by: Derak

Elon is probably figuring a way to plug his brain into Colossus as we speak.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2025 08:40 AM (WXNFJ)

118 *fistbump*

*raises mug*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 08:34 AM (+QlJh)

Hey there, brother! Hope all is well up in your parcel of Marxachussets.

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:40 AM (36rZ7)

119 Some days, that's all I need!
Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:32 AM

*fistbump*

*raises mug*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 08:34 AM (+QlJh)

All I need is the air that I breathe, sometimes.

Posted by: The Hollies at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (Aqu9a)

120 59 Today is National Cheddar Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

You are sharp this AM!

Posted by: Gouda Morning To You at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

121 No comment on Alex The Chick's epic Twitter rant???

Sadz.

Posted by: Just Askin' at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (FIL9P)

122 Autistic kids along with other mental issues. It would still be a better approach to let the states keep the money and they can handle this.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:36 AM (BpO1e)

I'd be more sympathetic if being "autistic along with other mental issues" hadn't become like gluten allergies, often made up or cobbled together for advantage. People have talked about the rising rates of autism over time. One reason is that schools get paid for this. Subsidize something, you get more of it. Make something gameable, people play the game. Kind of like how every kid in CPS custody is medicated to the gills.

If you really want to make meaningful cuts in the budget, you're going to have to start saying "no" when ostensibly sympathetic cases get trotted out. Because this is modern America, where everyone has a sad story.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (NehaE)

123 These 22 states can't hand out American citizenship status just because they banded together and signed...a pact.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

We, the undersigned states, affirm that we verified that this baby has at least one parent who is a citizen or permanent legal resident. Swearsies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

124 > Autistic kids along with other mental issues. It would still be a better approach to let the states keep the money and they can handle this.
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Is this an education issue or a health issue?

Bigger question: what, specifically, is the goal/intent of a national education system? It's being used for a variety of reasons, and IMO only peripherally for "education."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 08:42 AM (Q4IgG)

125 103 I am still somewhat amazed that the SCOTUS does not fire/remove rogue judges. C'mon man. They are the head of the Judicial Branch.

The Senate is too busy to do that administrative work.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (ZmEVT)
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The lower courts are created by Congress. So is Congress the body to remove them? Impeach them?

Posted by: Ciampino - SCOTUS has no standing? at February 13, 2025 08:42 AM (KjLnc)

126 Good morning JJ
Good morning Horde
Good morning Team Trump who I know lurks here 😀 - good job and keep the pedal to the metal!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2025 08:43 AM (J5RCE)

127 It would be hilarious if some angry parents lynched a school board in a red state, and the prosecutor declined to pursue charges. And then Bondi pulled an Eric Holder and said "gay groomers should not expect action from this Department's Civil Rights Division."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (0l8OY)

128
VP Vance is in Munich, now, da?

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (1ml9d)

129 Top Democrat officials of 22 states, with D.C. and San Francisco, signed a pact to resist limitations on birthright citizenship.
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the Constitution prohibits states from entering into pacts with other states
Art I Sec 9
Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 08:13 AM (AOsQT)

It's a seeeeeeeecret pact. They all got matching buttplugs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

130 Morning.

Not happy this am. No coffee due to impending blood draw.

Naturally, I see people boasting about their coffee and chair privilege and I find it very triggering.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (tT6L1)

131 Currently, the Senate has to impeach them to remove them. It's just not efficient.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (ZmEVT)

132 close the DoE immediately
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And NeverForget the NeverTrumpers claimed Trump wasn't going to be conservative enough for their tastes!!!

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 08:45 AM (Tqr2v)

133 I have to wonder who chose Munich as the site.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 08:45 AM (0l8OY)

134 Art I Sec 2

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

SO- impeaching a federal judge or official starts in the House

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 08:45 AM (AOsQT)

135 120 59 Today is National Cheddar Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

You are sharp this AM!
Posted by: Gouda Morning To You at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

Stop! I Camembert it!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2025 08:45 AM (x0n13)

136 Some DoE folks

Would the E in this case refer to Education, or Energy?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

137 Israel Reportedly Planning To Launch ‘Significant Strikes’ Against Iran Nuclear Sites This Year

Why would you announce that?

==

Another leak.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

138 The absolute biggest news of the past 3+ weeks came last night.

The DOJ is looking to overturn Humphreys, a SCOTUS precedent that established the independence of certain agencies like the FCC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 08:46 AM (GBKbO)

139 I don't need an app to tell me what parts of town to avoid. I can see with my own eyes.
Posted by: dantesed

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Sure, but this was a routing program that would let you visit cities and not have to watch for small cinderblock fresh fish stores or wheel rental businesses. It would just take you to your destination.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:46 AM (sG4Li)

140 DAB, Afghanistan’s central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a “specially designated terrorist” who had been named as the “financier of bomb-making”, including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal. Despite that someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to the Taliban’s terror bank.

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Fee-fi-fo-fum
I want the blood of treasonous scum
Be it Barky or Joe Demented
Let's hang him high and roll his head

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 08:47 AM (vAHT7)

141 Trump has held his fire so far regarding rogue judges and should continue to do so.

"Disobeying" the courts becomes the story rather than the issue if he does. MSM/Fed's are pulling their hair out now just based on TROs. Continue to let them. People aren't responding to their propaganda.

We're winning. Why eff it up?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 13, 2025 08:47 AM (FxH7T)

142 Morning.

Not happy this am. No coffee due to impending blood draw.

Naturally, I see people boasting about their coffee and chair privilege and I find it very triggering.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (tT6L1)

*rocks chair back and forth*
*pours more coffee*

That's a shame

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:47 AM (36rZ7)

143 >I don't need an app to tell me what parts of town to avoid. I can see with my own eyes.
Posted by: dantesed
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

144 > Israel Reportedly Planning To Launch ‘Significant Strikes’ Against Iran Nuclear Sites This Year

Why would you announce that?
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Make Iran spend resources to move shit around... observe it, and target accordingly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

145 I bet L'Shanequa homeschooling her four kids to keep the $60K probably wouldn't show much of a noticeable difference in overall academic results

Then again, it might. A few of those welfare mommas have been pretty diligent about getting an education for their kids. They keep voting for the people who oppress them so it's a mixed bag but some of them do try.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

146 130 hang in there, blake. Hopefully you'll be enjoying your coffee soon

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 13, 2025 08:48 AM (K/k7R)

147 139 I don't need an app to tell me what parts of town to avoid. I can see with my own eyes.
Posted by: dantesed

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Sure, but this was a routing program that would let you visit cities and not have to watch for small cinderblock fresh fish stores or wheel rental businesses. It would just take you to your destination.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:46 AM (sG4Li)

If you're driving out of town, having an app that says "Exiting for gas here will resemble a cut scene from Training Day" is useful.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 08:49 AM (NehaE)

148 >Naturally, I see people boasting about their coffee and chair privilege and I find it very triggering.
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Coffee: Sumatran
Chair: black faux leather club chair

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2025 08:49 AM (AOsQT)

149 They keep voting for the people who oppress them

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I'm betting it won't be too long before we discover they don't and it's all fraud and has been for decades.

It's absurd to believe that people who can't read, write, feed themselves, figure out how to buy apples, etc. suddenly become civic minded for elections.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:50 AM (sG4Li)

150 I do think this Munich conference is overblown. It's a standing engagement where Rubio and Vance will outline administration plans for peace in Ukraine. So it's important. But no Russian representatives will be present, nothing at this conference will be binding to any party, and no negotiations will even take place.

The blaring headlines make this sound like much more than it is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 08:50 AM (0l8OY)

151 A driver plowed into a crowd in Munich, Germany—at least 20 injured.

There was a driver? I thought it was just a random vehicle.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

152 Be on the lookout for a driver

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 08:51 AM (sG4Li)

153 @130/blake:

How I imagine your blood draw might go this morning:
https://youtu.be/-kmFQmzBwtU

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 13, 2025 08:52 AM (O7YUW)

154 If a person who can't read tries to teach someone to read, there's a chance they'll both learn to read.

If a person who can't read *doesn't* try teaching someone to read, you have an American public school.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 08:52 AM (0l8OY)

155 154 If a person who can't read *doesn't* try teaching someone to read, you have an American public school.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 08:52 AM (0l8OY)

=======

"Did you let the Jacobins invade or something?"
-Alexis de Tocqueville

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

156 If a person who can't read *doesn't* try teaching someone to read, you have an American public school.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 08:52 AM (0l8OY)

"Today we're going to learn why the lowercase g is racist."

"What's a g? What's lowercase?"

"Shut up, racist."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 08:53 AM (jKo6M)

157 DOGE website at .gov is up

https://www.doge.gov/

Posted by: Gref at February 13, 2025 08:53 AM (aBgBM)

158 “ Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.”

Psalm 143:8

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2025 08:54 AM (b82nJ)

159 Hey there, brother! Hope all is well up in your parcel of Marxachussets.
Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:40 AM

Personally, all well. As to Marxachusetts...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 08:54 AM (+QlJh)

160 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

President Trump demands money back from Reuters:

https://tinyurl.com/mryntped

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

161 107 Ha. There was very, very briefly a mapping app on Android phones that would direct users around dangerous areas based on crime rates. You know. Exactly what modern technology SHOULD be used for.

It was immediately removed because racist.

I really hope that things in this country are turning around to the point that "because racist" is seen as no reason to remove something.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:54 AM (BpO1e)

162 On Tuesday evening, school board members representing Penfield Central School District in Rochester, New York, walked out on a packed house of parents who were upset about an inappropriate book on display at the elementary school library called “The Rainbow Parade,” authored by Emily Neilson

TBH the answer to this crap is not to go through the school board, but to go to your sheriff and ask him to arrest whoever approved that book for the school. It is against the law everyone to show pron to children.

Yes this does require a sheriff with guts, but once you get a couple of groomers arrested for this the rest will stop.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

163 Wrap it up, we are done here.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

Well, that is the idea, isn't it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 13, 2025 08:33 AM (0eaVi)

Although they work better if you wrap it up BEFORE you're done here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

164 *rocks chair back and forth*
*pours more coffee*

That's a shame
Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:47 AM

Cruelty Level: Chuy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 08:55 AM (+QlJh)

165 As I recall someone in the Obama administration or Obama himself leaked that it was Israel who unleashed the Stuxnet computer virus on the Iranian nuke program. A leak of a possible attack is par for the course for the Dem/deepstate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 08:55 AM (KXtU1)

166 OK, it seems there is an app called "Spot Crime" that still exists. This bears looking into.

"Danger! You are entering a high crime zone!"
"Errr...this is the Capitol."
"Did I stutter? Get out while you can!"

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:55 AM (BpO1e)

167 You are sharp this AM!
Posted by: Gouda Morning To You at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

Stop! I Camembert it!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2025 08:45 AM (x0n13)
*******
That's whey too cheesy!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

168
It's absurd to believe that people who can't read, write, feed themselves, figure out how to buy apples, etc. suddenly become civic minded for elections.

Oh, its worse then that. Go watch those videos on youtube of what Philly looks like at night with all the drug zombies yelling at people that aren't there while they shoot up and eventually collapsing onto the side walk. We are expected to believe these people are highly civic mind and ideological and vote every election for the exact same candidates...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM (t0Rmr)

169
Democrat Narrative on DOGE uses the same old template:

1. There is no waste & fraud in govt spending.
2. Even if there is waste & fraud, so what?
3. USAID "saves lives" [insert random pics of Africans]
4. DOGE isn't doing a "real audit"
5. Republicans waste money, too!

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM (1ml9d)

170 162 Yes this does require a sheriff with guts, but once you get a couple of groomers arrested for this the rest will stop.

And the left will wail about profiling and literal genocide against the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM (BpO1e)

171 We are expected to believe these people are highly civic mind and ideological and vote every election for the exact same candidates...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM (t0Rmr)

Nay, nay.

We're supposed to believe all the people doing the exact same thing, but from the comfort of their complimentary apartment in the twenty-five story brutalist housing bloc next to the tweaker, are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 08:59 AM (jKo6M)

172
How about little Mystery Latin!

Translate: Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 08:59 AM (1ml9d)

173 *rocks chair back and forth*
*pours more coffee*

That's a shame
Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 08:47 AM (36rZ7)
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Obviously a fine moron who understands kicking someone when they're down. Because it's amusing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 08:59 AM (tT6L1)

174 Tulsi is also going to Munich for the Sec Conference. "During her first full day as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard will travel to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, where she will hold 30 bilateral meetings with counterparts, including key U.S. allies Great Britain, France, Australia, and Germany, Alexa Henning, deputy DNI for strategy and communications told ABC News.

Gabbard, who sworn into office Wednesday afternoon after the Senate voted to confirm her in the morning, is expected to deliver remarks at a luncheon during the conference. She will be joined by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who are also attending."

We are sending an "A" team there. Hegseth is nearby in Poland. Or will be.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

175 this does require a sheriff with guts, but once you get a couple of groomers arrested for this the rest will stop.

And the left will wail about profiling and literal genocide against the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM (BpO1e)

Fine then.

*hangs groomer librarian*

You said "literal."

Posted by: Sheriff with Guts at February 13, 2025 08:59 AM (0l8OY)

176 @24

>>Every time a new administration comes in they have some plan to "save education" which then requires every public school system in the USA to start implementing.

Well, we sent men to the moon before there was a federal DOE, also, if you look at spending and test scores and performance since it's inception, as spending has gone up exponentially, results have stayed not improved, they have stayed flat and for minority groups, they have plummeted.

So the obvious and reasonable assessment of the DOE is that the only function it serves is to funnel money to the corrupt and well connected.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 08:59 AM (XV/Pl)

177
whoops! wrong paste, there

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:00 AM (1ml9d)

178 Democrat Narrative on DOGE uses the same old template:

1. There is no waste & fraud in govt spending.
2. Even if there is waste & fraud, so what?
3. USAID "saves lives" [insert random pics of Africans]
4. DOGE isn't doing a "real audit"
5. Republicans waste money, too!
Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM

Screw 'em.

Cry "FAFO", and let slip the DOGEs of Trump!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 09:00 AM (+QlJh)

179 This is such a great story:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhkvb5a

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 13, 2025 09:00 AM (o5+a9)

180
How about little Mystery Latin Ancient Lyrics!

Well, not really lyrics.

Translate and identify source: dixit ei Iesus ego sum resurrectio et vita qui credit in me et si mortuus fuerit vivet

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:01 AM (1ml9d)

181 Has anyone done a follow-up on Springfield, OH? Has consumption of cats, dogs, and geese gone up or down since Trump was inaugurated?

Posted by: Galloping Gourmet at February 13, 2025 09:01 AM (G5+As)

182 Currently, the Senate has to impeach them to remove them. It's just not efficient.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (ZmEVT)

It also requires a 2/3 vote to remove so it's pointless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

183 I don't find it hard to believe that freeloaders and goldbrickers can be mobilized to vote, some significant percentage of them anyway. So that the tap doesn't get cut off. If it works for unmarried white women, why not inner city dwellers? Sure, not all. But mobilizing the urban mob is a storied political tradition. At least as old as Rome. I remember one election cycle long ago when some Dem campaign worker was bribing urban troglodytes to vote for as little as a pack of cigarettes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (NehaE)

184 It's absurd to believe that people who can't read, write, feed themselves, figure out how to buy apples, etc. suddenly become civic minded for elections.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

One fraud process is to pay people to pick up their unfilled out mail in ballots. Another is from ghost registrations where ballots are delivered to various places like vacant lots, abandoned houses, commercial buildings, homeless shelters, etc. and ballot harvesters pick them up there or via arrangements. Then there is the old running a single ballot through scanners multiple times as seen on video in the GA Fulton County fraud of 2020. And outright invented ballots via duplicating ballot images or even just invented totals.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (ctrM5)

185 "Weathervane" SCOTUS Roberts should be able to read the changes in the room. Let us pray!

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (9M/Q/)

186 Oh, its worse then that. Go watch those videos on youtube of what Philly looks like at night with all the drug zombies yelling at people that aren't there while they shoot up and eventually collapsing onto the side walk.

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Good point.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (sG4Li)

187 Translate and identify source: dixit ei Iesus ego sum resurrectio et vita qui credit in me et si mortuus fuerit vivet

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:01 AM

John 11:25

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 09:03 AM (+QlJh)

188
It's a shame that the German Liederkranz do anything to keep his citizens safe from vehicles!

Two two two strands of this thread combined!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2025 09:03 AM (iJfKG)

189 The Euros are all yelling "Ukraine Betrayal11!"

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:03 AM (g47mK)

190 Trump has held his fire so far regarding rogue judges and should continue to do so.

"Disobeying" the courts becomes the story rather than the issue if he does. MSM/Fed's are pulling their hair out now just based on TROs. Continue to let them. People aren't responding to their propaganda.

We're winning. Why eff it up?
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 13, 2025 08:47 AM (FxH7T)

https://tinyurl.com/4xz45tm9+

He's making them irrelevant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

191 I don't need an app to tell me what parts of town to avoid. I can see with my own eyes.
Posted by: dantesed
+++
I'm grateful that most cities and towns across the country have helpfully named the main road through the most dangerous part of town MLK Boulevard.
I always look for that and try to avoid it when I'm driving in a city I'm not familiar with.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 13, 2025 09:04 AM (Lo97M)

192 Penfield NY is in Monroe county where Rochester is located. The county has voted for Dem in presidential election every year since 1980 with the exception of 84 and 88. Its very Democratic so no one in government will stand against the education mob

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 09:04 AM (KXtU1)

193
John 11:25
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You know this...how?
You frequent Latin Mass?
googles?

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:04 AM (1ml9d)

194 The Euros are all yelling "Ukraine Betrayal11!"
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:03 AM

Say the people who don't do a damned thing to police their own backyard and expect Uncle Sugar to do it, all the while railing against America. Fukc those Euros, in particular.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 09:05 AM (+QlJh)

195 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

Pro-USAID protesters get dragged out of
a House hearing on the waste and money laundering that Democrats have been using USAID for over the past decades.

President Trump is trying to actually save these protesters from being robbed.

They’re so silly.

https://tinyurl.com/bhwd94y9

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

196 Obviously a fine moron who understands kicking someone when they're down. Because it's amusing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 08:59 AM (tT6L1)

Absolutely. I'd expect no less from you if the situation was reversed.

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2025 09:05 AM (36rZ7)

197 189 The Euros are all yelling "Ukraine Betrayal11!"
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:03 AM (g47mK)

Shove them into a thoroughly predictable war. Suck every cent you can out of the carnage. Actively work against any efforts towards peace and resolution.

Yeah. There's a lot of Ukraine Betrayal over there, alright.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:05 AM (jKo6M)

198 Currently, the Senate has to impeach them to remove them. It's just not efficient.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (ZmEVT)

It also requires a 2/3 vote to remove so it's pointless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

That's why I said above to get some Congressman to introduce a bill to eliminate the inferior courts. Let the Supremes handle all federal cases. How quickly do you think they'd start doing their job of reining in these rogue judges if they thought they'd have to handle all fed cases?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 13, 2025 09:05 AM (0eaVi)

199 185 "Weathervane" SCOTUS Roberts should be able to read the changes in the room. Let us pray!
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (9M/Q/)

=======

Roberts is pretty deeply misunderstood. The guy who signed onto the immunity case, the CO primary ballot case, and the Muslim Ban case, all in favor of Trump (not to mention Loper), is not out there looking for more fuckery from the lower courts.

Yes, he's a shitheel who created nonsense precedent to uphold the ACA (while also eliminating the Medicare requirement, recall). Yes, he's awful for refusing TX v PA.

However, to act like he's a constant traitor is to ignore the rest of his history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:05 AM (GBKbO)

200 167 You are sharp this AM!
Posted by: Gouda Morning To You at February 13, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

Stop! I Camembert it!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2025 08:45 AM (x0n13)
*******
That's whey too cheesy!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 08:57 AM (NpAcC)
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You people have no culture!

Posted by: Ciampino - walking Gorgonzola at February 13, 2025 09:06 AM (KjLnc)

201 You know this...how?
You frequent Latin Mass?
googles?
Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:04 AM

I remember a little Latin and the context of the quote. I had to look up the exact cite.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 09:06 AM (+QlJh)

202 Some of you are fretting about the possible demise of the Democrat Party.

I say unto you, fret not! I, your new Democrat Party Vice-Chair, will lead our nation into a new era of gun-free maniness!!!

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at February 13, 2025 09:06 AM (a3Q+t)

203 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

New heat pump being installed now.

Posted by: Bulg at February 13, 2025 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

204 168
It's absurd to believe that people who can't read, write, feed themselves, figure out how to buy apples, etc. suddenly become civic minded for elections.

Oh, its worse then that. Go watch those videos on youtube of what Philly looks like at night with all the drug zombies yelling at people that aren't there while they shoot up and eventually collapsing onto the side walk. We are expected to believe these people are highly civic mind and ideological and vote every election for the exact same candidates...
Posted by: 18-1
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The reason that everyone in the political game knows about the fraud but does nothing about it is twofold. There is some evidence that GOP establishment types have used Dem fraud harvester types in open primaries to support GOP establishmentarians. Second, is that these fraud machines are urban and black so fear of being tarred with racism. The long consent decree forbidding the GOP from participating as a party to check ballot fraud went from the 1980's (thanks to stupid Ed Rollins bragging about paying black ministers in NJ to keep their flocks at home during voting), to when that particular judge finally retired in NJ in 2018 or so.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:06 AM (ctrM5)

205
That Little Shit zelensky should never have gone to Pennsylvania in October. Very, very dumb. And I have no doubt he regrets it, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:06 AM (1ml9d)

206 Say the people who don't do a damned thing to police their own backyard and expect Uncle Sugar to do it, all the while railing against America. Fukc those Euros, in particular.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 09:05 AM (+QlJh)

Exactly! I am sure our team will explain it to them. They provoked that damned Uke war, and then hid behind NATO skirts expecting US to fund their little Putin Vendetta.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:07 AM (g47mK)

207 >>The book in question is about a young girl attending a pride parade with her lesbian parents. The illustrations show men in sexual BDSM gear holding hands, drag queens, and naked people.

Really?

REALLY?!?!?!?!

They are asking for a backlash.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:07 AM (Cki93)

208 How I imagine your blood draw might go this morning:
https://youtu.be/-kmFQmzBwtU
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 13, 2025 08:52 AM (O7YUW)

More like this:

https://youtu.be/LMEKcIHvc5o

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

209 Unleash the DOGE

--------------

* cues the Baha Men *

"Who let the DOGE in?"

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (vAHT7)

210 189 The Euros are all yelling "Ukraine Betrayal11!"

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:03 AM (g47mK)

DM reports Bolton saying the deal will mean Russia invades Western Europe, soon. Expect a letter denouncing an end to the Russ-Uke War as a giveaway to Putin, signed by eleventy-thousand former intel and defense experts.

This Dem ploy is soooo lame and tiring.

Posted by: Gref at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (aBgBM)

211 They are asking for a backlash.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:07 AM (Cki93)

Heightening the contradictions.

Right into the ceiling fan.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (jKo6M)

212
PDT doesn't have a problem with anyone who pursues their own interest. What he doesn't like is blatant disrespect. He cannot forgive that.

zelensky going to PA was a direct thumb in the eye.

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (1ml9d)

213 Really?

REALLY?!?!?!?!

They are asking for a backlash.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:07 AM

*looks around MA*

Must be nice...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (+QlJh)

214 210 DM reports Bolton saying the deal will mean Russia invades Western Europe, soon. Expect a letter denouncing an end to the Russ-Uke War as a giveaway to Putin, signed by eleventy-thousand former intel and defense experts.

This Dem ploy is soooo lame and tiring.
Posted by: Gref at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (aBgBM)

======

Oh, no.

The countries that outlaw political parties, undo their own industry, and import refugees by the millions will get taken over?

It's going to ruin my vacation to see the Brandenburg Gate, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

215 It also requires a 2/3 vote to remove so it's pointless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

This is why I prefer elected judges (how we do it in Texas). Judicial elections have all the flaws you suspect, but bad judges are easier (though not necessarily easy) to dislodge. The federal system in contrast doesn't really have the virtues advertised. Plenty of will, instead of judgment. As one liberal activist judge who once sat on the ninth circus once reputedly said, the supreme court can't overrule them all.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 09:09 AM (NehaE)

216 That Little Shit zelensky should never have gone to Pennsylvania in October. Very, very dumb. And I have no doubt he regrets it, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:06 AM (1ml9d)

----------------

Whore's gotta whore ...

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 09:09 AM (vAHT7)

217 >>It's also...
International Condom Day.

Sorry, in this household we only celebrate International Q-Tip Day and National Cold Pack Day.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:09 AM (Cki93)

218 More like this:

https://youtu.be/LMEKcIHvc5o
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)
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That's slightly less bloody than most family reunions...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2025 09:10 AM (7fElN)

219 >>It's also...
International Condom Day.

Sorry, in this household we only celebrate International Q-Tip Day and National Cold Pack Day.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:09 AM

No love for me?

Posted by: The heating pad at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM (+QlJh)

220 DOGE has, temporarily at least, interrupted my flow of benefits, which has resulted in a shortfall of monies needed for nourishment. So I must plead with the Horde.

I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger sandwich today.

Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

221 >>DM reports Bolton saying the deal will mean Russia invades Western Europe, soon.

Gosh, you mean flooding your country with foreigners from a drastically different culture is a bad thing?

Who knew?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM (Cki93)

222
dixit ei Iesus ego sum resurrectio et vita qui credit in me et si mortuus fuerit vivet

=

Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live."

Then Jesus said, "Kash Patel had better be confirmed today, or I'm going Biblican on your asses."

--John 11:25-28

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM (1ml9d)

223 As one liberal activist judge who once sat on the ninth circus once reputedly said, the supreme court can't overrule them all.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 13, 2025 09:09 AM (NehaE)
---
One Ring can....

Posted by: Dark Lord Sauron at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM (7fElN)

224 220 DOGE has, temporarily at least, interrupted my flow of benefits, which has resulted in a shortfall of monies needed for nourishment. So I must plead with the Horde.

I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger sandwich today.
Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

======

*incomprehensible muttering*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

225 Well, I'm off. My coffee deficit is such I'm eager to get it over with so I too can enjoy chair and coffee.

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 09:12 AM (tT6L1)

226
I saw Ukraine Betrayal open for Red Elvises at Madstock in '92.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2025 09:12 AM (iJfKG)

227 >>No love for me?
Posted by: The heating pad

Don't need a special day to celebrate you - you're enjoyed all year 'round!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:12 AM (Cki93)

228 Peace out, blake.

Posted by: The heating pad at February 13, 2025 09:12 AM (+QlJh)

229 Doesn't Elizabeth Arden Prescription-Strength Todger Creme deserve a day?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2025 09:12 AM (a3Q+t)

230 Damn it. Off, heated sock!

Posted by: red at February 13, 2025 09:13 AM (+QlJh)

231 I need more coffee.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2025 09:13 AM (+QlJh)

232 One fraud process is to pay people to pick up their unfilled out mail in ballots. Another is from ghost registrations where ballots are delivered to various places like vacant lots, abandoned houses, commercial buildings, homeless shelters, etc. and ballot harvesters pick them up there or via arrangements. Then there is the old running a single ballot through scanners multiple times as seen on video in the GA Fulton County fraud of 2020. And outright invented ballots via duplicating ballot images or even just invented totals.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (ctrM5)

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Though it has since been widely dismissed here, I still believe that voting machines are rife with at least the potential for fraud if not outright fraud.

If we're not going to ban them, then they must be made open-source code and data -- and demonstrably air-gapped (no electronic communication ability).

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 09:14 AM (vAHT7)

233 "However, to act like he's a constant traitor is to ignore the rest of his history."

I called him a weathervane, not a traitor. I wrote what I did to reassure that we can expect him to do the right thing on Birthright Citizenship. Last year, not so much.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 13, 2025 09:14 AM (9M/Q/)

234 *incomprehensible muttering*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:11 AM

CoPilot, please translate TheJamesMadison's incomprehensible muttering.

CoPilot: "I don't get it."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2025 09:14 AM (a3Q+t)

235 198 Currently, the Senate has to impeach them to remove them. It's just not efficient.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 08:44 AM (ZmEVT)

It also requires a 2/3 vote to remove so it's pointless.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

That's why I said above to get some Congressman to introduce a bill to eliminate the inferior courts. Let the Supremes handle all federal cases. How quickly do you think they'd start doing their job of reining in these rogue judges if they thought they'd have to handle all fed cases?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
======
From 1890's to 1976, they used three district judge panels on all claims of unconstitutionality of laws with a direct appeal (mandatory for Scotus to rule one way or another) to Supreme Court (bypassing courts of appeals). They still use this procedure for redistricting cases. That would fix most of it.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:14 AM (ctrM5)

236 It's amazing what's possible when someone's in charge who spends more time doing things than trying to tell everyone who put him there why he can't do what they asked him to do because that might make a Democrat say mean things to him.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:15 AM (jKo6M)

237 OK, it seems there is an app called "Spot Crime" that still exists. This bears looking into.

"Danger! You are entering a high crime zone!"
"Errr...this is the Capitol."
"Did I stutter? Get out while you can!"
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 08:55 AM (BpO1e)

Roll 'em up! *door locks locking*

Posted by: Clark W. Griswold at February 13, 2025 09:15 AM (Aqu9a)

238 Good morning dear morons y feliz cumpleanos JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2025 09:15 AM (RIvkX)

239 5. Republicans waste money, too!

And then we respond with "yes, and you should point out when they do so we can slap them around over it."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

240 That narrative (coming from Bolton, the lame foreign press during various pressers, and in print) tells me that not all funds from US A id have been severed, and quite possibly there is a stream still coming from another source.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)

241 Sec. of the Dept. of Education, Linda McMahon hearing in 45 mins.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

242 Go DOGE , GO!!

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

243 203 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

New heat pump being installed now.
Posted by: Bulg

Must be nice. My people still cook and heat by burning peat.

Posted by: Seamus O'Toole County Cork at February 13, 2025 09:17 AM (G5+As)

244 > There is some evidence that GOP establishment types have used Dem fraud harvester types in open primaries to support GOP establishmentarians.
---------
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what McConnell has been doing to remain in office. Every time he's been primaried his opponent gets all slimed up, loses support, fails to unseat the turtle.

Been going on for decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

245
Russia's Lavrov is a smooth character.

Fake News fag asked Lavrov if the phone call changes eVeRyThIng!?!?

Lavrov is, like, calm down punk. It's just a phone call. Then adds that it just shows how awful the biden admin was about communicating & diplomacy.

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:18 AM (1ml9d)

246 DOGE has, temporarily at least, interrupted my flow of benefits, which has resulted in a shortfall of monies needed for nourishment.

Funny how DOGE is causing all these "Non"-Governmental Organizations to shut down, isn't it?

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2025 09:18 AM (/tXXR)

247 Patel vote to get out of committee was supposed to be at 9am. Any news?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 09:19 AM (KXtU1)

248 233
I called him a weathervane, not a traitor. I wrote what I did to reassure that we can expect him to do the right thing on Birthright Citizenship. Last year, not so much.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 13, 2025 09:14 AM (9M/Q/)

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Yeah...I did kind of go on a tangent without really talking to you. That's my bad.

Just thoughts bubbling in my head that were sort of related to your point.

However, I think what's going to drive Roberts right now is the idea that the judicial branch as a whole, completely driven by idiots in the lower parts, is going to become irrelevant in the face of an executive who, rightfully, decides to stop following illegal orders from stupid judges.

I think he also shares a certain overall opinion on SCOTUS of being sick and tired of dealing with every little lawfare blowout in the nation. Also, the other conservatives are obviously ready to overthrow the "independent" agencies.

No idea how he'd go on birthright citizenship, but if Originalism is still the name of the game, I suspect the overall majority won't go against Trump's interpretation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

249
It's a good 1-minute clip of Lavrov putting the Fake News in its place:

https://is.gd/Xy2HZn

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:19 AM (1ml9d)

250 >>*looks around MA*

Must be nice...

Heh. I seem to recall a few incidents a couple of years ago, such as when the ginormous rainbow flag hung on the classic white New England church in Wenham was stolen, or when The Trustees* posted a shockingly unattractive drag queen photo on their Instagram account to kick off Pride month and a few days later posted several pictures of a very long statement responding to all of the problematic feedback they had received about it. They doubled down, but the fact that they responded, and made such a word justification indicated they REALLY got hammered about it.

*For non-MA people: The Trustees is a private organization that acquires old farms, estates and open space so that people can enjoy little oases of nature all around the state.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:19 AM (Cki93)

251 244 I'm pretty sure this is exactly what McConnell has been doing to remain in office. Every time he's been primaried his opponent gets all slimed up, loses support, fails to unseat the turtle.

Been going on for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

=======

Machine politics is some kind of politics.

It's mostly just corruption, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

252 Must be nice. My people still cook and heat by burning peat.
Posted by: Seamus O'Toole County Cork at February 13, 2025 09:17 AM

Och, peat that could be used for making Scotch, ya bloody Irish heathen!

Posted by: Angus McAngusface at February 13, 2025 09:20 AM (a3Q+t)

253 Though it has since been widely dismissed here, I still believe that voting machines are rife with at least the potential for fraud if not outright fraud.

If we're not going to ban them, then they must be made open-source code and data -- and demonstrably air-gapped (no electronic communication ability).
Posted by: ShainS

I don't dismiss it at all due in part to the longrunning lawsuit in the ND of Georgia started ironically after Stacey Abrams lost the governor's race in 2018 to Kemp. Kemp was Sec. of State at the time and wiped the statewide servers to prevent Abrams from using that data to support her case. Expert testimony showed how easy it was to reprogram these units with nothing more than a pen. There are other problems with reporting results, adjudication of ballots, image retention, etc.

E-voting needs to be replaced with paper ballots optically scanned with original ballots kept for two years for challenges etc.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:20 AM (ctrM5)

254 Christmas, day 24

Thank you Trump and thank you JJS

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2025 09:20 AM (9wBa3)

255 Apparently they're voting ,at the moment Grassley is pontificating

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 09:21 AM (KXtU1)

256 253 E-voting needs to be replaced with paper ballots optically scanned with original ballots kept for two years for challenges etc.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:20 AM (ctrM5)

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I'm open to the end of anonymous voting.

When Washington was elected, people wrote who they voted for on the actual voter roll list next to their name (I had a professor at the University of Alabama that had one page of a roll with his ancestor's vote for Washington on it).

Yeah, it opens up a can of worms, but it does tie individual votes to individual voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

257
Again, for your entertainment, here's a little Andrew Jackson beating on some big-mouthed Colonial jerkoff:

https://is.gd/ycTu75

Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (1ml9d)

258 We ran out of Pete. But there's some Steve left.

Posted by: Haitian Chef at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (jKo6M)

259 255 Apparently they're voting ,at the moment Grassley is pontificating
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 09:21 AM (KXtU1)

Does Grassley ever stop pontificating? Good morning everyone!

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (DJ7uY)

260 Can Trump as I have asked just tell the Courts to go to Hell and what risk does that pose down the road
=========================
Trump respects the courts enough to let the process play out, at least in the past that has been true.

Maybe these ridiculous intrusions into daily executive branch management decisions will provoke him enough to ignore a TRO or two, but I'd be surprised.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (9wBa3)

261 254 Christmas, day 24

Thank you Trump and thank you JJS
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2025 09:20 AM (9wBa3
Ain’t it the truth?

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (jgmnb)

262 Chuck Schumer actually once had a recipe for "Omni-loaf" in the Feb 6, 2017 NYTimes.
It was a meatloaf of beef, veal and, of course, pork surrounded by pieces chicken.

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

263 There is some evidence that GOP establishment types have used Dem fraud harvester types in open primaries to support GOP establishmentarians.

-

That will be interesting to discover more of.

And re: machines, after the 2020 election the (D)s in charge of NC insisted that the machines couldn't be examined because they were perfectly secure and doing so would compromise the faith people had in elections.

Go ahead and square that circle.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 09:23 AM (sG4Li)

264 Apparently they're voting ,at the moment Grassley is pontificating
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 09:21 AM (KXtU1)

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Posted by: Aesop at February 13, 2025 09:24 AM (Aqu9a)

265 Europe has something like 10X the GDP of Russia and a larger population. Yes most of the Euro armies are a joke, but Poland could likely hold off Vlad all by itself while the Germans and French armed up.

And...what would be the goal of such an action anyway? Conquering parts of Poland would do what for Vlad? In Ukraine the population is friendly too him and Russian speaking anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 09:24 AM (t0Rmr)

266 Yeah, it opens up a can of worms, but it does tie individual votes to individual voters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

That can is more or less already open. Anyone can look up your party registration. How many people suffer directly from that being a thing?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:24 AM (jKo6M)

267 260 Trump respects the courts enough to let the process play out, at least in the past that has been true.

Maybe these ridiculous intrusions into daily executive branch management decisions will provoke him enough to ignore a TRO or two, but I'd be surprised.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (9wBa3)

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I don't think it's respect.

I think it's an attempt to make sure that these "short term" fixes are as long term as possible.

Getting precedent from SCOTUS that the chief executive is chief executive and independence underneath the chief executive through statute is inherently unconstitutional is great to have. Just doing it and no one else following through on it afterwards retards that effect.

Again, Trump was never a Cromwell. He won't cut off anyone's head. He won't rule by decree. He won't outlaw Easter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

268 Day-of voting, thumbs and ink that won't come off for a week.

If you need an absentee ballot it's the same process as buying a Class III firearm.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 09:24 AM (sG4Li)

269 Pro-USAID protesters get dragged out of a House hearing on the waste and money laundering that Democrats have been using USAID for over the past decades.

So... they interrupted an official proceeding? Doesn't that warrant at least 4 years in prison?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

270 You people have no culture!

I'm getting blue from the cheese puns.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 09:25 AM (BpO1e)

271 266 That can is more or less already open. Anyone can look up your party registration. How many people suffer directly from that being a thing?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:24 AM (jKo6M)

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That's fair.

95% of Republicans vote for Republicans. 95% of Democrats vote for Democrats.

There's backbiting on social media, but actual blowback in the real world doesn't seem to manifest that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

272 It was a meatloaf of beef, veal and, of course, pork surrounded by pieces chicken.
Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

Chuck Schumer knows where the turd is supposed to go in a turducken.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:25 AM (jKo6M)

273 I'm open to the end of anonymous voting.

When Washington was elected, people wrote who they voted for on the actual voter roll list next to their name (I had a professor at the University of Alabama that had one page of a roll with his ancestor's vote for Washington on it).

Yeah, it opens up a can of worms, but it does tie individual votes to individual voters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

There is no perfect system. Back in that day, James Madison lost to James Monroe in a VA race because he did not have the traditional drunken election party where you would liquor up your voters and then march them to the polls.

FWIW, some states used to put serial audit numbers that could if necessary be traced back to the voter who made it on mail in absentee ballots so as to detect fraud. Arkansas was one such state but there were others. Practice ended sometime in the 80's.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:25 AM (ctrM5)

274 Chuck Schumer actually once had a recipe for "Omni-loaf" in the Feb 6, 2017 NYTimes.
It was a meatloaf of beef, veal and, of course, pork surrounded by pieces chicken.

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2025 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

Served raw with Process Cheese on top.

Rated 3 Ptomaines out of 5.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2025 09:26 AM (iJfKG)

275 Must be nice. My people still cook and heat by burning peat.
Posted by: Seamus O'Toole County Cork at February 13, 2025 09:17 AM

Och, peat that could be used for making Scotch, ya bloody Irish heathen!

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The good Lord, in his Wisdom, only placed peat in countries where people would get drunk enough to try to burn mud.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2025 09:26 AM (y9ksN)

276 273 There is no perfect system. Back in that day, James Madison lost to James Monroe in a VA race because he did not have the traditional drunken election party where you would liquor up your voters and then march them to the polls.

FWIW, some states used to put serial audit numbers that could if necessary be traced back to the voter who made it on mail in absentee ballots so as to detect fraud. Arkansas was one such state but there were others. Practice ended sometime in the 80's.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:25 AM (ctrM5)

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I'd forgotten that bit of Madison's history. It's a fun slice of our country's past.

No bad blood between Madison and Monroe, from what I recall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

277 > I think it's an attempt to make sure that these "short term" fixes are as long term as possible.
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Bingo

If there's any hope in MAGA surviving post 2030 there has to be systemic change now. The courts being the left's most potent weapon (lawfare) right now.

If they lose that...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 09:27 AM (Q4IgG)

278 Does Grassley ever stop pontificating? Good morning everyone!
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals

Doesn't one need to be an actual Pope to pontificate?

Posted by: Royal Picker Of Nits at February 13, 2025 09:27 AM (G5+As)

279 That can is more or less already open. Anyone can look up your party registration. How many people suffer directly from that being a thing?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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More than that, they can look up your prior voting history as to what elections (including primary) elections that you have voted in, your address, contact phone number and/or email, and so on.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:27 AM (ctrM5)

280 Must be nice. My people still cook and heat by burning peat.
Posted by: Seamus O'Toole County Cork at February 13, 2025 09:17 AM

Musk Ox dung fires gives our smoked meats and fish that extra indefinable piquant. It's eye-wateringly good!

Posted by: Arctic Indigenous BBQ Person at February 13, 2025 09:28 AM (Aqu9a)

281 277 If there's any hope in MAGA surviving post 2030 there has to be systemic change now. The courts being the left's most potent weapon (lawfare) right now.

If they lose that...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 09:27 AM (Q4IgG)

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I think what we're discovering is that the unelected fourth branch, the administrative state, is actually the left's most potent weapon and has been for decades.

Does gay marriage make it through the courts without the social upheaval started by large corporations who seem to have intimate ties to organizations that receive large government contracts and grants?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

282 >>That narrative (coming from Bolton, the lame foreign press during various pressers, and in print) tells me that not all funds from US A id have been severed, and quite possibly there is a stream still coming from another source.

"I know, right?"
-- FEMA

Yeah, it's become amazing clear that the entire federal budget is funding these boutique-y, partisan/woke NGO efforts.

The Democrats and GOPe/controlled opposition "right" are saying Elon should slow down -- which means he needs to go faster!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:28 AM (Cki93)

283 I'm Irish. We boil roasts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 09:28 AM (KXtU1)

284 The good Lord, in his Wisdom, only placed peat in countries where people would get drunk enough to try to burn mud.
Posted by: Josephistan

Dung burns just fine, with a pleasant bouquet!

Posted by: Man From Calcutta at February 13, 2025 09:29 AM (G5+As)

285
I wouldn't be opposed to paper ballots with a right thumb print attached for easy auditing of questionable ballots.

Of course, that means a national data bank of right thumbs prints which might make some people crazy.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2025 09:30 AM (iJfKG)

286
Yeah, it's become amazing clear that the entire federal budget is funding these boutique-y, partisan/woke NGO efforts.

The point of the American government is to take as much money from the taxpayers as possible. Anything else is incidental

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

287 Part of why DOGE needs to strike fast is that it doesn;t give these organizations time to recover and find other funds. Mass shut-off of funds means they can't make payroll, rent, etc.. If they can continue the squeeze it will do more damage.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:30 AM (Cki93)

288 I wouldn't be opposed to paper ballots with a right thumb print attached for easy auditing of questionable ballots.

Of course, that means a national data bank of right thumbs prints which might make some people crazy.

Posted by: naturalfake
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Voter ID and purple thumbs should do the trick, no database required. You produce ID and your thumb is either purple or it's not.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 09:31 AM (sG4Li)

289 The safeguard against a government that would use a stored record of who you voted for to target you for harassment and extortion already exists.

It's the second amendment.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:32 AM (jKo6M)

290 No bad blood between Madison and Monroe, from what I recall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Monroe and Madison were frenemies in VA politics. Monroe actually served as an officer during the American Revolution ( I think he was actually the last president to do so) while Madison did not from age and health reasons. As far as congressional career, Madison had the better of it but Monroe had a better president (or luckier).

Political theories are fine but governance is a practical pragmatic matter. Jefferson was the rare avis that could think but as chief executive, act in ways contrary to his past positions if necessary. Madison had a harder time doing that and for example let the Warhawks put the US into a war that it was ill equipped to fight and letting the First Bank of the US charter die which made things worse regarding fiscal matters during the war.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:32 AM (ctrM5)

291 Part of why DOGE needs to strike fast is that it doesn;t give these organizations time to recover and find other funds. Mass shut-off of funds means they can't make payroll, rent, etc.. If they can continue the squeeze it will do more damage.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:30 AM (Cki93)

Yes, to me this is why the Treasury DOGE boys are so critical to tracing the flows of money and shutting the leaks down. Sorta like a plumber.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)

292 290 Political theories are fine but governance is a practical pragmatic matter. Jefferson was the rare avis that could think but as chief executive, act in ways contrary to his past positions if necessary. Madison had a harder time doing that and for example let the Warhawks put the US into a war that it was ill equipped to fight and letting the First Bank of the US charter die which made things worse regarding fiscal matters during the war.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:32 AM (ctrM5)

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AND! Madison liked to get piggy back rides from his wife, Dolley. While telling naughty jokes.

I mean...come on.

Best president. (bar William Henry Harrison, of course)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

293 283 I'm Irish. We boil roasts
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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If you used peat fires to cook with, you would boil items too. Works for whiskey, not so much for food.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:34 AM (ctrM5)

294 Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)

I think we knew that regardless but confirmation is always nice.

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 09:34 AM (Tqr2v)

295 The point of the American government is to take as much money from the taxpayers as possible. Anything else is incidental
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

"Redistribute"

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Tqr2v)

296 @248 I agree with you. I'm more optimistic on Birthright Citizenship. As one SCOTUS wrote in upholding Japanese internment, the Constitution is not a sucide pact.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 13, 2025 09:35 AM (9M/Q/)

297 I wouldn't be opposed to paper ballots with a right thumb print attached for easy auditing of questionable ballots.

Of course, that means a national data bank of right thumbs prints which might make some people crazy.

Posted by: naturalfake

I'd go with attaching the thumb itself for a couple of election cycles.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Aqu9a)

298 At Least 20 Injured as Driver Plows into Crowd in Munich

Suspect: Afghan ‘Refugee’

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2025 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

299 I'd go with attaching the thumb itself for a couple of election cycles.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 09:35 AM (Aqu9a)

I'm trying to vote here, not join the Triads.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2025 09:36 AM (jKo6M)

300 Hamas Backs Down: Agrees to Resume Releasing Israeli Hostages

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2025 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

301 Best president. (bar William Henry Harrison, of course)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Clearest theorist at the convention, yes, congress critter, yes, political leader, yes. Cannot actually recall his career as Sec. of State because it was mainly the chief administrator for Jefferson at the time rather than chief diplomat. So he gets to be the Madison to Marbury in the lawsuit.

President, not so much.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 09:36 AM (ctrM5)

302 Grassley wants to make sure the FBI will continue to use E85 gas in its cars.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 09:37 AM (ZmEVT)

303 Art. She's a-up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 09:37 AM (Aqu9a)

304 >>I think we knew that regardless but confirmation is always nice.

It's important to have the proof.
As the details are announced by DOGE a lot of previously non-political, Dem by default types appear to be noticing. I've seen many of those tiktok 'rant into the camera' videos where Democrat LIVs are shocked and angry.

This needs to be documented, laid out in full sunlight for all to see. Trump and team need to rub their noses in it and make them explain. Watching them squirm is the reward.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 09:39 AM (Cki93)

305 Hamas Backs Down: Agrees to Resume Releasing Israeli Hostages
Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2025 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

More stalling

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 09:41 AM (Tqr2v)

306 No idea how he'd go on birthright citizenship, but if Originalism is still the name of the game, I suspect the overall majority won't go against Trump's interpretation.
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I'm still digesting the "how" but I think the 22 states making the pact to defy Trump on this makes the interpretation that the 14th does not apply to illegals stronger; more likely that SCOTUS will agree with Trump.

Along the lines of how they were kinda pissed at CO for thinking they had the right to interpret the Constitution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 09:43 AM (uyRWq)

307 288

Voter ID and purple thumbs should do the trick, no database required. You produce ID and your thumb is either purple or it's not.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Nacho taco chimichanga at February 13, 2025 09:31 AM (sG4Li)
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The purple comes out with bleach.

Posted by: Ciampino - walking Gorgonzola cheeses at February 13, 2025 09:43 AM (KjLnc)

308 In a statement to the Washington Free Beacon, Consumer Product Safety Commission acting chairman Peter Feldman said he considers the matter "concluded" and emphasized that the federal government should not interfere with consumer choice. Feldman's comments effectively put an end to a years-long process that critics feared would lead to a broad ban on gas stoves.

"In electing President Trump, the American people spoke loudly that the United States has no business telling American families how to cook their meals," Feldman told the Free Beacon.

"I became Acting Chairman of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission in January 2025, shortly after President Trump's inauguration," he continued. "So long as I have a say in the matter, the CPSC is out of the gas-stoves-banning business. The agency has no plans to advance such a rule."

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2025 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

309 Remember gas stoves are too dangerous to let normies have...but fentanyl and crack? The more the better right?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 09:47 AM (t0Rmr)

310 When Washington was elected, people wrote who they voted for on the actual voter roll list next to their name (I had a professor at the University of Alabama that had one page of a roll with his ancestor's vote for Washington on it).
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Other times, the "sacred right to the secret ballot" the left demands you believe is in the Constitution was ... every adult gathered in the town square and declared who they were voting for by voice.
Which votes were then counted by the town clerk.

Another fun fact is, the whole "sacred right to a sequestered jury" and "no jury tampering" wasn't there.
There's a hilarious story of Abraham Lincoln winning a case based upon a joke he told the jury when he took them to lunch before closing arguments.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 09:50 AM (uyRWq)

311 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Fun started early today. The House is holding a hearing on USAID. Seated protesters began chanting at the opening of the hearing and were pulled out of the their seats & through the doors of the chamber.

Eggs, eggs, eggs! Reportedly, customer limits on purchases in several chain stores, and somewhere being sold $1.50 per egg. The cost of products made with eggs is also rising, as are costs of dining out once again. And over at CNN, DOOM is predicted if Trump does not get inflation immediately under control. It's what took out Biden, they say. So, yup, the bottomless spending of his administration created hell & havoc for the nation, with some exclusions for his buds, but now their day is coming, too, and hopefully there's an honest investigation of the egg situation rolling.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2025 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

312 Axios Philadelphia, yesterday, 'What Pennsylvania will lose if Education Department is dismantled.' In part,

State of Play: K-12 schools in Pennsylvania spend about $36.3 billion annually, or $21,441 per pupil, according to the Education Data Initiative.
- And they receive more than $4.6 billion, or $2,757 per student, from the federal government, the data shows.

The intrigue: Even if the Education Department is disbanded, programs within its purview could fall to other federal agencies. HEAD START, for example, is already RUN BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. (Emphasis added.)

Reading all suggested. Axios may also have a similar article for each state.
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Philadelphia instituted its sugar tax in 2017, allegedly to support Pre-K education & healthier families. Of course, that was largely crap, caused a nice family-operated grocery store to close & many poorer families to leave the city. (The latter being a routine Philadelphia ploy.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2025 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

313 BTW, its two decades old tax abatement plan exempted the entire value of significant real estate improvements from being taxed for 10 years. The rich get richer while the undocumented and poorer folk get nudged to outer counties.

School costs are going up dramatically immediately outside of the city, allegedly because the federal funding from the pandemic (ESSER) funding is ending while state funding is going up. But the local school, for one, has fallen to the 50th percentile of all state public schools while adding all day Kindergarten, maybe the only identifiable ESSER funded program. And, the now the school district needs two new elementary level classrooms because of increasing student numbers.

In the meantime, Daily Times, February 12, 2025, "Delaware County DA won’t cooperate with ICE roundups aimed at those ‘living peacefully.’

In part, "With President Donald Trump stressing that mass deportations of the undocumented are coming and on a day after ICE officers were involved in a raid in Delaware County, Stollsteimer has let his staff know they are not to work with feds targeting people who are not committing crimes."

And Delaware County, PA is a NACo member.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2025 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

314 World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban

https://is.gd/jr6NQb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 13, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

315 The NED was born because Carter fired 30% of the CIA - rightly - after the Church committee revelations.

It should have died with the fall of the USSR in the early 90's because then it was used against Americans.

See @MikeBenzCyber for a PhD level course about our malevolent government 'agencies' since 1948. Your minds will be blown beyond repair.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 13, 2025 11:55 AM (1E4GV)

316 Damn right the communist legal beagles are going after the invaluable Clarence Thomas...

He is leading the charge against lower courts butting into the Executive powers.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 13, 2025 12:11 PM (1E4GV)

317 Influence Watch, in part -

NACo is a member of the “Big Seven,” an informal group of national nonprofits that advocate for local and state governments. The other six members are: the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, the National League of Cities, the United States Conference of Mayors, the International City/County Management Association, and the International Municipal Lawyers Association.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2025 12:12 PM (NFX2v)

318 JFK EO'd (#1098

public sector unions into being. DJT can EO them out of existence - and should.

The ENTIRE point of these unions is to take bipartisan tax dollars from every jurisdiction and funnel them to the DNC. Outlaw them.

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