1 st!

2 Good morning CBD

3 MONKEY!

4 The Others have been summoned.

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!

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

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).

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.

9 At least prostitutes provide an important service.

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

Cross them and you get the Trump treatment.

Yeah, I know, doomer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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...

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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."

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

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

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?

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.

44 Ladies of negotiable affection actually provide a service.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Agriculture is what built this country.

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.
==
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.

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.

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...

58 Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers.

You mean HE DOESN'T??!!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm pretty sure a lot of them where prostitutes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

70 FIRST!!!!!

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.....

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

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!

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

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!"

76 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)

Justinian had giant tits?

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

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

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.

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.

81 Nobody really thinks Ronald McDonald makes the hamburgers.

Meat Is Murder!

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.

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.
==
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.

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.

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

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.

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

Only after he transitioned to Justine.

88 Wow, where'd everyone go?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)
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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.

96 Good thing the republicans control the senate!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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

114 Bipartisan - the world's biggest curse word

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

116 You're nailing it today!!!

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


#Winning!

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.

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.

119 Is the US government still subsidizing Big Tobacco?

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........

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.

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......

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?!

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...

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

135 Wawa is awesome!

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

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.

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

Too hard to resist for any government.

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.

139 Alcohol = taxes.

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

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

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

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

We call her "Corn."

142 Poly-Ticks

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

149 Ace is up.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

155 crap, wrong thread

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

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.

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The Morning Report — 4/ 23/26

Good morning kids, Here's a bit of good news to start things off for a change. In the wake of the nightmarish redistricting vote in Virginia, sanity has quickly prevailed in the OldDominion:

The decision halts the certification process, potentially blocking changes to Virginia’s congressional map, pending the outcome of the appeal. The new map, authorized in a close referendum on Tuesday, heavily favors the Democrats, likely handing the party another four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

At least in the near term, I don't expect this to be resolved before the midterms which was certainly why the evil commie bastards rammed this abomination through when they did. It's not just about Virginia, this vote had and might yet have national implications first of all to completely derail President Trump's remaining two years and then wipe out any national GOP aspirations going forward. Absolute power by every means at their disposal is the Left's ultimate goal, same as it ever was since time immemorial.

Given the vicissitudes of a top down corrupted judiciary, this situation may yet go in the Democrats favor, but at least for now we may have dodged a pretty significant electoral/political bullet.

All of that said, there has been much anger aimed at the GOP for being woefully unprepared for this vote, and rightfully so. For sure the party is at best useless and feckless and at worst collaborating with the Democrats on every level and on every issue. This in spite of the fact that Virginia and America in general is still a distinctly if not overwhelmingly conservative or non-crazy-leftist nation (or is it?). And for sure millions of dollars from the DNC and the usual Soros and other Leftist front groups were poured in to buy the victory.

Yes the Virginia and National GOP have much to answer for but at the end of the day, despite all of the aforementioned, we can bitch and moan about the Grifting Oleaginous Parasites until the cows come home, but the reality is is that it's the voters who don't show up that bear the responsibility for yesterday's abomination. Surely Virginians were not clueless about the ramifications of losing this vote and yet how is it that this was able to pass? 'nuff said.

Naturally the criminals who foisted this on us are warning us not to do unto them what they have done to us because that would be un"Democratic" shall we say. It is to vomit:

In a statement to PunchBowl News founder Jake Sherman, Hakeem Jeffries said that Republicans in Florida will suffer further losses if they move forward with redistricting.
 “If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas,” he said.
“We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win.” Jeffries added, “Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Aside from Democrats, speaking of invasive parasitic worms that destroy everything in their path:

A destructive, fast-moving invader is wriggling its way into yards across the US, and officials say Californians should be on alert. Agriculture authorities are sounding the alarm over the Asian jumping worm, a highly invasive species that’s already been spotted in multiple states, including the Golden State. . . The worms are easy to spot, and hard to forget.

They’re smooth, dark gray or brown, with a distinctive flat, milky-white band circling their bodies near the head. Bridging the gap between a gardener’s nightmare and a Klingon’s dream, reports indicate that the invasive Asian jumping worm can flip its body a foot into the air, a violent thrashing behavior that perfectly mirrors the legendary Star Trek delicacy, Gagh.
. ..With no reliable way to eliminate them once established, officials are urging residents to focus on prevention.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• he decision halts the certification process, potentially blocking changes to Virginia’s congressional map, pending the outcome of the appeal. The new map, authorized in a close referendum on Tuesday, heavily favors the Democrats, likely handing the party another four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  Judge Blocks Virginia Redistricting Referendum Certification Over Constitutional Violations.

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s decades-long bluff—built on terror proxies, nuclear brinkmanship, and Western appeasement—collapsed the moment it faced direct force and a changed geopolitical landscape.
  How Iran Committed Suicide
  
• The WSJ: “The blockade alone could cost Iran more than $400 million a day, according to some estimates.”
  Trump Moves to Stifle Iran’s Oil Trade as Regime Skips Islamabad Talks Amid Infighting
  
• “If the current efforts of the Iranian and American negotiators, which we support, result in something like the 2015 agreement, I think it would be a great success,” Lavrov said at a press conference after meeting with Taher al-Baour, the acting foreign minister of one of Libya’s two governments. Libya was torn in half and became infested with terrorists and warlords after Obama attacked the country in 2011 to change its regime.
  Russia Pressures U.S. and Iran to Return to Obama Nuclear Deal
  
• Which has a better track record of telling the truth — the IDF or Hezbollah?
  How the IDF Eliminated 180 Hezbollah Terrorists in Ten Minutes
  
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• Fetterman said, “As things continue, Israel becomes more and more unpopular, and the Democrats are getting more aggressively, aggressively anti-Israel, between the guy with the Nazi tattoo in Maine or the guy in Michigan that describes Israel and Hamas [as] equally evil and things. So, that’s where we’re going.”
  Fetterman: Israel’s Security Will Be Up in the Air if Iran Not Dealt With Now, Dem Wins in 2028
  
• If you're a Democrat senator, you prove the definition of insanity: repeatedly doing the same failed thing and expecting a different result.
  Senate Democrats Go 0 for 5 Trying to Stop Trump on Iran

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "PayPal, one of the world’s largest online payment processors, was integral in raising money to orchestrate the event," the SPLC stated in 2017.
  SPLC Raged At PayPal For Helping Fund Charlottesville Rally — While Bankrolling One Of Its Planners
  
• The Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment.
  The SPLC Was One Giant Fraud
  
• SPLC's indictment for wire fraud and other charges renews scrutiny of liberal charity's offshore banking practices
  SPLC's Offshore Assets Ballooned as Embattled Left-Wing Darling Secretly Funded KKK and Other ‘Violent Extremist Groups’—and Reported Owning Accounts in the Cayman Islands
  
• If the DOJ's indictment is accurate, the SPLC is probably the single greatest funder of "white supremacy" in the entire country.
  Is This The Worst Political Psy-Op In Modern History?
  
• Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other progressives lied when they told us white supremacy was the biggest threat facing the United States, and now that lie has been laid bare.
  SPLC funded the hate they claimed to be fighting while Dems claimed white supremacy was biggest threat

• Daniel Barber is a convicted murderer. He is also an obsessive hater of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He sent a message to ICE leadership under the title “Brutally Goofy Buddha” in which he ranted that “every f*****g one of” ICE agents should be “summarily tried and convicted” and then shot in their “maggot Nazi heads.” But the Feds tracked Barber down, and now the anything-but-goofy Buddha is back in handcuffs.
  Feds Arrest Convicted Murderer Who Said ‘Nazi’ ICE Should Be ‘Executed’
  
• The ruse is fronted by Kennedy relative Tim Shriver, who appears on Fox News in the guise of a perfectly reasonable moderate Democrat, the type we all wish still ­existed.
  Miranda Devine: The left’s ‘Dignity Index’ is a weak attempt to disarm Republicans – and disguise their own hate
  
• If the Biden junta was defined by one thing, it was its consistent and careful targeting of Democrats’ political enemies.
  New Records Prove Biden FBI Spying On Congress ‘Wasn’t An Isolated Incident’

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• President Donald Trump blasted conservative Supreme Court justices on Wednesday over the tariff case decision and predicted the court will rule against him in the birthright citizenship case, adding the court is “already Packed” for Democrats.
  Trump Predicts SCOTUS Will Rule Against Him in Birthright Citizenship Case: Court Is ‘Already Packed’ for Dems
  
• Ortega was granted protection under the Convention Against Torture at the same time as she was ordered deported, preventing removal to her native El Salvador. However, the Trump administration is using third-country deportation agreements to work around restrictions on sending illegals back to their home countries directly, most recently striking an agreement to transfer them to the Congo.
  Army Sgt Lashes Out at ICE for Detaining His Wife… Who Entered the Country Illegally… And Was Subject to Deportation Order.

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• This may be a lull between storms, or maybe sanity is finally tempering the judiciary’s madness.
  A good day in the courts for conservativism
  
• In a 9–8 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that the policy does not violate constitutional limits on government involvement in religion. The court also found that the requirement does not interfere with parents’ authority over their children’s religious upbringing.
  Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law
  
• The Trump administration has taken a series of significant steps against fraud, but so far they’re mostly going it alone.
  Fraud Is Costing Taxpayers Up To Half A Trillion Dollars A Year, And We’re Not Doing Enough To Stop It
  
• Effective new ad results in 6,000 application submissions.
  FAA Levels Up Recruiting: Gamers Targeted for Air Traffic Control Jobs

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that “a Canadian terrorist who burst into a military recruitment service and stabbed soldiers has been given permission to fly to Saudi Arabia and Somalia – even though officials say he ‘continues to pose a significant threat to public safety.’”  They seem to think that the trip will do Ayanle Hassan Ali good, as it will help him become a more devout and observant Muslim, and what could possibly be the problem with that?
  A Jihadi Stabs a Soldier for Allah, and Doctors Come Up With a Remarkable Cure for What Ails Him
  
• Gomez, a Colombian-born activist who is currently running as a Republican for Texas’s 31st District in the House of Representatives, was planning on travelling to London next month to attend a rally organised by veteran anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson.
  Anti-Islam Activist Valentina Gomez Vows to Land in Britain by Boat After Being Banned by Gov’t
  
• A horror story of nightmarish abuse . . . and he’s back on duty!
  A Syrian Muslim ‘Caregiver’ for the Swedish Elderly

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche summed up the case perfectly by saying, ‘The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.’
  ‘FBI Does It Too’: Media Hacks Go All Out To Downplay SPLC Indictment
  
• Amazon’s brief ban—and reversal—of The Camp of the Saints underscores how fragile access to controversial ideas becomes when a single platform controls the marketplace.
  Amazon Briefly Bans, Then Restores ‘The Camp of the Saints’
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• The settlements follow lawsuits against Roblox from other U.S. states, such as Florida and Iowa. On Monday last week, Roblox said it would introduce age-based accounts and stricter parental controls in response to mounting accusations that it is not taking the online safety of its young user base seriously enough.
  Roblox Agrees to Pay $36 Million Over Child Grooming Concerns.

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• ‘Earth Day today feels increasingly detached from the kind of environmental problems that gave rise to it in 1970’
  Heartland Institute Climate Experts Comment on Earth Day

• It's far less about the environment and ecological stewardship than a vehicle to further the Democrat Party agenda, which at its base is an effort to rule citizens rather than represent them, to overtax, overregulate and overstep constitutional boundaries.
  The Dirt On Earth Day
  
• The attorneys general wrote that Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s (S&P) joined the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance, an organization that the attorneys general have warned would violate antitrust laws and would require drastic emissions cuts.
  Exclusive — 23 Republican State Attorneys General Investigate Ratings Agencies Downgrading Energy Producers over ESG Metrics
  
• Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese automobile manufacturer Isuzu Motors Ltd., has been the top-selling low-cab forward commercial truck brand in the U.S. since 1986, with several models including the N-Series Diesel and N-Series Gas, as well as the F-Series, which runs on a Cummins B6.7L diesel engine. But a 2022 Biden-era EPA emissions regulation, which requires heavy-duty commercial vehicles to limit nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions to 0.035 grams for model year (MY) 2027, is still in effect, forcing Isuzu to pause production of its F-Series and N-Series Diesel trucks.
  EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Era Rule Screws Over Top US Truck Maker As Diesel Plans Grind To A Halt

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Here’s a list of the latest crime across America:
  American Crime Blotter: 4/23/26

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• As a solution to racist white colleagues constantly attempting to undermine their minority counterparts, one of the ways encouraged to deal with this issue is for companies to “[transfer] power to the minority individual.
  Wharton School Publishes Research Claiming Minorities Can’t Trust White Colleagues
  
• The university also allocates more money for the Muslim Student Union than every Christian group combined
  Stanford Students Award Drag Group Five Times As Much Funding As Veterans Association
  
• 'Conversations about leading complex organizations at a uniquely complex time'
  Harvard's Board Chair, Obama Official Penny Pritzker, Has a New Podcast—Sponsored by Harvard's Audit Firm

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• The gerrymandering of Virginia will likely hand the Democrats nearly all of the state’s House seats in November, potentially shifting the balance of power in Congress.
  WATCH: How RNC Insiders Prioritized Cornyn & Lindsey Graham Over Virginia’s Gerrymandering.

• “You can’t brag about a huge war chest and then continue to leave Republicans stranded in blue states."
  ‘Where Were You?’: GOP Faces Backlash After Virginia Voters Approve Congressional Map (No where were you Virginians?! -jjs
  
• For whatever reasons of fear, derangement, and the rise of Islamo-Marxism, the party just keeps doubling down on what Americans hate.
  Virginia's redistricting is a Democrat power grab from a party that hates Americans
  
• Old Dominion Democrats seem intent on following the Golden State into the abyss.
  Virginia Outshines California In Political Skullduggery

• According to Newsweek, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis “called a special session to consider legislation on redistricting beginning April 28, setting up the next front in the fight.”
  Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Cautions Florida Against Redistricting After Virginia Win
  
• Florida Senate President Ben Albritton (R) has warned state lawmakers that they cannot advance maps that “favor or disfavor a political party or incumbent,” and that anything they decide is likely to be subject to “significant litigation.” While hailing the Democrats’ gerrymandering in Virginia, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has branded the Florida redistricting effort an “illegal scheme” and vowed to “aggressively target” Republican Florida Representatives Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills, and Brian Mast
  Here’s How Republicans Can Quickly Respond to Virginia’s Gerrymandering.
  
• While the left’s naked power grab may be hypocritical, partisan map-making is not the problem — legally speaking. 
  Dems Win Naked Power Grab In Virginia, Could Lose In Court On Constitutional Grounds

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• eStCru LLC filed for termination roughly one week after Omar submitted an amended financial disclosure that listed the winery as having no value
  Fall From Grapes: Winery Owned by Bro-Fo Omar's Husband Folds One Year After Omar Said It Was Worth Up to $5 Million

  POLITICS

• “DeSantis’ future was on the menu after the two men had lunch at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami a week ago Sunday.”
  Ron DeSantis Apparently Wants a Job in the Trump Administration
  
• The Democrat representative, who served in the Georgia General Assembly before becoming a House member, unexpectedly died after 50 years in elected office and became the fifth incumbent lawmaker in the lower chamber to die in the past 13 months, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution (AJC) and other outlets. His death was confirmed by his office to the AJC on Wednesday.
  Democrat Rep. David Scott Dies In Office
  
• There are a few reasons that NYC will still be standing when Mamdani completes his commie reign of error. One is sheer scale. It's the municipal version of what's going on statewide in California. Yes, people are fleeing in droves, but there are A LOT of people. The population can handle a lot of attrition before it's really noticeable. 
  New York City Will Survive Mamdani, but It Might Not Want To

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• A Canadian woman in her early 20s was killed in the assault, while 13 others were injured.
  Gunman inspired by Columbine goes on deadly shooting spree at Teotihuacan pyramids on anniversary of massacre

• Officers and agents died in a car crash after six clandestine synthetic drug labs were raided in Morelos.
  CIA Agents Killed After Massive Cartel Lab Raid in Mexico
  
• Argentine President Javier Milei has long been an unabashed supporter of Israel. He confirmed that once more Tuesday night as he sang and lit a ceremonial torch at Israel’s 78th Independence Day celebrations.
  Watch: Argentina’s Milei Center Stage Singing at Celebration of Israel
  
• And why JD Vance and Barack Obama took opposite sides in Hungary's election.
  How Hungary Matters
  
• Per the study’s findings, foreign-born population across the EU increased by some 2.1 million between 2024-2025, an amount that, while slightly bellow the 2.6 million increase documented between 2024 and 2024, is still “high by historical standards.”
  Study: Record-Breaking E.U. Migrant Flood Hits 64.2 Million in 2025

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired Wednesday after months of feuding with his Pentagon bosses, particularly over his handling of President Trump’s “Golden Fleet” shipbuilding initiative. Tensions between Phelan, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy War Secretary Stephen Feinberg had been simmering for months, according to the New York Times and a Republican source.
  Navy secretary fired after feud over Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’ with Pentagon leaders, including Hegseth
  
• When Hencely sued Fluor under state law, the military contractor argued his case was preempted by federal law. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court sided with Hencely, reversing a lower court’s ruling that found “Hencely’s claims preempted even though the conduct complained of was neither ordered nor authorized by the Federal Government.”
  Liberal Supreme Court Justices Side With Clarence Thomas On Suicide Bombing Case
  
• In a video posted to X, Hegseth explained why the Biden-era vaccine mandate was being rescinded, calling the previous administration’s requirement “overly broad and not rational” and telling US military personnel “we will not force you.”
  Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Makes Mandatory Annual Flu Vaccine for US Troops Optional

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Because all of JAXA’s rockets are presently grounded due to technical failures, Japan’s space agency has had to turn to Rocket Lab.
  Rocket Lab launches satellites for Japan’s space agency JAXA
  
• Note the flat rocks in the foreground of the panorama, all part of the crater’s rim. Each looks like a large flat paving stone that was very precisely shattered into numerous tiny pieces, all about the same size. Very strange. On Earth you’d assume some craftsman had laid these small pieces down like tiles, but of course, that couldn’t have happened on Mars.
  Curiosity looks at a small crater as it climbs Mount Sharp

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Career officials determined" that the transgender-identifying woman "should be released" with a tracking device.
  Southern Poverty Law Center Pressured Biden Junta To Release Convicted Trans Sex Offender

• The father has been charged with kidnapping by the Justice Department
  FBI Spoils Trans Father’s Plan To Transition Son In Cuba

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Does the Communist Twelver Shi’ite mayor bring a curse? Of course he does.
  Woke Mets Embrace Mamdani, Lose Twelve in a Row
  
• Christian Toto: Tonally bananas update won't please kids, parents or Orwell completists
  ‘Animal Farm’ Targets Capitalism, Not Soviet-Style Repression

  HITHER & YON

• A destructive, fast-moving invader is wriggling its way into yards across the US, and officials say Californians should be on alert. Agriculture authorities are sounding the alarm over the Asian jumping worm, a highly invasive species that’s already been spotted in multiple states, including the Golden State.
  Invasive ‘crazy worms’ confirmed in California, and there’s no way to kill them
  
• Spaghetti with a side of surveillance? Apparently.
  Your Dinner Could Be Spying On You

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