Daily Tech News 7 March 2024

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With Europe's new DMA laws requiring both smartphone companies to open up their marketplaces, Google is taking a leaf out of Apple's book and imposing a 27% fee on all purchases made through third-party marketplaces running on Android. (Tech Crunch)

Because they can.
Meanwhile with Epic Games planning to open an app store on iOS in Europe Apple has simply terminated their account. (WCCFTech)

The EU is probably rubbing their hands with glee at this, because it gives them grounds to fine Apple more billions of dollars.

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There's a bunch of new security vulnerabilities in VMWare, including three related to the virtual USB controller. (Ars Technica)

VMWare suggests disabling USB support. That will make your keyboard stop working, but whatever.
If you want a seriously fast desktop PC - and you're spending someone else's money - Dell's Precision 7875 might suit. (Hot Hardware)

The 96 core Threadripper 7995WX CPU is paired with two 48GB Nvidia RTX 6000 graphics cards. The model tested "only" had 128GB of RAM, but you can upgrade that to 1TB.

One small problem: As tested, $31,065.
OpenAI has clarified what the "open" in "OpenAI" means in the face of Elon Musk's lawsuit alleging that the company is not actually open. (Ars Technica)

Apparently the "open" in "OpenAI" means not open.

I'm not sure how they view this as a rebuttal, but it is what they said.
Microsoft also has its idiots. (Thurrott)

Not as prevalent perhaps, or at least better under control than at Google, but one of the companies AI engineers reported the company to the FTC because, as an AI engineer, he could work around the filters deployed by other AI engineers to create content he considered, as an idiot, to be problematic.
Warner Brothers has announced that it will shift its gaming focus from shitty expensive games to shitty cheap games. (GameSpot)

Not under consideration: Making good games.

Disclaimer: Don't eat brown snow either.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 07, 2024 04:01 AM (T4tVD)

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:02 AM (o3SCB)

4 I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

Posted by: Jimmy Two Times at March 07, 2024 04:03 AM (xverI)

5 Mornin' all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 07, 2024 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

6 The Top Stories are posted twice.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:05 AM (o3SCB)

7 6 The Top Stories are posted twice.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:05 AM (o3SCB)

Now they're not!

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:05 AM (o3SCB)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 04:06 AM (gllTv)

9 carried over from the ONT:

36 Wow

Watching Rima Evenstar's live stream about Nijisanji while building model... and someone named Pixy Misa just donated to Rima $5 Australian.

Could it be?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 06, 2024 10:04 PM (aZsvx)

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:06 AM (o3SCB)

10 Evening and morning to all the insomaniacals! 'Tis Thursday, a step closer to the weekend. I'm heading back to work after the last two days off, with yesterday a really good one all around -- so slogging back into the electron mine is even less appealing.

Humidity is down a touch, and it's 65 F., so whatever.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 04:16 AM (omVj0)

11
From Australia:
Feds or Australian patriots?
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1765368042056495594

/ At least the crazy isn't just in USA

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 04:16 AM (RKVpM)

12 Re: Ace's post from yesterday about Woke video gamers:

MLB The Show '24 will feature the ability to create a female player in it's popular "Road to the Show" mode. Complaints about the realism of such a thing were answered with "it's a video game. You guys have players that hit 150 home runs in a season." What's funny is the incel white knights on the game forums who insist that a female (real one, not some tranny) MLB player is not only possible, but imminent.

Posted by: Jimmy Two Times at March 07, 2024 04:17 AM (xverI)

13 11
From Australia:
Feds or Australian patriots?
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1765368042056495594

/ At least the crazy isn't just in USA
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 04:16 AM (RKVpM)

That wasn't an Aussie flag--?

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:19 AM (o3SCB)

14
That wasn't an Aussie flag--?

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:19 AM

The Union Jack is part of the Australian flag. 🇦🇺

So I guess it's something to do with that. But 'false flag' ops are everywhere anymore. It just gets more and more bizarre every day.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 04:25 AM (RKVpM)

15 I shouldn't stay up for the SotU but will read it afterwards, they won't put in the goofs

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 04:26 AM (fwDg9)

16 14
That wasn't an Aussie flag--?

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:19 AM

The Union Jack is part of the Australian flag. 🇦🇺

So I guess it's something to do with that. But 'false flag' ops are everywhere anymore. It just gets more and more bizarre every day.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 04:25 AM (RKVpM)

It looks like it MIGHT have a black background instead of a navy blue one.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:32 AM (o3SCB)

17 What time is the SOTU? I'd rather listen to Trump's live critique of it - before the powers that be take that down, of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2024 04:34 AM (Ki//m)

18 Got a "What's that fur, Auntie Myrna?" moment. If your toaster has a "Bagel" setting, what exactly does it do? Whenever I've used it on a bagel, the resulting degree of toastiness seems more dependent on the heat setting, the length of the toasting. Does the "Bagel" setting actually do something?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 04:35 AM (omVj0)

19 Sorry. I missed post #3,giving the time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2024 04:36 AM (Ki//m)

20 If a female could be good enough to play MLB, there would be at least one playing on a farm team.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 04:38 AM (7AyCR)

21 Maybe there is. I dunno.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 04:38 AM (7AyCR)

22 I'll skip the SotU. I'll be at work anyway. Got a couple of TVs here at work but I usually leave it on CoziTV. Maybe ESPN if something not NBA is on. The idea of watching a demented, horrid, brain dead, old man, screaming at half the country doesn't interest me.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 04:39 AM (gllTv)

23 Well, I do find it somewhat amusing that if I suggest people concentrate on Ashleigh Merchant"s testimony about the illegal use of funds by Fani and Wade rather than on her boob that all of sudden new handles come out telling me what a terrible person I am instead of their using their regular nics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2024 04:40 AM (Ki//m)

24
Does the "Bagel" setting actually do something?

Supposedly, you should insert the cut side of the bagel inward. Perhaps it adjusts the voltage to the back side of the bagel. That's my guess, which is probably wrong.

It probably does nothing at all.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 04:41 AM (RKVpM)

25 They are busy changing all of the lightbulbs in the House chamber to Red, and installing the flaming torches behind the lectern.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 04:41 AM (7AyCR)

26 25 They are busy changing all of the lightbulbs in the House chamber to Red, and installing the flaming torches behind the lectern.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 04:41 AM (7AyCR)

Seriously! They mock us.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:42 AM (o3SCB)

27 God our strength. A reflection on a passage from the Book of Proverbs:

https://tinyurl.com/2e2bwnkh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2024 04:43 AM (Ki//m)

28 I'll skip the SotU. I'll be at work anyway. . . . The idea of watching a demented, horrid, brain dead, old man, screaming at half the country doesn't interest me.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024

***
Ace, JJ, et al. will cover the important parts. Let us not fash oursel's, but appreciate yon sacrifice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 04:44 AM (omVj0)

29 Here's the old Biden speech with the red and black background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1lXaXBu-ec

Sept. 2, 2022

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:44 AM (o3SCB)

30 The SOTU is just going to be the Francis nightmare scene from Pee-wees big adventure.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 04:44 AM (7AyCR)

31 Coffee, a short pipe, and a half English muffin w/ peanut butter all served to wake me up. Time to shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 04:46 AM (omVj0)

32 It could be instructive to compare the Biden of a speech like that, from a year and a half ago, to the Biden who'll be speaking tonight.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:46 AM (o3SCB)

33 Let us not fash oursel's, but appreciate yon sacrifice.

When putting this through the Pittsburgese translator, it comes out exactly the same. Fascinating.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 04:46 AM (gllTv)

34 A man from Georgia reflects on childlike faith:

https://tinyurl.com/bpaccfa8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2024 04:46 AM (Ki//m)

35 Does the "Bagel" setting actually do something?

On the one I have only one side will toast.

Posted by: Bruce at March 07, 2024 04:49 AM (vd8XM)

36 Right now that 2022 speech has 173,113 views. I'll bet that's gonna go up.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:49 AM (o3SCB)

37 22 The idea of watching a demented, horrid, brain dead, old man, screaming at half the country doesn't interest me.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 04:39 AM (gllTv)

I hear ya.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:52 AM (o3SCB)

38 Woman sings very nice version of the hymn, "Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/4n227fty

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2024 04:52 AM (Ki//m)

39 Let us not fash oursel's, but appreciate yon sacrifice.
*
When putting this through the Pittsburgese translator, it comes out exactly the same. Fascinating.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024

***
Och, laddie, I was trying for Scots. My faint knowledge of Pittsburghese ("Jeet jet?" "No, joo?") says the influences there were German for the most part. Was there a big influx of Clydesiders and kilt-wearers into Pittsburgh at some point?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 04:52 AM (omVj0)

40 Yelling at clouds.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:53 AM (o3SCB)

41 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix this weekend so today is practice, race Saturday again due to Ramadan

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 04:54 AM (fwDg9)

42 "Donald Trump and the MAGNA Republicans," he says.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:55 AM (o3SCB)

43 I'd rather go back to bed than leave for work.
On roof work today, no choice to not go.

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 04:57 AM (fwDg9)

44 Be careful up there, Skip.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 04:58 AM (o3SCB)

45 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix this weekend so today is practice, race Saturday again due to Ramadan
Posted by: Skip

I started watching F! last year due to you reporting on it.

It's like a very fast soap opera, isn't it?

Posted by: Bruce at March 07, 2024 04:58 AM (vd8XM)

46 Depending if can watch a little, I am sure he will be juiced up and it will be a Trump H8 speech and lots about how great he is doing and needs to save their democracy

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 05:00 AM (fwDg9)

47 39 Let us not fash oursel's, but appreciate yon sacrifice.
*
When putting this through the Pittsburgese translator, it comes out exactly the same. Fascinating.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024

***
Och, laddie, I was trying for Scots. My faint knowledge of Pittsburghese ("Jeet jet?" "No, joo?") says the influences there were German for the most part. Was there a big influx of Clydesiders and kilt-wearers into Pittsburgh at some point?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yep!! The same bunch that settled through out Applachia, settled Western PA in the post-Revolutionary War period. Lots of Scots, Scots-Irish, Welsh, English. The rest of Europe would follow.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 05:01 AM (gllTv)

48 Depending if can watch a little, I am sure he will be juiced up and it will be a Trump H8 speech and lots about how great he is doing and needs to save their democracy
Posted by: Skip

And he sure does wish he could do something about the border, but congress won't let him

Posted by: Bruce at March 07, 2024 05:01 AM (vd8XM)

49
Embarrassing as it is to admit, when I bought a new toaster a couple of months back I actually did RTFM* to see what the 'bagel' setting was about. That's where I read how to insert the bagel.

* 'Read the ... friendly manual' (for Fen).

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 05:02 AM (RKVpM)

50 Be sure to put "I get it" on your Biden SOTU Bingo card.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:03 AM (o3SCB)

51 Also "Look!"

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:05 AM (o3SCB)

52
Biden's SOTU will be right out of '1984'. But the 2 minutes of hate will be an hour long.

I refuse to watch. If I had to sit in the audience I'd heckle him the whole time and throw rotten tomatoes at the demented f.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 05:05 AM (RKVpM)

53 Seemingly warm out, only supposed to get to higher 50s

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2024 05:07 AM (fwDg9)

54
And he sure does wish he could do something about the border, but congress won't let him

Posted by: Bruce at March 07, 2024 05:01 AM

He'll use the phrase 'bipartisan effort' a lot. Whoever was the (R) involved in that had to have an IQ of 'reeply detarded' to let himself get rolled that easily.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 05:08 AM (RKVpM)

55 Of course, bipartisan effort just means the Rs do whatever he wants.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 05:12 AM (0ND9+)

56
Corporations who raise prices in order to cover rising costs are the new 'Emmanuel Goldstein' to Biden. Inflation has nothing to do with Joe pissing away trillions of dollars on 'climate change' or any of the other bullshit the left worships.

Every 100 days now another trillion gets added to the debt.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 05:13 AM (RKVpM)

57 Look, I am willing to compromise and only allow 5,000 arrivals per day. But you have to give me a little something in return, like allowing 6000 arrivals per day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 05:13 AM (0ND9+)

58 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:14 AM (a1415)

59 Every 100 days now another trillion gets added to the debt.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Yeah, but we are getting so much value for the money!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 05:14 AM (0ND9+)

60 Also "Folks!"

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:15 AM (o3SCB)

61 When a loaf of bread costs $1T, this $30T in debt won't be anything.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 05:15 AM (0ND9+)

62 I won't listen to it because I can't stand the way he cracks the hard Cs and Ks.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 05:17 AM (0ND9+)

63 Kitchen table.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024 05:17 AM (0ND9+)

64 I just watched that 2022 speech--about 25 minutes long. He gets lost at the podium at the end.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:20 AM (o3SCB)

65
I expect he'll mention 'MAGA Republicans' a lot. Interesting thing is I saw a Reagan pin from the 1980's where he used 'Make America Great Again' - so apparently it isn't something that Trump cooked up.

Here's the image at a political button site:
https://t.ly/2NVp3

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 05:20 AM (RKVpM)

66 ... and then he mouths "Keep the faith" into a dead microphone, salutes a military man on guard who cannot salute him back.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:24 AM (o3SCB)

67 Is it common for Walmart to close stores?

Cause they just announced the closing of one on Baltimore County that we used to shop at.

I'm guessing 'shrinkage' became prohibitive.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:24 AM (a1415)

68 Which completely debunked Biden story will he tell again? Amtrak? Staubach? Beau's death in Iraq? National debt? Pittsburgh Bridge collapse? No classified docs? 8% tax rate for the rich? Jill is actually a doctor?

Posted by: Wally at March 07, 2024 05:26 AM (tmkgC)

69 68 Which completely debunked Biden story will he tell again? Amtrak? Staubach? Beau's death in Iraq? National debt? Pittsburgh Bridge collapse? No classified docs? 8% tax rate for the rich? Jill is actually a doctor?
Posted by: Wally at March 07, 2024 05:26 AM (tmkgC)

He'll be reading from a speech written by speech-writers, so unless he goes offscript, none of those.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:28 AM (o3SCB)

70 Biden's SOTU will be right out of '1984'. But the 2 minutes of hate will be an hour long.

I refuse to watch. If I had to sit in the audience I'd heckle him the whole time and throw rotten tomatoes at the demented f.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 05:05 AM (RKVpM)
----
It should come with a disclaimer: "WARNING: Watching this SOTU is likely to cause rage stroke in REAL Americans!"

That may, in fact, be part of their mad plans for depopulating the planet...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 05:28 AM (BpYfr)

71 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:28 AM (5HQE5)

72 He'll be reading from a speech written by speech-writers, so unless he goes offscript, none of those.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:28 AM (o3SCB)
----
So he'll be reciting a *different* set of lies...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 05:29 AM (BpYfr)

73 Will Fani Willis be sitting next to Dr Jill in the audience tonight?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:29 AM (a1415)

74 I long for the coming days when fringe kooks complain on the internet yelling "why does everything have to be so based? I hate based culture. It's everywhere now. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:30 AM (9UlRk)

75 Get your "You lie" poster ready.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:30 AM (o3SCB)

76 73 Will Fani Willis be sitting next to Dr Jill in the audience tonight?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:29 AM (a1415)

LOLOLOL

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:30 AM (o3SCB)

77 If we turned the SOTU into a drinking game where we took a drink every time FJB lies, most of us would be dead by alcohol poisoning by the time he's halfway done...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 05:31 AM (BpYfr)

78 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 05:32 AM (ENQN6)

79 Dr. Jill can give Fani tips on how to get rid of a troublesome wife.

Hint: Brakes

Posted by: Wally at March 07, 2024 05:32 AM (tmkgC)

80 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 07, 2024 05:33 AM (NBVIP)

81 77 If we turned the SOTU into a drinking game where we took a drink every time FJB lies, most of us would be dead by alcohol poisoning by the time he's halfway done...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 05:31 AM (BpYfr)

from the ONT

480 I really hope ace is gonna liveblog it.
----------

Me too. We need to define the drinking rules beforehand though.

--Best economy in forever, jack!
--blame pubbies for the open border
--"shrinkflation"

These are: DRINK! (imo, of course)
Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2024 03:41 AM (njWTi)

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 05:33 AM (o3SCB)

82 AP: China Responds To Biden SOTU By Destroying Taiwan With Fire

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:35 AM (5HQE5)

83 77 If we turned the SOTU into a drinking game where we took a drink every time FJB lies, most of us would be dead by alcohol poisoning by the time he's halfway done...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 05:31 AM (BpYfr)

The hyponatremia would get you before the ethanol could.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:35 AM (9UlRk)

84 Local Babylon DC Fox affiliate: The Montgomery County School Teachers Union (or something like that, I was barely paying attention) have solved all of the schools' problems and are now going to support a ceasefire in Gaza. We're saved? Or something.

Stay in your lane, dummies.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 05:37 AM (gllTv)

85 >>83 77 If we turned the SOTU into a drinking game

The Republican caucus should applaud and cheer everything he says in the first ten minutes.

Biden's mind would lock. Epic mindfuck.

Mutated.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:40 AM (5HQE5)

86 "The Montgomery County School Teachers Union (or something like that, I was barely paying attention) have solved all of the schools' problems and are now going to support a ceasefire in Gaza."

Could they have actually been calling for a cease-fire in Montgomery County schools?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:40 AM (a1415)

87 >>86 "The Montgomery County School Teachers Union have solved all of the schools' problems

Show your work.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:42 AM (5HQE5)

88 Babylon DC Fox Newz, again: AAA warns of drowsy driving!!! I sense the next Great Terror that will kill us all. Climate Change and Trump are the blame.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 05:43 AM (gllTv)

89 I would love to see a Cesium fire in Gaza.

....

What?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:43 AM (9UlRk)

90 87 >>86 "The Montgomery County School Teachers Union have solved all of the schools' problems

Show your work.
Posted by: ZOD

That's too much work.

Posted by: Montgomery County School Teachers Union at March 07, 2024 05:44 AM (gllTv)

91 Babylon DC Fox Newz, again: AAA warns of drowsy driving!!! I sense the next Great Terror that will kill us all. Climate Change and Trump are the blame.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 05:43 AM (gllTv)

It's the extremely high CO2 levels that cause drowsiness and lethargy. We're taking like a billion parts per million, here. All because of the SALT deductions going away. Sheer madness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:46 AM (9UlRk)

92 So Governor of New York rolls in the National Guard to assist with NYC subway.....

But the media really seems to feel that it's an everyday sort of thing, and therefor has minimal if any coverage beyond a brief mention.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:47 AM (a1415)

93 And dayshift has arrived! Yay!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2024 05:48 AM (gllTv)

94 But the media really seems to feel that it's an everyday sort of thing, and therefor has minimal if any coverage beyond a brief mention.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:47 AM (a1415)

Trump said posse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:48 AM (9UlRk)

95 Let New York eat itself.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:48 AM (5HQE5)

96 Good morning! RE: the State of the Union speech, republicans should just get up and walk out at the first remark outside the subject of the state of the union. No amount of decorum requires them to sit there and be disparaged or listen to bullshit, in fact it just reinforces that they're a bunch of feckless invertebrate parasites.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 05:49 AM (YRsIm)

97 Soon...

Posted by: Snake Plissken at March 07, 2024 05:50 AM (PiwSw)

98
President Biden
@POTUS
·
Follow
Today, I'm launching a Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing to crack down on corporations who break the law while keeping prices high for American consumers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 05:51 AM (ENQN6)

99 It's perfectly decorous to don the shit-eatingest of grins and mawkishly tear up the literal text of the President's speech while on camera.

I have it on good authority.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:52 AM (9UlRk)

100 For now it's the NY State Guard, but soon the task will be overwhelming and they'll federal help.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 05:52 AM (YRsIm)

101 >>96 Good morning! RE: the State of the Union speech, republicans should just get up...

...and start dancing.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:52 AM (5HQE5)

102 Interesting recap of the events in Georgia last night.

Viva Frei replayed video of Fani being questioned under oath about visits to DC, and was specifically asked about if she had ever visited the White House. Her answer....'no'.

Then replayed Ashleigh Merchants testimony yesterday including records showing her and apparently SD/HC visiting with the Vice President and then going off-site.

Reason for visit was not listed in the billing records from SD/HC.

But, it is a tantalizing suggestion of possible administration collusion in this and possibly other anti-Trump cases.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:53 AM (a1415)

103 corporations who break the law while keeping prices high for American consumers.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 05:51 AM (ENQN6)

So corpos who don't "break the law" while keeping prices high are going to be fine, then.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:53 AM (9UlRk)

104 mornin yall. I have a Biden Buzzword Bingo card prepared. I will see if I can figure out a way to post it today.

Posted by: Herring Facts at March 07, 2024 05:55 AM (vFG9F)

105 And it will only cost one herring.

Posted by: Herring Facts at March 07, 2024 05:55 AM (vFG9F)

106 ook, I am willing to compromise and only allow 5,000 arrivals per day. But you have to give me a little something in return, like allowing 6000 arrivals per day.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 07, 2024

***
How about -50,000 a day?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 05:56 AM (omVj0)

107 Off fishy sock

Posted by: fd at March 07, 2024 05:56 AM (vFG9F)

108 >>103 corporations who break the law while keeping prices high for American consumers.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 05:51 AM (ENQN6)

(Examines stock portfolio, calls several CEOs)

"Keep prices high for American consumers."

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:56 AM (5HQE5)

109 Council? No. Board? Meh. Committee? Yeesh.

We really need to convey the distinct possibility of frog marches and curb stomps in the future of any noncompliant kulaks...

What about some kind of "Force"? Strike Force! Yeah. There we go.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:56 AM (9UlRk)

110 My memory is fading like Biden's I guess. But years ago didn't a congressman or (God forbid) a Senator heckle or cause a disturbance during a SOTU. Now days, you would never see it as it would be cut from the delay, assuming they are using a delay to protect Biden's gaffs. Also there was a dust up because the Supreme Court didn't attend or something. Anything like this is just dropped down the rabbit hole unless Trump makes a gaff, then all hell breaks loose.

Posted by: Colin at March 07, 2024 05:57 AM (/z/eU)

111 I'm gonna speculate that exposing the Georgia DA's collusion with the VP is the pretext to jettison Harris, and a means for Kemp to protect his exposure to being exposed as a party to the prosecution effort as well. YMMV.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 05:57 AM (YRsIm)

112 " Good morning! RE: the State of the Union speech, republicans should just get up...

...and start dancing."

At random moments while he speaks.

Sometimes during the applause line.

Sometimes just out of the blue.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 05:57 AM (a1415)

113 I know whenever I'm wondering about the best foreign policy option I always look to my local school board for guidance.
I thought everybody did.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 07, 2024 05:57 AM (NBVIP)

114 The minimum price for any good or service is always zero.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:58 AM (9UlRk)

115 Not under consideration: Making good games.

I don't think these big media conglomerates understand how precarious their position is. People are hungry for something other than bland, heavily monitized, safe retreads of last year's games and movies.

Not everyone can be Disney and lose a billion dollars on media without breaking into a sweat.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 07, 2024 05:58 AM (B9Dv5)

116 IMO, other than the initial oil shock after Covid, most inflation is coming from boardrooms. Manufacturers are making less and charging more, a Marxist solution.
Prices are sticky and demand is being starved

Posted by: Jamaica at March 07, 2024 05:58 AM (IG7T0)

117 Biden will tout $220 a year in savings for the average family from his Strike Force like it's the 50's and that will pay for a house and car with a little left over for a sock hop.

Posted by: fd at March 07, 2024 05:59 AM (vFG9F)

118 114 The minimum price for any good or service is always zero.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:58 AM (9UlRk)

You can see that in action if you go to pretty much any retail outlet in your nearest blue city.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 07, 2024 05:59 AM (B9Dv5)

119 85 The Republican caucus should applaud and cheer everything he says in the first ten minutes.

Biden's mind would lock. Epic mindfuck.

Mutated.
Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 05:40 AM (5HQE5)

Oh, cool!

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:00 AM (o3SCB)

120 So what the hell is driving gas prices through the roof suddenly.

Up almost 40 cents per gallon in the last ten days or so.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:00 AM (a1415)

121 "Red hot" burrito w/ chili powder and cheese on top, plus a sprinkling of the same in the scrambled egg. Spicy.

As for me, I'm sick of looking at F. Joe's squinty eyes. What's the over/under he'll say "Anyway . . ." at one point tonight?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)

122 "My fellow Americans, and the other two hundred odd million of you...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:01 AM (9UlRk)

123 99 It's perfectly decorous to don the shit-eatingest of grins and mawkishly tear up the literal text of the President's speech while on camera.

I have it on good authority.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:52 AM (9UlRk)

Be Better Than Pelosi

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:01 AM (o3SCB)

124 116 IMO, other than the initial oil shock after Covid, most inflation is coming from boardrooms. Manufacturers are making less and charging more, a Marxist solution.
Prices are sticky and demand is being starved
Posted by: Jamaica at March 07, 2024 05:58 AM (IG7T0)

No. The government spent $1.36 for every $1 it took in in taxes last year. That's where inflation is coming from. As Milton Friedman pointed out "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 07, 2024 06:02 AM (B9Dv5)

125 Up almost 40 cents per gallon in the last ten days or so.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:00 AM (a1415)

Tanker sunk off the Yemen coast, maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:02 AM (9UlRk)

126 Gonna be warmish today, high of 77 or so. In early March? Revolting. They are promising something of a cooldown for Sat. & Sun., but by Tuesday next it'll be up to 76 again.

Narsty.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2024 06:02 AM (omVj0)

127 Texas' crime data only counts illegal aliens who have already been caught and fingerprinted by the Department of Homeland Security.

The LIE that illegals commit less crime is based on the idea that only illegals that have been caught and IDed are true illegals and all other are not counted in stats.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:02 AM (ENQN6)

128 "Biden will tout $220 a year in savings for the average family from his Strike Force "

Tell me that the average family is routinely late in bank and credit card payments, without telling me that the average family is routinely late in bank and Credit Card payments.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:03 AM (a1415)

129 104 mornin yall. I have a Biden Buzzword Bingo card prepared. I will see if I can figure out a way to post it today.
Posted by: Herring Facts at March 07, 2024 05:55 AM (vFG9F)

"I get it."
"Look."
"Folks"
"Jack."

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:03 AM (o3SCB)

130 Be Better Than Pelosi
Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:01 AM (o3SCB)
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That's not a high bar. The hobos infesting San Francisco are better than her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 06:04 AM (BpYfr)

131 "Tanker sunk off the Yemen coast, maybe?"

That might do it...yes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:04 AM (a1415)

132 As Milton Friedman pointed out "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 07, 2024 06:02 AM (B9Dv5)

It's a bit of a tautology. Yes, that's true, but it's true by definition. If you define inflation as the part of a price increase that's due to monetary phenomena, then inflation is always a monetary phenomenon. But prices can go up for other reasons too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:04 AM (9UlRk)

133 "I am here tonight, my fellow Americans, apple sandwich and the giggy-stick. As my dad used to say, Joey, an old man is a nice bookcase."

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:05 AM (5HQE5)

134 109 Council? No. Board? Meh. Committee? Yeesh.

We really need to convey the distinct possibility of frog marches and curb stomps in the future of any noncompliant kulaks...

What about some kind of "Force"? Strike Force! Yeah. There we go.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 05:56 AM (9UlRk)

Yeah, THAT doesn't sound violent!

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:05 AM (o3SCB)

135 slate of the onion ? what is this?

g'mornin' everyone !

Happy Friday Eve!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 07, 2024 06:05 AM (PFYt9)

136 "MAGA Republicans"
You'd be snockered in less than five minutes.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 07, 2024 06:06 AM (NBVIP)

137
So what the hell is driving gas prices through the roof suddenly.

Up almost 40 cents per gallon in the last ten days or so.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:00 AM

I think both Saudi Arabia and Russia are cutting back production.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 06:06 AM (RKVpM)

138 So what does the lesson plan look like, when an elementary school is teaching students that raping dead women during a terrorist attack is justified and a good thing?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:06 AM (a1415)

139 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2024 06:06 AM (RIvkX)

140 110 My memory is fading like Biden's I guess. But years ago didn't a congressman or (God forbid) a Senator heckle or cause a disturbance during a SOTU. Now days, you would never see it as it would be cut from the delay, assuming they are using a delay to protect Biden's gaffs. Also there was a dust up because the Supreme Court didn't attend or something. Anything like this is just dropped down the rabbit hole unless Trump makes a gaff, then all hell breaks loose.
Posted by: Colin at March 07, 2024 05:57 AM (/z/eU)

Representative Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who gained a measure of infamy after shouting “you lie” at President Barack Obama

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:07 AM (o3SCB)

141 122, LOL, W-o!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 07, 2024 06:07 AM (PFYt9)

142 If he shits himself and then tells "JILL! WIPES!!!", I'll start freebasing fentanyl.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:07 AM (9UlRk)

143 111 I'm gonna speculate that exposing the Georgia DA's collusion with the VP is the pretext to jettison Harris, and a means for Kemp to protect his exposure to being exposed as a party to the prosecution effort as well. YMMV.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 05:57 AM (YRsIm)

Huh.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:08 AM (o3SCB)

144 "But prices can go up for other reasons too."

Like when Timmy, the Fry-guy is suddenly costing the restaurant $20.00 per hour to toss fries?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:08 AM (a1415)

145 Which completely debunked Biden story will he tell again? Amtrak? Staubach?
Posted by: Wally

Wait, Staubach? Roger Staubach? What's that tall tale?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 07, 2024 06:08 AM (Cp1vk)

146 >>So what the hell is driving gas prices through the roof suddenly.

(Goes long Class I railroads, whistles walking away)

Dunno, but I like it.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:09 AM (5HQE5)

147 "Top scientist warns AI could surpass human intelligence by 2027 - decades earlier than previously predicted"'

Which human?

Posted by: fd at March 07, 2024 06:09 AM (vFG9F)

148
Announcements from several OPEC+ countries extend reductions of some 2.2 million barrels a day, the secretariat for the multinational organization noted Sunday. Saudi Arabia led the pack by extending its previously-implemented cut of 1 million barrels a day through the end of 2024's second quarter.

March 3, 2024

Some Brit benchmark crude rose by about 10% right after.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 06:09 AM (RKVpM)

149 Tanker sunk off the Yemen coast, maybe?

Concur. Rerouting shipping to avoid that trouble spot forces traffic to forego the shorter route through the Suez and use more fuel to get to destinations in the Med and Western Europe.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 06:09 AM (YRsIm)

150 >>138 So what does the lesson plan look like, when an elementary school is teaching students that raping dead women during a terrorist attack is justified and a good thing?Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:06 AM (a1415)

Rhetorical question?

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:11 AM (5HQE5)

151 ""Top scientist warns AI could surpass human intelligence by 2027 - decades earlier than previously predicted"'

Maybe even sooner.

https://tinyurl.com/mwzzjzv2

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:13 AM (a1415)

152 Biden has claimed he got an appointment to the Naval Academy, but he didn't think he could beat out Roger Staubach and be the QB.
Narrator: He DID NOT get a Naval Academy appointment. Because as you know, he's a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Wally at March 07, 2024 06:15 AM (tmkgC)

153 " ... The Republican caucus should applaud and cheer everything he says ... "

you mean they don't, usually?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 07, 2024 06:16 AM (PFYt9)

154 "Rhetorical question?"

I'm guessing that the same schools what are churning out Cease-Fire shouting little no-thinkum's are gonna have to address the possibility that someone is going to bring up the recent rapey-unpleasantness, and want to get ahead of the game.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:16 AM (a1415)

155 Biden: Gorn.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:16 AM (5HQE5)

156 Biden has claimed he got an appointment to the Naval Academy, but he didn't think he could beat out Roger Staubach and be the QB.
Narrator: He DID NOT get a Naval Academy appointment. Because as you know, he's a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Wally at March 07, 2024 06:15 AM (tmkgC)

What a retarded little yarn to begin with, however fanciful.

Honor? Tradition? Service? Fuck all that mess, i won't get to be QB.

Even your made-up stories make you look like a bastard, shitpants.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:18 AM (9UlRk)

157 I just wish Beau could be here with us now. As I've said before, he tragically died trying to save homeless orphans in Ukraine uh Gaza uh the thing...

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 07, 2024 06:18 AM (PiwSw)

158 "100 For now it's the NY State Guard, but soon the task will be overwhelming and they'll federal help.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 05:52 AM (YRsIm)"

over / under on how long it takes before one of them gets mugged and the M4 is taken?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 07, 2024 06:19 AM (PFYt9)

159 over / under on how long it takes before one of them gets mugged and the M4 is taken?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 07, 2024 06:19 AM (PFYt9)

Hell my bet is it's already happened.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:19 AM (9UlRk)

160 >>153 " ... The Republican caucus should applaud and cheer everything he says ... "

you mean they don't, usually?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 07, 2024 06:16 AM (PFYt9)

No. They sit on their thumbs and pout and one guy timidly calls out "you lie."

I'm talking Parliament Funkadelic ass-bumping dancing in the aisles and on the desks. Singing the praises real loud. Disco inferno. Bust this mother out.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:20 AM (5HQE5)

161 Bust this mother out.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:20 AM (5HQE5)

Polyester Kente Cloth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:21 AM (9UlRk)

162 "over / under on how long it takes before one of them gets mugged and the M4 is taken? "

Anybody know if these folks will be issued ammo, and authorized to have their weapons actually loaded?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:21 AM (a1415)

163 The Google fees are a lot different than the Apple shakedown. There is a huge difference between Android and Google Play Services. Developers can use just native Android SDKs in their apps and sell them on 3rd party appstores and not pay google a dime. It's when the app employs Play Services when you gotta start forking out for it. Unlike Apple who are just charging you for existing.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 07, 2024 06:21 AM (jk53F)

164 It's a bit of a tautology. Yes, that's true, but it's true by definition. If you define inflation as the part of a price increase that's due to monetary phenomena, then inflation is always a monetary phenomenon. But prices can go up for other reasons too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:04 AM (9UlRk)
===
Inflation is transitory.
-Janet Yenta

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2024 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

165 >>162 how long it takes before one of them gets mugged and the M4 is taken? "

Lay down the boogie and play that funky music til you die.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:23 AM (5HQE5)

166 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

After all the rain we had yestiddy, it might be in the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted by: JT at March 07, 2024 06:23 AM (T4tVD)

167
Folks, I need your help in my re election to save Democracy. Send even a dollar but more if you can afford it.

As the President enters the chamber, will all the representatives and Senators try and reach out to touch the President like they usually do. And a handshake or a few words, is the icing on the cake for most Politicians at the SOTU.

Posted by: Colin at March 07, 2024 06:23 AM (/z/eU)

168 @120

>>Up almost 40 cents per gallon in the last ten days or so.

As with everything, supply, demand, or government policy are the main culprits, outliers are typically effects from Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand, which mostly unseen but felt none the less.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2024 06:24 AM (XV/Pl)

169 "But prices can go up for other reasons too. "

If it costs more to transport your product from production to store shelf due to increased energy costs, would that be inflation, or just part of doin business?

Serious question, as in my little mind I routinely lump it all under 'Thank-you, Joe'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:24 AM (a1415)

170 Inflation makes the proles squeal.

The music, it is good.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:24 AM (5HQE5)

171 I'm talking Parliament Funkadelic ass-bumping dancing in the aisles and on the desks. Singing the praises real loud. Disco inferno. Bust this mother out.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:20 AM (5HQE5)
===
Now that I might tune in to watch.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2024 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

172 Serious question, as in my little mind I routinely lump it all under 'Thank-you, Joe'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:24 AM (a1415)

When the guy in the driver's seat pops on the trailer brakes in the middle of the interstate going 90mph, it doesn't answer many of one's questions to say that jack-knifing is everywhere and always a frictional phenomenon.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:27 AM (9UlRk)

173 >>As the President enters the chamber, will all the representatives and Senators try and reach out to touch the President like they usually do. And a handshake or a few words, is the icing on the cake for most Politicians at the SOTU.
Posted by: Colin at March 07, 2024 06:23 AM (/z/eU)

Each Republican there should hold out a $100 bill to him during his entrance.

Or an ice-cweam cone.

Or a young girl.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:27 AM (5HQE5)

174 Or a young girl.
Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:27 AM (5HQE5)

Travel size bottles of No-More-Tears

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:28 AM (9UlRk)

175 During the speech the Republican caucus should all repeatedly keep looking at their watches over and over again. Biden will see it and reflexively do it himself, over and over, during his speech.

Posted by: davidt at March 07, 2024 06:28 AM (SYTee)

176 As the President enters the chamber, will all the representatives and Senators try and reach out to touch the President like they usually do. And a handshake or a few words, is the icing on the cake for most Politicians at the SOTU.
Posted by: Colin at March 07, 2024 06:23 AM (/z/eU)
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I hear touching FJB's cloak as he passes will cure scrofulous!

Or maybe you *get* scrofulous...I can't remember...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 06:28 AM (BpYfr)

177 156 Biden has claimed he got an appointment to the Naval Academy, but he didn't think he could beat out Roger Staubach and be the QB.
Narrator: He DID NOT get a Naval Academy appointment. Because as you know, he's a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Wally at March 07, 2024 06:15 AM (tmkgC)

What a retarded little yarn to begin with, however fanciful.

Honor? Tradition? Service? Fuck all that mess, i won't get to be QB.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:18 AM (9UlRk)

EXACTLY.
*he* didn't think
*he* could beat out Roger Staubach and [that]
[*he* could] be the QB

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:29 AM (o3SCB)

178 >>175 During the speech the Republican caucus should all repeatedly keep looking at their watches over and over again. Biden will see it and reflexively do it himself, over and over, during his speech.
Posted by: davidt at March 07, 2024 06:28 AM (SYTee)

Or all stand, don trench coats, hold up boom-boxes, and play "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel.

Congress is boring.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:30 AM (5HQE5)

179 160 I'm talking Parliament Funkadelic ass-bumping dancing in the aisles and on the desks. Singing the praises real loud. Disco inferno. Bust this mother out.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 06:20 AM (5HQE5)

Ha.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:30 AM (o3SCB)

180 132 As Milton Friedman pointed out "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 07, 2024 06:02 AM (B9Dv5)

It's a bit of a tautology. Yes, that's true, but it's true by definition. If you define inflation as the part of a price increase that's due to monetary phenomena, then inflation is always a monetary phenomenon. But prices can go up for other reasons too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:04 AM (9UlRk)

They can, but for prices to go up and stay up it usually requires government action.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 07, 2024 06:31 AM (B9Dv5)

181
I'm still laughing - Press Secretary Raggedy Ann is laying a line of crap down about Biden's success and a reporter sneezes into his notepad while saying, "Bullshit".

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1765470661282287905

At about the 1:01 mark

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 06:31 AM (RKVpM)

182 Good morning early risers!

Puppy and I are settling into a routine. She is so small and so fast...

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 07, 2024 06:31 AM (PzBTm)

183 @158

>>over / under on how long it takes before one of them gets mugged and the M4 is taken?

Any weapon they carry will be unloaded and largely for show.

You gotta love leftists, institute policies that will make your city less safe, city becomes less safe, people clamor for more safety, bring in soldiers to violate your citizens civil rights in the guise of providing more safety.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2024 06:31 AM (XV/Pl)

184 So what happens if all the female republican members walk in, dressed like Fani, and the men show up sporting SD/HC lawyer suits.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:32 AM (a1415)

185 STRIKEFORCE!

Posted by: Preznit Ruprect the Monkeyboy at March 07, 2024 06:32 AM (OiAR7)

186 I like to think I have despised Joe Biden since I was a kid. He has always always been a duplicitous, racist, dumb, inveterate liar.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2024 06:33 AM (RIvkX)

187 If George Clinton gave the SOTU I'd definitely watch.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:33 AM (m2lIk)

188 "He has always always been a duplicitous, racist, dumb, inveterate liar.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

And that's the good points!

Posted by: fd at March 07, 2024 06:34 AM (vFG9F)

189 A controlled burn and explosion set off in the wake of a massive train derailment that exposed the town of East Palestine, Ohio, to toxic chemicals could have been avoided with a safer option, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy testified to the Senate Wednesday.

“They were provided incomplete information to make a decision,” Homendy said.

Amazing how wrong Big Govt can be.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:35 AM (ENQN6)

190 "Lawsuit: Man Wakes Up to Scorpion Stinging Him in Groin at Las Vegas Resort"

Shhhh! Everyone will want one!

Posted by: The Las Vegas Resort Management at March 07, 2024 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

191 Atomic Dog in the HoR? For. the. WIN!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 06:37 AM (YRsIm)

192 "Amazing how wrong Big Govt can be."

Sometimes they just seem to pull a plan right out of their ass.

Specially when it comes to Transportation.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:37 AM (a1415)

193 They can, but for prices to go up and stay up it usually requires government action.
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 07, 2024 06:31 AM (B9Dv5)

I guess my point is that there's more than one way for creepy uncle Sam to fuck up the economy. Shitcanning the domestic energy sector isn't monetary. Ceding control of shipping lanes to latter day Barbary Pirates isn't monetary.

Sure inflation is a problem, but there are a lot more problems too that you could say are more... tactile? Is that the word i want? You know what i mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:37 AM (9UlRk)

194 Will he begin the SotU with, "The Union is Strong!" or something similar, as all other Presidents have? Or will it be, "The Union is Threatened!" or some other warning about MAGA?

Posted by: davidt at March 07, 2024 06:37 AM (SYTee)

195 "Will he begin the SotU with, "The Union is Strong!" or something similar, as all other Presidents have? Or will it be, "The Union is Threatened!" or some other warning about MAGA?"

This onion is strong!
-Joe Biden

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:39 AM (a1415)

196 The biggest lie of the night will be when President Grandpa declares the state of the union to be 'strong' (or some such adjective)

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 06:39 AM (oCjPU)

197 "Will he begin the SotU with, "The Union is Strong!" or something similar, as all other Presidents have? Or will it be, "The Union is Threatened!" or some other warning about MAGA?"

This onion is strong!
-Joe Biden
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:39 AM (a1415)
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He's going to have not one, not two, but *three* onions tied to his belt just to show how great the economy is!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 06:40 AM (BpYfr)

198 Amazing how wrong Big Govt can be.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:35 AM (ENQN6)
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At least they're consistent.

Just ask those downriver from the Gold King disaster.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:40 AM (yw35O)

199 Well maybe Warner Brothers wants to make Suicide Squad II: Life at Hogwarts.

What could go wrong? Except provide more fodder. Maybe even Rime Evenstar will take a break from Nijisanji coverage to talk about it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2024 06:41 AM (aZsvx)

200 The biggest lie of the night will be when President Grandpa declares the state of the union to be 'strong' (or some such adjective)
Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 06:39 AM (oCjPU)
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Right before he declares everyone "must choose a side" between Trump and "Democracy"!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:41 AM (yw35O)

201 85
‘ The Republican caucus should applaud and cheer’

Every time a dead Biden is mentioned.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2024 06:42 AM (roH4R)

202 I want Joey to start the speech with "My fellow Ekosians..."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2024 06:42 AM (aZsvx)

203 Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoes Bill That Would Allow Police to Arrest Illegal Border Crossers

I doubt there is 1 single Dem that would protect Americans from violent illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:43 AM (ENQN6)

204 "Amazing how wrong Big Govt can be.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:35 AM (ENQN6)
--------------------
At least they're consistent.

Just ask those downriver from the Gold King disaster."

Hey....a little help here?

Posted by: California Salmon at March 07, 2024 06:43 AM (a1415)

205 Democracy - adj. Greek for mob rule.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2024 06:44 AM (aZsvx)

206
I guess Raggedy Ann never heard the "bullshit" sneeze before. Geez, it was something well practiced in my high school days.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 06:44 AM (RKVpM)

207 "That guy stole my move!"

- Jim Acosta

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:45 AM (9UlRk)

208 "Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoes Bill That Would Allow Police to Arrest Illegal Border Crossers "

Well, bless her heart!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:45 AM (a1415)

209 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

210 The National Institutes of Health is paying $214,000 for three researchers to create a “transgender voice training” app, according to Fox News.

The study aims to address “voice dysphoria,” which researchers say causes lower quality of life when a person’s voice does not match their gender identity.

Thats a dude!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:45 AM (ENQN6)

211 https://trackleaders.com/iti24

Excellent real time Iditarod GPS tracking tool.

Posted by: 13times at March 07, 2024 06:45 AM (cto+/)

212 I don't know if politicians would have walk-up music, like batters in baseball do, when they step into the batters box, but a little Parliament Funkadelic or even some James Brown would be fantastic. Biden is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho anyway, so some good funk would fit right in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:46 AM (36bLx)

213 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:46 AM (a1415)

214 The study aims to address “voice dysphoria,” which researchers say causes lower quality of life when a person’s voice does not match their gender identity.

Thats a dude!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:45 AM (ENQN6)

Does the app also teach you how to get your shit all retarded?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:46 AM (9UlRk)

215 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:45 AM (u82oZ)
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The fact that we can be happy that we are still alive fills their black hearts with dread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 07, 2024 06:47 AM (BpYfr)

216 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

I see Concealed Carry is legal in your state. Per Weasel's and Jim, Sunk New Dawn's demonstration at the MoMeet, try not to carry more than 5.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:47 AM (u82oZ)

217 doo doo doo dude talk like a lady

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 06:47 AM (oCjPU)

218 "Does the app also teach you how to get your shit all retarded?"

I think there is a stick for that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

219 212 I don't know if politicians would have walk-up music, like batters in baseball do, when they step into the batters box, but a little Parliament Funkadelic or even some James Brown would be fantastic. Biden is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho anyway, so some good funk would fit right in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:46 AM (36bLx)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyYXvG038dE

Posted by: davidt at March 07, 2024 06:48 AM (SYTee)

220 A moment of silence to remember Beau Bidens death on Jan 6 would probably be appropriate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:48 AM (36bLx)

221 "My voice doesn't match my delusions. Government needs to spend money to remedy this!"

Posted by: Wally at March 07, 2024 06:49 AM (tmkgC)

222 "Perfessor" Squirrel

When you walk through Walmart, have a smile like you just had 4 hours of mattress-shredding, headboard smashing, yodel sex. Makes you attractive to the observant.

Please note the Oxford comma.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

223 "I see Concealed Carry is legal in your state. "

It just got better.

https://tinyurl.com/2s46rx5n

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 06:49 AM (a1415)

224 Biden is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho anyway, so some good funk would fit right in.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:46 AM (36bLx)

Dwayne was a much better Pres.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:49 AM (ENQN6)

225 Most women talk with a husky fried baritone now, anyway, so just, you know, make an effort and you'll be fine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:49 AM (9UlRk)

226 217 doo doo doo dude talk like a lady
Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 06:47 AM (oCjPU)

take a walk on the wild side

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:51 AM (ENQN6)

227 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Also, we right here are proof that humor is a pragmatic virtue. Look at Leftist comics. Sad.

We can pun on any subject, except Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen is not a subject.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

228 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Loaded open carry means more money on secure holsters. Not that that is a bad thing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

229 When most of us look at the queen, we saw the crown, royal.

But when Harry and William look at her, they just see Grams.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:53 AM (9UlRk)

230 hey Pixie MSFT link

Not Found

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:53 AM (ENQN6)

231 175 During the speech the Republican caucus should all repeatedly keep looking at their watches over and over again. Biden will see it and reflexively do it himself, over and over, during his speech.
Posted by: davidt at March 07, 2024 06:28 AM (SYTee)

Check their watches, look quizzically at each other, shake the forearm the watch is on, hold the watch up to their ear to "test" for ticking....

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 06:54 AM (o3SCB)

232 Warai-otoko

For William, it's good to be the king in waiting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

233 Harry and Meghan looked at the Queen and only saw the pay cheque.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2024 06:54 AM (aZsvx)

234 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at March 07, 2024 06:54 AM (T4tVD)

235 “Copilot Designer creates harmful content in a variety of other categories including: political bias, underaged drinking and drug use, misuse of corporate trademarks and copyrights, conspiracy theories, and religion to name a few,” Jones said in his letter to the FTC.

So Basically Drag Qween Story (w light petting) Hour

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:55 AM (ENQN6)

236 William

Although the Price of Wales that set the mark to beat was Queen Victoria's son.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

237 Good Link

https://tinyurl.com/2jweebps

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 06:55 AM (ENQN6)

238 Republicans should all be looking at their phones and texting when Bai-Den is speaking.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 06:55 AM (YRsIm)

239 So I'm standing at the kitchen counter, prepping my bagel and coffee, and I start humming Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"...

what does this mean?

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 06:56 AM (oCjPU)

240 So I'm standing at the kitchen counter, prepping my bagel and coffee, and I start humming Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"...

Let the bodies hit the floor?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2024 06:57 AM (aZsvx)

241 what does this mean?
Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 06:56 AM (oCjPU)

Your HiFi has a bagel button, too?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2024 06:57 AM (9UlRk)

242 Klaven interviews J Burden

https://youtu.be/kwXPg7n_Fu0?si=3q4sLz1deAwqx6uL

The generational gap is mentioned here, but that makes this interview notable.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 07, 2024 06:57 AM (lhenN)

243 >During the speech the Republican caucus should...

keep their phones on
take calls, text each other
share funny cat videos

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 06:58 AM (oCjPU)

244 Alito says he hates going to the SOTU in part because the President is a lying scum sucking pig, and also because Congressmen are often yelling out "Bullshit! That's all bullshit!"

I'd invite Justice Alito over to watch at my house, except I am also yelling "Bullshit!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:59 AM (qH7II)

245 @239

>>what does this mean?

Probably means you're in your mid-to-late 50's, drive a Chevy Tahoe, and have a complete collection of the John Walker and Sons Spirit Collection.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2024 06:59 AM (XV/Pl)

246 181
I'm still laughing - Press Secretary Raggedy Ann is laying a line of crap down about Biden's success and a reporter sneezes into his notepad while saying, "Bullshit".

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1765470661282287905

At about the 1:01 mark
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 06:31 AM (RKVpM)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 07:00 AM (o3SCB)

247 Have a great day, everyone.

The last non-Trump state of the Union I watched was quite a while ago.

I got my girlfriend to stop watching the TV. "Let's walk over by the lake." She complied. In the moonlight by smooth water, I proposed, and after a seemingly very long pause, she accepted.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

248 The SOTU theme song tonight will be provided by Genesis - "Land of Confusion."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2024 07:01 AM (aZsvx)

249 from the ONT

486 Anybody able to lip-read what Biden is mouthing at the end of this 33-second clip? It's three or four syllables.

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Mar 5
BIDEN: "I better not start the questions. I'll get in trouble."
He then sits there — dazed and confused — as his handlers force the press out of the room.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 03:49 AM (o3SCB)

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 07:01 AM (o3SCB)

250 >>Which completely debunked Biden story will he tell again? Amtrak? Staubach? Beau's death in Iraq? National debt? Pittsburgh Bridge collapse? No classified docs? 8% tax rate for the rich? Jill is actually a doctor?

A guess?
It's all Trump's fault.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2024 07:02 AM (6IDWi)

251 Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2024 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

Nice! Well done, sir.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 07, 2024 07:02 AM (YRsIm)

252 "The SOTU theme song tonight will be provided by Genesis - "Land of Confusion.""

Perfect.

But Judges would have accepted Crazy Train.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:02 AM (a1415)

253 President Don Black's SOTU walk-up music

https://youtu.be/50xx1_CbJTI?si=kl5WgPxCR7jurrRR

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 07:02 AM (oCjPU)

254 While bragging about new train track construction in the SOTU, I hope to hear Resident Biden tell his Mario-the-Conductor story. Some people haven't heard it more than two or three times.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 07:03 AM (m2lIk)

255 Joe is going to propose tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations tonight which may get him some points with the Eat The Rich crowd but will probably go nowhere in Congress.

Posted by: fd at March 07, 2024 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

256 I'd invite Justice Alito over to watch at my house, except I am also yelling "Bullshit!"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 06:59 AM (qH7II)

Yeah..but I bet you will have booze

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 07, 2024 07:04 AM (/6GbT)

257 "Anybody able to lip-read what Biden is mouthing at the end of this 33-second clip? It's three or four syllables.
"

'Major likes peanut butter'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:04 AM (a1415)

258 >>"I better not start the questions. I'll get in trouble."

In what universe would you ever expect to hear a US president utter those words? You'll get in trouble with who, chief?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2024 07:04 AM (6IDWi)

259 Still haven't figured out this 'Co-pilot' thing in Windows. Its the last thing I need to have and will delete it, if I can. Also don't use Amazon's Alexa, am I 'not with it' in computer tech? I feel so left behind in the dust.

Posted by: Colin at March 07, 2024 07:06 AM (/z/eU)

260
The NG and police in the NYC subway seem to be checking about every 10th passenger to avoid 'profiling' or some such.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 07:08 AM (RKVpM)

261 >> >During the speech the Republican caucus should...

Take a page from AOC and pals by showing up wearing all black to mourn the loss of our country.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2024 07:08 AM (6IDWi)

262 >Still haven't figured out this 'Co-pilot' thing in Windows. Its the last thing I need to have and will delete it, if I can.

you can turn it off

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 07:08 AM (oCjPU)

263 Still haven't figured out this 'Co-pilot' thing in Windows. Its the last thing I need to have and will delete it, if I can.
------------
Here's a hint: you can't. MSFT is training it with everyones letters, emails and texts.

Posted by: Bill Gates at March 07, 2024 07:08 AM (m2lIk)

264 In what universe would you ever expect to hear a US president utter those words? You'll get in trouble with who, chief?

Spectra, like in James Bond. The boss with the white pussy who deletes guys who don't do what he says.

Posted by: Colin at March 07, 2024 07:09 AM (/z/eU)

265 Retardo will be hooked up to an IV all day today. Going to take that long to get him pumped up. They're using Theodore Morell's notes and some really good shit Hunter scored.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 07, 2024 07:09 AM (0EOe9)

266 This is another good track

https://youtu.be/G5oOQgiIwXI?si=WaqrpMVG_R4kcLsj

I think the world would be better off if we all grooved to some Booker T & The MGs more often

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 07:10 AM (oCjPU)

267 The Speaker should invite Jan 6 political prisoners to the speech. Watch lefty heads go "boom!".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 07:10 AM (m2lIk)

268 You can't tell me that Biden's handlers aren't nervous as fcuk about tonight.

Can he do it?

Will he vapor lock?

Can we use an AI generated performance, and not be noticed?

Will Jill be wearing fishnets tonight?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:10 AM (a1415)

269 >>Take a page from AOC and pals by showing up wearing all black to mourn the loss of our country.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2024 07:08 AM (6IDWi)

Take a page from the Manson Family and show up in colorful dresses with swastikas carved into their foreheads.

Far out.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 07:10 AM (5HQE5)

270 Joe is going to propose tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations tonight which may get him some points with the Eat The Rich crowd but will probably go nowhere in Congress.
Posted by: fd

There was a time not too long ago when I would have opposed taxes like that. But now both of those seem to hate me and have become quite comfortable with tyranny. Have at it, Brandon 10% Diddlefingers.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 07, 2024 07:11 AM (Cp1vk)

271 I imagine Old Joe will be asleep in bed, hooked up to IVs most of the day

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 07:11 AM (oCjPU)

272 >>Take a page from the Manson Family and show up in colorful dresses with swastikas carved into their foreheads.

Far out.

Dang, ZOD!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2024 07:12 AM (6IDWi)

273 for prices to go up and stay up it usually requires government action.

Incredibly, as things came to pass, the author of the one about "to really screw up you need a computer" was Paul Ehrlich.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 07, 2024 07:12 AM (zdLoL)

274
The Speaker should invite Jan 6 political prisoners to the speech. Watch lefty heads go "boom!".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 07:10 AM

Put 'America's Shaman' with buffalo rack on his head in front row.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 07:12 AM (RKVpM)

275 " I imagine Old Joe will be asleep in bed, hooked up to IVs most of the day"

I wonder what his official schedule has for today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:12 AM (a1415)

276 255 Joe is going to propose tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations tonight which may get him some points with the Eat The Rich crowd but will probably go nowhere in Congress.
Posted by: fd at March 07, 2024 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

I know it will never happen but the Fair Tax is the best way to get over eat the rich. It makes everyone pay.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 07:12 AM (ENQN6)

277 Feel really bad about the dirty euros imposing this, that and those regulations and fines on the assholes and fags at Apple and whomever.

No Really.

Well, maybe not so much.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 07, 2024 07:12 AM (/SHEi)

278 >>267 The Speaker should invite Jan 6 political prisoners to the speech. Watch lefty heads go "boom!".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2024 07:10 AM (m2lIk)

Locks shorn, in rags, shackled, broken, as at a Roman triumph.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 07:13 AM (5HQE5)

279 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 07, 2024 07:13 AM (PQ4m2)

280 Someone should play the reruns of the SNL, "So how big is the President?" to Joe while he's prepping for the speech.

Joe is so demented that he would probably wonder if this is a real issue and try to work it into his dialogue.

"I just want everyone to know that I am bigger the Beau or Hunter, right Jill?"

Posted by: pawn at March 07, 2024 07:13 AM (QB+5g)

281 Trump should show up for the SOTU.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 07:14 AM (5HQE5)

282 @259

>>Still haven't figured out this 'Co-pilot' thing in Windows.

It an AI Bot.

I use it to summarize Teams Calls and Create Action Item Lists.

I would say it is about 95 pct accurate, which is almost good enough but not quite.

It's good enough for government work and churning out woke content but not good enough for real work.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2024 07:14 AM (XV/Pl)

283
Put 'America's Shaman' with buffalo rack on his head in front row.

Fvcking search engine brings up pot and CBD sites. Go to 'image search' and he's right there. Just a little bit of manipulation of search results.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 07:15 AM (RKVpM)

284 Is anyone inviting Laken Riley's family tonight?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:15 AM (a1415)

285 The ruling by a three-judge panel in Washington, D.C., looked at a lower court's "enhanced" sentencing of a defendant over his “substantial interference with the administration of justice” on the day Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump. The appeals court ruled that “‘administration of justice’ does not encompass Congress’s role in the electoral certification process.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 07:15 AM (ENQN6)

286 284 Is anyone inviting Laken Riley's family tonight?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:15 AM (a1415)

yes they said no

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 07:15 AM (ENQN6)

287 "yes they said no"

I can respect that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:16 AM (a1415)

288 >>The SOTU theme song tonight will be provided by Genesis - "Land of Confusion."

Lump lingered last in line for brains
And the ones he got were sorta rotten and insane
Small things so sad that birds could land
Is lump fast asleep or rockin' out with the band?

He's lump, he's lump
he's in my head
He's lump, he's lump, he's lump
He might be dead

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2024 07:16 AM (6IDWi)

289 281 Trump should show up for the SOTU.
Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 07:14 AM (5HQE5)

and yell STFU every 5 mins

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 07:16 AM (ENQN6)

290 American Shaman get away from me

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 07:17 AM (ENQN6)

291 >> Is anyone inviting Laken Riley's family tonight?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
---

saw a story that an invite was extended but the family declined

Posted by: Don Black at March 07, 2024 07:17 AM (oCjPU)

292 Is anyone inviting Laken Riley's family tonight?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:15 AM (a1415)

yes they said no
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 07:15 AM (ENQN6)

A Republican House Member did invite them, but they politley declined

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 07, 2024 07:17 AM (PQ4m2)

293 Biden will do OK, I’m sure experimental brain techniques have been used to directly implant the speech into the remaining functioning part of his brain. Still, it’ll be a shorter SOTU but the Dems will still pad the runtime with extra long applause.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 07, 2024 07:20 AM (2fIO4)

294

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 07, 2024 07:21 AM (X4yCj)

295 "Still, it’ll be a shorter SOTU but the Dems will still pad the runtime with extra long applause."

So....

Biden shuffles in.

Shakes hands with giant rabbit

22 minutes of applause by Democrats.

Biden shuffles out, led by giant rabbit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:22 AM (a1415)

296 So....

Biden shuffles in.

Shakes hands with giant rabbit

22 minutes of applause by Democrats.

Biden shuffles out, led by giant rabbit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:22 AM (a1415)

———

Yep, basically.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 07, 2024 07:24 AM (2fIO4)

297 If Biden really wanted a response, he should have a young girl standing next to him on the dais. He'd occasionally stroke her hair, bend down and sniff her, put his arm around her protectively.

Let Biden be Biden.

Posted by: ZOD at March 07, 2024 07:25 AM (5HQE5)

298 "Let Biden be Biden."

Depends

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:27 AM (a1415)

299 "183 @158

>>over / under on how long it takes before one of them gets mugged and the M4 is taken?

Any weapon they carry will be unloaded and largely for show."

better yet, from the POV of the yoots looking to acquire a real assault rifle, LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 07, 2024 07:27 AM (PFYt9)

300
I wonder who is the 'designated survivor' tonight?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 07, 2024 07:27 AM (RKVpM)

301
JJ is up

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2024 07:27 AM (ENQN6)

302 249 from the ONT

486 Anybody able to lip-read what Biden is mouthing at the end of this 33-second clip? It's three or four syllables.

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Mar 5
BIDEN: "I better not start the questions. I'll get in trouble."
He then sits there — dazed and confused — as his handlers force the press out of the room.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 03:49 AM (o3SCB)
Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 07:01 AM (o3SCB)

Here's a link:

https://radaronline.com/p/
president-biden-press-briefing-trouble-reporter-questions/

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 07:27 AM (o3SCB)

303 Le NOOD

It be here!!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2024 07:28 AM (a1415)

304 Y'all know the Speaker's guests for this shitshow that is called Biden's SOTU, right ? The cop attacked by illegals, mother of a woman who was killed by ms13 illegals gang. Biden's people invited Zelenskaya AND Navalnaya to form a backdrop for the drooling fool, but both declined.

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2024 08:42 AM (V13WU)

305 >Not under consideration: Making good games.

Doesn't matter how good a game is if it loses money.

Gamers really want it to be true that the games they happen to like - which is a different set from every other gamer - are also profitable, but we have ample evidence it isn't true. It's gacha games, mobile games, and indie games that happen to catch the public's attention that are where all the ROI is, so that's what's going to get made. "Good" don't enter into it.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at March 07, 2024 10:59 AM (0Go0g)

306 304 Y'all know the Speaker's guests for this shitshow that is called Biden's SOTU, right ? The cop attacked by illegals, mother of a woman who was killed by ms13 illegals gang. Biden's people invited Zelenskaya AND Navalnaya to form a backdrop for the drooling fool, but both declined.
Posted by: runner at March 07, 2024 08:42 AM (V13WU)

Thanks, runner.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2024 01:49 PM (o3SCB)

307 Hogwarts Legacy was actually good. Most of their other output has been questionable. Heck, even for that game, they didn't include Quidditch because well, they wanted to see the "sport" as a separate game.

Posted by: m0lr4k at March 07, 2024 08:23 PM (krPVf)

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