THE MORNING RANT: Any Refund of Tariffs Already Collected Should Go to Taxpayers, not Businesses

Last November,President Trump announced that he would share the financial bounty of his tariffs by sending $2,000 “tariff dividend” payments to most Americans. Truth be told, even though I am a strong supporter of the tariffs, I did not care for this idea since it comes across as exchanging a government check for political support.

The outsource-all-the-manufacturing-jobs “free traders” were apoplectic, of course. National Review had a hair-on-fire piece titled “Trump’s $2,000 Check is a Disastrous Idea.” Perhaps. But with the Supreme Court having just invalidated many of the tariffs, and with businesses suing to claw back tariffs that they paid, who should get the money if the tariffs are going to be refunded?

Don’t forget, the opponents of tariffs reflexively bleat “Tariffs are a tax on consumers” at any mention of there being economic benefits from tariffing imports. Doesn’t it follow then that if tariff revenues were taxes paid by consumers, and if those tariff revenues were illegal and must be returned, the tariff refunds should go to taxpayers rather than to corporations?

Maybe it’s time to re-think the “tariff dividend.”

Those of us who support President Trump’s tariffs want to restore America’s industrial might, repatriate manufacturing jobs, reduce trade imbalances, and protect our national sovereignty. We argue that tariffs keep economic prosperity at home, and reduce US dependence on supply chains involving hostile foreign regimes.

The opponents of Trump’s tariffs envision a utopian, one-world economic market in which the US is a weak country dependent on overseas manufacturing. Although they call themselves “free traders,” they do not actually argue for reciprocal free trade. They argue passionately that the US should unilaterally surrender to foreign mercantilism, keeping our markets open to those same countries that block American exports. When tariffs are proposed to break down those unfair trade barriers, the “free traders” immediately start reciting their overused buzz phrase, “Tariffs are a tax on consumers.”

My motivation for supporting tariffs has nothing to do with collecting tariff revenue. I’d be happy if tariff revenues were nominal, indicating that we have a broadly diverse domestic economy that is not significantly reliant on imports. That said, Trump’s tariffs have been successful in generating revenue during this time of transition. Whoever is ultimately paying the tariffs – be it consumers, importers, or foreign suppliers - $133 billion has already been collected so far.

But as I mentioned above, businesses that actually remitted the tariff payments on their imported goods are now demanding those tariffs be refunded to them:

“Businesses Push for Tariff Refunds as Trump Aides Hint at Fight to Come” [NY Times – 02/25/2026]

Now that the president has suffered such a stinging defeat, major businesses including Dyson, FedEx and L’Oreal have filed an early barrage of lawsuits in search of hefty tariff payouts.
At stake is more than $100 billion in revenue collected over the past year under a roster of tariffs that the Supreme Court invalidated last week. While a defiant Mr. Trump has since taken steps to try to revive the duties, he still faces the prospect that the money collected from his past tariffs might have to be paid back.
So far, roughly 900 claims seeking those refunds have been filed in federal court, according to the Liberty Justice Center, a legal group that represented some of the small businesses in the lawsuit that reached the nation’s justices.

Since the free traders have so persistently argued that “Tariffs are a tax on consumers,” why should the businesses involved in importing goods be entitled to any tariff refunds? I thought we the consumers were the ones who paid those tariffs, not the businesses or their overseas suppliers.

Here’s an idea on how we could resolve the refund of these contested tariffs to consumers - a tariff dividend from the government to taxpayers, just like President Trump proposed.

Irrespective of how this specific political battle plays out, the Trump administration has plenty of other avenues to fix the nation’s trade imbalance, including the imposition of tariffs under other statutes. The “free traders” so desperate to see other countries prosper at the expense of the United States, and who despair at the thought of an American industrial revival, will not prevail. New tariffs will be imposed, because tariffs are working.

As documented by F. Andrew Wolf Jr. at The American Spectator, the US trade deficit plunged a whopping 45% in Q4 of 2025 compared to Q4 of 2024! This was due to the Trump tariffs.

There has also been a torrent of announcements from corporations in the past year regarding major investments in the United States for new manufacturing plants. Just a small sample of these announcements include:

• APPLE: $500 billion investment including a new Texas manufacturing plant.

• MICRON: $200 billion investment including $15 billion for a new chip fabrication facility in Idaho.

• ELY LILLY: $6 billion plant in Huntsville, AL creating 450 jobs.

• ASTRA ZENECA: $50 billion across multiple states.

• JOHNSON & JOHNSON: $2 billion in North Carolina.

The hundreds of billions being invested in the United States will create high paying jobs, which will then circulate money and prosperity throughout those communities. The products being manufactured stateside will also result in dollars remaining in the US to circulate, rather than being sent overseas.

The Supreme Court’s ruling is a small setback, but it would be foolish for any company to think there will be a return to the business model of sourcing cheap products manufactured by foreign, poverty-wage labor.

Ideally, the Trump administration will keep the tariffs already collected and find a workaround to re-impose the tariffs. But if those revenues must be refunded, they should be paid directly to American taxpayers as a “tariff dividend.” There is absolutely no reason for corporations to be the recipient of any refunds, because I’ve been reliably told that their collection was always a “tax on consumers.”

*****

Happy Birthday Texas!

Today is Texas Independence Day! It was on March 2, 1836, in Washington-on-the-Brazos (near College Station, TX) that Sam Houston, Lorenzo de Zavala, Samuel Maverick, Jose Navarro, and 55 other brave patriots signed the Declaration of Independence from Mexico.

170 miles away in San Antonio, William Travis, Jim Bowie, David Crockett and about 200 others were under siege from Mexican President Santa Anna and his army. Four days later, the Alamo fell, and Santa Anna then headed east to destroy Sam Houston’s ragtag army and quash the Texas Revolution. He failed.

What started on the banks of the Brazos, changed North America and changed the United States. Texas was an independent country for over 9 years before becoming a US state. (Texas even had a a four-ship navy.)

Texas has a meh state song (“Texas, Our Texas” and several unofficial anthems. There are frequent discussions in online Texas history forums about what the national anthem of Texas should be if it were ever to become a country again.

My vote for Texas National Anthem would be the Hill Country Theme. It was cowritten in the 1960s by Cindy Walker (who is famous for the song “You Don’t Know Me” and many Bob Wills songs.) Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops put it to an orchestral arrangement for a TV special about the Hill Country of Texas, where LBJ spent much of his presidency. It soon became a popular song played by Texas high school orchestras, and it also became the theme song of a show called Texas Country Reporter.

Here’s a nice video featuring the Boston Pops’ version of the Hill Country Theme:

By the way, if anyone is triggered by discussion of LBJ, the part of Texas he comes from has been solid Republican from the Civil War to present, and in the 1960s, his neighbors voted against him!

The 1861 Texas secession vote had a long legacy. 99 years later, in 1960, the Hill Country German counties were still voting Republican - the party of Lincoln - even though a resident of the Hill Country (LBJ) was the VP candidate for the Democrats and JFK. pic.twitter.com/biKxuod7TG
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) February 14, 2026

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 First.

Posted by: Cosda at March 02, 2026 11:01 AM (ms+zr)

2 On today's episode of Gunsmoke, kitty reveals she has tattoos of George Washington and Lincoln on the inside of her thighs. Doc recognizes neither. She grabs the first guy outside to ask him. "I don't know which one's Washington and Lincoln but the one in the middle is definitely Festus Hagen."

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 02, 2026 11:01 AM (Kt19C)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Cosda at March 02, 2026 11:01 AM (ms+zr)

4 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 02, 2026 11:03 AM (bFu5X)

5 All this time, the left has been arguing that consumers were actually paying the tariffs, but NOW it's the businesses getting a "refund"?

Switching arguments mid-stream?... yeah. That sounds like the left.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 02, 2026 11:03 AM (zjgNU)

6 The tariffs are most certainly not going to be refunded. Not one cent. Remember how the SC case finding the tariffs invalid? Remember the gloating and hysteria from the left (and some on the right) afterwards?

Notice how that all but disappeared, practically overnight? It's because it was all a pointless exercise in masterbation with sandpaper. The SC ended one narrow ground for the tariffs. There are others, and Trump immediately used them.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

7 The left: Tariffs are taxes on PEOPLE! You know actually people have to pay those taxes?!?

Also the left: Income tax? Nah that's just paid by the rich not actual people. Same thing with property tax, excise taxes, capital gains taxes, and the death tax.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 11:04 AM (sKqQm)

8 thx Buck

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:05 AM (gbOdA)

9 Is Secession on the ballot? Damned if I saw that.

Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 11:05 AM (sH4Bk)

10 Texas is in my future.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 02, 2026 11:06 AM (2WIwB)

11 LOL, you know how brilliant it will be to send the tariff money to Americans?

Because, if the money is gone, Congress has to authorize the spending to "reimburse" the multi-national multi-billion dollar corporations.

And party of "fighting oligarchy" and "fighting big business" will be out there demanding the American taxpayer send billions to those poor, poor corporations.

Or, to put it another way, all these corporations are going to quietly drop their reimbursement lawsuits.
Looking at you, FedEx.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 11:06 AM (HXT0k)

12 Is this a Civil War thread, or Civil War adjacent?

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:06 AM (pDt9x)

13 Any Refund of Tariffs Already Collected Should Go to Taxpayers, not Businesses

The end buyer pays for everything.
End discussion.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 02, 2026 11:07 AM (MdILH)

14 And hell yes on tariff refunds. I don't particularly need it, but damn it, I want it.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 02, 2026 11:07 AM (2WIwB)

15 The area around where the obnoxious asshole LBJ grew up is far too beautiful to be remembered as the former home of obnoxious asshole LBJ.

Posted by: ballistic at March 02, 2026 11:08 AM (5aZAZ)

16 I take it that the red/blue map is from LBJs election and that blue is Rep and red is Dem. (?)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 11:08 AM (Dv3i1)

17 A slam that Ace should like for its cruelty

Entropyrian
@entropyrian
Nick Fuentes threatening to not support the GOP is like Kathleen Kennedy threatening not to make any more good Star Wars movies.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)

18 Aside from the importance of returning manufacturing to this country, bringing drug production back is even more important.

I'd go so far to say that our national security is far more impacted by the ability to get basic antibiotics than microchips.

But we should have a native industry, capable of being ramped up for ALL such products.

The "one-world" fools are ensuring the US is weak and vulnerable. (Which is what they want. Can't have one country being too strong, unless it's China.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 02, 2026 11:09 AM (zjgNU)

19 Read a article at American Thinker maybe a week ago explaining tariff. The buyer pays it. And looked up just for background, what does England charge on tariffs, was a shock what they do.

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2026 11:09 AM (EtnSa)

20 Hope Trump solves this quickly. Maybe a flight of drones over the SCOTUS.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 02, 2026 11:10 AM (g8Ew8)

21 LBJ was always a phony pile of shit.

One of his campaign schticks was to whoop and holler like a good ol' True Texan and throw his cowboy hat into the air at the end of his speech.

After the speech was over, he'd send his goons into the crowd and force whoever had his hat to give it back.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (HXT0k)

22 Texans: We were our own country you guys!!1!

Franpsycho: Ok, ok. Calm down.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (RIvkX)

23 with businesses suing to claw back tariffs that they paid, who should get the money if the tariffs are going to be refunded?

By their own rhetoric, WE paid the tariffs when they passed thru the cost.

Posted by: t-bird at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (MKu/Q)

24 The Hill Country Theme is really cool. I've never heard of it before. I grew up watching the Texas Country Reporter but didn't know the significance of the song. I also have the Texas Country Reporter Cookbook.

Posted by: Adrienne at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (VHdVu)

25 So, what's this I hear about Queer Starmer trying to give Gibraltar back to Spain?

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

26 Give the tariffs dollars collected back to the importers?? No way.... Trump should just say talk to the hand. SCOTUS really screwed the pooch with that ruling; like trying to put toothpaste back into a tube

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (xT8gx)

27 Tariff refund. If it is a meaningful amount of money, and does NOT go to smelly illegals, and is done promptly ( before the midterms ) , just maybe.

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (pDt9x)

28 Tarrifs have been going on around the world for the last 300 years,Leftists think President Trump just made this up

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2026 11:12 AM (EtnSa)

29 2’ the one in the middle is definitely Festus Hagen."’

So he looks like Miss Kitty’s kitty?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 02, 2026 11:12 AM (jbnUc)

30 It would be nice if Trump had only foreign enemies to fight.....

Posted by: steevy at March 02, 2026 11:12 AM (YwEeS)

31 "I don't know which one's Washington and Lincoln but the one in the middle is definitely Festus Hagen."
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 02, 2026 11:01 AM (Kt19C)

The judges would have also accepted "Lysander Spooner"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:12 AM (rbvCR)

32 Nick Fuentes is just a more extreme example of the astroturf "GOPe INC" crap we've dealt with for years.

Who said David French or Jonah Goldberg represented the right? A lefty oligarch.

And if you could dig into Fuentes's finances you'd find the same. But here we have an openly islamo-friendly, gay, leftist supposedly as a right wing standard bearer.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (sKqQm)

33 I can't find any confirmation on Iran's drone carrier being sunk. All sources (I've seen) saying so have used same video of a ship burning, but that ship does not match the pic of the (mini) carrier. The report may be true, but the pic looks wrong.

drone carrier, Shahid Bagheri, is its name.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (vbXSk)

34 Hawley-Smoot! Smoot-Hawley! Hoot-Smalley! Smalley-Hoot! Tariffs bad! Orangemanbad! WARRRRGBARGLE!

Posted by: Standard "free-trade" argumentation at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (TbWk/)

35 On the idea of Tariffs and paying taxes at the pump (embedded taxes).
There is no more fair way to a use or sales tax of collecting taxes. In the free world market and the local markets it allows the consumer a daily vote on the policies of international, national, and local governments as the consumer may buy nationally to support their government and borders just as they may shop locally to support the business with the benefits of taxes building THEIR infrastructures.
On the other hand it also allows the protestors a real output of their displeasure by avoiding purchases.

At a beer summit at my watering hole their was 100% support for paying as you go.
I would love to see JD take up the Fair Tax banner.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (gbOdA)

36 21 LBJ was always a phony pile of shit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (HXT0k)

-----
Speaking of shit, one of his favorite things to do at the White House was hold staff meetings in the bathroom while he was taking a shit.

As mentioned previously, he was a gigantic fuckhead and should be mentioned only just before one spits on the ground to get the taste out of one's mouth.

Posted by: ballistic at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (5aZAZ)

37 We had a hit song and video about how God Blessed Texas.

Posted by: Little Texas at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (wVcYX)

38 I also have the Texas Country Reporter Cookbook.
Posted by: Adrienne at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (VHdVu)

Over 32 ways to prepare possum on the half shell.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:14 AM (gbOdA)

39 12 Is this a Civil War thread, or Civil War adjacent?

we talkin' (civil war) thread or civil (war thread)?

Posted by: pizza pizza at March 02, 2026 11:14 AM (oY6Yp)

40 Also speaking of shit, I see our resident coprophage is here early this morning.

Posted by: ballistic at March 02, 2026 11:14 AM (5aZAZ)

41 A lot of Democrat voters would love getting a $2000 check, instead of seeing it go to a corporation.

Posted by: davidt at March 02, 2026 11:15 AM (Q+gd/)

42 So, what's this I hear about Queer Starmer trying to give Gibraltar back to Spain?

He wants to give it back to Islam, is what I've seen. Not sure the exact mechanism though.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:15 AM (2ocoG)

43 Don’t forget, the opponents of tariffs reflexively bleat “Tariffs are a tax on consumers” at any mention of there being economic benefits from tariffing imports. Doesn’t it follow then that if tariff revenues were taxes paid by consumers, and if those tariff revenues were illegal and must be returned, the tariff refunds should go to taxpayers rather than to corporations?

Sure. Show your receipts as proof of purchase of tariffed items. Otherwise, you weren't impacted.

No tickee, no checkee.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 11:15 AM (rR3v+)

44 We're back !

Posted by: Flying Jihadi's at March 02, 2026 11:16 AM (abIsI)

45 Maybe it’s time to re-think the “tariff dividend.”

Maybe it's time to inform these companies that they'll be subject to a 50% tariff regardless of any other agreements made with their countries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

46 Alternatives to passing out money to people? Anybody?

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:16 AM (pDt9x)

47 Yeah, the media that covered up FDR being a crippled retard, really hit their stride covering up how much of a nasty piece of shit LBJ was.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 02, 2026 11:17 AM (HXT0k)

48 Sure. Show your receipts as proof of purchase of tariffed items. Otherwise, you weren't impacted.

No tickee, no checkee.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 11:15 AM (rR3v+)

Eh, just apply it to federal income taxes

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:17 AM (rbvCR)

49
we should have a native industry, capable of being ramped up for ALL such products.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

===============

For strategic industries, definitely, but some small businesses are going out with the bathwater. Restaurateurs for one are shrinking their profit margins because of tariffs on foods and equipment. America can't grow everything and it doesn't -- shouldn't -- manufacture every utensil and appliance. That's just one example.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 02, 2026 11:17 AM (n7rxJ)

50 47 Alternatives to passing out money to people? Anybody?
Posted by: tubal

A night with Sydney Sweeney?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 02, 2026 11:17 AM (abIsI)

51 28 Tarrifs have been going on around the world for the last 300 years,Leftists think President Trump just made this up
Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2026 11:12 AM (EtnSa)

More like 5000 years. First records of tariffs go back to 3000BC Mesopotamia. So much of what the progs believe is based on not just ignorance of history, but a deliberate obliteration of a knowledge of history. Which is how Big Brother kept the proles in line, and every real-life communist government we've ever seen.

Posted by: Who controls the past controls the future at March 02, 2026 11:18 AM (TbWk/)

52 China urged the United States and Israel to immediately cease military action against Iran and warned that regional turmoil could harm the global economy, including energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

Funny how the China solar and wind no workie without the sweet calaphate oil.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:18 AM (gbOdA)

53 Great plan. Illegally take money from businesses and distribute it to the unwashed masses for votes. Sounds like something a democrat would come up with. I paid the tariffs and didn't raise prices because of market forces, so I want my fucking money back.

Posted by: jwest at March 02, 2026 11:18 AM (KtqtS)

54 34 I can't find any confirmation on Iran's drone carrier being sunk. All sources (I've seen) saying so have used same video of a ship burning, but that ship does not match the pic of the (mini) carrier. The report may be true, but the pic looks wrong.

drone carrier, Shahid Bagheri, is its name.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (vbXSk)
Well, suicide for olla is right there in the name.

Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 11:18 AM (sH4Bk)

55 Those Hill Country counties were known as the loyal valley, and in fact there is a town called Loyal Valley there. There was a lot of violence between Confederates and Unionists.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 02, 2026 11:18 AM (0U5gm)

56 "It would be nice if Trump had only foreign enemies to fight....."

Democrats still "rally round the flag", it's just not our flag. It is Ukraine's, or Gaza, or Iran ...

Posted by: illiniwek at March 02, 2026 11:19 AM (vbXSk)

57 On the idea of Tariffs and paying taxes at the pump (embedded taxes).
There is no more fair way to a use or sales tax of collecting taxes. In the free world market and the local markets it allows the consumer a daily vote on the policies of international, national, and local governments as the consumer may buy nationally to support their government and borders just as they may shop locally to support the business with the benefits of taxes building THEIR infrastructures.
On the other hand it also allows the protestors a real output of their displeasure by avoiding purchases.

At a beer summit at my watering hole their was 100% support for paying as you go.
I would love to see JD take up the Fair Tax banner.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (gbOdA)

And there is an idea for a way to easily and equitably refund that tariff money: use it to offset the Federal fuel tax until the "illegally collected" tariff funds are exhausted. Even people who don't own cars wind up having the Fed fuel tax make up a portion of their cost of living.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 11:19 AM (8zz6B)

58 Sure. Show your receipts as proof of purchase of tariffed items. Otherwise, you weren't impacted.

No tickee, no checkee.
Posted by: rickb223

Technically correct, but not a political winner. Best to just add up the tariff revenue subject to supreme court's order divide by number of federal net taxpaying individuals and cut the checks. Or make it a line item on tax form.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 02, 2026 11:19 AM (Dv3i1)

59 Saw video on Fox this morning of a plane dragging a banner over Los Angeles that said "THANK YOU FOR FREEING IRAN DONALD TRUMP". I bet that's causing a big surplus in liberal tear production.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:19 AM (2ocoG)

60 I would rather see bond buybacks than payola.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (RIvkX)

61 Sarmer gives Gibraltar back to Spain would be a laugh concerning everything since 1700 Britain has done to keep it

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (EtnSa)

62 Agreed on tariff 'refunds' going to consumers. If they're supposed to be the one paying for it all, then they should get it back. It won't be evenly redistributed based on past purchases, but it'll actual get to people's hands. Versus businesses who won't lower prices after the fact.

On a related note, regarding student loans and the attempt to 'forgive' them in the previous administration. I had a modest proposal that could help those that wanted to be free from the debt, but not steal from the hardworking Americans who were alredy taxed heavily to pay for college kids - make the colleges and universities be the ones to forgive the loans.

Specifically, claw back money from their endowments. The price for college diplomas have skyrocketed, but the actual quality has gone down. If students are getting fleeced for years past when they received their shoddy product, then maybe have those very colleges pay back what they took.

The students get a reprieve. The American taxpayers don't get a sudden proctology exam from the IRS poking the wrong pocket. The colleges end up with an issue, but they caused it in the first place, and should be made to suffer for their malfeasance.

Posted by: Another Anon at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (4h45B)

63 Speaking of shit, one of his favorite things to do at the White House was hold staff meetings in the bathroom while he was taking a shit.

As mentioned previously, he was a gigantic fuckhead and should be mentioned only just before one spits on the ground to get the taste out of one's mouth.
Posted by: ballistic at March 02, 2026 11:13 AM (5aZAZ)

LBJ and McNamara killed a lot of soldiers with their selfish arrogance and lust for power. Hell is too good for them.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (g8Ew8)

64 I truly enjoy ASS’s comments.
In a hysterically funny way, of course.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (gAJUR)

65 47 Alternatives to passing out money to people? Anybody?
Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:16 AM (pDt9x)

reduce the deficit

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (w/O5Q)

66 A night with Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

In honor of the pending liberation of Iran, Imma go with Tara Yazdi.

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

67 Its funny when Trump was operating against say VZ, the left could claim he was being mean to some poor brown socialists.

But now? Iran is the basis for the Handmaid's Tale the book that every leftwing woman fears will happen here...you know when they aren't cosplaying as one of the sex slaves from the book for personal sexy time...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 11:21 AM (sKqQm)

68 2 On today's episode of Gunsmoke, kitty reveals she has tattoos of George Washington and Lincoln on the inside of her thighs. Doc recognizes neither. She grabs the first guy outside to ask him. "I don't know which one's Washington and Lincoln but the one in the middle is definitely Festus Hagen."
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 02, 2026 11:01 AM (Kt19C)

Snort

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 02, 2026 11:21 AM (i0Hi3)

69 reduce the deficit

The deficit is down roughly 38% year over year, thanks to a combination of the OBBB and tarriffs. Of course, those are rookie numbers and Trump can do better.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:22 AM (2ocoG)

70 Texans: We were our own country you guys!!1!

Impressive. So were Vermont and West Florida. And don't forget Canada, our 51st state!

Posted by: t-bird at March 02, 2026 11:22 AM (MKu/Q)

71 ...and so early in the week, too.

Posted by: t-bird at March 02, 2026 11:22 AM (MKu/Q)

72 It should be used for paying down the debt, but I'm good with buying votes to beat the commies in the midterms.

Posted by: Roy at March 02, 2026 11:23 AM (qwype)

73 68 Its funny when Trump was operating against say VZ, the left could claim he was being mean to some poor brown socialists.

But now? Iran is the basis for the Handmaid's Tale the book that every leftwing woman fears will happen here...you know when they aren't cosplaying as one of the sex slaves from the book for personal sexy time...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 11:21 AM (sKqQm)

Spank me, Commander!

Posted by: Handmaidens everywhere at March 02, 2026 11:23 AM (i0Hi3)

74 I don't want Canuckistan as a state. Maybe Alberta, but I'd prefer they stay independent with some sort of military treaty so we protect them from the rest of Canada.

Hell, can we get rid of Vermont as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 11:23 AM (sKqQm)

75 I swear...some of you need to put in closing tags into your nics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

76 Iran is the basis for the Handmaid's Tale the book that every leftwing woman fears will happen here...you know when they aren't cosplaying as one of the sex slaves from the book for personal sexy time...

I saw a video of some fat young woman obstructing the entrance to what appears to be an Energy Department nuclear facility to protest some unspecified thing and she yelled that she doesn't want to get drafted because she'd be raped. Given what she looked like, I have to think that was aspirational.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:24 AM (2ocoG)

77 In honor of the pending liberation of Iran, Imma go with Tara Yazdi.
Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

No idea who that is, but coming from you, I'm guessing she has huge cans.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 02, 2026 11:24 AM (Y1sOo)

78 PRESIDENT TRUMP —
‘The replacement is not going to be anybody that we were thinking of, because the replacements are all dead.’

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:25 AM (gbOdA)

79 For strategic industries, definitely, but some small businesses are going out with the bathwater. Restaurateurs for one are shrinking their profit margins because of tariffs on foods and equipment. America can't grow everything and it doesn't -- shouldn't -- manufacture every utensil and appliance. That's just one example.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 02, 2026 11:17 AM (n7rxJ)

The tariffs don't touch on ag products that are not produced in the US (on the whole) or trade agreements can exclude those like they do in other countries, regularly. The same for critical industries and raw materials, though some of these industries are not done in the US because it was more profitable to send them to China and Africa, and the US industries got undercut on purpose to lure them away.

It is not a perfect situation, but then again nothing ever is.

Think of it as "encouraging consumers to buy from the local shops at a higher price because the money spent stays in the local economy instead of going to Amazon or Temu"
It has the side benefit of being able to be sure what you are getting is of decent quality and not a gamble on getting "good" Yang Poon

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:25 AM (rbvCR)

80 I swear...some of you need to put in closing tags into your nics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
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Did you support mandatory seatbelt laws?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 11:25 AM (RIvkX)

81 Specifically, claw back money from their endowments. The price for college diplomas have skyrocketed, but the actual quality has gone down. If students are getting fleeced for years past when they received their shoddy product, then maybe have those very colleges pay back what they took.

The students get a reprieve. The American taxpayers don't get a sudden proctology exam from the IRS poking the wrong pocket. The colleges end up with an issue, but they caused it in the first place, and should be made to suffer for their malfeasance.
Posted by: Another Anon at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (4h45B)

I love this idea... American universities have been screwing students for years; start draining their endowments. Harvard and Yale first....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 11:26 AM (xT8gx)

82 I saw a video of some fat young woman obstructing the entrance to what appears to be an Energy Department nuclear facility to protest some unspecified thing and she yelled that she doesn't want to get drafted because she'd be raped. Given what she looked like, I have to think that was aspirational.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Even the Biden military did not allow bestiality.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)

83 Impressive. So were Vermont and West Florida.
Posted by: t-bird

I'm right here, you know.
-- Hawaii

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

84 While most of the booze talk here is about bourbon and scotch, how about vodka? I don't mean any old vodka. I saw this at the liquor store this weekend and did a double-take:

https://www.jooicytitsvodka.com/

Yes, there is a cartoon on the bottle of a comically well-endowed girl in a bikini. Sadly, the company seems to be a bunch of stronk empowered wimmins who want you to know how very stronk and empowered they are.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

85 61
‘ I would rather see bond buybacks than payola’
That’s deflating the money supply, right?

If so, I’m on board.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 02, 2026 11:26 AM (jbnUc)

86 When someone robs a bank and gets caught, instead of returning the money distribute it among the people. If we get enough crime, we can all quit working.

Posted by: jwest at March 02, 2026 11:26 AM (KtqtS)

87 Eyes of Texas should be State Anthem.

Happy Independence Day

Celebrate March 2nd

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:26 AM (gbOdA)

88 >>Impressive. So were Vermont and West Florida. And don't forget Canada, our 51st state!

So was Rogue Island. So were all of the other original 12 colonies. There's a reason it's called Independence Day.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 02, 2026 11:27 AM (viF8m)

89 American universities have been screwing students for years; start draining their endowments. Harvard and Yale first....

Harvard I'd offer a special deal: produce Obama's transcripts and law school review writings and we'll take less of your money.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:27 AM (2ocoG)

90 Afternoon.

Reading over at HotAir that HizbAllah has decided to get in on the war action. Israel has already eliminated their intelligence chief. lol! lmao even! Morrisey implies that Lebanon is finally sick of HizbAllah's shit and ready to kick them to the curb.

https://tinyurl.com/3jr46pzy

Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (MSvRg)

91 65 I truly enjoy ASS’s comments.
In a hysterically funny way, of course.
Posted by: RI Red
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ASS strikes me as a John Gacy that wears clown makeup and has bodies in his basement crawl space.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (E4rtv)

92 They can send my cut of the tariffs to pay down the federal debt, which will strangle all future generations of Americans.

Posted by: We're Screwed at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (eL223)

93 In honor of the pending liberation of Iran, Imma go with Tara Yazdi.
Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

No idea who that is, but coming from you, I'm guessing she has huge cans.
Posted by: one hour sober

Oh yes, she does. American model, of Persian ancestry. Oh, and did I mention her huge cans?

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

94 "170 miles away in San Antonio, William Travis, Jim Bowie, David Crockett and about 200 others were under siege from Mexican President Santa Anna and his army. Four days later, the Alamo fell, and Santa Anna then headed east to destroy Sam Houston’s ragtag army and quash the Texas Revolution. He failed."

Of all the memorable moments in this nations history, the battle at the Alamo may be the one that resonates with me the most ... our Thermopylae moment.

And the names of Travis ... Crockett ... Bowie are legend.

"Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Davy Crockett

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (3sXRv)

95
I'll say again what I was trying to say on Saturday, without the torrent of profanity.

To those on the Right who are saying that Trump is betraying MAGA or controlled by Netanyahu: STFU. The two men have different goals that can be attained by the same means, and more easily with the other's help. Trump's motivations, for his part, are MAGA. Like, maximum MAGA. If it goes to plan, you'll see that when we've popped China's leash so hard they stay at heel for decades.

To those on the Right who are being triumphalist, and spiking the ball: STFU. This has opened up a lot of horrible potentialities, and we are far from achieving the aforementioned goals - don't fool yourselves once again into thinking this is awesome because American forces are demonstrating operational excellence. Achieving the goal will be easier if you don't alienate MAGA people who were against military involvement - I was one of them, of course.

Now is the time for people to be adults, figure out the minimum acceoptable victory condition, and reach it as quickly as possible, not act like children because they didn't get what they want, or did.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (BI5O2)

96 We should definitely put tariffs on every country's goods that put tariffs on ours. The threat of tariffs in the past 50 years has led foreign manufacturers to open factories in the US. Toyota and BMW just to name a couple.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (SHZtS)

97 ASS strikes me as a John Gacy that wears clown makeup and has bodies in his basement crawl space.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (E4rtv)

Making 5 cents a post from the Democratic party...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 11:29 AM (tOcjL)

98 94

Oh yes, she does. American model, of Persian ancestry. Oh, and did I mention her huge cans?
Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

So how huge are they? Dolly Parton huge??

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:29 AM (pDt9x)

99 I doubt cute girl with big boobies is interested in going back to Iran.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2026 11:30 AM (7RYym)

100 So how huge are they? Dolly Parton huge??
Posted by: tubal

Don't know about Dolly, but I think she's huger than Sydney.

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

101 Morrisey implies that Lebanon is finally sick of HizbAllah's shit and ready to kick them to the curb.

Apparently most of the Middle East is formally sick of Iran and their proxies' shit, and that now goes double with Iran trying to blow up every country's airports and military bases. (That and as bin Laden said, they see the strong horse and they're gonna follow it).

Also, WaPo claims Mohammed bin Sultan was a big advocate for the attacks on Iran well before they actually happened.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:31 AM (2ocoG)

102 The covid money I donated to my church. Prolly do same with any tariff lucre.

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:31 AM (pDt9x)

103 Those people oppose Trump's tariffs strictly because they are committed to opposing Trump no matter what. They think nothing of sacrificing the wellbeing of our nation in order to oppose Trump. In fact, destruction is the goal. If it's bad for our survival, they are in favor of it.

They are sick.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at March 02, 2026 11:31 AM (FMtrg)

104 There should be a tariff on poor and old people. Watch both disappear from public view.

Posted by: Gavin Newsome, closeted homosexual at March 02, 2026 11:31 AM (/IU3q)

105
To those on the Right who are saying that Trump is betraying MAGA or controlled by Netanyahu: STFU.

So intelligent people need to STFU.

Got it.

Posted by: We're Screwed at March 02, 2026 11:31 AM (eL223)

106 YD the future is never known b"h but it is now much more likely than before the world will be a better place in a matter of months. Much much better. Take the win.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2026 11:32 AM (RIvkX)

107 Wait.
Aren't we supposed to be talking about EVs?

Posted by: Person who expects Buck to write about EVs at March 02, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

108 Hell, can we get rid of Vermont as well?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 11:23 AM (sKqQm)

Oligachy!!

Posted by: The Honorable Senator from Vermont at March 02, 2026 11:32 AM (XE5AP)

109 American universities have been screwing students for years; start draining their endowments. Harvard and Yale first....

Harvard I'd offer a special deal: produce Obama's transcripts and law school review writings and we'll take less of your money.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:27 AM (2ocoG)
______

They unearthed an (unsigned) case note in the law review that was supposedly written by Obama. IIRC, about whether a fetus could sue the mother for negligence, or something like that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

110 So, what's this I hear about Queer Starmer trying to give Gibraltar back to Spain?
Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

At this point I would heartily approve of King Chuck coming down from his throne and kicking Starmer square in the nuts before throwing his gay ass out of Parliament. Holy shit, this fucking guy...

Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:32 AM (MSvRg)

111 Blonde Morticia, trade barriers and yang poon aside, the tariff system is part of a larger "American System" as set out by Hamilton, which aims to encourage American industries for self reliance and sales overseas, while using the money from the tariffs to create infrastructure development to facilitate more industries and development.

It also has its problems, as we have seen when tariffs become a political football or an oppression on the consumers over the monopolies of the producers (1850s and 1880's)

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:32 AM (rbvCR)

112 This is wonderful, as is the Texas hill country.

Posted by: LASue at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (lCppi)

113 I swear...some of you need to put in closing tags into your nics.

There aren't many programmers on the internet who allow random commenters access to global variables. I, for one, am not about to give up that power!

Posted by: t-bird at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (MKu/Q)

114 OT: Sisu is available on amazon prime, fyi.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (bss/y)

115 I support legally imposed tariffs to level the playing field, however those tariffs would be thought out, reasoned and fair. Trump got pissed off one day and stuck a 125% tariff on China on top of 65% tariffs already in place. This took effect practically overnight on goods that had been bought weeks or months before, so there was no way to cancel. That's real money coming out of the pocket of American businesses, not Chinese.

Posted by: jwest at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (KtqtS)

116 113 This is wonderful, as is the Texas hill country.

Posted by: LASue at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (lCppi)

This is about kolaches, isn’t it?

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (pDt9x)

117 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Cute girls with big boobies at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

118 Tariff dividend checks?

Yea, fuck that. How about a tax holiday for, say the next 250 years since the feds stole every goddamn cent I paid over the last 48 years as a taxpayer.

$2K doesn't come close to what I'm owed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (jtM2q)

119 "America has no foreign policy interest in seeing a less antagonistic Iran, especially in relation to China which receives most of its oil from Iran under sanction," is a real take.

I mean, it's stupid.

But it's a real take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

120 Uhhh...

Joo Icy Tits?

https://www.jooicytitsvodka.com/

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (Kt19C)

121 17 Nick Fuentes threatening to not support the GOP is like Kathleen Kennedy threatening not to make any more good Star Wars movies.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)

A Gay Mexican whose audience is a bunch of Gay Pajeets pretending they're the KKK.

Republicans will surely die without them. /s

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (3wOGw)

122 What is killing the Uni are greed.
H1B students pay full boat.
There are more Asian Women at UT than Whites or Hispanics.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (gbOdA)

123 OT: Sisu is available on amazon prime, fyi.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (bss/y)

What's that? Salt-free soy sauce?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 11:35 AM (8zz6B)

124 To those on the Right who are being triumphalist, and spiking the ball: STFU.

I haven't seen any actual ball spiking. Trump and Hegseth have both been realistic while also making it clear that nobody gives a shit what Bush, Rumsfeld, or Cheney think anymore.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:35 AM (2ocoG)

125 124 OT: Sisu is available on amazon prime, fyi.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2026 11:33 AM (bss/y)

What's that? Salt-free soy sauce?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 11:35 AM (8zz6B)

2023 movie

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (tOcjL)

126 Posted by: 18-1 at March 02, 2026 11:04 AM (sKqQm)

The Left only seems to learn what is convenient to them.

That's why the title "An Inconvenient Truth" was actually very revealing. That is how they look at information.

Posted by: ... at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (6t1NV)

127 Off topic, but I found this yesterday when the dems were spouting off everywhere about Trump's lack of authority to command the military:

From 4/1/2011 --- AUTHORITY TO USE MILITARY FORCE IN LIBYA
The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force in Libya because
he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.
Prior congressional approval was not constitutionally required to use military force in the limited operations under consideration.

MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
This memorandum memorializes advice this Office provided to you, prior to the
commencement of recent United States military operations in Libya, regarding the President’s
legal authority to conduct such operations. For the reasons explained below, we concluded that
the President had the constitutional authority to direct the use of force in Libya because he could
reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest. We also advised that
prior congressional approval was not constitutionally required to use military force in the limited operations under consideration.

Posted by: LASue at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (lCppi)

128 reduce the deficit
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (w/O5Q)

Oh, hay. Buy back the Treasuries from the various countries that the tariffs affected.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (rbvCR)

129 A tariff rebate? Sure, for anyone who pays any income tax.

Posted by: fd - I forgive you for the mistakes I made at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (vFG9F)

130 They are sick.
Posted by: Emmie
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I would say evil because they know full well that power to them and their party is more important than their own country do well.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (E4rtv)

131
PRESIDENT TRUMP —
‘The replacement is not going to be anybody that we were thinking of, because the replacements are all dead.’
Posted by: r hennigantx

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And lefties are interpreting this as "Oh no! We planned to make this guy the leader, but we accidentally shot him so now we don't have a plan!"

They can't human.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (Keihy)

132 That's real money coming out of the pocket of American businesses, not Chinese.

American businesses hate America more than most Democrats at this point. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (2ocoG)

133 Nick Fuentes threatening to not support the GOP is like Kathleen Kennedy threatening not to make any more good Star Wars movies.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)

A Gay Mexican whose audience is a bunch of Gay Pajeets pretending they're the KKK.

Republicans will surely die without them. /s
Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (3wOGw)

I thought he was Puerto Rican?

Fuck him either way.

Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:37 AM (MSvRg)

134 I haven't seen any actual ball spiking. Trump and Hegseth have both been realistic while also making it clear that nobody gives a shit what Bush, Rumsfeld, or Cheney think anymore.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:35 AM (2ocoG)

I agree... Trump spoke yesterday and honestly said the deaths were tragic and they will do everything they can to avoid them but we should be prepared for more.. I appreciated his honesty

Posted by: It's me donna at March 02, 2026 11:37 AM (a7sNn)

135 134 I thought he was Puerto Rican?

Fuck him either way.

Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:37 AM (MSvRg)

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He's a gay, Democrat, Kamala voter who praised Stalin.

We have to court his vote because he has 5 million podcast subscribers (most of whom are foreign).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

136 Making 5 cents a post from the Democratic party...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 11:29 AM (tOcjL)
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Sure beats the wooden nickels he gets for sucking dicks at the local glory hole

Posted by: ballistic at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM (5aZAZ)

137 99 94

Oh yes, she does. American model, of Persian ancestry. Oh, and did I mention her huge cans?
Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

So how huge are they? Dolly Parton huge??

oh. i was thinking #10 cans full of dehydrated vegetables.

Posted by: anachronda at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM (oY6Yp)

138 96 Now is the time for people to be adults, figure out the minimum acceoptable victory condition, and reach it as quickly as possible, not act like children because they didn't get what they want, or did.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 11:28 AM (BI5O2)

Iran is getting all the attention, for obvious reasons, but what's going on with the Cartels in Mexico? It'd be nice if we could leave China with less people to distribute their Fentanyl.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM (3wOGw)

139 SCOTUS knocked down tariffs, while at the same time green lighting ongoing immigration enforcement.

They shut down tariffs. But they did not shut down deportees...

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes "R" Us at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM (qgHp7)

140
UK Guardian, Three US fighter jets mistakenly shot down over Kuwait
All six crew members ejected safely in apparent ‘friendly fire’ as Kuwait launches investigation into incident

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 02, 2026 11:39 AM (NFX2v)

141 Hey TJM, my wife and I watched Stan & Ollie yesterday. Really good movie. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

142 Without the SAVE Act passing, none of this will matter.

Posted by: Crusader at March 02, 2026 11:39 AM (TN0g+)

143 129 reduce the deficit
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 02, 2026 11:20 AM (w/O5Q)

Oh, hay.

alfalfa subsidies?

Posted by: anachronda at March 02, 2026 11:39 AM (oY6Yp)

144 We also advised that
prior congressional approval was not constitutionally required to use military force in the limited operations under consideration.
Posted by: LASue

Leftists and fake woke Right both lie about military actions--War Powers Resolution allows the president to use troops up to sixty days without Congressional approval. Trump has already met the notification standard with the Gang of 8 notification shortly before our attacks kicked off.

In reality, if War was declared, president would have all sorts of powers under various statutes up to and including censoring media, massive leap in requiring corporations produce or not produce certain goods, deportation of Alien Enemies without judicial review, and more. Even wage and price controls.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)

145 We have to court his vote because he has 5 million podcast subscribers (most of whom are foreign).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

And the ones who aren't foreigners are bots.

Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:39 AM (MSvRg)

146 What is this 'road rage' incident on the DC beltway?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (2GVsD)

147 140 SCOTUS knocked down tariffs, while at the same time green lighting ongoing immigration enforcement.

They shut down tariffs. But they did not shut down deportees...

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes "R" Us at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM (qgHp7)

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They shut down one band of tariffs under one authority. And Trump immediately reimposed those tariffs under another authority.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

148 Nick Fuentes threatening to not support the GOP is like Kathleen Kennedy threatening not to make any more good Star Wars movies.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)

A Gay Mexican whose audience is a bunch of Gay Pajeets pretending they're the KKK.

Republicans will surely die without them. /s
Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:34 AM (3wOGw)

I thought he was Puerto Rican?

Fuck him either way.
Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:37 AM (MSvRg)
________

He's like 1/4 Mexican at best. He's basically a leftwing gay white boy cosplaying as some badass conservative.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

149 139

Iran is getting all the attention, for obvious reasons, but what's going on with the Cartels in Mexico? It'd be nice if we could leave China with less people to distribute their Fentanyl.
Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM (3wOGw)

While EVERYONE was looking Over THERE, over HERE

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (pDt9x)

150 142 Hey TJM, my wife and I watched Stan & Ollie yesterday. Really good movie. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

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I done did see it, too. It's pretty good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

151 Tariff dividend checks?

Yea, fuck that. How about a tax holiday for, say the next 250 years since the feds stole every goddamn cent I paid over the last 48 years as a taxpayer.

$2K doesn't come close to what I'm owed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Fist bump

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 11:41 AM (rR3v+)

152 Like Travis and Bonham, I came from South Carolina to Texas to make my last stand.

Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 11:41 AM (sH4Bk)

153 Someone hopped out of a car and got all stabby, killed a woman and a dog and then the cops shot the stabber.

Posted by: ballistic at March 02, 2026 11:41 AM (5aZAZ)

154 Tara Yazdi. Poor thing. Her back must be killing her.
Come, let me massage you all better.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 02, 2026 11:41 AM (RhXby)

155 The hundreds of billions being invested in the United States will create high paying jobs, which will then circulate money and prosperity throughout those communities.

And the response will be "But that's not a living wage!"

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 11:42 AM (OPGS/)

156 137 Making 5 cents a post from the Democratic party...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 11:29 AM (tOcjL)
----
Sure beats the wooden nickels he gets for sucking dicks at the local glory hole
Posted by: ballistic
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Unfortunately for him, the posts were 5 Iranian rials per post, not a US nickel. Right now, the exchange rate is 1.00 USD = 1,315,592.46 IRR

He shoulda read the contract.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:42 AM (E4rtv)

157 120
‘America has no foreign policy interest in seeing a less antagonistic Iran’

That’s not my take. Regime change in Iran is a ‘nice to have’. Beating the ‘Rats in this country? Central. Fundamental to our future. To the degree Iran helps with that, fine.
To the degree Iran hurts that, it was a mistake.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 02, 2026 11:42 AM (jbnUc)

158 149 He's like 1/4 Mexican at best. He's basically a leftwing gay white boy cosplaying as some badass conservative.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

========

"America First means voting for Democrats."

He's not cosplaying as a conservative. He's not even trying to cosplay as a conservative.

The left calls him conservative and then stupid people on the right are all, "Oh, my gosh! Partisanship demands I defend this gay bigot who loves Stalin!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

159 I would say evil because they know full well that power to them and their party is more important than their own country do well.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:36 AM (E4rtv)

How about sick with evilness?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at March 02, 2026 11:42 AM (FMtrg)

160 So, what's this I hear about Queer Starmer trying to give Gibraltar back to Spain?
Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

Has he proposed giving the UK back to France yet?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (ExV1e)

161 Some more relevant discussion of the CIC's power per Obama's AG in April 2011:
This understanding of the President’s constitutional authority reflects not only the express assignment of powers and responsibilities to the President and Congress in the Constitution, but also, as noted, the “historical gloss” placed on the Constitution by two centuries of practice. Garamendi, 539 U.S. at 414. “Our history,” this Office observed in 1980, “is replete with instances of presidential uses of military force abroad in the absence of prior congressional approval.” Presidential Power, 4A Op. O.L.C. at 187; ...to give just a few examples, bombing in Libya (1986), an intervention in Panama (1989), troop deployments to Somalia (1992), Bosnia (1995), and Haiti (twice, 1994 and 2004),air patrols and airstrikes in Bosnia (1993-1995), and a bombing campaign in Yugoslavia (1999), without specific prior authorizing legislation.

Posted by: LASue at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (lCppi)

162 Kuwait shot down three of our F-15s. Our boys are okay. Is that a first? One F-15 would be lucky but three? Goddamn, the Kuwaiti's suddenly got real good.

https://tinyurl.com/3mpba434

NY Post: Kuwait ‘mistakenly’ shot down three $31M US fighter jets, all crew safely ejected: military

Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (MSvRg)

163 A Gay Mexican whose audience is a bunch of Gay Pajeets

What's the equivalent to "show bobs and vagene" for gay pajeets?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (2ocoG)

164 158 120
‘America has no foreign policy interest in seeing a less antagonistic Iran’

That’s not my take. Regime change in Iran is a ‘nice to have’. Beating the ‘Rats in this country? Central. Fundamental to our future. To the degree Iran helps with that, fine.
To the degree Iran hurts that, it was a mistake.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 02, 2026 11:42 AM (jbnUc)

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"The president, whose job is mostly foreign policy, must push foreign policy aside until utopia has been achieved in America."

It's true. The DOJ's efforts to clean voter rolls just completely stopped the moment Trump entered meetings about Iran.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

165 He's like 1/4 Mexican at best. He's basically a leftwing gay white boy cosplaying as some badass conservative.
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He's demonstrating how the "so far right he sounds left" (or vice versa) works. It isn't real, he never left the other team, he's just trying to sound like the left's caricature of the right.

Posted by: Methos at March 02, 2026 11:44 AM (vSvIl)

166 163 Kuwait shot down three of our F-15s. Our boys are okay. Is that a first? One F-15 would be lucky but three? Goddamn, the Kuwaiti's suddenly got real good.

https://tinyurl.com/3mpba434

NY Post: Kuwait ‘mistakenly’ shot down three $31M US fighter jets, all crew safely ejected: military
Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (MSvRg)

Unfriendly fire?

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:44 AM (pDt9x)

167 Iran is getting all the attention, for obvious reasons, but what's going on with the Cartels in Mexico? It'd be nice if we could leave China with less people to distribute their Fentanyl.
Posted by: XTC

FWIW, Iran has one of its largest western hemisphere embassies in Mexico City and they do coordinate with the cartels including the reputed Jalisco cartel apparently up for carrying out Iranian dirty work in the US for money. That is what triggered the Trump admin supposedly to go after their head honcho last week.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)

168 149 He's like 1/4 Mexican at best. He's basically a leftwing gay white boy cosplaying as some badass conservative.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

Point being, you can't really present yourself as the heir to the White Supremacy Throne when you've got Aztec Head-Chopper in your blood.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:44 AM (3wOGw)

169 Kuwait shot down three of our F-15s. Our boys are okay. Is that a first? One F-15 would be lucky but three? Goddamn, the Kuwaiti's suddenly got real good.

Arabs can't aim worth shit. The Palestinians have been demonstrating that for decades.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:44 AM (2ocoG)

170 What is this 'road rage' incident on the DC beltway?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (2GVsD)

Man stabbed a woman and her dog after a car accident. They're not giving the name of the stabber which seems rather significant.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2026 11:44 AM (7RYym)

171 If Kier gives back Gibraltar, then the Falklands and South Georgia should go to Argentina.

Al-Reuters is reporting Spain has forbidden the use of US bases in their country for operations against Iran.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:45 AM (2GVsD)

172 He's like 1/4 Mexican at best. He's basically a leftwing gay white boy cosplaying as some badass conservative.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

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"America First means voting for Democrats."

He's not cosplaying as a conservative. He's not even trying to cosplay as a conservative.

The left calls him conservative and then stupid people on the right are all, "Oh, my gosh! Partisanship demands I defend this gay bigot who loves Stalin!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
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He is indeed cosplaying as a conservative, or at least as someone on the right. It isn't all just media invention.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

173
I haven't seen any actual ball spiking. Trump and Hegseth have both been realistic while also making it clear that nobody gives a shit what Bush, Rumsfeld, or Cheney think anymore.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:35 AM (2ocoG)

Not much of it here, or much of the Trumpstein, End of MAGA rhetoric, either.

I meant the Right at large.

A lot of people are acting like total fools.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)

174 He's demonstrating how the "so far right he sounds left" (or vice versa) works. It isn't real, he never left the other team, he's just trying to sound like the left's caricature of the right.
Posted by: Methos
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Ah, just like Colbert was on the Daily Show. Except as entertaining as videos of his blowjobs on Destiny.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:45 AM (E4rtv)

175 And the police are also saying that it was terror related, but I don't know that I trust that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (7RYym)

176 hey now

we are running out of virgins

Posted by: Paradice HQ at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (gbOdA)

177 As far as the state of Texas is concerned I'm not from there but I was raised there. It was a good place to live. Spent 20 something years in the state. People were friendly and there were all kinds of people from all over the country. Many people from different countries. Really was a good place to grow up. Low taxes and plenty of jobs. Had good schools. But of course those were different times than what we have now. It just seems like people were not so divided then. People showed more respect for each other.

Posted by: Case at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (Z3Kkg)

178 nobody gives a shit what Bush, Rumsfeld, or Cheney think anymore.
Posted by: Ian S.

Well, Rumsfeld and Cheney are dead, so...

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ)

179 *waves to Robert*

Friendly fire never is. Just ask the F-18F crew shot down by an Aegis cruiser.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (2GVsD)

180 173
He is indeed cosplaying as a conservative, or at least as someone on the right. It isn't all just media invention.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

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He doesn't advocate for anything conservative. He shits on Republicans constantly. He tells his listeners to vote Democrat.

It's all media invention.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

181 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (7RYym)

Meant saying it was NOT terror related.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (7RYym)

182 163 Kuwait shot down three of our F-15s. Our boys are okay. Is that a first? One F-15 would be lucky but three? Goddamn, the Kuwaiti's suddenly got real good.

https://tinyurl.com/3mpba434

NY Post: Kuwait ‘mistakenly’ shot down three $31M US fighter jets, all crew safely ejected: military
Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (MSvRg)
Send them a bill. They got that kind of money in the mattress.

Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (sH4Bk)

183 They shut down tariffs. But they did not shut down deportees...

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes "R" Us at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 02, 2026 11:47 AM (bFu5X)

184 SCOTUS knocked down tariffs, while at the same time green lighting ongoing immigration enforcement.

They shut down tariffs. But they did not shut down deportees...
Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes "R" Us at March 02, 2026 11:38 AM (qgHp7)

Importantly, they shut down tariffs based on the rationale that Trump used for this case. Trump has already said that that they'll use a different rationale and, I believe, they have several. Unless SCOTUS moves forward and says that the President cannot impose tariffs no matter what laws have been passed and previously determined to be okay, tariffs are here for at least as long as Trump is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

185 154 Someone hopped out of a car and got all stabby, killed a woman and a dog and then the cops shot the stabber.
Posted by: ballistic at March 02, 2026 11:41 AM (5aZAZ)

I heard it was road rage or continued domestic...either way, cop did the job correctly. No perp to prosecute in an area that might not bother...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 11:47 AM (tOcjL)

186 Also, I see that the market has collapsed almost a tenth of a point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

187 They're not giving the name of the stabber which seems rather significant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Oh look! I'm observing a pattern. It's almost as if the media thinks that hiding the information will make us not make assumptions.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 11:48 AM (OPGS/)

188 Isn't Marco the new Shah of Iran by now? He needs a few more jobs to add to his portfolio. The Marco has another job memes just crack me up....

Let's make him chief tariffs collector as well

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 11:48 AM (xT8gx)

189 I received a payment yesterday from a class action settlement for $5.5 billion from Visa and Mastercard, due to them ripping off merchants with excessive fees from 2004 to 2019. Of course, this group would rather have that money distributed to everyone who ever used a credit card instead of the people who actually paid the money.

Posted by: jwest at March 02, 2026 11:48 AM (KtqtS)

190 Yea, fuck that. How about a tax holiday for, say the next 250 years since the feds stole every goddamn cent I paid over the last 48 years as a taxpayer.

$2K doesn't come close to what I'm owed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

They stole every cent while doubling your tab.

Posted by: t-bird at March 02, 2026 11:48 AM (MKu/Q)

191 What I want out of the Iranian operation is a complete destruction of their military capbilities, a slaughter of the oppressive regime in power and as many of their minions as possible by air and naval power. And then, let the chips fall where they may, internally in Iran. That’s it.

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (pDt9x)

192 NY Post: Kuwait ‘mistakenly’ shot down three $31M US fighter jets, all crew safely ejected: military
Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (MSvRg)
Send them a bill. They got that kind of money in the mattress.
Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (sH4Bk)

Make the check out to Bill Balls Donald.

Posted by: Roy at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (qwype)

193 I meant the Right at large.

A lot of people are acting like total fools.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Don't really see that on X or in real life. It is more that other than young people that didn't learn history in school, that people are saying finally those assholes are getting payback for murdering Americans for nearly 50 years. And worry/prayers about the US troops. Especially Gen X who grew up with America Held Hostage and flaccid Jimmy Carter in a damn sweater.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

194 Maybe Starmer could give Gibraltar to the Palis. They can have a homeland.

Posted by: Wally at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (5JDxA)

195 He is indeed cosplaying as a conservative, or at least as someone on the right. It isn't all just media invention.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

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He doesn't advocate for anything conservative. He shits on Republicans constantly. He tells his listeners to vote Democrat.

It's all media invention.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
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Nah. He packages it as wanting to move conservatives and the GOP further to the right. I mean, he talked about it all the time, it was sorta like his entire brand.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

196 A lot of people are acting like total fools.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)

You just provided a nice, brief and accurate description of the history of mankind.... pithy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (xT8gx)

197 I received a payment yesterday from a class action settlement for $5.5 billion from Visa and Mastercard
Posted by: jwest

How much did you get?

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

198 "Authorities on Monday morning identified the suspect as 32-year-old Jared Llamado of McLean. State police identified the woman killed in the stabbing as 39-year-old Michelle Adams and the injured victims as 36-year-old Dana Bonnell, 37-year-old Mary C. Flood and 40-year-old Heather Miller. All were hospitalized with serious injuries."

https://www.insidenova.com/ headlines/updated-state-police-identify- suspect-victims-in-beltway-road-rage-stabbing/ article_3dcbd264-d48c-4370-b71c-acbaa42bb78d.html

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 11:50 AM (tOcjL)

199 *Waves back at Anna*

Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:50 AM (MSvRg)

200 192 What I want out of the Iranian operation is a complete destruction of their military capbilities, a slaughter of the oppressive regime in power and as many of their minions as possible by air and naval power. And then, let the chips fall where they may, internally in Iran. That’s it.
Posted by: tubal
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I think that is going to be a given along probably with unconditional surrender.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)

201 198 I received a payment yesterday from a class action settlement for $5.5 billion from Visa and Mastercard
Posted by: jwest

How much did you get?

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

Three-fitty.

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 11:51 AM (pDt9x)

202 Companies, large and small, stole a lot of PPP funds.I'd be very careful about issuing refund. Are there not records that source the tariff funds?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 02, 2026 11:51 AM (G0rhW)

203 Vote for secession was as much or more against the Federal government's over reach as it was for slavery. The late 1950s over push for civil rights - which were happening and were going to happen naturally - were adulterated by negative interests. So was the push by the Federal government in the 1850s. They may not be parallel but they rhyme.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 11:51 AM (/LXUT)

204 I swear...some of you need to put in closing tags into your nics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
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Did you support mandatory seatbelt laws?

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These interactions explain why I consider this community my peeps. 🙂

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 11:51 AM (RkOfE)

205 >>>Arabs can't aim worth shit.

Did pretty well aiming those 757s

Posted by: one hour sober at March 02, 2026 11:51 AM (Y1sOo)

206 They stole every cent while doubling your tab.
Posted by: t-bird at March 02, 2026 11:48 AM (MKu/Q)

According to Bobby Kennedy Jr, one of Cuba's biggest source of income is durable medical device fraud on Medicare out of Florida.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:52 AM (rbvCR)

207 So the stabber wasn't a terrorist or a troon. Now waiting for his toxicology report.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 11:52 AM (OPGS/)

208 Just a preliminary payment in the hundreds right now. None of us know what we'll end up with.

https://www.paymentcardsettlement.com/en

Posted by: jwest at March 02, 2026 11:52 AM (KtqtS)

209 I received a payment yesterday from a class action settlement for $5.5 billion from Visa and Mastercard
Posted by: jwest

How much did you get?

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)
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$5.5 billion, obviously

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

210
Road rage stabbing on DC beltway:

https://tinyurl.com/4me2xft8

Posted by: Police suspect fair play at March 02, 2026 11:52 AM (2Ez/1)

211 Nah. He packages it as wanting to move conservatives and the GOP further to the right. I mean, he talked about it all the time, it was sorta like his entire brand.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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His supposed idea to move the party to the right is to vote Democrat in 2024 and just now also in 2026. He also likes to watch gay pron and give blowjobs to his buddy Destiny.

Makes Baldrick's cunning plans look genius.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)

212 NY Post: Kuwait ‘mistakenly’ shot down three $31M US fighter jets, all crew safely ejected: military
Posted by: Robert at March 02, 2026 11:43 AM (MSvRg)
Send them a bill. They got that kind of money in the mattress.
Posted by: Eromero at March 02, 2026 11:46 AM (sH4Bk)

This will take some investigation to figure out what happened. I am guessing the Kuwaiti anti-aircraft missiles are U.S.-made, and set up by U.S. techs? And somehow the radars saw the 3 F-15's amd locked on, and missiles were launched?

Now isn't there supposed to be IFF in the mix there, too? I'm wondering if maybe the F-15's had been spoofing Iranian aircraft, in order to deceive iranian air defence, and forget to turn the spoofing off when returning to "friendly" airspace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 11:53 AM (8zz6B)

213 213
This will take some investigation to figure out what happened. I am guessing the Kuwaiti anti-aircraft missiles are U.S.-made, and set up by U.S. techs? And somehow the radars saw the 3 F-15's amd locked on, and missiles were launched?

Now isn't there supposed to be IFF in the mix there, too? I'm wondering if maybe the F-15's had been spoofing Iranian aircraft, in order to deceive iranian air defence, and forget to turn the spoofing off when returning to "friendly" airspace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 11:53 AM (8zz6B)

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All I know is that the people demanding we make the USS Liberty central to our Middle East policy postures will demand the same thing of this friendly fire incident.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

214 Oh! And, abolish income tax!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 11:54 AM (RkOfE)

215 208 So the stabber wasn't a terrorist or a troon. Now waiting for his toxicology report.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 02, 2026 11:52 AM (OPGS/)

No, doesn't seem so...one of the women stabbed tried to stop the stabbing, so not sure how many women started in the car that was attacked and how many tried to stop it. Sad it took a cop to end it and no guys got out to end it.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 11:54 AM (tOcjL)

216 Map is a bit flawed racially too. No county more German in Texas than Austin county and its in the green. Suspect other county counts also flawed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 11:54 AM (/LXUT)

217 Kuwait ‘mistakenly’ shot down three $31M US fighter jets...

Well, we did deliver two Patriot anti-air missile systems to them some time ago. If that's what took down 3 of our 4th generation F-15E's then.... that's one thing.

If those F-15's were downed by HAWK anti-air systems, an older, less capable system than the Patriot then.... that's something else.

Both are used by Kuwait.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 11:54 AM (jtM2q)

218
Don't really see that on X or in real life.

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Oh, I've seen a whole, whole lot of X crap like "Trumpstein betrayed MAGA," and "so and so didn't support military action, and now look, he's an anti-Semite calling Trump Trumpstein," as if that's more than a sliver of anti-war Trump supporters.

This is counterproductive. Americans are under fire and dying. I don't want to hear anyone talking about any topic besides "how do we win at the lowest cost and nearest term." Not why I'm right and you're wrong. Just winning.

It's like people can't figure out there's a damned war on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 11:54 AM (BI5O2)

219 Ugly Chinese hags csn no longer use filters.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 02, 2026 11:54 AM (Np3bf)

220 Oh look! I'm observing a pattern. It's almost as if the media thinks that hiding the information will make us not make assumptions.

A *lot* of people, especially those on the older side, still believe that if something isn't in the MSM it didn't happen. This comes up a lot when people start wailing that Trump isn't doing anything or that ICE has stopped deporting people. Neither of those things are true, it's just the MSM isn't saying anything unless there's an obvious DNC win angle, like when Boasberg pops up.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:55 AM (2ocoG)

221 They shut down one band of tariffs under one authority. And Trump immediately reimposed those tariffs under another authority.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*********

You didn't get it.

Maybe I should have used a Bob Marley sock.

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 11:55 AM (qgHp7)

222 Nah. He packages it as wanting to move conservatives and the GOP further to the right. I mean, he talked about it all the time, it was sorta like his entire brand.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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His supposed idea to move the party to the right is to vote Democrat in 2024 and just now also in 2026. He also likes to watch gay pron and give blowjobs to his buddy Destiny.

Makes Baldrick's cunning plans look genius.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)
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Well, yea. My point wasn't that he's actually moving anything to the right. My point was that he is cosplaying as someone on the right.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

223 Qatar apparently shot down two Iranian fighter jets.

Also, Tucker hasn't said anything publicly since the start of the strikes, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

224 I think that is going to be a given along probably with unconditional surrender.
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I don't think they're inclined yet, but I also think we might be killing their leaders and replacement leaders too quickly for anyone in charge to issue a surrender.

Posted by: Methos at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (vSvIl)

225
Jared Llamado brought a knife to a state trooper gun fight.

Posted by: FAFO at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (2Ez/1)

226 AoP

Assuming the F-15Es had their IFF turned back on after combat ops. Granted three at once is weird and improbable.

Assuming their Mode 4 worked, again three at once unlikely.

Or simply like the idiots in the Stennis battle group shooting an F-18F down and almost bagging two more Hornets. It was all a communications breakdown and loss of situational awareness on the air defense people.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (2GVsD)

227 171 What is this 'road rage' incident on the DC beltway?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (2GVsD)

Man stabbed a woman and her dog after a car accident. They're not giving the name of the stabber which seems rather significant.
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Stabby Stabber Guy.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pZ64F)

228 I think that is going to be a given along probably with unconditional surrender.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)

In the Philippine insurrection against Spain, the Spanish troops fortified a church in the town of Baler, and held out against the siege by Pilipino rebels until the Americans came and relieved them the year after the end of the Span-Am war.

Brave and resolute men, but I expect the last Iranian resistance to be something like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:57 AM (rbvCR)

229 After seeing what happened with the stimulus checks during Covid, I'm really against anything that gets near that again.

It becomes an entitlement people expect then and then they stupidly spend it. It really did fuel inflation.

I'm fine with way to give it back to citizens instead of companies, but not rebate checks.

Posted by: Leupold at March 02, 2026 11:57 AM (Kxbnm)

230 204 Vote for secession was as much or more against the Federal government's over reach as it was for slavery. The late 1950s over push for civil rights - which were happening and were going to happen naturally - were adulterated by negative interests. So was the push by the Federal government in the 1850s. They may not be parallel but they rhyme.

Posted by: Braenyard

In a depressing project, I read all the state's secession debates which are out there if you want to read them. It was not tariffs in 1860, it was slavery and the fact that Dred Scott in 1857 promised the South that slavery would be allowed nationwide. There was also fear that Lincoln would free the blacks.

Expansion of slavery was a big economic deal as the eastern states in the South had fields that were played out so like Jefferson and Madison, selling slaves was about the only way to make those plantations profitable.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:57 AM (E4rtv)

231 Maybe Tucker should consider stepping in for the Ayatollah.

All he needs is the turban. And a beard.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 11:58 AM (jtM2q)

232 210 $5.5 billion, obviously
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

It's jwest, it might legitimately be all 5.5 Billion.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:58 AM (3wOGw)

233 222 They shut down one band of tariffs under one authority. And Trump immediately reimposed those tariffs under another authority.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*********

You didn't get it.

Maybe I should have used a Bob Marley sock.

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 11:55 AM (qgHp7)

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It's not like I'd be able to read it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

234 Jared Llamado was the stabber's name.

Posted by: Was. Past tense at March 02, 2026 11:59 AM (2Ez/1)

235 A *lot* of people, especially those on the older side, still believe that if something isn't in the MSM it didn't happen. This comes up a lot when people start wailing that Trump isn't doing anything or that ICE has stopped deporting people. Neither of those things are true, it's just the MSM isn't saying anything unless there's an obvious DNC win angle, like when Boasberg pops up.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 11:55 AM (2ocoG)

A lot of people will have sources that they trust, people on X, podcasters, whatever, and they will uncritically accept whatever those people say. So, if podcaster Boo7 has an axe to grind about a specific thing and goes off saying that Trump is betraying MAGA because x, y, or z... well, they'll start saying that too.

We see it here from time to time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 11:59 AM (ExV1e)

236 So the DC stabber was a Llama?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:59 AM (2GVsD)

237 229

In the Philippine insurrection against Spain, the Spanish troops fortified a church in the town of Baler, and held out against the siege by Pilipino rebels until the Americans came and relieved them the year after the end of the Span-Am war.

Brave and resolute men, but I expect the last Iranian resistance to be something like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 11:57 AM (rbvCR)

Fine, as long as WE are not the ones going house to house killing off the holdouts. None of that stuff. That is how Mission Creep happens.

Posted by: tubal at March 02, 2026 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

238 I don't think they're inclined yet, but I also think we might be killing their leaders and replacement leaders too quickly for anyone in charge to issue a surrender.
Posted by: Methos

I think that is the plan while the minions get pasted as part of the stated US-Israeli warplans is to destroy the Basiji and the IRGC compounds, munitions dumps, and personnel while targeting them for psyops.

Israel has thoroughly penetrated the IRGC to the extent of controlling apps and TV to directly send messages to specific IRGC commanders.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)

239 212 His supposed idea to move the party to the right is to vote Democrat in 2024 and just now also in 2026. He also likes to watch gay pron and give blowjobs to his buddy Destiny.

Makes Baldrick's cunning plans look genius.
Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)

And if he blew Destiny, he probably blew "Turkey" Tom Hanson, too.

Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 12:00 PM (3wOGw)

240 What is this 'road rage' incident on the DC beltway?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 02, 2026 11:40 AM (2GVsD)

Man stabbed a woman and her dog after a car accident. They're not giving the name of the stabber which seems rather significant.
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Stabby Stabber Guy.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pZ64F)
_________

Jared Llamado

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 02, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

241
Ugly Chinese hags csn no longer use filters.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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Is China banning filters on TikTok?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 02, 2026 12:00 PM (Keihy)

242 TJM finding out Kurosawa needed a few history lessons on firearms

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2026 12:00 PM (EtnSa)

243 I received a payment yesterday from a class action settlement for $5.5 billion from Visa and Mastercard, due to them ripping off merchants with excessive fees from 2004 to 2019. Of course, this group would rather have that money distributed to everyone who ever used a credit card instead of the people who actually paid the money.

Posted by: jwest

How much does one have to spend on a credit card to receive $5.5 billion in a settlement?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 02, 2026 12:01 PM (0U5gm)

244 I'm fine with way to give it back to citizens instead of companies, but not rebate checks.
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Then make it a deduction against taxpayers Income Tax. This lowers taxpayer costs and ignores the grifters and allows the money to fund the Feds as per the Constitution.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 02, 2026 12:01 PM (pZ64F)

245 244 TJM finding out Kurosawa needed a few history lessons on firearms

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2026 12:00 PM (EtnSa)

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Well, he's dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

246 Iraqis attacking embassy in support of Iran
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Pakistanis, too.

It didn't go well for them.

We might want to think about deploying the Marines to protect ICE.

Posted by: Methos at March 02, 2026 12:01 PM (vSvIl)

247
They shut down tariffs. But they did not shut down deportees...
Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes "R" Us

Nice! 😁

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 12:01 PM (RkOfE)

248 236 Jared Llamado was the stabber's name.
Posted by: Was. Past tense at March 02, 2026 11:59 AM (2Ez/1)

Interesting that this name works for the US State Department, though. If it's him, still think road rage, though...especially if he had to work the weekend...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 12:02 PM (tOcjL)

249 248 Iraqis attacking embassy in support of Iran
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Pakistanis, too.

It didn't go well for them.

We might want to think about deploying the Marines to protect ICE.

Posted by: Methos at March 02, 2026 12:01 PM (vSvIl)

===

"Abdul got killed running through the gates of the US embassy, and all we managed to do was bend the gate a bit. Wanna try again?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

250 Stabby Stabber Guy.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pZ64F)
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Jared Llamado
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This sounds like a Clown Name.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 02, 2026 12:02 PM (pZ64F)

251 164 A Gay Mexican whose audience is a bunch of Gay Pajeets

What's the equivalent to "show bobs and vagene" for gay pajeets?
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Apparently James O'Keefe

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 12:02 PM (RkOfE)

252 In a depressing project, I read all the state's secession debates which are out there if you want to read them. It was not tariffs in 1860, it was slavery and the fact that Dred Scott in 1857 promised the South that slavery would be allowed nationwide. There was also fear that Lincoln would free the blacks.

Don't bother. Those who are convinced the South was peopled by a bunch of Constitutionalists who only wanted to be Constitutional cannot be persuaded otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 02, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

253 I did put in the past tense

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2026 12:03 PM (EtnSa)

254 Well, yea. My point wasn't that he's actually moving anything to the right. My point was that he is cosplaying as someone on the right.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

I think Fuentes got confused by the DC GOP that sucking dick, being treacherous to Trump and the right, and mouthing platitudes WAS conservative in a Mitch McConnell sort of way.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)

255 254
Don't bother. Those who are convinced the South was peopled by a bunch of Constitutionalists who only wanted to be Constitutional cannot be persuaded otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 02, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

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The Confederacy never did anything bad in terms of monetary policy, either!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

256 Be interesting to see that if with all the new technologies and tactics whether you can get an unconditional surrender without significant boots on the ground.

Basically no bunker is too deep, and all your coms are 100% compromised by electronic surveillance or mossad assets on the ground. The IRG will likely be pulped to the last man by drones if they dont surrender.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 02, 2026 12:04 PM (i0Hi3)

257 They shut down tariffs. But they did not shut down deportees...
Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes "R" Us

Nice! 😁
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

I finally got Muldoon's joke. I'm a little on the slow side today.

Posted by: Bulg at March 02, 2026 12:04 PM (77rzZ)

258 They are bsnning filters everywhere in China. They did it live exposing a lot of haggard old streamers at once.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 02, 2026 12:04 PM (Np3bf)

259
Harvard I'd offer a special deal: produce Obama's transcripts and law school review writings and we'll take less of your money.
Posted by: Ian S.
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No deals with crooks. It's time to get straight and pay up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 12:05 PM (/LXUT)

260 > I received a payment yesterday from a class action settlement for $5.5 billion from Visa and Mastercard, due to them ripping off merchants with excessive fees from 2004 to 2019.
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We got a notice regarding a data breach at Norton Healthcare that happened years ago. Some number of millions of dollars set aside for settlement.

My cut, if I "opt in?" $5

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 12:05 PM (jtM2q)

261 Jared Llamado was the stabber's name.
Posted by: Was. Past tense at March 02, 2026 11:59 AM (2Ez/1)

"Llamado" literally means "named".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 02, 2026 12:05 PM (8zz6B)

262 They're not giving the name of the stabber which seems rather significant.

********

They HAVE released a partial description.

"...he has such teeth, dear. And he shows them pearly white...":

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 12:05 PM (qgHp7)

263 What's the equivalent to "show bobs and vagene" for gay pajeets?
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Apparently James O'Keefe
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 12:02 PM (RkOfE)

Thanks, now there's coffee all over my desk.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 02, 2026 12:06 PM (2ocoG)

264 Nood. Something about Iranians.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2026 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

265 Jared Llamado was the stabber's name.
Posted by: Was. Past tense at March 02, 2026 11:59 AM (2Ez/1)

"Llamado" literally means "named".

I think I once had a Llamado in a Bloody Mary.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 02, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)

266 Don't bother. Those who are convinced the South was peopled by a bunch of Constitutionalists who only wanted to be Constitutional cannot be persuaded otherwise.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I know and yet I persist. I can actually say that I've read and seen the first Constitution of the Confederacy as it was part of the research project regarding state constitutions and state bills of rights/state court cases on rights.

Also have a copy of the legal treatise by TRR Cobb about slavery that was published just before the Civil War.

My conclusion, they shoulda picked their own damn cotton from teh get go.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)

267 260 They are bsnning filters everywhere in China. They did it live exposing a lot of haggard old streamers at once.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 02, 2026 12:04 PM (Np3bf)

Wow.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 02, 2026 12:06 PM (i0Hi3)

268 They are bsnning filters everywhere in China. They did it live exposing a lot of haggard old streamers at once.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 02, 2026 12:04 PM

Chinese dating apps hardest hit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 02, 2026 12:06 PM (bFu5X)

269 Looked up the State Department Jared on LinkedIn- damn, the age is EXACTLY right...it might be him.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 02, 2026 12:07 PM (tOcjL)

270
I think Fuentes ...WAS conservative in a Mitch McConnell sort of way.
Posted by: whig
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Which is a treacherous, traitor in a backstabbing kind of way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 02, 2026 12:08 PM (/LXUT)

271 256
‘ sucking dick, being treacherous to Trump and the right, and mouthing platitudes WAS conservative in a Mitch McConnell’

When you put it that way, it’s an understandable mistake on their part.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 02, 2026 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

272 232 Maybe Tucker should consider stepping in for the Ayatollah.

All he needs is the turban. And a beard.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2026 11:58 AM (jtM2q)

And work on his avuncularism

Posted by: Paradice HQ at March 02, 2026 12:09 PM (gbOdA)

273 Jared Llamado was the stabber's name.

**********

Sounds like the opening line of a Townes Van Zandt ballad sung by Willie Nelson.

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 12:11 PM (qgHp7)

274 "Abdul got killed running through the gates of the US embassy, and all we managed to do was bend the gate a bit. Wanna try again?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 02, 2026 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

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Bruce Springsteen and Bono will write a song about brave Abdul The Terrorist.

Maybe called "I KEEL YOU!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 02, 2026 12:11 PM (VNoBw)

275 ...or thee final line of a willie Nelson ballad sung by Townes Van Zandt...

Either way

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 12:11 PM (qgHp7)

276 Israel has thoroughly penetrated the IRGC to the extent of controlling apps and TV to directly send messages to specific IRGC commanders.
Posted by: whig

Yeah. The guy you think is Achmed Habib in charge of IRGC comms?

He's really Avi Ben Gurion. Deep cover Mossad.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 12:12 PM (rR3v+)

277 Yeah. The guy you think is Achmed Habib in charge of IRGC comms?

He's really Avi Ben Gurion. Deep cover Mossad.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 02, 2026 12:12 PM (rR3v+)

well, the Israelis hate getting their bad news second hand

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2026 12:14 PM (rbvCR)

278 Lla-mah-do, Lla-may-do

Let's call the whole thing off...

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 12:15 PM (qgHp7)

279
Expansion of slavery was a big economic deal as the eastern states in the South had fields that were played out so like Jefferson and Madison, selling slaves was about the only way to make those plantations profitable.
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I haven't heard this before. Selling slaves from a plantation was profitable? Who was buying and for what work? Honest questions.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 12:15 PM (RkOfE)

280 My conclusion, they shoulda picked their own damn cotton from teh get go.

Posted by: whig at March 02, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)

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They should have switched to producing Bourbon.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 02, 2026 12:17 PM (VNoBw)

281 Thanks, now there's coffee all over my desk.
Posted by: Ian S.

You're welcome 😉

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 02, 2026 12:17 PM (RkOfE)

282 Look at this.

161 years later we're still relitigating the Civil War. If you count from the Constitutional Convention to the Lincoln campaign, they were litigating it for 73 years beforehand.

I would argue that the Union had a tougher time of it politically, since they were litigating it in the middle, too.

It would have been a touch easier if they were just committed to a quick victory instead of pissing in each other's gruel all the time. At least the Confederacy just went into full victory-mode. Had the Union managed that, it would have been the walkover they bullshitted each other about in '61.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 02, 2026 12:18 PM (BI5O2)

283 My name is Festus
I work for Matt Dillon
I make 2 Dollars a day
I go see Miss Kitty
I play with her titty
She takes my 2 Dollars away

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2026 12:18 PM (29nn/)

284 Who started this Khomeini is avuncular thing?

Khomeini was not avuncular.
Santa Claus is avuncular.

Khomeini was more carbuncular.

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 12:20 PM (qgHp7)

285 Carbuncular- Of or related to a painful localized bacterial infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue that usually has several openings through which pus is discharged.

Posted by: muldoon, dad jokes at March 02, 2026 12:20 PM (qgHp7)

286 It's jwest, it might legitimately be all 5.5 Billion.
Posted by: XTC at March 02, 2026 11:58 AM (3wOGw)

I'm still saving to buy a car.

Posted by: jwest at March 02, 2026 12:24 PM (KtqtS)

287 No business pays a tax. No business pays a tariff. The customer does.

Unless you can point me to a business that cheerfully eats the tax and doesn’t pass on the cost motivated by really warm feelings.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 02, 2026 12:39 PM (+caSM)

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