Unbelievably, Joe Biden Spent Millions on an EPA Museum to Propandize to People How Much the EPA Has Done for Them

Thankfully, it did little propagandizing because who on earth would go to the "EPA Museum."

These people demented space aliens. They have no conception of how actual humans think.

Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy.

I used to laugh at conspiracy theories about "the Reptilians."

Now I want to know more.

EPA Museum -- Yes, One Actually Existed -- Shuttered After Zeldin Calls Out Massive Funding, Lack of Visitors

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Administrator Lee Zeldin, has decided to close the National Environmental Museum and Education Center, a project launched during the Biden administration, Fox News reports.
Despite its mission to "highlight environmental achievements," the museum struggled to attract visitors leaving taxpayers with a hefty bill for a largely empty space. Even with free admission, relatively no one could find any desire to walk through the doors. Although the lack of visitors is likely not surprising anyone, the money being poured into the museum just might.
The museum, located at the EPA headquarters near the White House, opened in May 2024 with the goal of celebrating America's environmental progress. Former EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan envisioned it as a space to honor bipartisan efforts to protect public health and the environment. However, the museum saw fewer than 2,000 visitors in its first nine months, which some may call pathetic.
Taxpayers had invested $4 million to bring the museum up to Smithsonian standards, with an additional $600,000 per year required for upkeep. That worked out to about $315 per visitor--a price tag that Zeldin and his team argue cannot be justified.
According to Zeldin's EPA, the museum leaned heavily on themes like "environmental justice" and climate change, which critics argued felt more like partisan messaging than an inclusive celebration of environmental progress.

"Environomental justice" is just another gayop propaganda word for "using environmental funding and arguments to move money to Democrats' minority grifter NGOs."

Maintenance expenses included everything from artifact storage and landscaping to security and audiovisual upkeep.

Artifacts?

Like halogen-filled display cases showing EPA regulations?

Pro-Tip: If nothing in your museum is worth Nick Cage's time to steal it, it's not a real museum.

According to Fox News, "a breakdown of estimated annual costs to operate the museum, which was provided to Fox Digital, shows taxpayers were expected to foot the bill for an estimated: $123,766.29 in annual cleaning and landscaping costs, $37,899 for audio and visual maintenance, $54,292.99 in annual 'artifact storage' costs, $8,900 for 'Magnetometer maintenance,' $46,000 for X-ray maintenance, an estimated $123,000 in utility costs, and $207,326 in annual costs to fund two security guards for the museum during operating hours. The total annual operating costs totaled just more than $600,000."

X-ray machines and magnetometers are expensive security apparatuses. So they're spending millions to protect a fake museum from all its literal ones of visitors.

More spending on "artifact storage." Now, I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but I just googled it and it turns out that the $52,292.99 spent on "artifact storage" just happens to be what it costs for a large incubator for Reptilian Eggs.

Coincidence?

Serious, and possibly controversial question:

Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

Posted by: Ace at 12:22 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at April 04, 2025 12:22 PM (aQ25I)

2 Mornin' Ace

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:23 PM (AVXxY)

3 I AM SPARTACUS!!

Posted by: Cory Booker, Herculean Orator at April 04, 2025 12:23 PM (PiwSw)

4 More spending on "artifact storage." Now, I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but I just googled it and it turns out that the $52,292.99 spent on "artifact storage" just happens to be what it costs for a large incubator for Reptilian Eggs.

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It's the cost of keeping the Ark of the Covenant under control plus a 10% markup.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

5 >>> who on earth would go to the "EPA Museum."

No one. They knew that. It was just another money laundering scheme. I wonder who landed high paying jobs designing, environmental impact studying, building, curating, maintaining, etc. this museum no one ever went to?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (uCjyK)

6 .... Obama was hateful and conniving.. Biden was brain dead... Tough choice

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (VE6XX)

7 I wonder if the TSA has a museum?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (rBvG3)

8 EPA museum should have samples of spooge under glass to observe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)

9 Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy.
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Real humans never even think up the concept of a Museum of Bureaucracy, except possibly as a "never again" kind of thing in the aftermath.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (WkNQM)

10 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
TGIF
You couldn't shock me about any money the Sundowner administration ghrew at Leftists

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (H9MgO)

11 With a $37T debt, I think the time of vanity museums is past.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (L5An7)

12 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

It's a trick question. The Biden presidency was the 3rd Obama term.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (xCA6C)

13 Biden might not be the worst president ever, but he was definitely the worst "president" ever.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (EynyL)

14 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

The decrepit Obiden Era

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (rj6Yv)

15 Taxpayers had invested $4 million to bring the museum up to Smithsonian standards, with an additional $600,000 per year required for upkeep. That worked out to about $315 per visitor--a price tag that Zeldin and his team argue cannot be justified.
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BZZZZT

No. Wrong, Try again.

"Taxpayers" do not "invest" in *anything.* The state uses taxpayer money to subsidize things. That is it. Full stop.

This was not an "investment," it was a subsidy for a pet project.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (WkNQM)

16 We may argue about who was the worst president, but there is still consensus about our best.

William Henry Harrison.

He did the least damage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

17 With a $37T debt, I think the time of vanity museums is past.

The devil you say!

Posted by: The Newseum at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (xCA6C)

18 Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy.

Sounds like something out of the USSR

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 12:26 PM (t0Rmr)

19 Should have learned more from their political forebears and called ot the
"Museum of Industry"
and shuttled bus loads of school kids through.
Hot humid dirty and stank, learn how industry destroys everything around you....

Nazis would have Jewish art exhibits and make the gallery as unpleasant as possible so you walk away pissed.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 04, 2025 12:26 PM (j8+bv)

20 The Postal Museum in DC is pretty cool. HUGE freakin' statue of Ben Franklin.

Also, the Building Museum.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

21 >>>$207,326 in annual costs to fund two security guards for the museum during operating hours

$103,000 in salary and benefits per security guard.

Not a bad gig for sitting around doing nothing all day.

Has anyone looked in to who these security guards are?

And more importantly, has anyone looked in to whether this was direct government hire, or if there was a "private sector partnership" here wherein someone got $207k to hire security guards, buy paid some nitwits $20 an hour to sit around and do nothing and pocketed the difference?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:26 PM (uCjyK)

22 '$52,292.99 spent on "artifact storage" just happens to be what it costs for a large incubator for Reptilian Eggs.'

Well they were storing them until the next Jurassic Park movie comes out, Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Democracy World Order

Posted by: Scott_T at April 04, 2025 12:26 PM (2waQ7)

23 1 purple fish corpse in formaldehyde on a table in the lobby with a coffee can for donations would've done the job.

Posted by: DaveA at April 04, 2025 12:27 PM (PMJuY)

24 Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy.

Sounds like something out of the USSR

Is museum of tractors and evenink-vare. Very nice!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:27 PM (xCA6C)

25 "Environmental justice" is just another gayop propaganda word for "using environmental funding and arguments to move money to Democrats' minority grifter NGOs."
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Mannix's Iron Law of "Justice" Definitions:
When used with a modifier of any kind, the word "justice" takes on a meaning antithetical to its dictionary definition

"Environmental Justice:" injustice
"Social Justice:" injustice
"Economic Justice:" injustice

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:27 PM (WkNQM)

26 >>>Taxpayers had invested $4 million

That's a weird way of saying "Taxpayers had $4 million stolen from them."

Posted by: Dr. T at April 04, 2025 12:27 PM (EynyL)

27 In a former time 4 Million would buy you some pretty nice architecture.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:28 PM (AVXxY)

28 It's the reptilians then?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 12:28 PM (rBvG3)

29 26 >>>Taxpayers had invested $4 million

That's a weird way of saying "Taxpayers had $4 million stolen from them."

Yeah, I recently got "invested" when I was in a bad part of town.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:28 PM (xCA6C)

30 Pretty soon you’re going to need a museum for the stock market. People are dumping everything across the board. Makes no sense.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 04, 2025 12:28 PM (AzZuB)

31 Artifacts?

Like halogen-filled display cases showing EPA regulations?
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Nah. Having never been there and having never seen a description of exhibits, I will bet that all of the following artifacts are present:
1. A catalytic converter
2. A solar panel
3. A windmill blade
4. A cross-section of a smokestack effluent scrubber

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:28 PM (WkNQM)

32 Why do you h8te the Earf?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (RIvkX)

33 Does it have an Orange River exhibit?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (L/fGl)

34 The EPA belongs *in* a museum. Preferably in the vast catacombs of archives underneath the actual museum.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (7fElN)

35 It's the reptilians then?

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: The Andromeda Strain at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (xCA6C)

36 >> 1 purple fish corpse in formaldehyde on a table in the lobby with a coffee can for donations would've done the job.

I know and used to guide the Ichthyologist at the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Their 'Jar' Collection was amazing.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (AVXxY)

37 i have long thought that obama was lazy and mostly wanted the perks and the adoration, but he knew what was going on. biden wasn't very bright to start with and most of his years as president he probably only had the faintest idea of what was going on.

worst president? maybe but hardly his fault.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (CWTWj)

38 $54,292.99 in annual 'artifact storage' costs,
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That seems high

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (WkNQM)

39
"Serious, and possibly controversial question:"

Shirley you can't be serious.

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (j4U/Z)

40 30 Pretty soon you’re going to need a museum for the stock market. People are dumping everything across the board. Makes no sense.
Posted by: Vengeance at April 04, 2025 12:28 PM (AzZuB)

Foreign companies and governments and rushing to liquidate their US Dollars that have been inflating our stock market (along with fed inflation dollars) to absurd extents in fear that they'll have to pay tariffs.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (uCjyK)

41 30 Pretty soon you’re going to need a museum for the stock market. People are dumping everything across the board. Makes no sense.
Posted by: Vengeance at April 04, 2025 12:28 PM (AzZuB)

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"The market is overvalued. It needs to lose at least 10%."
-just...so many people last year

"OMG...the market is falling!"
-just...so many people this year

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

42 Maybe add a picture book of all their poison spilling screw-ups sorted by miles of deadened waterway.

Posted by: DaveA at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (PMJuY)

43 X-ray machines and magnetometers are expensive security apparatuses. So they're spending millions to protect a fake museum from all its literal ones of visitors.
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This is what happens when crime is legal in your nation's capital.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (WkNQM)

44 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?
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They're the same picture

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (YVzIj)

45 Reminds me of that stupid Newseum.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (PzXaK)

46 >>>EPA Museum -- Yes, One Actually Existed -- Shuttered After Zeldin Calls Out Massive Funding, Lack of Visitors

This is hilarious. Fall of the Republic type stuff you usually read about after the fall.

Hopefully they still maintain the interactive shitting in the hallways exhibit.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (i24o9)

47 Shouldn't the EPA Museum should a have 'That Time we Shit in the Hallway' installation.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (AVXxY)

48 37 i have long thought that obama was lazy and mostly wanted the perks and the adoration, but he knew what was going on. biden wasn't very bright to start with and most of his years as president he probably only had the faintest idea of what was going on.

worst president? maybe but hardly his fault.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 04, 2025 12:29 PM (CWTWj)

Yeah, it's hard to blame Biden for anything, since he clearly was a demented puppet.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)

49 Couldn't we have had a Museum of Shitty Art instead featuring Hunter's works?

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (he7fo)

50 I particularly liked the Hallway Shitting Wing

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (YVzIj)

51 As if Big Penguin wasn't bad enough, now we got Big Panda hassling us.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (VoAdT)

52 Serious, and possibly controversial question:

Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

Posted by: Ace at 12:22 PM

No. Obama is still the worst president in my lifetime, because it was his actions that allowed all of this to happen under Biden's 'residency'. Besides, Obama was running this WH all that time anyway.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (pLpVh)

53 about our best.

Silent Cal.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (0E9/T)

54 They're the same picture

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (YVzIj)

Nicely played.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (i24o9)

55 Security guards for a museum no one goes to. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (paSBy)

56 Remember when Obola visited and everyone ignored Xhoa Beijing and rant to him?

Yeah, the last four years was Obola’s diseased 3rd term.

Obola has long been the disease of the body politic. He just went into the gangrenous phase for the last four years.

Posted by: The MewTwix at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (l5yVc)

57 Greta Thunberg and her motley crew of dopes who glue themselves to things and throw paint probably bought year 'round passes to it. Now, they're sadz.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (qBdHI)

58 Burn it down?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (ftD+B)

59 re 31: a picture of biden pretending to drive an electric vehicle

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (CWTWj)

60 This sounds familiar. In theme, I mean. A stupid, poorly-conceived, expensive museum no real person would ever come up with, built for the purpose of self-glorification of a self-anointed elite community.

Where have I heard that before?

Oh yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newseum

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (WkNQM)

61 "These people demented space aliens. They have no conception of how actual humans think. Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy."

Two quick responses:

1. The "museum" was not designed to attract visitors or generate profits or function as any kind of rational business. It was designed to funnel money to Democrap constituencies and donors. I'll bet any amount of money they spent 10x building this as they should have. Where do you think the money went?

2. There are absolutely braindead leftwing NPC drones who would love to see an EPA museum and bask in the glory of leadened bureaucracy. I'll bet it gets more visitors a year than The Mannix House of Busty Babes.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

62 I want to see the chooped up eagles from windmills exhibit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (Mrl86)

63 Yeah, it's hard to blame Biden for anything, since he clearly was a demented puppet.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)

He's a barely breathing metonym for the Clown State itself.

Fuck 'im.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (VoAdT)

64 i wonder if they encased the hallway poop from colorado as one of their major achievements...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (v6XNT)

65 I particularly liked the Hallway Shitting Wing

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (YVzIj)

You have to be quick around here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:32 PM (i24o9)

66
In the bad Preznit sweepstakes, Wilson, FDR, and LBJ are still far ahead in young Americans killed and totalitarian governance implemented.

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 12:32 PM (j4U/Z)

67 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

Biden personally barely knew he was the president half the time. The many factions issuing orders on his behalf are in the running for worse than Obama, but one of the factions was Kalorama itself.

Hence the Big Mike Boob Belt Museum.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 12:32 PM (2ocoG)

68 Serious, and possibly controversial question:

Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

I don't believe Biden eclipsed Obama because I believe that Obama was pulling all of Biden's strings. Biden's presidency was Obama's third term. IMHO.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 12:32 PM (bDt0k)

69 The "Biden Presidency" (such that it was) was just the sloppy seconds of the Obama years, but replace someone who was at least able to speak coherently and lie convincingly with a shambling husk who couldn't even sign his own legal documents.

So yeah, worse.

Posted by: ballistic at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (/dH/9)

70 >>I particularly liked the Hallway Shitting Wing

It's conveniently on the way to the 'That Time we Poisoned an Entire River System in Colorado' display.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (AVXxY)

71 This whole thing sounds like satire. The stupid level is eleventy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (PMtkd)

72 I want to see the chooped up eagles from windmills exhibit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (Mrl86)

What about the the Gold King Mine waste water tasting room?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (i24o9)

73 My major gripe is we never learn of the details behind the initiation of nonsense, personal projects like this. And, it was a personal project. Some advisor or Democrat fundraiser somewhere made this happen. Biden hadn't faintest idea the concept even existed. You could ask him right now about the EPA Museum and he'd stare blankly right back at you.

So, who initiated the project? How did they legally appropriate the money to do so? Were the proper legal steps taken to assure compliance with the law? And, what other projects has this person worked on in the last decade?

This..."Oh my God...look what else they did" approach sucks. We need to start putting "Scarlet Letters" on foreheads.

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (dIske)

74 Security guards for a museum no one goes to. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Security guard at a museum has to be the most boring, soul-crushing job ever created. 8 hours of standing around thinking about how much you want to sit down. I'll bet they all hate the patrons after a couple of days on the job.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (xCA6C)

75 I would like to see the Delta Smelt canning museum.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (/U5Yz)

76 I don't believe Biden eclipsed Obama because I believe that Obama was pulling all of Biden's strings. Biden's presidency was Obama's third term. IMHO.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 12:32 PM (bDt0k)
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I strongly suspect that in terms of effective policy (though perhaps not so much in the realm of Party strategy - I'm not sure), Obama was also pretty much a puppet. ValJar had to grab him by the lapels and order him to take out Bin Laden.

It was largely the same politburo in both cases, and they did a worse job when they took their second bite off the apple.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (WkNQM)

77 71 This whole thing sounds like satire. The stupid level is eleventy.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (PMtkd)

It's not stupidity, it's thievery.

Let's not forget that.

I guarantee you a lot of well connected people made a lot of money skimming off our tax dollars to build a museum everyone knew no one would go.

And they laughed at the taxpayers and mocked the rubes as they cashed the check and moved on to the next scam.

This is how DC operates.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (uCjyK)

78 Trump and Zeldin are ruining everything. Biden's pickled corpse was slated to go on permanent display at the museum when his last synapse fizzles. Why should Red Square get all the love?

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (G5+As)

79 EPA--Evil Pricks Anonymous. Great title for most ANY government entity.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (hKoQL)

80 On Laura ,Zeldin gave a "tour" of the place....Comical.... Looked like an exhibition from grammar school and the place was tiny...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (VE6XX)

81 Do they have a wing dedicated to Flint, MI?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (PMtkd)

82 We need to start putting "Scarlet Letters" on foreheads.
Posted by: Orson

You misspelled “branding”

Posted by: Kratwurst at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (nIRE6)

83 Obama was hateful and conniving.. Biden was brain dead... Tough choice

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:24 PM (VE6XX)

But Obama *gave* us Biden. Advantage: Obama!

Posted by: pookysgirl hates them both at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (Wt5PA)

84 "These people demented space aliens. They have no conception of how actual humans think. Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy."

I use a similar line when dealing with libtards. I literally say "what fucking planet are you from?" when talking to them.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (bDt0k)

85 The Newseum is an easy joke here, but if it was an actual museum of journalism instead of a self-congratulatory shrine it could've been worthwhile.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 12:35 PM (2ocoG)

86 Where I lived in Moscow the subway stop was named for the Museum of the People's Economic Achievements. вднх

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 12:35 PM (RIvkX)

87 How many years have I been ranting that every single government policy in America, from the top all the way to local town councils, seem to be run by insane people?

Many.

This story is a perfect example.

Fucking psychopaths with their hands in the till and our pockets.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2025 12:35 PM (ykXc8)

88 "And here in the prestigious William Ruckelshaus wing we have on display Christine Todd Whitman's old bathrobe."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:35 PM (PzXaK)

89 Joe Biden Spent Millions on an EPA Museum to Propandize to People How Much the EPA Has Done for Them

and..... GRAFT. It did a great job at moving tens of millions to democrat elitists... SO MISSION SUCCESSFUL!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:35 PM (17s+e)

90 It's not stupidity, it's thievery.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (uCjyK)

That's why you have to laugh, because, if not, other options would become palatable.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (i24o9)

91
But Obama *gave* us Biden. Advantage: Obama!
Posted by: pookysgirl hates them both at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (Wt5PA)

But he didn't want to.. In the debates he was backing Kamala.. Of course that's before she really opened her mouth ...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (VE6XX)

92 Actually, that much for "artifact storage" does make sense. The sanitation protocols around the human feces collected from the Denver field office are probably pretty robust.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (WkNQM)

93 Would be mistake not to put in appearance at EPA Museum of Wonderment and Glory, comrade.

Like good friend, we'll look for you.

Posted by: Morale Officer at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (zUe/H)

94 57 Greta Thunberg and her motley crew of dopes who glue themselves to things and throw paint probably bought year 'round passes to it. Now, they're sadz.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Buying passes to a free museum with money from a government funded NGO would be the kind of thing smart people do.

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (j4U/Z)

95 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

Posted by: Xander Crews at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (rEmVK)

96 The EPA museum's book store has one book you can buy: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (Q4IgG)

97 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

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Trick question, Obama was president during the Biden administration.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (Ayxxp)

98 Yeah, it's hard to blame Biden for anything, since he clearly was a demented puppet.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)
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Yes and no. While clearly he was too far gone for any rational thought on any issue other than which ice cream flavor or which girl to sniff. But he still clearly was just as arrogant, egotistical, and vain as he always was, and still very thirsty for power and authority. You could see it whenever he was even remotely challenged. So while he wasn't involved in policy details, he was almost certainly involved at the big-picture level, trying to ensure his legacy.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (iFTx/)

99 $600,000 per year required for upkeep.

Sounds like there is an Admiral of Janitorial Services who heads a large staff.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (CvZqk)

100 But he didn't want to.. In the debates he was backing Kamala.. Of course that's before she really opened her mouth ...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (VE6XX

Oh, she'd opened her mouth by then.

Posted by: Willie Brown at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (zUe/H)

101 Has Biden eclipsed Oblabla as our worst president? Angry and confused grandpa is just Obozo's hand puppet, so no need to debate.

The good thing about Oblabla is no more black/Muslim/ghey Presidents. The retort will always be: "We had one once, and he sucked."

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (wBaIH)

102 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

Posted by: Xander Crews

*dons asbestos underwear*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

103 3 I AM SPARTACUS!!
Posted by: Cory Booker, Herculean Orator at April 04, 2025 12:23 PM (PiwS

I knew Spartacus and you're no Spartacus
-Zombie Ruth Ginsberg

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (HN1FN)

104 But Obama *gave* us Biden. Advantage: Obama!
Posted by: pookysgirl hates them both at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (Wt5PA)
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Counter point, Biden gave us Kumallah.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (17s+e)

105 But he didn't want to.. In the debates he was backing Kamala.. Of course that's before she really opened her mouth ...
Posted by: It's me donna

Oh no, it was long after then.

- willie B

Posted by: Kratwurst at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (uYYhf)

106 Ace is just jealous.

He wants access to those banks of moving shelving that these collections get.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (AVXxY)

107 95 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.
Posted by: Xander Crews at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (rEmVK)

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OFFS. STFU.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (PMtkd)

108 I strongly suspect that in terms of effective policy (though perhaps not so much in the realm of Party strategy - I'm not sure), Obama was also pretty much a puppet. ValJar had to grab him by the lapels and order him to take out Bin Laden.

It was largely the same politburo in both cases, and they did a worse job when they took their second bite off the apple.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:34 PM (WkNQM)

I agree. I don't think Obama was any more in control when he was president than Biden is.

Just like how the government under Trump "resisted" him at every step.

The Deep State does what they do regardless of who is President. The more vain and stupid the President, the better. He'll ask fewer questions and is easier to control/ district.

"Here you go, President Biden. Here's some ice cream. Want to go on a helicopter ride to Camp David? Won't that be lovely? Yes, yes, we'll invite Hunter."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (uCjyK)

109 102 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

Posted by: Xander Crews

*dons asbestos underwear*
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

Hides under desk...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

110 "And if you'll follow me, and please be careful not to step on the Rachel Corrie Memorial Doormat..."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (PzXaK)

111 This..."Oh my God...look what else they did" approach sucks. We need to start putting "Scarlet Letters" on foreheads.
Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 12:33 PM (dIske)

we can haz tar and feathers?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (v6XNT)

112 Thankfully, it did little propagandizing because who on earth would go to the "EPA Museum."

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Imma gonna go out on a limb and guess it was nothing but yet another Grifting Swamp Cut-Out.

Follow the money ...

I saw Grifting Swamp Cut-Out open for Magic Sword at The Bayou Boogaloo in 2015.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (he7fo)

113 The Catalytic Converter wing must be exceptionally large.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (/U5Yz)

114 The Newseum is an easy joke here, but if it was an actual museum of journalism instead of a self-congratulatory shrine it could've been worthwhile.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 12:35 PM (2ocoG)
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If my aunt had wheels she'd be a motorbike.

Journalists are completely incapable of doing what you describe, on account of huffing their own farts.

Posted by: ballistic at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (/dH/9)

115 Has a federal judge ordered it reopened yet?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (2UnvF)

116 $207 K for 2 security guards?

Damn good pay for rent a cops.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (QAkQ3)

117 I’ve argued that many corporate multiples are way overvalued, and that’s true. Same for some of these companies that don’t seem to produce anything. But this is growing into a full blown panic like I’ve never seen. It doesn’t feel like a correction because there aren’t a lot of places to go. It’s probably necessary and a byproduct of the profligate way our country has been living. But people need to be a little sober about the retail investors who weren’t savvy enough to see this coming. You know, those same people Trump attracted with his touting of how well their 401ks were doing. Will it bounce back? I don’t think anyone knows the answer. I personally believe it will transition provided we are able to attract enough companies to build domestic production. But that ain’t happening overnight.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (AW6h8)

118 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

--

I wouldn't even say that from a VPN.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (PzXaK)

119 Biden was really Obama's third term.

Posted by: acethepug at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (PXBPj)

120 >>With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

Nobody is stopping you from lighting yourself or your hair on fire.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (AVXxY)

121 Man FedGov is just one big ass money laundering grift

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (HYKHz)

122 The only bureaucratic museum that I can think of that I'd find interesting would be the NTSB Crash Museum. It'd have to have an airplane crash simulator from the point of view of the passengers to be really worth it, though.

Posted by: pookysgirl would visit that at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (Wt5PA)

123 ... and $207,326 in annual costs to fund two security guards for the museum during operating hours. The total annual operating costs totaled just more than $600,000."

So that works out to 103,500 per security guard.
No doubt those two guys would be surprised to find out they were worth that much.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (FCbAQ)

124 113 The Catalytic Converter wing must be exceptionally large.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (/U5Yz)

Yeah, its the reason they need the 2 security guards... Cat Converters kept disappearing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (QAkQ3)

125 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.
Posted by: Xander Crews at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (rEmVK)

I believe the correct response is "Hot Air is that way ->".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (2ocoG)

126 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

Posted by: Xander Crews

*dons asbestos underwear*
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

Hides under desk...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

*fondles self*

Wait, what are we doing here?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (i24o9)

127 95 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.
Posted by: Xander Crews at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (rEmVK)
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Or the blowout jobs report at 2X estimates.... soon to be revised UPWARDS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (17s+e)

128 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

Posted by: Xander Crews

*dons asbestos underwear*
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

Hides under desk...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)
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Tariffs were 50% of the comments on the last thread. I'm pretty sure everyone here knows everyone's thoughts on them. I doubt ace's are materially different.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

129 We need to keep a dictionary of Ace’s new words. I think I’ll add gayop to my vocabulary. There were great new colorful metaphors with any article dealing with Fani Willis.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (Ayxxp)

130 "And if you'll follow me, and please be careful not to step on the Rachel Corrie Memorial Doormat..."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (PzXaK)

Please tell me they have that in the breakfast nook...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (v6XNT)

131 Franpsycho, Leningrad had an even better one. The Museum of Religion and Atheism (housed in a "non-working" Orthodox church, natch). We all wondered what the "atheism" exhibits and artifacts might be, but don't think anybody actually wasted time going there. I assume that church has been returned to "working" status, but I haven't checked. Think it was way down Nevskiy Prospekt.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (1m82a)

132 115 Has a federal judge ordered it reopened yet?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (2UnvF)

Soon... I see a "judge" has ruled Trump must put the 11 billion "covid relief fund" money back so...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (VE6XX)

133

They chopped up all the birds and put them in the EPA museum.

They charged the people a dollar and a half to see 'em.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (63Dwl)

134 I believe the correct response is "Hot Air is that way ->".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (2ocoG)

"You must be new here" is also acceptable.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (i24o9)

135 >> But this is growing into a full blown panic like I’ve never seen

If there's still toilet paper on the shelves...

If it's not raining Traders on Wall Street...

it's nowhere near the levels we have previously seen.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (AVXxY)

136 The wit and wisdom of C Cupp.

S.E. Cupp@secuppp
Imagine the arrogance of thinking: screw ALL the economists, screw everything we know from history, screw our allies, screw American workers and farmers, screw my own voters who just wanted costs to go down…I’m going to take down the GLOBAL economy. Because I can. That’s a special kind of narcissist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (L/fGl)

137 It's right down the road from the Museum of the Office of Personnel Management.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (PzXaK)

138 Will it bounce back? I don’t think anyone knows the answer. I personally believe it will transition provided we are able to attract enough companies to build domestic production. But that ain’t happening overnight.

One of Peter Zeihan's hobby horses is that an enormous amount of money is being in invested into new manufacturing plant in the US. This may be true, but the real payoff won't come for awhile yet.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (xCA6C)

139 Hides under desk...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

You can't, I'm already here!

Posted by: pookysgirl , hands over ears at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (Wt5PA)

140 Pearl clutching and pants shitting on aisle 3.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (PMtkd)

141 I just want to say that our little but comprehensive museum in Pocatello is self funded and privately owned.

You'll feel refreshed after you leave.

Posted by: Museum Of Clean at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (/U5Yz)

142 How about a Taxpayer-Funded Stupid Shit Museum? It could feature tours with guides wearing clown noses. "Now over here, we have the Shrimps on a Treadmill."

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (qBdHI)

143
Or the blowout jobs report at 2X estimates.... soon to be revised UPWARDS.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (17s+e)

I mentioned that in the last thread so I get Brownie points...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (VE6XX)

144 I adore the "with all due respect" locution.

It's the "look buddy, you need to go fuck yourself, but respectfully, because this is a family establishment" of the English language.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (zUe/H)

145 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

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It was obvious before Day One of The Junta.

Real history books would be kind to merely refer to him as "President AutoPen."

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (he7fo)

146 The Catalytic Converter wing must be exceptionally large.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (/U5Yz)

it's already been stripped bare...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 12:42 PM (v6XNT)

147 I wonder how many of those "less than 2000" visitors were teacher-led field trips.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 04, 2025 12:42 PM (w6EFb)

148 OT: The stock market is such fucked in the ass stupid that good job numbers are still bad because it'll mean it will take even longer for the Fed to cut rates

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 04, 2025 12:42 PM (HYKHz)

149 This busty brunette is glad to hear about this because she actually went to that museum and in addition to finding it dull and uninteresting, she also found it to be far too chilly:
http://tiny.cc/kuef001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 12:42 PM (WkNQM)

150 Artifacts?

Like halogen-filled display cases showing EPA regulations?

a slice of l.a. air from the old smog-ridden days.

Posted by: anachronda at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (oY6Yp)

151 If museums run free, why not we?

Posted by: Bob Dilly at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (G5+As)

152 It's the "look buddy, you need to go fuck yourself, but respectfully, because this is a family establishment" of the English language.

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Well bless your heart

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (HYKHz)

153 Obama is still the worst president ever. Biden was just Obama's third term, the term in which he could let his freak flag fly and not worry about how history would judge him because he wasn't officially president.

Biden has become the worst puppet president ever, beating out Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by: Dave at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (N6rRt)

154 Meanwhile ....

Lee Zeldin's kamikaze run for NYS Governor fell short but helped flip several NYS House seats and win the Rs the House. Else we'd still have Speaker Nancy (shudders).

Zeldin's at it again as head of the EPA and,nerdish as it is, it will have momentous consequences.

The core fiction of the Global Warming Scam is the assertion that CO2 is a "pollutant" enshrined into current law as the Endangerment Finding, and not just a trace gas that's vital plant food:

"the endangerment finding has served as the foundation for a massive expansion of EPA authority, enabling it to impose its will into most aspects of American life. The finding also provided the driving rationale for the U.S. to sign onto the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, which in turn has driven the global effort to invoke a forced energy transition with trillions of dollars in government subsidies."

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (HUwNa)

155 And more importantly, has anyone looked in to whether this was direct government hire, or if there was a "private sector partnership" here wherein someone got $207k to hire security guards, buy paid some nitwits $20 an hour to sit around and do nothing and pocketed the difference?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 12:26 PM (uCjyK)

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100% contractor service. Probably going to some minority or women owned business that provides “services” exclusively to government entities. The owner probably pockets half the cost, or essentially 100% overhead.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (xyt0z)

156 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

No. Only because Biden was never president.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (mlg/3)

157 The only bureaucratic museum that I can think of that I'd find interesting would be the NTSB Crash Museum. It'd have to have an airplane crash simulator from the point of view of the passengers to be really worth it, though.
Posted by: pookysgirl would visit that at April 04, 2025 12:39 PM (Wt5PA)
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I'm sure such a museum would be leftwing dogshit, but I agree a real museum on crash testing and how it influenced car design and manufacturing would be interesting. The internal chassis/spaceframe of vehicles are 99% ignored by the buying public. But if you look at how this spaceframes evolved, they're 500x safer, stiffer, lighter, cheaper, and overall better than even 30 years ago. From an engineering perspective, it's interesting.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

158 What's actually been going on is that the Earth has been warming for other reasons that have nothing to do with Man. CO2 in the atmosphere has been increasing but that's a lagging effect of, not a cause of, the Earth's warming. As the oceans warm they can't hold gases as well so a small amount of those gases moves into the air, CO2 included. It's science!

As a youth, I unwittingly ran an experiment that proves this. More than once I let my tropical fish tank get too warm which drove out the O2 (and CO2) so my guppies went belly up. Where's my Nobel Prize?

Zeldin just had the EPA propose rule changes to overturn the Endangerment Finding and more. This will have momentous consequences but you won't hear of it in our Media which only covers its own circus.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (HUwNa)

159 >>OT: The stock market is such fucked in the ass stupid that good job numbers are still bad because it'll mean it will take even longer for the Fed to cut rates

What makes anyone think the Market is filled with Rational Actors?

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (AVXxY)

160 The only bureaucratic museum that I can think of that I'd find interesting would be the NTSB Crash Museum. It'd have to have an airplane crash simulator from the point of view of the passengers to be really worth it, though.

I want to go to the The National Museum of Health and Medicine, because I heard that's where John Dillinger's wang is housed.

Posted by: Pete B. at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (xCA6C)

161 How about a Taxpayer-Funded Stupid Shit Museum? It could feature tours with guides wearing clown noses. "Now over here, we have the Shrimps on a Treadmill."

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (qBdHI)

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"When do we get to see Dr. Fauci's beagle puppies being eaten alive by sandflies?"

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (he7fo)

162 Hides under desk...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

You can't, I'm already here!
Posted by: pookysgirl , hands over ears at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (Wt5PA)

sure she can.

I brought the camera....

what???

-_-

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (v6XNT)

163 WTF isn't the Supreme Court tackling whether or not judges can do what they want?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (PMtkd)

164 Well I was glad to see Harmeet Dhillon was finally confirmed...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (VE6XX)

165 Will it bounce back? I don’t think anyone knows the answer. I personally believe it will transition provided we are able to attract enough companies to build domestic production. But that ain’t happening overnight.

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No never.

This is the one time in history the stock market will simply stop growing forever.

It's worse than the Great Depression which did eventually end. It's forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

166 149 This busty brunette is glad to hear about this because she actually went to that museum and in addition to finding it dull and uninteresting, she also found it to be far too chilly:
http://tiny.cc/kuef001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)[/i

I can supply her with two cup warmers to make her feel more comfortable.

Posted by: Museum Of Clean at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (/U5Yz)

167 Who wouldn't want to go see the exhibits of government workers rubbing several out to porn at their desks during work hours.

My Canada Elections card came in today. Already ripped up and pitched in disgust.

Posted by: Stateless...83% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 04, 2025 12:45 PM (jvJvP)

168 Has Biden eclipsed him?

Obama was far more destructive, and, being shielded by his skin color, it will probably be years before he is properly blamed.

Biden did achieve one great thing: his ineptness took the scales (oops) off people's eyes about how evil the Democrat Party is. Without Biden, there wouldn't have been Trump 2.0.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2025 12:45 PM (WPL6O)

169 Great. Now I'm going to have to explain to my 4 year old son who was looking forward to going to the EPA museum for his birthday and can't now! We're going to have to find something else to do instead! You've ruined a kid's birthday, jerks.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 12:45 PM (B9Prs)

170 The hall of shame in the museum, which included incandescent 100 watt lightbulbs, charcoal grills, and a gas stove was particularly interesting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2025 12:46 PM (lTGtQ)

171 >>http://tiny.cc/kuef001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

You Sir, are the Greatest American.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:46 PM (AVXxY)

172 "Welcome to the Museum of the U.S. Geological Survey. Over there is a sample of basalt. We don't take it for granite."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:46 PM (PzXaK)

173 What makes anyone think the Market is filled with Rational Actors?

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (AVXxY)

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My understanding is that between 80% and 90% of stock trades are now performed by automated bots.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:46 PM (he7fo)

174 So now I see we have an organized protest this Saturday to save us from Trump... Someone is paying for this...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:46 PM (VE6XX)

175 Is one of the “artifacts” a functional gas can?

“Looks kids, this is what we used before we wanted to dump gas on the ground trying to fill the damned lawn mower.”

Posted by: Meric at April 04, 2025 12:46 PM (3guPG)

176 Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (1m82a)
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Pretty sure I skipped that one!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 12:46 PM (RIvkX)

177 I don't care what anybody else says. 'Propandize' is a perfectly cromulent word.

Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (/iMjX)

178 >>The hall of shame in the museum

I wanted to open The Hall of Shame in Cooperstown.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (AVXxY)

179 Is this where aqueous urea solution DEF comes from?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (/U5Yz)

180 So far my put options have paid off quite well. I'll be purchasing some call options within a week.

All the hedge funds hate Trump for his MAGA policies all of this was easy to call.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (17s+e)

181 I bought more stock in GameStop.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (PzXaK)

182 What makes anyone think the Market is filled with Rational Actors?

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I was reliably informed that the market is full of smart money who know smartsie things and think tariffs are bad (for only the US, its ok when everyone else does it) and that we must have 50 million illegals here to pick fruit for ten cents an hour or everyone will die

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (HYKHz)

183 109 102 With all due respect, ace, this doesn't seem like front page content at the moment. I'm sure you're not looking forward to the fight, but these tariffs are a BFD.

Posted by: Xander Crews

*dons asbestos underwear*
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

Hides under desk...
Posted by: It's me donna at April

*lights hair on fire*

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (rxv4u)

184 I've already blocked Ace's ability to post about tariffs. So there.

Posted by: Federal Judge on the take at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (7Q0e+)

185 I'll tell you what. I think there's a much bigger issue that tariffs about to hit the airways. I saw yesterday that the General running the Cyber facet of the NSA got canned without explanation. And, they didn't even wait for him to get back to Washington (he was travelling). Then in an impromptu presser from Air Force 1, Trump made a point to state that DOGE just uncovered something "truly horrible." I think last week Musk and DOGE were over at the NSA.

My guess is that they acquired confirmation of something that has been speculated for a long while (and pushed off as a conspiracy theory). I think various alphabet agencies (FBI, CIA) subcontract out to private orgs.(like Fusion GPS) and provide them access to the Meta Data collected by the NSA. These subcontractors are extensions of the Democrat Party, and use the Meta-Data to build up opposition research on political opponents, appointment nominees, and even Supreme Court nominees.

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (dIske)

186 "Welcome to the Museum of the U.S. Geological Survey. Over there is a sample of basalt. We don't take it for granite."
Posted by: WitchDoktor

The USGS HQ in Reston, VA, is a great place to visit.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

187 Who's on the board of directors for this "EPA museum?" Bet some familiar names.

Bet their salaries were pretty impressive too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (Q4IgG)

188 >> One of Peter Zeihan's hobby horses is that an enormous amount of money is being in invested into new manufacturing plant in the US. This may be true, but the real payoff won't come for awhile yet.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:41 PM (xCA6C)

New plant and equipment takes some time to get online and have an economic impact. Trump will cut the federal red tape and companies will move into states that won’t clog up the process. Some of these auto companies have been adept enough to shift production to domestic factories Ecuador they’ve seen this movie before. Taken together the overall long term economic impact is great as you gain jobs that are pretty stable. But there’s a whole lot of pain in between as we deleverage from the past paradigm.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (AW6h8)

189 However, the museum saw fewer than 2,000 visitors in its first nine months

And how many of those were EPA employees going to bask in their own glories?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (/y8xj)

190 All the hedge funds hate Trump for his MAGA policies all of this was easy to call.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (17s+e)

I've always wondered how much foreign money is in the market... got to be a substantial amount...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (QAkQ3)

191 I wonder how many of those "less than 2000" visitors were teacher-led field trips.
Posted by: Miley

I searched for "we went to the EPA Museum" and got nothing.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (7a3bZ)

192 I anticipate a dead cat bounce on Monday. I have no real reason for saying that, I just like saying "dead cat bounce".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (xCA6C)

193 Without Biden, there wouldn't have been Trump 2.0.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2025 12:45 PM (WPL6O)

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As without Carter, there would have never been a Reagan 1.0.

And similarly, without DogEater and The RINOs, there would have never been a Trump 1.0.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (he7fo)

194 Will it bounce back? I don’t think anyone knows the answer.

First pass answer is never.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (zUe/H)

195 I saw DogEater and The RINOs open for The Clash at the 9:30 club.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:49 PM (PzXaK)

196 Bad as he was, Obama didn't throw the borders open (in his first two terms.) The costs of that Biden junta policy have yet to be fully realized.

So yes, "Biden" was even worse.

Posted by: IronDave at April 04, 2025 12:49 PM (k3crU)

197 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

I've always wanted to go, but I've never made it there.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 12:49 PM (77rzZ)

198 >> Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

I believe that Obama was the shadow prez during Biden… it was worse because he could do unpopular things without consequence. So the answer is yes: Biden(Obama) < Obama(Openly)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 04, 2025 12:49 PM (OW907)

199 In other news, President Trump appointed himself a Federal Judge today via Executive Order... saying he wanted to actually be able to run the country.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:49 PM (QAkQ3)

200 >http://tiny.cc/kuef001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Hmmm. Puts me in a thoughtful frame of mind.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (SXxzC)

201 Jim Cramer said Tariffs will kill the Economy for good...

so, I'm not feeling the fear.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (AVXxY)

202 WTF isn't the Supreme Court tackling whether or not judges can do what they want?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (PMtkd)

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The coward Benedict Roberts would prefer not to dirty his little pedo hands and have Appeals Courts do the dirty work instead.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (he7fo)

203 Will it bounce back? I don’t think anyone knows the answer. I personally believe it will transition provided we are able to attract enough companies to build domestic production. But that ain’t happening overnight.

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No never.

This is the one time in history the stock market will simply stop growing forever.

It's worse than the Great Depression which did eventually end. It's forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
__________

I expect the tariff situation to be resolved in 30 days and the market back to where it was by end of June. Indeed, as soon as China caves, all the tech stocks -- which make up disproportionate shares of the indexes -- will spike. Overall, I think that's what's most got the market so jittery: What will we do without Chinese slave labor?? Solve that problem, and you're halfway home.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

204 What makes anyone think the Market is filled with Rational Actors?

This. This right here.

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (10jyo)

205 My guess is that they acquired confirmation of something that has been speculated for a long while (and pushed off as a conspiracy theory). I think various alphabet agencies (FBI, CIA) subcontract out to private orgs.(like Fusion GPS) and provide them access to the Meta Data collected by the NSA. These subcontractors are extensions of the Democrat Party, and use the Meta-Data to build up opposition research on political opponents, appointment nominees, and even Supreme Court nominees.

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (dIske)

It would be nice to have confirmation. Leftists would shrug, but it might wake up some more on the right and in the mush-brained middle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)

206 174 So now I see we have an organized protest this Saturday to save us from Trump... Someone is paying for this...
Posted by: It's me donna a

They're putting riot fencing up around the WH.

https://tinyurl.com/ztzr44je

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (/U5Yz)

207 203 I expect the tariff situation to be resolved in 30 days and the market back to where it was by end of June. Indeed, as soon as China caves, all the tech stocks -- which make up disproportionate shares of the indexes -- will spike. Overall, I think that's what's most got the market so jittery: What will we do without Chinese slave labor?? Solve that problem, and you're halfway home.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

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No. We're all dead, and Trump should end trying to fix anything in the country so we can win 3 more House seats next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

208 85 The Newseum is an easy joke here, but if it was an actual museum of journalism instead of a self-congratulatory shrine it could've been worthwhile.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 12:35 PM (2ocoG)

They didn't need to spend over $1billion on it, after all expenses. I bet a lot of that money was spent on acquiring overvalued tchotchkes from these grifting news orgs.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (hRN9+)

209 If there's still toilet paper on the shelves...

If it's not raining Traders on Wall Street...

it's nowhere near the levels we have previously seen.
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:40 PM (AVXxY)
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All my lib idiot friends back east are going batshit. Hard not to enjoy it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (RIvkX)

210 $600,000 per year in upkeep

How much of that was spent cleaning up dumps in the hallway by employees?

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (KtPtl)

211 >> I bought more stock in GameStop.

NVDA at 93? I’m in. Same with some of the follow on AI stocks focused on the medical sector. You’re never going to see some of those this cheap again. The effects of tariffs on their business is almost zero.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (AW6h8)

212 You have to be quick around here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:32 PM (i24o9)

I am just the worst anyway so it's fine.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (YVzIj)

213 Has Biden eclipsed him?

*************************

Biden was really Obamas third term with Obamas hand shoved up the skeletal remains of a demented idiot as a puppet president

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (HYKHz)

214 But if you look at how this spaceframes evolved, they're 500x safer, stiffer, lighter, cheaper, and overall better than even 30 years ago. From an engineering perspective, it's interesting.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

I'm an engineer at heart. Can you tell?

Posted by: pookysgirl's mom was supposed to be on Flight 232 at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (Wt5PA)

215 >>Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

That's the decoy museum. The real one is in Buffalo.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (Y1sOo)

216 I don't care what anybody else says. 'Propandize' is a perfectly cromulent word.

Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (/iMjX)

I find your comment perfectly cromulent. I love that word and am going to use it.

A lot.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (bDt0k)

217 "Biden was Obama's third term!"
-Amy Schumer

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

218 One can shit in the hallways of the EPA Museum

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (JdRZW)

219 I would hope that at the end of PDT'S term, Zeldin will be closing the lights off and shutting the door on what was the EPA.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (XNkRi)

220 16 We may argue about who was the worst president, but there is still consensus about our best.

William Henry Harrison.

He did the least damage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

Hampden-Sydney College man

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (k1E2D)

221 206 174 So now I see we have an organized protest this Saturday to save us from Trump... Someone is paying for this...
Posted by: It's me donna a

They're putting riot fencing up around the WH.

https://tinyurl.com/ztzr44je
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (/U5Yz)

The peasants are revolting ! I'll say... They stink on ice

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)

222 Jim Cramer was wrong on Tesla 15 years ago. It went yp something like 10000 or 20000 times.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (rBvG3)

223 Biden was the worst President ever. Easily.

Younger Obama staffer were basically running a hard left fantasy version of the Presidency with Biden with no adults in the room to stop them.

In some sort of alternate dimension, I think a younger Biden would have probably governed more like a Bill Clinton. He was corrupt, but not all that left-wing.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (4pwAx)

224 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

I've always wanted to go, but I've never made it there.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 12:49 PM (77rzZ)

How would you know if it was the real one?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)

225 Does the EPA museum have a 40 by 60 foot 3D diorama of the Animas River that they polluted by blowing up a tailings dam?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (8zz6B)

226 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (7Q7Ca)

227 I was all about historical preservation, and I proved it by keeping records in my garage with my beloved corvette!

Posted by: President Autopen at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (WJtks)

228 31 Nah. Having never been there and having never seen a description of exhibits, I will bet that all of the following artifacts are present:
1. A catalytic converter
2. A solar panel
3. A windmill blade
4. A cross-section of a smokestack effluent scrubber

i saw effluent and the scrubbers open for smoke and the stacks at the newseum gala back in the naughties.

Posted by: anachronda at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (oY6Yp)

229 I expect the tariff situation to be resolved in 30 days and the market back to where it was by end of June. Indeed, as soon as China caves, all the tech stocks -- which make up disproportionate shares of the indexes -- will spike. Overall, I think that's what's most got the market so jittery: What will we do without Chinese slave labor?? Solve that problem, and you're halfway home.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

Yup, as much as the American Media is screaming, our economy will be hurt MUCH less, than other economies.

As these are Retaliatory Tariffs, expect other countries to drop Tariffs within weeks... all we have to do is stay strong.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (QAkQ3)

230
I want to go to the The National Museum of Health and Medicine, because I heard that's where John Dillinger's wang is housed.

It's also the final destination for Daniel Sickles' amputated leg, after it was smashed by a cannonball at Gettysburg. He's pretty much the only Donk politician in US history who was worth a damn, even while being as corrupt as the worst of them. Plus, dood was hilarious.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (y9nCu)

231 I have two partial bottles of chlordane I inherited from my in laws when they went into assisted living. Was going to bring them to the County hazardous waste disposal day. Now, in protest to this essential museum shuttered, I will burn them with leaves and Amazon boxes in my backyard.

Posted by: Fight the Powers What Be at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (G5+As)

232 We're going to find out that some Congresscritter's wife and her boyfriend run whatever security firm got the contract for that museum.

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (zaW1R)

233 Are there rational actors?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (rBvG3)

234 180 So far my put options have paid off quite well. I'll be purchasing some call options within a week.

All the hedge funds hate Trump for his MAGA policies all of this was easy to call.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:47 PM (17s+e)

Too distracted to construct a proper trade to take advantage of this week's events, but there is a trade to make when these countries fold.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (hRN9+)

235 Will it bounce back? I don’t think anyone knows the answer.

It doesn't matter. It isn't the economy. It's where you gamble with your Eurodollars.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (7a3bZ)

236 The market is betting right now that China won’t fold. Trump is about to smoke them again with a higher tariff. I’m not sure how much more of this the Chinese economy can take. They have nowhere to go.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (AW6h8)

237 Afternoon ace.
The EPA museum sounds about as popular as the Museum of Broadcasting which I think federal funds contributed to . It closed pretty quickly as well, as no showed up and it went bankrupt without federal funds

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (7A/rN)

238 I'll give the EPA a 'plus' for their early years of raising environmental awareness; highlighting that good stewardship of the natural environment is a good idea.

But the EPA should never have been an executive agency in the first place - that's what the Department of Interior is for (assuming that even a DoI is a good idea).

It only took about 8 years for the EPA to wreck the little bit of good it did in raising awareness. It's been nothing but a madhouse of fevered nihilists and eugenicists ever since.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (bufu1)

239 All this bullshit about tariffs.........

The left has been pissing about 'paying their fair share' for f*cking DECADES.

Now, Trump is actually making other countries pay THEIR 'fair share' and they're crying rivers.

GFY, assholes. ESAD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (7Q7Ca)

240 As these are Retaliatory Tariffs, expect other countries to drop Tariffs within weeks... all we have to do is stay strong.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (QAkQ3)

I see Vietnam already has... If Gateway Pundit is to be believed and that's a big if...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (VE6XX)

241 Are there rational actors?
Posted by: Boss Moss

--

Adam Baldwin seems OK.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (PzXaK)

242 229 Yup, as much as the American Media is screaming, our economy will be hurt MUCH less, than other economies.

As these are Retaliatory Tariffs, expect other countries to drop Tariffs within weeks... all we have to do is stay strong.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (QAkQ3)

========

What happens if some major importer of say, coffee, doesn't back down but the number 2 importer of coffee does?

Oh, we start buying more from #2?

I guess that means economic apocalypse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

243 Jim Cramer said Tariffs will kill the Economy for good...

so, I'm not feeling the fear.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (AVXxY)

lol

FiL was telling me that Cramer was making a killing in the markets?

"Jim Cramer?" I asked astonishingly.

No, some family friend.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (i24o9)

244 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

It's a fake museum?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (/y8xj)

245 No. We're all dead, and Trump should end trying to fix anything in the country so we can win 3 more House seats next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

Did you know Pooky is now a zombie?! It's true, they used cadaver bones in his temporary dental bone graft. He's so proud of this fact.

Posted by: pookysgirl should probably get a zombie tshirt at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (Wt5PA)

246
Hampden-Sydney College man
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (k1E2D)

Is that place still all-boys?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (hRN9+)

247 Obama is a man of at best mediocre intelligence.

Obama didn't run Biden. Obama didn't run Obama. I'd sure like to know what cabal was running Obama and Biden though.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (17s+e)

248 >> Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

I was at a Museum in that area as a kid that had the most insane collection of Duck Calls I have seen to date. No idea if it was the same one or a one-off show at a different Museum...I was but a wee garrett back then.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (AVXxY)

249 Where I lived in Moscow the subway stop was named for the Museum of the People's Economic Achievements. вднх
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I guess the two middle letters are for "Dostizheniya Narodnykh." What do the "B" and the 'X" stand for?

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (77rzZ)

250 http://tiny.cc/kuef001

She puts the "Bo" in "Bodacious," no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (HUwNa)

251 I saw yesterday that the General running the Cyber facet of the NSA got canned without explanation.
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It does seem like a big deal. NYT and others are reporting that Haugh and the others were fired because of Laura Loomer, but Trump denied that and no one has presented any evidence of it, as far as I know.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (paSBy)

252 I'm hoping Trump will be in Mara Lago this weekend.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (2UnvF)

253 187 Who's on the board of directors for this "EPA museum?" Bet some familiar names.

Bet their salaries were pretty impressive too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (Q4IgG)

Yes, the Trump team keeps shutting down these grift operations, where taxpayer money goes into the pockets of the rich and connected, while Schumer keeps warning the LIVs that Trump is enriching the super-wealthy on the backs of the poor.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (QFugT)

254 The sanitation protocols around the human feces collected from the Denver field office are probably pretty robust.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at

Barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Colo Gard sock at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (PMJuY)

255 160 The only bureaucratic museum that I can think of that I'd find interesting would be the NTSB Crash Museum. It'd have to have an airplane crash simulator from the point of view of the passengers to be really worth it, though.

I want to go to the The National Museum of Health and Medicine, because I heard that's where John Dillinger's wang is housed.
Posted by: Pete B. at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (xCA6C)

Bureau of weights and measures.

Let's go to the room of the imperial measurement system of body weight! Yeah baby.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (OA79/)

256 What makes anyone think the Market is filled with Rational Actors?

Well, the half of the Chicago School that aren't marxists, I guess.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (mlg/3)

257 So interestingly, most of my fathers' estate is in the form of common stock.

It's not a large estate, but on paper it is losing value quickly.
I'm hoping to see a trend back up before the traditional one year waiting period prior to settling the estate has to take place.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (a1415)

258 OK, fine.

Tariffs.

If some country closes its market to us and we can't export our good beef to them, well fuck off. We'll eat it ourselves.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (PzXaK)

259 I expect the tariff situation to be resolved in 30 days and the market back to where it was by end of June. Indeed, as soon as China caves, all the tech stocks -- which make up disproportionate shares of the indexes -- will spike. Overall, I think that's what's most got the market so jittery: What will we do without Chinese slave labor?? Solve that problem, and you're halfway home.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

My long positions are sitting where they were six months ago, as is tradition. I am not feeling like lighting my hair on fire.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)

260 The massive waste of since 2008, Obama the Spendthrift, wasn't just payoffs to various insiders, cronies, and lackies.

It was also to provide jobs for the explosion of "credentialed but otherwise unemployable, lacking any marketable job skills" degreed women the universities were pushing out.

You think "Life of Julia" happens if the Julias don't find soft-landings after their "cock carousel 20s" rolls over to "cat women 30s" without Daddy Sugar paying the whole way?

For every Julia Dem-lifer they funded, from college to career, they were also importing 2 more reliable voters from South America.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (xFA3k)

261 253 Yes, the Trump team keeps shutting down these grift operations, where taxpayer money goes into the pockets of the rich and connected, while Schumer keeps warning the LIVs that Trump is enriching the super-wealthy on the backs of the poor.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (QFugT)

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"I'm going to miss my next Social Security check, so I'm gonna go key a Tesla."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

262 197 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

I heard the museum in Havre De Grace is there to trick you into going somehwere really dangerous.

Posted by: Paladin at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (OtO2C)

263
She puts the "Bo" in "Bodacious," no?
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 04, 2025 12:55 PM (HUwNa)

She certainly puts the "boing" in "my pants."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (7Q7Ca)

264 I find all the comments in this thread to be cromulent.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (bDt0k)

265 As these are Retaliatory Tariffs, expect other countries to drop Tariffs within weeks... all we have to do is stay strong.

Nope. If I've learned anything, I've learned that matching foreign tariffs on American goods with even half the tariff on foreign goods is suicide. Frankly - we'll probably need some district judges to mandate consumption of those foreign items. Its for our own good.

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (10jyo)

266 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

I've always wanted to go, but I've never made it there.

Posted by: Bulg

A friend had me go there.

Some April fool's joke that was. It was a decoy, alright.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (lTGtQ)

267 >>The market is betting right now that China won’t fold. Trump is about to smoke them again with a higher tariff. I’m not sure how much more of this the Chinese economy can take. They have nowhere to go

The Market trying to read the Tea Leaves of Chinese and US Government Data never stops being funny to me.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (AVXxY)

268 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?
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No, because Obama didn't leave, he just installed a demented Biden as a figurehead.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (n4GiU)

269 Did you know Pooky is now a zombie?! It's true, they used cadaver bones in his temporary dental bone graft. He's so proud of this fact.
Posted by: pookysgirl should probably get a zombie tshirt at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (Wt5PA)

Me too. Not to worry. I hardly ever have the urge to eat the neighbors.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - BRAINZ!! at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (zUe/H)

270 Did you know Pooky is now a zombie?! It's true, they used cadaver bones in his temporary dental bone graft. He's so proud of this fact.

I've had a cadaverous cornea for decades. True story.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (xCA6C)

271 GFY, assholes. ESAD.

******************

I always thought Trump should have run as a democrat and then governed as a conservative

the pretzel logic from the fuckwad democrats that would have ensued would be the stuff of legend

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (HYKHz)

272 The Catalytic Converter wing must be exceptionally large.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 12:38 PM

That entire wing was sawed off and taken by meth heads.

Posted by: Bert G at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (VARTN)

273 Is there a dementia hall of fame? I have a candidate in mind.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (SXxzC)

274 And Jim Cramer is a blithering f*cking idiot and anyone listening to him should be kicked in the balls, repeatedly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (7Q7Ca)

275 >>Bureau of weights and measures.

I've always wanted to see their collection of Pubic Hairs.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (AVXxY)

276 Oil is down 9%.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (rBvG3)

277 So interestingly, most of my fathers' estate is in the form of common stock.

It's not a large estate, but on paper it is losing value quickly.
I'm hoping to see a trend back up before the traditional one year waiting period prior to settling the estate has to take place.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

===

The cost basis resets on the day the person dies, so probably a good idea to sell individual stocks and buy index funds instead rather than letting it sit in individual shares that are higher risk.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (4pwAx)

278 The market is betting right now that China won’t fold. Trump is about to smoke them again with a higher tariff. I’m not sure how much more of this the Chinese economy can take. They have nowhere to go.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (AW6h

_________

Yea, but China 100% will fold. I don't blame them for putting up a strong front now. That's what I would do. But China could not exist without USA markets. The entire Chinese economy is built on exporting products to the USA that undercuts the costs of what we could build the products for ourselves. If that cost advantages goes away, there is no Chinese economy. They surely understand that.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

279 I guess Barky wants to keep his title of worst president ever.

Washington Free Beacon888@FreeBeacon
NBC News reporter Jonathan Allen says Barack Obama worked "behind the scenes" to derail Kamala Harris in 2024:

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (L/fGl)

280 237 Afternoon ace.
The EPA museum sounds about as popular as the Museum of Broadcasting which I think federal funds contributed to . It closed pretty quickly as well, as no showed up and it went bankrupt without federal funds
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (7A/rN)

I remember going to the Museum of Broadcasting in NYC when it opened. It was pretty cool. Had a Star Trek (TOS) retrospective at one point which was really nice.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (hRN9+)

281 253 187 Who's on the board of directors for this "EPA museum?" Bet some familiar names.

Bet their salaries were pretty impressive too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 12:48 PM (Q4IgG)

I would love to see a cash flow chart of all these ngos receiving and giving money to each other with the names of the board of directors and executives listed... along with their spouse, and immediate family. Bet there is huge crossover.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (OA79/)

282 Obama is a man of at best mediocre intelligence.

Obama didn't run Biden. Obama didn't run Obama. I'd sure like to know what cabal was running Obama and Biden though.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (17s+e)

THIS!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (bDt0k)

283
1. Joe Mannix pics are hitting it out of the park today.

2. Ace has restarted the Obama is a behind-the-curtain genius manipulator / Obama is a dunce-actor-playing-a-part AOS debate.

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 12:58 PM (j4U/Z)

284 Is there a dementia hall of fame?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

--

Yes.

For their Easter event you can hide your own Easter Eggs.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 12:58 PM (PzXaK)

285 In some sort of alternate dimension, I think a younger Biden would have probably governed more like a Bill Clinton. He was corrupt, but not all that left-wing.
Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (4pwAx)

The biggest piece of bought and paid for shit in Congress? Nah bro

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 12:58 PM (YVzIj)

286 FiL was telling me that Cramer was making a killing in the markets?

"Jim Cramer?" I asked astonishingly.

No, some family friend.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (i24o9)

Cosmo Cramer?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (OW907)

287 She puts the "Bo" in "Bodacious," no?
Posted by: Ignoramus

I wonder what the exact correlation is between boob size and nipple size.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

288 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?
_____

There's a bunch of them scattered around, but I heard it's impossible to find the real one.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Dv3i1)

289 I used to laugh at conspiracy theories about "the Reptilians."

Now I want to know more.

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

[Babylon Bee headlines:]

. Klaus Schwab Retires To Spend More Time With His Lizard Family On Planet Zarkon VII

. Dodgers Bankrupted As Trump Places 25% Tariff On Japanese Players

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (he7fo)

290 This busty brunette
.......

no bikini?

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (HgMAr)

291 Obama didn't run Biden. Obama didn't run Obama. I'd sure like to know what cabal was running Obama and Biden though.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (17s+e)

*waves*

- - - - - Adolf Klaus and the WEF

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (7Q7Ca)

292 >> The Market trying to read the Tea Leaves of Chinese and US Government Data never stops being funny to me.

They were completely bent over this morning when China announced retaliatory tariffs. You really have to admire China’s move because there is no way their already fragile state can take this kind of shutdown. They can’t go to the debt markets and their economy is already strained. Things are going to start imploding if this goes on and they won’t recover.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (AW6h8)

293 And Jim Cramer is a blithering f*cking idiot and anyone listening to him should be kicked in the balls, repeatedly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (7Q7Ca)

Don't they suffer enough already?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (VoAdT)

294 270 Did you know Pooky is now a zombie?! It's true, they used cadaver bones in his temporary dental bone graft. He's so proud of this fact.

I've had a cadaverous cornea for decades. True story.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (xCA6C)

Do you see dead people?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (QAkQ3)

295 >>In some sort of alternate dimension, I think a younger Biden would have probably governed more like a Bill Clinton. He was corrupt, but not all that left-wing.

Watch his first speech.

He announces then and there that he is for sale and will always be for sale. The most honest words he has ever spoken.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (AVXxY)

296 278 The market is betting right now that China won’t fold. Trump is about to smoke them again with a higher tariff. I’m not sure how much more of this the Chinese economy can take. They have nowhere to go.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (AW6h
_________

Yea, but China 100% will fold. I don't blame them for putting up a strong front now. That's what I would do. But China could not exist without USA markets. The entire Chinese economy is built on exporting products to the USA that undercuts the costs of what we could build the products for ourselves. If that cost advantages goes away, there is no Chinese economy. They surely understand that.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

I am not betting against a Treasury Secretary who was one of the three people responsible for putting on the trade that broke the Bank of England.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (hRN9+)

297 Our biggest export is energy

you want to tariff that, go right ahead, we'll just keep it here instead until our utility bills go down to 5 cents a month

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (HYKHz)

298 279 I guess Barky wants to keep his title of worst president ever.

Washington Free Beacon888@FreeBeacon
NBC News reporter Jonathan Allen says Barack Obama worked "behind the scenes" to derail Kamala Harris in 2024:
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (L/fGl)

========

There were hints of this narrative last summer. The idea being that Obama orchestrated the Biden resignation but wanted the "open" convention where his preferred candidate would get the most votes.

Which I've always held as true because it confirms my view of Obama:

He's stupid and fucking terrible at politics. That anyone would look at the situation of getting Biden to step aside and think there was time or room for anyone other than Kamala makes me laugh. That Obama, the supposed Sion of Democrat Politics, would buy into it just confirms that...the guy who got elevated as a Messiah for being black and came out of the Chicago machine has literally no idea how politics actually works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

299 The US has the strongest hand with China, that's why I wish they had just singled them out first for a trade war.

China buys next to nothing from the US and the consumer seeing a few extra dollars in prices on junk from Amazon wouldn't have noticed.

You put a 25% tariff on a car and consumers notice.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (4pwAx)

300 Ace has restarted the Obama is a behind-the-curtain genius manipulator / Obama is a dunce-actor-playing-a-part AOS debate.
Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 12:58 PM (j4U/Z)

There is no debate. Obama is a 115 IQ dunce who thinks he's a genius because communism makes you smart and envy is the highest calling.

The people behind him were the smart ones but then believed they could get away with anything and were almost correct.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (YVzIj)

301 I've had a cadaverous cornea for decades. True story.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 12:56 PM (xCA6C)

Do you see dead people?

Hah! In all these years, that joke never occurred to me.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (xCA6C)

302 They were completely bent over this morning when China announced retaliatory tariffs. You really have to admire China’s move because there is no way their already fragile state can take this kind of shutdown. They can’t go to the debt markets and their economy is already strained. Things are going to start imploding if this goes on and they won’t recover.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:59 PM (AW6h

China is betting the US Media they own will be able to stampede the public into forcing Trump to rescind Tariffs.

It's their only play...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (QAkQ3)

303 I'm willing to donate my burn barrel to the museum. Put it in the hillbilly exhibit along with my compost piles.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * feeling a bit atavistic at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (J1mV/)

304 Over the entrance to the EPA Museum is the EPA'S motto: WE'VE GOT TO REGULATE THOSE GUYS!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (L/fGl)

305 I'm hoping to see a trend back up before the traditional one year waiting period prior to settling the estate has to take place.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
====
Don't wait to long. It's date of death or six months later.
With stocks, you inherit the basis, so date of death is probably better for you. Higher basis = lower gain when you sell it.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (n4GiU)

306 Security guards for a museum no one goes to. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 04, 2025 12:31 PM (paSBy)

Anyone willing to bet that those security guards were not black lesbians?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (8zz6B)

307 274 And Jim Cramer is a blithering f*cking idiot and anyone listening to him should be kicked in the balls, repeatedly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 12:57 PM (7Q7Ca)

My MIL is posting all the gloom and doom anti Trump stuff rapid fire today on facebook. Gonna have to block her. It's just dreary.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (OA79/)

308
I personally believe it will transition provided we are able to attract enough companies to build domestic production. But that ain’t happening overnight.

==============

The part about that "domestic production" that scares me is labor unions. Of course they're going to muscle in. I was not encouraged to see Shawn Fein (UAW leader) at that Liberation Day announcement.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (3izae)

309 Obama is a man of at best mediocre intelligence.
____

Did you know, you can't get your car insurance company to pay for oil changes?
- The Lightbringer

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)

310 Which I've always held as true because it confirms my view of Obama:

He's stupid and fucking terrible at politics. That anyone would look at the situation of getting Biden to step aside and think there was time or room for anyone other than Kamala makes me laugh. That Obama, the supposed Sion of Democrat Politics, would buy into it just confirms that...the guy who got elevated as a Messiah for being black and came out of the Chicago machine has literally no idea how politics actually works.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

Bill.Clinton was overrated as a political strategist as well. He could only help himself.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (hRN9+)

311 SoT has been almost giddy in his interviews. Dude exudes confidence.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (AW6h8)

312 Has Michelle Obama and her "brother" had a second podcast episode?

Their first was a complete pants shit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (PMtkd)

313
My MIL is posting all the gloom and doom anti Trump stuff rapid fire today on facebook. Gonna have to block her. It's just dreary.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (OA79/)

Post the "The stupid.....it burns." meme in her timeline.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (7Q7Ca)

314 299 The US has the strongest hand with China, that's why I wish they had just singled them out first for a trade war.

China buys next to nothing from the US and the consumer seeing a few extra dollars in prices on junk from Amazon wouldn't have noticed.

You put a 25% tariff on a car and consumers notice.
Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (4pwAx)

Nope, hittin em all at once, was Genius. Making it a systemic problem, not singling out one country, will allow them to cave faster... and...

Whichever countries cave first, will see an economic benefit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (QAkQ3)

315 304 Over the entrance to the EPA Museum is the EPA'S motto: WE'VE GOT TO REGULATE THOSE GUYS!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (L/fGl)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE THEY FILLED IN A SWAMP TO BUILD THE MUSEUM IN LESS THAN 60 DAYS.

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (OA79/)

316 The part about that "domestic production" that scares me is labor unions. Of course they're going to muscle in. I was not encouraged to see Shawn Fein (UAW leader) at that Liberation Day announcement.

Agreed. I hate labor unions and what they've done to this country. Greedy b***ards.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (xCA6C)

317 278 The market is betting right now that China won’t fold. Trump is about to smoke them again with a higher tariff. I’m not sure how much more of this the Chinese economy can take. They have nowhere to go.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 12:53 PM (AW6h
___________________________________

The best way to gauge the Chinese economy is not by the numbers they massage and release. It's better determined by how many new Riot Police they initiate out into the provinces. Less than a year ago, 16 of the major Chinese corporations started setting up their own militias.

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (dIske)

318 I'm waiting for the IRS Museum.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (YqDXo)

319 Trump shouldn't close the EPA museum. Instead, it should have just one exhibit devoted to Walter Peck.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (zUe/H)

320
Their first was a complete pants shit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (PMtkd)

Woot!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (7Q7Ca)

321 >>The part about that "domestic production" that scares me is labor unions.

I wish there was some way to monetize the avalanche of Environmental Impact Studies that are going to thwart the re-industrialization of America.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (AVXxY)

322 197 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

I've always wanted to go, but I've never made it there.

i'd like to go to the camouflage museum, but i haven't managed to find it.

Posted by: anachronda at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (oY6Yp)

323 China is betting the US Media they own will be able to stampede the public into forcing Trump to rescind Tariffs.
____

Betting? More like ordering.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Dv3i1)

324 I'm willing to donate my burn barrel to the museum. Put it in the hillbilly exhibit along with my compost piles.

And next to the exhibit of tires with still some tread left.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (/y8xj)

325
Obama orchestrated the Biden resignation but wanted the "open" convention where his preferred candidate would get the most votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

============

lol what an idiot. Who was his preferred candidate anyway?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (3izae)

326 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

Hmmm.

Was Obama the "John the Baptist" for Biden?

Well, they are both malignant shitbags.

However, Biden was an extraordinarily stupid 'in your face' bullying shitbag, while Obama cringing, weaseling, cowardly hide behind protection in the shadows shitbag. Which probably means the stories of Obama running the Senile Biden White House behind the scenes were true.

Obama got three turns at the Preezy Bat and sucked for the country every single time. But, note that Oblabla only did the truly damaging stuff when Looney Biden provided a decoy for him.

Obama's still the worst, though to be fair, in Biden's lucid moments he probably loved fucking over the Republic That Wouldn't Recognize His Superior Genius cuz he's just that petty and malevolent.

It's almost close enough to make things a tie on the Suck-o-Meter.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (iJfKG)

327 Obama's people wanted Kamala from the start. That's why Joe "picked" her and that's why he announced from waaaaay back he was "picking" a black woman. Because it was a foregone conclusion and people would question him picking the 1% dunderhead who called him a racist a lot less if their mental skids were already greased for it.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (YVzIj)

328 >>Bureau of weights and measures.

I've always wanted to see their collection of Pubic Hairs.
Posted by: garrett
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There's a Merkin collection?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L)

329 Our Chinese coats are mostly made in Vietnam now. Boots and shoes are largely from China.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (rBvG3)

330 Fun fact:
When the left raises the oft-repeated insult to America about the lack of museums in the US, you can point out that the US has more museums than any other country in the world.

Because, what they mean, is they are only counting major metropolitan and university behemoths of lavish architecture and massive government subsidies.

What they don't count are the thousands and thousands of small, public and private (but open to the public) museums that are all over. Like, no matter where you live, there's probably one within 5 miles of you right now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (xFA3k)

331 Biden is definitely worse.

Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (ufJfM)

332
lol what an idiot. Who was his preferred candidate anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (3izae)

George Clooney?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (7Q7Ca)

333
Old & Bused: "The Streisand Effect."
New Hotness: "Th Le Pen Effect."

Suze 🇬🇧 #VoteReform 🇬🇧 #StarmerOut 🇬🇧
@WeLeftTheEUSSR

It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.

Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.

20 thousand new members have just joined her party.

https://is.gd/V5xZ0G

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (he7fo)

334 They have nowhere to go.

I saw a headline "Europe braces for cheap Chinese imports".

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (ws6WZ)

335 Obama orchestrated the Biden resignation but wanted the "open" convention where his preferred candidate would get the most votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

============

lol what an idiot. Who was his preferred candidate anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (3izae)
_________

The guy who drowned falling off a paddleboard

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

336 Gold opened at 3136 today.
Currently trading at 3032.
-84

F*ck.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 01:05 PM (/U5Yz)

337 325 lol what an idiot. Who was his preferred candidate anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (3izae)

======

It's all rumor-mongering at this point.

But I remember one of those rumors being that he wanted Michelle.

Who...before Kamala secured the delegates...announced she wasn't interested.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

338 304 Over the entrance to the EPA Museum is the EPA'S motto: WE'VE GOT TO REGULATE THOSE GUYS!

necesse est regere guys!

Posted by: brought to you by translate.google.com at April 04, 2025 01:05 PM (oY6Yp)

339 The Paris cafe uprising.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:05 PM (rBvG3)

340 >> The part about that "domestic production" that scares me is labor unions. Of course they're going to muscle in. I was not encouraged to see Shawn Fein (UAW leader) at that Liberation Day announcement.

I feel like that’s a blind spot for Trump. These labor unions are one reason companies started looking overseas for workers. They cut margins so heavily the companies can not make money or put investments into new plant and equipment. That puts you in a death spiral plus it priced your products out of a lot of markets and domestically ultimately kills jobs. Based on a few of their last negotiations it doesn’t look to me like they’ve learned that lesson. We will end up right back where we are if they keep that up.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 01:05 PM (AW6h8)

341 I personally believe it will transition provided we are able to attract enough companies to build domestic production. But that ain’t happening overnight.

==============

The part about that "domestic production" that scares me is labor unions. Of course they're going to muscle in. I was not encouraged to see Shawn Fein (UAW leader) at that Liberation Day announcement.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

==

The fact the rabidly anti-Trump, left-wing UAW President applauded car tariffs is not a feel good moment.

That's who will most benefit from tariffs on cars.

UAW has already started moving in on Southern auto plants. VW in TN voted to become a union shop.

You tell a worker they'll get $250k a year and they'll sign up to be a union shop.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 01:05 PM (4pwAx)

342 d'oh!

Posted by: anachronda at April 04, 2025 01:05 PM (oY6Yp)

343 stop it

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (/y8xj)

344 @WeLeftTheEUSSR

It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.

Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.

20 thousand new members have just joined her party.

https://youtu.be/hRsZI21boZ8

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (7Q7Ca)

345 Who let all the Italics in?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (rBvG3)

346 Bill.Clinton was overrated as a political strategist as well. He could only help himself.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (hRN9+)

When you have the entire press establishment kissing your ass and polishing your knob 24/7, Donald Fucking Duck would look like a genius politician. I said that about Clinton 30 years ago and thought the same about Obama.

I hate the media more than just about anything else in this country.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (bDt0k)

347 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

********

Is that the one with the 5' tall entry door under a big sign that says "Duck!"?

Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (/iMjX)

348 Suze 🇬🇧 #VoteReform 🇬🇧 #StarmerOut 🇬🇧
@WeLeftTheEUSSR

It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.

Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.

20 thousand new members have just joined her party.

As I predicted.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (xCA6C)

349 Obama is a man of at best mediocre intelligence.
____

Did you know, you can't get your car insurance company to pay for oil changes?
- The Lightbringer

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (Dv3i1)
__________________

And did you also know that you need comprehensive insurance to pay for damage to your car?

Worst of all, did you know that you can't file a claim and sign up for insurance?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (YqDXo)

350 from the Financial Times

A flood of discounted Chinese imports is set to compound the economic dangers to Europe from Donald Trump's tariffs, analysts warn,

Hmm. Discounted Chinese imports were such a good thing for us...why the panic?

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (L3CGb)

351 I hate the media more than just about anything else in this country.

And there's so much to choose from.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (/y8xj)

352 Who let all the Italics in?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (rBvG3)

damn Democrats......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (7Q7Ca)

353 JD Vance
@JDVance
Steve Witkoff is a great guy doing an incredible job. The people sniping at him are mad that he is succeeding where they failed for 40 years.

Turns out a lot of diplomacy boils down to a simple skill: don’t be an idiot.
6:16 AM · Mar 24, 2025
====

Yeah, well, he's no genius either.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (RIvkX)

354 How dare they shut down the EPA museum during Earf Day month (also the same day that Lenin was born, coincidence???)! We could get all the EPA "artifacts" and burn them on Earf Day. Just spitballin'.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (gllTv)

355
I’m not sure how much more of this the Chinese economy can take. They have nowhere to go.
Posted by: Marcus T

============

That's where the tariffs provide some entertainment if nothing else. Germany deindustrializing itself for the sake of Gaia, how's their consumer economy doing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (3izae)

356 >>I hate the media more than just about anything else in this country.

The Laws of Thermodynamics do not allow you to hate them sufficiently.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (AVXxY)

357 In still another revelation for The Lightbringer, did you know aluminum is not magnetic?

Hard to believe, but it's true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (YqDXo)

358 What they don't count are the thousands and thousands of small, public and private (but open to the public) museums that are all over. Like, no matter where you live, there's probably one within 5 miles of you right now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 01:04 PM (xFA3k)

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

This is true for us. When we moved here a dozen years ago, it was called "The Smoki Museum" -- but has since been changed by Lefty Victimologists to the politically-correct "The Museum of Indigenous People."

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (he7fo)

359 I was not encouraged to see Shawn Fein (UAW leader) at that Liberation Day announcement.

Me neither, but the first rule of Trump Club is that Trump is very transactional. You scratch his back, as Fein did pre-election, and he'll scratch yours.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (2ocoG)

360 350 from the Financial Times

"A flood of discounted Chinese imports is set to compound the economic dangers to Europe from Donald Trump's tariffs, analysts warn,"

Hmm. Discounted Chinese imports were such a good thing for us...why the panic?

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (L3CGb)

The EU has also imposed significant tariffs(above their 10% default rate) on Chinese autos.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (okun6)

361 This sounds like something a talentless writer would make up to put in his book to provide a sense of time and space. Like a dance that doesn't relate to any type of music. Or Hunter Biden's paintings.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (47/pr)

362 Jerome powell: trump’s tariffs will cause higher inflation

Trump: sorry jerry - i cant hear you over the roar of the money printers

Posted by: Oglebay at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (2ap+5)

363 The Chinese are very good at gaming the system. They funnel goods into Mexico and Canada to try and avoid any direct trade controls. Trump is the first one to call them on it.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (AW6h8)

364 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

********

I don't think either of its two wings are open...

Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (/iMjX)

365 Don't wait to long. It's date of death or six months later.
With stocks, you inherit the basis, so date of death is probably better for you. Higher basis = lower gain when you sell it.
Posted by: From about That Time
====
Should have said your basis is the value on date of death or six months later. Higher is still better.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (n4GiU)

366 If preezy Shit Midas had ousted Kumallah too who would he have gone with?

Well it would have to be another black woman. The donks only have Karens and black Karens as major voting blocks.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (17s+e)

367 Michelle was never going to run. She's a lazy sow, it's too much like hard work.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (YVzIj)

368 That's where the tariffs provide some entertainment if nothing else. Germany deindustrializing itself for the sake of Gaia, how's their consumer economy doing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (3izae)
________________

Germany ... let's see. Export-driven economy, now faced with punishing tariffs ...

Nope. I don't see any problems.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (YqDXo)

369 348 Suze 🇬🇧 #VoteReform 🇬🇧 #StarmerOut 🇬🇧
@WeLeftTheEUSSR

It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.

Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.

20 thousand new members have just joined her party.

As I predicted.
Posted by: Archimedes

Yup. Macron is left with Bearnaise on his face.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (/U5Yz)

370 How dare they shut down the EPA museum during Earf Day month (also the same day that Lenin was born, coincidence???)! We could get all the EPA "artifacts" and burn them on Earf Day. Just spitballin'.

And right before the new Michael Skakel exhibit was set to open.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (xCA6C)

371 How much is scrap sterling silver worth

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (P4Pk9)

372 Ace has restarted the Obama is a behind-the-curtain genius manipulator / Obama is a dunce-actor-playing-a-part AOS debate.
Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 12:58 PM (j4U/Z)

the answer is obvious

longbows

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (v6XNT)

373 Over the entrance to the EPA Museum is the EPA'S motto: WE'VE GOT TO REGULATE THOSE GUYS!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (L/fGl)

Regulations Macht Frei

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (bDt0k)

374 Michelle was never going to run. She's a lazy sow, it's too much like hard work.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (YVzIj)

Muh ballz wuz hot......

Posted by: Big Mike at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (7Q7Ca)

375
EPA

Exterminate People Agency

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)

376 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

*******

I heard they have a really nice exhibition for the blind.

Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (/iMjX)

377 Heavy Crossbows.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (rBvG3)

378 It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.

Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.

20 thousand new members have just joined her party.

The Wizards Of Smart learned nothing from either Butler, PA or the Great Melania Panty Sniffing Expedition.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (2ocoG)

379 [Trump yesterday:]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that Opponent in prison. It is the same “playbook” that was used against me by a group of Lunatics and Losers, like Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Monaco. They spent the last nine years thinking of nothing else, and they FAILED, because the People of the United States realized that they were only Corrupt Lawyers and Politicians. I don’t know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years. She suffered losses, but kept on going, and now, just before what would be a Big Victory, they get her on a minor charge that she probably knew nothing about – Sounds like a “bookkeeping” error to me. It is all so bad for France, and the Great French People, no matter what side they are on. FREE MARINE LE PEN!

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (he7fo)

380 Has Michelle Obama and her "brother" had a second podcast episode?

Their first was a complete pants shit.
Posted by: Seems Legit
-----

Recall the “An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.” tour? Cancelled on account of poor ticket sales.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (XeU6L)

381 Michelle was never going to run. She's a lazy sow, it's too much like hard work.

If Biden taught us anything, it's that doing the work doesn't matter a bit.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (/y8xj)

382 Sorry, JD. I'm going to wait on that one.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (XNkRi)

383 The Times They Are aChangin'.

Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
New - Senate Primary poll - New York
AOC 55% (+19)
Schumer (Inc) 36%
Data for progress #C - 767 LV - 3/31

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He tried but Chuckie just couldn't crawl low enough on his belly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

384 Michelle was never going to run. She's a lazy sow, it's too much like hard work.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (YVzIj)

Muh ballz wuz hot......
Posted by: Big Mike at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (7Q7Ca)
_________

[Golf clap for the reference]

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

385 Yup. Macron is left with Bearnaise on his face.

Don't get saucy with me, Bearnaise!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (xCA6C)

386 >> 376 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

Is it really a Wendy’s?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (AW6h8)

387 And next to the exhibit of tires with still some tread left.
Posted by:Oddbob

I have my collection of steel I beams scavenged from a neighbor's trailer sitting on top of them. Not willing to work that hard.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * feeling a bit atavistic at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (J1mV/)

388 Yup. Macron is left with Bearnaise on his face.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (/U5Yz)

-------

Uhhhh, that's not Bernaise, just ask his husband.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (PMtkd)

389 318 I'm waiting for the IRS Museum.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:03 PM (YqDXo)

If an IRS Museum is ever built, it will have more annual visitors than the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library. If a Biden Presidential Library (of Lies) is ever built.

Posted by: Gref at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (aBgBM)

390 [takes dollar, looks around furtively]

Word on the street is, all the real smart fellers are putting their money in airline stocks. Pan Am, US Air, and Braniff.

Posted by: Johnny the Shoeshine Guy at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (7Q0e+)

391 378 It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.

Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.

20 thousand new members have just joined her party.

The Wizards Of Smart learned nothing from either Butler, PA or the Great Melania Panty Sniffing Expedition.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (2ocoG)

=======

Remember in movies when bad guys where like, "No, don't kill him. That'll make him a martyr."

Apparently, it's only a movie thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (GBKbO)

392
Dunno. The whole world situation has a kind of creepy 1941 we-won't-supply-the-Japanese-Empire-with-oil vibe to it.

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (j4U/Z)

393 Yup. Macron is left with Bearnaise on his face.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 01:09 PM (/U5Yz)

Spoiler: That's not Bearnaise sauce.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 01:11 PM (iJfKG)

394 The part about that "domestic production" that scares me is labor unions. Of course they're going to muscle in. I was not encouraged to see Shawn Fein (UAW leader) at that Liberation Day announcement.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:01 PM (3izae)

It is what it is. I would rather well paid American union workers build my car than some guy in Mexico.

In an ideal world the UAW and its corruption would not play a role in this but this is the world we live in.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 01:11 PM (uCjyK)

395
Well, onto the topic. I'd like to know if any of Trump's critics have anything to say about the shuttering of the EPA Museum. I'd love to hear anyone try to defend THAT.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:11 PM (3izae)

396 Heavy Crossbows.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (rBvG3)
===

In .45 CALIBER BOLTS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:12 PM (17s+e)

397 Yup. Macron is left with Bearnaise on his face.
_____

There's a joke in there somewhere

Posted by: A Bear at April 04, 2025 01:12 PM (Dv3i1)

398
The people behind him were the smart ones but then believed they could get away with anything and were almost correct.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:00 PM (YVzIj)

. Obama promised people everything and gave them more greed and resentment. And violence and despair and poverty . The one thing Chicago Jesus could not give people were the very things they needed and wanted. Trump …..if we stick with him will give America a true Golden Age.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 04, 2025 01:12 PM (FCPbW)

399 Wow. I had no idea my Decoy Museum question would generate so much humor.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

400 Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
New - Senate Primary poll - New York
AOC 55% (+19)
Schumer (Inc) 36%
Data for progress #C - 767 LV - 3/31

Yes please.

Hang your at on that stupid, bloviating c*nt. That's how you'll win back voters.

BWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

*opens tiktok*

*rewatches AOC learning what a garbage disposal is*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:12 PM (7Q7Ca)

401 Who let all the Italics in?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (rBvG3)

Hater. They're just doing the jobs American commenters won't do.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (i24o9)

402 For me, there is one thing that makes Obama the worst president in my lifetime - by far. It's not Obamacare, Iran, or TARP either.

He had the chance to finally put race behind us, and have us move forward as a country. Trump is ripping the Band-Aid off and taking decisive action to fix our economy, from the roots. Obama could have taken a little pain to call his presidency a 'post-racial' period, ended affirmative action, and told people to take advantage of his gift of an election as an opportunity to truly move on. He didn't, and race relations are worse now than they were 50 years ago. I can't forgive him for that. I didn't vote for him, but as a black man I was hoping that he would capitalize on the moment he was uniquely given. To throw that away for short-term partisan advantage is unforgiveable. He damaged the very fabric of this country, and Biden's pathetic grifting doesn't hold a candle to the damage Obama caused.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (pLpVh)

403 If preezy Shit Midas had ousted Kumallah too who would he have gone with?

Well it would have to be another black woman. The donks only have Karens and black Karens as major voting blocks.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (17s+e)

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

Could Stacy "Tank" Abrams continued to serve as Governor of Georgia while POTUS?

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (he7fo)

404 Wow. I had no idea my Decoy Museum question would generate so much humor.
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

It's an eminence front. It's a put on......it's a put on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (7Q7Ca)

405 The best part of having a half-black President elected TWICE is all the racial healing he initiated.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:14 PM (PMtkd)

406 How dare they shut down the EPA museum during Earf Day month (also the same day that Lenin was born, coincidence???)!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd at April 04, 2025 01:07 PM (gllTv)
_______________

No coincidence. Earf Day was founded (IIRC) by Ira Einhorn, who murdered his girlfriend. There are no coincidence when it comes to the Reds.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:14 PM (YqDXo)

407 If Biden taught us anything, it's that doing the work doesn't matter a bit.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (/y8xj)

Yes and no. He still had to go to meetings and do things and campaign. She wasn't even interested in that.

Happens when you make 400,000 a year in a position they don't even replace, where you just crossed names off a list of patients you don't want taking up a hospital bed because they're white... I mean healthy... HEALTHY!

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:14 PM (YVzIj)

408 New - Senate Primary poll - New York
AOC 55% (+19)
Schumer (Inc) 36%
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Delicious.
That's enough to convince her to run against him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 01:14 PM (xFA3k)

409 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?
==

Fun fact about Havre de Grace: it almost became the nation's capital. In 1789 the House of Representatives voted on a permanent location for the nation’s capital. It was a tie — between a site on the Potomac and a site on the Susquehanna (Havre de Grace). The deciding vote was be cast by the Speaker of the House Frederick Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania. He voted for the location on the Potomac.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 04, 2025 01:14 PM (eb5mD)

410 I see Darrell Harris and I are simpatico.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:15 PM (PMtkd)

411 403 If preezy Shit Midas had ousted Kumallah too who would he have gone with?

Well it would have to be another black woman. The donks only have Karens and black Karens as major voting blocks.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:08 PM (17s+e)

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

Could Stacy "Tank" Abrams continued to serve as Governor of Georgia while POTUS?

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (he7fo)
_______________

Could've gone for Karen Bass.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:15 PM (YqDXo)

412 Recall the “An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.” tour? Cancelled on account of poor ticket sales.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (XeU6L)

I don't know. That might've been pretty great if you got enough booze onstage for them.

It would've turned into the bottle-throwing Improv Version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 01:15 PM (iJfKG)

413 Jerome powell: trump’s tariffs will cause higher inflation

-
LOL: FactPost Wants You to Believe That Grocery Prices Have Already Increased By 150 Percent

https://shorturl.at/Km0T9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:15 PM (L/fGl)

414
The EU has also imposed significant tariffs(above their 10% default rate) on Chinese autos.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

============

Really, just now?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:15 PM (3izae)

415 It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.

Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.

20 thousand new members have just joined her party.

The Wizards Of Smart learned nothing from either Butler, PA or the Great Melania Panty Sniffing Expedition.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (2ocoG)

=======

Remember in movies when bad guys where like, "No, don't kill him. That'll make him a martyr."

Apparently, it's only a movie thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:10 PM (GBKbO)
________

All true. But -- big "but" here -- they ain't done with her yet. Not by a long shot. If worst comes to worst, they'll just shoot her in the head. Not joking.

MLP is basically a garden-variety Europanzy socialist except on one issue: immigration. But that is the end-all, be-all nuclear, fist-up-the-ass issue of our time. All of Europe staked its entire future on mass imports of fetid third-world mutants. They will defend this unto death. Captain Ahab would think they should let it go. They cannot -- and will not -- allow MLP to win.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

416 402

America liked the idea of a black president and Obama ruined it.

Every opportunity possible he played the race card.

As a Republican, I'm somewhat glad because he was otherwise an unpopular President as a result.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (4pwAx)

417 -
LOL: FactPost Wants You to Believe That Grocery Prices Have Already Increased By 150 Percent

https://shorturl.at/Km0T9
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:15 PM (L/fGl)

ABC News told me yesterday that iPhones will cost $3000 instead of $1000 because of Trump's tariffs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (7Q7Ca)

418 Happens when you make 400,000 a year in a position they don't even replace, where you just crossed names off a list of patients you don't want taking up a hospital bed because they're white... I mean healthy... HEALTHY!

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:14 PM (YVzIj)
________________

I thought her job was to send black patients elsewhere, because they're less likely to have insurance.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (YqDXo)

419 Who let all the Italics in?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:06 PM (rBvG3)

at least it wasn't the irish...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (v6XNT)

420 didn't vote for him, but as a black man I was hoping that he would capitalize on the moment he was uniquely given. To throw that away for short-term partisan advantage is unforgiveable. He damaged the very fabric of this country, and Biden's pathetic grifting doesn't hold a candle to the damage Obama caused.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (pLpVh)

Well said. That was my only hope for him.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (i24o9)

421 How much is scrap sterling silver worth
Posted by: MAC V SOG

Silver bullion (99% pure) is bouncing between $32 to $34/oz. Sterling is only about 92% pure. Reputable local dealer is your best bet.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * feeling a bit atavistic at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (J1mV/)

422 ABC News told me yesterday that iPhones will cost $3000 instead of $1000 because of Trump's tariffs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (7Q7Ca)
____________

Good. I hate Apple anyway.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

423 Apple is reshoring. Apple.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (rBvG3)

424 AOC will smoke Schumer in the primary. He's well past his sell date.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (rJ48h)

425 Could've gone for Karen Bass
_____

I'll do for the US the same as what I did for Los Angeles!
- K Bass

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)

426 Lenin and Eddie Albert were both born on 22 April (though, in Lenin's case it was the Old-Style date).

Albert was a big leftie enviro, too. So it could've been his birthday that Earth Day commemorates.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (77rzZ)

427
Good. I hate Apple anyway.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (7Q7Ca)

428 Look at the Dem nominees for president since 2008:

Obama Term One
Obama Term Two
Hillary - bust
Biden One Term/Third Term
Kamala - bust

GOPe

John McCain
Mitt Romney

MAGA

Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (rj6Yv)

429 Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (pLpVh)

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

It was indeed a missed opportunity and inflection point to literally unite the country.

But that'll never happen with a Marxist of any race or gender. I genuinely conservative & patriotic black and/or female, however ...

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (he7fo)

430 For me, there is one thing that makes Obama the worst president in my lifetime - by far. It's not Obamacare, Iran, or TARP either.

He had the chance to finally put race behind us, and have us move forward as a country. Trump is ripping the Band-Aid off and taking decisive action to fix our economy, from the roots. Obama could have taken a little pain to call his presidency a 'post-racial' period, ended affirmative action, and told people to take advantage of his gift of an election as an opportunity to truly move on. He didn't, and race relations are worse now than they were 50 years ago. I can't forgive him for that. I didn't vote for him, but as a black man I was hoping that he would capitalize on the moment he was uniquely given. To throw that away for short-term partisan advantage is unforgiveable. He damaged the very fabric of this country, and Biden's pathetic grifting doesn't hold a candle to the damage Obama caused.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (pLpVh)

Well put! Agree 100%. People like him, as well as "ministers" like Jackson and Sharpton deserve the harshest judgement for abusing their positions.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (bDt0k)

431
Bill.Clinton was overrated as a political strategist as well. He could only help himself.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:02 PM (hRN9+)

He couldn't even do THAT very well. His first big policy initiative on taking office was legalizing gays in the military, which turned into a huge hullabaloo, because he had that typical leftist cocksmoker idea that the military is made up entirely of bigot robots and that all he had to do was give the order. Instead, he stupidly squandered most of his political power to compromise with "don't ask, don't tell"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (y9nCu)

432 However, the museum saw fewer than 2,000 visitors in its first nine months, which some may call pathetic.

Taxpayers had invested $4 million to bring the museum up to Smithsonian standards, with an additional $600,000 per year required for upkeep. That worked out to about $315 per visitor--a price tag that Zeldin and his team argue cannot be justified.

The $315 per visitor is the upkeep per visitor. That doesn't include the $4,000,000 "to bring the museum up to Smithsonian standards", so the total cost per visitor for the first nine months is $2,300.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (D0HYP)

433 415 MLP is basically a garden-variety Europanzy socialist except on one issue: immigration. But that is the end-all, be-all nuclear, fist-up-the-ass issue of our time. All of Europe staked its entire future on mass imports of fetid third-world mutants. They will defend this unto death. Captain Ahab would think they should let it go. They cannot -- and will not -- allow MLP to win.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Also true.

The European elite will nuke Paris before giving up on unlimited immigration. And there's nothing like a prominent party in Europe that even reflects the hardcore conservativism of Mitch McConnell.

Still, getting immigration under control is probably the most important first step for Europe. Second would probably be energy related.

If something like the National Rally can get a hold on immigration, it's good for France and Europe even if they do nothing else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

434 Obama could never create any racial healing because his bitch faced, affirmative action (as is he) "wife" couldn't keep her fat mouth shut about how much she hated America.

"She" is absolutely on the top of my list if I meet them to say "fuck off."

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (PMtkd)

435 We went from rap groups collaborating with heavy metal groups in the soundtrack of "Judgement Night" in the 90s, to a "beer summit" because the police merely asking a man why he is trying to pry open windows is racist if he's black under Obama.

Fuck that guy for ever and ever--he's a fucking pile of shit that can't be hated enough.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 01:19 PM (xFA3k)

436 Apple is reshoring. Apple.

My company sells hardware made in China. We may be f*cked. So far, the CEO hasn't said a thing about it.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 01:19 PM (/y8xj)

437
He had the chance to finally put race behind us, and have us move forward as a country.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

============

Darrell, I think sowing racial resentment was one of his objectives. Moving us forward as a country never was.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:19 PM (3izae)

438 We went from rap groups collaborating with heavy metal groups in the soundtrack of "Judgement Night" in the 90s, to a "beer summit" because the police merely asking a man why he is trying to pry open windows is racist if he's black under Obama.

Fuck that guy for ever and ever--he's a fucking pile of shit that can't be hated enough.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 01:19 PM (xFA3k)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/GiHdr4rWG98

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:20 PM (7Q7Ca)

439 Darrell, I think sowing racial resentment was one of his objectives. Moving us forward as a country never was.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:19 PM (3izae)

Completely true.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 01:20 PM (uCjyK)

440 These people demented space aliens.

Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at April 04, 2025 01:20 PM (/HDaX)

441 425 Could've gone for Karen Bass
_____

I'll do for the US the same as what I did for Los Angeles!
- K Bass

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)
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Or Gavin Newsom.

"I'll do for the US what I've done for SF and California!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (YqDXo)

442 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

It's a trap!

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (L3CGb)

443 Iowa State students held a mock funeral to mourn the closure of the university's LGBTQ center (yes, this is real)

-
They buried a rainbow painted coffin.

https://shorturl.at/B8XNn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (L/fGl)

444 Yup.... wonderful Historic irony alert...

Viet Nam is the first 'Domino to fall' in the great Trade War... Trump and Leader of Communist Party had a phone call where Viet Nam wants to get rid of all Tariffs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (QAkQ3)

445 All of Europe staked its entire future on mass imports of fetid third-world mutants. They will defend this unto death. Captain Ahab would think they should let it go. They cannot -- and will not -- allow MLP to win.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)
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Except...if Europe continues down this path, it has NO future.

The immigrants will soon become the permanent ruling class. It's already happening and there's little to nothing they can do stop it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (7fElN)

446
Or Gavin Newsom.

"I'll do for the US what I've done for SF and California!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (YqDXo)

"YOU get the poopie map app and YOU get the poopie map app!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (7Q7Ca)

447 Keep an eye on Karen Bass, her campaign could catch on fire.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (Dv3i1)

448 so the total cost per visitor for the first nine months is $2,300.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (D0HYP)
That sounds like our metro train in downtown Houston numbers

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (P4Pk9)

449 443 Iowa State students held a mock funeral to mourn the closure of the university's LGBTQ center (yes, this is real)

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This is what happens when you ingest too much glyphosate-ridden corn.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (PMtkd)

450
My company sells hardware made in China. We may be f*cked. So far, the CEO hasn't said a thing about it.
Posted by: Oddbob

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I've been seeing those little stories here and there on Twitter. At my company, a few of us are on furlough right now, the company manufactures luxury furniture that's assembled mostly in Vietnam. I'm not counting on being called back.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (3izae)

451 AOC is leading Schumer in a hypothetical primary poll by 19%. Heh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (7A/rN)

452 If anyone seriously thought electing a black neo communist, Obama, was going to do anything other than exacerbate racial tensions they are not very wise.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:23 PM (17s+e)

453 Progressive thought.

Gavin Newsom to ask foreign countries to exempt California from retaliatory tariffs (pretty please)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:23 PM (L/fGl)

454
This is what happens when you ingest too much glyphosate-ridden corn.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (PMtkd)

Or, spread monkeypox.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:23 PM (7Q7Ca)

455 402 For me, there is one thing that makes Obama the worst president in my lifetime - by far. It's not Obamacare, Iran, or TARP either.

He had the chance to finally put race behind us, and have us move forward as a country. Trump is ripping the Band-Aid off and taking decisive action to fix our economy, from the roots. Obama could have taken a little pain to call his presidency a 'post-racial' period, ended affirmative action, and told people to take advantage of his gift of an election as an opportunity to truly move on. He didn't, and race relations are worse now than they were 50 years ago. I can't forgive him for that. I didn't vote for him, but as a black man I was hoping that he would capitalize on the moment he was uniquely given. To throw that away for short-term partisan advantage is unforgiveable. He damaged the very fabric of this country, and Biden's pathetic grifting doesn't hold a candle to the damage Obama caused.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (pLpVh)

IMO Obama has a deep-seated personality issue. He wishes he'd been born white. Everything he did and does flows from that issue.

Posted by: Gref at April 04, 2025 01:23 PM (aBgBM)

456 I didn't vote for him, but as a black man I was hoping that he would capitalize on the moment he was uniquely given. To throw that away for short-term partisan advantage is unforgiveable. He damaged the very fabric of this country, and Biden's pathetic grifting doesn't hold a candle to the damage Obama caused.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 01:13 PM (pLpVh)
____

He did capitalize on it. Just not in the way you hoped. I agree his presidency was disastrous for the country. But I'm not sure he personally should get full blame. He was an op, a puppet, a smooth-talking snakeoil salesman for more sinister forces. He'd have been a Trumpy president if he was told to be.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

457 SELL SELL SELL

Posted by: Jim Cramer - Investment Club and media personality at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (v0R5T)

458 >>Viet Nam is the first 'Domino to fall' in the great Trade War...

ISWYDT

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (AVXxY)

459
Viet Nam is the first 'Domino to fall' in the great Trade War... Trump and Leader of Communist Party had a phone call where Viet Nam wants to get rid of all Tariffs.
Posted by: Romeo13

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OTOH... lol this news cycle is moving FAST!!!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (3izae)

460 Gavin Newsom to ask foreign countries to exempt California from retaliatory tariffs (pretty please)
____

What does California export these days, besides their citizens?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (Dv3i1)

461 I've been seeing those little stories here and there on Twitter. At my company, a few of us are on furlough right now, the company manufactures luxury furniture that's assembled mostly in Vietnam. I'm not counting on being called back.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (3izae)

Viet Nam already caved... they just have to do the deal on paper.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (QAkQ3)

462 If anyone seriously thought electing a black neo communist, Obama, was going to do anything other than exacerbate racial tensions they are not very wise.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:23 PM (17s+e)

Not to mention electing a guy who's middle name was Hussein, 7 years after 911. We are a fundamentally unserious country.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (bDt0k)

463 Trump and Leader of Communist Party had a phone call where Viet Nam wants to get rid of all Tariffs.

I wonder if everyone is going to settle on 5 or 10%.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (L3CGb)

464 Did Trump call Vietnam to say herro?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (rBvG3)

465 The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.
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Very disturbing.

Posted by: Jeb Boasburg at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (paSBy)

466 I saw the Fetid Third-World Mutants open for Children of Gaza at Club Gitmo in '07.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (he7fo)

467 From the get-go Obama's "fundamentally change" America was a clear wake-up call about who he was.

Also, he was the most pro-abortion senator at the time. Nice going Notre Dame, giving him recognition immediately after his election. Fuck off.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (PMtkd)

468 442 Anybody ever been to the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland?

It's a trap!

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (L3CGb)

Exactly. Beware the packs of bird dogs that are released without warning.

Posted by: Gref at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (aBgBM)

469 Large sign at the Decoy Museum beckoned me: This way to the egress! Dumped me outside. Had to pay twice!

Posted by: Once Bitten, No Twice Bitten, No... at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (G5+As)

470 459
Viet Nam is the first 'Domino to fall' in the great Trade War... Trump and Leader of Communist Party had a phone call where Viet Nam wants to get rid of all Tariffs.
Posted by: Romeo13

=============

OTOH... lol this news cycle is moving FAST!!!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (3izae)

/Fistbump

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (QAkQ3)

471 I'm betting Ace hits on this later today: I just saw the job numbers went up 225,000 despite Trump firing half of Washington. I'd say that's a pretty good sign that foreign companies are localizing, and US manufacturing is more optimistic.

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (dIske)

472 OT: The stock market is such fucked in the ass stupid that good job numbers are still bad because it'll mean it will take even longer for the Fed to cut rates

What makes anyone think the Market is filled with Rational Actors?
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 12:44 PM (AVXxY)
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The herd is easily spooked and panicked into running.
But the investment houses are rational to the extent that markets aren't connected to the economy the way they used to be.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that left wing billionaires conspired to make the markets move to
a) shake out the little guys
II) buy at a good deal, including buyback of company stock already planned but now at a better deal
3) make Trump look bad without having to fund antifa directly or depend on ngo front groups to do it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (FCbAQ)

473 Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:18 PM (PMtkd)

Obama and his merry band of Marxists were never interested in healing, only division and strife.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (YVzIj)

474 An obscure federal judge has demanded that France immediately prosecute MLP.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (17s+e)

475 Did Trump call Vietnam to say herro?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (rBvG3)

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

* cue Stevie Wonder *

I just called ... to say ... I rove you ...

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (he7fo)

476 Not so fast Mr. Zelding
- Judge Walter P. Cocksucker, 211st District, Blue State Shithole

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (4La0r)

477 463 Trump and Leader of Communist Party had a phone call where Viet Nam wants to get rid of all Tariffs.

I wonder if everyone is going to settle on 5 or 10%.
Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 01:24 PM (L3CGb)

EU has 10% as their floor... so this will be interesting.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (QAkQ3)

478 I'm betting Ace hits on this later today: I just saw the job numbers went up 225,000 despite Trump firing half of Washington. I'd say that's a pretty good sign that foreign companies are localizing, and US manufacturing is more optimistic.
Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 01:25 PM (dIske)

"NO!!!!! INFLATION is SOARING and the economy will NEVER RECOVER!!!!!!"

- - - - Jim Cramer, Dick in Hand

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (7Q7Ca)

479 Do Trump and the Vietnamese have Tet a Tet scheduled?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (rBvG3)

480 408 New - Senate Primary poll - New York
AOC 55% (+19)
Schumer (Inc) 36%
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Delicious.
That's enough to convince her to run against him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 01:14 PM (xFA3k)

Are there enough people who pull the lever for D no matter how stupid the candidate is to actually get her elected?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (4XwPj)

481 480 Are there enough people who pull the lever for D no matter how stupid the candidate is to actually get her elected?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (4XwPj)

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It's New York.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

482 Charlie Don't Surf

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (7A/rN)

483 An obscure federal judge has demanded that France immediately prosecute MLP.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 01:26 PM (17s+e)

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BREAKING: Judge Bozoberg Orders Beheading of Marine Le Pen. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (he7fo)

484 481 480 Are there enough people who pull the lever for D no matter how stupid the candidate is to actually get her elected?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (4XwPj)

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It's New York.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

So yes...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 01:28 PM (VE6XX)

485
Are there enough people who pull the lever for D no matter how stupid the candidate is to actually get her elected?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (4XwPj)

New York.......or was this a rhetorical question.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 01:28 PM (7Q7Ca)

486 nood nsa firing

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 04, 2025 01:28 PM (v6XNT)

487 Are there enough people who pull the lever for D no matter how stupid the candidate is to actually get her elected?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 01:27 PM (4XwPj)

Yes. Unequivocally yes.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 04, 2025 01:28 PM (bDt0k)

488 It's hard to imagine the New York "counters of votes" are anything but corrupt.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:28 PM (PMtkd)

489 Vietnam was going to negotiate the size of the tariffs, but in the end just said pho kit.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (Dv3i1)

490 Are there enough people who pull the lever for D no matter how stupid the candidate is to actually get her elected?

—

Kamala got 75M votes.
Does that answer your question?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (4La0r)

491 470 459
Viet Nam is the first 'Domino to fall' in the great Trade War... Trump and Leader of Communist Party had a phone call where Viet Nam wants to get rid of all Tariffs.
Posted by: Romeo13
__________________________

Vietnam is a weird one. Most of the recent manufacturing started there is made up of Chinese companies. You might have even noticed an uptick in goods in the US retail that say "Made in Vietnam". What they should say is "Made in Vietnam by Chinese".

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (dIske)

492 This is what happens when you ingest too much glyphosate-ridden corn.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 04, 2025 01:22 PM (PMtkd)

That's not the way I would have said it.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (FCbAQ)

493 All of Europe staked its entire future on mass imports of fetid third-world mutants. They will defend this unto death. Captain Ahab would think they should let it go. They cannot -- and will not -- allow MLP to win.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)
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Except...if Europe continues down this path, it has NO future.

The immigrants will soon become the permanent ruling class. It's already happening and there's little to nothing they can do stop it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 04, 2025 01:21 PM (7fElN)
________

I agree. Europe has no future. But it won't matter. The Euro elites are 100% committed to unlimited immigration no matter what the costs. I don't see how the elites can be stopped, short of true violent rebellion.

And personally, I think it there was a violent rebellion, it would be the immigrants who end up winning. When 10,000 African Muslims show up on Champs-Elysees with machetes and probably quite a few guns, who is gonna stop them?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

494 Cream rises to the top.

Leftist Foundation Awards Mike Pence "Profile in Courage" for Certifying 2020 Election

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)

495 Lenin and Eddie Albert were both born on 22 April (though, in Lenin's case it was the Old-Style date).

Albert was a big leftie enviro, too. So it could've been his birthday that Earth Day commemorates.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 01:17 PM (77rzZ)
______________

Not a chance. They chose Lenin's birthday intentionally - I'd bet my life on it. Look at address of the late unlamented Coffee Party's website: Coffee Party USA. Why specify USA? Because then it abbreviates to CPUSA. Coincidence? Recall the Reds are people who make connections between obscure items all the time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (YqDXo)

496 Are there enough people who pull the lever for D no matter
___

I love the D!

Posted by: Karen Awfl at April 04, 2025 01:30 PM (Dv3i1)

497 Cream rises to the top.

Leftist Foundation Awards Mike Pence "Profile in Courage" for Certifying 2020 Election

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)
______________

Shit floats.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 01:30 PM (YqDXo)

498 Darrell, I think sowing racial resentment was one of his objectives. Moving us forward as a country never was.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 01:19 PM (3izae)

Bill Ayers was Barry's best friend and Bill Ayer's pa was Barry's patron.

Posted by: mrp at April 04, 2025 01:31 PM (rj6Yv)

499 Anybody get the sense that the media wants to see the public begin to panic, and cost Trump some political capitol?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 01:35 PM (a1415)

500 Harbor Freight has more and more of their stuff NOT being made in China.

been trending for a few years now, I believe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 01:36 PM (a1415)

501 246
Hampden-Sydney College man
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 04, 2025 12:52 PM (k1E2D)

Is that place still all-boys?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 04, 2025 12:54 PM (hRN9+)

Still all men, and still votes 90% Republican

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 04, 2025 01:43 PM (k1E2D)

502 Kamala got 75M votes.
Does that answer your question?

Point of order: 75M *ballots*.

It's strongly likely 75M people did not vote for her.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

503 Were there any actual EPA federal employees there to help manage it?

Federal News Network, Several agencies end telework, remote work agreements and set return-to-office dates
AFGE Council 238 President Marie Owens Powell says the EPA’s notice to employees is in violation of the union’s collective bargaining agreement. February 12, 2025

In part, "Several agencies are rescinding telework and remote work policies for their employees, following up on President Donald Trump’s mandate to send federal employees back to the office full time.

The Environmental Protection Agency is rescinding telework and remote work agreements for its employees, and setting near-term targets for all staff to return to the office full-time.

EPA’s Office of the Administrator, in an email obtained by Federal News Network, told its workers Wednesday that the agency “has determined that its employees’ duties require them to be face-to-face with their supervisors, colleagues, clients, and the public to the maximum extent possible.”

The EPA said it’s rescinding all regular and remote work agreements, except for ..."

I think it was a joke. EPA simply needed to spend Congressionally approved funds.

Posted by: L - No nic, adores both Musk and Miller. at April 04, 2025 01:50 PM (NFX2v)

504 Biden was Obama's Mortimer Snerd.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at April 04, 2025 02:40 PM (imhWo)

505 Remember when we all thought Obama was the worst president ever?

Has Biden eclipsed him?

Posted by Ace at 12:22 PM

No, Biden has not eclipsed him, because he was never President. Obama was the shadow President behind the scenes with the rest of the Deep State the entire time.

One could argue that the "Biden Administration" has been the worst of our lifetimes. But tough to say, considering most of the policies that were enacted during the "Biden Administration" were put in place during the radical transformation of the federal government and country during the Obama Administration. That radical transformation is what successfully undermined the first Trump Administration, rigged and stole the 2020 election and then setup the January 6th operation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (P5BPp)

506 Who needs to see all those fake pictures and faked Data and all that typical load of poppycock, Balderdash we get from NRDC, Greenpeace and the Daily Fake News. Sorry Greta the Museum of Fake Climate Change is closed

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 04, 2025 04:56 PM (wGqjj)

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