1 1st?

2 OH

3 Perhaps President Trump can nationalize the recently closed refineries in California in the interest of national security. And fast-track the expansion of existing refineries and the building of more in red states that are amenable to high-paying jobs.

"We're better than that!" -Average GOP critter.

4 CBD, I've culled the otters.

5 Hola

6
MUNKEY

7 >>And of course the delightful bonus of stick a thumb in the eye of the rabid environmentalist left never gets old!


Heh.

Old and busted California candidate: Trump is making CA gas prices go up because reasons!

New Hotness: Trump may eliminate a gas tax, now it's your turn, hon!

8 Mad Max.

9 Nothing stops a big man quicker than a thumb in the eye!

10 A reduction in the Federal tax will help, but most of the tax here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia is State tax...seeing gasoline at over $6.50/gal now...

11 CBD, I've culled the otters.
Posted by: Bulg at October 08, 2026 11:01 AM

Don't tell nurse about that.

12 Rubio is giving the Mother of All Speeches now in Athens

he's come a long way since the Water Bottle Incident

13 Guv Braun has suspended the Gas Tax in Indiana and extended it a couple of times. $3.60 /gal, give or take.

14 EV's would solve all that.

15 The tax here in Commiefornia is $ 1.24 a gallon

16 $25 billion in 2025.


That could be recouped by eliminating fraud.

17 Perhaps President Trump can nationalize the recently closed refineries in California in the interest of national security. And fast-track the expansion of existing refineries and the building of more in red states that are amenable to high-paying jobs.

"We're better than that!" -Average GOP critter.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 08, 2026 11:01 AM (jjoN6)
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Let me ask Mitch McConnell about that idea.

18 building a refinery is a huge undertaking

It is, but even worse than that is that its construction spans enough years for a change in the national government. What is OK under the GOP is anathema under the Democrats, especially where Oil & Gas is involved. Ever since that golden-boy light-worker jerked the permit for Dakota Gas, major companies have been damned leery of accumulating hundreds of billions of dollars in sunk costs, only to have their permit jerked on a whim by the Democrat-in-office.

That's what killed the nuclear power industry, and that is what is killing the Oil & Gas industry.

19 14 EV's would solve all that.

Posted by: Leftist with an EV and no sense at October 08, 2026 11:05 AM (RORbl)

Especially in the heat and cold. And Kalifornia, where our electric grid can't hardly handle a heat-wave...

20 Perhaps President Trump can nationalize the recently closed refineries in California in the interest of national security. And fast-track the expansion of existing refineries and the building of more in red states that are amenable to high-paying jobs.

"We're better than that!" -Average GOP critter.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 08, 2026 11:01 AM (jjoN6)
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But they are dirty things!

21 Gas prices here in my neck of SE KS have been a yo-yo recently, with increases and decreases of up to 30-40 cents.

Nice to see Trump make that suggestion. I don't recall him saying that before, though I may have just missed it.

I can't recall hearing any Dem suggest it, or suggesting that any state suspend its own gas tax even temporarily. So much for their concerns about affordability.

22 If it’s just blue states closing refineries why haven’t red states picked up the slack? You’d think Texas and Louisiana would be building them as fast as they can to make up for capacity shut down in California.

I get it takes some time to build refineries. But California has been shutting them down for years.

23 CBD: Offering the slick musings of a refined simian to a barrel full of crude grease monkeys. A bit too oily in the moining for my preferences, but hey...

24 That's what killed the nuclear power industry, and that is what is killing the Oil & Gas industry.
Posted by: NeighSayer at October 08, 2026 11:06 AM
And America, just as they planned.

25 How many decades does one think it'd take to build a new, modern refinery today? State of the art.

It'd likely have to be under a (R) administration or several to even approach completion.

26 Let me ask Mitch McConnell about that idea.
Posted by: John Thune

I recommend against speaking to the dead.

27 >>> 22 If it’s just blue states closing refineries why haven’t red states picked up the slack? You’d think Texas and Louisiana would be building them as fast as they can to make up for capacity shut down in California.

I get it takes some time to build refineries. But California has been shutting them down for years.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 11:08 AM (T+9ay)

Because the shitstain commies created the EPA, like so many other feralgov agencies, to prevent states from acting independently of one another.

28 And refineries have suffered some fires of mysterious origin in recent years, closing even more capacity.

29 >>> 28 And refineries have suffered some fires of mysterious origin in recent years, closing even more capacity.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 08, 2026 11:10 AM (3ZBdr)

Coincidence!!!



Like so many other things in recent years...

30 Average car is driven 12K miles a year and average mpg is 25. Which means the average driver spends less than $100 a year in federal gas tax.

All else being equal sure I’d rather not give that $100 to the govt. But it’s a drop in the bucket in the overall scheme of things.

31 Trump Says He Is Considering Suspending Federal Gas Tax

Lord, I hate this sort of pandering. Either do it or don't. Stop telegraphing your punches. And who's to guarantee that the next Dem administration won't just reverse the suspension? Or, more likely, a judge will rule Trump has no authority to suspend the tax and he'll back down, just as he did with pulling the MFM passes.

I hate sales tax or gas tax "holidays." It reinforces the idea that the State has the right to decide how much of your money it will allow you to keep. And it begs the question: if you can afford to give me a tax holiday, why can't you afford to eliminate the tax completely?

More bukakke theater for the rubes.

32 Refineries must, of necessity, be built close to their major market. They have one major input, crude oil, which can be conveniently delivered by pipeline. But their output is a wide range of motor fuel, aviation fuels, and lubricants, which mostly get get trucked or railed to their users.

33 23 CBD: Offering the slick musings of a refined simian to a barrel full of crude grease monkeys. A bit too oily in the moining for my preferences, but hey...
Posted by: muldoon

I take your comment literally, and personally.

34 22 If it’s just blue states closing refineries why haven’t red states picked up the slack? You’d think Texas and Louisiana would be building them as fast as they can to make up for capacity shut down in California.

I get it takes some time to build refineries. But California has been shutting them down for years.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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Manufacturing a commodity is a low profit rate business is why. For the most part, the US does not export fuel (and until Trump and fracking, we did not export LNG or oil either. So producing for the domestic market is a competitive exercise that yields a low profit rate versus finding and exploiting new oilfields, investments into other fuels, etc. So investment always goes to whatever the CEO, board, and stockholders think is going to be the next big thing yielding above normal profit rates than mundane crap. Same reason power companies don't spend a lot investing in electrical network improvements, gas companies on building new pipelines, etc.

Low margin business that is only competitive with other investment choices when interest rates are rock bottom.

That is why Trump wants US interest rates down in part.

35 30 Average car is driven 12K miles a year and average mpg is 25. Which means the average driver spends less than $100 a year in federal gas tax.

All else being equal sure I’d rather not give that $100 to the govt. But it’s a drop in the bucket in the overall scheme of things.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 11:11 AM (T+9ay)

Then there can be no objection to doing this very minor thing.

36 I buy my lubricants by the quart can.

37 Kalifornia: 63.4¢/gal starting July 1, 2026 is State excise...the 18.4¢/gal Fed excise is not a huge part of the total tax...and the tax isn't even a huge part of the total cost of gas here.

38 Because the shitstain commies created the EPA, like so many other feralgov agencies, to prevent states from acting independently of one another.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 08, 2026 11:10 AM (3mtzY)

That was Nixon.

39 36 I buy my lubricants by the quart can.

Posted by: Asstroglide Pete at October 08, 2026 11:15 AM (EdP2u)

Oil, baby, baby oil!

40 >>> 34

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Manufacturing a commodity is a low profit rate business is why. For the most part, the US does not export fuel (and until Trump and fracking, we did not export LNG or oil either. So producing for the domestic market is a competitive exercise that yields a low profit rate versus finding and exploiting new oilfields, investments into other fuels, etc. So investment always goes to whatever the CEO, board, and stockholders think is going to be the next big thing yielding above normal profit rates than mundane crap. Same reason power companies don't spend a lot investing in electrical network improvements, gas companies on building new pipelines, etc.

Low margin business that is only competitive with other investment choices when interest rates are rock bottom.

That is why Trump wants US interest rates down in part.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:13 AM (E4rtv)

How do these fcking retards think they're going to sell a product they can't produce?

... oh right, MBAs.

41 There is no need to build refineries....there are more than enough mothballed facilities already sitting on the ground if there was will and money to restart them.

42 Let me ask Mitch McConnell about that idea.
Posted by: John Thune at October 08, 2026 11:06 AM (3ZBdr)

Get in line, homo.

43 Lord, I hate this sort of pandering. Either do it or don't. Stop telegraphing your punches. And who's to guarantee that the next Dem administration won't just reverse the suspension? Or, more likely, a judge will rule Trump has no authority to suspend the tax and he'll back down, just as he did with pulling the MFM passes.

I hate sales tax or gas tax "holidays." It reinforces the idea that the State has the right to decide how much of your money it will allow you to keep. And it begs the question: if you can afford to give me a tax holiday, why can't you afford to eliminate the tax completely?

More bukakke theater for the rubes.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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Black and white fallacy does not make for good politics which is why libertarians get their ass handed to them in elections. Some people, particularly those in driving type jobs, are hurting from high fuel prices, so any amelioration of their pain makes them more favorable to retaining GOP in office. And these are generally the productive sort, not the layabouts.

Politics is as much about emotion as it is about logic and deduction.

44 Part of the problem with building new refineries, or even keeping old ones operational, is the massive size of these things. I don't think people realize how big a refinery is.

There's one in NJ that's not even a big one relatively speaking, but it covers almost 1500 acres. That's about 1,200 football fields.

These are yuge complexes that cost billions to develop and probably decades to complete.

45 But their output is a wide range of motor fuel, aviation fuels, and lubricants, which mostly get get trucked or railed to their users.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 08, 2026 11:12 AM (quk5M)

Also, I believe, sulfur for sulfuric acid.

46 41 There is no need to build refineries....there are more than enough mothballed facilities already sitting on the ground if there was will and money to restart them.
Posted by: daggit

Don't want those facilities in my neighborhood. Hate the smell of mothballs.

47 >>Politics is as much about emotion as it is about logic and deduction.

The entire Democrat Party is built on emotion.

48 The gas tax was last updated in 1993. Adjusted for inflation18 cents then would be 45-50 cents today, depending on what measure of inflation is used.

So really we’ve had a yuuuge gas tax cut over the last 33 years keeping it at a constant amount.

49
Talarico in rehab? Ducking an October surprise attack? Rumors are swirling.

50 >>> 38 Because the shitstain commies created the EPA, like so many other feralgov agencies, to prevent states from acting independently of one another.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 08, 2026 11:10 AM (3mtzY)

That was Nixon.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:15 AM (sDWtc)

So? Dipshit should have vetoed it (or never raised the idea, or claimed credit, whatever it was). Which group of *voters*, his or McGovern's, were more excited about this, and OSHA and #)%(&*^#* price controls? Are normal people or commies more supportive of it now?

51 Mama Hated Diesels, So Bad.

52 Walking back or outright eliminating some of the stupid mandated alterations to basic motor fuel would lower costs, and permit some of the mothballed refineries to reopen, too. Shitcan the "ultra-low sulfur" Diesel requirement, for one. And the oxygenate requirement for gasoline. Stick with the "no lead" requirement, because preserves the catalytic converters that make the oxygenate requirement unnecessary.

53 The entire Democrat Party is built on emotion.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2026 11:19 AM

The party of angry white women/wine moms.

54 And refineries have suffered some fires of mysterious origin in recent years, closing even more capacity.

To be fair, a lot of them have been traced to genuine fuckups too. The US Chemical Safety Board has a YouTube channel where they post extremely detailed computer-animated recreations of industrial-scale stupidity. One of the better uses of our tax money.

55 How do these fcking retards think they're going to sell a product they can't produce?

... oh right, MBAs.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Oil is a global market now that US oil can be sold abroad again. Fuel is not currently.

But it is consistent that investment money (which is discretionary spending) will go to what the mgmt/owners/etc think will bring the highest yield. Or in bad times, not be invested at all. Contra Keynes, it is investment increase or lack thereof that drives business cycles--not consumers or government.

And that is also why during Dem administrations, they shut down facilities like in CA that are running at a loss currently. You can only run a factory at a loss for so long before you close it. Future CA environmental laws kicking in made it almost impossible to run a refinery in CA so the companies figured you cannot fight City Hall and folded.

56 49
Talarico in rehab? Ducking an October surprise attack? Rumors are swirling.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 08, 2026 11:20 AM (OkYzo)

Rehab for him would involve the Texas Civil Commitment Center.

57 >>> 54 And refineries have suffered some fires of mysterious origin in recent years, closing even more capacity.
==
To be fair, a lot of them have been traced to genuine fuckups too. The US Chemical Safety Board has a YouTube channel where they post extremely detailed computer-animated recreations of industrial-scale stupidity. One of the better uses of our tax money.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 08, 2026 11:22 AM (2ocoG)

An increasing number of genuine fuckups is a sign of other problems, such as lowering standards for various reasons (not just DIE, but avoidance of hurting fee-fees and such like).

58 There are only 128 refineries in the US....supply side ecoonomics would tell you that even if there was a total abundance of oil, the refinery bottleneck would keep prices high.

Build nuclear. Build refineries.

59 Maybe Talarico got the Russian plague.

60 Also, I believe, sulfur for sulfuric acid.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 08, 2026 11:19 AM (sDWtc)

Mostly stripped out of "sour" natural gas. I remember seeing huge bricks of sulfur adjacent to gas plants in Alberta. Imagine an entire low-rise shopping mall made of solid sulfur. Like that. All been sold off, now.

61 Talarico in rehab? Ducking an October surprise attack? Rumors are swirling.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 08, 2026 11:20 AM

Coke-fueled orgy on Fire Island? Just asking questions, people.

62 And so it begins.

63 >>The party of angry white women/wine moms.

I'm expecting many shrieking articles from angry white women after the Trump administration announced today they are going after people who for years have been discriminating not just American workers but white male Americans in particular.

64 The incentives aren’t there to open refineries. The energy companies have been under attack by Democrats. By the time those new refineries open a lot of the companies theorize that Democrats will make an already thin margin, a loss.

They’ve said this many times. But vote for Democrats, you guys.

BTW, Do the math. Even is the raw material (bbl) is $90, that’s only $2.14 a gallon for the raw material (standard 42 gallons bbl). The current average gas price is $4.35.

65 59 Maybe Talarico got the Russian plague.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 11:25 AM (T+9ay)

His campaign said he had the flu and had to go to ER but is fine and raring to go with those debates.. The ones on CNN, MSNBC they arranged... I made that part up but they did say they agreed to 5 and Paxton said no...

66 44 Part of the problem with building new refineries, or even keeping old ones operational, is the massive size of these things. I don't think people realize how big a refinery is.

There's one in NJ that's not even a big one relatively speaking, but it covers almost 1500 acres. That's about 1,200 football fields.

These are yuge complexes that cost billions to develop and probably decades to complete.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 08, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

So, they are like data centers...

67 >>> 63 The party of angry white women/wine moms.
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I'm expecting many shrieking articles from angry white women after the Trump administration announced today they are going after people who for years have been discriminating not just American workers but white male Americans in particular.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)

Which I'm sure the sooper genius HR bints and friends *bragged* about, in emails to one another.

68 entire Democrat Party is built on emotion.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2026 11:19 AM

The party of angry white women/wine moms.
Posted by: Frank Barone

How dare you exclude us H8er?

69 If it’s just blue states closing refineries why haven’t red states picked up the slack? You’d think Texas and Louisiana would be building them as fast as they can to make up for capacity shut down in California
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Both TX and LA are still loaded with "not until I wet my beak" Republicans and RINOs.

I mean, Cornyn and Cassidy weren't the choice of conservatives, they were the choice of the Party.

70 Mama Hated Diesels, So Bad.
Posted by: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
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And your daddy hated that hot rod Lincoln.

71 52 Walking back or outright eliminating some of the stupid mandated alterations to basic motor fuel would lower costs, and permit some of the mothballed refineries to reopen, too. Shitcan the "ultra-low sulfur" Diesel requirement, for one. And the oxygenate requirement for gasoline. Stick with the "no lead" requirement, because preserves the catalytic converters that make the oxygenate requirement unnecessary.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

From my understanding--oxygenates in fuel stem not from need but from the archaic in tech terms, Clean Air Act of early 1990's. OBD-II computers basically obliterated the need for it due to a better ability to adjust fuel intake for different temperatures to prevent smog and other nasty byproducts.

MTBE was the original oxygenate used until we found it was leaking into water supplies with ill effects and then they started on our current ethanol crap which persists due to corn farmers and at the time, nat sec ideas when we imported oil from abroad of keeping a domestic source of energy. Not really needed now by my understanding.

72 I'm expecting many shrieking articles from angry white women after the Trump administration announced today they are going after people who for years have been discriminating not just American workers but white male Americans in particular.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)

Does this mean my local Post Office staff will no longer look like a Star Wars Fag Cantina during happy hour?

73 “ they are going after people who for years have been discriminating not just American workers but white male Americans in particular.”

So basically every single corporation with an HR department in the country?

74 Perhaps President Trump can nationalize the recently closed refineries in California in the interest of national security. And fast-track the expansion of existing refineries and the building of more in red states that are amenable to high-paying jobs.



===

and then give every tax paying citizen a share!

75 >>Which I'm sure the sooper genius HR bints and friends *bragged* about, in emails to one another.

I have no doubt that years of being able to legally discriminate against white men is how we ended in a place where liberal white women are elevating Clancy to martyr status. Every problem in their lives is somehow the fault of evil white men.

76 65 59 Maybe Talarico got the Russian plague.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 11:25 AM (T+9ay)

His campaign said he had the flu and had to go to ER but is fine and raring to go with those debates.. The ones on CNN, MSNBC they arranged... I made that part up but they did say they agreed to 5 and Paxton said no...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2026 11:27 AM (TeC7T)

You know who gets "the flu"?

77 Sure.

Nationalize all blue State refineries. Then, break ground on as many and more in red States.

Then shut down all the nationalized Blue state refineries and harvest them for parts and personnel at the new facilities.

Like the Soviets did to East Germany.

I also suggest blowing up the Hoover dam to further starve the West Coast of water and power.

78 73 “ they are going after people who for years have been discriminating not just American workers but white male Americans in particular.”

So basically every single corporation with an HR department in the country?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 11:30 AM (T+9ay)

I was wondering why NCIS replaced a long time black actor with a long time returning white actor...and then launched their NY show with 4 definite white people, 1 maybe white person (never know if they gets points b/c someone is 1/4 something) and LL Cool J as the lone black actor...

79
You’d think Texas and Louisiana would be building them as fast as they can to make up for capacity shut down in California.

I get it takes some time to build refineries. But California has been shutting them down for years.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 11:08 AM (T+9ay)

______________

Oil companies are understandably leery of tying up enormous amounts of capital for a commodity production subject to regulatory whims. Much easier to debottleneck existing plants.

80 Nice. From zerohedge. Most of my coworkers in Ohio were from India. In retrospect, those should have been Americans.

First, US ⁠Vice President JD Vance ​said on Thursday that the ‌federal government is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud.

“If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” said Vice President JD Vance in a White House news conference announcing the decision.

Secretary of Labor Keith ​Sonderling added that some of ⁠the largest ⁠IT firms ⁠in the ​world would also be suspended ​from that ⁠program, including Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCO and Capgemini, as well ⁠as Adobe.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to ⁠a request for comment.

81 DEI retardation came in with hussein oblama

82 76 65 59 Maybe Talarico got the Russian plague.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 08, 2026 11:25 AM (T+9ay)

His campaign said he had the flu and had to go to ER but is fine and raring to go with those debates.. The ones on CNN, MSNBC they arranged... I made that part up but they did say they agreed to 5 and Paxton said no...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2026 11:27 AM (TeC7T)

You know who gets "the flu"?
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 08, 2026 11:31 AM (RaFl0)

Awfully early in the season for flu...and awfully long for a relatively healthy young male to be down with it...

83 Only way for a straight white male to get ahead is to start a business. In corporate America there is no future.

84 Currently, my two favorite copes from the left are:

"well, our voters are going to show up on Election Day. Trump's threats to use the USPS scared them away from early voting and voting by mail."

and

"well, the reason pollsters are having such a difficult time reaching conservative and rural voters is because they're not planning on voting. so the polls are actually accurate."

85 Part of the problem with building new refineries, or even keeping old ones operational, is the massive size of these things. I don't think people realize how big a refinery is.

There's one in NJ that's not even a big one relatively speaking, but it covers almost 1500 acres. That's about 1,200 football fields.

These are yuge complexes that cost billions to develop and probably decades to complete.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 08, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

So, they are like data centers...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 08, 2026 11:27 AM (tOcjL)
____

Significantly larger than most existing datacenters, although the newest "super" AI datacenters (mostly those in proposed staged only) are bigger.

86 MTBE was the original oxygenate used until we found it was leaking into water supplies with ill effects and then they started on our current ethanol crap which persists due to corn farmers and at the time, nat sec ideas when we imported oil from abroad of keeping a domestic source of energy. Not really needed now by my understanding.
Posted by: whig at October 08, 2026 11:29 AM (E4rtv)

Yes, the oxygenate requirement is an anachronism. No longer "needed" to protect the environment. They reduce the energy content of the fuel, meaning you have to burn more of it to get the same miles. And cause the fuel to be costlier to make. Shitcan the oxygenate requirement, and you would get cheaper gasoline, and more miles per gallon using it.

87
Talarico in rehab? Ducking an October surprise attack? Rumors are swirling.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Measuring the curtains.

88 47 >>Politics is as much about emotion as it is about logic and deduction.

The entire Democrat Party is built on emotion.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Have to use a bit of both in politics or in life itself as politics is a human endeavor in where people can rightly disagree about means and ends in a society.

89 Secretary of Labor Keith ​Sonderling added that some of ⁠the largest ⁠IT firms ⁠in the ​world would also be suspended ​from that ⁠program, including Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCO and Capgemini, as well ⁠as Adobe.


==

Huge!

90 First, US ⁠Vice President JD Vance ​said on Thursday that the ‌federal government is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud.

—

Gee a company with an Indian CEO only hired Indians? I’m fucking shocked man.

91 80 Microsoft did not immediately respond to ⁠a request for comment.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 08, 2026 11:32 AM (Sco7b)

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There's also a new $70,000 fee to use OPT for an individual that's being proposed (it'll go through the standard rule-making process so it survives court challenges on APA grounds).

92 tech companies been doing it for the last 27 years, the h1-b fraud

93 There's also a new $70,000 fee to use OPT for an individual t

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another huge fraud highway

94 >>"well, the reason pollsters are having such a difficult time reaching conservative and rural voters is because they're not planning on voting. so the polls are actually accurate."

I saw a clip from CNN where they were showing the packed turnout from the Trump rally in San Antonio yesterday. The host asked the guest why there so many people there when the polls show Talarico doing well.

The guest, not a conservative, said "Well, some times the polls are wrong.".

No way, really?

95 84 Currently, my two favorite copes from the left are:

"well, our voters are going to show up on Election Day. Trump's threats to use the USPS scared them away from early voting and voting by mail."

and

"well, the reason pollsters are having such a difficult time reaching conservative and rural voters is because they're not planning on voting. so the polls are actually accurate."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 08, 2026 11:34 AM (3cUTc)

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All while turnout is down for Democrats in OH, MI, NC, and GA in early voting.

It's really down in black districts.

I think some combination of factors have scared the ballot harvesting regime (both legal and illegal, depending on the state) into standing down. A few key arrests and convictions over the last year, USAID funding (short for the whole fed grant system), and election monitors Harmeet Dhillon promised.

96 The refinery shortage will become acute when we begin to extract the petro products from Venezuela. Unless refineries are built there with direct shipments to the US.

This is probably one of the reasons we haven't leveled Iran's petro infrastructure. We'll need it until (if) we get more domestic production capacity online.

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The Morning Report — 10/8 /26

Good morning kids. Let me say that as repulsive and distasteful as I find the likes of Bernie Sanders, Titty Caca Ocasio-Cortez and of course the Mamdani/El sayeds, I know they're coming for my throat and my bank account. So I can deal with knife-wielding terrorists and tyrants heading straight at me. But some traitorous scumbag eager to plunge a shiv in my back is something else entirely. So, with that be it resolved that Tom Tillis and everyone like him in the GOP, the Grifting Oleaginous Parasite Party must be completely and utterly destroyed. Even if it means losing seats in Congress or perhaps even the Presidency, we must have an effective, engaged and dedicated political party that truly reflects and represents our will and recognizes the existential threat that comes from the Democrat Party and who and what it represents. And with that, as the set-up you can guess the rest, but here it is anyway as your emetic for the day:

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said the Republican Party should ditch President Donald Trump’s populism and “go back” to its conservative core.

To a repugnant desiccated coprolite like Tillis, that means surrender to the Left and Islam, and let us lying, criminal traitorous scumbags wet our beaks in peace! If somehow the supposed Blue wave fails to materialize come the Midterms, well hopefully we won't be saddled with a fresh crop of Tillises, which means President Trump's agenda for his final two years is likely dead in the water, which would be exactly the same thing but without impeachments, or perhaps with impeachments depending upon the status of J.D. Vance, that is railroad him as well and install Mike Johnson or Hakeem Jeffries as POTUS?!

If all that isn't enough to gag a maggot, I give you the following items.

Jessica Valenti, a feminist writer and creator of the Substack “Abortion, Every Day,” called abortion “an affordability issue,” and contended that “you’d be hard pressed to find something more important to your financial life than whether or not to have a child, than whether or not that you’re gonna be forced into pregnancy, or not even just forced into pregnancy, but forced into massive medical debt because your pregnancy goes wrong and you can’t get an abortion.” 

Once again we have the Democrat/Left giving a very unsubtle green light to engage in infanticide. Postpartum by multiple trimesters!

The Lindsay Clancy Social Contagion feels even more real after this latest report about a Texas mother accused of trying to murder her two small children. One child is just ten months old. The other is three years old.

Well it's Texas so I'm sure if James Talarico should defeat Ken Paxton, he'll get right on this. That is make this a common occurrence!

Ugh. Even with this, and in the wake of yesterday being the third anniversary of the Islamic Mass wave of butchery from Gaza which the aforementioned story is Islamic in its theme... For some reason I'm still optimistic about the future, as you can see from my posting the essay about Marco Rubio up top. Y aqui

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is currently traveling to Iceland, Greece, and Portugal, stood where the West was born and urged our allies to reject its decline. The imagery was stunning, but the message was more important — it's something that's been a theme throughout Rubio's time at the State Department over the last 20 months: We must maintain the values that make us great. 

When was the last time any real American leader spoke this way and actually meant it?! Should he, by some miracle, become President at some point in the future he will be outstanding (his baggage from his early days, in particular the Gang of 8 amnesty foolishness), and of course the opposition from the Democrat/Left and worse the Tom Tillis saboteurs of the GOP should they still be a factor.

And so here's to better days, but for now I bid you all to have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• We take the West’s conception of these things  heroism, honor, duty – we take these things for granted. We assume that these somehow are universal to all people in all times and in all places. They are not.
  Wow! Marco Knocks It Out of the Park — Again — With a Speech on Protecting Western Values

(His 8 years as POTUS, whenever that is, will be incredible! - jjs)

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Yawn! - jjs
  Anti-Trump Greasy Bastard California Gov. Gavin Newsom Calls For Invoking 25th Amendment

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

• The southern Ohio community made famous by Vice President JD Vance’s childhood memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” has been rapidly colonized by thousands of migrants from Uzbekistan who run shady, accident-prone trucking operations with glaring red flags…
  Heavy load to Bear JD Vance’s hometown overrun with illegal migrants who operate shady trucking businesses
  
• Economic security is “just as important to national security as the physical border,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief Rodney Scott said on Tuesday.
  Exclusive – Rodney Scott on CBP’s Economic Security Role: ‘No Reason to Protect the Borders if the Rest of the Country Is a 3rd World Nation’

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• Sharaa’s presence in Riyadh was notable for its timing, occurring amid a dramatic escalation in the conflict between the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization of Yemen and the legitimate government of that country, backed by Saudi Arabia.
  Syria’s Jihadi President Visits Saudi Arabia, Offering Support Against Houthis
  
• Control the passageways, control the gates of your enemies, and you rule the world.
  Pax Americana on the Seas

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY

• The latest assessment puts the number of terrorists who participated in the assault at approximately 6,000.
  Israel Says It Has Killed Two-Thirds Of October 7 Attackers, Vows To Hunt Down The Rest (1.5 billion Muslims on planet Earth, let the hunting commence! - jjs)
  
• This follows multiple Palestinian terrorist attacks in the area recently, including the one that killed a father preparing for Yom Kippur, and the one that put Ambassador Yechiel Leiter’s son in critical condition. The Palestinian Authority financially rewards terrorists who kill Israelis. Yet Westerners keep pretending Israelis are the source of the problems there.
  Hamas, "Palestinians" Mark Oct. 7 by Celebrating and Attacking Israeli Shepherds
  
• 'I thought the worst I've seen in my life is what ISIS has done in Iraq and Syria...I have never imagined saying I've seen something worse'
  ‘I Couldn’t Breathe’: Watch Arabs React After Screening Footage Of Hamas Slaughtering Civilians
  
• This is the test of our time; we are failing.
  People Want To Forget October 7. America Has To Remember.
  
• “It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children.”
  Mamdani Marks October 7 by Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide’

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• “We really have 300 troublemakers out of 100,000 Somali people here. It’s a small number. But of that 300, 50 need to go to jail soon, because the 50 are the leadership. It may not be official leadership, but they’re the ones carrying the guns and shooting at other people. So, half of them need to be charged federally with RICO. We are working with the feds."
  MN Sheriff: If We Don’t Fix Somali Gang Issue, We’ll Have 200-Year Legacy Like Parts of Europe
  
• The scheme ran out of call centers in India. Scammers there worked the phones, and Thakkar handled the money on the American end. He collected the cash and gold taken from victims, then moved it along. The proceeds were shipped to Los Angeles and New York before being laundered overseas.
  Jury Convicts Indian National in $150 Million Elder Fraud Scheme

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• “dismissing speculation that he might quickly retire to ensure Donald Trump can get a successor confirmed,” Bloomberg Law reported.
  Report: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Not Retiring, Even if Democrats Win Senate

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

• According to Levin, much of what is happening in France reflects some Democrats’ vision for the United States, adding that without President Donald Trump, the country could face the same fate.
  Levin: If Not for Trump, the United States Would Be France Right Now
  
• The New York Times’ Brazil coverage offers a revealing glimpse into how the Left thinks elections are supposed to work.
  The Left Doesn’t Count Votes. It Finds Them.

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud was arrested Tuesday.
  Somali Man Accused Of Plotting Mall Of America Attack In Name Of ISIS
  
• “Every woman that’s in the north of France has been raped along the journey. Some of the men too.”
  UK Muslim Minister Admits Most Muslim Migrants are Rapists
  
• Look to Europe for the perils of ignoring the threat.
  Why Islam Threatens Liberty

  SHAMPEACHMENTS (past, present & future), 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• All Americans will bear the brunt of elected officials’ failure to justly punish Jack Smith and others who weaponized the federal government against conservatives.
  If Jack Smith’s Goons Don’t Pay For Their Crimes, Innocent Americans Will (and if Smith doesn't swing from the gallows! - jjs)

  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The Lindsay Clancy Social Contagion feels even more real after this latest report about a Texas mother accused of trying to murder her two small children. One child is just ten months old. The other is three years old.
  Yet Another Mother Accused of Trying to Kill Her Small Children
  
• The accuser's apparent Instagram profile shows similar behavior.
  Cornell Accuser Did Bodybuilding Poses During Orgy She Later Claimed Was Gang Rape
  
• Two decades later, a spectacular allegation of gang rape at a prestigious university has again seized the public’s attention—this time at Cornell. Here, however, the response of Democratic statewide officials has been very different. Both Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James have seemed eager to exploit the case for political advantage at the expense of ensuring fairness to all sides. And national Democrats have been cheering them on.
  In Cornell Sexual Assault Case, Democrats Forget the Lessons of the Duke Lacrosse Scandal

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Nationwide survey from Yale’s Buckley Institute finds widespread support for socialism, censorship among America’s undergraduates
  American College Students Prefer Socialism to Capitalism, Survey Finds
  
• From designed courses to establish “social justice advocacy” among students, to a course specifically studying “whiteness,” these three courses are sure to raise a few eyebrows.
  Top 3 Most Outrageous DEI Courses Found in New University Catalogs

  ABORTION

• “Voters understand it when you are actually talking about it, and you’re bringing it up. If you’re not bringing it up, then of course not,” she added. 
  Leftists Link Killing Unborn Babies in Abortions to ‘Affordability’ Ahead of Midterms

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

• The company that inked a deal with Jackson's cousins and in-laws to build the tower received $180,000 in taxpayer funds
  Troy Jackson Touted New Cell Phone Tower for His Rural Town. It Was Built on His Family's Land.

  GRIFTING OLEAGENOUS PARASITES — RINO SCUM SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Translation: Surrender to the Left and Islam, and let us wet our beaks in peace! Tillis is cancer - jjs
  Tillis: GOP Should Ditch Trump Populism, ‘Go Back’ to Conservative Principles

  POLITICS

• Every accusation is a confession. Speaking of which, two polls just dropped. They’re not receiving much mainstream news coverage, mostly because the media loathes the results. The first poll undermines 4,131 days of a “literally Hitler” PR campaign. It’s the final solution to the mashugana Trump-is-Hitler narrative.
  Shock Polls: Dems TWICE As Likely to Support Hitler, and Trump’s Popularity Soars With Young Voters
  
• "The bottom line is this: Republicans, right now, are in a much stronger position than they have been, not just compared to eight years ago, but over the long term as well, the relative health of the Republican Party, at least in terms of party registration, is pretty gosh darn good relative to the Democrats," Enten explained.
  These Numbers Should Terrify Democrats Ahead of the Midterms
  
• Marsha Blackburn says Tennessee will "stand tall as a red wall of conservatism."
  EXCLUSIVE: Trump To Hold Saturday Rally In Tennessee, Aims To ‘Supercharge’ Base
  
• . . . to help inform voters of what’s at stake this election season.
  Here’s Every Major 2026 Ballot Initiative You Need To Know About
  
• El-Sayed is calling his shot and prognosticating a seven-point victory over Republican Mike Rogers in the state’s US Senate race. The picture being painted by insiders, however, is of a hypercompetitive contest with a number of outstanding questions that will ultimately decide it.
  Abdul El-Sayed’s big, unearned ego might cost him Michigan (Benson, Nessel and Whitmer have the cheat machine in overdrive - jjs)

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• At least eight people were injured, some seriously, after a knifeman entered a school in northern Poland and attacked students and teachers. (common sense Polish knife control! - jjs)
  Knifeman Arrested After Rampage Attack at Polish High School
  
• The U.S. State Department has also formally requested more information on the first incident of “pneumonia of unknown origin” from Russia.
  WHO Investigating Second Suspected ‘Plague’ Death Reportedly Associated with Siberian Lab
  
• Economic stagnation, failing public services, immigration, and political cowardice are pushing the country toward repeated cycles of violent unrest.
  France’s Slow-Motion Collapse
  
• Europe’s decline warns America what happens when a civilization loses the confidence to defend its culture, institutions, and national purpose.<
  So Goes Europe
  
• Senator and presidential front-running candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, secured their best electoral performance in four decades during Sunday’s general elections. The results also automatically triggered an upcoming October 25 presidential runoff between Bolsonaro of the PL party and current incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the far-left Workers’ Party (PT).
  Conservative Sweep in Brazilian Congress Confirmed

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Kyiv’s “Operation Vivaldi” keeps pounding away, driving Russian forces back and liberating villages in the Donetsk region, erasing most of Moscow’s (meager) gains of the last year... Even his hold on Crimea is weaker than it was.
  Putin and Russia are losing — the least desperate move is to accept a truce

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The Register reports that an FBI spokesperson stated, “The bureau continues to aggressively investigate the recent cyber incident allegedly involving ShinyHunters, having already worked with partners to arrest multiple subjects and we will spare no resource in bringing each of the responsible individuals to justice.”
  Feds Arrest Multiple Suspects in ‘ShinyHunters’ Hack that Targeted FBI

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz recently projected that AI’s impact on healthcare costs is “going to get worse before it gets better.”<
  Blue Cross Blue Shield Assoc. Says AI Coding Tools Increased Costs by Nearly $1 Billion/a>
  
• Americans do not buy longevity. They buy the right to be seen NOW.
  Daddy Healthbucks Strolls the Midway

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• In line with the space policy announced by Trump in August 2026, the Department of Transportation yesterday announced five specific changes to the FAA’s Part 450 rocket launch and spacecraft re-entry regulations that will eliminate or reduce paperwork and streamline the licensing process.
  Transportation Department eliminates or reduces launch and re-entry licensing regulations
  
• A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs, highlighting features the mission’s scientists have long been waiting to see up close.
  Curiosity’s future travels as seen in morning light

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• When the laughs are never the point.
  The Leftist Tilt of ‘Mamdani Night Live’
  
• The problem with Kazan’s East Of Eden is that it tries to understand evil without first understanding goodness.
  Netflix’s East Of Eden Has No Knowledge Of Good And Evil
  
• Digger, Hollywood’s latest piece of pro-Global Warming, anti-Western civilization propaganda, opened worldwide to a brutal $28 million.
  Global Warming Screed ‘Digger’ Flops All Over the Globe
  
• Christian Toto: Director Aaron Sorkin's anti-Trump screed bends truth in key scene
  The Shocking Misinformation Shared by ‘The Social Reckoning’
  
• . . . down from 74 percent 25 years ago.
  Report Says Hollywood Spends Just 42 Percent of Production Budgets in U.S.

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