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The Morning Report — 3/ 6 /25
One of the biggest stars to emerge from Donald Trump's amazing speech on Tuesday night was DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old boy who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2018 and given just a few months to live. However, after 13 brain surgeries, he's survived the odds and, while he still suffers from some health issues, like advanced cataracts, and has dealt with terrible bullying in the past, he is thriving and enjoying life more than most healthy people I know. . . Because of this, the president and first lady invited DJ and his father, Theodis, to be guests at the president's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, but Trump took it a step further and honored DJ as an honorary Secret Service agent. Secret Service Director Sean Curran himself presented DH with a badge in a moment that was about as heartwarming as it gets. Here's a video in case you missed it. It's best to grab some tissues before you watch [the video]. . . . . . On Wednesday morning, DJ and Theodis appeared on "Fox & Friends," as well as their own local Houston Fox affiliate — the Daniel family lives in Houston, Texas — for interviews. During their interview with Fox 26 in Houston, DJ showed off his badge, while his father said he hopes their story inspires others. "We just have to turn something that most of us see as bad and tragic into something positive. We're supposed to be in the business of trying to inspire people to be a better version of themselves despite what you're going through," he said, adding, "He doesn't give up, he doesn't complain, he just gets out and does it with no excuses. Just stay positive, stay hopeful, and stay prayed up."Stay prayed up, indeed. Sage advice for all of us. On another note, While a solid majority of Americans supports this president in his efforts to make government accountable, a battle that has been ongoing for 200 years or more could potentially get a whole lot uglier. I'm referring to the turf war between the three official branches of government, and ironically it's about DOGE's attempt to rein in and if possible defang the unelected, unofficial and arguably unconstitutional fourth branch; the bureaucracy. Despite, as we and legal eagles extraordinaire from Jonathan Turley, to Alan Dershowitz to William Jacobson and others have noted, Donald Trump as President and head of the Executive Branch indeed has the legal authority to rein in via allocation of funds and certainly the dismissal, piecemeal or en masse, of employees of the aforementioned. And yet, Cheap Justice Judas Roberts demonstrates his virtual Democrat-esque disdain for the very document and what it represents that he swore to preserve protect and defend. Ditto that Amy Coney Island Whitefish. What a total mistake she was.
The Supreme Court sided with a district court judge Wednesday who had ruled the Trump administration could not stop $2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) payments to intended recipients. . . Legal scholar Jonathan Turley pointed out that the case could still emerge in the Trump administration’s favor, since the Supreme Court’s ruling only applied to the preliminary injunction, and not the final determination. . . . . . Justice Samuel Alito led four conservative justices in dissent. In a blistering opinion, he said that district courts lacks the authority to order the payments, noting that once money is out the door, further appeals may be ineffective In a blistering opinion, Alito wrote that the Supreme Court is rewarding “an act of judicial hubris and imposes a $2 billion penalty on American taxpayers.” Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberal justices to form a majority.
Roberts is now 2 for 2 in usurpation of power; First he rewrote Obamacare to make it Kosher thereby assuming the role of one-man Legislature, and now dictating/seizing executive branch power that he never had by denying it to President Trump. So the qustion is, does PTOUS Trump have the wherewithal, from a technical/practical standpoint to ignore the ruling and simply cut off the funding? More crucially, does he have the stones to tell Roberts and the Court to go piss up rope? S0, what I'm asking is what would be the short term and of course long term political consequences to us and the nation should he actually do this? If we are in a post-Constitutional period, and with one side, the Democrats, using said document as a shield and cudgel, when not using it as toilet paper, Where do we go from here as a society, given perhaps as many as a third of the citizenry are full on board with destroying the nation as founded, for a litany of reasons. Can the Republic as founded be restored, or even something that resembles it be created, one that preserves our rights while trying to prevent the cancer that tore it apart from re-emerging, if that is even possible, or are we destined to split? What cannot go on, will not. If the Department of Education and the propaganda brainwashing complex be dismantled, and we can have at least one or more generations of kids like DJ Daniel come up, then we have a chance. On another front, what the hell good is DOGE when Mike Johnson et al are still greasing the wheels of our destruction?
This is not the first time that Massie has found himself opposing GOP leadership on fiscal grounds but the stakes are high as Congress seeks to pass a CR to fund government operations beyond March 14. . . The Kentucky Congressman also cited an unwillingness to fund the waste, fraud and abuse that has been uncovered by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts and the fact that there were suppose to be 12 separate funding bills to encourage transparency. Massie also is standing firm on the fact that Congress was told that the CR passed in December that funded the federal government through March 14 would allow the prioritizing of President Trump’s agenda via the checkbook. Speaker Johnson told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday: We’re looking to pass a clean CR to freeze funding at current levels [and] to make sure that the government can stay open while we begin to incorporate all these savings that we’re finding through the DOGE effort, and these other sources of revenue that President Trump’s policies are bringing the table.Pfft. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Daniel Greenfield: What did ActBlue do to make its lawyers not want to defend it?
Lawyers Flee Dem Fundraising Giant ‘ActBlue’
- “The experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars–and the unaccountable bureaucrats those programs and dollars support–has failed our children, our teachers, and our families,” the draft order, which was labeled as “pre-decisional,” reads.
Trump expected to sign executive order abolishing the Department of Education as soon as Thursday: report
- MORE REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ADDRESS
- On Wednesday morning, DJ and Theodis appeared on "Fox & Friends," as well as their own local Houston Fox affiliate — the Daniel family lives in Houston, Texas — for interviews. During their interview with Fox 26 in Houston, DJ showed off his badge, while his father said he hopes their story inspires others. "We just have to turn something that most of us see as bad and tragic into something positive. We're supposed to be in the business of trying to inspire people to be a better version of themselves despite what you're going through," he said, adding, "He doesn't give up, he doesn't complain, he just gets out and does it with no excuses. Just stay positive, stay hopeful, and stay prayed up."
WATCH: DJ Daniel Meets the President - CNN found 69% of viewers had a positive reaction. A CBS News/YouGov survey found that number at 76%.
Strong Majority Of Viewers Had Positive Reactions To Trump’s Speech: Polls
- The most poignant moment during President Trump's address to Congress was when he referred to 13-year-old Devarjaye "DJ" Daniel, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018. DJ held aspirations to become a law enforcement...
Democrats -- and their Media -- Prove that they"re the Enemies of the People
- In no particular order, here are the biggest moments from Trump’s address to Congress.
Top 13 Moments From Trump’s 2025 Address To Congress
- The best thing to come out of President Trump’s joint address to Congress this week is, God willing, a total abandonment of the facade that “bipartisanship” is a worthy goal in itself.
Trump’s Joint Address Was The Aggressively Partisan Confrontation America Needed
- Democrat Texas Rep. Al Green disrupted Trump’s address just minutes into his speech, while other Democrats in the chamber held signs protesting the president. Axelrod, on “CNN News Central,” criticized what he called “the performative stuff” by the Democrats, but asserted that the actions were a product of deep political polarization. (RELATED: 22 Dem Senators Rebuke Trump In Copy-Pasted Speech Ahead Of President’s Address To Congress)
‘Squad’ Dem Insists Party Actually Showed Respect For Cancer Survivor By Not Clapping, Standing For Recognition
- Robert Zimmerman: "These Democrats can’t even realize how their ill behavior and rudeness is going to perceived, and worse it is going to be seen and noticed by everyone. It surely isn’t going to convince anyone to reject Trump and vote Democrat. No, what it will do is offend every decent human being in America, and only drive one more nail into the coffin of this racist, brainless, and very wooden-headed party."
Democrats: A party so filled with hate it can’t even cheer a child because Trump introduced him
- “Go ahead and roll your eyes at the 13 year old brain cancer survivor who wants to be a police officer when he grows up. D**n that’s cold.”
Democrats Lack of Class was On Full Display During Trump’s Speech
- Trump was handed a mandate by the American electorate to jam his policies and positions through.
Trump's sentinel joint address was the best of his career
- President Donald J. Trump stood before a fractious Congress and a watching nation to deliver not just a speech, but a historic call.
The Trump Speech and the Conservative Mandate
- The opposition party is frustrated and defeated
Trump’s Triumphant Speech Leaves Dems With Egg On Their Faces
- the collective reacts to Donald Trump, unaware that resistance is not futile
Did The Borg Assimilate The Democrat Party Last Night?
- Except for the heartless Democrats scowling in the House, sitting on their hands, determined to act like sullen adolescents. Except for the Trump-deranged MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow, whose putrid comments about the touching moment took their network to lows nobody thought possible.
Miranda Devine: Disgraceful Dems callously politicized DJ Daniel, Laken Riley – and sunk to a new low in the process
- From obnoxious booing to childish protest signs to a sitting member of Congress having to be physically removed from the chamber, Democrats turned what should have been a solemn, dignified event into a bad reality show. And for what?
As a lifelong Dem, I never thought I’d see my party embarrass itself so much (He never heard of Jim Crow? or the Weathermen? - jjs)
- Except for the heartless Democrats scowling in the House, sitting on their hands, determined to act like sullen adolescents. Except for the Trump-deranged MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow, whose putrid comments about the touching moment took their network to lows nobody thought possible.
Miranda Devine: Disgraceful Dems callously politicized DJ Daniel, Laken Riley – and sunk to a new low in the process DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
- Although the outcome is a short-term loss for President Donald Trump’s administration, the nonprofit groups and businesses that sued are still waiting for the money they say they are owed. One of the organizations last week was forced to lay off 110 employees as a result, according to court papers. . . Cheap Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Island Whitefish joined the three liberal justices to form a majority.
Supreme Court Says Trump Admin. Must Pay $2 Billion in USAID Funds
- A nonprofit board member himself, Judge McConnell has a motive to keep federal funding flowing to nonprofits.
Judge’s Failure To Recuse Himself From Trump Spending Freeze Case Shows How Court Is Rigged - If true it would be just the latest in a long line of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts under Elon Musk to challenge the deep state and make government employees both more efficient and accountable.
Taxing Times: IRS Weighs Firing Half Its 90,000-Strong Workforce
- At least 5,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are set to be temporarily rehired amid claims their terminations were unlawful. The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has ordered the USDA to temporarily reinstate over 5,000 employees dismissed since February 13.The stay issued by MSPB, a quasi-judicial agency that acts as an adjudicative body for federal employee grievances, mandates that the affected employees return to their positions for 45 days, pending further investigation.
This Government Agency Just Temporarily Reversed Thousands of Trump Firings.* * * * * - This is not the first time that Massie has found himself opposing GOP leadership on fiscal grounds but the stakes are high as Congress seeks to pass a CR to fund government operations beyond March 14. . . Massie says that Speaker Johnson isn’t following the provision in law that would have cut spending by 1% if the CR were to extend beyond April.
Massie Not On Board with Speaker Johnson’s Spending Bill, Vows to ‘Vote Against’ It LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES - (Meh, just more deck chair-swapping on the Titanic - jjs)
Recall Effort Launched Against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - In just six weeks under Trump, illegal immigration has fallen to record lows. Turns out we didn’t need Congress to act to secure the border.
Trump Proves The Border Bill Pushed By GOP Leaders Under Biden Was Never Necessary - “You all have blood on your hands,” began Mace, introducing her series of rapid “yes or no questions.”
Rep. Mace BLASTS Blue City Mayors To Their Faces For Harboring Illegals ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN - President Trump issued a public warning to the Hamas terror group Wednesday that he is “sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job” and urged them to release all remaining hostages immediately “OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!” “‘Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose,” the president wrote on Truth Social after meeting with eight freed hostages in the Oval Office Wednesday.
Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas, says terror group ‘can choose’ outcome after meeting with freed Israeli hostages
- U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes: “President Trump stands by his vision to rebuild Gaza free from Hamas.”
Trump Rejects Hamas-Backed Arab Gaza ‘Reconstruction’ Plan* * * * * - Abdallah Aljamal allegedly informed hostages that Hamas would 'ensure that the United States, as well as Jews and Israelis, are hated everywhere'
Hamas Hostage Taker Who Wrote for US-Based Website Boasted of 'Actively Coordinating' With American Campus Protesters, Lawsuit Alleges
- 'Agitation until amnesty!' says notorious anti-Semitic student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest
Barnard Students Hoist Effigy of College President, Disseminate Hamas Pamphlets as They Occupy Library
- Robert Spencer: Opposing pro-Hamas lies has become a punishable 'offense'.
College Goes After Patriotic Student Group WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Robert Spencer: Mark Schmitz’s son, Marine Lance Cpt. Jared Schmitz, was one of the thirteen American service members who were killed in the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) attack at Kabul’s Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. Mark Schmitz was thus watching President Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress with intense interest as Trump announced that Mohammad Sharifullah, who planned the jihad operation at Abbey Gate that day, had been arrested. To Schmitz’s shock, however, the Democrats in the audience didn’t seem in the least pleased at the news. Welcome to the Democrat Party, 2025: the party that hates Trump so much, it readily sides with those who kill Americans.
Father of Marine Killed at Abbey Gate Shocked at Dems' Reaction to News of ISIS Top Dog’s Arrest
- Daniel Greenfield: He fought with Jihadists tied to Al Qaeda. Now he attacks Trump for the Voice of America.
An Ex-Jihadist Working for the Government is Smearing Trump
- Murdering infidels is a way to show solidarity with other Muslims.
Rushdie Aside, a Fatwa is Not Necessary to Attack and Kill the ‘Enemies of Islam’ CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - After Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde introduced legislation that would withhold “certain apportionment funds” from D.C. if it didn’t rename BLM Plaza, Bowser’s office confirmed Tuesday the name will be nixed and the mural replaced with a design by local schoolchildren.
Muriel Bowser Gets A Reality Check
- How is this allowed?
Asheville, NC, Prioritizing Federal Aid ‘for Minority and Women Owned Businesses’
- The non-profit published a press release outlining the department’s demands in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
Legal Watchdog: D.C. Police Demand $1.57 Million To Release Jan. 6 Bodycam Footage CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - The Sentencing Council, sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, emphasized the “critical role” of pre-sentence reports in determining whether or not a defendant should be imprisoned. Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, of the notionally right-wing Conservative Party, challenged the policy in Parliament, stating, “The new sentencing guidelines… will make a custodial sentence less likely for those ‘from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community.’ Why is the Justice Secretary enshrining this double standard, this two-tier approach to sentencing? It is an inversion of the rule of law. Conservative Members [of Parliament] believe in equality under the law; why does she not?”
New Two-Tier Sentencing Guidelines Go Easy on Everyone Except White Male Christians. FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Elitist press corps upset at losing their undeserved privileged status.
White House Legacy Media Throw a Tantrum - Wallace turned the gesture into an opportunity to take potshots at the President, saying, “I hope [Daniel] has a long life as a law enforcement officer—but I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters,” adding, “If he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide.”
Viewers Call for MSNSDAP’s Nicolle Wallace to Be Fired for ‘Repulsive’ Comments About Boy with Brain Cancer.
- The father of Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel — the 13-year-old who was made an honorary US Secret Service agent during President Trump’s Congressional address — has no patience for Rachel Maddow undermining his son’s moment.
Dad of 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by Trump calls out Rachel Maddow’s ‘bad energy’: ‘She needs to shut her mouth’ - ABC News insists that it plans to continue providing "best-in-class polling and political data analysis" across the network, which would be a new direction for them. Let’s face it: It'll keep pushing Democrat-friendly poll numbers while sidelining polls that don’t support the narrative it wants to push. Predictably, journalists are lamenting FiveThirtyEight's demise.
The End of an Error: FiveThirtyEight Is Shutting Down THE ECONOMY, STUPID - “Reciprocal tariffs will still go into effect on April 2.”
Trump Grants One Month Tariff Exemption on Autos From Canada, Mexico
- Is recession in play after Fed Bank's warning of Q1 downturn?
Voters Still View Trump Favorably, But Stay Worried About Economy, Inflation: I&I/TIPP Poll
- Trump brokered a deal ensuring Nippon Steel's investment in U.S. Steel, securing jobs, strengthening national security, and reducing reliance on Chinese steel
President Donald J. Trump Saving U.S. Steel
- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said on Fox Business Wednesday that the Biden junta left a $49 billion deficit in the export market that led to the costs of agricultural inputs to rise by 30%.
AG Secretary Says Biden Junta Racked Up $49 Billion Trade Deficit That Triggered 30% Surge In Farm Costs RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM - Daniel Greenfield: An offer we can't refuse. . . American scientists will be able to study side-by-side with top-notch scientist talent from Yemen and Hamas. Just imagine the breakthroughs in transgender global warming suicide bombing they’ll be able to unleash.
France Offers To Take Our Defunded Woke Scientists (Wind tunnel testing on the aerodynamics of homosexuals being tossed from rooftops by mullahs? - jjs)
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS - 'Science should be an engine for freedom,' Bhattacharya said. 'It shouldn't be pushing mandates.'
Jay Bhattacharya Promises To Bring Accountability To NIH After COVID Failure
- Biden junta's grant has ‘alarm bells going off’ for Joni Ernst
Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious 'Vaccine Company' Run by His COVID Adviser and Based out of a Maryland PO Box EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - The act grants families an education savings account of $7,000 per student per year to allocate toward approved K-12 educational expenses.
Wyoming Becomes 15th State To Enact Universal School Choice ABORTION - The DOJ’s decision to drop the lawfare should have opened the door for the Gem State to enforce its August 2022 Defense of Life Act. Idaho’s largest hospital system, however, filed a separate suit against the state after repeatedly claiming that it had to airlift women out of state to get emergency abortions. Despite previously failing to provide proof for that claim, St. Luke’s Health System was handed a temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill, a President Bill Clinton nominee, one day before the Trump DOJ acted.
Trump Department Of Justice Ends Biden-Era Lawfare Targeting Idaho’s Pro-Life Protections
- The left has moved from choice to coercion.
Compassionate Coercion SECOND AMENDMENT - Patel was recently named acting director of the ATF, replacing former President Joe Biden’s director Steve Bettleback. The Biden junta's ATF aggressively cracked down on firearms, and gun owners are still reeling from the consequences.
One Forgotten Government Agency Has Tormented Americans For Years — Kash Patel Could Fix It POLITICS - Turner, 70, won his seat in November, taking the place of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). He assumed office in January and is said to have attended President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday night. Prior to the speech, he posted on his X platform, warning against cuts to Medicaid.
Democrat Rep. Sylvester Turner Dies Suddenly Weeks After Taking Office
- The reasons for the president's amazing success.
Trump’s First Six Weeks Have Saved the Union THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - Victor Davis Hanson:Trump pressured NATO, armed Ukraine, and imposed tough policies on Russia, while Europe postures without action—leaving real deterrence to the U.S.
Five Ukrainian Fables
- The United States has now suspended the provision of military intelligence with Ukraine as part of the freeze on assistance until Ukraine chooses President Trump’s path to peace and comes to the negotiating table, a report states.
United States Ends Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine, Bans Allies From Passing on American-Origin Observation
- “Washington’s hostile rhetoric, that Oval Office meeting and the ‘pausing’ of US military aid have forced him to bend to Trump’s peace vision,” the state-backed broadcaster argues. It notes that, while European leaders largely backed Zelensky following his White House showdown, with Britain and France even pledging peacekeeping troops, “made clear peace would still require US involvement.”
Even the BBC Says Zelensky Has ‘Run Out of Road.’ FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - "...if war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end."
China Says It’s ‘Ready’ For Any ‘Type Of War’ With U.S. After Trump Doubles Tariffs (Yang vs. Khom: E-Plebnista Boogaloo - jjs) - If Donald Trump wants a 51st state to the north, here’s how he can get one.
Make Alberta America
- “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans."
Trump Says U.S. Is ‘Reclaiming’ The Panama Canal
- “Colombia’s first leftist leader has failed to rise to the occasion.”
The Ex-Guerrilla in his Labyrinth
- One hopes that Rubio’s core principles will fuse with Trump’s bold style to form a ‘good cop, bad cop’ partnership.
Rubio’s Rise: Can He Steer Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision?
- The fall of the Sharia Curtain on the horizon?
The Iranian Regime is Hollowing Out HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - Betsy McCaughey: These are lies. The needy are not going to lose their health care, and the demagogues know it. Truth is, congressional Republicans are finally sticking up for working people who resent covering the bills for healthy folks who refuse to work. To control Medicaid spending, Republicans are calling for a “work requirement” for able-bodied adults without children or an elderly dependent. “Work” overstates the toughness. Anyone who is employed for 80 hours a month, or attends school, a training program or drug-recovery program and is low income will still be eligible for free care. Just not moochers.
Don’t buy Dems’ lies: The GOP isn’t trying to strip Medicaid from millions of Americans ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - Even with this action, the future lifespan of both spacecraft is very limited. It is expected the savings in power will allow both to last about a year longer, well into 2026. In order to keep the Voyagers operating as long as into the 2030s mission engineers are now working up a timeline for shutting down the remaining instruments in a step-by-step manner. In that long run the goal won’t be science gathering but engineering. Can humans keep a spacecraft operating for more than a half century at distances billions of miles away?
Engineers turn off one more instrument on each Voyager spacecraft
- As part of routine maintenance and calibration, engineers on January 30, 2025 used the cameras on the Psyche asteroid probe to photograph Jupiter, Mars, and several stars, proving all is well with the spacecraft.
Psyche captures Jupiter and Mars on its way to asteroid Psyche FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - In a post on X, Kristol — who left the Republican Party over the embrace of President Donald Trump — shared a link to an article written by Marc Solomon, a partner at Civitas Public Affairs Group. Solomon writes about supporting transgender Americans and calls for people to “stand with trans Americans.” (Stand? Like at a urinal???? ALthough he is a revolting sitzpinkler - jjs)
NeoCon Never Trumper Bill Kristol Embraces Transgenderism - It’s a strange hill to die on, but like Schrödinger’s cat, staying in that box guarantees only one outcome.
Schrödinger’s Women’s Sports: Simultaneously Existential and Irrelevant, According to Democrats CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - The pair crossed paths during the premiere of Becoming Katharine Graham, a documentary about the influential Washington Post publisher. Murray, during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, expressed discontent with Woodward’s 1984 book Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi, which faced criticism from several figures close to the deceased comedian. He added that this made him suspect Woodward’s journalism regarding President Richard Nixon may also lack credibility. “If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me, too,” he said.
Actor Bill Murray Calls Anti-Trump Author Bob Woodward ‘Cruel’ and ‘Criminal.’
- Christian Toto: Rebooted franchise finds footing by overlapping MAGA, NY woes
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Battles Trumpian Old Foe HITHER & YON - An investigation is shedding light on the unsavory role the South American country played in the aftermath of World War II.
Ratlines: Argentina, Milei, and the Nazis
- "One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)1 stPosted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)
2 first.Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 06, 2025 07:30 AM (e5NfL)
3 Good morning horde!Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)
4 Thx, JJ!Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 07:31 AM (RP0h0)
5 Top10Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 06, 2025 07:32 AM (cr6yl)
6 Good morning horde and Happy Birthday JJ!Posted by: blaster at March 06, 2025 07:34 AM (QfvaV)
7 Hiya!Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 07:34 AM (svLOV)
8 >S0, what I'm asking is what would be the short term and of course long term political consequences to us and the nation should he actually do this?
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impeachment
I could see enough House Rs defecting to the Left, and helping it alongPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:37 AM (AOsQT)
9 Trump is right. There is nothing he can do to earn any shred of credit from these losers. Nothing.
Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 07:38 AM (UJ+K5)
10 Yonder HordePosted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2025 07:39 AM (Q4IgG)
11 College Goes After Patriotic Student Group
In an ideal world, this would immediately cause the federal money spigot to that college to get shut off.Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 07:42 AM (svLOV)
12 It'd be nice to discover Robert's name in the Epstein client list, then impeach him.Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 06, 2025 07:43 AM (luW68)
13 8 >S0, what I'm asking is what would be the short term and of course long term political consequences to us and the nation should he actually do this?
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I could see enough House Rs defecting to the Left, and helping it along
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:37 AM (AOsQT)
Resist the courts, but do it intelligently, not brashly… he has a great team around him… listen to them… sloooow rolling IS an option.. they do it all the time.Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2025 07:43 AM (PCK5/)
14 Trump dared people to call him out over this kid. Because no one would be dumb enough to go there. Not with this kid involved.
And then MSNBC's Nicole Wallace took the bait hook, line and sinker. The kid's battling cancer. Could she be more tone deaf:
"I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide," Wallace said. "And I hope he isn’t one that has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald Trump pardon those people."Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 07:43 AM (Gqoy+)
15 So the retard Tom Nichols characterizes the exalting of the Secret Service Cancer Kid as a Kobiyashi Maru moment.
That revelation of Tom Nichols' soul is indistinguishable from that of a demon.
Their hatred of DJT, MAGA, this country, etc. Is so great that they can't compartmentalize it and find room to encourage others struggling with cancer.... because demons celebrate cancer, sickness and death (ref: Covid and the mRNA kill shots)
To call it a Kobiyashi Maru moment is to tell those dealing with cancer that they are invisible - absolutely no care at all for those in need of healing or support.
That is not a psychopath's response, that is a demon's.Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 06, 2025 07:44 AM (a4flb)
16 ...his yammering and rude interruptions may bring about a vote of censure...
Oh, no, censure... remember when Republicans helped Democrats expel a Republican for, IIRC, "campaign lies".Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 07:45 AM (ExV1e)
17 Their hatred of DJT, MAGA, this country, etc. Is so great that they can't compartmentalize it and find room to encourage others struggling with cancer
I can't do tiny url here, but go to the Babylon Bee and look for "Trump Is Doing The Right Thing, But He’s Doing It As Trump, Which Means It’s Still Bad"Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 07:47 AM (svLOV)
18 On that SCOTUS order.
It was procedural. SCOTUS sent it back to have the lower court distinguish on the record which payments were for services already rendered. Alito went DEFCON in dissent.
I do worry about Roberts and Octomom but am hopeful this is a nothingburger and it will come out right.
Roberts and Comey were on the right side of the anti-Chevron doctrine case which is a promising tell.Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 07:47 AM (Gqoy+)
19 > I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide,"
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has that woman given any thought to the motives for those suicides, or is she making assumptions that support her biases?Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:47 AM (AOsQT)
20 A fine day to curse the sky as you shovel snow.Posted by: *_- at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (44D8d)
21 Worth Reading. Down But Not Out ~ Turley
https://tinyurl.com/3jxmv3x9
I don't pretend to understand all the machinations of the legal Rube Goldberg machine, so I'll keep my hair unlit for a tad longer.Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (UJ+K5)
22 I believe the ActBlue Story - the one at the top of your list - is going to end up being the biggest story/scandal you cover today, and may end up being the reveal that finally kills the Dem party.
The only way lawyers and directors run away from something that big, that fast, is if they know there are criminal charges coming for anyone still there.
Specifically, I think it will be revealed that ActBlue has been taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the Chinese, the Iranians, and others, laundering it to appear to be small donor contributions, and using that money to finance the Dem party across the country.Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (34LIQ)
23 has that woman given any thought to the motives for those suicides, or is she making assumptions that support her biases?
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:47 AM (AOsQT)
The second part.Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (cr6yl)
24 My advice to Democrats For Trump's next speech would be to Give AL Green the gay bath house urinal cake to chew on instead of Malig-Nancy Pelosi.
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I'm not gonna ask what a gay bath house urinal cake is. Huh-uh, no waaaay.Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)
25 What has ActBlue done?
You mean, other than knowingly accept donations from foreign sources? Maybe while engaging in identity theft, replacing foreign donors with American names without the knowledge of the Americans? Fail to accurately report donation info?
Maybe those kinds of things.Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (Ki5ky)
26 So the qustion is, does PTOUS Trump have the wherewithal, from a technical/practical standpoint to ignore the ruling and simply cut off the funding?
Another possibility I've seen raised is the requirement of an injunction bond. My guess would be that plaintiffs would say "never mind". That wouldn't answer the underlying "legal" questions but it would let us move past this instance of BS.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)
27 Colorado Kills Again
The remains of an Indiana man who was last seen hiking in Mesa Verde National Park in January 2024 were found Friday during an off-trail grid search of the park.
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:51 AM (AOsQT)
28 24 My advice to Democrats For Trump's next speech would be to Give AL Green the gay bath house urinal cake to chew on instead of Malig-Nancy Pelosi.
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I'm not gonna ask what a gay bath house urinal cake is. Huh-uh, no waaaay.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)
If you saw her face during the speech, then you know.Posted by: Roy at March 06, 2025 07:51 AM (z+ik4)
29 The Supreme Court sided with a district court judge Wednesday who had ruled the Trump administration could not stop $2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) payments to intended recipients.
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How much of that $2B has already been disbursed to USAID for these "payments?"
Give us a number. Then, show us on the screen who got how much and when. Have them bring their receipts for the work.
All of that above is bullshit. There are no receipts and nobody can accurately show where the money went. And how does one demonstrate that they "consulted" on X, Y or Z to the tune of $149M or whatever?
Maybe that's what the administration and SCOTUS should delve into and hash out? Presuming the court's not interested in the Constitutional provisions of the Chief Executive's power of the purse.Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)
30 OT: I've seen three drivers clearly run red lights and two run stop signs in just the past two weeks. And I'm not on the road that much. Such flagrant disregard of traffic laws! This is in a town of 150,000.
Hey! Be careful out there!Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 06, 2025 07:52 AM (2EDzv)
31 stay on the pathPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:52 AM (AOsQT)
32 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 07:52 AM (77rzZ)
33 has that woman given any thought to the motives for those suicides, or is she making assumptions that support her biases?
You have heard of the phrase spoken when it seems that ungifted/unqualified people are quickly raised up through the ranks of success.
"They sold their soul to the Devil"
And when Senator Spartacus took credit for characterizing the lock-step "Resistance" as "I am Legion", their dark spiritual allegiances are no longer hidden - they are just conduits for the demons within.
May also explain the word salads when asked direct questions: I'm not sure that demons are gifted in eloquent speech.Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 06, 2025 07:53 AM (a4flb)
34 Amy Coney Barrett. I did my research when Trump was in the selection process. She was a mousy academic with zero actual trial experience and only circumstantial evidence suggested she was conservative. She's Catholic and has a bunch of adopted kids from around the world, and that was about it. The few interviews or speaking events with her I could dig up were entirely unimpressive. I also sensed from her body language that she had nothing but elitist disdain for President Trump.
M choice was Raymond Kethledge, a proven conservative who made his bones in case after case. He also seemed to be an eminently decent guy and authored of a very interesting book on solitude and leadership. But of course there was no chance Trump wouldn't choose a woman.
Hopefully Trump will get another appointment, and we'll survive the mousy equivocator and Robert's little acolyte Barrett.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 07:54 AM (ZlOcj)
35 24 I'm not gonna ask what a gay bath house urinal cake is. Huh-uh, no waaaay.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)
A urinal cake is just a disc of camphor placed in a urinal to eliminate the urine odor. I added gay bath house for a bit of, er, rhetorical flavor.Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 07:54 AM (x0n13)
36 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ Feb 6
WATCH: New video of the bomb explosion after KF-16 fighter jet accidentally dropped 8 bombs in residential area in Pocheon, South Korea earlier today. At least 15 injured.
https://x.com/AZ_Intel_/status/
1897558337455051161
9 seconds; no visible gore/human damage; sorry, Cloudflare is effing-up the main URL shorteners out there, for me at least, this morning.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 07:55 AM (/tzYP)
37 They're digging deeper and leaking drip by drip ....
Kamala's hand in the cookie jar.
It's in the NY Post so it must be true:
John Podesta $375B EPA slush fund gave billions to newly-formed charities
"In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filing"Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 07:55 AM (Gqoy+)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)
39
Maybe that's what the administration and SCOTUS should delve into and hash out? Presuming the court's not interested in the Constitutional provisions of the Chief Executive's power of the purse.
Clearly the women on the SCOTUS hate the Constitution and prefer to exercise Female Prerogative on matters that involve any form of conflict.
The XX chromosome set expect to win every argument, no matter how insane, whether at home or on the highest court. Ask any married man how this mechanism works.Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 06, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)
40 Victor Davis Hanson:Trump pressured NATO, armed Ukraine, and imposed tough policies on Russia, while Europe postures without action—leaving real deterrence to the U.S.
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Amazing, isn't it? Democrats refuse to admit any of this, that Trump armed Ukraine when Obama refused, that Trump pressured NATO to itself rearm and to contribute weapons to Ukraine in hopes of preventing an escalation from Russia, when Biden just went ahead and invited Russia to invade.Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 07:56 AM (vbMG5)
41 36 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ Feb 6
WATCH: New video of the bomb explosion after KF-16 fighter jet accidentally dropped 8 bombs in residential area in Pocheon, South Korea earlier today. At least 15 injured.
https://x.com/AZ_Intel_/status/
1897558337455051161
9 seconds; no visible gore/human damage; sorry, Cloudflare is effing-up the main URL shorteners out there, for me at least, this morning.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 07:55 AM (/tzYP)
What's this button do ?Posted by: DEI hire at March 06, 2025 07:57 AM (UJ+K5)
42 A urinal cake is just a disc of camphor placed in a urinal to eliminate the urine odor. I added gay bath house for a bit of, er, rhetorical flavor.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 07:54 AM (x0n13)
I love peeing on ice like they have in nice steakhouses.Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 07:57 AM (gbOdA)
43 A urinal cake is just a disc of camphor placed in a urinal to eliminate the urine odor. I added gay bath house for a bit of, er, rhetorical flavor.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 07:54 AM (x0n13)
I think most every men's room in America has scrawled somewhere on its walls advice to some disfavored ethnic group not to eat the urinal cake.Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 07:57 AM (ZlOcj)
44 Where be Tom Homan and his fat bald headed ass at? He ain't be doing nuttin.Posted by: Maxine Waters, Ghetto Booty at March 06, 2025 07:57 AM (EEZHI)
45 A urinal cake is just a disc of camphor placed in a urinal to eliminate the urine odor. I added gay bath house for a bit of, er, rhetorical flavor.
Luv ya, JJ, but really... the word "flavor" should be nowhere near the words "urinal cake"Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 06, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)
46 I saw Gay Bath House Urinal Cake open up for Erasure and Boy George at the Palladium in April '84.Posted by: I Stand with No One at March 06, 2025 07:59 AM (1tjz1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)
48 I think Progressives overstep, realize it, and step back -- temporarily. Bill Clinton: "The age of big government is over." Hah! Look at us now. Charting the Progress: gays are okay, gay marriage is okay, trans is okay, in girl's spaces is okay, "Whoops!", better pull back on that ... for now. Repubs need to win Bigly in the 2026 elections to codify changes in the law.Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 06, 2025 07:59 AM (2EDzv)
49 It seems to me that there are far too many women on the Supreme Court.
Oops, forgot for a second there that I’m not a biologist. Never mind.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 07:59 AM (77rzZ)
50 Hey! Be careful out there!
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[starts playing Hill Street Blues theme music]
Also, SCTV's Benny Hill Street Blues...
https://is.gd/PNBoPl
2:26 minutes; just got through at the shortener!Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:00 AM (/tzYP)
51 "Specifically, I think it will be revealed that ActBlue has been taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the Chinese, the Iranians, and others, laundering it to appear to be small donor contributions, and using that money to finance the Dem party across the country."
Isn't this how Obama raised his money?Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 08:00 AM (Gqoy+)
52 And then MSNBC's Nicole Wallace took the bait hook, line and sinker. The kid's battling cancer. Could she be more tone deaf:
"I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide," Wallace said. "And I hope he isn’t one that has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald Trump pardon those people."
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 07:43 AM (Gqoy+)
She forgot to mention the four police officers Joe Biden repeatedly told me were killed on J6! Joe will take away her Official Trump Is A 34-Time Felon Club Platinum-Level Membership Card! Serves her right!Posted by: A Patriotic Democrat! at March 06, 2025 08:00 AM (aBgBM)
53 "Trump to revoke legal status of 240K+ Ukrainians who fled to the US: Report"Posted by: runner at March 06, 2025 08:00 AM (g47mK)
54 The pace of disclosures is slowing down at DOGE, and elsewhere. I wish the blitz would be maintained at the initial frenetic pace.
But then, I wanted a pony this Christmas, too.Posted by: MkY at March 06, 2025 08:01 AM (cPGH3)
55 That’s right. Davidson didn’t make any attempt to show that the pamphlet, “The Five Myths About Israel Perpetrated by the Pro-Hamas Left” (which I wrote), was wrong. It didn’t encourage students to engage in mutually respectful discussion of the issues at hand. Instead, according to YAF’s communications chief Spencer Brown, it claimed that merely by making the pamphlet available to Davidson students, YAF members were guilty of “harassment.”
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This is happening at Davidson?!
WTF is wrong with North Carolina these days?Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 08:01 AM (vbMG5)
56 They're digging deeper and leaking drip by drip ....
Kamala's hand in the cookie jar.
So calling Kamala "the border czar" was just a misdirection since calling her "the graft and corruption czar" would have been too honest.Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 06, 2025 08:01 AM (a4flb)
57 "In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filing"
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Apparently, a bunch of the [enviro?] charities had also been existence for a month or so before getting their handouts.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:01 AM (/tzYP)
58 55
This is happening at Davidson?!
WTF is wrong with North Carolina these days?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 08:01 AM (vbMG5)
Universities, medical centers, and New Englanders…Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2025 08:03 AM (PCK5/)
59 lots and lots of fraud with Not For Profits - across many statesPosted by: runner at March 06, 2025 08:03 AM (g47mK)
60 48 I think Progressives overstep, realize it, and step back -- temporarily. Bill Clinton: "The age of big government is over." Hah! Look at us now. Charting the Progress: gays are okay, gay marriage is okay, trans is okay, in girl's spaces is okay, "Whoops!", better pull back on that ... for now. Repubs need to win Bigly in the 2026 elections to codify changes in the law.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 06, 2025 07:59 AM (2EDzv)
Image of FDR being shoved off a cliff in a wheelchair (with Paul Rino in his lap)Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)
61 has that woman given any thought to the motives for those suicides, or is she making assumptions that support her biases?
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My biases lead me to think it is more plausible that the J6 police suicides were 'suicides' caused by a desire to tell the truth and go against the narrative built by Pelosi, Cheney et al. But the press has been silent on investigating this disturbing number of suicides, so there is really no real information to base a hypothesis. Other than the 'curious case of the dog that didn't bark'.Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2025 08:03 AM (Dv3i1)
62 The pace of disclosures is slowing down at DOGE, and elsewhere. I wish the blitz would be maintained at the initial frenetic pace.
Andy Warhol mused about a person's Fifteen Minutes of Fame.
In Babylon DC nooz cycles, you get a fortnight of hair on fire before the next two-week distraction.Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 06, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)
63 On TV, I heard someone with a little juice has called for the Department of Justice to look into who was making the decisions for the Biden administration because he was incapable. If he didn't make the decisions, especially the ones that were the most radical from any president ever, they should be voided including the pardons.Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2025 08:03 AM (etfMH)
64 57 Dead giveaway something's not right when the $7 billion gets cashed at the check cashing place next door to the weave and nail salon.Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 06, 2025 08:04 AM (gm9Sb)
65 This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes.
Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden’s massive climate slush funds.
Kamala Harris and Biden’s EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7 billion total to the suddenly created Climate United Fund in April 2024 after it launched just five months earlier in November 30, 2022 when Its tax returns show it started with a tiny $547K in revs.
But it spent a massive $451K of that $547k in just two months in 2023, a quarter of that on legal fees and the majority $323K mysteriously blown on no one knows what because its tax returns don’t say.Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2025 08:04 AM (etfMH)
66 The Bill Murray story is interesting. Has he ever expressed any political views before?Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:05 AM (77rzZ)
67 Starship test flight 8 scheduled for later today.Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 08:05 AM (vbMG5)
68 >"In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland,...
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Bethesda MD is home to many wealthy and powerful Democrats
members of Congress
justice officials
lobbyists
super-lawyers
that $7B greased a lot of palmsPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:05 AM (AOsQT)
69 Rubio is not rising. He is there to execute Trump's vision, not forge his own. He is Nikki Haley Redux and should do quite well for himself. He is MAGA of convenience, have no illusions.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 08:05 AM (Hpe9G)
70 More background from earlier:
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 10h
NBN News Agency: At around 10 a.m. today, a report was received that a “shell had fallen” on a civilian home in Nogok-ri, Idong-myeon, Pocheon City, Gyeonggi Province.
So far, seven people have suffered moderate to severe injuries, and several village buildings have been damaged.
Fire authorities suspect that the accident was caused by an unintended explosion from a fighter jet during military training and are currently investigating the exact cause.
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_
Yonhap on fallen shell in Pocheon, South Korea: "As a result of this incident, seven civilian homes, including a church building, were damaged, and casualties occurred. Fire authorities have confirmed that seven people have been injured so far, including four with serious injuries and three with minor injuries."Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:06 AM (/tzYP)
71 49 It seems to me that there are far too many women on the Supreme Court.
That's ok.
Most of them have three names, so that makes it all good.Posted by: Or at least a lot of syllables at March 06, 2025 08:06 AM (DobEs)
72 Amazing, isn't it? Democrats refuse to admit any of this, that Trump armed Ukraine when Obama refused, that Trump pressured NATO to itself rearm and to contribute weapons to Ukraine in hopes of preventing an escalation from Russia, when Biden just went ahead and invited Russia to invade.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Huh, kind of makes you think that they wanted this war.Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2025 08:06 AM (Dv3i1)
73 "Trump to revoke legal status of 240K+ Ukrainians who fled to the US: Report"
The narrative should be framed in that Trump is helping Ukraine field more of their own soldiers and comfort girls.
What good are munitions unless Ukrainian blood is spilled in the use of them? Right Lindsey Graham and Liz Cheney?Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 06, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)
74 @54 Look at @37
Not everything is DOGE. I believe that Musk is sawing women in half to buy time for the Big Revelations to come. Tulsi is running the NSA which has hoovered up every byte on the internet. Imagine what AI can do with that? But it will take some time to sift through oceans of data.Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 08:06 AM (Gqoy+)
75 And when Senator Spartacus took credit for characterizing the lock-step "Resistance" as "I am Legion", their dark spiritual allegiances are no longer hidden - they are just conduits for the demons within.
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I still can't believe he used that phrase. A Freudian slip? Let the cat out of the bag? Or he's too stupid to know its origins. What a poor, poor choice of words.Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 08:06 AM (qBdHI)
76 >My biases lead me to think it is more plausible that the J6 police suicides were 'suicides' caused by a desire to tell the truth and go against the narrative built by Pelosi, Cheney et al.
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ding ding dingPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:07 AM (AOsQT)
77 Dead giveaway something's not right when the $7 billion gets cashed at the check cashing place next door to the weave and nail salon.
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No, those places require real ID, bill.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:07 AM (/tzYP)
78 Where does Tom Nichols talk about kobiyashi maru?Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 08:07 AM (34LIQ)
79 > "Specifically, I think it will be revealed that ActBlue has been taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the Chinese, the Iranians, and others, laundering it to appear to be small donor contributions, and using that money to finance the Dem party across the country."
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Months ago I came across a website that allowed you to query a database that held political donations by citizens. You could query by zip code, among other things.
I queried my zip code. There was only one Democrat aligned entity that collected the majority of donations... ActBlue. And many of the small, odd amounts were from the same couple individuals. Like, paying a recurring subscription... but seriously odd amounts and none higher than $50.Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2025 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)
80 >>Apparently, a bunch of the [enviro?] charities had also been existence for a month or so before getting their handouts.
That could turn out to be one of the biggest scandals. These last minute charities that no real history of doing anything and particularly not in the areas they received these last minute grants appear to be nothing more than devices to engage in massive money laundering of our tax dollars.
I have a suspicion this has been going on for years.Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2025 08:08 AM (LkLld)
81 76 >My biases lead me to think it is more plausible that the J6 police suicides were 'suicides' caused by a desire to tell the truth and go against the narrative built by Pelosi, Cheney et al.
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ding ding ding
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:07 AM (AOsQT)
Remember: Murder is merely extroverted suicide.Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)
82 WTF is wrong with North Carolina these days?
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Too many people fleeing blue states because they like being able to own a home and then getting upset that the place they move to is not like where they fled from.Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 08:08 AM (svLOV)
83 "In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filing"
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Jerry, I stepped in it big time, they're auditing the Human Fund!
- George CostanzaPosted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2025 08:09 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 06, 2025 08:09 AM (VF09B)
85 Isn't this how Obama raised his money?
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 08:00 AM (Gqoy+)
Yes
Mainly terrorist countries moneysPosted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)
86 Without getting raked over the coals. Why are we laying off entire departments like the VA when we don’t know what is actually going on in them yet. I can see getting rid of dead weight and I’m sure there is lots of it but doge is scaring the crap out of veterans who already know there isn’t competent help but now no help at all.Posted by: Jaimo at March 06, 2025 08:09 AM (BCuCF)
87 The Bill Murray story is interesting. Has he ever expressed any political views before?
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If he's a hard leftist, I don't want to know because I like him too much. I have to imagine he leans that way, because don't they all? I also thought he had one of those punk antifa creeps for a son, but my memory isn't always accurate!Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)
88 what happens in Texas when some Rep dies? Does the governor get to appoint a new one? If so, Abbot ought to appoint a Republican.Posted by: jeff at March 06, 2025 08:10 AM (ZiwLX)
89 President Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at abolishing the Education Department, according to people briefed on the matter.
https://tinyurl.com/2scft7z6Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 08:10 AM (UJ+K5)
90 62 The pace of disclosures is slowing down at DOGE, and elsewhere. I wish the blitz would be maintained at the initial frenetic pace.
Musk warned us to hit hard and fast because the opportunity would soon slip by. The GOP will never hit hard and fast at anything. Not who they are.Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (ZlOcj)
91 Today is National Oreo Day.Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (NpAcC)
92 Just a reminder, in retaliation for the bombing of Abbey Gate, the Biden Administration blew up a bus full of innocent civilians.
Yet, for some reason, that act has been memory holed.
Amazing, isn't it?Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (tT6L1)
93 Check out Amy Barrett's body language here before Trump's speech: https://tinyurl.com/33tszyhz (she looks disgusted by Trump)
Ooooh.....very uncomfortable! She knew the USAID decision was coming out today.
I don't think that look had anything to do with the decision. He disgusts her, and I am surprised it showed so much.
I’ve been teaching nonverbal communication for decades and I’ve never seen anything like this. Had I been in her position, I’d have put on my fake smile. I think she hates him.
I think she's personally repulsed by HIM, but loves what he's doing to the country. Kavanaugh doesn't like him, either.
Looks to me like he bypassed shaking hands with her to "gladhand" Brett Kavanaugh instead. I imagine she noticed the disrespect.
ACB was placed on the SC for her position on abortion. She was not a Trump loyalist. She is more a McConnell type.
Trump cannot depend upon her in every instance, although she did vote for his immunity. I'm not saying she's one of us, but she'll stray from the Trump cult more often than they want.Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
95 In certain circles, the ATF is ANYTHING but forgotten.
They wanted me to register as a dealer because I restored more than one Garand in a six month period.
Yeah, a hobby restoring three what are now basically antique firearms is a business according to the ATF. And this was before Joey Sponge Brain.Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (LVjsR)
96 Morning. We're getting some much needed rain here in the high desert.
Very cool stuff.
Thanks again for all your work, J.J.Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (tT6L1)
97 Why is that Amy Barrett lady worthy of three names and I'm not?Posted by: Neil McGill Gorsuch at March 06, 2025 08:12 AM (DobEs)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 08:12 AM (uLKZx)
99 Funds for... Humans.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:12 AM (/tzYP)
100 I'm like 90% sure Booker didn't use the "I am Legion" thing to describe his messaging for the Dems in their word for word repetition of the same message in videos. I actually think that bit originated with me specifically in describing it rather than anything they were tone-deaf enough to say. That said, it's plausible enough that I'm not sure the joke isn't real at this point, so I could be wrong.Posted by: American Hawkman at March 06, 2025 08:12 AM (9VDxG)
101 Does abolishing dept of Education affect the most powerful union in the land - the Teachers Union ? somebody give me some knowledge.Posted by: runner at March 06, 2025 08:12 AM (g47mK)
102 87 LiB, I agree. I like Bill Murray, too, which is why I find his remarks about Woodward encouraging.
And, yes, sadly, I believe that his son was/is BLM or Antifa.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:12 AM (77rzZ)
103 “A remarkable public servant who impacted millions of people,” Whitmire said. “He rose from poverty but never forgot where he came from. It is a terrible loss for the city and a personal loss for me. I ask Houstonians to celebrate his life.”
Sylvester was a sleazy slimey scumbag.
Mayor Sylvester Turner is under heavy scrutiny after the revelation he triggered the creation of a $95,000 a year, publicly funded internship at the Houston Airport System for recent law graduate Marvin Agumagu.Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)
104 I prefer Golden Oreos to the regular ones that make a mess of your teethPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:13 AM (AOsQT)
105 I queried my zip code. There was only one Democrat aligned entity that collected the majority of donations... ActBlue. And many of the small, odd amounts were from the same couple individuals. Like, paying a recurring subscription... but seriously odd amounts and none higher than $50.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2025 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)
They were safe as long as the controlled the DOJ and the FBI, which guaranteed no investigations, no enforcement. Looks like they’ve realized that time is up. Might have been Kash’s confirmation that did it.Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 08:13 AM (34LIQ)
106 97 Why is that Amy Barrett lady worthy of three names and I'm not?
Posted by: Neil McGill Gorsuch
Hell if I know.Posted by: John Glover Roberts at March 06, 2025 08:14 AM (DobEs)
107 morning horde,
is it monday again? it feels like a monday again....
seems the work gods have decided that the first quarter of 2025 is going to be at least 6 months of mondays.
off to the content while I can.Posted by: Sturmtoddler at March 06, 2025 08:14 AM (nXhwP)
108 91 Today is National Oreo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (NpAcC)
You misspelled NabiscoPosted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)
109 Without getting raked over the coals. Why are we laying off entire departments like the VA when we don’t know what is actually going on in them yet. I can see getting rid of dead weight and I’m sure there is lots of it but doge is scaring the crap out of veterans who already know there isn’t competent help but now no help at all.
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I'd really like some more insight into this too. Mr. Black, who does not follow politics, has now gotten wind of the job cuts to the VA and forestry and asked me why Trump is cutting so many of those jobs. I didn't have enough info, tbh. Is it bloat like administrative and diversity officer type junk? Is it the excess that came on board when Biden had his Fed hiring explosion the past 4 years? I'd just like some more clarity and/or specifics here.Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 08:14 AM (qBdHI)
110 Without getting raked over the coals. Why are we laying off entire departments like the VA when we don’t know what is actually going on in them yet.
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I've seen that it's 80,000 out of 400,000 employees so not the bloodbath the Left [that hasn't cared about crappy VA care for, well, ever] is alleging.
[No sarc meant.]Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:14 AM (/tzYP)
111 Just a reminder, in retaliation for the bombing of Abbey Gate, the Biden Administration blew up a bus full of innocent civilians.
Yet, for some reason, that act has been memory holed.
Amazing, isn't it?
Posted by: blake
Obola droned a wedding.Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2025 08:15 AM (nFDf9)
112 >Why is that Amy Barrett lady worthy of three names and I'm not?
Posted by: Neil McGill Gorsuch
Hell if I know.
Posted by: John Glover Roberts
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Beats me.
-Don Danger BlackPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:15 AM (AOsQT)
113 69 Rubio is not rising. He is there to execute Trump's vision, not forge his own. He is Nikki Haley Redux and should do quite well for himself. He is MAGA of convenience, have no illusions.
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 08:05 AM (Hpe9G)
He thirsty.Posted by: bottle of water at March 06, 2025 08:16 AM (YtQZg)
114
Reconstituted wallpaper paste smeared between two charcoal discs.
If it weren't for their durability and portability they would have long ago been left in the dustbin of snack food history.Posted by: Disgusting excuse for a cookie at March 06, 2025 08:16 AM (DobEs)
115 Murray’s comments aren’t really political; just said that he knew Belushi personally, knew details that were never made public, and that when he started to read Woidward’s book about Belushi he realized it was all made up bullshit.
So then he started to wonder “wow, did Woodward do the same thing to Nixon?”Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (34LIQ)
116 I believe I have this in the links.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
You do.
I scanned but missed it.Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (UJ+K5)
117 It seems to me that there are far too many women on the Supreme Court.
Let's see. Here is a list of the broads on the SCOTUS:
Elena Kagan
Sonia Sortofafatass
Amy Coney Octomom
Kunta Kinte Brown Jackson
Brett Kavanaugh
5 total.Posted by: Zombie Thurgood Marshall at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (EEZHI)
118
6h
NEWS: A man has been arrested for shooting, using Molotov cocktails in 2 separate incidents at a Salem, Oregon Tesla showroom that caused $500,000 in damages.
The 41-year-old man faces a federal charge of illegally possessing an unregistered destructive device
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people people people
ALWAYS register your destructive devicesPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)
119 “A remarkable public servant who impacted millions of people,” Whitmire said. “He rose from poverty but never forgot where he came from. It is a terrible loss for the city and a personal loss for me. I ask Houstonians to celebrate his life.”
Sylvester was a sleazy slimey scumbag.
Mayor Sylvester Turner is under heavy scrutiny after the revelation he triggered the creation of a $95,000 a year, publicly funded internship at the Houston Airport System for recent law graduate Marvin Agumagu.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)
He was only 70, aka 29+5. In recent pics he looked very bad, like a foot and a shoulder inside death's door.Posted by: Count de Monet at March 06, 2025 08:18 AM (Aqu9a)
120 Rubio has been extremely useful, so far.. useful people are, well, useful… Rubio knows who he works for.Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2025 08:18 AM (PCK5/)
121 NEWS: A man has been arrested for shooting, using Molotov cocktails in 2 separate incidents at a Salem, Oregon Tesla showroom that caused $500,000 in damages.
The 41-year-old man faces a federal charge of illegally possessing an unregistered destructive device
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people people people
ALWAYS register your destructive devices
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)
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Is there a spot on the form for "Molotov cocktails?"Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2025 08:18 AM (7fElN)
122 Reconstituted wallpaper paste smeared between two charcoal discs.
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Which is probably more nutritious than actual Oreos.Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 08:19 AM (qBdHI)
123 So then he started to wonder “wow, did Woodward do the same thing to Nixon?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (34LIQ)
That's "interesting"? It would be interesting if he came outright and said that Woodward is an ass-licking liar. Which of course he is. No, my standards for what constitutes interesting, that is, daring and truthful, are a lot higher.Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 08:19 AM (ZlOcj)
124 Without getting raked over the coals. Why are we laying off entire departments like the VA when we don’t know what is actually going on in them yet.
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I've seen that it's 80,000 out of 400,000 employees so not the bloodbath the Left [that hasn't cared about crappy VA care for, well, ever] is alleging.
[No sarc meant.]
Posted by: andycanuck
Is it actually 80,000 people? Or 80,000 positions?
Because those two numbers aren't necessarily the same. We always stay one to two people below our department number. Our director left three positions open one year because he knew a RIF was coming. He cut two positions without losing anyone.Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2025 08:20 AM (nFDf9)
125 I saw a tweet a few days ago about the expense involved and...
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 14h
Trump administration rethinking Guantánamo immigrant detention plan amid cost issues and power struggles. - NBC
Mar 5, 2025 · 11:02 PM UTC
Logan @locoLogie22 13h Replying to @AZ_Intel_
I saw a Laura Ingram clip where she went with Pete to Gitmo and saw a huge plane come in with only a handful to immigrants. They both knew this was an insane plan. They quickly moved on lol.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:21 AM (/tzYP)
126 people people people
ALWAYS register your destructive devices
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)
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See, now I'm confused. Does it become a destructive device before or after you light the rag?
And damn, from now on I'm using "light the rag" as a euphemism for something else.Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 06, 2025 08:21 AM (LVjsR)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:21 AM (/tzYP)
128 124
Is it actually 80,000 people? Or 80,000 positions?
Because those two numbers aren't necessarily the same. We always stay one to two people below our department number. Our director left three positions open one year because he knew a RIF was coming. He cut two positions without losing anyone.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2025 08:20 AM (nFDf9)
Nice point… eliminating positions does not automatically reduce the actual costs of a department…Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2025 08:21 AM (PCK5/)
129 people people people
ALWAYS register your destructive devices
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)
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Is there a spot on the form for "Molotov cocktails?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
AOW. $200.00 registration fee.
(Any Other Weapon)Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2025 08:22 AM (nFDf9)
130 Specifically, I think it will be revealed that ActBlue has been taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the Chinese, the Iranians, and others, laundering it to appear to be small donor contributions, and using that money to finance the Dem party across the country.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 07:49 AM (34LIQ)
And then Trump should announce that in keeping with precedent set by famed defender of democracy Romania, that he'll be removing all Democrats from office and arresting them.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)
131 I always have Molotov cocktails to wash down my urinal cake.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:22 AM (77rzZ)
132 WTF is wrong with North Carolina these days?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 08:01 AM (vbMG5)
Locusts.Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 06, 2025 08:24 AM (cr6yl)
133 The Democrats are getting topnotch PR advice
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/
1897638214174687633Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:24 AM (AOsQT)
134 125 I saw a tweet a few days ago about the expense involved and...
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 14h
Trump administration rethinking Guantánamo immigrant detention plan amid cost issues and power struggles. - NBC
Mar 5, 2025 · 11:02 PM UTC
Logan @locoLogie22 13h Replying to @AZ_Intel_
I saw a Laura Ingram clip where she went with Pete to Gitmo and saw a huge plane come in with only a handful to immigrants. They both knew this was an insane plan. They quickly moved on lol.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:21 AM (/tzYP)
Could be the admin is merely banking on the effect that "you could end up in Guantanamo" might have on illegals in terms of self-deportation.
But really, why would it be especially expensive compared to the ludicrous amount of money we spend on illegals, and now must spend to be rid of them?Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 08:25 AM (YtQZg)
135 So we've got the Deep State, left-wing judges, the Supreme Court, and congressional Republicans forming a confederacy to thwart Trump's agenda.
Seems familiar.Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 06, 2025 08:25 AM (DIweC)
136 I'd dure hate to see Nicole Wallace grow up, then take an international correspondent position, and then wind up covering a war funded by Democrats, and then commit suicide because she was traumatized by the carnage.Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 06, 2025 08:25 AM (2EDzv)
137 Throw the Gitmo vermin on a boat to Cuba..Posted by: tubal at March 06, 2025 08:25 AM (PCK5/)
138 I like the judge's ruling that Trump has to hire back the provisional employees fired.
As usual, he skipped past whether any of the parties had standing, whether there was any cause of action, whether there was any harm and went right to High Holy Scripture of Bureaucracy: Process
See, the OPM--Office of Personnel Management--isn't authorized for the "Management" part. It's really the Office of Personnel uh, records and stuff.
For reasons.
And the OPM memo that said, "cut cost" was totally an order to fire because saintly, dedicated, nonpartisan career bureaucrats said they took it that way.
And by the Holy Scripture of Bureaucracy, the OPM (personnel management) cannot technically order the firing of anyone.
Oh? Who runs the OPM? Who ordered the OPM to send that memo?
It's a real mystery.Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 08:26 AM (uLKZx)
139
Little did I realize the purchase and possession of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal from Myer's Hobby Shop in 1966 could put me on a terrorist watch list.Posted by: Auspex at March 06, 2025 08:26 AM (j4U/Z)
140 91 Today is National Oreo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
No! Don't honor those copycats and johnny-come-latelys.Posted by: Sunshine Hydrox at March 06, 2025 08:26 AM (G5+As)
141 67 Starship test flight 8 scheduled for later today.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 08:05 AM (vbMG5)
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6:30 PM Eastern. One-hour launch window. Go to utube about 6 pm Eastern to look for live streams. The SpaceX stream has the least jabber, by far.
A chopstick capture of the Souper Booster is planned. The upper stage Starship itself is again planned to do a vertical 'landing' in the Indian Ocean. It will soon sink but SpaceX hopes it stays afloat long enough to get good pictures of it's again-improved heat shield tiles and flexible thermal seals.
Starship launches will be late in the day US-time for a while - because it's daylight - for good photograpy - in the Indian Ocean when Starship 'lands' after one partial orbit.Posted by: Gref at March 06, 2025 08:27 AM (aBgBM)
142 Barrett was pushed out front by the GOPe. Trump had zero inkling as to who she was, other than a semi-attractive blonde with some sort of legal expertise who was purported to be "conservative."
Checked all the right boxes.
Got a nice black robe.
IMO she was a token female to offset the two male justices Trump was provided to appoint. Recall... Trump himself has said he didn't know how much of the political machinations worked at the time and took at face value many of the recommendations that came his way.Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2025 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)
143 VOTE!
"Elon Musk has asked Americans to vote on whether they'd like clocks to be permanently put forwards or backwards if daylight savings was abolished.
The billionaire First Buddy has advocated for 'canceling' daylight savings across the nation for months, on the back of a Trump campaign pledge to roll back the clock changes.
On Wednesday Musk shared a poll on X, asking participants: 'If daylight savings time change is canceled, do you prefer an hour earlier [or] an hour later.'
As of early Thursday, more than 1.1million people have responded to his poll in just 13 hours. "Posted by: runner at March 06, 2025 08:27 AM (g47mK)
144 My low-fo lib friend who learns about every Republican rest room foot tap and every time Trump farts or sneezes had ZERO idea Democrats didn't stand for DJ. In fact he swore read a story somewhere that Democrats stood for him.
Why does the media lie to everyone's face? Because it works.
He did vote for Trump though which shows how strong Trump is.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 08:27 AM (Hpe9G)
145 Is it actually 80,000 people? Or 80,000 positions?
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Just found this using Search at the news X account:
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 20h
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to cut over 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo. - AP
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 19h
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) on Veterans Affairs employees planning to be fired by Trump administration:
"Nothing says “thank you for your service” like firing 80,000 workers who provide critical services to our Veterans and their families."
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Mind you, the employees might actually be positions and the source or reporter used 'employees' incorrectly.
BTW, I'm touched by the Dims' concern for your veterans.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:28 AM (/tzYP)
146 North Carolina sent such remarkable statesmen as John Edwards to the senate. Before the locusts. Perhaps, we must consider the possibility that North Carolina has long, storied tradition of sucking.Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 08:28 AM (YtQZg)
147 Souper Booster? More coffee needed here, Boss!Posted by: Gref at March 06, 2025 08:28 AM (aBgBM)
148 Little did I realize the purchase and possession of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal from Myer's Hobby Shop in 1966 could put me on a terrorist watch list.
Posted by: Auspex at March 06, 2025 08:26 AM (j4U/Z)
Making a cannon?Posted by: Gorn Commander at March 06, 2025 08:29 AM (Aqu9a)
149 Who names a cookie "Hydrox" anyway? Sounds like a cleaning product.Posted by: Halfhand at March 06, 2025 08:29 AM (0vWlM)
150 Posted by: Zombie Thurgood Marshall at March 06, 2025 08:17 AM (EEZHI)
Yes. If only we could put a Margaret Thatcher type on SCOTUS instead of what we have.Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 06, 2025 08:30 AM (2EDzv)
151 Souper Booster? More coffee needed here, Boss!
Posted by: Gref at March 06, 2025 08:28 AM (aBgBM)
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I thought you were just using the AoS Style guide version of "sooper."Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 08:30 AM (tT6L1)
152 Barrett didn't only fool Trump.
I still laugh at all the people who make fun of how easily taken in Trump is but then turn around and think Rubio (for example) would make a great president or vice president.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 08:30 AM (Hpe9G)
153 Souper Booster sounds like the Campbell’s version of Hamburger Helper.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)
154 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.Posted by: Inogame at March 06, 2025 08:31 AM (53oGX)
155 Roberts. This man is the epitome of Deep State power. This country has suffered so much at the hand of this man.
I hope something happens to him to change his mind.
Barrett's judgment was always vulnerable to her nature .
I hate to say it but war is mans business.Posted by: pawn at March 06, 2025 08:31 AM (QB+5g)
156 Mark Schmitz’s son, Marine Lance Cpt. Jared Schmitz, was one of the thirteen American service members who were killed in the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) attack at Kabul’s Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. Mark Schmitz was thus watching President Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress with intense interest as Trump announced that Mohammad Sharifullah, who planned the jihad operation at Abbey Gate that day, had been arrested. To Schmitz’s shock, however, the Democrats in the audience didn’t seem in the least pleased at the news.Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2025 08:31 AM (etfMH)
157 I missed this the other day...
AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ Feb 24
View from Italian Air Force fighter jet escorting American Airlines flight following bomb threat.
The plane was traveling from New York to New Delhi and was diverted to Rome, Italy Sunday due to a bomb threat, which was ultimately deemed unfounded.
"Upon landing safely at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, the aircraft was inspected by Italian law enforcement and subsequently cleared," BNO News reported.
https://is.gd/mM7m22
49 seconds; LOUD engine noise.
If Anna Puma is here, what type is the escort fighter screen-right?Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:32 AM (/tzYP)
158 With all the money wasted on transsexual amoeba in Tanzania I'm certainly not going to kick up a fuss over dollars spent to move dangerous people out of the US.Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 08:32 AM (tT6L1)
159 Morning everyone, thx JJ.
Great article by Greenfield about ActBlue. I really hope that it blows apart into millions of pieces with the shrapnel taking out donor and Dems alike. That many lawyers fleeing signals bad time aheadPosted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2025 08:32 AM (2Km7O)
160 I hate to say it but war is mans business.
Posted by: pawn at March 06, 2025 08:31 AM (QB+5g)
And we're in a war, which they do not understand.Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 08:33 AM (ZlOcj)
161 what happens in Texas when some Rep dies? Does the governor get to appoint a new one? If so, Abbot ought to appoint a Republican.
Posted by: jeff at March 06, 2025 08:10 AM (ZiwLX)
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House seats are not appointed and require a special election. In Texas the special election is at the governor's discretion.Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:33 AM (NpAcC)
162
Time seems right now to confess to tying rocks to some M-80's Jimmy Bacoola brought back from Mississippi and dropping them over the side of a boat to kill Crappies.
Nixon was Presnit by then, so it was O.K., but probably a federal crime.Posted by: Auspex at March 06, 2025 08:33 AM (j4U/Z)
163 If Anna Puma is here, what type is the escort fighter screen-right?
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:32 AM (/tzYP)
Looks like a TyphoonPosted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 08:35 AM (UJ+K5)
Posted by: one hour sober at March 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Y1sOo)
165 God bless Rep. Thomas Massie.Posted by: 53 at March 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Vu7A1)
166 Ahoy! So Bill Kristol is now down to tranny advocacy to keep his grift going. Who is still paying that worm? Can't anyone in DC ever just go away quietly and live out their lives clipping coupons and getting in line at early bird specials?Posted by: Get Out Now! at March 06, 2025 08:36 AM (G5+As)
167 Why is that Amy Barrett lady worthy of three names and I'm not?
Posted by: Neil McGill Gorsuch
That’s a puzzler.
Posted by Rachael Wolfgang Maddow.
Posted by: MSNBC at March 06, 2025 08:37 AM (W2EWw)
168 Looks like a Typhoon
Posted by: jsg
164 @andy
Euro fighter
Posted by: one hour sober
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Thank you, both.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:37 AM (/tzYP)
169 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Canadian politicians wore pink to show their solidarity with Democrats
https://tinyurl.com/mwpr9wy4Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)
170 Something tells me Irving Kristol would be disappointed in his kid to the point of despondency.Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 06, 2025 08:37 AM (3Dcbq)
171 So Bill Kristol is now down to tranny advocacy to keep his grift going.
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"Addressing" the issues!Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:38 AM (/tzYP)
172 DJs dad is kinda my hero right now.Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 06, 2025 08:38 AM (/ncst)
173 what happens in Texas when some Rep dies? Does the governor get to appoint a new one? If so, Abbot ought to appoint a Republican.
Posted by: jeff at March 06, 2025 08:10 AM (ZiwLX)
No Representatives are appointed, ever. There must be a special election.
Also... Presler <-- 1 s, Abbott <-- 2 t's.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)
174 166 Ahoy! So Bill Kristol is now down to tranny advocacy to keep his grift going. Who is still paying that worm? Can't anyone in DC ever just go away quietly and live out their lives clipping coupons and getting in line at early bird specials?
Posted by: Get Out Now! at March 06, 2025 08:36 AM (G5+As)
I LOL'd when I saw it this morning. Good thing I wasn't taking a sip of coffee.
https://tinyurl.com/32j36fxnPosted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 08:39 AM (UJ+K5)
175 Just looked this up -
TX Gov Abbott to decide when a Special Election will be held to fill Rep Turner's now vacant seat for the unexpired term.
May 3rd - the next regular election day.
Nov 4th - the 2nd next regular election day if Gov Abbott waits until after late March to call it and misses the May 3rd window.
Anytime between May 3rd and Nov 4th for a Special Emergency Election one-off.Posted by: Count de Monet at March 06, 2025 08:39 AM (Aqu9a)
176 God bless Rep. Thomas Massie.
Posted by: 53 at March 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Vu7A1)
*******
I'm getting sick of his 100% purity crap.
If he can't get on board with Trump. He needs to go.Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)
177 FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!!!Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (P3X50)
178 I don’t get the three-name hate.
— Zombie Amos Alonzo StaggPosted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)
179 Isn't "Canadian Castro" supposed to be leaving office this month? Like, soon?Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)
180 Bill Kristol is definitely homo. Its the only reason ive seen that causes supposed conservatives to move left.Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (VofaG)
181 I heard the CBC started tap dance lessons.
Mammy!Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 06, 2025 08:41 AM (5tvqq)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:42 AM (AOsQT)
183 Isn't "Canadian Castro" supposed to be leaving office this month? Like, soon?
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Yes. The Liberal Party leadership vote is on March 9th.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:43 AM (/tzYP)
184 Only, umm, 3 names, (checks by counting on fingers) Yeah, three names?Posted by: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho at March 06, 2025 08:43 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: dantesed at March 06, 2025 08:43 AM (Oy/m2)
186 Italian jets story is two weeks old.Posted by: runner at March 06, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)
187 The Democrats are getting topnotch PR advice
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/
1897638214174687633
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:24 AM (AOsQT)
Failed the most basic test of advertising. I have no idea what they were saying beyond "we're a collection of idiot children".Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)
188 I'm getting sick of his 100% purity crap.
If he can't get on board with Trump. He needs to go.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)
I agreePosted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 06, 2025 08:45 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 08:45 AM (gbOdA)
190 X is a good source to poll the will of the people but I don't like polls and don't want it to be a controlling factor . Let it be a national referendum in November.Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 08:45 AM (VofaG)
191 Failed the most basic test of advertising. I have no idea what they were saying beyond "we're a collection of idiot children".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)
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Well, with Hogg in a leadership position....Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 06, 2025 08:45 AM (3Dcbq)
192 The Democrats are getting topnotch PR advice
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/
1897638214174687633
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:24 AM (AOsQT)
Failed the most basic test of advertising. I have no idea what they were saying beyond "we're a collection of idiot children".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)
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Checks the female, gay and lame boxes. So, probably a Disney production.Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 08:45 AM (tT6L1)
193 Bill Kristol is definitely homo. Its the only reason ive seen that causes supposed conservatives to move left.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (VofaG)
Yes. Too bad little Billy cannot come out at a time of his own choosing, instead of being wrenched from his closet, his voice cracking, his cheeks crimson with shame.Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at March 06, 2025 08:46 AM (EEZHI)
194 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ Feb 24
View from Italian Air Force fighter jet escorting American Airlines flight following bomb threat.Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:46 AM (/tzYP)
195 On Wednesday Musk shared a poll on X, asking participants: 'If daylight savings time change is canceled, do you prefer an hour earlier [or] an hour later.'
I better question would be "do you prefer real time, or imaginary time"?Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)
196 Two dead Congresscritters from one district in like 8 months. I'm not tossing my name in that hat.Posted by: Somewhat Informed Rumour Monger. at March 06, 2025 08:46 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)
198 Court of Appeals in DC found that Trump could fire Special Counsel Dellinger. That Court isn't too right wing . The SC decision yesterday wasn't that big a deal in my view (I know, I know) but this decision by the Court of Appeals will influence a lot of judges. It's breaking correctly folks it will just take some timePosted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2025 08:46 AM (2Km7O)
199 176 God bless Rep. Thomas Massie.
Posted by: 53 at March 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Vu7A1)
*******
I'm getting sick of his 100% purity crap.
If he can't get on board with Trump. He needs to go.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)
I'm fine with Massie's obstructionism.
His objection to the CR here is pretty much unobjectionable.Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 08:47 AM (YtQZg)
200 I always thought the three name thing for notorious people was so that people that share the name don't get mistaken. I'm sure there was some number of Lee Oswalds and John Gacy's in the world. I don't know I'm dumb sometimes. Well, all the time.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 08:47 AM (Hpe9G)
201 196 Two dead Congresscritters from one district in like 8 months. I'm not tossing my name in that hat.
Posted by: Somewhat Informed Rumour Monger. at March 06, 2025 08:46 AM (G5+As)
and both blackPosted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)
202 Morning JJ. Barett is pro life, about the only good thing we get out of her. But now she has become Roberts wing person.
Roberts is 70, and was hoping Trump's people could persuade him to retirePosted by: Jonah at March 06, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
203 Is Kristol pioneering the expansion of the term "fag hag" to include him?Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 06, 2025 08:47 AM (3Dcbq)
204 BBLPosted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:48 AM (/tzYP)
205 I saw Gay Bathhouse Urinal Cake open for Pat Boone in 59'Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 06, 2025 08:48 AM (5tvqq)
206 .
I agree. That Bad Orange President SHOULD pay $2 million a month until the $1.9 billion debt is discharged.Posted by: Marooned at March 06, 2025 08:48 AM (kt8QE)
207 200 That’s an interesting observation, Ellipsis.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)
208 D.C Court of Appeals is Dem 7-4. 3 Trumpers, and a moderate Bush 1 female Judge. so really 8-3Posted by: Jonah at March 06, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)
209 In fairness, if Massie were to go, are you really confident that the party apparatus that keeps McConnell in office would replace him with better? I actually like Massie, despite his occasional choice to vote in ways that make me want to tear my hair out for ideological reasons that I at least find respectable.Posted by: American Hawkman at March 06, 2025 08:49 AM (9VDxG)
210 The Democrats are getting topnotch PR advice
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/
1897638214174687633
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 08:24 AM (AOsQT)
It's designed to override or replace the imagery of Trump's Fight Fight Fight.
Not good. But I see what they're trying to do.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 08:50 AM (Hpe9G)
211 House seats are not appointed and require a special election. In Texas the special election is at the governor's discretion.
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Let's see if Abbott is awake yet.
He needs to state he will not set a special election until NY sets theirs.
I doubt it.
Abbott is GOPe scum and his stomping grounds were Houston.
He cares more about what the Democrats there think than he does about Republicans nationally.Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 08:50 AM (uLKZx)
212 Good morning JJ. I will assume that for those who did not grow up in NYC, your use of the phrase “Coney Island whitefish “ to describe our esteemed SCOTUS justice could be confusing. No fellow Morons, it’s not an actual fish.Posted by: RetsgtRN at March 06, 2025 08:51 AM (TtNSo)
213 BBL
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 06, 2025 08:48 AM (/tzYP)
Doing personal ads here now?Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 08:51 AM (Hpe9G)
214 When Ginsberg passed in the Fall of 2020, we needed a easy confirm. Goober Graham told Trump that they would not confirm a judge during lame duck. Trump could not afford another Kav type fight.
He had no choicePosted by: Jonah at March 06, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)
215 Good morning JJ and hordePosted by: Skip i at March 06, 2025 08:52 AM (fwDg9)
216 176 God bless Rep. Thomas Massie.
Posted by: 53 at March 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Vu7A1)
*******
I'm getting sick of his 100% purity crap.
If he can't get on board with Trump. He needs to go.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)
Sounds like you're demanding 100% purity.Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 08:52 AM (UJ+K5)
217 > I'm getting sick of his 100% purity crap.
If he can't get on board with Trump. He needs to go.
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I think Massie would rather the GOP actually do its job than take the easy way out and pass the millionth CR. A CR by the way that funds everything at 2024 levels and doesn't cut the prescribed 1% off the top.
He's not wrong. Stubborn, but not wrong.Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2025 08:52 AM (Q4IgG)
218 Earliest for a special election on the Dem TX house seat would be May 9.Posted by: Jonah at March 06, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)
219 Chicks on the bench- amirite?Posted by: Josephistan at March 06, 2025 08:53 AM (bHGBC)
220 Abbott is GOPe scum and his stomping grounds were Houston.
He cares more about what the Democrats there think than he does about Republicans nationally.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 08:50 AM (uLKZx)
I suppose that would be why he started shipping illegals to blue cities.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)
221 I'm getting sick of his 100% purity crap.
If he can't get on board with Trump. He needs to go.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)
Agreed. Time to get 'er done.Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 08:53 AM (ZlOcj)
222 God bless Rep. Thomas Massie.
Posted by: 53 at March 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Vu7A1)
*******
I'm getting sick of his 100% purity crap.
If he can't get on board with Trump. He needs to go.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)
I agree . Trump is the head of the Party and he has given no reason so far this term to outright oppose him. At some point you have to trust your leaders. We have momentum now in the war against the Left and internal division will only help to stop it. If you want to always act as an independent then become an Independent.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 08:54 AM (VofaG)
223
Next, Pierre Omidyar will have Bill Kristol fetch his shine box for a ceremonial shoe shining of the Black Congressional caucus's foot wear in an act of reconciliation.Posted by: Auspex at March 06, 2025 08:54 AM (j4U/Z)
224 '“Coney Island whitefish “
Pesky critters. When washed up, they tend to make their way under the boardwalk.Posted by: Ignoramus at March 06, 2025 08:54 AM (Gqoy+)
225 Trump posted his rational for not opposing the CR. It is until Sept. 25
The pubs have not finalized a bill.
With the CR passed Trump will then walk a bill through using reconsiliation
Full stop
Besides DODGE may need imput...Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 06, 2025 08:55 AM (5tvqq)
226 Sounds like you're demanding 100% purity.
Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 08:52 AM (UJ+K5)
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He's not a team player. I'm on Trump's team and want him to have people that help push his agenda through.Posted by: redridinghood at March 06, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
227 bbott is GOPe scum and his stomping grounds were Houston.
He cares more about what the Democrats there think than he does about Republicans nationally.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 08:50 AM (uLKZx)
I live in Texas and I find that statement ridiculous.Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 08:56 AM (VofaG)
228 Stay prayed up, indeed. Sage advice for all of us.
>>>I tell people all the time that I will never turn down prayer.
When Lil Pooky was being taken in for surgery, I felt so at peace. It was in God's hands, not mine, and I had a small army (the Horde, half our town, our families) praying for Lil Pooky. And he bounced back rather quickly.Posted by: pookysgirl, just trying to help at March 06, 2025 08:56 AM (+rc0V)
229 Shouldn't be up yet.
Read at Legalinsurrection.com another Judge now runs the Executive branch of the Federal government.
They should sit in on Cabinet meetings to tell everyone what they are going to do.Posted by: Skip i at March 06, 2025 08:56 AM (fwDg9)
230 .
What a mistake to abolish the Department of Education.
.
Instead, the queen bee, Linda McManhon should be retained whilst the rest should be put on unpaid permanent leave.Posted by: Marooned at March 06, 2025 08:57 AM (kt8QE)
231 100 % Purity Crap 💩
This is why we can't have nice things!Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 06, 2025 08:57 AM (5tvqq)
232 How much money does the Fed Gov spend on forced school busing? If anyPosted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 06, 2025 08:59 AM (5tvqq)
233 Ouch! That is a harsh sight that breaks upon us.
My monitors weep and cry. we were only meant for pixels they decry as as they falter and die.
Perhaps there is a place for our ghosts to see what was and is to come.
Gordon Lightfoot - Ghosts of Cape Horn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacnVUCoSygPosted by: somejoe at March 06, 2025 08:59 AM (RCAte)
Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)
235 200 I always thought the three name thing for notorious people was so that people that share the name don't get mistaken.
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Is this about me?Posted by: John Wilkes Booth at March 06, 2025 09:00 AM (DobEs)
236 What is it, then?
Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)
Condoms. Not in the packaging, ITKWIM.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)
237 ActBlue is larceny. They had my befuddled 90+ year old father on the hook for 'recurring donations'
Hated them ever since.Posted by: Aunt Ralph at March 06, 2025 09:00 AM (beqNd)
238 225 Trump posted his rational for not opposing the CR. It is until Sept. 25
The pubs have not finalized a bill.
With the CR passed Trump will then walk a bill through using reconsiliation
Full stop
Besides DODGE may need imput...
Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 06, 2025 08:55 AM (5tvqq)
And that's not a rationale that anyone should have any faith in, given that Republicans in Congress have shown no will to do any of this.
We'll do this down the road has become a GOP motto. Later never comes.
People claim to want change, but whenever anyone gums up the works, the same people then complain that those people should instead be more like John Cornyn.
Trump is many things. In charge of the GOP in Congress is not one of them though. Would that he were.Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 09:00 AM (YtQZg)
239 230 .
What a mistake to abolish the Department of Education.
.
Instead, the queen bee, Linda McManhon should be retained whilst the rest should be put on unpaid permanent leave.
Posted by: Marooned at March 06, 2025 08:57 AM (kt8QE)
I would say have McMahon hire Hillsdale College and Dennis Prayer to come up with mandatory national Curruiculum that prohibits the anti-American propaganda.
Then let the Lefties go ape.Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 09:00 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)
241 I always thought the three name thing for notorious people was so that people that share the name don't get mistaken.
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Is this about me?
Posted by: John Wilkes Booth at March 06, 2025 09:00 AM (DobEs)
John Wayne Gacey has entered the chat.Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 09:01 AM (VofaG)
242 ActBlue was being financed by the Communist Party of China via cc fraud
billions of dollars
everyone there has known for years, it's why they disabled standard locale checks
no one in the Derp State FBI would look into itPosted by: TallDave at March 06, 2025 09:01 AM (98TtQ)
243 I
Who is the guy on Rachel's knee in the pic up top? Is that the guy who got kicked out of Trump's speech?Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)
244 Fraud is such a harsh word.Posted by: Doodad Pro at March 06, 2025 09:03 AM (Hpe9G)
245 Technically I could use 5 names... My first and middle names, my maiden surname, my late first husband surname which I took when we married, and Hubbymayhem surname, which I took when we married.
My family name is well known in the community and tells others "who are your people?" before they ask.
My son has his father's surname (late first husband) which confuses people when they hear that Hubbymayhem and I have a different last name than the boy spawn. Hubbymayhem is his dad.
My daughter has Hubbymayhem surname. She was adopted from China and looks nothing like me so people get confused. I've heard people say, "she must look like her dad". Yup! His family was Lebanese! That explains everything!
Using three names seems kinda silly.
Using four names would be stupid.
Using five names is just unbearably pretentious and insane.
I shall continue to use my first name and Hubbymayhem surname. It suits me. And it fits on my drivers license.
First name: Madame
Surname: MayhemPosted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 06, 2025 09:04 AM (4XwPj)
246 I always thought the three name thing for notorious people was so that people that share the name don't get mistaken.
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What difference does it make !Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton at March 06, 2025 09:04 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: one hour sober at March 06, 2025 09:04 AM (Y1sOo)
248 Biomedical research should be focused on genetics and how that influences health risks and outcomes. The government, however, requires researchers to focus on human diversity not based on genetics, but on unscientific racial and ethnic classifications invented by the government in the 1970s for entirely different purposes. These classifications at best are weak proxies for genetic diversity, and more often are completely nonsensical. What do we learn by using data on “Hispanics,” who can be 100% European, 100% Indigenous, 100% African, or any combination? What does a study on “Hispanic” Cubans in Miami tell us about “Hispanic” Dominicans in New York? Or take the “Asian American” classification, which includes Caucasian South Asians, East Asians, and Filipino Austronesians, groups that have nothing more genetically in common with each other than any random humans.Posted by: SMOD at March 06, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)
249 Sniff...no comments on my post at 93? DU linked a video clip of ACB giving Trump the stink-eye right before his speech Tuesday...maybe there's some innocent reason, but it's not a look I'D want to receive from someone who's assistance I need.
https://tinyurl.com/33tszyhzPosted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2025 09:06 AM (JCZqz)
250 When I was on my "I, Claudius" kick in junior high, I was gonna name my first son after Claudius. That is, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)
251 I would like to say I don't like today's art thread selection.Posted by: The way Lefties think at March 06, 2025 09:07 AM (VofaG)
252 If I believe 10 things, and you agree with me on 7 of them, we can talkPosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 09:07 AM (AOsQT)
253 pro-phylactic or con-dom
I wish they'd pick a position and stick with it.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 06, 2025 09:04 AM (Y1sOo)
Condom isn't a positional statement. It means that submissive chicks like having sex with bad-boys.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)
254 Is de my middle name?Posted by: Count de Monet at March 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Aqu9a)
255 I would like to say I don't like today's art thread selection.
Posted by: The way Lefties think
It was chosen by Trump!!!! REEEEEEEEEE!!!Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)
256 @243,Bulg, yup the cave man Al GreenPosted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2025 09:08 AM (2Km7O)
257 I honestly never thought I would live to see a serious effort to eliminate the US Dept of Education. In this one aspect alone, President Trump has exceeded all of my expectations.Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 06, 2025 09:09 AM (paSBy)
258 >>>maybe there's some innocent reason, but it's not a look I'D want to receive from someone who's assistance I need.
Working theory: Trump crop-dusted her.Posted by: one hour sober at March 06, 2025 09:09 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 09:09 AM (uLKZx)
260 Sniff...no comments on my post at 93? DU linked a video clip of ACB giving Trump the stink-eye right before his speech Tuesday...maybe there's some innocent reason, but it's not a look I'D want to receive from someone who's assistance I need.
Nah...looks like she is just trying to hold one in and not crack ass.Posted by: Maxine Waters, Ghetto Booty at March 06, 2025 09:10 AM (EEZHI)
261 @252: I only talk to people who agree with me on 8 out of 10 things.Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2025 09:10 AM (2Km7O)
262 However, after 13 brain surgeries, he's survived the odds and, while he still suffers from some health issues, like advanced cataracts, and has dealt with terrible bullying in the past,
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Who would bully a kid with cancer? Ohhhhhh right. Never mind,Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 06, 2025 09:10 AM (/BeiT)
263 If I believe 10 things, and you agree with me on 7 of them, we can talk
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 09:07 AM (AOsQT)
just to talk? its only 5 for me.Posted by: The way Lefties think at March 06, 2025 09:11 AM (VofaG)
264 Is de my middle name?
Posted by: Count de Monet
You actually bring up an interesting point. The nobiliary particle "de" in Spanish is not considered part of the surname. In English (at least American English), we usually refer to the Spanish conquistador, and the car named after him, as "De Soto." But in Spanish, the surname is just "Soto."
The same is oftern true of "von" in German.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)
265 Sniff...no comments on my post at 93? DU linked a video clip of ACB giving Trump the stink-eye right before his speech Tuesday...maybe there's some innocent reason, but it's not a look I'D want to receive from someone who's assistance I need.
Lots of people on this very blog who cheer on the efforts of OMB every day nonetheless find him distasteful. Personally, I don't care for the argument that politicians should always act like proper plastic people but that's soothing for some. As long as she can put her personal feelings over Trump in a lockbox and rule on the actual facts then it doesn't matter how she feels.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)
266 Crap. Off Lefties sock.Posted by: The way Lefties think at March 06, 2025 09:12 AM (VofaG)
267 Two dead Congresscritters from one district in like 8 months. I'm not tossing my name in that hat.
Posted by: Somewhat Informed Rumour Monger
Texas politics: Full contact blood sport that plays for keeps.Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2025 09:12 AM (nFDf9)
268 Who would bully a kid with cancer? Ohhhhhh right. Never mind,
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
*shifty eyes*
-- David HoggPosted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)
269 pro-phylactic or con-dom
I wish they'd pick a position and stick with it.
Posted by: one hour sober
The dom subculture has always been a little off-putting to me, but when you see a busty gal in dom black leather with a riding crop...https://tinyurl.com/4xeyu54s
It makes you consider making an exception for Rule #1.Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 06, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)
270 Leaving the Department of Student Indoctrination will just turn it back to the Marxists someday.
Destroy itPosted by: Skip i at March 06, 2025 09:13 AM (fwDg9)
271 First name: Madame
Surname: Mayhem
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 06, 2025 09:04 AM (4XwPj)
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My daughter when she was married dropped her middle name, used her maiden surname for middle and adopted husband's surname as her surname.Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 09:13 AM (tT6L1)
272 As long as she can put her personal feelings over Trump in a lockbox and rule on the actual facts then it doesn't matter how she feels.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)
She demonstrated she can’t do that yesterday.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 06, 2025 09:14 AM (/BeiT)
273 I shall continue to use my first name and Hubbymayhem surname. It suits me. And it fits on my drivers license.
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Let's go back to the old ways.
John, son of John the carpenter of Belfast.Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 09:14 AM (uLKZx)
274 Who would bully a kid with cancer? Ohhhhhh right. Never mind,
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
*shifty eyes*
-- David Hogg
Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)
DJ could kick Hogg's ass.Posted by: The way Lefties think at March 06, 2025 09:14 AM (VofaG)
275 265 Sniff...no comments on my post at 93? DU linked a video clip of ACB giving Trump the stink-eye right before his speech Tuesday...maybe there's some innocent reason, but it's not a look I'D want to receive from someone who's assistance I need.
Lots of people on this very blog who cheer on the efforts of OMB every day nonetheless find him distasteful. Personally, I don't care for the argument that politicians should always act like proper plastic people but that's soothing for some. As long as she can put her personal feelings over Trump in a lockbox and rule on the actual facts then it doesn't matter how she feels.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)
The bitch was willing to be appointed by him. Her tremendous fucking sense of decorum didn't get in the way of that.Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 09:14 AM (YtQZg)
276 Great article by Greenfield about ActBlue. I really hope that it blows apart into millions of pieces with the shrapnel taking out donor and Dems alike. That many lawyers fleeing signals bad time ahead
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Money is the point! Ah who am I kidding, I wouldn't touch this skanky whore even with your dick.
- Saul GoodmanPosted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2025 09:15 AM (shH1w)
277 243: Yes. That's him.Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 09:15 AM (svLOV)
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 09:15 AM (AOsQT)
279 By the way, about the SCOTUS decision yesterday: It appears MSM is touting this as a loss for the Trump administration.
Since that's what MSM is claiming, we can be pretty sure what's being reported is 180 degrees from reality.Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 09:15 AM (tT6L1)
280 She demonstrated she can’t do that yesterday.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 06, 2025 09:14 AM (/BeiT)
The fact that you disagree with her doesn't make that statement true.
Now, I also happen to agree with the dissenters and thought that the larger question should have been settled immediately but some judges are weak-kneed.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:16 AM (ExV1e)
281 As long as she can put her personal feelings over Trump in a lockbox and rule on the actual facts then it doesn't matter how she feels.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
So...you're saying he's fucked. Damn. Joking aside, that's not a position I'd want to be in as president. Trusting judges to be fair and impartial, especially if they personally don't like me.Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 06, 2025 09:16 AM (JCZqz)
282 Lets try this again. off sock.Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 09:16 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 06, 2025 09:16 AM (Aqu9a)
284 I don't care if someone disagrees with me on all ten million things. I like listening to anyone. Unless they're a commie fag.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 09:17 AM (Hpe9G)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 06, 2025 09:18 AM (PzXaK)
286 Good to see Vance, Noem and Hegseth at Southern border. Crossings down 90%.
These are the results that have to be hammered home by the Republicans and TrumpPosted by: Smell the Glove at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (2Km7O)
287 I don't care if someone disagrees with me on all ten million things. I like listening to anyone. Unless they're a commie fag.
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 09:17 AM (Hpe9G)
You wouldn't last 30 seconds in a room with Hogg. But then again I guess he wold be a commie fag.Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (VofaG)
288 I don't care if someone disagrees with me on all ten million things. I like listening to anyone.
Posted by: ...
Carrots in chili!
Maple syrup on French toast!
9mm!
Longbow!
Maryanne!Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)
289 So I looked at the ACB footage linked. She doesn't look disgusted or amused or anything. Looks like she's cold, actually.Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (WPL6O)
290 >>Since that's what MSM is claiming, we can be pretty sure what's being reported is 180 degrees from reality.
When it comes to legal matters and how federal courts work I've found that Bill Shipley, aka @shipwreckedcrew on X is very good at explaining things. He's done a good job of explaining all the legal maneuvering that has been going on over the last couple of months and what we lay people think is going on is not always the case.
Not a defense of ACB at all but there is a bit more nuance going on with this case than it appears on the surface.Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (LkLld)
291 By the way, about the SCOTUS decision yesterday: It appears MSM is touting this as a loss for the Trump administration.
Since that's what MSM is claiming, we can be pretty sure what's being reported is 180 degrees from reality.
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Same way they have been touting all the other orders against him.
But no one has been hired back.
No agency has been re-opened.
No more money has gone out.
Weird.
They have Court Orders and everything.
The dog barks but the caravan keeps moving on.Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 09:20 AM (uLKZx)
292 Somebody pointed out that PDJT breezed past Amy to shake hands with one of the other Justices, which might account for some of it.Posted by: American Hawkman at March 06, 2025 09:20 AM (9VDxG)
293 Swift gate!
Travis Kelce Makes Bombshell Super Bowl Admission – He Wasn’t at His Best After Night Out With Taylor Swift
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I guess she's insatiable!Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 06, 2025 09:21 AM (L/fGl)
294 Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)
Good point. If we can't agree Julie Newmar was not only the best catwoman but is also a living goddess then yeah I have nothing to say to you.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 09:21 AM (Hpe9G)
295 Carrots in chili!
Maple syrup on French toast!
9mm!
Longbow!
Maryanne!
Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)
2/5 - F.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
296 I wonder if Amy Coney Barrett does butt stuff?Posted by: Guy Who Always Asks About The Butt Stuff at March 06, 2025 09:21 AM (EEZHI)
297 Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2025 09:19 AM (LkLl
Does Alito disagree with that maneuvering or is he in on the plan?Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 09:22 AM (VofaG)
298 shall continue to use my first name and Hubbymayhem surname. It suits me. And it fits on my drivers license.
There are various memes with the same general theme i like, where a rabid blue haired woman rants about her children taking her last name, and not the father's.
And then the giga-chad leans in and whispers "You mean they'll take their grandfather's name."Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 06, 2025 09:22 AM (JCZqz)
299 >So I looked at the ACB footage linked. She doesn't look disgusted or amused or anything. Looks like she's cold, actually.
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maybe that's just what her face looks likePosted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)
300 ACB is still a 1 in my book.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:23 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 06, 2025 09:24 AM (PzXaK)
302 Somebody pointed out that PDJT breezed past Amy to shake hands with one of the other Justices, which might account for some of it.
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I swear I saw him shake her hand; of every Justice there.
I thought it was the double-hand shake with her.
But maybe it was with Kavanaugh?Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 09:24 AM (uLKZx)
303 257 I honestly never thought I would live to see a serious effort to eliminate the US Dept of Education. In this one aspect alone, President Trump has exceeded all of my expectations.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist
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If DoE gets eliminated, maybe perhaps we can stop taxpayer funding of NPR?Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 06, 2025 09:24 AM (shH1w)
304 maybe that's just what her face looks like
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)
I had a manager tell me once that I always looked like I was filled with disdain for those around me. I asked if they'd considered that was just how I looked. They acknowledged that they hadn't.
Which deepened my disdain for them.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)
305 Two of the three Catwomen are still alive. Are any other Batman series villains still with us?Posted by: Zombie Mr. Freeze at March 06, 2025 09:25 AM (G5+As)
306 At one time, early in our marriage when people were still all "who?" when they heard my new surname I joked to Hubbymayhem that we should all just use my maiden name. He could use it, we could change the boy spawn to that last name, and any other kids we had would have that name too! Everyone would know who Hubbymayhem is! Everyone would know who the kids are! Simplify everything with this one cool trick!
Hubbymayhem was less than enthusiastic. But the great part was his first argument against this? It would disrespect my late first husband to change his son's surname!
Not hell no I'm not taking my wife's maiden name. Not don't be silly, woman! Just no, we will not disrespect the boy's biological father by eliminating his name.Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 06, 2025 09:25 AM (4XwPj)
307 289 So I looked at the ACB footage linked. She doesn't look disgusted or amused or anything. Looks like she's cold, actually.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Really? There were a couple possibilities bouncing around my head, but "being cold" wasn't in my universe of options to consider.Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 06, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)
308 Bony Carrot seems to be giving the same look to everybody. I don't see any personal animus toward Trump. Who knows.
Don't forget DU likes to run the clip of Melania smiling then Trump turns away from her and she scowls.
Just one problem, it's reversed.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 09:26 AM (Hpe9G)
309 >>Does Alito disagree with that maneuvering or is he in on the plan?
Obviously, he doesn't. He wanted an immediate slap down of the district judge whereas his assertion is that ACB wants it fixed in the lower courts. I'm with Alito and the others who wanted a fast resolution.
But if Shipley is correct, and he has a pretty good track record, this is more about making lower courts do their jobs than an agreement with their ruling.Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2025 09:26 AM (LkLld)
310 I always argue what good is the DoE if im still paying a huge school tax bill and voting no on huge School Bond referendums?Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 09:26 AM (VofaG)
311 Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 06, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)
I think they meant cold personality. ie bitchPosted by: ... at March 06, 2025 09:27 AM (Hpe9G)
312 Two of the three Catwomen are still alive. Are any other Batman series villains still with us?
Posted by: Zombie Mr. Freeze at March 06, 2025 09:25 AM (G5+As)
That's a negative.Posted by: BruceWayne at March 06, 2025 09:27 AM (MGB5H)
313 Just no, we will not disrespect the boy's biological father by eliminating his name.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)
That's a very principled stance. Good for him.
Did your son know his father well? That could've been a factor in your husband's consideration.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
314 296 I wonder if Amy Coney Barrett does butt stuff?
Posted by: Guy Who Always Asks About The Butt
Only before she was married. Butt stuff doesn't technically count against you being a virgin!Posted by: Catholic School Girls at March 06, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)
315 Where do we go from here with the SCOTUS ruling?.....
Weaponize the IRS and DOJ to make the recipients of this 2B$ graft wish they never have got paid. Audit and crawl through their financial pants looking for any discrepancies that you can turn into a RICO prosecution of the owners.
Let this be a sign to other potential litigants that they better not join in on other lawsuits against DJT.Posted by: hatethedeepstate at March 06, 2025 09:28 AM (PjUrP)
316 Which of the two Catwomen are still with us?Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)
317 I always argue what good is the DoE if im still paying a huge school tax bill and voting no on huge School Bond referendums?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 09:26 AM (VofaG)
If the DoE were useful, it would spend all its time crawling up the ass of state/local educational agencies to ensure they were doing right. Of course, if that's how they were spending their time, the Dems would have killed it long ago.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 09:29 AM (ExV1e)
318 "of the three Catwomen," I meant.Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:29 AM (77rzZ)
319 .
President Trump should follow his own example of cutting the number of employees in the inter-American Foundation to a single person. Also, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture should move the 5,000 rehired employees to Marfa, TX, (it does exist somewhere.)Posted by: Marooned at March 06, 2025 09:29 AM (kt8QE)
320 But the great part was his first argument against this? It would disrespect my late first husband to change his son's surname!
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That was brilliant.Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 06, 2025 09:29 AM (uLKZx)
321 But no one has been hired back.
No agency has been re-opened.
No more money has gone out.
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Not true on the first point. People are getting hired back.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 06, 2025 09:29 AM (/BeiT)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2025 09:30 AM (x0n13)
323
Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Encourages Americans to Raise Their Own Chickens at Home
Eat more chickenPosted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 06, 2025 09:30 AM (nfa82)
324 But if Shipley is correct, and he has a pretty good track record, this is more about making lower courts do their jobs than an agreement with their ruling.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2025 09:26 AM (LkLld)
To me its just more legal maneuvering waste of time that always seems to just create more expansive legal system open to interpretation by more legal maneuvering. And that doesn't include the chance that it may backfire.Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 06, 2025 09:30 AM (VofaG)
325 Newmar, Meriwether.Posted by: Zombie Mr. Freeze. at March 06, 2025 09:30 AM (G5+As)
326 So to recap, per SCOTUS, the executive branch no longer has sovereign immunity in contract disputes, grants are now construed to be contracts, appropriations are now obligations and not limits, executive agencies control the flow of moneies and the unitary executive is a spectator.Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 06, 2025 09:30 AM (5W5mu)
327 Don't forget DU likes to run the clip of Melania smiling then Trump turns away from her and she scowls.
Just one problem, it's reversed.
Posted by: ...
There were clips of Melania they posted, and tons of comparisons, of them trying to say they both hate Trump and are disgusted by him. The Melania stuff didn't look like anything, but that ACB clip, and our discussion about her voting against Trump, made me think there MIGHT be something there.Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 06, 2025 09:30 AM (JCZqz)
328 ART CRITICS UPSTAIRSPosted by: Skip i at March 06, 2025 09:31 AM (fwDg9)
329
*ACB is still a 1 in my book.*
I remember when a Supreme Court justice was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive.
We didn't know anything about her private life.
We didn't want to know anything about her private life.
She didn't have a private life.Posted by: Bookman at March 06, 2025 09:31 AM (DobEs)
Posted by: one hour sober at March 06, 2025 09:31 AM (Y1sOo)
331 Art thread is up!Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 09:31 AM (svLOV)
332 I think it's plainly obvious Melania and President Trump adore one another. I also think it's obvious Melania is scared to death someone is going to take another crack at her husband.Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 06, 2025 09:32 AM (tT6L1)
333 That's a very principled stance. Good for him.
Did your son know his father well? That could've been a factor in your husband's consideration.
Posted by: Bulg at March 06, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
No. Unfortunately, he was only 2 yrs old when R. died. He doesn't remember him at all.
Hubbymayhem is just that kind of man.Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 06, 2025 09:33 AM (4XwPj)
334 Posted by: one hour sober at March 06, 2025 09:31 AM (Y1sOo)
Nice. I was just looking at this thinking I must be insane. The internet is so dumb.Posted by: ... at March 06, 2025 09:34 AM (Hpe9G)
335 326 So to recap, per SCOTUS, the executive branch no longer has sovereign immunity in contract disputes, grants are now construed to be contracts, appropriations are now obligations and not limits, executive agencies control the flow of moneies and the unitary executive is a spectator.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 06, 2025 09:30 AM (5W5mu)
I don't know what the exact situation is with the feds, but sovereigns typically waive sovereign immunity to some extent when it comes to contracts. Because if they didn't, who in their right mind would contract with them?Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 09:34 AM (YtQZg)
336 I think that Mr. Robert Holden, the Democrat on the City Council and who represents Queens as with many others before him - needs to reevaluate his membership in the Democrat Party, because he's correct: his party disgraced himself during Trump's speech.Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 09:34 AM (kmDb/)
337 >>> The Supreme Court sided with a district court judge Wednesday who had ruled the Trump administration could not stop $2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) payments to intended recipients.
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Assuming they have actual contracts then "termination for convenience" (T4C) would be in it. WhenbT4C they are entitled to unrealized profits only.. And since all USAID goes to non-profits...Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 06, 2025 09:34 AM (nfa82)
338 326 So to recap, per SCOTUS, the executive branch no longer has sovereign immunity in contract disputes, grants are now construed to be contracts, appropriations are now obligations and not limits, executive agencies control the flow of moneies and the unitary executive is a spectator.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
It might count on the specific context. I've had to take some fiscal law classes for government funds management, and once the government incurs an obligation and service is provided, you have to pay. Even if funds aren't available...they're taken from other lines of accounting. I assume the USAID people are saying this occurred with them, and SCOTUS said the lower court can't just say the full amount has to be paid, but analysis done on what actions SPECIFICALLY were completed before the freeze was announced, and only those few things actually done must be reimbursed.Posted by: Military Moron at March 06, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at March 06, 2025 09:35 AM (qUkBO)
340 >>To me its just more legal maneuvering waste of time that always seems to just create more expansive legal system open to interpretation by more legal maneuvering. And that doesn't include the chance that it may backfire.
As I said I'm not in favor of this strategy either. But it does track with Roberts well documented preference of having lower courts do their jobs properly and not forcing the SC to step in and do it for them.
Roberts is more of the problem than ACB in my opinion.Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2025 09:36 AM (LkLld)
341 Julie Newmar still looks great at 91.Posted by: CoolHandLuke at March 06, 2025 09:36 AM (0VH88)
342 I found an article from 10 years ago on Forbes where Bill Murray talked about the loss of the concept of personal responsibility in this country, and how if you take care of yourself, then you are in a position to take care of others.
Sounds like his political leanings might just be on the conservative side (BTW he did not endorse Kammie 4prez).
So he's got that going for him. Which is nice.Posted by: CoolHandLuke at March 06, 2025 09:40 AM (0VH88)
343 I appreciate . j.j your kind, sympathetic words about D.J.Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 09:43 AM (FSqTq)
344 I found an article from 10 years ago on Forbes where Bill Murray talked about the loss of the concept of personal responsibility in this country, and how if you take care of yourself, then you are in a position to take care of others.
Sounds like his political leanings might just be on the conservative side (BTW he did not endorse Kammie 4prez).
So he's got that going for him. Which is nice.
Posted by: CoolHandLuke at March 06, 2025 09:40 AM (0VH8
He always seemed to be a guy who had fun making movies and never took himself seriously. A guy who could crash a wedding reception and be part of the crowd.Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 06, 2025 09:44 AM (dgRL6)
345 Sounds like his political leanings might just be on the conservative side (BTW he did not endorse Kammie 4prez).
So he's got that going for him. Which is nice.
Posted by: CoolHandLuke at March 06, 2025 09:40 AM (0VH8
So we know he's not a pedoPosted by: ... at March 06, 2025 10:04 AM (Hpe9G)
346 WHYY, First State Focus
Is ‘DExit’ a real threat to Delaware’s $2B-a-year incorporation kingdom, and will proposal protect or destroy ‘the franchise’?
Gov. Meyer and lawmakers say legislation is critical to protect the state’s dominance, but critics deride the measure as the “Billionaires’ Bill.” By Cris Barrish, March 5, 2025
In part, "In the parlance of Delaware political and legal insiders, “the franchise” is king.
Without the franchise, the state couldn’t pay for public schools, police, prisons, social and health programs, beach replenishment, farm preservation or so much more.
Without the franchise, taxes would be significantly higher, or the state would need to slash services.
The franchise is Delaware’s system, which currently has 2.2 million businesses — and two-thirds of the Fortune 500 — incorporated in the nation’s second-smallest state. Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Nvidia and the corporate parents of Google and Facebook and Instagram are among about 1,350 Large Corporate Filers who fork over $250,000 apiece in franchise taxes.
All told, those “incorporation revenues” are projected to directly generate $2 billion for the state treasury this year."
Musk backlash. 😁Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 06, 2025 10:44 AM (NFX2v)
347 Enterprising pro-Trump lawyers must compile all the pleadings and legal bases for various' Hawaiian judges' decisions to block Trump.
You need a client, some temporary interest group who can establish standing in the same manner as the anti-Trump litigants.
The client must coordinate with the Trump admin about when a new EO is going to drop, and race to the courthouse to file suit to block the EO, but file it in front of a Trump-friendly judge who will deny the relief requested. Make sure you plead the kitchen sink.
Then the denial of the TRO is res judicata that Trump can plead when his opponents try a similar stunt with an anti-Trump judge.
Now Trump has grounds to ignore any other orders on the same EO, and John Roberts is forced to acknowledge the pro-Trump judge is just a non-partisan straight-shooter, gosh darn it.Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at March 06, 2025 10:50 AM (GD2xa)
348 Who is in (acting or permanent) the position of Office of Legal Counsel, DOJ? (It's also the FOIA Office.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 06, 2025 11:02 AM (NFX2v)
349 Musk backlash.
The best part is that everyone said calm down, this judge is crazy and it will certainly get overturned on appeal, and Musk said nah brah, no appeal, I'm just going to reincorporate elsewhere, so now Delaware is stuck with this ruling that is causing the exodus of money from the state.Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 06, 2025 11:05 AM (jc0TO)
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Again, where is the word 'judicial' in Article 2 of the Constitution?Posted by: Danimal28 at March 06, 2025 11:33 AM (1E4GV)
352 Re Alberta: Think of Alberta as Texas with oil, cowboys, wind, and snow.
I can recommend "Corb Lund and His Hurtin' Albertans" music for a taste of the the mindset working people of Alberta.
"The Roughest Neck Around" ,"Horse Soldier", and "I Wanna Be In The Cavalry" are good places to start. "Student Visas" is surprising in its subject matter.
I knew a lady born in about 1910 at Whiskey Gap.
She was a true farm kid.
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