Jasmine Crockett, Who Is Absolutely On Trump's Payroll, Announces That She Will Block Trump's Plan to Give Taxpayers $5,000 Out of the Money DOGE Saves, Because $5,000 Doesn't Mean Anything to US Citizens

Seriously, Steven Miller's running her as an agent provocateur, right?

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) belittled President Donald Trump's support of a proposal to offer a $5,000 dividend to some taxpayers from the money saved by the Department of Government Efficiency.
DOGE volunteer head Elon Musk floated the idea of paying the savings found by his new department, suggesting the return could be as large as $5,000. However, Crockett criticized the idea during an interview with ABC News Live.
"Listen, [Trump is] just telling a lie. He's not the one that had anything to do with the $1,200 refunds that people had during the midst of COVID, that was done by a Democratic House and Democratic Senate," Crockett said. "The only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times. This was a time in which, hopefully, we won't ever go through again. We had a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic . . . So, no, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you."

The Democrat cadre of the government is not in the business of handing out money?

You mean you don't give out money to citizens generally, right? Because you gave $2 billion to failed insurrectionist Stacey Abrams and can't stop demanding that the government seize money from Republicans and give it to Democrat constituency groups.

I don't think this is a good idea. We have too many fake dollars already depreciating the value of the dollar. We need to dry up this supply to stop inflation. Saving money and then not spending it takes inflation out of the system, whereas dropping another stimulus-like check on the public will either increase it or, at the very least, waste the opportunity to decrease it.

But that's not this reparations-grifter's argument, of course.

$5000 could pay for her comically-huge fake eyelashes for a couple of weeks. Not bad!

...
Crockett's dismissal of the dividend sparked backlash online, as the idea was previously well-received.
"This same Rep called for reparations for Black people," Libs of TikTok captioned the clip of Crockett on X. "Typical out-of-touch hypocritical Democrat."
"If Jasmine Crockett's IQ was one point lower, you would have to water her like a plant. Literally a moron," former Trump adviser Roger Stone wrote on X.
...
Fishback was the first to pitch the idea to Musk, suggesting in a post on X that DOGE provides taxpayers with refund checks.

The idea certainly drove Democrats to once again declare that they only care about their cronies and constituents, and are absolutely hostile to the citizenry generally.

Rep Jasmine Crockett: “We are not in the business of giving out money, and honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you.”

This same Rep called for reparations for Black people.

Typical out-of-touch hypocritical Democrat.pic.twitter.com/9IQHl9azqf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2025

Look at America's Other Sweetheart cutting Republican political ads for us:

NEW: Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she is rooting for Canada and Mexico over the United States, says it's "really wild" that she is doing that.

That says a lot more about you than the current administration.

"The fact that I'm rooting for Canada and I'm rooting for… pic.twitter.com/0vRm4slC3E
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 21, 2025

🔥LEGENDARY! President of Argentina Javier Milei just linked up with Elon Musk and gifted him a DOGE chainsaw.

Absolute beast mode.
pic.twitter.com/oOFZe3dEEN
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 20, 2025

Meanwhile...

🚨 LMAO! Elon Musk just paraded around the stage at CPAC with a chainsaw given to him by Javier Milei 🤣

"THIS IS THE CHAINSAW FOR BUREAUCRACY!" 🔥 pic.twitter.com/NcL2f22xjO
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 20, 2025

On Thursday night, ABC didn't touch the grotesque Hamas hostage-coffin celebration for killing two kids. They DID want to highlight Elon Musk with a chainsaw.

Elon. Scarier than Hamas.https://t.co/abawe2YD5b pic.twitter.com/riapyqfywG
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 21, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:46 PM

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1 I don't think this is a good idea. We have too many fake dollars already depreciating the value of the dollar. We need to dry up this supply to stop inflation. Saving money and then not spending it takes inflation out of the system, whereas dropping another stimulus-like check on the public will either increase it or, at the very least, waste the opportunity to decrease it.

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I think the $5000 is contingent on much more money going to debt reduction.

The $5000 would come from 20% savings.

I don't mind it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

2 Not a big fan of the 5k payout.

I want a balanced budget more than anything.

Also, unless all of the savings are kicked back to congress as a recision request, what’s Doge is doing is largely mastabatory.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2025 01:49 PM (6WHUH)

3 Do. Not. Do. It.

It's going to spike inflation. Newly printed money here or newly printed money there is the same. If we weren't borrowing it, then, yes, absolutely.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 21, 2025 01:49 PM (pIfcn)

4 OK, they're trying to lose, at this point.

Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2025 01:49 PM (pMi6S)

5 I think I should get some return on all of the money we have paid into this corrupt system and for which we have nothing of value to show.

At the very least, get our asses out of debt and raise the value of the money I earn.

But if giving folks $5K will mean they vote for JD in the next election, I'm for that as well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 21, 2025 01:50 PM (K2hug)

6 Chainsautistic.

Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2025 01:50 PM (pMi6S)

7 >>>I don't think this is a good idea. We have too many fake dollars already depreciating the value of the dollar. We need to dry up this supply to stop inflation. Saving money and then not spending it takes inflation out of the system, whereas dropping another stimulus-like check on the public will either increase it or, at the very least, waste the opportunity to decrease it.

I agree with every word of that. Although I could use "up to $5000". But, up to? Sounds like a scam.

>>>"If Jasmine Crockett's IQ was one point lower, you would have to water her like a plant. Literally a moron," former Trump adviser Roger Stone wrote on X.

lolol

Posted by: No Name Today at February 21, 2025 01:51 PM (vlXMQ)

8 Gimme some sugar~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 01:51 PM (mlg/3)

9 I didn’t get any money during Covid. Must have just gone to democrats.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 21, 2025 01:51 PM (PkhMx)

10 I am not great at math, one of my weak areas, but I think a $5 gift is more than a $750 FEMA loan.

Who is this jackarse now polluting my screen? Jasmine you Jackass! Stand down!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 01:51 PM (RNRl3)

11 I don't think this is a good idea. We have too many fake dollars already depreciating the value of the dollar. We need to dry up this supply to stop inflation. Saving money and then not spending it takes inflation out of the system, whereas dropping another stimulus-like check on the public will either increase it or, at the very least, waste the opportunity to decrease it.

***

The money already exists. It can either be:

1) spent by FedGov
2) refunded to taxpayers
3) paid to holders of US Treasuries

DOGE is suggesting the savings from #1 be applied to #2 and #3, in a 20/80 ratio.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 01:51 PM (l3YAf)

12 “We are not in the business of handing out money!”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHA
HAHAHA
HA

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2025 01:52 PM (fwyhL)

13 Shit Man it is only $5 Billion. That's just 0.47% of the Federal Budget people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 21, 2025 01:52 PM (gaVwl)

14 I don't think this is a good idea. We have too many fake dollars already depreciating the value of the dollar. We need to dry up this supply to stop inflation. Saving money and then not spending it takes inflation out of the system, whereas dropping another stimulus-like check on the public will either increase it or, at the very least, waste the opportunity to decrease it.

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Idk, we tried the principled thing for how many years now and where has that actually gotten us? I'm tired of being the parent who always says you have to do your homework and eat your vegetables and go to sleep on time while the dems are always just handing out candy and play video games and stay up however late you like.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 21, 2025 01:52 PM (B9Prs)

15 Speaking of the number $5,000. Perhaps someone can explain to me how Crockett was able to charge $5,000 per hour as an attorney with only two years experience?

Oh, and according to DOGE, her stock portfolio has grown 60% in the last 12 months. Plus, she owns a $2 million townhouse in Dallas, Texas, a $1.5 million loft in Austin and a $1.5 million lakefront cabin in Galveston, Texas.

What a financial genius.

Posted by: Orson at February 21, 2025 01:52 PM (dIske)

16 2 Not a big fan of the 5k payout.

I want a balanced budget more than anything.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Actually, I agree.

Once might argue that the $5,000 tax rebate will stimulate the economy so much that more tax revenue will pour back in, making it a break-even proposition is the long-run. But just on shortsighted book-balancing -- first, let's get out of debt, then start being generous.

Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2025 01:53 PM (pMi6S)

17 If Crockett hates it, this is the best idea Trump has ever had.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 01:53 PM (wyMQY)

18 Make the Texan feel better by requiring every taxpayer to enter Texas from Mexico to earn their $5000 from DOGE.

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at February 21, 2025 01:53 PM (sfJwR)

19 Tax Holiday:

Let the People keep ALL of their Income.

Posted by: garrett at February 21, 2025 01:53 PM (oa1NA)

20 Dammit...$5K gift. I hate that I cannot edit as I am not worthy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 01:54 PM (RNRl3)

21 Where is my $5,000 bitch?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 21, 2025 01:54 PM (iLqj/)

22 It's funny because I didn't really give too much credence to my wife's theory, but increasingly I am becoming a believer. Her theory is that the Democrat party purposely has their black politicians float their dumbest ideas. She says it's a win-win the Democrat party because it either sticks or only black people get disgraced.

Posted by: TheITGuy2 at February 21, 2025 01:54 PM (+Em2P)

23 The one thing I will say for Trump's plan: it gives average voters in seeing the work of Musk and DOGE continue. The more savings there are, the more money might go back in their pockets. So from a crudely political angle, I get it.

But yes, it would be put to much better use by not being spent at all, so we can get inflation and the debt under control.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 21, 2025 01:54 PM (6YNz+)

24 Nobody can pick enemies like Trump

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 21, 2025 01:54 PM (iFTx/)

25 9 I didn’t get any money during Covid. Must have just gone to democrats.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Me neither. I only heard about it hears afterward. I was like, "What payout?" People thought I was joking. Never got it, never even heard about it.

Posted by: zombie at February 21, 2025 01:55 PM (pMi6S)

26 Wow... DOW apparently does not like that US Fed Judges are in rebellion against the Democratically Elected President of the US.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 01:55 PM (QAkQ3)

27 The reason this windfall might (and as much as $5,000 will improve my life, I would prefer to see it used to pay down the debt,) be available is because the Democrats insist on giving out money, only their priority recipient is working at criss purposed to the well-being of the American citizenry.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (VSht7)

28 Radditz looks like the arab Jane Doe that Hamas delivered in the fourth box instead of the murdered mom.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (KiBMU)

29 Am I the millionth moron on here to point out this will be absolutely terrible for inflation? I mean I am not an economist, but this seems like a terrible idea. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (q177U)

30 Remember Pelosi mocking W's $600 child tax credit?

"You can't even buy a muffler with that."

But then, after a decade of inflation, a piddling $1200 Covid stimulus checks was "don't forget to thank us for making you rich!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (g5EaP)

31 Martha Raddatz looks like Tim Walz tried his level headed best to dress up as Martha Stewart for Halloween, and that's what he wound up with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (jKo6M)

32 CROCKETT/HOGG 2028

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (paSBy)

33 Oh, and I don't know who had it on their bingo card...

But Kashes walk in theme music?

Turns out it was 'Sleep with one eye open'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (QAkQ3)

34 Before Biden, $5,000 was a decent amount of money. After four years of Bidenomics, $300,000 per year is barely a middle class income.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (2ap+5)

35 29 Am I the millionth moron on here to point out this will be absolutely terrible for inflation? I mean I am not an economist, but this seems like a terrible idea. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (q177U)

Pretty sure this money has already been borrowed, so the inflation part is baked into the cake already.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (fwyhL)

36 I'm a sam-wich ar-ist. - Jasmine Crockett for Subway

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (pgiIN)

37 Davy Crockett >>> Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

38 Should have read the comments before posting, LOL.

Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (q177U)

39 If a Democrat ever gets the Presidentcy again they're going to come after that $5 grand. So good to give the People something to hate them for in advance.

Posted by: CR at February 21, 2025 01:58 PM (zO5SI)

40
She has said that she doesn't necessarily want to be ID'd with "the Squad." She intends to clear her own path, that sort of thing. I think she's in "Hold my beer" mode with AOC and Ilhan, and she's doing a great job of it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 21, 2025 01:58 PM (T3es0)

41 Am I the millionth moron on here to point out this will be absolutely terrible for inflation? I mean I am not an economist, but this seems like a terrible idea. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (q177U)

I don’t think it will. This isn’t really new money; it’s money the government already took and was going to spend. Now it’s not being spent, but refunded. There’s no extra money in the system.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (l3YAf)

42 Sorry to correct you Jasmine. Yea, you are in the business about handing out money. Just not back to the people who paid it. Like to your campaign supporters with big fat contracts for little work. Or any of the bullshit USAID doled out. You work for us bitch.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (ewjUl)

43

Chicks in a wig so she can look white.

Posted by: E Buzz at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (Uwep3)

44 Cut her salary by $5000 and I bet she'd scream.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (WPL6O)

45 Martha Radditz is one fugly woman. As for Jasmine Crockett, didn't I read just yesterday that Jim Clyburn is pushing her to run in '28? L-O-L I can't wait for that. Cheap, tacky, loudmouth, racist, wig-wearing, tarantula eyelashed, skanky trash ho is sure to bring in the voters.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (qBdHI)

46 That is odd.
Five large is good chunkk of change to all but the wealthiest.

How much much money has Croickett grifted?

Or is she like that dolt "Splash" McCain who thought sub-minimum wage was a $100k (his was like 10+ years ago).

/And

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (/lPRQ)

47 Non-nooding bastages. Had to do it myself.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (LxER7)

48 37 Davy Crockett >>> Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

Davy Crockett >>> Sonny Crockett >>> Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: Jurgen Klopp at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (TTAGa)

49 I am initiating my SAVE HOOTERS campaign
I propose giving a small persentage of our DOGE refund money to support out lil honeys at Hooters.
Please send donations to:
Go Fund Me Account-
We give a Hoot
If DEI getsthe Boot

Hooters Prepares to File Bankruptcy in Coming Months

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (w4nzS)

50 "I don't think this is a good idea. We have too many fake dollars already depreciating the value of the dollar. We need to dry up this supply to stop inflation. Saving money and then not spending it takes inflation out of the system, whereas dropping another stimulus-like check on the public will either increase it or, at the very least, waste the opportunity to decrease it."

Ace, it all depends on where this money originated. If it's actual hard money -- such as money taken from taxpayers -- then giving that money back to taxpayers doesn't increase the money supply. And giving it back to tens of millions of taxpayers to spend as they want will be better for the economy than corralling it with shithead bureaucrats or Democrap donors.

But of this is borrowed money -- ie, not hard money -- then I agree it would artificially increase the money supply.

I'm not in favor of the $5k plan generally. But I'd much rather the taxpayers have this money -- it's our money after all -- than some cocksuckers in gov't.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

51
This was a time in which, hopefully, we won't ever go through again. We had a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic . . .

Stocks Puke After China Reports New Coronavirus 'With Pandemic Potential' Discovered

https://t.ly/JJ5bJ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (63Dwl)

52 And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you

Well, it alerts Joe Voter (previously not paying attention) that
1) there is at least $5000 of their tax money paying for trans-encouraging propaganda; and
2) the democrats don't want Joe Voter to have that money instead of the tranny (or Guatemalan Basket Weaver, etc)

Posted by: Chuck C at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (D0HYP)

53 Why does Martha Rad-ditz always look like she just smelled Jerry Nadler's butt crack?

Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (Y1sOo)

54 5k is less than a weeks pay, if they must give out cash, means test it.

I don’t need the money.

What I need is a balanced budget and financial sanity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (6WHUH)

55 Crockett (Jasmine, not Davy) is the shame of Texas.

Sorry, y'all!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (a3Q+t)

56 Ahh, the Pelosi Crumbs Gambit.

Let's see how it works out for her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (i24o9)

57 Am I the millionth moron on here to point out this will be absolutely terrible for inflation? I mean I am not an economist, but this seems like a terrible idea. Prove me wrong.

This won't be newly printed money, this is from DOGE savings.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (2ocoG)

58 41 I don’t think it will. This isn’t really new money; it’s money the government already took and was going to spend. Now it’s not being spent, but refunded. There’s no extra money in the system.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (l3YAf)

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It would also be countered with corresponding $20,000 cuts in government spending per $5,000 sent out.

It's a net removal of $20,000 per taxpayer from the economy with $5,000 going to the taxpayer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

59 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (1FWWQ)

60 Why can't we have a Year of Jubilee?

Posted by: and make it every 5 years instead of 50 at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (yzp7T)

61 Silly. It is a brilliant idea. Also, bounties need to be offered for reporting graft. People will be even more onboard with the cuts if a small percentage of them are rebated directly and this creates a loyal client class.

Congress cannot skim direct DOGE payments, so they will have to be tied to MIC spending or Ukraine or Israeli aid packages or the like that can be embezzled or rebated. Only when the donors are happy and senators and congressmen can graft will this pass.

Posted by: Trump poisoned by cat at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (WWpK6)

62 “Lift me, won't you lift me above the old routine;
Make it nice, play it clean Jasmine”

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at February 21, 2025 02:01 PM (bsWia)

63 I would rather see the first $5,000 owed by working individuals and families in taxes this year be waived.

Give the people with jobs a break for a change instead of buying welfare moms and their baby daddies another flat screen TV and a trip to get their hair did.

$5,000 tax holiday should be for Closers only.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:01 PM (pgiIN)

64 Personally I'd rather they put that money into paying down the debt, but her objection is so out of touch its painful. Yes, it might push inflation up slightly to just hand Americans government money, but less than the "stimulus" because its already in the system and just being redirected.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:02 PM (2VST1)

65 Tubby and Crockett > Tubby Crockett

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:02 PM (L/fGl)

66 48 37 Davy Crockett >>> Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

Davy Crockett >>> Sonny Crockett >>> Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: Jurgen Klopp at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (TTAGa)
Davy Crockett>>>Sonny Crockett>>> Jasmine Crockett>>> Crock O Shit

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:02 PM (w4nzS)

67 Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (q177U)
_________________________

Ok, first, the Democrat argument: "I don't like your shirt, and your haircut is racist."

Republican argument: "I'm keeping my head down. Is it over yet?"

Conservative argument: "Not a good idea. But, great PR to get people to pay attention, and to highlight idiots like Crockett."

Libertarian argument: "This pot smells funny."

Green argument: "$5,000 buys a solar panel for orphans in Bangladesh."

Posted by: Orson at February 21, 2025 02:02 PM (dIske)

68 I am initiating my SAVE HOOTERS campaign
I propose giving a small persentage of our DOGE refund money to support out lil honeys at Hooters.
Please send donations to:
Go Fund Me Account-
We give a Hoot
If DEI getsthe Boot

Hooters Prepares to File Bankruptcy in Coming Months

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (w4nzS)

I will prop up hooters with my own two hands if I have to.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)

69 Martha Radditz is one fugly woman. As for Jasmine Crockett, didn't I read just yesterday that Jim Clyburn is pushing her to run in '28? L-O-L I can't wait for that. Cheap, tacky, loudmouth, racist, wig-wearing, tarantula eyelashed, skanky trash ho is sure to bring in the voters.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM

I think she's twins with that trash ass mayor that's living large off of the man.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:02 PM (ewjUl)

70 5k is less than a weeks pay

Uh, say what? That's more than most people make in a month.

Posted by: Math don't math at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (yzp7T)

71 Hooters Prepares to File Bankruptcy in Coming Months

Probably unrelated to their change to hire ugly trannies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (2VST1)

72 Not a big fan of the 5k payout.

I want a balanced budget more than anything
---
But view it from the perspective of getting the public used to a "fraud, waste and abuse" refund, and it makes a balanced budget more likely--every bit of spending will have 300 million eyes looking for FWA.

Recall, the lesson Congress learned from the "peace dividend" of the end of the Cold War was, "we can spend all the fucking money we want!!!!!"

Not, "let's balance the budget for good."

Or, to put it another way, paying off your credit cards is not nearly as effective for fiscal discipline as getting rid of credit cards.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (g5EaP)

73 CROCKETT/HOGG 2028
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM

Master Hogg must wait until 2032, to satisfy the Constitutional requirement of being at least 35 years old.

In the meantime, you are welcome to contribute to his PAC via ActBlue.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (a3Q+t)

74 It's a net removal of $20,000 per taxpayer from the economy with $5,000 going to the taxpayer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

It’s not going to be removed, though. The other $15k (or whatever it is) would be used to retire debt. So the note-holders get it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (l3YAf)

75 Bitch needs to shut the fuck up. $5k or $10k will help out tremendously. To a lot of families.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (sGNMS)

76 59 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (1FWWQ)

I hear it sucks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (ynpvh)

77 Speaking of the number $5,000. Perhaps someone can explain to me how Crockett was able to charge $5,000 per hour as an attorney with only two years experience?

DEI and graft

Posted by: brak at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (jGJov)

78 "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

-- Voltaire

> Jasmine Crockett>>> Crock O Shit

Pretty sure you have these switched.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (W5ArC)

79 37 Davy Crockett >>> Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

Tubbs>>>>Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: tankdemon at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (VSht7)

80 74 It’s not going to be removed, though. The other $15k (or whatever it is) would be used to retire debt. So the note-holders get it.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (l3YAf)

=======

The Treasury has been buying up most of the debt itself since Obama, so yeah, most of it would be removed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

81 $5,000 tax holiday should be for Closers only.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:01 PM
This!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (ewjUl)

82 >>>"If Jasmine Crockett's IQ was one point lower, you would have to water her like a plant. Literally a moron," former Trump adviser Roger Stone wrote on X.

hahahahahahaha

Posted by: m at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (v0TzN)

83 I will prop up hooters with my own two hands if I have to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I haven't kept abreast of the news. I've been abroad.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (mlg/3)

84 The dummytards need to keep this Crockett bitch front and center

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 21, 2025 02:05 PM (1FWWQ)

85 Hooters Prepares to File Bankruptcy in Coming Months

Probably unrelated to their change to hire ugly trannies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (2VST1)

All Hooters had going for them was girls. The food has always been generic Sysco slop at best. They had one job...

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

86 I need a new furnace. 5K would help!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:05 PM (ewjUl)

87 She supports reparations for slavery for blacks, but Doesn't think American taxpayers should get anything? She's probably already made some kind of haul through a NGO. She is a very angry, racist person with an attitude of entitlement, besides being stupid Can we please send she and the crooked Mayor Tiffany Henyard off to an island somewhere?

I think we should just pay down the debt.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 02:05 PM (FDDe1)

88 Chrystal Ball and Cattle Collins are the same woman.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:05 PM (pgiIN)

89 Crockett (Jasmine, not Davy) is the shame of Texas.

Sorry, y'all!
Posted by: Duncanthrax

No worries, mate!

Posted by: California at February 21, 2025 02:05 PM (v0R5T)

90 > 69 Martha Radditz is one fugly woman.

She's like the anti-Martha Quinn in the Martha region of the chick spectrum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:05 PM (W5ArC)

91 Speaking of the number $5,000. Perhaps someone can explain to me how Crockett was able to charge $5,000 per hour as an attorney with only two years experience?

DEI and graft
Posted by: brak at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM

Same as in town.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (ewjUl)

92 @70

>> Uh, say what? That's more than most people make in a month

As I said, I don’t need the money, I need a balanced budget, and sane fiscal policy, you can also take the SS I’ve paid into the system and pay down the debt, but I want the option of not paying into SS going forward, I can grow my own wealth better than the federal government can.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (6WHUH)

93 5k is less than a weeks pay

That's more than I make in a year LOL. I didn't qualify for any of the stimulus checks, I would guess I would not for this, either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (2VST1)

94 44 Cut her salary by $5000 and I bet she'd scream.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 21, 2025 01:59 PM (WPL6O)

Wait what? Hells yeah deduct 5000. from every Congress/Senate member.

Yeah that's the ticket!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (w4nzS)

95 Yasmine Bleeth >>>>>>>>>>> Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

96 59 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift
Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (1FWWQ)

It's a very draining procedure.

Posted by: Fangs for the mammaries at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (yzp7T)

97 Already printed? Not new money?

I disagree. It's fungible. You have to get the extra money out of the system, i.e. borrow less.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (pIfcn)

98 Excuse my big tits and rather average face but....Isn't returning stolen money to the masses what the Nazi's did to enable the Holocaust?

Posted by: MARGARET BRENNAN at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (Tjd07)

99 Careful Elon, a chainsaw is almost as dangerous as a drill.

Posted by: DaveA at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM (FhXTo)

100 I see Grimes is in the news saying Musk is ignoring her about one of their children's medical issues. Anyone have any idea what this is actually about?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM (t0Rmr)

101 I will prop up hooters with my own two hands if I have to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I haven't kept abreast of the news. I've been abroad.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (mlg/3)

It's a big deal. They need our support.

We can crossover the divisions that separate us and lift up those in need.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM (i24o9)

102 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 21, 2025 02:00 PM (1FWWQ)

I hear it sucks...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (ynpvh)
-----------
I haven't staked out a position, yet.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM (6K6Eu)

103 I will prop up hooters with my own two hands if I have to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I haven't kept abreast of the news. I've been abroad.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM

Now you're just winging it. I've never been to one. Too chicken to go in.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM (ewjUl)

104 I would rather see the first $5,000 owed by working individuals and families in taxes this year be waived.

Give the people with jobs a break for a change instead of buying welfare moms and their baby daddies another flat screen TV and a trip to get their hair did.

$5,000 tax holiday should be for Closers only.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:01 PM (pgiIN)

So I suspect that’s the idea. A non-refundable tax credit of up-to $5k, issued as a check. The check part is mostly for show, but Trump and Musk are big showmen. It works for them.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM (l3YAf)

105 All Hooters had going for them was girls. The food has always been generic Sysco slop at best

Yeah I ate there once in San Diego. Stunning girls, who spent all their time flirt with a bunch of college chads at a nearby table and barely paid us any attention. The food was meh at best, very expensive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM (2VST1)

106 I need a new furnace. 5K would help!
Posted by: Minnfidel
.......

Me too, but the quote I got was for $10K.
Underfloor gas furnace with 5 floor vents and removal of old furnace.

Posted by: wth at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM (v0R5T)

107 She's like the anti-Martha Quinn in the Martha region of the chick spectrum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I knew a bar waitress named Martha in Ann Arbor who was just adorable.

I gave her enormous tips.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

108
The $5000 dollars is a funny way to get the Dems to demonstrate their hypocrisy, anyway.

A $20,0000 reparations check from the DNC to people who have been paying taxes for 20 years may be another.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM (j4U/Z)

109 Best use of an extra $5k/taxpayer: paying down the debt

Second best use of an extra $5k/taxpayer: Giving it to the taxpayers

Worst use of an extra $5k/taxpayer: Having the government spend it on more gay operas and tranny comic books

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM (t0Rmr)

110 Wow... yes ladies and gents, we now have the trifecta.

One Fed Judge says Trump can't deport people.
Another Fed Judge says he can't control Foreign Aid spending (US Aid).
And a couple US Judges say he can't fire his own employees.

And Roberts on the Supremes is blathering about how if Trump ignores orders, its an attack on the Courts independence and power.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (QAkQ3)

111
Probably unrelated to their change to hire ugly trannies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:03 PM (2VST1)

Whats that you say? Tranny's at Hooters? wow I'm old never knew. Ewwww..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (w4nzS)

112 Martha Raddatz can only broadcast after the sun has gone down.

Posted by: You know why at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (nY3Go)

113 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift
Posted by: Life of Wryly

I hear it sucks...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I haven't staked out a position, yet.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

I wouldn't Count on it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)

114 Ok, first, the Democrat argument: "I don't like your shirt, and your haircut is racist."

Republican argument: "I'm keeping my head down. Is it over yet?"

Conservative argument: "Not a good idea. But, great PR to get people to pay attention, and to highlight idiots like Crockett."

Libertarian argument: "This pot smells funny."

Green argument: "$5,000 buys a solar panel for orphans in Bangladesh."
Posted by: Orson

That's actually the Dem/USAID argument. Of course, the money never makes it past the Cayman Islands.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (sGNMS)

115 I will prop up hooters with my own two hands if I have to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I haven't kept abreast of the news. I've been abroad.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM

Now you're just winging it. I've never been to one. Too chicken to go in.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM (ewjUl)

I think you're missing the main points.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (i24o9)

116 Born in a ghetto in St. Louis MO,
To a retarded pimp and and an ugly ho.
Raised in the hood so she smells like pee.
Has an IQ in the vicinity of three.

Jasmine, Jasmine Crockett,
Queen of the Commie Bints

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (W5ArC)

117 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift
Posted by: Life of Wryly

I hear it sucks...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I haven't staked out a position, yet.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

I wouldn't Count on it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)

Ah, ah, aahhh.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (i24o9)

118 Davy Crockett >>> Jasmine Crockett

Davy Crockett >>> Crockett Cup >>>Crocquet Mallet >>> Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (0eaVi)

119 114 Green argument: "$5,000 buys a solar panel for orphans in Bangladesh."
Posted by: Orson

That's actually the Dem/USAID argument. Of course, the money never makes it past the Cayman Islands.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (sGNMS)

=======

"Why do you think we pay the Green Party's bills?"
-USAID, 94.82% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

120 It is funny seeing the politicans "of the people" claiming $5k is chump change. The average salary, pre-tax, is $60k so we are talking a months worth of pay for average people.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (t0Rmr)

121 What's the playtext for the Hooters bankruptcy?

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

122 I don't think this is a good idea. We have too many fake dollars already depreciating the value of the dollar. We need to dry up this supply to stop inflation. Saving money and then not spending it takes inflation out of the system, whereas dropping another stimulus-like check on the public will either increase it or, at the very least, waste the opportunity to decrease it.

Ok, ok. Sheesh! Tell you what: I'll settle for $2500 and a couple of coupons for free Bojangles sausage biscuits.

Posted by: Paco at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (mADJX)

123 What does a beaver need with a chainsaw?

Posted by: James T. Kirk at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (63Dwl)

124 Ya know, when the spiders get to the point where they wave to you from Jasmine's eyelids that means her entire skull is full of them.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (Ft5W9)

125 Am I the millionth moron on here to point out this will be absolutely terrible for inflation? I mean I am not an economist, but this seems like a terrible idea. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (q177U)

It is post-inflationary, it has already been borrowed and covered by the fed. It would be better if it were rolled into paying down the national debt, but the other 80% that is clawed back is doing that already. So, we are only getting a portion of that. The only difference is that the taxpayers are getting it first for the best Cantillon position instead of the USG and their NGOs

Here, all money in our system is created on the books via borrowing and debt. In this case the Treasury created bonds that the Fed covered with cash by creating money to cover the debt. So Trump can use the entire amount clawed back to pay down the debt, which is fine, or he can pay down 80% of it against the debt which is 80% fine. And people can buy eggs again, or a used car. Not the principled libertarian position, but I am a self-declared crappy libertarian

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (D7oie)

126 I thought about this several days ago, and it's a brilliant idea.

Dem pols, I believe, take a secret oath to always believe that taxpayer money belongs to the government. If President Trump can state categorically that the $5K per taxpayer comes from funds already appropriated by Congress and have been sequestered in the US Treasury (or wherever the Magic Money is accounted), then sending it back to the taxpayers is a wonderful and a politically astute thing to do.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (rj6Yv)

127 One Fed Judge says Trump can't deport people.
Another Fed Judge says he can't control Foreign Aid spending (US Aid).
And a couple US Judges say he can't fire his own employees.

And Roberts on the Supremes is blathering about how if Trump ignores orders, its an attack on the Courts independence and power.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (QAkQ3)
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There are no "Democrat Judges" or "Republican Judges"

Posted by: John Roberts of Epstein Island at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (nY3Go)

128 One time $5K and an apology for the waste and a plan to implement oversight, tracking, reporting, scorecard and forbid bypasses into the treasury / printing press so that it can never happen again. Sounds good to me.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (jPdyB)

129 As my Grandad the farmer would say, "Jasmine Crockett has one more brain cell than a cow so she doesn't shit in the stall when you play with her tits."

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (pgiIN)

130 Idk, we tried the principled thing for how many years now and where has that actually gotten us? I'm tired of being the parent who always says you have to do your homework and eat your vegetables and go to sleep on time while the dems are always just handing out candy and play video games and stay up however late you like.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 21, 2025 01:52 PM (B9Prs)

Correct. The federal mafia takes. If occasionally they give, take it. This "balanced budget" or "pay off the debt" are nothing but pipe dreams at this point. Ain't happening.

Posted by: Men's Room Wall at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (R/m4+)

131 Why do you hate retarded blind crippled orphaned burn victims?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (W5ArC)

132 Try to imagine the AWFLs sporting Crockett tee shirts in four years.

Their kind of candidate!

Then imagine her in a debate with JD.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (KiBMU)

133 Personally I'd rather they put that money into paying down the debt
--
$46+ trillion doesn't get paid down by saving money.

That's Dave Ramsey silliness. It'd take nearly a decade to pay off even if 100% of federal revenue went toward paying it and nothing else.

It's paid off, as Trump has said, by making it leveraged debt--put the assets of the greatest economy and country in history to work.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (g5EaP)

134 Martha Raddish needs this job, now that her side-gig at Hooter's looks like it's about to end.

Posted by: Just Wn at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (G5+As)

135 Already printed? Not new money?

I disagree. It's fungible. You have to get the extra money out of the system, i.e. borrow less.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 21, 2025 02:06 PM (pIfcn)

The goal seems to be to wipe out the deficit, then use the surplus as a tax refund and to pay down the debt. So not adding to the debt.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (l3YAf)

136 Agree with Disinterested @104, working families should get any $5000 checks. I'm retired and hoarding my little savings, and $5000 would be almost half a year's mortgage payments. So I wouldn't send it back, lol. But I don't pay much tax any more and have no dependents or spouse.

Posted by: skywch at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (uqhmb)

137 113 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift
Posted by: Life of Wryly

I hear it sucks...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I haven't staked out a position, yet.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

I wouldn't Count on it
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)
***

It'll never see the light of day.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (W/lyH)

138 Darn. I thought the "Crockett nood" was going to have been about Davy.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (/tzYP)

139 91 Speaking of the number $5,000. Perhaps someone can explain to me how Crockett was able to charge $5,000 per hour as an attorney with only two years experience?

Is there a specific reference for this? There isn't a swinging dick in this whole country that could charge $5k/hour for legal fees. Was she on a contingency case or something and that's what the fees worked out to after taking their 33 or 40 percent maybe?

Posted by: I'm just a bit confused at this at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (yzp7T)

140 Inflation was, is, and always be a monetary phenomenon.

Increased spending isn't a monetary event. It's a demand side shift.

Monetary policy impacts inflation. Inflation tends to be inverse to interest rates (deflation is a thing, but is generally too slow to happen so since Econ goes the path of least resistance, interest rates get hit), and with noises I'm hearing, interest rates may be increasing in the next year.

All of this is to say that $5k payments to people won't impact inflation UNLESS the money supply is being increased to make it happen.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (TIRHP)

141 I'd far rather have tax removed from Social Security, or the dissolution of income tax entirely, than to receive a $5000 check. Sure, a check *plus* one of those two would be great, but I'm takin' the long view, here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (J2vNu)

142 ace, they are defending the IRS at this point. no , really!
HuffingtonPost :
"On Capitol Hill, Democrats fumed about the corruption (lol) on display with Trump’s attacks on the IRS.

“Purging thousands of IRS workers in the middle of tax filing season is another act of plain corruption designed to benefit Musk, Trump, and their wealthy friends,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), who represents a Virginia district with large numbers of federal employees, said in a statement."

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (g47mK)

143 22 It's funny because I didn't really give too much credence to my wife's theory, but increasingly I am becoming a believer. Her theory is that the Democrat party purposely has their black politicians float their dumbest ideas. She says it's a win-win the Democrat party because it either sticks or only black people get disgraced.
Posted by: TheITGuy2

Democrat urban blacks in Congress are about half the party's stalwarts and due to Scotus claiming the VRA mandated racial gerrymandering--most of them in the House are in very safe seats even if urban elections were honest. Over time, those in the safe seats eventually become chairmen, party leaders, etc. because of seniority.

For the most part, the Dems have become a party of liberal white women and urban minorities with a few white males still around in states where those types of tickets might lose statewide races.

Posted by: whig at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)

144 Sounds like Crockett is so use to big grift that $5K means nothing to her. Not a good look.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (jPdyB)

145 > Am I the millionth moron on here to point out this will be absolutely terrible for inflation? I mean I am not an economist, but this seems like a terrible idea. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 01:56 PM (q177U)

Why is it inflationary for the stolen money to be returned to the people to spend as they want, but not inflationary for government hacks to spend it as they want?

Seems like it should be a wash to me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (W5ArC)

146 107 She's like the anti-Martha Quinn in the Martha region of the chick spectrum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I knew a bar waitress named Martha in Ann Arbor who was just adorable.

I gave her enormous tips.
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

Martha Davis of the Motels rocked.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (EYYRe)

147 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

-
OMG! What price MAGA now?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (L/fGl)

148 Darn. I thought the "Crockett nood" was going to have been about Davy.

All the ettes were hoping for a Miami Vice reference

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (2VST1)

149 123 What does a beaver need with a chainsaw?

Posted by: James T. Kirk at February 21, 2025 02:10 PM (63Dwl)

Well, makes it more dangerous than one with just teeth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (ynpvh)

150 Best use of an extra $5k/taxpayer: paying down the debt

Second best use of an extra $5k/taxpayer: Giving it to the taxpayers

Worst use of an extra $5k/taxpayer: Having the government spend it on more gay operas and tranny comic books
Posted by: 18-1

Bestest use? Give it back to the taxpayer with an apology for taking it in the first place.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (sGNMS)

151 Me too, but the quote I got was for $10K.
Underfloor gas furnace with 5 floor vents and removal of old furnace.
Posted by: wth at February 21, 2025 02:08 PM

Get another quote. 75K BTU installed (already have ducts) was 6K and a rebate from the Excel energy for like 400 as it's 98% efficient.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (ewjUl)

152 Why do you hate retarded blind crippled orphaned burn victims?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (W5ArC)

Kind of useless and high-maintenance, if we are being honest.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (i24o9)

153 Darn. I thought the "Crockett nood" was going to have been about Davy.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 21, 2025

***
It might be cold enough this winter for a coonskin cap.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (J2vNu)

154 I hope the $5k goes to each taxpayer. If my husband gets it I won't get to buy Greenland.

I want a balanced budget as well, and I think that is coming in the next four years. I hope, soon, President Trump with many, many screens, shows the savings of DOGE and where the money was going through laundering channels and back to Dim Senate Whores.

This will be the first time the word, "budget," will have been spoken in DC since GWB was in office yapping about the peaceful religion.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (RNRl3)

155 I actually want more info on the Vampire Breast Lift
Posted by: Life of Wryly

I hear it sucks...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I haven't staked out a position, yet.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

I wouldn't Count on it
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)
***

It'll never see the light of day.
Posted by: Diogenes

Yeah, it's batty.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

156 "Enormous tips"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (L/fGl)

157 133 Personally I'd rather they put that money into paying down the debt
--
$46+ trillion doesn't get paid down by saving money.

That's Dave Ramsey silliness. It'd take nearly a decade to pay off even if 100% of federal revenue went toward paying it and nothing else.

It's paid off, as Trump has said, by making it leveraged debt--put the assets of the greatest economy and country in history to work.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (g5EaP)

+++++

The plan, straight outta stony brook, is to print $46 trillion.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 21, 2025 02:14 PM (2ap+5)

158 > 152 Why do you hate retarded blind crippled orphaned burn victims?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:11 PM (W5ArC)

I forgot to add "with cancer".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (W5ArC)

159 The goal seems to be to wipe out the deficit, then use the surplus as a tax refund and to pay down the debt. So not adding to the debt.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (l3YAf)

But the debt itself will continue to grow, due to interest rates on the existing debt.... and increase itself is filled with money created out of thin air, increasing inflation.

For the first time, combined State, Fed, and Local Gov debt is greater than combined Consumer and business debt... which means politics now controls inflation, NOT INTEREST RATES.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (QAkQ3)

160 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (sGNMS)

161 All those $1200 COVID checks bought were bus travelers to Spirit Airlines.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (wBaIH)

162 Purging an entrenched bureaucracy is "an attack on freedom." They really did not absorb Miller's civics lesson from yesterday. I can tell !

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (g47mK)

163 Hookers and Blow $5K: 2025
Guns Not Graft $5K
A Suppressor in Every Pot $5K

I'll listen to the proposals with an open mind.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (pgiIN)

164 115 I will prop up hooters with my own two hands if I have to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I haven't kept abreast of the news. I've been abroad.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM

Now you're just winging it. I've never been to one. Too chicken to go in.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM (ewjUl)

I think you're missing the main points.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:09 PM (i24o9)
Yeah don't forget Heather really 'LIKES' us!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (w4nzS)

165 The bus bombing yesterday (which failed) looks like a stunt by two Israeli Jews and a Palestinian they brought on. It wasn't a "false flag" exactly because it seems unsanctioned by the government. Shin Bet is looking into it.
I'm mentioning this here to eat some crow, because last night I assumed it was Islamic Jihad or some commie outfit maybe from Jenin (I didn't think it was sanctioned by Hamas either because it didn't look like something they'd do at this point, plus they're busy).
Anyway, if anyone did have "it's faaake" on their mind but, for whatever reason, didn't feel like commenting, please accept my apology.
jpost.com/breaking-news/article-843160
The place has a lot of assholes in it, some of them unfortunately Jewish (or Christian). Welcome to the Near East I guess. Although of course Hamas are still the worst.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (gKWVE)

166 Apparently Speaker Johnson isn't too keen on giving us our money back, either.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (y9ksN)

167 I think Trump/Musk came up with the 5K rebate as a MacGuffin to get the batshit insane left out there in the media looking more idiotic than usual.

Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (z+ik4)

168 The Crockettes were the gals in the old western barns who were always doing the can-can.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (77rzZ)

169 162 Purging an entrenched bureaucracy is "an attack on freedom." They really did not absorb Miller's civics lesson from yesterday. I can tell !
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (g47mK)

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The independent agencies are supposed to work for the people.

The people get no say in who runs the agencies.

It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

170 Personally I'd rather they put that money into paying down the debt

Most people on the blog probably agree but... most people in the country don't. Cutting spending always fails because no one cares but the people getting cut so they yell loudest. We need the populace to care. The rebate is a way to do that.

Tax holiday would be good but the Dems would point out that the FSA wouldn't get their tax time money and that would cause shrieking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (ExV1e)

171 Why is it inflationary for the stolen money to be returned to the people to spend as they want, but not inflationary for government hacks to spend it as they want?

Seems like it should be a wash to me.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (W5ArC)
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Because the Democrat thieves weren't going to spend the money, instead they intended stashing it in the Caymans or Panama.

Posted by: Democrat Economists at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (nY3Go)

172 The guys from Yosemite stole the keys.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (g47mK)

173
Sorry about Hooters.

The last Playboy Club I'm aware of was on West Saginaw St. in Lansing and must've closed 30 years ago. Clientele was fat middle aged sales reps who liked the bend-over in-your-face drink presentation by the bunnies.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (j4U/Z)

174 And another contender seeks to take the "I am the Law!" title from Judge Sullivan:

The NY judge refuses to dismiss the Adams corruption suit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (g5EaP)

175
The goal seems to be to wipe out the deficit, then use the surplus as a tax refund and to pay down the debt. So not adding to the debt.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:12 PM (l3YAf)

If there is no deficit, yes. But we aren't remotely there yet.

With no deficit the debate becomes, are we better off retiring debt issued at, say less than 2%, or doing something else.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (pIfcn)

176 Should also point out that a $5k payment out has a multiplier effect when spent by the recipient. Private sector multipliers tend to be higher than government sector.

Another way of saying this proposal would end up being a short term stimulus. Such things aren't sustainable of course, but it works on an economic measure as well as a moral one imo.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (TIRHP)

177 No matter what they do with this hypothetical $5000 per person -
Your grandchildren will be paying it.

/Your daily black pill

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (/lPRQ)

178 160 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (sGNMS)

https://tinyurl.com/624v2dr2

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (ynpvh)

179 I can see why Dems would be floating Crockett for '28.

After Brandon and Harris, I don't think the Party wants any more candidates with normal intelligence. These dullards are so easy to manage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (BI5O2)

180 Musk dancing with the chainsaw and Trump declaring long live the king. The left follows it like a fish following a shiny object. They are too self absorbed to realize they're being trolled. I love it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (cMcMn)

181 All of this is to say that $5k payments to people won't impact inflation UNLESS the money supply is being increased to make it happen.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
====
Very true. It is also true that a lot of people use 'free money' for savings or to pay off debts==not for extra spending. That has been the result of quite a few analyses of 'stimulus' payments. They don't stimulate much of anything.

I think the idea of 20% to the public and 80% to reduce the deficit is a way to make a large contingent of the population into co conspirators vested in cutting government spending instead of being indifferent or hostile to it. People with a direct monetary stake are committed (like the current gimmedats) and the public indifferent. This would change that equation politically by making the more numerous taxpayers outweigh the outraged gimmedats from sheer vote totals. Makes the GOP in House and Senate toe the line.

Posted by: whig at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (ctrM5)

182 The Crockettes were the gals in the old western barns who were always doing the can-can.
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM

And if they're ugly it's the don't don't.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:18 PM (ewjUl)

183 No one is floating that inflatable boat from GA anymore.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 02:18 PM (g47mK)

184 > Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (sGNMS)

These were Californians, remember.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:18 PM (W5ArC)

185 $5000 could pay for her comically-huge fake eyelashes for a couple of weeks. Not bad!

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How many abortions does that buy, or are those all federally-funded now as well?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 02:18 PM (HlbBf)

186 Now, taxpayers might not know what to do with five grand but I know what I'd do for it!!

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at February 21, 2025 02:18 PM (nY3Go)

187 180 Musk dancing with the chainsaw and Trump declaring long live the king. The left follows it like a fish following a shiny object. They are too self absorbed to realize they're being trolled. I love it
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Stray voltage but the outrage among the Dems is getting to the counter productive (for Dems) threats of violence and idiotic statements by Dem pols like in the post above.

Posted by: whig at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (ctrM5)

188 Three parallel pun threads. It's glorious.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (i24o9)

189 147 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

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OMG! What price MAGA now?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:13 PM (L/fGl)

I live 2 hours from Yosemite... my Dad worked there as a young Man... I know Yosemite very well.

I don't go anymore because it is overrun with Foreign tourists. Hell, you can't even get in with a Lifetime Pass to the National Parks (Vet benefit) without a RESERVATION most of the time...

If'n foreigners lock themselves in the damn outhouse... OK then... I sure don't want to be paying for it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (QAkQ3)

190 These were Californians, remember.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Then why in the hell are you letting them out???

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (sGNMS)

191 It's funny how her net worth exploded after being elected.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (lTGtQ)

192 I haven't kept abreast of the news. I've been abroad.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:04 PM (mlg/3)

It's a big deal. They need our support.

We can crossover the divisions that separate us and lift up those in need.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:07 PM

Any financial calvary will have to hurry to make it under the wire.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (a3Q+t)

193 188 Three parallel pun threads. It's glorious.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (i24o9)

Our humor is quite skewed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (ynpvh)

194 > And if they're ugly it's the don't don't.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:18 PM (ewjUl)

That's why they were always throwing their skirts up over their heads.

Not that your typical gold miner or cowboy who hasn't seen a woman in a year is going to be all that discriminating in the first place.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (W5ArC)

195 Said it a couple of weeks ago

Jasmine Crockett is to Congress as Tiffany Ledyard is to mayors

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 02:20 PM (cMcMn)

196 "The guys from Yosemite stole the keys."

And they ate the strawberries, too! I proved it mathematically!

Posted by: Captain Philip Queeg, USN at February 21, 2025 02:20 PM (Ft5W9)

197 >> In this case the Treasury created bonds that the Fed covered with cash by creating money to cover the debt.

That’s not really true, though. The Federal Reserve is not directly monetizing Federal debt anymore. They’re actually selling down their Treasury holdings, which is sucking money out of the market. This is known as quantitative tightening.

However, the Fed has been discussing pausing or ending QT, which would probably be bad. But Trump getting rid of the deficit would encourage more QT, so the effect of the DOGE cuts may be disinflationary.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:20 PM (l3YAf)

198 > Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (sGNMS)

These were Californians, remember.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 02:18 PM (W5ArC)

I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest it was a staged stunt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:20 PM (i24o9)

199 The $5K refund makes the cuts tangible.

Simply saying we're slashing the budget has no benefit on an American taxpayer if it doesn't ultimately put money back in their pocket.

Also, now the dems have to come out against it.

It's brilliant in so many respects.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2025 02:20 PM (KbCG3)

200 188 Three parallel pun threads. It's glorious.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (i24o9)

Out: Parallelogram...

In: ParalleloPUN...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (QAkQ3)

201 And another contender seeks to take the "I am the Law!" title from Judge Sullivan:

The NY judge refuses to dismiss the Adams corruption suit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (g5EaP)

So, when the trial date comes, and the gov't doesn't send anyone, Adams is summarily acquitted?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (0eaVi)

202 I think the idea of 20% to the public and 80% to reduce the deficit is a way to make a large contingent of the population into co conspirators vested in cutting government spending instead of being indifferent or hostile to it. People with a direct monetary stake are committed (like the current gimmedats) and the public indifferent. This would change that equation politically by making the more numerous taxpayers outweigh the outraged gimmedats from sheer vote totals. Makes the GOP in House and Senate toe the line.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2025 02:17 PM (ctrM5)

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Yeah, the 80/20 split people keep glossing over is important.

This is far from all of the money cut, in theory. It's 20% of it.

People wanted government to cut spending. Well, that's what DOGE is trying to do. If it's just 80% of their target instead of 100%, that's still pretty good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

203 ♪ Jasmine...Jasmine Crockett!
Queen of the Grift and Graft! ♫

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (ynpvh)

204 Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??
Posted by: rickb223

>be a constipated 53 year old
>oops gotta poop
>run through the moon door
>deadbolt it
>grunt
>AAACCCK CARDIAC
At that point you want someone outside with the key to open the moon door. Because you're sitting on Elvis' Throne and can't reach it.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (gKWVE)

205 After Brandon and Harris, I don't think the Party wants any more candidates with normal intelligence. These dullards are so easy to manage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
=========
Watch for Wes Moore current gov of Maryland. Basically similar to Obama in short record and addresses working class black men turning toward MAGA. Risk there is he won't draw Hispanics as they now outnumber blacks population wise.

Posted by: whig at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (ctrM5)

206 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

--
So why is there only one person, in one of the most visited National Parks in the country, with keys to the bathroom?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (y9ksN)

207 LEGENDARY! President of Argentina Javier Milei just linked up with Elon Musk and gifted him a DOGE chainsaw.

Absolute beast mode.

----------------

Maybe the wood-chipper wouldn't fit on the plane.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (HlbBf)

208 https://tinyurl.com/624v2dr2
Posted by: jim

Bought my ex a coffee mug with that on it.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (sGNMS)

209 Parallel pun threads are fine until a woman tries to park.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (a3Q+t)

210 205 Watch for Wes Moore current gov of Maryland. Basically similar to Obama in short record and addresses working class black men turning toward MAGA. Risk there is he won't draw Hispanics as they now outnumber blacks population wise.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (ctrM5)

======

Dude is polling at 2% right now.

Yeah, 3 years is the primary, but 2%, man. Governors tend to be boring in presidential primaries anyway, unable to get any media attention.

Kamala has a better chance, and I think she's going to crash and burn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

211 Why can't we have a Year of Jubilee?

+++
Great idea for our 250th anniversary

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (jPdyB)

212 Has Kash frog marched anyone out yet ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (NtVYv)

213 206 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

--
So why is there only one person, in one of the most visited National Parks in the country, with keys to the bathroom?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (y9ksN)

Secrets of Yosemite...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (ynpvh)

214 212 Has Kash frog marched anyone out yet ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (NtVYv)

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Hard to do before he gets sworn in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

215 Unlocking a Yosemite shitter stall door requires institutional knowledge? Codified by tradition and sanctified by time?

Jebus tiddy-f*cking Christ.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (wBaIH)

216 Any financial calvary will have to hurry to make it under the wire.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 21, 2025 02:19 PM (a3Q+t)

With any luck, they will enjoy a healthy bounce back to profitability.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (i24o9)

217 btw, I bet Crockett represent the same district of that asshole, shit-for-brains judge in Dallas that locked up the salon owner for violating Covid lockdowns.

He gets reelected by his people by massive margins.

She is now a state rep.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (g5EaP)

218 Jasmine Crocket out there all bald faced like she is all that and a Bag O Chips. Pffttt. take off that tax payer funded culturally appropriated wig make up and lashes and BOOM instant nobody incorporated! Goofy gamster grifter...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (w4nzS)

219 @205 Yup, Moore is also a veteran so that will work in his favor. Of course the possibility that Baltimore implodes even further wouldn't help

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (cMcMn)

220 Holy crap!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (QSrLX)

221 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

Multiple ex-park rangers have come forward and said this is malicious compliance, lots of people have the keys.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (2ocoG)

222 Saw on X that she owns three homes.
Yeah, sure. Audit her.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (Hkcdp)

223 And another contender seeks to take the "I am the Law!" title from Judge Sullivan:

The NY judge refuses to dismiss the Adams corruption suit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (g5EaP)

As I recall, Sullivan ordered/created his own prosecutor to continue the prosecution of General Flynn. Obviously, the funds to do that and continue the trial came from somewhere. Perhaps our Article III courts have too much money in their budgets. Congress should act at once!

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (rj6Yv)

224 Hard to do before he gets sworn in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

Dammnit Jim !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (NtVYv)

225 So why is there only one person, in one of the most visited National Parks in the country, with keys to the bathroom?
Posted by: Josephistan

There's a hotel in Yosemite. It's got a lot of bathrooms in it that visitors can access with their room keys.

This story is a crock of govno.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (77rzZ)

226 Unlocking a Yosemite shitter stall door requires institutional knowledge? Codified by tradition and sanctified by time?

Jebus tiddy-f*cking Christ.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 21, 2025 02:23 PM (wBaIH)

Sounds like they are making a case for firing more impotent layabouts.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (i24o9)

227 I read the Bush old guard is destroying Texas politics no matter what!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (w4nzS)

228 Hasn't a Democrat previously dismissed a rebate as irrelevant?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (iJtGp)

229 Yeah, the 80/20 split people keep glossing over is important.

This is far from all of the money cut, in theory. It's 20% of it.

People wanted government to cut spending. Well, that's what DOGE is trying to do. If it's just 80% of their target instead of 100%, that's still pretty good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

Exactly so. This is a brilliant idea and the ratio of rebate to deficit reduction is excellent. When Johnson talks of his "principles," what he means is that direct payments cannot be skimmed. As mentioned above, it probably will have to be tied to something Principled Conservatives normally embezzle for themselves and/or donors like the military or foreign aid.

Posted by: Trump poisoned by cat at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (WWpK6)

230 >be a constipated 53 year old
>oops gotta poop
>run through the moon door
>deadbolt it
>grunt
>AAACCCK CARDIAC
At that point you want someone outside with the key to open the moon door. Because you're sitting on Elvis' Throne and can't reach it.
Posted by: gKWVE

How about no locks on the no doors like at most state rest stops? Just a big entryway in to each men's & women's restroom?

You know, big enough to wheel a gurney in there.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:25 PM (sGNMS)

231 Yosemite Sam can unlock the shitter with his 6 gun!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:25 PM (ewjUl)

232 Sefton and I talked a bit about the $5k refund on today's podcast. It's just grandstanding, and I hope he doesn't push it.

But...DAMN! Trump is a master troller.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 21, 2025 02:25 PM (mWSu4)

233 227 I read the Bush old guard is destroying Texas politics no matter what!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (w4nzS)

McCainiacs in AZ and Bushies in TX. Can't those states get their act together and purge these assholes?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:25 PM (ynpvh)

234 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

Multiple ex-park rangers have come forward and said this is malicious compliance, lots of people have the keys.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (2ocoG)

Like I said. Staged.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:25 PM (i24o9)

235 So why is there only one person, in one of the most visited National Parks in the country, with keys to the bathroom?
Posted by: Josephistan

You talkin to me?
-The Bear

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:25 PM (w4nzS)

236 Governors tend to be boring in presidential primaries anyway, unable to get any media attention
---
My dad was a mailman!

Posted by: John Catshit at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM (g5EaP)

237 MARTHA RADDATZ?

Damn, she could use a little chainsaw-precision plastic surgery, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM (HlbBf)

238 And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you

I could either quit my job and take a couple months off to look for another one, or I could pay off my credit card debt, and get my Suburban fixed.

Either one would be huge for me.

I'm not going to hold my breath, though.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM (hB7mE)

239 LA Mayor Bass fires Fire Chief Kristen Crowley.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM (NpAcC)

240 "If I had a hammer...". Make that a chainsaw.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM (QSrLX)

241 Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:15 PM (sGNMS)

Oh, dear, what can the matter be
Seven old ladies got locked in the lavat'ry
They were there from Sunday 'till Saturday
Nobody knew they were there . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM (D7oie)

242 That Crockett bitch lookin' a little trashy.

Posted by: Cardi B at February 21, 2025 02:27 PM (paSBy)

243 LA Mayor Bass fires Fire Chief Kristen Crowley.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM

The Bass jumped the dyke.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:27 PM (ewjUl)

244 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

Clearly, only a locksmith can use a key. No one else on the entire staff is capable of picking up a key and unlocking a door.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:27 PM (2VST1)

245 238 I could either quit my job and take a couple months off to look for another one, or I could pay off my credit card debt, and get my Suburban fixed.

Either one would be huge for me.

I'm not going to hold my breath, though.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM (hB7mE)

=======

If we got them today (assuming one for each of us, me and Dolley), we'd probably pay off the second car and put the rest towards the house.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

246 How much was the chinese lung aids stimulus again?

Like, $1500?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:27 PM (bss/y)

247 Jasmine Crockett. She is the one who spouts off daily that all white people are racists?
Look in the mirror you stanky whore.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:27 PM (/lPRQ)

248 239.

Time to call a Broken Scissors on the radio.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:27 PM (kWqPy)

249 Georgia woman sues fertility clinic after she gives birth to another couple's baby

https://is.gd/AV8BrU

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The clinic responded, "Babies, shmabies."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (L/fGl)

250 I wish Ace would put up a new post because I wanna be FIRST

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (RNRl3)

251 Multiple ex-park rangers have come forward and said this is malicious compliance, lots of people have the keys.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (2ocoG)

Perform an audit of the security systems of OUR national parks, including padlocks and keys. Any park ranger or federal employee refusing to use them according to established policy to be immediately investigated.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (rj6Yv)

252 I read the Bush old guard is destroying Texas politics no matter what!
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Oh yeah.

"Speaker" Burrows did some stupid shit the other that that shows he's flat-out owned by the Democrats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (g5EaP)

253 Argentina Chainsaw Massacre?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (pLaQB)

254 However, the Fed has been discussing pausing or ending QT, which would probably be bad. But Trump getting rid of the deficit would encourage more QT, so the effect of the DOGE cuts may be disinflationary.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:20 PM (l3YAf)

Why would it be bad? Long term rates aren't playing ball with Fed rates and a glut of debt might be the reason. It certainly puts upward pressure on the interest rates we're paying. The Fed's balance sheet will run off over time, and lower rates only frees up money from our interest payments.

Just reduce the new borrowing every year. Stop digging.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (pIfcn)

255 I wish Ace would put up a new post because I wanna be FIRST

Just declare you identify as first

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (t0Rmr)

256 Why can't we have a Year of Jubilee?

Yeah one year tax holiday from the feds rather than this pay off would be a much better option. Basically the IRS saying "um, sorry"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (2VST1)

257
lulz, so the Trump Admin has cleaned house over at the very corrupt National Archives and fired all the fake "probationary" employees.

Well, this resulted in the Closing of the JFK presidential library, because, for some reason, ALL employees at this place were probies. What??

Then, somehow, this Quickly morphed into the fake Narrative: Trump Is Shutting Down Libraries!

Presidential "libraries" aren't libraries, they are museums, for those of you in Rio Linda.

I don't know if the Shits at the JFK Pres. Library are fucking around and trying do a political stunt, or they really don't have any employees to keep this Huge Waste of Taxpayer Money open to the public.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (lUsn1)

258 243.
Gold.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (kWqPy)

259 For those who would like to start sprinkling some quotes from Prometheus into the comments, here are some resources:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/quotes/

https://www.quotes.net/movies/prometheus_13802

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (a3Q+t)

260 If we got them today (assuming one for each of us, me and Dolley), we'd probably pay off the second car and put the rest towards the house.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'd pay at least one bill off, part of another and bank the rest.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (sGNMS)

261 I second that we need to make our restrooms bear-friendly and especially make their TP accessible.

Posted by: shit covered rabbit at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

262 Perform an audit of the security systems of OUR national parks, including padlocks and keys. Any park ranger or federal employee refusing to use them according to established policy to be immediately investigated.

I'm on the case!
Captain Queeg

Posted by: steevy at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (KQk9m)

263 I wish Ace would put up a new post because I wanna be FIRST

You'll always be first in our eyes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (2VST1)

264 The bus bombing yesterday (which failed) looks like a stunt by two Israeli Jews and a Palestinian they brought on.

Execute all three of them.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (hB7mE)

265 Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??
Posted by: rickb223

Shit if I know.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (mlg/3)

266 225 So why is there only one person, in one of the most visited National Parks in the country, with keys to the bathroom?
Posted by: Josephistan

There's a hotel in Yosemite. It's got a lot of bathrooms in it that visitors can access with their room keys.

This story is a crock of govno.
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:24 PM (77rzZ)

there are hundreds of Outhouses around the park... big cement outhouses, with lockable doors for privacy and to keep the bears out in Winter. Some of these date back a long ways...

Now, add in that the park is overrun with Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Tourists, with a smattering from Europe.... with different cultural norms...

And you have a shitty situation.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:30 PM (QAkQ3)

267 >>>LA Mayor Bass fires Fire Chief Kristen Crowley.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 02:26 PM

Haven't followed that closely but who was responsible for things like the conditions that allowed the fires in the first place or the lack of water in the reservoirs?

Is this just a cheap sacrifice?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:30 PM (LxER7)

268 Northernlurker, Michelle Obama disparaged a Bush check back to citizens (maybe $300 or so?) as being so small, like a pair of earrings.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 21, 2025 02:30 PM (Hkcdp)

269 And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you

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Two words: piz za.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:30 PM (L/fGl)

270 I would use my $5k to go to the border and eat popcorn while I watch illegals get arrested.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 21, 2025 02:30 PM (kWqPy)

271 The doofii at DU rhink highly of Crockett.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (iJtGp)

272 Just reduce the new borrowing every year. Stop digging.
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Yep. Especially the Stop Digging. But, there is an opportunity to grow common sense with the electorate as a shield against the next Obama - Biden grifter.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (pLaQB)

273 21 Where is my $5,000 bitch?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 21, 2025 01:54 PM (iLqj/)
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Not Jasmine. She's not for sale for less than 5 million.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (1bNHn)

274 Why can't we have a Year of Jubilee?

Yeah one year tax holiday from the feds rather than this pay off would be a much better option. Basically the IRS saying "um, sorry"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Why not both? It's been evident for a long time, that taxes have been nothing but punitive.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (sGNMS)

275 190 These were Californians, remember.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Then why in the hell are you letting them out???
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:19

This is so gross and disturbing but it's true. In the 1980s a dude was caught, inside the pit of a port a potty type restroom in I believe Morro Bay. He even brought his lunch so he could make a day of it.
Some lady went in the bathroom and saw him down in the pit and her boyfriend wouldn't let him leave until the cops got there.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (EYYRe)

276 At California's Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

Why were visitors locked into the restrooms in the first place??

Posted by: rickb223
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Justified termination.
A competent locksmith would know that a restroom lock should keep people out, not in.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (/lPRQ)

277 "I've been watching this man for years now, as his cities get demolished, as his people get killed, as the soldiers get decimated," Trump said on Fox News Radio's "The Brian Kilmeade Show" on Friday morning. "I've been watching for years, and I've been watching him negotiate with no cards. He has no cards, and you get sick of it. You just get sick of it. And I've had it."

https://tinyurl.com/3xsdvcc5
(NBC)

I read somewhere that Trump is very pissed that Z did not sign the mineral rights deal to pay back the U.S.

Trump has a huge problem with the disparity between the EU nations giving out loans to Ukraine while we just gave the money away. He's serious about this thing.

Remember he's been saying forever that we should've gotten Iraq's oil after the war.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (6ydKt)

278 I second that we need to make our restrooms bear-friendly and especially make their TP accessible.
Posted by: shit covered rabbit

I hate those effing TP adds with the bears.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

279 If the Park Rangers want to play malicious compliance games, then Trump should go buy the bear who banged DiCaprio in that gay bear porno he made, and release it in their office.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (BI5O2)

280 And you have a shitty situation.

https://youtu.be/enOQozXwctc

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (2VST1)

281 Northernlurker, Michelle Obama disparaged a Bush check back to citizens (maybe $300 or so?) as being so small, like a pair of earrings.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 21, 2025 02:30 PM (Hkcdp)
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Nowadays, $300 is about two weeks of groceries to me.

I can't imagine what I'd do with $5000 of extra cash (except put it in the bank to pay off my house, I suppose).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (7fElN)

282 >> But the debt itself will continue to grow, due to interest rates on the existing debt.... and increase itself is filled with money created out of thin air, increasing inflation.

If it were up to me, I’d force a haircut on Treasury holders. However, if the deficit really is turned into a surplus, the debt won’t increase. (That’s why we never had a real surplus in the 90s: the debt increased every year. The “surplus” was budget gimmickry.)

However, the Federal Reserve isn’t creating new money to buy debt; it’s actually selling down its holdings. So even if the national debt were to increase, I’m not convinced it would be inflationary, because the money borrowed would simply come from somewhere else in the economy.

(The money supply plumbing is a bit more complicated than that, though. M2 has been increasing since bottoming-out in 2023. The Fed really erred in cutting rates last year, but I guess they wanted to get Biden/Kamala elected.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (l3YAf)

283
Also, presidential libraries (museums, for the dummies) are supposed to be Non-Federally funded. They get their money from private fundraising.

HOWEVER, except for 16 of these "libraries," including JFK's. These are both privately & federally funded. Why? Who the fuck knows? Maybe because the James fucking Polk Library* can't raise private funds.

*I have no idea if there is a James fucking Polk Pres. Library, it's just an example.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (lUsn1)

284
EM' KOHLRABI ERNIE MOST!1!1!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (c0tJM)

285 The doofii
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM

* thumbs up *

Posted by: Gaius Kilroynius at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (a3Q+t)

286 Bass is basically saying "the fire chief didn't tackle me thereby stopping me from going to Ghana. The bitch didn't do her job"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (cMcMn)

287 The doofii at DU rhink highly of Crockett.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Doof's Underlings?

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

288 The attack was, what? 8 years ago?

@BBCWorld 8m
Man found guilty of attempted murder of Salman Rushdie https://bbc.in/4gTHZha

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:33 PM (mlg/3)

289 Where is my $5,000 bitch?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 21, 2025 01:54 PM (iLqj/)
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Not Jasmine. She's not for sale for less than 5 million.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (1bNHn)

Yet, you try and pry $5K of graft from her hands and watch her squeal like a spurned hooker.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:33 PM (i24o9)

290 LA Mayor Bass fires Fire Chief Kristen Crowley.

She's in full CYA mode, demanding an investigation into why she was allowed to leave the city for Africa right when the worst fire conditions were forming. Maybe she'll team up with OJ.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:33 PM (2VST1)

291 Just reduce the new borrowing every year. Stop digging.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (pIfcn)

some analysts were saying that Janet Yellen was supporting the European central bank via short term borrowing, and circumventing the Fed (jerome Powell's) attempt to raise rates enough to slow borrowing.
And we now have a new Treasury Secretary who probably won't be doing that anymore anytime soon

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:33 PM (D7oie)

292 $5000 put me into two different ammunition; 7.62 NATO and 45ACP with an AR10 and a GI 45 pistol.
.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 21, 2025 02:33 PM (17s+e)

293 *I have no idea if there is a James fucking Polk Pres. Library, it's just an example.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Nope. The oldest one is the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

294 Also, I bet she has never given a blowjob.

What kind of cruelty is that.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 21, 2025 02:34 PM (a5cXI)

295
But here's what I think:

I believe the JFK Pres. Library (not a library, dummies, a museum) was 100% On-The-Dole.

And that's why it shut the fuck down. WE were paying for ALL of it -- a Jobs Program + a Kennedy Family Vanity project. Fuuuuuuuuck You!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 02:34 PM (lUsn1)

296 Shit I saw on Reddit today…

Elon loves X because in ascii X is 88. And 88 means Heil You Know Who.

Elon tweeted 14 flags once. This proves he’s a Nazi because there’s some Nazi saying that has 14 words.

The letter o in the DOGE logo has a US flag with 14 stars. More proof he’s a Nazi.

Sadly I wish I were making this up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 21, 2025 02:34 PM (S/thp)

297
Remember he's been saying forever that we should've gotten Iraq's oil after the war.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (6ydKt)

Yeah, he is a finance guy. Only saps hold paper without any assets to cover default.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:34 PM (D7oie)

298 I have no idea if there is a James fucking Polk Pres. Library, it's just an example.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 02:32 PM

No official library, but there is one in his preserved home and museum:

https://jameskpolk.com/

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 21, 2025 02:35 PM (a3Q+t)

299 I believe the JFK Pres. Library (not a library, dummies, a museum) was 100% On-The-Dole.

And that's why it shut the fuck down. WE were paying for ALL of it -- a Jobs Program + a Kennedy Family Vanity project. Fuuuuuuuuck You!

100%. Museums should be self-funding, not taxpayer grifts.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:35 PM (2ocoG)

300 Keep the money IF it's used to pay shit down and dig out of the hole we're in.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:35 PM (ewjUl)

301
It might be cold enough this winter for a coonskin cap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

This Davy Crockett will warm you up:

https://t.ly/HCVlQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (63Dwl)

302 Crockett, the guy from Meatballs>>>>>>>>>>> Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (qBdHI)

303 I second that we need to make our restrooms bear-friendly and especially make their TP accessible.
Posted by: shit covered rabbit

I hate those effing TP adds with the bears.
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

I was watching a YT video about building an off-grid cabin and learned that wise folks in the woods put their TP in a metal coffee can (are there any anymore?) to protect the rolls from mice, other vermin, and Democrats.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (rj6Yv)

304 So did Ted Sorenson ghost-write all the books in the JFK Library?

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

305 Steve Milloy @JunkScience Feb 20
Why is there only one employee at Yosemite National Park who knows where the restroom keys are and can use them?

"At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms."

That is not a Trump problem. That is a bad park management problem.

washingtonpost.com/climate-e…

Michelle_Benavidez (XX) #AdultHumanFemale @Michelle_B_76 Feb 20
Former Park Ranger here.
All Park Rangers either carry or have access to all keys needed for parks.
Yosemite has more than one Park Ranger. Then there's the manager, office staff, maintenance (who definitely have all of the keys)...
Obstructive Obedience in play.

Ranger McFriendly (not an Anon) @BiblicalRanger 10h
Replying to @Michelle_B_76 @JunkScience
Same. Former Interp Ranger. This story is laughable. We are all issued keys that unlock VC, restrooms, etc. The FB group for current NPS Employees is calling for a massive protest by ticking off the public and going into a massive campaign of anger. It’s crazy.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (/tzYP)

306 294 Also, I bet she has never given a blowjob.

What kind of cruelty is that.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 21, 2025 02:34 PM (a5cXI)

Could be a kindness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (bss/y)

307 And another contender seeks to take the "I am the Law!" title from Judge Sullivan:

The NY judge refuses to dismiss the Adams corruption suit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 21, 2025 02:16 PM (g5EaP)

So, when the trial date comes, and the gov't doesn't send anyone, Adams is summarily acquitted?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
===

Judge Sulliven will also stand in as the prosecutor, duh.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (/lPRQ)

308 I can't imagine what I'd do with $5000 of extra cash (except put it in the bank to pay off my house, I suppose).
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Imma thinking Trump $5k plus my first SS check would go towards a nice used Cadillac. Time to move the Focus.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (pLaQB)

309 $5k would finish my fence.
And score me some ammo.
And have enough left over for ice cream.
Chocolate.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (W/lyH)

310 Jasmine Waffle House Crockett.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (ewjUl)

311 Elon loves X because in ascii X is 88. And 88 means Heil You Know Who.

Anyone who's ever played a piano (88 keys)? Yup, a Nazi. And here we thought Duke Ellington and Count Basie were on the up and up.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2025 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

312 I was watching a YT video about building an off-grid cabin and learned that wise folks in the woods put their TP in a metal coffee can (are there any anymore?) to protect the rolls from mice, other vermin, and Democrats.
Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (rj6Yv)

They make plastic ones at least the same size these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:37 PM (bss/y)

313 some analysts were saying that Janet Yellen was supporting the European central bank via short term borrowing, and circumventing the Fed (jerome Powell's) attempt to raise rates enough to slow borrowing.
And we now have a new Treasury Secretary who probably won't be doing that anymore anytime soon
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:33 PM (D7oie)

Interest rate games no longer matter. The combined Gov debt (State, Local, and Fed) now exceeds the combined Business and Consumer debt.

Only consumer and Business debt is partly controlled by Interest Rates... Gov debt is totally controlled by politics and inertia.

Fed interest rate hikes do nothing but create MORE Gov debt (interest on said debt), which.... oh... raises inflation...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:37 PM (QAkQ3)

314 Justified termination.
A competent locksmith would know that a restroom lock should keep people out, not in.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (/lPRQ)

You lock them in the off season with a deadbolt from the outside to keep vagrants and critters out. Typically, deadbolts should be able to be unlocked from the inside as you point out.

That they locked someone in from the outside without ability to unlock from the inside screams malicious compliance as some have opined and staged stunt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:37 PM (i24o9)

315 I hate those effing TP adds with the bears.
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)
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They are effective to people who have never smelled a bear.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:38 PM (pLaQB)

316 $5000 put me into two different ammunition; 7.62 NATO and 45ACP with an AR10 and a GI 45 pistol.
.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 21, 2025 02:33 PM (17s+e)

Sir, you are singing the song of my people.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:38 PM (rj6Yv)

317 Let's be real. Musk is only talking about this because he wants that sweet, sweet $5K.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:38 PM (BI5O2)

318
In a wreck?
Need a check?

No, that's a different demographic. Surely $5000 wouldn't appeal to them.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 02:38 PM (2yHlw)

319 Why is there only one employee at Yosemite National Park who knows where the restroom keys are and can use them?

"At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms."

That is not a Trump problem. That is a bad park management problem.

In engineer speak, this is called a single point of failure.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (xCA6C)

320
I was watching a YT video about building an off-grid cabin and learned that wise folks in the woods put their TP in a metal coffee can (are there any anymore?) to protect the rolls from mice, other vermin, and Democrats.
Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM

It's what I use in my outhouse at the cabin. I have tons of metal cans. C'mon over I'll give you some! Any rodent proof container will do though.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (ewjUl)

321 315 I hate those effing TP adds with the bears.
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)
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They are effective to people who have never smelled a bear.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:38 PM (pLaQB)

Word.

Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (bss/y)

322 Before we gallantly say we don't want our money back, how about insisting Congress pass a real budget?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (o5+a9)

323 306 294 Also, I bet she has never given a blowjob.

What kind of cruelty is that.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 21, 2025 02:34 PM (a5cXI)

Could be a kindness.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (bss/y)
___________________________

Depends. Does her beaver have a chainsaw?

Posted by: Orson at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)

324 311 Elon loves X because in ascii X is 88. And 88 means Heil You Know Who.

Anyone who's ever played a piano (88 keys)? Yup, a Nazi. And here we thought Duke Ellington and Count Basie were on the up and up.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 21, 2025 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

Liberace! Everything makes sense now!!!

And Elton John...

Wait... sure it's Nazi and not duh Gay?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (QAkQ3)

325 Hey YD, saw your post from the other night. Great news and God bless everyone involved.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (2yHlw)

326 255 I wish Ace would put up a new post because I wanna be FIRST

Just declare you identify as first

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 02:28 PM (t0Rmr)

The First Rule of being FIRST is don't try to be FIRST. You'll only get super-frustrated.

Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (aBgBM)

327 312 I was watching a YT video about building an off-grid cabin and learned that wise folks in the woods put their TP in a metal coffee can (are there any anymore?) to protect the rolls from mice, other vermin, and Democrats.
Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (rj6Yv)

They make plastic ones at least the same size these days.
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Yeah, Folgers red plastic can would work. Chockful o Nuts is still sold in a can.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (pLaQB)

328 Time to move the Focus.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (pLaQB)

Bofus?

Posted by: Just the punchline at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (W/lyH)

329 Don't tease me, you saucy little minx. Just release it.

>>@ResisttheMS
·
>>58m
BREAKING: Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (LkLld)

330 Thanks for linking to a legacy news outlet (Washington Examiner) that requires a paid subscription to read their content.

What a great choice of publishers. The owner of the Examiner also owned Bill Kristol's "Weekly Standard" until it went belly up.

Posted by: Born Free at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (raD1m)

331 305 He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.

-- --

Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you the federal bureaucracy summed up in one sentence.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (6ydKt)

332 322 Before we gallantly say we don't want our money back, how about insisting Congress pass a real budget?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (o5+a9)

========

That fight has started.

Senators were voting on amendments for the Senate version last night.

Trump has backed the House version.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

333 "At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms
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Guys, you're not helping your cause here. Stop drawing attention to this incompetence.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (2yHlw)

334 Holy Schnike McMikey!!

BIG BREAKING VIDEO – President Trump calls out Maine Gov to her FACE over men playing in women’s sports

https://tinyurl.com/373pwuew

In the face!!!
-cop in The Hangover!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (w4nzS)

335 I was watching a YT video about building an off-grid cabin and learned that wise folks in the woods put their TP in a metal coffee can (are there any anymore?) to protect the rolls from mice, other vermin, and Democrats.
Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:36 PM (rj6Yv)

They make plastic ones at least the same size these days.
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Yeah, Folgers red plastic can would work. Chockful o Nuts is still sold in a can.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Trust & believe. Plastic won't keep mice out. Metal paint can will.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (sGNMS)

336 >> Why would it be bad? Long term rates aren't playing ball with Fed rates and a glut of debt might be the reason. It certainly puts upward pressure on the interest rates we're paying.

The Federal Reserve selling its debt actually removes dollars from the system. It’s one of the only mechanisms we have for sucking liquidity out.

A glut of debt puts downward pressure on interest rates. Interest rates have remained sticky because bond markets don’t think inflation is finished. They don’t want to get screwed like they did in 22-23 when rates shot up abruptly and forced huge losses on Treasuries.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (l3YAf)

337 Maybe Elon will bail out Hooters.
He can resurrect the name. Rax

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (ewjUl)

338 Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (2yHlw)

Thanks, buddy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (BI5O2)

339 Mike Johnson doesn't want to send out $5,000 checks because, gosh darn it, we're fiscal conservatives and fiscal responsibility is our brand.

https://tinyurl.com/59v3bu8k

Your "brand" has been about as successful as K-Mart, Mike.

Posted by: Paco at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (mADJX)

340 No, bitch you aren't in the job of just giving out money so you'll be giving it back to those you stole it from.

Posted by: Noni Moose at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (J8ANC)

341 Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (LkLld)

-- --

Now post it on Truth Social.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (6ydKt)

342 The First Rule of being FIRST is don't try to be FIRST. You'll only get super-frustrated.
Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (aBgBM)

The first will come in time. Don't force it.

Just like this gal and sexual satisfaction.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (bss/y)

343 "Look calm down sugar t!ts. We have our only bathroom lock negotiator coming to talk you down and out of the bathroom. Before he mansplains how a deadbolt lock works, I have to ask if you have tried turning the lock's lever? Many times turning the lock's lever will free you from the locked door. Now just try it.... no. the lever looks like a flat piece of metal now what you do is.... Quit yelling at me. I think you are just going to wait for our only bathroom lock negotiator."
Yosemite Sam the Ranger

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (17s+e)

344 I saw Malicious Compliance open for Muse at The Pressure Point in '99.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 02:42 PM (666nr)

345 Don't tease me, you saucy little minx. Just release it.

Exactly, whip em out Pam. Everyone wants to see them. The list of names, that is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:42 PM (2VST1)

346 It's what I use in my outhouse at the cabin. I have tons of metal cans. C'mon over I'll give you some! Any rodent proof container will do though.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Do I have to put the lotion in the basket?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 21, 2025 02:42 PM (mlg/3)

347 BREAKING: Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (LkLld)

Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2025 02:42 PM (ufFY8)

348 Elon tweeted 14 flags once. This proves he’s a Nazi because there’s some Nazi saying that has 14 words.

-
Some frog politician canceled a visit because Bannon made a Nazi gesture.

https://is.gd/AQcj6G

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:42 PM (L/fGl)

349 BREAKING: Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (LkLld)

Ooooooh.

Nice.

Throw this grenade, lady. Do it now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:42 PM (BI5O2)

350 Elon loves X because in ascii X is 88. And 88 means Heil You Know Who

Numerology, do you speak it??

The same kind of people think astrology is real LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (2VST1)

351 Hey YD, saw your post from the other night. Great news and God bless everyone involved.

What's the good news, YD?

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

352 They make plastic ones at least the same size these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:37 PM (bss/y)

I was keeping some fertilizer in a plastic jar in order to keep out moisture. The dang mice chewed it up.

Posted by: Emmie at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (Sf2cq)

353 "So, no, we are not in the business of giving out money."

I'm sorry, but what planet are you on again? Pretty much your most important function as an entity is to give out money. You know, where SPENDING bills are designated Constitutionally to originate?

Yea, yea, the House of Representatives has other functions/purposes, but everything revolves around money to get it done. And don't forget that Constitution thingy.

Good Lord we have a worse State of Idiocracy in our representation than we do in the constituencies.

But Godspeed, Stupid, with your message. You'll cement GOP leadership in place until Darth Barron is ready to take over.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (aXxgO)

354 Today is Fire a Femanzi Friday
-Zombi Rush Limbaugh

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (w4nzS)

355 Yeah, Folgers red plastic can would work. Chockful o Nuts is still sold in a can.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Trust & believe. Plastic won't keep mice out. Metal paint can will.
--------------
First rule of shit paper is that it be dry and absorbent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (pLaQB)

356 322 Before we gallantly say we don't want our money back, how about insisting Congress pass a real budget?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2025 02:39 PM (o5+a9)

Yeah, funny how no one in media is blaming Congress for all the Waste Fraud and abuse, when its CONGRESS that has oversite over spending and the budget.

And has not done an actual real set of spending bills in... shit... not easy to find in a simple search, but decades.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (QAkQ3)

357 I am indifferent to the $5k.
Cutting the living crap out of the gubmint is infinitely more important.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (ufFY8)

358 349 BREAKING: Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (LkLld)

Ooooooh.

Nice.

Throw this grenade, lady. Do it now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:42 PM (BI5O2)

Let Justice be done though the heavens fall.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (bss/y)

359 @201

>>So, when the trial date comes, and the gov't doesn't send anyone, Adams is summarily acquitted?

He'll simply do what Emmet Sullivan did in the Flynn case, he'll hire his own prosecutor.

This is all so stupid and ridiculous.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (XV/Pl)

360 >>>Some frog politician canceled a visit because Bannon made a Nazi gesture.

They give up so easy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (i24o9)

361
And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you

=================

What'll that get you except a pair of earrings?

--Michelle Obama

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (T3es0)

362 I never got the $1,200 COVID money.

We received a check for $2,400. For both myself and my dead wife.

I could not cash it. Probate court would sign it over either. I ended up sending it back, requesting a check for me for $1,200.

At the end of the year, I got a letter saying in effect "Sorry. We couldn't do it in time. You're fucked."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (ZmEVT)

363 I had a mortar shell carrying case with a sling that would hold two bottles of rum, two partial rolls of toilet paper, with just enough extra room for a tube of toothpaste and a toothbrush.

I called it my bug out kit.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (D7oie)

364
Anyone who's ever played a piano (88 keys)? Yup, a Nazi. And here we thought Duke Ellington and Count Basie were on the up and up.
Posted by: Archimedes

Billy Joel. He's a Hitler Piano Man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (63Dwl)

365 So, when the trial date comes, and the gov't doesn't send anyone, Adams is summarily acquitted?
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A Zerohedge story says the judge appointed outside counsel to argue against dropping the case. I still don't understand how it can go forward, though.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (paSBy)

366 Haven't followed that closely but who was responsible for things like the conditions that allowed the fires in the first place or the lack of water in the reservoirs?

Is this just a cheap sacrifice?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:30 PM (LxER7)
********
Yes. Bass cut funds fire chief had requested.
Bass is throwing her under the bus.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (NpAcC)

367 They are effective to people who have never smelled a bear.
--------
Or smelled a rabbit with a friend who is a bear.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (/tzYP)

368 210 205 Watch for Wes Moore current gov of Maryland. Basically similar to Obama in short record and addresses working class black men turning toward MAGA. Risk there is he won't draw Hispanics as they now outnumber blacks population wise.
Posted by: whig at February 21, 2025 02:21 PM (ctrM5)

======

Dude is polling at 2% right now.

Yeah, 3 years is the primary, but 2%, man. Governors tend to be boring in presidential primaries anyway, unable to get any media attention.

Kamala has a better chance, and I think she's going to crash and burn.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

He's a former media personality. Ignore him at your peril, b/c I think I started the 2028 rumor in 2024 for him. It's obvious he was the next deep state candidate (especially b/c he does have something they can hold over him)...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (exHjb)

369 IMHO, I would rather see the money spent to lower the National Debt.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (ZmEVT)

370
Oh, I should have searched on "earrings" first. Should have known some other moron would remember that dis by Michello.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (T3es0)

371 Good Lord we have a worse State of Idiocracy in our representation than we do in the constituencies.

Where fo you think the representation is coming from?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (sGNMS)

372 BREAKING: Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (LkLld)

PULL THE PIN, COUNT TO THREE AND THROW IT PAM!!!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM (D7oie)

373 Damn!
Trump burns the Maine governor.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (W/lyH)

374 I can't think they'd really go there. But if they do, then, wow. Much bigger deal than coverups of sixty year old assassinations.

It would be an absolute shit show. A lot of very powerful men have moved heaven and earth to keep that secret.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (BI5O2)

375 $5K would keep me from having to use my Social Security benefit to pay for fuel for my boat and motorhome.

At least for several months.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (Y1sOo)

376 357 I am indifferent to the $5k.
Cutting the living crap out of the gubmint is infinitely more important.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (ufFY

I will take both, thank you very much, President Trump….

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (yjz94)

377 OT- Can someone help me with something?

My home computer is having problems e my phone is losing juice. Im I'm trying to find something to send to a friend of mine. It's the little video which Ace had on. Cafe thread a few days ago of the turtle pushing the cat out a bed. Can someone please provide the link for that thread or for the actual video you would be so kind. Thanks so much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (XjBRG)

378 Holy Crap non stop breaking news feels like incoming flack at the Battle of Britian
rattattattat

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (w4nzS)

379 Yes. Bass cut funds fire chief had requested.
Bass is throwing her under the bus.
---------------
Even lesbians don't like other lesbians.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (pLaQB)

380 Yes. Bass cut funds fire chief had requested.
Bass is throwing her under the bus.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 02:45 PM

Yep. Xhe's the fall They/them. That sure has a ring to it doesn't it?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (ewjUl)

381 PULL THE PIN, COUNT TO THREE AND THROW IT PAM!!!!!

-

No formalities, just post it online.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (2yHlw)

382 What's the good news, YD?
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

My daughter needed a couple more surgeries, but she's home recovering now

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (BI5O2)

383 Even lesbians don't like other lesbians.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM

Fishy smell Bass.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (ewjUl)

384 $5K? My water heater is on its last legs, so this would be very nice.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (LxER7)

385 @381

>>No formalities, just post it online.

Or as Tucco might opine, shoot, don't talk.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (XV/Pl)

386 There are metal coffee cans. They have plastic lids.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (63Dwl)

387 Why is there only one employee at Yosemite National Park who knows where the restroom keys are and can use them?

There isn't. Multiple former rangers from there say that's completely bullshit, everyone has the keys.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:48 PM (2ocoG)

388 Why is there only one employee at Yosemite National Park who knows where the restroom keys are and can use them?

--------------

Did they check the Iron Mountain underground facility and the empty National Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 02:49 PM (666nr)

389 384 $5K? My water heater is on its last legs, so this would be very nice.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (LxER7)

It is our damn money the DC bastards have pillaged… give it back.

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 02:49 PM (yjz94)

390 The jokes almost write themselves with the Hooters story.

zerohedge
Feb 21, 2025
@zerohedge

*HOOTERS IN TALKS TO PREPARE BANKRUPTCY FILING IN COMING MONTHS

noooo

---
Matthew Murrie
@MattMurrie

sagging sales?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 21, 2025 02:49 PM (6ydKt)

391 I will take both, thank you very much, President Trump….
Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 02:46 PM (yjz94)

Concur.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 02:49 PM (rj6Yv)

392 >390 The jokes almost write themselves with the Hooters story.

zerohedge
Feb 21, 2025
@zerohedge

*HOOTERS IN TALKS TO PREPARE BANKRUPTCY FILING IN COMING MONTHS

noooo

---
Matthew Murrie
@MattMurrie

sagging sales?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 21, 2025 02:49 PM (6ydKt)

Going tits up.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 21, 2025 02:50 PM (GTqXr)

393 349 BREAKING: Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:40 PM (LkLld)
___________________________________

On what might be a somewhat related note, one of Diddy's attorneys is looking to be removed from his defense (expeditiously). Were I to guess, maybe two or three of Diddy's six attorneys represent him directly. The other ones were indirectly involved to assure that their real clients wouldn't be brought out into the sunlight. As things have progressed, those unknown clients are probably now calling them home (aka enticing them with massive $) to represent them directly and to remain in Diddy's defense would be a conflict of interest. So, don't be surprised if something pops on that case soon.

Posted by: Orson at February 21, 2025 02:50 PM (dIske)

394 Orson

Thread winner.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at February 21, 2025 02:50 PM (7DVqy)

395 I am today announcing a blue ribbon, gold plated, diamond encrusted political panel to get to the bottom of why I allowed myself to go to watch another communist lesbian be crowned slaaaay queen of some country when I KNEW it was fire season. We will get to the cause of this outrage that Trump is responsible for!"

Posted by: Commie Karen Bass at February 21, 2025 02:50 PM (17s+e)

396 There are metal coffee cans. They have plastic lids.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2025 02:47 PM (63Dwl)

Old ones, like Maxwell House had metal lids.
But if you like, you can get those metal popcorn gift packs that are big enough for several rolls of TP

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 02:50 PM (D7oie)

397 With Zillow showing all the homes for sale in DC I'm thinking of buying that German Hotel in Argentina I've had my eye on.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:50 PM (w4nzS)

398 Democrats have a way bigger problem than which candidate they are going to run in 2028. Trump isn't just moving the Overton Window, he's picked up the entire building and moved it to the other side of the street.

What exactly are Democrats going to run on? A return to mutilating children, high taxes, another overseas war, a return to open borders and high crime?

The Democrat Party is in free fall right now and their lock on the bureaucracy is going to massively cut into their funding and narrative control. They better figure out what they want to be when they grow up and get busy double plus quick because right now they are popular as explosive diarrhea.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 02:50 PM (LkLld)

399 I love it how there are little children around Musk wherever he is. I know, they couldn't all be his but it's great that families are back in fashion.

Posted by: Decaf at February 21, 2025 02:51 PM (unUNN)

400 352 They make plastic ones at least the same size these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 02:37 PM (bss/y)

I was keeping some fertilizer in a plastic jar in order to keep out moisture. The dang mice chewed it up.

Posted by: Emmie at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (Sf2cq)

had fluorescent bulbs (the long ones) that a mouse chewed through and made a nest inside.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:51 PM (ynpvh)

401 "At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms"
-

Guys, you're not helping your cause here. Stop drawing attention to this incompetence.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (2yHlw)
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How and why do visitors need to be rescued from locked restrooms?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2025 02:51 PM (7fElN)

402
Holy Schnike McMikey!!

BIG BREAKING VIDEO – President Trump calls out Maine Gov to her FACE over men playing in women’s sports

https://tinyurl.com/373pwuew

In the face!!!
-cop in The Hangover!
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it!

===============

WHOA.

"Well, you'd better do it. You'd better comply. I'll see you in court."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 21, 2025 02:51 PM (T3es0)

403 Let Caroline The Hag pay for her daddy's library serfs.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 21, 2025 02:51 PM (wBaIH)

404 @399

>>I love it how there are little children around Musk wherever he is. I know, they couldn't all be his but it's great that families are back in fashion.

He's got something like 11 kids, the dude is prolific.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2025 02:51 PM (XV/Pl)

405 263 I wish Ace would put up a new post because I wanna be FIRST

You'll always be first in our eyes
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:29 PM (2VST1)

Bats not false eyelashes. My husband loves to mock false eyelash girls. I am as bewildered as he is when I see them in airports and random sightings in life.

First of all, I have no idea, as I never wore them, how you get 'em off without ripping out your own eyelashes.

Second, the people who wear the fur caterpillars...how do you see? Do bugs get caught in there?

That said, if I was ever FIRST it was years ago. Sigh.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (RNRl3)

406
Wacky Prediction:

PDT will get involved with saving Hooters.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (lUsn1)

407 My daughter needed a couple more surgeries, but she's home recovering now
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Good for her. Hope she gets well soon.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (77rzZ)

408 355 Yeah, Folgers red plastic can would work. Chockful o Nuts is still sold in a can.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Trust & believe. Plastic won't keep mice out. Metal paint can will.
--------------
First rule of shit paper is that it be dry and absorbent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (pLaQB)

Splinter-free.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)

409 Market is down 2% today.

That Trump!

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (SZbHY)

410 Does that chain saw run on leaded gasoline?

Posted by: Lib mentality at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (+oR7L)

411
My cabin rodent defense is to allow carpenter ants and termites to consume enough of the wooden structure to scare the mice away from nesting there for fear of collapse.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (j4U/Z)

412 > Why is there only one employee at Yosemite National Park who knows where the restroom keys are and can use them?

There isn't. Multiple former rangers from there say that's completely bullshit, everyone has the keys.
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The other stories about long lines, canceled reservations and whatnot at National Parks are also, for the most part, bullshit.

The left is doing what Obama did when he didn't get the budget he wanted on time... closing or making inaccessible popular areas or sights. Whoever is running Interior needs to fire some more people over at NPB.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (Q4IgG)

413 408 355 Yeah, Folgers red plastic can would work. Chockful o Nuts is still sold in a can.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Trust & believe. Plastic won't keep mice out. Metal paint can will.
--------------
First rule of shit paper is that it be dry and absorbent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (pLaQB)

Splinter-free.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)

All of this is Wisdom…

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (yjz94)

414 Musk will buy out Hooters and call it RaX

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (ewjUl)

415 Breaking: There are reports of Democrats disguised as illegal immigrants gathering at the Southern Border in an effort to leave the US.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (w4nzS)

416 I love it how there are little children around Musk wherever he is.

-
He needs those billions. I mean, birthday gifts alone . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (L/fGl)

417 What exactly are Democrats going to run on? A return to mutilating children, high taxes, another overseas war, a return to open borders and high crime?

Also their base demands those things.

Not that picking candidates in spite of what the primary vote was is any great challenge for them.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (2ocoG)

418 A glut of debt puts downward pressure on interest rates.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (l3YAf)

I must be misunderstanding something. There is a finite amount of creditors willing to loan me money at 3%. There are more willing at 4%, and even more willing at 5%.

If I issue so much debt that I exhaust the 3% people, I have to go to the 4% people, and so on. More debt forces the rate up. That was the whole point of QE, to keep that debt off the market and keep it from spiking interest rates.

At least that's how it works in my head. What am I missing?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (pIfcn)

419 360 >>>Some frog politician canceled a visit because Bannon made a Nazi gesture.

They give up so easy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 21, 2025 02:44 PM (i24o9)

It was time for lunch. They had Vichy-ssoise.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

420 First rule of shit paper is that it be dry and absorbent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 02:43 PM (pLaQB)

Splinter-free.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I think they use John Wayne brand at work. Rough, tough and doesn't take any shit.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (y9ksN)

421 412 The left is doing what Obama did when he didn't get the budget he wanted on time... closing or making inaccessible popular areas or sights. Whoever is running Interior needs to fire some more people over at NPB.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (Q4IgG)

=======

The bureaucrats are doing this too early.

If the government does get shut down, they need as many lemmings in place to make the shutdown theater work.

Getting them let go now, including the managers who allow for this kind of stupidity, is going to get new talent in to make things run smoother should the shutdown happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

422 rickb223: "Where fo you think the representation is coming from?"

At this point, I think they're extraplanetary spores.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (aXxgO)

423 The $5,000 is pure political genius. It puts the entire taxpaying, except the democrat fascist, portion of Americans on Trump's side. It also juices the economy because it is much worse than what the government lied that is was to help Biden-Harris. It gives tangible results to average American taxpayers.

Sure I would like to have it all go to pay down the debt but it is about time we use taxpayer money to get republicans elected lie the donks do.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (17s+e)

424 BREAKING: Pam Bondi claims that the Jeffrey Epstein client list is currently on her desk.

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"She's using white-out to redact the names Trump, Musk, Vance, Hegseth, Patel, Kennedy, Gabbard, and Norm! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (666nr)

425

Can someone please provide the link for that thread or for the actual video you would be so kind. Thanks so much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

https://t.ly/sCH42

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)

426 I understand all of the arguments against a check for us all, but shoot man, I could buy some brand-new hearing aids with 5 grand.

Posted by: Poleaux at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (EYRKb)

427
First of all, I have no idea, as I never wore them, how you get 'em off without ripping out your own eyelashes.

Second, the people who wear the fur caterpillars...how do you see? Do bugs get caught in there?

That said, if I was ever FIRST it was years ago. Sigh.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (RNRl3)

Are we married to the same man? My husband elbows me when one of those eyelash people walks by and I have to tell him not to point. He also does it when a plastic surgery faced lady walks by us too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (EYYRe)

428 406
Wacky Prediction:

PDT will get involved with saving Hooters.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 02:52 PM (lUsn1)

I'm thinking Trump is more of a Playboy club kind of guy...
El Heffe's daughter might need the cash?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 02:55 PM (w4nzS)

429 Bondi should release the Epstein files accompanied by the Drowning Pool's "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 02:55 PM (cMcMn)

430 unusual_whales
@unusual_whales

BREAKING: A new coronavirus with the ability to spread to humans similar to the Covid-19 pandemic has been discovered in China, per researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology and Newsweek.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 02:56 PM (NpAcC)

431 NOOD ALERT!!!

ALL HANDS ON DECK!!!

Posted by: Max Power at February 21, 2025 02:56 PM (q177U)

432

Here's the turtle and cat in a mp4 video

https://t.ly/g-FVr

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 21, 2025 02:56 PM (63Dwl)

433 @398

>>What exactly are Democrats going to run on?

Democrats have not been winning on any issues since the early aughts, they have put most of their electoral efforts into jerrymandering and rigging the voting systems of the states they have been able to take control over.

All they have to do is ballot harvest and ballot cure away a couple seat in Cali, Illinois and NY to gain the majority in the house.

And that would be a disaster but that's a scenario we have to plan for.

This idea that the Donks are in the wilderness and won't gain back control is fanciful.

They are going to get back control at some point and it's not going to be pretty as they will more than likely want to do some reciprocal fundamental transformation.

We might be heading to a time of a spoils system type of governance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 21, 2025 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)

434 I'm thinking of all the people who are the most antiTrump.

Maybe that walrus Bolton went to Epstein Island?

Or Millie? The asshole generals who betrayed him in Trump One?

Who is leaving the country pronto today, or the day when Cash Patel got through? I hope there are bipolar bisexual dwarfs manning the ATC for those planes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 02:57 PM (RNRl3)

435 430 unusual_whales
@unusual_whales

BREAKING: A new coronavirus with the ability to spread to humans similar to the Covid-19 pandemic has been discovered in China, per researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology and Newsweek.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 02:56 PM (NpAcC)

This shit will only work for Leftists now…

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 02:57 PM (yjz94)

436 The left is doing what Obama did when he didn't get the budget he wanted on time... closing or making inaccessible popular areas or sights. Whoever is running Interior needs to fire some more people over at NPB.

Remember how DOGE got USAID on their radar? They waited to see who misbehaved the most and went there.

These Interior people are reenacting that and don't realize it.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 21, 2025 02:57 PM (2ocoG)

437 Are we married to the same man?
Posted by: CaliGirl

Uh oh. CaliGirl-ChristyBlinky catfight over the husband.

Time to call my bookie.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

438 Musk will buy out Hooters and call it RaX

Will he make the food edible?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 21, 2025 02:58 PM (/y8xj)

439 Interesting. Pfizer had a new Wuhan Flu vaccine they wanted to use in India, and the Indian government told them that they had to allow the government to do an independent investigation into the safety of the shot. Pfizer decided they'd rather withdraw from India and skip 1.3 billion potential customers than submit to a review.

https://tinyurl.com/4ucrekzp

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 02:58 PM (2VST1)

440 Ah yes the covid 'rebates or whatever' I think I got some percent of it on the first round. If your income was above some cutoff your payout got ramped down. And I think there was a second check, and I got zilch on that one.

Not that it mattered to me. If DC was capable of intelligence they should have limited that covid moolah to businesses they forced to shut down. Their employees were getting extra generous unemployment insurance so only the owners really needed some help.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 21, 2025 02:59 PM (CKOCg)

441
pence is not only a cuck and a pedo and an agent for china, he's a shill for Big War, too:

https://is.gd/qD8UUG

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 02:59 PM (lUsn1)

442 Nothing to argue about. If you don't want the money then send it back to the government. Simple.

Posted by: Case at February 21, 2025 02:59 PM (xcRXq)

443 Buy some long term food storage. The #10 cans are metal.. Get freeze dried veggies or something else you'd use right away.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 21, 2025 02:59 PM (o5+a9)

444 The executive director of the primary governing body for high school sports in the state of Maine said athletic teams will continue to determine eligibility based on a student's stated gender identity, despite the president's executive order seeking to keep "men out of women's sports."
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Democrats are going to the mattresses to protect a mans right to beat up women.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 03:00 PM (SZbHY)

445 Musk will buy out Hooters and call it RaX

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2025 02:53 PM (ewjUl)

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Still waiting for him to found and well-endow the Texas Institute of Technology & Science (TITS).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 03:00 PM (mJoZW)

446 Noodles

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 21, 2025 03:01 PM (w4nzS)

447 Just watched Donny Two Scoops deliver the beat down on the Maine Gov. LOL and well done, Sir.

Posted by: mrp at February 21, 2025 03:01 PM (rj6Yv)

448 Democrats are going to the mattresses to protect a mans right to beat up women.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 03:00 PM (SZbHY)

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"To the depths of hell!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight AND Dharma at February 21, 2025 03:03 PM (mJoZW)

449 It may not be a good idea practically for all of the reasons that Ace and the horde have mentioned however, I believe that it is a good idea as an article of faith to tax payers to say "Yes, you have all been getting screwed royally so here's a little some of it back as we take a chainsaw to the rest for the next four years"." Call it a public relations op in cold hard cash.

Posted by: Cheri at February 21, 2025 03:03 PM (oiNtH)

450 Will he make the food edible?

Lets just say nobody orders Hooters food delivered.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 21, 2025 03:07 PM (2VST1)

451 https://tiny.cc/#

buys this car ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at February 21, 2025 03:13 PM (DBAaD)

452 http://tiny.cc/s7wa001

buys this

Posted by: The Dark Lord at February 21, 2025 03:14 PM (DBAaD)

453 Are we married to the same man? My husband elbows me when one of those eyelash people walks by and I have to tell him not to point. He also does it when a plastic surgery faced lady walks by us too.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 21, 2025 02:54 PM (EYYRe)

Could be!

This week in an airport he was behind a blond tranny with extensions. First he commented on the narrow hips. I commented (we were being quiet, we think) that I wish I had those hips and he said, nope, no like. Then we discovered he was behind a real life tranny and I took photos of the extensions and hips and texted a few people.

This, right here, is why chy na is wasting their time spying on us.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 21, 2025 03:27 PM (RNRl3)

454 . . So, no, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you."

Of course she has no idea what $5,000 would do for the average household. Everyone in D.C. is completely out of touch with the average American. Because everyone in D.C. is getting corruption money through taxpayer handouts or being bought off by Big Pharma or making millions through insider trading, etc.

She's a representative? So, a congresswoman? Then why doesn't she make a trip back to the district she represents, hold a town hall and ask for people to provide examples of how $5,000 will help them.

There should be a thread on X for this.

$5,000 is 3+ months of $1,500/mo rent/mortgage payments.
$5,000 is 10 months of $500/mo car payments
$5,000 is 10 months of $500/mo grocery bill

And on and on.

I bet it would do a lot for those suffering from Hurricane damage in North Carolina or fire damage in L.A.

These fucking politicians. Treating $5k as if it's chump change to the average person.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 21, 2025 03:37 PM (P5BPp)

455 They should have removed sprocket on that chainsaw and fired it up. Musk making chainsaw sounds was a little impotent like Democrats.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at February 21, 2025 03:58 PM (8nX01)

456 I don't think it was Red Dawn the DU poster was thinking of, I think it was the miniseries Amerika with Chris Chirstopherson

Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2025 04:18 PM (D7oie)

457 I sure hope this pathetic little excuse for a Human is Not Related to to Davey Crockett. KING OF THE WILD FRONTEER

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 21, 2025 04:32 PM (wGqjj)

458 save it for Q2

cutting off an annualized $1T of federal spending in a $30T economy is likely to cause a brief recession before manufacturing roars back under the tariffs

Posted by: TallDave at February 21, 2025 04:40 PM (98TtQ)

459 Hooters goes Bust!
Filing bankruptcy...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 21, 2025 05:18 PM (TGPs7)

460 Yeah, she's detestable.

But no, she's not on Trump's payroll.

The Constitution itself says Congresscritters wil be "entitled to compensation for their services".

The POTUS can't interfere with those payments to the members of a co-equal branch of the government.

(but maybe he could take away her permit to park on the Capitol grounds?)

Posted by: Noam Sayen at February 21, 2025 05:32 PM (WnvM6)

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