EPA cancels 781 Environmental Justice Grants because Trump is a big ole meanie who ran on just this sort of thing, and you should be super mad about it

The agency plans to send cancellation notifications to an additional 404 - meaning a total of 781 grants are being canceled, said the filing, a declaration from Daniel Coogan, the EPA's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Infrastructure and Extramural Resources.
The grants are primarily related to programs that deal with environmental justice - that is, dealing with pollution in communities that face disproportionate impacts and have limited resources. This includes low-income and minority communities.
The Trump administration has targeted environmental justice programs - firing 280 staffers and reassigning another 175 who worked on the issue, saying it's part of a broader effort against diversity initiatives.

This push to kill government grants to leftist organizations, I think, has the potential for being the largest, undertold story of the second Trump administration.

I see numbers like 781 grants being canceled, and I just...wonder. There's no information about how much money that represents, but the EPA gives out $4 billion a year in grants. Those grants can be less than $100,000 to small orgs, $1 million to other governments, or bigger. So, this could be maybe a few million dollars or a couple of billion. Probably somewhere in between. I would guess the 781 represents a few tens of millions, tops.

But, that's tens of millions of dollars designed to prop up a leftist ecosystem of lawyers and activists to fight for leftist causes. This creates a system of support for government action and social coercion that wouldn't exist otherwise.

And grants are being cut everywhere. The USAID cuts got the most attention ($40 billion), but every agency has this sort of thing, and every agency is cutting back.

Combine that with the Democrats' efforts to alienate as much of the American public as possible since the Obama's first election, and you've got an interesting mix that we haven't seen the fruits of yet.

I can't make predictions, but I can say...it might be interesting.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at 12:00 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

2 #Winning

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

3 F*ck the EPA. It's done more damage to the environment than 95% of Americans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

4 3 F*ck the EPA. It's done more damage to the environment than 95% of Americans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

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Gold King Mine is nothing compared to the destruction wrought by capitalism!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

5 Environmental Justice = Lining the pockets of Government Bureaucrats and Liberal douchetards

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Economy will go boom boom and the Left will have to manufacture many a distraction from people's happiness.

Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:02 PM (M/tYi)

7
Alex Wong was suss, yes?

Isn't Wang's wife kinda suss, too?

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (QSsNn)

8 What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??? The phrase makes zero sense…

Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

9 This is not what I voted for. I thought Trump would be expanding the EPA!

And what about the price of eggs? And blue suits??

Posted by: Authentic Trump Voter at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (l3YAf)

10 6 Economy will go boom boom and the Left will have to manufacture many a distraction from people's happiness.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:02 PM (M/tYi)

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The Atlanta Fed, which predicted -2.7% Q1 2025 growth, now predicts +2.4% growth for Q2.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

11 Environment
Poisoning
A$$h*les

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (FWAED)

12 Time to gin up "pollution watch."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (Q4IgG)

13 The EPA is a yuge, luxurious money laundry for Democrats, and these cheesy grants ain't the half of it. I bet the sue and settle scams alone amount to more $$$ in Dem pockets than they skim from grants.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)

14 Gold King Mine is nothing compared to the destruction of capitalism!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
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It always amused me the EPA experts went ahead even after actual mining experts warned them they were wrong.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (tT6L1)

15 What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??? The phrase makes zero sense…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

Communism. Same as “social justice”, “food justice”, “gender justice”, etc..

Posted by: Authentic Trump Voter at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (l3YAf)

16 Which judge will issue a nationwide injunction against this this afternoon?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)

17 I'd really like to see the abolishment of government grants altogether. If private industry or Americans want to see something done, let them fund it.

F*ck taking my tax money and giving it away to some rando who things they've got the 'next big thing.'

Get a loan or get a rich person to fund it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

18 13 The EPA is a yuge, luxurious money laundry for Democrats, and these cheesy grants ain't the half of it. I bet the sue and settle scams alone amount to more $$$ in Dem pockets than they skim from grants.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)

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"There's not enough X to prevent Y in business! We're suing!"
-Plaintiffs

"We agree. We settle and agree to write regulation that requires the use of X, the main provider of whom is a Democrat donor."
-EPA

"Sounds good to me."
-some district judge, most powerful man in the world

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

19 And the judges go wild, again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (N8VXB)

20
This "environmental justice" thing has me baffled. Is it that meanie corporations opened up plants and polluted and dumped waste next to where poor black folk had lived for time immemorial? Or is it that poor black folk set up shop next to plants owned by meanie corporations because the land was cheap?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (QnmlO)

21 What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??? The phrase makes zero sense…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

Align my chakras!

Posted by: Al Gore at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

22 16 Which judge will issue a nationwide injunction against this this afternoon?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)

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It's a disclosure of an already running lawsuit about terminating grants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

23 This push to kill government grants to leftist organizations, I think, has the potential for being the largest, undertold story of the second Trump administration.

If you ever wonder how things have gotten so crazy over the last 20 years or so the answer is you've been paying for it. Through the nose.

$8T a year from Uncle Sugar buys a lot of globohomo, illegal immigration, and enviro-doom mongering

Good thing we plebes didn't need that money for anything important, like housing, food, or health care

Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)

24 haven't seen the fruits of yet.

Wait until June for fruits.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (mxyji)

25 8 What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??? The phrase makes zero sense…
Posted by: tubal
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Communism aka oppressed and oppressors. That is where Buttplug came up with the idea of removing urban interstates because they were intended to oppress the PoC residents.

Basically though a pseudo revolution from the top down by latte sipping Marxists grifting on public funds aka Democrats.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)

26 Dang, a lot of Lexus and Mercedes are going to be repossessed now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (+xH0d)

27 Align my chakras!
Posted by: Al Gore at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

“And them he asked me to help open his third eye..”

Posted by: Traumatized Masseuse at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (l3YAf)

28 What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??? The phrase makes zero sense…

It means, at face value, that it's OK if straight white people die from pollution but it's a global emergency if it happens to a quadriplegic black lesbian.

Which, in the words of Rachel Dolezal, is retarded, sir.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (QZThv)

29 You regretting your vote yet, MAGAts?!

I regret that I have only one vote to give to my country.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (jjoN6)

30 >>> The grants are primarily related to programs that deal with environmental justice - that is, dealing with pollution in communities that face disproportionate impacts and have limited resources. This includes low-income and minority communities.

Sounds like a lifestyle choice.
Maybe be areas chock full of Newcomers who like the homey touch of garbage in the streets.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (/lPRQ)

31 Get rid of all of them. Not a function of the federal gov’t.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (Dpc98)

32 willowed
What progress by DOGE investigating how people in Gov. got rich?

Posted by: Ciampino - Any results yet? at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (sPQoU)

33 Good thing we plebes didn't need that money for anything important, like housing, food, or health care
Posted by: 18-1
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Which, in part, is why the administration should make that very point. Upsets the gimmedats because bureauc-rats in DC are eating their cheese.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

34 haven't seen the fruits of yet.

Wait until June for fruits.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Pride Month?

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (FWAED)

35 Environmental Justice is the green rind hiding the blood red color of Communism.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (N8VXB)

36 All this government waste cutting is going to lead to a permanent class of unemployed or underpaid lawyers prowling the savannahs we know as federal courthouses and state capitols. Across the nation, citizens will have to be on the lookout for these wallet-busting predators.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (rj6Yv)

37 Which judge will issue a nationwide injunction against this this afternoon?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)

The Honorable John J. Wormtongue III: Putative recipients of discretionary grants are being denied due process. Pay my friends right now!

*bangs little faggoty mallet thing*

Trump Administration: Dang it! You heard the guy in the dress. Get the checkbook.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (BI5O2)

38
Breaking: Mike Waltz will be the next Pope, sources familiar with hoaxes say.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (QSsNn)

39 Communism aka oppressed and oppressors. That is where Buttplug came up with the idea of removing urban interstates because they were intended to oppress the PoC residents.

The actual issue, which of course they won't state, is that urban interstates often serve as handy containment walls for the "youths". Knocking them down allows the Democrat-approved crime to spread out and get comfortable.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (QZThv)

40 $8T a year from Uncle Sugar buys a lot of globohomo, illegal immigration, and enviro-doom mongering
______

*zzzzzzzz* *snort*

Huh? What?... Uh, yeah we know about this.... Go away, important.... work .... to do....

*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

Posted by: Congressional Republicans at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (Dv3i1)

41 I like the direction Trump is taking with the EPA, but if he really was the troll the left accuses him of he'd use it as a platform to ban private jets, Bezos space tourism, and air conditioning in government offices.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (t0Rmr)

42 36 All this government waste cutting is going to lead to a permanent class of unemployed or underpaid lawyers prowling the savannahs we know as federal courthouses and state capitols. Across the nation, citizens will have to be on the lookout for these wallet-busting predators.
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (rj6Yv)

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They can always dig ditches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

43 The USAID cuts got the most attention ($40 billion), but every agency has this sort of thing, and every agency is cutting back.

DOGE said $4.7 trillion was disbursed with no tracking information.

We're lucky that only $40 billion got away! Thank goodness for our brave First Responder accountants in all the government agencies and NGOs that held the line.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (1q8GR)

44 Dignity canal dug by spoons?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (N8VXB)

45 26 "Dayum, de white debbils are repopping the spinner rims off da Escalade!"

Wannabe Governor Abrams

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (gm9Sb)

46
Which, in the words of Rachel Dolezal, is retarded, sir.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (QZThv)

Rachel Jeantel.

Dolezal is the fake black NAACP chapter pres.

Posted by: Al Gore at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

47 This will really piss off Neil Young.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (pZ64F)

48
I'll bet my left nut Alex Wong was the villain, but Mike Waltz vouched for him and had to go, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (QSsNn)

49 19 And the judges go wild, again.
Posted by: Anna Puma

And those judges are like Wil_E_Coyote--Super Genuis. All Congress has to do in reconciliation is kill that spending and voila--courts got nuttin and even Scotus won't save them.

The judges are going wild because their friendz and their party is going to take a massive hit in the pocketbook while Mr. John Q. Public won't care. After all, homeless bureaucrats look pretty similar to all the other homeless people afflicted on the general public by Democrat policy.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

50 Well, TJM is up early.

Earlier than...than...

Say, what was the name of that guy who would post here at 12:20 PM or so during the week, after rolling out of bed sometime in the late morning? His name is escaping me at the moment.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (0CU3H)

51 48
I'll bet my left nut Alex Wong was the villain, but Mike Waltz vouched for him and had to go, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Are you saying Alex is the Wong man for the job?

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (ctrM5)

52 I think this is why leftists are so unhinged. When you cut govt spending it threatens their livelihood. They don’t have real jobs and gifting off the govt doesn’t look good on a resume.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (+xH0d)

53 Low blow, Karoline. Low blow.

Townhall.com@townhallcom
Karoline Leavitt on Kamala Harris:

"We encourage Kamala Harris to continue going out and do speaking engagements."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (5TCMh)

54 50 Well, TJM is up early.

Earlier than...than...

Say, what was the name of that guy who would post here at 12:20 PM or so during the week, after rolling out of bed sometime in the late morning? His name is escaping me at the moment.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (0CU3H)

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Gabe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

55 Trump should set the thermostat in Federal office like the EPA to 84 degrees. What’s a Federal judge going to do, tell him what temp the buildings ha e to be?

Oh, right, yeah..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (l3YAf)

56 I'll bet my left nut Alex Wong was the villain, but Mike Waltz vouched for him and had to go, too.

Most likely. It was an obvious attempt to get rid of Hegseth and it sure hasn't worked out for them.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (QZThv)

57 Breaking: Mike Waltz will be the next Pope, sources familiar with hoaxes say.
Posted by: Soothsayer

A local radio guy has Frank Stallone as his dark horse pick.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (1q8GR)

58 I'm still impressed with RFK Jr. coming right out and saying the US is no longer a major facilitator of child trafficking.

I haven't seen everything RFK Jr. said, but, from what I gather, he really laid the lumber to the previous administration for allowing child trafficking to reach the level it did.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (tT6L1)

59 Say, what was the name of that guy who would post here at 12:20 PM or so during the week, after rolling out of bed sometime in the late morning? His name is escaping me at the moment.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Lamont, the big dummy?

Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:13 PM (cPGH3)

60 Holy Crap!!!! RUN!!!!!

Posted by: The Snail Darter at May 01, 2025 12:13 PM (dIske)

61 Good start. Now cut to the bare bones the enforcement staff, and get rid of their "SWAT" Team. Plus cut all of the EPA labs, because they do nothing.

I've seen first hand how the EPA has destroyed American manufacturing, now they need to be destroyed. Yeah, it's personal with me.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at May 01, 2025 12:13 PM (pZ64F)

62 The actual issue, which of course they won't state, is that urban interstates often serve as handy containment walls for the "youths". Knocking them down allows the Democrat-approved crime to spread out and get comfortable.
Posted by: Ian S.
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How else can yutes live out Grand Theft Auto fantasies during high speed chases for felonies. Harshing their mellow.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (ctrM5)

63 26 Dang, a lot of Lexus and Mercedes are going to be repossessed now.
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Isn't the plural of Lexus, Lexi?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (pZ64F)

64 What TJM is doing this week is what's known as taking advantage of an opportunity.

Rock on, man. You bringin' it!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

65

Are you saying Alex is the Wong man for the job?
Posted by: whig

No offense!

https://is.gd/sOO8Zs

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (QSsNn)

66 $8T a year from Uncle Sugar buys a lot of globohomo, illegal immigration, and enviro-doom mongering

Good thing we plebes didn't need that money for anything important, like housing, food, or health care
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)

Don't forget killing people in third world shitholes, all over the globe.

Raytheon's gotta eat too.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 12:15 PM (dGCAG)

67 If Kamala keeps babbling in public, Rachel Zegler might have a shot to be the Dem candidate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:15 PM (N8VXB)

68 I've worked with people who got/get federal grant monies. While they will pocket much of it, some goes for such valuable research activities as jaunts to Europe for a "conference" on sub-strata linear diatoms and their effect on ocean surface salinity.

In land-locked eastern Europe where this phenomenon doesn't exist.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)

69 Breaking: Mike Waltz will be the next Pope, sources familiar with hoaxes say.
Posted by: Soothsayer

A local radio guy has Frank Stallone as his dark horse pick.
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (1q8GR)

In the "not tired of smelling shit filled pants of libtards" department, Trump says he wouldn't mind being pope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

70 Isn't the plural of Lexus, Lexi?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (pZ64F)

Lexodes?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:16 PM (l3YAf)

71 You put city dumps where the land is cheap. Where do you suppose the poor live? Cheap areas.

The "They target poor areas" shit is so stupid.

Helped build the Watsonville dump in Ca. Surrounded by strawberry fields. I will never forget the strawberry smell. Could see the ocean. Good job except for the commute.

Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:16 PM (bbuBP)

72 As opposed to fresh water diatoms that might have some bearing vis a vis local geography.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (N8VXB)

73
I dunno who will be next NSA, but I CAN tell you who it won't be: Anyone from the House.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (QSsNn)

74 This push to kill government grants to leftist organizations, I think, has the potential for being the largest, undertold story of the second Trump administration.

And something that never, ever would have happened under Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, or Nikki Haley.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (DIweC)

75
https://is.gd/sOO8Zs
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (QSsNn)

Never not funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

76 64 What TJM is doing this week is what's known as taking advantage of an opportunity.

Rock on, man. You bringin' it!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

What, like Lou Gehrig subbing for Wally Pipp?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (0CU3H)

77 Build the dump in the rich areas, rich move away, poors move in, environmental justice unlocked.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (l3YAf)

78 In land-locked eastern Europe where this phenomenon doesn't exist.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

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That way they're safe from sudden climate- change driven sea level changes.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:18 PM (R548X)

79
What, like Lou Gehrig subbing for Wally Pipp?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (0CU3H)

https://youtu.be/CahNAauFgys?t=15

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

80 How come the Speaker and the Majority Leader aren't helping to crush the leftists and push bills to defund the nonsense?

Related: TGP has piece illustrating that Raskin is really a Red Diaper Doper Baby. Dad still alive.
The doo rag is a stand in for his commie beret.
We've gone from execution of communists to election of them in my lifetime.

Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (BY07X)

81
Dolezal is the fake black NAACP chapter pres.

Dolezal ended up setting up an OnlyFans account where you could see just how not black her butt was...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (t0Rmr)

82 How long before a federal judge blocks this? EOB today?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (2UnvF)

83 Had a friend complaining about Trump gutting these types of gov grants, yesterday.

He had never heard of the Pigford settlement before our conversation.
Pretty sure learning about that one left a crack in his facade...

Posted by: garrett at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (Ruu2t)

84 I haven't seen everything RFK Jr. said, but, from what I gather...

Here's the nuclear bomb he dropped on air during the 100 Days cabinet meeting. 29 seconds
x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061

And many asses were clenched...

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (9tkmY)

85 If Kamala keeps babbling in public, Rachel Zegler might have a shot to be the Dem candidate.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I have read that Ziegler has a nice voice.
Haven't heard it yet.

Can she read a teleprompter?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (/lPRQ)

86 80 How come the Speaker and the Majority Leader aren't helping to crush the leftists and push bills to defund the nonsense?

Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (BY07X)

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Because they're doing the actual budget process for 25-26. Once that's done, then they can pass rescission bills to eliminate funding.

It's Congressional rules stuff.

Whether they do it or not, is yet to be seen. But they have a good excuse for the inaction right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

87
‘What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??’

Like any _____+ Justice, it is any thing but justice.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (jbnUc)

88 77 Build the dump where a kid with a .22 can go out and shoot rats. Worked for me, actually had a GF that tagged along (good shot).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (gm9Sb)

89 Amazing how Judges are able to grant TRO's within a matter of hours but J6 defendants rotted in jail waiting for their trial...some of whom never did make it to trial.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (tT6L1)

90 61 Good start. Now cut to the bare bones the enforcement staff, and get rid of their "SWAT" Team. Plus cut all of the EPA labs, because they do nothing.

I've seen first hand how the EPA has destroyed American manufacturing, now they need to be destroyed. Yeah, it's personal with me.
Posted by: Ganowicz
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Well, to give you tingles, The EPA was created by executive order drolly named the Reorganization Plan of 1970 by Nixon. There are statutory requirements to administer different Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act provisions but not an authorizing requirement by Congress to create the EPA as an agency.

The laws requiring various anti pollution requirements being removed would take Congress. But technically, it appears that the EPA, like AID, could be shut down and its regulatory assignments sent to other agencies by another Executive Order. A great deal could be delegated to the states as is already the case--every state has an antipollution agency already.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)

91 Boarsberg first has to stop fapping while committing bukkakae before he can rule.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (N8VXB)

92
WTF??

Some sports agent lawyer (all of them are scumbags, btw) died at 62 yesterday from a "fall" from a "head injury." Why am I telling you this, you axe.

Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...

John Elway.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (QSsNn)

93 "Can she read a teleprompter?"

Under no circumstances may she go off script. Bad things tend to happen.

Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (bbuBP)

94 Ah, federal grants. More bullshit going to bullshit artists to do more bullshit stuff which amounts to plain, old bullshit.

Enough of the bullshit.

Posted by: It's All Bullshit at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (979V4)

95 I built a sand castle on the beach but sudden climate-change driven sea level changes caused it to get washed away by the next day. Global warming is real!

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (l3YAf)

96 Uh, oh. Someone might figure out we're just regular ferrets with dirty feet.

Posted by: Black Footed Ferret Spokesferret at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (7Q0e+)

97 95 I built a sand castle on the beach but sudden climate-change driven sea level changes caused it to get washed away by the next day. Global warming is real!
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (l3YAf)

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Needs more Jew-hate to feel like a real Greta quote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

98 The actual issue, which of course they won't state, is that urban interstates often serve as handy containment walls for the "youths". Knocking them down allows the Democrat-approved crime to spread out and get comfortable.

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LOL here's a Darwin Award for you.

Two teens in Chattanooga are dead and one is critically injured after being chased by the cops for an auto theft.

These Geniuses Three bailed from the car on I-75 and climbed the median, attempting to lose the cops by darting into the opposite lanes in the dark.

That's a risky proposition under any circumstances. But what our would-be Rhodes Scholars didn't realize until too late, was that the Tennessee River Bridge is a divided carriageway.

They figured it out when they sailed 80ft down to the surface of the river and dashed themselves to bits.

Whoops! Whoopsie!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (BI5O2)

99
On April 26, 2025, Sperbeck was riding in the back of a golf cart driven by John Elway at The Madison Club in La Quinta, California, when he fell off and struck his head. He was taken to a hospital in Palm Springs, where he remained on life support before dying on April 30, at the age of 62.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (QSsNn)

100 89 Amazing how Judges are able to grant TRO's within a matter of hours but J6 defendants rotted in jail waiting for their trial...some of whom never did make it to trial.
Posted by: blake
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Because no one stuffed these jokers into lockers enough when they were in middle and high school. These dweebs took revenge of the nerds as a serious political statement and foreigners in office revenging themselves on the native population is a common theme in history.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (ctrM5)

101 Anybody growing in Cleveland or the inner suburbs in the 60's/70's had a layer of soot that built up on your house and turned every thing grey over time. The polluted air didn't discriminate by race, religion or gender identity. Same with dirty streams/rivers.

The kids today have no idea what pollution is.

Posted by: Riply at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (GUOwU)

102 Love these cuts.

But I, like the average American, have yet to see the tangible benefits of them.

This will be Trump's biggest problem to solve before the mid-terms.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (KbCG3)

103 I know a guy got a DUI on a golf course. I'm gonig to need to see the BAC number. No number will also be instructive. Not 0.0, but no test.

Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (bbuBP)

104
Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...

John Elway.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (QSsNn)

I know a girl that died falling from a golf cart. She was stone sober at the time. The driver of the cart hasn't been the same since.

She was the mother of 2 and married to a Texas State Trooper.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

105 Twenty-six years ago today, I burst on the scene to delight both children and adults, while teaching the value of various sea critters and ecology in general. I will spend the day soaking up your accolades.

Posted by: Spongebob Squarepants at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (G5+As)

106 88 77 Build the dump where a kid with a .22 can go out and shoot rats. Worked for me, actually had a GF that tagged along (good shot).
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That's why I bought my .22 rifle. Lot of fun and you find stuff to take home, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (pZ64F)

107 100 89 Amazing how Judges are able to grant TRO's within a matter of hours but J6 defendants rotted in jail waiting for their trial...some of whom never did make it to trial.
Posted by: blake

Right.. Where was their "Due process"? . Oh.. They weren't illegals...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (VE6XX)

108 Mike Walz is out....

Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (g47mK)

109 Amazing how Judges are able to grant TRO's within a matter of hours but J6 defendants rotted in jail waiting for their trial...some of whom never did make it to trial.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

If they copped a plea deal they could have gotten out sooner.
See, it's their own fault, being insurrectiony and all.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (/lPRQ)

110 Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...

John Elway.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Either Elway drives like a maniac and/or alcohol was involved from both parties. Expect a big lawsuit forthcoming that will bring up what happened.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (ctrM5)

111 Even if these grants are each just $100k, that’s still $78 million in leftwing funding gone. I suspect it’s far more. The amount of money for phony climate and environment scams that Biden was shoveling off the deck of the titanic was obscene. BILLIONS down the toilet. I’ll wager these cancelled grants were in the 100s of millions.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (NiYfU)

112

That whole "use the rope we sell them" thing seems to be being reversed.

RIP David Horowitz btw, he was a huge part of my awakening. Sad to see him go.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (et1vG)

113 Those of you wondering about the status of your flying car:

https://jetson.com

also:

https://volonaut.com

Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (QB+5g)

114 I mean Mike Waltz - Trump's NSA...

Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (g47mK)

115 So, the Canadian Prime Minister who was just elected on the platform of "F*ck Trump" is begging to make a deal right away, showing him a pussyass liar to his constituents.

Nice......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

116 Here's the nuclear bomb he dropped on air during the 100 Days cabinet meeting. 29 seconds
x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061

And many asses were clenched...

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (9tkmY)
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Wow. I really hope some of the ass clenching was by current and former HHS employees.

Of course, the media says nothing about this. But, MS-13 Gang Banger Maryland man must be freed!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (tT6L1)

117
I guess that rules out John Elway for Pope, then.

And Nat'l Sec Adviser.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (QSsNn)

118
Please God please please please make this the end of the Sunrise Movement.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (jMurV)

119 115 So, the Canadian Prime Minister who was just elected on the platform of "F*ck Trump" is begging to make a deal right away, showing him a pussyass liar to his constituents.

Nice......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

Trump needs to make him wait

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (VE6XX)

120 The first three seasons of Spongebob were really good. Good kids show.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (l3YAf)

121 Stopping the corrupt arrangement between commie environmental groups on sure and seller would starve those commie traitorous groups cold.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (17s+e)

122 Love these cuts.

But I, like the average American, have yet to see the tangible benefits of them.

This will be Trump's biggest problem to solve before the mid-terms.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

The problem is they are a drop in the bucket in comparison to what needs to be done. They wont make much of difference from an economic/budget standpoint but will hurt the Dem grift machine.

Posted by: Riply at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (GUOwU)

123 Where were these brave activist judges who are screaming about due process when Gaylord used a drone to murder an, innocent in the eyes of the Law, American citizen and his son?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (N8VXB)

124 Twenty-six years ago today, I burst on the scene to delight both children and adults, while teaching the value of various sea critters and ecology in general. I will spend the day soaking up your accolades.
Posted by: Spongebob Squarepants at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (G5+As)

Are you still angry that Stephen left out your genitals when your were drawn?

Posted by: Squidward Tentacles at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (979V4)

125 Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...

John Elway.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Either Elway drives like a maniac and/or alcohol was involved from both parties. Expect a big lawsuit forthcoming that will bring up what happened.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (ctrM5)
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Guy supposedly cracked his head on asphalt, so it wasn’t on the greens. Something odd about this story. There’s surely more.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (NiYfU)

126 They are saying that there will be additional names. Waltz's deputy is also out.

Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)

127 This will be Trump's biggest problem to solve before the mid-terms.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (KbCG3)

No. The biggest problem by far is Republican Retirements and Other Chicanery. We would have held the House in 2018 easily if they weren't scumbags on the take.

Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (M/tYi)

128 Gold King Mine is nothing

Apparently, we humans can't quit spilling shit into waterways til it turns colors.

Posted by: DaveA at May 01, 2025 12:29 PM (FhXTo)

129 Sperbeck? Lemme check... Yep, that hits close.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:29 PM (yzPgp)

130 The Canadian PM went full French and surrendered to Trump?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (N8VXB)

131
You People won't believe this but I often ride an electric scooter in the city to evade high parking fees, but my scooter goes 30+ mph. No helmet. I should know better.

This golf cart thing is making me think again -- because who knows if John Elway is out there on the same road as me.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (QSsNn)

132 How much of this money was funding campaigns. That's what you need to ask yourself.

Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (M/tYi)

133 No deal with Chinada. I want to see those cuck-fems suffer.

Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (qUkBO)

134 102 Love these cuts.

But I, like the average American, have yet to see the tangible benefits of them.

This will be Trump's biggest problem to solve before the mid-terms.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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You will, tariff revenue is coming in and Trump tax cuts will continue including non taxation of Social Security benefits and tips. US inflation is dropping far faster than 'experts' thought it could to less than 2.5 percent, gas is down in many places well below $3 per gallon and oil is at $59 bucks per barrel (hurting Russia and Iran btw in their pocketbooks).

Originally, Fedgov was supposed to run out of funds requiring the borrowing limit be raised by no later than June. It is now in August or thereabouts because of decreases in government borrowing from cutting these contracts/employees, etc.

Lots of good things are happening along with some no so good as in disorderly conduct of Dems and their pet judges.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (ctrM5)

135 The first three seasons of Spongebob were really good. Good kids show.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

If you think about it, Sandy Cheeks was always partially nude - she only wore a two cup top.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (vKNmo)

136 Trump to Carney ”I have an opening in August…August 2026.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (17s+e)

137 A great deal could be delegated to the states as is already the case--every state has an antipollution agency already.
Posted by: whig

About twenty years ago EPA lost a big case at SCROTUS.

Many states crapped their pants as they relied on the Fed Gov on whatever niche issue it was. Had to make their own laws on that issue. Some may have overkill, but generally people don't like pollution, at least that which they can see.

Back OT with the 'hood being an open dump - do what most cities do and force the property owners to maintain adjacent right-of-ways - like mowing grass, removing snow and ice, picking up the trash...
Or is that only enforced in the nice neighborhoods? [Rhtorical]

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (/lPRQ)

138 134 Originally, Fedgov was supposed to run out of funds requiring the borrowing limit be raised by no later than June. It is now in August or thereabouts because of decreases in government borrowing from cutting these contracts/employees, etc.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (ctrM5)

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I did not know this bit.

Feels like it should be bigger news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

139 Guy supposedly cracked his head on asphalt, so it wasn’t on the greens. Something odd about this story. There’s surely more.

Cart paths are paved and you're not allowed on the greens with a golf cart.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (yzPgp)

140 I did not know this bit.

Feels like it should be bigger news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

Which is why the media isn't covering it...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

141 132 How much of this money was funding campaigns. That's what you need to ask yourself.
Posted by: ...

Wait for filings by Dem groups which from memory are quarterly. I think that ActBlue's shuck and jive will dry up and some of the money spent on footsoldiers for vote fraud are also at risk.

I think the 2 Billion bucks that Abrams was supposed to get was to buttress up Ossoff and win the GA governor race via fraud. Now that is in limbo.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (ctrM5)

142 Is there anything we import from Canada that we can't get domestically?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)

143 I haven't seen everything RFK Jr. said, but, from what I gather...

Here's the nuclear bomb he dropped on air during the 100 Days cabinet meeting. 29 seconds
x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061

And many asses were clenched...

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (9tkmY)

300,000 kids missing under Biden. A scandal to beat all scandals.

Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (lCppi)

144 142 Is there anything we import from Canada that we can't get domestically?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)

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Poutine has a magical, secret Canadian ingredient that cannot be replicated in America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

145 That's a risky proposition under any circumstances. But what our would-be Rhodes Scholars didn't realize until too late, was that the Tennessee River Bridge is a divided carriageway.

They figured it out when they sailed 80ft down to the surface of the river and dashed themselves to bits.

Whoops! Whoopsie!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Will their familes win the Ghetto Lotto? Stay tuned!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (/lPRQ)

146 Two teens in Chattanooga are dead and one is critically injured after being chased by the cops for an auto theft.

These Geniuses Three bailed from the car on I-75 and climbed the median, attempting to lose the cops by darting into the opposite lanes in the dark.

That's a risky proposition under any circumstances. But what our would-be Rhodes Scholars didn't realize until too late, was that the Tennessee River Bridge is a divided carriageway.

I subscribe to one of the original Arkansas police chase YouTube channels. It's a real thing that if a black criminal makes it across the bridge to Memphis no charges will be brought, so there are some *wild* PIT maneuvers on that bridge.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (QZThv)

147 What about the snail darters?

Posted by: Guy who really likes snail darters at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (uH1zk)

148 Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (qUkBO)

Was watching hockey last night and one of the DEI women hires was in the booth doing color commentary. She drones "he took one where the sun doesn't shine" after a play.

Um, lady.....he was hit in the nuts. He didn't have a stick shoved up his ass......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

149
I did not know this bit.

Feels like it should be bigger news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
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We now have two stories which should be a big deal: HHS was facilitating child trafficking and far less borrowing by our government.

Nah, no way MSM would cover up successes by the Trump Administration, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)

150 If you think about it, Sandy Cheeks was always partially nude - she only wore a two cup top.

Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (vKNmo)

Don’t squirrels, like many mammals, have more than two teats, low on their bellies?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (l3YAf)

151 Is there anything we import from Canada that we can't get domestically?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)

Asbestos.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

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Posted by: video sex viral at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (5z9B+)

153 Growing up in Youngstown with it's glowing orange sky at night.

I had to sweep the soot off the porch every week. It was just "normal" back then.

Now everything is gone.

You had to have balls to be an environmentalist back then. Our high school "Save the Earth Club" went down to the mills at shift change to pass out pamphlets and ended up running for their lives.

Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (QB+5g)

154 Where, oh where, will America ever find any softwood lumber lying around?!

We're doomed. We better give Canada what it wants right away..

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (BI5O2)

155 Don’t squirrels, like many mammals, have more than two teats, low on their bellies?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Exactly my point.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (vKNmo)

156
Vivid Transparent Idea would be a great name for a polka band.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (QSsNn)

157 The Atlanta Fed, which predicted -2.7% Q1 2025 growth, now predicts +2.4% growth for Q2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla

I would just like to say that these organizations and agencies should be explicitly forbidden from offering predictions.

They should be constrained to only ever report the actual numbers after they have them.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (hB7mE)

158 Sid is drunk

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (R548X)

159 Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (vKNmo)

How's the new Grandson ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

160 I think Sandy wore a skirt but went commando.

Posted by: Guy who really likes snail darters at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (uH1zk)

161 Remember, SCOTUS has now construed government grants as unbreakable contracts, so this is going to be shut down by a Hawaiian judge toot sweet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (XV/Pl)

162 I'm Squidward.

Posted by: Patrick Star at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (7Q0e+)

163 What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??? The phrase makes zero sense…

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Just throw the word "justice" in front or behind any word or phrase and watch the leftists flock to it. It doesn't have to make sense.

*throws power fist in the air*

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (qBdHI)

164 Sid is drunk
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (R548X)

You misspelled "the direct result of uncle/niece inbreeding."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

165 Learn to coal.

Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (dg+HA)

166 149 We now have two stories which should be a big deal: HHS was facilitating child trafficking and far less borrowing by our government.

Nah, no way MSM would cover up successes by the Trump Administration, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)

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The borrowing thing is something I'd have expected to at least get a one-line headline from Instapundit, or something, not something I have to find out from whig in a comment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

167 We're doomed. We better give Canada what it wants right away..
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (BI5O2)
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Declare a national lumber emergency.

Tell CA their national forests are under the jurisdiction of the FedGov and tell lumber companies to have at it.

Watch Gavin and various democrats as their heads explode.

Merriment!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (tT6L1)

168 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

Gah! Was listening to that game too. Seriously, she just needs to STFU. No need to constantly interject some commentary.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (luW68)

169 Growing up in Youngstown with it's glowing orange sky at night.
Posted by: pawn

When I was working at YS&T, we had to sweep off our cars at the end of every shift. One of the older guys would say about that - "You know what that is? (he was referring to the dust) That's money!"

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (vKNmo)

170 I did not know this bit.

Feels like it should be bigger news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Federal deficit spending is a dry topic but take a deeper look at government financial reports for the first quarter. Tariff revenue might not make the 1 trillion mark after all is said and done but it could very well reach the 250-500 billion level. Plus, government revenue on taxes is up for Q1 and that leaves out the traditional surplus in April-May from taxes.

You will have to piece it together from different sources. So far, I think something like $50 billion or so was cut in Q1 in real spending (not reflecting all the cuts yet as unrealized but simply less outlays in Q1).

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (ctrM5)

171 >> It's a real thing that if a black criminal makes it across the bridge to Memphis no charges will be brought

That’s because it’s not a crime, it’s a raid on an enemy state.

Posted by: Tennessee Legal Code at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (l3YAf)

172 Gah! Was listening to that game too. Seriously, she just needs to STFU. No need to constantly interject some commentary.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (luW6

Her VOICE! I swear she's the daughter of Doug and Wendy Whiner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

173 I know a girl that died falling from a golf cart. She was stone sober at the time. The driver of the cart hasn't been the same since.

She was the mother of 2 and married to a Texas State Trooper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Know of a guy who submitted to some woman wanting a ride on his motorcycle. No spare helment so he left his off too to show 'it's safe' (no helmet law). Somebody pulled out into them... He skidded cross pavement. She did too until she cracked her head on the curb.
He got road rash. She will never recover.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)

174 Wood from Canadian but we could start logging in Cali. That would decrease the fires and keep y in the USA. Nah not with Nero Newscum in charge.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (17s+e)

175 142 Is there anything we import from Canada that we can't get domestically?
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Canadian Smug has a uniquely fetid odor, but there are plenty of high grade alternatives in the US, primarily in the Northeast and on the West Coast.

Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (qUkBO)

176 Hey Donna - he is doing very well. Thanks for asking. Today they're doing the car seat test. If he passes, he'll come home on Saturday most likely.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (vKNmo)

177 Anndd now it's a teat thread.

Posted by: Should have known at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (dg+HA)

178 176 Hey Donna - he is doing very well. Thanks for asking. Today they're doing the car seat test. If he passes, he'll come home on Saturday most likely.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (vKNmo)

Good news

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

179 Lee Zeldin is doing a fantastic job. Glad Trump picked him.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

180
New Hampshire has no helmet law.

I see lots of kids in my (semi-rural suburban) neighborhood riding bikes with no helmets.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (QSsNn)

181 Today they're doing the car seat test. If he passes, he'll come home on Saturday most likely.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (vKNmo)

Praise The Lord!

What wonderful news.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

182 Sid is drunk
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (R548X)
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Never attribute to drunkenness which is really stupidity.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (17s+e)

183 179 Lee Zeldin is doing a fantastic job. Glad Trump picked him.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

Always liked him.. Too bad for NY that they didn't elect him Gov....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)

184 Today they're doing the car seat test.

??? Back in the day, we just showed them the seat. What is the test ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 12:40 PM (McYvC)

185
Know of a guy who submitted to some woman wanting a ride on his motorcycle. No spare helment so he left his off too to show 'it's safe' (no helmet law). Somebody pulled out into them... He skidded cross pavement. She did too until she cracked her head on the curb.
He got road rash. She will never recover.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)/i]

You always give the woman the helmet. Always. It's like opening the door for them. It's just something you do.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

186

Well shyte.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

187 Fat, drunk, and Sid is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (dg+HA)

188 We import a lot of oil from Canada. They could make trouble for us, but it would probably hurt them more.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (l3YAf)

189 Today they're doing the car seat test.

??? Back in the day, we just showed them the seat. What is the test ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

Preemies have to sit in the damn thing for 90 minutes without showing any sign of breathing/heart/O2 level issues.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (vKNmo)

190 The borrowing thing is something I'd have expected to at least get a one-line headline from Instapundit, or something, not something I have to find out from whig in a comment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I read it yesterday but it could have been a deep dive in reading something at Insty or some other aggregator. I'll try to dig up the original source for the borrowing (the search term is extraordinary measures btw). Got a doc appt.

Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

191 190 I read it yesterday but it could have been a deep dive in reading something at Insty or some other aggregator. I'll try to dig up the original source for the borrowing (the search term is extraordinary measures btw). Got a doc appt.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

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I wasn't asking you to do work!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

192 Just throw the word "justice" in front or behind any word or phrase and watch the leftists flock to it. It doesn't have to make sense.

Ace is demonstrating for shelving justice.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (noPDf)

193
Call me crazy, but I'd pick Mike Pompeo for Nat Sec Adv.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)

194 Preemies have to sit in the damn thing for 90 minutes without showing any sign of breathing/heart/O2 level issues.

Hell ... my kids wouldn't have stayed in it that long. Good luck.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (McYvC)

195 I moved to the east coast (NC) from CA. No redwood out here at the home depots and such. East coast equals yellow pine I guess. I'm learning.

Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (bbuBP)

196 404-Grant Not Found

Suck it, bitches!

Go MAGA!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (ufFY8)

197 I believe even a 100B might be enough to buy an election.
5 major cities, each 20 Billion... hell, even I could probably do it, and I'm not politically savvy at all!
These cuts are hurting politicians where it really counts... friends, families, flunkies.

Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (cPGH3)

198 Around here people ride golf carts to put their infant/toddlers to sleep. I saw a guy the other day holding a small infant in his right arm, while steering/making turns with only his left. Looked a bit risky.

Posted by: E-Z-GO at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (G5+As)

199 He skidded cross pavement. She did too until she cracked her head on the curb. He got road rash. She will never recover.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

There was a gal in my HS whose mother never allowed her to ride in the car with anyone as mom felt it was too dangerous. Finally, mom relented and allowed her to go out to prom with her bf. Naturally, they got into a bad accident and during the rollover, girl was ejected and thrown onto the roof of a house. She made a full recovery but, talk about bad luck.

Mrs. Salveno never got over it though.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (vKNmo)

200 Call me crazy, but I'd pick Mike Pompeo for Nat Sec Adv.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)

He did something that angered Trump... Can't remember what...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)

201 193 comments and no one mentioned Hitler? What is the world coming to?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (1bNHn)

202 197 I believe even a 100B might be enough to buy an election.
5 major cities, each 20 Billion... hell, even I could probably do it, and I'm not politically savvy at all!
These cuts are hurting politicians where it really counts... friends, families, flunkies.
Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (cPGH3)

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I suspect most went to things like home building for the receivers of the funds. Maintaining their lifestyles.

But a significant chunk of what was left over went to political causes.

1% of that $100 billion would be...$1 billion. In donations to candidates up and down the political spectrum.

Removing that would be...not small.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

203 Today they're doing the car seat test.

??? Back in the day, we just showed them the seat. What is the test ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

Solid wall at 25mph.
It's no rocket sled. But you still won't want to do it twice.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (/lPRQ)

204
Does anyone remember the American Climate Corps? It was started in 2023 and funded 20,000 paying jobs to, you know, go around saving the climate. The heads of the org quietly shut it down after November 2024, seeing the writing on the wall, and doubtless realizing NOW was the time to empty out the bank account and split.

Trump shut it down formally in January.

The Sunrise Movement hasn't updated their website yet and still has it on their WINS page. Donate now! We get it done!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (jMurV)

205 There are a couple Loblolly Magnates on this very site. One organic-one regular.

Posted by: Pining For The Fjords at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (G5+As)

206
Pompeo said something (about J6?) that pissed off some on Our Side, but I didn't find it too bad.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (QSsNn)

207
RFK Jr. says HHS was a collaborator in 300,000 kids missing under Biden. A scandal to beat all scandals.

Where are the indictments?
Where are the indictments?

x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 12:47 PM (dg+HA)

208 "I built a sand castle on the beach but sudden climate-change driven sea level changes caused it to get washed away by the next day. Global warming is real!"

So many times, normal coverage of a storm or fire will end with "and with climate changes, these fires/storms will only become worse and more frequent".

They must get some $1000 kickback every time they mention the "inevitable climate change, unless we ban all coal and oil".

Posted by: illiniwek at May 01, 2025 12:47 PM (Cus5s)

209 I wasn't asking you to do work!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

That's not work for him that's play time. Also I think he's an AI from the year 2040.

Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:48 PM (M/tYi)

210 The grants are primarily related to programs that deal with environmental justice

Welp, that tells me all I need to know

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 12:48 PM (2VST1)

211 210 The grants are primarily related to programs that deal with environmental justice

Welp, that tells me all I need to know
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 12:48 PM (2VST1)

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That cutting them will lead to the death of poor people everywhere and Trump is a monster?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

212 198 Around here people ride golf carts to put their infant/toddlers to sleep.
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I did that with my son but used my RAM Pickup when he was in his colic mood. Put Future Leader in the kid's seat in the back seat and drove around. He'd fall asleep in less than 10 minutes. Momma was pleased.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:50 PM (pZ64F)

213 Re: indictments;
I believe I read 4.7 TRILLION dollars had no tracking data, as in no audit trail.
Guarantee DOGE type data weenies can match the dates and amounts to dates and amounts deposited.
Slow, laborious, but do-able.

Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:50 PM (cPGH3)

214 Cutting grants is wonderful, but when does the "this wasnt specifically authorized by legislation, therefore it's null and void, and Congress, if it chooses, can pass a Bill to reinstate it" flood start?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:51 PM (R548X)

215 Call me crazy, but I'd pick Mike Pompeo for Nat Sec Adv.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)

He did something that angered Trump... Can't remember what...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)

Well he's a Deep State prick, but aside from my opinion, Trump specifically named two people who would NOT be part of his administration: Pompeo and Nikki the Knife.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (dGCAG)

216 Thx TJM, afternoon everyone.
As I recall the EPA denied Abbott the waiver to go to 100% on his oil and gas fired power plants when the cold wave caused the green energy to lock up a couple of years ago. A couple hundred died. Fire an equal number of EPA drones

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (Er3Q7)

217 Until people start getting arrested and convicted all this stuff we see and go gaga over is just showboating and complacency on a different level.

Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (QB+5g)

218 214 Cutting grants is wonderful, but when does the "this wasnt specifically authorized by legislation, therefore it's null and void, and Congress, if it chooses, can pass a Bill to reinstate it" flood start?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:51 PM (R548X)

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The Trump administration has been slashing regulations since day one, explicitly citing Loper in their reasoning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

219 WTF??

Some sports agent lawyer (all of them are scumbags, btw) died at 62 yesterday from a "fall" from a "head injury." Why am I telling you this, you axe.

Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...

John Elway.

I'd be more suspicious if he'd died after being pegged in the head by a football. Falling off a golf cart..i'm trying hard not to laugh; luckily I'm at work and that sucks all my joy out of me.

Posted by: Nelly at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (pSknm)

220 'Environmental Justice' is such a retarded term anyway.

Ask the Yellowstone Caldera about Justice.

Or Krakatoa.

A War without quarter or mercy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)

221 I demand hat justice!

Posted by: Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen at May 01, 2025 12:53 PM (7Q0e+)

222 I did that with my son but used my RAM Pickup when he was in his colic mood.

I used to have to lay on the floor and reach my arm up so kid #1 could hold a finger and go to sleep. Wife would come in later to get me up. Arm wouldn't move for a bit. Good times.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 12:53 PM (McYvC)

223 2040 is closer than 2010.

(This Facebook post has been brought to you by me.)

Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:54 PM (M/tYi)

224 I'd really like to see the abolishment of government grants altogether. If private industry or Americans want to see something done, let them fund it.

F*ck taking my tax money and giving it away to some rando who things they've got the 'next big thing.'

Get a loan or get a rich person to fund it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
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I agree, except for things that actually help the gov to do things it's supposed to be doing, like a sorting system that doesn't send your mail halfway across the country or an artillery piece that shoots rabid kevlar-coated poisonous spiders or something.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (QdGJh)

225
I'd be more suspicious if he'd died after being pegged in the head by a football. Falling off a golf cart..i'm trying hard not to laugh; luckily I'm at work and that sucks all my joy out of me.
Posted by: Nelly

He died doing what he loved...

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (QSsNn)

226 Have the illegals stay if they choose to pick up garbage and clean public spaces and clean graffiti etc. They get room and board, three meals, time off etc. and, after 4 years, a green card. Otherwise out.

Great way to spend some of that cancelled grant money. The rest send back to taxpayers.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (eISTN)

227
The Trump administration has been slashing regulations since day one, explicitly citing Loper in their reasoning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I want to believe. But if it was the big stuff (CAFE, endangered species protection, etc) I would have expected there to be front page garment rending.

Is he just nibbling at the edges?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (R548X)

228 We import a lot of oil from Canada. They could make trouble for us, but it would probably hurt them more.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Yeah, I bet Alberta wants to sell that oil (over $100 billion in 2023) rather than sit on it.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (VfMZK)

229 Be nice if Congress stepped up and started cutting funding to all these agencies to go along with the cuts so they don't just wait out this administration and go back to business as usual in 3 years.

Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (jGJov)

230 We could get a great deal on oil from Alberta if the Canadian government didn't get it's take.

Folks in Alberta could probably all retire.

Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (QB+5g)

231 Communism aka oppressed and oppressors. That is where Buttplug came up with the idea of removing urban interstates because they were intended to oppress the PoC residents.

Basically though a pseudo revolution from the top down by latte sipping Marxists grifting on public funds aka Democrats.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)

I will repeat the old Radio Yerevan saw:

We respond, "Under Capitalism, man oppresses man. Under Socialism the reverse is true"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (D7oie)

232 This sounds like an easy win in court for Musk, and the WSJ is no more.

@amuse
DRIVE-BY MEDIA: Negligence or malfeasance? Why did the Wall Street Journal report fake news about $TSLA replacing Elon Musk despite knowing the reporting was false? The false report sent the market cap of the 9th largest company down 3-5% temporarily erasing $36 billion in market cap

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 12:58 PM (mlg/3)

233 >>193 comments and no one mentioned Hitler?

Or boomers

Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 12:59 PM (Y1sOo)

234 We respond, "Under Capitalism, man oppresses man. Under Socialism the reverse is true"
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Nice. Imma steal that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:59 PM (pZ64F)

235 @amuse
DRIVE-BY MEDIA: Negligence or malfeasance? Why did the Wall Street Journal report fake news about $TSLA replacing Elon Musk despite knowing the reporting was false? The false report sent the market cap of the 9th largest company down 3-5% temporarily erasing $36 billion in market cap
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 12:58 PM (mlg/3)

Arrest them. This is market tampering.

However, Musk does this shit too, and so does Trump......

People need to be smarter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

236 233 >>193 comments and no one mentioned Hitler?
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Well, Mother's Day is coming and Hitler had a Mother.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 01:00 PM (pZ64F)

237 where did all that money go . . .

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Feb 10
Replying to @ChelseaClinton
Ms. Clinton, am I correct in reading that out of your reported $57,597,174 in expenses, $8,176,112 went to conferences and meetings, plus an additional $1,996,121 on travel?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (D7oie)

238
I demand hat justice!
Posted by: Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen

YOU WERE NUMBER ONE!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (63Dwl)

239 There's not much Canada can offer that the US needs.

The US has cheap beer, a strong agricultural base, a larger First World population, a more robust manufacturing base, a far stronger military, and

... the Stanley Cup.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)

240 @DataRepublican
Feb 10
Replying to @ChelseaClinton
Ms. Clinton, am I correct in reading that out of your reported $57,597,174 in expenses, $8,176,112 went to conferences and meetings, plus an additional $1,996,121 on travel?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (D7oie)

Do NOT go to the park, sir. You've got a hit on you already.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

241 Guy supposedly cracked his head on asphalt, so it wasn’t on the greens. Something odd about this story. There’s surely more.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (NiYfU)

Do a YouTube search for "Golf Fails". Lots of funny golf cart antics

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (5xuJ/)

242 215 Call me crazy, but I'd pick Mike Pompeo for Nat Sec Adv.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)
________________________

Not just, NO. But, HELL NO. Pompeo was actively working against Trump in the first term relative to Iran. Pompeo was, actually, stirring things up which initiated third party actions. Hamas...Houthies...etc.

Pompeo deserves to be dropped off in Tehran without security and a note pinned to his lapel. "Here...a present."

Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (dIske)

243
... the Stanley Cup.
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)

Canada hasn't had that thing since, what, '96?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

244 Preemies have to sit in the damn thing for 90 minutes without showing any sign of breathing/heart/O2 level issues.

TBH that sounds more like a child test than a car seat test.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (hB7mE)

245
>>193 comments and no one mentioned Hitler?

Or boomers
Posted by: one hour sober

Hitler was the first boomer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (63Dwl)

246 Interesting article and very timely. I keep up with Houston news because I was born there and lived in it for plemity decades. Today's Hearst installment of the Houston Comical has a lead of a west side part of town (Alief) is going to suffer without the $1.55 million that had been expected from Biden's $75 million 'Justice40' initiative to grant whatever planting trees will do for under-served bipoc lbjqt him/her victims.
Experts say it will reduce ambient temps by 14 degrees.

Posted by: DanMan at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (8uzBS)

247 Is there anything we import from Canada that we can't get domestically?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)

When I was little my mom would always stock of on some kind of strong aspirin that was aavaialhe in BC but not in Washington. Maybe Excedrin Extra? Hardly a trade issue.

Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (lCppi)

248 Canada hasn't had that thing since, what, '96?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

1993, I believe. I just looked it up this morning

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (rj6Yv)

249 Um, lady.....he was hit in the nuts. He didn't have a stick shoved up his ass......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

Was that the halfway decent looking woman with dirty blonde hair? I looked her up, she is an Olympic medalist back in 2000 or so. So, I rate her as not *quite* a DEI hire, but very, very close.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (ufFY8)

250 Gov. Abbott's windmills just stopped turning. What next, his useless solar farms will shut down?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (/U5Yz)

251 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid just wants to vote for Vance at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (Yji1v)

252 TRUMP IS KILLING DA ERF

Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

253 I meant would have reduced ambient temps by 14 degrees. Suck on it Aliefians.

Posted by: DanMan at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (8uzBS)

254 Was watching hockey last night and one of the DEI women hires was in the booth doing color commentary. She drones "he took one where the sun doesn't shine" after a play.

Um, lady.....he was hit in the nuts. He didn't have a stick shoved up his ass......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

I'll be listening to the Caps radio call from now on. The national broadcasts are horrible since Doc Emric retired

Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (vf0Y9)

255 With the EPA goes the planet. Climate change will kill thousands this summer through extreme weather events and wildfires. Who cares, though? Right?
Posted by: Sid at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (Yji1v)

They don't care in the PRC, that's for sure. That's for dang sure.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (rj6Yv)

256 GM diesel locomotives (EMD) are made in Canada.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (/U5Yz)

257
Was that the halfway decent looking woman with dirty blonde hair? I looked her up, she is an Olympic medalist back in 2000 or so. So, I rate her as not *quite* a DEI hire, but very, very close.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM

Both ladies in the booth, AJ whatever and the droning one, have skins on the wall and know the game, sure, but I don't need the drone in the booth. Whomever reviewed that one and said "Yeah man. She's HIRED!" should be kicked in the nuts and fired.

She's not listenable. At all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)

258 Canada hasn't had that thing since, what, '96?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

1993, I believe. I just looked it up this morning
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (rj6Yv)

An American team (Baltimore Stallions, 1995) has won the CFL Grey Cup more recently than a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup (Montreal 1993).

Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (vf0Y9)

259
I'd be more suspicious if he'd died after being pegged in the head by a football. Falling off a golf cart..i'm trying hard not to laugh; luckily I'm at work and that sucks all my joy out of me.

Posted by: Nelly

the safety Nazis and Concern Karens are trying tonget legislature and laws for seatbelts in golf carts.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 01:07 PM (oIkGM)

260 We respond, "Under Capitalism, man oppresses man. Under Socialism the reverse is true"
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I guess. Seemingly puts them on equal footing though.

Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:07 PM (M/tYi)

261 The EPA is one of the worst agencies ever. And we can thank a Republican for that. Ironic.

Posted by: One of Nixon's follies at May 01, 2025 01:07 PM (TbWk/)

262 Jackie Redmond (NHL Network) has been doing rinkside reporting. She is very good and knowledgeable. And a complete smokeshow.

Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (vf0Y9)

263 261 The EPA is one of the worst agencies ever. And we can thank a Republican for that. Ironic.
Posted by: One of Nixon's follies

Don't forget us.

Posted by: China at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (/U5Yz)

264 Martini Farmer -
Would you rather have the conference on diatoms on an idyllic Greek island, since, yes, there are diatoms right down at the beach? By the way I’ve been to a week long conference on an idyllic Greek island, but I paid my own way (it was tax deductible since work related).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (Z4B3V)

265 247 Is there anything we import from Canada that we can't get domestically?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)
________________________
A significant number of exports from Canada to the US are, also, available from Argentina.

Relative to oil, the Canadian product is primarily Heavy Crude. About 75% of our refineries in the US are set up for Heavy Crude. The primary oil domestically in the US is Sweet Light Crude. To switch over and become more self-sufficient, we would have to either retool the refineries, or build new ones.

Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (dIske)

266
I'll be listening to the Caps radio call from now on. The national broadcasts are horrible since Doc Emric retired
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (vf0Y9)

I figured you were doing that already. I've enjoyed that Victory+ had the first round so I get Josh and Razor......Razor is the best in the business and we're blessed to have him every game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

267 262 Jackie Redmond (NHL Network) has been doing rinkside reporting. She is very good and knowledgeable. And a complete smokeshow.

Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (vf0Y9)

Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)

268
Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)

SpongeBro has a bit of a crush on her.

And yes, it seems her hair is thinning. And she's only in her mid 30s.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

269 I'll be listening to the Caps radio call from now on. The national broadcasts are horrible since Doc Emric retired
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (vf0Y9)

I figured you were doing that already. I've enjoyed that Victory+ had the first round so I get Josh and Razor......Razor is the best in the business and we're blessed to have him every game.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

Caps TV broadcasters are top notch. But they only get the first round. Now it's national TV. So I will switch to the radio call.

Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (vf0Y9)

270 Experts say it will reduce ambient temps by 14 degrees.
Posted by: DanMan

Not unless they're planting fully grown trees it won't. Not for several years at any rate.

Why not just encourage residents to plant trees in their own yards?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (hB7mE)

271 I will repeat the old Radio Yerevan saw:

We respond, "Under Capitalism, man oppresses man. Under Socialism the reverse is true"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (D7oie)

We don't have capitalism, in the sense of a free-market economy. We have a quasi-fascist oligopoly and oligopsony, with the greater mass of people being ground into the meal that feeds it.

Posted by: And yet people cry out for more of the same at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (TbWk/)

272 Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)

Really - you think she's great??? I think she sounds like a 3rd grader reading a book report. And the way she stares at the guys she's interviewing is stalker-esque.

Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (vf0Y9)

273 268
Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)

SpongeBro has a bit of a crush on her.

And yes, it seems her hair is thinning. And she's only in her mid 30s.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

She strikes me as someone who is beyond attainable but not a traditional chick in any way. Basically, a grown up tomboy trying to play a girl on TV.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (KbCG3)

274 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (SYD5S)

275 250 Gov. Abbott's windmills just stopped turning. What next, his useless solar farms will shut down?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (/U5Yz)

They really only work good six hours a day. In 25 years they're landfill. Can't be recycled into anything.

All those used photovotaic cells 'cheap' on craigslist is because their lifespan is shot. The P-N junctions diffuse spontaneously into each other. No more electrons can be pushed across the barrier because it's gone.

We're also greatly increasing reroofing cost because another contractor has to R&R the panels. They won't want to touch them because they're old. They want to upset another new system. $50 grand?
.it's a scam

Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (BY07X)

276
Posted by: One of Nixon's follies

55 MPH speed limit

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (63Dwl)

277
Why not just encourage residents to plant trees in their own yards?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (hB7mE)

Only if you have a lot big enough. The roots wrap around pipes and move them. Plus, they get under the foundation and move things there as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

278 272 Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)

Really - you think she's great??? I think she sounds like a 3rd grader reading a book report. And the way she stares at the guys she's interviewing is stalker-esque.

Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (vf0Y9)

Good reporter. Does not offend me. Leah Hextall is the absolutely worst. Emily Kaplan is 180-degrees from Leah Hextall.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (KbCG3)

279
She strikes me as someone who is beyond attainable but not a traditional chick in any way. Basically, a grown up tomboy trying to play a girl on TV.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (KbCG3)

And I don't believe she's married, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

280 She's not listenable. At all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, the AJ chick was the one I was thinking of.
I agree their voices (both chicks) are annoying.

It is the higher register that makes them sound like nails on a chalkboard.

But, I am not a fan of continuous masturbatory chatter either.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (ufFY8)

281 Nood Wong!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:13 PM (hB7mE)

282
Dolezal is the fake black NAACP chapter pres.

Dolezal ended up setting up an OnlyFans account where you could see just how not black her butt was...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (t0Rmr)

I'm pretty sure that I saw her on XHamster long before OF was even founded. Which doesn't surprise me at all.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 01:15 PM (y9nCu)

283 Yeah, I bet Alberta wants to sell that oil (over $100 billion in 2023) rather than sit on it.
Posted by: t-bird

Sanction it, then arranged under the table deals to bring it into the U.S. below market price.

No Canadian banks allowed in the deal.

Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 01:16 PM (j4U/Z)

284 Can't wait to see the god-judges make their fiats from Mt. Olympus. I say we declare a open seapon/purge day on judges.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at May 01, 2025 01:20 PM (bXvrr)

285 I knew a guy that worked at the Space Center as a contractor, got a job slinging C code for models at the EPA. Just retired, Made over $160K and never did a damn thing worthwhile.

He used to joke about it.

Now he's got a full government retirement to waste the rest of his life on.

Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (QB+5g)

286 The condemnable global warming hoax sucks otherwise good minds into its vortex of lies. I lost one of my most gifted undergraduate students to this blamed conspiracy. He thought he would be helping save the world. I thought he would be wasting his career. He was shocked when I refused to give him a recommendation to go study global warning at the graduate level. He got enough recommendations from other professors that he went off and did, despite my heartfelt warning. He came back later with some of his research that he presented in a departmental colloquium. It didn’t seem to show anything: despite a huge amount of “forcing” in the model (extra putative heat sources) the model showed almost no effects. I analogized his model, in a question at the end of his talk, that if a flea bit an elephant really hard on its arse, the elephant might flick its tail. He reluctantly agreed with my analogy. At least he remained honest in his modeling, disregarding the extra forcing, which didn’t really exist.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 01:43 PM (Z4B3V)

287 Might want to bear in mind that all those grants which are being canceled this year will not be renewed next year. They're gone for good.

The trough people feeding off of them are going to have to find another grift for at least the next couple years, 'cause their current gig just dried up.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (bufu1)

288 "Environmental justice" is such a scam.

Posted by: waelse1 at May 01, 2025 05:43 PM (topXw)

289 The EPA tried to prevent the Sacketts from Building New Home on their Property using the Clean Water Act(CWA)and the SCOTUS ruled in the Sacketts Favor and the usual Whining from the Eco-Freaks from NRDC and Earth Justice plus NBC the Lying Peacock News

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 01, 2025 06:07 PM (FLiOE)

290 If they don't tell you what the grant prices are, it isn't because they are small and sensible.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

291 Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...

John Elway.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Either Elway drives like a maniac and/or alcohol was involved from both parties. Expect a big lawsuit forthcoming that will bring up what happened.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (ctrM5)

Elway hugs his side of the path, say, and drops a front wheel off his side into a dip and the cart stops quickly. The other guy would likely be pitched out the other side onto the concrete path.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 06:55 PM (8avO+)

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