Trump Nears the Record for Reductions in the Federal Workforce as Jobs Growth Comes In, Get This, Above "Expectations"

The Trump administration's efforts to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce appear on pace to surpass the record workforce reductions under the Clinton administration. The rapid-fire restructuring of major federal agencies, mass terminations, buyouts, and resignations, however, could see him achieve in mere months more than Clinton did in eight years.
During the 1990s, President Bill Clinton reduced the size of the federal civilian workforce from roughly 2.2 million to 1.8 million, largely through federal buyouts. Upper estimates put the figure at 426,200 federal jobs eliminated. That reduction stands as the largest cut to the federal headcount since World War II.
Civilian workforce figures exclude military personnel and United States Postal Service (USPS) and most totals refer to executive branch employees, who make up the lion's share of the federal payroll. Those employees are also the administration's top priority for cuts as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk works to axe trillions in spending from the budget.
Early in this second Trump administration, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) coordinated a large-scale federal buyout, offering employees the option of resigning to secure pay through Sept. 30.
The administration said that about 75,000 employees took the offer, accounting for roughly 3% of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees. Trump had hoped for as many as 5%-10% to take the deal and several major agencies have begun to offer a second round of buyouts, hoping that the ongoing terminations will make employees less hesitant to accept.
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Trump will still need to reduce the headcount by roughly 200,000 to break the Clinton record. Assessing the exact figure of firings under Trump thus far is difficult, in no small part due to the intervention of judges who have delayed or ordered the reversal of some.

The cuts to the federal workforce did not, as leftists claim, harm the economy. In fact, they seem to have increased economic activity in the private sector, which is the sector where we want job growth.

March's Jobs Report crushed expectations, which was good news in and of itself BUT when you look at the report by the numbers, it's even better. Remember during the Biden years how they'd make a big deal about how many jobs they added and then we'd find out a couple of weeks later it was wrong or that the numbers added were government jobs?
Yeah.
That is not the case now under Trump.
Take a look:

Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
JOBS REPORT by the numbers:
- 228,000 jobs added, beating expectations by 88,000.
- 459,000 increase in full time workers.
- 209,000 increase in private employment.
- 13,000 increase in construction jobs.
- 22,900 increase in transportation & warehousing jobs.
- 23,700 increase in retail trade jobs.
- 232,000 increase in the labor force.
- 4,000 decline in federal government jobs.

The public supports Trump's deportations:

CBS Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Trump's Mass Deportations
A majority of Americans support President Donald Trump's mass deportation program, a new poll from CBS News finds.
About 58 percent of American adults told CBS pollsters that they approve of Trump's program to "find and deport immigrants who are in the United States illegally," while 42 percent said they disapprove.
Most significantly, 56 percent of swing voters support Trump's deportation program, as well as 93 percent of Republicans. Likewise, majorities of white non-college-educated Americans, 69 percent, and white college-educated Americans, 56 percent, support the deportations.
Hispanic Americans are a bit more split on the issue, with 47 percent approving of Trump's deportations and 53 percent opposing.
Trump's immigration policies, poll after poll has found, remain largely popular with Americans.

The left is pushing what is essentially a push-poll that asks: Do you support Trump illegally and mistakenly sending law-abiding American citizens to El Salvadoran torture prisons?

This juiced question basically boils down to "Do you agree that bad deportations are bad?" and forces the answer that the left wants to claim indicates that Americans oppose the deportations.

For the next story, keep in mind that the media routinely scolds Americans that they're not allowed to have opinions on major political questions of the day because they're not "experts." Also note that media personnel usually have degrees in liberal arts and crafts subjects, or in "journalism," which is not a degree that confers any expertise in any subject matter "journalists" routinely offer their opinions about, suggesting that those opinions are expert and authoritative.

Meanwhile, Jake Tapper will scold you for saying that Kamala Harris sounds drunk or Biden is exhibiting the signs of senility, insisting that you cannot judge what drunk people sound like without a degree in neurology and organic chemistry, and you cannot spot someone slurring their words and losing their train of thought due to age-related dementia without advanced degrees in neurology and elder care.

So, NBC wanted an Authoritative Expert to trash Trump's reciprocal tariffs, and they found a... nurse to render her expert opinion on tariff policy,.

Don't worry, though -- her great grandfather was a congressman who passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, and as you know, "expertise" is passed on by genetics whenever the media decides it is.

NBC News
@NBCNews
Her great-grandfather was behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act -- which many economic historians believe worsened the Great Depression. She thinks Trump's tariffs are "terrible."

Speaking of spotting intoxicated people, Kamala Harris has "finally" spoke out against Trump, and the media is giddy. This, they deem, is a "stunning" event, almost as stunning as the Fiercely Heterosexual (TM) Cory Booker standing on his feet and blabbing for twenty-four hours.

And Kamala sounds like she knocked back a few schnapps before speaking.

In my Non-Jake-Tapper-Certified Expert Opinion on detecting slurring.

BREAKING: In a stunning appearance , Kamala Harris just spoke out for the first time against Donald Trump in his second term. This is amazing. pic.twitter.com/kTf1CJKdQ5
— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) April 4, 2025

The DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are suing Trump over his EO to block non-citizens from voting.

This should tell you everything you need to know… pic.twitter.com/zMnG6xIbTT
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 2, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:45 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:46 PM (7Q7Ca)

2 Even with all the government jobs ended, we net gained, bigly.

HA!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:46 PM (7Q7Ca)

3 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 04, 2025 02:46 PM (rbKZ6)

4 Lum has been nooded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:46 PM (7Q7Ca)

5 I support rendering the fat.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 02:47 PM (/U5Yz)

6 But is Kamala’s appearance ALSO brave?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 04, 2025 02:48 PM (TJLr1)

7 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 02:48 PM (cYBz/)

8 CBS Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Trump's Mass Deportations

The remaining 4 polled were the illegals being deported.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:48 PM (7Q7Ca)

9 Top 10?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (gllTv)

10 It's Kamala's pulling her chin into her neck that tells me she's drunk.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (rbKZ6)

11 I’d like to see how the Trump order which simply reinforces the fact that non citizen voting is against the law is somehow unconstitutional

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (HYKHz)

12 > The Trump administration's efforts to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce appear on pace to surpass the record workforce reductions under the Clinton administration.

Afuera!!

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (lIio7)

13 Shifting from non-productive labor(or actively harmful labor) to productive labor is positive for an economy.

Looking at gdp as being a function of labor and capital instead of spending tends to lead to less misconceptions(although the math comes out the same). Workforce times equipment = stuff doesn't invite people to conclude that spending drives production.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (okun6)

14 Who doesn't love Deportations?

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (AVXxY)

15 When people realize how much of GDP growth over the past 15 years has just been federal spending...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

16 She's still a babbling idiot, drunk or not

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 02:49 PM (7A/rN)

17 We need mass arrests to go with mass deportations.

There's a lot of people who need one or the other.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (Q4IgG)

18 Bartender, I'll have what Kamala is having.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (dJimA)

19 Almost all gov’t workers are non-productive parasites feeding off the blood of the people who actually make things. Cutting their phoney-baloney jobs and ending their meddling in the private sector will always be an economic win in real terms.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (l3YAf)

20 The left is pushing what is essentially a push-poll that asks: Do you support Trump illegally and mistakenly sending law-abiding American citizens to El Salvadoran torture prisons?

Yes.

And for those in the back,

YES!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (ejfFE)

21 14 Who doesn't love Deportations?
Posted by: garrett

I fantasize about deportations.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (/U5Yz)

22 6 But is Kamala’s appearance ALSO brave?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 04, 2025 02:48 PM (TJLr1)

Hey, she went out of the house looking like that. Of course it's brave.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (bss/y)

23 And Kamala sounds like she knocked back a few schnapps before speaking.

RUM!!!! RUM TILL WE PUKE!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (7Q7Ca)

24
Harris's appearance is stunning? Like when a bird hits my window and then lies on the ground with half its brain functions gone for 30 seconds?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (3izae)

25 Trump will still need to reduce the headcount by roughly 200,000 to break the Clinton record.

Yeah, but that just leaves the record within reach of the next guy. Go for 2/3rds before start jogging towards the finish line.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (4Nep/)

26 22 6 But is Kamala’s appearance ALSO brave?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 04, 2025 02:48 PM (TJLr1)

And Joyful...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (VE6XX)

27 "A Maryland father was improperly deported to El Salvador."
-the media

"An illegal immigrant in Maryland from El Salvador has been deported to El Salvador despite his protestations that he's afraid of gang violence in El Salvador after El Salvador has the safest criminal statistics in all of the Americas right now."
-the reality

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

28 I love that Bobby, Jr gave some HHS employees a choice between resigning or transferring to providing health care to Indians on some shit Res or to Eskimos in Alaska. I've heard jokes (wishful thinking?) about that being done, but someone finally had the stones to do it. More, please!

Posted by: Martin Tell at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (sFNX2)

29 We went from "We're Saving Our Precious Democracy!", to "Won't Someone Save Our Precious Bureaucracy!?".

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (AVXxY)

30 RUM!!!! RUM TILL WE PUKE!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (7Q7Ca)

Now all she needs is some sodomy and the lash.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (bss/y)

31 stock markets not happy about the new jobs and deportations ... I guess. down another 5% today.

Bitcoin up about 2.4% today ... but down to 84K from a high of 109K. Not much else is up ... silver/gold Miners getting clobbered today.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (Cus5s)

32 Kamala is about as stunning as a bread crumb.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (wtvvX)

33
I’ve been assured by very smart people in the media and on Reddit that we are practically in a second Great Depression and jobs are impossible to find.

Are they like lying or something?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (4La0r)

34 I don't even believe the supposed polls that DOGE was unpopular. That just seemed like rigged nonsense. So a majority of people wanted SS checks going to dead people?

I think Trump was riding high (especially with people that actually voted for him) until the tariffs.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (4pwAx)

35 19 Almost all gov’t workers are non-productive parasites feeding off the blood of the people who actually make things. Cutting their phoney-baloney jobs and ending their meddling in the private sector will always be an economic win in real terms.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (l3YAf)

Yes, this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (eB71+)

36 I saw Mass Deportations open for America as We Used to Know It at the Tun Tavern.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (cYBz/)

37 My great grandfather was a clerk for Oliver Wendell Holmes. I know stuff, man.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (2UnvF)

38 Now all she needs is some sodomy and the lash.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (bss/y)

She's already on OF?

Yeesh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (VoAdT)

39 32 Kamala is about as stunning as a bread crumb.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (wtvvX)

'The Crouton'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (bss/y)

40 And probably 1 of the 4 in 10 that don't support the mass deportations are negative because its only 100K so far.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (CKOCg)

41 Clinton "reduced" the govt workforce by slashing the military. Great job, slick. And his "welfare reform" was Newt's baby, Willy's hand was forced into signing.

Posted by: Gary R at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (AN+ve)

42 Has someone come up with a Deportation Ribbon?

Or, an Armstrong like Deprtation Bracelet?

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (AVXxY)

43 Trump will still need to reduce the headcount by roughly 200,000 to break the Clinton record.

—

Clinton did it in 8 years. Trump is barely past his 8th week.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (4La0r)

44 The DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are suing Trump over his EO to block non-citizens from voting.

This should tell you everything you need to know…

In other news, Judge Boasberg has ordered the US Navy to dig up Admiral Yamamoto and give him a state funeral in the Capitol. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries fully endorsed this order.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (xCA6C)

45 What's most incredible to me about that Kumswallow video isn't that she's a drunken babbling idiot. We've seen that many times before. What's most incredible is that video was tweeted and promoted by Democrap activists. Somebody in the Democrap party watched that video and said "looks good to me" and posted it. If this is the best they got, what do the other videos of her show??

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

46 Has there ever been an actual documented case of an american citizen being wrongfully deported? Somehow I doubt it.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (4pwAx)

47 "An illegal immigrant in Maryland from El Salvador has been deported to El Salvador despite his protestations that he's afraid of gang violence in El Salvador after El Salvador has the safest criminal statistics in all of the Americas right now."
-the reality
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

He tried the Great Britain “my kid can’t get the same quality of chicken nugget” argument.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 04, 2025 02:54 PM (TJLr1)

48
Her great-grandfather was behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act -- which many economic historians believe worsened the Great Depression. She thinks Trump's tariffs are "terrible."

=============

My great-grandfather spoke German, which makes me an expert on it. I'll take your questions -- in English, please.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 02:54 PM (3izae)

49 My great grandfather was a clerk for Oliver Wendell Holmes. I know stuff, man.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (2UnvF)

I read that as Oliver Wendell Douglass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:54 PM (7Q7Ca)

50 Would the 42% of American adults surveyed, who disagree with the mass deportations, at least back deporting the Reptilians?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 04, 2025 02:54 PM (Vyll1)

51 To everyone freaking out about stock prices:

Take a deep breath, then look at the last five years of the DJIA.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (wtvvX)

52 19 Almost all gov’t workers are non-productive parasites feeding off the blood of the people who actually make things. Cutting their phoney-baloney jobs and ending their meddling in the private sector will always be an economic win in real terms.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (l3YAf)

Yeah... problem is that these Job numbers only show a 4000 decrease in Fed Gov Jobs... when they should show many many thousands more.

Just like when we actually stop Fraud and abuse in Gov spending, the GDP WILL go down... because it only measure the flow of money.

So those Media Freak out stories are still waiting in the wings... even though BOTH are actual just by products of good things happening.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (QAkQ3)

53 Who doesn't love Deportations?
Posted by: garrett

I fantasize about deportations.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 02:50 PM (/U5Yz)

I wanna be on a civilian squad, rounding up the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, shoving them into the back of a semi truck and waving as it heads to Mexico.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (l3YAf)

54 51 To everyone freaking out about stock prices:

Take a deep breath, then look at the last five years of the DJIA.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (wtvvX)

======

Autumn 2022.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

55 Roll the Bread Line Footage

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (AVXxY)

56 Kamala is stunning in the way that a baseball bat to the back of the head is stunning.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (B9Prs)

57 There is a sense of fear taking holding in our country, which she understands, which understandably creates a sense of fear in this country.

Man. She's good at this!

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (QHWjA)

58 41 Clinton "reduced" the govt workforce by slashing the military. Great job, slick. And his "welfare reform" was Newt's baby, Willy's hand was forced into signing.
Posted by: Gary R at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (AN+ve)

He had Dick Morris telling him to triangulate. Clinton co-opted republican ideas.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (eB71+)

59 To everyone freaking out about stock prices
______________

Future buying opportunity.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (YqDXo)

60 Judge Bozoberg wants contempt of court proceedings, due to the Trump administration disregarding his anal emanations viz a viz. returning illegal alien criminal gang and kiddie fuckers back on American soil, where they belong, apparently.

Everything is like some weird combination fun house mirror simulation, a mashup of really bad stereotypes & a healthy dose of bath salts

Posted by: Common Tater at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (aZxh/)

61 The liberal media think the movie Born in East LA was a documentary filmed last week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (7Q7Ca)

62 46 Has there ever been an actual documented case of an american citizen being wrongfully deported? Somehow I doubt it.
Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (4pwAx)

I'm sure there have been... no way the Government does not make mistakes with the people we have had running it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 02:57 PM (QAkQ3)

63 I wanna be on a civilian squad, rounding up the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, shoving them into the back of a semi truck and waving as it heads to Mexico.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
____

Pure poetry. Should be on a plaque somewhere.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

64 >>Judge Bozoberg wants contempt of court proceedings,

Get Fucked, Your Honor.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:57 PM (AVXxY)

65 I'll just leave this here.......

https://youtu.be/aqQv3qef21A

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:57 PM (7Q7Ca)

66 Imma go with a boilermaker.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at April 04, 2025 02:57 PM (dg+HA)

67 45 What's most incredible to me about that Kumswallow video isn't that she's a drunken babbling idiot. We've seen that many times before. What's most incredible is that video was tweeted and promoted by Democrap activists. Somebody in the Democrap party watched that video and said "looks good to me" and posted it. If this is the best they got, what do the other videos of her show??
Posted by: Elric Blade
========
Only the deep narrative matters to them not actual facts, appearances, or logic. No different than Red Commies back in the day.

So Yass Slay Kween is what they take from Kamala regardless of whatever her blathering drunken words say or don't.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 02:57 PM (ctrM5)

68
Ace, if you want to date Jake Tapper why not just call him and ask him out?

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 02:57 PM (j4U/Z)

69 You don't lose any money on the stock market till you sell in panic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (7Q7Ca)

70
I love that Bobby, Jr gave some HHS employees a choice between resigning or transferring to providing health care to Indians on some shit Res or to Eskimos in Alaska. I've heard jokes (wishful thinking?) about that being done, but someone finally had the stones to do it. More, please!
Posted by: Martin Tell

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That's hilarious! I can just hear it: "WHAT, try to take care of those people on the pitiful amount of money that actually reaches them?"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (3izae)

71 You only lose money when you sell. Unless you need money today, you’re not selling today. And if you needed money today you shouldn’t have been in stocks to begin with. By the time you need the money it should be invested in risk free or near risk free instruments,

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (4La0r)

72 Just like when we actually stop Fraud and abuse in Gov spending, the GDP WILL go down... because it only measure the flow of money.

So those Media Freak out stories are still waiting in the wings... even though BOTH are actual just by products of good things happening.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (QAkQ3)

Oh, sure, GDP is fake and gay. It includes the most idiotic crap.

Also, the attempts to goose GDP with massive, inflationary Federal stimulus have hit a wall. I think in Biden’s last quarter the U.S. gov’t was adding $7 in debt for every $1 added to GDP.

So I don’t care if “GDP” goes down. The real economy will do well if we get the Feds off our asses, get cheap energy, and rein inflationary monetary policy.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (l3YAf)

73 42 Has someone come up with a Deportation Ribbon?

Or, an Armstrong like Deprtation Bracelet?
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (AVXxY)

When I first read this Iwas picturing Stretch Armstrong wrapped around a wrist. Then oh, you mean the bike riding dude.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (eB71+)

74 >>That's hilarious! I can just hear it: "WHAT, try to take care of those people on the pitiful amount of money that actually reaches them?"

They actually pay really well, it's just that the Reservations are utter Shitholes.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (AVXxY)

75 39 32 Kamala is about as stunning as a bread crumb.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:52 PM (wtvvX)

'The Crouton'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (bss/y)

What's the difference between Kamala and a crouton?

A crouton goes down your throat, but you go down her throat.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (wtvvX)

76 69 You don't lose any money on the stock market till you sell in panic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (7Q7Ca)

Yeah, I've held these stocks for so long I'd still pay buckoo Capital Gains if I sell.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (QAkQ3)

77 I read that some dude slapped magnetic ICE signs on his black SUV and ran up and down some Main St. to put the fear of God into the illegals that hung out there. He was arrested for impersonating a federal officer. Such BS.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (/U5Yz)

78 Yes, Bill Clinton fired a lot of formal "federal employees". But then his administration did a clever switcheroo: they hired hundreds of thousands of employees to work for newly established fed. bureaucracies and NGOs ... and actually the net result was that we ended up with More federal employees.

The very Quango Morass that President Trump is battling.

I don't remember the details but the info is out there.

Posted by: Beverly at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (Epeb0)

79 The stock market has been bubblicious since 2021-2022 time frame. With the S&P up 50+ percent? Has the economy grown 50+% over the past 3-4 years to justify the S&P being up 50+%?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (gllTv)

80 If Trump can succeed in enacting his bold plan and vision, he will be a Colossus for the ages.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (XV/Pl)

81 >>Posted by: CaliGirl at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (eB71+)

I don't expect testicular cancer to be high on your radar/

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (AVXxY)

82 To everyone freaking out about stock prices:

Take a deep breath, then look at the last five years of the DJIA.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

===

It's not people here you need to worry about. A real conservative isnt changing their vote over this.

But a low info voter that sees 6 figures vanish from their retirement in a few days? That's a way bigger deal than egg prices.

I've walked away from buying more stock, it looks like a falling knife now and I want to see some upward movement firs before buying in rather than trying to time the absolute bottom.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (4pwAx)

83 Bring in lie detector to the alphabets.

"Have you ever intentionally, either directly or via intermediaries, communicated with any Senator on the Intelligence committee?

I'm getting a yes.

You're fired.

Next!!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 03:00 PM (hYofv)

84 What's the difference between Kamala and a crouton?

A crouton goes down your throat, but you go down her throat.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (wtvvX)

What's the difference between Kumswala Harris's snizz and a bowling ball?

If you HAD to, you could eat the bowling ball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:00 PM (7Q7Ca)

85 56 Kamala is stunning in the way that a baseball bat to the back of the head is stunning.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 02:56 PM (B9Prs)

Remember that episode of Seinfeld where the doctor called Elaine and a hideously ugly baby breath taking?

Yeah, calling Kamala stunning is like calling the amount of shit on San Francisco's streets stunning.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 04, 2025 03:00 PM (KbCG3)

86 72 So I don’t care if “GDP” goes down. The real economy will do well if we get the Feds off our asses, get cheap energy, and rein inflationary monetary policy.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 02:58 PM (l3YAf)

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The ruling party lost last year with good looking GDP numbers.

People don't vote based on GDP. People's impressions of the economy are not based on unemployment numbers.

It's based on what they pay for gas, groceries, and interest rates on their house.

Assume Trump does get some deflationary effects. Assume there is net-migration out of America. Assume interest rates fall to 4%.

What is the impression America will have of the economy next year. Will they remember the dip in the stock market from early the year before?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

87 Why all the Anti-Oriental Hate?

Posted by: Wo Fat at April 04, 2025 03:00 PM (R/m4+)

88 I wasn't gonna say it, but I (hic) told ya so!!

Ooooh sick burn! You really got the MAGAts with that one!

Go home Kam, your drunk. Again.

Posted by: Cheri at April 04, 2025 03:01 PM (oiNtH)

89 Bill Clinton got to cash in on the peace dividend of Republicans winning the Cold War.

Huge cuts in defense meant balancing a budget was easy.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 03:01 PM (4pwAx)

90 >>Remember that episode of Seinfeld where the doctor called Elaine and a hideously ugly baby breath taking?

You gotta see the BABY!

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 03:01 PM (AVXxY)

91 I read that some dude slapped magnetic ICE signs on his black SUV and ran up and down some Main St. to put the fear of God into the illegals that hung out there. He was arrested for impersonating a federal officer. Such BS.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

Ijit! If he had been thinking, he would have had a few bags of ice, ice baby in a cooler in the back of the car.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 03:01 PM (cYBz/)

92 CBS Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Trump's Mass Deportations

If CBS has it at 6, it's closer to 8 in 10

and this dear readers, is why Trump (who is my President) will stiff arm any blackrobe that tries to stop him

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (dCxaZ)

93 A year from now DJIA will Be 20% higher than it is today at a minimum. Probably more like 30 or 40.
All the cucks who panic sold will weep. And I say fuck ‘em.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (4La0r)

94 Where is the Diving Deeper Voxplainer on how Federal Jobs are growth.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (YVzIj)

95 54 51 To everyone freaking out about stock prices:

Take a deep breath, then look at the last five years of the DJIA.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (wtvvX)

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Autumn 2022.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The sad truth is far too many people who are retired rely on stock earnings rather than less risk safe assets because it paid better at the time. Far too many people apparently are relying upon stock earnings for basic consumption needs which is never a good play to make. Risk versus yield analysis and time span are always important factors in any investment decision. Especially retirement income.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (ctrM5)

96 77 I read that some dude slapped magnetic ICE signs on his black SUV and ran up and down some Main St. to put the fear of God into the illegals that hung out there. He was arrested for impersonating a federal officer. Such BS.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (/U5Yz)

He shoulda just packed an Ice Chest or two with... ICE... you know, just making deliveries!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (QAkQ3)

97
Kamala Harris's long vacant pauses between phrases are also typical of drunk people trying to speak profoundly.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (QwK6F)

98 Yeah... problem is that these Job numbers only show a 4000 decrease in Fed Gov Jobs... when they should show many many thousands more.

Just like when we actually stop Fraud and abuse in Gov spending, the GDP WILL go down... because it only measure the flow of money.

So those Media Freak out stories are still waiting in the wings... even though BOTH are actual just by products of good things happening.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 02:55 PM (QAkQ3)

They are at home filling out the days till the end of the fiscal year.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (n7h9X)

99 > Bartender, I'll have what Kamala is having.

A Zombie and a handful of Oxy?

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (lIio7)

100 Yeah, Kamala is tipsy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2025 03:03 PM (XeU6L)

101 Kamala, there were a lot of things that we knew would happen. crowd howls.

Yep they knew Elon would find the billions in cash they intentionally stole from the government.
Do you feel me? We just sit here like Ho Hum La Te Da. This pisses me off bigly

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 03:03 PM (HN1FN)

102
He shoulda just packed an Ice Chest or two with... ICE... you know, just making deliveries!
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (QAkQ3)

https://youtu.be/7D_NuAXOVrU

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:03 PM (7Q7Ca)

103 " insisting that you cannot judge what drunk people sound like without a degree in neurology and organic chemistry,"

The plaintiff's bar disagrees. A lot.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 04, 2025 03:03 PM (pIfcn)

104 Maybe the dingo ate your baby.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 03:03 PM (2UnvF)

105 The sad truth is far too many people who are retired rely on stock earnings rather than less risk safe assets because it paid better at the time.
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Then those people are imbeciles. Risk free bonds pay 4-5% right now. And have been for the last couple of years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (4La0r)

106 Great minds Romeo13!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (cYBz/)

107 What's the difference between Kumswala Harris's snizz and a bowling ball?/i]

Both have three holes. I don't get it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (/U5Yz)

108 How long is Joe Rogan's program? Two, three hours? How about if he has Cory Booker on seven or eight days in a row? How would Booker come across if he actually faced some sharp questioning, instead of the unadulterated gushing of squish stooges ("squooges"?) like Frank Luntz?

Posted by: Paco at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (mADJX)

109 The sad truth is far too many people who are retired rely on stock earnings rather than less risk safe assets because it paid better at the time. Far too many people apparently are relying upon stock earnings for basic consumption needs which is never a good play to make. Risk versus yield analysis and time span are always important factors in any investment decision. Especially retirement income.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (ctrM5)
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The rule of thumb I was told was to have [your age] percent of your investments in safer instruments, and the remainder in more volatile, higher-yield instruments.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (6K6Eu)

110 > Yeah, calling Kamala stunning is like calling the amount of shit on San Francisco's streets stunning.

Kamala's breathtaking.

Posted by: Dr Howard Cooperman from Seinfeld at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (lIio7)

111 The sad truth is far too many people who are retired rely on stock earnings rather than less risk safe assets because it paid better at the time. Far too many people apparently are relying upon stock earnings for basic consumption needs which is never a good play to make. Risk versus yield analysis and time span are always important factors in any investment decision. Especially retirement income.
Posted by: whig
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For about a decade, fixed income paid zero. People got used to a stock heavy portfolio.

It used to be standard advice to have your age in bonds, but no one does that anymore.

Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (4pwAx)

112 84 What's the difference between Kamala and a crouton?

A crouton goes down your throat, but you go down her throat.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (wtvvX)

What's the difference between Kumswala Harris's snizz and a bowling ball?

If you HAD to, you could eat the bowling ball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:00 PM (7Q7Ca)

Also, if I had too, I'd stick my fingers in the bowling ball....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (wtvvX)

113 The remaining 4 polled were the illegals being deported.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:48 PM (7Q7Ca)

Pretty much. It's not inconceivable that 40% of the people polled are either immigrants (legal or otherwise) or children of immigrants.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (uCjyK)

114 Has there ever been an actual documented case of an american citizen being wrongfully deported? Somehow I doubt it.
Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 02:53 PM (4pwAx)

Thesis: the entire democrat insanity on the immigration issue can be traced to a hard overcorrection from the fallout of Elian Gonzalez and how Clinton's handling of that probably helped win Bush the 2000 election.

(As far as I can tell, Elian was not an american citizen, but it was the first thing I thought of when I heard this question and looked it up)

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (B9Prs)

115 Media will continue to conduct biweekly do-over 2024 presidential elections until 2028. That's all this nonsense is about.

Posted by: 13times at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (DNLtc)

116 What is the impression America will have of the economy next year. Will they remember the dip in the stock market from early the year before?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

The 21 percent approval rating on the Democrats tells you all you need to know. The country remembers, even the Dem voters.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (n7h9X)

117 Under Biden the job numbers always came in under expectations. And then they get revised down.

I expect we'll see a lot of Trump's job numbers beating expectations and then getting revised up.

Posted by: buzzion at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (aRLgQ)

118 Goes to show the Democrats were letting illegals to vote. Saw the Sundowner administration gave them over 2 million SS cards

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (ypFCm)

119 110 > Yeah, calling Kamala stunning is like calling the amount of shit on San Francisco's streets stunning.

Kamala's breathtaking.
Posted by: Dr Howard Cooperman from Seinfeld at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (lIio7)

You saw the first part of my comment, right?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (KbCG3)

120 The DNC, lawsuit thrown out due to NO STANDING.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (17s+e)

121 It used to be standard advice to have your age in bonds, but no one does that anymore.
Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (4pwAx)

Yeah, when Bonds were paying less than inflation... not a great play.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (QAkQ3)

122 Ace mentioned this in his post yesterday about how the media only quotes one side of a story anymore.

It's crazy, when you start to look, how pervasive it is.
And, it's getting worse, they're not even bothering to get "both sides" anymore.

Every single story on "judge rules against Trump" quotes or paraphrases exclusively from those opposed to Trump.
And on down the line: Only from those opposed.

From this morning, another judge deciding he has the right to set the off-shore fisheries management instead of Trump, who want to permit aqua-culture fishing.
The whole article was from those opposed.
One quote from those in support was limited to the bare-bones "we are going to appeal." That's it. That's all you get on reason for the permitting.

PS: I thought ending over-fishing of wild stock by floating aquaculture farms was the environmentalist position? Oh right: Starving humans is the true environmentalist position.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:06 PM (xFA3k)

123 Kamala Harris tossing out drunken word salad and the brain-dead AWFLs just gobbling it up. Astounding.

Posted by: Repeal 19 at April 04, 2025 03:06 PM (TbWk/)

124 CBS Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Trump's Mass Deportations

If CBS has it at 6, it's closer to 8 in 10

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (dCxaZ)

Yet the guardians of Our Democracy did the opposite.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:06 PM (YVzIj)

125 It's based on what they pay for gas, groceries, and interest rates on their house.

Assume Trump does get some deflationary effects. Assume there is net-migration out of America. Assume interest rates fall to 4%.

What is the impression America will have of the economy next year. Will they remember the dip in the stock market from early the year before?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That be the facts jack. I will take it a bit futher, when I did an analysis of economic voting in gubernatorial races--the economy that people see is the one right outside their window and in their community---not some abstract calculation by the NBER. Used REIS for the economic data during the 90's on a county by county basis. Strong support for the hypothesis of localism compared with state or federal economic data.

My guess is that the intelligentsia and markets may employ such measures but by and large voters do not. My guess is my findings would be even stronger nowadays of localism affecting voter behavior on matters like crime, cost of living, etc.

There is an old saying that people are most conservative about what affects them the most. Appears to be supported by evidence.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:06 PM (ctrM5)

126 Trump Nears the Record for Reductions in the Federal Workforce as Jobs Growth Comes In, Get This, Above "Expectations"
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Unexpectedly

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:06 PM (YVzIj)

127
Huge cuts in defense meant balancing a budget was easy.
Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 03:01 PM (4pwAx)

Speaker Gingrich's "Contract with America' caused most of that by mandating any bill that passed had to be funded or no go.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 03:07 PM (HN1FN)

128 99 > Bartender, I'll have what Kamala is having.

A Zombie and a handful of Oxy?

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (lIio7)

With a Colt 45 chaser.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 03:07 PM (wtvvX)

129 > You saw the first part of my comment, right?

Your comment was breathtaking.

Posted by: Dr Howard Cooperman from Seinfeld at April 04, 2025 03:07 PM (lIio7)

130 Kamala is about as stunning as a bread crumb.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

She's about as sharp as a Stay-Puft Marshmallow.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:07 PM (ejfFE)

131 I get the impression previous Republican Administrations didn't try very hard.
They'd sometimes do something they promised voters they'd do. Then the courts would rule otherwise. Aw shucks, we tried, we lost. Oh well. Better vote harder so we can get better judges!

Posted by: gKWVE at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (gKWVE)

132 Has there ever been an actual documented case of an american citizen being wrongfully deported?
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They're relying on the documentary film "Born In East L.A."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (6K6Eu)

133 There is an old saying that people are most conservative about what affects them the most. Appears to be supported by evidence.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:06 PM (ctrM5)

Closer is people can detect bullshit in their subject but often will accept bullshit if fields that they are not familiar with.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (n7h9X)

134 Speaker Gingrich's "Contract with America' caused most of that by mandating any bill that passed had to be funded or no go.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not

Speaker Johnson is no Speaker Gingrich.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (/U5Yz)

135 Bartender, I'll have what Kamala is having.

A dick in the coat room?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (ejfFE)

136 Yet the guardians of Our Democracy did the opposite.
Posted by: ...

GWB and Obama set the stage for an economic crash in teh US based on fiscal policy. Congress kept spending and put it into overdrive along with importing hordes of foreigners as the US base economy of making things shriveled.

So I think it was basically looting and YOLO during those years for the cloud people before they fled (or died in the interim) from the wreckage they created.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

137 I love that Bobby, Jr gave some HHS employees a choice between resigning or transferring to providing health care to Indians on some shit Res or to Eskimos in Alaska. I've heard jokes (wishful thinking?) about that being done, but someone finally had the stones to do it. More, please!
Posted by: Martin Tell at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (sFNX2)

Turns out we needed a Kennedy to actually do what Republican politicians have been promising for decades.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:09 PM (l3YAf)

138 Judge Bozoberg wants contempt of court proceedings, due to the Trump administration disregarding his anal emanations viz a viz. returning illegal alien criminal gang and kiddie fuckers back on American soil, where they belong, apparently. - Common Tater

Yeah, somebody let me know when the judge sends a couple of bailiffs or whatever over to the White House. Should make for great live TV.

Posted by: Paco at April 04, 2025 03:09 PM (mADJX)

139 Closer is people can detect bullshit in their subject but often will accept bullshit if fields that they are not familiar with.
Posted by: Oldcat
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I can accept Gell Mann amnesia effect as an alternative hypothesis.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

140 Kamala is about as stunning as a bread crumb.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

She's about as sharp as a Stay-Puft Marshmallow.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:07 PM (ejfFE)

The Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man is smarter.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 04, 2025 03:09 PM (VNX3d)

141 94 Where is the Diving Deeper Voxplainer on how Federal Jobs are growth.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:02 PM (YVzIj)
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Think about all the growth in housing prices around DC!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 03:09 PM (Dv3i1)

142 Time to triple the tariffs on England:

A judge just ordered Trump to pay $800,000 to Steele in legal fees.

Yes, that Steele.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (xFA3k)

143 Thesis: the entire democrat insanity on the immigration issue can be traced to a hard overcorrection from the fallout of Elian Gonzalez and how Clinton's handling of that probably helped win Bush the 2000 election.

(As far as I can tell, Elian was not an american citizen, but it was the first thing I thought of when I heard this question and looked it up)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (B9Prs)

Counter-thesis: the Democrat party and the ideology of it's believers is anti-immigrant. You can't have a strong union middle class with unlimited welfare benefits if you also have mass immigration.

The Deep State wants unlimited immigration.

Which is why it's been a bi-partisan effort to push that down our throat from every politician in power since Ronald Reagan (pbuh). Not a single R w/ any power was opposed to it until Trump and his scalp weasel came down the escalator.

You can find plenty of Biden, Schumer, Bernie, whoever speeches from 20 years ago (when they had minimal power) decrying how illegal immigration was destroying the middle class, and rich republicans only wanted the illegals here to push down wages.

Then they get in charge and...

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (uCjyK)

144 I wonder if Ms. Great-Granddaughter of Hoot-Smawley knows that before the Great Depression the United States was running trade surpluses with the rest of our trading partners, not deficits?

Because that makes a lot of difference over where the damage will be done.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

145 A year from now DJIA will Be 20% higher than it is today at a minimum. Probably more like 30 or 40.
All the cucks who panic sold will weep. And I say fuck ‘em.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
===

I know a guy that sold everything when the covid stock crash came. He was trying to me to sell. Told him he would regret it and he does.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (17s+e)

146
A judge just ordered Trump to pay $800,000 to Steele in legal fees.

Yes, that Steele.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (xFA3k)

On what grounds?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (7Q7Ca)

147 Clinton reduced active duty military by over 200k and counted that in his reductions. Mr Can I Put My Dick in You Because Hillary if Fugly said he wanted to “right size” the military, whatever the f that meant. He also denied us armor in Somalia which led to men getting killed in The Battle of Mogadishu.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (zK360)

148 2 Even with all the government jobs ended, we net gained, bigly.

HA!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 02:46 PM (7Q7Ca)

Technically, only the firings (about 11K) are ended. The other 270K end in Oct, so that month's jobs' report will be ugly, unless that's timed to all the new manufacturing hires.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (tOcjL)

149 love that Bobby, Jr gave some HHS employees a choice between resigning or transferring to providing health care to Indians on some shit Res or to Eskimos in Alaska. I've heard jokes (wishful thinking?) about that being done, but someone finally had the stones to do it. More, please!
Posted by: Martin Tell at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (sFNX2)

They're all about the "underserved communities" until they face having to actually do something about them.

Posted by: Talk is cheap at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (TbWk/)

150 >>Bartender, I'll have what Kamala is having.

>A dick in the coat room?

If that isn't a drink, it should be.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (AVXxY)

151 It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (i24o9)

152 Kamala is about as stunning as a bread crumb.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

or a chunk of pineapple on a pizza.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (/U5Yz)

153 (As far as I can tell, Elian was not an american citizen, but it was the first thing I thought of when I heard this question and looked it up)
Posted by: joe

Cuban. Feet dry. Auto green card. Long standing policy to F Castro.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (ejfFE)

154 OT:

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

Has Biden eclipsed him?

It was Obama's third term. The Barak O'Biden administration.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (sAmhv)

155 It used to be standard advice to have your age in bonds, but no one does that anymore.
Posted by: Leupold at April 04, 2025 03:04 PM (4pwAx)

Yeah, when Bonds were paying less than inflation... not a great play.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 03:05 PM (QAkQ3)

Trump is doing all this because now the promises of the Federal Government about its future solvency are more risky than the most poorly run business in the country.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (n7h9X)

156 Smoot was the conductor on the Hooterville Cannonball.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (63Dwl)

157 @133 - Gell-Mann effect?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (WPL6O)

158 Another part in this - every illegal shipped home is one less vote for a Democrat.

Not that the illegals are generally voting themselves but someone is casting a ballot for them

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (t0Rmr)

159 Some white chick went to Harlem and stuck a microphone in peoples faces.
I think she was one of the hikers in Iran that was locked up for a time. Still stoopid as a box of turds I see.

Pro-Life Activist Brutally Attacked by Radical Pro-Abortion Extremist During Street Interview in Harlem, NYC

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (HN1FN)

160 She thinks Trump's tariffs are "terrible."
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Great now that he won the popular vote, everyone has to sound like Trump.

Next they'll post:

"Trump tariffs are NOT GOOD. Many experts are saying it, not just me. Sad!"

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (YVzIj)

161 Woof.....a door was opened.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (7Q7Ca)

162 There is an old saying that people are most conservative about what affects them the most. Appears to be supported by evidence.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:06 PM (ctrM5)

Closer is people can detect bullshit in their subject but often will accept bullshit if fields that they are not familiar with.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (n7h9X)

I saw Conquest’s First Law open for Gell-Man Amnesia Effect at the Ace of Spades HQ in April ‘25.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (l3YAf)

163 145 I know a guy that sold everything when the covid stock crash came. He was trying to me to sell. Told him he would regret it and he does.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (17s+e)

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There's a Seinfeld about this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

164 I get the impression previous Republican Administrations didn't try very hard.
They'd sometimes do something they promised voters they'd do. Then the courts would rule otherwise. Aw shucks, we tried, we lost. Oh well. Better vote harder so we can get better judges!
Posted by: gKWVE at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (gKWVE)

It was failure theater. They never intended to do anything.

Remember Juan McCain "build the dang wall!" during the campaign, then 6 months later he's in a gang of 8 or whatever pushing for amnesty.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (uCjyK)

165
There are tons of these deportation stories out there. I just opened my phone and the top story is about a guy who was deployed to Iraq (the MSM suddenly loves veterans) and is now being deported. Let's see, scrolling down... oh. "Parris was charged along with at least 13 others as part of a trafficking scheme that ferried cocaine cross-country on private jets and returned with huge sums of cash." He served jail time and figured he had "paid his debt," so, citizenship, right?

I can't get over people who have such demands of a foreign country where they're a guest.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (3izae)

166 Trump Nears the Record for Reductions in the Federal Workforce as Jobs Growth Comes In, Get This, Above "Expectations"

Funny, because I just caught some headline earlier saying that "Trump's tariffs are causing economic chaos" and the unemployment rate is 4.2% and "higher than expectations".

Typical legacy media.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (P5BPp)

167 But is Kamala’s appearance ALSO brave?
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And Joyful...

And Brat!

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (/y8xj)

168 Newt Gingrich got tongue tied the other day and talked about Hawt Smooley.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2025 03:13 PM (63Dwl)

169 167 But is Kamala’s appearance ALSO brave?
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And Joyful...

And Brat!

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM (/y8xj)

Beat on the Brat with a Baseball Bat!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 04, 2025 03:13 PM (wtvvX)

170
Cuban. Feet dry. Auto green card. Long standing policy to F Castro.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:11 PM (ejfFE)

Remember the photo op?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:14 PM (7Q7Ca)

171 Hey, I'm looking pretty good; North Carolina is 8th on the list of states most likely to survive an alien invasion.

https://tinyurl.com/fxu4fxn3

Virginia is number 1; however, given an electorate swollen with Democrats connected one way or another with the federal government, an alien invasion there might be looked upon as a net positive.

Posted by: Paco at April 04, 2025 03:14 PM (mADJX)

172
Gell-Mann is easy to fall for.

Check how you feel about any "poll" that comports with what you think reality is.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:14 PM (YVzIj)

173 And Joyful...

And Brat!
Posted by: Oddbob

With mustard!

Posted by: Bruce at April 04, 2025 03:14 PM (kcNOc)

174 Before removed from wiki,
"The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was signed by Hoover on June 17, 1930, while the Wall Street crash took place in the fall of 1929 when the new tariff was still being negotiated. Most of the trade contraction occurred between January 1930 and July 1932, before most protectionist measures were introduced, except for the limited measures applied by the United States in the summer of 1930. In the view of Maurice Allais, it was therefore the collapse of international liquidity that caused the contraction of trade, not customs tariffs.[98]

Milton Friedman also held the opinion that the Smoot–Hawley tariff of 1930 did not cause the Great Depression. Douglas A. Irwin writes : "most economists, both liberal and conservative, doubt that Smoot Hawley played much of a role in the subsequent contraction."

Peter Temin states that a tariff is an expansionary policy. Like a devaluation it diverts demand from foreign to home producers. He notes that exports were 7 percent of GNP in 1929. They fell by 1.5 percent of 1929 GNP in the next two years; the fall was offset by the increase in domestic demand from the tariff. " Decent wiki article summarizing history of tariffs.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (ctrM5)

175
That's pretty amazing!

Ole Kammy seems to be constitutionally(!) unable to go a full minute without cackling like a drunk retard.

Maybe that trait was passed along genetically.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (iJfKG)

176 love that Bobby, Jr gave some HHS employees a choice between resigning or transferring to providing health care to Indians on some shit Res or to Eskimos in Alaska. I've heard jokes (wishful thinking?) about that being done, but someone finally had the stones to do it. More, please!
Posted by: Martin Tell at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (sFNX2)

They're all about the "underserved communities" until they face having to actually do something about them.
Posted by: Talk is cheap at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (TbWk/)

If they served them, their own jobs would be unnecessary.

Monty Python had a funny script in the Society for Putting Things on Top of Other things annual meeting where one local division reported putting no things on other things for the year. The officer for that division explained that "its all too silly"

the punch line is the officials saying "hey, you are right" and disbanding the Society instantly.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (n7h9X)

177 In my Non-Jake-Tapper-Certified Expert Opinion

You hang out with us so you're automatically an Certified Expert. You've got a blog so you're Doubly Certified Expert. It's a Friday triple if you're wearing pants.

Posted by: DaveA at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (PMJuY)

178 Then they get in charge and...

The GOPe mostly wanted illegals to drive down wages

The Dems want illegals for their votes and to skim off the welfare given to them.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (t0Rmr)

179 > Newt Gingrich got tongue tied the other day and talked about Hawt Smooley.

That dirty old man was thinking about me again.

Posted by: The Poolboy -- surname Smooley at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (lIio7)

180 Has the economy grown 50+% over the past 3-4 years to justify the S&P being up 50+%?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd at April 04, 2025 02:59 PM (gllTv)

No, but the money stocks are traded for has rapidly lost value.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (l3YAf)

181 172
Gell-Mann is easy to fall for.

Check how you feel about any "poll" that comports with what you think reality is.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:14 PM (YVzIj)

Yeah, we're all guilty of it.

The insidious part is -- none of us can be an expert on everything, no matter how much we try. So it would be nice to be able to trust someone to be honest.

But we know it's not the media or academia. And it's usually not the fly by night grifters who show up. So, what do you do?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (uCjyK)

182 132 They're relying on the documentary film "Born In East L.A."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

"The Coneheads."

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (j4U/Z)

183 Somebody in the Democrap party watched that video and said "looks good to me" and posted it. If this is the best they got, what do the other videos of her show??
---
It's the last line, the one where she says, "I told you so."
The one that elicits hoots, cheers, laughter and clapping.

Because, in their world, it's a devastating sick burn.
A crushing blow of righteousness.
A massive mic drop.

Because, in their world, #MAGAregret is always trending.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (xFA3k)

184 How can so many people get laid off and the numbers rise? Weird?

The surveys are from 3 weeks ago, so that delay could be part of it. A lot of them may not have filed for UE yet, and there have been a billion court rulings over that time with tens of thousands "reinstated"

I'm inclined to say these nubers are still honest. If Trump were to fudge the numbers, he'd want them to look a whole lot better than this. While the top line job increase number looks OK, they revised Jan and February down, and looking at the details, this was not a positive report at all.

Who's hiring? Article says "For March, health care was the leading growth area". I can't see sustaining that with all the cuts the Dogebags are doing to senior and indigent health care.

The "health" cuts just started up last month and into this month, so we will have to look down the road a few months. There was a court ruling, i think yesterday, that ordered restoration of some of the funding cuts (I think the COVID money).

The economy is propelled by the last of the momentum from Bidenonmics. Can't maintain the positive movement without getting any more positive energy.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (2s2Cg)

185 "You don't lose any money on the stock market till you sell in panic."

Actually, you don't make money till you sell. Lots of people are still sitting on massive gains over years or decades, in (imo) a now very inflated stock market.

People in the "magnificent seven" might decide to cash in some gains as charts look weak. Another 20% down is possible ... and there is less of a will for BigGov to print trillions as they did during Covid.

I'm almost all cash ... still down 1.5% over a couple days, but my gold mining stocks had been soaring. We still need reciprocal tariffs, imo. Not sure if USA stopping the debt hemorrhaging will dent the markets or not, but small biz USA may do well.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 04, 2025 03:17 PM (Cus5s)

186 Because, in their world, it's a devastating sick burn.
A crushing blow of righteousness.
A massive mic drop.

Because, in their world, #MAGAregret is always trending.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (xFA3k)

Glad we dodged that bullet like Trump at a rally in Butler.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:17 PM (7Q7Ca)

187 >>The economy is propelled by the last of the momentum from Bidenonmics.

Oh, that is fucking Rich.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 03:17 PM (AVXxY)

188 184 The economy is propelled by the last of the momentum from Bidenonmics. Can't maintain the positive movement without getting any more positive energy.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (2s2Cg)

========

Stupid Americans, not realizing that we were on a rocket ship of economic growth under Biden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

189 Still a complete failure until they get that number closer to 99%

Posted by: Rbastid at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (IjJd4)

190 Gell-Mann is easy to fall for.

Check how you feel about any "poll" that comports with what you think reality is.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:14 PM (YVzIj)

Poles are for strippers. And the stripper said she loved me so I gave her a house key.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (l3YAf)

191 Tariffs don't work....except when they do:

Companies eye US expansion to lessen fallout from potential tariffs
By Reuters

https://tinyurl.com/5b8b684e

This article is a month old, so you know the hiring has already started domestically.

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (dIske)

192 I saw Honest Nubers open for Doosu at Trees in '94.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (7Q7Ca)

193 The GOPe mostly wanted illegals to drive down wages

The Dems want illegals for their votes and to skim off the welfare given to them.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (t0Rmr)

They'll work with what they've got.

But this idea did not originate in Congress. And we have actual, verifiable proof of that with the USAID documents that show that the CIA was funding the migrant caravans.

Which is more or less what a lot of us expected to see. Not necessarily the CIA, but the Deep State, with their unaccountable slush funds, are driving the immigrant invasion.

Do we think Congress controls the CIA, or do we think the CIA controls Congress? I guess that's the real question.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (uCjyK)

194 They're all about the "underserved communities" until they face having to actually do something about them.

A movie came out a few years ago about supposed factual evidence of aliens abducting people in Alaska a few years ago.

I went and looked up what actually happened and a bunch of people did go missing. Generally in smaller communities, in the winter, returning home on foot drunk from the local pub.

Pass out drunk in a ditch in Alaska in the winter and no one is going to find you for months...at best...presuming wild life doesn't find you first of course.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (t0Rmr)

195 all I know is, I'm swamped with work, husband's business incredibly busy ... crazy around here since Trump won

the private sector is (at least around here!) having a Moment.

thank God!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (Pv3Rg)

196 And the stripper said she loved me so I gave her a house key.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (l3YAf)

And in return, she gave you the clap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:19 PM (7Q7Ca)

197
Speaker Johnson is no Speaker Gingrich.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 03:08 PM (/U5Yz)

Did you see Gingrich this week at the congressional hearings? Newt is like a time capsule siting cases and historical precedent. I was hoping some of our dumbed down clowns in office were shamed if they compared themselves to him.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 03:19 PM (HN1FN)

198 Stunning and brave! Kamala comes out in favor of unlimited federal deficits, waste, fraud and abuse, over employment, inefficiency, and giving our country to China.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 03:19 PM (Le7Oj)

199 I bought a bunch more of NVDA when it dipped to 93ish today. It’s already up a buck fifty.

I can’t wait to see what happens in the last 15 minutes of regular hours today.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 03:19 PM (zK360)

200 My favorite video of the day. Amy Klobuchar tries to trap witness on attacking Judges, gets hit by Schumer threat.

https://tinyurl.com/mryjnz98

Klobuchar (D-MN) spoke with hearing witness Jesse Panuccio, a partner at the New York-based law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.

"As a partner in a law firm, have you ever taken to social media to personally attack a judge who ruled against you?" she asked.

"Senator, thanks for the question," Panuccio replied. "I think that attacking judges personally and not their reasoning ..."

That's when he offered up an example. A receipt.

"Let me just give you a quote. 'I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price ...'"

It was at this point that Klobuchar, realizing he was quoting Sen. Schumer (D-NY), who made explicit threats against Supreme Court justices in 2020 should they dare rule against Roe v. Wade, tried to interject.

Posted by: Cheri at April 04, 2025 03:19 PM (oiNtH)

201 another reason dems want illegals is to have more clients for their non-prof and edu jobs!!!

our overcrowded grade schools ain't so overcrowded no more. the need for extra teachers and admins is less acute.

these are good things but not to them.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 04, 2025 03:20 PM (Pv3Rg)

202 Judge Bozoberg wants contempt of court proceedings,
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Yeah, don't you go a'thrown Mr. Briar Trump in that there briar patch.
No sir! Don't you do it!
He'll be hurt fierce bad, won't never recover!
--

Fucking retard judge. Do it dumbass. Go on and fucking do it you fucking coward.
Trump needs a 10% boost in his polling.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:20 PM (xFA3k)

203 >>>Pro-Life Activist Brutally Attacked by Radical Pro-Abortion Extremist During Street Interview in Harlem, NYC

***

"At one point, she said to me that she thinks we should kill all the kids in foster care."

Mission creep

Posted by: one hour sober at April 04, 2025 03:20 PM (Y1sOo)

204 Time to triple the tariffs on England:

A judge just ordered Trump to pay $800,000 to Steele in legal fees.

Yes, that Steele.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (xFA3k)

Yeah, tell Starmer to pick up that check.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:20 PM (n7h9X)

205 Remember the photo op?
Posted by: Sponge

I have the picture on my phone with the armed thug grabbing Elian from the closet.

Libs hate that shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:20 PM (ejfFE)

206 Bidenomics LOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:21 PM (KQk9m)

207 It's Kamala's pulling her chin into her neck that tells me she's drunk.
Posted by: Moonbeam
......

Squashing the wattle.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2025 03:21 PM (v0R5T)

208 Britain is currently less free then Putin's Russia.

And more of a foe.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 03:21 PM (t0Rmr)

209 And in return, she gave you the clap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

=====

Diamond rings, vaseline, you give me disease
Well, I lost a lot of love over you

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 03:21 PM (hYofv)

210 Time to triple the tariffs on England:

A judge just ordered Trump to pay $800,000 to Steele in legal fees.

Yes, that Steele.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:10 PM (xFA3k)

You can't talk to a Democrat for long until the death squads come up...even a friendly discussion.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:21 PM (n7h9X)

211
I have the picture on my phone with the armed thug grabbing Elian from the closet.

Libs hate that shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:20 PM (ejfFE)

that's the one!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:22 PM (7Q7Ca)

212 Is Joe Biden even still alive? I feel like they have him strapped to a chair somewhere.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 03:22 PM (zK360)

213 So, what do you do?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (uCjyK)

Trust no one. Read multiple sources. Don't trust those either. That's a start.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:22 PM (YVzIj)

214 Maybe Carey Stewart Cezar should also inform us how to run a university, since her granddad ran Willamette University.

You know, the University that two of my grandfathers graduated from? Oh, hey, that make me both an expert on mathematics AND accounting!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:22 PM (D7oie)

215 Biden said in December it will take about four years for us to get the benefits of his amazing economy.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:22 PM (YVzIj)

216 Do you support Trump illegally and mistakenly sending law-abiding American citizens to El Salvadoran torture prisons?
.......

Sure, if they voted for Kamalama.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (v0R5T)

217 Pay Steele in pennies

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (KQk9m)

218 I have the picture on my phone with the armed thug grabbing Elian from the closet.

Libs hate that shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:20 PM (ejfFE)

that's the one!
Posted by: Sponge

Need a copy? LOL

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (ejfFE)

219 all I know is, I'm swamped with work, husband's business incredibly busy ... crazy around here since Trump won

the private sector is (at least around here!) having a Moment.

thank God!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (Pv3Rg)

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

F*ck Wall Street -- Trump is Making Main Street Great Again!

GloboHomo and The Deep State (BIRM) hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (Mm9XY)

220 Pay Steele in pennies
Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (KQk9m)

Too good for lead?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (7Q7Ca)

221
Flies in the vasoline we are
Sometimes it blows my mind

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (YVzIj)

222 172
Gell-Mann is easy to fall for.

Check how you feel about any "poll" that comports with what you think reality is.
Posted by: ...
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That is more confirmatory bias than Gell Mann. Aka Texas Sharpshooter fallacy.

Assuming that voters at one level vote primarily on an abstract national economy is different. Aka ecological fallacy. You have to use something like Hierarchical Linear Modeling (separates effects attributed the dependent variable based on level of analysis) to even approach layer cake problems because there is some feedback from the national to the local and vice versa.

Retrospective voters (looking backward) versus prospective voting (looking forwards) is also a factor when you aggregate such analysis into one neat regression equation. Rule of thumb is about 80-20 retro versus prospective but that can change in any given election.

Got tired of doing that shit because handling and creating massive datasets is a pita given the cycle of research to publication.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (ctrM5)

223 Pay Steele in pennies
Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (KQk9m)
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Welded together.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (6K6Eu)

224 Pay Steele in pennies
Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (KQk9m)

Two Hunter Biden paintings. Just remember to ask for change!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (VNX3d)

225
Need a copy? LOL
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 03:23 PM (ejfFE)

Was going to post a link, but can't get to URL shorteners when on the work VPN.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (7Q7Ca)

226 Wine-momala should not be mixing the booze and the benzos. That is a killer combination.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (D7oie)

227 Soon the government will suffer from ozempic face

Posted by: Blagnog at April 04, 2025 03:25 PM (lZfyx)

228 Time to buy stocks as the idiots panic......................

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 04, 2025 03:25 PM (yG1cI)

229 Bidenomics LOLOLOLOLOL
Posted by: steevy
.....

Joeconomics.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2025 03:25 PM (v0R5T)

230 Wine-momala should not be mixing the booze and the benzos. That is a killer combination.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (D7oie)

You asked for it.........

https://youtu.be/gGaN-qBJAjo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 03:25 PM (7Q7Ca)

231 Wait Democratic Wins Media is not a parody account?

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:26 PM (KQk9m)

232 Pass out drunk in a ditch in Alaska in the winter and no one is going to find you for months...at best...presuming wild life doesn't find you first of course.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 03:18 PM (t0Rmr)

Yeah I read a reasoned discussion of spontaneous human combustion. Smokers, overweight and in ill health getting drunk and falling asleep and their body burns like a giant candle in the armchair they are in.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:26 PM (n7h9X)

233 That is more confirmatory bias than Gell Mann. Aka Texas Sharpshooter fallacy.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (ctrM5)

Hmm. Maybe. I hate you.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:26 PM (YVzIj)

234 Welded together.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:24 PM (6K6Eu)

In a sack.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:27 PM (YVzIj)

235 Saw a picture of Biden..............

Sitting on a Toilet Shitting Chair with leaky Depends and a Drool Bucket Permanently attached to his chin....

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 04, 2025 03:28 PM (yG1cI)

236 Top scientists predict 'major' hurricanes for 2025 with eight states in the path of dangerous storms

Top Scientists also predict the USA will be under water by next week.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)

237 >>I have the picture on my phone with the armed thug grabbing Elian from the closet.

Always wanted that on a T-Shirt.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 03:28 PM (AVXxY)

238 Say, I don't know of anyone noticed but the stock market is on sale today. (My bride's message I just now heard on my voice mail)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 03:28 PM (Le7Oj)

239 Yeah I read a reasoned discussion of spontaneous human combustion. Smokers, overweight and in ill health getting drunk and falling asleep and their body burns like a giant candle in the armchair they are in.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Chineseum flammable fabric used in a lot of cheap imported furniture also can turn a human into a torch quickly. Apparently one exposed to such can become immobile due to muscles locking up in such an occurrence.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:28 PM (ctrM5)

240 Yeah I read a reasoned discussion of spontaneous human combustion. Smokers, overweight and in ill health getting drunk and falling asleep and their body burns like a giant candle in the armchair they are in.
Posted by: Oldcat

That damned Globull Warmining!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (cYBz/)

241 @142

>>Yes, that Steele.

Pay him for what exactly?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (XV/Pl)

242 So, what do you do?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 03:16 PM (uCjyK)

Trust no one. Read multiple sources. Don't trust those either. That's a start.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:22 PM (YVzIj)

Here's something you can usually trust. An organization that gets polling wrong is probably still wrong. An organization that lies is still lying. A democrat giving advice to anyone is lying.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (n7h9X)

243 A year from now DJIA will Be 20% higher than it is today at a minimum. Probably more like 30 or 40.
All the cucks who panic sold will weep. And I say fuck ‘em.
---
Yup.

Now is one of the best times in months to dollar cost average and buy.
I've been adding to all my longs.

If you can't see the blood in the street is all paperhands and behind all the "doom" are some really good long-term gains, that's on you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (xFA3k)

244 Wall Street Clowns are such Liberal Pussies.... Pa

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (yG1cI)

245 Hmm. Maybe. I hate you.

Posted by: ...
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I'm used to that effect.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

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

Has Biden eclipsed him?

At least Barry didn't leave a deuce on the Pope's guest chair.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (/U5Yz)

247 >>Got tired of doing that shit because handling and creating massive datasets is a pita given the cycle of research to publication.

It all sounds quite mathy to me.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2025 03:30 PM (AVXxY)

248
Harris is speaking at something called the "Leading Women Defined Summit." wth is that?

Also, her words... dang, who comes to listen to this? Not a fact, not a single revelation, no insider info, just blah-blah We're all in fear because we see people being fearful. And we see what we're witnessing, and I understand that, but we're holding back from fear... Stunning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 03:30 PM (3izae)

249 Wall Street Pussies panic about everything....

But, No problem when Biden was bankrupting the country and 15% inflation ????

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 04, 2025 03:30 PM (yG1cI)

250 I love that Bobby, Jr gave some HHS employees a choice between resigning or transferring to providing health care to Indians on some shit Res or to Eskimos in Alaska. I've heard jokes (wishful thinking?) about that being done, but someone finally had the stones to do it. More, please!
Posted by: Martin Tell at April 04, 2025 02:51 PM (sFNX2)

did anyone say, "sure, it has to be better than having you looking over my shoulder" or the similar, or did they all head out the door to get a job in Pharma street?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:30 PM (D7oie)

251 I'm used to that effect.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

I think you won that on a technicality but only because I realized my position was too shaky to dive in. But a technicality nonetheless!!

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:31 PM (YVzIj)

252 Watching that Kamala is a grim reminder this country dodged bullet. Well, more like a tank shell.

Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2025 03:31 PM (GUOwU)

253 Imagine Kumswalla babbling drunkenly on a podium for 25 hours while Fierce Cory stands behind her struggling to put a catheter in his dick. How inspiring would that be?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

254 Chineseum flammable fabric used in a lot of cheap imported furniture also can turn a human into a torch quickly. Apparently one exposed to such can become immobile due to muscles locking up in such an occurrence.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:28 PM (ctrM5)

Its not a torch nor quick. The idea is the burning is slow and steady thus the consumption of the body without burning down a house. And overweight + drunk + older means you start out less able to escape.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:32 PM (n7h9X)

255 Posted by: Ripley at April 04, 2025 03:31 PM (GUOwU)

Geez when we say this country dodged a bullet we literally did. God is a little too literal for me sometimes.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:33 PM (YVzIj)

256 did anyone say, "sure, it has to be better than having you looking over my shoulder" or the similar, or did they all head out the door to get a job in Pharma street?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:30 PM (D7oie)

They may find Pharma less grateful than they expect.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:33 PM (n7h9X)

257 252 I don't think it is hyperbolic to say it would have doomed the country

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:33 PM (KQk9m)

258 I saw Cory Booker's Catheterized Dong open for the Butthole Surfers at an undisclosed location.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:34 PM (6K6Eu)

259 Top scientists predict 'major' hurricanes for 2025 with eight states in the path of dangerous storms

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 04, 2025 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)
_______________

So what do they risk if they turn out to be wrong? (As they almost certainly will.)

Also, who decides who is a "top scientist?" Are there league tables or something?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:34 PM (YqDXo)

260 Wall Street Pussies panic about everything....

But, No problem when Biden was bankrupting the country and 15% inflation ????
Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 04, 2025 03:30 PM (yG1cI)

I used to laugh when people obviously panicked but they anchor still had to pretend it was in response to some obscure crop failure in Guatemala

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:35 PM (n7h9X)

261 Harris is speaking at something called the "Leading Women Defined Summit."
.....

I was wondering who the hell she was talking to.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2025 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

262 Wait four monrhs until the swamp creatures unemployment benefits run out. Jobs taken.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 03:35 PM (rBvG3)

263 The media will literally masturbate over every hurricane this year...but then they do that every year.

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:36 PM (KQk9m)

264 They may find Pharma less grateful than they expect.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:33 PM (n7h9X)
_______________

Two questions:

1. What have you done for us recently?
2. What can you do for us now that you're out on your ass?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:36 PM (YqDXo)

265 199 I bought a bunch more of NVDA when it dipped to 93ish today. It’s already up a buck fifty.

I can’t wait to see what happens in the last 15 minutes of regular hours today.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 03:19 PM

I bought some the other day around $105.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 04, 2025 03:36 PM (rbKZ6)

266 Wall Street Limbo.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (rBvG3)

267 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid just wants to vote for Vance at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (JeTs2)

268 Its not a torch nor quick. The idea is the burning is slow and steady thus the consumption of the body without burning down a house. And overweight + drunk + older means you start out less able to escape.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:32 PM (n7h9X)

Old fatties and cigarettes are hypergolic.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (l3YAf)

269 The media will literally masturbate over every hurricane this year...but then they do that every year.

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:36 PM (KQk9m)
_______________

Jeffrey Toobin is pulling for a big hurricane season.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (YqDXo)

270 How many cocks is this THOT sucking for bogus propaganda like this? AOC learned at the knees of Master Harris.

"Mark Halperin Says He Thinks Chuck Schumer 'Has To Quit' If AOC 'Runs Against Him'"

https://tinyurl.com/5c8sfa2e

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

271 Wall Street Pussies panic about everything....

But, No problem when Biden was bankrupting the country and 15% inflation ????
Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 04, 2025 03:30 PM (yG1cI)

I used to laugh when people obviously panicked but they anchor still had to pretend it was in response to some obscure crop failure in Guatemala
Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:35 PM (n7h9X)

My favorite was....because it was cold this winter!!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (iJfKG)

272 Judge Pamela Xinis has ordered the Trump admin to return a suspected MS 13 gang member returned to the US.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (2UnvF)

273 Its not a torch nor quick. The idea is the burning is slow and steady thus the consumption of the body without burning down a house. And overweight + drunk + older means you start out less able to escape.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Okay, I get what you are saying--the trick is to only burn the body, not the whole house. All of what you say is plausible for such cases but hard to test in lab conditions for obvious reasons.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

274 USA Fencing strikes back! Accuses girl fencer of hate speech!

https://shorturl.at/Fz9DU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 03:38 PM (L/fGl)

275 No deposit no return.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 03:38 PM (rBvG3)

276 Harris is speaking at something called the "Leading ~~Women Defined~~ Sandwich Makers Summit."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:38 PM (YqDXo)

277 LOL Sid you dumb cunt

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2025 03:39 PM (KQk9m)

278 So what do they risk if they turn out to be wrong? (As they almost certainly will.)

Also, who decides who is a "top scientist?" Are there league tables or something?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:34 PM (YqDXo)

Top. Men.

Lessee. 8 states Texas, LA, Mississippi, Alabama, GA, FLA, NC, SC.

That's damn near every state a Hurricane can possibly hit at first landing.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:39 PM (n7h9X)

279 Zorro the gay blade.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 04, 2025 03:39 PM (rBvG3)

280 Kamala Harris is the equivalent of carrot shavings in Lime Jello

Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 04, 2025 03:39 PM (1FWWQ)

281 Assume all reductions in fd workforce under Clinton were result of GOP House, not to mention downsizing after end of Cold War. Welfare reform -which was working, and ended hy the idiot Obama with the stroke of a pen, - and temporary surpluses were all crammed down Clinton’s throat by the House.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2025 03:39 PM (2BdZb)

282 261 Harris is speaking at something called the "Leading Women Defined Summit."
....
I was wondering who the hell she was talking to.
Posted by: wth

I wonder what Leading Woman she talked about, and why they didn't just invite her to speak instead?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 04, 2025 03:39 PM (JCZqz)

283 Hurricane Masturbaters was the garage band name for the Allman Brothers when they were just starting out

Posted by: Not a joke at April 04, 2025 03:39 PM (dg+HA)

284 Judge Pamela Xinis has ordered the Trump admin to return a suspected MS 13 gang member returned to the US.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (2UnvF)
______________

The Trump administration has just ordered Judge Pamela Xinis to hold court proceedings topless.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)

285 Just watched video of Stephanie Turner forfeiting her fencing match.

It's hilarious that her opponent was mansplaining to her. 😆

Posted by: logprof at April 04, 2025 03:40 PM (ZfA8g)

286 Don't worry, though -- her great grandfather was a congressman who passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, and as you know, "expertise" is passed on by genetics whenever the media decides it is.

If her ggf was wrong, and ability is genetic, doesn't that mean she is wrong?

NORMAN COORDINATE

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)

287 I think you won that on a technicality but only because I realized my position was too shaky to dive in. But a technicality nonetheless!!
Posted by: ...
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I make mistakes just like other people but I tend not to on matters that I have personal experience in or that I taught.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (ctrM5)

288 Kamala Harris is the equivalent of carrot shavings in Lime Jello
Posted by: Life of Wryly
......

Please to not be insulting the shitty Jello.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

289 How many cocks is this THOT sucking for bogus propaganda like this? AOC learned at the knees of Master Harris.

"Mark Halperin Says He Thinks Chuck Schumer 'Has To Quit' If AOC 'Runs Against Him'"

https://tinyurl.com/5c8sfa2e
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

That might even be true. Schumer, you made your bed.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (n7h9X)

290 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (2UnvF)

291 Just a common reminder that the Dow last 20% of its value in the third quarter of 2022.

Even now, the DOW is 10,000 more than that low.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

292 And Kamala sounds like she knocked back a few schnapps before speaking.

In my Non-Jake-Tapper-Certified Expert Opinion on detecting slurring.

Pfff. Lightweight.

Posted by: Hillary! at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (JCZqz)

293 Top scientists predict 'major' hurricanes for 2025 with eight states in the path of dangerous storms

Posted by: Maj. Healey
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A year-by-year search over the last 15 yesrs or so will produce similar, i.e., 'above average' 'predictions'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (XeU6L)

294 Harris is speaking at something called the "Leading Women Defined Summit."

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She's a leading woman definer? Does Justice Jumanji know about this?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (L/fGl)

295 Trump filed a defamation case against Steele in England.
But it seems he filed under the wrong statute or something.
He amended but somehow that didn't cure it.
So the judge dismissed the case on a technicality and ordered Trump to pay Steele's fees.
Trump said "fuck that, make me. Besides, I'm busy being President now."
Lime-sucking judge said, "listen to me mister!"
"No, fuck off."
"It's $800,000 now!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (xFA3k)

296 >> Judge Pamela Xinis

Anyone notice nearly all of the judges going after Trump are women or minorities?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (l3YAf)

297
I glanced at the filing by Schumer, Jeffries, and the DNC.

"The Executive Order seeks to impose radical changes on how Americans register to vote, cast a ballot, and participate in our democracy—all of which threaten to disenfranchise lawful voters and none of which is legal."

The "disenfranchise lawful voters" is BS of course, but unfortunately they have that Article I Section 4 going for them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (3izae)

298 Every time Kamala opens her yap all I can think of is this woman I once had to put up with. She regularly started happy hour at 8 am and by the time she got to the actual happy hour her lipstick had moved on to the middle of her cheek and all she could talk about was how she once rode a horse when she 12 yo.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at April 04, 2025 03:43 PM (CHMel)

299 Twister east of Corsicana. More on the way.

Posted by: pawn at April 04, 2025 03:43 PM (uqq3O)

300 Okay, I get what you are saying--the trick is to only burn the body, not the whole house. All of what you say is plausible for such cases but hard to test in lab conditions for obvious reasons.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

Yeah the mystery of SHC was the claim of "cremated body" with "the other side of the room just had smoke marks on the ceiling". And leaving out some facts so that you might think it happened instantly due to some magic force.

read enough pseudo science you start picking up the patterns.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:44 PM (n7h9X)

301 So what do they risk if they turn out to be wrong? (As they almost certainly will.)

Also, who decides who is a "top scientist?" Are there league tables or something?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:34 PM (YqDXo)

I wish there were, they could run an elimination series and look for top seeds, or something. It would be like something out of Futurama.

I see Prof Farnstrom failed to predict the squirrels. You failed to move the decimal point, you HACK!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:44 PM (D7oie)

302 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Good to see you!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2025 03:44 PM (ozryO)

303 I make mistakes just like other people but I tend not to on matters that I have personal experience in or that I taught.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (ctrM5)

And I don't argue when I realize I have lost...

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:45 PM (YVzIj)

304 "The Executive Order seeks to impose radical changes on how Americans register to vote, cast a ballot, and participate in our democracy—all of which threaten to disenfranchise lawful voters and none of which is legal."

The "disenfranchise lawful voters" is BS of course, but unfortunately they have that Article I Section 4 going for them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (3izae)

so is the 'none of which is legal' part.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:45 PM (n7h9X)

305
261 Harris is speaking at something called the "Leading Women Defined Summit."
.....

I was wondering who the hell she was talking to.
Posted by: wth at April 04, 2025 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

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*camera accidentally shows nearly empty auditorium*

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 04, 2025 03:46 PM (uz6ub)

306 The Trump administration has just ordered Judge Pamela Xinis to hold court proceedings topless.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
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I think you misread the Executive Order. It says she has to hold court proceedings wearing a bag over her head.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 03:46 PM (ZDdaL)

307 >> Judge Pamela Xinis

Anyone notice nearly all of the judges going after Trump are women or minorities?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (l3YAf)
_________________

Obongo judge.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 04, 2025 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

308 The DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are suing Trump over his EO to block non-citizens from voting.

This should tell you everything you need to know…

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This is a 70/30 issue that they're (unexpectedly) on the wrong side of.

The RNC should be running an ad mocking this for the next 4 years.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 03:48 PM (oa8tW)

309 Anyone notice nearly all of the judges going after Trump are women or minorities?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (l3YAf)
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Some of us are feminist AND minorities

Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 04, 2025 03:48 PM (ZDdaL)

310 I still think it would be amusing to get a Trump judge to start issuing TROs on everybody at random just to get "Norms" Roberts off his ass about this situation.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:48 PM (n7h9X)

311 Is there any year in the last decade or two that they did NOT say it would be a vert active hurricane season?

Posted by: PaleRider at April 04, 2025 03:49 PM (CKOCg)

312 Anyone notice nearly all of the judges going after Trump are women or minorities?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (l3YAf)
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Some of us are feminist AND minorities
Posted by: President James Boasberg at April 04, 2025 03:48 PM (ZDdaL)

He's doing it for his feminist daughters feed trough so it counts.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:50 PM (n7h9X)

313 And I don't argue when I realize I have lost...
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:45 PM (YVzIj)

There comes a point in every debate where you have to admit to yourself that you have lost the point and are only continuing to argue to piss everyone else off.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:50 PM (D7oie)

314 Is there any year in the last decade or two that they did NOT say it would be a vert active hurricane season?
Posted by: PaleRider at April 04, 2025 03:49 PM (CKOCg)
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They have to be right some time!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:50 PM (6K6Eu)

315 Anyone notice nearly all of the judges going after Trump are women or minorities?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 03:42 PM (l3YAf)

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Next you'll be telling me there's a good number who are turd-world foreign-born.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 03:51 PM (oa8tW)

316 There comes a point in every debate where you have to admit to yourself that you have lost the point and are only continuing to argue to piss everyone else off.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:50 PM (D7oie)
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So, Scogg Dogg.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:51 PM (6K6Eu)

317 There comes a point in every debate where you have to admit to yourself that you have lost the point and are only continuing to argue to piss everyone else off.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:50 PM (D7oie)

THATS NOT TRUE

Posted by: Oldcat at April 04, 2025 03:51 PM (n7h9X)

318 So, Scogg Dogg.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 04, 2025 03:51 PM (6K6Eu)

negative attention is still attention.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 03:52 PM (D7oie)

319 And I don't argue when I realize I have lost...
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2025 03:45 PM (YVzIj)

There comes a point in every debate where you have to admit to yourself that you have lost the point and are only continuing to argue to piss everyone else off.

Or...that it's pointless to continue the argument because sometimes people simply refuse to think. Life's too short to waste on that.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

320
311 Is there any year in the last decade or two that they did NOT say it would be a vert active hurricane season?
Posted by: PaleRider at April 04, 2025 03:49 PM (CKOCg)

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Yeah. I don't remember the year, but it was a very active hurricane season.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 04, 2025 03:52 PM (uz6ub)

321 I make mistakes just like other people but I tend not to on matters that I have personal experience in or that I taught.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2025 03:41 PM (ctrM5)

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I would have loved to study under Professor whig.

* Imagines the John Houseman character (Professor Kingsfield) in The Paper Chase -- one of my favorite movies. *

Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 04, 2025 03:55 PM (oa8tW)

322 There's a Seinfeld about this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 03:12 PM

VANESSA: I said, the market fluctuates. Remember?

JERRY: Look, Vanessa, of course the market fluctuates. Everybody knows that. I just got fluctuated out of four thousand dollars!

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3XOkb7Y

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 04, 2025 03:56 PM (P5BPp)

323 Harris' brain isn't just bankrupt but is in solvent.

Posted by: Hal Dall at April 04, 2025 04:03 PM (mPak/)

324 175
That's pretty amazing!

Ole Kammy seems to be constitutionally(!) unable to go a full minute without cackling like a drunk retard.

Maybe that trait was passed along genetically.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM (iJfKG)

++++

Every time she speaks I expect her to come to some sort of conclusion, say something substantive. But she never does. She just drones on and on without a whit of significance to her words. I would think it would be very hard to live with such a person who never really says anything at all.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 04, 2025 04:19 PM (C53IZ)

325 The GOPe mostly wanted illegals to drive down wages

The Dems want illegals for their votes and to skim off the welfare given to them.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 03:15 PM

It's not just illegals who have driven down wages. Wages have been driven down in the automotive engineering industry due to the Great Reset during COVID of converting to remote work. Auto companies took that opportunity to shitcan thousands of direct hire American engineers and replace them with cheap labor outsourced to Mexico and Brazil and India. And people from India living in Canada.

Stellantis then put in place a policy in engineering department that if managers wanted to hire an American worker, they had to hire two BCC (Best Cost Country) workers from India. Over the past 3 years, my engineering department has gone from 100% local engineers to 90% outsourced "engineers" working remotely in Mexico and India. Making $50k. And when engineers like me were laid off, we went from making $110k with benefits to going back as contract workers at $83k, no benefits.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 04, 2025 04:19 PM (P5BPp)

326 Trump is doing awesome stuff, but his Tariffs folly could ultimately undermine all the gains. Make Free Trade Great Again!

Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 04, 2025 04:38 PM (WE1WX)

327 Schwab, Gates and Soros can beat each other over their heads with Clubs if they want to

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 04, 2025 04:50 PM (wGqjj)

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