The Morning Report - 4/1/22

Good morning, kids. April Fool's Day. The weekend is here and yet again, while the Biden Spongiform Encephelopathy continues to physically eat away at the frontal lobes of the man "elected" president by 81 million ballots (barely 25% of them cast by actual individual voters), it has only served to enhance his ugly, thuggish personality that has only grown uglier and more thuggish over the past 50 years of embellishing his bank account at the expense of the American taxpayer and our national security.

Whether he, or really the Klain Kalorama Komintern controlling his mouth (and having less and less control over it with each passing week) understand or even give a damn that killing off the fossil fuel industry will not only not lead to a green, clean utopia where polar bears will knock on your door, give you a "bear hug" and slip you the tongue for driving a Prius but absolutely turn is into a dystopian nightmare of disease, starvation and early death. If we're lucky. Before that happens, the figurative slitting of our own economic throats will give rise to a bevy of international throat-slitters that will make us yearn for the relative cuddliness of Vladimir Putin.

So, what's a globalist commie to do when their planned demolition of society to pave the way for the glorious remaking of it in their own image goes a little too well? Meaning, skyrocketing gasoline prices cascading into stagflation across the board just as an election season heats up? Invoke a well-tried Leftist mantra: "The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves."

Biden urged oil companies to start producing more oil, threatening to punish them if they do not respond.

The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] accused oil companies of “hoarding” federal oil leases, announcing a new “use it or lose it” plan, where he would charge companies more fees if they failed to develop their oil leases on federal land or even take them away.

“[T]hey can put those profits to productive use by producing more oils, restarting idle wells, or producing on sites they are already leasing,” Biden said.

He acknowledged it took “months, not days” to ramp up production, announcing he would release one million barrels of oil per day to help fight shortages in the meantime.

Biden told reporters his efforts could bring down gas prices as much as 35 cents a gallon. . .

. . . “This is not the time to sit on record profits. It’s time to step up for the good of our country,” he said.

But Biden did not offer any proposals to reduce the regulatory and environmental burdens that oil companies face, which only increase the cost of oil or gas. He also did not announce a plan to fast track or speed up new leases after spending his presidency trying to ban oil leases on federal land altogether.

Instead, the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] said, he would “double down” on his clean energy agenda to “speed the transition to a clean energy future.”

“Ultimately, we and the whole world need to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels altogether,” he said.

So, blame the evil money-grubbing bastards for hoarding profits and sitting on drilling leases yet at the same time blame Putin. Hold out the Arafat olive branch arm by invoking patriotism and then brandish the Arafat pistol-packing arm and force them to shoot themselves in the head with it. Aside from the dementia, you know Joey Soft-Serve did not write those words. It reeks of Stalinist phraseology the same way the Bolsheviks of yore went after the Kulaks.

In the here and now, what he's saying is, Gasoline = Evil! Getting my party wiped out in the midterms = Even More Evilerer!

The latest amount of U.S. oil release being considered, which is equivalent to about two days of global demand, would mark the third time the United States has tapped its strategic reserves in the past six months, and would be the largest release in the near 50-year history of the SPR. . .

. . . High gasoline prices are a political liability for Biden and his Democratic Party as they seek to retain control of Congress in November elections.

Given that the United States is taking a "muscular stance toward Moscow, promising more sanctions if Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, we believe the SPR release is being used as a tool to blunt the impact of these foreign policy decisions for U.S. consumers," RBC Capital said in a note to clients.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said last week that the United States and its allies in the IEA were discussing a further coordinated release from storage.

Let me say that I am no special pleader for the fossil fuel industry. Like Big Pharma before them in the push to foist national healthcare on us and most recently these unnecessary at best and lethal at worst vaccines on us for the General Tso's Sickness, corporate America has gotten in bed with the Junta for fun and profit. The fun part is subjugating and lording over us filthy, ignorant lumpenproles. But, at least some of the oil execs told the Junta to go pound sand by refusing to be roasted in front of some kangaroo congressional committee.

The solution is absolutely simple. Stop this green madness and drill for every last subatomic particle of oil, coal and natural gas. Of course, for many reasons, that is a non-starter. It's ironic in the extreme that the environmentalist movement itself, if not created out of whole cloth by the old Soviet Union's KGB, was thoroughly coopted by them back around the first Earth Day in 1970. What a co-iny-dink; it turns out it was Lenin's birthday. The Junta gets the uninformed all wee-wee'd up about Putin being a tyrant when the greatest extension of Russian tyranny - The Environmental Protection Agency - has been absolutely strangling progress, economic growth and prosperity since Richard Nixon got bamboozled into creating it as a way to make the Left like him. Sound familiar?

In fact every rotten thing about the counterculture going back 60 years was a communist plot created in Moscow to destabilize and destroy us from within. And with the Soviets gone the Red Chinese have taken over and ramped that up to eleventy-leven.

It cannot be said often or loudly enough:

Everything you eat, wear, consume or otherwise come in contact with is either made in whole or in part by some form of carbon compound that is found in oil, coal, or natural gas. Until the free market, via innovation, discovery via experimentation or sheer dumb luck discovers alternate materials and processes that give us everything we need to sustain and improve our lives at a lower cost than that of fossil fuels, then forcing us to do otherwise by decree is tantamount to mass murder, sooner or later. Not just because of hurling us back a few hundred years in terms of quality and length of life, but opening the floodgates for global tyrants who won't go green to subjugate those of us who won't freeze and starve to death first. Or won't be shot into a mass grave for protesting.

Have a good weekend.

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The U.S. should follow China's lead in promoting masculinity in schools."
  Making Men
  
• "The legislature has cooked up a plan to arrest anyone who makes politicians or certain groups feel 'uncomfortable.'"
  In Vermont, a Raw Attack on Free Speech
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "Deconstructing the reality dysphoria dialogue."
  Lost in Trans-lation
  
• Glenn H. Reynolds: "Censors always claim they’re shutting down lies in defense of the public. The trouble is that the censors in America are no more trustworthy than Putin’s bureaucrats are. They tend to silence things that make them look bad in favor of things that make them look good. That just means that problems aren’t noticed until they become too bad to ignore."
  Not Just Russia: America Has a Problem Speaking Truth to Power
  
• "The remedies we need to try."
  How to Save or Destroy an American City

THE UKRAINIAN FRONT
• "Ukraine won’t sign a peace agreement unless Russia gets out of the country -- completely."
  Ukraine Updates: Putin’s Advisors Keeping Him in the Dark, Fighting Amplifies in East Ukraine
  
• "The draft of men ages 18 to 27 will run from April 1st to July 15th."
  Putin Orders Draft of 135,000 Amid Difficulties in Ukraine War
  
• "While the Ukraine people might not have been interested in fighting Russia before, its entire population now has good cause to fight, and their blood is up. Even if Russia should now call for a peace settlement, the Ukraine might not be interested until it has pushed Russia back a lot more, maybe even entirely."
  The Ukraine War: Increasing Ukrainian Gains in the Past Week
  
• "How will Putin’s war end — if it ends at all?"
  Ukraine Outcomes: Promise and Peril
  
• "War has a power that quickly saps us of the ability to ask basic questions and make rational decisions. War’s most seasoned practitioners know this and exploit it. Hit hard, hit fast, control the media narrative and much can be accomplished before anyone has a chance to figure out why the fighting began in the first place or what the end goal is."
  The West's Difficult Path to Peace
  
• "When existing arrangements are fundamentally altered, a new order must emerge as a practical accommodation to reality."
  The Geopolitical Consequences of the Ukraine War
  
• "America and the West writ large must brace for what is sure to be a landmark year for weaponized military hacking."
  Russia Escalates Its Cyber-War. What Will the U.S. Do About It? 
  
• Robert Spencer: ". . . While European leaders back away."
  American Leftist Media Hails Biden’s Poland Speech as Reaganesque
  
• "Most Americans have no idea how losing the petrodollar and global hegemony as the world’s lone superpower would degrade America’s economy. "
  Buckle Up If You Think Crippling Sanctions on China for Supporting Russia Is the Way to Go

  DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Biden did not offer any proposals to reduce the regulatory and environmental burdens that oil companies face, which only increase the cost of oil or gas. He also did not announce a plan to fast track or speed up new leases after spending his presidency trying to ban oil leases on federal land altogether. Instead, the president said, he would “double down” on his clean energy agenda to “speed the transition to a clean energy future.” (translation: the beatings will continue until morale improves - jjs)
  Drill, Baby, Drill: Joe Biden Urges Oil Companies to Produce More Oil and "Double Down" on Clean Energy
  
• "The latest amount of U.S. oil release being considered, which is equivalent to about two days of global demand, would mark the third time the United States has tapped its strategic reserves in the past six months, and would be the largest release in the near 50-year history of the SPR."
  Biden Plans Record Oil Reserve Release After Failing Twice To Lower Prices
  
• "It’s the largest release from the SPR in history. And for the [so-called quote-unquote "president"], it represents perhaps his last chance to salvage his party’s chances of maintaining control of Congress before the midterm elections bury the Democrats in a red wave. But is this the reason the SPR was created in the first place? What’s so “strategic” about saving Biden’s ass? Indeed, the criteria for releasing the reserve are vague at best. And Biden is taking full advantage of that."
  Was the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Created to Save a So-Called Quote-Unquote "president's" Political Hide?
  
• Cars.com added that “55% of non-EV owners indicate they are considering an EV for their next purchase, and more than two-thirds would consider switching to electric if gas prices keep rising.” However, 52% of Americans consider cost to be a salient obstacle to buying an electric vehicle. (if this is accurate, it is yet another shocking indicator of the ignorance of way too many Americans - jjs)
  In Line With White House Hopes, Rising Gas Prices Lead To Surge In Electric Car Interest

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "The war in Ukraine may cause the climate movement to meet its end."
  Can Ukraine Kill Climate Change?
  
• "Climate change is the unofficial state religion of the Biden [junta], and it has a disturbing number of wealthy and powerful adherents."
  The "Religiofication" of Climate Change

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "Is the January 6 Committee itself actually a criminal conspiracy?"
  The Conspiracy to Get the Conspirators
  
• That this horrid, venal, evil harridan dares comment on one of America's finest jurists and citizens is beyond the pale.
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi Says Clarence Thomas Should Have Never Been Appointed To SCOTUS
  
• Julie Kelly: "For years, congressional Republicans promised to hold FBI officials culpable for various scandals but failed to act."
  More Scandals Envelop the Scandalous FBI
  
• "Exploiting her text messages to conduct another 'high-tech lynching.'"
  The Left Smears Virginia Thomas to Delegitimize Justice Thomas

  AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "Government pharmacists, physicians, and nurses have violated their oaths and obligations to protect patient safety."
  Vaccine Malpractice
  
• "Well, this is awkward."
  "100 Per Cent Fully Vaccinated" Cruise Ship Suffers Chinese COVID Outbreak
  
• "It only takes that one person who kept the tradition alive to give up and move on before they’re gone."
  Culture Lost: How Two Years of Chinese Covid Cracked and Strained Our Traditions

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "A student data breach in New York City raises the question: Should schools be in the business of collecting highly sensitive personal information?"
  This Will Go On Your Permanent Record
  
• "Today’s blacklist story came and went so quickly that no one in the press really ever had a chance to cover it. I however want to highlight it today because it tells us a great deal about today’s bankrupt academic culture, and its paper tiger nature if challenged."
  Pushback: University's Blacklisting of a Student Quickly Ends When Confronted by Lawyer
  
• "Why not everyone has to go to an institution of 'higher learning.'”
  Ditching College
  
• "Welcome to leftist education." (paging Susan Collins! - jjs)
  Racial Profiling and Kiddie Porn Replace the Three Rs in Maine’s K-12 Classrooms

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “We’re going to take it into our own hands,” the candidate said. “We’re going to finish President Trump’s wall. On Day One, I will issue a declaration of invasion, we’re gonna send our troops down to the border, Arizona National Guard troops, and we’re going to arm them and allow them to arrest and detain people until we process them and send them back over the border. It’s pretty simple. You protect your people, and that needs to be done, and right now our government’s failing on that the states are going to have to protect our border.”
  Republican AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake Vows To Declare 'Invasion," Deploy Troops To Border On Day One
  
• "The Obama administration didn’t exactly have an admirable record when it came to border security, yet [Jeh] Johnson has been critical of the deterioration of the border on Biden’s watch. Back in September, he declared, 'We have to get control of our borders.'”
  Obama's DHS Secretary Calls Biden Border Crisis "Unsustainable"
  
• "Another dangerous, illegal migrant on Joe Biden's open border." (the spark-of-divinity boys strike again - jjs)
  Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges

  THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

• "Overall, Zuckerberg spent $400 million in 2020 — only $61 million short of the $461 million the Democrat National Committee (DNC) spent in both 2019 and 2020. The explosive documentary details just how these left-wing operatives sprinkled 'Zuck Bucks' in various areas around the country to influence the election. All of this is documented via 990 forms non-profit groups file with the IRS."
  Documentary Blows the Lid off the $400 Million Zuckerberg Effort to Elect Biden

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• “The commission ruled it had found probable cause that both the Clinton campaign and the DNC had violated election law by not being ‘sufficiently specific’ about the purpose of the payments and not including detailed information about Fusion GPS in the disclosure forms.”
  FEC Fines Hillary’s 2016 Campaign, DNC for Lying About Dossier Payments
  
• Margot Cleveland: "Thursday’s oral arguments proved that even if Sussmann is guilty, convicting him is not going to be an easy task."
  5 Key Takeaways From Clinton Lawyer Michael Sussmann’s Latest Attempt To Get Criminal Charges Dismissed

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "The toxic language and ideology of activists who hijack the Israeli/Palestinian debate."
  McGill and Tufts Mobilize Against Israel

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• David Harsanyi: "If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has an ethical obligation to recuse himself from all cases related to the Jan. 6 riots because his wife Ginni has opinions on the matter, as most Democrats contend, it’s clear that President Joe Biden has a moral responsibility to step back from any more decisions concerning Ukraine and China."
  Biden Must Recuse From Foreign Policy Under Dems' Clarence Thomas Standard
  
• "Recent revelations from Hunter Biden's laptop and elsewhere raise serious questions of influence peddling."
  Even the Big Media Can No Longer Ignore Biden Family's Corruption
  
• Robert Spencer: "Hunter Biden has escaped prosecution thus far because he is one of the Leftist elite. But if The Big Guy has outlived his usefulness to whoever the people are who are running him and telling him whom to call on at press conferences and the rest, Hunter might be in for a fall. Then Leftists can point to his prosecution to claim that their America still offers equal justice for all. The disaster that is Hunter could end up being a useful propaganda chip."
  Why Is Everybody Ganging Up on Poor Hunter Biden?

  OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Lonny Koons, who is trying to primary Stefanik in NY21, can be seen in his car in videos that were taken at the Ticonderoga Walmart Parking lot on March 24. The day the two videos were filmed he said on social media that he was in Ticonderoga and “obtained a healthy number of petition signatures.” However, the signatures appeared to have been faked and signed by Koons himself.
  Never Trump Candidate Seen Allegedly Illegally Forging Petition Signatures In Parking Lot In Effort To Run Against Elise Stefanik
  
• "Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York have also referenced the allegations. Garcetti was nominated July 9 by President Joe Biden to serve as Ambassador to India, and was confirmed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January." (Gillibrand, the NXVM [whatever] sex trafficking enabler! - jjs)
  Da Nang Dickweed Blumenthal Expresses Concerns About LA Mayor’s Connection To Alleged Sexual Harasser

  POLITICS

• "The most recent NBC poll found an enormous, 17-point Republican advantage in enthusiasm, which is only one part of a "trend line that is especially grim" for Democrats."
  Voter Enthusiasm for Republicans in the Midterms Highest Since 2010
  
• "The Marquette poll released Thursday found that Biden’s approval rating with black Americans is currently just 56%. That’s a drop of more than 30% from July 2021, when his job approval among the same group was 88%."
  Poll: Biden’s Support Among Black Voters Cratered In Past Nine Months
  
• [Ted] Cruz noted that the Democrats know they’re going to lose, and Nancy Pelosi won’t go quietly. “She’s already preparing to scream that the election was stolen.” Though he pointed out that to Democrats, a stolen election means people voting against Democrats.
  Are Democrats Panicking? It Sure Looks That Way
  
• "At this point, I think it’s safe to say that [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden, who has admitted he’s a ‘gaffe machine,’ is more eloquent than Harris."
  Biden Can Barely Utter a Coherent Sentence But He’s Still More Eloquent Than Kamala Harris
  
• Douglas Murray: "Ordinarily, if a president keeps demonstrating that he cannot remain on script about issues which could lead to nuclear conflict, people start talking about invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. Except that in the current case, it seems arguable that this would only make things worse. After all, were that to happen, then the world would then be graced with President Kamala Harris. Perhaps the only person in America who can make Joe Biden look fully on top of his brief.
  We're All Stuck Picking Up After This Biden Dud
  
• "We don’t have a real president now."
  Biden, the Ersatz President
  
• "It is a window on America’s cultural and political fracture.
  The Skewering of DeSantis
  
• "It’s one very easy thing to tell a pollster that, sure, you approve of the governor who avoided most of the [Chinese] COVID madness and signed popular legislation to prevent grown adults from engaging in frank sex talk with second-graders. It’s quite another, more difficult thing, to get registered to vote with a particular party or even change your lifelong party affiliation. But that’s exactly what residents of Ron DeSantis’ Florida are doing — and in numbers too big to ignore."
  The Trickle-Down Genius of Ron DeSantis
  
• "The Republican Party must dust off the old Rusher playbook and use it to build a new and encompassing base. How? By focusing its messaging and mission on a simple and straightforward choice for voters: Do you want to belong to and support the party of producers or non-producers? The answer to that question should be clear."
  Reviving Rusher: How Post- Chinese COVID-19 Provides a New Opportunity for His Old Playbook

  SUPREME COURT VACANCY

• "The case is only the latest that Jackson has come under fire for. In another case, also in 2013, Jackson sentenced then-19-year-old Wesley Hawkins to three months in prison, three months of home confinement, and six years of supervision after he was convicted of possessing child pornography where boys 8 to 12-years-old were depicted in sex acts."
  Ketanji Brown Jackson Bypassed Sentencing Guidelines to Cut Prison Time for Previously Deported Illegal Alien Drug Dealer
  
• "In every single child pornography case handled by Judge Jackson, she went below the maximum recommendation, below the minimum recommendation, and below the prosecutor’s request."
  Democrats and Media Enablers Are Overlooking Child Sex Crimes to Protect Ketanji Brown Jackson
  
• "Despite this troubling record, Jackson is on the verge of confirmation. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have indicated they plan to vote for her confirmation."
  Ketanji Jackson’s Record on Sentencing Child Porn Offenders Is Worse Than We Thought
  
• "There is still more about her record that Democrats are keeping hidden."
  Kentanji Brown Jackson's Hidden Record: Soft on Drug Dealers, Pedophilesand Terrorists
  
• "Based on the torrent of information that has been made public about Ketanji Brown Jackson, it is shocking that any member of Congress would vote to confirm her to the SCOTUS."
  Who Will Vote to Confirm Kentanji Brown Jackson?
  
• "As we await Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote next week, one thing has already been confirmed: the hypocrisy and double standards of the corporate left-wing media."
  Confirmation Bias

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "The operation initially began in October when Andrew Hammond, 50, was told he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl, and he eventually communicated with another Redmond detective, believing the person to be 13."
  Police: Oregon Teacher Arrested for Attempted Rape of Children
  
• Pelosi said the bill "is about justice." (how much does she and hubby have staked in big tobacco and big pot? - jjs)
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi on Legalizing Marijuana: "I'm All for It"
  
• "The Chamber of Commerce addresses the nation’s shoplifting outbreak—but its members need a more active strategy to combat the problem." (the CoC can die in a fire for its open borders greed - jjs)
  Will Business Fight Back?
  
• "She walked away from the dying victim but allegedly remained in the area to gawk as an ambulance arrived to take Gustern to the hospital, where she later died." (being a psycho leftist trust fund baby pays - jjs)
  Accused NYC Shover Lauren Pazienza Mad Bail With Mom's $500,000 Check

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

• "“The judgment of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas is affirmed.”
  Appeals Court Upholds Gibson’s Bakery Massive Verdict Against Oberlin College
  
• "Over the last several days, mainstream media outlets that originally denied the legitimacy of the story have switched gears, confirming the laptop and its contents." (meh, it'll amount to nothing - jjs)
  House Republicans Open Investigation into Twitter, Facebook Suppressing Hunter Biden Laptop Story
  
• "CNN offers NFTs of opening moments of its streaming service. They're not flying off the shelf."
  Nobody Wants a Piece of CNN History

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "House could have enough votes to rebuke deal."
  Democrats Privately Skeptical of Iran Nuclear Deal, McCaul Says
  
• "There are growing defense and economic ties between the Abraham Accord signatories."
  6 Key Takeaways from the Negev Summit
  
• "Their anti-oil and gas rhetoric notwithstanding, Trudeau and Singh are going to have to accept at some point that they can only take so many bites from the hand that feeds them before it strikes back."
  Alberta to Castreau-cescu: Don't Get Cocky
  
• "With President Trump having been ousted and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro at risk of a similar coup, Orbán may well be the last man standing in the Western national-populist movement."
  Why Viktor Orbán Needs To Win
  
• "Why is Israel the villain just for defending itself?"
  Prager U Video: You're the Israeli Prime Minister - What Would You Do?
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "The deadliest Marxist guerrilla force is fighting the biggest socialist regime."
  Marxists Are Killing Each Other to Control America’s Cocaine Market

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Decision follows high-profile cases against Chinese nationals accused of spying in United States."
  Biden Junta Scrapped China Counterspy Program Under Activist Pressure, Republicans Say

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

• "Opponents went after Weil for policy choices surrounding independent contractor classification, joint employment designations and overtime pay, Politico reported. The vote makes Weil the first Biden nominee to fail on the Senate floor." (Manchin, Sinema and Mark Kelly; he's in real trouble come November - jjs)
  Biden’s Labor Department Nominee Has His Nomination Blocked Thanks To 3 Democrats
  
• "With a mayoral primary approaching in June, city voters rank the problem at the top of their list of concerns."
  L.A.’s Homeless Scourge

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "It’s the latest state to attempt to protect public health by outlawing safer nicotine products while keeping the most dangerous ones available. It makes no sense, but nannies rarely do."
  Deadly Do-Goodism

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "We are not seeing the star itself, but the distorted light after it passed through the strong gravitational field of the cluster of galaxies. The scientists conclusion that this dot is thus a single star, must be view with great skepticism. Nonetheless, the data is intriguing, and will certainly be one of the early targets of the James Webb Space Telescope, which could confirm or disprove this hypothesis."
  Astronomers Think They Have Detected the Most Distant Star Ever
  
• "Capitalism in space: Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spacecraft today successfully completed its fourth manned commercial flight, carrying six passengers to a height of about 70 miles for total flight time of a little less than eight minutes."
  New Shepard Completes Another Commercial Suborbital Flight

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

• "As a female who thought for the longest time she was a male trapped in a female body this is scary because most happens during puberty when your body is still developing."
  Biden Junta Endorses Puberty Blockers, Hormone Therapy, Gender-Affirming Surgeries in Children
  
• "This is child abuse."
  Critics Blast Biden’s Endorsement Of ‘Gender-Affirming Surgeries’ For Transgender Children
  
• "Standing in the briefing room, [psychotic pervert] Schneider specifically condemned recent legislation passed in Republican state legislatures to protect female sports in schools and prevent teachers from pushing transgender agenda in the classroom."
  White House Deploys Transgender Jeopardy! Champion Amy Schneider to Condemn "Scary" Parental Rights in Education Laws
  
• The TSA also bragged about the changes it made in February in “identity validation,” essentially removing gender considerations “when validating a traveler’s identification at airport security checkpoints.”
  TSA Bows to the Radical Transgender Movement, Announces Plans for "Gender Neutral" Screening to Advance "Civil Rights"
  
• "Nothing can change the fact that females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, and certain physical realties flow from that difference."
  Identity or Persona?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "If they want to bow to the leftist agenda, they should close not only resort locations in Florida, but also those in France, Tokyo, and California. It should also not harbor at any of its cruise destinations, as every one of them violates progressive ideals."
  Disney Throws a Fit Over Florida But Keeps Mum on France, Tokyo, Even California
  
• Employees wrote, “TWDC has fostered an environment of fear that any employee who does not toe the line will be exposed and dismissed.”
  Disney Employee: Cast Members Who Support Parental Rights ‘Far Outnumber Those’ Protesting It
  
• "The Walt Disney Company has been a vocal critic of Florida’s new parental rights law."
  Disneywoke: The Decline of a Great American Company
  
• "Mass formation psychosis."
  I Support the Current Thing!

  HITHER & YON

• "A new book explores problems in contemporary sexuality as emblematic of our broken approach to interpersonal relationships, made worse by liberal individualism."
  Identity vs. Intimacy
  
• "Our problem is not that we don’t know what capitalism is, or what socialism is, or, for that matter, what a woman is; our problem is: we don’t know what a demagogue is."
  What is Capitalism?
  
• "The actor's shocking retirement reminds us of his gritty turn in 16 Blocks.
  The Bruce Willis Film His Die-Hard Fans Overlooked

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:28 AM (yrol0)

2 dayum

I be da firstist fools on Fools Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:29 AM (yrol0)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 01, 2022 07:29 AM (IUd0M)

4 "Biden tells families they can save $500 a MONTH by switching to renewable energy"

THE QUESTION
Can families save $500 a month by switching to renewable energy?

THE ANSWER
Yes, families can save $500 a month by switching to renewable energy

Posted by: The Fact Chokers at April 01, 2022 07:31 AM (vrz2I)

5 Nyet On Kunta Kinte Jackson!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

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6 FJB- Families can save 15% on their car insurance by switching to Geico!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 07:32 AM (qnVBz)

7 Friday. Finally.

Posted by: IanDeal at April 01, 2022 07:33 AM (MGjjz)

8 Two dirty little secrets on oil:

1. BLM (no not Black Lives (really dont) Matter) requires a permit for each well on leased land. So if you need to punch 4 holes for exploration thats 4X effort, time, and money.

2. Since 1/1/2022 NOT 1 single permit has been approved.

They are just fucking with us!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:33 AM (yrol0)

9 Turn off your lights, turn down the thermostat, wear a sweater. Save $1000/ month!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 07:34 AM (qnVBz)

10 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2022 07:35 AM (arJlL)

11 House could have enough votes to rebuke deal."
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LMAO

Posted by: ... at April 01, 2022 07:36 AM (dscaa)

12
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 01, 2022 07:36 AM (DUIap)

13 Good morning all!
It is a rainy start to April here in Knoxville. Not for nothing did Chaucer call April the cruelest month.

Posted by: Jmel at April 01, 2022 07:38 AM (bVhJi)

14 Thank you for everything, JJ !

what you said up top is totally correct.

hope you have a good weekend, too !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 01, 2022 07:38 AM (WdIWr)

15 Not a fan of April Fool's jokes.

But I'm going to try and have a great day just to piss the lefty, blue-haired, freaks off.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 01, 2022 07:38 AM (DcKNO)

16 morning horde.

coffee is ready. off to the content...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 01, 2022 07:38 AM (9rBIi)

17 What manner of faggotry might we witness today?

Posted by: Minuteman at April 01, 2022 07:39 AM (LaNzR)

18 Morning peeps.

One would think the oil industry could put the junta over a barrel, so to speak, and do nothing until their demands were met with regards to permitting, drilling, taxes, etc.

But if Big Oil is woke....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2022 07:39 AM (BFigT)

19 Biden is going full Venezuela.

Now, would that be likely if America is even winning the economic war, much less if Zelensky is killing Russians at Hitler-like rates?

Posted by: trev006 at April 01, 2022 07:40 AM (RJToO)

20 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 07:40 AM (ZLaiV)

21 Morning one and all.

Ultimately, we and the whole world need to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels altogether

And yet when you ask what kind of fuel source is ready to replace gasoline that's just as efficient, they look up to the sky and scream "SCIENCE!"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 01, 2022 07:41 AM (4olE8)

22 A nationwide surge in prices at the pump is leading more Americans to consider buying electric cars - a move favored by the Biden administration.

Mission Accomplished!

-Buttie

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 07:42 AM (qnVBz)

23 One of the better non-fiction books I've read is The Prize, a history of the oil industry, it doubles as a history of the 20th century. Oil explains everything.

I lived through the stagflation of the late 70s. Early on, it defied most of the macroeconomic models then in vogue. In retrospect it was simple. A large, quick increase in oil prices increases the cost of nearly everything, while simultaneously depressing economic activity.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 01, 2022 07:42 AM (i0slg)

24 "Ultimately, we and the whole world need to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels altogether"

We can start with getting rid of AF1.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2022 07:43 AM (vrz2I)

25 Yes, Oil is life, which is exactly why they want to take it away from us Deplorables.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 01, 2022 07:43 AM (ZEHVO)

26 Zoom meetings ought to be good enough for mush brain. They can just put a dog avatar up.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2022 07:43 AM (vrz2I)

27 A nationwide surge in prices at the pump is leading more Americans to consider ..., uh, something else.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2022 07:44 AM (vrz2I)

28 I was told that all the oil companies need to do is lease an acre, drill a hole in the ground and start pumping oil. It isn't hard! Just drill and pump! I am an instant oil production expert!

-Twitterati

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 07:44 AM (qnVBz)

29 We've said it before: if the greens really cared about emissions and clean energy, we'd have nuclear power plants springing up like daisies. Only we wouldn't need to, because nuclear power can provide energy to far more consumers with much less footprint.

They don't care about emissions or the environment. That dystopian nightmare of famine, disease, and early death is what they WANT. For you.

They think they'll be living in some palatial estate surrounded by armed guards and living a life of ease and plenty.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (ZLaiV)

30 135 million registered voters in the US. Trump got 75 million votes which clearly leaves 81 million for Biden, dummies.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (ZEHVO)

31 Those pens the president uses to sign bills and then gives away? They are made of oil. He's needs to start using pencils.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (vrz2I)

32 Biden Plans Record Oil Reserve Release After Failing Twice To Lower Prices

Regardless of the stated purpose, the reason they are releasing oil from the SPR is not to lower prices but to drain the reserve. Once it is gone, we will be even more at the mercy of foreign despots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (IUd0M)

33 Good morning!

At the risk or stating the obvious, you do realize all this blather from the administration is just prepping the battlespace for nationalizing the energy industries...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (+I4ai)

34 mass murder has always been the core of their plan, all else is just word camouflage.

"You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." Jn8:44

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 01, 2022 07:46 AM (WdIWr)

35 He's needs to start using pencils.
Posted by: fd at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (vrz2I)

Oil needed to make the graphite composite. Oil needed to make the paint on the outside of it. Oil used, if not necessarily needed, to power the machinery to process the wood into pencil shape....

Better to sign all official documents in blood, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1)

36 The goal is to reduce your carbon footprint to a 6' X 2' X 2' cardboard box.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2022 07:50 AM (vrz2I)

37 Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:33 AM (yrol0)

And since the regulatory state is about as transparent as... something very not transparent (it's early, and I'm pre-coffee, give me a break) most people will never know those things. It's perfect for the Junta.

Claim that they *are* giving out leases (or that they don't need to because there are plenty out there for exploration), and the problem is those EEEEVIL OIL COMPANIES!!!!!!11!!!!1!!!ELEVENTY! who won't actually drill (because they don't want more profits? hush, they're rolling).

Since most people don't know about the permitting process, they'll look and say "Yep, Exxon has that lease and they really aren't drilling. Evil Oil Companies!"

You would almost think it was on purpose. Like he learned that tactic somewhere.

Oh, and apropos of nothing:
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 07:50 AM (ZLaiV)

38 Nobody Wants a Piece of CNN History

I'd pay a nickel for a photo of them locking the doors for the last time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 01, 2022 07:50 AM (IUd0M)

39 How come Mr. Green President never touts his example of never campaigning as an example of his green leadership?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 01, 2022 07:51 AM (jyY8V)

40 "Better to sign all official documents in blood, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1) "

Stan would certainly approve !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 01, 2022 07:51 AM (WdIWr)

41 17 What manner of faggotry might we witness today?
Posted by: Minuteman at April 01, 2022 07:39 AM (LaNzR)


Fopping good chance
Faggotry maybe
Foolishness fuck yeah

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

42 Posted by: Warai-otoko

Oil also powers the sawmill. And the chainsaws used to harvest the trees.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 01, 2022 07:52 AM (OssQ4)

43 When oil prices spike, oil companies make more for a short time because the value of their inventory goes up. Opposite happens when oil prices go down, but the Lefties ignore that.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 01, 2022 07:52 AM (i0slg)

44 "Capitalism in space: Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spacecraft today successfully completed its fourth manned commercial flight, carrying six passengers to a height of about 70 miles for total flight time of a little less than eight minutes."

So...it's a massively polluting toy for the super-rich. Sounds about right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 01, 2022 07:53 AM (IUd0M)

45
At the risk or stating the obvious, you do realize all this blather from the administration is just prepping the battlespace for nationalizing the energy industries...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM

Venezuela here we come!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 01, 2022 07:53 AM (dQvv7)

46 > start using pencils.


Tree-killer.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2022 07:53 AM (bW8dp)

47
cough-cough,,,
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 01, 2022 07:54 AM (SWi3y)

48 Amy Schneider vs. Caitlyn Jenner, MMA at the Octogon.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 01, 2022 07:54 AM (OssQ4)

49 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 01, 2022 07:54 AM (ju2Fy)

50 Cars.com added that 55% of non-EV owners indicate they are considering an EV for their next purchase, and more than two-thirds would consider switching to electric if gas prices keep rising.

TOTAL BULLSHIT

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:54 AM (yrol0)

51 I could totally see our government doing this-

Government: It is illegal for oil companies to discuss federal oil leases

Government: We have sold a record number of oil leases this year, but the oil companies refuse to develop them!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 07:54 AM (R5nS2)

52 The oil market always seems ready for disaster to screw things up. Some ayatollah suffers three days constipation, says "it is written that if a supertanker blows up I will find relief". Boom, $200 a barrel. Evil witch Granholm would applaud.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2022 07:55 AM (lz5hY)

53 Oil also powers the sawmill. And the chainsaws used to harvest the trees.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 01, 2022 07:52 AM (OssQ4)

It's inescapable, isn't it? I was trying to somewhat limit it just to things that directly use oil as an actual component in a pencil for rhetorical effect, but the oil burned to power all the processes leading up to having a fished product, including packaging and distribution, absolutely dwarfs it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 07:55 AM (6FeV1)

54 36 The goal is to reduce your carbon footprint to a 6' X 2' X 2' cardboard box.
Posted by: fd at April 01, 2022 07:50 AM (vrz2I)


"Luxury!"

- - A Shoebox

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 01, 2022 07:55 AM (s2VJv)

55 Regardless of the stated purpose, the reason they are releasing oil from the SPR is not to lower prices but to drain the reserve. Once it is gone, we will be even more at the mercy of foreign despots.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (IUd0M)

I think PDT was the first PRES to actually buy and fill the SPR.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:56 AM (yrol0)

56 I notice the FAA is not giving Blue Origin a hard time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 07:56 AM (R5nS2)

57 Tree-killer.

That'll be next on the agenda.

Assuming they trick the civilized world into forgoing oil, then they'll move to any "destructive" use of other natural resources. Because the point is not being responsible stewards of the environment, keeping pollution to a minimum, and ensuring our resources last for as close to forever as possible. The point is to make you suffer.

Though it is really, really funny when someone complains about me using paper (back when I worked in an office). My response was always, "Why do you care? Paper literally grows on trees."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 07:57 AM (ZLaiV)

58 Not much left on the cutting room floor when you posted this, J.J.

I think the oil companies are doing their level best to get rid of JoeyB. Regardless of what he does, they're not going to let the price lower until he's gone.

Posted by: creeper at April 01, 2022 07:57 AM (cTCuP)

59 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Welcome to the wonderful world of geopolitical instability and economic turmoil.

Have you heard the latest about Chris Rock??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2022 07:57 AM (EZebt)

60 >>The Biden administration's decision to end the China Initiative appears to be motivated by nothing more than identity politics.

No it's not. It's motivated by paying a debt.

Almost everything Biden has done since taking office has been to aid his paymaster in China, Russia and Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2022 07:57 AM (ZLI7S)

61 Doesn't Kamala have speechwriters? They can't have written that unintelligible gibberish for her.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at April 01, 2022 07:57 AM (eGTCV)

62 Regardless of the stated purpose, the reason they are releasing oil from the SPR is not to lower prices but to drain the reserve.

The strategic oil reserve is there in case we are forced to fight a major war, its to fuel our aircraft carriers etc. Of course, they want us all to die so that is why the lefties are draining the reserve. Remember, to the left the U.S. is the most evil country that has ever existed, and they want it dead, along with all of us.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 01, 2022 07:58 AM (ZEHVO)

63 " ... the reason they are releasing oil from the SPR is not to lower prices but to drain the reserve."

exactly right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 01, 2022 07:58 AM (WdIWr)

64 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

65 Switching to so-called renewable energy will not save a nickle, in fact it will cost trillions and someone will have to pay for. And guess who that will be.


https://tinyurl.com/2ajx3ak5

Posted by: Vic at April 01, 2022 07:59 AM (mZwKe)

66 So, what's a globalist commie to do when their planned demolition of society to pave the way for the glorious remaking of it in their own image goes a little too well? Meaning, skyrocketing gasoline prices cascading into stagflation across the board just as an election season heats up? Invoke a well-tried Leftist mantra: "The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves."
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That is how it usually goes, yes. Say what you will about the unreality and absurdity of Ayn Rand's heroes, her villains were spot on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

67 Drain the SPR.

Pick a fight in Eurasia.

Claim absolute wartime authority to develop alternative power sources by any means necessary to "Support The War Effort"

Profit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 08:00 AM (6FeV1)

68 I wonder if any reporter dares report on the oil company that is getting the daily $100,000,000 of taxpayer oil for free?

Do we really think they're selling it at market price?

There's your answer why the oil companies are staying quite $100 million every day in hush money--our money--bribing them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 01, 2022 08:00 AM (jyY8V)

69 THE QUESTION
Can releasing oil from the strategic reserve reduce gas prices?

THE ANSWER
Releasing oil from the strategic reserve can reduce gas prices.

Posted by: The Fact Chokers at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (vrz2I)

70 I think I've finally figured out how to thrive in Our New Biden Economy -

I'm loading up on CNN+ NFTs!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (5NkmN)

71 I lived through the stagflation of the late 70s. Early on, it defied most of the macroeconomic models then in vogue. In retrospect it was simple. A large, quick increase in oil prices increases the cost of nearly everything, while simultaneously depressing economic activity.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 01, 2022 07:42 AM (i0slg)
===

We did not have the massive wealth transfers back then we have today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (EZebt)

72 But Biden did not offer any proposals to reduce the regulatory and environmental burdens that oil companies face, which only increase the cost of oil or gas. He also did not announce a plan to fast track or speed up new leases after spending his presidency trying to ban oil leases on federal land altogether.

Instead, the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] said, he would "double down" on his clean energy agenda to "speed the transition to a clean energy future."
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Ah yes, the "I break it, you buy it" approach. Tried and true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

73 Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 07:54 AM (yrol0)

I believe it, really.

1. Very few people understand the math involved, or realize how much more expensive it is to own an electric car. They only know what the TV tells them, and the TV tells them that EVs are the car of the future.

B. Government subsidies (both to the individual and to certain businesses) really do cut down on *perceived* cost of ownership. When you can drive to the grocery store and charge up while you're shopping, and then drive to the movie and charge up there, too, so at night you only really need a little bit of a charge - and the government is subsidizing THAT too... it doesn't seem like it's costing that much to power your vehicle.

III. The majority of people I know only travel further than about 50 miles in a day a couple of times a year (vacations). Anyone I know who travels further than that every day DOES already understand the EV scam, but they would definitely fit into that other 45% that wouldn't consider an EV.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (ZLaiV)

74 Have you heard the latest about Chris Rock??
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Well? We're waiting...!

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 01, 2022 08:02 AM (OssQ4)

75 Retardo drains the SPR. Then, a crisis is manufactured requiring a top off. The junta then makes a deal with a foreign actor to replenish at the crisis driven $150 a barrel. This includes 10% for the big guy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2022 08:02 AM (lz5hY)

76 I'm loading up on CNN+ NFTs!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (5NkmN)

The farcical repeat of War Bonds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

77 The solution is absolutely simple. Stop this green madness and drill for every last subatomic particle of oil, coal and natural gas. Of course, for many reasons, that is a non-starter. It's ironic in the extreme that the environmentalist movement itself, if not created out of whole cloth by the old Soviet Union's KGB, was thoroughly coopted by them back around the first Earth Day in 1970.
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The environmental movement has always been a red thing. It's been commie since its inception. Back before the environmentalists, you had the conservationists. The conservationist idea was subverted by communists, which is when it morphed into the environmentalist nonsense.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

78 Is Earth Day really on Lenin's birthday, or something like that?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

79 "The U.S. should follow China's lead in promoting masculinity in schools."
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*snort*

No way. The complex that controls everything will continue its wanton destruction of men and masculinity. They think they will succeed and the probably will, after a fashion. They will not like the results. They will succeed in destroying American masculinity. They will ultimately fail when American masculinity - the masculinity that kept everyone reasonably safe for a few centuries - is replaced with other types. My money's on Islamic masculinity, but there are many choices.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:04 AM (DU+/6)

80 You say it's your earth day?

Posted by: John Lenin at April 01, 2022 08:05 AM (vrz2I)

81 THE QUESTION
Can releasing oil from the strategic reserve reduce gas prices?

THE ANSWER
Releasing oil from the strategic reserve can reduce gas prices.
Posted by: The Fact Chokers at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (vrz2I)

THE REST OF THE ANSWER
Releasing oil from the strategic reserve can reduce gas prices for a very short time.
Then because of all the stupidity crippling the production of oil and gas. Prices will rise again rapidly.
In fact, gas prices will rise even higher and faster because the Strategic Oil Reserve needs to be refilled because it's a Strategic Oil Reserve, retards.
You see there's this little thing called Supply and Demand...

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:06 AM (5NkmN)

82 They think they'll be living in some palatial estate surrounded by armed guards and living a life of ease and plenty.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 07:45 AM (ZLaiV)

They believe. They do not think.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 01, 2022 08:07 AM (IUd0M)

83 Using the strategic reserve to prop up the oil market is like putting a band aid on a guillotine wound.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 08:07 AM (6FeV1)

84 So Biden blames the oil companies. Sadly too many people will believe him.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (nxdel)

85 Have you heard the latest about Chris Rock??
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Well? We're waiting...!
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus

He received SEVERAL standing ovations at his 1st post slap show !

Posted by: JT at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (arJlL)

86 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

87 "Biden urged oil companies to start producing more oil, threatening to punish them if they do not respond."

This is all they know how to do. Someone needs to explain the term "empty threats" to them. See India at about 8m into the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qXhZgsQJw

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (wODFs)

88 They believe. They do not think.

Fair.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (ZLaiV)

89 I notice the FAA is not giving Blue Origin a hard time.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 07:56 AM (R5nS2)
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SpaceX is years ahead and they need to be knocked down a notch. They would have had men in space doing runs to the ISS long before they actually did it if not for the interference. They were ready for a goodly while before they finally got permission. Trump cleared a lot of roads by removing arbitrary regulatory obstacles. Obama threw them up and Biden is doubling down. Government road-blocking of SpaceX is a small example of what's going on everywhere. Obama had bonkers, bad policies that Biden is moving further down the road.

For SpaceX specifically, it's pretty clear why (at least to me). They're a threat to NASA. They are moving faster and much more cheaply but more importantly, they're doing it wrong. They're not spending years in supercomputer simulations, they're blowing up rockets and collecting telemetry and trying again. It's old school. It's *wrong.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (DU+/6)

90 78 Is Earth Day really on Lenin's birthday, or something like that?
Posted by: Warai-otoko


Yes. April 22.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 01, 2022 08:09 AM (ppL7t)

91 Our carbon footprint will be reduced significantly when we are forced to give up our cars and land to live in 5000 person apartment blocks. Every family will be assigned 100sf of living space.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:09 AM (qnVBz)

92 I have zero faith that the bloodbath that should be in November, will be.

They got away with the last cheat, there's no reason for them not to get away with it again. The laws haven't been changed. Nothing has been done. They will steal the next one too.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

93 So Biden blames the oil companies. Sadly too many people will believe him.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (nxdel)

Stories like this always make me think of Dan Bongino's Bernie Sanders impression.... "miyyonaires an' biyyonaires"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 08:10 AM (6FeV1)

94 The greens believe that if it drove us back to the stone age, eliminating fossil fuel must happen. Most greens think it wouldn't be bad at all, having seen documentaries. Fred, Wilma and Bam Bam got along just fine.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2022 08:10 AM (lz5hY)

95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qXhZgsQJw

VIPs stuck in Mariupol. Ukraine attempting extraction via helicopters, which the Russians are using for target practice.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 01, 2022 08:12 AM (wODFs)

96 Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:01 AM (ZLaiV)

Love your outline format.

Posted by: creeper at April 01, 2022 08:12 AM (cTCuP)

97 >>They got away with the last cheat, there's no reason for them not to get away with it again. The laws haven't been changed. Nothing has been done. They will steal the next one too.

Many laws have been changed in most of the swing states including basic things like voter ID and banning Zuck Bucks.

Don't you remember Jim Crow 2.0 in Georgia? It was a big thing for 5 minutes and it was all because of the new Republican racist voting laws.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2022 08:12 AM (ZLI7S)

98
He received SEVERAL standing ovations at his 1st post slap show !
Posted by: JT at April 01, 2022 08:08 AM (arJlL)


Until he announces his "Her name is in my f*cking mouth" tour, he can mulefuck.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

99 I have zero faith that the bloodbath that should be in November, will be.

They got away with the last cheat, there's no reason for them not to get away with it again. The laws haven't been changed. Nothing has been done. They will steal the next one too.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)
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I think there's a good chance of the bloodbath happening. Midterms are much harder to steal and it's much less centralized. Turnout is lower. The number of places you have to misbehave is much larger. Stealing the presidency is far easier than stealing big chunks of Congress.

But there are also a ton of reasons why that bloodbath might not happen. There's fraud, of course, and it will be a factor in many races. There's also the problem of the Republicans shooting themselves in the feet. Like supporting a war in Ukraine and flipping to confirm Jackson on the SCOTUS, for example. Those things hurt. Why vote for that?

And then the real problem, which is that even if the bloodbath happens, it matters little. It will be failure theater as a distraction while the deep state does what it does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

100 Our carbon footprint will be reduced significantly when we are forced to give up our cars and land to live in 5000 person apartment blocks. Every family will be assigned 100sf of living space.

I suspect the vast majority of the populace won't have to be forced. The True Believers will be excited to volunteer. Most of the rest will be convinced, cajoled, and shamed into "volunteering." So when the military claiming to be a police force shows up for the rest of us, there will be no sympathy.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:13 AM (ZLaiV)

101 I suspect the vast majority of the populace won't have to be forced. The True Believers will be excited to volunteer. Most of the rest will be convinced, cajoled, and shamed into "volunteering." So when the military claiming to be a police force shows up for the rest of us, there will be no sympathy.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:13 AM (ZLaiV)
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This is America. It will be far slicker. Our rulers are very, very good at manufacturing consent. It won't be true believers signing up to live in their pods while they live an ersatz life in the Metaverse. It will be "going green in the bustle of urban energy" and living your best life in augmented reality. And yeah, they'll get a shit ton of volunteers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

102 Oh! I forgot my happy news for the day!
(I'm trying to get into this habit to offset the doom and gloom that settles in as I wake up to each day of fresh political hell).

Uh... let's see... what can I pick?

Well there's... no, that's not news.
Then there's.... no, not that either.
Well I could pick... no, that's bad news.

Uh... give me a minute here folks.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLaiV)

103 @29 AllenG#Texit-Second day I've seen you mention we should be building nuclear power plants. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos are working on nuclear power for you. Gates has TerraPower building you a nuke in Kemmerer Wyoming at a shutdown coal fire plant. Jeff Bezos backs a Canadian company General Fusion that plans on building a reactor in England.

Don't know how our "betters" on the left are going to sell it to their minions but it's coming. Go look at the TerraPower site and read their bullshit, "Clean energy is going to lift billions out of poverty"! Bill Gates, Buffet and Bezos is going to save us by re-inventing nuclear energy.

Sure would like a cob to look into this and write something up. Strange and interesting all at the same time. Especially the players involved.

Posted by: JROD at April 01, 2022 08:16 AM (0jZnq)

104 The number of federal drilling permits has decreased 90 percent over the past year.

Meanwhile, the illegitimate 'president' is demanding that oil companies stop paying dividends to their investors.

This is the way to solve the problem!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 08:16 AM (5kI0z)

105 Oh! I forgot my happy news for the day!
(I'm trying to get into this habit to offset the doom and gloom that settles in as I wake up to each day of fresh political hell).

Uh... let's see... what can I pick?

Well there's... no, that's not news.
Then there's.... no, not that either.
Well I could pick... no, that's bad news.

Uh... give me a minute here folks.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLaiV)
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There's always something. Even if small - like the fact that it's a beautiful day in my AO and small leaves are starting to come in on all the trees outside - it's always there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

106 Good morning horde

Day started at least well

Posted by: Skip's Phone at April 01, 2022 08:18 AM (xMjin)

107 What's funny, as in odd, is that the Democrats know people are really angry and upset at them and their pathetic leadership. And what do the Democrats do? Reverse course? Oh, heck nooooo!! They double down. They triple down. They quadruple down with every ill-fated tinkering of the economy that leads to even more inflation and more misery. They refuse to actually fix anything that could lead to our energy independence when the solution is very simple. They push, push, push, push tranny madness on the culture and our children. It's really a sight to behold.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

108 The junta is following the plan to the letter. Drain the SPR. Let prices spike even more. Push EV's harder. Push public transportation harder. Encourage people to move closer to the cities so they don't have to drive as far. Cripple the ability to move about by crippling the energy sector.

A mobile population is difficult to control.

Once the government is in control of the energy sector your compliance with their wishes is more or less a foregone conclusion.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2022 08:19 AM (BFigT)

109 So 12 year old Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson (that's not a joke, that really was that poor bastard's name) was shot and killed in a SC middle school yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/y77ynk7d

It's important that you understand that this WASN'T a school shooting even though it occured during school hours and on school property (in the hallway IIRC), because only white people can be school shooters.

That's why you haven't heard of dead 12 year old Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at April 01, 2022 08:20 AM (9UP7H)

110 Reverse course? Oh, heck nooooo!!
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)


It's the "wreckers". Build them some nice comfy camps.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 01, 2022 08:20 AM (wODFs)

111 I'm going to ask this again, since I didn't see any response yesterday, but is anyone having any issues not being able to block ads on the main page all of the sudden? I use Opera and have tried 3 different ad blockers to no avail.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:20 AM (sVtYq)

112 What's funny, as in odd, is that the Democrats know people are really angry and upset at them and their pathetic leadership. And what do the Democrats do? Reverse course? Oh, heck nooooo!! They double down. They triple down. They quadruple down with every ill-fated tinkering of the economy that leads to even more inflation and more misery. They refuse to actually fix anything that could lead to our energy independence when the solution is very simple. They push, push, push, push tranny madness on the culture and our children. It's really a sight to behold.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)


And there are still 60 million + who will vote for them, lock, stock and barrel, religiously.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

113 You will necessarily have to move into urban pods when the price of gas is $15/ gallon, electricity is $1/kwh, and gas engines under 200cc are illegal unless special government approval is granted.

Oh, I guess you have to move to the city to cut costs and make use of public transit. Sorry, there isn't much available. Might I interest you in Krystol Towers #37B? We have many units ready for move in.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:21 AM (qnVBz)

114 Oh, heck nooooo!! They double down. They triple down. They quadruple down with every ill-fated tinkering of the economy that leads to even more inflation and more misery.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

Old commie tactic to never admit a wrong, never apologize but wait then blame it all on their opponents. Trump, saboteurs, fascists, wreckers, etc,etc.
Works because people go along rather than become the nail that gets hammered down.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 01, 2022 08:22 AM (PL2Az)

115 Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos are working on nuclear power for you.

Nuclear power brought to you by Microsoft and Amazon? I see no way *that* could go wrong...

I can't quite bring myself to believe they're evil enough to be building one or plants designed to fail to try to stick the final nail in the coffin of nuclear power in the US, but sometimes even my cynicism falls short of reality.

That said, if they're really building nuclear plants that are really going to be operating at reasonable capacity and really going to be hooked to the grid - I'm all for it. Those guys are slimeballs, but they're not wrong about nuclear energy being the best thing we have going for the grid.

I would be much, much happier if the people building the plants were more trustworthy.

As for motive, It's possible that they have *also* done the math on EVs and realize the grid simply can't support even 50% adoption of them. If they want the proles to be stuck in their 100 - 150 mile bubbles (to be shrunk later, I'm sure), they need to make sure those EVs people are being convinced, cajoled, or shamed into buying can actually get them to and from work and the store.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:23 AM (ZLaiV)

116 I'm going to ask this again, since I didn't see any response yesterday, but is anyone having any issues not being able to block ads on the main page all of the sudden? I use Opera and have tried 3 different ad blockers to no avail.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:20 AM (sVtYq)


I use Opera, ABP and uMatrix. The only ads I see on the main page are the Crypto below the title frame and King Harv.

I would imagine I could block those if I tried harder, but they're not offensive or intrusive, so I don't worry about it.

Plus, King Harv is kinda growing on me.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

117 The number of federal drilling permits has decreased 90 percent over the past year.
Meanwhile, the illegitimate 'president' is demanding that oil companies stop paying dividends to their investors.
This is the way to solve the problem!
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 08:16 AM (5kI0z)

Wow. That's just...incredibly stupid on all levels, but here's the main one-

Doing so will instantly throw tens of millions of the retired, not to mention widows and orphans and pension plans into immediate bankruptcy and abject poverty.

Way to punish the American citizens who did exactly what they were supposed to do. Live within their means, invest for their old age and their family.

This is beyond evil. I'm sure The Turtle thinks this is just hunky-dory. Broken eggs and comity after all.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:23 AM (5NkmN)

118 VIPs stuck in Mariupol. Ukraine attempting extraction via helicopters, which the Russians are using for target practice.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 01, 2022 08:12 AM (wODFs)


This can't possibly be true. I've been assured by the media that Ukraine is easily winning this war, may take over Moscow soon, and that Russian troops have all turned on each other, and are in fact resorting to cannibalism in the Moscow Superdome.

Posted by: Wally at April 01, 2022 08:24 AM (FJYfm)

119 You will necessarily have to move into urban pods when the price of gas is $15/ gallon, electricity is $1/kwh, and gas engines under 200cc are illegal unless special government approval is granted.

Oh, I guess you have to move to the city to cut costs and make use of public transit. Sorry, there isn't much available. Might I interest you in Krystol Towers #37B? We have many units ready for move in.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:21 AM (qnVBz)


So, you're saying the future is one of the RoboCop movies?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

120 So, you're saying the future is one of the RoboCop movies?
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)


We'd take that.

Posted by: Citizens of Detroit at April 01, 2022 08:26 AM (FJYfm)

121 This is beyond evil. I'm sure The Turtle thinks this is just hunky-dory. Broken eggs and comity after all.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:23 AM (5NkmN)

Get your own congress so you can graft, peasant. Works for us!

Posted by: GOP(E) at April 01, 2022 08:26 AM (/6GbT)

122 Leninism supposes all that is needed is a radical vanguard willing to use violence to create a communist revolution.

They adopted the name "bolshevik" meaning member of the majority when in fact he and his compatriots composed a small minority.

They pretend to represent the majority in pursuit of their radical agenda. Elections? Are you serious?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2022 08:26 AM (EZebt)

123 This is the third release from the oil reserve, we are down 1/3 going towards 1/2 of the total amount.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2022 08:26 AM (sg/9X)

124 I use Brave with shields up. Only get the crypto ad and the king.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:26 AM (qnVBz)

125 Three killed in midair collision of two South Korean military jets during training.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 01, 2022 08:27 AM (UHVv4)

126 Oh! Today's good news! I've got it!

It looks like I should be getting an electric or propane smoker pretty soon (the kinds that use wood chips to make the smoke instead of burning bigger chunks or logs). This is good for two reasons.

Reason 1: Brisket is God's gift to men.
Reason 2: I live on what is effectively a mesquite farm, so the wood chips I need will be effectively free.

I do need a wood chipper, though. But two pieces of long-lasting equipment so I can have brisket and/or ribs almost whenever I want? Sign me up for that one, baby.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:28 AM (ZLaiV)

127 Posted by: Sponge - FJB

Why not. We have 1984 covered. Fahrenheit 451 is nearly there. Why not RoboCop?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:29 AM (qnVBz)

128
I use Opera, ABP and uMatrix. The only ads I see on the main page are the Crypto below the title frame and King Harv.

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Sponge, what is ABP?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

129 So, you're saying the future is one of the RoboCop movies?
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)
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That's not a bad comparison. Corrupt corporations running the localities for their own nefarious benefit isn't too far off the mark. I think there's probably some room to hybridize it with Demolition Man (inside the pods) and Mad Max (outside the pods).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:29 AM (DU+/6)

130 This is the third release from the oil reserve, we are down 1/3 going towards 1/2 of the total amount.
Posted by: Ben Had

*

With no noticeable effect on the price of gas.

I wonder what other reason they're doing it for? Maybe it influence our dollars through inflation to have to refill at higher prices?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at April 01, 2022 08:30 AM (9UP7H)

131
I do need a wood chipper, though. But two pieces of long-lasting equipment so I can have brisket and/or ribs almost whenever I want? Sign me up for that one, baby.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:28 AM (ZLaiV)


I have an electric smoker. It's taking me forever to get used to cooking times and getting smoke flavor, but am getting over my mental hump. Mesquite is awesome, however I will warn. If you do steaks and marinade them in Worcestershire sauce, use a fruit wood. Mesquite smoke will clash with it.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

132 Inspector general says post office [iCop] surveillance program exceeded legal authority

Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 08:30 AM (RHGPo)

133 So, you're saying the future is one of the RoboCop movies?

Judge Dredd. If we're lucky.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:30 AM (ZLaiV)

134 --

Sponge, what is ABP?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)


AdBlock Plus.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

135 105 -That's a very positive attitude, Joe. I look at the red buds on the trees as well and the hyacinths and daffodils. Then I think about people in my life who love and like me, which is to say there is always something to be grateful for. We always have a time in our worship services too, where people share their blessings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2022 08:31 AM (SMfjY)

136 This can't possibly be true.
Posted by: Wally at April 01, 2022 08:24 AM (FJYfm)

Towards the end of the video he discusses sanctions by the EU.

Germany has banned use of the letter Z (yesterday's story). Latvia has banned the use of V. The former is because the Russians labelled some of their tanks with Zs. Comments at the video suggested using the entire latin alphabet ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 01, 2022 08:31 AM (wODFs)

137
Judge Dredd. If we're lucky.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:30 AM (ZLaiV)


Well, at least there's law.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

138 Ok, I finally think I might have gotten it to work. I added a filter including the offensive ad site and it seems to have worked...for now. I don't mind King Harv ads or cryptocurrency. But these ads were of disgusting things like pus-filled toenails that were being peeled off. Sickening! I can stand King Harv. I'm not happy about pictures of pus.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)

139 104 The number of federal drilling permits has decreased 90 percent over the past year.

Meanwhile, the illegitimate 'president' is demanding that oil companies stop paying dividends to their investors.

This is the way to solve the problem!
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 08:16 AM (5kI0z)

Last thing I read said not 1 permit approved since 1/1/2022.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 08:32 AM (yrol0)

140 I use Firefox with ad blockers. I've never seen ads until a couple of days ago. They don't bother me much except the toe fungus thing.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 01, 2022 08:32 AM (45fpk)

141 The Other McCain reveals more info on Ace, including a picture. Not sure if the boss will be happy about this.

https://tinyurl.com/othermccain

Posted by: IrishEi at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM (VhE0u)

142 The US has added 431,000 jobs in March... a little less than expected.
Unemployment falls to 3.6%

Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

143 Inspector general says post office [iCop] surveillance program exceeded legal authority

Well that's new and different.
Oh, wait. No, that's basically par for the course.

Why did we (collectively) ever agree that any government agency needed a "surveillance program"?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM (ZLaiV)

144 Don't forget Larry Fink has bought 6% of Exxon (second largest shareholder) for the explicit purpose of destroying the company and the American oil industry. He has 3 lackeys appointed to the board.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM (qnVBz)

145 One of the most interesting things going on is all the action lately in the Pacific region tectonic plates.

Something I didn't realize is that when New Zealand has a big earthquake, Japan will have one within a couple of weeks cuz they're both on the Philippine Plate.

It probably won't happen but a huge increase of volcanic activity in the Ring of Fire actually could lead to lower temperatures for years. And there is zip, zero, nada, we can do about it except make sure we have a supply of reliable energy.

Bu-u-u-ut, Punchy and Friends are throwing that all down the toilet. Still, no mean tweets!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (5NkmN)

146 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (4TZI4)

147 Ok, I finally think I might have gotten it to work. I added a filter including the offensive ad site and it seems to have worked...for now. I don't mind King Harv ads or cryptocurrency. But these ads were of disgusting things like pus-filled toenails that were being peeled off. Sickening! I can stand King Harv. I'm not happy about pictures of pus.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)


I think uMatrix (script blocker) is doing more for blocking ads than ABP, but that thing can ruin the web for you if you're not careful or don't learn how to use it.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

148 Reason 2: I live on what is effectively a mesquite farm, so the wood chips I need will be effectively free.

I do need a wood chipper, though. But two pieces of long-lasting equipment so I can have brisket and/or ribs almost whenever I want? Sign me up for that one, baby.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit





You do need to get rid of that mesquite anyway, it is very bad for your land in terms of killing native species and hogging water.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (5kI0z)

149 I'm going to ask this again, since I didn't see any response yesterday, but is anyone having any issues not being able to block ads on the main page all of the sudden? I use Opera and have tried 3 different ad blockers to no avail.
--------------------------------
Complain! Complain! Complain!

Yes, the home page is full of sidebar ads and King Harv [Long May He Reign!] under the top story as usual that my blocker/s with Brave doesn't stop BUT none of them are effing up my ability to open the homepage and scroll around, unlike the ones from the year ago or whatever; so I don't care. Admittedly I also only use a laptop or a desktop to visit the HQ and not a handheld device that might not be as robust.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (UHVv4)

150 JM,

The SpaceX/NASA story is a bit more complicated than you think. It is impossible to explain it adequately in a post here. One small aspect of this is the irony that Obama actually enabled SpaceX to grow to where they are now. Obama did it out of spite but it actually turned out to be a good thing for the space business. He didn't consider that SpaceX would actually be more capable mission wise than NASA.

Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (Cfk8j)

151 Last thing I read said not 1 permit approved since 1/1/2022.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 08:32 AM (yrol0)
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Wouldn't surprise me. This administration hates oil. On the campaign trail, Biden promised to go after oil. He's keeping his campaign promise. The most destructive campaign promise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

152 141 The Other McCain reveals more info on Ace, including a picture. Not sure if the boss will be happy about this.

https://tinyurl.com/othermccain
Posted by: IrishEi at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM (VhE0u)

You bastard.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 01, 2022 08:35 AM (dfRN6)

153 There will still be small towns, with populations responsible for production of the necessities required or the metropolises.

Posted by: kraken at April 01, 2022 08:35 AM (Vr12I)

154 The US has added 431,000 jobs in March... a little less than expected.
Unemployment falls to 3.6%
Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)


Now do the workforce.

Adding jobs 'less than expected' and still dropping the unemployment rate only means one thing.

The worker pool has diminished.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

155 The "social safety net" has been an absolute failure. Last night in Tucker, VDH gave an impassioned talk in which he cited a startling statistic, "70 % of AA babies are illegitimate". It is one thing for a wealthy, Hollywood single mother to give birth to a child, but entirely a different thing for a poor apartment-dwelling mother. And yet our culture glorifies the Hollywood type, and promises endless "programs" to give material support to the poor single mother. To what end?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 08:36 AM (GM2Mp)

156 You do need to get rid of that mesquite anyway, it is very bad for your land in terms of killing native species and hogging water.

Yep. Tow strap. F350. Some assembly (and time) required.

It's the time that's the issue right now.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:36 AM (ZLaiV)

157 Today's blessing...

I get to go to a community Church soup dinner tonight. Last week was packed with people and food. I haven't seen so much community happiness in a Church since pre-Covid.

Funny enough, it's not actually my own Catholic Church, but the Catholic one which has our homeschool group. My Church canceled their soup dinners, so the other Church gets my nice cooking (and my kids get to dairy it up to their heart's content)...

The One above had to break my new dishwasher to convince my fam to give this a shot (I kept trying, but it was always "it's gonna be lame") - now, they want to go back every week and every Lent to come. The "for everything there is a reason" seems to always be true

Posted by: Nova local at April 01, 2022 08:36 AM (exHjb)

158
You bastard.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 01, 2022 08:35 AM (dfRN6)


Was I rolled if I closed the tab before hearing anything?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

159 @115 AllenG#Texit-Somebody has had to have done the math on EV's hence why they're toying with nuclear power plants. Don't trust the type of reactors or process they are messing with since it was technology the U.S. Nuclear industry abandoned years ago.(sodium/breeder) Something tells me they were smarter back then and there was a reason for abandoning it.
I know Gates has been into this for a while and had the parts for the reactor blocked by the Trump administration because the reactors were being manufactured in China.

Posted by: JROD at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (0jZnq)

160 I use Firefox with ad blockers. I've never seen ads until a couple of days ago. They don't bother me much except the toe fungus thing.

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That was what I was experiencing too, grammie. Everything was fine until a couple or so days ago and then all of the sudden, I was getting disgusting sidebar ads. I don't mind some ads. I know that's partly how Ace makes his money. But I really don't want to see gross things that really make me cringe. Even in my peripheral vision!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

161 Inspector general says post office [iCop] surveillance program exceeded legal authority

And the punishment is....?

I would guess put together a committee to study ways the program could be considered for modification to help bring it in line with regulatory guidance while congress works to grant them the legal authority to do whatever. Meanwhile, change nothing and allow the program to expand in scope over the next few years while all of that is taking place.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (qnVBz)

162 Last thing I read said not 1 permit approved since 1/1/2022.

Posted by: rhennigantx



I think that is correct, the active permits have gone down by 90 percent, and no new ones approved.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (5kI0z)

163 The SpaceX/NASA story is a bit more complicated than you think. It is impossible to explain it adequately in a post here. One small aspect of this is the irony that Obama actually enabled SpaceX to grow to where they are now. Obama did it out of spite but it actually turned out to be a good thing for the space business. He didn't consider that SpaceX would actually be more capable mission wise than NASA.
Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (Cfk8j)
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Yeah, the relationship is odd and there's been flow of money from NASA to SpaceX. That money was used very well. But a lot of the obstruction tricks being used now - FAA interference, canceling launch windows, etc. - were being used under Obama. Another favorite trick during that administration was playing games with launch capacity at Canaveral. It was weirdly contradictory, but I think the obstruction was the dominant theme after 2012.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (DU+/6)

164 I have a friend that runs a small record company, they have given up their office space in lower Manhattan after 30 years and are now 100% remote.

I have a friend that runs an architecture firm In Philadelphia he texted me a foto of rows of empty desks and cubicles. They are giving up 40% of their space.

Everyone is "working" at home and the "unemployment rate" is 3 point blah blah percent.

So Soviet in so many ways.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (EZebt)

165 Thanks for your cheerful comments, nova local.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (SMfjY)

166 Newsmax
@newsmax

1h
The unionization effort by Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, seems to be headed toward defeat, but hundreds of contested ballots still remain, CNBC reported.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

167 "70 % of AA babies are illegitimate". It is one thing for a wealthy, Hollywood single mother to give birth to a child, but entirely a different thing for a poor apartment-dwelling mother. And yet our culture glorifies the Hollywood type, and promises endless "programs" to give material support to the poor single mother. To what end?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 08:36 AM (GM2Mp)


But rap music says that's fine. Democrats promote and fund it.

It MUST be good. They wouldn't lie, would they?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

168 150 He [Obama] didn't consider that SpaceX would actually be more capable mission wise than NASA.

.. yeah, but SpaceX isn't doing enough Muslim outreach

Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 08:39 AM (RHGPo)

169 Everyone is "working" at home and the "unemployment rate" is 3 point blah blah percent.

So Soviet in so many ways.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (EZebt)


Hopefully less vodka.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 01, 2022 08:39 AM (wODFs)

170 The "social safety net" has been an absolute failure. Last night in Tucker, VDH gave an impassioned talk in which he cited a startling statistic, "70 % of AA babies are illegitimate". It is one thing for a wealthy, Hollywood single mother to give birth to a child, but entirely a different thing for a poor apartment-dwelling mother. And yet our culture glorifies the Hollywood type, and promises endless "programs" to give material support to the poor single mother. To what end?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 08:36 AM (GM2Mp)
++++
To what end? To getting more. Black illegitimacy was considered a crisis in the 60s when it was approaching half. We were able to increase that by 50%.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

171 He didn't consider that SpaceX would actually be more capable mission wise than NASA.
Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2022 08:34 AM (Cfk8j)


When you force NASA to care more about 'muslham outreach' than actual space exploration.......

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

172 The "social safety net" has been an absolute failure.

Only if you think its goal was to increase self-reliance and self-responsibility ("a hand up, not a hand out!") and reduce poverty.

If, instead, you realize it was always a cynical ploy to make people depend on the government for basic needs such that they will never, never vote against an increase in government's scope and power, you'll see it has worked almost flawlessly.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:40 AM (ZLaiV)

173 Thomas Paine, mesquite beans can be easily processed into flour so there is an up side.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2022 08:40 AM (sg/9X)

174 Posted by: IrishEi at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM

Dammit! I thought it was going to be a quality Ewok picture.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:40 AM (qnVBz)

175 Inspector general says post office [iCop] surveillance program exceeded legal authority

And the punishment is....?
*

They have to end the program, silly.

They're trying out the new [eCop] now, anyway.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at April 01, 2022 08:40 AM (9UP7H)

176 You see there's this little thing called Supply and Demand
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The Law of Supply and Demand is racist.
Fact Checkmate

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 01, 2022 08:40 AM (jyY8V)

177 JJ

https://tinyurl.com/3ew4hrum

Link for the CJ and CoC Fight Back.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 08:41 AM (yrol0)

178

I think that is correct, the active permits have gone down by 90 percent, and no new ones approved.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (5kI0z)


But Joe says they're not drilling with their open, active permits.

Someone is lying.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

179 165 Thanks for your cheerful comments, nova local.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2022 08:37 AM (SMfjY)

No problem. Cancer helps one focus the mind to realize that life is short, so you might as well live to enjoy every day you can.

Posted by: Nova local at April 01, 2022 08:41 AM (exHjb)

180 "70 % of AA babies are illegitimate".

--

This is a devastating statistic. And it's got nothing to do with the evil white man. Although, when they remain in poverty, living on gov't assistance, in high crime areas because no fathers are around and gang life is glorified, it's the "systemic racism" boogeyman that's to blame.

The black community has deep problems, and those problems will never resolve until they're truly honest about the origins. And that's not going to happen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:41 AM (sVtYq)

181 I visited the King ranch in south Texas several years ago. They had two Cat D9 bulldozers with a length of anchor chain between them. Two guys' full time job was to run them all over the farm, taking down mesquite trees on 800,000 acres.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 08:42 AM (5kI0z)

182 A Tight Pussy, Loose Shoes And A Warm Place To Shit

Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

183 The elephant in the room of the all-electric-powered USA that the Progs are striving to inflict on us -

"The People Promising Us "Net Zero" Have No Clue About the Energy Storage Problem"

https://tinyurl.com/5fb8k375

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2022 08:42 AM (AMIL/)

184 SpaceX launches for X dollars, on time, every time.

NASA launches for X + $500M so far never

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2022 08:42 AM (BFigT)

185 mesquite beans can be easily processed into flour so there is an up side.

Wait. What? This is the first time I've heard this.
Seriously, when my grampa ran the farm, he had removed almost every piece of mesquite on the entire 160 acres (by hand, alone - good grief), but the farm sat abandoned for 20 years or so and the whole thing is overgrown.

If I can get some use out of this stuff - other than ripping it all out and chipping it all up for barbeque (though a fair amount will still go for that, let me assure you), I'm all for it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:43 AM (ZLaiV)

186 If the Dems play their cheat game in the next elections it will probably result in the electorate going all in on backing real reform. The media will cover for them but the majority will demand action to clean up the system. Of course the Dems will not listen and stall brining the day of reckoning closer.

Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2022 08:44 AM (Cfk8j)

187 and promises endless "programs" to give material support to the poor single mother. To what end?
Posted by: Huck Follywood,

It gives democrat politicians an endless problem to "solve" compassionately which grows government power while being difficult to criticize. It also creates a permanent class of voters who are dependent on democrats in power, and huge opportunity for "community activists" to beg for money from the government and corporations to "help the inner city utes"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:44 AM (qnVBz)

188 141 Posted by: IrishEi at April 01, 2022 08:33 AM (VhE0u)
==============
And then I recalled it is April Fools! Well done.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 08:44 AM (GM2Mp)

189 AllenG#Texit-Somebody has had to have done the math on EV's hence why they're toying with nuclear power plants. Don't trust the type of reactors or process they are messing with since it was technology the U.S. Nuclear industry abandoned years ago.(sodium/breeder) Something tells me they were smarter back then and there was a reason for abandoning it.

Well, in the end, these guys want the power grid to be "smart' and totally interconnected from energy production all the way down to consumer. For "safety and security".

It's just another way to control you.

What I'd like is a bunch of "stupid" redundant, independent grids coming off of nukes and gas/oil/coal power plants. Where you can control your own use and the market comes into play to the extent that it can for utilities.

Instead, of Bill Gates being able to shut off or limit your power cuz your social credit is too low.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:45 AM (5NkmN)

190
The black community has deep problems, and those problems will never resolve until they're truly honest about the origins. And that's not going to happen.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:41 AM (sVtYq)


They have one BIG problem. Democrats.

Trump showed them the light by creating the environment for jobs and prosperity across all spectrums, yet he was vilified and impeached, twice. They reacted accordingly.

It reminds me of the Eddie Murphy RAW piece where he does the 'white guy dance.' When Joe White starts trying to vary up the dance moves, he is a bull in a china shop. Better go back to what's 'comfortable.'

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

191 IrishEi that was mean!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 01, 2022 08:45 AM (nxdel)

192 If I can get some use out of this stuff - other than ripping it all out and chipping it all up for barbeque (though a fair amount will still go for that, let me assure you), I'm all for it.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:43 AM (ZLaiV)

Fun Fact: When my parents cleared out the lot to build their house in the San Antonio burbs, they left a lone mesquite in the back yard. The roadrunners used to nest in it. Fascinating to watch the life-cycle.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 01, 2022 08:46 AM (dfRN6)

193 NASA Artemis. With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon.

.. gee, I thought you lost all color when you die.
Is NASA saying that all astronauts of 6 Apollo missions to the moon were DOA ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

194 Having seen brush country up close, and felt Texas winds, I imagine erosion is a big problem down there without any cover.

Posted by: kraken at April 01, 2022 08:46 AM (Vr12I)

195 It gives democrat politicians an endless problem to "solve" compassionately which grows government power while being difficult to criticize. It also creates a permanent class of voters who are dependent on democrats in power, and huge opportunity for "community activists" to beg for money from the government and corporations to "help the inner city utes"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:44 AM (qnVBz)

It also lets Democrats be the Big Daddy all of these poor single mothers are used to - always promising, never delivering. But they're suckers for that, it's why they are where they are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 08:46 AM (evAgx)

196 141- I'm sure Ace is much better looking than Rick Astley in that horrible music video-"Never gonna give you up." Actually Rick Astley looks better today than he did in that video. For the oldsters here that video makes me think of a more cheerful singing version of Eddie from "Leave It To Beaver." Uggh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2022 08:46 AM (+wNVP)

197 I'm going to ask this again, since I didn't see any response yesterday, but is anyone having any issues not being able to block ads on the main page all of the sudden? I use Opera and have tried 3 different ad blockers to no avail.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2022 08:20 AM (sVtYq)

I'm using Brave and they're showing up for me as well. Must be some new mechanism.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 01, 2022 08:46 AM (IUd0M)

198 185 mesquite beans can be easily processed into flour so there is an up side.

Wait. What? This is the first time I've heard this.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:43 AM (ZLaiV)

Me too but a search on "mesquite beans" brings up both "how to harvest" and lots of recipes. More than just flour.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 01, 2022 08:46 AM (wODFs)

199 And it's got nothing to do with the evil white man

One evil white man in particular.

They replaced black fathers with government and allowed young black men to exist without the responsibility of raising a family. And thus is the result.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:47 AM (qnVBz)

200 A Tight Pussy, Loose Shoes And A Warm Place To Shit
Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 08:42 AM (RHGPo)


After millions of years, Man finally solves the riddle of "The Meaning of Life."

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

201 They replaced black fathers with government and allowed young black men to exist without the responsibility of raising a family. And thus is the result.

And then it became acceptable to trash the blacks who rejected that idea as "acting white."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 01, 2022 08:48 AM (4olE8)

202 IrishEi that was mean!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 01, 2022 08:45 AM (nxdel)


Cruel, even.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

203 199 And it's got nothing to do with the evil white man

One evil white man in particular.

They replaced black fathers with government and allowed young black men to exist without the responsibility of raising a family. And thus is the result.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:47 AM (qnVBz)

It would be interesting if abortion was illegal and yet paternity was established by DNA test with immediate garnishment of paternal wages (or government benefits) at birth for all babies of unwed mothers. That might solve a whole host of problems...

Posted by: Nova local at April 01, 2022 08:49 AM (exHjb)

204 186 If the Dems play their cheat game in the next elections it will probably result in the electorate going all in on backing real reform. The media will cover for them but the majority will demand action to clean up the system. Of course the Dems will not listen and stall brining the day of reckoning closer.
Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2022 08:44 AM (Cfk8j)

as we keep pointing out, Dems stole the 2020 elections by fixing the vote in 6 large cities that they control. (you know which ones) You can't fix 435 separate elections by controlling 6 cities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 08:49 AM (evAgx)

205 The progs objective: a profound and acute crisis in society in order to defeat, dismantle and abolish the capitalist USA.

The crisis is well underway and dismantling is coming along nicely, as the links above show.

Excerpt above from Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin's Secret War on America (2021), by R.J. Woolsey, I.M. Pacepa.

Posted by: Ziba at April 01, 2022 08:50 AM (S1hrL)

206 Two guys' full time job was to run them all over the farm, taking down mesquite trees on 800,000 acres.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

We have pork belly, which is really fatty and not of much use.
We have these resin-y weedy scrub trees taking over the TX landscape.
How to fix....

Mesquite smoked bacon!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:50 AM (qnVBz)

207 "Democrats privately skeptical of Iran deal"

And, yet, the junta continues. They are dedicated to disaster, in one thing after another.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 08:50 AM (yOwPo)

208 Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 08:45 AM (5NkmN)

All of this.

Though, the idea of all the power in Redmond shutting down because the Microsoft Nuclear Plant just blue-screened brings a little smirk to my face.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:50 AM (ZLaiV)

209 The roadrunners used to nest in it.
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beep! beep!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 01, 2022 08:51 AM (UHVv4)

210 It's a jungle out there.

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2022 08:51 AM (gktX6)

211 This can't possibly be true. I've been assured by the media that Ukraine is easily winning this war, may take over Moscow soon, and that Russian troops have all turned on each other, and are in fact resorting to cannibalism in the Moscow Superdome.
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I had a theory, sneaking suspicion that we were getting Baghdad Bob News from Ukraine.
It just seems like all the reports of Russian failures and war crimes keep coming from deeper and deeper into Ukraine.
We're 5 weeks in to what all the experts assured us was only planned to be a 3-day war. If they only planned for 3 days, how are they still there?

I could be wrong but I'm too lazy and don't care all that much who or loses there.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 01, 2022 08:51 AM (jyY8V)

212 "Better to sign all official documents in blood, really."

Humans are carbon-based life forms, so presumably, our blood would be a "carbon emission".

Posted by: jjod at April 01, 2022 08:51 AM (dEcx6)

213 Random post for the LOLs, found when bouncing around Wikipedia:

"It was on Mike Douglas in 1974 that [comedian] Totie Fields met the band Kiss, who were making their first national TV appearance. Fields joked that it would be funny if bassist Gene Simmons, under the makeup, turned out to be "just a nice Jewish boy." Simmons (who is not only Jewish but was born in Israel) responded "You should only know", to which Fields said, "I do! You can’t hide the hook!" (Simmons and Fields became friends and corresponded until her death.)"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 01, 2022 08:52 AM (Dc2NZ)

214 You don't have to be very deep in the oil industry to understand the simple facts. That is, a little over a year ago we were energy independent and gas was hovering around two dollars and change. So what happened? Brandon's War on Energy happened. They have sicced the regulatory state on the oil and gas industry, including refineries. They have essentially shut down the federal oil and gas lease process. They have shut down further exploration in ANWR. They have stopped, on day one, a pipeline that would have led to much more supply from Canada.

Releasing from the reserve won't do squat over long term prices. Most of the commodity brokers already moved their targets for a barrel of oil up to ~$115.00. Trying to make oil companies and their employees the bad guys for your green delusion isn't going to work.

It's time to get every last one of these incompetent, destructive idiots out of office. Every. Last. One. They are killing our country and her citizens.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 08:52 AM (VpIIl)

215 intent to terrify, intimidate, or unlawfully influence the conduct of a candidate for public office, public servant, election official, or public employee in any decision

The way representative government is supposed to work, is that people elect representatives that will vote the way they want.

How do the representatives know which way to vote? By getting regular feedback from the voters.

Now they throw in the weasel word "unlawfully" but you should be able to demand, yell it, swear at, and threaten to vote out officials based on their take on the issues of the day. Violence should be off the table...but basically everything else should be ok.

IIRC, this sort of law has been used against voters that have said they will lead an effort to vote against, recall, or have an official fired - which should all be protected as it is the heart of the way representative government is supposed to work.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

216 Wiki says rickrolling made Rick Astley hugely popular again, and the album he released on his 50th birthday was number one in the, because of the meme.

Pretty good result for him!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 08:52 AM (yOwPo)

217 As I recall "nuclear engineer" Carter destroyed the US nuclear industry while we were in the middle of a fossil fuel crisis.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:52 AM (qnVBz)

218 Family courts have also added to the mess. If you have dependent children they will throw you in jail for missing payments. Having a job just makes things worse for them.

Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2022 08:52 AM (Cfk8j)

219 Though, the idea of all the power in Redmond shutting down because the Microsoft Nuclear Plant just blue-screened brings a little smirk to my face.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:50 AM (ZLaiV)


That one time where I made an entire airplane laugh.....

The pilot comes on and says that they have to "reboot the plane" to try and correct an issue with the Nav system.

I spout "What, is this 'Airplane by Microsoft?'"

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

220 One of the sad realities in all of this is that we learned that OJ Simpson is better at public speaking than Vice President Dirty Harris.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 01, 2022 08:53 AM (S3EUx)

221 "Biden tells families they can save $500 a MONTH by switching to renewable energy"


Yesterday, Biden also told families they can save $80 a month by switching to an electric car.

I want to see the math on this one. I need a good laugh.

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (AMIL/)

222 Okay, time to do chores and work at work (not at the same time).

Catch y'all (probably) Monday.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (ZLaiV)

223 Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
CNN Confirms: Trump Phone Call 'Gap' of Missing 7 Hours on Jan. 6 Turns Out to Be a Hoax

https://tinyurl.com/2m5zcbkn

Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

224 'The oil must flow.'

-Bobby Joe Heinlein

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2022 08:55 AM (gktX6)

225 Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
CNN Confirms: Trump Phone Call 'Gap' of Missing 7 Hours on Jan. 6 Turns Out to Be a Hoax

https://tinyurl.com/2m5zcbkn
Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (NpAcC)


Shocking absolutely no one.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

226 Biden is urging more drilling, but not releasing leases on federal land (where much oil sits), even despite two courts telling the administration the law requires them to resume leases.

This is all for show. The junta wants oil prices high. The junta likes constricting supply. The inflation they have caused requires them to allow more drilling, so they issue PR statements supporting drilling, but the reality is they change nothing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 08:55 AM (yOwPo)

227 Get an electric car! Filling it is Free! It gets filled with unicorn farts!

*looks at utility bill which is directly linked to oil and gas*

*throws gasoline on electric car and pushed down the hill*

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 08:56 AM (VpIIl)

228 Yep. Tow strap. F350. Some assembly (and time) required.

It's the time that's the issue right now.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 01, 2022 08:36 AM (ZLa

I wouldn't use a tow strap; just cut it and grind the stump. Some west Texas mesquites, not very large on the surface, have been found to have tap roots that descend 50 feet to find water.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 08:56 AM (evAgx)

229
Yesterday, Biden also told families they can save $80 a month by switching to an electric car.

I want to see the math on this one. I need a good laugh.
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (AMIL/)


There is no math only Zuul.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

230 CNN Confirms: Trump Phone Call 'Gap' of Missing 7 Hours on Jan. 6 Turns Out to Be a Hoax


But what it will remain gospel.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:56 AM (qnVBz)

231 The only carbon neutral humans are dead.

Important to remember

Posted by: blaster at April 01, 2022 08:57 AM (9otr5)

232 Sure. If you compare current fuel costs to electric and ignore every other measure of cost of ownership.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:57 AM (qnVBz)

233 Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
CNN Confirms: Trump Phone Call 'Gap' of Missing 7 Hours on Jan. 6 Turns Out to Be a Hoax

https://tinyurl.com/2m5zcbkn
Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

But....it was all over digital media!!! Like ukie wins!

Posted by: runner at April 01, 2022 08:57 AM (mmOYv)

234 The only carbon neutral humans are dead.

Important to remember
Posted by: blaster at April 01, 2022 08:57 AM (9otr5)


Only after they're done decomposing.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

235
This can't possibly be true. I've been assured by the media that Ukraine is easily winning this war

I read Western and neutral sources and occasionally Russia sources when I can.

And then I balance it all against the maps of territory controlled which you can find.

And the western sources bear no relation, whatsoever, to what control on the ground apparently looks like.

That Russia is taking more losses then it originally expected is a reasonable interpretations. That the Ukrainian army won't lose the war baring direct western intervention though is just not correct.

The only question now is how much pain the Uke government wants before giving up the Russian enclaves and...if this keeps up if the Russians will eventually demand all the territories that oppose Western candidates (in the last mostly free election in 2010 Ukraine was split between Eastern and Western supporting candidates)

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (ESjRY)

236 Never seen 16 blocks

Like the gauntlet but with a prettier witness.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (yrol0)

237 Shill, Baby, Shill!

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Crisco Inferno!

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (soOQJ)

238 Good morning.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (88xKn)

239 It's time to get every last one of these incompetent, destructive idiots out of office. Every. Last. One. They are killing our country and her citizens.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 08:52 AM (VpIIl)
++++
And releases from the SPR cannot help natural gas. We've been getting a free ride on gas for a long time now, with it selling for below the cost of production. You get a lot of gas when you frack for oil, and it has to go somewhere so the price comes down, even to below the cost of production, because you're after something else and just get it as a consequence. And what happens when you have such cheap gas for a long time? You switch to it. Many power plants switched to it. Gas becomes preferred.

So this war on oil and fracking hurts gas a lot - tremendously, even - toward the end of a major a capital cycle that switched over to it and made us far more dependent on it, putting more everyday things downstream from it. A great time to make the price surge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (DU+/6)

240 Never seen 16 blocks

Like the gauntlet but with a prettier witness.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (yrol0)


Isn't that the Bruce Willis film where he has to get the funny talking black guy to the courthouse with the entire police force trying to kill them?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

241 NASA Artemis. With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.
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ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS -- EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. THAT'S WHERE ARE DISCO BE.

Posted by: the black monolith at April 01, 2022 08:59 AM (UHVv4)

242 The process to get a federal lease is very complicated and expensive. Lettuce Brain had his regulators make it more arduous (and probably violating federal law). They are basically shutting down oil leases in the gulf by not putting out their program (in violation of federal law). In the end, many of those leases do not produce ANYTHING. That is, after a company has spent the money for exploration. This canard that oil companies are sitting on leases is total bullshit. Especially since Brandon has weaponized the permit process against the drillers.

Simple question people should ask: why didn't we have this problem before Mush Brain took over?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 08:59 AM (VpIIl)

243 But what it will remain gospel.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 08:56 AM (qnVBz)
===

It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: Zombie Dingy Harry at April 01, 2022 08:59 AM (EZebt)

244 I wouldn't use a tow strap; just cut it and grind the stump. Some west Texas mesquites, not very large on the surface, have been found to have tap roots that descend 50 feet to find water.

Posted by: Tom Servo



You would have to take it down a foot or more into the root, I would think. I cut some larger ones down to the ground last spring, and the roots are sprouting again. The smaller ones, I pull everything up. Mesquites are tree sized weeds.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 09:00 AM (5kI0z)

245 Just to demonstrate how unnecessary a college education is, my non-college educated son just accepted a new job offer yesterday for an IT position at an auto supplier for $165,000/yr plus multiple benefits. My college educated daughter (6 years - why not? dad was paying) spent about 6 months working in her degree field then chucked it all to run a restaurant with her husband. They gross about $220,000 income. The electrician working on our garden center construction didn't even finish high school, but his new house had to be close to a million. It's time people wake up to the lies academia tells to keep their scam going.

Posted by: jwest at April 01, 2022 09:00 AM (/BlEx)

246 18 Morning peeps.

One would think the oil industry could put the junta over a barrel, so to speak, and do nothing until their demands were met with regards to permitting, drilling, taxes, etc.

But if Big Oil is woke....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2022 07:39 AM (BFigT)

"Big Oil" is a chimera; people love to blame it for pricing, but pricing is set by World Markets, and 77% of world oil production is owned by State Oil Companies. (Saudi's, Kuwaiti's, etc) Companies, even those as big as Exxon and Chevron, are still just ticks on a dogs back.

Not to mention that they know, by experience, that when operating under a hostile government, it's easiest and just as profitable to stop investing and simply make money by watching prices skyrocket.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:00 AM (evAgx)

247
Now they throw in the weasel word "unlawfully" but you should be able to demand, yell it, swear at, and threaten to vote out officials based on their take on the issues of the day. Violence should be off the table...but basically everything else should be ok.

You mean like cornering a senator in the senate building elevator and berating him on camera over his vote for the Supreme court?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 01, 2022 09:00 AM (rjpjQ)

248 211. It's about romanticizing Zelensky and the Ukrainians and ignoring the obvious.

Posted by: Ziba at April 01, 2022 09:01 AM (S1hrL)

249 U.S. Navy to name ship after Ruth Ginsburg

USN Beep Beep

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at April 01, 2022 09:01 AM (yrol0)

250
Simple question people should ask: why didn't we have this problem before Mush Brain took over?
Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 08:59 AM (VpIIl)


Why are the oil companies allowing ShitBrains to lie about them incessantly?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

251 See the oil companies loved Trump so much they happily forewent their profits to allow low gas prices to keep voters happy.

Posted by: blaster at April 01, 2022 09:01 AM (9otr5)

252 234 The only carbon neutral humans are dead.

Important to remember
Posted by: blaster at April 01, 2022 08:57 AM (9otr5)

Only after they're done decomposing.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

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There's an app for that! You know who else used it?

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:02 AM (soOQJ)

253 U.S. Navy to name ship after Ruth Ginsburg

USN Beep Beep
Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at April 01, 2022 09:01 AM (yrol0)


Sorry, but after the USS Harvey Milk was christened, all bets are off.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

254 And there are still 60 million + who will vote for them, lock, stock and barrel, religiously.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

What do the asshole Republicans offer?

Posted by: ... at April 01, 2022 09:02 AM (DxKSW)

255 249 U.S. Navy to name ship after Ruth Ginsburg


second look at the Sea Hag

Posted by: REDACTED at April 01, 2022 09:02 AM (us2H3)

256 True the Vote Findings

7 PERCENT of mail-in ballots were trafficked in Wisconsin

137,551 trafficked votes in election decided by 20,682

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at April 01, 2022 09:03 AM (yrol0)

257 The SPR has always been a chimera, a ploy designed to sooth worries from the 70's. Joe telling oil companies how to spend their money - it is theirs by the way - is fully communist. Over half the country agrees with Joe on the latter and 95% don't understand the former. None of this ends well.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:03 AM (QEPWt)

258 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 09:03 AM (yrol0)

259 Biden tells families they can save $500 a MONTH by switching to renewable energy"
Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (AMIL/)
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The White House has already had to walk this back saying, "Biden meant to say- they can save $500. a year."

Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

260 Why are the oil companies allowing ShitBrains to lie about them incessantly?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

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They're all controlled now by Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street -- the front lines of the WEF, Great Reset, and Build Back Deader.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:03 AM (soOQJ)

261 dayum

Person Speaker

https://tinyurl.com/2zz7fra7

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 09:04 AM (yrol0)

262 Biden tells families they can save $500 a MONTH by switching to renewable energy"

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2022 08:54 AM (AMIL/)

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"Psaki: Joe Biden Does NOT Speak for the President of the United States." -- Babylon Bee

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (soOQJ)

263 U.S. Navy to name ship after Ruth Ginsburg

So, how long will it sit in the docks not moving?

Posted by: dantesed at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (88xKn)

264 I had Fox News on in the background while I'm reading the thread. Just heard Biden's remarks on oil prices yesterday (first time, I generally pay no attention to anything he says) What total bullshit! Everything he says is not just Wrong, it's idiotic and destructive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (evAgx)

265 USOGA and many of the state associations have started pushing back by publishing facts. The big oil companies are largely obsequious cowards. They are all afraid the federal government will hurt them more.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (VpIIl)

266 You mean like cornering a senator in the senate building elevator and berating him on camera over his vote for the Supreme court?

My understanding is that non-Senators/staff are not supposed to be in the building, and I believe Flake was threatened with violence.

But at a town hall? Then yes you should be able to demand your Senator vote for/against a SC candidate and threaten to vote against them if they disagree.

There was a video I saw recently where a state Dem was in a bar trolling for votes, and a someone who opposed him started yelling at him about his votes. The candidate left and the voter followed him out of the building yelling at him more...

No one got arrested.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

267 CNN Confirms: Trump Phone Call 'Gap' of Missing 7 Hours on Jan. 6 Turns Out to Be a Hoax
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A MFM chyron was pushing that here two days ago. Oddly enough.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (UHVv4)

268 The November election would be a layup if the GOP would go scorched earth on trannies, grooming and pedophiles. That they are not identifies a core issue with American politics.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:06 AM (QEPWt)

269 "Psaki: Joe Biden Does NOT Speak for the President of the United States." -- Babylon Bee
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (soOQJ)
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Nailed it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 09:07 AM (DU+/6)

270 It is a rainy start to April here in Knoxville. Not for nothing did Chaucer call April the cruelest month.

Posted by: Jmel at April 01, 2022 07:38 AM (bVhJi)

Hopefully it'll rain enough to tamp down the fires.

Posted by: BignJames at April 01, 2022 09:07 AM (AwYPR)

271 The November election would be a layup if the GOP would go scorched earth on trannies, grooming and pedophiles. That they are not identifies a core issue with American politics.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:06 AM (QEPWt)
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Well, they're *all* pedophiles or other flavors of sexual deviancy and they all cover for each other and nothing is sacred.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 09:07 AM (DU+/6)

272 Never seen 16 blocks

Like the gauntlet but with a prettier witness.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (yrol0)
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Pretty good film, I thought. Mos Def and Willis were an intriguing contrast.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:07 AM (iJ2Uh)

273 You know, a great deal of the problem is that Biden has been convinced or convinced himself that he gonna be FDR 2. Hell, not even that, -

FDR Cubed as The Daddy of Green America and the New Green World.

But, you'd have to be senile and/or very stupid on a basic level to believe that can happen the way they're going about it. Biden is both and the stupid is bone deep.

He obviously believes that if you, follow me here, completely destroy and dismantle the petroleum based energy and economic system, then magically the new petroleum-free society will arise over night, because-

of course, everyone will be able to pay $50K for a new EV. And the power grid for this will spring up over night. And everyone on gas heating, etc can just throw away their old HVAC system and buy a new one, and on, and on, and on.

It's clear Biden and his handlers haven't thought one millisecond ahead regarding consequences and process. Unless, you want to totally drive the country into mass poverty,

which Biden probably wouldn't care about as long as he gets his 10% anyway.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 01, 2022 09:07 AM (5NkmN)

274 Better to sign all official documents in blood, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1)

as long as we use his, i don't see an issue...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 01, 2022 09:08 AM (9rBIi)

275 Simple question people should ask: why didn't we have this problem before Mush Brain took over?
Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 08:59 AM (VpIIl)

Why are the oil companies allowing ShitBrains to lie about them incessantly?
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

Although I might disagree, they learned something long ago that Disney Corp should take note of; never get into an open fight with a Government that has the power to regulate you out of business.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:08 AM (evAgx)

276 "So this war on oil and fracking hurts gas a lot - tremendously, even - toward the end of a major a capital cycle that switched over to it and made us far more dependent on it, putting more everyday things downstream from it. A great time to make the price surge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 08:58 AM (DU+/6) "

It has. I can tell you from looking at output on certain wells. They are getting killed with a lot of harassment from the regulators and environmental Nazis. That all has Brandon's imprimatur. Anyone in the business knows he's a pathetic lying fraud.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 09:08 AM (VpIIl)

277 So Ukraine won't accede to any Russian demands now or am I not reading this right? I guess Zelensky was practicing his standup routine when the lessons of Carthage and Rome were being discussed in the 8th grade.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:09 AM (QEPWt)

278 That they are not identifies a core issue with American politics.

Here is the problem - American voters oppose all this crap.

But the money people want trannies and pedos to be normalized. So as an elected Republican do you want to maybe get some voters with very, very short memories on your side...or the people that will get you a sweet no show lobbying job when you leave office?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

279 267 CNN Confirms: Trump Phone Call 'Gap' of Missing 7 Hours on Jan. 6 Turns Out to Be a Hoax
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A MFM chyron was pushing that here two days ago. Oddly enough.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (UHVv4)

It's a good window into the state of the Investigations into Trump; just like back in 2017, all of the stories "proving" criminal acts are pure hoaxes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:10 AM (evAgx)

280 "Although I might disagree, they learned something long ago that Disney Corp should take note of; never get into an open fight with a Government that has the power to regulate you out of business.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:08 AM (evAgx) "

Except when it gets to the point that what they're doing threatens your long term viability. Then people start to fight back- which is what is happening now. Plus, a lot of the states are supportive, especially of the smaller operators.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 09:10 AM (VpIIl)

281 So, how long will it sit in the docks not moving?
Posted by: dantesed at April 01, 2022 09:05 AM (88xKn)

First they gotta find a great big fuck-off doily to hang around the control tower.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 09:10 AM (wSJ3+)

282 Thee principal function of parents and those acting in loco parentis (teachers, pediatricians, clergy, mental health counselors, Scout leaders) is to develop children into responsible adults and productive members of society.

In ever larger numbers they are failing at this.

Catering to every whim and childhood fantasy so that children can "feel good about themselves" is child abuse, plain and simple.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 01, 2022 09:11 AM (m45I2)

283 CNN Confirms: Trump Phone Call 'Gap' of Missing 7 Hours on Jan. 6 Turns Out to Be a Hoax
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Seems yet another law suit Trump could file against CNN.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

284 OH, and by the way, if ten percent of vehicle owners went to EV, the entire US electrical grid will crash.

Good luck finding the tens of trillions of dollars to upgrade the entire electrical grid of the US.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 09:11 AM (5kI0z)

285 Until the free market, via innovation, discovery via experimentation or sheer dumb luck discovers alternate materials and processes that give us everything we need to sustain and improve our lives at a lower cost than that of fossil fuels, then forcing us to do otherwise by decree is tantamount to mass murder, sooner or later.

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"And they say hyperinflation has no benefits ... other than mass starvation, suffering, and death."

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (soOQJ)

286 277 So Ukraine won't accede to any Russian demands now or am I not reading this right? I guess Zelensky was practicing his standup routine when the lessons of Carthage and Rome were being discussed in the 8th grade.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:09 AM (QEPWt)

Or he's taking some talking points from General McCauliffe. "Nuts!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (evAgx)

287 Biden's lies about big Oil are intended for the LIVs. The Oil companies don't give a shit about what he says. It's the process that is the problem and Joe probably has no idea of how that works.

Posted by: pawn at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (Cfk8j)

288 Biden urged oil companies to start producing more oil, threatening to punish them if they do not respond.
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Who is John Galt?

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (AZlbU)

289 Carthage and Rome were being discussed in the 8th grade.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:09 AM (QEPWt)

Didn't the Carthaginian envoys actually *fail* to surrender? They were trying to end it once Hannibal got Fabianed into inertia, and Rome basically wouldn't let them?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (wSJ3+)

290 Small oil in the US is completely beholden via debt and shareholder bases to big private equity, insurance and hedge funds. These owners are all openly controlled by the ESG crowd Big oil could give a shit about the US. Charlie is in the wire.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (QEPWt)

291 The strategic oil reserve is there for the military to protect us in case of WW3, fortunately the bRandumb administration is keeping the 3rd Tranny brigade in reserve instead, so everything is AOK.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 01, 2022 09:13 AM (ZEHVO)

292 @264

"everything (Biden) says is idiotic and destructive."

Well, yeah, that's why they installed him as President and might replace him with that other idiot, Kamalala.

Posted by: Ziba at April 01, 2022 09:13 AM (S1hrL)

293 Small oil in the US is completely beholden via debt and shareholder bases to big private equity, insurance and hedge funds. These owners are all openly controlled by the ESG crowd Big oil could give a shit about the US. Charlie is in the wire.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (QEPWt)
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The entire ESG movement will eventually be destructive to enterprise value. Sadly, it might end up being co-terminal with the country itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 09:14 AM (DU+/6)

294 Warai - indeed, you poke a bear long enough, it just doesn't go home when your "fun" ends.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:14 AM (QEPWt)

295 Hannibal actually said that he wanted to cross the Alps with elegance. His logistics officer misunderstood.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:15 AM (qnVBz)

296 Climate activist Greta Thunberg releasing 'The Climate Book'

https://tinyurl.com/3kbyuz2t

Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

297 Russia is doing so badly in the war that the ruble has recovered pretty much all of its former value.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 09:15 AM (5kI0z)

298 284 OH, and by the way, if ten percent of vehicle owners went to EV, the entire US electrical grid will crash.

Good luck finding the tens of trillions of dollars to upgrade the entire electrical grid of the US.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 09:11 AM (5kI0z)

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"Look fat, why do you think I'm importing another 30 million illegal aliens? Those Chinks got wise after the railroads, but our mistake was not giving them free food, housing, health care, education, amnesty from crime, and white women to rape and murder back then ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:16 AM (soOQJ)

299 Sure. If you compare current fuel costs to electric and ignore every other measure of cost of ownership.
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Yesterday, our Weather Channel had some crap about how in Nova Scotia it only cost $380 [at 15-cents/kWh] to 'fuel' an EV for 15,000 km contrasted with something like $3,000+ for a variety of ICE vehicles.

I couldn't find it out for N.S. but Ontario's CAA had a cost calculator that does take into account initial cost, estimated repairs etc. and taking all the other expenses into account, the midsize ICE vehicle beat the EV even if the $380 for 15,000 km is accurate [although I used 20,000 km in the CAA Calculator as it didn't have a 15,000 option]. I think I used midsize Hyundai or the like as the ICE vehicle.

https://carcosts.caa.ca/

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 01, 2022 09:16 AM (UHVv4)

300 I was just glancing around the web for current conditions in Ukraine, and it points out how frustrating and futile it is to try and make sense of what's actually happening there. Russia is retreating, Russia is advancing, the Battle for Kiev is over, the Battle for Kiev is just beginning, who knows? Impossible to find out, you can find "verified" stories to support any narrative you want to push.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:16 AM (evAgx)

301 Uh......

Story at a glance
Greta Thunberg is a 19-year-old climate activist known for spotlighting the harsh realities of climate change.
Thunberg announced she's releasing a new book, titled "The Climate Book."
It will highlight how threats to climate, environment and sustainability are all interconnected.


She's a 19 year old high school dropout with mental conditions.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Climate activist Greta Thunberg releasing 'The Climate Book'


So, 300 pages of 'How dare you?' at $19.95.

Posted by: dantesed at April 01, 2022 09:17 AM (88xKn)

303 Climate activist Greta Thunberg releasing 'The Climate Book'

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"HOW DARE HER!!!!!

HOW MANY TREES DID THAT BITCH MURDER IN ORDER TO PUBLISH THAT BOOK!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:17 AM (soOQJ)

304 We can power a submarine with a nuclear reactor. But to build one to power our homes, requires 30 years of construction and $10 billion.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:18 AM (qnVBz)

305 We knew her record was terrible during the hearings, but her record is even worse than we thought.

I wonder if Judge Jackson's record, which is leaking out despite the Biden administration withholding it from the Senate, is enough to reverse Senators announcements they will vote for her?

It obviously is totally political. If enough people complain, Senators will get nervous. If voters don't complain, they will vote for her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:18 AM (iJ2Uh)

306 Ukrainians want to see if following Palestrnian formula of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity will work for them.

Posted by: runner at April 01, 2022 09:19 AM (FKphP)

307 Seems yet another law suit Trump could file against CNN.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

If he won, rather than money they might give him Brian Stelter as his personal gimp.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

308 DailyMailUK:
Bungling Biden tells families they can save $500 a MONTH by switching to renewable energy: White House issues a correction saying saving is over a year - which is still met with disbelief

Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

309 "She" wrote the book just like FJB will write his autobiography.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:19 AM (qnVBz)

310 Politicians live and work generally in the same city. They don't have to worry about getting to work, finding a parking spot, what to get for lunch, etc. It's all pretty much done for them. Yet, in their feeble little minds they think they're the ones who created this utopian environment where there are no worries.

And they really want you to live like they do. And you'll do it by any means necessary.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2022 09:19 AM (BFigT)

311 Yesterday, Biden also told families they can save $80 a month by switching to an electric car.

*

Look fat, you can save $80 a month if you'll just spend $50,000 today.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (9UP7H)

312 Russia is doing so badly in the war that the ruble has recovered pretty much all of its former value.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 09:15 AM (5kI0z)
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Wow- is that right? That's amazing. I gotta go look....

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (iJ2Uh)

313 Putin going to draft 135k. You can take that as he is losing or you can take it that he is going to win at any cost. Even if you're an "and" person, you get it.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (QEPWt)

314 Set em up, knock em down, fuck around, get drunk, face down.

- - 24/7 Spyz

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

315 I wonder if Judge Jackson's record, which is leaking out despite the Biden administration withholding it from the Senate, is enough to reverse Senators announcements they will vote for her?


Susan Collins has already said that it's all totes OK with her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (evAgx)

316 300 I was just glancing around the web for current conditions in Ukraine, and it points out how frustrating and futile it is to try and make sense of what's actually happening there. Russia is retreating, Russia is advancing, the Battle for Kiev is over, the Battle for Kiev is just beginning, who knows? Impossible to find out, you can find "verified" stories to support any narrative you want to push.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:16 AM (evAgx)
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Yeah. I just ignore most of the Ukraine "news" -- it's virtually all propaganda for one side or the other.

Posted by: Revenant at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (PHukT)

317 She's a 19 year old high school dropout with mental conditions.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)
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And yet it will probably be required reading for students across the nation.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

318 Yesterday, our Weather Channel had some crap about how in Nova Scotia it only cost $380 [at 15-cents/kWh] to 'fuel' an EV for 15,000 km contrasted with something like $3,000+ for a variety of ICE vehicles.




I guess that explains why they need massive subsidies.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (5kI0z)

319 300 I was just glancing around the web for current conditions in Ukraine, and it points out how frustrating and futile it is to try and make sense of what's actually happening there. Russia is retreating, Russia is advancing, the Battle for Kiev is over, the Battle for Kiev is just beginning, who knows? Impossible to find out, you can find "verified" stories to support any narrative you want to push.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:16 AM (evAgx)

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Out: Who Won the War?
In: Who Won the Narrative?

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (soOQJ)

320 I can't pay back my $40,000 student loans, but I'm going to look at a $65,000 Tesla tomorrow.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (9UP7H)

321 293 Small oil in the US is completely beholden via debt and shareholder bases to big private equity, insurance and hedge funds. These owners are all openly controlled by the ESG crowd Big oil could give a shit about the US. Charlie is in the wire.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:12 AM (QEPWt)
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The entire ESG movement will eventually be destructive to enterprise value. Sadly, it might end up being co-terminal with the country itself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 09:14 AM (DU+/6)

Clearly we just need to Horde-source our own private equity funds to fund domestic small businesses.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (z5Vrg)

322 #299 Versus Tesla 3S model I think.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (UHVv4)

323 ============
Wow- is that right? That's amazing. I gotta go look....
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (iJ2Uh)


Yes. As of yesterday afternoon, it had recovered all losses against the USD. It's still barely worth a penny, but still.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

324 Susan Collins has already said that it's all totes OK with her.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (evAgx)

cunt

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (d0Qel)

325 Putin's demand is the Russian enclaves.

If Ukraine won't let them go the war will continue for quite some time.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

326 HOW MANY TREES DID THAT BITCH MURDER IN ORDER TO PUBLISH THAT BOOK!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS

None. The pages will be printed on plastic sheets made in part (1%) from plastic harvested from the oceans.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (qnVBz)

327 313 Putin going to draft 135k. You can take that as he is losing or you can take it that he is going to win at any cost. Even if you're an "and" person, you get it.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (QEPWt)

it would be a bad idea in current circumstances, but I think the original story about that was from last year, even though it re-emerged yesterday.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (evAgx)

328 How is that muscular approach to Moscow working out for the Europeans today? Has Vlad turned off the gas or have they agreed to pay in a currency Russians can use?

Posted by: Methos at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (kOpft)

329 We can power a submarine with a nuclear reactor. But to build one to power our homes, requires 30 years of construction and $10 billion.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:18 AM


The Navy doesn't really have to deal with the DOE and their red tape. They have their own rules and procedures. Basically they don't have to get permits to build reactors and they don't have 10,000 groups like the sierra club suing them every step of the way.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (bVYXr)

330 If we outlawed political contributions entirely, would that solve the corruption problem?

Posted by: creeper at April 01, 2022 09:22 AM (cTCuP)

331 >>Russia is doing so badly in the war that the ruble has recovered pretty much all of its former value.

But Putin is stupid and doesn't know what he's doing.

If Biden is allowed to keep bumbling around we are going to lose the dollar as the reserve currency and then things will really go pear shaped.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2022 09:22 AM (ZLI7S)

332 Zuckerberg will spend how much in 2024?
That's what we need to know.

Posted by: Ziba at April 01, 2022 09:22 AM (S1hrL)

333 "We are in the strongest position we've been in in months," Biden, whose polling average sits at historic lows, told the Democratic National Committee this month.

Biden said this recently. Bewildering, isn't it?

Imagine what he thinks a "terribly bad position" might be if he thinks this is true...

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:22 AM (iJ2Uh)

334 I can't pay back my $40,000 student loans, but I'm going to look at a $65,000 Tesla tomorrow.
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at April 01, 2022 09:21 AM (9UP7H)


Right?

Posted by: Alexandra Ocrazio CoTits at April 01, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

335 Well, ok, the pages won't contain any plastic harvested from the oceans, but part of the proceeds from the book will be sent to an organization which supports ocean cleanup efforts.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:23 AM (qnVBz)

336 If we outlawed political contributions entirely, would that solve the corruption problem?

You can't stop all possible venues for corruption.

The answer is to limit what the government can do, to reduce the needs to bribe politicians.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

337 TGIF, horde!

I want off this planet -- it's giant flood and pillars of salt time:

https://tinyurl.com/mr36v968

"porn literacy" -- I can't even with this evil.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2022 09:23 AM (MmndN)

338 Wow- is that right? That's amazing. I gotta go look....

Posted by: Huck Follywood



Pre invasion, 76 ruble to the dollar
Sanctions announced, 140ish ruble to the dollar
Now, 87 ruble to the dollar

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 01, 2022 09:23 AM (5kI0z)

339 332

Wait a minute. Don't you know that Putin's advisors are keeping him in the dark?

Posted by: Ziba at April 01, 2022 09:23 AM (S1hrL)

340 311 Yesterday, Biden also told families they can save $80 a month by switching to an electric car.

*

Look fat, you can save $80 a month if you'll just spend $50,000 today.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at April 01, 2022 09:20 AM (9UP7H)


"Better yet, members of the despised working class, you can finance the $50K for practically nothing at today's rates! All of you have credit scores over 800, right?"

- Buttplug and Granwhore

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2022 09:24 AM (AMIL/)

341 That idea of "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" always seems to pop up when there is a fundamental misunderstanding about a group's victory condition.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2022 09:24 AM (/EuRN)

342 Gretel Funburg should start picking out her tent now for her eventual move to that ditch in Crawford TX right next to Cindy Sheehan

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 01, 2022 09:24 AM (flINI)

343 On Thursday's broadcast of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) responded to a question on whether right now is a good time for the CDC to look at rescinding Title 42 by stating that she hasn't been very pleased with the agency for the entire duration of the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the agency lacks credibility due to the constant changes in the agency's stance on things like vaccines and masks, and stating that there "has not been a very clear-cut message or overall policy coming out of the CDC."

.. if it's time to end Title 42, it's also time to completely END ALL MANDATES

Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

344 Remember some years back when alge was gonna replace oil?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 01, 2022 09:25 AM (fvJFK)

345 Well my wife who is pretty much a geopolitical genius, says Putin is done and expect him to be very suddenly taken care of within months. Normally wouldn't buy it but when she says this stuff I listen.

Posted by: ... at April 01, 2022 09:25 AM (DxKSW)

346 ... the reason they are releasing oil from the SPR is not to lower prices but to drain the reserve."

exactly right.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at April 01, 2022 07:58 AM (WdIWr)

Don't disagree. But this is more short-term. They need a graph that at worst will show the "35 cent" decrease before November.

In particular, pre, post Putin graph that doesn't show the run up prior to the invasion. In addition to people being "used to" the current cost.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 01, 2022 09:26 AM (VlVje)

347 300 I was just glancing around the web for current conditions in Ukraine, and it points out how frustrating and futile it is to try and make sense of what's actually happening there. Russia is retreating, Russia is advancing, the Battle for Kiev is over, the Battle for Kiev is just beginning, who knows? Impossible to find out, you can find "verified" stories to support any narrative you want to push.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 01, 2022 09:16 AM (evAgx)

Absent a large unnoticed re-deployment the Russian forces near Kiev doesn't have the forces to press the issue, and sooner rather than later would've been the best time over the last month. Al Jazeera has the Ukraine military saying Russian forces near Kiev are retreating, Russia said in talks they'd be retreating those forces a day or two ago, and it makes strategic sense for them to do so.

Now this could be an elaborate deception in advance of a surprise attack but I think it's most likely the Russians are going to focus on the eastern part of the country.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 01, 2022 09:26 AM (z5Vrg)

348 Gretel Funburg should start picking out her tent now for her eventual move to that ditch in Crawford TX right next to Cindy Sheehan
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 01, 2022 09:24 AM (flINI)


Sheehan should recover by writing a book about how she was used, abused and discarded by the Dems and the industrial media complex.

After all, that's how Bernie got 3 houses!

Posted by: Alexandra Ocrazio CoTits at April 01, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

349 You can't stop all possible venues for corruption.

The answer is to limit what the government can do, to reduce the needs to bribe politicians.

That and punish politicians whose corruption is observable. Make tar and feathers great again.

Posted by: Methos at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (kOpft)

350 The news is so gray and drab on this rainy April Fool's Day. Can't we have something fun, like Prince Charles caught in a whorehouse, or Madonna tripping over her boytoy and falling down a flight of stairs?

Posted by: Caliban at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (HgGBT)

351 Ukies ate holding out for more! Horse whipping.

Posted by: runner at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (FKphP)

352 Unemployment at 3.7% millions of jobs can't find workers
Let companies hire more undocumented workers let the free market roar

Posted by: Kurt at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (PqsYR)

353 And my sock troubles continue.....

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

354 >>Remember some years back when alge was gonna replace oil?


Pretty sure under Obama the Pentagon committed to buying that crap, at, like, $40+ a gallon? Been a while, but it was such a scam.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (MmndN)

355 >>Russia is doing so badly in the war that the ruble has recovered pretty much all of its former value.
===============
The ruble dropped to half its pre-invasion value and has since recovered to only losing a quarter of its value. So, that's maybe a little bit of an overstatement. Losing a quarter of value as a result of the war is still significant.

But trying to get Germany to buy rubles to pay for NatGas would obviously help a lot, if Russia can pull it off.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (vV7yf)

356 The government will just forgive your student loans and give you a $40,000 unrestricted tax credit if you take out a loan on a $65,000 electric car. Problem solved!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (qnVBz)

357 Don't disagree. But this is more short-term. They need a graph that at worst will show the "35 cent" decrease before November.

In particular, pre, post Putin graph that doesn't show the run up prior to the invasion. In addition to people being "used to" the current cost.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 01, 2022 09:26 AM


Yep and the graph will show prices by the penny to make it more dramatic.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

358 Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr

15m
April fool's Day is canceled because nothing could be a bigger joke that the joke that's running our country right now!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

359 Putin's popularity in Russia is now at the highest it's been in 5 years.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8j4hz3

Pretty much everything our foreign policy experts have predicted has turned out just the opposite.

Unexpectedly.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2022 09:28 AM (ZLI7S)

360 Posted by: Kurt at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (PqsYR)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at April 01, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

361 Wow, Kurt.

That's some dumb shit, even for you.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

362 "porn literacy" -- I can't even with this evil.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2022 09:23 AM (MmndN)
++++
"It's important that we do everything we can to help young people become porn literate and identify the pornography that's going to help them grow up as healthy, happy sexual adults."

Which is why porno is restricted to adults. Or, rather, used to be, I guess. Now it's in the curriculum even for young children. This is grotesque. There is a legitimate need, I think, to study pornography and its effects given its availability and the cultural shift toward normalization. Since that shift was driven by these same people, though, that kind of serious psychological and sociological study is not what this is. This is marketing and advancement, not honest and open assessment and consideration of effects and value.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 09:28 AM (DU+/6)

363 And my sock troubles continue.....
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

***

We have a solution...

Posted by: Bombas Incorporated at April 01, 2022 09:28 AM (flINI)

364 Ruble versus dollar chart

https://tinyurl.com/7e3ckj2n

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:29 AM (vV7yf)

365 Unemployment at 3.7% millions of jobs can't find workers
Let companies hire more undocumented workers let the free market roar
Posted by: Kurt

I hope that this is the dumbest thing i hear today.

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at April 01, 2022 09:29 AM (33LjR)

366 I know several guys who have financed an $80,000 truck on a $40,000 income. And don't use the truck to generate income.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 01, 2022 09:30 AM (qnVBz)

367 Fauci says "prepare for more COVID restrictions? How about molon labe, fuckhead.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 09:30 AM (VpIIl)

368 I hope that this is the dumbest thing i hear today.
Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at April 01, 2022 09:29 AM (33LjR)
++++
Don't bet on it. The day is young and not only are both Biden and Harris are still in the White House, the press is still on the air.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 01, 2022 09:30 AM (DU+/6)

369 NOOD!


Your FAVORITE artist is BACK, baby.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 01, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

370 >>The ruble dropped to half its pre-invasion value and has since recovered to only losing a quarter of its value. So, that's maybe a little bit of an overstatement. Losing a quarter of value as a result of the war is still significant.

Not really.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8t2y2d

Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

371 311

Hey, can I donate my gas guzzling car to NPR and get a tax deduction if I buy an EV?

Posted by: Ziba at April 01, 2022 09:32 AM (S1hrL)

372 >>This is marketing and advancement, not honest and open assessment and consideration of effects and value.


Factor in OnlyFans and it's also sex worker recruitment and training. They are normalizing porn so every young kids sees no issue with doing a little porn for cash on the side when they turn 18.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2022 09:34 AM (MmndN)

373 Cahoots. They're all in. Cahoots.

Posted by: Archer at April 01, 2022 09:34 AM (gmo/4)

374 The NFP report is the canary in the coal mine. Lowest job growth since September. Wages were up, unexpectedly, but that's largely eliminated by inflation. I also heard one analyst mention this morning that the increase in wages was to maintain employees or offer larger salaries to get them to work. We are only getting back to Trump levels now. The report was a slight miss, but I expect inflation, lower consumer spending and some of the other numbers presage a drop in the job market due to lower corporate earnings and our spiral into a recession. The Fed will hold on it's current rate trajectory, but that's a mistake IMVHO.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 09:36 AM (VpIIl)

375 My idea of fun would be a big dose of thallium in the mashed potatoes at lunchtime.

Posted by: Ziba at April 01, 2022 09:36 AM (S1hrL)

376 "That is why the ex-chief of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine Naumov Andriy Olehovych and the former head of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region Kryvoruchko Serhiy Oleksandrovych are no longer generals," he said.

Zelensky did not elaborate on what had led to the two officials being dismissed, though he noted that under the Ukrainian army's disciplinary statute officers who "have not decided where their homeland is, who violate the military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people as regards the protection of our state, its freedom and independence" would "inevitably be deprived of senior military ranks."

Posted by: SMOD at April 01, 2022 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

377 Not really.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8t2y2d
Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)
===========
You may recall Russia preparing the invasion for months, assembling forces. If you look at actual cross rates you can see the ruble (previously doing well) started looking shaky as Putin assembled his army, and then dropping through the floor at the actual invasion.

The chart shows the ruble is still down 26%, a big number in foreign exchange.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 01, 2022 09:37 AM (vV7yf)

378 lol. The Ruble recovery will be temporary. There are a lot of other factors at play that are going to slow the long term growth and impact their future ability to control the currency.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 01, 2022 09:40 AM (VpIIl)

379 Ah, there's Kurt.

Hi, Kurt. I see the assassins failed.

Posted by: creeper at April 01, 2022 10:03 AM (cTCuP)

380 Hey. I made the sidebar, even if ace got my nic wrong.

Morning everyone!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 01, 2022 10:06 AM (ZCjo/)

381 352 Posted by: Kurt at April 01, 2022 09:27 AM (PqsYR)


The fucking idiot actually makes the argument for deportations, immigration moratorium and tariffs on nations sucking our manufacturing dry.

Well done, schmuck. Now, learn some grammar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 01, 2022 10:07 AM (s2VJv)

382 Talking all tough about the Oil and Gas business, but starts a war in the Ukraine to protect their interests, liars and crooks.

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