The Morning Rant

"The world's greatest deliberative body?" My ass.

The Grown in America Act of 2025 (H.R. 1707) is legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in early 2025. Sponsored by Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN) along with Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) and others, the bill's goal is to strengthen American agriculture by encouraging businesses to buy more of their agricultural raw materials domestically rather than from foreign countries. This bill, which is a rational response to outsourcing of agricultural products to foreign players that might very well be our adversaries, is a market-driven answer to a national security imperative...we must produce our own food, and if it costs us a bit more than buying it from foreign countries? So be it. Countries worldwide understand this and subsidize their food production in many ways: with direct subsidies, with tax advantages, with estate tax carve-outs for farms, etc. In fact, we do some of that already, with an insanely complex support system that often pays farmers not to produce!

But subsidizing their domestic customers with a tax credit is far cheaper, and it neatly avoids the geopolitical cudgel that other countries can use against America. China is a big fan of threatening to stop buying our soybeans or pork or...whatever...to bolster their negotiating stance in other areas. This decreases the power of that tactic, and also smooths the boom-and-bust cycle of agricultural commodities.

So what's the problem?

Congress is the problem, even though this bill was presented by a bipartisan (vile word, that!) group of congressmen from agricultural states. First, it is quite obviously a MAGA talking point, which makes it unappetizing to the rabid TDS sufferers in the Democrat Party. Second, it will hurt China, and one can be confident that its agents in America are working hard to blunt its support. Fang Fang anyone? And third, it is simply lost in the miasma of a completely dysfunctional Congress. They can do nothing but interfere and obstruct. Just look at the deeply offensive game that John Thune plays in the Senate to prevent recess appointments by the administration for a sense of their obstruction. And the SAVE Act is most probably dead, even though it is supported by huge majorities of Americans!

The financial effect of this bill is modest, especially in comparison to the massive fraud being perpetrated against the American taxpayer by the welfare apparatus. A small fraction of those fraudulent transfer payments would pay for the tax credits being proposed in this bill, and the funds would remain in America, rather than being funneled to Somalia and Venezuela and Guatemala and China and...

But our legislatures are profoundly broken, and driven by motivations so antithetical to the well being of Americans that it is difficult to recognize what exactly they work toward. Is it self aggrandizement? Is it wealth? Is it power? Is it the success of foreign actors at the expense of the American people?

All yes.

In ancient Rome through Victorian England, actors were considered on par with prostitutes. It is time to embrace that social standing for politicians, and relieve the acting profession of their burden as the lowest of the low.

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 23, 2026 11:00 AM (Wnv9h)

2 Good morning CBD

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 23, 2026 11:00 AM (YBtcQ)

3 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 23, 2026 11:00 AM (N1DT3)

4 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 23, 2026 11:01 AM (Wnv9h)

5 on par with prostitutes. It is time to embrace that social standing for politicians, and relieve the acting profession of their burden as the lowest of the low.
Posted by: CBD

It has ever been thus!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 23, 2026 11:04 AM (YBtcQ)

6 Donors and lobbyists first. The American people are an afterthought... if thought about at all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 23, 2026 11:06 AM (jehhT)

7 In virtually every 'western' nation, their governments act in ways to prevent them from producing their own food. I suppose that a Malthusian societal death wish could be blamed but it's far more likely to be simple treason (in reality albeit not legally).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 23, 2026 11:07 AM (ExV1e)

8 on par with prostitutes. It is time to embrace that social standing for politicians, and relieve the acting profession of their burden as the lowest of the low.
Posted by: CBD

I've never had need to call a politician.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2026 11:09 AM (Kd7Ab)

9 At least prostitutes provide an important service.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

10
There are angry Marxists running the courts and legislatures these days.

Cross them and you get the Trump treatment.

Yeah, I know, doomer.

Posted by: Auspex at April 23, 2026 11:11 AM (Y8DZL)

11 prostitutes provide an in demand service for pay and they should not be lumped in with politicians. Actors provide entertainment, but in todays world the few that achieve celebrity status think they should be 'thought leaders'. Politics seems to be full of vile grifters, and DC seems to twist many of the ones with good intentions into grifters all too quickly.

Maybe we should have a draft for congressional service. If your number is called you have to spend two years in DC. I doubt draftees could do any worse than what we have now.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 23, 2026 11:12 AM (CFj4+)

12 Congress will do what they have to do to benefit themselves.
Then they will have the gall to tell the voters they done it for them. And the media will back them up. It's the same shit over and over again. And it's getting old.

Posted by: Case at April 23, 2026 11:13 AM (pvf3X)

13 There are angry Marxists running the courts and legislatures these days.

I submit that the modifier "angry" is unnecessary, given that ALL Marxists are angry. They're angry that someone else has been successful at life when they clearly haven't.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

14 >>Just look at the deeply offensive game that John Thune plays in the Senate to prevent recess appointments by the administration for a sense of their obstruction. And the SAVE Act is most probably dead, even though it is supported by huge majorities of Americans!

Yeah, Americans want it, but our political class at all levels has decided foreigners are the priority.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2026 11:14 AM (5xoct)

15 One thing Trump could do that would be helpful to the US would be to encourage agriculture in Hawaii.

Hawaii is not a diverse economy. Government spending is the number one component. (Not sustainable). It is also hugely reliant on tourism, which is understandable, but not a sector that is useful for building a stable culture as it tends to create the third world dynamic of massive amounts of lower class, a few upper class and no middle.

It's agriculture basically died when the tariffs on sugar and pineapple disappeared in the 1970s-1980s. The packing plants associated also disappeared, removing opportunity for many middle class.

There are vast open fields in Hawaii (yes, seriously) that have basically gone fallow since.

Trump could make revitalizing agriculture in Hawaii, leading to supporting industries for export one of his side projects. This could move the less stupid citizens there to see MAGA as beneficial to them as well.

(Not suggesting it has to be a return sugar or pineapples, but it's a tropical island, and many places are already growing chocolate and coffee.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 23, 2026 11:14 AM (N1DT3)

16 With the SPLC under investigation, whom shall I give my hard earned federal hand outs to?

Posted by: Smooth Brained Old Hippie Boomer at April 23, 2026 11:15 AM (wAvYO)

17 In virtually every 'western' nation, their governments act in ways to prevent them from producing their own food. I suppose that a Malthusian societal death wish could be blamed but it's far more likely to be simple treason (in reality albeit not legally).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

In some states, they ban you from collecting rainwater.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Kd7Ab)

18 Congress is the problem, even though this bill was presented by a bipartisan (vile word, that!) group of congressmen from agricultural states.

In other words, how can we solidify our power by pretending to solve issues caused with policies we had no business enacting in the first place?

Posted by: Congress at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (LLQU7)

19 (Not suggesting it has to be a return sugar or pineapples, but it's a tropical island, and many places are already growing chocolate and coffee.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Is there still that big cattle ranch on the Big Island?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

20 16 With the SPLC under investigation, whom shall I give my hard earned federal hand outs to?

Posted by: Smooth Brained Old Hippie Boomer at April 23, 2026 11:15 AM (wAvYO)

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I am forming the Southeastern Poverty Law Center.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (GLVez)

21 Trump could make revitalizing agriculture in Hawaii, leading to supporting industries for export one of his side projects. This could move the less stupid citizens there to see MAGA as beneficial to them as well.

Agriculture left HI because labor there was too expensive and the locals don't want to work like Guatemalans. Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

22 9 At least prostitutes provide an important service.
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

Politicians provide the exact same service, minus the happy ending.

Posted by: Polka will never die at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (TMsqB)

23 In some states, they ban you from collecting rainwater.
Posted by: rickb223

Or they tax you for it. WTH is the justification for that?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

24 I thought Hawaii was having a water problem, which is why the PGA Tour now canceled its stops there.

If you have water problem, it's gonna be hard to revitalize tropical agriculture, b/c tropical tends to need and have a lot of water...

Now, being surrounded by water, I'm not sure why they couldn't fix the water problem, but they don't seem to want to right now...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 23, 2026 11:18 AM (tOcjL)

25 In some states, they ban you from collecting rainwater.
Posted by: rickb223

Or they tax you for it. WTH is the justification for that?

Well it isn't like it just falls from the sky.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)

26 Politicians provide the exact same service, minus the happy ending.

Posted by: Polka will never die at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (TMsqB)

Who pays hookers for anal sex?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2026 11:18 AM (0Easg)

27 The tropics tend to make people lazy, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:18 AM (77rzZ)

28 21 Agriculture left HI because labor there was too expensive and the locals don't want to work like Guatemalans. Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

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Hawaii should depopulate to a certain degree, to be honest.

Modern agricultural machines can handle crop harvesting with fewer hands. The rest of the islands are just resorts while everything in between are variations of low quality housing that's been degrading for decades and homeless camps.

Considering how much native Hawaiians hate white Americans, as well, they should be paid to move to their diverse heritage homelands like Japan or the Philippines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 23, 2026 11:19 AM (GLVez)

29 There's a significant portion of the population that *wants* to be ruled, rather than looking after themselves. Therefore, we have rulers instead of representatives.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 23, 2026 11:19 AM (DgMqy)

30 Agriculture left HI because labor there was too expensive and the locals don't want to work like Guatemalans. Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

In First World countries, farming is highly mechanized.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 11:19 AM (utfVc)

31 >>>the bill's goal is to strengthen American agriculture by encouraging businesses to buy more of their agricultural raw materials domestically rather than from foreign countries.

Encourage how? Lots of ways to do that.

Tariffs would be the correct way. Whatever the foreigners are doing to their advantage, slap a tariff on their product when it hits our market. Businesses are now encouraged to buy domestically.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Posted by: No Name Today at April 23, 2026 11:19 AM (8mulE)

32 Congress shouldn't be a lifetime appointment. That's what it's become for many tho'. More than a few have died in office (and continued to vote). Many, currently, are senile or functionally impaired to the point they can't reason.

Nobody "elected" to office should remain there for decades. It would go a long way towards reigning in the graft and corruption.

If the president can only serve two 4 year terms, Congress should be limited too.

Oh, and ditch this lifetime appointment shit for the judiciary too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 23, 2026 11:20 AM (jehhT)

33 I am forming the Southeastern Poverty Law Center.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (GLVez)

I am forming the Northern Poverty Law Center, with which I will seek to alleviate my own poverty.

Posted by: RI Red at April 23, 2026 11:20 AM (/gK7m)

34 Many agricultural producers are subsidized and paid to not produce. This is madness. What ever happened to open and free markets? I guess this might preserve the land and soil, but this is clearly government intervention, and it's criminal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 23, 2026 11:20 AM (Fbc0I)

35 I thought Hawaii was having a water problem, which is why the PGA Tour now canceled its stops there.

If you have water problem, it's gonna be hard to revitalize tropical agriculture, b/c tropical tends to need and have a lot of water...

Now, being surrounded by water, I'm not sure why they couldn't fix the water problem, but they don't seem to want to right now...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 23, 2026 11:18 AM (tOcjL)

It has water problems because liberals control the water authorities.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 23, 2026 11:21 AM (N1DT3)

36 If your child says they want to be a politician, you are allowed to ask where you failed as a parent.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 23, 2026 11:21 AM (OPGS/)

37 Or they tax you for it. WTH is the justification for that?
Posted by: Bulg

Personally, I'd try to get a class action lawsuit and sue the state.

You claim the rain water is yours, fine. YOUR rainwater rusted my belongings.

Pay up.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2026 11:22 AM (Kd7Ab)

38 33 I am forming the Southeastern Poverty Law Center.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (GLVez)

I am forming the Northern Poverty Law Center, with which I will seek to alleviate my own poverty.

Posted by: RI Red at April 23, 2026 11:20 AM (/gK7m)

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The only way for smooth-brained older leftists to feel good about themselves is to max out donations to both of us!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 23, 2026 11:22 AM (GLVez)

39 Now, being surrounded by water, I'm not sure why they couldn't fix the water problem, but they don't seem to want to right now...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 23, 2026 11:18 AM (tOcjL)

It has water problems because liberals control the water authorities.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 23, 2026 11:21 AM (N1DT3)

Thus, the "don't seem to want to fix the water problem."

Posted by: Nova Local at April 23, 2026 11:22 AM (tOcjL)

40 In First World countries, farming is highly mechanized.

True, but nonetheless, it requires lots of labor. If HI returns to its agricultural roots, they would still need a lot of workers, just as we do here in the mainland.

There are approximately 2.5 to 3 million agricultural workers in the U.S., with roughly 15% identifying as migratory and 85% as settled. Immigrant workers make up a significant portion of this workforce, with studies indicating that about 40–50% of crop farmworkers are unauthorized, while many others hold H-2A seasonal visas

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

41 The left has turned the government into a way to enrich themselves at our expense - this is very similar to the state of the nation in 1776.

Then they take some of that loot and bribe GOPe office holders to let them continue.

This is intolerable. But how do we fix it when most people just won't pay attention to politics where you can't just vote R because a bunch of R officeholders are controlled opposition

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

42 it's not a great bill.
1. Supply chain distortion and innovation loss.
Processors will make sourcing decisions based on tax optimization rather than quality, price, or product fit. A California wine producer who uses specific French yeast cultures or a Wisconsin cheese maker who imports specialty rennet will face a tax penalty for doing what makes their product distinctive. Over time, you lose product diversity and innovation in exchange for a simpler, more "domestic" supply chain.
2. Entrenchment and repeal difficulty.
Once $10 billion in annual credits is flowing to a constituency, it never goes away. Every food processor with a domestic-sourcing strategy will lobby to defend this credit. Even if a future administration wants to repeal it for fiscal reasons, the coalition to keep it will be formidable. That's a permanent ratchet in the tax code, funded by every American taxpayer, benefiting a concentrated industry.
3. The regulatory arbitrage game.
"Further processing" is the threshold for eligibility — products must be "sold for human consumption without further processing." That definition will be litigated endlessly. Is a bagged salad "further processed"? A frozen pizza?

Posted by: Jeff Carter at April 23, 2026 11:24 AM (ZiwLX)

43 The honest summary
On paper, this looks like an $7-15B/year tax credit to promote American agriculture. In practice, it's:

A concentrated subsidy to large food processors (not farmers)
Funded by all taxpayers through lost revenue
Paid for again by consumers through higher grocery prices
With significant trade, administrative, and distortionary costs on top

The combined direct and opportunity cost package is likely in the range of $15-25 billion per year once you add revenue loss, consumer price effects, trade retaliation, and compliance costs. Over 10 years that's $150-250 billion — real money for a bill that's gotten almost no attention because it was introduced in February and has been sitting in Ways and Means ever since.
Who benefits: Large food processors and cooperatives with the scale to hit the $100M cap, plus the domestic commodity producers whose prices get supported.
Who pays: Federal taxpayers, grocery shoppers (especially low-income households), U.S. agricultural exporters facing retaliation, and anyone who values product diversity and trade relationships.

Posted by: Jeff Carter at April 23, 2026 11:24 AM (ZiwLX)

44 Ladies of negotiable affection actually provide a service.

It's dubious if any of our politicians can say the same.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 23, 2026 11:24 AM (gnNyN)

45 there are criminal classes with more self respect, honesty and dependability than members of congress.

Congress people are basically psychopaths. They are there for the power money and that's it. The rest is just a costume and mask they put on in order to get there. They worse than actors. Actors are not frauds. Everyone knows actors are pretending to be what they are not.

Posted by: its about time we ran them all out and started from scratch at April 23, 2026 11:25 AM (anL5R)

46 If HI returns to its agricultural roots, they would still need a lot of workers, just as we do here in the mainland.

And just like that, our welfare roll problems are solved.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 23, 2026 11:26 AM (OPGS/)

47 Ladies of negotiable affection actually provide a service.

It's dubious if any of our politicians can say the same.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Well, they do provide services to the CCP.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

48 Politicians now are actors (theater kids, as whig would say). They should be treated as attention-whores that they are.

Maybe when everyone holds actors in contempt who spout political opinions, they'll also hold politicians in contempt who do hearings as political theater and little else.

Posted by: the lower depths at April 23, 2026 11:26 AM (Dg7ng)

49 For purposes of section 38, the domestically produced agriculture credit determined under this section for any taxable year is an amount equal to the lesser of—

“(1) (A) the product of—

“(B) 25 percent of the total agricultural input costs of such taxpayer with respect to such taxable year, multiplied by

“(C) the applicable percentage of the taxpayer for the taxable year, or

“(2) $100,000,000.

100 M aint nothing to sneeze at

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 11:27 AM (/+uur)

50 They worse than actors. Actors are not frauds.

I don't know about that. Robert DeNiro pretends to have a brain and something useful to say.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

51 Agriculture left HI because labor there was too expensive and the locals don't want to work like Guatemalans. Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

In First World countries, farming is highly mechanized.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 11:19 AM (utfVc)

Exactly. And it does lead to good paying jobs and associated shipping/packing/etc...

It's an industry that allows for a growing middle class.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 23, 2026 11:28 AM (N1DT3)

52 Agriculture left HI because labor there was too expensive and the locals don't want to work like Guatemalans. Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

Exactly. And it does lead to good paying jobs and associated shipping/packing/etc...

It's an industry that allows for a growing middle class.

You haven't answered my question.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

53 GOP senate is garbage. Tax cuts for their donors it’s is the only thing they care about.

Posted by: Heroq at April 23, 2026 11:30 AM (2f2m7)

54 It's an industry that allows for a growing middle class.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Agriculture is what built this country.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

55 They worse than actors. Actors are not frauds.

I don't know about that. Robert DeNiro pretends to have a brain and something useful to say.
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Literally everyone knows he is an idiot. Even he knows he is an idiot. Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers. C'mon. To be a fraud,you have to actually be able to deceive. There has to be reliance and it has to be justifiable. No Fking way anyone believe DeNiro is to be taken seriously. Literally a clown.

Posted by: its about time we ran them all out and started from scratch at April 23, 2026 11:32 AM (anL5R)

56 Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

The skilled farm labor will make good money. The stoop labor won't, but it will be better than welfare, and you kick them off the welfare rolls, and make them work for a living.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (utfVc)

57 52 Agriculture left HI because labor there was too expensive and the locals don't want to work like Guatemalans. Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

Exactly. And it does lead to good paying jobs and associated shipping/packing/etc...

It's an industry that allows for a growing middle class.

You haven't answered my question.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

I'm assuming he's encourage Hawaii to farm products that don't need much labor for field tasks...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (tOcjL)

58 Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers.

You mean HE DOESN'T??!!

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

59 Thx CBD.
Back in my younger days I didn't favor term limits. I thought a citizen should be able to vote for whomever they wished. However the obvious accumulation of power and money changed my mind.
The constitution should be changed to allow for 18 years service as a Pres, Congress critter and senator. Break it up anyway, but you're only there 18 yrs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (gu0hJ)

60 In any event, the GOP has until next January to get stuff done. But they aren't in any hurry, they would rather be the minority opposition and not have to worry about anything but what to have for dinner.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (n5tGW)

61 Exactly. And it does lead to good paying jobs and associated shipping/packing/etc...

It's an industry that allows for a growing middle class.

You haven't answered my question.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

Alberta Oil Peon did:

In First World countries, farming is highly mechanized.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 11:19 AM (utfVc)

First world agriculture would be using large equipment and higher salaries for the higher skilled workers required to use them.

No subsidy required.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (N1DT3)

62
The water problem up here has been that there's too much of it, flooding everywhere.

No stream wading Saturday for the Trout opener.

Posted by: Auspex at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (Y8DZL)

63 "In ancient Rome through Victorian England, actors were considered on par with prostitutes."

I'm pretty sure a lot of them where prostitutes

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 23, 2026 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

64 Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers.

You mean HE DOESN'T??!!
Posted by: Bulg
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I suppose we have to make allowances for the left side of the bell curve.

Posted by: its about time we ran them all out and started from scratch at April 23, 2026 11:34 AM (anL5R)

65 "In ancient Rome through Victorian England, actors were considered on par with prostitutes."

I'm pretty sure a lot of them where prostitutes
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Empress Theodora (wife of Justinian I) has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:35 AM (77rzZ)

66 Investing in a product or company because you have faith in their capacity to succeed is not the same as picking winners and losers and submarining the industry thru regulation for your benefit. That's criminal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 23, 2026 11:35 AM (Fbc0I)

67 That’s exactly how some of the ancient Greek city states ran things.

Sort of like military conscripts or jury duty. You get drafted, but now you’re in charge of the Water Works. It actually worked pretty well, apparently.

ALTHOUGH - they did provide for the death penalty for malfeasance or misfeasance in public office. You know, to encourage the others.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2026 11:36 AM (15vO0)

68 Empress Theodora (wife of Justinian I) has entered the chat.
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I wonder if she had giant tits and liked to argue as well.

Posted by: its about time we ran them all out and started from scratch at April 23, 2026 11:36 AM (anL5R)

69 58 Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers.

You mean HE DOESN'T??!!
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

He does, but only at the one fully-equipped McDonalds in California, built in the 1970s, that has never served a single customer.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 11:37 AM (Y1sOo)

70 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2026 11:38 AM (9gDA7)

71 Big Farm is just as bad as all the other Bigs in this country.

Let farmers farm. Stop Bill Gates and China from buying up all the farm land. Make America Great Again, goldammit.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2026 11:38 AM (9gDA7)

72
Our foundation of education is eroding (has eroded) and is taking the subject of an honest 'History of the US' down the chute with it. (History (US & world), civics, social studies were taught all the way through 1 - 12 grades many years ago).

How much of the adult (voting) population understands branches of government and their purposes, the Declaration of Independence and Human Frailty, the US Constitution and Human Fallibility?

Politicians can & will use their constituents for self-interests - political and otherwise - until citizens know and CHERISH a common history & understand the branches of government, purpose and limitations.

imho

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 23, 2026 11:38 AM (NFX2v)

73 Agriculture left HI because labor there was too expensive and the locals don't want to work like Guatemalans. Are you proposing that we subsidize their absurd salaries?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

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Hawaii should depopulate to a certain degree, to be honest.

Modern agricultural machines can handle crop harvesting with fewer hands. The rest of the islands are just resorts while everything in between are variations of low quality housing that's been degrading for decades and homeless camps.

Considering how much native Hawaiians hate white Americans, as well, they should be paid to move to their diverse heritage homelands like Japan or the Philippines.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 23, 2026 11:19 AM (GLVez)
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Very few native Hawaiians are left, tho. Maybe 10% of the population. There are twice as many whites on the islands as natives. The dominant race? Asian. Probably 40%. Mostly Japanese (!), Korean, and Filipino.

I'm going to Hawaii in next month. I'll be sure to report my findings!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 23, 2026 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

74 69 58 Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers.

You mean HE DOESN'T??!!
Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

He does, but only at the one fully-equipped McDonalds in California, built in the 1970s, that has never served a single customer.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 11:37 AM (Y1sOo)

I got a foot long red hair in my quarter pounder

mmm mmm gooder

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 11:43 AM (/+uur)

75 I love and am friends with theatre kids, but there is a reason the stereotype of "theatre kids" exists.

Also, I need to rewatch 1776 this year for the 250th, and I love this line by John Adams:

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress!"

Posted by: LizLem at April 23, 2026 11:43 AM (Eng1Z)

76 Empress Theodora (wife of Justinian I) has entered the chat.
==
I wonder if she had giant tits and liked to argue as well.
Posted by: its about time we ran them all out and started from scratch at April 23, 2026 11:36 AM (anL5R)

Justinian had giant tits?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 23, 2026 11:43 AM (ExV1e)

77 70 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge
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You're nailing it today!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 23, 2026 11:44 AM (9U6Wl)

78 It is unfair and offensive to compare prostitutes to politicians, the latter of whom are clearly of lower moral character than the former.

Posted by: Cynical Stoic at April 23, 2026 11:44 AM (2r+jB)

79 "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress!"
Posted by: LizLem

So many great lines in that movie.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

80 First world agriculture would be using large equipment and higher salaries for the higher skilled workers required to use them.

No subsidy required.

But if its highly mechanized, there won't be many jobs created.

If no subsidy is required, why are you invoking Trump? Why does the government need to be involved at all? Why wouldn't private industry invest in it?

66 Investing in a product or company because you have faith in their capacity to succeed is not the same as picking winners and losers and submarining the industry thru regulation for your benefit. That's criminal.

Correct. See above. There are far to many who say "could we?" and not enough who say "should we?". That is why our government is now Leviathan.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

81 Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers.

Meat Is Murder!

Posted by: Smooth Brained Old Hippie Boomer at April 23, 2026 11:46 AM (wAvYO)

82 The US Congress exists as a money laundering scheme. It has outlived its usefulness to anyone but the criminal elite and the people who exist on crumbs from the public treasury. Unserious and detrimental in most every regard.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at April 23, 2026 11:46 AM (5295G)

83 They worse than actors. Actors are not frauds.

I don't know about that. Robert DeNiro pretends to have a brain and something useful to say.
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Literally everyone knows he is an idiot. Even he knows he is an idiot. Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers. C'mon. To be a fraud,you have to actually be able to deceive. There has to be reliance and it has to be justifiable. No Fking way anyone believe DeNiro is to be taken seriously. Literally a clown.

Fair.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

84 Posted by: Jeff Carter at April 23, 2026 11:24 AM (ZiwLX)

Yes, it is indeed an Ag subsidy. And my.point is that domestic agriculture is a national security imperative and if we are going to spend taxpayer's money, it should be for something like that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2026 11:47 AM (0Easg)

85 Fun fact: The first person to play Ronald McDonald (then called "Donald McDonald") was Willard Scott.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

86 Yes, it is indeed an Ag subsidy. And my.point is that domestic agriculture is a national security imperative and if we are going to spend taxpayer's money, it should be for something like that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Yep. When you subsidize something, you get more of it.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

87 Justinian had giant tits?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Only after he transitioned to Justine.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

88 Wow, where'd everyone go?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

89 Yes, it is indeed an Ag subsidy. And my.point is that domestic agriculture is a national security imperative and if we are going to spend taxpayer's money, it should be for something like that.

HI's main crops were pineapple and sugar.

Hawaii's main crops historically included sugar and pineapple, which once dominated the islands' economy. Today,, diversified agriculture thrives with key crops like taro (kalo), coffee, macadamia nuts, papaya, bananas, and seed crops. Traditional staple crops brought by Polynesians (canoe crops) included taro, sweet potato, breadfruit, and yams.

I really think the nation could struggle along without either one. As to sugar, it has been highly subsidized for a century, but was initially subsidized in 1789. That's long enough.

The U.S. first implemented direct federal subsidies for sugar with the Sugar Act of 1934 (Jones-Costigan Act) during the Great Depression.

1789: Congress passed the first sugar tariffs to protect the industry, a form of indirect support that persisted for centuries.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

90 Fun fact: The first person to play Ronald McDonald (then called "Donald McDonald") was Willard Scott.

Was he that homosexual weatherman who had several husbands in different States?

Posted by: Barney Fag at April 23, 2026 11:50 AM (wAvYO)

91 Elric,
If you get a chance, read Mitchner’s Hawaii before you go.

I read it to my boys before our first trip decades ago. It’s a great read.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2026 11:51 AM (W2Pud)

92 88 Wow, where'd everyone go?

Something happened a few minutes ago. I suspect a gerbil had had enough of running on the wheel.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)

93 Something happened a few minutes ago. I suspect a gerbil had had enough of running on the wheel.
Posted by: Archimedes

Yeah, I couldn't access the site for a bit a few minutes ago, but it's working fine now.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

94 I'd exchange a $100 Billion Ag subsidy to get rid of learing center and hospice fraud.

It's definitely a compromise in my principles though for free markets. However, there have to be many in our world, for instance should chinese buyers of US real estate be banned? yep.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 23, 2026 11:54 AM (n5tGW)

95 Elric,
If you get a chance, read Mitchner’s Hawaii before you go.

I read it to my boys before our first trip decades ago. It’s a great read.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2026 11:51 AM (W2Pud)
_________

I read it! I was on a swim team and we were going to HI for a competition. Sadly, the coach said I couldn't go on the ground he thought I'd be a very bad influence (he was surely right about that). So I never went. But I read the book.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 23, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

96 Good thing the republicans control the senate!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 23, 2026 11:55 AM (xvV+O)

97 Hollywood is being depopulated and increasingly unemployed. They should all be sent to either the pig farms, or the Dignity Canal, their choice.

Posted by: Honest Solutions at April 23, 2026 11:55 AM (oftw2)

98 I'd exchange a $100 Billion Ag subsidy to get rid of learing center and hospice fraud.

It doesn't need to be either/or. I prefer neither.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

99 In ancient Rome through Victorian England, actors were considered on par with prostitutes. It is time to embrace that social standing for politicians, and relieve the acting profession of their burden as the lowest of the low.

Harsh.

But fair.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2026 11:57 AM (0sNs1)

100 I do support the idea of people buying local and businesses supporting American farms, I have a couple concerns here that everyone else here seem to share. Protection laws tend not to work well for anyone, this would drive food prices up even more, and honestly Big Ag hardly needs more regulation and government funding.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2026 11:57 AM (uEYKS)

101 I read an interesting argument for ethanol in gasoline recently. The argument is that it helps to keep the grain producers in business, so that if we ever have a regional crop failure in grains, we will have the excess capacity spread about to make up the difference in our use of grain in food production.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 23, 2026 11:57 AM (4NO2D)

102 Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

Subsidizing Hawaiian agriculture isn't really the point. The point is that American agriculture is a national security imperative, and it is in the National interest to protect it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2026 11:58 AM (0Easg)

103
Soon nobody will show up at the gubmnt bond auction, and the money will become worthless.

You know who'll be in charge then, right? Yup. Them.

Posted by: Auspex at April 23, 2026 11:58 AM (Y8DZL)

104 At a NoVa MoMe a few years ago, my wife and I were talking to some guy from Hawaii (I forget his name, but he said that he mostly comments on the Gun Thread), and he was bemoaning the decline of agriculture in Hawaii. He said that the abandonment of sugar cultivation led to the Maui wildfires, because the sugar planters would have controlled burns after each harvest to clear the cane fields. Once they went away and stopped doing that, you had all of this tinder build up, and then boom! when a spark hit it.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

105 Posted by: toby928(c) at April 23, 2026 11:57 AM (4NO2D)

Except... I think they use corn for ethanol production.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2026 11:59 AM (0Easg)

106 101 I read an interesting argument for ethanol in gasoline recently. The argument is that it helps to keep the grain producers in business, so that if we ever have a regional crop failure in grains, we will have the excess capacity spread about to make up the difference in our use of grain in food production.

If it came down to it, we could simply cut back on exports.

The United States is experiencing a massive, record-setting pace in corn exports for the 2024/2025 marketing year, recently estimated at 2.83 billion bushels to 2.855 billion bushels (roughly 72.5 million metric tons), valued at over $15.9–$16.35 billion. Key destinations include Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and Colombia, with strong sales continuing despite low demand from China

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

107 >>> Fun fact: The first person to play Ronald McDonald (then called "Donald McDonald") was Willard Scott.

Posted by: Bulg

>If Ronald McDonald wanted to prepare me a Happy Meal, I would eat it. Good faith transactions and fair exchanges of goods and services are what keep us functioning as a rational civilization.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 23, 2026 12:00 PM (Fbc0I)

108 92 88 Wow, where'd everyone go?

Something happened a few minutes ago. I suspect a gerbil had had enough of running on the wheel.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)

Armageddon! Armageddon!!
(for reference: https://tinyurl.com/5yj8x3wz site goes to YT)

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 23, 2026 12:00 PM (N39Ws)

109 Subsidizing Hawaiian agriculture isn't really the point. The point is that American agriculture is a national security imperative, and it is in the National interest to protect it.

Understood, but you then need to explain why subsidies are needed when we have vast surpluses already.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

110 Except... I think they use corn for ethanol production.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2026 11:59 AM

and in pork and poultry production.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 23, 2026 12:01 PM (4NO2D)

111 102 Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

Subsidizing Hawaiian agriculture isn't really the point. The point is that American agriculture is a national security imperative, and it is in the National interest to protect it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2026 11:58 AM (0Easg)

Yes and no. Agriculture in total is not a national interest. Agriculture in specific is. We don't need to subsidize crap or crap food. We need to subsidize that which would keep America healthy and fed. That's the national interest. That is such a controversial call (see Food Stamps right now) that it gets hard to pick the wheat from the chaff, so you either get all (and it's wasteful) or none (and it hurts).

Posted by: Nova Local at April 23, 2026 12:01 PM (tOcjL)

112 The interwebz suggest that US corn production is about 16 billion bushels annually.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 23, 2026 12:04 PM (4NO2D)

113 I got a foot long red hair in my quarter pounder

You did? Luxury. We just got short curly ones.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 23, 2026 12:04 PM (Kt19C)

114 Bipartisan - the world's biggest curse word

Posted by: ... at April 23, 2026 12:05 PM (NALOx)

115 What fraction of your soul does one red hair steal?

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

116 You're nailing it today!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 23, 2026 11:44 AM (9U6Wl)

#Winning!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2026 12:06 PM (9gDA7)

117 Posted by: Jeff Carter at April 23, 2026 11:24 AM (ZiwLX)

Just to let the Horde know, Jeff Carter is running for State Treasurer of Nevada (GOP, of course). I'm a fan of his financial email newsletter.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 23, 2026 12:06 PM (sl43I)

118 Btw, I am only tepidly endorsing the farm preservation argument but, it is the first one that I have heard that makes at least a bit of sense. Our byzantine farm subsidy and price control system has at least given us plentiful food since the Dust Bowl, which beats most Federal programs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 23, 2026 12:07 PM (4NO2D)

119 Is the US government still subsidizing Big Tobacco?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2026 12:07 PM (W2Pud)

120 Except... I think they use corn for ethanol production.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2026 11:59 AM (0Easg)

Ethanol sucks and they know it. They've known it since the 1800's. It's inefficient as a gas alternative.

But that's not the point, is it........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2026 12:07 PM (9gDA7)

121 Ethanol sucks and they know it. They've known it since the 1800's. It's inefficient as a gas alternative.

But that's not the point, is it........

It is not. The point is to give Chuck Grassley a lot more sway in the Senate than he might otherwise deserve.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

122 Is the US government still subsidizing Big Tobacco?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2026 12:07 PM (W2Pud)

The government should subsidize Big Blow Job.

I could use one......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2026 12:08 PM (9gDA7)

123 The US did away with tobacco allotments in 2004. Which, while not a direct subsidy, did act as a price support.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 23, 2026 12:09 PM (4NO2D)

124 >>>You did? Luxury. We just got short curly ones.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

>Would you like mayonnaise on your double whopper?

Posted by: Burger King at April 23, 2026 12:10 PM (Fbc0I)

125 This is a really good point.

Kudos to the New York Post for being the only major outlet to get this right. The SPLC were paying the leaders. By definition, leaders cannot be informants. They run the operation. It is like paying the leader of Auschwitz to inform on who is carrying out the gassings instead of paying him to stop the gassings. It is perhaps the most grotesque, cynical, and pernicious racket ever devised. Of course, plenty of groups extract money from taxpayers and well-meaning donors off problems they inflate, but this is far worse because it breeds real hatred and manufactures racial division to keep the grift alive.

https://is.gd/rtIF9d

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

126 I trade hours for dollars......am I a prostitute?

They act like they pay me so I act like I work......

I just want to be below a prostitute

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at April 23, 2026 12:10 PM (LOZbR)

127 119 Is the US government still subsidizing Big Tobacco?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2026 12:07 PM (W2Pud)

Inidrectly - yes. And that's my point about how hard it is to thread a national interest needle. This should have obviously ended by now.

Same for sugar and other "bad for you" stuff...

https://www.cato.org/blog/federal-tobacco-subsidies

Posted by: Nova Local at April 23, 2026 12:11 PM (tOcjL)

128 Ethanol, ugh. Still putting cattle feed in our tanks. This is why any new laws benefiting one specific industry suck. You can never get rid of it, because you can't get elected.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 23, 2026 12:11 PM (n5tGW)

129 With every bushel of corn sold overseas, the buyer should also have to buy a pack of smokes.

They can choose which brand they like best.

Posted by: Big Tobacco at April 23, 2026 12:12 PM (wAvYO)

130 Is the US government still subsidizing Big Tobacco?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2026 12:07 PM (W2Pud)

The government should subsidize Big Blow Job.

I could use one......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 23, 2026 12:08 PM (9gDA7)
_________

[makes "call me" gesture]

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 23, 2026 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

131 Corn is grain in its own right. And land that will grow corn could also grow wheat or oats or barley.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 12:12 PM (utfVc)

132 This is why any new laws benefiting one specific industry suck. You can never get rid of it, because you can't get elected.

But Mazie Hirono would never let that happen. Right? RIGHT?!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 23, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t)

133 Speaking of ethanol, there has been a mega-gas station under construction near me for several months. (It became obvious early on that it was going to be a gas station once the framing of the structures went up).

I was hoping it was going to be a Buc-ees, but no such luck. It's a Wa-wa.

Crap...

Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:14 PM (Y1sOo)

134 Oh, hay. An allegation.

Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly HID $20 MILLION+ in his wife’s commissions from Big Law firms that argue before SCOTUS, then refused to recuse in over 500 cases

Posted by: Kindltot at April 23, 2026 12:14 PM (rbvCR)

135 Wawa is awesome!

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

136 It is not. The point is to give Chuck Grassley a lot more sway in the Senate than he might otherwise deserve.
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This ancient fecker is letting the Dems "blue-slip" or prevent the Senate from taking up nomination hearings for Trump's judicial nominees. Someone forgot to go blow out the cobwebs from between his ears.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 23, 2026 12:14 PM (Dv3i1)

137 Tobacco = taxes. Marijuana = taxes Gambling = taxes
Alcohol = taxes.

Too hard to resist for any government.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 23, 2026 12:14 PM (n5tGW)

138 I was hoping it was going to be a Buc-ees, but no such luck. It's a Wa-wa.

Crap...
Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:14 PM (Y1sOo)

Sad trombone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 12:15 PM (utfVc)

139 Alcohol = taxes.

Too hard to resist for any government.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

It's why Prohibition got repealed, so not all bad.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

140 I don't know the reference to Maize, Arch.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 23, 2026 12:16 PM (n5tGW)

141 I don't know the reference to Maize, Arch.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

We call her "Corn."

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

142 Poly-Ticks

Posted by: Kafiroon at April 23, 2026 12:17 PM (IzMux)

143 I've never been to a Buc-ees and was hoping to see what all the fuss as been about it.

There is one sorta near me on I-10 just across the border in Alabama near Robertsdale, I think. I guess I should go there some day.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:18 PM (Y1sOo)

144 I hope everyone gets a little sunshine today! I am going to go paint the side tables on our front porch. Stay tuned on if this results in very cool, or the need for more side tables.

Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 12:19 PM (Dd38x)

145 90 Fun fact: The first person to play Ronald McDonald (then called "Donald McDonald") was Willard Scott.

i wonder why they changed the name

Posted by: derp derpowicz at April 23, 2026 12:19 PM (oY6Yp)

146 There is one sorta near me on I-10 just across the border in Alabama near Robertsdale, I think. I guess I should go there some day.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:18 PM

When that first opened, they were selling gasoline at below cost as their loss leader. The state made them stop as that is apparently against the law in Alabama.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 23, 2026 12:20 PM (4NO2D)

147 113 I got a foot long red hair in my quarter pounder

You did? Luxury. We just got short curly ones.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 23, 2026 12:04 PM (Kt19C)

There's a way to a handle that once and for all.

Posted by: Eric C at April 23, 2026 12:20 PM (w/O5Q)

148 Ethanol: I can run 18:1 compression or 80 inches of manifold pressure or about 1200 horsepressures from 235 cubic inches......

As opposed to a max of 700 horsepower from the same engine optimized for gasoline (12:1 compression on 110/130 blue gas)

I work at a golf stadium so am I on par with a prostitute?

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at April 23, 2026 12:21 PM (LOZbR)

149 Ace is up.

Posted by: Bulg at April 23, 2026 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

150
We call her "Corn."
Posted by: Bulg
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This, Kemosabe.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at April 23, 2026 12:23 PM (XeU6L)

151 69 He does, but only at the one fully-equipped McDonalds in California, built in the 1970s, that has never served a single customer.

only married people?

Posted by: anachronda at April 23, 2026 12:23 PM (oY6Yp)

152 Politics is show business for the ugly. So if actors and actresses are whores, politicians are ugly whores.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 23, 2026 12:26 PM (pR6t1)

153 146 There is one sorta near me on I-10 just across the border in Alabama near Robertsdale, I think. I guess I should go there some day.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:18 PM

Loxley. It’s always packed and I don’t know why. There is a big fireworks place across the street, too.

Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 12:31 PM (Dd38x)

154 Sort of related, but not really...

There is video up at New York Post of a hood rat slamming a young girl onto the sidewalk and stomping on her head because she wouldn't give him her phone number.

The vileness is not just in the UK.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:33 PM (Y1sOo)

155 crap, wrong thread

Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:35 PM (Y1sOo)

156 Willard Scott was really an amazing down to earth guy. He loved his fans and they loved him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Scott

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 23, 2026 12:35 PM (5xuJ/)

157 Loxley. It’s always packed and I don’t know why.
Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 12:31 PM (Dd38x)

Yeah, that's what I meant when I said I wanted so see what all the fuss is about.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 23, 2026 12:38 PM (Y1sOo)

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