The Morning Report — 3/ 12 /25

Good morning kids. On a number of fronts, the Trump MAGA agenda is moving forward, despite all efforts by the anti-American Dems and their cohorts to derail it. First up, the CR that Trump has backed passed in the House and now it's on to the Senate. As I asked yesterday, does continuing to fund a federal leviathan at least like this with these CR's and not a real budget antithetical to MAGA and DOGE? It seems though on a positive note there is an actual spending freeze in the thing so some on our side are calling this a win. Elsewhere there are very strong numbers in the labor market and evidence that prices such as with eggs (the most visible and talked about item we've been pelted with by the propaganda machine as a supposed sign of Trump failing to deliver) have fallen significantly and rapidly.

Elsewhere, Shecky Zelensky, the clown corruptocrat president of Ukraine is now willing to agree to a ceasefire with Putin and Canada has also cried uncle vis a vis the trade spat as Ontario has suspended the electricity levy against us.

Meanwhile, Linda McMahon in her position as head of the Dept. of Education is already taking a bulldozer to the whole rotten edifice with immediate mass layoffs. And that seems to be the start of dismantling it lock stock and barrel.

And on a few stomach-turning fronts, the Democrats continue to do what Meathead Reiner has failed to do since Trump won his massive landslide victory last November, and that is set themselves on fire. But is it even possible for that which emanates from the Infernal reaches to set itself on fire in the first place. Only time will tell in the long run, but putting the hyperbole aside for a moment, we have the Democrats falling all over themselves defending a terrorist cheerleader and quite likely directly linked to terrorists themselves, in protesting his deportation.

Watching Democrats try on different arguments to thwart Donald Trump, I’m reminded of a story involving the late Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight.
After John Feinstein wrote an unflattering portrait of Knight, he responded by attacking the author mercilessly. In one barrage, Knight called him both “a whore and a pimp,” leading Feinstein to quip: “I wish he’d make up his mind so I’d know how to dress.”
So it is with Democrats as they search desperately for a way to rally the public against Trump.
Their only guiding light — to be against whatever he is for — is creating confusing contradictions and leading them ever deeper into political parody. Consider that the same members of Congress who refused to stand as Trump honored a child with cancer and families who lost loved ones to murderous illegal immigrants are now defending an Arab immigrant who is a leader of a group that sympathizes with terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah and calls for the “end of Western civilization.” Defending him is a strange hill to die on, but the Dems have become a very strange party.
The suggestion that he’s a political prisoner led an astonished GOP senator, Tom Cotton, to respond by asking if it’s true “that Dems are fighting for a pro-Hamas foreigner who has made life hell for Jews on campus?”
Sadly, it is true, with House Dem Jamie Raskin confirming it with an outrageous attack on the White House.
The arrest of Khalil “is ripped straight from the authoritarian playbook,” Raskin said in a statement, and charged it proves Trump “is hellbent on wielding fear and intimidation as weapons to crush political dissent.”
Ho hum, another day in the crazy lane. The case is instructive for another reason, too.
Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil being deported over ‘pro-Hamas propaganda flyers,’ White House says Beyond the Dems’ madness, they and their lickspittle media are hell-bent on distorting the facts by echoing Khalil’s claim that he was just exercising his free speech rights. This is especially rich coming from the party that created cancel culture and defended the Biden junta's censorship regime on social media. . .
. . . Trump’s promise —
As Trump himself put it, his team “will not tolerate pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American” activity on college campuses. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”

Emphasis mine, as it raises some very interesting questions, particularly who gets to decide what defines each of those things. As Justice Potter Stewart stated vis a vis obscenity, I'll know it when I see it. If you'v read my opinions here and elsewhere, you know where I stand on Democrats and Leftists. So I'm most curious as for President Trump to amplify his thoughts on what constitutes being "anti-American" and how to deal with that?! Believe me, everything wrong with this country has its root cause in our educational system dating back to John Dewey, the infestation of the refugees from "the Frankfurt school" like Marcuse and Adorno all the way up to Bill Ayers and his acolytes that resulted in garbage like the 1619 Project and Ibram X. Krement's hideous racialist Jive Kampf screeds being pumped into several generations of American kids' heads creating as Rush Limbaugh said "skulls full of mush."

The other aspect to the virulent opposition to giving this fiend the boot is that it "intersects" (SWIDT?) with the immigration issue, specifically finally getting serious about sealing the damn border and deporting en masse as many illegal aliens as we can round up. Something that hasn't been done in well over 60 or more years.

As we have pondered since the election, was that event the signal of a sea-change in the mindset of the American people and electorate? Or is the demise of the Democrat party, even those declaring it from within the movement itself premature, or what is really going on here?

Democrats are in deep, deep trouble, according to their own internal polling.
Politico’s Elena Schneider, revealing the Democrat numbers, wrote on Tuesday that the Democrat brand is in the gutter.
“The Democratic Party’s brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds,” Schneider wrote. “Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are ‘more focused on helping other people than people like me,’ according to an internal poll conducted by the Democrat group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55 percent who said they’re focused on others.” Democrat pollster Molly Murphy is quoted in the Politico piece as saying while voters were somewhat critical of Trump in some spots, the Democrats have serious damage to fix with their own brand before voters trust them in government again. Murphy and others from Navigator, which is part of Democrat nonprofit the Hub Project, are expected to present these polling numbers to House Democrats in Leesburg, Virginia, at their Issues Conference later this week.
“The Democratic brand is still not where it needs to be in terms of core trust and understanding people’s challenges,” Murphy said. “Even though voters are critical about Trump and some of the things he’s doing, that criticism of Trump doesn’t translate into trust in Democrats. The trust has to be earned.”

What these people are not asking themselves is what is the Democrat "Brand" in the first place? It can't be supporting things that the majority of American people reject as insanity/depravity and/or declaring Trump to be literally Hitler, and that the Left are the defenders of "our precious democracy."

Of course, this kind of rhetoric is most unhelpful to their cause, yet still they persist:

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) suggested Tuesday that Americans elected President Donald Trump because the country is in its "angry teenage years" and voters' brains have not fully formed.
"I don’t think there’s anyone who feels like what’s going on right now is normal, even if you voted for Trump," Slotkin said on The View. "We’re about to turn 250 years old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country."

Yeah, keep it up genius. Filthy courveh.

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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

The gargantuan federal deficit.
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The Constitution offers a ‘good behavior’ remedy that Congress hasn’t used.
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LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
Daniel Greenfield: It’s no big deal when the city burns, but a huge deal when firefighters wear MAGA hats.
LA’s Political Bosses Are On Fire
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“South of the border in Mexico, we discovered flyers encouraging illegals to vote for Biden when they entered the country,”
Your No-Shit-Sherlock item of the day – Expert Witness: Democrats Opened the Border Because They Can’t Win Elections with Only American Votes
Willing to shield illegal immigrants at the expense of the American people.
Democrats Disgrace Themselves at House Sanctuary City Hearing
Far-left Democrat Rashida Tlaib Rancida Taliban (D-MI) cast the only vote against a bill that will require an annual report on cartel smuggling tunnels used to traffick drugs and people from Mexico into the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Subterranean Border Defense Act, also known as H.R. 495, with an overwhelming majority on Monday.T
Lone, Far Left Democrat Votes Against Bill Aimed at Monitoring Drug Cartel Smuggling Tunnels Under U.S. Border.
The local and state efforts are acting as a “force multiplier” for the Trump administration, the site notes.
Twelve States Join ICE’s National Deportation Campaign
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the agency. The extensive operation — which was conducted in the Houston, Texas, area from Feb. 23 to March 2 — was the latest in the Trump administration’s mission to arrest and deport criminal illegal migrants from the country.
ICE Arrests Nearly 550 Criminal Migrants In Massive City Sweep

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Daniel Greenfield: 40% decline reflects end of foreign aid to terrorists.
Israeli Terror Casualties Lowest Since Biden Took Office

* * * * *
Defending him is a strange hill to die on, but the Dems have become a very strange party.
Michael Goodwin: Dems defending Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil is yet another example of how they, elite schools failed Jewish students
Trump said earlier in the day that there would be more arrests.
Trump Rips Pro-Hamas Protester Being Deported: ‘Get Them The Hell Out’
"If you're on a student visa, and you're in America, and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates..."
‘You’re Going Home’: Speaker Johnson Doubles Down On Trump’s Promise To Boot Pro-Hamas Protesters
“This is not a guy who has respected anybody else’s rights, yet we as a country will respect his rights to the extent he has them. This is not a free speech issue…. Don’t tell me that he’s being persecuted for 'Palestinian' views because Israelis are not doing this on campuses.”
Mahmoud Khalil – Not a Free Speech Issue
U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman, who issued a temporary order preventing Khalil’s removal from the United States while he considers a habeas corpus challenge to the arrest filed by Khalil’s attorney, holds a deeply liberal political pedigree and even clashed with President Donald J. Trump during his first term. He was appointed by former President Obama in 2011.
REVEALED: Judge Blocking Pro-Hamas Student Deportation is Obama-Linked Son of Democrat Mega Donor.
Soon after Beshara Doumani joined the Ivy League school's curriculum development efforts, lessons began describing Israel's 'settler-colonial project'
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ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
Have we had enough of "nation-building" yet?
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CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Yelling, harassment and intimidation have no place in the world of a 3-year-old girl. We used to know this.
JD Vance's children must be off-limits to protesters
The Left has this intense hatred for Elon because they see him as a class traitor.
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'What do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form,' says Michigan senator
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The elite enemies of our freedoms require us to “fight, fight, fight.”
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BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Robert Spencer: The tale of Hunter Biden and George Bergès.
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FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
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Once-upon-a-time mega stars like Don Lemon and Jim Acosta, formerly of CNN, and former MSNBC anchors like Joy Reid have all departed their networks in recent years, their farewells relegating them to the world of podcasts and blogging.
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THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The final tally was 217 to 213. Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), opposed the legislation. Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) was the sole Democrat to cross the aisle.
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We’ve officially reached the halfway mark of the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second presidency. What we learned today is that the labor market is stronger than thought, factory jobs are coming back, Canada is not a reliable trading partner for strategic resources, and the legacy media’s campaign to stop Elon Musk is unconstrained by things like accuracy or objectivity.
Trump’s Blue-Collar Boom Begins
A good piece of news we just got in the last day or two is that the average cost of a dozen eggs has now gone down $1.85 since we announced our plan about a week and a half ago,” Rollins said in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter). However, the Agriculture Secretary did warn that prices could creep back up slightly as the country heads into the Easter holiday and demand increases.
Egg Prices Are Down Nearly $2.00 in Just 13 Days Following Trump Plan to Lower Cost.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced late Tuesday that the province would suspend its electricity levy after discussions with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, signaling a clear diplomatic win for Trump. The Ontario surcharge had been set as retaliation against earlier tariffs imposed by Trump.
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The U.S. is currently transitioning from an economy driven by the public sector into a private sector economy.
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The announcement comes at the Education Department is trying to streamline its operation and prioritize allowing states to control federal education funding.
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SECOND AMENDMENT
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DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
In addition to congressional investigation, ActBlue faces a wave of departures among its top officials.
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CONFIRMATION HEARING News and Views
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POLITICS
Bianca Lynn Breeze, the drag queen alter ego of Brandon Rounds, will lead a Drag Bingo fundraiser for Judge Susan Crawford.
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The field is crowded, but it lacks a certain name…Kamala Harris.
Former Dem Rep. Katie (porker) Porter Running for California Governor
[Titty-Caca] Ocasio-Cortez, Green, and Crockett will do nothing to improve the lives of their constituents. They are just auditioning for a part of Trump's worst hater.
Auditioning for the Part of Trump's Worst Adversary
Trump’s first month in office has been like a wrecking ball for Democrats, disastrous for the entrenched ruling class and administrative state, which stands to lose power.
Democrats Stand for Ukraine but Sit for America
Democrat pollster Molly Murphy is quoted in the Politico piece as saying while voters were somewhat critical of Trump in some spots, the Democrats have serious damage to fix with their own brand before voters trust them in government again. Murphy and others from Navigator, which is part of Democrat nonprofit the Hub Project, are expected to present these polling numbers to House Democrats in Leesburg, Virginia, at their Issues Conference later this week.
Internal Democrat Polling Shows Party in Complete Brand Collapse
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
After Ukrainian representatives met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, they “expressed readiness to accept the US proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a joint statement with the U.S. Department of State:
Report: Ukraine Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire, Now Attention Turns to Moscow
The group, Molfar, created an online blacklist including Vice President JD Vance, Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, U.S. Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent and others. The list claims these officials are “external agents of Russia,” demanding their removal from public positions and investigations into their “personal involvement in crimes.” and calling for sanctions against them.
USAID-Linked Ukrainian Group Smeared JD Vance, Tucker Carlson As ‘Foreign Propagandists’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced Hungary’s intention to hold a referendum on Ukraine’s potential membership in the European Union (EU). Orbán revealed this plan during discussions in Brussels following a summit with EU leaders. He emphasized the importance of involving the public in such critical decisions rather than allowing decisions to be made solely at the governmental level.The summit, which included representatives from every EU member state, had initially aimed to issue a unified declaration of continued military support for Ukraine amidst its ongoing conflict with Russia. However, Hungary’s veto, led by Orbán, blocked the statement, as unanimous consent from all EU nations is required for such declarations.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
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Canada’s Liberals are running against Donald Trump, not Pierre Poilievre
Sarabia, representing Colombia at CND’s 68th session in Vienna, Austria, claimed during her speech that if coca leaves are removed from the list they would serve an industrial use in the manufacturing of fertilizers and beverages. Sarabia further claimed that a removal of coca leaves would not imply a change in Colombia’s drug-fighting policies and instead called for the international community to “rethink” global drug policy.
Colombia Asks U.N. to Remove Coca Leaves from Harmful Substance List
Giorgia Meloni is definitely a different head of state from the others of Europe.
A Friend for Trump in Italy
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
This strain may have emerged from gain-of-function research conducted at two specific facilities: the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia, and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
House Republican leaders want to raid Medicare to provide an extra $2.1 billion for an Obamacare-created program.
Republicans’ Spending Addiction Fuels Latest Proposed Raid On Medicare
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
All are believed to be rocky planets orbiting just inside the star’s habitable zone.
Astronomers have discovered four sub-Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star
At a press conference yesterday, SpaceX officials outlined the results of its investigation into the loss of Falcon 9 first stage when it fell over on its drone ship shortly after a successful landing.
SpaceX officials provide cause of loss Falcon 9 first stage after successful landing
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The episode happened during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe Subcommittee hearing, and is the latest incident of Republican lawmakers rejecting McBride’s self-proclaimed female identity. McBride was elected as the first transgender-identifying member of congress in November 2024.
Democrat Has Meltdown in House Hearing After Republican Refers to Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride as ‘Mister’

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Many accused Disney of being too “politically correct” and “woke.” Others also took issue with Zegler, a Latina actress, being cast as the lead. Even “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage, who has dwarfism, shared his critiques. “Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback [when] they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White, but you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’” Dinklage said in January 2022.
Disney scales back ‘Snow White’ premiere as controversy surrounding film grows: report
Actress Rosie O'Donnell took to social media on Tuesday to announce that she and her 12-year-old daughter had relocated to Ireland on January 15 and would not considering coming back until "it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America." (Still waiting for Meathead Reiner to immolate himself - jjs)
Another Liberal Celebrity Leaves the Country...
HITHER & YON
We learned that former Congressman Lincoln Diaz Balart passed away in Miami. We remember him as a prominent Cuban American figure and a longtime Republican politician who represented South Florida in Congress for nearly 20 years. He was an institution in South Florida and evidence of the Cuban influence in U.S. politics.. . .Cuba is an island with a complicated history.
The other Diaz-Balart

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

2 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 07:43 AM (77rzZ)

4 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

5 Dammit.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 07:44 AM (77rzZ)

6 Morning, all.

Been up and working since 4am, so now I know how JJ feels.

Much stuff to do, so hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 07:46 AM (Q0kLU)

7 JJ
First link returns home

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

8 Morning, everyone. It's a gorgeous day here in the GPROMD and I have had my bagel with cream cheese so I can face the rest of the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2025 07:47 AM (RjOoY)

9 “ Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?”

Job 4:6

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2025 07:48 AM (nrUfy)

10 It's Thursday Eve.

Posted by: I have a calendar at March 12, 2025 07:49 AM (dg+HA)

11 As I asked yesterday, does continuing to fund a federal leviathan at least like this with these CR's and not a real budget antithetical to MAGA and DOGE?

As I understand it, and I could be wrong, there are two reasons Trump is cool with THIS CR.

1. It only funds the remainder of the in-progress fiscal year.
2. Republicans only have one reconciliation left and they want to hold that for extending the tax cuts.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

12 7 JJ
First link returns home
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

Fixed thanks

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 07:52 AM (x0n13)

13 The democrat party stands for deviant homosexual and pedophile practices and lifestyles, crime, illegal invaders overrunning the border, money laundering both domestically and overseas, voter fraud, weaponizing various federal departments against American citizens, abortion, doxing, banning of firearms and using the "proper" pronouns for Troons.

Posted by: David Hogg, DNC Vice Chair and Closeted Homosexual at March 12, 2025 07:52 AM (EEZHI)

14 IMHO, the Senate Judiciary Committed need to get cranking on impeaching federal judges tout de suite.

Streamline the process. Get it going. Be efficient about it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2025 07:54 AM (ZmEVT)

15 How did Rosie O'Donnell get a 12 year old daughter?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2025 07:55 AM (ZmEVT)

16 Donald Trump because the country is in its "angry teenage years" and voters' brains have not fully formed.

So if America is in its "angry teenage years" in 2025, what was America at the time it elected FDR, LBJ, Clinton, Obama, and Biden's Puppet?

I submit, it was the Party Machine, because the last three (four if you count Kamala) were post turtles; completely unaccomplished, no imagination, wax figures that only sought to work the deeds of the European aristocracy and the global Deep State.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)

17 Yelling, harassment and intimidation have no place in the world of a 3-year-old girl. We used to know this.

Why in the Holy Name of Sister Mary Throatpunch were the protesters allowed to get that close to Vance? What is wrong with the Secret Service these days?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2025 07:56 AM (RjOoY)

18
And Methodists.

Posted by: Don't forget Methodists at March 12, 2025 07:57 AM (dg+HA)

19 IMHO, the Senate Judiciary Committed need to get cranking on impeaching federal judges tout de suite.

As long as Democrats have 40 seats in the Senate, and the Senate continues to entertain low life such as Murk, Collins, McConnel, Cornyn, et al the Senate will be dysfunctional and only act as road blocks and impediments to human flourishing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

20 BTW, isn't Rosie's daughter a nutcase transgender? I'm sure the m*zzies in Ireland will love Grooming her.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at March 12, 2025 07:58 AM (AMd6i)

21 Why in the Holy Name of Sister Mary Throatpunch were the protesters allowed to get that close to Vance? What is wrong with the Secret Service these days?

Because the Secret Service wanted the protesters to get that close?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 07:59 AM (a4flb)

22 Jamie Raskin can't help it - he's always been demented, and the cancer\cancer drugs are acerbating the condition

If you want reasoned debate or logical discord, don't seek it from the 'Representitives' in Md....

Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at March 12, 2025 07:59 AM (zL/eJ)

23 Because the Secret Service wanted the protesters to get that close?

I want that statement to be wrong but it makes a lot of sense.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2025 08:00 AM (RjOoY)

24 How did Rosie O'Donnell get a 12 year old daughter?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2025 07:55 AM (ZmEVT)

Adoption. Like those fellas in Georgia.

Posted by: Big Homo, democrats and Sheryl Crow at March 12, 2025 08:01 AM (EEZHI)

25 ***Blows whistle***

"nutcase transgender" is redundant.

Posted by: Grammar referee at March 12, 2025 08:01 AM (dg+HA)

26 20 BTW, isn't Rosie's daughter a nutcase transgender? I'm sure the m*zzies in Ireland will love Grooming her.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at March 12, 2025 07:58 AM (AMd6i)

Grooming with a flea and lice comb...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)

27 The legislation mandates that U.S. Customs and Border Protection submit an annual report to Congress detailing cartel smuggling tunnels and measures taken against them. With a 402-1 vote, Representative Tlaib was the lone dissenter.

Seems like pumping in 55 gallons of atomized jet fuel and throwing in a flair would be the most effective way to count these tunnels.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

28 Yesterday I learned that when a 40K+ DOW Jones number that is propped up by government programs and fake dollars drops by 1% it's the end of the economy and we can finally begin discussing that recession we've been in for the last four years.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women can't increase reproductive value with greater resources and more experiences at March 12, 2025 08:03 AM (qSMcm)

29 I shall engage in some hypobole and say that the Democrats may have engaged in some spending indiscretions that are a bit obvious.

Posted by: Bowling for Bedknobs at March 12, 2025 08:03 AM (44D8d)

30 Point of order--the Senate doesn't impeach anybody. They try the impeached. It would be up to the House to impeach judges. Of course, they'd never be convicted with the current makeup of the Senate, but the process is the punishment.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 12, 2025 08:03 AM (y2f7I)

31 REVEALED: Judge Blocking Pro-Hamas Student Deportation is Obama-Linked Son of Democrat Mega Donor.

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Wait a minute...Chief Justice Roberts specifically promised me years ago that there were no Democrat judges or Republican judges.

/s

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

32 Yelling, harassment and intimidation have no place in the world of a 3-year-old girl. We used to know this.

Either the police need to return to the concept of "keeping the peace" or we, as a society, need to return to the concept of "get in my face and my fist will get in yours".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

33 The democrat party stands for: ...

The Democrat Party looks at all of the sins listed in the Scriptures, both mortal and venial, and considers them foundational, aspirational goals.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:04 AM (a4flb)

34 The fact that the UniParty is freaking out about 'the economy' tells the entire story of how Trump's policies will, and are, working as we experienced in 2018-2021.

He is unleashing hydrocarbon energy and tightening the money supply. Tightening the money supply means less grift and the republican party just can't have that. I know dems depend on it, but repubs have shown they do too as their are only a precious few in congress that have had a real job.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 12, 2025 08:05 AM (1E4GV)

35 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2025 08:05 AM (LT60u)

36 MIC DROP: Karoline Leavitt Humiliated an AP Reporter, and It Was Awesome

MSNBC, apparently, had on no less an expert than a "staff writer for The Atlantic" and they say that Leavitt was either lying or terribly misinformed about tariffs because they disagree with OMB.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

37 JJ, Meloni is Italy’s head of government, not its head of state. That would be the President of Italy.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

38 The NY judge trying to block the deportation of the Hamas terrorist has a jurisdictional issue. The terrorist is in Louisiana. I hope he packed his stuff.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2025 08:07 AM (nrUfy)

39 Bianca Lynn Breeze, the drag queen alter ego of Brandon Rounds, will lead a Drag Bingo fundraiser for Judge Susan Crawford.

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How dandy. Anyone hear of any recent polling coming out of WI on this race?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2025 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

40 The fact that the UniParty is freaking out about 'the economy' tells the entire story of how Trump's policies will, and are, working as we experienced in 2018-2021.

He is unleashing hydrocarbon energy and tightening the money supply. Tightening the money supply means less grift and the republican party just can't have that. I know dems depend on it, but repubs have shown they do too as their are only a precious few in congress that have had a real job.
Posted by: Danimal28

Follow the theft, whichever side of the aisle it goes to, and prosecute.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2025 08:07 AM (LT60u)

41 Yelling, harassment and intimidation have no place in the world of a 3-year-old girl. We used to know this.

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The problem is that the same folks complaining about this also have no problem with bumper stickers, flags, t-shirts, etc. with curse words on them where kids can see/read it, or will go to 6th grade sporting events and curse loudly (around children) at the refs, play choices, outcomes, etc.

It's a good conversation to have, but it spans ALL of society now.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women can't increase reproductive value with greater resources and more experiences at March 12, 2025 08:07 AM (qSMcm)

42 The legislation mandates that U.S. Customs and Border Protection submit an annual report to Congress detailing cartel smuggling tunnels and measures taken against them. With a 402-1 vote, Representative Tlaib was the lone dissenter.

Wouldn't that be like blowing up Tlaib's scene of nativity?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

43 37 JJ, Meloni is Italy’s head of government, not its head of state. That would be the President of Italy.
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

I didn't write it, I just cut and pasted it directly from the link.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)

44 140 illegal migrants charged or convicted of an aggravated felony or other violent crime such as homicide

52 illegal migrants charged or convicted of illicit narcotics offenses such as drug trafficking

34 illegal migrants charged or convicted of a sex offense or child sex offense such as aggravated sexual assault of a minor

Just start adding ZEROs to these number to get the idea of how much CRIME Biden et al imported into the US.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

45 we, as a society, need to return to the concept of "get in my face and my fist will get in yours".

They will miss polite society when it's gone.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2025 08:08 AM (RjOoY)

46 Giorgia Meloni e Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri

Posted by: Marcus T at March 12, 2025 08:08 AM (nrUfy)

47 The Dems believe in killing the unborn. Why would they have any problem with harassing a three-year-old?

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:09 AM (77rzZ)

48 Consider that the same members of Congress who refused to stand as Trump honored a child with cancer and families who lost loved ones to murderous illegal immigrants are now defending an Arab immigrant who is a leader of a group that sympathizes with terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah and calls for the “end of Western civilization.”
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Yeah, so I'm not seeing a contradiction here.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 08:10 AM (mL1/V)

49 39 How dandy. Anyone hear of any recent polling coming out of WI on this race?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 12, 2025 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

I suppose as a resident, I should know more. If Grammie is here maybe she can enlighten.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 08:10 AM (x0n13)

50 43 That’s what I thought, but my sleep-deprived brain couldn’t find it.

American Thinker can sometimes be a very sloppy publication.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)

51 The Dems believe in killing the unborn. Why would they have any problem with harassing a three-year-old?
Posted by: Bulg

They will have a huge problem when that three year old is my granddaughter.

Huge. Problem.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2025 08:12 AM (LT60u)

52 Forget the Negative Income Tax, How About a Negative Tariff?

Mr. Tamny, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

53 Forget the Negative Income Tax, How About a Negative Tariff?

Mr. Tamny, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Reply is not used nearly enough.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2025 08:13 AM (LT60u)

54 Don't we already have negative tariffs?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women can't increase reproductive value with greater resources and more experiences at March 12, 2025 08:14 AM (qSMcm)

55 That "negative tariffs" article is one of the dumbest f*cking things I've read in a long time, and I'll occasionally peak in at the crazy leftist Lawyers Guns and Money blog, so that's saying something.

Not sure why American Greatness would post such a thing.

Posted by: Pastafarian at March 12, 2025 08:16 AM (tWGrL)

56 IMHO, the Senate Judiciary Committed need to get cranking on impeaching federal judges tout de suite.

The House impeaches. The Senate tries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

57 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 12, 2025 08:17 AM (53oGX)

58 How did Rosie O'Donnell get a 12 year old daughter?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 12, 2025 07:55 AM (ZmEVT)

Neiman Marcus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

59 A student’s visa status affects their responsibility to act ethically and honestly because if they do not abide by the rules and regulations of their visa, it could result in serious consequences, such as deportation or criminal charges. Moreover, as foreign visitors, students must observe the laws and regulations of the host country, respect its culture and customs, and act with integrity and honesty. Violation of these laws and regulations could lead to serious consequences, including financial penalties or even imprisonment.

From the USCIS guidelines that student are under a very strict set of rules.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

60 Morning all, thx JJ.
Love the "where are they now?" for the recent departed propaganda ministry "stars". No OnlyFans pages. Yet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 08:18 AM (2Km7O)

61 Sorry, but the WH is doing an inadequate PR job with DOGE. DOGE is the most significant operation to restore fiduciary order and reform in modern history. Its revelations are staggering, cutting to the black heart of the deep state and its hitherto insuperable fraud enterprise and breathtaking corruption. DOGE is aimed at entirely undoing this anti-American enterprise that essentially finances the leftist democrat party.

Every press briefing should open with DOGE and its accomplishments, importance and implications not only to our finances but our survival. Elon should be given a PR support team that is everywhere on the media, all over the country. Any and all attacks on Elon personally or his enterprises should be met instantaneously, full-throatedly and severely, in rhetorical and legal terms.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 08:20 AM (ZlOcj)

62 Seems like pumping in 55 gallons of atomized jet fuel and throwing in a flair would be the most effective way to count these tunnels.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

Jet fuel burns out. I would say use any VX we have lying around but that would be inhumane, and totally against several solemn international treaties, and stuff. It'd be effective, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

63 It's National Girl Scout Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

64 How did Rosie O'Donnell get a 12 year old daughter?

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Twelve years... Twelve years...

That's right around the time the left started hating Russia because they refused to continue allowing American gays to adopt and abuse Russian orphans, isn't it?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:21 AM (qSMcm)

65 - **sigh**

Four rocky planets in the "habitable zone."
And then will come 'If we find water there, there may be life there!'?

I guess maybe Moses got it wrong and it should have been...

Remember the 7 billionth year and keep it holy because in billions and billions of years God created the heavens and the earth and everything in them... or something like that.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 12, 2025 08:24 AM (LajFB)

66 How did Rosie O'Donnell get a 12 year old daughter?
Posted by: no one of any consequence

What's white and crawls up your leg?

Homing sperm!

Posted by: Elderly Git at March 12, 2025 08:24 AM (ykc3D)

67 That "negative tariffs" article is one of the dumbest f*cking things I've read in a long time, and I'll occasionally peak in at the crazy leftist Lawyers Guns and Money blog, so that's saying something.

Not only that... it doesn't even talk about fucking negative tariffs... just says that using them will free us from the burden of jobs we don't really want to do. Typical scribbler class BS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

68 Let me see if I understand Democrats. Attacking or despising antisemitism is Hitlerian. Is that what they are saying?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 12, 2025 08:24 AM (kTd/k)

69 His chosen substrates are canvas, YUPO paper, wood, and metal on which he affixes oil, acrylic, ink along with the written word; all of which creates a unique experience that has become his signature.

They forgot shit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

70 The negative tariff article at American Greatness is shockingly stupid.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at March 12, 2025 08:26 AM (MkuC5)

71 This strain may have emerged from gain-of-function research conducted at two specific facilities: the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia, and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Who knew that one of the most effective defenses against major deadly diseases is to defund NGOs and other federally funded biowarfare laboratories.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

72 GOP and Trump have close to 50 Fed Jud Vacancies they have to fill first

Posted by: Jonah at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

73 Elon should be given a PR support team that is everywhere on the media, all over the country.

I think the fact that they're NOT doing that is more effective. Everyone who isn't a leftist NPC tunes out political PR flacks. Everyone who is a leftist NPC won't listen to a Republican PR flack.

Better the info come from real people. I assume shit is still being discussed on X.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

74 >>Fox News: President Trump’s federal layoffs are a betrayal of working Americans

lol. Never change Fox. Never change.

Posted by: Truthbomb at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (LfzAo)

75 The negative tariff article at American Greatness is shockingly stupid.

Their site got hacked?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

76 Bianca Lynn Breeze, the drag queen alter ego of Brandon Rounds, will lead a Drag Bingo fundraiser for Judge Susan Crawford.

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They're going to drag a dog named Bingo behind a car to raise money for a commie judge?

Yeah, that tracks ...

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (pkm6L)

77 Murphy and others from Navigator, which is part of Democrat nonprofit the Hub Project, are expected to present these polling numbers to House Democrats in Leesburg, Virginia, at their Issues Conference later this week.
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Leesburg, formerly patriotic and reliably Republican, now commie conquered territory.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (Dv3i1)

78 Fox News: President Trump’s federal layoffs are a betrayal of working Americans

Please walk me through this Fox News.

One of the very first revelations about the federal "work"force is that many are dead, consider their federal sinecure as a side hustle, or otherwise so incompetent that they can't recall five trivial things they did while allegedly on the clock.

Then we find out that many so-called federal employees are actually foreigners, not Americans.

In other words, please defend the blatantly false claim that these are "working" Americans.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:31 AM (a4flb)

79 So today I'm getting an ad that says if I wrap my elbow in cabbage, all my pain will go away.
Will this work if I wrap my entire head in cabbage? Be useful while perusing the news.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 12, 2025 08:31 AM (n4GiU)

80 Let me see if I understand Democrats. Attacking or despising antisemitism is Hitlerian. Is that what they are saying?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 12, 2025 08:24 AM (kTd/k)

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[To paraphrase a third-tier blogger:]

"Your Hitler is violence.
Our Hitler is speech."

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 08:32 AM (pkm6L)

81 I was talking with a guy the other day about that he and partners were going after SPR business.
They had found out that their competition was buy American valves will Chinese pipes and other fixtures.
That person told them he was not welcome to bid on new project as they would only buy 100% American.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

82 GOP and Trump have close to 50 Fed Jud Vacancies they have to fill first

I'm still waiting for the GOP/Trump to actually place a decent judge. Most of them are just not outright Communists and America haters, some like ACB are crypto-America haters, and the rest are just happy to be there and apparently use a Magic Eight Ball to direct the course of their rulings.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

83 #81 Please translate that to English. Thanks.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 12, 2025 08:34 AM (7aURE)

84 79 So today I'm getting an ad that says if I wrap my elbow in cabbage, all my pain will go away.
Will this work if I wrap my entire head in cabbage? Be useful while perusing the news.
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You have small hands and smell of cabbage.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 08:34 AM (pLaQB)

85
What is on tap for the Euroweenies (TM) this fine day? Who will be appointed to the. committee to plan and deliver Justine Castro-Trudeau's send off party?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 08:35 AM (xG4kz)

86 One of the very first revelations about the federal "work"force is that many are dead,

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I suspect this is the approach being taken with SS that I saw a day or two ago.

Overpayments, which (assuming it's not some outlandish number) the recipient has no say in or about and is totally the decision/responsibility of the feds behind the keyboards and telephones that say "this is the amount due"

So now there will be a 100% repayment of those amounts required, and the MSM is going nuts because "elderly people can't afford to pay that back" or whatever. Except I'm betting it's to sniff out if people are actually alive or if they exist, and if not they can end payments to that account.

Now, about the question of who that account belonged to...

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:36 AM (qSMcm)

87 Grooming with a flea and lice comb...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 08:02 AM

Sheep dip.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:36 AM (hOk1M)

88 I’ve long thought in a reasonably sane country judicial impeachments by the state legislatures and the congress would or should be fairly routine, maybe 2 or 3 a year, easily. At least, until they collectively get their head out of their ass.

Congress too often just acts like spectators for the most part these days, more than satisfied to to abdicate or delegate their role to unelected bureaucratic organizations or the courts who suffer no discernible penalties for gross malfeasance.

The damage done to this country over the years by the courts is incredible and incalcuble. I bet the number of impeached federal judges alone can be counted on one hand over the last 150 years.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 12, 2025 08:37 AM (fOaHw)

89 I’m pretty much Lamont the Big Dummy when it comes to economics, and even I thought that negative tariff article was lame. There wasn’t an iota of explanation or analysis. Just institute negative tariffs (which are never clearly defined) and voila, paradise!

DR. Jill’s education thesis was probably more coherent than that.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:37 AM (77rzZ)

90 I more and more believe that publishing any type of macroeconomic statistic has almost ZERO to do with the overall economy of a country.

Employment numbers seem to be pulled from a hat, GDP is a random number generator, and CPI is manipulated to the point that last years basket of goods is not really equal to this years basket.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

91 Then we find out that many so-called federal employees are actually foreigners, not Americans.

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The federal government setting up a system to require Americans to compete against indentured servants that toil under the constant threat of deportation and for 60% or so of the American wage is one of the most infuriating things to me.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:38 AM (qSMcm)

92 So today I'm getting an ad that says if I wrap my elbow in cabbage, all my pain will go away.
Will this work if I wrap my entire head in cabbage? Be useful while perusing the news.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 12, 2025 08:31 AM

Treat the cabbage with Windex first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:38 AM (hOk1M)

93 Will this work if I wrap my entire head in cabbage? Be useful while perusing the news.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 12, 2025 08:31 AM (n4GiU)

I have a theory about these bizarre health ads you see all over the internet - Eat Ten Live Wasps To STOP BURSITIS FOREVER, and so on.

I think some 4chan kid won Powerball, and now he just places these ads so he can see how many people buy, and go back to the /troll board to brag that he got 4,327 people to purchase live wasps that will never arrive in the mail.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 08:39 AM (BI5O2)

94 Russians have just about cleared the Ukes out of the Kursk salient. The Ukes better get a deal quick as the Russians have been pounding the area around Odessa with missiles and drones and they're across the Dnieper east of Kherson. Z has become a dead letter. If he makes peace he's out in the first election. If he doesn't the best he can hope for is fleeing with a big bank account.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 08:39 AM (2Km7O)

95 83 #81 Please translate that to English. Thanks.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 12, 2025 08:34 AM (7aURE)

Buy American

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

96 But the Ukranians were just about to take Moscow?!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:40 AM (qSMcm)

97 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Trump is going off on Thomas Massie.

1:30 AM.

https://tinyurl.com/y4jfrtyf

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

98 What the fuck is Gavin Newsom doing? His podcast had Charlie Kirk as a guest, and today is Steve Bannon!?!? Who's he trying to win over here? I get wanting to listen to the other side but Newsom is not just platforming the other side - he's platforming the most extreme people on the other side.

Maybe the same thing Pete Buttigege is doing by regularly going on Fox? Except Pete is better at controlling the narrative.

Here's the kicker: Steven Bannon is too crazy for FOX News. So, even that comparison falls short. Steve Bannon is a lunatic extremist and no Democrat should ever be in the same room with him willingly.

He really thinks he's gonna be president and somehow making nice with authoritarian fascists is gonna help get him there.

Bannon isn't just a Republican. He's a Neo-Nazi. This isn't taking it to Republicans. And when he had Kirk on last week, he was not very good at shooting down Kirk's anti-trans comments. In fact, he readily agreed with them.

Newsom is a moderate Democrat. He opposes trans women who didn't transition until after puberty playing in women's sports. That wasn't because of Kirk. That's just Newsom's position.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:40 AM (UYsTH)

99 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

100 Dems Suddenly Decide Targeting Lawyers is Wrong

Apparently, Perkins Coie has “stateless” partners who live in China

Seventh Circuit Rules A Partnership Made Up Of At Least One Stateless Citizen Is Itself Stateless And Cannot Be Sued In Federal Court Based Upon Diversity Jurisdiction

By Melinda S. Kollross

In Page v. Democratic National Committee, 2 F.4th 630 (7th Cir. 2021), the Seventh Circuit issued a subject matter jurisdiction ruling regarding diversity jurisdiction that could affect cases being currently prosecuted/defended in federal court,

I find it unnerving that a law firm that can’t be sued in federal court should have any access to classified information.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

101
Sheep dip.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:36 AM (hOk1M)

You missed the perfect chance to sock Rosco P. Coltrane.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

102 Most of them are just not outright Communists and America haters, some like ACB are crypto-America haters
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

I wonder if Trump met with ACB. My sense watching her body language during the entire process was that she was completely disdainful of Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 08:41 AM (ZlOcj)

103 Fox News: President Trump’s federal layoffs are a betrayal of working Americans
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Until now I never knew you could actually hear crocodile tears

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 08:42 AM (mL1/V)

104 What the fuck is Gavin Newsom doing? His podcast had Charlie Kirk as a guest, and today is Steve Bannon!?!? Who's he trying to win over here? I get wanting to listen to the other side but Newsom is not just platforming the other side - he's platforming the most extreme people on the other side.

What's he doing? He's gearing himself up to be the 'moderate' democrat for 2028.

Do NOT sleep on this lying sack of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

105 Young, Gifted & Green received its $20 million environmental justice grant after its CEO—LaTricea Adams—personally applied for the funding while simultaneously serving as a member of a top White House environmental justice council, the Free Beacon reported last month.

This grift is strong with this one.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

106 Fox News: President Trump’s federal layoffs are a betrayal of working Americans
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Yet, none of them were working, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

107 I’m pretty much Lamont the Big Dummy when it comes to economics, and even I thought that negative tariff article was lame. There wasn’t an iota of explanation or analysis. Just institute negative tariffs (which are never clearly defined) and voila, paradise!

If I was able to comprehend the gibberish correctly, what we should be doing, as a nation, is not only applauding the off-shoring of blue collar work but funneling tax dollars to countries stupid enough to take these jobs from us... the idiots.

The author's premise seems to be that, since they would never want to work in a factory, no one would want to work in a factory. All the goods we buy would be so cheap that no one would ever need to do anything they didn't want.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

108 Sheep dip.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:36 AM (hOk1M)

You missed the perfect chance to sock Rosco P. Coltrane.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 08:41 AM

*hangs Gen X head in shame*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:43 AM (hOk1M)

109 Newsom is a moderate Democrat. He opposes trans women who didn't transition until after puberty playing in women's sports. That wasn't because of Kirk. That's just Newsom's position.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:40 AM (UYsTH)
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Either Democrats have gone so far left Newsom appears to be a moderate or the DUmmies are so far left even Newsom appears moderate. Either way, it's completely delusional to think Newsom is anything other than a full blown communist.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 08:43 AM (tT6L1)

110 Bannon isn't just a Republican. He's a Neo-Nazi.

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LOL. Bannon is not a neo-Nazi or a Republican. He's a straight up, old school populist who had the insight to help Trump hijack America's Weak Sister Party to serve as a vehicle for populism.

That's it. That's all there is to Steve Bannon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 08:43 AM (BI5O2)

111 > One of the very first revelations about the federal "work"force is that many are dead
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Probably the oldest scam in the books.

Plus, the dead employee has a history; legit name, address, bank account, social security number... all the information needed to keep the checks coming. There's little effort needed to fake anything.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

112 Today is also...
National Alfred Hitchcock Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

113 Fox News: President Trump’s federal layoffs are a betrayal of working Americans

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I mean, it was a bit of a clue when their job title literally said "non-essential"

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (qSMcm)

114 Newsom is a moderate Democrat. He opposes trans women who didn't transition until after puberty playing in women's sports. That wasn't because of Kirk. That's just Newsom's position today.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:40 AM

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (hOk1M)

115 Will this work if I wrap my entire head in cabbage? Be useful while perusing the news.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 12, 2025 08:31 AM (n4GiU)

My head is like lettuce
Go on dig your thumbs in

Posted by: Faith No More at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

116 I more and more believe that publishing any type of macroeconomic statistic has almost ZERO to do with the overall economy of a country.

Employment numbers seem to be pulled from a hat, GDP is a random number generator, and CPI is manipulated to the point that last years basket of goods is not really equal to this years basket.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

It's also the point that the aggregate national numbers likely have little similarity to what you experience where you are. They all exist to allow "non-partisan" federal agencies to propagandize on behalf of the left.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

117 Dems Suddenly Decide Targeting Lawyers is Wrong

Apparently, Perkins Coie has “stateless” partners who live in China

Seventh Circuit Rules A Partnership Made Up Of At Least One Stateless Citizen Is Itself Stateless And Cannot Be Sued In Federal Court Based Upon Diversity Jurisdiction

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)
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In days gone by, "stateless" entities (e.g., pirates) forfeited any protections given by a State and could therefore be summarily dealt with permanently by any State.

Food for thought...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 12, 2025 08:45 AM (7fElN)

118 As I understand it, and I could be wrong, there are two reasons Trump is cool with THIS CR.

1. It only funds the remainder of the in-progress fiscal year.
2. Republicans only have one reconciliation left and they want to hold that for extending the tax cuts.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Option 1. There's 6 months left in FY25. Piss and moan for two months and the "cuts" would only be for the remaining 4 months and you only have left 4 months to tackle FY 26.

Option 2: that was the idea by a Big Beautiful Bill encompassing tax cuts and spending cuts.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 12, 2025 08:45 AM (FxH7T)

119 I see Slotkin is cut from the same "turn the page" cloth as the wife of Walz and Doctuh Jill.

What is with the left and their obsession with treating Americans in an infantile manner? Or, do they believe they've dumbed down the electorate to the point Daddy and Mommy government knows best?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 08:45 AM (tT6L1)

120 Seventy percent of kids cannot read proficiently by the time they reach high school, we have spent over $1 trillion at the federal level since the department was created, and test scores and outcomes have plummeted even before pandemic-related school closures drove down performance even more,

Mr. Tamny, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

121 Either Democrats have gone so far left Newsom appears to be a moderate or the DUmmies are so far left even Newsom appears moderate. Either way, it's completely delusional to think Newsom is anything other than a full blown communist.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Or, Newsom has people starting the info campaign to lie and say he's a moderate now to make normies believe it when he runs in 2028.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (UYsTH)

122 As opposed to taxing foreign production, what if the federal government were to pay for it? One can dream. Opinion pieces are the art of the possible.

OK, those who wasted their time on that Negative Tariffs dreck, you are right. This is one of most stupid things I have read.

With $38T in debt, and the debt growing by another $1T every 100 days (and accelerating), this dope thinks that his stupid shit is "art" and "possible".

Yes, we should go further in debt to subsidize the world's industries at the expense of the stability of our dollar and risk default plunging the world in economic chaos as once the dollar collapses we discover BRICS didn't come up with an alternative.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

123 Commies never quit. Period. Full stop.

They may be in the wilderness but as soon as a smart commie comes along, they will get the other commies back on track towards their socialist utopia.

All they have to do is hide their commie better. Right now, their commie is out of the zipper, swanging for everyone to see.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (q7hip)

124 Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 08:27 AM (pkm6L)

No they call it Drag Bingo meaning it's bingo but boring because they'd rather be mounting each others' hairy asses.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (mL1/V)

125 I just learned a new word: courveh. Ace of Spades HQ is so edumacational!

Posted by: Don, the Rebel without a Blog at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (0ScbO)

126 Treat the cabbage with Windex first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:38 AM (hOk1M)

I didn't know you were Greek.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

127 Newsom is a moderate Democrat. He opposes trans women who didn't transition until after puberty playing in women's sports.

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Don't miss this.

Not sexually abusing children is now a moderate Democrat platform to be despised by True Democrats.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (qSMcm)

128 Jet fuel burns out. I would say use any VX we have lying around but that would be inhumane, and totally against several solemn international treaties, and stuff. It'd be effective, though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:20 AM

Now I'm not saying anyone should do that...but I'd understand if they did.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:47 AM (hOk1M)

129 118 As I understand it, and I could be wrong, there are two reasons Trump is cool with THIS CR.

1. It only funds the remainder of the in-progress fiscal year.
2. Republicans only have one reconciliation left and they want to hold that for extending the tax cuts.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Option 1. There's 6 months left in FY25. Piss and moan for two months and the "cuts" would only be for the remaining 4 months and you only have left 4 months to tackle FY 26.

Option 2: that was the idea by a Big Beautiful Bill encompassing tax cuts and spending cuts.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 12, 2025 08:45 AM (FxH7T)

3. 6 more months of DOGE slash and burn tactics.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

130 Treat the cabbage with Windex first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:38 AM (hOk1M)

I didn't know you were Greek.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM

I am. And we love goofing on that line.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:47 AM (hOk1M)

131 Either the police need to return to the concept of "keeping the peace" or we, as a society, need to return to the concept of "get in my face and my fist will get in yours".

"Protestors" would love it if Vance cold-cocked one of them. It would lead every news story in the country, the 'victim' would sue (and win) and the MFM would gleefully opine that the Trump / Vance 'culture of hate' was coming home to roost.

What should be done is that every damned 'protestor' be doxxed and SWATted. If the Fedds can track down Grandma Pearl from Bug Tussle, they can damn well track down Karen Winebox from Slutsville.

Have I mentioned how much I hate people?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (Q0kLU)

132 LOL. Bannon is not a neo-Nazi or a Republican. He's a straight up, old school populist...
That's it. That's all there is to Steve Bannon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 08:43 AM (BI5O2)

He's also an ant-Leftist. A distinct addition to being a populist (and a patriot), and an important thing unto itself.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (ZlOcj)

133 Tamny is a consistent shill for a borderless world throughout his career. About as useful to read as something from Bloomberg.

Posted by: whig's phone at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (ctrM5)

134 Or, Newsom has people starting the info campaign to lie and say he's a moderate now to make normies believe it when he runs in 2028.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:46 AM (UYsTH)
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JD Vance and Gavin: Debate comedy gold.

No way Gavin survives Vance.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (tT6L1)

135 I more and more believe that publishing any type of macroeconomic statistic has almost ZERO to do with the overall economy of a country.

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I'm starting to appreciate that most modern politicians and politically-adjacent folks view running nations similarly to designing and flying helicopters.

Just throw money at it and beat it into submission.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (qSMcm)

136 I find that I have a real distrust of people who haven't been able to master the use of a razor.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

137 Bannon isn't just a Republican. He's a Neo-Nazi.
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Neo-Nazi is fun to say. Neeee - oooo Not - zzzeeee. For when you have to pretend to be smart and not just say poopyhead.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1)

138 In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

139 Gavin may be the left's moses. Or maybe Whitmer.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 08:49 AM (q7hip)

140
Treat the cabbage with Windex first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Forget the cabbage. Jump right over to the end state and use sauerkraut in its place.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 08:49 AM (xG4kz)

141 As I understand it, and I could be wrong, there are two reasons Trump is cool with THIS CR.

He doesn't need the distraction, and hit to polling, a government shutdown would cause. He's already getting shit done at a breakneck pace, so why mess it up? No one except the wonkiest budget people care if it's a true budget or CR passed, so pass the CR and let Trump's team keep doing what it's doing, uninterrupted and undistracted.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:49 AM (UYsTH)

142 Just throw money at it and beat it into submission.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (qSMcm)

You wants to go to a strip club wiff me

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

143 Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) suggested Tuesday that Americans elected President Donald Trump because the country is in its "angry teenage years" and voters' brains have not fully formed.
"I don’t think there’s anyone who feels like what’s going on right now is normal, even if you voted for Trump," Slotkin said on The View. "We’re about to turn 250 years old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country."
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Normal, huh? She is a normal bait-and-switch Democrat. Talk unity BS when a lot of truly normal people are listening; talk leftist party line BS in front of a heavily-leftist crowd. The same schitck used by Bro-Fo Omar. Disgusting. Hopefully Republicans in the future can use this two-faced schtick against her.

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 08:50 AM (aBgBM)

144 To my point about Bannon - we are seeing his ideas play out now. The old GOP seems to be finally, mercifully dying. Its time is running out, populism's time has come.

I think after the midterms, it's time for Trump and especially Vance to push for a formal name change for the Party, to make a clean break from its wicked past, and highlight for the American people that this is a new thing for a new era.

It could be anything. The America Party. Literally anything. Just drop that rancid label. As a bonus, it would clear out the last of the deadenders who are unwilling to take their medicine and swear fealty by adopting the name.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 08:50 AM (BI5O2)

145 Apparently, Perkins Coie has “stateless” partners who live in China

Stateless people are not recognized as citizens by any country. Denied the right to a nationality, they are often also not allowed to go to school, see a doctor, get a job or even get married.

UNHCR advocates for their rights and works to prevent and end statelessness globally.

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I wonder if the UN knows about these poor, unfortunate lawyers who're citizens of no country yet China, out of the goodness of their hearts, permits them to remain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

146 @129 from a political standpoint it also shoves Senate Dems up against the wall. If the Republicans in the Senate stay united that's 53 votes. Seven Dems will have to join them or the government shuts down. Suck it Dems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 08:51 AM (2Km7O)

147 Have I mentioned how much I hate people?

Wait. They're people?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 12, 2025 08:51 AM (RjOoY)

148 I care about CR vs budget and I'm not a wonk.

The fucking Law intended for a budget. CR is a fucking cheat used by people who refuse to run government properly.

It's a lazy, abused system of balancing the checkbook.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 08:51 AM (q7hip)

149 I find it unnerving that a law firm that can’t be sued in federal court should have any access to classified information.
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

I find it unnerving that a law firm that has partners who're not US citizens should have any access to classified information.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

150 Forget the cabbage. Jump right over to the end state and use sauerkraut in its place.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 08:49 AM

Or go nuclear and use kimchee.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:51 AM (hOk1M)

151 Putting my marker down now. Slotkin will run for President in '28.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (WzLXQ)

152 Rhennigatx, two reconciliation attempts per 2 years. House wants one budget bill with everything in it, Ladybugs Lindsay is leading the Senate effort of two bills with the popular separated from the necessary.

CR is NOT a reconciliation bill so Dems in Senate determines it future. Takes 60 votes.

Posted by: whig's phone at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (ctrM5)

153 Apparently, Perkins Coie has “stateless” partners who live in China

Seventh Circuit Rules A Partnership Made Up Of At Least One Stateless Citizen Is Itself Stateless And Cannot Be Sued In Federal Court Based Upon Diversity Jurisdiction
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Wow, there really is a Get Out of Jail Free card.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

154 Bannon isn't just a Republican. He's a Neo-Nazi.

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Okay.

No one cares, same as calling us racist.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (qSMcm)

155 Sorry, but the WH is doing an inadequate PR job with DOGE. DOGE is the most significant operation to restore fiduciary order and reform in modern history.

Posted by: Ordinary American

Partially agree. The more you "highlight" the cuts each and every nook and cranny the more sob stories you'll get.

Better to point out the huge findings to make the same point that's there's FW&A.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (FxH7T)

156 POLITICO: “A senior official at USAID instructed the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

157 Today is also...
National Alfred Hitchcock Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

Should I be on the lookout for birds or a crop duster plane?

Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (Oy/m2)

158 151 Putting my marker down now. Slotkin will run for President in '28.
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Shhhh!

Posted by: See-Eye-Ay at March 12, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)

159 Tamny is a consistent shill for a borderless world throughout his career. About as useful to read as something from Bloomberg.

That adds even more to the stupid because isn't a basic requirement for a tariff to have an actual national border?

Without borders, I could declare any office/industrial park to be a Negative Tariff zone and demand that any products that come in and out get heavily subsidized by inflated dollars.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 12, 2025 08:53 AM (a4flb)

160 I find it unnerving that a law firm that can’t be sued in federal court should have any access to classified information.
Posted by: SMOD

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I need to know what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court thinks first.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:53 AM (qSMcm)

161 Sure, Hitchcock gets a day but nothing for George Lucas?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 08:54 AM (q7hip)

162 I see SMOD is a bit behind the times...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 12, 2025 08:54 AM (y2f7I)

163 Today is also...
National Alfred Hitchcock Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

Should I be on the lookout for birds or a crop duster plane?
Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM

Watch Mel Brooks' High Anxiety instead. And then really watch out for birds.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 08:54 AM (hOk1M)

164 157 Today is also...
National Alfred Hitchcock Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

Should I be on the lookout for birds or a crop duster plane?

Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (Oy/m2)

Don't take a shower today.

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 08:54 AM (aBgBM)

165 I learned the word-courveh-from Rush Limbaugh. He used it to speak about Katie Couric. Called her Katie Courveh on air repeatedly.

Posted by: I Miss Rush at March 12, 2025 08:55 AM (G5+As)

166 “This was sent to roughly three dozen employees,” Kelly wrote. “The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems. More fake news hysteria!”

A former USAID staffer confirmed the veracity of the email and described the destruction of agency documents as unprecedented.

“I’ve never seen something like this — en masse. Everyone with a safe is supposed to keep it up to date and destroy documents when they no longer need to be stored. Sometimes security will check your safe and tell you if you have to clean out old material,” said the former staffer, who was granted anonymity due to fear of possible reprisals by the Trump administration.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

167 Hitchcock's best film was Prometheus.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 08:55 AM (q7hip)

168 Vice President Kamala Harris raked in record-breaking hundreds of millions of dollars through ActBlue — more than $80 million in the first 24 hours and $310 million that month, The Federalist reported at the time.

Unpossible

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

169
Fox News: President Trump’s federal layoffs are a betrayal of working Americans

How can jettisoning non-working Americans in tgd feral work force be a betrayal of working Americans?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 08:56 AM (xG4kz)

170 If DOGE wants to make inroads on saving money, they need to reduce what a federal layabout gets paid. Minimum wage, a shift meal and mandatory uniforms, like an orange or other brightly colored jumpsuit onesie, should work fine.

Posted by: Dick Cheney, Mastermind On Viagra at March 12, 2025 08:56 AM (EEZHI)

171 165 I learned the word-courveh-from Rush Limbaugh. He used it to speak about Katie Couric. Called her Katie Courveh on air repeatedly.
Posted by: I Miss Rush

I learned the word covfefe from Trump. Has been a real game changer for me lol

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:56 AM (UYsTH)

172 Putting my marker down now. Slotkin will run for President in '28.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (WzLXQ)

I still thing Booty is the next chosen one. I think they or he knew Kamala was a sinking ship and that's the only reason he didn't pair with her.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM (mL1/V)

173 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

174 Maybe Great New Party, so they can call themselves the GNP.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM (BI5O2)

175 161 Sure, Hitchcock gets a day but nothing for George Lucas?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 08:54 AM (q7hip)

May the Fourth

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

176 > Putting my marker down now. Slotkin will run for President in '28.
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We thought 2020 had a crowded Democrat field. '28 will have them lining the walls. I bet there will be over 30 candidates... real candidates with enough money to file their intent to run, make it through the debates and their primary before it's hashed out.

And even then the sore losers with deep pockets/donors will persist. It'll be a madhouse.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM (Q4IgG)

177 There is one question to ask each celebrity leaving the country:

"Epstein or Diddy List?"

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at March 12, 2025 08:58 AM (Da7Vv)

178 173 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

No idea what it means… not clued in by the Cool Kidz…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 08:58 AM (PCK5/)

179 Kelly wrote. “The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems.

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I like this. It's similar to the same government and government-adjacent folks being exposed as using spaces, symbols, code words, etc. to avoid and thwart FOIA requests.

Yes, the information still exists on a classified server that likely requires additional steps, clearances, steps, judge rulings, etc. to access, so stop complaining about us shredding these documents, H8Rs!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:58 AM (qSMcm)

180 Have I mentioned how much I hate people?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (Q0kLU)

Don't think so......

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 08:58 AM (mL1/V)

181 Hitchcock, Meh.

He was no Harold P. Warren.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

182 Newsom acting like he's moving to the center is a waste of time and resources. Everyone knows he's a slimy, lying , incompetent leftist. Just that some people like that type is the problem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 08:59 AM (2Km7O)

183 163 Today is also...
National Alfred Hitchcock Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

I'm getting in a lifeboat with William Bendix and Tallulah Bankhead. Should be fun.

Posted by: Funeral March Of A Marionette at March 12, 2025 08:59 AM (G5+As)

184 90% of adults have no idea who Newsom is.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 08:59 AM (mL1/V)

185 Bannon isn't just a Republican. He's a Neo-Nazi.
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Neo-Nazi is fun to say. Neeee - oooo Not - zzzeeee. For when you have to pretend to be smart and not just say poopyhead.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1)

Whenever someone claims that someone else is a Neo-Nazi, I want to respond that The Matrix was a fine movie but I just can't see getting worked up enough about a single character to go around correcting people about them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

186 runner, I'm sure they will at least have a horse field.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 12, 2025 08:59 AM (WzLXQ)

187 Governor Kathy Hochul is issuing an executive order to prevent other state agencies from hiring former corrections officers who were fired for their involvement in the illegal strikes. On Monday, the Department of Corrections & Community Supervision (DOCCS) terminated about 2,000 officers who did not return to work after three weeks of striking. Public employees cannot strike under state law. Those that remained on the picket line were also doing so in direct defiance of a judge's restraining order, meaning there had been the possibility of law enforcement arresting officers on a criminal contempt charge.

... doesn't sound too pro-union to me

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

188 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

According to the interwebz, "kurveh" is Yiddish for "whore", "slut", "bitch", etc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (hOk1M)

189 Also if the people with classified clearance weren't maintaining their safes in accordance with the required laws, punish the wrongdoers. Telling them to shred old documents that were illegal to still maintain indicates a crime and a whole bunch of criminals that should be fired and jailed, right?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (qSMcm)

190 @ Ben Had, I'm going with Jasmine Crockett running, too.

Mainly because I think it would be hilarious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (tT6L1)

191 https://x.com/DOGE

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

192 The best Hitchcock flick was Rear Window.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

193 That adds even more to the stupid because isn't a basic requirement for a tariff to have an actual national border?

Without borders, I could declare any office/industrial park to be a Negative Tariff zone and demand that any products that come in and out get heavily subsidized by inflated dollars.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Yes it is stupid but then again, Tamny has put this crap out on Real Clear Markets, the remnants of Forbes via online articles with editorial review, etc. This was a gadfly idiotic piece by Tamny and AID probably did not pay for any editing this time.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (ctrM5)

194 I learned the word-courveh-from Rush Limbaugh. He used it to speak about Katie Couric. Called her Katie Courveh on air repeatedly.
Posted by: I Miss Rush at March 12, 2025 08:55 AM (G5+As)

I liked it when she let everyone watch them ramming that camera up her ass. For Free too! Woo Baby!

Posted by: Bob Kraft, NFL Owner Who Likes The Yellow at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (EEZHI)

195 Good morning!

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (1VvJB)

196 There would be no reason to complain Trump is attacking people for their free speech if the Democrats hadn't spent the last 50 years building the system that does exactly that.

Remember the left argued the government also has free speech rights.
So, Trump isn't attacking free speech, he's just "jawboning" as they said in defense of Covid censorship.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (2EU+I)

197 We thought 2020 had a crowded Democrat field. '28 will have them lining the walls. I bet there will be over 30 candidates

Whitmer, Newsom, Walz, Pritzker, not Harris, Buttigieg are the top tier, I guess, at least in terms of visibility. Awfully white...who else? There's the loser also runs like Beto, Abrams.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (UYsTH)

198 Morning, all

Think I'll just keep the coin -- don't want to do the work of finding the dang 'slotkin' -- yeesh!

Someone needs to exert a little self-control over her appetite. Come to think of it, she personifies the piggy Democrats who feed, feed, feed at the government trough and DO NOT want you to take it away!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (Cki93)

199 >>> 166 “This was sent to roughly three dozen employees,” Kelly wrote. “The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems. More fake news hysteria!”

A former USAID staffer confirmed the veracity of the email and described the destruction of agency documents as unprecedented.

“I’ve never seen something like this — en masse. Everyone with a safe is supposed to keep it up to date and destroy documents when they no longer need to be stored. Sometimes security will check your safe and tell you if you have to clean out old material,” said the former staffer, who was granted anonymity due to fear of possible reprisals by the Trump administration.
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

Isn't that all they have left?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (Vqx30)

200 I'd like to see a little more research on coca leaves. Could a mild coca tea, or energy drink, be any worse than coffee? It's a known appetite suppressant, which this country could certainly use. I know I could. Appetite suppressant plus increased energy seems like win/win.I'd like to know if there are additional health benefits to be had.

Would be nice if Columbia and Peru could benefit economically from a legitimate coca industry, and get the drug lords out of it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (OX9vb)

201 Fox News: President Trump’s federal layoffs are a betrayal of working Americans

Which tells you all you need to know about Fox "News."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (Q0kLU)

202 188 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

According to the interwebz, "kurveh" is Yiddish for "whore", "slut", "bitch", etc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (hOk1M)

So, the entirely different spelling and lack of context might explain the mystery…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (PCK5/)

203 @ Ben Had, I'm going with Jasmine Crockett running, too.

Mainly because I think it would be hilarious.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 09:00 A

I don't think my poor liver would survive that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (hOk1M)

204 Van Jones could run. He's tacking middle all the time.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (q7hip)

205 Either Democrats have gone so far left Newsom appears to be a moderate or the DUmmies are so far left even Newsom appears moderate. Either way, it's completely delusional to think Newsom is anything other than a full blown communist.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 08:43 AM (tT6L1)

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And single questioning of or disagreement with the authoritative Death Cult narrative gets you excommunicated and labeled a "moderate."

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (pkm6L)

206 Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47

CNN: "Finally, we have some good news on the economy... both of these figures were a step in the right direction, and BOTH were better than expected... this actually breaks a streak of four straight months where the inflation rate was going in the wrong direction."

https://tinyurl.com/mvcajx29

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

207 188 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

According to the interwebz, "kurveh" is Yiddish for "whore", "slut", "bitch", etc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (hOk1M)

So, the entirely different spelling and lack of context might explain the mystery…
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM

Could be.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:03 AM (hOk1M)

208 Core Consumer Price Inflation Slowest In 4 Years As Energy & Airfare Costs Tumble

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

209
Slotkin said on The View

Could we stop playing billiards with intellectual black holes, please? Someone is going to get hurt.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 09:03 AM (xG4kz)

210 >>Whitmer, Newsom, Walz, Pritzker, not Harris, Buttigieg are the top tier, I guess, at least in terms of visibility. Awfully white...who else? There's the loser also runs like Beto, Abrams.

Jared Polis.
I am certain he will run -- he was so very close to being in Kamala's cabinet, and he is just as weasely as Newsome (thanking Trump for arresting TdA after working w/Biden to dump them in Aurora, then blaming his GOP rival after denying it was a problem for months).

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (Cki93)

211
I don't think my poor liver would survive that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (hOk1M)
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Jasmine and Slotkin on the debate stage would let the world see a crazy on crazy match. Ratings gold.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (tT6L1)

212 192 The best Hitchcock flick was Rear Window.
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

I'll go with "Vertigo." Unconventional, disturbing, visually and sensually unique.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (ZlOcj)

213 Good inflation report

Posted by: Jonah at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

214 POLITICO: “A senior official at USAID instructed the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information.”
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

From the links... USAID Tells Staff to Burn & Shred Docs. That’s Actually Not Uncommon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

215 I do not see the Dummy Dems choosing another woman for a few cycles yet. Fool me once.... won't get fooled again.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (mL1/V)

216 I'm certain cutting all the federal waste has nothing to do with inflation numbers, right?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (q7hip)

217 As Germany Debates Conscription, 'Gender Equality' Means Women Should Be Drafted To Fight (& Die) For Their Country

As the “girl bosses” of Europe, such as von der Leyen and Baerbock, call to fight until Russia is defeated, it is more important than ever that women face conscription and are forced to fight in combat operations... just like men.

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

218 Which tells you all you need to know about Fox "News."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM

They've been almost indistinguishable from MSNSDAP for years...especially their radio "news".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (hOk1M)

219 210 >>Whitmer, Newsom, Walz, Pritzker, not Harris, Buttigieg are the top tier, I guess, at least in terms of visibility. Awfully white...who else? There's the loser also runs like Beto, Abrams.

Jared Polis.
I am certain he will run -- he was so very close to being in Kamala's cabinet, and he is just as weasely as Newsome (thanking Trump for arresting TdA after working w/Biden to dump them in Aurora, then blaming his GOP rival after denying it was a problem for months).
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (Cki93)

If that is the best they have, we are Golden…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (PCK5/)

220 I've seen 'Vertigo' a couple of times and keep thinking it's about 20 minutes or so too long.

Posted by: dantesed at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (Oy/m2)

221

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
You can’t make this up. Gavin Newsom secretly partially funded the creation of his own monument in San Francisco’s City Hall. The total cost was $97,000.

He donated $ from companies he owns to a nonprofit and earmarked the payments for “Mayoral Bust at San Francisco City Hall.”

https://tinyurl.com/4m9njhcc

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

222 212 The plot of Vertigo always seemed far-fetched to me.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

223 Jared Polis.
I am certain he will run -- he was so very close to being in Kamala's cabinet, and he is just as weasely as Newsome (thanking Trump for arresting TdA after working w/Biden to dump them in Aurora, then blaming his GOP rival after denying it was a problem for months).
Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM

Plus ghey. So he's got that going for him.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:06 AM (hOk1M)

224 182 Newsom acting like he's moving to the center is a waste of time and resources. Everyone knows he's a slimy, lying , incompetent leftist. Just that some people like that type is the problem
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Meh. Most normies don't know who he is, at least not by name. But if he runs, the general ads of "He was the Governor of California, and under his watch, this happend" with various scenes of chaos, will really hurt him, and he'll have no defense. The Old El Paso "New York City!" commercials worked because general Americans view New Yorkers as out of step with more rural, middle-American values. California is that, but on crack.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 09:06 AM (UYsTH)

225 222 212 The plot of Vertigo always seemed far-fetched to me.
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah, not realistic, like The Birds, say…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:06 AM (PCK5/)

226 The problem with any democrat tacking to the middle and hoping to run on that is that it's a lie. This factor of deceit may of course be partially neutralized by the media. But there is no way that any genuinely "moderate" democrat can win the nomination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 09:06 AM (ZlOcj)

227 Huh - a late night shooting in front of the Crescent View Islamic Academy in Aurora. But there's no connection, they are so sure, so they keep mentioning the school. Uh, OK, and the name of the person shot? No details. ..

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2025 09:06 AM (Cki93)

228 Which tells you all you need to know about Fox "News."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (Q0kLU)
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Meanwhile, yesterday, President Trump made the very obvious point American workers generate the taxes which pay the salaries of government employees and we cannot have more government workers than private sector for that reason.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 09:07 AM (tT6L1)

229 104. Damien is doomed if he runs in 2028. Another left wing Californian? Too much of a socialist paper trail.

Why is Bannon and Kirk even giving him credence?

Posted by: Jonah at March 12, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)

230 True story, last year an unknown miscreant released about a dozen roosters in the middle of the small town near me.

It would be funny if *somehow* a few million chickens were released around the USDA and/or CDC, and/or maybe that feralgov biolab in Athens, GA where it's alleged they were playing with bird woofloo and oh yeah, isn't that where this was first reported...?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 12, 2025 09:07 AM (Vqx30)

231 Plus the New Media has surpassed the old media.

They can't strangle the news in the crib anymore.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2025 09:07 AM (q7hip)

232 90% of adults have no idea who Newsom is.
Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 08:59 AM (mL1/V)

I might agree with 60%, but after the DeSantis shellacking of him on national TV displaying the 'poopie map,' I think a LOT learned his name.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

233 As the “girl bosses” of Europe, such as von der Leyen and Baerbock, call to fight until Russia is defeated, it is more important than ever that women face conscription and are forced to fight in combat operations... just like men.
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von der Leyen should be the first to volunteer. She's a little long in the tooth, but looks healthy enough to carry a rifle.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

234 Study Shows 86% Increase In Sexual Violence On French Public Transport

Much of it driven by mass migration...

“With 63 percent of those arrested for sexual assault and 92 percent for petty theft in public transport being foreigners, according to data from 2019. Similar data is seen in Germany, where 59 percent of all sexual assaults on German trains are attributed to foreigners, with sexual crimes doubling since 2019.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

235 Maybe Great New Party, so they can call themselves the GNP.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM (BI5O2)

How about "America, fuck yeah!" party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

236 225 The Birds was actually based on a real incident. A bunch of birds got some kind of poisoning, or something, and went berserk.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

237 Having been to Key West, I think I know where ground zero for avian flu is…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (PCK5/)

238 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
You can’t make this up. Gavin Newsom secretly partially funded the creation of his own monument in San Francisco’s City Hall. The total cost was $97,000.

He donated $ from companies he owns to a nonprofit and earmarked the payments for “Mayoral Bust at San Francisco City Hall.”

https://tinyurl.com/4m9njhcc

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

But TRUMP is the narcissist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

239 Study Shows 86% Increase In Sexual Violence On French Public Transport

Much of it driven by mass migration...

“With 63 percent of those arrested for sexual assault and 92 percent for petty theft in public transport being foreigners, according to data from 2019. Similar data is seen in Germany, where 59 percent of all sexual assaults on German trains are attributed to foreigners, with sexual crimes doubling since 2019.”
Posted by: SMOD at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM

Hmm...a pattern emerges...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:09 AM (hOk1M)

240 Why is Bannon and Kirk even giving him credence?
Posted by: Jonah at March 12, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
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Gets Newsom on digital record which is then used against Newsom down the road.

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

241 >>If that is the best they have, we are Golden…

He is visually repellent, though not an assault on the eyes like Pritzger. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 12, 2025 09:10 AM (Cki93)

242 236 225 The Birds was actually based on a real incident. A bunch of birds got some kind of poisoning, or something, and went berserk.
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah… carry food around on the beach, let a little fall on the sand…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:10 AM (PCK5/)

243 >>> 237 Having been to Key West, I think I know where ground zero for avian flu is…
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (PCK5/)

Heh, wouldn't that be for minkeypox?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 12, 2025 09:10 AM (Vqx30)

244 I see Hump Day done creeped up on me again. I'll be back after booking me a cabin for the weekend.

Posted by: Nathan Wade on VRBO at March 12, 2025 09:10 AM (G5+As)

245 213 Good inflation report

Posted by: Jonah at March 12, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

Down to 2.8 pct from last month's 3.0 pct.

Democrat-Media Complex begins yelling Trump's team is lying in...10 minutes ago?

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 09:10 AM (aBgBM)

246 I'm getting in a lifeboat with William Bendix and Tallulah Bankhead. Should be fun.
Posted by: Funeral March Of A Marionette at March 12, 2025 08:59 AM (G5+As)

The lifeboat scenes in that movie were filmed in the 20th Century-Fox lot water tank. Bankhead was notorious for not wearing underwear, so every day a crowd of onlookers grew ever larger as she made her way up the ladder to climb into the tank.

Eventually it got so bad that a studio executive sent a memo to Hitch, asking him if there was anything he could do. The director replied,

"I should be happy to comply with your wishes regarding Miss Bankhead, but I do not know to which department this complaint should be addressed - wardrobe, makeup or hairdressing."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 09:10 AM (Q0kLU)

247 Have I mentioned how much I hate people?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (Q0kLU)

Well...yeah.

But more importantly, how do you feel about tapirs?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 12, 2025 09:11 AM (iJfKG)

248 I'm feeling quite hungry. For some more cowbell.

Posted by: Henry of Skalitz at March 12, 2025 09:11 AM (44D8d)

249 206 Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47

CNN: "Finally, we have some good news on the economy... both of these figures were a step in the right direction, and BOTH were better than expected... this actually breaks a streak of four straight months where the inflation rate was going in the wrong direction."

https://tinyurl.com/mvcajx29
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

I question the timing. It's like things got better right when Trump took office. Is this privileged Data or Russian Data? Those numbers are just what Putin wants us to believe.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 12, 2025 09:11 AM (pIfcn)

250 But there is no way that any genuinely "moderate" democrat can win the nomination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 09:06 AM (ZlOcj)

There is no such animal.

A moderate Democrat wants to bury you in the same mass grave as the rest of your family out of courtesy.

A moderate Democrat only wants every third kid sexually abused.

A moderate Democrat wants the government to control just 95% of the means of production.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 09:11 AM (mL1/V)

251 A former USAID staffer confirmed the veracity of the email and described the destruction of agency documents as unprecedented.

So... someone who got fired said some shit that I should get worked up over?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

252 "I should be happy to comply with your wishes regarding Miss Bankhead, but I do not know to which department this complaint should be addressed - wardrobe, makeup or hairdressing."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 09:10 AM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (hOk1M)

253 It seems though on a positive note there is an actual spending freeze in the thing so some on our side are calling this a win.

—

Some on our side call everything Republicans do a win. It’s the loser mentality. Like when Dems want a 10% increase in spending and Republicans instead propose a 5-% increase. These same people then claim Republicans cut 5% spending.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (q4V1h)

254
And a little Hogg shall lead them.

Posted by: With pillows at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (dg+HA)

255 247 Have I mentioned how much I hate people?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (Q0kLU)

Well...yeah.

But more importantly, how do you feel about tapirs?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 12, 2025 09:11 AM (iJfKG)

Yeah…. hate those guys… and Meerkats…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (PCK5/)

256 That's a nice suit Ms. Slutkin is wearing up top. Does she have a Custom Eldorado too?

Posted by: Pimp My Ride at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (G5+As)

257 Fox News
Newsom's viral 'Latinx' claim crumbles amid scrutiny of his own administration's online records

https://tinyurl.com/y98ct5jc

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

258 >>As the “girl bosses” of Europe, such as von der Leyen and Baerbock, call to fight until Russia is defeated, it is more important than ever that women face conscription and are forced to fight in combat operations... just like men.

Saw a clip of von der Leyen discussing war with Russia, and then asked will her kids serve, and the look of utter amusement and laugh was sickening. Might as well have asked if one of her kids would become a plumber or garbage man. . .

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

259 And a little Hogg shall lead them.
Posted by: With pillows at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (dg+HA

Wee wee wee all the way home?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 09:13 AM (KtIIi)

260 226 The problem with any democrat tacking to the middle and hoping to run on that is that it's a lie. This factor of deceit may of course be partially neutralized by the media. But there is no way that any genuinely "moderate" democrat can win the nomination.
_____

You shouldn't be jailed for refusing to use someone's preferred pronouns. That is just going too far! However, paying a simple fine isn't too much to ask and should be sufficient to deter the hate.

Posted by: Moderate Democrat at March 12, 2025 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

261 Tallulah Bankhead was one of the biggest sluts in movie history. And that’s saying something.

Her old man was Speaker of the House.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)

262 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

According to the interwebz, "kurveh" is Yiddish for "whore", "slut", "bitch", etc.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (hOk1M)

So, the entirely different spelling and lack of context might explain the mystery…
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:02 AM

Could be.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:03 AM (hOk1M)

I thought it was "courfefe" at first glance

Posted by: Josephistan at March 12, 2025 09:14 AM (y9ksN)

263 @ Ben Had, I'm going with Jasmine Crockett running, too.

Mainly because I think it would be hilarious.

-

It will be interesting to see which accent she chooses.

Her real non-Jive Turkey accent sounds like a wealthy white Duke sorority pledge

https://tinyurl.com/5bpt2m5r

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 09:14 AM (qSMcm)

264 Have I mentioned how much I hate people?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (Q0kLU)

I love you! Come sit by me and we shall discuss all the wonderful ways to extinguish the stupid people!
I worked in a factory for a few years and when I got home my mom(yes I was still living at home with the parents) would ask how my day went. The answer was usually. " I hate people. I'm gonna watch a John Wayne movie. He knew how to deal with people. Shoot them, punch them, throw a grenade at them."

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 12, 2025 09:14 AM (4XwPj)

265 In Page v. Democratic National Committee, 2 F.4th 630 (7th Cir. 2021), the Seventh Circuit issued a subject matter jurisdiction ruling regarding diversity jurisdiction that could affect cases being currently prosecuted/defended in federal court,

I find it unnerving that a law firm that can’t be sued in federal court should have any access to classified information.
Posted by: SMOD
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This case might very well go to Scotus if Carter Page decides to appeal regarding Perkins Cooie. Read the opinion and it turns on some odd interpretations of diversity based on a statutory reading of the law granting federal courts the power of diversity (lawsuits across the states) but it does apparently open a window in that Carter might be able to refile in state court (the 7th reversed the district court decision to dismiss with prejudice) which would create a dilemma where multinational partnerships would be immune from being sued in federal court but could be in state courts.

It then would imply that any motions by a defendant partnership to move cases to federal court could be thwarted because of this ruling. E.g. China was found liable for Covid in MO to the tune of billions.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:14 AM (ctrM5)

266 On the CR, Trump has given me no reason not to trust him.

Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2025 09:15 AM (KQk9m)

267 might agree with 60%, but after the DeSantis shellacking of him on national TV displaying the 'poopie map,' I think a LOT learned his name.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

People are too busy in TikTok and Dancing With the Stars to know or care. Hell I even forgot that happened until someone here mentioned it last month. The politically aware have no idea just how unaware and uninvolved most people are.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 09:15 AM (mL1/V)

268 261 Tallulah Bankhead was one of the biggest sluts in movie history. And that’s saying something.

Her old man was Speaker of the House.
Posted by: Bulg
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A sex whore screwing others descended from a political whore screwing the voters. Family values.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:16 AM (ctrM5)

269 Their only guiding light — to be against whatever he is for — is creating confusing contradictions and leading them ever deeper into political parody.

My favorite one of these...

Then: Any accusation that food prices have gone up is a racist hate speech!

Now: Why haven't you lowered the price of eggs DRUMP?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 09:16 AM (t0Rmr)

270 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (q4V1h)

And others whine and declare the sky is falling 24/7 and everything the Republicans do is a failure.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 12, 2025 09:16 AM (VofaG)

271
You could drive the Chevrolet Courveh, but -

it cost you $20 every time you did.

Same as in town.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 12, 2025 09:16 AM (iJfKG)

272 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 12, 2025 09:14 AM (4XwPj)

Good morning, MM. Hope you are having a good one. And a good morning too.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 09:17 AM (mL1/V)

273
No matter how many crazed Dims get into the 2028 Presidential race, they will never all be on the debate stage. Selection rules based on their standing in the polls will see to that.

Red Kammie, Newscum and three or four others, period.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 09:17 AM (xG4kz)

274 Just throw money at it and beat it into submission.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 08:48 AM (qSMcm)

You wants to go to a strip club wiff me
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA
I laughed way too much at this!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 12, 2025 09:17 AM (4XwPj)

275 222 212 The plot of Vertigo always seemed far-fetched to me.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

Rich guy who successfully sets-up an elaborate con to get away with killing his wife fails to pay the bimbo used as bait to move at least a thousand miles away. Yeah, doesn't add up. But I like Vertigo. A commenter above used a word to describe it that I find perfect - disturbing.

Posted by: Gref at March 12, 2025 09:17 AM (aBgBM)

276 People are too busy in TikTok and Dancing With the Stars to know or care. Hell I even forgot that happened until someone here mentioned it last month. The politically aware have no idea just how unaware and uninvolved most people are.
Posted by: ...
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True. People here commenting on political threads represent about 10 percent or less of registered voters (limited to those that are above ground and actually exist--not applicable to any cheat by mail state electorate).

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:18 AM (ctrM5)

277 188 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

According to the interwebz, "kurveh" is Yiddish for "whore", "slut", "bitch", etc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (hOk1M)

Looks a bit like Kurva, which is Hungarian for the same.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at March 12, 2025 09:18 AM (okun6)

278 I worked at the Pine Street Post Office in Manhattan doing a big renovation around 1975. Across the street was the "New Bambi Coffee Shop". It was owned and staffed entirely by poofters. The owner had a purple Gremlin that he parked on the street out front. The horizontal surfaces, roof, hood, rear hatch, had faux Zebra fur, as well as a custom interior with the same fabric. Slutkin at top, has the same combo. Looks nice!

Posted by: Memories, 50 Years On at March 12, 2025 09:18 AM (G5+As)

279 The Old El Paso "New York City!" commercials worked because general Americans view New Yorkers as out of step with more rural, middle-American values.

Pace Picante Sauce is not made by Old El Paso, or in NYC.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

280 On the CR, Trump has given me no reason not to trust him.
Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2025 09:15 AM (KQk9m)

It's ultimately a strategic decision, i suppose. Win the war with the army you have, etc etc. Sometimes damn the torpedoes is the right call, sometimes it isn't. I'm not privy to the exact lay of the land, so all i can really do is hope that it works out.

We've seen this movie before, but this sequel feels a little different somehow. Who knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (KtIIi)

281 240. Good point Blake

Posted by: Jonah at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (YCxFk)

282 This case might very well go to Scotus

Posted by: whig
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Ugh. My eight least favorite words.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (mL1/V)

283 270 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (q4V1h)

And others whine and declare the sky is falling 24/7 and everything the Republicans do is a failure.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 12, 2025 09:16 AM (VofaG)

Was any spending cut by the CR? Answer is no. Spin it as a positive if you must.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (q4V1h)

284 Read up a little on Bankhead on Wiki… quite the whore, she was….

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (PCK5/)

285 Vertigo was a financial failure though and Hitchcock blamed it on Jimmy Stewart being too old iirc. They never worked together again.

Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (KQk9m)

286 The problem with any democrat tacking to the middle and hoping to run on that is that it's a lie.

And the fact that they won't get the nomination.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

287 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

"Kurveh" is "whore" in Yiddish. Nothing general about it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2025 09:20 AM (L5An7)

288 Looks a bit like Kurva, which is Hungarian for the same.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at March 12, 2025 09:18 AM (okun6)

It's pretty universal everywhere east of Germany, from my limited experience with people from the region.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 09:20 AM (KtIIi)

289 Poles ( and other Slavs I think)spell it kurwa

Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2025 09:21 AM (KQk9m)

290 283 270 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (q4V1h)

And others whine and declare the sky is falling 24/7 and everything the Republicans do is a failure.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 12, 2025 09:16 AM (VofaG)

Was any spending cut by the CR? Answer is no. Spin it as a positive if you must.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:19 AM (q4V1h)

Thought it netted out to a few billion cut between a slight increase in defense spending and a slightly larger decrease in non-defense spending.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at March 12, 2025 09:21 AM (okun6)

291 von der Leyen should be the first to volunteer. She's a little long in the tooth, but looks healthy enough to carry a rifle.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 12, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

They told the guy with Downs to pick one up at the front. Why should she get her own?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

292 259 And a little Hogg shall lead them.
Posted by: With pillows at March 12, 2025 09:12 AM (dg+HA

Wee wee wee all the way home?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 09:13 AM (KtIIi)

Lots of huffin and puffin

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)

293 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

"Kurveh" is "whore" in Yiddish. Nothing general about it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 12, 2025 09:20 AM (L5An7)
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Slutkin. Figures.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 12, 2025 09:22 AM (F+ZEJ)

294 The plot of Vertigo always seemed far-fetched to me.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

Rich guy who successfully sets-up an elaborate con to get away with killing his wife fails to pay the bimbo used as bait to move at least a thousand miles away. Yeah, doesn't add up. But I like Vertigo. A commenter above used a word to describe it that I find perfect - disturbing.
Posted by: Gref

Hitchcock didn't care that much about plots except as a way to get his characters to do things. In some piece, he described the central thesis of a movie as the MacGuffin---and used the Maltese Falcon statue as an example.

Think of the MacGuffin as the shiny object that Hitchcock uses to distract you while he hypnotizes the audience with his actors performances--it is the actors and their reactions to the MacGuffin that Hitchcock is selling to the audience despite sometimes absurd MacGuffins from plots.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:22 AM (ctrM5)

295 Tallulah Bankhead was one of the biggest sluts in movie history. And that’s saying something.

The internet says she coined the term "ambisextrous" to describe herself...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

296 look at how many 'boyfriends' Taylor Swift or Brady's ex-wife has had. I guess tagging the guys boyfriends doesn't make you a straight up whore.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 12, 2025 09:22 AM (VofaG)

297 The GOP mentality is always the same. Now is not the time to cut spending because reasons. But trust us in 6 months, we will totally cut spending. On and please send us money in the meantime to like totally fight for freedom ‘n stuff.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:22 AM (q4V1h)

298 277 188 So is “courveh” just a general term of abuse?
Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 08:57 AM

According to the interwebz, "kurveh" is Yiddish for "whore", "slut", "bitch", etc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 09:00 AM (hOk1M)

Looks a bit like Kurva, which is Hungarian for the same.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at March 12, 2025 09:18 AM (okun6)

Yes, folks. Momma used that word quite a bit, amongst other Hungarian curses. Courveh is to me the best transliteration. Maybe Coor (like the beer Coors) and either vuh (like duh) or meh (like meh).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 09:23 AM (x0n13)

299 I recall who is telling me that "the Democrats are in disarray" and am reminded that the MFM always has their back. They're probably not in "disarray."

They are probably in the middle stages of a plot to overthrow the currently elected government.

I've no doubt they have various disagreements among the rank and file, but at their core they are not in any sort of "disarray." The election was only a couple months ago and there's years ahead of them to get their collective act together.... which they will.

Now's the time to attack them. Thin out the ranks. Politically speaking... sort of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 09:23 AM (Q4IgG)

300 Trump in not the GOP but he has to work with them.

Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2025 09:23 AM (KQk9m)

301 300 Trump in not the GOP but he has to work with them.
Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2025 09:23 AM (KQk9m)

Useful idiots, in other words…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:24 AM (PCK5/)

302 The “New York City!” ads were also reflected in the King of the Hill episode in which it is revealed that Hank was born in NYC, and takes endless crap for it.

Posted by: Bulg at March 12, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

303 The out party is always in “disarray” after an election loss. There’s infighting and backstabbing between factions who want to secure power. It’s as old as politics.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 09:25 AM (q4V1h)

304 The plot of Vertigo always seemed far-fetched to me.

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Pro tip:

Stop after the first John Wick

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 09:25 AM (qSMcm)

305 VA Head beats Kurveh reporter like a rug

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/
1899758427934511338

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

306 George Clooney has dipped into Nick Saban's old hair dye stash.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2025 09:25 AM (Y1sOo)

307 Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 09:23 AM

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Yes. I've heard ad nauseam over the years about how this party or that is "left in the wilderness" but it never ever sticks. There's too much power and money involved for it to ever be the case.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 09:26 AM (PzXaK)

308 George Clooney has dipped into Nick Saban's old hair dye stash.
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Ha. Nick could get away with it because he had talent, though.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 09:26 AM (qSMcm)

309 Slottkin is from Michigan and close friends with witmer-our governor.. They both ran on how bad the insurance is, and how the insurance companies let their mothers die- in spite of how they worked to correct that!. After the election it was that Witmer was the daughter of the blue cross CEO, and Slotkin is from the company who owns Ball Park hotdogs. Neither of them has insurance issues.

Posted by: Chillin the most at March 12, 2025 09:27 AM (Ofe5D)

310
If you have extended your string of "boyfriends" into your mid-30s, you are a feckless trollop, not a blushing ingenue.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 12, 2025 09:27 AM (xG4kz)

311 192 The best Hitchcock flick was Rear Window.
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39 Steps.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 09:27 AM (pLaQB)

312 Looked up Tallulah Bankhead. Allegedly her last words were a garbled mix of "codeine"and "bourbon"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 09:28 AM (2Km7O)

313 Morning dotty! A lovely day is blooming on my hill.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (4XwPj)

314 Shutting down the government is exactly what the Democrats wanted. So yes let's do that.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoith at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (VofaG)

315 Know almost nothing about Hitchcock… did he ever make a movie in color??

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (PCK5/)

316 Takes either 60 or 66 votes in the Senate to impeach. Will never happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (h8QI+)

317 Ugh. My eight least favorite words.
Posted by: ...
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The implications of the 7th Circuit decision would have a big impact on these new private equity firms taking over stockholder owned companies. If one partner of that equity firm was stateless aka foreign or an American domiciled abroad, then the entire equity firm could not be sued in federal court. So, that would mean state courts as the only venue with those complications as those equity firms would not be able to have cases removed to federal courts on the basis of diversity.

Roberts will be interested in this case simply because it would serve to reduce federal court power if the 7th's interpretation of the diversity statute holds.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (ctrM5)

318 Now's the time to attack them. Thin out the ranks. Politically speaking... sort of.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 09:23 AM (Q4IgG)

Another fine observation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (ZlOcj)

319 Hmm best Hitchcock movie, never thought about it. North by Northwest maybe.

Posted by: steevy at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (KQk9m)

320 If you have extended your string of "boyfriends" into your mid-30s, you are a feckless trollop, not a blushing ingenue.

-

HOW DARE YOU!!!
- all modern women and their parents, regardless of political and most religious views

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (qSMcm)

321 171 I learned the word covfefe from Trump. Has been a real game changer for me lol
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 12, 2025 08:56 AM (UYsTH)

How many people remember that it was originally supposed to be "Coverage", and not "Coffee"?

Posted by: XTC at March 12, 2025 09:30 AM (UnA8+)

322 .
NOOD ART

It's time to play everyone's favourite game, "Spot the Sniper!"

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 12, 2025 09:30 AM (O7YUW)

323
A
R
T

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 12, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

324 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 12, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

325 Takes either 60 or 66 votes in the Senate to impeach. Will never happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (h8QI+)

Takes 0 votes in the Senate to impeach. Takes 67 to convict although, supposedly, they've done inferior judges in committee in the past.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 12, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

326 How many people remember that it was originally supposed to be "Coverage", and not "Coffee"?
Posted by: XTC at March 12, 2025 09:30 AM (UnA8+)

Omg that's actually a lot funnier. But I did like all the jokes about having your morning covfefe.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 09:31 AM (mL1/V)

327 Now's the time to attack them. Thin out the ranks. Politically speaking... sort of.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Trump is going after the Dems' logistics as to law firms and federal money that they used to launch all sort of political ops and laying waste to their footsoldiers in the bureaucracy.

Reminds me of Schwartzkopf and his Gulf War I strategy. Freeze the line units in place and do an end around to cut them off and destroy those units piece meal.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:32 AM (ctrM5)

328 Yesterday someone was like "whig is into computers he knows a lot about them" and all I could think was "that doesn't prove anything".

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 09:36 AM (mL1/V)

329 Takes 0 votes in the Senate to impeach. Takes 67 to convict although, supposedly, they've done inferior judges in committee in the past.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Even those judges require 2/3rds of Senators present and voting under Senate rules to impeach same as president. Walter Nixon v. US was a federal judge that demanded a full Senate trial rather than a committee voting and recommending impeachment to the Senate. In essence, Walter wanted a trial similar to that of the president where the Senate business stops entirely while the impeachment trial takes place.

Scotus ruled in that 90's case that the 1930's era Senate rule allowing a committee to hear evidence and witnesses was constitutional. The reason was the Senate's rule, absent the impeachment of the president, is a political question and not justiciable by courts. Thus, the Senate's constitutional powers to make its own rules of procedure in Art. I applied to Nixon's impeachment. Roberts refused to preside over Trump's second impeachment though because Trump was a former president rather than a president. The legitimacy of impeaching a former office holder to punish them is unclear.

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:40 AM (ctrM5)

330 Limbaugh took "skull full of mush" from the Paper Chase movie. I'm glad he did, because it's a great line, but he didn't come up with it.

Excellent movie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yQLW7v3s7KQ&t=95s&pp=2AFfkAIB

Posted by: Cowboy Wally at March 12, 2025 09:41 AM (wMS25)

331 328 Yesterday someone was like "whig is into computers he knows a lot about them" and all I could think was "that doesn't prove anything".
Posted by: ...
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Tis true. It was more that I have followed computer tech since the old days of the Computer Shopper mattress sized issues. Back in the day, you had to build your own computers to get what you wanted or pay an arm and a leg. I chose to build mine and got in the habit of reading tech news to know what components to build a system with. Later it was OS forums when I went into Linux for some of my builds (was doing stat analysis with R at the time and Windows was never that stable to me after Windows 2000 or XP for running big data.)

Posted by: whig at March 12, 2025 09:43 AM (ctrM5)

332 Say what you want to about Tallulah but she laughed all the way to the bank. She was nobody's fool. She knew exactly what she was doing.

Posted by: Case at March 12, 2025 09:48 AM (xcRXq)

333 JJ, thank you for posting the link to the explanation of the USAID order to shred/burn documents being perfectly normal and appropriate. I saw the inflammatory headlines about this yesterday and was absolutely incensed about it. Getting better context on that is not only a relief, but a reminder that we aren’t invulnerable to fake news just because we eschew the liberal media.

Posted by: Caiwyn at March 12, 2025 10:01 AM (8k2Yx)

334 In honor of former Congressman Lincoln Diaz Balart, Trump should go for a bold/batshit crazy move - promise Cuba that we'll move the unloved, unwanted Tampa Rays to Havana if the people throw out the commies and have democratic elections.

The Cubans are crazy for baseball, and the league has a MLB team just a few miles away that really needs a home. Sure, buying a team is a bit spendy to normal people, but DOGE finds enough in the couch cushions to pay for it by lunch on a typical day. The league finally extends into the Spanish-speaking world, and Trump chalks up another major win even before the new season starts.

Posted by: bittergeek at March 12, 2025 10:29 AM (NFXcl)

335 Everyday since 1/20/25 is still Christmas morning to me. And watching the American Left/DNC alliance eat itself and chop their own political legs off is a highly satisfying treat.

Thank you Lord Jesus for putting sane and principled men and women back in charge of our federal government. You heard our prayers and answered! Bless them and give them courage everyday to root out and destroy the rot and evil that has been purposely unleashed upon our nation for nearly 30-40 years by that same American Left/DNC alliance. As for them, bring those foul people to the justice they deserve. Confound, disrupt and destroy all their schemes. Protect our children from them.

Oh and GOD BLESS the great United States of America!

Posted by: Tracy at March 12, 2025 10:55 AM (+1sB0)

336 Yes, folks. Momma used that word quite a bit, amongst other Hungarian curses. Courveh is to me the best transliteration. Maybe Coor (like the beer Coors) and either vuh (like duh) or meh (like meh).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 09:23 AM (x0n13)

My mom used that word quite a bit as well. A slight roll of the tongue on the "r". I can still pronounce it that way. My entire neighborhood, while I was growing up in the 50's, was around 80% Hungarian, many from "the old country". Wish I could have kept up with the language. But, at least I still remember the "juicy" phrases. LOL!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 12, 2025 11:05 AM (dgRL6)

337 Know almost nothing about Hitchcock… did he ever make a movie in color??
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 09:29 AM (PCK5/)

Many. Now, vacate my lawn.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 12, 2025 11:08 AM (dgRL6)

338 Would be nice if Columbia and Peru could benefit economically from a legitimate coca industry, and get the drug lords out of it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 12, 2025 09:01 AM (OX9vb
****
Al Capone stood up the potato chip market.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 11:15 AM (0Gnoc)

339 I could not afford legal assistance when going through the process of obtaining a green card yet this guy doesn't just have a lawyer, according to reports, he has attorneys working on his behalf.

Posted by: leber at March 12, 2025 11:54 AM (rovGg)

340 Filthy courveh.

I like the reference J.J. We come from the same roots.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 12, 2025 12:12 PM (bZ5+b)

341 336 But, at least I still remember the "juicy" phrases. LOL!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 12, 2025 11:05 AM (dgRL6)

MAMA always cut loose with "Az-anya Pitchaya." That one is particularly nasty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 12, 2025 12:27 PM (x0n13)

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